WEBVTT

00:00.000 --> 00:05.360
chapter 14, and I want you to go to Numbers chapter 13. Hold your place there in Joshua.

00:05.900 --> 00:10.020
We're going to come back to that at the end of this sermon, but we're going to go to Numbers chapter 13.

00:10.060 --> 00:14.820
This morning I want to preach on Caleb. Now a lot of times when we study the Bible,

00:15.000 --> 00:19.940
especially in this particular era of the nation of Israel, we often focus on the Bible character

00:19.940 --> 00:22.920
known as Joshua. And of course he was a very prominent character.

00:23.280 --> 00:26.060
He aided the children of Israel into going into the Promised Land.

00:26.060 --> 00:31.660
He's the one that basically took up after Moses and he did all that Moses commanded him.

00:31.920 --> 00:35.460
The Bible says they left nothing undone all that Moses commanded.

00:35.600 --> 00:42.420
And of course we know that Joshua is a very powerful Old Testament picture of the Lord Jesus Christ

00:42.420 --> 00:48.300
because of the fact that just as Joshua was the one who led the children of Israel into the Promised Land,

00:48.440 --> 00:53.360
in like manner Jesus is the only one who can lead us into eternal life, right?

00:53.360 --> 00:56.700
And there's a lot of parallels between Joshua and Jesus Christ.

00:57.120 --> 01:02.000
But often when we study these Old Testament events, we often focus on him.

01:02.300 --> 01:05.720
But you know there's another character in the Bible that is just as great,

01:05.900 --> 01:10.540
just as many great exploits and is worthy of noting and learning from.

01:10.640 --> 01:15.800
And that's Caleb. Caleb was a very prominent character during this particular time.

01:15.860 --> 01:21.800
And in fact he's one of the two who actually brought up a good report when they went to spy out the land.

01:21.800 --> 01:25.420
We obviously know that Joshua brought a good report, but so did Caleb.

01:25.600 --> 01:31.580
And I want to go through the chronicles of Caleb this morning and just kind of extrapolate some principles

01:31.580 --> 01:38.140
that we can learn from his decisions, from his life as we go into the tenth year of our church.

01:38.280 --> 01:40.900
I believe there's some principles that we can learn from Caleb.

01:41.040 --> 01:45.500
Now we're in Numbers 13. Let me bring you up to speed on what's taking place here.

01:45.500 --> 01:51.760
Of course, God has just delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt, of course, through the hand of Moses.

01:52.540 --> 01:57.920
And at this point, you know, God's will is for them to inherit the land, right? Canaan land, the promised land.

01:58.300 --> 02:04.000
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 --> 02:07.340
He doesn't want to just hand it to them and just give it to them.

02:07.620 --> 02:10.020
He wants them to plan. He wants them to fight.

02:10.360 --> 02:14.600
He wants them to put in a considerable amount of effort in order to conquer the land.

02:14.600 --> 02:20.200
And so even though it's promised to the children of Israel, he wants them to put some planning to it.

02:20.200 --> 02:25.280
So what does he do? He commands Moses to essentially survey the land, okay?

02:25.800 --> 02:31.820
And he specifically commands Moses to pick out men of the 12 tribes of Israel,

02:32.860 --> 02:39.460
leaders of the 12 tribes in order to go in and spy out the land and sort of survey it and take a consensus

02:39.460 --> 02:42.600
and take an inventory of what the land looks like.

02:42.600 --> 02:45.460
And verse number one of chapter 13 says, the Lord spoke unto Moses saying,

02:46.080 --> 02:50.740
Send down men that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel,

02:51.240 --> 02:57.200
Of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one, a ruler among them.

02:57.860 --> 03:01.480
And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord, sent them from the wilderness of Peyran.

03:01.820 --> 03:04.620
All those men were heads of the children of Israel.

03:04.920 --> 03:09.740
So you know, what better people to send into the promised land than the leaders themselves

03:09.740 --> 03:14.120
when it's talking about the heads of the children of Israel, when it's talking about the rulers,

03:14.540 --> 03:16.900
these are the prominent individuals of those tribes.

03:17.040 --> 03:21.880
So you think of the tribe of Issachar, the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Benjamin,

03:22.380 --> 03:27.400
all of the leaders of those tribes are going to be the ones who are going into the promised land

03:27.400 --> 03:31.160
for 40 days in order to take inventory of it.

03:31.400 --> 03:33.840
Now who's one of them? Well, we see in verse number six, it says,

03:33.840 --> 03:38.280
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Japhuna.

03:38.720 --> 03:45.060
So Caleb is numbered as being one of the rulers who selected by Moses in order to go into the land.

03:45.160 --> 03:46.300
Look at skip down to verse 17.

03:46.920 --> 03:51.320
It says, Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and sent unto them,

03:51.500 --> 03:57.780
Get you up this way southward and go up into the mountain and see the land, what it is,

03:57.960 --> 04:03.000
and the people that dwell therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many,

04:03.000 --> 04:08.200
and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad,

04:08.500 --> 04:13.240
and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether intense or in strongholds,

04:13.240 --> 04:19.080
and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein or not.

04:19.200 --> 04:19.960
So what is he saying here?

04:20.320 --> 04:23.040
Well, we obviously know that the land is already promised to the children of Israel.

04:23.540 --> 04:26.320
But God wants them to set up a plan, right?

04:26.740 --> 04:30.160
He wants them to go out and see what they're actually dealing with.

04:30.160 --> 04:32.640
Now, this is an important principle for you and I to learn,

04:33.000 --> 04:37.100
that even though God has promised us a certain things, he's promised us victory,

04:37.760 --> 04:40.860
he's promised us success and prosperity, and certain spiritual matters,

04:41.140 --> 04:44.640
it still requires effort on our part to actually obtain it, right?

04:45.100 --> 04:48.040
It's like, well, you know, God's promised to bless you,

04:48.260 --> 04:50.640
he's going to provide for you, he's going to protect you,

04:50.800 --> 04:53.840
but you still got to put in some effort on your end to be able to obtain that.

04:54.440 --> 04:57.020
Moses said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,

04:57.460 --> 04:59.260
and these things shall be added unto you.

04:59.260 --> 05:02.000
So obviously God wants to add these things to you,

05:02.000 --> 05:05.820
but it's your job to actually seek the Lord, his righteousness,

05:06.180 --> 05:07.940
do that which is right in the sight of the Lord,

05:08.260 --> 05:11.300
and of course, he will fulfill his end of the bargain.

05:12.360 --> 05:14.160
Now, thankfully it's not like that with salvation, amen.

05:14.660 --> 05:17.940
You know, the only thing that's required on our end for salvation

05:17.940 --> 05:20.320
is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's it.

05:20.440 --> 05:22.020
You know, Jesus Christ did all the work for us.

05:22.260 --> 05:25.120
And that's always an important message to understand

05:25.640 --> 05:30.320
that eternal life can only be granted through our faith in Jesus Christ

05:30.320 --> 05:33.180
because he's the one who died on the cross to pay for our sins,

05:33.300 --> 05:34.540
he resurrected them on the third day.

05:34.980 --> 05:36.920
And when we say place our faith in Jesus Christ,

05:37.020 --> 05:38.020
what does the Bible mean by that?

05:38.080 --> 05:40.800
It means exclusively, it means only on Christ,

05:41.180 --> 05:43.140
meaning you can't add anything to that,

05:43.280 --> 05:45.980
and once you do so, the Bible says you have eternal life

05:45.980 --> 05:49.920
and you can never lose that salvation for any reason whatsoever, okay?

05:50.440 --> 05:51.660
And I'm going to tell you right now,

05:51.960 --> 05:53.720
if you don't know beyond a shout of a doubt that you're saved,

05:53.720 --> 05:55.460
if you're visiting with us today,

05:55.920 --> 05:57.580
and you're like, you know, that's one subject

05:57.580 --> 05:59.960
that I've never really been able to, like, fully grasp.

06:00.360 --> 06:01.440
I've never really understood.

06:02.080 --> 06:03.280
I don't know if I'm saved.

06:03.660 --> 06:06.680
I don't know if I were to die at this moment that I would go to heaven.

06:06.960 --> 06:08.860
Well, you need to get that settled today, okay?

06:09.300 --> 06:11.740
And look, thankfully, you don't have to keep God's commandments to be saved.

06:12.700 --> 06:15.140
Thankfully, you don't have to repent of your sins to be saved

06:15.140 --> 06:16.320
because of the fact that the matter is

06:16.320 --> 06:18.640
no one can turn from all their sins for salvation.

06:18.820 --> 06:19.640
It's impossible to.

06:20.100 --> 06:24.100
There's only one man who has never sinned

06:24.100 --> 06:25.500
in the history of mankind.

06:25.700 --> 06:26.580
That's the Lord Jesus Christ.

06:27.720 --> 06:29.540
And so that's why the Bible tells us

06:29.540 --> 06:30.820
that we need to place our faith in him

06:30.820 --> 06:33.680
in order for his righteousness to be imputed upon us

06:33.680 --> 06:35.140
so that when God looks at us,

06:35.180 --> 06:37.680
he sees us through the perfection of Jesus Christ

06:37.680 --> 06:39.360
and not through our own righteousness

06:39.360 --> 06:40.940
because there's none righteous, no, not one.

06:41.280 --> 06:42.960
There's none that do with good, no, not one, right?

06:43.400 --> 06:45.020
There's not a just man upon earth that do with good

06:45.020 --> 06:45.960
and sin is not.

06:46.200 --> 06:48.220
You're like, well, what if I sin after salvation?

06:48.220 --> 06:50.100
Well, here's the great thing about salvation

06:50.100 --> 06:52.380
is that once you get saved, you're actually forgiven

06:52.380 --> 06:54.760
of sins past, present, and future.

06:55.340 --> 06:57.080
Meaning that 2,000 years ago,

06:57.080 --> 06:59.240
when Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross,

06:59.680 --> 07:02.080
he died knowing what sins you were going to commit in the future.

07:02.480 --> 07:04.860
And all of our sins, past, present, and future,

07:05.280 --> 07:06.180
are all future sins

07:06.180 --> 07:08.040
in respect to where Jesus Christ died on the cross.

07:08.320 --> 07:09.100
Just keep that in mind.

07:09.820 --> 07:10.940
And it's not like, you know,

07:11.180 --> 07:13.320
you catch God off guard by your sins

07:13.320 --> 07:14.520
of whatever you do in the future.

07:15.060 --> 07:15.780
It's not like God's like,

07:15.780 --> 07:16.900
well, I didn't know you were going to do that.

07:17.760 --> 07:19.600
Like, hey, this wasn't part of the deal here.

07:20.120 --> 07:21.840
I saved you, but, you know, I didn't know you're...

07:21.840 --> 07:23.280
No, he saved you knowing

07:23.840 --> 07:25.400
what sins you're going to do in the future.

07:26.940 --> 07:28.600
He saves you knowing that

07:28.600 --> 07:31.340
and he saves you forgiving you of those sins

07:31.800 --> 07:33.460
according to Romans chapter 4.

07:33.900 --> 07:35.660
The Bible clearly tells us that, okay?

07:36.280 --> 07:38.500
And people often hear a message like that

07:38.500 --> 07:39.380
and think to themselves,

07:39.560 --> 07:41.880
oh, you're just giving people a license to sin then.

07:42.440 --> 07:43.600
Because what you're saying is I can believe

07:43.600 --> 07:44.380
and live however I want.

07:44.380 --> 07:45.260
No, that's not true.

07:45.360 --> 07:46.420
You can't live however you want.

07:46.580 --> 07:47.640
Because life has consequences.

07:48.800 --> 07:51.640
Life has consequences for the wages of sin is death.

07:51.940 --> 07:54.880
The Bible says that God will exact vengeance

07:54.880 --> 07:56.020
upon his own people.

07:56.520 --> 07:58.620
And it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands

07:58.620 --> 07:59.680
of the living God,

07:59.960 --> 08:02.760
meaning that if you're at a sin after salvation,

08:03.100 --> 08:05.820
God can and will severely punish you.

08:06.040 --> 08:06.980
Here's the difference, though.

08:07.240 --> 08:08.560
He'll punish you here on this earth.

08:09.080 --> 08:11.340
He's not going to punish you in hell

08:11.340 --> 08:12.560
because he gave you eternal life.

08:13.120 --> 08:13.920
And you know what?

08:14.040 --> 08:16.020
You say, well, I just think I'll lose my salvation.

08:16.140 --> 08:17.740
Well, then it's not a gift to you now, is it?

08:18.100 --> 08:18.840
Because the Bible says,

08:18.940 --> 08:20.240
for my grace are you safe through faith

08:20.240 --> 08:21.900
and that not of yourselves.

08:22.500 --> 08:24.700
It is the gift of God, not of works

08:24.700 --> 08:25.740
lest any man should boast.

08:26.340 --> 08:27.640
Not by works of righteousness

08:27.640 --> 08:29.200
which we have done but according to his mercy,

08:29.300 --> 08:29.800
he saved us.

08:30.180 --> 08:32.100
We conclude that a man is justified by faith

08:32.100 --> 08:34.140
without the deeds of the law.

08:34.300 --> 08:36.040
Jesus said, I give unto them eternal life

08:36.040 --> 08:36.880
and listen to this.

08:37.100 --> 08:39.560
They shall never perish.

08:40.900 --> 08:43.180
Maybe it depends on what you do, though.

08:43.980 --> 08:45.660
It depends on what kind of sins you commit

08:45.660 --> 08:46.380
or something like that.

08:46.660 --> 08:46.960
No, never.

08:47.180 --> 08:48.360
What about mortal sins?

08:50.360 --> 08:52.040
All sin is mortal sin.

08:52.140 --> 08:52.680
What are you talking about?

08:53.740 --> 08:55.860
The Bible says, who's to ever keep it the whole law?

08:56.260 --> 08:58.140
Yet, if they're in one point, he's guilty of all.

08:59.540 --> 09:01.600
Don't allow the Roman Catholic church

09:01.600 --> 09:03.200
to define for you what sin is.

09:03.820 --> 09:05.100
Sin, according to the Bible,

09:05.260 --> 09:07.020
is defined as the transgression of the law.

09:07.520 --> 09:09.280
And let me just give you the bad news here.

09:09.380 --> 09:10.440
You've all sinned.

09:11.100 --> 09:13.400
Everyone has sinned before the Lord

09:13.400 --> 09:15.300
and therefore are in need of salvation.

09:15.780 --> 09:16.340
Now here's the thing.

09:16.640 --> 09:17.640
After you get saved,

09:18.000 --> 09:19.760
now it's time to put in work, right?

09:20.400 --> 09:21.960
The Bible says, for we are as workmanship

09:21.960 --> 09:24.140
created in Christ Jesus unto good works

09:24.140 --> 09:25.620
which God hath before ordained

09:25.620 --> 09:27.520
that we should walk in them.

09:27.900 --> 09:29.300
Not that we will walk in them

09:29.300 --> 09:30.900
because not everyone does good works.

09:31.260 --> 09:32.960
Not everyone maintains good works.

09:33.160 --> 09:34.580
Not everyone lives a righteous life.

09:34.580 --> 09:36.900
That's why God is constantly putting out

09:36.900 --> 09:37.720
the carrot.

09:37.940 --> 09:39.520
He's constantly putting out the incentive,

09:40.040 --> 09:41.860
the motivation to do that which is right

09:41.860 --> 09:43.460
in the sight of the Lord so we can be blessed of God.

09:44.060 --> 09:45.020
You know, there's different motivations

09:45.020 --> 09:46.840
that God gives us in order to stay right with God.

09:47.240 --> 09:48.360
The consequences of sin,

09:48.800 --> 09:50.140
the rewards of obedience,

09:50.480 --> 09:51.180
or how about this?

09:51.440 --> 09:53.080
The love of Christ constrains us, right?

09:54.040 --> 09:56.560
All of these, at the end of the day though,

09:57.460 --> 09:58.880
produce blessings in our life

09:58.880 --> 10:02.000
but it requires effort on our end to do so.

10:02.060 --> 10:03.380
Just like what we see here in the story.

10:03.380 --> 10:05.100
You know, the Promised Land,

10:05.480 --> 10:07.560
the land where they get to dwell

10:07.560 --> 10:09.220
in houses that they did not build.

10:09.600 --> 10:12.040
You know, drink out of wells that they did not dig.

10:12.500 --> 10:14.760
They get to eat of the vineyards that they did not plant.

10:15.120 --> 10:16.120
That's all given to them

10:16.120 --> 10:18.400
but they have to put in the work to actually

10:18.400 --> 10:20.380
deserve it, to obtain it,

10:20.580 --> 10:22.640
to actually inherit that physical land.

10:23.200 --> 10:25.020
So Moses is telling the children of Israel,

10:25.800 --> 10:26.500
take inventory.

10:27.000 --> 10:29.260
You know, find out if the people are big.

10:29.540 --> 10:31.460
Find out what kind of houses they dwell in.

10:31.460 --> 10:33.060
Find out if they dwell in tents.

10:33.420 --> 10:34.740
Find out if they dwell in houses.

10:34.960 --> 10:36.120
Why is he telling them this?

10:36.580 --> 10:39.240
Well, because he needs them to go into the Promised Land

10:39.240 --> 10:40.820
with a plan, right?

10:41.160 --> 10:43.900
You don't want to just flippantly live the Christian life.

10:44.020 --> 10:44.720
You need to have a plan.

10:45.320 --> 10:46.800
It's like, well, I'm going to read the Bible this year

10:46.800 --> 10:47.780
but what's your plan though?

10:49.100 --> 10:50.860
You know, oh, I'm going to read the Bible

10:50.860 --> 10:52.160
two times this coming year

10:52.160 --> 10:53.540
but what's the plan though?

10:54.120 --> 10:56.300
Oh, I'm going to win 50 souls to Christ.

10:56.600 --> 10:58.280
That's great but what's the plan though?

10:58.720 --> 10:59.720
There needs to be a plan,

10:59.720 --> 11:02.480
a structured plan that you put into place

11:02.480 --> 11:03.640
in order to obtain that

11:03.640 --> 11:05.980
and this is exactly what Moses is telling

11:05.980 --> 11:07.180
the children of Israel.

11:07.340 --> 11:07.900
He's saying, hey,

11:08.280 --> 11:10.060
find out if they have strongholds.

