1 00:00:00,119 --> 00:00:02,341 We are in our series journey life, lessons 2 00:00:02,341 --> 00:00:05,436 from old testament people of faith, and we're 3 00:00:05,912 --> 00:00:08,372 winding we got 1 more lesson after today, 4 00:00:08,863 --> 00:00:11,171 winding up our study of the book of 5 00:00:11,410 --> 00:00:13,160 Joshua. And you know if you turn to 6 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,115 the book of Joshua, 7 00:00:14,593 --> 00:00:17,162 Joshua begins with basically 8 00:00:18,188 --> 00:00:20,972 god encouraging Joshua to take the place of 9 00:00:21,132 --> 00:00:23,597 Moses. I mean, very opening verse, Moses my 10 00:00:23,597 --> 00:00:24,472 servant is dead, 11 00:00:25,124 --> 00:00:27,355 So you be strong. You be courageous. You 12 00:00:27,355 --> 00:00:29,904 laid these people into the promised land. And 13 00:00:29,904 --> 00:00:31,976 so you have this wonderful story. 14 00:00:32,629 --> 00:00:35,027 Of Joshua as he leads the people across 15 00:00:35,027 --> 00:00:38,144 the Jordan river as they celebrate passover. They 16 00:00:38,144 --> 00:00:40,381 red dedicate their lives. And then you have 17 00:00:40,381 --> 00:00:43,935 this wonderful story of them preparing to conquer 18 00:00:44,075 --> 00:00:44,634 the land. 19 00:00:45,195 --> 00:00:47,034 And as they prepare to conquer the land, 20 00:00:47,354 --> 00:00:49,195 you have 2 stories, 2 battles. 21 00:00:49,688 --> 00:00:51,839 The first battle the battle of Jericho. Is 22 00:00:51,839 --> 00:00:53,910 the battle that they let God fight for 23 00:00:53,910 --> 00:00:55,822 them. And of course, they win the battle. 24 00:00:56,220 --> 00:00:58,472 The second battle is the battle of I 25 00:00:58,862 --> 00:01:01,245 And in that particular battle, they decided to 26 00:01:01,245 --> 00:01:03,810 do it themselves, and it was a disaster. 27 00:01:04,581 --> 00:01:06,646 And basically, you learned that you need to 28 00:01:06,646 --> 00:01:08,258 depend upon the Lord. If you're gonna do 29 00:01:08,258 --> 00:01:10,255 what God has called you to do. 30 00:01:10,895 --> 00:01:13,691 And then what follows after that, from Joshua 31 00:01:13,691 --> 00:01:15,050 6 through Joshua 12, 32 00:01:15,545 --> 00:01:16,825 is a series of battles. 33 00:01:17,625 --> 00:01:19,465 You have all of these battles of where 34 00:01:19,625 --> 00:01:21,385 Israel's is going up against the can. 35 00:01:21,704 --> 00:01:23,944 You have the can who are organizing these 36 00:01:23,944 --> 00:01:26,191 groups of kings, who are gonna try to 37 00:01:26,191 --> 00:01:28,334 stop Israel from taking the land. And you 38 00:01:28,334 --> 00:01:30,557 have just the record of these battles with 39 00:01:30,557 --> 00:01:33,255 a famous battle where Joshua literally calls upon 40 00:01:33,255 --> 00:01:35,258 the sun. In the moon to stop in 41 00:01:35,258 --> 00:01:37,090 the sky, and they do in order for 42 00:01:37,090 --> 00:01:38,045 them to win the battle. 43 00:01:38,841 --> 00:01:40,911 And then when you get to Joshua 13 44 00:01:40,911 --> 00:01:41,946 through 22, 45 00:01:42,678 --> 00:01:44,535 you get to some of the most boring 46 00:01:45,312 --> 00:01:45,812 scripture 47 00:01:46,270 --> 00:01:47,228 in all the bible. 48 00:01:48,585 --> 00:01:50,500 And and if you've done your daily bible 49 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:52,513 reading, get to it and it's like reading 50 00:01:52,513 --> 00:01:54,931 the gene ideologies in first chronicles. 51 00:01:55,709 --> 00:01:57,787 You're lot, you gotta be kidding are the 52 00:01:57,787 --> 00:01:58,287 sacrifices 53 00:01:58,906 --> 00:01:59,966 in the book of Levi. 54 00:02:00,917 --> 00:02:02,585 I mean, let's be honest this, some of 55 00:02:02,585 --> 00:02:05,682 the bible will put you to sleep fast. 56 00:02:06,556 --> 00:02:08,383 And and this is 1 of them because 57 00:02:08,383 --> 00:02:10,943 what this is from chapter 13 22, 58 00:02:11,502 --> 00:02:13,737 it's where Joshua divides the land among the 59 00:02:13,737 --> 00:02:14,056 tribes. 60 00:02:15,892 --> 00:02:17,409 Now, I don't know if you've tried to 61 00:02:17,409 --> 00:02:19,165 read an old deed before. 62 00:02:20,532 --> 00:02:22,758 June and I, we own a piece of 63 00:02:22,758 --> 00:02:26,017 property that was her family's property dating all 64 00:02:26,017 --> 00:02:28,163 the way back to the early 19 hundreds. 65 00:02:29,132 --> 00:02:30,957 And when you read the deed, it will 66 00:02:30,957 --> 00:02:33,124 say the property begins 67 00:02:33,894 --> 00:02:34,870 near the rock 68 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,093 beside the oak tree 69 00:02:38,037 --> 00:02:41,480 and it'll run about, you know, 40 feet 70 00:02:42,173 --> 00:02:43,525 to a fence post, 71 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,883 where it then goes kinda north with. I 72 00:02:46,883 --> 00:02:48,238 mean, you're reading this going? 73 00:02:49,116 --> 00:02:51,189 I have no clue where the property line 74 00:02:51,189 --> 00:02:51,428 is. 75 00:02:52,066 --> 00:02:54,459 I mean, who can understand this. Well, that's 76 00:02:54,459 --> 00:02:55,256 what this is. 77 00:02:55,989 --> 00:02:58,319 This is about 9 chapters 78 00:02:58,854 --> 00:02:59,832 of reading 79 00:03:00,685 --> 00:03:01,583 about maps 80 00:03:02,277 --> 00:03:03,493 about where the tribes 81 00:03:03,964 --> 00:03:06,598 and their d were and you're like, oh, 82 00:03:06,758 --> 00:03:09,073 please save me. Because you have no idea 83 00:03:09,073 --> 00:03:11,229 where any of these places are. You know, 84 00:03:11,388 --> 00:03:14,358 you're just kinda guessing where these property lines 85 00:03:14,358 --> 00:03:17,155 were back in the ancient Israeli communities. 86 00:03:17,635 --> 00:03:19,553 And so you think, well, let's just skip 87 00:03:19,553 --> 00:03:21,231 all this. But if you do, you skip 88 00:03:21,231 --> 00:03:22,270 an important it part. 89 00:03:23,401 --> 00:03:24,379 It's a story 90 00:03:24,754 --> 00:03:27,460 embedded in this. That's 1 of the most 91 00:03:27,460 --> 00:03:28,517 exciting stories 92 00:03:28,892 --> 00:03:29,926 in all the bible. 93 00:03:30,499 --> 00:03:33,077 And so when the tribes came together to 94 00:03:33,137 --> 00:03:34,175 divide up the land. 95 00:03:35,214 --> 00:03:37,393 Basically, Joshua was said, who goes first 96 00:03:37,772 --> 00:03:39,290 and God said Judah goes first. 97 00:03:40,264 --> 00:03:42,504 And so Judah comes to find out which 98 00:03:42,504 --> 00:03:44,745 land they're going to get as an inheritance 99 00:03:44,745 --> 00:03:46,344 from the lord. So now the people of 100 00:03:46,504 --> 00:03:49,155 Judah approached Joshua at Gil gal, And Caleb 101 00:03:49,155 --> 00:03:50,053 son of Jeff, 102 00:03:50,508 --> 00:03:52,179 the Kin said to him. 103 00:03:52,896 --> 00:03:55,363 Alright. So so Joshua is dev dividing up 104 00:03:55,363 --> 00:03:57,375 the land. Caleb comes 105 00:03:58,322 --> 00:04:00,072 as the representative from Judah. 