1 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,200 We welcome you to the Via Zion Sermon podcast. 2 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,920 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,160 We are thrilled that you're tuned in today and hope that you 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,680 will be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,800 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,240 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,600 The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,520 our promise. We are believing that God is 9 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,640 bringing us into our place of promise. 10 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,800 It is now time to take the land and to do so we need to get our 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,680 spiritual posture and place and stop looking back so that we can 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,200 face forward with courage and faith. 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,200 Let's get going and possess our promise. 14 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,040 Good morning, Church. So let's just quickly say a word 15 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,080 of prayer as we get into the last part of the series, taking 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,560 the landlord. We thank you, Lord, for this 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,480 time. Lord, even as the series has 18 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,480 been so convicting, Lord Jesus, we many a times discount 19 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,760 ourselves time and again, Lord. And I pray, Lord, even as we 20 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,480 come to a conclusion of this and as you meditate on your word, I 21 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,680 pray if anyone is still having doubt, is still having fear, is 22 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,240 still having confusion in their hearts, I pray they'll be able 23 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:24,840 to come to a place of spending time with you in quietness. 24 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,240 They'll be able to realize that they need to take the land. 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,960 I pray that, Lord, we won't look for significance. 26 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,280 We won't look, Lord Jesus, for things that we can boast about. 27 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,560 But anything, Lord, that we do, we'll do it quietly. 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,400 As your children, Lord, we will learn to do it quietly because 29 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,800 You believe that You will lift us up at the right time. 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,080 You will come through at the right time. 31 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,480 And when Your promises comes true in our lives, I believe, 32 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,040 Lord, will be a blessing, just not for our time, but for 33 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,880 generations to come. I pray that as we meditate on 34 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,280 Your word, let it store something in US, Lord moving in 35 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,520 through US and You're most holy name we pray Amen. 36 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,160 Amen. I just want to quickly go 37 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,560 through the last three parts because last week we had a 38 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,880 couple of guest speakers here and I just wanted to refresh the 39 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,640 first part. We saw the ABC's of taking the 40 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:17,400 land. The A was arise, B was B bold, C 41 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,400 was on shoe on God's word. And the second part we saw we 42 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,200 need to unlearn to move forward. We also saw what circumcision of 43 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,040 our hearts look like that God constantly is wanting to remove 44 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:36,360 the dead parts of our heart so we can receive and be complete 45 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:37,800 in all that he's called us to do. 46 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,400 The third thing we saw is also shame is rolled over that no 47 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,000 longer are we walking in a previous identity, but shame is 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 no longer part of the identity that Jesus gives. 49 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,800 The third part we saw was deception, especially in the 50 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,880 when they finish the battle of Jericho and as they go. 51 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,040 We saw what deception happens and we saw that sin thrives in 52 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,720 hiddenness. We also saw that nothing good 53 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,120 grows in darkness. The second thing we saw, the 54 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,600 third part is sin thrives in compromises. 55 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,720 Then we also saw what the deception of the Gibeonites look 56 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,840 like. We believed, I mean, what we 57 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,920 see, we believe what we see, but deception brings us into wrong 58 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:20,960 alliances also. And as we go today, I will spend 59 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,400 some time with Joshua, but then I also want to go into the life 60 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,200 of Caleb because many a times we discount ourselves. 61 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,880 Like I can't be like that person. 62 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,480 How many of you have said that? How many of you even now feel 63 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,160 this Christian walk is only for a select few? 64 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,880 We all have that narrative in our hearts and in our lives. 65 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,600 But God's asking us today, even as we go through the life of 66 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,840 Caleb, I want us, I want us to be challenged to be like this is 67 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,720 what God's calling us to do. In fact, the entire Promised 68 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,720 Land were for 12 tribes. But Caleb got his portion. 69 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:00,040 And I believe many of us are in that same journey. 70 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,520 You know, we've been discounting it, but God's like looking in us 71 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,520 whether we'll be able to get that portion. 72 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,640 I believe, I think there's definitely if you look through 73 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,880 the entire year, so many things are tying in together. 74 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:13,800 So many things are tying in together. 75 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,440 And I believe as we meditate, God definitely reveals so many 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,200 things in US. Joshua chapter 12, verses 7 to 77 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:21,279 8. This is what it says. 78 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,640 Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the 79 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,720 Israelites conquered on the West side of the Jordan from Balgarh 80 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,440 in the valley of Lebanon of Mount Hallaq, which rises about 81 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,720 Sia Joseph. I mean, Joshua gave their lands 82 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,440 as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their 83 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,600 tribal divisions. The lands included the Hill 84 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,360 Country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, 85 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,600 the wilderness, and the Negev. These were the lands of the 86 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,480 Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Pedicites, Hivites, Jebusites. 87 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,520 They were the kings. And in fact, when you go Joshua 88 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,960 Chapter 9, if you go, it'll go to verse 9. 89 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:05,640 Sorry, Joshua 12, verse 9, you'll see the next next verse 90 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,480 they were the kings. OK, Next nine, Yeah, you'll see 91 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,240 that there's a tablet column of each of the king that they took. 92 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,400 And when they add up, there's totally 31 kings that Joshua had 93 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,040 fought and taken in his lifetime. 94 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,560 And it says here that Joshua gave their lands in verse 7 as 95 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,440 an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal 96 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,560 divisions. One of the beautiful things that 97 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,960 happens which I wanted to stress on is I don't know how many of 98 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:36,320 you came across as article or no, but our country on hold 99 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,800 India, you know when you go to the law tribunal offices or to 100 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,320 our courts, what are the number of cases that are actually there 101 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,200 land disputes? This is in 2014, I think there 102 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,200 was a census, there was an article that came out, 68% of 103 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:00,760 all cases in Indian courts were with regard to land, property. 104 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,200 So if that was in 2014, do you think it's increased or 105 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,720 decreased? Increased. 106 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:13,920 So which means as a country, as a nation, this is 1 area that we 107 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,280 are struggling in. If you see patterns, if you're 108 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:22,080 looking at patterns, this is 1 area struggling in the minute 109 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,280 someone in the family passes away, we've heard stories, our 110 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:28,800 own relatives are there probably even happening in our houses. 111 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,360 Probably we are also in between some kind of litigation, but 112 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,960 this is a beautiful culmination of promise being fulfilled. 113 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:41,520 What happens here is Moses gave, heard from God and gave the 114 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,680 instruction of how the land had to be split. 115 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,680 Joshua, who comes into position, doesn't take authority. 116 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,240 How many of you sometimes are waiting? 117 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,200 You know, you talk to some of these people who are doing 118 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,880 generational businesses. The Son will always have the 119 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,680 restlessness that the father's not changing as quick as the 120 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,680 times are right now. And he's like, we have to 121 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,280 change, we have to do this. And so he's wanting to change. 122 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:10,560 But here the clear instruction was given from God to Moses. 123 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,200 And where was Joshua? Most times when Moses was 124 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,080 listening to God, he was at the end of the tent or end of the 125 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,320 mountain. He was waiting there. 126 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,680 So he knew whatever word came from God was final. 127 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,080 So I pray and ask that when sometimes God will speak to you 128 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,160 directly like that, ask God, God if it's from you, help me to let 129 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,280 go. If you're saying Geshom, let go 130 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,960 of this, I'll let go. Geshom, stay on this. 131 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,440 I'll stay on because it's very important. 132 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,600 Because when you're talking about taking the land today, 133 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,520 God's not asking us about physical land. 134 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,160 We saw on the first part it's something to do with the 135 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,560 spiritually and so when we take God it is what what he's called 136 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,640 as. In fact, in Numbers 34 was 13. 