“Balaam, Prophet for Sale” with Doug Batchelor (Amazing Facts)
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Pastor Doug's clear, humble way of preaching is powerful.
Never heard of you but Really Enjoyed your message!
God opened the donkey's mouth and the donkey spoke to Balaam from her experiences. Animals are not empty vessels, they have thoughts and feelings.
Animals do what God asks them without complaint or hesitation.
They have been corrupted by the sin of man and follow their instincts. , they never ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Which is why they could be used as a sacrifice. People should have seen the innocent animals and been upset that a being had to die because of them. Instead they had no compassion.
As with Jesus, most had no compassion for the innocent, holy man being crucified.
But it took the sacrifice of the only sinless man ever – Jesus Christ to save us.
I am so looking forward to heaven, to be with the Lord ❤ firstly, to listen and learn and love Him ❤.
And to again communicate with the animals God made. ❤ As we were meant to.
When I look at animals I see the beauty of God.
God spoke through the angel. He let the donkey speak.
Amen…
This is the first sermon I've heard that doesn't stop with Balaam's blessing the Israelites. I think Doug you have done a very job of adding relevant details and giving a good overall context to the story and what Balaam was about. Well done sir. A small point of contention is that you said Balaam="consumer" in Hebrew. H1109 says it actually means "not of the people". A much larger point of contention is that Saul aka Paul of Tarsus is also guilty of Balaam's error/sin, as he teaches that believers have the liberty to eat meat sacrificed to idols, only abstaining if a "weak" brother (ie: believer) is present. Paul maintains that a strong faith in one God and that an idol is nothing cancels out the sin. I very much doubt that the Israelites of the time, having just witnessed the plagues of Egypt, their escape, parting of the sea, and their defeat of their enemies left them as "weak brothers". No.