WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.460 chapter 14 and I want you to go to Numbers chapter 13. Hold your place there in Joshua. 00:05.460 --> 00:09.360 We're going to come back to that at the end of the sermon. We're going to go to Numbers 00:09.360 --> 00:14.200 chapter 13. This morning I want to preach on Caleb. Now a lot of times when we study 00:14.200 --> 00:19.120 the Bible, especially in this particular era of the nation of Israel, we often focus on 00:19.120 --> 00:23.460 the Bible character known as Joshua. And of course he was a very prominent character. 00:23.460 --> 00:27.080 He aided the children of Israel into going into the promised land. He's the one that 00:27.080 --> 00:28.000 basically took a 00:28.000 --> 00:32.080 up after Moses and he did all that Moses commanded him. 00:32.080 --> 00:34.460 The Bible says they left nothing undone, 00:34.460 --> 00:35.720 all that Moses commanded him. 00:35.720 --> 00:36.700 Of course we know that. 00:36.900 --> 00:42.700 Joshua is a very powerful Old Testament picture of the Lord Jesus Christ 00:42.700 --> 00:48.400 because of the fact that just as Joshua was the one who led the children of Israel into the promised land 00:48.400 --> 00:53.400 in like manner, Jesus is the only one who can lead us into eternal life, right? 00:53.400 --> 00:56.900 And there's a lot of parallels between Joshua and Jesus Christ 00:56.900 --> 01:02.200 but often when we study these Old Testament events, we often focus on him 01:02.200 --> 01:04.840 But you know there's another character in the Bible that is 01:04.900 --> 01:08.020 just as great, just as many great exploits, 01:08.020 --> 01:10.640 and is worthy of noting and learning from, 01:10.640 --> 01:12.060 and that's Caleb, okay? 01:12.060 --> 01:14.900 Caleb was a very prominent character 01:14.900 --> 01:16.340 during this particular time, and in fact, 01:16.340 --> 01:20.060 he's one of the two who actually brought up a good report 01:20.060 --> 01:21.920 when they went to spy out the land. 01:21.920 --> 01:24.020 We obviously know that Joshua brought a good report, 01:24.020 --> 01:26.940 but so did Caleb, and I wanna go through 01:26.940 --> 01:30.180 the chronicles of Caleb this morning, 01:30.180 --> 01:31.740 and just kinda extrapolate some principles 01:31.740 --> 01:32.900 that we can learn from his this- 01:32.900 --> 01:37.900 from his life as we go into the tenth year of our church. 01:37.900 --> 01:40.900 I believe there's some principles that we can learn from Caleb. 01:40.900 --> 01:42.900 Now we're in Numbers chapter 13. 01:42.900 --> 01:45.900 Let me bring you up to speed on what's taking place here. 01:45.900 --> 01:49.900 Of course, God has just delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt, 01:49.900 --> 01:51.900 of course, through the hand of Moses. 01:52.700 --> 01:56.460 And at this point, you know, God's will is for them to inherit the land, right? 01:56.460 --> 01:58.380 Canaan land, the promised land. 01:58.380 --> 02:04.220 And so he wants them to inherit this land, but obviously he wants them to put in the work for it as well. 02:04.400 --> 02:07.440 He doesn't want to just hand it to them and just give it to them. 02:07.440 --> 02:10.240 He wants them to plan. He wants them to fight. 02:10.240 --> 02:14.800 He wants them to put in a considerable amount of effort in order to conquer the land. 02:14.800 --> 02:18.400 And so even though it's promised to the children of Israel, 02:18.400 --> 02:20.800 he wants them to put some planning to it. So what does he do? 02:20.800 --> 02:25.680 He commands Moses to essentially survey the land, okay? 02:25.680 --> 02:31.840 And he specifically commands Moses to pick out men of the 12 tribes of Israel. 02:32.800 --> 02:40.320 leaders of the 12 tribes in order to go in and spy out the land and sort of survey it and take a consensus and take an 02:40.480 --> 02:45.460 inventory of what the land looks like look at verse number one of chapter 13 says the Lord speaking to Moses saying 02:45.680 --> 02:53.020 Send down men that they may search the land of Canaan which I given to the children of Israel of every tribe of their fathers 02:53.120 --> 02:57.200 Shall you send a man every one a ruler among them? 02:57.800 --> 03:01.800 And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Payeran. 03:01.800 --> 03:04.840 All those men were heads of the children of Israel. 03:04.840 --> 03:10.120 So you know what better people to send into the promised land than the leaders themselves. 03:10.120 --> 03:14.440 When he's talking about the heads of the children of Israel, when he's talking about the rulers, 03:14.440 --> 03:19.400 these are the prominent individuals of those tribes. So you think of the tribe of Issachar, 03:19.400 --> 03:25.720 the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Benjamin, all of the leaders of those tribes are going to be the 03:25.800 --> 03:31.160 ones who are going into the promised land for 40 days in order to take inventory of 03:31.160 --> 03:32.160 it. 03:32.160 --> 03:33.160 Now who is one of them? 03:33.160 --> 03:38.800 Well we see in verse number 6 it says, of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 03:38.800 --> 03:44.800 So Caleb is numbered as being one of the rulers who is selected by Moses in order to go into 03:44.800 --> 03:45.800 the land. 03:45.800 --> 03:49.400 17. Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan. 03:50.500 --> 03:56.560 Sent into them get you up this way southward and go up into the into the mountain and see the land 03:56.820 --> 04:01.580 What it is and the people that dwell therein whether they be strong or weak 04:01.820 --> 04:08.060 Few or many and what the land is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad 04:08.060 --> 04:13.020 And what cities they be that they dwell in whether intense or in strongholds 04:13.020 --> 04:18.300 And what is the land excuse me what the land is whether it be fat or lean whether there be wood therein 04:18.500 --> 04:22.240 or not. So what is he saying here? Well we obviously know that the Lamb has already promised 04:22.240 --> 04:27.500 to the children of Israel. But God wants them to set up a plan, right? He wants them to 04:27.500 --> 04:28.220 go out. 04:28.700 --> 04:30.460 and see what they're actually dealing with. 04:30.460 --> 04:32.980 Now this is an important principle for you and I to learn 04:32.980 --> 04:35.860 that even though God has promised us certain things, 04:35.860 --> 04:37.660 he's promised us victory, 04:37.660 --> 04:39.820 he's promised us success and prosperity 04:39.820 --> 04:41.060 and certain spiritual matters, 04:41.060 --> 04:43.420 you know, it still requires effort on our part 04:43.420 --> 04:45.060 to actually obtain it, right? 04:45.060 --> 04:48.260 It's like, well, you know, God's promised to bless you, 04:48.260 --> 04:50.860 he's gonna provide for you, he's gonna protect you, 04:50.860 --> 04:52.860 but you know, you still gotta put in some effort on your end 04:52.860 --> 04:54.000 to be able to obtain that. 04:54.400 --> 04:59.220 Bible says seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and these things shall be added unto you 04:59.320 --> 05:01.900 So obviously God wants to add these things to you 05:01.900 --> 05:07.860 But it's your job to actually seek the Lord his righteousness do that which is right inside of the Lord 05:07.860 --> 05:11.400 And of course he will fulfill his end of the bargain 05:12.080 --> 05:14.300 Now thankfully it's not like that with salvation amen 05:14.600 --> 05:19.920 You know the only thing that's required on our end for salvation is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 05:19.920 --> 05:21.920 And that's it you know Jesus Christ did all the work for us 05:22.400 --> 05:25.440 And that's always an important message to understand 05:25.440 --> 05:30.400 that eternal life can only be granted through our faith in Jesus Christ 05:30.400 --> 05:34.720 because He's the one who died on the cross to pay for our sins, He resurrected on the third day 05:34.720 --> 05:38.080 And when we say place our faith in Jesus Christ, what does the Bible mean by that? 05:38.080 --> 05:40.960 It means exclusively, it means only on Christ 05:40.960 --> 05:43.280 Meaning you can't add anything to that 05:43.280 --> 05:47.760 and once you do so, the Bible says you have eternal life and you can never lose that salvation 05:47.760 --> 05:50.240 for any reason whatsoever, okay? 05:50.600 --> 05:55.600 And I'm going to tell you right now, if you don't know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're saved, if you're visiting with us today 05:55.600 --> 06:00.100 and you're like, you know, that's one subject that I've never really been able to like fully grasp. 06:00.100 --> 06:03.600 I've never really understood. I don't know if I'm saved. 06:03.600 --> 06:06.600 I don't know if I were to die at this moment that I would go to heaven. 06:06.600 --> 06:09.100 Well, you need to get that settled today. Okay. 06:09.100 --> 06:12.100 And look, thankfully, you don't have to keep God's commandments to be saved. 06:12.500 --> 06:16.240 Thankfully, you don't have to repent of your sins to be saved because of the fact that the matter is 06:16.360 --> 06:22.000 No one can turn from all their sins for salvation. It's impossible to there's only one man who 06:22.520 --> 06:26.620 Has never sinned in the history of mankind. That's the Lord Jesus Christ 06:27.800 --> 06:33.600 So that's why the Bible tells us that we need to place our faith in him in order for his righteousness to be imputed upon us 06:33.680 --> 06:35.120 So then when God looks at us 06:35.120 --> 06:40.980 He sees us through the perfection of Jesus Christ and not through our own righteousness because there's none righteous no not one 06:41.020 --> 06:45.980 There's none that do with good no not one right there's not a just man upon earth to do with good and sin if not 06:45.980 --> 06:48.660 You're like well, what if I sin after salvation well 06:48.660 --> 06:54.840 Here's the great thing about salvation is that once you get saved you're actually forgiven of sins past present and future 06:55.400 --> 06:59.120 Meaning that 2,000 years ago when Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross 06:59.360 --> 07:06.180 He died knowing what sins you were going to commit in the future and all of our sins past present and future and future are all future sins 07:06.180 --> 07:09.080 And respective to where Jesus Christ died on the cross just keep that in mind 07:09.080 --> 07:14.600 And it's not like you know you catch God off guard by your sins of whatever you do in the future 07:14.720 --> 07:16.720 It's not like God's like well. I didn't know you're gonna do that 07:17.600 --> 07:19.600 Hey, hey, this wasn't part of the deal here 07:20.000 --> 07:25.320 I saved you, but you know I don't know you're no he saved you knowing what sins you're gonna do in the future 07:26.540 --> 07:31.240 He saves you knowing that and he saves you forgiving you of those sins 07:31.820 --> 07:35.640 According to Romans chapter 4 the Bible clearly tells us that okay 07:35.640 --> 07:41.860 And people often hear a message like that and think to themselves or you're just giving people a license to send them 07:42.300 --> 07:44.540 Because what you're saying is I can believe and live however I want. 07:44.540 --> 07:47.820 No, that's not true. You can't live however you want because life has consequences. 07:49.020 --> 07:54.460 Life has consequences for the wages of sin is death. The Bible says that God will exact 07:54.460 --> 07:59.980 vengeance upon his own people. And it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 07:59.980 --> 08:05.980 Meaning that if you're to sin after salvation, God can and will severely punish you. 08:05.980 --> 08:08.540 Here's the difference though. He'll punish you here on this earth. 08:09.100 --> 08:13.540 He's not going to punish you in hell because he gave you eternal life. 08:13.540 --> 08:14.540 And you know what? 08:14.540 --> 08:15.940 You say, well, I just think I'll lose my salvation. 08:15.940 --> 08:17.620 Well, then it's not a gift to you now, is it? 08:18.200 --> 08:22.680 Because the Bible says, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. 08:22.680 --> 08:26.800 It is the gift of God, not of works that any man should boast. 08:26.800 --> 08:29.720 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved 08:29.720 --> 08:30.720 us. 08:30.720 --> 08:34.280 We conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 08:34.280 --> 08:36.480 Jesus said, I give unto them eternal life. 08:36.480 --> 08:40.600 And listen to this, they shall never perish. 08:40.600 --> 08:43.400 Not maybe, depends on what you do though. 08:43.800 --> 08:46.560 It depends on what kind of sins you commit or something like that. 08:46.560 --> 08:47.560 No, never. 