106 00:04:00,948 --> 00:04:01,425 Why? 107 00:04:02,459 --> 00:04:04,210 Because he's the old man in the house. 108 00:04:05,403 --> 00:04:07,569 I mean, he's the old guy. He is 109 00:04:07,569 --> 00:04:09,587 at least 20 years 110 00:04:10,446 --> 00:04:12,444 older than everyone else in Judah. 111 00:04:13,163 --> 00:04:15,081 You say he was 40 years old when 112 00:04:15,081 --> 00:04:16,120 he spied out the land. 113 00:04:17,253 --> 00:04:19,330 And as a result of the rebellion of 114 00:04:19,330 --> 00:04:20,768 the other 10 spies, 115 00:04:21,647 --> 00:04:23,325 you know, Joshua and he said, we can 116 00:04:23,325 --> 00:04:24,851 take the lamb. But the other 10 said 117 00:04:24,851 --> 00:04:27,633 we could we can't take it because of 118 00:04:27,633 --> 00:04:30,177 that, God said everyone who came out of 119 00:04:30,574 --> 00:04:30,733 Egypt. 120 00:04:31,545 --> 00:04:33,384 20 years and older wanna die, 121 00:04:35,144 --> 00:04:35,884 which meant 122 00:04:36,264 --> 00:04:36,764 everyone 123 00:04:37,464 --> 00:04:37,964 died 124 00:04:38,665 --> 00:04:39,404 who was 125 00:04:39,717 --> 00:04:42,097 from Joshua age 20 years younger. 126 00:04:43,128 --> 00:04:44,263 So here's Joshua, 127 00:04:44,715 --> 00:04:45,770 and he's basically 128 00:04:46,792 --> 00:04:48,856 you know, 85 years old, we'll talk about 129 00:04:48,856 --> 00:04:49,728 there here in a moment. 130 00:04:50,363 --> 00:04:52,268 And the nearest person to him 65. 131 00:04:53,379 --> 00:04:54,807 And so he's the old man in the 132 00:04:54,807 --> 00:04:56,731 house. And so he comes to Joshua when 133 00:04:56,731 --> 00:04:58,084 he says, you know what the Lord said 134 00:04:58,084 --> 00:05:00,630 to Moses, the man of God at K 135 00:05:00,630 --> 00:05:03,350 barn about you and me. Now if you 136 00:05:03,350 --> 00:05:05,336 go back to the text there in numbers 137 00:05:05,336 --> 00:05:07,163 14, and we looked at that a few 138 00:05:07,163 --> 00:05:10,102 weeks ago. But because of my servant, Caleb 139 00:05:10,102 --> 00:05:13,317 has a different spirit and follows me how 140 00:05:13,373 --> 00:05:13,873 wholeheartedly. 141 00:05:14,724 --> 00:05:16,312 I will bring him into the land he 142 00:05:16,312 --> 00:05:18,695 went to and his descendants will inherit it. 143 00:05:18,933 --> 00:05:20,045 There's the promise of god. 144 00:05:21,094 --> 00:05:21,254 Okay? 145 00:05:21,973 --> 00:05:24,530 God made a promise to Caleb because you 146 00:05:24,530 --> 00:05:25,729 have been on my side. 147 00:05:26,528 --> 00:05:28,946 I am going to give you an inheritance 148 00:05:29,165 --> 00:05:31,092 in the land. And if you turn over 149 00:05:31,092 --> 00:05:31,751 to D 150 00:05:32,681 --> 00:05:35,383 is the land that he actually spied out. 151 00:05:36,019 --> 00:05:37,052 That's the land he was given. 152 00:05:37,941 --> 00:05:39,690 He will see it, and I will give 153 00:05:39,690 --> 00:05:41,916 him in his descendants us the land. He 154 00:05:41,916 --> 00:05:43,188 sent his feet on. 155 00:05:43,903 --> 00:05:45,016 That was the promise of God. 156 00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:47,769 So if you can just picture the scene 157 00:05:48,149 --> 00:05:50,329 for over 45 158 00:05:50,790 --> 00:05:51,269 years. 159 00:05:53,363 --> 00:05:55,108 Caleb has been waiting for an inheritance. 160 00:05:57,488 --> 00:05:58,702 45 161 00:05:58,995 --> 00:05:59,392 years. 162 00:06:01,230 --> 00:06:02,973 Longing to go back to the land he 163 00:06:02,973 --> 00:06:05,667 had spied out, longing to take it as 164 00:06:05,667 --> 00:06:06,935 a promise from God. 165 00:06:07,744 --> 00:06:10,061 And now it's time to divide up the 166 00:06:10,061 --> 00:06:12,218 land. And so he comes to Joshua, and 167 00:06:12,218 --> 00:06:14,375 he says, would you please give me that 168 00:06:14,375 --> 00:06:16,301 land? And notice what he says. I was 169 00:06:16,301 --> 00:06:18,369 40 years old when Moses, the servant of 170 00:06:18,369 --> 00:06:20,596 the Lord sent me from K Barn to 171 00:06:20,596 --> 00:06:21,232 explore the land. 172 00:06:21,964 --> 00:06:23,798 And I brought him back a report according 173 00:06:23,798 --> 00:06:24,755 to my convictions. 174 00:06:25,872 --> 00:06:26,909 40 years old. 175 00:06:27,866 --> 00:06:30,918 Now it's 45 years later. Joshua was probably 176 00:06:31,136 --> 00:06:31,636 20 177 00:06:32,107 --> 00:06:34,572 Maybe 30 years old. He's not as old 178 00:06:34,572 --> 00:06:37,592 as as Caleb is. Caleb the oldest living 179 00:06:37,592 --> 00:06:39,126 person in Israel 180 00:06:39,580 --> 00:06:40,375 at this time. 181 00:06:41,503 --> 00:06:43,569 Now then just as the Lord promised he's 182 00:06:43,569 --> 00:06:46,351 kept me alive for 45 years. So they 183 00:06:46,351 --> 00:06:48,202 spent 40 years in the wilderness. 184 00:06:49,468 --> 00:06:51,064 In the last 5 years, 185 00:06:52,340 --> 00:06:53,378 Kayla spent fighting. 186 00:06:55,213 --> 00:06:56,091 5 years of war. 187 00:06:57,462 --> 00:06:59,216 I mean, y'all think about World war 2. 188 00:07:00,652 --> 00:07:04,241 Started in basically 19 41, December of 41 189 00:07:04,241 --> 00:07:06,315 and went through the summer of 19 45. 190 00:07:07,442 --> 00:07:08,632 They fought longer than that. 191 00:07:09,823 --> 00:07:12,227 They've been fighting for 5 years. 192 00:07:13,473 --> 00:07:14,664 And now he says, 193 00:07:15,393 --> 00:07:17,962 Here I am today, I'm 85 194 00:07:18,018 --> 00:07:18,655 years old. 195 00:07:20,007 --> 00:07:22,018 Now the thing you need to understand 196 00:07:22,490 --> 00:07:25,289 about why this is important is even though 197 00:07:25,289 --> 00:07:27,370 they've been fighting for 5 years. 198 00:07:28,569 --> 00:07:29,689 They've not taking the land. 199 00:07:31,544 --> 00:07:32,581 Not taking it at all. 200 00:07:33,538 --> 00:07:35,154 They've been defeating the can, 201 00:07:35,611 --> 00:07:37,228 they've been capturing territory, 202 00:07:37,685 --> 00:07:39,280 but as far as the whole land of 203 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,057 can, they don't have 204 00:07:41,449 --> 00:07:44,719 hardly any of. And notice why the Lord 205 00:07:44,719 --> 00:07:47,192 your God will drive out the nations before 206 00:07:47,192 --> 00:07:47,692 you 207 00:07:48,149 --> 00:07:48,649 little 208 00:07:49,664 --> 00:07:50,701 by little. 209 00:07:51,594 --> 00:07:53,190 As something I don't think most of us 210 00:07:53,190 --> 00:07:53,690 realize. 