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Right. if you would take your Bibles and turn with me to Joshua chapter 14, Joshua chapter number 14 is good to see.

All of you who have come out on this beautiful day, beautiful day.

If you were a fish, But I do appreciate y'all coming out.

This evening.

Let's pray before we get started, Our Father Lord, we are grateful for this opportunity to come in your house and to sing, just be reminded of of things to come.

As we saying about the sweet by-and-by and you think about the Refuge and the shelter that we have now with with you and fall, we pray God.

That's we look at this passage of scripture tonight.

I pray that you would help us Lord, apply this truth to our heart.

I pray that we would see the tremendous example of obedience and faith that is just so greatly exemplified in our text.

I pray the Lord for the children and youth that are downstairs.

Pray for all the teachers gone, I pray that you bless them and we ask all these things in Christ name, amen.

Joshua chapter number 14, the title of the lesson tonight is the benefits of a bold believer.

The benefits of a bold believer.

That is something that is lacking in our society, especially within the political realm.

And in the Christian realm, that thing of boldness boldness, the word bold means Fearless in the face of danger.

Fearless in the face of danger in a general living in a day and time where it is past time that we display fearlessness and bold baldness.

Conservative leaders in.

D.c. need to be very bold.

They need to be Fearless during this time.

Because as we all know, the left the Liberals are very bold, they are fearless.

And so it's not the time to cower down to that.

That's the our problem and that's what our problem has been.

For the last several years, we've scoured down to that.

I'm trying to play, you know mr.

Nice guy and so forth.

But that has just embolden the left and a liberal.

So there are very bold, they're fearless, and they're pushing their agenda and we do need conservatives who are outspoken.

And I thought Sarah Huckabee did a tremendous job last night.

Declaring the, the stance that really all Republicans all conservatives should take and guess what?

It's just a common-sense stance, right?

But we is it's crazy.

We're living in a society that is so postmodern is so post-christian that even if you're going to stand for common sense, you have to be bold to do that or you're going to be ridiculed and All sorts of things.

So even conservatives, those who are our leaders in the state and DC need to be bold, Christians must also be bold We've lost that in especially as we think about American Christianity.

My boldness is certainly an adjectives, that describes, the individual that's in our text this evening that individuals name is Caleb.

Caleb.

Notice with me, first of all, the review of the past, the review of the past.

We see this in the first 5 verses, Of Joshua's 14.

It says these are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan.

Which Ali-A's are the priest Joshua, the son of nun.

And the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them.

Their inheritance was by lot as the Lord has commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and the half tribes.

Or half tribes singular for Moses had, given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half tribe.

On the other side of the Jordan, but to believe, I see how to give a no inheritance among them, for the children of Joseph or two tribes Manasseh and Ephraim, and they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in whether, in lands for their livestock and their property as a lord had commanded Moses.

So the children of Israel did and they divided the land, So we see there in the first 5 verses, I wearied of the review of the inheritance of some of the tribes of Israel.

But we notice something inverse number to it is just that they divided the land by lot.

They divided the land by lot and that is obviously not by lot Abraham's nephew.

But what is this?

When it says they divided it by lot.

Well, the casting of lots is something that is found many times throughout scripture.

As a matter of fact, it's found some 70 x alone in the Old Testament is found 7 times in the New Testament Source found very, very often times throughout the totality of scripture.

But in spite of all these many references found concerning the casting of lots, not much is known about the actual lot itself.

It could have been at their casting sticks of various sizes.

You know, we play that game, you know, you picked the Short Straw or, you know, that type of thing.

It could have been some type of a dice that they cast, we could say that a modern-day version of casting.

A lot would be a flip of a coin.

What would look like as a chance But however, or whatever the case is, whatever that casting the lot was.

Here's something that we must realize the lot that was cast, was not by chance, but by God's Direction, And you can write this down, Proverbs, 16:33 by that verse right there, Joshua, 14 to you, the right Proverbs, 16:33 where it says, the lot is cast into the lap.

You passed a lot, but it's every decision is from the Lord.

So those things that we just think we just randomly cast, the Lord is Sovereign over that.

And there we see this thing of Providence.

What man thinks he does.

As by chance.

Allows man to do to carry out the Lord's.

Sovereign will the very interesting there, we will see that verse 27 verse 5 indicates that the land is divided exactly as God instructed.

It says as the Lord commanded Moses.

So did the children of Israel.

So the children of Israel did.

So, what is the talents about Joshua?

Well, it continues to show us that Joshua was totally totally obedient to God's commands.

Tremendous.

He's a tremendous example of total obedience.

To what God has asked.

Some people will obey God's word.

if number one day agree with it, Lord, I will do this.

I agree with it.

Others will obey the Lord if it's convenient for them.

But ignore the word when it seems harsh.

Unfortunately, my beloved listen, God is looking for believers who follow God's instructions.

Entirely not partially.

As you as you know, half obedience are partial obedience is not obedience at all, right?

You teach that to your children, you do something halfway.

You're not obeying me at all, with the same thing is true with our obedience to the Lord and in that same thing as true as we look at Joshua, he totally is obedient to God's command.

So the tribe of Judah was to receive their inheritance first.

We see that verses 6 through 7. Then the children of Judah came to Joshua and gilgal and Caleb.

The son of Jeff.

Jeff Anna McKenna's.

I said to him.

You know, the word with the Lord said to Moses, the man of God concerning you and me and Katie Bernier.

I was 40 years old, when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Pages Barnett to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.

So we see the first mention here of Caleb, who is Caleb?

Well, as the scripture tells us, he was one of the two spies.

He was one of the two spies out of the 12 who came back with a favorable report.

To enter the land, they were the only two out of 12 that said, hey Moses, we can take it.

We can do this.

And I do know the other 10 says, no, we cannot do this at all.

There are giants in the land.

Caleb and Joshua, Joshua being the other spy.

They they agreed one of one with another.

But we noticed here, something that is brought out in our scripture is that Caleb disagreed with majority.

Which in this case was a brave thing to do because here the majority was wrong.