08:47.560 --> 08:50.720 What about mortal sins? 08:50.720 --> 08:52.040 All sin is mortal sin. 08:52.040 --> 08:54.080 What are you talking about? 08:54.080 --> 08:57.760 The Bible says whosoever keepeth the whole law, yet offendeth in one point, he is guilty 08:57.760 --> 08:59.840 of all. 08:59.840 --> 09:04.240 Don't allow the Roman Catholic Church to define for you what sin is. 09:04.240 --> 09:07.960 Sin according to the Bible is defined as the transgression of the law. 09:07.960 --> 09:09.480 And let me just give you the bad news here. 09:09.480 --> 09:10.120 You've all sinned. 09:10.900 --> 09:15.600 Everyone has sinned before the Lord and therefore are in need of salvation. 09:15.600 --> 09:20.100 Now here's the thing, after you get saved, now it's time to put in work, right? 09:20.100 --> 09:24.300 The Bible says, for we are as workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, 09:24.300 --> 09:27.700 which God hath before a day, that we should walk in them. 09:27.900 --> 09:31.140 Not that we will walk in them because not everyone does good works. 09:31.140 --> 09:33.140 Not everyone maintains good works. 09:33.140 --> 09:34.780 Not everyone lives a righteous life. 09:34.780 --> 09:38.020 That's why God is constantly putting out the carrot. 09:38.020 --> 09:41.460 He's constantly putting out the incentive, the motivation to do that, 09:41.460 --> 09:43.860 which is right inside of the Lord so we can be blessed of God. 09:43.860 --> 09:47.140 You know, there's different motivations that God gives us in order to stay right with God. 09:47.140 --> 09:51.340 The consequences of sin, the rewards of obedience, or how about this? 09:51.340 --> 09:53.420 The love of Christ constrains us, right? 09:53.900 --> 09:57.060 All of these, at the end of the day though, 09:57.060 --> 09:58.940 produce blessings in our life, 09:58.940 --> 10:02.060 but it requires effort on our end to do so, 10:02.060 --> 10:03.800 just like what we see here in the story. 10:03.800 --> 10:09.560 You know, the promised land, the land where they get to dwell in houses that they did not build, 10:09.560 --> 10:13.960 you know, drink out of wells that they did not dig, they get to eat at the vineyards that they 10:13.960 --> 10:19.400 did not plant, that's all given to them, but they have to put in the work to actually deserve it, 10:19.400 --> 10:25.080 to obtain it, to actually inherit that physical land. So Moses is telling the children of Israel, 10:25.700 --> 10:29.540 Take inventory. You know, find out if the people are big. 10:29.540 --> 10:31.640 Find out what kind of houses they dwell in. 10:31.640 --> 10:33.440 Find out if they dwell in tents. 10:33.440 --> 10:35.040 Find out if they dwell in houses. 10:35.040 --> 10:36.440 Why is he telling them this? 10:36.440 --> 10:41.080 Well, because he needs them to go in to the promised land with a plan, right? 10:41.080 --> 10:43.940 You don't want to just flippantly live, you know, the Christian life. 10:43.940 --> 10:45.240 You need to have a plan. 10:45.240 --> 10:46.840 It's like, well, I'm going to read the Bible this year. 10:46.840 --> 10:49.080 But what's your plan, though? 10:49.080 --> 10:52.280 You know, oh, I'm going to read the Bible two times this coming year. 10:52.280 --> 10:53.640 But what's the plan, though? 10:54.000 --> 10:56.920 Oh, I'm going to win 50 souls to Christ. 10:56.920 --> 10:58.360 That's great, but what's the plan though? 10:58.600 --> 11:03.880 There needs to be a plan, a structured plan that you put into place in order to obtain that 11:03.880 --> 11:07.180 And this is exactly what Moses is telling the children of Israel 11:07.180 --> 11:09.980 He's saying, hey, find out if they have strongholds 11:09.980 --> 11:13.100 Find out if the land is fat, if there's wood 11:13.100 --> 11:14.900 He goes on to say in verse 20 11:14.900 --> 11:19.820 In B.E. of good courage and bring of the fruit of the land 11:19.820 --> 11:23.460 Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes, the Bible says 11:23.460 --> 11:26.540 So what does it say? He's like, hey, aside from, you know 11:26.600 --> 11:31.100 So canvassing the land, checking out the enemies, 11:31.100 --> 11:33.500 where they live, make sure you bring some of those grapes 11:33.500 --> 11:35.420 back too. 11:35.420 --> 11:36.260 Now why is he saying that? 11:36.260 --> 11:38.260 He goes, well, the reason he's saying that is because he 11:38.260 --> 11:44.500 wants them to have an incentive of what's to await them. 11:44.500 --> 11:47.060 So he's like, bring back some of the grapes, bring back some 11:47.060 --> 11:51.580 of the fruit so that people are incentivized and motivated to 11:51.580 --> 11:53.940 actually go in and fight for the land. 11:54.300 --> 11:56.540 He goes on to say in verse 21, 11:56.540 --> 11:58.580 So they went up and searched the land 11:58.580 --> 12:01.260 from the wilderness of Zin and Rahab, 12:01.260 --> 12:03.060 as men come to Hamath. 12:03.060 --> 12:05.180 And they ascended by the south and came 12:05.180 --> 12:09.340 unto Hebron, which is a high man, Shishai, Telmai, 12:09.340 --> 12:11.020 the children of Anak were. 12:11.020 --> 12:14.420 Now Hebron was built seven years before Zohan in Egypt. 12:14.420 --> 12:16.300 Now why is that important to know? 12:16.300 --> 12:18.100 Well, the Bible is simply telling us here 12:18.100 --> 12:19.780 that this land that they're going into 12:19.780 --> 12:21.000 is the land of antiquity. 12:21.100 --> 12:25.100 Because it says here that it was built seven years before Zohan and Egypt. 12:25.100 --> 12:29.600 And the children of Israel are familiar with Zohan because they were in Egypt for that long, right? 12:29.600 --> 12:31.100 420 years. 12:31.100 --> 12:35.600 So they know Zohan and they're saying, well, Hebron is an even older city. 12:35.600 --> 12:40.600 And the significance of this, if you know the story, is that Caleb ends up inheriting this land. 12:40.600 --> 12:43.100 This particular land, Hebron, okay? 12:43.700 --> 12:50.100 Now why is that significant? Well because Hebron is the area that's a very difficult territory to overcome. 12:50.100 --> 12:53.100 But this is the area that Caleb requests. 12:53.100 --> 13:02.100 So they're going into Hebron and this is where the giants are, this is where the cities that are walled are very high are. 13:02.100 --> 13:04.600 This is where the challenge is. 13:05.000 --> 13:08.080 It says in verse 23, and they came into the brook of Eshkol, 13:08.080 --> 13:10.760 and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, 13:10.760 --> 13:13.240 and they bare it between two upon a staff, 13:13.240 --> 13:15.640 and they brought it the pomegranates and other figs. 13:15.640 --> 13:17.140 And the place was called the brook of Eshkol 13:17.140 --> 13:18.480 because of the clusters of grapes, 13:18.480 --> 13:21.020 which the children of Israel cut down from thence, 13:21.020 --> 13:24.340 and they returned from searching of the land after 40 days. 13:24.340 --> 13:25.920 Now, here's one thing we're going to learn 13:25.920 --> 13:28.800 from this particular passage, is that the Christian life 13:28.800 --> 13:30.480 is all about perspective. 13:32.400 --> 13:38.400 Why? 12 men go into the promised land and they all see the same exact thing. 13:38.400 --> 13:44.400 They all see the same walls, they see the same enemies, they see the same clusters of grapes, 13:44.400 --> 13:47.400 but yet 10 out of the 12 bring back an evil report. 13:47.400 --> 13:52.400 Two of them are just like, let's do it, let's whoop them, let's take it over. 13:52.400 --> 13:55.000 These guys are nothing. The other 10 are just wimps. 13:55.100 --> 13:56.100 They're just scared. 13:56.100 --> 13:59.480 But it's not because they saw something different than what the two saw. 13:59.480 --> 14:00.480 They both saw the same thing. 14:00.480 --> 14:03.560 And let me just say this, the Christian life, that's exactly how it is. 14:03.560 --> 14:05.460 It's all about perspective. 14:05.460 --> 14:09.480 You know, you could have the same people go to church, listen to the same sermons, fellowship 14:09.480 --> 14:14.340 with the same people, have God work in the same way in that church, and walk away having 14:14.340 --> 14:15.340 two different perspectives. 14:15.340 --> 14:17.480 Oh man, he was just too mean. 14:18.700 --> 14:24.420 He just preached it. Yeah, he just too angry. I just can't hand it but then someone else walk over there man that changed my life 14:25.420 --> 14:27.720 Someone walk away and be like well that that guy's kind of rude 14:28.100 --> 14:32.320 You know oh man, and then another one walk. I was like that guy used a lot of scripture 14:32.940 --> 14:35.860 Want to walk away and say I don't feel like the Spirit of God is there 14:37.200 --> 14:40.000 I just don't think God is in that. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.040 And the other person will be like, you know what? 14:42.040 --> 14:44.720 God's presence is there because I heard the word of God being preached. 14:44.720 --> 14:47.080 They both experience the same exact thing. 14:47.080 --> 14:49.560 But they have two different perspectives, right? 14:49.560 --> 14:52.600 One is of faith and the other one is not. 14:52.600 --> 14:58.520 The ten had a negative perspective on the promised land because they were in unbelief. 14:58.520 --> 14:59.960 They were afraid. 14:59.960 --> 15:01.080 They were scared. 15:01.080 --> 15:02.160 They were cowards. 15:02.160 --> 15:03.920 They did not have faith in God. 15:04.300 --> 15:08.460 Whereas Joshua and Caleb, they're just like, man, I want more grapes. 15:09.820 --> 15:10.460 Let's do it. 15:11.500 --> 15:16.140 Skip down, let's go to verse number 26. 15:17.340 --> 15:19.260 So they come back after 40 days. 15:19.260 --> 15:21.000 Look, 40 days is a long time. 15:21.200 --> 15:24.400 You're hanging out with these guys for 40 days, okay? 15:24.400 --> 15:26.480 You're seeing the same exact thing for 40 days, 15:26.480 --> 15:29.120 the same enemies, the same fruit for 40 days, 15:29.120 --> 15:31.760 and what's the job of these 12 men? 15:31.760 --> 15:33.120 What are they supposed to do? 15:33.120 --> 15:36.480 Well, because they're leaders, because they're rulers, 15:36.480 --> 15:39.680 they're supposed to be an example to the congregation. 15:39.680 --> 15:41.760 Meaning they're supposed to come back and say, 15:41.760 --> 15:43.440 man, you're not gonna believe it. 15:43.440 --> 15:45.200 Like, this place is awesome. 15:45.200 --> 15:46.720 Because keep in mind, the children of Israel, 15:46.720 --> 15:48.400 they're just really scared all the time. 15:49.000 --> 15:53.000 They're always afraid, they're always scared, they're kind of wimpy in a lot of ways 15:53.000 --> 15:59.000 So they need strong leaders to lead them and say, hey, this can be done 15:59.000 --> 16:03.000 God's already promised it to us, it's awesome, I already picked out my house 16:03.000 --> 16:07.000 I got this one well that I already picked out, it's going to be awesome, it's going to be great 16:07.000 --> 16:11.000 And that's exactly what they need, they need to be encouraged to serve 16:11.000 --> 16:13.900 to actually obey the Lord in this area 16:14.100 --> 16:16.100 That's what they're supposed to do. Look at verse 26. 16:16.100 --> 16:20.100 And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, 16:20.100 --> 16:25.100 unto the wilderness of Peirah and to Kadesh, and brought back word unto them, and to all the congregation, 16:25.100 --> 16:28.100 and showed them the fruit of the Lamb. 16:28.100 --> 16:38.100 And they told them and said, We came into the land, whether thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it. 16:38.100 --> 16:41.100 So everything so far so good, right? 16:41.500 --> 16:43.180 They're like, hey, we went there. 16:43.180 --> 16:45.020 It is awesome. 16:45.020 --> 16:46.780 It does flow with milk and honey. 16:46.780 --> 16:49.740 Look at these massive grapes that we brought back. 16:49.740 --> 16:52.060 OK? 16:52.060 --> 16:53.540 Good report. 16:53.540 --> 16:55.860 They should have just ended it right there. 16:55.860 --> 16:58.100 And say, Moses, you have any other words you want to say? 16:58.100 --> 17:00.100 When do we start? 17:00.100 --> 17:02.100 Here's the bad word right here, verse 28. 17:02.100 --> 17:04.300 Nevertheless. 17:04.300 --> 17:05.780 Nevertheless. 17:05.780 --> 17:07.100 What do you mean, nevertheless? 17:07.400 --> 17:13.040 Never the yeah, it's a great land. It is the land of God promise. It's true that God fulfills his word 17:13.160 --> 17:15.160 It's true that he fulfills his promise 17:15.480 --> 17:16.680 but 17:16.680 --> 17:18.680 But what? 17:18.760 --> 17:25.240 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell the land and the cities are walled and very great 17:25.960 --> 17:27.960 Moreover, we saw the children of Annick there 17:29.920 --> 17:33.880 Now let me tell you why this statement is so stupid and absurd 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 Everyone already knew that these people were there. 