And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants; and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight” (Numbers 13:32-33). Talking with my wife the other day, she mentioned that she felt so small and useless in the kingdom of God. She gave a report of the Church and how it was occupied by giants, and how she felt like a grasshopper in their site. As I browse the Internet or read my emails, I continually read of people that others call “The Giants” or “The Generals” of the Kingdom of God. Remembering the words my wife spoke my heart heard, “For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence” (1 Corinthians 1:26-29).

“Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘ The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone'” (Mark 12:10). That scripture is talking about Jesus Christ. It is also talking about the rest of the stones in the new temple of God (and the things which are despised God has chosen). When men build a building, they want the things that are already refined and polished. When God builds a building, He takes what the builders rejected and refines and polishes the materials to be what He designed them to be.

Not all of the people being chanted as “The Giants” have taken the titles to themselves. But a mass of people have turned the messengers of God into idols. Just like the land on the other side of the Jordan River, the Church has idols made of God’s creation. These so called giants are causing the children of God to not enter into their God given ministries. But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head -Christ- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love (Ephesians 4:15-16).

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it” (Numbers 13:30). The Church is the people – we are the Church – and Jesus is our head. We cannot be intimidated by the stories of the giants. Each and ever piece of the body is important to the whole body (joined and knit together by what every joint supplies). The body is not the body without all of us. Let us go up at once and possess the land.

God has promised us that the Church will not be defeated. On this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18b). We are not at war with one another. But it seems that way, when we look at the churches. The giants that occupy the lands are just giants in our eyes; in God’s eye there is no difference. Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality (Acts 10:34). For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe (Deuteronomy 10:17). Take the land that the Lord your God has given to you. Proclaim the ministry territory that God has granted to you, by grace in the faith of His Son Jesus Christ.

© 2007, Tim D. Coulter Sr.