211 00:07:54,548 --> 00:07:55,985 Is that when they go into the land, 212 00:07:56,144 --> 00:07:58,619 they set up camp, they begin to fight, 213 00:07:58,859 --> 00:08:01,988 they keep defeating these kings, They're they're destroying 214 00:08:01,988 --> 00:08:03,825 some of the cities. Some of the cities 215 00:08:03,825 --> 00:08:05,903 they'd capture, and then the can would come 216 00:08:05,903 --> 00:08:07,660 back in and re inhabit them. 217 00:08:08,474 --> 00:08:10,634 But notice what he says, you will not 218 00:08:10,634 --> 00:08:13,214 be allowed to eliminate them all at once 219 00:08:13,435 --> 00:08:17,435 are the wild animals will multiply around you. 220 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,011 By the way, y'all ever noticed while animals 221 00:08:22,466 --> 00:08:23,182 multiplying around us. 222 00:08:25,013 --> 00:08:26,866 Anybody have a problem with deer 223 00:08:28,134 --> 00:08:29,013 anybody at all. 224 00:08:30,372 --> 00:08:30,691 I mean, 225 00:08:31,570 --> 00:08:34,207 I... I'm like there's more deer in Henderson 226 00:08:34,207 --> 00:08:35,646 field than there are humans. 227 00:08:37,419 --> 00:08:39,740 I mean, you you you can't grow stuff 228 00:08:39,740 --> 00:08:40,799 in your yard. 229 00:08:41,659 --> 00:08:43,500 You can't put out a garden unless you 230 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:45,419 put a 15 foot fence up. 231 00:08:46,313 --> 00:08:47,211 I mean, they're 232 00:08:47,588 --> 00:08:47,906 everywhere. 233 00:08:48,862 --> 00:08:50,376 And I don't know about y'all, but when 234 00:08:50,456 --> 00:08:51,969 I was a kid, there were no deer. 235 00:08:53,338 --> 00:08:56,149 Mean, we've gone from no deer to deer 236 00:08:56,446 --> 00:08:56,765 everywhere. 237 00:08:57,642 --> 00:08:59,076 I look at June and I say, oh, 238 00:08:59,236 --> 00:08:59,634 dear. 239 00:09:01,083 --> 00:09:03,311 Man alive, heard these come from. 240 00:09:04,027 --> 00:09:06,016 You know, they're they're everywhere. That was the 241 00:09:06,016 --> 00:09:08,578 concern that God had. He's like, listen. The 242 00:09:08,578 --> 00:09:11,531 wild animals will multiply. If I drive all 243 00:09:11,531 --> 00:09:13,765 of the can out at once. We're gonna 244 00:09:13,765 --> 00:09:15,201 do it little bit by a little, 245 00:09:16,013 --> 00:09:17,230 wanna capture territory. 246 00:09:17,684 --> 00:09:19,435 I'm gonna do a lot to you territory, 247 00:09:19,674 --> 00:09:21,584 and then you've got to go and capture 248 00:09:21,584 --> 00:09:21,743 it. 249 00:09:22,857 --> 00:09:24,607 So 5 years of war, 250 00:09:26,051 --> 00:09:27,501 with many more years 251 00:09:28,031 --> 00:09:28,769 to follow 252 00:09:29,774 --> 00:09:30,725 and Caleb knew that. 253 00:09:32,484 --> 00:09:34,159 I'm still as strong day as the day 254 00:09:34,319 --> 00:09:36,633 Moses sent me out. I'm just as vigorous 255 00:09:36,633 --> 00:09:38,069 as to go out to battle now as 256 00:09:38,228 --> 00:09:38,946 I was then. 257 00:09:40,076 --> 00:09:42,857 I love that. I love the attitude that 258 00:09:42,857 --> 00:09:44,844 that Caleb hat. Now you need to understand 259 00:09:44,844 --> 00:09:46,512 something about Kale. He's 85. 260 00:09:47,322 --> 00:09:48,993 At this time, people are living up a 261 00:09:48,993 --> 00:09:50,027 little bit over a hundred. 262 00:09:50,743 --> 00:09:52,492 Moses lived to be a hundred and 20. 263 00:09:53,526 --> 00:09:55,356 Joshua lived to be a hundred and 10. 264 00:09:56,246 --> 00:09:58,317 And so, basically, when you're trying to figure 265 00:09:58,317 --> 00:10:00,945 out how old would Caleb had been in 266 00:10:00,945 --> 00:10:02,936 comparison to how long we live, the answer 267 00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:04,130 would be somewhere around 50. 268 00:10:04,705 --> 00:10:06,545 Maybe 50 to 55 years old. 269 00:10:07,424 --> 00:10:09,504 And he says, listen. I'm just as strong. 270 00:10:09,745 --> 00:10:11,665 I'm just as vigorous. I'm ready to go 271 00:10:11,665 --> 00:10:14,147 into battle at 50 55 years old as 272 00:10:14,226 --> 00:10:14,939 I ever was, 273 00:10:17,316 --> 00:10:18,901 which leads us to lesson number 1. 274 00:10:20,184 --> 00:10:22,421 1 of the most important lessons about about 275 00:10:22,421 --> 00:10:24,818 the story of Caleb. Don't let the years 276 00:10:24,818 --> 00:10:26,655 rob you of your spiritual passion. 277 00:10:28,024 --> 00:10:30,091 I mean, there's a lesson that comes out 278 00:10:30,091 --> 00:10:32,239 of the story of Caleb. It is that 279 00:10:32,239 --> 00:10:33,057 we never 280 00:10:33,590 --> 00:10:34,090 retire 281 00:10:34,863 --> 00:10:35,737 from god's work. 282 00:10:37,817 --> 00:10:39,743 I remember several years ago 283 00:10:40,590 --> 00:10:42,333 back at this first church where I served 284 00:10:42,333 --> 00:10:43,205 as a song leader. 285 00:10:44,729 --> 00:10:46,167 I don't back and read some of the 286 00:10:46,167 --> 00:10:48,964 older bulletin and had noticed that there was 287 00:10:48,964 --> 00:10:50,482 this brother in the church that used to 288 00:10:50,482 --> 00:10:51,920 be very active in the church. 289 00:10:53,133 --> 00:10:54,886 I mean, he'd wait on on the table. 290 00:10:55,125 --> 00:10:57,356 He would lead comm thoughts. He would serve 291 00:10:57,356 --> 00:10:59,109 as an usher. I mean, he was head 292 00:10:59,109 --> 00:11:01,738 of commit. I mean, he was very active 293 00:11:01,738 --> 00:11:02,296 in the church. 294 00:11:03,822 --> 00:11:05,731 But since I had been there, I'd never 295 00:11:05,731 --> 00:11:06,605 seen him do anything. 296 00:11:07,957 --> 00:11:09,229 And so 1 day, I went up, and 297 00:11:09,309 --> 00:11:10,206 I just asked 298 00:11:11,312 --> 00:11:13,223 I said, brother, I I noticed that used 299 00:11:13,223 --> 00:11:15,134 to, you did a lot at church. You 300 00:11:15,134 --> 00:11:17,523 were very active at church. I mean, you 301 00:11:17,523 --> 00:11:20,822 were constantly doing things During the worship services. 302 00:11:21,197 --> 00:11:23,263 I mean, you you were leaving comm thoughts, 303 00:11:23,422 --> 00:11:25,250 you were waiting on the table. You were 304 00:11:25,250 --> 00:11:26,920 you were doing this. You were doing that. 305 00:11:27,158 --> 00:11:28,923 But I never... I noticed you you don't 306 00:11:28,923 --> 00:11:31,159 do that anymore Is there a reason for 307 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:31,318 that. 308 00:11:32,995 --> 00:11:34,431 And I'll never forget what he said to 309 00:11:34,431 --> 00:11:34,591 me. 310 00:11:35,788 --> 00:11:37,066 He said, when I retired, 311 00:11:37,545 --> 00:11:37,600 you 312 00:11:38,356 --> 00:11:40,210 I retired from everything. 313 00:11:42,736 --> 00:11:44,887 And here I am 20 something years old 314 00:11:44,887 --> 00:11:45,205 thinking. 315 00:11:46,654 --> 00:11:47,534 That the way it works. 