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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.400 Okay, we're back. I'm Jeff and this is Kyle, and 5 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:16.960 we are the Bible Guy. That's right where the Bible 6 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.000 Guys this week? Anyway, Yes we are. Chris is out 7 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.960 of town and so I have the great privilege of 8 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.760 being with Kyle dobbin Meyer. Kyle is a good leader 9 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:30.480 and a good Bible guy, and so I think it's 10 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:31.039 gonna be fun to this. 11 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:31.679 I'm excited. 12 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:33.119 So we have to talk about this in fun and 13 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:35.840 practical ways. Yes, you heard the rolling, Yes, so exactly, 14 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:36.439 let's do it too. 15 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:37.880 So one of the things, you know we've been talking 16 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.640 about was, you know Moses. We we read earlier this week. 17 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.920 You know Moses, he's passed epic life. Yes, and so 18 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:45.479 you know we've been talking a little bit about our 19 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:46.560 ministry experiences. 20 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.079 You and that's right because Moses and us were very 21 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:53.000 very similar to you means easy comparis. 22 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.200 So I'm going to ask you a few questions actually 23 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.759 about my ministry experience and see if you. 24 00:00:57.880 --> 00:00:59.920 Know me very well and I know Jeff, you know, 25 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.079 oh yeah, here. 26 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:03.439 I swear he remembers everything he reads or sees, so 27 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:05.400 this may be easier for him, but I'm gonna try 28 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:06.959 to keep I'll keep an easy one. Okay, we'll start 29 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:07.719 off an easy one. 30 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.159 So you're going to ask yes, your like ministry history 31 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:14.959 questions to see how well I know. 32 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:16.959 It, and I'll probably stick with true and faulty like 33 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:17.599 that sort of thing. 34 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:19.959 Okay, Okay, well this is assuming I've been paying attention. 35 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.359 Well, yeah, exactly, who knows? Who knows? And yes, some 36 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.439 of these you'll be like, what was your name again, Carl? 37 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:27.079 You just introduced me. 38 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:32.159 Okay, So first thing, first things first, and hey, hopefully 39 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.640 you're paying attention earlier. But when I was did I 40 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.159 did I feel called in the ministry when I was younger? 41 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.599 Like when I when I was growing up? Was there 42 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:41.239 ever a time where I felt called in the ministry? 43 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.760 Called in the ministry? I know you resisted being called 44 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.799 in the ministry when you were young? Did you feel called? No? Yeah? 45 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.079 I think yeah, I think you you were paying attention 46 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:52.040 to an episode. 47 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.120 Or two ago. That's good. So yeah, so you didn't 48 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:54.799 feel cold. 49 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:56.640 It wasn't until I was older. 50 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:59.560 I was actually twenty two on a mission trip to 51 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:01.959 Westford and and the church I was a part of. 52 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:03.400 I was serving as a high school leader. 53 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.159 Wow, and had no interest ever before that, Just like you, 54 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.520 I was like, you know, resistant to the whole idea 55 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:08.840 for sure. 56 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.879 Good okay, okay, well that was good. Then I knew 57 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:12.240 that one. Yeah. 58 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.639 Yeah. What year did did I start at Heritage Church? 59 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:21.000 What year? Oh? No, you've been here? 60 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:23.039 This is a tough one. 61 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.560 Yeah. Well, see, COVID messes everything that does. 62 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.599 Uh COVID was what eighteen years ago? 63 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.039 It was like, yeah, hang on a second, I know 64 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:39.280 this one. Have you been with us eight years? Nine years, 65 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:44.319 seven years, seven years, seven years? Okay, I knew that years. Yeah, 66 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.680 so then that would be twenty seventeen. Okay, yes, it 67 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:51.080 was good. Yeah. I was trying to so I offered 68 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.400 you a job when my son was getting ready to 69 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:56.280 marry your sister, and so I was trying to remember 70 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:01.680 how long of them been married? That that's why what 71 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:02.159 year was it? 72 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:02.840 Twenty seventeen? 