WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:12.640 practical ways. 4 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:16.760 Welcome weirdy that rises the reporter guys. 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:18.800 Remember that that was the joke I was making. 6 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.320 Oh we're they're here. Hey. My name is Chris, this 7 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:22.760 is Jeff. 8 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:26.320 We are the Bible Guys, and today we are inserting 9 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:30.039 a story about Caleb that we weren't necessarily planning on 10 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:30.480 talking about. 11 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:31.399 But we're going to get through that line. 12 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:33.280 I know it wasn't on the list, but I just 13 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:34.000 can't skip it. 14 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:34.880 You can't do it. 15 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:36.799 I can't skip it. So this is one of my 16 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.719 favorite stories in the entire book of Joshua. 17 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:43.000 Really yes, wow, yeah, Okay, Well, before we get to that, Jeff, 18 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:47.280 we have an episode that are segments segment that desiree 19 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.119 is given to us. 20 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.920 Called mail Bags. 21 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.079 So this is by Paul W. 22 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.359 That's fantastic, Paul W. 23 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:57.200 Thank you Paul for writing in. He says this. 24 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.079 During a past episode, you both talked about items in 25 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.159 your bucket list. I'm curious to know what's the most 26 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.359 adventurous thing you've ever done. 27 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:08.239 Well, that's tough. 28 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:08.920 That's tough for you. 29 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.079 Got a bunch, I got, I've got something. 30 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.319 It depends on what you mean by adventures like dangerous adventures. 31 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:16.280 What do you think of when you think a ventures 32 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:18.120 more like travel? What do you think of when you 33 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:19.239 think of the word adventures. 34 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:22.680 Well, I thought both of those things, like jumping out 35 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:23.040 of an air. 36 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.120 Didn't give us, to give us the most dangerous thing 37 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:27.040 and then the most. 38 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.840 Yeah, I would I would say, jumping out an airplane 39 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.920 with my son on his eighteenth birthday. Wow, I think 40 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.200 I think that was pretty cool. It felt pretty adventurous, 41 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.560 you know, that is, and it was great. 42 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:38.519 I loved it. 43 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:40.680 And then, but then I would also say, in terms 44 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:44.319 of travel, when I was heading to Egypt, I had 45 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:48.959 a fifteen hour stop in Rome layover, and then also 46 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.519 stop in Paris on the way back. So within a 47 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.000 ten day time frame, I actually saw the Roman Colisseum, 48 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.560 went inside the Pyramids of Egypt, and went to the 49 00:01:58.599 --> 00:01:59.239 Eiffel Tower. 50 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.680 Wow. Yeah, wow, Yeah that's pretty great. That's pretty that's 51 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:04.280 not too bad. 52 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:04.760 Yeah. 53 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.000 So you just got them all, got them all off 54 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.159 the bucket list and in a week and a half. 55 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:12.199 Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, I think about that. 56 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.520 So I've always been that guy that somebody go, hey, 57 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:18.000 you want to try that, and I'd be the one 58 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:19.400 to do it, you know. So that's why I've been 59 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.319 in the hospital so many times for stitches like. 60 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.520 Forest Gump, pick gum, stick your head in. 61 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.840 That hole exactly. I was, well, my name's Forrester. 62 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:30.479 And by the way, you know, did you know I 63 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.120 grew up wearing braces on my legs like Forest Gump? 64 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:33.520 Did you really? 65 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:33.759 Yeah? 66 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:35.520 Yeah, yeah, run Forest Run? You remember that? 67 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:37.560 Yeah, but I'm I'm sure I knew that. 68 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:37.879 Yeah. 69 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.919 They were so heavy. If I fell down, I couldn't 70 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:42.280 get back as like a turtle. I couldn't get back 71 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.719 up by myself. Really, some kids pushed me down. I 72 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.960 lived in a trailer park as a little kid. They 73 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:49.280 pushed me down. I couldn't get back up. 74 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:50.199 And how long did you have those? 75 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.120 A couple of years? Yeah? Two years? Wow? 76 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:55.879 Did they magically come off when you started running? 77 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:58.719 Yeah? That's why I'm so fast. Yeah, so. 78 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:02.840 You should see me play ping kong. By the way, 79 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:08.960 it also made me a world class ping pong player. Yeah, 80 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.400 so adventure I made maybe one of the most one 81 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:14.479 of the things I look back on and think about 82 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:17.039 the most as far as, while that was a great adventure, 83 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:21.120 was and you've been out in this area among the 84 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:25.199 Pocot people several years ago, I was a co leader 85 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:29.520 on a motorcycle trip out in a bush that. 86 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:33.840 Was off the roads for the most part during the daytime. 