316 00:11:48,975 --> 00:11:50,095 I mean, do we get up at a 317 00:11:50,095 --> 00:11:51,934 certain age and it's like, okay. It's time 318 00:11:51,934 --> 00:11:54,095 to pass it to a another generation. Now, 319 00:11:54,334 --> 00:11:56,346 we definitely need to pass the torch to 320 00:11:56,346 --> 00:11:58,655 the next generation. And we'll see that while 321 00:11:58,655 --> 00:12:00,248 that's important here in a few moments. But 322 00:12:00,248 --> 00:12:02,876 do we really retire from our service to 323 00:12:02,876 --> 00:12:03,274 god? 324 00:12:04,484 --> 00:12:05,840 1 of the things that you find in 325 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,668 Romans 12 from the message. Don't burn out. 326 00:12:10,466 --> 00:12:13,199 Keep yourself fueling a flame be alert servants 327 00:12:13,258 --> 00:12:16,165 of the master. Now, I I chose this 328 00:12:16,303 --> 00:12:17,259 translation for a reason. 329 00:12:19,173 --> 00:12:20,847 Earlier in the week, June and I went 330 00:12:20,847 --> 00:12:23,414 camping with my brother and sister law, we 331 00:12:23,414 --> 00:12:24,691 try to do that during the week of 332 00:12:24,691 --> 00:12:26,765 the fourth somewhere, and so we went down 333 00:12:26,765 --> 00:12:28,601 to North Mississippi, and to get down there, 334 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,357 blake, I had to travel through North Alabama. 335 00:12:30,756 --> 00:12:32,443 Okay? I went down to the d, 336 00:12:32,841 --> 00:12:35,707 shot across from D towards tu below. And 337 00:12:35,707 --> 00:12:37,242 and I passed a church 338 00:12:37,777 --> 00:12:39,050 that just caught my attention. 339 00:12:39,781 --> 00:12:41,134 I mean, I just kinda looked at and 340 00:12:41,134 --> 00:12:41,293 like, 341 00:12:42,806 --> 00:12:44,795 sign say what I thought it was? Saying? 342 00:12:45,352 --> 00:12:47,421 And the name of the church was burnt 343 00:12:47,421 --> 00:12:48,615 out baptist church. 344 00:12:50,698 --> 00:12:51,335 I'm serious. 345 00:12:53,323 --> 00:12:54,914 Burnt out baptist church. 346 00:12:55,965 --> 00:12:57,325 And so when I got home, I'm like, 347 00:12:57,565 --> 00:12:59,245 I gotta find out it it's sure enough, 348 00:12:59,485 --> 00:13:00,465 there's a community 349 00:13:01,165 --> 00:13:03,644 down in North Alabama called Burnout, Alabama. 350 00:13:04,938 --> 00:13:06,855 And so the the church there in the 351 00:13:06,855 --> 00:13:08,693 community, the Baptist church just thought, it put 352 00:13:08,693 --> 00:13:11,010 the name up there, burn out Baptist church. 353 00:13:12,381 --> 00:13:14,215 How in the world do you advertise for 354 00:13:14,215 --> 00:13:14,375 that. 355 00:13:15,571 --> 00:13:18,543 Please come to burnout, church to christ where 356 00:13:18,601 --> 00:13:19,819 everybody is burnout. 357 00:13:21,009 --> 00:13:21,248 You 358 00:13:22,765 --> 00:13:24,201 I remember there was a church for a 359 00:13:24,201 --> 00:13:26,676 long time going toward Clark, 360 00:13:27,315 --> 00:13:29,310 x exodus 11, if you go to Clark, 361 00:13:29,644 --> 00:13:31,325 stood of turning back toward Clark where you 362 00:13:31,325 --> 00:13:33,725 turned back toward kind of the northeast, and 363 00:13:33,725 --> 00:13:35,565 there was a community down there named Little 364 00:13:35,565 --> 00:13:35,805 hope. 365 00:13:37,577 --> 00:13:39,251 Yeah. Also... Y'all Know where this is going 366 00:13:39,251 --> 00:13:39,570 don't you. 367 00:13:40,606 --> 00:13:42,200 And and the first time I passed by 368 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:43,714 the name of the Baptist church was Little 369 00:13:43,874 --> 00:13:46,682 Hope, Baptist church. And I thought, oh, come 370 00:13:46,682 --> 00:13:47,401 on, guys. 371 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,638 Now the last time I passed it, they 372 00:13:49,638 --> 00:13:51,635 finally wise up. They named it new hope. 373 00:13:52,369 --> 00:13:54,205 You know, let's... We we gotta get away 374 00:13:54,205 --> 00:13:56,200 from this little hope. It's killing us. 375 00:13:57,078 --> 00:13:59,074 Well, we as Christians don't need to be 376 00:13:59,074 --> 00:14:00,031 burnout out Christians. 377 00:14:01,083 --> 00:14:02,274 We don't get need to get to a 378 00:14:02,274 --> 00:14:03,625 point where our life where we say, you 379 00:14:03,625 --> 00:14:05,531 know what, we can't do anything anymore. Listen, 380 00:14:05,769 --> 00:14:07,675 we live in age where more and more 381 00:14:07,675 --> 00:14:09,978 of our younger people are losing their faith. 382 00:14:10,948 --> 00:14:12,702 Which means more and more of our older 383 00:14:12,702 --> 00:14:14,297 people have got to stand strong. 384 00:14:15,253 --> 00:14:17,246 And and I mean Joe got up while 385 00:14:17,246 --> 00:14:18,602 ago, and he said it right. He said, 386 00:14:18,921 --> 00:14:21,495 we're We're in the richest nation. We're the 387 00:14:21,495 --> 00:14:23,654 richest generation of this ever lived. We have 388 00:14:23,654 --> 00:14:26,855 more gifts, more talents, more ability, more experienced 389 00:14:26,855 --> 00:14:28,534 than even any people before us. 390 00:14:29,747 --> 00:14:31,101 It's not time to quit. 391 00:14:32,056 --> 00:14:33,331 We need to be like Caleb. 392 00:14:33,968 --> 00:14:36,119 So Caleb says, now give me this il 393 00:14:36,119 --> 00:14:39,001 country that the Lord promised me that day. 394 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:42,449 You yourself heard then that the ami 395 00:14:44,020 --> 00:14:46,171 were there and their cities were large and 396 00:14:46,171 --> 00:14:46,671 fortified. 397 00:14:47,206 --> 00:14:49,138 But and I I need you to notice 398 00:14:49,138 --> 00:14:51,535 this. The Lord helping me. 399 00:14:52,654 --> 00:14:53,713 I will drive 400 00:14:54,092 --> 00:14:56,330 them out just as he said. 401 00:14:57,460 --> 00:14:59,210 Now, if you go back to numbers, this 402 00:14:59,210 --> 00:15:00,960 is what I love about it. When they 403 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:01,755 came back, 404 00:15:02,392 --> 00:15:03,130 it's evidently, 405 00:15:04,078 --> 00:15:04,578 Caleb 406 00:15:05,034 --> 00:15:07,742 who announced, you know, there's giants living there. 407 00:15:08,539 --> 00:15:10,212 They went up through the ne gap, came 408 00:15:10,212 --> 00:15:12,783 to He braun where, a hem 409 00:15:13,253 --> 00:15:15,559 chi shy and tell my the descendants of 410 00:15:15,718 --> 00:15:16,513 A lived. 411 00:15:17,467 --> 00:15:19,399 Okay? This is the land 412 00:15:19,932 --> 00:15:22,173 that Caleb asking for. Now, I want you 413 00:15:22,173 --> 00:15:23,127 to pick up on this. 414 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:26,625 Caleb spied the land out, 415 00:15:28,056 --> 00:15:30,202 not only spied it out, but recognize there 416 00:15:30,202 --> 00:15:32,598 were these giant guys living there, 417 00:15:34,026 --> 00:15:35,771 and he got their names. 