Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God.
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… You may remain standing as I read the Word of God. Joshua, chapter 14, verses 6 through 13. By now, they're all over YouTube telling us where they're joining from. Y'all want to do a few shout-outs on YouTube as you find Scripture? You know you need an extra minute to find Joshua 14 anyway. I'm trying to hook you up, but let's see. Here we go. Here we go. Here they are watching from Rochester, New York, California, Montgomery, Alabama. See? All different countries. We have Palestine, Miami, New Mexico, Ontario, Montreal. Aren't you from Ontario, LJ? Do you know this person? this scripture, and then I'll fill in the background after I've read it to you. Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh… This is one of those times where you're glad that your dad didn't name you Junior. Caleb, son of Jephunneh. Jephunneh, Jr., what he would have been called. So Caleb is a much better name. Everybody say Caleb. Caleb is the character we want to talk about today. …
Okay, that's just one of the greatest speeches in history. This 85-year-old man said, you remember that day. Josh, you were the only one that was there with me. And you remember what it was like. Remember how you and I believed and everyone else, man. And everyone else was just like, no, it's not going to happen. And they made the people terrified. Man, that verse, that verse, verse 8. But my brothers, my brothers, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt. Yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. man memorize that verse that that's caleb going man i this is 45 years ago i still remember like it was yesterday where where all of my brothers man these guys were supposed to be with me and and instead they're just like we can't do it we can't do it we can't do it says but me I wholly followed the Lord my God. And he says it again later. He says, man, I follow the Lord my God. …
Isn't that just beautiful? picture an 85 year old man getting up in front of a crowd and going 45 years ago no one believed and I was like let's do this thing 45 years ago because I remember 45 years ago just coming back and going no we can do this thing we can do this thing we can do this thing even though my brother's like no we can't no we can't I said I believe completely in the Lord and picture the 85 year old man now I love this he goes man it's been 45 years I'm 85 but you know what I'm just as strong as I was when I was 40 so let's go do this thing now because God promised it and so I can rush up that hill and I'll take down this army because it's never been about me yeah I probably look a lot different than I did 45 years ago but I'm just as strong because it's not about the flesh. …