73 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:03.039 Yeah? 74 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.400 Yeah, yeah, okay, I mean there there was a lot 75 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.919 of trains, a few things, you know, in twenty seventeen 76 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.479 and twenty eighteen. Uh that God was I think testing 77 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.719 and challenging with hair, but also a lot of great things. 78 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.719 There was the kids space, there was the youth space, 79 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:17.439 and also that's when I started. So a lot of 80 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:21.960 great things happened that year. Yeah, okay, next question. So 81 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.879 I was a youth pastor for ten plus years. Did 82 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.759 I ever leave a student on a trip? Accidentally leave? 83 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:32.360 Did you ever leave a student? I'm almost positive you did. Okay, yeah, 84 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.560 didn't you? No, I didn't you never have that one. No, 85 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.479 I said, I did. 86 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:38.759 You ever leave? 87 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:40.080 Because you were a youth pastor for a long time, 88 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:40.879 I never did. 89 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:43.879 So I threatened till if I told everybody, if you 90 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:45.400 weren't on time, I'll pull away and leave. 91 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:45.840 Yeah. 92 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:47.680 And there's been more than one time. I was driving 93 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.479 to the front of the parking lot when somebody came 94 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:51.520 running you know. Oh yeah, we weren't asking to leave. 95 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:52.879 Yeah. When I think back on that, I was kind 96 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:54.680 of I mean, I was kind of a jerk sometimes, 97 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:56.080 but you know, for some of it, for good reason. 98 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.319 We go on these mission trips cross country, be driving, 99 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.560 you pull and forty fifty people with you, and you're 100 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.599 just thinking we're getting the car, use the bathroom now. 101 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:06.000 By the time we get in the car. We're not 102 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.639 stopping these big vans. And if you know who Connor 103 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:10.400 meat is, feel free to give him a shout out, 104 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.039 because that kid, we would he would it be an 105 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.479 hour down the road. He'd be like, I have to 106 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.639 use the bathroom. I'd be like, nope, no, And I 107 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:17.879 did not win any favor with his parents for a 108 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.720 period of time there. But Connor meade smallest bladder on 109 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:22.000 the trip for a while there. 110 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.800 So man, But so for me, I've always been I 111 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:26.959 hate being I hate being a minute late. 112 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:27.920 Yeah, okay, hate it. 113 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.639 Hate being a minute late. So I always shoot for 114 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.040 being five ten minutes early. And then if I say, well, 115 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:37.680 sometimes and you've been a part of this before, sometimes 116 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.839 where we've had there's traffic problems out out on the 117 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:42.560 road or whatever, and people come say, hey, we need 118 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.360 to start the service, you know, five minutes late, and 119 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:47.199 I'm like, no, we start on time. Remember, it's just 120 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:49.839 a frustrating thing for people. So as a youth pastor, 121 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:51.879 I was like, if I say we leave at five, 122 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.319 I do not mean we leave at five fifteen or 123 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:54.959 five o five. 124 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:57.040 The youth pastors, I will leave you. 125 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:59.879 At five o'clock, right, and your mom and dad will 126 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:02.120 have to figure out how to get you home or whatever. Yeah, 127 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.560 and my kids were always just scared enough that I 128 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:06.480 really would do it that I never had the leavening. 129 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:08.319 I just want to brag for a minute, as just 130 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.399 because you understand the challenge of this and the youth 131 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.480 when you're homeing people across country. I made an agenda. 132 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.120 This is I don't know, eight nine years ago, coming 133 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.839 home from Nashville, Tennessee with the group of students. And 134 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:20.759 I made an agenda three months before the trip, and 135 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:22.079 that I gave you to the parents where I said 136 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:24.160 I'd be home on Saturday at four thirty pm or 137 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:24.720 whatever whatever. 138 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:26.360 The time was, four thirty pretty much Saturday. I had 139 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:27.000 made that agenda. 140 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:31.360 We pulled into the parking lot at four thirty pm, literally, 141 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:34.240 and you're talking. We stayed in the hotel the night before. 