137 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,120 It goes on to say Moses commanded the Israelites 138 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,080 assigned the land by lot as an inheritance. 139 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,600 The Lord has ordered that it will be given to the given to 9 140 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,600 1/2 tribes. In fact, if you look the when 141 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,880 Joshua split 9 1/2 tribes from the from the West of Jordan and 142 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:19,840 the east of Jordan had the rest 2 1/2 tribes, Joshua 14 versus 1 143 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,320 to 5. You can see over there in versus 144 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,440 2, it says the inheritance was assigned by Lot to 9 and half 145 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,480 tribes as a Lot had commanded through Moses. 146 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,840 Moses had granted the two and half tribes the other 147 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:34,440 inheritance east of the Jordan, but had not granted the Levites 148 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,400 and inheritance among the rest. It's interesting as we read 149 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:43,159 through this entire five books of the New Testament, God really 150 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,400 wanted his people, the Levite, the entire clan of Levites. 151 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,840 He said you don't get lands as you you'll be taken care of. 152 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,840 They went into houses, they got fields and I was as I was 153 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,320 meditating was interesting. The tribe that was appointed by 154 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,520 God, he solely wanted them to do what he was had assigned for 155 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,200 them to do. The only job was to go be at the 156 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,440 temple, do worship, do that wholeheartedly. 157 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,200 And so sometimes if you're in the crossroads today of what is 158 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,280 God asking you to do, remember he will also take care of you. 159 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,040 He will take care of you if if if it feels like a little bit of 160 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,760 stretching God's asking you to step in these places, do this 161 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,840 thing. He will take care of you. 900 of 162 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,640 tribes West of Jordan, 200 of tribes east of Jordan. 163 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,400 And we see that God takes care of his people. 164 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:41,840 And when we when we see this, there's this because I don't 165 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,400 know how many of you have noticed. 166 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,040 I'm starting to, I think or probably the people around me 167 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,640 are having all these conversations about succession 168 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,640 plan. Probably in offices you've had 169 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:55,160 this succession plan is when one person is leaving or especially 170 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,480 now in the Christian world or in the spaces that I'm moving, 171 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,640 pretty much all the older people, 25, at least around 65 172 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,720 heading to 70, they're transitioning into retirement 173 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,640 and the next set of leaders are rising and all are rising across 174 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,200 my age group. They're all moving into places 175 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,080 of and so they're talking about what does good succession 176 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,680 planning look like? But even here when we see one 177 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,640 thing, Moses, I mean one thing Joshua did is he wholeheartedly 178 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,200 did what God had commanded Moses to do. 179 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,960 There are some things that Joshua probably couldn't step 180 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,280 out and that's what we saw. He lacked courage. 181 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,720 God told don't be afraid, I am with you. 182 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,840 He said I will be with you everywhere you go. 183 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,600 So I believe today some of the things that even when we are 184 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,880 getting transitioned to do certain things, especially with 185 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,920 generations passing on something, what, what, what are 186 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,720 some of the things that were a cornerstone for your father and 187 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,000 mother should become a cornerstone for you eventually. 188 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,360 Make the main things the main things don't make the main 189 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,360 things the side things. What worked well for your 190 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,960 parents, pick it up, start using it. 191 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,120 If you know some things didn't work well course corrected in 192 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,120 your life and make the main things mean. 193 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,320 As I as I as I was reading through that, I realized the 194 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,520 reason Joshua knew who Moses got it from was very vital, 195 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,160 especially for those of you who are struggling with what some of 196 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:17,520 the things your parents have said. 197 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,920 I love God to walk in and through you so that you'll be 198 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:22,680 able to see the wisdom that comes through that. 199 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,000 I'm starting to see the wisdom that has come through some of 200 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,920 the older people that have talked into my life added he 201 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,480 also would have known right how God dealt with it. 202 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,880 He saw Moses following wholeheartedly and Joshua knew 203 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,000 he had to follow God wholeheartedly. 204 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,400 There was nothing that Joshua did half heartedly because he'd 205 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,440 seen so much. He was with Moses from the Egypt 206 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:51,160 all the way to the Red Sea, all the way to seeing God in the 207 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,200 mountain, the idolatry, then the whole 40 years. 208 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,760 He saw what Moses did was done wholly towards God. 209 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:05,080 So I pray that as we journey in this life, as we are in this 210 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,640 place of taking certain things in our lives, we will do it from 211 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,920 a place of wholeheartedly that we won't, we won't, we won't be 212 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,200 half hearted about it. You know, I know how many of 213 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,640 you, but when when I was in college over here, we were that 214 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,400 time staying in a room in T Nagar and there was this buy 215 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,040 outside us and he'll, he'll bring this thing. 216 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,840 And so usually, typically like how you stay in college, you 217 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,920 know, the first two weeks you'll blow your money, you know, and 218 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,920 that's when you'll go and eat wherever possible. 219 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:38,800 That time, that time, I don't know. 220 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,080 We used to go and there was this thing called US pizza back in 221 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,080 2002. Buy one, get 1. 222 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,080 You know, that's the places we'll go or we'll have all you 223 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,640 can eat offers. Typical college student life. 224 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,160 But then when we come to the last week, you're really 225 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,600 counting pennies. You know, even that time you 226 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,800 won't go and eat it that time. I think 2002 is when it Morgan 227 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,800 at least started in T Nagar And I remember we won't go. 228 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,200 We would go first week, second week, but third and 4th week 229 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,960 we'll be in eating from a like from a because that Italy was 230 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,040 more affordable for us. But I remember when we wanted to 231 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,400 eat lunch, we can't afford the biryani. 232 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,480 So we'll ask him for Kuska. What is that? 233 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,680 Biryani flavored rice? That's it. 234 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,640 You should imagine that there's a piece and eat it, you know. 235 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:28,120 And so I'm that is, and I feel a lot of us are operating like 236 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:33,920 that where we are half hearted. We are saying, Lord, yes, God, I 237 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:35,520 believe you're calling me to take the land. 238 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,200 But the minute I first see the first hurdle, everything's 239 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,600 empty. We think we've got the flavour 240 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,920 of Christianity, but we aren't Christian at all. 241 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,920 We have the flavour of Christ because we lift our hands and 242 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,840 say Christ is my firm foundation, but it's really 243 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,880 hollowing. So then I pray when God wants 244 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,200 us. That's the reason I think even 245 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,320 our healing has to be whole. A redemption has to be whole. 246 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,120 When we give our lives to Jesus, he doesn't save us part he 247 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,080 covers us completely. He just doesn't save us from 248 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,400 that addiction. He also goes to the root issue 249 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,840 of that he doesn't save, he doesn't heal us just in the tip 250 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,640 he moves into the whole area of that's why we've been asking 251 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,240 God, God take us back to original design. 252 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,240 We are we've been talking. We are me and Tina have been 253 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,360 talking God autoimmune diseases are running across and today 254 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,800 what is the first thing the doctor asks you when you go did 255 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,040 your does your mother have sugar? 256 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,120 Does your father have sugar? Does your mother's mother have 257 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,560 sugar? And then suddenly you realize 258 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,360 it's running across generations. But here we're saying, God, we 259 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,680 want to take control of that. Change it. 260 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,280 You can only change it in the DNA level. 261 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,480 Start asking what those things? And so if that's the healing, 262 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,960 when we move into spaces where God's calling us to take things, 263 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,320 if God's calling you to run an NGO, if God's calling you to 264 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,160 take in a walk into certain segments of society, you'll have 265 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,600 to do things wholeheartedly because you're going to start 266 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,840 changing things inside out. And that's what Joshua is 267 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,520 wholeheartedly is what you're completely immersed in it, fully 268 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,200 committed to it. You have no reservation and no 269 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,240 hesitation. You have no doubt in the one 270 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,680 who's called you to it. You are fully committed to it. 271 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:27,120 So today I want to encourage you, Moses and Joshua were 272 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,840 encouraged by God constantly maybe be increased and maybe 273 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,400 operate out of a place of being whole. 