87 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.000 So there were roads to the final villages that we 88 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.080 would stop at so we could have a support truck 89 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.199 that would meet us at those places. But there were 90 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.240 lots of places we went that we were just on 91 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:47.080 like animal trails and riding across dried out riverbeds and stuff. 92 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:49.120 And then we slept in tents the whole time, right 93 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.960 and doug latrines and yeah, it was pretty pretty rugged. 94 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:53.520 That was fun. 95 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.080 And you know, on that trip, we had hyenas come 96 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.960 into our camp in the middle of the night. I 97 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.360 stepped on a little cobra, you know it. It was 98 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.000 a It was a crazy, crazy, crazy trip. 99 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:04.639 So that was pretty adventurous. 100 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:09.080 Uh, As far as other things like that dude a 101 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.000 whitewater raft during rafted one time during the monsoon season 102 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.560 in the Himalayas in Nepal, uh. 103 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.199 That sounds more. Yeah, that was pretty crazy. 104 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:22.120 I mean, I've just I have a million of those 105 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:25.519 kind of stories that just adventures. We went ballooning through 106 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:26.959 the jungles right. 107 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.160 Above all of the. 108 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:32.399 The temples in Bagan in Myanmar, right along the Irrawadi. 109 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.480 River with all the fog. That was really cool. Been 110 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:36.680 dune bashing out and. 111 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.800 No, okay, because I would be pretty fearful ballooning. 112 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:44.879 We we had a couple of guys that were afraid 113 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:46.519 of heights but loved the balloon trip. 114 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:47.199 Huh. 115 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:47.439 Yeah. 116 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:50.439 Yeah, it's super calm and peaceful and very very gentle. 117 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.720 Everything moving, how it moves is very Yeah. So it's nice, 118 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:59.160 uh dune bashing and uh outside of Abu Dhabi, you know, 119 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.480 all those kinds things. So yeah, just tons and tons 120 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.360 and tons of those kinds of things. That's that's how 121 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.959 I live my life. Wherever we go. I was trying 122 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:08.720 to forge out what's the most adventurous thing to do while 123 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.879 we're there, And so our policy usually is, and you 124 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.120 know this too, we'll work five or six ten hour days. Yeah, 125 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.720 but once we hit that sixth or seventh day, we'll 126 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.959 take a whole day and just go play and whatever 127 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:21.720 the fun thing is to do in that country or 128 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.240 in that place. You know, I've been in forty three countries. 129 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.399 Around the world. So whatever the fun thing is to 130 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:29.680 do in that place, we'll try to carve out one day. Well, 131 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.680 I've worked fifty hours up to that point. We'll carve 132 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.199 out one day and go do fun things, you know. 133 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:34.040 Yeah. 134 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.079 Well, when I ziplined in Costa Rica over the forest, 135 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:43.079 it was the last zip line was a quarter of 136 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.120 a mile long, yeah, and it was just unbelievable, and 137 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.000 it was it was in the rain. 138 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.000 It was like pouring down, and so that was that 139 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:51.560 was pretty good. 140 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:52.279 That's pretty great. 141 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.240 Yeah, And we were really really really high up. 142 00:05:54.279 --> 00:06:00.480 I'm talking like I bet you we were one hundred 143 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:01.639 feet in the air maybe. 144 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.639 When So we were in costaiqu we did sabbatical in 145 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:07.240 Costa Rica, right, and my wife wanted to do the 146 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:08.720 jungle canopy tour. 147 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:10.720 Yeah, you know where you get up at the. 148 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.680 Top and then you walk along these little walkways and 149 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:14.199 all the monkeys and the birds and all. 150 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:15.399 At the tops of the trees. 151 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:16.040 Right. 152 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.680 Yeah, So we were having trouble with the translator. There 153 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.759 was no translator, and so we're just trying to explain 154 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:26.199 what we want to do to the ladies selling tickets 155 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:31.160 and she goes, oh, trees, yes, yes, trees. Okay, So 156 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.199 she sells us these tickets and then these guys pick 157 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:37.000 us up and we go up the mountain in like 158 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.680 side by side UTVs, you know, up to the top. 159 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:41.439 We get to the top, they start putting on harnesses 160 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.759 and helmets and we're like, that's weird. I don't remember 161 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:45.639 I ever seeing anybody wearing harnesses and helmets and the 162 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.879 tree top walks, and so they take us up to 163 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.160 the top of the thing that hooked my wife up. 164 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:50.800 My wife was like, no, no, no, no, I want. 165 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.360 To walk walk walk. He goes, no, zip zip zip, 166 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:53.199 and he just shoved her. 167 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.600 And you know, the zip lines go from one mountain 168 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.480 across the valley to the other mountain and they're going 169 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:04.399 back with and so our first one was over a mile. 170 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:07.399 Over a mile was our first zipline. And she didn't 171 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.040 want to do any ziplines ever, and they just hooked 172 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.240 her up zip zip and shoved her and she's screaming 173 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.639 all the way across that and there were sixteen zip 174 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:20.600 lines to get to the bottom of the mountain. 