11:10.060 --> 11:11.560
Find out if the land is fat.

11:12.020 --> 11:12.760
If there's wood.

11:13.100 --> 11:14.360
He goes on to say in verse 20,

11:15.060 --> 11:16.560
in BE of good courage

11:16.560 --> 11:19.500
and bring of the fruit of the land.

11:19.860 --> 11:22.100
Now the time was the time

11:22.100 --> 11:23.020
of the first ripe grapes.

11:23.520 --> 11:24.060
So what is this saying?

11:24.400 --> 11:26.580
He's like, hey, aside from, you know,

11:26.960 --> 11:28.780
a canvassing the land,

11:29.340 --> 11:30.620
checking out the enemies,

11:31.000 --> 11:31.680
where they live,

11:31.920 --> 11:33.980
make sure you bring some of those grapes back too.

11:35.120 --> 11:36.180
Now why is he saying that?

11:36.280 --> 11:37.740
He goes, well, the reason he's saying that

11:37.740 --> 11:39.820
is because he wants them to have an incentive

11:41.460 --> 11:43.280
of what's to await them, right?

11:44.380 --> 11:45.960
So he's like, bring back some of the grapes,

11:46.300 --> 11:47.620
bring back some of the fruit

11:47.620 --> 11:49.860
so that people are incentivized

11:49.860 --> 11:52.240
and motivated to actually go in

11:52.240 --> 11:53.780
and fight for the land.

11:54.320 --> 11:55.600
He goes on to say in verse 21,

11:56.320 --> 11:58.500
so they went up and searched the land

11:58.500 --> 12:00.940
from the wilderness of Zinn and Rahab

12:00.940 --> 12:02.640
as men come to Hamath

12:02.640 --> 12:04.440
and they ascended by the south

12:04.440 --> 12:06.120
and came unto Hebron,

12:06.520 --> 12:08.180
which is a high man, Shishai,

12:08.700 --> 12:10.580
Telmai, the children of Aenak were.

12:11.040 --> 12:12.260
Now Hebron was built

12:12.260 --> 12:14.300
seven years before Zohan in Egypt.

12:14.440 --> 12:15.700
Now why is that important to know?

12:16.220 --> 12:17.940
Well, the Bible's simply telling us here

12:17.940 --> 12:19.680
that this land that they're going into

12:19.680 --> 12:20.740
is the land of antiquity.

12:21.180 --> 12:22.140
Because it says here

12:22.140 --> 12:24.180
that it was built seven years before

12:24.180 --> 12:25.040
Zohan in Egypt

12:25.040 --> 12:26.040
and the children of Israel

12:26.040 --> 12:27.760
are familiar with Zohan

12:27.760 --> 12:29.540
because they were in Egypt for that long, right?

12:29.660 --> 12:30.480
Four and 20 years.

12:31.120 --> 12:32.040
So they know Zohan

12:32.040 --> 12:32.480
and they're saying,

12:32.500 --> 12:35.080
well, Hebron is an even older city

12:35.080 --> 12:36.880
and the significance of this,

12:36.960 --> 12:37.840
if you know the story,

12:38.200 --> 12:40.300
is that Caleb ends up inheriting this land,

12:40.680 --> 12:42.660
this particular land, Hebron, okay?

12:43.800 --> 12:44.880
Now, why is that significant?

12:45.120 --> 12:46.820
Well, because Hebron is the area

12:47.340 --> 12:49.800
that's a very difficult territory to overcome.

12:50.240 --> 12:53.420
But this is the area that Caleb requests, okay?

12:53.780 --> 12:55.180
So they're going into Hebron

12:55.180 --> 12:58.180
and this is where, you know, the giants are.

12:58.580 --> 13:00.780
This is where the cities that are walled

13:00.780 --> 13:01.800
are very high are.

13:02.080 --> 13:04.220
This is where the challenge is, okay?

13:05.100 --> 13:05.820
It says in verse 23,

13:06.320 --> 13:07.540
and they came into the Brook of Eshkall

13:07.540 --> 13:09.480
and cut down from fence a branch

13:09.480 --> 13:10.540
with one cluster of grapes

13:10.540 --> 13:12.780
and they bear it between two upon a staff

13:12.780 --> 13:14.440
and they brought it to the pomegranates

13:14.440 --> 13:15.180
and other figs.

13:15.460 --> 13:17.040
And the place was called the Brook of Eshkall

13:17.040 --> 13:18.320
because of the clusters of grapes

13:18.320 --> 13:19.260
which the children of Israel

13:19.260 --> 13:20.540
cut down from fence

13:20.540 --> 13:22.340
and they returned from searching

13:22.340 --> 13:24.200
of the land after 40 days.

13:24.200 --> 13:25.780
Now, here's one thing we're going to learn

13:25.780 --> 13:26.860
from this particular passage

13:26.860 --> 13:30.140
is that the Christian life is all about perspective.

13:32.300 --> 13:32.740
Why?

13:33.500 --> 13:35.940
Twelve men go into the promised land

13:35.940 --> 13:37.980
and they all see the same exact thing.

13:38.940 --> 13:40.720
They all see the same walls.

13:41.080 --> 13:42.160
They see the same enemies.

13:42.500 --> 13:43.960
They see the same clusters of grapes.

13:44.240 --> 13:46.960
But yet, 10 out of the 12 bring back an evil report.

13:47.900 --> 13:49.080
Two girls are just like,

13:49.460 --> 13:50.460
let's do it, let's whoop them.

13:51.120 --> 13:51.700
Let's take it over.

13:52.100 --> 13:52.720
These guys are nothing.

13:52.720 --> 13:54.720
The other 10 are just wimps.

13:55.060 --> 13:55.840
They're just scared.

13:56.100 --> 13:57.860
But it's not because they saw something different

13:58.240 --> 13:59.200
than what the two saw.

13:59.400 --> 14:00.380
They both saw the same thing.

14:00.660 --> 14:01.320
And let me just say this.

14:01.500 --> 14:03.380
The Christian life, that's exactly how it is.

14:03.460 --> 14:04.220
It's all about perspective.

14:05.340 --> 14:07.120
You know, you could have the same people go to church,

14:07.220 --> 14:08.580
listen to the same sermons,

14:09.000 --> 14:10.480
fellowship with the same people,

14:10.880 --> 14:12.820
have God work in the same way in that church

14:12.820 --> 14:15.220
and walk away having two different perspectives.

14:15.780 --> 14:17.300
Oh man, he was just too mean.

14:18.740 --> 14:19.780
Oh, he just preach it.

14:19.820 --> 14:20.900
Yeah, he's just too angry.

14:21.320 --> 14:22.300
I just can't handle it.

14:22.300 --> 14:23.460
But then someone else will walk away and be like,

14:23.480 --> 14:24.560
man, that changed my life.

14:25.540 --> 14:26.580
Someone will walk away and be like,

14:26.640 --> 14:27.780
well, that guy is kind of rude.

14:29.060 --> 14:29.480
Oh man.

14:29.620 --> 14:30.700
And then another one will walk away

14:30.700 --> 14:32.160
and I was like, that guy used a lot of scripture.

14:33.140 --> 14:34.240
Want to walk away and say,

14:34.380 --> 14:35.860
I don't feel like the spirit of God is there.

14:37.260 --> 14:39.880
I just don't think God is in there.

14:40.060 --> 14:41.080
And the other person will be like,

14:41.400 --> 14:43.220
you know what, God's presence is there

14:43.220 --> 14:44.460
because I heard the word of God being preached.

14:44.840 --> 14:46.740
They both experience the same exact thing.

14:47.120 --> 14:48.540
But they have two different perspectives.

14:49.600 --> 14:52.060
One is of faith and the other one is not.

14:52.740 --> 14:55.920
The 10 had a negative perspective on the promised land

14:55.920 --> 14:58.280
because they were in unbelief.

14:58.620 --> 14:59.620
They were afraid.

14:59.980 --> 15:00.900
They were scared.

15:01.160 --> 15:01.980
They were cowards.

15:02.160 --> 15:03.700
They did not have faith in God.

15:04.420 --> 15:05.940
Whereas Joshua and Caleb,

15:06.260 --> 15:08.380
they're just like, man, I want more grapes.

15:09.620 --> 15:10.520
Let's do it.

15:11.500 --> 15:12.040
Skip down.

15:12.180 --> 15:16.080
Let's go to verse number 26.

15:16.080 --> 15:19.140
So they come back after 40 days.

15:19.260 --> 15:20.680
Look, 40 days is a long time.

15:21.200 --> 15:23.200
You're hanging out with these guys for 40 days.

15:24.220 --> 15:26.440
You're seeing the same exact thing for 40 days,

15:26.600 --> 15:28.880
the same enemies, the same fruit for 40 days.

15:29.160 --> 15:31.780
And what's the job of these 12 men?

15:31.900 --> 15:32.700
What are they supposed to do?

15:33.260 --> 15:34.640
Well, because they're leaders,

15:35.100 --> 15:36.140
because they're rulers,

15:36.620 --> 15:38.840
they're supposed to be an example to the congregation.

15:39.560 --> 15:41.300
Meaning they're supposed to come back and say,

15:41.860 --> 15:42.940
man, you're not going to believe it.

15:43.480 --> 15:44.960
Like, this place is awesome.

15:44.960 --> 15:46.800
Because keep in mind, the children of Israel,

15:46.900 --> 15:48.220
they're just really scared all the time.

15:49.060 --> 15:50.040
They're always afraid.

15:50.200 --> 15:50.940
They're always scared.

15:51.400 --> 15:52.860
They're kind of wimpy in a lot of ways.

15:53.180 --> 15:56.420
So they need strong leaders to lead them

15:56.420 --> 15:58.500
and say, hey, this can be done.

15:59.020 --> 16:00.360
God's already promised it to us.

16:00.600 --> 16:01.120
It's awesome.

16:01.280 --> 16:02.340
I already picked out my house.

16:02.880 --> 16:05.060
I got this one well that I already picked out.

16:05.420 --> 16:06.100
It's going to be awesome.

16:06.240 --> 16:06.760
It's going to be great.

16:07.200 --> 16:08.320
And that's exactly what they need.

16:08.420 --> 16:11.200
They need to be encouraged to serve

16:11.200 --> 16:13.280
to actually obey the Lord in this area.

16:13.280 --> 16:13.500
Right?

16:14.040 --> 16:15.120
That's what they're supposed to do.

16:15.320 --> 16:16.020
Look at verse 26.

16:16.420 --> 16:18.080
And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron

16:18.080 --> 16:20.020
and to all the congregation of the children of Israel

16:20.020 --> 16:22.240
unto the wilderness of Peyrand to Kadesh

16:22.240 --> 16:25.300
and brought back word unto them and to all the congregation

16:25.300 --> 16:27.340
and showed them the fruit of the land.

16:28.300 --> 16:29.940
And they told them and said,

16:30.220 --> 16:32.660
we came into the land whether thou sentest us

16:32.660 --> 16:36.620
and surely it floweth with milk and honey

16:36.620 --> 16:38.420
and this is the fruit of it.

16:38.720 --> 16:40.860
So everything so far so good, right?

16:41.460 --> 16:42.900
They're like, hey, we went there.

16:43.120 --> 16:44.000
It is awesome.

16:44.760 --> 16:46.440
It does flow with milk and honey.

16:46.680 --> 16:49.380
Look at these massive grapes that we brought back.

16:51.760 --> 16:52.560
Go to report.

16:53.340 --> 16:54.980
They should have just ended it right there.

16:55.580 --> 16:56.540
And say, Moses,

16:56.820 --> 16:58.020
do you have any other words you want to say?

16:58.120 --> 16:58.620
When do we start?

16:59.980 --> 17:01.660
Here's the bad word right here, verse 28.

17:02.140 --> 17:02.540
Nevertheless,

17:04.400 --> 17:04.800
nevertheless.

17:05.720 --> 17:06.560
What do you mean nevertheless?

17:07.900 --> 17:09.420
Yeah, it's a great land.

17:09.420 --> 17:11.040
It is the land that God promised.

17:11.440 --> 17:13.140
It's true that God fulfills his word.

17:13.400 --> 17:14.880
It's true that he fulfills his promise.

17:16.400 --> 17:17.440
But what?

17:18.480 --> 17:18.920
Nevertheless,

17:19.540 --> 17:22.340
the people be strong that dwell in the land.

17:23.020 --> 17:25.320
And the cities are walled in very great.

17:25.980 --> 17:27.760
Moreover, we saw the children of Adam there.

17:30.000 --> 17:31.840
Now let me tell you why this

17:31.840 --> 17:33.860
statement is so stupid and absurd.

17:34.860 --> 17:36.720
Everyone already knew that these people were there.

17:40.140 --> 17:41.180
Way back when,

17:41.380 --> 17:43.080
when God is telling them about this land,

17:43.560 --> 17:46.100
he's explaining to them that there's going to be giants.

17:46.600 --> 17:49.480
He's explaining that the children of Aenak are going to be there.

17:49.800 --> 17:51.980
He's even telling them, hey, they're stronger than you.

17:52.900 --> 17:53.640
Like he literally said,

17:53.720 --> 17:54.880
he's like, I just want to let you know

17:54.880 --> 17:55.660
you're going to go into this land

17:55.660 --> 17:56.880
and they're actually stronger than you.

17:57.460 --> 17:58.140
And he's like, okay,

17:58.240 --> 17:59.940
but all of a sudden, oh man,

18:00.880 --> 18:03.180
there's just so many people there.

18:04.100 --> 18:04.800
There's giants.

18:05.700 --> 18:07.280
It's just like, why are you saying this?

18:07.740 --> 18:08.840
We already know this.

18:09.600 --> 18:12.260
It seems as though you're just trying to instill fear

18:12.260 --> 18:13.580
into the hearts of the brethren,

18:13.900 --> 18:15.040
into the congregation,

18:15.480 --> 18:17.280
because you're too scared to go out and fight.

18:17.720 --> 18:19.920
So therefore, you have to discourage the hearts of your brothers

18:19.920 --> 18:21.060
so that they don't go out and fight.

18:21.620 --> 18:22.480
This is already new.

18:23.080 --> 18:24.360
We already know this.

18:24.600 --> 18:25.480
It's common knowledge.

18:25.800 --> 18:27.020
You don't have to bring this up.

18:27.320 --> 18:29.420
And this kind of demonstrates to us as Christians

18:29.420 --> 18:30.660
that we need to make sure

18:30.660 --> 18:33.600
that we're not always negative about things, right?

18:34.500 --> 18:35.400
Have the right perspective.

18:35.400 --> 18:37.380
If it's time to fight a spiritual battle,

18:37.780 --> 18:39.020
don't make it as though,

18:39.120 --> 18:41.260
don't make a mountain out of a molehill

18:41.720 --> 18:43.060
and say, yeah, but you know,

18:43.240 --> 18:45.460
what happens if we get persecuted or something?

18:45.900 --> 18:47.500
You know, they threaten to blow up our church.

18:48.960 --> 18:49.960
Yeah, we know that already.

18:51.160 --> 18:52.240
That's already happened.

18:53.180 --> 18:56.080
This is not new, you know, territory for us.

18:56.460 --> 18:58.240
God already told us that this was going to happen.

18:58.540 --> 19:01.100
He said, yeah, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus

19:01.100 --> 19:02.700
shall suffer persecution.

19:03.200 --> 19:06.160
Think it not strange the fiery trial which shall try you

19:06.160 --> 19:07.920
as though some strange thing happened unto you.

19:08.480 --> 19:10.780
Why are you bringing up the sons of Aenok and the wall of cities

19:10.780 --> 19:13.340
as though God didn't tell us this to begin with?

19:15.400 --> 19:16.640
Nevertheless, verse 29,

19:17.180 --> 19:19.480
the Amalekites dwell on the land of the south.

19:19.860 --> 19:21.600
Yeah, thank you, Sherlock Holmes.

19:21.860 --> 19:22.880
I appreciate that information.

19:23.140 --> 19:23.980
We know that already.

19:25.280 --> 19:27.120
And the Hittites and the Jebusites

19:27.120 --> 19:29.060
and the Aborites dwell on the mountains.

19:29.380 --> 19:30.560
Yeah, they're called Canaanites.

19:31.600 --> 19:33.080
It's called Canaan land.

19:33.300 --> 19:34.080
We already know this.

19:34.820 --> 19:36.820
And the Canaanites dwell by the sea

19:36.820 --> 19:37.740
and by the coast of Jordan.

19:38.080 --> 19:40.780
And you just want to throw that extra information in there.

19:41.160 --> 19:42.600
And they're by the ocean.

19:45.820 --> 19:47.800
So, you know, if you could, you know,

19:47.880 --> 19:50.180
imagine what this looks like at this moment, okay?

19:51.060 --> 19:53.040
Because again, the children of Israel

19:53.040 --> 19:54.540
are just naturally afraid.

19:55.400 --> 19:58.080
Any amount of negative information or news

19:58.080 --> 20:00.820
just gets them scared and gets them going, right?

20:01.220 --> 20:03.120
It's kind of like you when you're on social media and stuff.

20:03.480 --> 20:04.660
You start hearing all kinds of stuff

20:04.660 --> 20:06.300
and all of a sudden you're afraid, you're just all scared.

20:06.900 --> 20:07.780
What's gonna happen?

20:09.160 --> 20:09.480
You know?

20:10.020 --> 20:10.680
Yeah, it's true.

20:10.900 --> 20:13.300
God's taking care of me this far

20:13.300 --> 20:14.760
and he's provided for me.

20:14.900 --> 20:15.500
But what if?

20:17.120 --> 20:18.520
You know, news them.

20:18.680 --> 20:20.260
Yeah, we've had news this whole time.

20:22.120 --> 20:25.400
It's like when other states criticize California

20:25.400 --> 20:28.940
and they're just like, yeah, but your governors do some.

20:29.120 --> 20:29.700
Oh, really?

20:30.680 --> 20:31.480
No way!

20:34.020 --> 20:35.140
Honey, did you know that?

20:36.900 --> 20:38.520
Really, I didn't know that.

20:38.640 --> 20:39.780
Thank you for pointing out the obvious.

20:40.960 --> 20:41.920
You know what it's meant to do?

20:42.040 --> 20:43.440
It's meant to instill fear.

20:44.420 --> 20:46.100
It's meant to discourage.