418 00:15:37,516 --> 00:15:38,547 What do y'all all think about that? 419 00:15:39,677 --> 00:15:41,672 And he comes back and he says there's 420 00:15:41,672 --> 00:15:43,108 3 of there in particular. 421 00:15:43,826 --> 00:15:44,486 A hem, 422 00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:46,300 Chi and Tal mai. 423 00:15:47,983 --> 00:15:50,206 And y'all, we can take it. Everybody else, 424 00:15:50,285 --> 00:15:52,667 no. No No. We're like grasshopper against these 425 00:15:52,667 --> 00:15:52,985 people. 426 00:15:54,429 --> 00:15:55,802 And so they weren't allowed 427 00:15:56,810 --> 00:15:58,635 to go into the land because of their 428 00:15:58,635 --> 00:15:59,191 lack of faith. 429 00:16:00,858 --> 00:16:02,049 But you know what Caleb did? 430 00:16:03,814 --> 00:16:05,012 Caleb remembered their names. 431 00:16:06,770 --> 00:16:08,208 And for 45 years, 432 00:16:09,965 --> 00:16:12,457 these 3 guys. And I have to think 433 00:16:12,457 --> 00:16:14,935 that they probably were younger than Caleb at 434 00:16:14,935 --> 00:16:15,334 the time. 435 00:16:16,373 --> 00:16:17,891 You know, he went and spot out He 436 00:16:17,891 --> 00:16:19,430 run. Here's these 3 giants 437 00:16:19,743 --> 00:16:22,214 maybe in their late twenties, any he's thinking, 438 00:16:22,533 --> 00:16:24,287 okay. They think they are so bad. 439 00:16:25,163 --> 00:16:26,996 They're not nearly as bad as they think 440 00:16:26,996 --> 00:16:27,395 they are. 441 00:16:28,047 --> 00:16:29,421 If you go back to Joshua, 442 00:16:29,796 --> 00:16:32,285 notice what the text says. From He 443 00:16:32,819 --> 00:16:33,319 Caleb, 444 00:16:34,012 --> 00:16:35,705 drove out the 3 an. 445 00:16:36,334 --> 00:16:39,366 She shy, a hem and tell my, the 446 00:16:39,366 --> 00:16:40,484 sons of A. 447 00:16:41,521 --> 00:16:43,436 Now y'all, he didn't kill them. 448 00:16:45,124 --> 00:16:46,636 He drove them out, 449 00:16:47,989 --> 00:16:49,103 and you go hal. 450 00:16:50,854 --> 00:16:51,411 By the way, 451 00:16:52,383 --> 00:16:53,818 and and stan may correct me on that. 452 00:16:53,978 --> 00:16:55,573 I hope I'm not wrong on this. But 453 00:16:55,573 --> 00:16:58,365 the name Caleb, the 3 letters in Hebrew 454 00:16:58,365 --> 00:17:00,359 that make up the name Caleb is actually 455 00:17:00,359 --> 00:17:01,555 the Hebrew word for dog. 456 00:17:03,642 --> 00:17:04,040 Dog. 457 00:17:05,395 --> 00:17:07,068 I had a good friend who several years 458 00:17:07,068 --> 00:17:08,661 ago came up to me when his first 459 00:17:08,661 --> 00:17:11,075 son was born. And he said last, we 460 00:17:11,075 --> 00:17:13,075 got a son, God's given us a son 461 00:17:13,075 --> 00:17:14,835 and we've given him made great bible name, 462 00:17:14,994 --> 00:17:16,434 1 of the Hebrews of the Old testament 463 00:17:16,434 --> 00:17:17,394 we named him Caleb. 464 00:17:18,763 --> 00:17:19,954 And I looked at him and I said, 465 00:17:20,351 --> 00:17:22,257 did you research the name of that the 466 00:17:22,257 --> 00:17:23,051 meaning of that name? 467 00:17:23,686 --> 00:17:24,163 He said, no. 468 00:17:25,433 --> 00:17:25,751 I said, 469 00:17:26,404 --> 00:17:28,002 Caleb in Hebrew means dog, 470 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:30,398 and he just looked at me. 471 00:17:31,117 --> 00:17:32,715 And then he said, don't you tell my 472 00:17:32,715 --> 00:17:32,875 wife? 473 00:17:35,356 --> 00:17:36,947 We named our son, dog. 474 00:17:37,981 --> 00:17:40,780 Well, let me tell you It's not just 475 00:17:40,780 --> 00:17:42,371 dog. Dog can be by the way in 476 00:17:42,371 --> 00:17:44,201 the old... In in in the bible dog 477 00:17:44,201 --> 00:17:46,689 is sometimes a word meaning trustworthy. 478 00:17:47,239 --> 00:17:49,233 Faithful. Sometimes it's a very... 479 00:17:50,429 --> 00:17:52,423 Word. And so it can be either side 480 00:17:52,423 --> 00:17:55,055 of it. But basically, what you had here 481 00:17:55,055 --> 00:17:56,570 is that Caleb was the pit bull. 482 00:17:57,223 --> 00:17:59,139 That God sent up against these 3 giants. 483 00:18:00,097 --> 00:18:01,853 And basically what he said is, he runs 484 00:18:01,853 --> 00:18:03,130 not big enough for the 4 of us, 485 00:18:03,929 --> 00:18:05,365 and you guys are leaving. 486 00:18:06,417 --> 00:18:08,193 And can you imagine the sigh 487 00:18:08,571 --> 00:18:11,283 when after Caleb got finished with them, and 488 00:18:11,283 --> 00:18:13,117 they're dragging themselves out of He, 489 00:18:13,835 --> 00:18:15,430 where they going? They didn't have a clue? 490 00:18:15,843 --> 00:18:17,535 But they couldn't live there anymore 491 00:18:17,909 --> 00:18:20,451 because Caleb had driven them out. 492 00:18:21,087 --> 00:18:22,041 With god's help, 493 00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:23,948 nothing is impossible. 494 00:18:24,758 --> 00:18:27,088 You know, Jesus said something in John 14 495 00:18:27,224 --> 00:18:28,975 that we we need to step back and 496 00:18:28,975 --> 00:18:30,885 think about a little bit. You may ask 497 00:18:30,885 --> 00:18:32,874 me for anything in my name and I 498 00:18:32,874 --> 00:18:34,741 will do it. We we sometimes 499 00:18:35,274 --> 00:18:37,101 misunderstand that. We think that in my name 500 00:18:37,101 --> 00:18:39,008 simply means saying in Jesus name at the 501 00:18:39,008 --> 00:18:39,644 end of the prayer. 502 00:18:40,438 --> 00:18:42,028 That's not what Jesus is saying here. 503 00:18:42,838 --> 00:18:45,073 What Jesus is saying is, you may ask 504 00:18:45,073 --> 00:18:45,971 me for anything. 505 00:18:47,307 --> 00:18:49,322 His name is his identity. 506 00:18:50,671 --> 00:18:54,172 His name yes, s God saves mean that 507 00:18:54,172 --> 00:18:56,241 you can ask anything having to do with 508 00:18:56,241 --> 00:18:57,116 who I am. 509 00:18:57,769 --> 00:18:59,926 As the 1 who saves the world, and 510 00:19:00,086 --> 00:19:00,805 I will do it. 511 00:19:01,684 --> 00:19:03,622 John later own would kind of, 512 00:19:04,001 --> 00:19:06,085 in my view, correct it when he says, 513 00:19:06,403 --> 00:19:08,148 this is the confidence we have in approaching 514 00:19:08,307 --> 00:19:10,156 God that if we ask anything 515 00:19:10,767 --> 00:19:13,069 according to his wheel. 516 00:19:14,434 --> 00:19:14,934 In 517 00:19:15,707 --> 00:19:16,900 who Jesus is. 518 00:19:17,536 --> 00:19:19,762 He hears us. And if we know that 519 00:19:19,762 --> 00:19:21,750 he hears us, Whatever we ask, we know 520 00:19:21,750 --> 00:19:23,420 that we have what we ask of him. 521 00:19:23,753 --> 00:19:26,616 The point simply being folks that listen, when 522 00:19:26,616 --> 00:19:29,558 we ask for something that's in the will 523 00:19:29,558 --> 00:19:32,898 of God, God is willing and ready to 524 00:19:32,898 --> 00:19:33,296 respond. 