274 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,800 And as we move that, I want to move to a place of looking to 275 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,280 the life of Caleb specifically. Joshua 14 was the 6 to 8 and 276 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,400 this is what it says. Now the people of Judah 277 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,160 approached Joshua Gilgal and Caleb son of Jeffrey the 278 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,960 kinesite said to him, You know what the Lord said to Moses the 279 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,680 man of God at Kadash Barnia, about you and me. 280 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,600 I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord sent me 281 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,400 from Kadesh Barnia to explore the land, and I brought him back 282 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,040 a report according to my convictions. 283 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,800 But my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts 284 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,120 of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my 285 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,520 God wholeheartedly. And so I've titled the sermon 286 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,440 today as following God wholeheartedly. 287 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:31,280 Because if we have to see anything change in US and in the 288 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,840 generations to come, it'll happen only when we follow 289 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:40,200 wholeheartedly. I as I look back, are some of 290 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,960 the miracles not happening in my life because I'm not fully 291 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,680 committed to it? Are some of the breakthroughs in 292 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,240 my life not coming through because I'm not fully committed 293 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,000 to it? Are some of the things that I'm 294 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,280 not able to overcome because I'm not fully committed to 295 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,160 redemption and breaking free from those addictions because if 296 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,360 we are not committed to it wholeheartedly, Jesus didn't go 297 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,960 and die on the cross half heartedly. 298 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,319 No, in the Garden of Gethsemane when he was there, he said, 299 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:12,359 Lord, let not my will, but your will be done. 300 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,160 He didn't have a sketch over there saying Lord, this is my 301 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,760 will. He completely removed that and 302 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,520 said let on my will, but your will be done. 303 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,040 Your will be done. And so today I want us to come 304 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,560 to a place of saying God the same way I want to ask, let not 305 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,920 my will, but your will be done. And we see here what is what the 306 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,680 back story of this entire thing was Joshua and Caleb and twelve 307 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,360 others were, I mean, and ten others were sent to go and spy 308 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:44,200 the land in Numbers chapter 13, verses one to four and verse 6. 309 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,560 This is what it says the Lord said to Moses, send some men to 310 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,280 explore the land of Canaan, which I'm giving to the 311 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:56,240 Israelites from each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders. 312 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,080 So who is he sending? He's sending leaders. 313 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,800 So at the Lord's command, Moses sent out from the desert of 314 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,520 Bahran all who are leaders of the Israelites. 315 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,640 These are their names was 4. Now we go to verse 6 from the 316 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,920 tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Gefne was sent. 317 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,680 And in fact, if you go a couple of chapters earlier, you'll 318 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,760 realize some of these elders were called to the mountain of 319 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,880 the Lord and God's glory descended upon them and they all 320 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,840 started to prophecy. So these were not just ordinary 321 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,320 leaders. They were also leaders who had 322 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,880 witnessed the glory of God. They were not just people who 323 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,360 were just leaders in their community. 324 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:38,400 They had also seen what God had done and what they were and how 325 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,160 they were LED through. So Caleb is one among the 326 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,400 leaders who's who's being sent into and go and spy the land. 327 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,280 What land were they going and spying? 328 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,000 The land that was promised to Abraham that he'll take them to 329 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,840 a promised land and just be flowing with milk and honey. 330 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,440 And that's what he's going back and saying if like he's saying 331 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,240 40 years later when the time of division is coming, he's saying 332 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,320 God said he has a promise for me. 333 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:08,000 I'm now coming and taking claim and I want us to move to to that 334 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,760 place where if we want to be like Caleb today, taking the 335 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,680 land as much as it sounds nice is hard work. 336 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,600 Home, if you can agree, it's time consuming. 337 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:26,600 Home if you can agree, might also take 10 years, 20 years, 338 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:28,520 but the goal is the same. Amen. 339 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:34,080 And so there are three things I want to go from Caleb's life, 340 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,200 which I think we need to adapt into our into our own lives, 341 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,840 which, and if you do it quickly, the better it is. 342 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,880 The first thing is wholehearted pursuit of God and not man. 343 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,600 First thing, wholehearted pursuit of God and not man. 344 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,840 Caleb wholeheartedly pursued God and he in that verse, it says he 345 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,480 was 40 years old when he was sent out to go as a spy. 346 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,640 He had witnessed the entire nation walking out of freedom 347 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,720 from Egypt, crossing the Red Sea and the provision that was done 348 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,200 in the desert. He was also one of the elders 349 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:09,840 that experienced the glory of God. 350 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:16,400 It's interesting that he was a elder in a tribe, but he knew 351 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,520 who God was. He knew who Moses was. 352 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,240 And that's what I want to come down. 353 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,280 A lot of you today will come and say, you know what? 354 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,320 This, this is my spiritual father. 355 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,400 The I'm the spiritual daughter of this person. 356 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,720 This is my Papa. This is my Mama, spiritual Papa, 357 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,480 Mama. All that is good. 358 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,440 But do you really know who God is? 359 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,520 Do you really know who God is? Caleb could have come under the 360 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,880 glory cloud of Moses, but no, he went notch above. 361 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,600 He went, Who is Moses talking to? 362 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,040 He's my God today. It's very important. 363 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,560 I'll be wholeheartedly pursuing God and not man. 364 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,400 Because if you want to take the land, if you're having someone 365 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,120 else, if you're pursuing someone else, you'll only be pursuing 366 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:09,480 what they want today. What is God calling you? 367 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:14,800 What is God calling you? Numbers Chapter 11, verses 24 to 368 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,280 25. This is the place where he gets 369 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,000 the glory of God comes down, it says. 370 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,600 So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. 371 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,200 He brought together 70 of the elders and had them stand around 372 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,200 the tent. When the Lord came down in the 373 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,520 cloud and spoke with them, he took some of the power of the 374 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,720 Spirit that was on him and put it on the 70 elders. 375 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,920 When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did 376 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,280 not sow Again, our encounter with God is very important. 377 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,480 If you haven't encountered God, you can't pursue God. 378 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,000 If you haven't encountered God, you can't run after the things 379 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,560 that God's deposited in your hearts. 380 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,160 And so today I want to ask you, are you marked wholeheartedly by 381 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,960 God? Are you marked wholeheartedly by 382 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,200 God? I'm time and again talking to a 383 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,640 lot of people. I know why God brings them in my 384 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,680 life. They come and say, I want to 385 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,640 have coffee with you and I'd start the conversation and 386 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,080 they'll start, I'm really hurt with the church. 387 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,880 I'm really hurt with this. I'm really hurt with that. 388 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,720 And then I have to say, hey, you can be hurt at the end of the 389 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:29,440 day by people, but if you're pursuing God, you will soon 390 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,160 realize you are doing it for God alone. 391 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,840 A lot of musicians come and tell me, you know what, that church 392 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:41,400 just used me and I said, hey, they used you, but your glory 393 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:42,960 was going for God. So at the end of the day, if 394 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,280 you're crying that that church to use you, your heart was not 395 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,920 in the right place, don't come and complain to me. 396 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,800 Oh, I'm not this camera guy. I was doing camera, but they 397 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,160 didn't, they didn't even acknowledge me. 398 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,760 I said, who do you do it for? You did it for God. 399 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,240 What's the joy of the Lord in your serving? 