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By Robert Lee Berry
This book comes out of our heart. It is intended to go to the hearts ofothers. Some of the things written here were learned by long and bitterexperiences. Our "Adventures" were very real, and it is our hope thatsome of them our readers will never have. The real battles are foughtwithin, and the struggle for mastery goes on in the soul, hidden in themysterious depths of the spirit. Usually these battles are fought outalone, many times when others are not aware that anything of moment ishappening.
Super-critical minds may not find this book interesting; we do not know;we wrote with no other intention than to bless the hearts and lives ofthe great common man and woman.
We hope you will enjoy this book. We hope it will do you good. If itdoes, our purpose will be achieved, and we shall thank God, whose helpwe gratefully acknowledge in the writing of this book.
R. L. Berry.
Introductory: The Land of Canaan
1. Getting Ready to Enter Canaan
2. The Crossing of the Jordan
3. The Jordan Memorial Stone
4. Troubles of Lingering at the Crossing
5. Exploring Canaan by Faith
6. The Best Inheritance in Canaan
7. In the Hands of Giant Accuser
8. Conflicts with Giant Mistake
9. In the Dungeon of Giant Discourager
10. The Torments of Giant Bad Feelings
11. The Routing of Giant Doubt
12. The Wine of Prayer
13. Pilgrims of the Victorious Life
The story of the Israelites from their being in bondage in Egypt to theirconquering Canaan is a type of the experiences of a man from his bondagein sin to his entire sanctification.
As a Scriptural basis for these remarks, see Galatians 3:6-29, wherePaul, the great Apostle to the Gentiles, quotes a part of the Abrahamiccovenant and applies it to Gentile Christians, the complete fulfillmentof the covenant being expressed in verse 14, where the promise of theSpirit is spoken of as the "blessing of Abraham." It is also made plainin this chapter that salvation in Christ makes us "Abraham's seed," andtherefore "heirs according to the promise." Hence the promise to Abrahamhas its complete fulfillment in New Testament salvation.
In Romans 4, Paul again dips deep into the promise of God to Abraham andbrings forth beautiful teaching which shows that, to him, God's promiseto Abraham was spiritual as well as material, that there was to be aspiritual seed as well as literal seed, and that "faith" is as potentas natural birth in making men children of Abraham. Also in these versesAbraham is made the "father of us all," even of Gentiles, which of coursecould not be true except in a spiritual sense.
The same subject is treated again in chapter 4 of Hebrews. Here thefigure is "rest." The rest of the Israelites was their settling in Canaan,and in verse 6, speaking of the fact that some did not enter rest becauseof unbelief, allusion is made to the failure to enter Canaa