525 00:19:34,422 --> 00:19:36,961 God had called the upon Israel to drive 526 00:19:36,961 --> 00:19:37,857 out the can. 527 00:19:38,309 --> 00:19:40,928 Here was Caleb saying, Lord, I'm ready to 528 00:19:40,928 --> 00:19:41,325 do it. 529 00:19:42,292 --> 00:19:44,117 If you'll just help me and God said, 530 00:19:44,355 --> 00:19:46,021 I will help you. 531 00:19:47,290 --> 00:19:48,877 And you know if there's anything that we 532 00:19:48,877 --> 00:19:51,288 need to realize is that God has a 533 00:19:51,288 --> 00:19:51,788 power 534 00:19:52,247 --> 00:19:54,484 available to us. As long as as a 535 00:19:54,484 --> 00:19:56,882 power used to advance his calls, 536 00:19:57,441 --> 00:19:58,960 that's absolutely amazing. 537 00:19:59,535 --> 00:20:01,775 You go to ephesians 3 now to him 538 00:20:01,775 --> 00:20:03,075 who is able to do 539 00:20:03,455 --> 00:20:06,095 me more than all we ask or imagine. 540 00:20:06,494 --> 00:20:09,143 Our problem is not. That we don't have 541 00:20:09,143 --> 00:20:11,366 the ability to do it. Our problem is 542 00:20:11,366 --> 00:20:12,342 we don't have the 543 00:20:12,716 --> 00:20:13,431 imagination to do it. 544 00:20:14,145 --> 00:20:15,971 And that's what God is calling us to. 545 00:20:17,022 --> 00:20:18,616 He has given us a purpose and he 546 00:20:18,616 --> 00:20:21,327 says, I'm with you, and I empower you 547 00:20:21,327 --> 00:20:23,001 to do it. As long as you're doing 548 00:20:23,001 --> 00:20:24,676 what I've called you to do. 549 00:20:25,968 --> 00:20:26,847 Then number 3, 550 00:20:27,646 --> 00:20:29,804 and I love this lesson Caleb was happy 551 00:20:29,804 --> 00:20:31,082 to work behind the scenes. 552 00:20:33,013 --> 00:20:34,126 We all know Joshua. 553 00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:38,814 Joshua becomes the name becomes the name Jesus 554 00:20:38,814 --> 00:20:39,847 in the new testament. 555 00:20:41,053 --> 00:20:43,219 Joshua is the 1 that got picked to 556 00:20:43,672 --> 00:20:44,465 replace Moses. 557 00:20:45,338 --> 00:20:47,798 Even though you had caleb over here, older 558 00:20:47,798 --> 00:20:48,536 than Joshua 559 00:20:49,402 --> 00:20:50,755 an incredible leader, 560 00:20:51,710 --> 00:20:54,280 and yet a leader who's willing to work 561 00:20:54,337 --> 00:20:56,566 behind the scenes. We read about him in 562 00:20:56,566 --> 00:20:59,771 the exploration in number 13. We read about 563 00:20:59,771 --> 00:21:00,829 him here in Joshua 564 00:21:01,206 --> 00:21:03,200 as they're dividing up the land. We read 565 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,796 about him in the book of judges the 566 00:21:04,796 --> 00:21:06,311 very first chapter. That's it it. 567 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:09,827 Caleb doesn't show up anymore. Nowhere found in 568 00:21:09,827 --> 00:21:10,384 the new testament. 569 00:21:11,737 --> 00:21:13,509 And so you gotta ask yourself 570 00:21:14,058 --> 00:21:15,331 What's going on with Caitlin. 571 00:21:16,683 --> 00:21:18,990 And Kayla reminds me in the old brother 572 00:21:18,990 --> 00:21:19,627 years ago. 573 00:21:21,152 --> 00:21:22,895 Who who used to tell me last, I 574 00:21:22,895 --> 00:21:23,925 don't like to be front. 575 00:21:25,509 --> 00:21:27,173 I'm not I'm not that kind of leader. 576 00:21:28,299 --> 00:21:30,373 I I don't wanna be out there, you 577 00:21:30,373 --> 00:21:31,590 know, leading 578 00:21:32,048 --> 00:21:34,759 songs or leading in worship or teaching. He 579 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:36,355 says, I just don't have those abilities. 580 00:21:38,283 --> 00:21:39,894 Says, but what I can do 581 00:21:40,823 --> 00:21:42,013 is I can help people. 582 00:21:43,045 --> 00:21:45,903 He was no old Greyhound bus, retired Greyhound 583 00:21:45,903 --> 00:21:46,459 bus driver. 584 00:21:47,748 --> 00:21:49,105 And and what he would do when he 585 00:21:49,105 --> 00:21:50,861 wasn't driving his bus as he would help 586 00:21:50,861 --> 00:21:52,058 people, especially with us. 587 00:21:53,256 --> 00:21:54,533 I mean, he would go and he would 588 00:21:54,533 --> 00:21:55,491 work at their houses. 589 00:21:56,544 --> 00:21:57,904 He would go and he would mow their 590 00:21:57,904 --> 00:21:58,384 yards. 591 00:21:59,744 --> 00:22:02,304 My next door neighbor was a retired Greyhound 592 00:22:02,304 --> 00:22:03,984 bus driver and he got down where he 593 00:22:03,984 --> 00:22:05,757 couldn't take care of his yard Guess who 594 00:22:05,757 --> 00:22:07,271 showed up every week to mow he is 595 00:22:07,271 --> 00:22:09,502 yard. This older brother there at the church 596 00:22:09,582 --> 00:22:10,299 I was working at. 597 00:22:11,414 --> 00:22:13,167 If I was going on vacation, guess l, 598 00:22:13,406 --> 00:22:14,840 guess who else is yard got mode. 599 00:22:15,810 --> 00:22:16,924 Mine and June got moved. 600 00:22:17,719 --> 00:22:19,072 I mean, we would pull in. And we'd 601 00:22:19,072 --> 00:22:20,901 say, old brother son. So he's been added 602 00:22:20,901 --> 00:22:21,140 again. 603 00:22:22,348 --> 00:22:23,624 He would come up to me at church, 604 00:22:23,783 --> 00:22:25,218 and he would say last we need a 605 00:22:25,218 --> 00:22:27,450 new sign out at the road. They signs 606 00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:29,044 looking kinda up. Don't you think? I said, 607 00:22:29,123 --> 00:22:29,442 oh, yeah. 608 00:22:30,335 --> 00:22:32,095 He said, what would it cost to replace 609 00:22:32,095 --> 00:22:33,695 that sign? I I don't I don't have 610 00:22:33,695 --> 00:22:34,894 a clue. He said find out. 611 00:22:36,095 --> 00:22:37,454 And I'd I go find out, and I'd 612 00:22:37,454 --> 00:22:39,468 call him up, and I say, hey. The 613 00:22:39,468 --> 00:22:41,295 cost of replacing that sign would be, you 614 00:22:41,295 --> 00:22:43,519 know, 10000 dollars, he would say do it. 615 00:22:44,155 --> 00:22:45,346 And I'll write a check for it. 616 00:22:46,474 --> 00:22:47,749 He came in 1 day, and he says, 617 00:22:47,829 --> 00:22:49,343 you know, I'm getting old. I can't hear 618 00:22:49,343 --> 00:22:51,256 real good. Anybody got that problem beside me. 619 00:22:52,531 --> 00:22:52,849 You know? 620 00:22:54,379 --> 00:22:56,375 By the way, I have to ask June 621 00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:58,051 to repeat herself all the time. 622 00:23:00,047 --> 00:23:02,202 And I've decided it's 1 of 2 problems. 623 00:23:03,734 --> 00:23:05,969 Either June talking like this all the time. 624 00:23:07,166 --> 00:23:08,763 And by the way, some of y'all know 625 00:23:08,763 --> 00:23:08,923 that, 626 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:11,796 or my hearings not as good. 627 00:23:13,009 --> 00:23:14,609 My gas is is a little of both. 628 00:23:15,650 --> 00:23:17,410 But anyway, this brother came in and they 629 00:23:17,410 --> 00:23:19,410 says, I can't quite hear. How old is 630 00:23:19,410 --> 00:23:21,184 our sound system? I said, I think it 631 00:23:21,184 --> 00:23:22,625 goes back to when we built the building? 