17:40.000 --> 17:46.240 Way back when when God is telling him about this land. He's explaining to them that there's gonna be giants 17:46.300 --> 17:51.980 He's explaining that this that the children of anac are gonna be there. He's even telling them. Hey, they're stronger than you 17:52.580 --> 17:56.880 Like he literally said he's like I just want to let you know you're gonna go into this land and they're actually stronger than you 17:57.220 --> 17:59.920 It's okay, but all of a sudden. Oh, man 18:00.560 --> 18:03.120 This is so this is funny people there 18:03.780 --> 18:07.200 This is Giants. It's just like why are you saying this? 18:07.900 --> 18:09.900 We already know this. 18:09.900 --> 18:13.900 It seems as though you're just trying to instill fear into the hearts of the brethren, 18:13.900 --> 18:17.900 into the congregation, because you're too scared to go out and fight, 18:17.900 --> 18:21.900 so therefore you have to discourage the hearts of your brothers so that they don't go and fight. 18:21.900 --> 18:25.900 This is already new, we already know this, it's common knowledge, 18:25.900 --> 18:29.900 you don't have to bring this up, and this kind of demonstrates to us as Christians 18:29.900 --> 18:33.900 that we need to make sure that we're not always negative about things, right? 18:34.400 --> 18:41.200 Have the right perspective. If it's time to fight a spiritual battle, don't make it as though don't make a mountain out of a molehill 18:41.840 --> 18:47.520 And say yeah, but you know what happens if we get persecuted or something, you know, they threaten to blow up our church 18:48.960 --> 18:52.260 Yeah, we know that already that's that's already happened 18:53.200 --> 18:56.320 This is not new territory for us. 18:56.320 --> 18:58.400 God already told us that this was going to happen. 18:58.400 --> 19:03.360 He said, yea, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 19:03.360 --> 19:08.480 Think it not strange the fire of your trial which shall try you as though some strange thing happened unto you. 19:08.480 --> 19:14.320 Why are you bringing up the sons of Anak in the walled cities as though God didn't tell us this to begin with? 19:14.320 --> 19:15.680 Nevertheless... 19:16.000 --> 19:19.760 Verse 29, the Amalekites dwell in the land of the south. 19:19.760 --> 19:21.680 Yeah, thank you, Sherlock Holmes. 19:21.680 --> 19:23.200 I appreciate that information. 19:23.200 --> 19:24.000 We know that already. 19:25.360 --> 19:29.280 And the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Abberites dwell in the mountains. 19:29.280 --> 19:30.560 Yeah, they're called Canaanites. 19:31.760 --> 19:33.120 It's called Canaan land. 19:33.120 --> 19:34.000 We already know this. 19:34.960 --> 19:38.000 And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of Jordan. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.200 And you just want to throw that extra information in there. 19:41.200 --> 19:42.640 And they're by the ocean. 19:45.900 --> 19:50.900 So, you know, if you could imagine what this looks like at this moment, okay? 19:50.900 --> 19:54.900 Because again, the children of Israel are just naturally afraid. 19:54.900 --> 20:00.900 Any amount of negative information or news just gets them scared and gets them going, right? 20:00.900 --> 20:03.900 It's kind of like you when you're on social media and stuff. 20:03.900 --> 20:06.900 You start hearing all kinds of stuff, all of a sudden you're afraid, you're just all scared. 20:06.900 --> 20:08.300 What's going to happen? 20:09.100 --> 20:15.420 You know, yeah, it's true. You know, God's taking care of me this this this far and he's providing me but what if 20:17.340 --> 20:20.300 You know newsome. Yeah, we've had news this whole time 20:22.300 --> 20:25.280 It's like when when when other states criticize california 20:26.300 --> 20:29.740 And they're just like yeah, but your governor is do some oh really? 20:30.860 --> 20:32.860 No way 20:34.140 --> 20:35.800 Honey, did you know that? 20:36.600 --> 20:38.600 Really, I didn't know that. 20:38.600 --> 20:41.200 Thank you for pointing out the obvious. 20:41.200 --> 20:42.040 You know what it's meant to do? 20:42.040 --> 20:44.600 It's meant to instill fear. 20:44.600 --> 20:46.500 It's meant to discourage. 20:46.500 --> 20:48.960 It's meant to minimize faith, right? 20:48.960 --> 20:52.040 There's no reason why you didn't bring this up. 20:52.040 --> 20:56.200 So obviously, this is causing a stir within the congregation 20:56.200 --> 20:58.600 and this is where Caleb steps in the picture. 20:58.600 --> 20:59.440 Verse 30. 20:59.700 --> 21:04.700 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, 21:04.700 --> 21:06.580 let us go up at once and possess it, 21:06.580 --> 21:09.460 for we are able to overcome it. 21:09.460 --> 21:11.220 So Caleb was just, what does it mean to still? 21:11.220 --> 21:13.780 It was like, calm down, relax. 21:13.780 --> 21:16.100 Lower your voice, okay? 21:16.100 --> 21:18.620 Stop shaking, it's okay. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.720 You know, relax, all right, relax. 21:21.720 --> 21:23.720 Let's just go up at once and overtake it. 21:23.720 --> 21:25.000 We can overcome them. 21:25.000 --> 21:26.320 He's trying to instill courage. 21:26.320 --> 21:28.120 And look, Caleb is a courageous man, 21:28.120 --> 21:29.500 but there's only so much courage you 21:29.500 --> 21:31.480 can instill into a congregation that has already 21:31.480 --> 21:33.920 been infected by fear. 21:33.920 --> 21:35.720 So he's trying to instill the people. 21:35.720 --> 21:38.440 And keep in mind, Caleb is 40 years old at this time. 21:38.440 --> 21:38.940 OK? 21:38.940 --> 21:39.100 you 21:39.600 --> 21:44.140 He's 40 years old, he's like, let's just go up at once, let's possess it, we're able to overcome it 21:44.140 --> 21:44.640 Verse 31 21:44.640 --> 21:51.140 But the men that went up with him said, we'd be not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we 21:51.140 --> 21:54.640 Yeah, God already told you that, but here's the way it works with God 21:54.640 --> 21:58.240 Is that when something is stronger than us, God makes up the difference on our end 21:59.900 --> 22:03.260 You know, greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. 22:03.260 --> 22:07.020 You know, God and us make up the majority. 22:07.020 --> 22:09.900 If God be for us, who can be against us? 22:09.900 --> 22:12.540 No weapon formed against us shall prosper. 22:12.540 --> 22:15.820 That's what the Bible says, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 22:17.420 --> 22:20.060 There's just like, they're stronger than, everyone's stronger than you. 22:21.260 --> 22:22.060 You're weak. 22:22.400 --> 22:25.440 That's not any new thing, we already know this. 22:25.440 --> 22:27.600 We're not doing this based upon our own might. 22:27.600 --> 22:29.360 We're wrestling not against flesh and blood. 22:29.360 --> 22:31.600 We need to make sure that we rely upon the Lord. 22:32.400 --> 22:35.120 And look folks, the Christian life is going to be filled with challenges 22:35.120 --> 22:37.600 that require for you to rely upon God. 22:38.200 --> 22:40.520 And it's good when you are lacking. 22:40.520 --> 22:44.360 It's good when the challenge seems daunting. 22:44.360 --> 22:46.200 It's good when it seems as though, 22:46.200 --> 22:48.000 you know, from a practical perspective, 22:48.000 --> 22:49.240 you're not gonna come out winning 22:49.240 --> 22:50.880 because then God can show himself strong 22:50.880 --> 22:53.280 on the behalf of those whose heart is perfect with him. 22:53.280 --> 22:54.520 So the Bible says, right? 22:55.400 --> 22:57.640 It's like they're stronger than us. Look at verse 32. 22:57.640 --> 23:04.240 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, 23:04.240 --> 23:09.400 saying, The land through which we have gone to search it is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof. 23:09.400 --> 23:12.840 And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. 23:12.840 --> 23:15.520 So the Bible says here that they brought up an evil report. 23:15.520 --> 23:16.720 What does that mean? 23:16.720 --> 23:21.320 Well, a people of good report, according to Hebrews chapter 11, are people of faith. 23:21.900 --> 23:27.900 An evil report is when someone begins to instill fear because they lack faith. 23:27.900 --> 23:33.420 They're basically removing the faith of the people by slandering the lamp. 23:33.420 --> 23:37.660 It actually uses that phrase later on, that they slandered the lamp. 23:38.600 --> 23:44.200 Verse 33 says, and there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants. 23:44.200 --> 23:51.320 And I want you to notice this, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 23:51.320 --> 23:53.800 Now that is a super funny verse to me. 23:53.800 --> 23:57.160 Okay, let me explain to you why it's really funny. 23:57.160 --> 24:00.200 Because what they're doing is really projecting here, right? 24:01.500 --> 24:06.700 What are they saying? Well, first of all, they went out to spy the land, meaning that no one saw them. 24:06.700 --> 24:08.700 First and foremost. 24:08.700 --> 24:12.900 Meaning they didn't commune with anybody there. 24:12.900 --> 24:19.700 So when it says here, we were in our own site as grasshoppers, just believe what they're saying. 24:19.700 --> 24:24.700 They're basically saying, you know, we see ourselves as grasshoppers in their site. 24:24.700 --> 24:28.500 And it's almost as if they caught themselves and then they said, so we were in their site. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 How do you know that? You didn't commune with them. 24:31.000 --> 24:38.000 Now, I'm reading this and I'm thinking to myself, well, that makes it even better if we're grasshoppers in their sight. 24:38.000 --> 24:44.000 That's even better. You say, why? Well, what does God use to judge lands? Locusts and grasshoppers. 24:45.000 --> 24:46.680 How did God destroy Egypt? 24:46.680 --> 24:48.360 Locust and grasshoppers, right? 24:48.360 --> 24:50.280 How does he just destroy crops? 24:50.280 --> 24:54.000 Locust and grasshoppers often just overtake entire crops 24:54.000 --> 24:55.520 and just destroy resources. 24:55.520 --> 24:57.800 I would have been like, great illustration. 24:57.800 --> 24:59.580 Thank you for proving my point. 24:59.580 --> 25:01.520 We are going to be like grasshoppers in their site. 25:01.520 --> 25:03.920 We are just going to completely destroy their resources. 25:03.920 --> 25:05.800 We're just going to completely take them over. 25:06.600 --> 25:14.600 But what we see here is these guys are just fearful, they're afraid, oh they're like giants, and they're really tall. 25:14.600 --> 25:20.100 Now let me just make a side note here that has nothing to do with the sermon, but it's worth mentioning since we're in this verse. 25:20.100 --> 25:23.600 When it says giant, it's not referring to a 450 foot giant. 25:23.600 --> 25:29.100 This isn't referring to some Christian fantasy known as the Book of Enoch. 25:30.000 --> 25:35.000 And it's funny because anytime you criticize the book of Enoch, people automatically think you're criticizing Enoch. 25:35.000 --> 25:40.000 But Enoch takes no credit. The biblical Enoch takes no credit for the book of Enoch. 25:40.000 --> 25:47.000 And because we are rejecting the book of Enoch, does not mean we reject Enoch because he's not the one responsible for writing that book. 25:48.100 --> 25:53.220 Now the book of Enoch is the one that is largely responsible for promoting this false doctrine, 25:53.220 --> 25:59.260 this false ideology that there were literally 450 foot giants in the Bible even though nothing 25:59.260 --> 26:01.560 in the Bible says the size of these people. 26:01.560 --> 26:04.220 Okay, being 450 feet. 26:04.220 --> 26:06.020 Only in the book of Enoch is that measurement found. 26:06.900 --> 26:14.900 But secondly, the giants in the Bible only measured up to about nine, possibly 10, 11 feet at the most. 26:14.900 --> 26:18.900 That's considered a giant. You're like, that's not a giant. Stand next to a person who's 10 feet tall. 26:18.900 --> 26:21.900 You tell me if that's not a giant to you. 26:21.900 --> 26:25.600 A giant is just someone who's just large. Okay? 26:26.100 --> 26:31.100 So you like well, I still think there is 450 foot Giants in this world at one point 26:31.100 --> 26:37.220 And then God had to destroy them with the flood and that's way then why did Giants exist after the flood? 