Topic: Balaam

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What was the difference between Moab and Israel when both offered the same sacrifices to the same God?

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So what was the difference? Now, here you are. Get it. God, if it comes to being fundamental, if that’s all God requires, He would be unjust if He didn’t recognize both of them. That’s right. If Scripturally fundamentalism is all that God requires, Moab was just as fundamental as Israel, offering th...

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What did Balaam fail to see about Israel?

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But where Balaam failed, to see that Brazen Serpent and that smitten Rock going before Israel, making atonement. It was God’s calling, God’s election. They were God’s people. Hallelujah! God had called them and separated them, and put a Serpent before them (as an atonement) and a smitten Rock, and B...

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What did Balaam fail to see when he expected God to curse Israel?

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Now, what more? Now, look. If the world calls us crazy. If the world thinks that we are just about half off up here…Look. Because that those signs appeared just where I’m at, and this Angel of the Lord, and so forth, that doesn’t mean that it’s just me, friends. What does that mean? What is God tryi...

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How does Balaam's story show the difference between God's perfect will and His permissive will?

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Notice. Then when he said that, said he could only speak what God put in his mouth. And God told him to send them back. And he…Notice. Then Balaam, like a lot of hireling prophets now, for usury, for money, he come back again and asked him the second time. And he went to God again. Now look. There i...

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What did Balaam fail to see when he judged the people by their sins?

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And Balaam looked upon that people, and he thought, “Looky here…” Now, listen. He thought, surely, that a holy moral God would have to curse a people like that, that done such things as that. But when looking upon them, he looked; he said, “Now, looky. They’ve done this; they’ve done that. Surely, t...