GSW: I get this from a human perspective. From God’s perspective, it makes no sense. He already gave them the city and the instructions on how to take it. What is the use of the spies? And who would a prostitute be protecting if the spies didn’t go to her lair? I met an Indian. I liked his perfume. I spoke to him. He said he would buy it and bring it to Nigeria for me on his next trip. I told him I would pay. He said okay. Then I saw him a few months later. I asked him for the perfume. He said he forgot completely. I took out money and paid him. I said I have kept the money aside since we met and the money was his. If he decides to buy the perfume and bring it to me, it is fine. If he decides not to do so it is okay. But my own words won’t fail because his words failed. People looked at me as if I was mad. Why pay him? I told them I paid him because I said I would pay. But he didn’t bring the perf? I said that is because he didn’t think his words were worth anything. My own words are worth a lot. I learnt it from Daddy Adeboye. I was told he told a pastor to start a parish in the UK. The pastor did so but converted the church to his own. Baba Adeboye went to the church and gave the man the money he pledged to give him when they talked about the planting of the church. The pastor said “Daddy, it is not RCCG anymore sir” Baba said “I know but I gave my word and I must keep my word” There has to be a dying to self! There has to be a coming alive into Christ. Besides that, all we have will be theories and textbooks, and professors and behavioral psychobabble I saw a documentary recently. A notorious armed robber escaped from prison. Settled down in another community in America and lived his life as an upstanding citizen. Got married and had kids. The US Marshalls caught up with him forty years after he escaped. He got no criminal record whatsoever. I said wow. This man had the ability to change. Without Christ or religion. He changed because he became a new man. And he was true to the new character for over forty years. The judge set him free after six months in jail. The judge said he got life in prison because they said he will always be a menace. He proved everybody wrong. Not one crime. No complaints from wife and children. And this man was a criminal who got life in prison without parole. Did he change? Yes. Is that enough to get him into heaven? No! He merely modified his behavior. He didn’t die to sin. So we are capable of change if we desire to or when we are compelled to. But death to sin is what gives us eternal life. Becoming a new man entirely. We are meant to live by The Scriptures alone! We may glean knowledge from other sources and acquire gnosis from other sources. The Word of God is the Life of the New Creation. The Word Himself is the life of the Born Again Christian.