26:39.060 --> 26:41.060 Can you explain that? 26:41.140 --> 26:42.460 You know 26:42.460 --> 26:45.780 According to the book of Enoch the reason God flood of the world was to destroy the Giants 26:45.780 --> 26:48.300 But yet we find Giants after the flood as noted here 26:49.580 --> 26:53.140 Doesn't make any sense folks. It's a Christian science fiction is what it is 26:53.600 --> 26:58.600 And you know what? I reject the book of Enoch wholeheartedly because it completely contradicts the Bible. 26:58.600 --> 27:02.600 When you put it, when you actually prove all things, hold fast that which is good, 27:02.600 --> 27:07.600 when you compare it to the scriptures, you actually see that they're not compatible one with another. 27:07.600 --> 27:10.200 It's made by apostate Jews. 27:10.500 --> 27:15.780 who just are writing their own thing, they're just putting together these Jewish fables, 27:15.780 --> 27:19.940 they're making up all kinds of stories, it's basically Greek mythology that's written by 27:20.980 --> 27:27.940 Jewish apostates is what it is. So we have here Caleb stepping up to the plate, 27:27.940 --> 27:28.440 14. 27:32.100 --> 27:39.500 14 verse 1 says, and all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night. So they're crying about this. 27:41.400 --> 27:47.200 I mean good night in the morning. I mean like I know that there's men here, but I'm just thinking you guys are acting like women though. 27:48.100 --> 27:54.600 What happened to the men of these households who are just like hey, we don't need to cry about this. This is not a big deal. 27:55.500 --> 27:58.400 We can overcome it. Caleb's right. Joshua's right. 27:58.400 --> 28:01.200 Moses is right. But more important than that, God is right. 28:02.800 --> 28:07.200 They wept that night and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. 28:07.200 --> 28:08.800 The whole congregation said to them, 28:08.800 --> 28:13.900 would God that we had died in the land of Egypt or would God we had died in this wilderness. 28:13.900 --> 28:16.800 What in the world? This is called exaggeration. 28:17.800 --> 28:18.800 Because what are they saying? 28:18.800 --> 28:22.320 Oh, it would have been better for us to just die in the wilderness or just in Egypt instead 28:22.320 --> 28:28.920 of dying at the hands of these Anakins and, you know, these Canaanites or whatever maybe. 28:28.920 --> 28:30.200 It's an exaggeration. 28:30.200 --> 28:34.160 It's like when people, you know, as a Christian, the Christian life gets hard and it's like, 28:34.160 --> 28:35.880 oh, it would have been better if I just stayed in the world. 28:35.880 --> 28:36.200 Really? 28:37.100 --> 28:40.940 You really think it would have been better for you to just stay in the world, 28:40.940 --> 28:46.060 just living a godless life under the wrath of God as an unsafe person? 28:46.060 --> 28:48.860 You really think that would be better for you? You're exaggerating. 28:49.660 --> 28:50.380 You're exaggerating. 28:51.420 --> 28:52.700 Well, I didn't have it as bad. 28:52.700 --> 28:55.980 Now, let me just tell you right now that whatever problems you're going through now, 28:55.980 --> 28:58.940 unsafe people go through outside these walls as well. 28:58.940 --> 29:01.260 Here's the major difference between the two. We have God. 29:02.380 --> 29:03.900 That's the major difference. They don't. 29:04.700 --> 29:08.960 So they're going according to the course of this world, according to the prince of power of the air 29:08.960 --> 29:13.480 They're just suffering, they have no hope in this world outside of Christ 29:13.480 --> 29:17.520 There's no hope, there's no grace, there's no mercy for them 29:17.520 --> 29:20.520 They have no idea what they're doing, they're just paying bills 29:20.520 --> 29:25.220 They're just paying bills to try to just live life, whereas us, we actually have purpose 29:26.000 --> 29:31.360 And you know what, when things go hard for us, when we experience suffering and trial and tribulation, 29:31.360 --> 29:35.040 the Bible says that all things work together for good to them that love God, 29:35.040 --> 29:40.640 to them who are called according to his purpose. So the Bible says, so even when we suffer, 29:40.640 --> 29:43.280 God says, it's okay, I'll take those ingredients and make something good out of it. 29:44.000 --> 29:47.440 Whereas the people in this world, they just suffer. Think about this, 29:47.440 --> 29:49.760 they suffer and if they don't get saved, they die and go to hell. 29:51.300 --> 29:55.300 Your worst day here is still some unsafe person's best day. 29:55.300 --> 29:59.300 Because our worst day here still works together for good. 29:59.300 --> 30:02.300 So it's not worth, oh man, it's just so hard. 30:02.300 --> 30:04.300 Would to God I just stayed in Egypt. 30:04.300 --> 30:07.300 Would to God I just stayed with my girlfriend. 30:07.300 --> 30:09.300 Would to God that I just stayed with my boyfriend. 30:09.300 --> 30:13.300 Would to God that I would still drink and smoke and run with those that do. 30:13.300 --> 30:14.300 It's an exaggeration. 30:14.300 --> 30:16.300 Don't you remember how much you complain when you're in Egypt? 30:17.900 --> 30:20.620 You complain and you ask God to save you. 30:20.620 --> 30:22.620 You ask God to change something in your life. 30:22.620 --> 30:25.100 You ask God to deliver you out of Egypt. 30:25.100 --> 30:28.220 But all of a sudden, you're met with this little challenge 30:28.220 --> 30:30.220 of obeying God and it's just like, 30:30.220 --> 30:31.820 oh, I should have just died in the wilderness. 30:33.020 --> 30:33.900 He says in verse three, 30:33.900 --> 30:36.940 and wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this land? 30:36.940 --> 30:41.260 To fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey, 30:41.260 --> 30:43.180 were it not better for us to return into Egypt. 30:43.180 --> 30:43.820 Who said that? 30:45.400 --> 30:48.000 Who's this guy who's like, God wants to kill our kids? 30:50.500 --> 30:52.100 And they send one to another. 30:52.100 --> 30:54.900 Let us make a captain. 30:54.900 --> 30:57.580 And let us return to Egypt. 30:57.580 --> 31:00.700 So this is what happens when people become overly emotional. 31:00.700 --> 31:02.900 They make hasty decisions. 31:02.900 --> 31:05.540 Irrational, hasty decisions. 31:05.540 --> 31:06.700 Let's just get a captain. 31:06.700 --> 31:07.540 We'll go back to Egypt. 31:07.540 --> 31:09.580 Like, what? 31:09.580 --> 31:11.540 God literally played. 31:11.540 --> 31:12.460 You can't go back to Egypt. 31:12.460 --> 31:13.940 There's nothing left over there. 31:13.940 --> 31:15.940 Remember God destroyed it? 31:15.940 --> 31:17.300 Remember all the plagues and stuff? 31:17.400 --> 31:19.160 You sure you want to go back? 31:19.160 --> 31:21.160 It's going to take a while before they can rebuild that thing. 31:21.160 --> 31:23.480 The cucumbers aren't there right now, bro. 31:23.480 --> 31:25.560 The melons aren't there right now. 31:25.560 --> 31:28.240 You want to go back to an Egypt that no longer exists 31:28.240 --> 31:31.600 at that particular moment. 31:31.600 --> 31:32.560 Oh, let's make a capital. 31:32.560 --> 31:33.800 Let's just return it to Egypt. 31:33.800 --> 31:35.640 Let's just make a hasted decision, 31:35.640 --> 31:37.880 because things are just really hard right now. 31:37.880 --> 31:40.560 No, you need to just go to sleep, 31:40.560 --> 31:44.000 eat those grapes that they brought back, take a nap. 31:44.500 --> 31:50.020 You know, and just chill out, stop hanging out with fearful people, get off of social media, 31:50.660 --> 31:56.100 get off of Instagram, get off of Facebook for a while, go on a social media fast for a little bit 31:56.100 --> 32:01.540 so you're not consuming all types of negative information that's causing your faith to wane in 32:01.540 --> 32:09.060 God and you might feel different about it tomorrow. He says in verse number five, then Moses and Aaron. 32:09.700 --> 32:13.860 fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel 32:13.860 --> 32:18.740 and Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of them that searched the land 32:18.740 --> 32:24.420 rent their clothes. So the guys who actually are level-headed, the ones who actually have faith, 32:24.420 --> 32:31.540 they're devastated by this. Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, they're absolutely beside 32:31.540 --> 32:34.700 themselves in this regard because they know what this means. 32:35.000 --> 32:41.520 Because the majority of the congregation does not want to go in they know this means this is bad news, okay? 32:42.680 --> 32:45.160 When they're renting their clothes, they're just like no 32:46.360 --> 32:51.500 This is gonna turn out to be very bad for the entire nation for my family 32:51.500 --> 32:53.860 And you know this kind of demonstrates right here right here 32:53.860 --> 32:59.460 We're gonna look in just a bit that sometimes you unfortunately have to suffer the consequences of other people's actions 33:00.100 --> 33:05.100 That happens sometimes. You live in a home where your mom and dad aren't saved, they're not making the best decisions 33:05.100 --> 33:10.160 You live in a home where maybe, you know, your marriage isn't necessarily up to Christian par 33:10.400 --> 33:16.780 You're living in a condition that's not necessarily conducive to spiritual growth. You might end up suffering the consequences of being in that environment 33:17.140 --> 33:19.140 That's just how it is sometimes 33:19.520 --> 33:25.480 But you know what? I don't see Caleb and Joshua just completely usurping the authority in order to fix things 33:25.480 --> 33:27.660 They're just gonna say well, I know the Lord's with me 33:29.000 --> 33:34.760 And you know, unfortunately, Caleb, though he's a man full of faith, the Bible literally says that he 33:34.760 --> 33:43.240 wholly follow the Lord, he went in the wilderness for 40 years to. And that kind of sucks to be one 33:43.240 --> 33:49.160 of the guys who actually was pro going into the land, wanted to serve God, wanted to overcome, 33:49.160 --> 33:53.320 but was hindered by the faithlessness of the rest of the congregation and have to go in the 33:53.320 --> 33:55.320 the wilderness for 40 years? 33:55.900 --> 34:00.660 Mean that that kind of stinks a little bit, but you know what Caleb he went with the flow 34:01.580 --> 34:06.140 Because at the end of the day Caleb understood that he's like one of those in Sardis, right? 34:06.440 --> 34:10.820 He's one of those the few names in Sardis who is not the father's garments 34:10.820 --> 34:14.580 He still has faith in God and he recognizes that God can bless him in any situation 34:15.600 --> 34:18.960 Look at verse 7, and they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, 34:18.960 --> 34:23.520 the land which we pass through to search it is an exceeding good land. 34:24.240 --> 34:27.680 So, you know, Caleb and them, they're still trying to like reason with these people like, 34:27.680 --> 34:33.120 man, it's such good real estate, it's free, we should just go in there. 34:33.120 --> 34:38.480 And he says this in verse 8, if the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into the land. 34:39.100 --> 34:44.940 Don't worry about the Giants and all the walls and all the challenges if God delights in us 34:45.140 --> 34:47.900 We're gonna be able to overcome it. You shouldn't worry about that 34:49.640 --> 34:53.140 He says and give it us a language flow with milk and honey 34:53.600 --> 35:01.560 Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are 35:01.560 --> 35:03.040 bred for us. 35:03.040 --> 35:07.080 Their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us. 35:07.080 --> 35:08.080 Fear them not." 35:08.080 --> 35:10.440 So, you know, he delivers this great dissertation. 35:10.440 --> 35:14.480 He's just like, man, we're going to eat them up alive. 35:14.480 --> 35:15.640 God's going to delight in us. 35:15.640 --> 35:17.160 He's going to deliver us. 35:17.160 --> 35:19.120 We just got to believe this. 35:19.120 --> 35:20.120 Just do it, right? 35:20.120 --> 35:21.120 the congregation be like... 35:21.600 --> 35:23.840 Yeah, you're right, Caleb. 35:23.840 --> 35:26.520 I'm being a wimp right now, you know, I'm being a wuss. 35:26.520 --> 35:28.160 My wife is just the one who's, you know, 35:28.160 --> 35:30.660 it's really just her, you know. 35:30.660 --> 35:32.120 You would think like someone would actually come 35:32.120 --> 35:34.880 to their senses at this point, right? 35:34.880 --> 35:36.360 But let me give you what happens 35:36.360 --> 35:38.560 when you give people the truth. 35:38.560 --> 35:39.520 It says in verse 10, 35:39.520 --> 35:42.000 put all the congregation, bait, stone them with stones. 