20:46.520 --> 20:48.400
It's meant to minimize faith, right?

20:48.980 --> 20:50.440
There's no reason why you didn't bring this up.

20:51.900 --> 20:54.180
So, obviously, this is causing a stir

20:54.180 --> 20:55.220
within the congregation.

20:56.100 --> 20:58.460
And this is where Caleb steps in the picture.

20:58.700 --> 20:59.080
Verse 30.

21:00.060 --> 21:03.620
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses

21:03.620 --> 21:05.860
and said, let us go up at once

21:05.860 --> 21:07.800
and possess it for we are able to overcome it.

21:08.560 --> 21:08.780
Okay?

21:09.540 --> 21:11.280
So Caleb was just, what does it mean to stiller?

21:11.340 --> 21:12.940
He's like, calm down, relax.

21:13.760 --> 21:15.360
Lower your voice, okay?

21:16.080 --> 21:16.860
Stop shaking.

21:17.440 --> 21:17.980
It's okay.

21:19.100 --> 21:19.400
You know?

21:19.700 --> 21:21.320
Relax, alright, relax.

21:21.740 --> 21:23.740
Let's just go up at once and overtake it

21:23.740 --> 21:24.740
so we can overcome them.

21:25.060 --> 21:26.080
He's trying to instill courage.

21:26.440 --> 21:28.160
And look, Caleb is a courageous man,

21:28.380 --> 21:30.040
but there's only so much courage you can instill

21:30.040 --> 21:32.460
into a congregation that has already been infected by fear.

21:33.860 --> 21:35.240
So he's trying to still the people.

21:35.780 --> 21:38.040
And keep in mind, Caleb is 40 years old at this time.

21:39.740 --> 21:40.740
He's 40 years old.

21:40.780 --> 21:42.480
He's like, let's just go up at once.

21:42.640 --> 21:43.340
Let's possess it.

21:43.340 --> 21:44.220
We're able to overcome it.

21:44.240 --> 21:44.580
Verse 31.

21:45.100 --> 21:46.940
But the men that went up with him said,

21:47.260 --> 21:49.280
we'd be not able to go up against the people

21:49.280 --> 21:51.000
for they are stronger than we.

21:51.000 --> 21:52.700
Yeah, God already told you that.

21:52.900 --> 21:54.460
But here's the way it works with God,

21:54.680 --> 21:56.460
is that when something is stronger than us,

21:56.640 --> 21:58.140
God makes up the difference on our end.

21:59.720 --> 22:01.600
You know, greater is he that is in us

22:01.600 --> 22:02.940
than he that is in the world.

22:03.460 --> 22:06.600
You know, God and us make up the majority.

22:07.140 --> 22:09.700
If God be for us, who can be against us?

22:09.980 --> 22:12.200
No weapon formed against us shall prosper.

22:12.620 --> 22:13.460
That's what the Bible says.

22:13.660 --> 22:15.780
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

22:17.420 --> 22:18.820
There's just like, they're stronger than,

22:18.920 --> 22:20.120
everyone's stronger than you.

22:21.100 --> 22:21.820
You're weak.

22:22.520 --> 22:24.140
That's not any new thing.

22:24.260 --> 22:25.080
We already know this.

22:25.520 --> 22:27.540
We're not doing this based upon our own might.

22:27.740 --> 22:29.240
We're wrestling not against flesh and blood.

22:29.460 --> 22:31.520
We need to make sure that we rely upon the Lord.

22:32.560 --> 22:34.560
And look folks, the Christian life is going to be filled

22:34.560 --> 22:37.260
with challenges that require for you to rely upon God.

22:38.020 --> 22:40.180
And it's good when you are lacking.

22:40.620 --> 22:43.820
It's good when the challenge seems daunting.

22:44.320 --> 22:46.020
It's good when it seems as though,

22:46.320 --> 22:47.720
you know, from a practical perspective,

22:48.060 --> 22:49.060
you're not going to come out winning

22:49.060 --> 22:50.900
because then God can show himself strong

22:50.900 --> 22:52.680
on the behalf of those who's hardest perfect with him.

22:53.260 --> 22:54.200
That's what the Bible says, right?

22:55.360 --> 22:56.580
It's like, they're stronger than us.

22:56.800 --> 22:57.320
Look at verse 32.

22:57.960 --> 23:01.900
And they brought up an evil report of the land

23:01.900 --> 23:04.120
which they had searched until the children of Israel

23:04.120 --> 23:06.060
saying the land through which we have gone

23:06.060 --> 23:08.740
to search it is a land that eats up the inhabitants

23:08.740 --> 23:09.040
throughout.

23:09.700 --> 23:11.160
And all the people that we saw in there

23:11.160 --> 23:12.540
are men of great stature.

23:12.540 --> 23:15.180
So the Bible says here that they brought up an evil report.

23:15.620 --> 23:16.520
What does that mean?

23:16.860 --> 23:18.440
Well, a people of good report,

23:18.500 --> 23:20.960
according to Hebrews chapter 11, are people of faith.

23:21.980 --> 23:26.480
An evil report is when someone begins to instill fear

23:26.480 --> 23:27.680
because they lack faith.

23:27.820 --> 23:30.540
They're basically removing the faith of the people

23:31.700 --> 23:33.120
by slandering the land.

23:33.560 --> 23:35.320
It actually uses that phrase later on

23:35.320 --> 23:38.000
that they slandered the land, okay?

23:38.720 --> 23:39.560
Verse 33 says,

23:39.560 --> 23:42.120
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Aenak,

23:42.340 --> 23:43.740
which come of the giants.

23:44.160 --> 23:45.360
And I want you to notice this.

23:45.560 --> 23:49.280
And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers

23:49.280 --> 23:50.980
and so we were in their sight.

23:51.500 --> 23:54.840
Now that is a super funny verse to me, okay?

23:55.020 --> 23:56.860
Let me explain to you why it's really funny

23:57.560 --> 23:59.940
because what they're doing is really projecting here, right?

24:01.600 --> 24:02.140
What are they saying?

24:02.420 --> 24:05.340
Well, first of all, they went out to spy the land

24:05.340 --> 24:06.520
meaning that no one saw them.

24:07.380 --> 24:09.160
First and foremost, okay?

24:09.880 --> 24:13.560
Meaning they didn't commune with anybody there, right?

24:14.300 --> 24:15.260
So when it says here,

24:15.700 --> 24:17.560
we were in our own sight as grasshoppers

24:18.160 --> 24:19.540
that just believe what they're saying.

24:19.700 --> 24:20.280
They're basically saying,

24:20.580 --> 24:24.500
you know, we see ourselves as grasshoppers in their sight.

24:24.720 --> 24:26.100
And it's almost as if they caught themselves

24:26.100 --> 24:28.280
and then they said, so we were in their sight.

24:28.980 --> 24:29.680
How do you know that?

24:29.860 --> 24:30.820
You didn't commune with them?

24:32.520 --> 24:34.660
Now I'm reading this and I'm thinking to myself,

24:34.660 --> 24:36.820
well, that makes it even better if we're grasshoppers

24:36.820 --> 24:37.260
in their sight.

24:38.580 --> 24:39.320
That's even better.

24:40.120 --> 24:40.600
You say why?

24:40.920 --> 24:42.700
Well, what does God use to judge lands?

24:43.240 --> 24:44.080
Locusts and grasshoppers.

24:44.900 --> 24:46.260
How does God destroy Egypt?

24:46.640 --> 24:47.900
Locusts and grasshoppers, right?

24:48.260 --> 24:49.480
How does He just destroy crops?

24:49.900 --> 24:51.240
You know, locusts and grasshoppers

24:51.240 --> 24:53.820
often just overtake entire crops

24:53.820 --> 24:55.060
and just destroy resources.

24:55.420 --> 24:56.700
I would have been like, great illustration.

24:57.640 --> 24:58.800
Thank you for proving my point.

24:59.440 --> 25:01.380
We are going to be like grasshoppers in their sight.

25:01.500 --> 25:03.540
We are just going to completely destroy their resources.

25:03.540 --> 25:05.380
We're just going to completely take them over.

25:06.400 --> 25:10.060
But what we see here is these guys are just fearful.

25:10.600 --> 25:11.160
They're afraid.

25:11.600 --> 25:14.280
Oh, they're like giants and they're really tall.

25:14.740 --> 25:16.600
Now let me just make a side note here

25:16.600 --> 25:18.080
that has nothing to do with the sermon,

25:18.180 --> 25:19.880
but it's worth mentioning since we're in this verse.

25:20.280 --> 25:23.400
When it says giant, it's not referring to a 450-foot giant.

25:24.200 --> 25:27.480
This isn't referring to some Christian fantasy

25:27.480 --> 25:28.840
known as the Book of Enoch.

25:29.820 --> 25:32.620
And it's funny because anytime you criticize the Book of Enoch,

25:32.620 --> 25:34.780
people automatically think you're criticizing Enoch.

25:35.740 --> 25:36.880
Enoch takes no credit.

25:37.680 --> 25:40.180
The biblical Enoch takes no credit for the Book of Enoch.

25:40.540 --> 25:43.840
And because we are rejecting the Book of Enoch,

25:43.960 --> 25:45.180
does not mean we reject Enoch

25:45.180 --> 25:47.020
because he's not the one responsible for writing that book.

25:48.140 --> 25:50.720
Now the Book of Enoch is the one that is largely responsible

25:50.720 --> 25:53.940
for promoting this false doctrine, this false ideology,

25:53.940 --> 25:57.620
that there were literally 450-foot giants in the Bible

25:57.620 --> 25:59.700
even though nothing in the Bible

25:59.700 --> 26:01.240
says the size of these people.

26:02.000 --> 26:04.800
Being 450 feet, only in the Book of Enoch

26:04.800 --> 26:05.820
is that measurement found.

26:06.800 --> 26:08.840
But secondly, the giants in the Bible

26:08.840 --> 26:12.180
only measured up to about nine, possibly,

26:12.660 --> 26:14.720
10, 11 feet at the most.

26:15.040 --> 26:16.140
That's considered a giant.

26:16.440 --> 26:17.280
You're like, that's not a giant.

26:17.460 --> 26:19.200
Stand next to a person who's 10 feet tall.

26:19.300 --> 26:20.580
You tell me if that's not a giant to you.

26:22.360 --> 26:24.220
A giant is just someone who's just large.

26:25.940 --> 26:27.400
And so you're like,

26:27.400 --> 26:29.780
well I still think there was 450-foot giants

26:29.780 --> 26:31.240
in this world at one point

26:31.240 --> 26:34.240
and then God had to destroy them with the flood.

26:34.860 --> 26:37.220
And that's why, then why did giants exist after the flood?

26:37.660 --> 26:40.100
Can you explain that?

26:42.160 --> 26:43.460
According to the Book of Enoch,

26:43.560 --> 26:45.700
the reason God flooded the world was to destroy the giants

26:45.700 --> 26:47.620
but yet we find giants after the flood

26:47.620 --> 26:48.260
as noted here.

26:49.540 --> 26:50.800
Doesn't make any sense, folks.

26:51.400 --> 26:53.220
It's Christian science fiction is what it is.

26:53.800 --> 26:54.300
And you know what?

26:54.300 --> 26:56.220
I reject the Book of Enoch wholeheartedly

26:56.220 --> 26:58.080
because it completely contradicts the Bible.

26:58.960 --> 27:01.120
When you put it, when you actually prove all things

27:01.120 --> 27:02.340
whole fast that which is good.

27:02.580 --> 27:04.020
When you compare it to the Scriptures

27:04.020 --> 27:06.240
you actually see that they're not compatible

27:06.240 --> 27:06.960
one with another.

27:07.480 --> 27:09.600
It's made by apostate Jews

27:10.300 --> 27:12.420
who just are writing their own thing.

27:12.660 --> 27:15.360
They're just putting together these Jewish fables.

27:15.880 --> 27:17.240
They're making up all kinds of stories.

27:17.620 --> 27:19.080
It's basically Greek mythology

27:19.080 --> 27:22.420
that's written by Jewish apostates is what it is.

27:23.200 --> 27:23.240
Okay.

27:24.140 --> 27:25.580
So we have here Caleb

27:26.500 --> 27:27.620
stepping up to the plate

27:28.080 --> 27:29.860
stilling the people they're not listening.

27:29.940 --> 27:30.680
Go to chapter 14.

27:32.100 --> 27:33.020
14 verse 1 says

27:33.020 --> 27:34.660
and all the congregation lifted up their voice

27:35.060 --> 27:37.900
and cried and the people wept at night.

27:38.040 --> 27:39.340
So they're crying about this.

27:41.340 --> 27:42.720
I mean, good night in the morning.

27:43.980 --> 27:45.200
I know that there's men here

27:45.200 --> 27:47.280
but I'm just thinking you guys are acting like women though.

27:48.200 --> 27:50.020
What happened to the men of these households

27:50.020 --> 27:50.860
who are just like,

27:50.860 --> 27:53.000
okay, we don't need to cry about this.

27:53.500 --> 27:54.740
This is not a big deal.

27:55.620 --> 27:56.580
We can overcome it.

27:56.720 --> 27:57.300
Caleb's right.

27:57.580 --> 27:58.220
Joshua's right.

27:58.660 --> 27:59.260
Moses is right.

27:59.360 --> 28:00.820
But more important than that, God is right.

28:02.920 --> 28:03.960
They wept at night

28:03.960 --> 28:04.960
and all the children of Israel

28:04.960 --> 28:07.220
murmured against Moses and against Aaron.

28:07.300 --> 28:08.620
The whole congregation said it's in

28:08.620 --> 28:11.660
would God that we had died in the land of Egypt

28:11.660 --> 28:13.720
or would God we had died in this wilderness?

28:14.000 --> 28:15.000
What in the world?

28:15.440 --> 28:16.700
This is called exaggeration.

28:17.700 --> 28:18.540
Because what are they saying?

28:18.540 --> 28:19.880
Oh, it would have been better for us

28:19.880 --> 28:21.980
to just die in the wilderness or just in Egypt

28:21.980 --> 28:24.520
instead of dying at the hands of these Anakins

28:24.520 --> 28:27.140
and these Canaanites or whatever maybe.

28:28.000 --> 28:29.700
It's an exaggeration.

28:30.100 --> 28:32.160
It's like when people, as a Christian,

28:32.680 --> 28:33.800
the Christian life gets hard.

28:33.960 --> 28:34.660
It's like, oh, it would have been better

28:34.660 --> 28:35.500
if I just stayed in the world.

28:35.720 --> 28:35.960
Really?

28:36.960 --> 28:39.280
You really think it would have been better for you

28:39.280 --> 28:40.800
to just stay in the world,

28:41.020 --> 28:42.640
just living a Godless life

28:42.640 --> 28:45.640
under the wrath of God as an unsaved person.

28:46.000 --> 28:47.720
You really think that would be better for you?

28:47.720 --> 28:48.880
You're exaggerating.

28:49.540 --> 28:50.420
You're exaggerating.

28:51.300 --> 28:52.920
Well, I didn't have it as bad now.

28:53.300 --> 28:54.480
Let me just tell you right now

28:54.480 --> 28:55.960
that whatever problems you're going through now,

28:56.140 --> 28:58.560
unsaved people go through outside these walls as well.

28:59.020 --> 29:00.580
Here's the major difference between the two.

29:00.720 --> 29:01.300
We have God.

29:02.300 --> 29:03.380
That's the major difference.

29:03.540 --> 29:04.000
They don't.

29:04.740 --> 29:06.860
So they're going according to the course of this world,

29:07.100 --> 29:08.740
according to the Prince of Power of the Air.

29:09.120 --> 29:10.120
They're just suffering.

29:10.600 --> 29:13.080
They have no hope in this world outside of Christ.

29:13.740 --> 29:14.860
There's no hope.

29:15.080 --> 29:16.080
There's no grace.

29:16.220 --> 29:17.300
There's no mercy for them.

29:17.300 --> 29:19.620
They have no idea that they're just pain bills.

29:20.900 --> 29:23.260
They're just pain bills that try to just live life.

29:23.460 --> 29:24.740
Whereas us, we actually have purpose.

29:26.120 --> 29:26.480
And you know what?

29:26.540 --> 29:27.960
When things go hard for us,

29:28.300 --> 29:31.120
when we experience suffering and trial and tribulation,

29:31.520 --> 29:33.840
the Bible says that all things work together for good

29:33.840 --> 29:34.760
to them that love God,

29:35.140 --> 29:37.200
to them who are called according to his purpose.

29:37.860 --> 29:38.520
So the Bible says,

29:38.840 --> 29:40.320
even when we suffer,

29:40.800 --> 29:41.440
God says it's okay,

29:41.520 --> 29:42.220
I'll take those ingredients

29:42.220 --> 29:43.300
and make something good out of it.

29:44.080 --> 29:45.240
Whereas the people in this world,

29:45.400 --> 29:45.840
they just suffer.

29:45.840 --> 29:47.380
Think about this.

29:47.540 --> 29:48.920
They suffer and if they don't get saved,

29:49.020 --> 29:49.780
they die and go to hell.

29:51.240 --> 29:52.860
Your worst day here is still

29:52.860 --> 29:55.080
some unsaved person's best day.

29:56.580 --> 29:57.960
Because our worst day here

29:57.960 --> 29:59.300
still works together for good.

29:59.940 --> 30:00.780
So it's not worth,

30:01.020 --> 30:02.560
oh man, it's just so hard.

30:02.940 --> 30:04.760
What to God, I just stayed in Egypt.

30:05.120 --> 30:07.160
What to God, I just stayed with my girlfriend.

30:07.540 --> 30:09.100
What to God that I just stayed with my boyfriend.

30:09.300 --> 30:10.860
What to God that I would still drink

30:10.860 --> 30:12.700
and smoke and run with those that do.

30:13.400 --> 30:13.900
It's an exaggeration.

30:13.900 --> 30:15.680
Don't you remember how much you complain

30:15.680 --> 30:16.440
when you're in Egypt?

30:17.780 --> 30:20.540
You complain and you ask God to save you.

30:20.680 --> 30:22.600
You ask God to change something in your life.

30:22.720 --> 30:24.960
You ask God to deliver you out of Egypt.