632 00:23:22,865 --> 00:23:24,065 He said, how much would it cost to 633 00:23:24,065 --> 00:23:25,744 put a new sound system in. By the 634 00:23:25,744 --> 00:23:27,025 way, if you put in a new sound 635 00:23:27,025 --> 00:23:28,065 system lately anywhere? 636 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,480 I mean, even at the house, it's gonna 637 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:30,960 cost you. 638 00:23:31,679 --> 00:23:33,200 And so I said, well, I'll find out 639 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,319 and I went and told him he said 640 00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:36,000 put it in, I'll write the check. 641 00:23:37,454 --> 00:23:38,970 He was 1 of these guys who was 642 00:23:38,970 --> 00:23:40,247 always behind the scenes, 643 00:23:41,604 --> 00:23:42,104 serving, 644 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:43,519 helping, 645 00:23:44,477 --> 00:23:44,977 encouraging. 646 00:23:45,769 --> 00:23:47,927 Doing what he could. That was Caleb. 647 00:23:48,646 --> 00:23:51,064 Caleb was someone who didn't want the limelight. 648 00:23:51,843 --> 00:23:54,080 He just wanted to do what God had 649 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:54,880 called him to do. 650 00:23:55,453 --> 00:23:57,710 And because of this Joshua Blessed. 651 00:23:58,566 --> 00:23:59,465 Son of Jeff 652 00:23:59,843 --> 00:24:02,477 gave him He as an inheritance. And I 653 00:24:02,477 --> 00:24:03,435 love verse 14, 654 00:24:03,769 --> 00:24:06,232 So He has belonged to Caleb, Son of 655 00:24:06,311 --> 00:24:09,649 Jeff, the Kin I ever says. He took 656 00:24:09,649 --> 00:24:10,285 the land. 657 00:24:11,969 --> 00:24:13,401 By the way, I don't know if you 658 00:24:13,401 --> 00:24:14,673 remember what He was. 659 00:24:16,025 --> 00:24:18,172 He square Abraham bought a cave. 660 00:24:19,539 --> 00:24:21,000 It's where he buried Sarah 661 00:24:21,940 --> 00:24:23,059 it's where he was buried. 662 00:24:23,779 --> 00:24:25,220 Is where Isaac was buried. 663 00:24:25,779 --> 00:24:26,259 Rebecca. 664 00:24:26,740 --> 00:24:27,700 It's where Jacob, 665 00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:28,820 Leah, 666 00:24:29,553 --> 00:24:31,622 It's where evidently. They carried the bones back, 667 00:24:31,861 --> 00:24:34,965 of Joseph to bury where in he, but 668 00:24:34,965 --> 00:24:36,557 they had to capture it first. 669 00:24:37,769 --> 00:24:39,686 I think that's why Caleb wanted that land. 670 00:24:41,365 --> 00:24:43,202 The text goes on though and and then 671 00:24:43,202 --> 00:24:44,481 takes an odd turn. 672 00:24:45,772 --> 00:24:48,159 After a Joshua dismissed the Israel israelites, and 673 00:24:48,159 --> 00:24:49,591 this is over in the book of judges. 674 00:24:50,386 --> 00:24:52,136 They went to take possession of the land. 675 00:24:52,788 --> 00:24:54,935 Okay? In other words, they started fighting, they 676 00:24:54,935 --> 00:24:57,401 started taking possession of the land. They've been 677 00:24:57,401 --> 00:24:58,515 here now for years. 678 00:24:59,564 --> 00:25:01,083 But, I mean, they still have a lot 679 00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:03,001 of work to do. And the people serve 680 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:05,318 the lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and 681 00:25:05,318 --> 00:25:07,236 of the elders who out lived and who 682 00:25:07,236 --> 00:25:09,130 had seen all the great things the Lord 683 00:25:09,249 --> 00:25:10,307 had done for Israel. 684 00:25:12,515 --> 00:25:14,029 But if you know the book of judges. 685 00:25:15,542 --> 00:25:17,454 You know what happens next it's not good. 686 00:25:18,744 --> 00:25:20,021 Look at what the text says. 687 00:25:21,059 --> 00:25:23,293 After that whole generation had been gathered to 688 00:25:23,293 --> 00:25:24,251 their ancestors. 689 00:25:25,209 --> 00:25:26,940 Another generation grew up 690 00:25:27,378 --> 00:25:29,693 who knew neither of the Lord nor what 691 00:25:29,693 --> 00:25:30,811 he had done for Israel? 692 00:25:33,445 --> 00:25:35,440 How long does it take for a country? 693 00:25:35,934 --> 00:25:36,811 To forget God. 694 00:25:38,566 --> 00:25:39,364 When generation. 695 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:41,597 That's all it takes. 696 00:25:43,113 --> 00:25:44,708 John Mike and I we're talking about this 697 00:25:44,708 --> 00:25:45,266 this morning. 698 00:25:46,474 --> 00:25:48,877 And I ask, are we living in that 699 00:25:48,932 --> 00:25:49,170 generation? 700 00:25:50,518 --> 00:25:52,421 A generation that says we don't wanna serve 701 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:53,214 God anymore? 702 00:25:54,262 --> 00:25:55,774 We wanna serve the gods around us. 703 00:25:56,649 --> 00:25:58,082 Because that's what the israel israelites did. 704 00:25:58,957 --> 00:26:00,867 The israelites did evil in the eyes of 705 00:26:00,867 --> 00:26:02,618 the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God. 706 00:26:02,777 --> 00:26:04,726 They serve the by Als, the Ash 707 00:26:05,102 --> 00:26:06,933 that was... Those were the gods of the 708 00:26:06,933 --> 00:26:07,672 of the can. 709 00:26:08,287 --> 00:26:09,880 And the anger of the Lord burned against 710 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,712 Israel so that he sold him into the 711 00:26:11,712 --> 00:26:13,104 hands by of K, 712 00:26:13,643 --> 00:26:14,143 Res, 713 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,199 king of Ara, 714 00:26:16,679 --> 00:26:17,898 ara, na 715 00:26:20,128 --> 00:26:21,243 Stand next time, you're gonna have to come 716 00:26:21,243 --> 00:26:23,155 up and read that for you. Okay? Alright. 717 00:26:23,315 --> 00:26:25,465 To whom the israelites were subject for 8 718 00:26:25,465 --> 00:26:25,704 years. 719 00:26:27,153 --> 00:26:29,380 In other words, God said, you don't remember 720 00:26:29,380 --> 00:26:31,449 the slavery you had in Egypt. 721 00:26:32,881 --> 00:26:34,631 Your grandfather suffered that. 722 00:26:35,998 --> 00:26:37,189 I wanna give you a taste of it. 723 00:26:38,063 --> 00:26:39,835 And of course, the people repent 724 00:26:40,685 --> 00:26:42,751 and God, at that time, and the name 725 00:26:42,751 --> 00:26:44,205 of the book, of course, is judges 726 00:26:44,673 --> 00:26:47,220 would raise up a judge to deliver them. 727 00:26:48,493 --> 00:26:50,005 You might wanna guess who you raised up, 728 00:26:51,199 --> 00:26:51,756 watch this. 729 00:26:52,565 --> 00:26:54,073 But when they cried out to the Lord, 730 00:26:54,310 --> 00:26:56,850 raised up for them to deliver, Auth, son 731 00:26:56,850 --> 00:26:59,413 of Kin as, Caleb younger 732 00:26:59,945 --> 00:27:00,342 brother. 