400 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,920 In fact, today I was talking to a couple of the musicians. 401 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,120 They are choosing churches which will allow them to have a 402 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,960 keyboard Cam and a drum Cam so that they'll have content for 403 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,240 their social media. If you're running after this, 404 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,440 the reason why I'm saying this, these are human tendencies. 405 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:24,000 If we don't run after what God's calling us wholeheartedly, we 406 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,720 will pursue what the world is calling us to pursue. 407 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,400 We will pursue what the world is calling us to pursue. 408 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:37,000 Caleb was marked by God in the mountain and he knew that if he 409 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,800 had to enter the promised land, he has to follow God's command, 410 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:46,080 not event Moses's command. So I pray that we will have the 411 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:51,120 our, our, our vision will be set on the right person. 412 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,880 You know, there's this song which says, Lord, I don't want 413 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,440 to seek your hand, but I want to see your face. 414 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,640 How many of you really sing it with your heart? 415 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:05,160 It's hard because every time you go to God, there is a list that 416 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,560 we have got. I need this breakthrough. 417 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,920 I need we need to see this come through all that. 418 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,760 But God said seek my face. How many of you know seeking 419 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,680 face won't there's a limitation. How many of you actually even 420 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,480 dating your wife or having coffee have just looked at the 421 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,600 face after like you know maximum what you can do till the coffee 422 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,520 lasts? Because what happens when you're 423 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,080 looking at your face? They start asking you 424 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,080 uncomfortable questions. They start going to the root 425 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,640 issues of the problem. They start saying hey, that day 426 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,800 what you said really hurt me. Hey that day, the way you acted 427 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,560 like that didn't didn't sit with me. 428 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,800 The minute your eyes move from the hand to the face is when you 429 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,360 get into the reality of life is when you get into the reality of 430 00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:00,120 the issues. And today, may we pursue God 431 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:02,440 wholeheartedly. Caleb knew what he was doing. 432 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,880 Not wholeheartedly marked by men. 433 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,560 A lot of us are serving the, you know, you need to do the things 434 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,280 that you've planned to do, yes, so that you're all moving in One 435 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,000 Direction. But for your own life, are you 436 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,320 marked out by God? Because that is where it'll 437 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,600 come. Because what happens is when 438 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:28,120 Moses sends these 12 spies out, they come back, ten of them see 439 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,400 the land and what do they see? They see giants. 440 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,160 What else do they see? They see defeat. 441 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,800 They see that they won't be able to conquer it. 442 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,360 But what was the response that came from Caleb is very 443 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:44,440 important. I pray if you're marked the way 444 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,960 you see certain things will be different. 445 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,080 So the Numbers chapter 13, verses 26 to 33, it says they 446 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,920 came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community 447 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,560 and Kadesh in the desert of Paran. 448 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,840 They had, they reported to them and to the whole assembly and 449 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,960 showed them the fruit of the land. 450 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:03,720 They gave Moses this account. We went into the land to which 451 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,880 you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey. 452 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,280 Here is its fruit. But the people who live there 453 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,400 are powerful and the cities are fortified and very large. 454 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,840 We even saw descendants of Anak there. 455 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,360 The Amalekites live in the Negev, the Hittites, Jebusites, 456 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,160 Amorites live in the Hill Country, and the Canaanites live 457 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,120 near the sea and along the Jordan. 458 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,080 Now just make a note of the descendants of an arc in verse 459 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,600 28. Let's go to verse 30. 460 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,160 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said we should 461 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,160 go and take a position of the land, for we can certainly do 462 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,200 it. I'm going to read it again. 463 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,440 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said we should 464 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:54,520 go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do 465 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,160 it. That's why you'll realize when 466 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,160 you're marked out to taking your land, you'll be only a fewer 467 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,840 number. You'll be only a few. 468 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,400 And you know, these are some management principles. 469 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,320 If you're listening to this in a Ted talk, you're willing to 470 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,520 receive it, isn't it? How many of you have done that 471 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:19,800 Ted type talk? You're listening. 472 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,480 Even if it's Ted X Bangalore or something else also, you're 473 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,960 listening to that. But why are we failing to 474 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,800 receive the person who's encountered God and was 475 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,680 challenging by the life that he's lived? 476 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,640 You know, yesterday we were in a conference. 477 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:41,680 I was producing the conference and the guy we had a speaker who 478 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,800 the, the guy who started Burrito Bowl. 479 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:48,840 You know, he's an American who came here to 21 and then fell in 480 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,240 love, started the business and now has 100 outlets, $100 481 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,880 million business. And he's he, he came, he's a 482 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,640 person of the Christian faith and he was sharing of how God 483 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,000 led him here and how he's built this entire thing. 484 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,960 And I just realized the immediate attention of everyone 485 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,640 in the room changed. The questions that came out was 486 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,880 how do you know you could do this, all that. 487 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,760 And I was, I think I was also meditating on my sermon because 488 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,000 I was like, man, look it up. You know, the minute it's about 489 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,040 valuation, it's about this, it's about the idea for the world. 490 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,640 You're like, man, how can I get on that bandwagon? 491 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,520 But God is asking you, how can I mock you so that when time comes 492 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,400 you'll be boldly able to claim the land? 493 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,320 Just imagine this, two out of the 10, two out of the two out 494 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,600 of the 12 are actually just standing there and sing and it's 495 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,360 and it and it says in verse 31. But the men who had gone up with 496 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,920 him said we can't attack those people, they are stronger than 497 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,840 we are. And they spread among the 498 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,440 Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. 499 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,120 They said the land we explored devours those living in it. 500 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,960 All the people we saw there are of great size. 501 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,560 We saw the Nephilim, that the descendants of Anak come from 502 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,960 Nephilim. So verse 33, Nephilim, if you go 503 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,800 back out in Genesis where they were, they made daughters of 504 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,440 man. And then you can see that they 505 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,240 were all giants at that time. They did evil and all that. 506 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,920 And so we seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, 507 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:23,240 and we looked the same to them. If you're wholeheartedly marked, 508 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,720 we'll see what God wants us to see and not what man is wanting 509 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,240 us to see. It might sound like a minority 510 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,760 report that we're giving, but it is minority because our 511 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:40,560 dependency is entirely on God. Caleb knew the God that he 512 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,480 worship. He saw a pillar of clouder by 513 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:47,720 day and a fire by night. He saw the seas open and he knew 514 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,200 that anything that had brought them out of captivity from Egypt 515 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,160 all the way here can only be done by a living God. 516 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,720 And I want to go back to a response of what he says in 517 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,040 Joshua 14. So this is when he was 40 years 518 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:06,520 old and 45 years old, and then 40 years later when he's 85. 519 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,440 This is what Caleb's response is to Joshua when he asks him for 520 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,880 the land in Joshua 14 was 10 to 15. 521 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,720 This is what it says now. Then, just as the Lord promised, 522 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,120 he has kept me alive. This is what Caleb is telling 523 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,800 Joshua. He's kept me alive for 45 years, 524 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,600 since the time he said this to Moses while Israel moved about 525 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,160 in the wilderness. So here I am today, 85 years 526 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,680 old. I am still as strong today as 527 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:38,160 the day Moses sent me out. I'm just as vigorous to go out 528 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,400 to battle now as I was then. Now give me this Hill Country 529 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,000 that the Lord promised me that day. 530 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,440 You yourself heard that then, that the Anakites there were 531 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,680 there, and their cities were large and fortified. 