35:44.300 --> 35:47.780 They're like, wait here, I think we should kill this guy. 35:47.780 --> 35:49.780 That's what they said. 35:49.780 --> 35:52.020 They're just like, oh, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah. 35:52.020 --> 35:53.100 Sneak him out. 35:53.100 --> 35:55.140 I didn't sneak what you stole from him. 35:55.140 --> 35:57.340 What? 35:57.340 --> 35:58.260 What? 35:58.260 --> 36:01.860 Have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? 36:01.860 --> 36:03.100 You know what this demonstrates? 36:03.100 --> 36:04.320 This demonstrates that some people just 36:04.320 --> 36:06.540 can't handle the truth. 36:06.540 --> 36:07.500 They can't handle it. 36:07.600 --> 36:13.100 Even when the truth is hey God is for us. We can do it. It's like I don't want to hear 36:13.100 --> 36:17.720 I don't hear I don't hear it. They'd rather just silence you for telling them the truth 36:18.280 --> 36:21.760 And look folks, you know, this is why it's funny when people are like, oh you should have preached like that 36:21.760 --> 36:28.260 All that negative stuff of your pro-death penalty and against sodomites. You're just so mean and everything, you know 36:28.260 --> 36:31.680 That's why people did that to you people bombed your church because of how you preach 36:31.680 --> 36:34.980 They wanted to slow Caleb and he was encouraging them. We talked about 36:36.200 --> 36:37.800 He's like, we can do it guys. 36:37.800 --> 36:40.080 And they're just picking up stones like, 36:40.080 --> 36:41.120 you say another word. 36:43.020 --> 36:43.860 You know why? 36:43.860 --> 36:44.920 Because sometimes people just hate the truth 36:44.920 --> 36:46.960 no matter how it's delivered. 36:46.960 --> 36:48.540 No matter what is stated, 36:48.540 --> 36:51.420 sometimes people just hate the truth. 36:51.420 --> 36:52.480 That's the truth. 36:53.800 --> 36:56.200 And so like, you know, 36:56.200 --> 36:57.700 I'm glad that it overreact. 36:58.800 --> 37:04.560 Bathe them stone them with stones just like you're gonna stone Joshua and Caleb for trying to exhort you 37:04.920 --> 37:08.900 To continue to just go in the land to succeed as a Christian 37:08.900 --> 37:14.180 But this demonstrates how faithless and carnal people have become at this point, you know Christians can be the same way 37:14.880 --> 37:19.900 You can encourage Christians, you know to go Sony stop asking me to go so I'm gonna go 37:21.300 --> 37:26.020 You can encourage Christians to read the Bible, to go to church, stop doing that, I'm just not going to do it. 37:26.020 --> 37:27.860 And you almost become like an enemy to them. 37:30.500 --> 37:40.500 But this simply demonstrates that when it comes to serving God, it's often the minority who's willing to do it, not necessarily the majority. 37:42.600 --> 37:45.480 He says in verse 10, but all the congregation bathed, 37:45.480 --> 37:49.480 stoned them with stones, and the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation 37:49.480 --> 37:53.640 before all the children of Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke 37:53.640 --> 37:58.760 me? And how long will it be ere they believe me for all the signs which I have showed among them? 37:58.760 --> 38:04.040 Now you can relate to this frustration of the Lord, right? He's like, I just destroyed Egypt 38:04.040 --> 38:08.040 for them. Like Red Sea. Anyone remember that? 38:08.700 --> 38:12.460 Ten plagues, hello? And then all of a sudden it's just like, the giants. 38:13.100 --> 38:15.340 It's like, how long are these people going to provoke me like this? 38:16.780 --> 38:21.740 He says in verse 12, this is God's solution, by the way. Okay? 38:22.780 --> 38:27.180 I know, it's a great solution. I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them 38:27.180 --> 38:29.580 and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 38:30.700 --> 38:32.540 That's called replacement theology. Amen. 38:34.200 --> 38:39.000 He's like, I got an idea, why don't I just like wipe out the entire nation and then we'll just start again with you, Moses. 38:39.400 --> 38:42.400 Now Moses is a far greater man than me because I would have been like, let's do it. 38:44.000 --> 38:44.700 That sounds good. 38:46.000 --> 38:50.100 The Lord is able, you know, just start fresh with Moses. 38:50.500 --> 38:56.340 But of course Moses is merciful, he's gracious, and he obviously cares for the reputation 38:56.340 --> 38:58.760 of the Lord before the heathen. 38:58.760 --> 39:03.500 But I just want to show you that if you think, oh no, the Jews are such God-chosen people 39:03.500 --> 39:07.060 and Israel God-chosen, he was willing to replace them even back then. 39:07.060 --> 39:11.380 He was literally willing to just completely wipe them out. 39:11.380 --> 39:15.820 And these are the verses that people, they just kind of avoid a lot of the times. 39:16.200 --> 39:19.760 Especially when they say like, God will never break his promises 39:19.760 --> 39:21.400 Well look at verse 34 39:21.400 --> 39:24.200 Just real quick, just for good measure here 39:24.200 --> 39:28.040 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even 40 days 39:28.040 --> 39:29.800 Each day for a year 39:29.800 --> 39:32.280 Shall ye bear your iniquities even 40 years 39:32.280 --> 39:35.360 And ye shall know, listen to this, my breach of promise 39:35.360 --> 39:38.800 I'm sorry, come again again? What was that? 39:38.800 --> 39:40.240 What was that? 39:40.240 --> 39:42.240 Like, oh, you know 39:42.700 --> 39:44.020 He'll never break his promises. 39:44.020 --> 39:46.740 It says, you'll know my breach of promise. 39:46.740 --> 39:48.060 That's what he said. 39:48.060 --> 39:50.700 You'll know that I will break my promise to you 39:50.700 --> 39:54.220 because of your, you know, because you broke 39:54.220 --> 39:55.060 your promise towards me. 39:55.060 --> 39:56.300 You broke the contract. 39:57.340 --> 39:59.700 So it's like, oh man, you know, God will never, 39:59.700 --> 40:01.140 well, then you're gonna have to explain to me 40:01.140 --> 40:03.820 what this means, because that's exactly what he did. 40:04.700 --> 40:06.100 But you know, and a lot of people, 40:06.100 --> 40:07.700 that doesn't sit well with them. 40:07.900 --> 40:11.900 But it's because they just didn't pay attention to numbers 14. 40:11.900 --> 40:14.900 They're just kind of reading through the Bible and ignoring that part. 40:15.900 --> 40:16.900 Right? 40:18.900 --> 40:22.900 I mean, that's why it's important that when we read the Bible, we actually like, pay attention to what we're reading. 40:23.900 --> 40:25.900 Because it actually says that there, you'll know my breach of promise. 40:25.900 --> 40:29.900 And who are you to tell God that he can't break his promise to the nation of Israel? 40:30.600 --> 40:36.360 And keep in mind, the reason he's breaching his promise is because of the fact that they breached their end as well. 40:36.360 --> 40:40.840 He did it in response to them breaking their covenant with him. 40:40.840 --> 40:44.320 So it's like, okay, then I'm not obligated to keep my end of the bargain. 40:44.320 --> 40:45.520 Okay? 40:45.520 --> 40:48.920 Now go back a couple verses here. 40:48.920 --> 40:52.160 Skip down to, let's see here. 40:53.500 --> 40:57.900 Verse 13 says, and Moses said unto the Lord, then the Egyptians will hear it for thou broughtest 40:57.900 --> 41:02.860 up this people into it in thy mind from among them and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this 41:02.860 --> 41:08.700 land for they have heard that thou Lord are among this people that thou Lord are seen face to face 41:08.700 --> 41:13.180 and so forth. So what does he say? He's like don't because you know everyone knows about the Lord. 41:13.180 --> 41:17.500 They know what you've done and it's going to tarnish your reputation. So obviously Moses did 41:17.500 --> 41:19.660 this in light of God's reputation. 41:20.100 --> 41:25.180 He's interceding for the nation of Israel because not because he necessarily cares for the nation of Israel though he does 41:25.600 --> 41:27.860 He cares more for the reputation of God 41:28.260 --> 41:31.860 He's like you brought them out then people are gonna start slandering your name 41:32.000 --> 41:37.400 You know just be merciful to them and so forth and of course the Lord ends up forgiving the nation of Israel for this 41:37.400 --> 41:40.340 But here's the thing not without consequence though 41:40.980 --> 41:45.420 So what does he do? He says okay? I forgive you. I won't kill you but 41:45.900 --> 41:48.500 You're going to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. 41:51.500 --> 41:52.500 for 40 years. 41:52.500 --> 42:00.700 And on top of that, everyone who is 20 years old and upward are going to die in the wilderness. 42:00.700 --> 42:02.240 That's the punishment. 42:02.240 --> 42:06.500 So you don't want the promised land, you don't want the blessings of God, you don't want 42:06.500 --> 42:10.020 this wonderful promise that I've given to you, okay, then die in the wilderness is what 42:10.020 --> 42:11.300 he's saying. 42:11.300 --> 42:13.700 And the wilderness wanderings was basically like a huge funeral. 42:13.700 --> 42:15.420 It was a 40 year long funeral. 42:16.400 --> 42:22.640 He kept them in the wilderness wandering in there until they completely died out with the exception 42:22.640 --> 42:27.360 listen to this of Caleb and Joshua because Caleb and Joshua are 40 you know well we know that 42:27.360 --> 42:32.720 Caleb is 40 years old Joshua might be a little younger than that Caleb 40 but they survived why 42:32.720 --> 42:36.480 because they actually have faith in God and this is why Hebrews 3 tells us that they could not 42:36.480 --> 42:41.760 enter in listen to this because of unbelief so here's the here's here's the choice that 42:41.760 --> 42:43.000 You have to make my friends. 42:44.600 --> 42:46.600 You're saved, excellent. 42:47.900 --> 42:49.500 You're saved, that's great. 42:49.500 --> 42:52.200 But God wants you to go into the promised land too. 42:52.200 --> 42:55.000 If you don't want to go, okay, then you'll just die in the wilderness. 42:56.500 --> 42:57.600 You'll just die in the wilderness. 42:58.300 --> 42:59.500 Because you lack faith in God. 43:00.100 --> 43:02.020 then God will just kill you off in the wilderness. 43:02.020 --> 43:02.700 And you know what? 43:02.700 --> 43:06.780 That happens all the time, where people just decide to get out of church, 43:06.780 --> 43:10.820 they stop serving God, they stop exercising their faith in the Lord, 43:10.820 --> 43:13.140 they stop reading the Bible, they stop leading people to Christ. 43:13.140 --> 43:13.820 You know what God says? 43:13.820 --> 43:18.380 Okay, you know, if you don't want to inherit the blessings that I have for you, 43:18.380 --> 43:22.700 the provision, the blessings, the blessing of just raising a family in church. 43:23.000 --> 43:27.160 The blessing of leading people to Christ, the blessing of having a godly marriage. 43:27.160 --> 43:31.160 If you want to just disobey because of your lack of faith, then die in the wilderness. 43:32.040 --> 43:37.320 You won't get that message in Sunday school class. It's not going to happen because it's too harsh. 43:37.320 --> 43:39.000 But you know what? That's the reality, my friends. 43:39.720 --> 43:43.160 If you don't think that's the God of the Bible, then you're missing out on 40 years right here. 43:43.500 --> 43:45.900 Because that's exactly what he did for 40 years. 43:45.900 --> 43:51.200 And I don't even have time to chronicle all of the devastating things that happened throughout those 40 years. 43:52.500 --> 43:57.000 Where God is just punishing them left and right, killing them left and right. 43:57.000 --> 44:01.000 I mean, it's not just like natural occurrences, super natural occurrences. 44:01.300 --> 44:07.100 Serpents biting them, the earth opening up and swallowing the dissenters whole. 44:07.500 --> 44:11.000 Going straight into hell. I mean, there's a lot of crazy stuff that happened in the wilderness. 44:11.700 --> 44:14.740 I think I'd rather just go into the promised land. 44:14.740 --> 44:16.980 I think that's better. 44:16.980 --> 44:19.180 You know, reading that I'm like, 44:19.180 --> 44:21.180 nah, I'll take on the giant. 44:22.700 --> 44:25.140 I don't want to live in the wilderness for 40 years 44:25.140 --> 44:26.420 and just miss out on this. 44:26.420 --> 44:28.500 And here's the funny thing about this, okay? 44:28.500 --> 44:30.980 Because keep in mind, they're afraid, listen to me, 44:30.980 --> 44:32.980 they're afraid of the sons of Anak. 44:32.980 --> 44:35.100 They're afraid of the Canaanites, right? 