click to Read the passage: Joshua 14 (a new browser window will open)
v.7 1. The search is to find the will of God.
(to spy out the land) (and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart)
Caleb found it.
They had to go search out the land.
v.8 2. The priority (calling) is to follow God. (not to take the land).
(my brethren …made heart of people melt)
(but I wholly followed the Lord my God)
Not everybody will follow God’s way.
v.9 3. Obedience protects and assures God’s heritage.
(…the land shall be thy inheritance, and thy children forever because thou
hast wholly followed the Lord my God.)
It becomes vested or set aside.
v.10, 4. Obedience is the pathway to meaningful life; Godly character and physical
11 strength are by-products.
(Lord kept me alive…) ( I am as strong this day as I was in the day Moses
sent me …)
v.12 5. Freedom to minister must be God given.
(give me this mountain, of which the Lord spoke in that day; …I shall be
able to drive them out, as the Lord said.)
God will give the ministry if we invest our heart in the Lord.
v.8 the hindrance to ministering
God removes hindrances, then there is liberty to minister.
Fruitfulness and blessings follow.
v.13- 6. Obedience captures God’s heart.
15 (Joshua blessed him, …and gave Hebron for an inheritance)
7. The disobedient do not partake of God’s rich inheritance.
v. 10 wandered Numbers 14: 23, 30-38
They were left out of the special blessing.
Question : Was Caleb’s time in the wilderness a gain or a loss?
Were the children of Israel’s time in the wilderness a gain or a loss?
Caleb’s calling was to follow God. Had he viewed his calling to lead God’s
people into the promised land he would have been most discouraged for 45
years.
Caleb’s priority was to follow God, He wholly followed God.
The call of ministry is to follow God. (period).
God will direct to and in the land of promise but that is not the call.
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