142 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.240 We got a couple of gas breaks along the way. 143 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:36.839 That's impressive. 144 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.040 We stopped and got gas off the exit off six 145 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:40.759 ninety six, and I was like, I told people, four 146 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:42.560 thirty And it's funny because I. 147 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:44.120 Was doing ninety five miles an hour and a bus 148 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:46.800 is not a good way to do that. Yeah, but 149 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:48.360 I was pretty proud of myself. I was made to 150 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.000 speed limits and yeah you got them there. Good job, Okay, okay, 151 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:53.000 good hey man, Okay, so you didn't have to leave anybody. 152 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:53.639 Did you have another one? 153 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.519 Yeah, I'll give you another one, just a truer false question. 154 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.639 And this is for anybody who pays attention to famous 155 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.720 mega church pastors. Okay, true or false that I met 156 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:04.759 Stephen Ferdick. 157 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:11.600 You met Stephen Ferdick. I'm going to say that is false, 158 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:12.480 and you. 159 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:14.800 Are right, good jolly. I never met him. 160 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:15.920 No, okay, I don't think. 161 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.480 I think he's a good speaker, but I'm not actually, actually, 162 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:19.720 I don't think I've been to a conference. 163 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:21.040 Oh maybe I did. I went to I went to 164 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:22.079 a to one that. 165 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.199 Hed Kregershell and him or the or the or the 166 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.079 headlining speakers, which I'd like to meet Gregorshell. 167 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:27.480 That'd be cool, right, Yeah, he's a great leader. 168 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.240 He'd probably greatly like five minutes of nuggets of wisdom 169 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:30.879 and great leader. 170 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:31.600 Yes, great? 171 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.759 Yeah, Well, good, Hey, that was very interesting and I 172 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:37.480 think I got three three, three out of four. 173 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.600 You assumed I left a kid at I as soon. 174 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:41.560 As you left one, But I remember Zarba did and 175 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.519 I thinking, you know, as youth pastors, if you haven't 176 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.000 almost left a kid, Oh yeah, you're not that good 177 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:48.639 of a youth passage that you're not trying hard though, 178 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:49.879 did you almost? 179 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:50.680 Absolutely? 180 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.199 Okay? Well good, well, hey, Now Moses in this past 181 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.279 as we're going through the key passages throughout the Old Testament, 182 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:02.360 we've gone through Genesis through Deuteronomy, which are the called 183 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.759 the Books of Moses. Obviously, the last couple of words 184 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.079 in the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses didn't write about his 185 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.839 own death right, so somebody buttons that up. I think 186 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:16.000 the way that it's so kind to Moses and all 187 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.240 those things, I bet you it was Joshua. They helped 188 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:23.040 write that, or somebody like that, like Joshua. But then, 189 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.560 just before Moses dies at one hundred and twenty years old, 190 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.439 he lays hands on Joshua and he says, be strong 191 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.879 and courageous. God's going to use you to lead the 192 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:35.000 people into Israel, right into the Promised Land, and there's 193 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:36.680 going to be battles ahead, so you're gonna have to 194 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.920 be strong and courageous. Well, then, now in Joshua, Chapter one, 195 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:45.319 very creative title to Joshua's book, it's called Joshua, and 196 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:50.600 it's all about his leadership and how God uses names. 197 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.920 There's not the Book of Moses anywhere, right, but there's 198 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.480 Joshua has one book, and it's called Joshua. So in 199 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.879 Joshua chapter one, it says, after the death of Moses, 200 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.120 the Lord's servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of Nun, 201 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:08.680 Moses's assistant. He said, Moses, my servant is dead. Therefore 202 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:10.720 the time has come for you to lead these people, 203 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.480 the Israelites, across the Jordan River, into the land I'm 204 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:17.639 giving them. I promise you what I promised Moses. Wherever 205 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.560 you set foot, you will be on land I have 206 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.319 given you. From the Negev Wilderness in the south to 207 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:25.199 the Lebanon Mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River 208 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.879 in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, 209 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.920 including all the land of the Hittites. No one will 210 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:32.919 be able to stand against you as long as you live, 211 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.559 for I will be with you as I was with Moses. 