Produced by Joel Erickson, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF CANAAN By Robert Lee Berry FOREWORD This book comes out of our heart. It is intended to go to the hearts of others. Some of the things written here were learned by long and bitter experiences. Our "Adventures" were very real, and it is our hope that some of them our readers will never have. The real battles are fought within, and the struggle for mastery goes on in the soul, hidden in the mysterious depths of the spirit. Usually these battles are fought out alone, many times when others are not aware that anything of moment is happening. 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 of the great common man and woman. We hope you will enjoy this book. We hope it will do you good. If it does, our purpose will be achieved, and we shall thank God, whose help we gratefully acknowledge in the writing of this book. R. L. Berry. TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF CANAAN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER THE LAND OF CANAAN The story of the Israelites from their being in bondage in Egypt to their conquering Canaan is a type of the experiences of a man from his bondage in sin to his entire sanctification. As a Scriptural basis for these remarks, see Galatians 3:6-29, where Paul, the great Apostle to the Gentiles, quotes a part of the Abrahamic covenant and applies it to Gentile Christians, the complete fulfillment of the covenant being expressed in verse 14, where the promise of the Spirit is spoken of as the "blessing of Abraham." It is also made plain in this chapter that salvation in Christ makes us "Abraham's seed," and therefore "heirs according to the promise." Hence the promise to Abraham has its complete fulfillment in New Testament salvation. In Romans 4, Paul again dips deep into the promise of God to Abraham and brings forth beautiful teaching which shows that, to him, God's promise to Abraham was spiritual as well as material, that there was to be a spiritual seed as well as literal seed, and that "faith" is as potent as natural birth in making men children of Abraham. Also in these verses Abraham is made the "father of us all," even of Gentiles, which of course could not be true except in a spiritual sense.