532 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,560 But the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. 533 00:30:54,560 --> 00:31:01,600 Just as he said 45 years. When he was 45 years old, he 534 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,400 went and he saw the place the report was. 535 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,120 They all look like grasshoppers. After 40 years of roaming in the 536 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,040 desert, he's going and saying give me this particular Hill 537 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,920 Country. He's not asking for the easy 538 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,680 terrain. He's asking for the very place 539 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,920 where the Analekites are, where it's tough. 540 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,240 How many of you know fighting in a Hill Country is challenging? 541 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,760 You can't just climb up. They can easily do whatever they 542 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,800 want. You're you don't you can't 543 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,040 really be offensive in those places. 544 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,920 But he's saying I still have the vigor that I had when I was 45 545 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,560 years old. So today I pray and ask when we 546 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,400 are mocked holy by God, we will start pursuing him. 547 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,640 And then at the end of the day, what will happen? 548 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:51,200 We'll be able to see God come to not just in this age, not in 549 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:56,880 2025, but even in 2065. We'll be able to have that 550 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,840 bigger to say, God, I'm here to take more for you. 551 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,880 Verse 13, it says then the Lord, then Joshua blessed Caleb's son 552 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,600 of Jeffne and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. 553 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,360 So Hebron has belonged to Caleb's son of Jeffne the 554 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,880 Kinesite ever since because he followed the Lord, the God of 555 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,760 his wholeheartedly. Hebron used to be called Crea 556 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,320 Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the 557 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,160 Anocrates. The land had rest from war. 558 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:31,240 So today I would My challenge to us all is, can we be 559 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,200 wholeheartedly pursue? Can we wholeheartedly pursue God 560 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,120 and be marked by God? I think I mentioned this earlier 561 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,200 that we won't be wholeheartedly committed to God just for a 562 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,320 miracle, but to everything that God has wholeheartedly marked 563 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,840 out. I've mentioned this before, 564 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:56,040 miracles will come, they're just the pit stop, but I'd be pray 565 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,640 that we'll be fueled for what God has called us to do. 566 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,160 The second thing is a whole hearted dependence on God that 567 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,800 this is where faith is unwavering in the midst of 568 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,560 circumstances. The outcome of these 12 spies 569 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:18,080 was of the 12 spies, if you notice 2 gave a good report but 570 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,800 they were few number. The 10 rebelled and then what 571 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,480 happened as an outcome for the next 40 years? 572 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,600 God told them to turn back and made them go around the desert. 573 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,720 Caleb, in this 40 years, how do you think his position would 574 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:38,200 have been? Let's let's ask how many of you 575 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,720 have been in class you've completed a homework or you or 576 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,840 because you didn't complete the homework and one that one girl 577 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,440 who completed it. All of you got in position like 578 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:54,880 5 * 10 times and then what what will be like bitterness. 579 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,960 We we'll be upset human nature is that what do you think Caleb 580 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:05,840 would have felt frustrated. Yes, I knew this is what God 581 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,440 asked us to do. But because of the disobedience 582 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,480 of these ten other people. We are wandering the desert. 583 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,679 But I believe it's in those seasons of times because he's 584 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:19,679 marked He's also always learning when you're marked you're also 585 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,600 looking around. He wasn't just a person who saw 586 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,520 things. He's just like you and us. 587 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,960 He was marked out by God. And So what happened? 588 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:32,159 We see in Numbers, 14 was 2. They grumbled against Moses and 589 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:34,120 Aaron. First thing he saw them 590 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:38,000 grumbling. 14 was three. It says they argued why God 591 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,400 brought them. Will God not know best what has 592 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,159 to happen? They they questioned God and 14 593 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:48,400 four, they wanted to choose a leader. 594 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,960 You saw the immediate decline of when you're not marked by God, 595 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,560 when you start, not when you're unable to see faith in the 596 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,200 journey that God's called you. What do you do? 597 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,640 You start grumbling, you start arguing, and then what happens? 598 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,720 You want to rebel and choose a new leader. 599 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:10,440 They wanted someone who can assure them and they didn't want 600 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,840 God to lead them. That's what 14-4 says. 601 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,200 It's important what we learn in our 40s because it'll keep us in 602 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,400 track in our 80s. So I mean, I put that in my for 603 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,280 my age, but I want you to put it for your age because it's not 604 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,640 too late to change and unlearn and do things. 605 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:33,800 What can, what do we, what are we called to learn now? 606 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,040 What are you seeing now that you're like, God? 607 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,560 This is the trajectory we will do from now on. 608 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,800 We're not going to go back. We won't do the old ways, but 609 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,040 we'll depend on you. I pray that we won't grumble, we 610 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:53,080 won't argue, and I pray that we won't just go about thinking, 611 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:57,440 you know what this is. God puts people ahead of us, but 612 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,080 we are called to keep our eyes on God. 613 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:05,240 We are called to keep our eyes on God when we when you go 614 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:10,360 through that entire thing. I want to read out the promise 615 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:15,560 that that God gives to Caleb directly. 616 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,160 Numbers 14 was his five to 9. This is what he holds on to that 617 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,080 Moses and Aaron fell face down in front of the whole Israelite 618 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,120 assembly gathered that this is when they started rebelling and 619 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,160 they started They wanted to change the leader and all that 620 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,400 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jeff who were among those who 621 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,840 had explored the land told their clothes. 622 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,800 In fact, just a couple of hours back, Joyce was talking to the 623 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,240 youth and she talked from the beatitudes of what it is to 624 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:44,840 mourn. And it's interesting, like I 625 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,280 didn't realize that she's talking on that particular 626 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:48,960 beatitude. But as she was talking, I was 627 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,920 reminded from the same passage. When we are marked by God and 628 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,320 evidence of it is we will tear our clothes and we will mourn. 629 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,960 When there is severe disobedience, when people are 630 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:06,600 blinded by the enemy, we will mourn so that they'll be. 631 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,080 And I believe Caleb outlived what the New Testament did. 632 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,360 He tore his clothes and he was comforted. 633 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,400 That comfort came from God. That's why 40 years he was able 634 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,360 to wander the wilderness and still make it into the promised 635 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,120 land. And so today it goes on to say 636 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,520 verse 7 and said to the entire, yeah, here God says to the 637 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,760 entire entire assembly, the land we pass through and explode is 638 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,680 exceedingly good. If the Lord is pleased with us, 639 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,040 he will lead us into the oh, so this is Moses telling the land 640 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,760 we pass through the through and export is exceedingly good. 641 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,280 If the Lord is pleased with us, He will lead us into that land, 642 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,480 a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. 643 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,840 Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not be afraid of 644 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,560 the people of the land, because we will devour them. 645 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,400 Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. 646 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:01,080 Do not be afraid of them. Let's jump towards 20 to 25. 647 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,640 Then the Lord replied, I've forgiven them because this is 648 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,320 where Moses says God don't wipe us out, because we'll be a 649 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,360 laughing stock to the people around. 650 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,080 They'll think this God LED them into the desert and death them. 651 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,320 And so the Lord replacing I have forgiven them as you asked. 652 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:19,000 Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as a Lord God 653 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,120 fills the whole earth, Not one of those who saw my glory and 654 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:27,440 the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but who 655 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,200 disobeyed me and tested me 10 times. 656 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,680 Not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to 657 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,800 their ancestors. No one who has treated me with 658 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,920 contempt, If you can circle contempt, that's an important 659 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,720 thing in our Christian walk, will ever see it. 660 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:47,000 God doesn't like anyone who treats him with contempt. 661 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,880 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows 662 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,800 me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to and 663 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:02,680 his descendants will inherit it. He was 25. 