Trust in God's Victory

Hey, hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we're at Numbers chapter, Numbers, Deuteronomy. We're at Deuteronomy chapter 3, verses 12 through 22. We're going to talk about the land on the transjordan, on the eastern side of the Jordan being divided up. So this is still Moses' speech, his historical prologue or prelog before what's going on.
So let's go ahead and have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into God's word. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. And we thank you for your word. Lord, we pray that you would please help us as we read your word. We pray that your spirit would be with us, teaching us, instructing us, guiding us, and teaching us the way in which we should go. Lord, we pray that you would turn our eyes, most of all, toward your glory and toward your son. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, here we go, Numbers. Numbers, I'm so used to Numbers. We've been reading Numbers for a long time. All right, Deuteronomy chapter three, verses 12 through 22.
And this land, which we possessed at that time from Aror, which is by the river Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites. The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. all the region of Argob with all Bashan was called the Land of the Giants. Jer, the son of Manasseh, took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Gesherites and the Maokathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havath-jer, to this day. I also gave Gilead to Machir. And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the river Arnon, the middle of the river as the border, as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the people of Ammon, the plain also with the Jordan as the border, from Chinereth as far as the east side of the sea of the Araba, the salt sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.
Then I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All you men of valor shall cross over, armed before your brethren, the children of Israel. But your wives, your little one, and your livestock, I know that you have much livestock, shall stay in your cities which I have given you, until the Lord has given rest to your brethren as to you, and they also have possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his own possession, which I have given you." And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So will the Lord do to all the kingdoms through which you pass. You must not fear them, for the Lord your God himself fights for you." Well, we need to ask ourselves our three questions. A, what is this about? B, what's the best verse to summarize this? And C, what are we called to do in response to this? So, A, what's this about?
Again, remember, this is Moses. He's talking. He's saying, this is what happened. Here's things. Here's what's going on. Just the last two times we've met, they defeated Thyhan king and they defeated Og king of the Bationites. Now they're dividing up that land and he's telling them the different borders, right? So Reuben gets this, Gad gets this, Hathmanassa gets that. He delineates where the borders were for that. This is all in historical past, right? This is recent history. This is what I have done. This is what I did following the Lord. This is what you all have done.
And now, right, he's also saying, I also commanded you guys to make sure when you go into the land, right, that those two and a half tribes on the Transjordan, on the eastern side of the Jordan, they can keep their families and their cattle and all that in the cities, but the guys, they gotta go to battle. They need to fight with the rest of Israel until all the land is conquered, then they can go back home. And then he concludes this section, with verses 21 and 22. And by the way, I think this is the best verse to summarize. This is what I think is at the heart of this passage.
And I commanded Joshua at that time saying, your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So will the Lord do to all the kingdoms through which you passed. You must not fear them, for the Lord your God himself fights for you. So verses 21 and 22, I think are at the heart of this, right? God has done all these things. Do not fear, for the Lord your God fights for you.
He tells Joshua to put his hope in the God who has done things historically past. who he is and what he promises to do. And I think that's what we see calling, we are called to do. We trust what God has historically done in the past. We believe in a God of history. He made promises to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. He made promises to Noah. He made promises to David. He made promises to his people.
They have come true in Jesus. Jesus truly did suffer and die under Pontius Pilate, was buried, and on the third day rose again from the dead. He appeared to hundreds and hundreds of people, and he ascended up into heaven, and he has sat down at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead.
And so we have a faith rooted in historical past with present implications and a future hope. But our hope is even better than what they had received here. The promises are better. The fulfillment is even better. And so we have this same pattern in our lives.
So we're called to that same faith, that same faith that has an object. The object is our God, specifically in Jesus Christ, who we can trust will fight for us and has even conquered even death itself. And someday, D-Day has been won, but someday V-E Day is coming, but someday the final victory will arrive. And Jesus Christ will reign supreme. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much that you do not just give us a pie in the sky type faith. You don't just give us promises without any reason to believe. But Lord, you are our God who has worked in history. You've done amazing things. And you have even risen from the dead. Lord, and because of that, we have hope. And so, Father, we pray that you would please let us know that you are still with us, that your Holy Spirit dwells in us, and that the promises which are yet to be fulfilled are good, because you are good. And you do not lie. Lord, we pray these things in Jesus's name. Amen. May the Lord bless you. May you be filled with hope and peace as you look to Jesus Christ, the great author and finisher of your faith. I'll see you next time. Bye.