733 00:27:00,914 --> 00:27:02,912 Who saved them. Now, you look at this, 734 00:27:03,152 --> 00:27:04,830 you go, okay, so it's Caleb nephew. Well, 735 00:27:04,910 --> 00:27:06,189 it's not just Caleb nephew. 736 00:27:07,228 --> 00:27:08,906 But Caleb needed to take a town. He 737 00:27:08,906 --> 00:27:10,996 said, whoever takes this town, I'm gonna get 738 00:27:10,996 --> 00:27:13,325 my daughter to them as a wife, and 739 00:27:14,257 --> 00:27:15,848 I else the 1 who took it. So 740 00:27:15,848 --> 00:27:16,984 he ended up marrying 741 00:27:17,614 --> 00:27:18,491 his first cousin. 742 00:27:19,208 --> 00:27:21,361 And I know some of y'all going. You're 743 00:27:21,361 --> 00:27:23,754 kidding me. Now, they did that back then. 744 00:27:23,993 --> 00:27:25,986 See legal in Tennessee now. If y'all haven't 745 00:27:25,986 --> 00:27:26,226 heard. 746 00:27:26,799 --> 00:27:28,075 We we we've made right, 747 00:27:29,192 --> 00:27:31,425 feral, we we passed the law say you 748 00:27:31,425 --> 00:27:32,861 keep married your first cousin anymore. 749 00:27:33,658 --> 00:27:35,493 So go down to Mississippi. You'll be alright. 750 00:27:35,732 --> 00:27:36,290 But anyway, 751 00:27:40,865 --> 00:27:42,304 I wish I could laugh at that board, 752 00:27:42,464 --> 00:27:43,024 but I can't. 753 00:27:43,825 --> 00:27:44,065 Alright. 754 00:27:45,999 --> 00:27:47,510 But this is Caleb Son law. 755 00:27:49,737 --> 00:27:51,487 Who becomes the first judge of Israel. 756 00:27:53,572 --> 00:27:55,806 I can't help but wonder, why did god 757 00:27:55,806 --> 00:27:56,444 choose him? 758 00:27:58,198 --> 00:28:00,272 Was it because of the influence of his 759 00:28:00,272 --> 00:28:00,910 father law? 760 00:28:01,867 --> 00:28:02,345 His uncle. 761 00:28:03,553 --> 00:28:05,062 The 1 who from the beginning, 762 00:28:05,857 --> 00:28:06,357 followed 763 00:28:06,969 --> 00:28:07,469 wholeheartedly. 764 00:28:08,717 --> 00:28:11,154 What made Caleb of such an inspiration for 765 00:28:11,354 --> 00:28:12,731 God's people ever sense 766 00:28:13,665 --> 00:28:15,737 because Caleb love God with all of his 767 00:28:15,737 --> 00:28:18,049 heart soul and strength. Those are the words 768 00:28:18,049 --> 00:28:18,607 of God. 769 00:28:19,578 --> 00:28:21,730 Not not not our words, not the the 770 00:28:21,730 --> 00:28:24,600 writers of the bible, but god's words. So 771 00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:26,593 He has blown to Caleb son of Jeff 772 00:28:26,752 --> 00:28:29,720 Du, the Kin every sense because he followed 773 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,018 the Lord the God of Israel 774 00:28:32,433 --> 00:28:32,933 wholeheartedly. 775 00:28:34,349 --> 00:28:36,400 In other words, he had taken to heart 776 00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:39,391 what Moses has said in g, hero Israel. 777 00:28:39,869 --> 00:28:41,783 Lord our God, the Lord is 1. So 778 00:28:41,783 --> 00:28:43,458 you love the Lord your God with all 779 00:28:43,458 --> 00:28:45,452 your heart with all your soul and with 780 00:28:45,452 --> 00:28:47,059 all your strength. 781 00:28:49,598 --> 00:28:50,788 And that's what Caleb bit done. 782 00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:54,596 So as we get older, 783 00:28:55,168 --> 00:28:56,443 and I will speak to those of us 784 00:28:56,443 --> 00:28:57,161 who are older. 785 00:28:58,754 --> 00:28:59,551 As we get older. 786 00:29:00,747 --> 00:29:02,102 We have a choice we have to make. 787 00:29:03,552 --> 00:29:04,748 We can begin to back off. 788 00:29:05,944 --> 00:29:08,576 Now, listen, I understand that we can't do 789 00:29:08,576 --> 00:29:10,729 what we used to do. Alright. I understand 790 00:29:10,729 --> 00:29:11,526 that at all too well. 791 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:13,859 I don't know about y'all this week, but 792 00:29:13,940 --> 00:29:16,019 I'd go outside for 10 minutes and then 793 00:29:16,019 --> 00:29:17,700 go inside for 2 hours to rest. 794 00:29:18,740 --> 00:29:20,339 I mean, that... That's that's what the heat 795 00:29:20,339 --> 00:29:21,380 will do to me nowadays. 796 00:29:23,385 --> 00:29:24,578 But when it comes to the kingdom of 797 00:29:24,657 --> 00:29:24,896 God, 798 00:29:26,407 --> 00:29:27,839 I don't think we should ever retire. 799 00:29:29,047 --> 00:29:31,112 And what keeps us from retiring is that 800 00:29:31,112 --> 00:29:32,462 whole hard love. 801 00:29:33,494 --> 00:29:35,559 That devotion that Jesus said this is the 802 00:29:35,559 --> 00:29:37,807 first and the greatest of the commandments 803 00:29:38,434 --> 00:29:38,992 follow it, 804 00:29:39,950 --> 00:29:42,502 and everything else will fall into its place. 805 00:29:45,533 --> 00:29:47,208 And so speaking once again to those of 806 00:29:47,208 --> 00:29:48,005 us who are older. 807 00:29:49,455 --> 00:29:50,650 Where are you at with your walk with 808 00:29:50,809 --> 00:29:51,049 God? 809 00:29:52,642 --> 00:29:53,917 If you got to the point for you've 810 00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:55,352 given up, I hope not. 811 00:29:56,565 --> 00:29:58,325 I hope like Caleb that all of us 812 00:29:58,325 --> 00:29:59,765 can say, you know what? I'm just as 813 00:29:59,765 --> 00:30:03,445 strong spiritually today. In fact, stronger spiritually today 814 00:30:03,445 --> 00:30:05,851 than I used to be. Why? Because I 815 00:30:05,851 --> 00:30:07,918 love God with all my heart soul and 816 00:30:07,918 --> 00:30:08,157 strength. 817 00:30:09,190 --> 00:30:11,496 That's what the church at Henderson needs more 818 00:30:11,496 --> 00:30:13,563 than anything else. Yes, we need our young 819 00:30:13,563 --> 00:30:13,722 people. 820 00:30:14,453 --> 00:30:16,363 And we oftentimes speak to our young people, 821 00:30:17,159 --> 00:30:18,672 but we need those of you who are 822 00:30:18,672 --> 00:30:19,547 older as well. 823 00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:23,686 We need your abilities, your talents, your gifts, 824 00:30:24,098 --> 00:30:26,503 your ability to make this church what God 825 00:30:26,638 --> 00:30:28,304 wants it to be. And if you've not 826 00:30:28,304 --> 00:30:30,946 been doing that. Maybe it's time to rec 827 00:30:31,733 --> 00:30:33,489 Maybe it's time to say God, I'm coming 828 00:30:33,489 --> 00:30:33,808 back. 829 00:30:34,367 --> 00:30:35,724 If we can help you in any way 830 00:30:35,724 --> 00:30:36,921 and respond to the gospel. 831 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:38,597 Let us know how we can right now 832 00:30:38,597 --> 00:30:39,395 as we stand the scene.