30:25.180 --> 30:25.940
But all of a sudden,

30:26.100 --> 30:27.820
you're met with this little challenge

30:27.820 --> 30:29.420
of obeying God

30:29.420 --> 30:30.340
and it's just like,

30:30.360 --> 30:31.660
oh I should have just died in the wilderness.

30:32.900 --> 30:34.020
He says in verse three,

30:34.160 --> 30:36.800
and wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this land

30:36.800 --> 30:38.360
to fall by the sword

30:38.780 --> 30:40.980
that our wives and our children should be a prey.

30:41.340 --> 30:43.160
We're not better for us to return into Egypt.

30:43.160 --> 30:43.880
Who said that?

30:45.320 --> 30:46.380
Who's this guy who's like,

30:46.400 --> 30:47.460
God wants to kill our kids?

30:50.340 --> 30:51.480
And this hit one to another.

30:52.520 --> 30:53.560
Let us make a captain.

30:54.800 --> 30:56.060
And let us return to Egypt.

30:57.360 --> 30:58.580
So this is what happens

30:58.580 --> 30:59.940
when people become overly emotional.

31:00.540 --> 31:01.600
They make hasty decisions.

31:03.040 --> 31:04.340
Irrational hasty decisions.

31:05.260 --> 31:06.160
Let's just get a captain

31:06.160 --> 31:07.380
and we'll go back to Egypt.

31:07.540 --> 31:07.860
Like what?

31:09.520 --> 31:10.360
God literally,

31:11.020 --> 31:12.300
you can't go back to Egypt.

31:12.300 --> 31:13.380
There's nothing left over there.

31:13.740 --> 31:14.760
Remember God destroyed it?

31:15.600 --> 31:16.880
Remember all the plagues and stuff?

31:17.540 --> 31:18.260
You sure you want to go back?

31:19.100 --> 31:19.640
It's going to take a while

31:19.640 --> 31:20.800
before they can rebuild that thing.

31:21.140 --> 31:22.280
The cucumbers aren't there right now, bro.

31:23.160 --> 31:24.580
The melons aren't there right now.

31:25.280 --> 31:26.660
You want to go back to Egypt

31:26.660 --> 31:28.120
that no longer exists

31:28.120 --> 31:29.080
at that particular moment.

31:31.340 --> 31:32.420
Oh, let's make a captain.

31:32.580 --> 31:33.420
Let's just return into Egypt.

31:33.660 --> 31:35.260
Let's just make a hasty decision

31:35.260 --> 31:37.400
because things are just really hard right now.

31:37.820 --> 31:40.300
No, you need to just go to sleep,

31:40.300 --> 31:41.620
eat those grapes that you just,

31:41.880 --> 31:42.780
they brought back,

31:43.320 --> 31:45.080
take a nap, you know,

31:45.540 --> 31:46.560
and just chill out.

31:46.800 --> 31:48.200
Stop hanging out with fearful people.

31:48.680 --> 31:49.980
Get off of social media.

31:50.660 --> 31:51.740
Get off of Instagram.

31:52.100 --> 31:53.220
Get off of Facebook for a while.

31:53.460 --> 31:56.020
Go on a social media fast for a little bit

31:56.020 --> 31:57.540
so you're not consuming all types

31:57.540 --> 31:59.400
of negative information

31:59.400 --> 32:01.880
that's causing your faith to Wayne and God

32:01.880 --> 32:03.620
and you might feel different about it tomorrow.

32:04.800 --> 32:07.040
He says in verse number five,

32:07.040 --> 32:10.940
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces

32:10.940 --> 32:12.020
before all the assembly

32:12.020 --> 32:13.600
of the congregation of the children of Israel

32:13.600 --> 32:15.280
and Joshua the son of Nun

32:15.280 --> 32:16.440
and Caleb the son of Japhuna,

32:16.700 --> 32:18.580
which were of them that searched the land,

32:18.740 --> 32:19.740
rent their clothes.

32:20.740 --> 32:22.580
So the guys who actually are level-headed,

32:22.800 --> 32:24.080
the ones who actually have faith,

32:24.520 --> 32:25.860
they're devastated by this.

32:26.700 --> 32:29.120
Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb,

32:29.480 --> 32:31.900
they're absolutely beside themselves

32:31.900 --> 32:32.600
in this regard

32:32.600 --> 32:34.360
because they know what this means.

32:34.840 --> 32:36.720
Because the majority of the congregation

32:36.720 --> 32:37.780
does not want to go in,

32:38.140 --> 32:40.740
they know this means this is bad news.

32:42.360 --> 32:44.160
When they're renting their clothes,

32:44.260 --> 32:44.760
they're just like,

32:44.860 --> 32:47.920
no, this is going to turn out

32:47.920 --> 32:50.580
to be very bad for the entire nation,

32:50.680 --> 32:51.400
for my family.

32:51.960 --> 32:53.820
And this kind of demonstrates right here

32:53.820 --> 32:54.820
we're going to look in just a bit

32:54.820 --> 32:57.060
that sometimes you unfortunately

32:57.060 --> 32:58.320
have to suffer the consequences

32:58.320 --> 32:59.380
of other people's actions.

33:00.140 --> 33:00.960
That happens sometimes.

33:01.420 --> 33:02.320
You live in a home

33:02.320 --> 33:03.780
where your mom and dad aren't saved

33:03.780 --> 33:05.060
and they're not making the best decisions.

33:05.380 --> 33:06.120
You're living in a home

33:06.120 --> 33:09.180
where maybe your marriage isn't necessarily

33:09.180 --> 33:10.200
up to Christian par.

33:10.620 --> 33:12.100
You're living in a condition

33:12.100 --> 33:13.260
that's not necessarily conducive

33:13.260 --> 33:13.940
to spiritual growth.

33:14.200 --> 33:15.640
You might end up suffering the consequences

33:15.640 --> 33:16.680
of being in that environment.

33:17.500 --> 33:18.360
That's just how it is sometimes.

33:19.800 --> 33:20.420
But you know what?

33:20.540 --> 33:22.220
I don't see Caleb and Joshua

33:22.700 --> 33:24.620
just completely usurping the authority

33:24.620 --> 33:25.460
in order to fix things.

33:25.760 --> 33:26.400
They're just going to say,

33:26.440 --> 33:27.700
well, I know the Lord's with me.

33:29.400 --> 33:31.040
And unfortunately, Caleb,

33:31.420 --> 33:32.780
though he's a man full of faith,

33:32.780 --> 33:34.620
the Bible literally says that he

33:34.620 --> 33:36.000
wholly followed the Lord,

33:36.320 --> 33:38.020
he went in the wilderness

33:38.020 --> 33:39.200
for 40 years too.

33:40.520 --> 33:41.500
And that kind of sucks.

33:42.680 --> 33:43.780
To be one of the guys

33:43.780 --> 33:46.120
who actually was pro going into the land,

33:46.580 --> 33:47.820
wanted to serve God,

33:48.240 --> 33:48.920
wanted to overcome,

33:49.300 --> 33:51.020
but was hindered by the faithlessness

33:51.020 --> 33:52.240
of the rest of the congregation

33:52.240 --> 33:53.680
and have to go in the wilderness

33:53.680 --> 33:54.940
for 40 years?

33:55.840 --> 33:57.900
I mean, that kind of stinks a little bit.

33:58.540 --> 33:58.980
But you know what?

33:59.180 --> 34:00.680
Caleb, he went with the flow.

34:01.660 --> 34:02.700
Because at the end of the day,

34:03.140 --> 34:03.600
Caleb understood

34:03.600 --> 34:04.840
that he's like one of those

34:04.840 --> 34:06.140
in Sardis, right?

34:06.760 --> 34:07.480
He's one of those,

34:07.680 --> 34:08.770
the few names in Sardis

34:09.240 --> 34:10.680
who has not defiled his garments,

34:10.780 --> 34:11.660
he still has faith in God,

34:11.880 --> 34:12.680
and he recognizes

34:12.680 --> 34:13.740
that God can bless him

34:13.740 --> 34:14.440
in any situation.

34:15.500 --> 34:16.280
Look at verse 7,

34:16.420 --> 34:17.500
and they spake into all the company

34:17.500 --> 34:18.600
of the children of Israel saying,

34:19.160 --> 34:20.640
the land which we pass through

34:20.640 --> 34:21.820
to search it

34:21.820 --> 34:23.540
is an exceeding good land.

34:24.400 --> 34:25.440
So you know, Caleb and them,

34:25.520 --> 34:26.200
they're still trying to like

34:26.200 --> 34:27.520
reason with these people.

34:27.680 --> 34:27.920
They're like, man,

34:28.580 --> 34:30.000
it's such good real estate.

34:30.000 --> 34:30.760
It's free.

34:31.820 --> 34:33.120
We should just go in there.

34:33.280 --> 34:34.200
And he says this in verse 8,

34:34.760 --> 34:36.220
if the Lord delight in us,

34:36.760 --> 34:38.460
then you will bring us into the land.

34:39.300 --> 34:40.680
He said, don't worry about the giants

34:40.680 --> 34:41.720
and all the walls

34:41.720 --> 34:42.900
and all the challenges.

34:43.200 --> 34:45.060
If God delights in us,

34:45.200 --> 34:46.720
we're going to be able to overcome it.

34:46.860 --> 34:48.080
You shouldn't worry about that.

34:49.640 --> 34:50.420
He says,

34:51.000 --> 34:52.540
and give us a land which flow

34:52.540 --> 34:53.160
with milk and honey.

34:53.800 --> 34:56.860
Only rebel not ye against the Lord.

34:57.160 --> 34:58.860
Neither fear ye the people of the land,

34:58.860 --> 35:02.440
for they are bread for us.

35:02.860 --> 35:04.640
Their defense is departed from them.

35:04.860 --> 35:06.340
And the Lord is with us.

35:06.720 --> 35:07.600
Fear them not.

35:08.280 --> 35:08.660
So, you know,

35:08.740 --> 35:10.500
he delivers this great dissertation.

35:10.760 --> 35:11.280
He's just like,

35:11.760 --> 35:13.420
man, we're going to eat them up alive.

35:14.240 --> 35:15.500
God's going to delight in us.

35:15.580 --> 35:16.660
He's going to deliver us.

35:17.000 --> 35:18.280
We just got to believe this.

35:18.720 --> 35:19.560
Just do it, right?

35:19.800 --> 35:20.560
And you would think the congregation

35:20.560 --> 35:20.980
would be like,

35:21.740 --> 35:22.600
yeah, you're right, Caleb.

35:23.860 --> 35:24.900
I'm being a wimp right now.

35:25.040 --> 35:25.820
You know, I'm being a wuss.

35:26.480 --> 35:28.160
My wife is the one who's, you know,

35:28.160 --> 35:29.520
it's really just her, you know.

35:30.540 --> 35:31.980
You would think like someone would actually

35:31.980 --> 35:33.540
come to their senses at this point, right?

35:34.860 --> 35:36.400
But let me give you what happens

35:36.400 --> 35:37.540
when you give people the truth.

35:38.560 --> 35:39.320
It says in verse 10,

35:39.640 --> 35:40.380
but all the congregation

35:40.380 --> 35:41.600
bade stone them with stones.

35:44.200 --> 35:45.260
They're like, wait here.

35:45.720 --> 35:46.640
I think we should kill this guy.

35:47.540 --> 35:48.280
So they said.

35:49.760 --> 35:50.940
They're just like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

35:51.760 --> 35:52.520
Just take them out.

35:53.360 --> 35:54.440
I didn't think we should stone them.

35:54.860 --> 35:55.420
Like, what?

35:55.420 --> 35:55.520
What?

35:58.080 --> 35:59.220
Have I become your enemy

35:59.220 --> 36:00.200
because I tell you the truth?

36:02.040 --> 36:02.960
You know what this demonstrates?

36:03.140 --> 36:04.120
This demonstrates that some people

36:04.120 --> 36:05.180
just can't handle the truth.

36:06.340 --> 36:07.240
They can't handle it.

36:07.700 --> 36:09.300
Even when the truth is, hey,

36:09.520 --> 36:10.460
God is for us.

36:10.740 --> 36:11.480
We can do it.

36:11.780 --> 36:13.040
It's like, I don't want to hear.

36:13.180 --> 36:13.520
I don't want to hear.

36:13.580 --> 36:14.180
I don't want to hear it.

36:14.680 --> 36:16.340
They'd rather just silence you

36:16.340 --> 36:17.700
for telling them the truth.

36:18.700 --> 36:19.400
And look, folks, you know,

36:19.700 --> 36:20.420
this is why it's funny

36:20.420 --> 36:21.040
when people are like, oh,

36:21.060 --> 36:21.920
you should have preached like that.

36:22.260 --> 36:23.200
All that negative stuff

36:23.200 --> 36:24.260
like your pro-death penalty

36:24.260 --> 36:25.900
and against sodomy.

36:26.080 --> 36:27.620
You're just so mean and everything.

36:28.080 --> 36:29.360
You know, that's why people did that to you.

36:29.900 --> 36:30.860
People bombed your church

36:30.860 --> 36:31.660
because of how you preach.

36:32.000 --> 36:32.920
They wanted to stoke Caleb

36:32.920 --> 36:33.740
and he was encouraging them.

36:34.160 --> 36:35.160
We talk about it.

36:36.300 --> 36:37.340
He's like, we can do it, guys.

36:37.800 --> 36:39.220
And they're just like picking up stones

36:39.220 --> 36:40.800
like, you say another word.

36:42.860 --> 36:43.240
You know why?

36:43.340 --> 36:44.280
Because sometimes people

36:44.280 --> 36:44.840
just hate the truth

36:44.840 --> 36:46.000
no matter how it's delivered.

36:46.640 --> 36:48.120
No matter what is stated,

36:48.540 --> 36:50.780
sometimes people just hate the truth.

36:51.260 --> 36:52.040
That's the truth.

36:53.800 --> 36:54.900
And so like, you know,

36:55.160 --> 36:55.820
this, you know,

36:56.160 --> 36:57.360
I'm glad that it overreact.

36:58.720 --> 37:00.060
Bay them stone them with stones.

37:00.280 --> 37:00.580
You're just like,

37:00.620 --> 37:02.480
you're going to stone Joshua and Caleb

37:02.480 --> 37:04.660
for trying to exhort you

37:04.660 --> 37:07.600
to continue to just go in the land,

37:07.740 --> 37:08.780
to succeed as a Christian.

37:09.060 --> 37:09.880
But this demonstrates

37:09.880 --> 37:11.400
how faithless and carnal people

37:11.400 --> 37:12.240
have become at this point.

37:13.060 --> 37:13.420
You know, Christians

37:13.420 --> 37:14.200
can be the same way.

37:14.980 --> 37:16.360
You can encourage Christians,

37:16.680 --> 37:17.840
you know, to go so many,

37:18.180 --> 37:19.440
stop asking me to go so many.

37:19.440 --> 37:19.940
I'm not going to go.

37:21.200 --> 37:22.500
You can encourage Christians

37:22.500 --> 37:23.400
to read their Bible,

37:23.520 --> 37:23.820
to go to church,

37:23.960 --> 37:24.700
stop doing that.

37:24.880 --> 37:25.880
I'm just not going to do it.

37:26.180 --> 37:26.760
And you almost become

37:26.760 --> 37:27.640
like an enemy to them.

37:30.400 --> 37:31.860
But this simply demonstrates

37:32.880 --> 37:34.820
that when it comes to serving God,

37:35.020 --> 37:36.480
it's often the minority

37:36.480 --> 37:37.640
who's willing to do it,

37:37.980 --> 37:39.960
not necessarily the majority.

37:40.960 --> 37:41.020
Okay?

37:42.680 --> 37:43.740
He says in verse 10,

37:43.840 --> 37:44.460
but all the congregation

37:44.460 --> 37:46.660
bade stone them with stones

37:46.660 --> 37:47.960
and the glory of the Lord

37:47.960 --> 37:48.860
appeared in the tabernacle

37:48.860 --> 37:49.380
with the congregation

37:49.380 --> 37:50.500
before all the children of Israel

37:50.500 --> 37:51.760
and the Lord sent them to Moses.

37:52.160 --> 37:53.140
How long will these people

37:53.140 --> 37:53.820
provoke me?

37:54.320 --> 37:55.160
And how long will it be

37:55.160 --> 37:56.220
ere they believe me

37:56.220 --> 37:57.320
for all the signs

37:57.320 --> 37:58.500
which I have showed among them?

37:58.880 --> 37:59.980
Now, you can relate

37:59.980 --> 38:01.000
to this frustration

38:01.000 --> 38:01.760
of the Lord, right?

38:02.640 --> 38:02.960
He's like,

38:03.080 --> 38:04.380
I just destroyed Egypt for them.

38:05.460 --> 38:06.060
Like Red Sea?

38:07.220 --> 38:08.000
Remember that?

38:08.620 --> 38:09.420
Ten plagues?

38:09.720 --> 38:09.920
Hello?

38:10.460 --> 38:11.160
And then all of a sudden

38:11.160 --> 38:11.680
they're just like,

38:11.900 --> 38:12.360
good giants.

38:13.280 --> 38:13.840
He's like, how long

38:13.840 --> 38:14.340
are these people going

38:14.340 --> 38:15.440
to provoke me like this?

38:16.720 --> 38:17.900
He says in verse 12,

38:19.460 --> 38:20.780
this is God's solution,

38:20.880 --> 38:21.220
by the way.

38:21.780 --> 38:21.820
Okay?

38:22.860 --> 38:23.940
That is a great solution.

38:25.060 --> 38:25.760
I will smite them

38:25.760 --> 38:26.340
with the pestilence

38:26.340 --> 38:27.240
and disinherit them

38:27.240 --> 38:28.040
and will make of thee

38:28.040 --> 38:28.780
a greater nation

38:28.780 --> 38:29.540
and mighter than they.

38:30.780 --> 38:31.220
That's called

38:31.220 --> 38:32.120
replacement theology, amen?

38:34.180 --> 38:34.640
He's like,

38:34.900 --> 38:35.420
I got an idea.

38:35.560 --> 38:36.180
Why don't I just like

38:36.180 --> 38:37.320
wipe out the entire nation

38:37.320 --> 38:37.960
and then we'll just

38:37.960 --> 38:38.700
start again with you, Moses?

38:39.380 --> 38:40.560
Now, Moses is a far greater

38:40.560 --> 38:41.040
man than me

38:41.040 --> 38:41.420
because I would have been

38:41.420 --> 38:42.260
like, let's do it.