44:35.100 --> 44:37.700 Like they're like morbidly afraid of them. 44:38.800 --> 44:43.800 What they don't realize, listen to me, what they don't realize is the Canaanites are more scared of them. 44:43.800 --> 44:49.800 So how do you know? Because when they finally, after 40 years, go into Canaan land, 44:49.800 --> 44:52.800 you know, Rahab the harlot was just like, we've heard about you guys. 44:52.800 --> 44:57.800 And our hearts have melted since we heard you come out of Egypt. 44:57.800 --> 45:03.800 So that means literally, for those 80 years, the Canaanites have just been terrified of the children of Israel. 45:03.800 --> 45:05.800 But they're over here scared of them. 45:07.800 --> 45:14.040 And that's a lesson for us to learn that the enemies of the Lord are often more scared of us than we are of them 45:15.400 --> 45:22.760 You can't allow your fear to impede you from serving God because God did not give us a spirit of fear 45:22.800 --> 45:29.160 But a power love and a sound mind and you know what you need to grow in your love because perfect love casts without fear 45:30.200 --> 45:32.600 Grow in your love for the Lord. The love of Christ constrains us. 45:32.600 --> 45:35.400 You know what? Everyone is afraid of serving God at one time or another. 45:35.400 --> 45:40.000 But here's the difference if you decide to obey God despite the fact that you're afraid. 45:40.000 --> 45:42.900 There's people who are afraid and that causes them to disobey God. 45:42.900 --> 45:45.200 There's other people who are afraid and they're like, I'm just going to do it anyways. 45:45.200 --> 45:47.300 I'm going to fight the sons of Anak anyways. 45:47.300 --> 45:49.200 I'm just going to go up the walled cities. 45:49.200 --> 45:51.400 I'm going to fight even though I'm afraid. 45:51.400 --> 45:53.000 And that's what God wants us to do. 45:54.500 --> 46:00.500 So they end up wandering the wilderness, skip down to verse number 22. 46:01.500 --> 46:06.500 It says, because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, 46:06.500 --> 46:15.500 and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice, surely they shall not see the land which I swear unto their fathers, 46:15.500 --> 46:17.500 neither shall any of them that provoked me see it. 46:17.500 --> 46:21.500 Isn't that interesting? That he says here, 46:21.800 --> 46:27.800 that they provoked them ten times and it was ten people who are responsible for causing others to fear, right? 46:28.800 --> 46:29.800 But then he says in verse 24, 46:29.800 --> 46:33.800 But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit with him, 46:34.800 --> 46:41.800 and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land wherein he went, and his seed shall possess it. 46:41.800 --> 46:44.800 So he says, Caleb, he's different. He has another spirit. 46:45.700 --> 46:51.700 Now, we can interpret this two ways. He has another spirit like he has the spirit of God, which is 100% true. 46:51.700 --> 46:55.700 But he has another spirit because spirit in the Bible is often used interchangeably with our attitude. 46:56.700 --> 47:02.700 You know, you need both. You need to be filled with the spirit and you need to change your attitude as well. 47:03.700 --> 47:07.700 Safe people can have bad attitudes. Safe people can have carnal attitudes. 47:08.500 --> 47:14.500 Safe people can be feminine, safe people can be feminist, safe people can live carnal lives, 47:14.500 --> 47:16.000 they can have bad ideologies. 47:16.300 --> 47:22.300 And you know what? You're not going to inherit the blessings if you're not like Caleb and have another spirit. 47:22.300 --> 47:25.800 Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 47:25.800 --> 47:26.800 That's what the Bible says. 47:26.800 --> 47:30.100 But ye have not so alone in Christ, if so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him, 47:30.100 --> 47:35.300 as the truth is in Jesus, that ye put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust, 47:35.300 --> 47:37.800 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 47:37.800 --> 47:39.300 That's referring to your attitude. 47:40.100 --> 47:43.900 You're like, man, I have such a hard time, you know, serving the Lord, living the Christian life. 47:43.900 --> 47:45.100 It's because of your attitude though. 47:46.600 --> 47:47.600 You just have a bad attitude. 47:48.400 --> 47:50.200 You have a corrupted attitude. Change your attitude. 47:52.200 --> 47:56.400 Like, I know what the truth is. I believe in the Bible. I believe these things. 47:56.400 --> 47:57.700 Yeah, but it's your attitude though. 47:57.700 --> 48:01.500 And it might be that you're just hanging around people who have bad attitudes towards the things of God, 48:01.500 --> 48:03.700 and it's influencing you to have a bad attitude. 48:04.200 --> 48:06.200 It's influencing you to lack faith. 48:07.000 --> 48:10.200 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. 48:11.320 --> 48:14.600 And so it sounds like you might need to spend a little more time in the Bible. 48:15.400 --> 48:18.200 And if you don't have the discipline, listen to me, 48:18.200 --> 48:22.280 if you don't have the discipline to read the Bible every single day, which you should, 48:22.280 --> 48:26.360 then here's a good way to supplement that temporarily. Just be at every church service. 48:27.560 --> 48:29.880 Because in every church service, we're going to go over like 50 scriptures, 48:30.440 --> 48:32.760 which is more than what you're reading on your own. 48:33.800 --> 48:35.800 And that will help you to renew your mind. 48:37.300 --> 48:39.800 Change your mind. Change your attitude. 48:39.800 --> 48:44.300 Be someone who has a different spirit, who's following God holy, 48:44.300 --> 48:49.800 and you won't fall into the same hands of consequences that others are falling into. 48:49.800 --> 48:53.300 Okay? Now let's go to Joshua 14, if you will. Joshua chapter 14. 48:56.700 --> 48:58.140 So what happens after this? 48:58.140 --> 49:03.340 Well, you know, God is like, you're all going to die. 49:03.340 --> 49:05.260 You're going to die in the wilderness. 49:05.260 --> 49:07.740 And you know that one guy who just turned 20 that day? 49:07.740 --> 49:12.700 He was like, it was like his birthday that day. 49:12.700 --> 49:14.260 He was just like, dang. 49:14.260 --> 49:16.500 He's like, yep, you're going to die. 49:16.500 --> 49:20.020 You will never see the promised land ever again. 49:20.020 --> 49:21.740 You know there are a million people that 49:21.740 --> 49:23.600 had to be someone whose birthday was on that day. 49:26.200 --> 49:31.880 So then, you know, they begin to do, they decide to do what they shouldn't have done, 49:31.880 --> 49:35.240 or what they should have decided to do long ago. They're like, okay, nevermind, we'll go into the 49:35.240 --> 49:41.400 promised land. Nevermind, we're just kidding. We'll go. We'll go into the promised land. 49:41.960 --> 49:47.560 Hey, say no more. We'll go. And then Moses is like, don't go. No, no, no, we're going to go. 49:47.560 --> 49:52.040 He's like, if you go, God's not with you, and you're going to be destroyed. Because guess what? 49:52.840 --> 49:53.880 That ship has sailed. 49:55.400 --> 49:57.400 That train has departed. 49:57.400 --> 50:00.120 The opportunity for you to serve God, 50:00.120 --> 50:01.320 inherit the blessings, 50:01.320 --> 50:04.920 is no longer available to you at this time. 50:04.920 --> 50:07.160 Now you've got to suffer the consequences of your actions. 50:07.160 --> 50:09.560 Oh no, no, no, no, I'll change, I'll change. 50:09.560 --> 50:10.680 We'll go right now, we'll go. 50:10.680 --> 50:12.760 It's just like, all right. 50:12.760 --> 50:13.480 You know what happened? 50:13.480 --> 50:15.880 They went and the Amalekites destroyed them, 50:16.600 --> 50:18.440 killed them, because God wasn't with them. 50:20.280 --> 50:21.640 You know what the principle is there? 50:21.640 --> 50:22.440 Serve God today! 50:25.000 --> 50:27.280 Serve God today. 50:27.280 --> 50:28.880 Don't make excuses. 50:28.880 --> 50:31.600 Don't allow your fear to cause you, 50:31.600 --> 50:33.600 to provoke you to disobey God. 50:33.600 --> 50:37.600 Because you're gonna have what's called regret later on. 50:37.600 --> 50:38.960 And regret is just like, you know what? 50:38.960 --> 50:40.680 I changed my mind, I'm gonna serve God. 50:40.680 --> 50:41.680 Okay, you could try. 50:42.920 --> 50:44.840 But we don't know if that ship has sailed for you. 50:44.840 --> 50:45.680 Just don't know. 50:46.680 --> 50:47.720 You don't know if those opportunities 50:47.720 --> 50:49.360 are still available to you. 50:49.360 --> 50:51.240 Again, salvation is always there. 50:51.800 --> 50:53.160 Never lose it. Amen. 50:55.500 --> 50:57.900 But certain opportunities have gone. 50:57.900 --> 51:00.700 You know, think of Saul who disobeyed God beyond recognition 51:00.700 --> 51:03.200 to the point where he said that the kingdom of God 51:03.200 --> 51:05.100 shall be taken from you and given to someone 51:05.100 --> 51:07.700 who's better than you. 51:07.700 --> 51:09.700 Who wants to hear that? 51:09.700 --> 51:13.100 I'm going to give it to someone who's better than you, 51:13.100 --> 51:17.000 someone who's of a higher quality than you. 51:17.000 --> 51:17.700 And you know what? 51:17.700 --> 51:20.200 He could have done everything humanly possible 51:20.200 --> 51:22.200 to retain his title as the king. 51:22.200 --> 51:23.300 It's not going to happen. 51:24.600 --> 51:26.600 because he crossed the line 51:28.000 --> 51:30.880 and so they crossed the line, they ended up going into Canaan land 51:30.880 --> 51:33.600 you know, the Amalekites smote them 51:33.600 --> 51:36.240 disconfitted them, destroyed them 51:36.240 --> 51:37.920 and that was the end of that 51:37.920 --> 51:40.640 so you're in Joshua chapter 14, let me go there real quick 51:40.640 --> 51:42.280 Joshua chapter 14 51:42.900 --> 51:46.140 So at this point, you know, they've gone through the 40 years of wilderness. 51:46.140 --> 51:48.820 So we have Caleb, who's the spy. 51:48.820 --> 51:52.020 He is, has wholly gone after the Lord. 51:52.020 --> 51:53.740 He's filled with the Spirit. 51:53.740 --> 51:59.420 He's considered a dissenter by the ten, but he is a man of faith. 51:59.420 --> 52:03.820 He believes in the Lord, and unfortunately, he's suffering the consequences of his nation. 52:03.820 --> 52:07.700 You know, you and I were going to suffer the consequences of this nation too. 52:07.700 --> 52:08.380 Right. 52:08.380 --> 52:09.580 That's how it is. 52:09.800 --> 52:12.800 We make bad decisions, we get to suffer the consequences because of it. 52:12.800 --> 52:15.800 So you better make sure you're just following the Lord, amen? 52:15.800 --> 52:17.800 Better make sure you're wholly following the Lord. 52:17.800 --> 52:19.800 Better make sure you're of another spirit. 52:19.800 --> 52:20.800 You better make sure you serve. 52:20.800 --> 52:23.800 Now's the best time to start serving God. 52:23.800 --> 52:27.800 Because you just don't know what's going to happen. 52:27.800 --> 52:29.800 So he wanders for 40 years. 52:29.800 --> 52:31.800 God, you know, protects him. 52:31.800 --> 52:34.800 And now he's like 85 years old. 52:34.800 --> 52:35.800 Okay? 52:36.400 --> 52:39.680 He's beyond Unc at this point. 52:39.680 --> 52:44.000 He was an Unc at 40, but now he, what's after Unc? 52:44.000 --> 52:45.560 Some of you, what is? 52:45.560 --> 52:46.400 Oh, Gramps. 52:46.400 --> 52:48.240 What, Gramps? 52:48.240 --> 52:51.560 Yeah, he's a Gramps, apparently. 52:51.560 --> 52:55.880 So he's really old, and now they get to go into the land. 52:57.000 --> 53:03.320 So now they're inheriting the land and now Joshua is going to distribute the different 53:03.320 --> 53:07.160 plots, the different possessions of the land to the various tribes. 53:07.160 --> 53:08.160 And you know what? 53:08.160 --> 53:13.720 Caleb, he's 85 but he's not like, no that time has passed for me. 53:13.720 --> 53:18.360 You know, those were the glory days from back in the day. 53:18.360 --> 53:20.360 Now skip down to verse number 6. 53:21.500 --> 53:25.780 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua and Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jephunneh 53:25.780 --> 53:30.500 the Kenazite, said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the 53:30.500 --> 53:33.500 man of God, concerning me and thee in Kadesh Barnea. 53:33.500 --> 53:38.940 So he's like, hey, I didn't forget what happened 40 years ago. 53:38.940 --> 53:40.300 You remember what God said? 53:40.300 --> 53:41.300 All right? 53:41.300 --> 53:41.620 I'm forgotten. 53:42.600 --> 53:47.160 He says in verse 7, 40 years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from 53:47.160 --> 53:53.400 Kadeshbarnea to spy out the land and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. Nevertheless, 53:53.400 --> 54:00.760 my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord 54:00.760 --> 54:05.480 my God. This is a patient man. As I just want to remind you, I wasn't one of those guys. 54:06.700 --> 54:11.500 I follow the Lord, I obey the commandments, I was there to give a good report. 