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