38:43.660 --> 38:44.500
That sounds good.

38:45.760 --> 38:47.380
The Lord is able, you know?

38:48.020 --> 38:49.700
Just start fresh with Moses.

38:50.700 --> 38:50.980
But of course,

38:51.100 --> 38:52.140
Moses is merciful.

38:52.360 --> 38:52.980
He's gracious.

38:53.600 --> 38:54.580
And he obviously

38:55.060 --> 38:56.220
cares for the reputation

38:56.220 --> 38:56.920
of the Lord

38:56.920 --> 38:58.340
before the heathen.

38:58.580 --> 38:59.360
But I just want to show

38:59.360 --> 39:00.020
you that, you know,

39:00.280 --> 39:01.360
if you think, oh, no,

39:01.660 --> 39:02.460
the Jews are such

39:02.460 --> 39:03.440
God-chosen people

39:03.440 --> 39:04.180
and Israel God shows.

39:04.420 --> 39:05.220
He's willing to replace

39:05.220 --> 39:05.880
them even back then.

39:06.620 --> 39:07.860
He was literally willing

39:07.860 --> 39:08.980
to just completely

39:08.980 --> 39:09.860
wipe them out.

39:10.620 --> 39:10.860
Okay?

39:10.860 --> 39:12.000
And these are the verses

39:12.000 --> 39:13.420
that people, you know,

39:13.440 --> 39:14.340
they just kind of avoid

39:14.860 --> 39:15.580
a lot of the times.

39:16.300 --> 39:16.640
You know?

39:17.100 --> 39:17.880
Especially when they say,

39:17.920 --> 39:18.480
like, oh, you know,

39:18.560 --> 39:19.560
God will never break His promises.

39:19.740 --> 39:21.020
Well, look at verse 34.

39:21.620 --> 39:22.280
Just real quick,

39:22.360 --> 39:23.940
just for good measure here.

39:24.840 --> 39:25.780
After the number of the days

39:25.780 --> 39:26.860
in which He searched the land

39:26.860 --> 39:28.740
even 40 days each day

39:28.740 --> 39:29.620
for a year,

39:29.920 --> 39:30.780
shall ye bear your

39:30.780 --> 39:32.080
iniquities even 40 years,

39:32.500 --> 39:33.300
and ye shall know,

39:33.480 --> 39:33.860
listen to this,

39:33.980 --> 39:34.960
my breach of promise.

39:36.860 --> 39:37.520
I'm sorry.

39:37.640 --> 39:38.000
Come again again?

39:38.180 --> 39:38.640
What was that?

39:39.320 --> 39:39.920
What was that?

39:40.960 --> 39:41.900
Like, oh, you know,

39:42.760 --> 39:43.780
He will never break His promises.

39:44.060 --> 39:44.240
It says,

39:44.620 --> 39:45.840
you'll know my breach of promise.

39:46.640 --> 39:47.060
What He said?

39:47.980 --> 39:48.720
You'll know that

39:49.180 --> 39:50.680
I will break my promise to you

39:50.680 --> 39:51.680
because of your,

39:52.580 --> 39:53.120
you know,

39:53.320 --> 39:54.580
because you broke your promise

39:54.580 --> 39:54.960
towards me.

39:55.040 --> 39:55.960
You broke the contract.

39:57.120 --> 39:58.180
So it's like, oh, man,

39:58.660 --> 39:59.640
you know, God will never,

39:59.800 --> 40:00.500
well, then you're going to

40:00.500 --> 40:01.160
have to explain to me

40:01.160 --> 40:01.740
what this means

40:02.340 --> 40:03.140
because that's exactly

40:03.140 --> 40:03.560
what He did.

40:04.520 --> 40:05.120
But you know,

40:05.160 --> 40:05.700
and a lot of people,

40:05.800 --> 40:07.020
that doesn't sit well

40:07.020 --> 40:07.440
with them,

40:08.020 --> 40:08.820
but it's because they just

40:08.820 --> 40:09.460
didn't pay attention

40:09.460 --> 40:11.160
to Numbers 14.

40:12.100 --> 40:12.780
They're just kind of

40:12.780 --> 40:13.460
reading through the Bible

40:13.460 --> 40:14.280
and ignoring that part.

40:16.320 --> 40:16.580
Right?

40:18.640 --> 40:19.620
I mean, that's why it's

40:19.620 --> 40:20.280
important that when we

40:20.280 --> 40:20.740
read the Bible,

40:20.900 --> 40:21.980
we actually pay attention

40:21.980 --> 40:22.680
to what we're reading

40:23.960 --> 40:24.860
because it actually says

40:24.860 --> 40:25.140
that there,

40:25.240 --> 40:25.780
you'll know my breach

40:25.780 --> 40:26.100
of promise.

40:26.420 --> 40:27.160
And who are you to tell

40:27.160 --> 40:28.020
God that He can't break

40:28.020 --> 40:28.460
His promise

40:28.460 --> 40:29.940
to the nation of Israel?

40:30.720 --> 40:31.240
And keep in mind,

40:31.320 --> 40:32.720
the reason He's

40:32.720 --> 40:33.660
breaching His promise

40:33.660 --> 40:34.840
is because of the fact

40:34.840 --> 40:35.800
that they breached their end

40:35.800 --> 40:36.120
as well.

40:36.640 --> 40:38.820
He did it in response to

40:38.820 --> 40:39.500
them breaking

40:39.500 --> 40:40.620
their covenant with Him.

40:41.200 --> 40:41.480
So I was like,

40:41.520 --> 40:42.740
okay, then I'm not obligated

40:42.740 --> 40:44.020
to keep my end of the bargain.

40:44.840 --> 40:45.080
Okay?

40:46.660 --> 40:47.820
Now go back a couple

40:47.820 --> 40:48.500
verses here.

40:49.740 --> 40:50.880
Skip down to,

40:51.200 --> 40:51.820
let's see here.

40:53.320 --> 40:54.360
Verse 13 says,

40:54.460 --> 40:55.580
In Moses sent unto the Lord,

40:55.740 --> 40:56.940
then the Egyptians will hear it,

40:57.280 --> 40:58.080
for thou broughtest up

40:58.080 --> 41:00.040
this people in thy mind

41:00.040 --> 41:00.820
from among them,

41:01.160 --> 41:01.940
and they will tell it

41:01.940 --> 41:02.440
to the inhabitants

41:02.440 --> 41:03.260
of this land,

41:03.260 --> 41:04.320
for they have heard

41:04.320 --> 41:05.000
that thou, Lord,

41:05.120 --> 41:06.060
are among this people,

41:06.320 --> 41:07.080
that thou, Lord,

41:07.200 --> 41:08.400
are seen face to face,

41:08.620 --> 41:09.200
and so forth.

41:09.280 --> 41:09.820
So what does He say?

41:09.940 --> 41:10.340
He's like, don't,

41:10.460 --> 41:12.580
because everyone knows

41:12.580 --> 41:13.180
about the Lord,

41:13.300 --> 41:14.180
they know what you've done,

41:14.460 --> 41:15.200
and it's going to

41:15.200 --> 41:16.240
tarnish your reputation.

41:16.500 --> 41:16.800
So obviously,

41:16.960 --> 41:17.840
Moses did this

41:17.840 --> 41:19.600
in light of God's reputation.

41:20.460 --> 41:21.180
He's interceding

41:21.180 --> 41:22.060
for the nation of Israel

41:22.060 --> 41:22.880
not because

41:22.880 --> 41:23.840
he necessarily cares

41:23.840 --> 41:24.620
for the nation of Israel,

41:24.640 --> 41:25.240
though he does,

41:25.780 --> 41:26.780
he cares more

41:26.780 --> 41:27.900
for the reputation of God.

41:28.600 --> 41:28.920
And he's like,

41:29.020 --> 41:29.920
you brought them out,

41:30.100 --> 41:30.560
then people are going

41:30.560 --> 41:31.440
to start slandering

41:31.440 --> 41:31.900
your name,

41:32.480 --> 41:32.680
you know,

41:32.760 --> 41:33.840
just be merciful to them,

41:33.900 --> 41:34.360
and so forth.

41:34.620 --> 41:35.020
And of course,

41:35.120 --> 41:35.760
the Lord ends up

41:35.760 --> 41:36.560
forgiving the nation

41:36.560 --> 41:37.400
of Israel for this,

41:37.620 --> 41:38.540
but here's the thing,

41:38.800 --> 41:39.980
not without consequence,

41:40.160 --> 41:40.320
though.

41:41.160 --> 41:41.880
So what does He do?

41:42.000 --> 41:42.120
He says,

41:42.240 --> 41:43.240
okay, I forgive you,

41:43.520 --> 41:44.540
I won't kill you,

41:44.780 --> 41:46.520
but you're going to

41:46.520 --> 41:47.460
wander in the wilderness

41:47.460 --> 41:48.460
for 40 years.

41:51.280 --> 41:52.220
For 40 years.

41:52.940 --> 41:54.000
And on top of that,

41:54.660 --> 41:55.540
everyone who is

41:55.540 --> 41:56.400
20 years old

41:56.400 --> 41:56.880
and upward

41:57.300 --> 41:58.240
are going to die

41:58.240 --> 41:59.140
in the wilderness.

42:00.300 --> 42:01.180
That's the punishment.

42:01.920 --> 42:03.220
So, you don't want

42:03.220 --> 42:03.900
the promised land,

42:04.300 --> 42:04.780
you don't want

42:04.780 --> 42:05.600
the blessings of God,

42:05.920 --> 42:06.700
you don't want this

42:06.700 --> 42:07.420
wonderful promise

42:07.420 --> 42:08.240
that I've given to you,

42:08.420 --> 42:09.240
okay, then die

42:09.240 --> 42:09.640
in the wilderness

42:09.640 --> 42:10.320
is what He's saying.

42:11.100 --> 42:11.640
And the wilderness

42:11.640 --> 42:12.720
wandering was basically

42:12.720 --> 42:13.520
like a huge funeral.

42:14.060 --> 42:15.020
It was a 40 year long

42:15.020 --> 42:15.340
funeral.

42:16.460 --> 42:17.060
He kept them

42:17.060 --> 42:17.600
in the wilderness

42:17.600 --> 42:18.920
wandering in there

42:18.920 --> 42:20.020
until they

42:20.020 --> 42:21.540
completely died out

42:21.540 --> 42:22.640
with the exception,

42:22.740 --> 42:23.220
listen to this,

42:23.520 --> 42:24.520
of Caleb and Joshua.

42:25.040 --> 42:25.800
Because Caleb and

42:25.800 --> 42:26.460
Joshua are 40,

42:28.940 --> 42:29.700
Joshua might be a little

42:29.700 --> 42:30.400
younger than that.

42:30.800 --> 42:31.420
Caleb's 40,

42:31.720 --> 42:32.280
but they survived.

42:32.660 --> 42:32.820
Why?

42:32.920 --> 42:33.340
Because they actually

42:33.340 --> 42:33.900
had faith in God.

42:34.160 --> 42:34.640
And this is why

42:34.640 --> 42:35.660
Hebrews 3 tells us

42:35.660 --> 42:36.480
that they could not

42:36.480 --> 42:37.060
enter in,

42:37.140 --> 42:37.500
listen to this,

42:37.740 --> 42:38.520
because of unbelief.

42:40.600 --> 42:41.360
So, here's

42:41.360 --> 42:41.660
the choice

42:41.660 --> 42:42.160
that you have

42:42.160 --> 42:42.820
to make, my friends.

42:44.680 --> 42:45.320
You're saved,

42:45.940 --> 42:46.320
excellent.

42:47.820 --> 42:48.540
You're saved,

42:48.780 --> 42:49.180
that's great.

42:49.580 --> 42:50.640
But God wants

42:50.640 --> 42:51.220
you to go into

42:51.220 --> 42:52.020
the promised land too.

42:52.240 --> 42:52.720
If you don't want

42:52.720 --> 42:53.000
to go,

42:53.220 --> 42:53.940
okay, then you

42:53.940 --> 42:54.280
would just die

42:54.280 --> 42:54.600
in the wilderness.

42:56.340 --> 42:56.940
You just die

42:56.940 --> 42:57.240
in the wilderness.

42:58.200 --> 42:58.800
Because you lack

42:58.800 --> 42:59.260
faith in God.

43:00.100 --> 43:00.580
Then God will

43:00.580 --> 43:01.300
just kill you off

43:01.300 --> 43:01.660
in the wilderness.

43:02.080 --> 43:02.480
And you know what?

43:02.660 --> 43:03.460
That happens

43:03.460 --> 43:04.440
all the time,

43:04.440 --> 43:05.440
where people just

43:05.440 --> 43:06.680
decide to get out of church,

43:06.800 --> 43:07.760
they stop serving God,

43:08.100 --> 43:08.560
they stop

43:09.340 --> 43:10.240
exercising their faith

43:10.240 --> 43:10.740
in the Lord,

43:10.800 --> 43:11.580
they stop reading their

43:11.580 --> 43:11.720
Bible,

43:11.860 --> 43:12.340
they stop leading

43:12.340 --> 43:12.900
people to Christ.

43:13.240 --> 43:13.760
You know what God says?

43:13.880 --> 43:14.680
Okay, you know,

43:14.960 --> 43:15.520
if you don't want

43:15.520 --> 43:16.460
to inherit the blessings

43:16.460 --> 43:17.900
that I have for you,

43:18.380 --> 43:19.080
the provision,

43:19.420 --> 43:19.900
the blessings,

43:20.360 --> 43:20.900
the blessing of

43:20.900 --> 43:21.820
just raising a family

43:21.820 --> 43:22.340
in church,

43:22.880 --> 43:23.700
the blessing of

43:23.700 --> 43:24.620
leading people to Christ,

43:25.200 --> 43:25.800
the blessing of

43:25.800 --> 43:26.940
having a Godly marriage,

43:27.280 --> 43:27.900
if you want to just

43:27.900 --> 43:28.760
disobey because of

43:28.760 --> 43:29.500
your lack of faith,

43:29.760 --> 43:31.040
then die in the wilderness.

43:32.080 --> 43:32.640
You won't get

43:32.640 --> 43:33.440
that message in Sunday

43:33.440 --> 43:33.960
school class.

43:35.080 --> 43:36.060
It's not going to happen

43:36.060 --> 43:37.300
because it's too harsh.

43:37.540 --> 43:37.860
But you know what?

43:37.920 --> 43:38.540
That's the reality,

43:38.660 --> 43:38.960
my friends.

43:39.840 --> 43:40.400
If you don't think

43:40.400 --> 43:41.320
that's the God of the Bible,

43:41.460 --> 43:42.040
then you're missing out

43:42.040 --> 43:43.140
on 40 years right here.

43:43.560 --> 43:44.460
Because that's exactly

43:44.460 --> 43:45.660
what he did for 40 years.

43:45.900 --> 43:46.560
And I don't even have

43:46.560 --> 43:47.660
time to chronicle

43:47.660 --> 43:48.880
all of the devastating

43:48.880 --> 43:49.660
things that happen

43:49.660 --> 43:50.940
throughout those 40 years.

43:52.240 --> 43:53.860
Where God is just punishing them,

43:54.260 --> 43:54.940
left and right,

43:55.240 --> 43:55.800
killing them,

43:56.020 --> 43:56.820
left and right.

43:57.120 --> 43:57.640
I mean it's

43:57.640 --> 43:58.540
not just like

43:58.540 --> 43:59.420
natural occurrences,

43:59.640 --> 44:00.740
supernatural occurrences,

44:01.460 --> 44:02.640
serpents biting them,

44:02.880 --> 44:03.960
the earth opening up

44:03.960 --> 44:04.840
and swallowing

44:04.840 --> 44:06.840
the dissenter's hole,

44:07.560 --> 44:08.480
going straight into hell.

44:08.580 --> 44:09.080
I mean there's a lot

44:09.080 --> 44:10.120
of crazy stuff that happened

44:10.120 --> 44:10.580
in the wilderness.

44:11.580 --> 44:12.260
I think I'd rather

44:12.260 --> 44:13.180
just go into the promise land.

44:14.500 --> 44:15.420
I think that's better.

44:16.740 --> 44:17.340
You know,

44:17.560 --> 44:18.340
reading down like,

44:18.340 --> 44:20.180
now I'll take on the giant.

44:22.560 --> 44:23.420
I don't want to live

44:23.420 --> 44:24.640
in the wilderness for 40 years

44:25.220 --> 44:26.300
and just miss out on this.

44:26.680 --> 44:27.760
And here's the funny thing

44:27.760 --> 44:28.340
about this, okay?

44:28.680 --> 44:29.240
Because keep in mind,

44:29.520 --> 44:30.180
they're afraid,

44:30.480 --> 44:30.860
listen to me,

44:31.180 --> 44:32.320
they're afraid of the

44:32.320 --> 44:33.040
sons of Anac,

44:33.100 --> 44:33.680
they're afraid of the

44:33.680 --> 44:34.580
Canaanites, right?

44:35.280 --> 44:36.080
Like they're

44:36.620 --> 44:37.580
morbidly afraid of them.

44:38.780 --> 44:39.880
What they don't realize,

44:40.080 --> 44:40.540
listen to me,

44:40.820 --> 44:41.520
what they don't realize

44:41.520 --> 44:42.520
is the Canaanites

44:42.520 --> 44:43.620
are more scared of them.

44:44.980 --> 44:45.720
So how do you know?

44:46.040 --> 44:47.120
Because when they finally,

44:47.120 --> 44:48.200
after 40 years,

44:48.520 --> 44:49.740
go into Canaan land,

44:50.360 --> 44:50.520
you know,

44:50.600 --> 44:51.820
Rahab the harlot was just like,

44:51.880 --> 44:52.660
we've heard about you guys

44:53.280 --> 44:54.960
and our hearts have melted

44:54.960 --> 44:56.340
since we heard you

44:56.340 --> 44:57.020
come out of Egypt.

44:57.700 --> 44:58.900
So that means literally

44:58.900 --> 45:00.580
for those 80 years,

45:01.240 --> 45:01.740
the Canaanites

45:01.740 --> 45:02.560
just been terrified

45:02.560 --> 45:03.540
of the children of Israel.

45:04.500 --> 45:05.320
But they're over here

45:05.320 --> 45:05.940
scared of them.