175 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.519 Wow, right, she was so mad. A translator would help 176 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:26.800 lots of translation. 177 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:28.040 That's so funny. 178 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.199 Yeah, so, hey, that's a really fun question. Paul. 179 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:32.639 You should come with us sometime on one of our 180 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.759 little adventures. Like I said, it's hard work, yeah, but 181 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:37.560 we'll usually take one day and go have a little 182 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:37.959 bit of fun. 183 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:38.920 Yeah, for SUREA. 184 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.920 Well, we are going to be talking about Caleb, and 185 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.519 I am very curious as to why this is one 186 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:47.879 of your favorite stories. 187 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.839 In the Book of Joshua. I'm sure we're about to 188 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:50.120 hear it. 189 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:51.600 Yes, So. 190 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.000 By the time you get to Joshua chapter fourteen, they 191 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.720 have won most of the battles. They haven't won all 192 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.000 the bat They didn't completely finish everything that God told 193 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:07.639 him to do, as far as driving out the wicked 194 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:10.480 inhabitants of the land and all these things. And you know, 195 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:12.680 it's weird. It's hard to talk through the Book of 196 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.519 Joshua and judges. There's a lot of death, there's a 197 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.879 lot of war. Through this God is bringing judgment on 198 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.399 the Canaanites, and he's using the Israelites to do that. 199 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.759 Right in the same way that later on God sends 200 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.839 the Assyrians to bring judgment on Israel when they're not 201 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:31.480 obeying God, he sends the Babylonians to bring judgment. So 202 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:35.600 God often uses governments and peoples to bring judgment on 203 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.240 other governments and other peoples, right, and so that's the 204 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.080 While war is a horrible thing, God uses it for 205 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.960 his purposes and so he had commanded him wipe out 206 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.519 these peoples, and they did most of it, not all 207 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.919 of it. But Joshua decides, okay, we're going to divide 208 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:51.759 up the land. And so there's twelve tribes and he 209 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.000 begins to say, okay, that tribe needs to go over there, 210 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.519 this tribe go over here and start to settle the land. 211 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:59.639 Because early on they're traveling together as one great, big, 212 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:03.600 giant group. Well, now they're taking over a large piece 213 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.000 of land and they need to hold it, so they 214 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.639 need to divide it up equitably based on the size 215 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:10.279 of each of the tribes, and so that's what they're doing. 216 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:15.559 So then they they divide the land on the west 217 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.200 side of Jordan, they divide the land on the east 218 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.519 side of Jordan. And then finally Caleb in the middle 219 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.519 of that, Caleb comes to Joshua sends a delegation and 220 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:25.120 here's what it says in verse six. This is a 221 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:28.120 delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb's son 222 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:30.279 of Jeffoon or the Keenazite, came. 223 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.200 To Joshua at Gilgal. Gilgel kind of became one of 224 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:34.360 Joshua's capitals. 225 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.960 Caleb said to Joshua, remember what the Lord said to Moses, 226 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:38.679 the man of God about you and me when we 227 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.399 were at cadish Barnea. Remember that was the time when 228 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.679 they were going to go across as spies. When they 229 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:49.000 came back, ten spies said no, Joshua and Caleb said, yes, 230 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.759 we can go win this thing. And Moses pours out 231 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:53.639 a blessing on them, even though God poured out a 232 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.159 curse on everybody else. So he says, that was forty 233 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.039 years old, and Moses the serving the Lord sent me 234 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.440 from cadish Barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I 235 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.720 returned and gave an honest report, But my brothers who 236 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:05.639 went with me frightened the people from entering the promised land. 237 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.840 For my part, I wholeheartedly follow the Lord my God. 238 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.279 So that day Moses solemnly promised me the land of 239 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:15.440 Canaan on which you were just walking, will be your 240 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.279 grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because 241 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:19.519 you wholeheartedly follow the. 242 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:20.080 Lord my God. 243 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.000 Now as you can see the Lord has kept me 244 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.639 alive and well as he promised for all these forty 245 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.799 five years since Moses made this promise, even while Israel 246 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.519 wandered in the wilderness. And today I'm eighty five years old. 247 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:33.919 