54:12.600 --> 54:23.600 God was with me, verse 9, and Moses swear on that day, saying, surely the land wherein thou feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance and thy children's forever, because thou is holy, follow the Lord my God. 54:23.600 --> 54:35.600 And now behold, the Lord hath kept me alive. As he said these forty and five years, ever since the Lord spake this word into Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness, and now lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 54:35.600 --> 54:40.100 So what does this show us? It shows us that Caleb, 54:40.600 --> 54:42.680 is a very patient man. 54:44.000 --> 54:46.640 Because the promise was given 40 years ago. 54:46.640 --> 54:48.320 He didn't quit. 54:48.320 --> 54:49.700 He wasn't like, you know what, 54:49.700 --> 54:51.320 he probably forgot about this. 54:52.400 --> 54:53.760 I don't even want to do this anymore. 54:53.760 --> 54:55.240 No, he waited to the very end. 54:55.240 --> 54:56.660 And let me say this, folks, 54:56.660 --> 54:59.860 there's certain promises that God gives us, 54:59.860 --> 55:01.600 and you're all frustrated 55:01.600 --> 55:04.080 because you haven't gotten that fulfillment 55:04.080 --> 55:05.500 a week after you prayed for it. 55:07.100 --> 55:09.060 Okay, take that away from her. 55:09.060 --> 55:10.780 This is my daughter, by the way. 55:10.780 --> 55:12.420 You know, you're all frustrated 55:12.420 --> 55:14.060 because it hasn't happened in a month. 55:14.060 --> 55:15.220 Try 40 years. 55:16.340 --> 55:17.420 Try 45 years. 55:19.020 --> 55:21.660 And it's not like Gramps, you know, 55:21.660 --> 55:24.060 which Caleb, he's a Chad more than anything else, okay? 55:24.060 --> 55:25.700 You're gonna see right now that he is a Chad. 55:25.700 --> 55:26.960 You know, he's not like, 55:28.220 --> 55:31.660 what was that one thing that Moses said I can have? 55:33.460 --> 55:34.780 He's like, hey. 55:35.000 --> 55:37.000 I got the receipts right here. 55:40.600 --> 55:44.600 and just like read it out to him, he has not forgotten. 55:44.600 --> 55:46.400 That's a man of great endurance. 55:49.200 --> 55:51.200 You need to endure. 55:51.200 --> 55:55.200 Oh man, my marriage hasn't been, you know, it's just not what it needs to be. 55:55.200 --> 55:57.200 How long you willing to wait? 55:57.200 --> 55:59.200 Yeah, but you don't know how tough it's been. 55:59.200 --> 56:01.200 Has it been like a wilderness though? 56:03.200 --> 56:05.200 You think you went through the same thing that Caleb went through in the wilderness? 56:05.200 --> 56:09.200 You think, have you seen tons of people die around you? 56:10.500 --> 56:18.420 rebelliousness have you experienced the 45 the 40 years of just wandering the wilderness just just being a complete nomad 56:18.940 --> 56:23.640 Seeing people die left and right and still have this attitude like oh no 56:23.640 --> 56:28.580 I still believe that God's gonna fulfill his promise. You know why cuz what God has promised he's able also to perform 56:29.460 --> 56:31.460 He's fully persuaded 56:31.740 --> 56:33.740 He's a man of great faith 56:33.740 --> 56:35.740 This is why I believe Caleb's awesome 56:36.800 --> 56:41.520 Because 40 years afterwards, he's still talking about this as though it was like four days ago. 56:43.280 --> 56:46.320 This means that he doesn't care how much time has passed. 56:46.320 --> 56:50.560 He has faith that God will fulfill his promise even though he's 85 years old. 56:51.840 --> 56:54.800 Can I challenge you? Just, can you have a little bit of endurance? 56:55.500 --> 57:09.000 Can you have some endurance, have some persistence about yourself, and not quit on your marriage, and not quit on your husband, not quit on your wife, not quit on your children, not quit on church, not quit on this, that, and the other. 57:09.000 --> 57:11.000 You know, why don't you wait a while? 57:12.500 --> 57:18.500 And look, you know, Caleb was an awesome guy 40 years ago, but I'm telling you right now, he's even more awesome now, though. 57:20.500 --> 57:22.000 Because all things work together for good. 57:22.600 --> 57:25.600 So he just came out of the wilderness just that much better. 57:28.200 --> 57:31.160 He's like, I'm 85 years old. Look at verse 11. 57:31.800 --> 57:36.280 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me. 57:37.400 --> 57:39.320 He's like, I'm still built. 57:41.320 --> 57:46.120 I can still deadlift. I can still do my squat. I'm still strong. 57:48.800 --> 57:51.840 Now you're going to see why this is significant in just a bit, okay? 57:53.520 --> 57:57.440 But you know you think, oh man you're 85, you got to be careful, you know, you might break your hip. 57:58.560 --> 58:01.600 Caleb's not breaking anything. He's still ready to go to war. 58:03.040 --> 58:08.720 Look what it says, he says, he says, as my strength was then, even so is my strength now. 58:10.320 --> 58:15.120 To get out of bed, to get off the toilet, to you know, no he's like, for war! 58:15.700 --> 58:17.700 Both to go out to come in 58:18.500 --> 58:21.860 So he's telling Josh is like I just want to let you know I'm gonna inherit this land 58:21.860 --> 58:27.640 God promised it to me, and I'm still strong, and I'm not saying strong as in I'm gonna encourage. I'm talking about strongly. I'm ready to fight 58:28.820 --> 58:34.000 I'm ready to throw down. I'm ready to conquer land. This is 85 years of age here 58:35.600 --> 58:40.780 Verse 12 now therefore give me this mountain 58:41.300 --> 58:45.460 Now, I love that statement, it's a very base statement. 58:45.460 --> 58:47.340 It's awesome to hear him say that. 58:47.340 --> 58:49.660 But when you actually understand the ramifications of this, 58:49.660 --> 58:53.820 he's actually asking for the most difficult territory. 58:53.820 --> 58:56.340 So it's not like, yeah, I could go to war, 58:56.340 --> 58:58.840 just give me that little place right there, 58:58.840 --> 58:59.680 you know what I mean? 58:59.680 --> 59:01.140 All the nice little fruit there. 59:01.140 --> 59:03.740 He's like, just give me the hardest part. 59:03.740 --> 59:07.500 Give me the mountain where all the giants are. 59:07.800 --> 59:10.400 Give me the challenge and I'll take it on. 59:11.600 --> 59:12.300 That's awesome. 59:13.100 --> 59:15.700 Give me this mountain whereof the Lord spake in that day 59:15.900 --> 59:19.100 from thou heardest in that day how the anachems were there 59:19.200 --> 59:21.100 and that the cities were great in fence. 59:21.200 --> 59:22.900 If so be that the Lord be with me, 59:23.000 --> 59:26.100 then I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said. 59:26.100 --> 59:27.800 Talk about courage. 59:28.100 --> 59:30.900 He's, I'll take that mountain and I'll take those giants. 59:30.900 --> 59:34.500 And I'll take the fence cities and the walls and everything that's there. 59:34.500 --> 59:37.140 If the Lord's with me, I'll do it. I'll take care of it. 59:37.140 --> 59:38.980 I'll take the most difficult aspect of that land. 59:40.900 --> 59:43.860 He's kind of showing up to young guys, right? 59:45.140 --> 59:46.340 Because no one else asked for it. 59:48.400 --> 59:54.500 Joshua blessed him and gave him to Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance 59:54.500 --> 59:58.640 So why is that significant? Well earlier if you remember Hebron is a place of antiquity 59:59.280 --> 01:00:04.800 So he already knew since then that it was a very difficult area to overcome that it had giants 01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.580 But you know what he was willing to take it then and he's willing to take it now 01:00:07.580 --> 01:00:12.560 You know what this demonstrates to me just because you're old doesn't mean you can't serve God and you can't fight. Oh 01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:15.800 I'm so old 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.000 Like Caleb old? 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:20.000 Because he's 85. 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:22.000 Okay? 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:24.000 And you know, there's some 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:26.000 brethren in the church that are 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.000 of age. 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.000 But they can run 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:32.000 circles around some of the young guys though. 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:34.000 Physically in a lot of ways actually. 01:00:35.200 --> 01:00:44.200 I mean, they can lift more than them, they can cover 500 miles or something like that, 01:00:44.200 --> 01:00:48.200 or they got a strong heart, you know? 01:00:48.200 --> 01:00:53.200 But let me say this, more than physical strength, it's like emotional and mental strength too. 01:00:53.200 --> 01:00:58.000 Sometimes the young guys can be a little soft. 01:01:01.100 --> 01:01:01.940 Soft. 01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:04.700 Just like emotionally soft. 01:01:04.700 --> 01:01:07.860 You know, they lack discipline and character 01:01:07.860 --> 01:01:12.860 and the priorities of life, right? 01:01:13.100 --> 01:01:15.860 We need like to raise up Caleb's 01:01:15.860 --> 01:01:18.360 who says like, I'll take the hardest thing. 01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:19.680 You know, and maybe for the young guys 01:01:19.680 --> 01:01:21.400 that the mountain that you have to try to overcome 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:23.400 is like getting a woman, you know what I mean? 01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:26.900 I'll take that mountain, you know. 01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:29.200 Instead of asking for like the hill or something like that 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.360 you know, but it's important for us to 01:01:33.080 --> 01:01:35.320 glean courage from Caleb and 01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:38.920 Recognize just because you're older doesn't mean you can't serve God 01:01:39.120 --> 01:01:44.640 Don't let the younger people run circles around you you got to be like Caleb and say I'm gonna win souls to Christ 01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:48.600 I'm going to fight off the wiles of Satan. 01:01:48.600 --> 01:01:53.320 I'm going to serve God and be in church and go soul winning and read my Bible 01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:57.720 and memorize and meditate scripture. Oh, my mind is not as sharp as it used to be. 01:01:57.720 --> 01:02:00.120 Then memorize scripture and make it sharp then. 01:02:03.300 --> 01:02:08.500 So Joshua blessed him. He took Hebron. Go to chapter 17 if you would. Chapter 17. 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:14.000 You say, well, did he end up taking Hebron? 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.800 Yeah, he actually whooped them all. 01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:18.200 He took out all the giants and everything. 01:02:18.200 --> 01:02:20.100 Chapter 15 highlights it. 01:02:20.100 --> 01:02:21.300 Just like nothing. 01:02:21.300 --> 01:02:25.100 He just went in there and just wiped them out. 01:02:25.100 --> 01:02:30.400 So now let's see the contrast here, OK? 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:32.800 Because Joshua mainly has to do with the distribution 01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:34.700 of the lamb. 01:02:34.700 --> 01:02:37.400 Look down at verse number, let's see here. 01:02:41.300 --> 01:02:49.800 Skipped on to verse 12, it says, yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. 01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:55.000 So keep in mind that even though many of the tribes succeeded at conquering their land, there's some that just didn't. 01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:59.400 They weren't good at it. They couldn't drive out the Canaanites. They would end up putting them under tribute. 01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:08.500 Verse 13, yet it came to pass when the children of Israel were waxing strong that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them out. 01:03:09.300 --> 01:03:12.820 So keep in mind, God said, hey, when you go into the land, wipe out the Canaanites. 