45:07.720 --> 45:08.840
And that's a lesson

45:08.840 --> 45:09.560
for us to learn

45:09.560 --> 45:11.220
that the enemies of the Lord

45:11.220 --> 45:12.260
are often more scared

45:12.260 --> 45:12.780
of us

45:12.780 --> 45:14.020
than we are of them.

45:15.480 --> 45:16.660
You can't allow

45:16.660 --> 45:19.060
your fear to impede you

45:19.060 --> 45:20.660
from serving God

45:20.660 --> 45:21.680
because God did not

45:21.680 --> 45:22.840
give us a spirit of fear

45:22.840 --> 45:24.440
but of power, love,

45:24.600 --> 45:25.540
and a sound mind.

45:25.860 --> 45:26.340
And you know what?

45:26.400 --> 45:27.640
You need to grow in your love

45:27.640 --> 45:28.360
because perfect love

45:28.360 --> 45:29.240
casts us out of fear.

45:30.060 --> 45:31.220
Grow in your love for the Lord.

45:31.320 --> 45:31.800
The love of Christ

45:31.800 --> 45:32.420
constrains us.

45:32.700 --> 45:33.000
You know what?

45:33.040 --> 45:33.800
Everyone is afraid

45:33.800 --> 45:34.860
of serving God at one time

45:34.860 --> 45:35.180
or another.

45:35.380 --> 45:36.120
But here's the difference

45:36.120 --> 45:38.140
if you decide to obey God

45:38.140 --> 45:39.060
despite the fact that

45:39.060 --> 45:39.460
you're afraid.

45:40.000 --> 45:41.120
There's people who are afraid

45:41.120 --> 45:41.960
and that causes them

45:41.960 --> 45:42.740
to disobey God.

45:43.060 --> 45:43.520
There's other people

45:43.520 --> 45:44.060
who are afraid

45:44.060 --> 45:44.420
and they're like,

45:44.460 --> 45:45.120
I'm just going to do it anyways.

45:45.300 --> 45:45.580
I'm going to fight

45:45.580 --> 45:46.820
the sons of Aeneac anyways.

45:47.260 --> 45:48.000
I'm just going to go

45:48.000 --> 45:48.960
up the walled cities.

45:49.260 --> 45:49.860
I'm going to fight

45:49.860 --> 45:50.660
even though I'm afraid.

45:51.200 --> 45:52.060
And that's what God

45:52.060 --> 45:52.680
wants us to do.

45:54.440 --> 45:55.240
So they end up

45:55.240 --> 45:56.160
wandering the wilderness,

45:56.400 --> 45:57.940
skip down to verse number

45:59.700 --> 46:00.100
22.

46:01.480 --> 46:01.980
It says,

46:02.080 --> 46:02.920
because all those men

46:02.920 --> 46:03.980
which have seen my glory

46:03.980 --> 46:04.500
and my miracles

46:04.500 --> 46:05.480
which I did in Egypt

46:05.480 --> 46:06.700
and in the wilderness

46:06.700 --> 46:08.300
and have tempted me now

46:08.300 --> 46:09.420
these 10 times

46:09.420 --> 46:10.780
and have not harkened

46:10.780 --> 46:11.300
to my voice,

46:11.520 --> 46:13.200
surely they shall not

46:13.200 --> 46:13.880
see the land

46:13.880 --> 46:15.400
which I swear unto their fathers,

46:15.760 --> 46:17.060
neither shall any of them

46:17.060 --> 46:18.140
that provoked me see it.

46:18.340 --> 46:19.100
Isn't that interesting?

46:19.720 --> 46:21.080
That he says here

46:21.580 --> 46:23.440
that they provoked them 10 times

46:23.440 --> 46:24.520
and it was 10 people

46:24.520 --> 46:25.840
who were responsible

46:25.840 --> 46:27.740
for causing others to fear, right?

46:28.900 --> 46:29.460
But then he says

46:29.460 --> 46:30.000
in verse 24,

46:30.400 --> 46:31.400
but my serving Caleb

46:32.020 --> 46:33.500
because he hath another spirit

46:33.500 --> 46:34.000
with him

46:34.560 --> 46:36.140
and has followed me fully

46:36.660 --> 46:38.080
him will I bring into the land

46:38.080 --> 46:39.540
wherein to he went

46:40.180 --> 46:41.620
and his seed shall possess it.

46:42.040 --> 46:42.740
So he says,

46:42.820 --> 46:43.880
Caleb, he's different.

46:44.400 --> 46:45.200
He has another spirit.

46:45.860 --> 46:46.940
Now, we can interpret this

46:46.940 --> 46:47.280
two ways.

46:47.520 --> 46:48.200
He has another spirit

46:48.200 --> 46:49.320
like he has a spirit of God

46:49.700 --> 46:51.360
which is 100% true.

46:51.800 --> 46:52.820
But he has another spirit

46:52.820 --> 46:53.660
because spirit in the Bible

46:53.660 --> 46:54.780
is often used interchangeably

46:54.780 --> 46:55.480
with our attitude.

46:56.880 --> 46:57.940
You know, you need both.

46:59.040 --> 47:00.220
You need to be filled with the spirit

47:00.600 --> 47:01.440
and you need to change

47:01.440 --> 47:02.260
your attitude as well.

47:04.000 --> 47:05.400
Save people can have bad attitudes.

47:06.360 --> 47:07.200
Save people can have

47:07.200 --> 47:07.860
carnal attitudes.

47:08.540 --> 47:09.760
Save people can be feminine.

47:09.760 --> 47:11.240
Save people can be feminist.

47:11.940 --> 47:14.100
Save people can live carnal lives.

47:14.400 --> 47:15.740
They can have bad ideologies.

47:16.360 --> 47:17.040
And you know what?

47:17.300 --> 47:18.220
You're not going to inherit

47:18.220 --> 47:18.700
the blessings

47:18.700 --> 47:20.000
if you're not like Caleb

47:20.000 --> 47:22.080
and have another spirit.

47:22.580 --> 47:24.820
Be transformed by the renewing

47:24.820 --> 47:25.620
of your mind.

47:26.020 --> 47:26.600
That's what the Bible says.

47:26.900 --> 47:27.980
But you have not so alone in Christ

47:27.980 --> 47:28.540
if so be it.

47:28.560 --> 47:29.060
You have heard him

47:29.060 --> 47:29.980
and have been taught by him

47:29.980 --> 47:31.380
as the truth is in Jesus

47:31.380 --> 47:33.120
that he put off the old man

47:33.120 --> 47:33.980
which is corrupt

47:33.980 --> 47:35.100
according to the deceitful lust

47:35.100 --> 47:35.940
and be renewed

47:36.360 --> 47:37.940
in the spirit of your mind

47:37.940 --> 47:39.100
as we're referring to your attitude.

47:39.920 --> 47:41.600
You're like, man, I have such a hard time

47:41.600 --> 47:43.100
serving the Lord,

47:43.320 --> 47:43.800
living the Christian life.

47:43.960 --> 47:44.940
It's because of your attitude though.

47:46.380 --> 47:47.480
You just have a bad attitude.

47:48.120 --> 47:49.340
You have a corrupted attitude.

47:49.520 --> 47:50.060
Change your attitude.

47:52.060 --> 47:53.840
Like I know what the truth is.

47:54.120 --> 47:55.000
I believe in the Bible.

47:55.460 --> 47:56.320
I believe these things.

47:56.560 --> 47:57.640
Yeah, but it's your attitude though.

47:57.840 --> 47:58.440
And it might be

47:58.440 --> 47:59.540
that you're just hanging around people

47:59.540 --> 48:00.560
who have bad attitudes

48:00.560 --> 48:01.420
towards the things of God

48:01.420 --> 48:02.760
and it's influencing you

48:02.760 --> 48:03.540
to have a bad attitude.

48:04.140 --> 48:05.360
It's influencing you

48:05.360 --> 48:06.020
to lack faith.

48:06.900 --> 48:08.100
He that walked with a wise man

48:08.100 --> 48:08.560
shall be wise

48:08.560 --> 48:09.340
but a companion of fools

48:09.340 --> 48:09.900
shall be destroyed.

48:11.180 --> 48:12.740
And so it sounds like

48:12.740 --> 48:13.460
you might need to spend

48:13.460 --> 48:14.360
a little more time in the Bible

48:15.340 --> 48:17.130
and if you don't have the discipline,

48:17.660 --> 48:18.020
listen to me,

48:18.340 --> 48:19.580
if you don't have the discipline

48:19.580 --> 48:20.660
to read the Bible

48:20.660 --> 48:21.380
every single day,

48:21.420 --> 48:22.120
which you should,

48:22.460 --> 48:23.120
then here's a good way

48:23.120 --> 48:24.460
to supplement that temporarily.

48:25.000 --> 48:26.300
Just be at every church service

48:27.500 --> 48:28.480
because in every church service

48:28.480 --> 48:28.960
we're going to go over

48:28.960 --> 48:29.740
like 50 scriptures

48:30.400 --> 48:31.120
which is more than

48:31.120 --> 48:31.600
what you're reading

48:32.060 --> 48:32.840
on your own

48:33.680 --> 48:34.600
and that'll help you

48:34.600 --> 48:35.360
to renew your mind.

48:37.140 --> 48:38.420
Change your mind.

48:38.960 --> 48:39.560
Change your attitude.

48:39.920 --> 48:40.660
Be someone who

48:40.660 --> 48:42.440
has a different spirit

48:42.440 --> 48:44.040
who's following God wholly

48:44.040 --> 48:45.620
and you won't fall

48:45.900 --> 48:47.160
into the same hands

48:47.160 --> 48:47.820
of consequences

48:47.820 --> 48:49.500
that others are falling into.

48:50.120 --> 48:51.700
Now let's go to Joshua 14,

48:51.780 --> 48:52.040
if you will,

48:52.100 --> 48:52.720
Joshua 14.

48:56.360 --> 48:58.100
So what happens after this?

48:58.240 --> 49:00.160
Well, God is like

49:00.160 --> 49:01.380
you're all going to die.

49:02.920 --> 49:03.740
You're going to die

49:03.740 --> 49:04.260
in the wilderness

49:04.260 --> 49:06.640
and that one guy

49:06.640 --> 49:07.740
who just turned 20 that day,

49:07.820 --> 49:08.360
he's like

49:10.560 --> 49:12.620
it was like his birthday that day

49:12.620 --> 49:13.400
and he's like, dang.

49:14.040 --> 49:14.980
He's like, yep,

49:15.220 --> 49:15.940
you're going to die.

49:16.380 --> 49:18.280
You will never see the promised land

49:18.280 --> 49:19.280
ever again.

49:20.520 --> 49:21.660
A million people

49:21.660 --> 49:22.160
that had to be someone

49:22.160 --> 49:23.160
whose birthday was on that day.

49:26.040 --> 49:26.680
So then,

49:26.760 --> 49:28.400
they begin to do,

49:28.820 --> 49:29.840
they decide to do

49:30.480 --> 49:31.900
what they shouldn't have done

49:31.900 --> 49:32.600
or what they should have

49:32.600 --> 49:33.700
decided to do long ago.

49:33.700 --> 49:34.900
They're like, okay, never mind.

49:34.980 --> 49:35.760
We'll go into the promised land.

49:36.800 --> 49:37.420
Never mind.

49:37.600 --> 49:38.100
We're just kidding.

49:38.740 --> 49:39.100
We'll go.

49:40.260 --> 49:41.460
We'll go into the promised land.

49:42.220 --> 49:43.240
Say no more.

49:43.460 --> 49:43.740
We'll go.

49:44.500 --> 49:45.880
And then Moses is like, don't go.

49:46.760 --> 49:47.240
They're like, no, no, no,

49:47.240 --> 49:47.640
we're going to go.

49:47.740 --> 49:48.700
He's like, if you go,

49:48.900 --> 49:49.460
God's not with you

49:49.460 --> 49:50.300
and you're going to be destroyed.

49:51.280 --> 49:52.060
Because guess what?

49:52.960 --> 49:53.820
That ship has sailed.

49:55.460 --> 49:56.340
That train has departed.

49:57.440 --> 49:58.100
The opportunity

49:58.500 --> 49:59.780
for you to serve God

49:59.780 --> 50:01.020
and inherit the blessings

50:01.020 --> 50:02.900
is no longer available

50:02.900 --> 50:04.140
to you at this time.

50:04.940 --> 50:05.740
Now you've got to suffer

50:05.740 --> 50:07.000
the consequences of your actions.

50:07.300 --> 50:07.740
Oh, no, no, no.

50:07.920 --> 50:08.500
No, I'll change.

50:08.760 --> 50:09.080
I'll change.

50:09.680 --> 50:10.220
We'll go right now.

50:10.300 --> 50:10.520
We'll go.

50:10.780 --> 50:12.220
It's just like, all right.

50:12.860 --> 50:13.400
You know what happened?

50:13.600 --> 50:14.980
They went and the Amalekites

50:14.980 --> 50:17.200
destroyed them, killed them

50:17.200 --> 50:18.460
because God wasn't with them.

50:20.200 --> 50:21.420
You know what the principle is there?

50:21.780 --> 50:22.420
Serve God today.

50:25.000 --> 50:26.060
Serve God today.

50:27.140 --> 50:28.180
Don't make excuses.

50:28.820 --> 50:30.120
Don't allow your fear

50:30.760 --> 50:32.360
to cause you to provoke you

50:32.360 --> 50:33.180
to disobey God

50:33.180 --> 50:34.340
because you're going to have

50:34.340 --> 50:36.640
what's called regret later on.

50:37.480 --> 50:38.520
And regret is just like,

50:38.580 --> 50:38.920
you know what?

50:39.000 --> 50:39.680
I changed my mind.

50:39.800 --> 50:40.420
I'm going to serve God.

50:40.800 --> 50:41.440
Okay, you could try.

50:42.760 --> 50:43.580
But we don't know

50:43.580 --> 50:44.520
if that ship has sailed for you.

50:44.820 --> 50:45.400
Just don't know.

50:46.520 --> 50:47.080
You don't know

50:47.080 --> 50:47.640
if those opportunities

50:47.640 --> 50:48.700
are still available to you.

50:49.460 --> 50:51.000
Again, salvation is always there.

50:51.900 --> 50:52.500
Never lose it.

50:52.680 --> 50:52.740
Amen.

50:55.400 --> 50:57.500
But certain opportunities have gone.

50:58.040 --> 50:58.720
You know, I think of Saul

50:58.720 --> 50:59.480
who disobeyed God

50:59.480 --> 51:00.340
beyond recognition

51:00.340 --> 51:01.260
to the point

51:01.260 --> 51:03.220
where he said that the kingdom of God

51:03.220 --> 51:04.020
shall be taken from you

51:04.020 --> 51:05.020
and given to someone

51:05.020 --> 51:06.840
who's better than you.

51:07.400 --> 51:08.560
Who wants to hear that?

51:09.600 --> 51:10.500
I'm going to give it to someone

51:10.500 --> 51:12.160
who's better than you.

51:12.900 --> 51:14.960
Someone who's of a higher quality

51:14.960 --> 51:15.720
than you.

51:16.900 --> 51:17.620
And you know what?

51:17.720 --> 51:18.360
He could have done

51:18.360 --> 51:20.040
everything humanly possible

51:20.040 --> 51:21.300
to retain his title

51:21.300 --> 51:21.880
as the king.

51:22.200 --> 51:23.080
It's not going to happen.

51:24.460 --> 51:26.500
Because he crossed the line.

51:27.760 --> 51:29.440
And so they crossed the line.

51:29.620 --> 51:30.020
They ended up going

51:30.020 --> 51:30.500
down into Canaan.

51:31.100 --> 51:32.420
You know, the Amalekites

51:32.420 --> 51:34.800
smote them, disconfited them,

51:35.200 --> 51:35.960
destroyed them.

51:36.260 --> 51:37.680
And that was the end of that.

51:38.080 --> 51:39.560
So you're in Joshua chapter 14.

51:39.680 --> 51:40.440
Let me go there real quick.

51:40.820 --> 51:41.960
Joshua chapter 14.

51:42.620 --> 51:43.740
So at this point,

51:44.220 --> 51:44.980
you know, they've gone

51:44.980 --> 51:45.980
through the 40 years of wilderness.

51:46.240 --> 51:47.220
So we have Caleb

51:47.220 --> 51:48.580
who's the spy.

51:49.120 --> 51:51.840
He is, has wholly gone after the Lord.

51:52.220 --> 51:53.580
He's filled with the Spirit.

51:53.960 --> 51:55.740
He's considered a dissenter

51:55.740 --> 51:57.120
by the 10.

51:57.400 --> 51:59.220
But he is a man of faith.

51:59.220 --> 52:00.780
He believes in the Lord.

52:01.240 --> 52:01.640
And unfortunately,

52:01.760 --> 52:02.880
he's suffering the consequences

52:02.880 --> 52:03.720
of his nation.

52:04.700 --> 52:05.580
You know, you and I

52:05.580 --> 52:06.040
were going to suffer

52:06.040 --> 52:07.600
the consequences of this nation, too.

52:08.460 --> 52:09.340
That's how it is.

52:09.900 --> 52:10.780
We make bad decisions.

52:10.960 --> 52:11.960
We get to suffer the consequences

52:11.960 --> 52:12.540
because of it.

52:12.780 --> 52:13.500
So you better make sure

52:13.500 --> 52:14.360
you're just following the Lord.

52:14.500 --> 52:14.540
Amen?

52:15.720 --> 52:16.400
Better make sure

52:16.400 --> 52:17.740
you're wholly following the Lord.

52:18.080 --> 52:18.660
Better make sure

52:18.660 --> 52:19.800
you're of another Spirit.

52:20.220 --> 52:20.720
You better make sure

52:20.720 --> 52:20.940
you're sure.

52:21.260 --> 52:22.400
Now's the best time

52:22.400 --> 52:23.360
to start serving God.

52:24.420 --> 52:25.340
Because you just don't know

52:25.340 --> 52:25.840
what's going to happen.

52:27.420 --> 52:29.520
So he wanders for 40 years.

52:29.940 --> 52:31.860
God, you know, protects him.

52:32.120 --> 52:34.680
And now he's like 85 years old.

52:35.220 --> 52:35.540
Okay?