I am as strong now as I was when Moses 248 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.120 sent me on that journey, and I can still travel 249 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:38.360 and fight as well as I could then. So give 250 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.120 me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You 251 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.639 will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of 252 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.799 Anak living there in great walled towns. But if the 253 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.639 Lord is with me, I will drive them out of 254 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.399 the land, just as the Lord said. So, Joshua blessed 255 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.639 Caleb's son of Jaffuna and gave Hebron to him as 256 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.960 his portion of land. Hebron still belongs to the descendants 257 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:02.440 of Caleb's son of Jafun, the Kenazite, because he wholeheartedly 258 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:05.519 followed the Lord, the God of Israel. Previously, Hebron had 259 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.000 been called kiriath Arba. It had been named after Arba, 260 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:10.960 a great hero of the descendants of Anak, and the 261 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:12.600 land had rest for more. 262 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:15.360 So, I love. 263 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.440 The fact that Caleb is eighty five years old and 264 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:21.200 he goes, dude, I'm just as strong to day as 265 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:22.919 I was then. I can fight just as well as 266 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.000 I can then. And as they're dividing this up, you 267 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:30.360 notice Joshua kind of skipped this region, right. So this 268 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.080 is where hebron is, that became the city of David. 269 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.080 It's up near where Jerusalem is, it's up in the 270 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:43.000 hill country. There were fierce warriors, extremely strong towns. And 271 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.000 so while josh was dividing him up all the rest 272 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:49.240 of the land, he hasn't done this part. And Caleb goes, dude, 273 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.960 give me the hard part. He's eighty five years old, 274 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:56.519 and he said, I still want that mountain. That's the mountain. 275 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.159 I want give me that mountain, and we're going to 276 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.440 go take these people. But he keeps going back to 277 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.559 the fact I obeyed God. Then I'm obeying God. Now 278 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:06.799 God's still going to keep the promise. I had to 279 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.360 wait forty five years for it, but God's going to 280 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.159 keep it right. And what I love about Caleb is 281 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.679 that in forty five years he never wavered. Right, So 282 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.559 his faith was strong at forty and at forty five, 283 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:23.960 even though he waited so long. Five at eighty five, yeah, 284 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.440 at eighty five. Even though he waited so long, he 285 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.480 never wavered. He knew that God was going to keep 286 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.159 his promise, and so when the opportunity finally came, he's like, 287 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:33.159 give it to me, I'm ready. 288 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.919 So you love the fact that this is a testament 289 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:40.080 of a life well lived and completely believing in obeying 290 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.879 God's promises and then still having just as much faith 291 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:44.879 at the end of his life. 292 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.200 Yeah, that he had at forty. 293 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.399 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, that's what I love. I love the 294 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:51.799 fact that he never gave up. Yeah, he just he 295 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.480 kept serving God and he kept the same vision. God 296 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.240 had said, you will take this land. And so I 297 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.679 think personally because he's highlighting the fact that he said, 298 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:06.360 you know, I went in, I saw the armies of 299 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:08.519 you know, the people of Anak, and then I came 300 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:10.639 back and said, we can still take them. And so 301 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:13.559 then all these years, forty five years, he's been thinking 302 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.399 about I want to go get that place right. God said, 303 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.720 wherever my feet are, that's going to be mine. Moses 304 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.639 told me that land's going to be mine. So I 305 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.039 just want to remind you I haven't forgotten that that's mine. 306 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:23.879 I'm going to go take it. 307 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:26.159 And by the way he had some unfinished business. And 308 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:28.360 I love the idea of unfinished business, that this guy's 309 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:29.159 going to go finish. 310 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.000 Right, I love that. That's great. 311 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.399 And by the way, he's eighty five, and he claims, 312 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.440 and it must be true that he is just as 313 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.600 strong and can fight just as well as when he's forty. 314 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:39.720 Yeah, let me tell you something. 315 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:41.360 My father, who I just took to New York I 316 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:45.080 just mentioned a couple of yesterday's episode, he's eighty five 317 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:48.320 exactly well, and he fell and so as we were 318 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:50.799 walking through the streets in New York, he falls down, 319 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:54.639 and I thought, I thought the trip was over right, 320 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.279 because he's so frail, and he was cut up everywhere. 