212 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.799 I will not fail you or abandon you. Be strong 213 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.240 and courageous, for you are the one who will lead 214 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.399 these people to possess all the land I swore to 215 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.960 their ancestors I would give them. Be strong and very courageous. 216 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:49.799 Be careful to obey the instructions Moses gave you. Do 217 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.840 not deviate from them, turning either to the right or 218 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.480 to the left. Then you will be successful in everything 219 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:59.000 you do. Study this Book of Instruction, continually meditate on 220 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.480 it day and night. You'd be sure to obey everything 221 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.440 written in it. Only then you will prosper and succeed 222 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.039 in all you do. This is my command. Be strong 223 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:10.120 and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord, 224 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.200 your God is with you wherever you go. 225 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:12.720 Yeah. 226 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:13.720 Wow, that's a man. 227 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:14.360 I love that. 228 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.759 It's my favorite, my favorite leadership passage in the whole 229 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:19.360 bottom my gosh, right there. Love it. Yes. 230 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:20.879 In fact, a lot of people I know, I know, 231 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.360 people like Joshua. One nine is like a life verse, 232 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:24.960 right in so many ways. Well, I mean, you could 233 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.879 really go this entire little section here, But for somebody 234 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:29.440 who's looking for a life verse, if you're out there 235 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.000 and you're like, man, I don't have a life verse, 236 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:33.600 this is a good one to adopt, right, just because 237 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.120 I mean I think we could remember this on a 238 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:36.360 daily basis, right, Yep. 239 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:42.080 I think. Uh, we're quick to embrace the verse nine, 240 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.720 be strong and courageous, and I'm gonna bless you. Uh, 241 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.039 and we forget study this book of instruction cantatally, meditate 242 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:49.600 on it day and night so you'll be sure to 243 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:54.639 obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper 244 00:09:55.120 --> 00:10:00.159 and succeed in all you do. That is an unbeliev 245 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.279 promise from God. So we like the be strong and courageous, 246 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.080 and I'm going to make you successful. But God tells 247 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:10.240 us the exact He gives us the exact formula for 248 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:14.200 being successful, and that is use my words, meditate on 249 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.679 them day and night, be careful to obey everything I've said, 250 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.200 and only then will you be successful and everything you do. 251 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.720 You know, there's there's very few times in the Bible 252 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.480 God talks about being successful in everything we do, and 253 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.600 two of them are when he talks to Joshua. Both 254 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.600 times he has this kind of an argument, or this 255 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:35.120 kind of of if then promise is not argument, this 256 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.120 kind of if then promise. If you are meditating on 257 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:40.799 my word, you're taking it in, you're memorizing it, you're 258 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.480 learning it, you're building your entire life around it. You're 259 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.440 making decisions based all of your decisions based on what 260 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:49.879 my words say. If you do that, and if you 261 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.000 choose to obey me in everything that I say to do, 262 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:58.759 then only then will you have the exact formula for success. 263 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.000 So then of course you should be strong and courageous. 