52:36.360 --> 52:38.360
He's beyond Ankh at this point.

52:39.380 --> 52:40.980
He was an Ankh at 40.

52:41.900 --> 52:44.000
But now, what's after Ankh?

52:44.100 --> 52:45.440
Some of you, Jen, what is?

52:45.800 --> 52:46.020
Oh, Gramps.

52:46.280 --> 52:46.860
Gramps?

52:47.960 --> 52:49.780
Yeah, he's a Gramps, apparently.

52:51.220 --> 52:52.920
So he's really old.

52:53.400 --> 52:54.460
And, you know,

52:54.460 --> 52:55.860
now they get to go into the land.

52:56.860 --> 52:58.500
So now they're inheriting the land

52:58.500 --> 53:00.840
and now Joshua is going to

53:00.840 --> 53:03.860
distribute the different plots

53:03.860 --> 53:04.680
and the different possessions

53:04.680 --> 53:06.180
of the land to the various tribes.

53:07.060 --> 53:07.660
And you know what?

53:07.980 --> 53:10.100
Caleb, he's 85, but he's not like,

53:10.680 --> 53:12.080
no, that time has passed for me.

53:13.460 --> 53:15.980
You know, those were the glory days

53:15.980 --> 53:16.980
from back in the day.

53:18.180 --> 53:19.880
Now skip down to verse number six.

53:21.280 --> 53:22.360
Then the children of Judah

53:22.360 --> 53:23.320
came into Joshua

53:23.320 --> 53:25.440
and Gilgal and Caleb, the son of Japhunah,

53:25.840 --> 53:26.540
the Kennesite,

53:26.860 --> 53:27.440
sentenced him.

53:28.060 --> 53:29.540
Thou knowest the thing that the Lord

53:29.540 --> 53:31.040
sentenced Moses, the man of God,

53:31.080 --> 53:32.600
concerning me and thee

53:32.600 --> 53:33.460
in Catechparnia.

53:33.760 --> 53:35.560
So he's like, hey, I didn't forget

53:36.460 --> 53:37.960
what happened 40 years ago.

53:38.560 --> 53:39.860
You remember what God said?

53:40.280 --> 53:40.620
All right?

53:40.800 --> 53:41.480
I haven't forgotten.

53:42.600 --> 53:43.680
He says in verse seven,

53:43.960 --> 53:45.680
40 years old was I when Moses,

53:45.860 --> 53:46.580
the servant of the Lord,

53:46.720 --> 53:47.800
sent me from Catechparnia

53:47.800 --> 53:48.800
to spy out the land.

53:49.080 --> 53:50.720
And I brought him word again

53:50.720 --> 53:52.060
as it was in my heart.

53:52.060 --> 53:54.380
Nevertheless, my brethren

53:54.380 --> 53:56.160
that went up with me

53:56.160 --> 53:58.500
made the heart of the people melt.

53:58.940 --> 54:01.240
But I wholly follow the Lord, my God.

54:01.500 --> 54:02.340
This is a patient man.

54:03.240 --> 54:04.380
As I just want to remind you,

54:04.440 --> 54:05.440
I wasn't one of those guys.

54:06.580 --> 54:07.920
I follow the Lord.

54:08.300 --> 54:09.240
I obey the commandments.

54:09.700 --> 54:11.160
I was there to give a good report.

54:12.580 --> 54:13.540
God was with me.

54:13.620 --> 54:13.940
Verse nine.

54:14.300 --> 54:15.680
And Moses swear on that day,

54:15.740 --> 54:17.000
saying, Surely the land wherein

54:17.000 --> 54:18.040
thou feet have trodden

54:18.040 --> 54:19.520
shall be thine inheritance,

54:19.820 --> 54:20.880
and thy children's forever.

54:20.880 --> 54:23.560
Because thou hast wholly followed the Lord, my God.

54:23.980 --> 54:26.040
And now behold, the Lord hath kept me alive.

54:26.400 --> 54:28.340
As he said, these 40 and five years.

54:28.840 --> 54:30.480
Ever since the Lord spake this word into Moses,

54:30.660 --> 54:31.380
while the children of Israel

54:31.380 --> 54:32.460
wandered in the wilderness,

54:32.900 --> 54:34.440
and now lo, I am this day

54:34.440 --> 54:35.860
forescore and five years old.

54:36.320 --> 54:37.500
So what does this show us?

54:37.760 --> 54:39.840
It shows us that Caleb

54:40.360 --> 54:42.320
is a very patient man.

54:43.700 --> 54:45.580
Because the promise was given 40 years ago.

54:46.360 --> 54:47.100
He didn't quit.

54:48.300 --> 54:49.380
He wasn't like, you know what?

54:49.380 --> 54:50.880
He probably forgot about this.

54:51.900 --> 54:53.280
You know, I don't even want to do this anymore.

54:53.720 --> 54:54.980
No, he waited until the very end.

54:55.300 --> 54:56.140
And let me say this, folks.

54:56.620 --> 54:58.580
There are certain promises that God gives us.

54:59.980 --> 55:01.380
And you're all frustrated

55:01.380 --> 55:03.260
because you haven't gotten that fulfillment

55:03.780 --> 55:05.220
a week after you prayed for it.

55:07.080 --> 55:07.460
Okay?

55:07.980 --> 55:08.780
Take that away from her.

55:09.020 --> 55:09.880
This is my daughter by the way.

55:10.700 --> 55:12.320
You know, you're all frustrated

55:12.320 --> 55:13.860
because it hasn't happened in a month.

55:14.060 --> 55:14.700
Try 40 years.

55:16.100 --> 55:17.300
Try 45 years.

55:18.820 --> 55:21.200
And it's not like Gramps, you know,

55:21.680 --> 55:23.700
which Caleb, he's a Chad more than anything else.

55:23.820 --> 55:23.960
Okay?

55:24.060 --> 55:25.260
You're going to see right now that he is a Chad.

55:25.560 --> 55:26.660
You know, he's not like,

55:28.120 --> 55:30.520
what was that one thing that Moses said

55:30.520 --> 55:31.300
that I can have?

55:33.400 --> 55:34.500
He's like, hey, hey, hey.

55:35.020 --> 55:36.160
I got the receipts right here.

55:37.020 --> 55:37.300
Okay?

55:40.340 --> 55:42.300
You know, and just like read it out to him.

55:43.040 --> 55:43.960
He has not forgotten.

55:44.640 --> 55:45.800
That's a man of great endurance.

55:46.240 --> 55:50.040
You need to endure.

55:51.740 --> 55:53.660
Oh man, my marriage hasn't been, you know,

55:54.000 --> 55:55.140
it's just not what it needs to be.

55:55.720 --> 55:56.620
How long are you willing to wait?

55:58.240 --> 55:59.600
Yeah, but you don't know how tough it's been.

56:00.020 --> 56:01.100
Has it been like a wilderness though?

56:03.160 --> 56:04.400
You think you went to the same thing

56:04.400 --> 56:05.340
that Caleb went through in the wilderness?

56:07.000 --> 56:09.460
You think, have you seen tons of people die around you?

56:11.100 --> 56:11.460
Rebelliousness?

56:11.720 --> 56:13.400
Have you experienced the 45,

56:13.400 --> 56:16.220
the 40 years of just wandering the wilderness,

56:16.760 --> 56:18.760
just being a complete nomad,

56:19.180 --> 56:20.960
seeing people die left and right

56:21.500 --> 56:23.380
and still have this attitude like,

56:23.480 --> 56:25.160
oh no, I still believe that God's going to fulfill his promise.

56:25.680 --> 56:25.980
You know why?

56:26.120 --> 56:27.100
Because what God has promised,

56:27.380 --> 56:28.580
he's able also to perform.

56:29.660 --> 56:31.020
He's fully persuaded.

56:32.040 --> 56:33.240
He's a man of great faith.

56:34.040 --> 56:35.500
This is why I believe Caleb's awesome.

56:36.520 --> 56:38.040
Because 40 years afterwards,

56:38.420 --> 56:39.840
he's still talking about this

56:39.840 --> 56:41.360
as though it was like four days ago.

56:43.020 --> 56:46.140
This means that he doesn't care how much time has passed.

56:46.660 --> 56:48.640
He has faith that God will fulfill his promise

56:48.640 --> 56:50.420
even though he's 85 years old.

56:51.680 --> 56:52.640
Can I challenge you?

56:53.060 --> 56:54.400
Can you have a little bit of endurance?

56:55.660 --> 56:57.540
Can you have some endurance,

56:57.940 --> 56:59.600
have some persistence about yourself

56:59.600 --> 57:01.560
and not quit on your marriage

57:01.560 --> 57:03.340
and not quit on your husband,

57:03.740 --> 57:04.780
not quit on your wife,

57:05.140 --> 57:06.180
not quit on your children,

57:06.540 --> 57:07.480
not quit on church,

57:07.480 --> 57:08.840
not quit on this day and the other.

57:09.160 --> 57:10.620
Why don't you wait a while?

57:12.500 --> 57:16.160
And look, Caleb was an awesome guy 40 years ago,

57:16.260 --> 57:16.980
but I'm telling you right now,

57:17.060 --> 57:18.320
he's even more awesome now though.

57:20.300 --> 57:21.580
Because all things work together for good.

57:22.520 --> 57:24.180
So he just came out of the wilderness

57:24.180 --> 57:25.240
just that much better.

57:28.160 --> 57:30.020
He's like, I'm 85 years old.

57:30.360 --> 57:31.080
Look at verse 11.

57:31.880 --> 57:34.420
As yet I am as strong this day

57:34.420 --> 57:36.420
as I was in the day that Moses sent me.

57:37.380 --> 57:39.260
He's like, I'm still built.

57:41.100 --> 57:42.720
I can still deadlift.

57:42.860 --> 57:44.300
I can still do my squat.

57:44.520 --> 57:45.700
I'm still strong.

57:48.660 --> 57:50.700
Now, you're going to see why this is significant

57:50.700 --> 57:51.840
in just a bit, okay?

57:53.500 --> 57:55.220
But you think, oh man, you're 85.

57:55.440 --> 57:56.140
You've got to be careful.

57:56.540 --> 57:57.480
You might break your hip.

57:58.580 --> 57:59.560
Caleb's not breaking anything.

58:00.360 --> 58:01.640
He's still ready to go to war.

58:03.020 --> 58:03.640
Look what it says.

58:04.440 --> 58:06.560
He says, as my strength was then,

58:06.940 --> 58:08.780
even so is my strength now.

58:10.200 --> 58:12.820
To get out of bed, to get off the toilet.

58:13.320 --> 58:15.140
No, he's like, for war,

58:15.860 --> 58:17.380
both to go out and to come in.

58:18.640 --> 58:20.000
So he's telling Josh, he's like,

58:20.060 --> 58:20.860
I just want to let you know

58:20.860 --> 58:21.840
I'm going to inherit this land.

58:21.960 --> 58:22.760
God promised it to me.

58:23.000 --> 58:23.900
And I'm still strong.

58:24.360 --> 58:25.700
And I'm not saying strong as in,

58:25.760 --> 58:26.320
I'm going to encourage you.

58:26.400 --> 58:26.760
I'm talking about strong.

58:26.880 --> 58:27.640
I'm ready to fight.

58:29.120 --> 58:30.440
I'm ready to throw down.

58:31.020 --> 58:32.380
I'm ready to conquer land.

58:32.560 --> 58:33.980
This is 85 years of age here.

58:35.620 --> 58:36.360
Verse 12,

58:37.260 --> 58:38.020
now therefore,

58:38.220 --> 58:40.620
give me this mountain.

58:41.500 --> 58:43.020
Now, I love that statement.

58:43.260 --> 58:44.320
It's a very base statement.

58:45.340 --> 58:46.960
It's awesome to hear him say that.

58:47.260 --> 58:48.460
But when you actually understand

58:48.460 --> 58:49.460
the ramifications of this,

58:49.740 --> 58:50.860
he's actually asking

58:50.860 --> 58:52.160
for the most difficult territory.

58:53.700 --> 58:54.920
So he's not like, yeah,

58:55.520 --> 58:56.260
I could go to war.

58:56.360 --> 58:57.080
Now just give me that little

58:57.960 --> 58:59.280
place right there, you know what I mean?

58:59.280 --> 59:00.860
All the nice little fruit there.

59:01.080 --> 59:02.780
He's like, just give me the hardest part.

59:03.460 --> 59:05.700
Give me the mountain where all the

59:06.300 --> 59:07.180
giants are.

59:07.940 --> 59:09.120
Give me the challenge.

59:09.400 --> 59:10.260
And I'll take it on.

59:11.540 --> 59:12.160
That's awesome.

59:13.120 --> 59:14.060
Give me this mountain where

59:14.060 --> 59:15.560
the Lord spake in that day.

59:15.900 --> 59:17.420
From thou hurtest in that day

59:17.420 --> 59:18.860
how the Anakims were there

59:18.860 --> 59:20.900
and that the cities were great in fence.

59:21.280 --> 59:22.800
If so be that the Lord be with me.

59:23.040 --> 59:25.120
Then I shall be able to drive them out

59:25.120 --> 59:26.020
as the Lord said.

59:26.240 --> 59:27.460
Talk about courage.

59:28.020 --> 59:29.200
He's like, I'll take that mountain

59:29.200 --> 59:30.460
and I'll take those giants.

59:30.780 --> 59:32.220
And I'll take the fence cities

59:32.220 --> 59:34.340
and the walls and everything that's there.

59:34.560 --> 59:36.100
If the Lord's with me, I'll do it.

59:36.380 --> 59:37.100
I'll take care of it.

59:37.220 --> 59:38.980
I'll take the most difficult aspect of that land.

59:40.820 --> 59:42.240
He's kind of showing up to young guys.

59:43.600 --> 59:43.880
Right?

59:45.040 --> 59:46.400
Because no one else asked for it.

59:48.240 --> 59:49.340
And Joshua blessed them

59:49.340 --> 59:50.820
and gave them to Caleb,

59:51.000 --> 59:51.580
the son of Japhuna,

59:52.480 --> 59:54.320
Hebron for an inheritance.

59:54.580 --> 59:55.900
So why is that significant?

59:55.900 --> 59:57.240
Or earlier, if you remember,

59:57.600 --> 59:58.860
Hebron is a place of antiquity.

59:59.820 --> 01:00:01.140
So he already knew since then

01:00:01.140 --> 01:00:03.440
that it was a very difficult area to overcome

01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:04.680
that it had giants.

01:00:05.040 --> 01:00:05.540
But you know what?

01:00:05.660 --> 01:00:06.580
He was willing to take it then.

01:00:06.700 --> 01:00:07.600
He's willing to take it now.

01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:08.920
You know what this demonstrates to me?

01:00:09.200 --> 01:00:10.740
Just because you're old doesn't mean

01:00:10.740 --> 01:00:12.300
you can't serve God and you can't fight.

01:00:13.860 --> 01:00:15.360
Oh, I'm so old.

01:00:16.660 --> 01:00:17.680
Like Caleb old?

01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:19.620
Because he's 85.

01:00:20.780 --> 01:00:20.980
Okay?

01:00:21.620 --> 01:00:23.420
And you know, there's some

01:00:24.180 --> 01:00:25.300
brethren in the church

01:00:25.300 --> 01:00:27.380
that are, you know, of age.

01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:30.460
But they can run circles

01:00:30.460 --> 01:00:31.700
around some of the young guys, though.

01:00:32.700 --> 01:00:34.220
Physically in a lot of ways, actually.

01:00:35.340 --> 01:00:35.540
You know?

01:00:36.080 --> 01:00:37.820
I mean, they know how

01:00:37.820 --> 01:00:39.240
they can lift more than them.

01:00:40.020 --> 01:00:41.440
They can, you know,

01:00:42.140 --> 01:00:44.220
cover 500 miles or something like that.

01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:45.420
Or, you know, just

01:00:45.420 --> 01:00:47.160
they got a strong heart.

01:00:47.720 --> 01:00:47.960
You know?

01:00:48.260 --> 01:00:49.160
But let me say this,

01:00:49.240 --> 01:00:50.360
more than physical strength

01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:52.420
is like emotional and mental strength, too.

01:00:52.420 --> 01:00:56.080
Because sometimes the young guys

01:00:56.080 --> 01:00:57.640
can be a little soft.

01:01:01.060 --> 01:01:01.500
Soft.

01:01:02.660 --> 01:01:04.260
Just like emotionally soft.

01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:06.440
You know, they lack discipline

01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:07.380
and character.

01:01:07.820 --> 01:01:08.720
And the

01:01:10.260 --> 01:01:11.480
priorities of life.

01:01:12.160 --> 01:01:12.360
Right?

01:01:13.080 --> 01:01:15.020
We need, like, to raise up Caleb's.

01:01:15.680 --> 01:01:17.180
Who says, like, I'll take the hardest thing.

01:01:18.180 --> 01:01:18.600
You know?

01:01:18.680 --> 01:01:19.640
And maybe for the young guys,

01:01:19.820 --> 01:01:21.320
the mountain that you have to try to overcome

01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:22.060
is, like, getting a woman.

01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:22.580
You know what I mean?

01:01:24.300 --> 01:01:25.360
I'll take that mountain.

01:01:26.340 --> 01:01:26.600
You know?

01:01:27.240 --> 01:01:28.560
Instead of asking for, like, the hill

01:01:28.560 --> 01:01:29.280
or something like that.

01:01:30.100 --> 01:01:30.660
You know?

01:01:31.100 --> 01:01:32.560
But it's important for us to

01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:34.920
glean courage from Caleb

01:01:35.520 --> 01:01:37.280
and recognize just because

01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:38.960
you're older doesn't mean you can't serve God.

01:01:39.340 --> 01:01:41.220
Don't let the younger people run circles

01:01:41.220 --> 01:01:41.800
around you.

01:01:41.980 --> 01:01:42.840
You gotta be like Caleb

01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:44.660
and say, I'm gonna win souls to Christ.

01:01:45.340 --> 01:01:47.140
I'm gonna, you know, fight off

01:01:47.140 --> 01:01:48.060
the wiles of Satan.

01:01:48.620 --> 01:01:50.220
I'm going to serve God

01:01:50.220 --> 01:01:52.180
and be in church and go soul-winning

01:01:52.180 --> 01:01:53.080
and read my Bible

01:01:53.080 --> 01:01:55.120
and memorize and meditate scripture.