321 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:59.840 You know, it was just everything was bleeding and everything else. 322 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.960 And we walked up the Statue of Liberty and he 323 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.159 had a stop halfway, and you know, couldn't do all 324 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:09.440 those things. I cannot imagine my father going up against 325 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.480 himself at forty and saying that he's exactly the same 326 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.879 as he was at forty, because he was probably decently 327 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.039 tough at forty. Right, Who in the world do you 328 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.360 know in your lifetime who's as good at eighty five 329 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:25.559 as forty. 330 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:29.120 Yeah, my dad's eighty six, and he's in that kind 331 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.919 of that falling stage right now too. At seventy, I 332 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.440 would say, I would think my dad at eighty five 333 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.559 is still going to be tough guy. My dad at 334 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.679 seventy could outwork both of us in a day. He 335 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:45.200 was so strong and so sturdy. And then he had 336 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.080 an accident, wound up breaking his hip, and he had 337 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.559 some other things, and then his health is, you know, 338 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:54.639 deteriorated since then. But at seventy, I remember thinking, I'm, 339 00:14:55.200 --> 00:15:00.080 you know, less than forty at that point, and I 340 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.759 remember thinking my dad could beat me up right now. Wow, right, 341 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:06.320 that's pretty good. And so he was pretty tough. But 342 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:11.039 you know, life catches up fast, right, right. We're humans, 343 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:12.039 We're just we're frail. 344 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:13.679 Life catches us up fast. 345 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.360 So to for him to be able to say I'm 346 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.200 just as strong today now, there might have been a 347 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:19.840 little bit I think that you'll. 348 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:23.720 Be saying that when you're eighty five, right, a. 349 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.480 Little bit of hyperbole. There may have been a little 350 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.679 bit of hyperbole there. He also had a bunch of 351 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:30.759 sons and nephews and all that kind of stuff at 352 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.360 this point too, right, that probably were ready to go. 353 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:38.200 But yeah, his confidence. By the way, he'd also seen 354 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:41.840 God do all these miracles. He remembers when God stopped 355 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.240 the Red Sea, split the Red Sea, man wiped out 356 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.320 the wiped out the Egyptians. It was only him and 357 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:50.879 Joshua left that can remember all those things. And then 358 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.519 he had just recently seen God do more miracles here, 359 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:55.559 you know, stop the river Jordan, let him cross over 360 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.759 on dry ground. He got to see how God wipes 361 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.759 out Jericho all these other cities and fulfills all the 362 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:03.639 promises he said he was going to do. Now there's 363 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.399 still more work to be done. And this is where 364 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:08.840 you know I mentioned this, I think it was last week. 365 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:13.440 It's interesting God told Joshua in Jericho just march around 366 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:13.799 and shout. 367 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.080 The walls are going to follow you. Guys are going 368 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.440 to win. He doesn't do that in any of the 369 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.519 other cities. All there are cities. 370 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.399 It's a full on fight, right, it's a war, right, 371 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:26.159 and it's unreasonable for us to expect that there would 372 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.879 never be any battles. If there's no battles, there's no victories, right. 373 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.919 The victory only comes because otherwise it's just another day, right, Right, 374 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.039 there's no such thing as a victory. You don't win 375 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:40.159 if you don't have to compete, and so there are 376 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.720 struggles and God doesn't say life is going to be easy. 377 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:45.440 And this is the other thing I think I love 378 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.440 about Caleb is, at eighty five years old, most people 379 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:50.000 are thinking I should probably kick back and take it 380 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.679 easy and let another generation do it, let other people 381 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:56.759 do it, And he doesn't. Right, he knows a battle's coming, 382 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:59.240 and he's not saying I think God's going to do 383 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.720 in hebron like he did in Jared Jericho, right, right, 384 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:06.160 that was a one off. He's seen a whole bunch 385 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.279 of more battles that happened after that time. God did 386 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.960 great things, but there was still battles. There were wins 387 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.519 and losses, there were fatalities, there were all these things 388 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:18.480 that they struggled with, and he did not have any expectation. 389 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:20.440 It doesn't appear that he's thinking this is going to 390 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:23.759 be another Jericho battle because he references the people of 391 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:25.799 Annak and their big walled cities and the fact that 392 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:28.359 they're tough guys. And he goes and I'm just as 393 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.359 tough as I was too, and I'm ready, right, so 394 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:34.720 unfinished business and this idea that you know, God's gonna 395 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:36.480 bless me, But I'm willing to go in and pay 396 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:38.720 the price. Whatever the price is, I'm willing to go 397 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.119 pay that price for this victory. 398 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:41.920 So I want to read the note in the Life 399 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.519 Application of Study Bible that says, when Joshua gave Caleb 400 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:46.640 his portion and fulfill to promise God had made the 401 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:50.880