264 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.440 Yeah, and then even while Joseph old testament, Joseph says 265 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:06.559 that the Lord is with Joseph, and he succeeded and 266 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:08.559 everything he did, and it's oftentimes you said, oh and 267 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:10.879 he was successful, Well, the Lord is with him. Like 268 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.000 the source of it was not Joseph, it was it 269 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:14.639 was God. 270 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:14.879 Being with him. 271 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:15.440 You know. 272 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:16.559 The thing that stood out to me when I was 273 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.000 reading over this stuff the first time, I was just 274 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:22.919 noticing the missy here. I love when he says to him, 275 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.000 he says, I promise you what I promised Moses, wherever 276 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:27.279 you set foot, you'll be. 277 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:28.639 On land I have given you. 278 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.000 And I don't know, I just something about that is 279 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.320 just so cool because it just makes me think, like 280 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.279 this is land I have given you. And I just 281 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.200 like how he said wherever you step foot, Like I 282 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.559 think he was going down to like the simplest form 283 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:42.320 in a way of like your footsteps just you know, 284 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.000 every footstep you take is the land that I have 285 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:48.320 given you. And it's so just thinking about how that 286 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:50.840 even applies because obviously that was a command he gave, 287 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.639 that was instructions he gave to Joshua. And you know, 288 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:55.360 we shouldn't take the Bible right away and apply it 289 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:57.519 to ourselves. Oftentimes I think people mistake that when they 290 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:59.320 read the Bible, they think it applies to you know, 291 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.240 me here and in twenty twenty four. First you have 292 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:03.600 to apply it to them. You have to apply it 293 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:05.600 to their context, their life. What was God saying to 294 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.799 those people? And after you pross you know, then you 295 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:08.679 take it and apply it. 296 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:12.679 Then you take the principles principles. Yeah, so this statement 297 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:18.720 here is made directly to Joshua. Yeah, yep, right exactly. 298 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.960 So he didn't say that directly to Jeff. Yes, yeah, 299 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.320 he said it directly to Joshua exactly. But I can 300 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:27.399 take the principles that he says, if you do these things, 301 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.600 then I will do this for you. And I can 302 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:32.240 take those principles and go, okay, well, then God's the 303 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.519 same yesterday Todayever, the way that God treated those leaders, 304 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.200 then he will treat leaders today if we choose to 305 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:39.360 do the same things right. 306 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.399 Yeah, And with that, it just makes me think though 307 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.480 that like when he's saying, we know, wherever you step foot, 308 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:45.399 this is the land I've given you, And how often, 309 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:47.279 you know, do we take some of those things for 310 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:48.039 granted right in. 311 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:48.600 Our own lives? 312 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:48.799 You know? 313 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:50.759 And I've witnessed it too. You probably have what people 314 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:51.279 you're talking to. 315 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.639 Just don't even realize that the land that they're walking on, 316 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.480 the house they've been given, the job that they have, 317 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.799 the family they have, almost taking it for granted. When 318 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.679 it's like, well, God's like wants to remind somebody today 319 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.279 maybe that that the things that you have, whether it's 320 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.279 tangible things or the life you have, or the things 321 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:08.320 that are seen or unseen, that God has actually given 322 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:08.679 it to you. 323 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.480 It's the land, the land He has given you. 324 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.440 And so I think it was really cool reminder, I'm 325 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:14.679 sure for Joshua, instead of just thinking, you know, he's 326 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.600 a leader, he's probably thinking twelve steps ahead and that 327 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:19.919 God was bringing downright to the simplest forms and hey, 328 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:21.799 just you know, every step you take, this is this 329 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:22.240 is mine. 330 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.080 I've given it to you. I provide this is my 331 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:25.480 provision that you have these things. 332 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:29.519 Yeah, So here they are. Now, they're in what is 333 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:32.840 considered modern day Jordan, right, So they're on the east 334 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:34.360 side of the Jordan River. I'm going to be in 335 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:37.720 Jordan in three weeks and I'll be right near this 336 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.200 plain where they are, because Aman Jordan's not very far 337 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:46.240 from there. And so they're in modern day Jordan. And 338 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.799 he's telling them everything from the Euphrates River, which is 339 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.679 modern day Iraq, all of Jordan, everything from the mountains 340 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:56.960 of Lebanon, all the way down to the Negev, which 341 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:01.200 is all the way down to the Red Sea in 342 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:04.840 into the Arabian Peninsula. Right, that's a massive space, much 343 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:07.240 larger than what Israel is today. God said, hey, I'm 344 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.240 promising all of that to you if you'll go take it. 345 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.879 So it's pretty amazing how the promises of God are available. 