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Joshua And Caleb Series
Contributed by Brady Boyd on Mar 5, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: Joshua and Caleb were from different tribes. They were the only two spies that had faith to take the land.
The Story of Us
Joshua and Caleb
March 9, 2025
Joshua and Caleb were from different tribes.
They were the only two spies that had faith to take the land.
1. We must mourn the past before we can embrace the future.
Joshua 1:1-3 NIV
“After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: 2 "Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them — to the Israelites. 3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.
Joshua obviously knew Moses was dead. He was at the funeral!
Many times, we get stuck in the present because we have not dealt properly with the past.
2. We must embrace the new.
Joshua 5:10-12 NIV
“On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. 11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. 12 The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan.”
This was God maturing Israel. Food was no longer going to just fall out of the sky.
They would now have to work for it. God was still with them, but it was time for them to grow up.
I will not always cook every meal for my kids either ?
Luke 5:37-38 NIV
“And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.”
3. We must stay in the story.
Joshua 14:10-12 NIV (Caleb speaking)
"Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the desert. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I'm just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12 Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said."
The Anakites were big people. It was the Anakites who had scared the other spies, but not Caleb.
I love that Caleb was living in the moment – “So here I am today.”
Joshua 24:14-15 NIV
"Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
The first battle that must be won is the battle of our hearts and minds.
God does not allow for rivals.
“I have made up my mind.”
