The Sermon I Cannot Curse What God Has Blessed by David McGee
Oct 21, 2018
I Cannot Curse What God Has Blessed (39:35)
Referenced Scriptures: Job 1:10; Deuteronomy 31:6; Revelation 22:6; Daniel 4:17-19; Numbers 22; Matthew 18:18-19; Numbers 23
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Job 1:10
10) Haven‘t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Deuteronomy 31:6
6) Be strong and of good courage, don‘t be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
Revelation 22:6
6) He said to me, "These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angels to show to his servants the things which must happen soon."
Daniel 4:17-19
17) The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
18) This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
19) Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don‘t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and the interpretation of it to your adversaries.
Numbers 22
1) The children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
2) Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3) Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
4) Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
5) He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.
6) Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
7) The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
8) He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
9) God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
10) Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],
11) Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.
12) God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.
13) Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to give me leave to go with you.
14) The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.
15) Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
16) They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:
17) for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.
18) Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can‘t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
19) Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.
20) God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.
21) Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
22) God‘s anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
23) The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.
24) Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
25) The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam‘s foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
26) The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27) The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam‘s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
28) Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
29) Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you.
30) The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he said, No.
31) Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
32) The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:
33) and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you, and saved her alive.
34) Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn‘t know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.
35) The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
36) When Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
37) Balak said to Balaam, Didn‘t I earnestly send to you to call you? why didn‘t you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?
38) Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
39) Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
40) Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
41) It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
Matthew 18:18-19
18) Most assuredly I tell you, whatever things you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever things you will loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19) Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
Numbers 23
1) Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
2) Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
3) Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.
4) God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
5) Yahweh put a word in Balaam‘s mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
6) He returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt- offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7) He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
8) How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?
9) For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10) Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!
11) Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.
12) He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?
13) Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.
14) He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
15) He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder.
16) Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.
17) He came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken?
18) He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor:
19) God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
20) Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can‘t reverse it.
21) He has not saw iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Yahweh his God is with him, The shout of a king is among them.
22) God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
23) Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!
24) Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.
25) Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
26) But Balaam answered Balak, Didn‘t I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?
27) Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.
28) Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
29) Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
30) Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
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