Joshua 14:6-15 | Give Me This Mountain | Matthew Dodd

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1. What kind of person blesses the heart of our Heavenly Father?
2. Tonight, we’re going to look at one of my favorite men in the Bible, Caleb.
3. In Numbers 14:24, God declared that His servant Caleb “had a different spirit” therefore God promised that he would inherit a portion in the Promise Land.
4. Caleb’s spirit was different in what way?
5. Usually when someone is called “different”, some negativity is implied.
6. This was not the case with Caleb.
7. Caleb’s spirit along with God’s testimony about him give us insights into the type of person God wants all of us to be.
8. The kind of person that causes God to rise up, take note of, and declare, “Well done My good and faithful servant.”

Joshua 14:6-15

Context

1. Joshua 14 is where the story gets very interesting. The sons of Judah came to Joshua and Caleb said to him, "You remember the word which the Lord spoke to Moses concerning you and me at Kadesh Barnea. He swore to us that the land on which our foot has trodden shall be our inheritance. Now then, give me the land which was promised."
2. Caleb was an amazing person in the Bible and there is much to learn from his life. At this point he was 85 years old and he said that he was just as strong as when he was 40 years old!
3. Caleb wanted the most difficult land in Israel. It was the most difficult because it was hill country, with difficult terrain.
4. But its greatest challenge was that the Anakim were there. The sons of Anak were large people and it was they who had put fear into the hearts of Israel at Kadesh Barnea 45 years earlier.
5. Caleb had been waiting 45 years for an opportunity to face the sons of Anak and take the hill country that God had promised.
6. It’s important to note that the Promised Land is also a picture of a believer who is walking victoriously by faith. It takes courage to take hold of God’s promises and Caleb is a tremendous example for us.

Transition - Like Caleb we must…

I. Follow God Wholeheartedly

• In verse eight, Caleb compared himself to the ten spies who went up into the land of Canaan and came back with a bad report.
• The other spies made the heart of the people melt with fear, so this was why Caleb said, "But I followed the Lord my God fully."
• The results of faith versus fear become immediately clear to all.
• Five times in this section Caleb pointed out that he had followed the Lord wholeheartedly, which is a key to understanding the strength of Caleb's faith.

A. Let faith strengthen your heart
1. If you go back 45 years earlier, you can see that faith and fear have a direct impact on what happens in the heart.
2. Caleb pointed out the problem perfectly when he said in verse eight that because of fear the heart of the people melted.
Numbers 13:30-31, 33, Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us. There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

3 The problem was that the spies only saw the troubles and challenges. They saw that there were giants in the land, then they looked at themselves and saw themselves only as grasshoppers in their own eyes.
4. In other words, the giants and the challenges were great, and they were too small. They made a direct comparison between the problem and themselves and that is where they made a huge mistake!
APPL – The greatest fear that people have is the fear of the unknown. “What if this or that happens?”
5. Caleb saw God’s promises when others saw giants.
6. Like Caleb, we need to take hold of God’s perspective and trust every promise He gives us from His Word.

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