Introduction

• Numbers 22:1-6 – Balak was scared of the people of Israel.
• Numbers 26:51
• Numbers 22:7-14 – The story should have ended here!
• Numbers 22:19 – Balaam asked God again because he wanted the money!

Sometimes we just want to sin

• II Peter 2:15-16
• Jude 1:11
• Numbers 22:20-22 – God did not want Balaam to go, but since he was determined to sin, God allowed him to go.
• I John 2:15
• We need to see our sin the way God does.

Israel destroyed themselves from the inside

• Numbers 23:7-12, 18-27; 24:9-11
• Numbers 25:1-5
• Numbers 31:7-8, 15-16 – Balaam was killed. He didn’t curse Israel, but he taught Balak how to cause Israel to sin.
• Revelation 2:14
• Could Benchley destroy itself from within some day?
• Acts 20:17, 28-31
• Ephesians 1:15; 6:23; I Timothy 1:3, 19; II Timothy 2:17; Revelation 2:1-7 – Ephesus had left their first love!
• This could happen to us!

God is faithful

• Numbers 23:27
• Numbers 22:31
• Deuteronomy 23:3 – God had been protecting Israel even though they didn’t know it.
• Micah 6:1-5 – God had been faithful to Israel the entire time!
• I John 5:14
• Romans 8:35