01:01:55.460 --> 01:01:57.440
Oh, my mind is not as sharp as it used to be.

01:01:57.760 --> 01:01:59.920
Then memorize scripture and make it sharp then.

01:02:03.080 --> 01:02:04.240
So Joshua blessed him.

01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:05.320
He took Hebron.

01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:07.160
Go to chapter 17, if you would.

01:02:07.560 --> 01:02:08.180
Chapter 17.

01:02:10.620 --> 01:02:11.920
He said, well, did he end up,

01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:13.560
did he end up taking Hebron?

01:02:13.980 --> 01:02:15.620
Yeah, he actually, he whooped them all.

01:02:16.620 --> 01:02:18.080
He took out all the giants and everything.

01:02:18.080 --> 01:02:19.300
Chapter 15 highlights it.

01:02:20.060 --> 01:02:21.160
Just like nothing.

01:02:21.420 --> 01:02:23.180
He just went in there and just wiped them out.

01:02:24.940 --> 01:02:29.520
So, now let's see the contrast here, okay?

01:02:30.420 --> 01:02:32.040
Because Joshua mainly has to do

01:02:32.040 --> 01:02:33.260
with the distribution of the Lamb.

01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:37.400
Look down at verse number, let's see here.

01:02:41.060 --> 01:02:42.300
Skip down to verse 12.

01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:44.200
It says, yet the children of Manassee

01:02:44.200 --> 01:02:46.280
could not drive out the inhabitants

01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:48.600
of those cities, but the Canaanites

01:02:48.600 --> 01:02:49.640
would dwell in that land.

01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:51.140
So keep in mind that even though

01:02:51.140 --> 01:02:52.420
many of the tribes succeeded

01:02:52.420 --> 01:02:53.700
at conquering their land,

01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:54.860
there's some that just didn't.

01:02:55.100 --> 01:02:55.780
They weren't good at it.

01:02:56.300 --> 01:02:57.620
They couldn't drive out the Canaanites.

01:02:57.780 --> 01:02:58.800
They would end up putting them

01:02:58.800 --> 01:02:59.280
under tribute.

01:02:59.460 --> 01:03:00.960
Verse 13, yet it came to pass

01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:03.100
when the children of Israel were waxing strong

01:03:03.540 --> 01:03:05.640
that they put the Canaanites to tribute

01:03:06.600 --> 01:03:08.420
but did not utterly drive them out.

01:03:09.460 --> 01:03:10.380
So keep in mind, God said,

01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:11.340
hey, when you go into the land,

01:03:11.660 --> 01:03:12.580
wipe out the Canaanites.

01:03:12.820 --> 01:03:13.820
They're not to exist.

01:03:14.100 --> 01:03:15.260
You need to remove them from the land.

01:03:15.260 --> 01:03:16.580
Well, these guys are so weak.

01:03:16.720 --> 01:03:18.000
They're just like, well, we can't really take them over.

01:03:18.100 --> 01:03:20.200
So let's just let them live here

01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:21.640
and we'll just tax them.

01:03:23.620 --> 01:03:25.640
Verse 15, and Joshua answered them,

01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:27.180
if thou be a great people,

01:03:27.800 --> 01:03:29.600
then get thee up to the wood country

01:03:29.600 --> 01:03:31.760
and cut down for thyself in the land

01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:33.140
of the parasites and of the giants

01:03:33.140 --> 01:03:35.740
if Mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

01:03:36.180 --> 01:03:37.400
And the children of Joseph said,

01:03:37.500 --> 01:03:38.960
the hill is not enough for us.

01:03:39.200 --> 01:03:41.260
And all the Canaanites that dwell in the land

01:03:41.260 --> 01:03:43.040
of the valley have chariots of iron.

01:03:43.520 --> 01:03:46.020
Both they who are of Bethshian and her towns

01:03:46.020 --> 01:03:48.040
and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.

01:03:48.140 --> 01:03:48.740
What do we see here?

01:03:48.960 --> 01:03:49.940
We see them just making excuses.

01:03:51.180 --> 01:03:52.680
Like, well, this is just too hard.

01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:54.940
They have chariots of iron.

01:03:55.680 --> 01:03:56.320
They're giants.

01:03:56.780 --> 01:04:00.440
It's really hard to like read my Bible every day.

01:04:01.120 --> 01:04:02.400
It's really hard to go to church

01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:04.160
and wake up in the morning

01:04:04.160 --> 01:04:05.740
because I've just been gaming all night.

01:04:06.800 --> 01:04:07.540
You know how hard it is

01:04:07.540 --> 01:04:08.880
when you're gaming to four o'clock in the morning.

01:04:08.940 --> 01:04:09.980
You have to be at church at 10.30.

01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:13.100
You know, it's just so difficult and hard.

01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:16.680
And it's just like, well, you want more land.

01:04:17.200 --> 01:04:19.140
You're asking for more land.

01:04:19.600 --> 01:04:21.000
You say that you're a great people.

01:04:21.380 --> 01:04:22.100
Go handle business.

01:04:24.100 --> 01:04:26.360
He says in verse number 16,

01:04:26.520 --> 01:04:27.360
the children of Joseph said

01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:28.440
the hill is not enough for us.

01:04:28.980 --> 01:04:30.200
Oh, skip down to verse 17, excuse me.

01:04:30.460 --> 01:04:32.060
And Josh was speaking to the house of Joseph

01:04:32.060 --> 01:04:33.600
even to Ephraim and to Manasseh saying,

01:04:34.100 --> 01:04:36.140
thou art a great people and has great power.

01:04:36.580 --> 01:04:38.940
Thou shalt not have only one lot

01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:42.660
but the mountain shall be thine

01:04:42.660 --> 01:04:45.380
for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it down

01:04:45.380 --> 01:04:47.520
and the outgoings of it shall be thine

01:04:47.520 --> 01:04:49.260
for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites

01:04:49.260 --> 01:04:51.200
though they have iron chariots

01:04:51.200 --> 01:04:52.220
and though they be strong.

01:04:52.600 --> 01:04:55.320
So we have here the Ephraim and Manasseh

01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:58.100
making excuses why they can't overcome the land.

01:04:58.860 --> 01:05:00.200
You know what this demonstrates to me

01:05:00.200 --> 01:05:03.380
is that people can often be full of excuses.

01:05:04.540 --> 01:05:06.380
But what's interesting is that

01:05:06.380 --> 01:05:08.140
people can come up with a lot of excuses

01:05:08.140 --> 01:05:09.220
why not to serve God?

01:05:10.080 --> 01:05:12.200
Even though there's equally the amount

01:05:12.200 --> 01:05:13.840
of excuses why we could serve God.

01:05:15.100 --> 01:05:16.620
Oh, you don't understand my situation.

01:05:17.120 --> 01:05:19.520
Yeah, but look at all these excuses right here though.

01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:24.300
Oh, you don't understand my marriage right here.

01:05:25.120 --> 01:05:25.940
Here's all the solution.

01:05:26.580 --> 01:05:28.900
You don't understand how I grew up right here.

01:05:30.580 --> 01:05:32.540
We can come up with excuses all day long

01:05:32.540 --> 01:05:33.640
why not to serve God?

01:05:34.760 --> 01:05:35.860
Some people are just like,

01:05:35.860 --> 01:05:37.240
oh, there's a lion in the street.

01:05:37.680 --> 01:05:38.560
A lion is without.

01:05:39.980 --> 01:05:41.620
Yeah, but we have the lion of the tribe of Judah.

01:05:43.720 --> 01:05:45.360
Take a shotgun and shoot that thing in.

01:05:46.540 --> 01:05:47.360
Hunt it down.

01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:50.040
Oh, you just don't understand.

01:05:50.260 --> 01:05:50.680
Yeah, you're right.

01:05:50.820 --> 01:05:52.820
I don't understand why you have so many excuses

01:05:52.820 --> 01:05:53.720
why not to serve God.

01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:55.420
I don't get that.

01:05:56.540 --> 01:05:57.400
Because you know what?

01:05:57.500 --> 01:06:00.120
When God calls us to serve him

01:06:00.120 --> 01:06:02.860
he gives us the capabilities to do so as well.

01:06:02.860 --> 01:06:05.120
It enables us to do so as well.

01:06:05.860 --> 01:06:06.280
And you know what?

01:06:06.340 --> 01:06:08.060
When you look at the contrasting examples

01:06:08.060 --> 01:06:11.060
of Ephraim, Manasseh compared to Caleb

01:06:11.060 --> 01:06:12.780
Caleb had no excuses.

01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:13.800
And you know what?

01:06:13.940 --> 01:06:16.620
If anybody could complain it would be Caleb.

01:06:17.520 --> 01:06:20.360
We're like, thanks a lot Ephraim.

01:06:21.140 --> 01:06:25.320
Because of you guys I wasted 45 years of my life

01:06:25.320 --> 01:06:27.220
that I could have been just enjoying my wells

01:06:27.220 --> 01:06:28.680
and my cities that are built

01:06:28.680 --> 01:06:31.200
and my grapes and my pomegranates

01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:32.540
because you're a weenie.

01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:35.300
I had to wander in the wilderness

01:06:35.300 --> 01:06:37.660
and see all the 20 year olds and up die.

01:06:38.160 --> 01:06:39.180
But you know he didn't complain.

01:06:40.720 --> 01:06:41.900
He just went through the wilderness,

01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:44.600
served God, just did what he was told.

01:06:45.020 --> 01:06:46.320
When he came into the land he was like,

01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:47.340
alright, let's get down to business.

01:06:47.660 --> 01:06:49.260
I want the hardest territory.

01:06:49.620 --> 01:06:51.060
I don't care if I'm 85 years old.

01:06:51.120 --> 01:06:52.180
I'm still strong.

01:06:52.520 --> 01:06:53.380
I can go out to war.

01:06:53.660 --> 01:06:54.920
I'm willing to fight the Lord's battle.

01:06:55.220 --> 01:06:57.340
He went in it, took it over, inherited it.

01:06:57.720 --> 01:06:59.840
And then he ended up encouraging the next generation

01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:02.140
because then his son-in-law, he's just like,

01:07:02.220 --> 01:07:03.580
whoever takes over this part right here,

01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:05.800
I'll give him this particular area

01:07:05.800 --> 01:07:07.300
if you're able to overcome these people.

01:07:07.700 --> 01:07:10.040
Othno went, he ended up destroying them

01:07:10.040 --> 01:07:11.600
and he ended up becoming the first judge

01:07:11.600 --> 01:07:12.600
of the nation of Israel.

01:07:14.460 --> 01:07:15.440
Great lineage there.

01:07:16.260 --> 01:07:17.000
What's the point?

01:07:17.240 --> 01:07:18.480
The point is, you know,

01:07:18.820 --> 01:07:21.520
Caleb is a great example to us as Christians

01:07:21.520 --> 01:07:24.360
of what kind of perspective and attitude we should have

01:07:24.360 --> 01:07:26.000
and never use our age,

01:07:26.720 --> 01:07:28.640
how many people are on our side,

01:07:28.640 --> 01:07:30.580
how many people are serving God

01:07:30.580 --> 01:07:32.300
as an excuse why not to serve God?

01:07:33.780 --> 01:07:34.560
You know what?

01:07:34.600 --> 01:07:36.120
I sympathize with your trials.

01:07:36.340 --> 01:07:37.900
I sympathize with your tribulation

01:07:38.600 --> 01:07:41.100
to the point where you use that as an excuse

01:07:41.100 --> 01:07:43.040
not to serve the Lord and obey Him.

01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.660
At that point, I no longer sympathize with it.

01:07:47.420 --> 01:07:49.220
I sympathize with people who go through trials

01:07:49.220 --> 01:07:50.580
and tribulations and keep serving God

01:07:51.240 --> 01:07:52.320
because I know that's hard.

01:07:53.460 --> 01:07:55.320
I sympathize with people who go through trials

01:07:55.320 --> 01:07:57.600
and tribulations and they still obey the Lord

01:07:57.600 --> 01:07:58.740
and stay in the biblical order.

01:07:59.020 --> 01:08:01.220
I sympathize with that because I'm like,

01:08:01.240 --> 01:08:02.400
I know this is hard for this person.

01:08:02.680 --> 01:08:04.080
It's easy for the other person who just quits.

01:08:05.460 --> 01:08:07.740
Quits on their marriage, quits on their kids,

01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:08.540
quits in church.

01:08:09.460 --> 01:08:11.300
You're going to die in the wilderness at that point.

01:08:11.640 --> 01:08:12.000
You know what?

01:08:12.140 --> 01:08:13.900
No one really cares about the people who died in the wilderness.

01:08:15.620 --> 01:08:17.120
No one preaches a good sermon

01:08:17.120 --> 01:08:18.220
about people who died in the wilderness.

01:08:19.260 --> 01:08:20.640
There's no good eulogies

01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:22.780
about the people in the wilderness.

01:08:23.820 --> 01:08:24.760
They were just wiped out.

01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:26.500
You know who we do hear about?

01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:27.560
Joshua and Caleb.

01:08:28.700 --> 01:08:30.180
Caleb, who actually took the mountain,

01:08:30.660 --> 01:08:32.680
he overcame it and became a hero of the faith.

01:08:33.340 --> 01:08:35.340
As we go into our 10th year,

01:08:35.500 --> 01:08:36.900
let's be like Caleb.

01:08:37.920 --> 01:08:39.140
And we're a young church still.

01:08:39.540 --> 01:08:39.660
Amen?

01:08:41.500 --> 01:08:42.680
We're a young church

01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:45.460
and to this point,

01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:46.680
this year alone,

01:08:46.860 --> 01:08:48.820
we have over 7,000 Salvation

01:08:49.360 --> 01:08:51.100
which is more than we've ever had

01:08:51.100 --> 01:08:52.400
any year and we're not done yet.

01:08:54.060 --> 01:08:54.980
The bulletin says,

01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:55.900
Project 12K.

01:08:57.200 --> 01:08:57.580
Okay.

01:08:58.200 --> 01:08:59.860
Are we going to hit all those?

01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.380
Being a little ephraim, is that what you're doing?

01:09:02.740 --> 01:09:03.720
I'm going to be a little menace.

01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:06.900
I just don't think we can hit 12K.

01:09:07.060 --> 01:09:08.540
Alright, then die in the wilderness then.

01:09:09.660 --> 01:09:11.200
You know what we as a church need to be like?

01:09:11.580 --> 01:09:12.240
I'll take that mountain.

01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:12.860
Amen.

01:09:14.140 --> 01:09:16.820
You know, if you hear a crazy goal in our church,

01:09:17.240 --> 01:09:18.540
don't be like the 10.

01:09:19.620 --> 01:09:20.720
Oh, this is so hard.

01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:22.060
I don't think we're going to be able to do this.

01:09:22.320 --> 01:09:23.880
Then stay home. Sleep in.

01:09:25.200 --> 01:09:26.420
Watch Sunday morning cartoons.

01:09:27.320 --> 01:09:29.060
That's not even a thing anymore.

01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:30.840
You know what we need?

01:09:30.940 --> 01:09:32.500
We need more Joshua's and Caleb's and say,

01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:33.780
yeah, no, we can do that.

01:09:34.220 --> 01:09:35.040
12K, let's do it.

01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:37.360
Now don't go overboard and be like, 12K, that's it.

01:09:39.580 --> 01:09:40.220
You know?

01:09:40.340 --> 01:09:42.240
Okay, if you want to add another thousand to that,

01:09:42.400 --> 01:09:43.160
be my guest, amen.

01:09:44.620 --> 01:09:46.380
But when you hear about goals

01:09:46.380 --> 01:09:48.400
and things that we want to do as a church,

01:09:48.400 --> 01:09:50.140
don't be like the 10 and say,

01:09:50.180 --> 01:09:52.600
oh, that's too hard though.

01:09:53.180 --> 01:09:55.160
I don't think we're going to be able to do that.

01:09:56.320 --> 01:09:56.940
Zip it.

01:09:57.720 --> 01:09:59.460
Just don't say anything because you're going to discourage

01:09:59.460 --> 01:10:01.420
everyone else from actually obeying the Lord.

01:10:02.120 --> 01:10:03.500
I'm getting people saved

01:10:03.500 --> 01:10:04.580
and serving God.

01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:06.400
Don't be the negative person

01:10:06.400 --> 01:10:07.520
in our church.

01:10:07.700 --> 01:10:09.640
They're just murmuring and complaining

01:10:09.640 --> 01:10:12.420
and saying, I just don't know how this is going to come.

01:10:12.580 --> 01:10:14.300
If you don't know, then be quiet

01:10:14.300 --> 01:10:16.520
and just allow other people to instill faith in you

01:10:17.200 --> 01:10:18.260
by their actions, amen.

01:10:19.020 --> 01:10:20.680
Be a Caleb, don't be like the 10.

01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:22.100
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for

01:10:22.100 --> 01:10:24.080
a wonderful nine years.

01:10:24.340 --> 01:10:25.560
And as we go into our 10th year,

01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:28.260
I pray that we'd be as Caleb, Lord,

01:10:28.400 --> 01:10:29.920
that we would still be strong in the Lord

01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:31.780
and the power of His might. We're ready to go to war,

01:10:31.900 --> 01:10:33.040
ready to go in and come out,

01:10:33.480 --> 01:10:36.180
and we're willing to take the hardest of territories

01:10:37.320 --> 01:10:38.660
to build up the kingdom of God.

01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:39.520
And I pray that you bless us.

01:10:39.620 --> 01:10:42.260
Thank you so much for a great, great nine years.

01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:44.100
Bless this coming year, Lord.

01:10:44.100 --> 01:10:46.700
And thank you so much for all the 7,000

01:10:46.700 --> 01:10:48.000
salvations that we have seen

01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:49.680
and many baptisms as well.

01:10:50.200 --> 01:10:52.140
And people who have been integrated into the church

01:10:52.140 --> 01:10:53.720
have been taught how to sow and then disciple.

01:10:54.380 --> 01:10:56.520
I pray that you'd help us to reach that 12K

01:10:56.520 --> 01:10:57.340
Lord this year.

01:10:57.820 --> 01:10:59.300
May you show yourself strong on our behalf.

01:11:00.080 --> 01:11:01.960
And I pray that you would bless the remainder of our day

01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:03.020
in Jesus' name. We pray, amen.