01:03:12.820 --> 01:03:16.500 They're not to exist. You need to remove them from the land. Well, these guys are so weak. 01:03:16.500 --> 01:03:20.500 They're just like, well, we can't really take them over. So let's just let them live here and 01:03:20.500 --> 01:03:27.220 we'll just tax them. Verse 15, and Joshua answered them, if thou be a great people. 01:03:27.600 --> 01:03:33.380 then get thee up to the wood country and cut down for thyself in the land of the parasites and of the giants, 01:03:33.380 --> 01:03:36.040 if Mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee. 01:03:36.040 --> 01:03:39.120 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us, 01:03:39.120 --> 01:03:43.420 and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, 01:03:43.420 --> 01:03:48.120 both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel. 01:03:48.120 --> 01:03:50.320 What do we see here? We see them just making excuses. 01:03:51.200 --> 01:03:52.720 Like, well, this is just too hard. 01:03:52.720 --> 01:03:55.600 They have an air, you know, chariots of iron. 01:03:55.600 --> 01:03:56.800 They're giants. 01:03:56.800 --> 01:04:01.200 It's really hard to read my Bible every day. 01:04:01.200 --> 01:04:04.300 It's really hard to go to church and wake up in the morning 01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:06.920 because I've just been gaming all night. 01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:08.600 You know how hard it is when you're gaming to 4 o'clock 01:04:08.600 --> 01:04:11.280 in the morning and have to be at church at 10 30? 01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:13.760 It's just so difficult and hard. 01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:16.800 And it's just like, well, you want more land. 01:04:17.300 --> 01:04:19.300 You're asking for more land. 01:04:19.300 --> 01:04:21.300 You say that you're a great people. 01:04:21.300 --> 01:04:22.600 Go handle business. 01:04:24.300 --> 01:04:28.700 He says in verse number 16, the children of Joseph said, the hill is not enough for us. 01:04:28.700 --> 01:04:32.700 Oh, skip down verse 17, excuse me. And Joshua speaking to the house of Joseph, even to eat for 01:04:32.700 --> 01:04:37.740 him into menace, he's saying, thou art a great people and has great power. Thou shalt not have 01:04:37.740 --> 01:04:44.700 only one lot or one lot only, but the mountain shall be thine, for it is a wood and thou shall 01:04:44.700 --> 01:04:49.500 cut it down and the outgoings of it shall be thine, for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, 01:04:49.500 --> 01:04:52.140 though they have iron chariots and though they be strong. 01:04:52.300 --> 01:04:58.300 So we have here the Ephraim and Manasseh making excuses why they can't overcome the Lamb. 01:04:58.300 --> 01:05:03.300 You know what this demonstrates to me is that people can often be full of excuses. 01:05:03.300 --> 01:05:09.300 But what's interesting is that people can come up with a lot of excuses why not to serve God, 01:05:09.300 --> 01:05:14.300 even though there's equally the amount of excuses why we could serve God. 01:05:14.300 --> 01:05:19.300 Oh, you don't understand my situation. Yeah, but look at all these excuses right here though. 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:24.300 You don't understand you know my marriage right here 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:28.880 Here's all the solution. You don't understand how I grew up right here 01:05:30.460 --> 01:05:33.600 We can come up with excuses all day long why not to serve God 01:05:34.660 --> 01:05:38.660 Some people are just like oh, there's a line in the street a line is without 01:05:39.700 --> 01:05:41.700 Yeah, but we have the line of the tribe of Judah 01:05:43.600 --> 01:05:47.200 Take a shotgun and shoot that thing in it hunt it down 01:05:48.300 --> 01:05:50.180 Oh, you just don't understand. 01:05:50.180 --> 01:05:50.780 Yeah, you're right. 01:05:50.780 --> 01:05:54.700 I don't understand why you have so many excuses why not to serve God. 01:05:54.700 --> 01:05:56.660 I don't get that. 01:05:56.660 --> 01:05:57.460 Because you know what? 01:05:57.460 --> 01:06:02.540 When God calls us to serve Him, He gives us the capabilities to do so. 01:06:02.540 --> 01:06:05.780 He enables us to do so as well. 01:06:05.780 --> 01:06:06.340 And you know what? 01:06:06.340 --> 01:06:11.580 When you look at the contrasting examples of Ephraim, Manasseh compared to Caleb, 01:06:11.580 --> 01:06:13.260 Caleb had no excuses. 01:06:13.260 --> 01:06:14.140 And you know what? 01:06:14.140 --> 01:06:15.380 If anybody could complain. 01:06:15.900 --> 01:06:17.900 It would be Caleb. 01:06:17.900 --> 01:06:21.460 We'd be like, thanks a lot, Ephraim. 01:06:21.460 --> 01:06:25.380 Because of you guys, I wasted 45 years of my life 01:06:25.380 --> 01:06:27.580 that I could have been just enjoying my wells 01:06:27.580 --> 01:06:30.180 and my cities that are built and my grapes 01:06:30.180 --> 01:06:31.460 and my pomegranates. 01:06:31.460 --> 01:06:35.580 But because you're a weenie, I had to wander in the wilderness 01:06:35.580 --> 01:06:38.220 and see all the 20-year-olds and up die. 01:06:38.220 --> 01:06:39.600 But you know, he didn't complain. 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:44.800 He just went through the wilderness, served God, just did what he was told. 01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:47.600 When he came into the land, he's like, all right, let's get down to business. 01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:52.400 I want the hardest territory. I don't care if I'm 85 years old. I'm still strong. 01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:56.640 I can go out to war. I'm willing to fight the Lord's battle. He went in it, took it over, 01:06:56.640 --> 01:06:59.840 inherited it. And then he ended up encouraging the next generation. 01:07:00.300 --> 01:07:06.100 Because then his son-in-law, he's just like, whoever takes over this part right here, I'll give them this particular area. 01:07:06.100 --> 01:07:13.100 If you're able to overcome these people, Othniel went, he ended up destroying them, and he ended up becoming the first judge of the nation of Islam. 01:07:14.500 --> 01:07:15.700 Great lineage there. 01:07:16.300 --> 01:07:19.700 What's the point? The point is, you know, Caleb... 01:07:19.900 --> 01:07:24.460 is a great example to us as Christians of what kind of perspective and attitude we should have 01:07:24.460 --> 01:07:31.260 and never use our age, how many people are on our side, how many people are serving God as an excuse 01:07:31.260 --> 01:07:37.900 why not to serve God. You know what I sympathize with your trials, I sympathize with your tribulation 01:07:38.780 --> 01:07:42.940 to the point where you use that as an excuse not to serve the Lord and obey him. 01:07:43.660 --> 01:07:45.580 At that point I no longer sympathize with it. 01:07:47.600 --> 01:07:50.560 I sympathize with people who go through trials and tribulations and keep serving God 01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:53.360 Because I know that's hard 01:07:53.680 --> 01:07:58.800 I sympathize with people who go through trials and tribulations and they still obey the lord and stay in the biblical order 01:07:58.960 --> 01:08:00.720 I sympathize with that 01:08:00.720 --> 01:08:04.080 Because i'm like, I know this is hard for this person. It's easy for the other person who just quits 01:08:05.520 --> 01:08:08.560 Quits on their marriage quits on their kids quits in church 01:08:08.640 --> 01:08:11.280 You know, that's not you're gonna die in the wilderness at that point 01:08:11.440 --> 01:08:14.100 And you know what? No one really cares about the people who died in the wilderness 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:18.600 No one preaches a good sermon about people who died in the wilderness. 01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:23.100 There's no good eulogies about the people in the wilderness. 01:08:23.100 --> 01:08:26.700 They were just wiped out. You know who we do hear about? 01:08:26.700 --> 01:08:30.400 Joshua and Caleb. Caleb who actually took the mountain, 01:08:30.400 --> 01:08:35.000 he overcame it, and became a hero of the faith. You know as we go into our tenth 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:39.300 year, let's be like Caleb. And we're a young church still. 01:08:39.300 --> 01:08:40.300 Amen? 01:08:41.400 --> 01:08:44.680 You know, we're a young church and you know, 01:08:44.680 --> 01:08:46.800 to this point, this year alone, 01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:49.680 we have over 7,000 salvations, 01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:51.680 which is more than we've ever had any year. 01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:53.400 And we're not done yet. 01:08:53.400 --> 01:08:56.200 Like the bulletin says Project 12K. 01:08:57.400 --> 01:09:00.560 Okay, how are we gonna hit all those? 01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:02.840 Oh, you're being a little Ephraim, is that what you're doing? 01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:04.920 You're gonna be a little Manasseh? 01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:06.960 I just don't think we can hit 12K. 01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:09.000 All right, then die in the wilderness then. 01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:11.560 You know what we as a church need to be like? 01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:12.560 I'll take that mountain. 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:13.060 Amen. 01:09:13.060 --> 01:09:13.560 Amen. 01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:14.360 Amen. 01:09:14.360 --> 01:09:17.160 You know, if you hear a crazy goal in our church, 01:09:17.160 --> 01:09:20.720 don't be like the 10, oh, this is so hard. 01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:22.720 I don't think we're going to be able to do this. 01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:23.320 Then stay home. 01:09:23.320 --> 01:09:25.280 Sleep in. 01:09:25.280 --> 01:09:27.240 Watch Sunday morning cartoons. 01:09:27.240 --> 01:09:30.160 That's not even a thing anymore. 01:09:30.160 --> 01:09:30.920 You know what we need? 01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:33.200 We need more Joshuels and Caleb's and say, yeah, no, 01:09:33.200 --> 01:09:34.160 we can do that. 01:09:34.160 --> 01:09:35.120 12K, let's do it. 01:09:35.400 --> 01:09:37.400 Now don't go overboard and be like, 12k that's it? 01:09:37.400 --> 01:09:40.400 You know? 01:09:40.400 --> 01:09:43.400 Okay, if you want to add another thousand to that, be my guest, amen? 01:09:43.400 --> 01:09:48.400 But when you hear about goals and things that we want to do as a church, 01:09:48.400 --> 01:09:52.400 don't be like the tenants and say, oh yeah, that's too hard though. 01:09:52.400 --> 01:09:55.400 I don't think we're going to be able to do that. 01:09:55.400 --> 01:09:57.400 Zip it. 01:09:57.400 --> 01:10:01.400 Just don't say anything because you're going to discourage everyone else from actually obeying the Lord. 01:10:02.300 --> 01:10:07.420 Getting people saved and serving God don't be the negative person in our church 01:10:07.460 --> 01:10:11.560 They're just murmuring and complaining and saying I just don't know how this is gonna 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:16.440 This is gonna come if you don't know then be quiet and just allow other people to instill faith in you 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:21.180 By their actions, amen be a Caleb. Don't be like the ten. Let's pray father 01:10:21.180 --> 01:10:25.620 We thank you so much for a wonderful nine years. And as we go into our tenth year 01:10:26.600 --> 01:10:30.780 Pray that we'd be as Caleb Lord that we would still be strong in the Lord and the power of his might 01:10:30.780 --> 01:10:36.240 We're ready to go to war ready to go in and come out and we're willing to take the hardest of territories 01:10:37.120 --> 01:10:42.240 To build up the kingdom of God and I pray that you bless us. Thank you so much for a great great nine years 01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:48.520 Bless this coming year Lord and thank you so much for all the the seven thousand salvations that we have seen in many 01:10:48.760 --> 01:10:53.920 Baptisms as well and people who have been integrated into the church been taught how to sown in the disciples 01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:58.760 pray that you'd help us to reach that 12k Lord this year. May you show yourself strong 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:02.480 on our behalf and I pray that you would bless the remainder of our day in Jesus name we 01:11:02.480 --> 01:11:03.160 pray. Amen.