346 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.279 But then they had to go defeat these enemies, and 347 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:21.519 we'll read through Joshua's life and they defeated many of them, 348 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:23.480 but they didn't defeat all of them, even though God 349 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.639 had promised. And sometimes we're surprised by the fact that 350 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.039 there are battles that have to be fought, that there's 351 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.600 a struggle in the Christian life, right, But there's no 352 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.960 victories without a battle, and we're always surprised by this. 353 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.799 So he chooses Joshua as the leader. It's interesting Joshua 354 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:41.240 had already led the armies of Israel a couple of 355 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.639 times right against the Amorites, attacked them and a couple 356 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:47.360 of others, and God had already used Joshua was kind 357 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:52.320 of Moses's military guy. And so here they are. They've 358 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.639 been wandering through the wilderness for thirty nine years. Right, 359 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.240 They've spent one year at Sinai. Then they wandered through 360 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:03.320 their wilderness for thirty nine years. Only Caleb and Joshua 361 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.679 said as spies, Hey, we should go in. God promised it. 362 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:10.120 We can go take it. So thirty nine years ago, 363 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.279 this leader said we can take it. I believe God's 364 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:16.279 going to give it to us. We can. We can 365 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.320 do it. So then everybody else is dead, including Moses. 366 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.399 Moses also didn't push to go across the river, right, 367 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:26.320 he just listened to the people. So everybody except for 368 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:30.279 Joshua and Caleb, they've all died. So now Joshua is 369 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:32.519 the second oldest guy in the whole country. We know 370 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:37.320 Caleb was older than Joshua, and he's standing up, going, okay, 371 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.919 because the very is God gives him these nine verses. 372 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.320 Be strong and courageous, obey everything I've command, meditate on, 373 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.759 and I'll make you successful everything you do. And then 374 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.399 Joshua steps up and gives the same speech back to 375 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:51.759 the people. Hey, God says, if we if we follow him, 376 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.159 he's going to give us our right. As for me 377 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:55.679 and my house, we're going to cirve the lord. Kind 378 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:57.639 of mentality, right, that's not where he says it, but 379 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.639 it's kind of that attitude that we're going to do 380 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.399 the right thing and God's gonna bless us. And he's 381 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.120 ramping them up for this battle that's coming. And so 382 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.759 they're lined up along the shore of the Jordan River, 383 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:12.080 which in those days used to flood, and they're looking 384 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:17.360 across the river. Now, remember thirty nine years ago, ten 385 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.360 of the twelve Spies came back and went, dude, look 386 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.919 at the size of these grapes. The olives are incredible, 387 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:28.080 the groves are amazing, the food is spectacular. The problem 388 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:31.080 is they're all a bunch of giants. We're a bunch 389 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:34.159 of runts. We look like grasshoppers in their sight, they 390 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.559 are so much bigger and tougher and stronger. It's like 391 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:39.240 a whole bunch of flyweights going in and had to 392 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.960 fight against heavyweights. Right, that's what they think is gonna happen. 393 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.399 We are gonna get stomped if we go there. Well, 394 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:46.759 nothing has changed except those cities are more fortified than 395 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.799 they were thirty nine years ago. Right, that's it, And 396 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:55.519 the rumor has gotten out now that Hey, the people 397 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.600 of Israel are right across the river. Looks like they're 398 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.840 going to want to come over here. So they're all 399 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.079 ramping up their fortifications. They're all building. And we know 400 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.000 this from the next story Rehab, where they've been anticipating 401 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:10.240