664 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,160 In fact, he this is where got done. 665 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,240 Since the Amalekites and candidates are living in the 666 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,480 valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along 667 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,720 the route of the Red Sea. It's important over here, as I 668 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:19,320 said, that contempt. God doesn't like anyone who 669 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:20,840 treats him. What is contempt? 670 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,080 You're treating him like he's not God. 671 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,960 God says I'll wipe, I literally wipe them out and he and it's 672 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,680 interesting in this journey, which Caleb had to take. 673 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:35,680 The reason why I said that his dependence was on God was he 674 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,640 knew that he's got the promise from God that he'll see the 675 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,480 promised land. But now he's also having to 676 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,840 journey in this entire journey with community repentance. 677 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,800 They all are walking in the wilderness 40 years it says God 678 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,960 still protected them. Their shoes didn't wither, their 679 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:57,200 clothings remain intact. And so today, maybe you're in 680 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,240 this journey where you're like you're, you're, it feels like 681 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,840 you're going in circles, but hold on to God. 682 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,920 If you're wholeheartedly looking to God, when that miracle comes, 683 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,200 when that promise comes, you'll be able to see God through it 684 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,520 and you'll see what God's calling you to do through that. 685 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,280 Because it just doesn't stop there. 686 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,840 Caleb participated even in the wilderness journey. 687 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,040 He didn't hold back, He didn't say, no, I'm not, I'll pitch a 688 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,480 tent here. You guys roam for 40 years and 689 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,600 then when you're coming down this road, I'll join you guys, 690 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,480 then I can enter. No, he participated in it. 691 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,120 He was in. When you look at the Israelites 692 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,520 participation, when they actually got all the 693 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:40,320 instructions, it was heavy. Following the God of Israel was 694 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:41,560 heavy. They had to go through 695 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,800 purification, go through all the different feasts, everything in 696 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,360 the wilderness for 40 years. He participated wholeheartedly, 697 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,040 and it was because his dependence was on God. 698 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,360 He lasted through the 40 years of roaming in the wilderness, 699 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,840 and I believe he wouldn't have just been quiet. 700 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,120 He would have told the next generation of who this God was. 701 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,000 He would have told them who this group of people are. 702 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,920 It's not a coincidence that Jesus comes from the tribe of 703 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,960 Judah. When you look at Caleb, Caleb 704 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:18,360 mirrors a lot like Jesus. He was the only one who entered 705 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,600 as a man. If you look, was an appointed 706 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,480 one who because of his faith entered into the promised land. 707 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,440 Jesus was the only one who came and saved us and he was from the 708 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,280 tribe of Judah. The eternal one was from the 709 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:33,760 tribe of Judah. So today when we are called, may 710 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,200 a wholehearted dependence be on him. 711 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,400 Dependence. Yesterday when I was coming, I 712 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,960 was talking to in the night when we were coming, I was coming as 713 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:47,320 one of the guys who's a prominent production guy here 714 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,400 and we were just talking and he was telling, I'm really worried 715 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,440 if I can save enough for my daughter because you know, in 716 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,240 this line of work we are highly dependent. 717 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:58,360 During COVID, I struggled all that I said, yes, we can't, we 718 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:05,120 have to do our part, but wholeheartedly is our entire 719 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,560 thing on what we've done or is it on God? 720 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,560 Because if it's on God, we'll also teach them how to handle 721 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,480 what has been given to them. And that's the next point which 722 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,080 I wanted to go to because if we're not careful, there'll be 723 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,880 portions in our time when we will treat God with contempt. 724 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,040 Today, what are the areas that we've been treating God with 725 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,360 contempt? I, I, I can sometimes go down 726 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,000 that road very easily. As human as it is, I can 727 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,680 suddenly grumble, God, only if I had that gear. 728 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,360 I think my work life will be better. 729 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,600 If I had that camera, I think it would be nice. 730 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,000 Or if I had this opportunity it would be nice. 731 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:46,240 But I've realized that many a times my dependence on on the 732 00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:49,960 things that might make it happen and not entirely on God. 733 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:58,200 Take God at his word. The promised land was filled 734 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,040 with milk and honey. It was right that he saw it with 735 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,200 his eyes. Attitudes could have changed. 736 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:10,440 He could have become resentful. No, but through that he said he 737 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,480 will depend on God wholeheartedly. 40 years. 738 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,480 Just imagine he's coming back and he's claiming it 40 years 739 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,560 later with vigor. He's not coming defeated. 740 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,760 He's not coming worn out. He's coming with extra vigor to 741 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,920 capture what God's called him to take, which was given to him in 742 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:35,360 fact. Isaiah chapter 41 verse 10 and 743 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:40,400 the passion translations it says do not yield to fear for I'm 744 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,200 always near. Never turn your gaze from me for 745 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:48,560 I am your faithful God. I will infuse you with my 746 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,840 strength and help you in every situation. 747 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,480 I will hold you firmly with my victorious right hand. 748 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,160 Isaiah 41 verse 10. And so today, if you are having 749 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,800 doubt, I pray that if you've, if you've treated God with contempt 750 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,640 to God, I don't think you can work this out. 751 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,320 I'll go and do it. No, maybe move back and say, 752 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,840 God, I'm sorry for treating you with if I've grumbled about you, 753 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,800 if I've grumbled about my life, what you've given to me, Lord, 754 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,760 I'm sorry. I pray that Lord, we would be in 755 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:23,480 a place where we'll be able to respond, where we will not yield 756 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:28,160 to fear, but we'll turn our gaze, Lord, from ourselves to 757 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,040 you. Please infuse us with your 758 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,240 strength and help us in this very situation. 759 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,920 So I pray that we'll be in that place where we'll be able to 760 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,360 respond. Hebrews chapter 10, verses 23 to 761 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,480 25 in the NLP. So this is how we can be wholly 762 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,240 dependent on God. It says let us hold tightly 763 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,400 without wavering to the hope we are formed for God can be 764 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,040 trusted to keep his promise. Let us think of the ways to 765 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,080 motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 766 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,560 And let us not neglect our meeting together as some people 767 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,680 do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of 768 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,880 his return is drawing near. So today, if you and I have to 769 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:11,800 keep this dependence, what we're doing here is point #3 but you 770 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,120 also have to do point #1 which says personally, we need to hold 771 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,520 on to him tightly, not hold on to him tightly. 772 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,920 Only when it when the situation hits through the roof, even in 773 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,760 the everyday, you hold on to Him tightly. 774 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,160 You don't have, you shouldn't have any doubt. 775 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,560 You shouldn't be without wavering constantly reaffirm the 776 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:36,160 hope that you have in him. Find ways to motivate each 777 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:37,560 other. The reason why we gather here, 778 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,960 the reason even why we are starting to pray, this is 779 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,800 because we are motivating each other. 780 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,840 This has become a motivating factor for so many things. 781 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,720 The 30 days of miracles is stemming out of this. 782 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,480 A Christmas bazaar is stemming out of this. 783 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,880 If we are not able to see what God's depositing in us to do 784 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:03,280 then and there for the people, because the gospel is not just 785 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,680 for us, it's for every person, every mankind God's created. 786 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,600 Find ways to motivate. I pray that you'll find ways to 787 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,200 motivate. Don't and don't wait. 788 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,200 If you're spending time, spend equal amount of time as much as 789 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,480 if you listen to 5 minutes of the story of how God didn't come 790 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,000 through. Spend 10 minutes encouraging and 791 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,080 praying. Don't spend one minute praying. 792 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,960 Increase that fold. It changes your perspective 793 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,600 entirely. It changes the narrative you're 794 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,120 writing. It changes the storyboard. 795 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,720 Suddenly the focus, camera focus is not on the problem, It's 796 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:43,760 suddenly it's on God and you're seeing the problem can be solved 797 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,640 through God. Two people are in agreement. 798 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,640 Let's move in more. How many of you really want to 799 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,240 see miracles happen? Amen. 800 00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,160 Miracles. So that you will be a testimony 801 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,800 for others. You will be a testimony for 802 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,440 others. In fact, Abby is leaving to 803 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,560 Colombo. Tina was also supposed to go 804 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,320 there. They're having Pan India, 805 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:10,320 they're having city leaders come in different sections to talk. 806 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:15,440 And Tina was supposed to go, but then all of a sudden it's the 807 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,360 evening high fever, body pain and everything. 808 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,560 And so she's sick. And so I stayed at night. 809 00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,880 When I came back, I came back by 2:13 at night. 810 00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:26,360 And as I was seeing, I was just praying over and I remind and I 811 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,640 was reminded that what she's going through is just because of 812 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,400 the Bible plan going out. Day one just got over. 813 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,480 Day one just got over. And so some of the things that 814 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,800 you're going through ask God, give me clarity. 815 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,640 Why am I going through this? Did I claim a section of your 816 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:44,840 word? Is that why the struggle has 817 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,480 started? Which means you go back and hold 818 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,280 onto it tightly. So I stayed at night at 2:30, 819 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,560 she took medicine and I prayed over God. 820 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,560 You're going to heal her. You're going to heal her. 821 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,880 You're going to bring her back. You're going to put her. 822 00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,800 I mean, we cancel the ticket. I mean, I cancelled because I 823 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,240 didn't want to take the risk of sending her with especially 824 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:05,640 travel with fever. But as we pray, I know God, 825 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,600 you're doing something today. You're going to do something, 826 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,640 you're going to revive her. So today these struggles will 827 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,960 come, but can you push through to it? 828 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,400 Can you move through it? Whatever it is, if you've 829 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:20,720 claimed something, it can even be as simple as the worst of the 830 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:23,360 day. You probably got that worst of 831 00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,960 the day and it's resonated with you for the for your office, but 832 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:30,800 you're being barged in hard. Hold on to push through, push 833 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,800 through it. When you look through Caleb's 834 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,920 life, the Third Point is a bringing is very important 835 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,440 because if we don't push through, we become the stumbling 836 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,480 block for the next generation. Wholehearted, committed, 837 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,520 wholeheartedly committed to the next generation. 838 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,920 The third thing, what Caleb did was just not for himself. 839 00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,680 If he had just stopped that, if he had started, you know what, 840 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,720 this 40 years is so hard. And if his story ended that it 841 00:48:59,720 --> 00:49:02,160 would have been the stumbling block for every other generation 842 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:07,120 that followed after him. You know, sometimes we how many 843 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,520 of you have experienced, sometimes your parents are 844 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,160 living in bitterness in certain areas of their lives. 845 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,160 Life happens. I'm sure my children also will 846 00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,440 be able to say mummy and daddy are in certain areas bitter 847 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,800 about certain things because life happens. 848 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,680 And so if we choose to stay there, what is a stumbling 849 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,520 block? It's not a stone that you can 850 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,440 put your leg over. It's literally causing you to 851 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,160 trip. It's causing some kind of 852 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,600 physical damage that you're not able to. 853 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,760 It's making incapacitated so you can't move further. 854 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:43,040 And I pray and ask that in our generation that we wouldn't 855 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,080 become a stumbling block in whatever. 856 00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,720 So if, if hardships come, if struggles come, let's move 857 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:50,320 through. If you're walking through 858 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,080 corporate repentance and grieving moments, let's move 859 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:55,800 through that so that God will come through. 860 00:49:56,720 --> 00:50:01,160 God will come through. Caleb was so committed to this 861 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,200 because he saw what his future was. 862 00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,160 He's coming at 85 and he's saying, I'll go take the land of 863 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,800 the Analykites. I'll go take that guy down. 864 00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,000 And he went ahead and he did it. He was a man with. 865 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,480 The difference between Joshua, 15 was 13 to 9, Teen says in 866 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,480 accordance. Yeah, I think we did that. 867 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,000 Oh, Joshua, 15, was in accordance with Lord's comment. 868 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:28,520 Joshua gave to Caleb, son of Jeffrey, a portion of Judah from 869 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,960 Hebron. Caleb drew out three Anakites, 870 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,440 Shashi, Ahiam and Thalmay, the sons of Enoch. 871 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,920 From there he marched against the people living in debit 872 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,800 formerly called Kirat Sepha. And Caleb said, I will give my 873 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,920 daughter Aksa in marriage to the man who attacks and captures 874 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,240 Kirat. Sepha Otnil, son of Kanas, 875 00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:53,240 Caleb's brother, took it. So Caleb gave his daughter Aksa 876 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:55,800 to him in marriage. He was 18. 877 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,960 One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him to ask 878 00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:03,520 her father for a field. When she got off a donkey, Caleb 879 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:08,400 asked her what can I do for you? She replied, do me a special 880 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,080 favour since you have been, since you have given me land in 881 00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,240 the Negev, give me also the springs of water. 882 00:51:15,240 --> 00:51:19,000 So Caleb gave her the upper and the lower springs. 883 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:24,000 What Caleb does here is he goes, he occupies the land, he clears 884 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:28,000 the land, and then as he's going, he occupies the land and 885 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,120 his daughter gets it as an inheritance. 886 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,320 But again, when you look at the portion of Negev, it requires 887 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,440 water for sustaining Negev. Is it it's it's what do you say? 888 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,840 It gets dried off fast. It's a it needs water sources 889 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,800 and it's crucial for survival and for the prosperity for 890 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,040 anything to flourish in the land. 891 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,480 And so when she comes to ask what does he do? 892 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,280 He just doesn't give one. He gives both the upper springs 893 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,160 and the lower springs. And so the more I realize is 894 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,080 what when we've gone through this, we'll also know critically 895 00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,560 think what will benefit the next generation. 896 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,680 We won't just randomly do things. 897 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,640 We'll be because the Spirit is working and through us. 898 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,880 We'll become critical thinkers. Everything that was done in the 899 00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:19,600 New Testament with regard to all the apostles, when the when the 900 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,160 church actually even sent out call in bar numbers to go and do 901 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,440 the mission work, everything was done critically because they 902 00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,720 were sent to cities because cities were places of influence. 903 00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,560 So three, you and I as children of God aren't going to shoot 10 904 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,160 different bullets and say God's will happen. 905 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:39,040 No, they're going to listen, wait, be marked out, be 906 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:42,840 dependent and we'll go out so that the future generations have 907 00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,480 a path to follow. How many of you are saying, 908 00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:50,440 ready God, I want to do that, critical thinker so that God 909 00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:55,400 could do it in and through us. And I pray this will only happen 910 00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,680 when we are in this journey where we moan with them, where 911 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:03,800 we are with them physically. And then we are encouraged to 912 00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,840 live it out and say God did this for me and he can also do it for 913 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,320 you. Now when you go to these 914 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,760 springs, it will require you to do something. 915 00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:17,280 Trust God, hold on to God. Let's see how it happens, and 916 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:18,920 even I say concur. I just want to go back to the 917 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,800 New Testament. The comparison which I threw 918 00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:22,840 previously about Caleb and Jesus. 919 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:28,880 They were from the tribe of Judah. 1 was entering the 920 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,800 promised land. Jesus was all that was needed to 921 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,240 bring redemption for mankind. He's taken us into the promised 922 00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:38,080 land. What is a promised land? 923 00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:39,360 We're going to spend eternity with them. 924 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:44,200 We have our names in the book of Heaven and I pray as much as 925 00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,080 Caleb was marked out, it said that after that they were not 926 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,120 able to prophecy because at one instance they were marked out. 927 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,640 But Ray, you and I are marked out by God. 928 00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:58,080 He's with us everyday because the Holy Spirit is within us, is 929 00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,960 within us. On Monday we had a meeting here 930 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,920 and Ramesh Richard was here and he was sharing with all the 931 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:09,920 leaders and a couple of got the opportunity to sit here and he 932 00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,600 said this one thing which I want to leave with you as a church. 933 00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,400 I, if anything that you're taking out of this. 934 00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:20,040 Remember he said at the end of the day, we are called to be 935 00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,760 useful for this Kingdom. You're not looking for 936 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,480 prominence, you're not looking for significance. 937 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,800 We want to be useful for this Kingdom. 938 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,600 He says usefulness is the driving force of the servants of 939 00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,840 Christ, not significance, usefulness. 940 00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:40,320 How many of you want to be useful? 941 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:48,240 Let's turn the in the Christian lingo, Indian Christian lingos 942 00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:52,320 used by God is one thing. No, I want to be useful. 943 00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,080 Why? Wherever I'm placed, I want to 944 00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:00,480 be useful because useful. When I'm there was a season in 945 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:04,040 my life and I had to be useful in this space before that, that 946 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,640 was a useful. That was a stage in my life I 947 00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,000 had to be useful. When I had to put lyrics in a 948 00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:14,120 old Windows 95 computer, type words in HTML and make sure that 949 00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,320 was the lyrics that we were putting before. 950 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,200 That was setting up chairs, cleaning chairs. 951 00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:24,680 There are seasons stages when you'll be useful. 952 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:29,960 Don't desire a stage when you've not gone through the course. 953 00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:33,480 You can't be useful. You'd rather become a nuisance 954 00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,680 because you've not gone through the process. 955 00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:41,000 Caleb was useful because he had gone through the process. 956 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,720 The only man and his family to get an inheritance. 957 00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:50,280 Rest all went to a tribe. Imagine rest all went to a 958 00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:55,160 tribe. Only one person gets land that's 959 00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,920 exclusively for him because of his obedience. 960 00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:02,080 So I pray that usefulness will be the driving force. 961 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,680 How many of you believe you are servants of Christ? 962 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,200 Let's remove the the world. We're not called to be leaders 963 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,760 here. We're all called to be servants. 964 00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:15,960 Jesus didn't wash people's feet because he wanted to set them as 965 00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,800 leaders. No, he said be servants. 966 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,040 What do servants do? That all does. 967 00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:27,360 The servant has access. And when your maid comes to 968 00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,880 clean the house, is there any place that she doesn't have 969 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,360 access? But if you have a designation, 970 00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:34,920 does your driver go to your bedroom? 971 00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:40,160 If you have a driver, no. Servants of Christ will have 972 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:44,080 access everywhere. You'll be useful everywhere. 973 00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,680 Just imagine that we're looking for titles, we're looking for 974 00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,560 things, which has so much limitations. 975 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:55,280 But if you're servants of Christ, we'll have access 976 00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:59,840 everywhere. Usefulness is profitability to 977 00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:01,560 the master. He concluded that. 978 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,240 And I think we have to come to a place we really need to see who 979 00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:10,880 are we useful to. How many of you have that one 980 00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:12,400 vessel in which you make rice at home? 981 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,680 All the men in the house said Amen, because we've either 982 00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:21,560 washed it or we've made rice. I know at least in COVID that's 983 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:27,920 what our jobs entailed. But that's useful to who? 984 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,000 To the person in the house. That vessel is useful to the 985 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:36,120 person in the house. As servants of Christ, we are 986 00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:40,720 called to be useful to Christ alone, Christ alone. 987 00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,760 So I pray that we'll be able to do that. 988 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,160 Two things which I want you to take away from this, 989 00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,840 specifically when you're taking the land, as you journey on, as 990 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,920 you allow this to sink through, is you'll be useful to God and 991 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,160 you'll also learn to mourn. Because I think one of the one 992 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,280 of the things that Caleb would have done in those forty years 993 00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,640 was he would have mourned for his people. 994 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,880 His heartbeat would have been, hey, we had it so close if only 995 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:09,880 you had faith. He didn't point fingers because 996 00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:11,280 he knew no point pointing fingers. 997 00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,360 God said it, but he learned to mourn. 998 00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,000 And I think as Christians, we are always looking for messages. 999 00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,600 But God will strengthen you. God will make you an overcomer. 1000 00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,040 God will cause you this. We have not come to a place like 1001 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,720 God. I'm ready to mourn. 1002 00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:27,160 What is God calling you to mourn today? 1003 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:33,160 It can be different, different things, different things in a 1004 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,920 like last week we had two different people come and share 1005 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:37,920 things. What is God calling you to 1006 00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,800 mourn? Because there's a sense that God 1007 00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,800 that that entire thing which he did Joshua, Moses, Aaron, they 1008 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,320 tore their clothes. We need to be in a place where 1009 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,480 we're able to do that. So even as you get, go to that 1010 00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,280 prayer guide which I was sent to you last Friday day for 1011 00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,240 yesterday to open it and ask God, God, what are you calling 1012 00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:58,000 me to mourn? Lord? 1013 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,480 God, if there are 300 flats in my apartment, what should I be 1014 00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,520 mourning for? Lord, right now, If there's this 1015 00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:07,600 place, if I'm going to an office which is so toxic, what are you 1016 00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:09,800 wanting me to mourn? You might not be able to change 1017 00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,200 it, your head may not be able to change it, but your prayers can 1018 00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,400 definitely change it. Amen. 1019 00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:16,480 How many if you believe that? Amen. 1020 00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,080 Let's just close our eyes. I want us to come to a place 1021 00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:23,080 where we move to a place of wholeheartedly wanting to be 1022 00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:25,240 marked by God only. If you want to be marked by God 1023 00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:29,280 here, God, we want to be marked by you so that we can pursue 1024 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,720 you. We can depend on you, Lord 1025 00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,360 Jesus, and so that we can be committed to the next 1026 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,080 generation. Lord, we thank you, Lord, You 1027 00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,520 are the constant that we can always keep our eyes on. 1028 00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:46,040 Lord, I pray, Lord, if we've just had a flavour of you, we 1029 00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,600 want to be entirely of you, Lord, wholeheartedly following 1030 00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,720 you, Lord, our emotions, our mind, our heart, You're not one 1031 00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,360 amongst others, but you're marked out. 1032 00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,880 I want to be Lord Jesus. If Caleb walked before us, Lord, 1033 01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,920 he showed us an example. We want to be that example, Lord 1034 01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:08,400 Jesus, where we'll speak faith, we will mourn for the things 1035 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:14,280 that are breaking your heart. We'll be solely dependent on 1036 01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:18,800 you, Lord, and we'll run after you, Lord Jesus, so that the 1037 01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,320 next generation has a path to follow, Lord. 1038 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,440 I pray, Lord, if there are stumbling box, anything that 1039 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,520 we've created, we break it today in the name of Jesus. 1040 01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:30,560 Anything natural will be broken today. 1041 01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,760 Lord, Jesus, we pray, Lord, if there are things that have been 1042 01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,400 marked out, I pray you will clear the way. 1043 01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,440 Lord Jesus, we will have a better understanding. 1044 01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:42,120 Our vantage point will change to see why you took us through that 1045 01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:46,200 journey so that our narratives will now start changing. 1046 01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,600 To say the Lord took me through this so that he can be glorified 1047 01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,440 and I'm grateful that he chose me to be useful for him. 1048 01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:57,240 Thank you, Lord. Lord, you walk here on this 1049 01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:01,040 earth in complete submission. We submit ourselves to you 1050 01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,120 today, Lord. But I pray that even as we step 1051 01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:08,360 out this week, Lord, we step out with the clarity and confidence, 1052 01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,360 Lord, that we can take the land that you allotted for us, Lord, 1053 01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:15,520 because we are wholeheartedly committed to following you. 1054 01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:19,720 Lord, strengthen us, Lord Jesus, in everything we give you 1055 01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:23,440 thanks, Lord, be glorified and honored. 1056 01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,040 Strengthen us and be with us. Lord, your most holy name we 1057 01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:28,320 pray. Amen, Amen. 1058 01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,360 Amen. Thanks for listening to this 1059 01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,480 message. 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