Calebs Heart

The Smallness You Feel

2 Corinthians 6:11–13 The Message: 11–13 Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!

The Battle To live Small or Big

Backround

12 spies sent- Land of Bounty- Giants & Grasshoppers- 40 yrs wilderness- Jordon & Jericho

12 Church Leaders- Numbers 13- 12 Men of Influence- Shammua, Shaphat, Caleb, Igal, Joshua, Palti, Gaddiel, Gaddi, Ammiel, Sethur, Nahbi, Geuel

Joshua 14:6–15 (NKJV): Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: “You know the word which the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God. 9 So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ 10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. 11 As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. 12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. 15 And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim). Then the land had rest from war

Caleb Speaks From Whats In His Heart

Calebs Heart- I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.

Heart- Inner Person, Mind , soul, Spirit

Caleb Spoke From the Heart. Caleb Spoke From What His Heart Was Full of.

Numbers 13:30 (NIV) 30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

Your Words Expose What Ins Your Heart-

Matthew 12:34 (NKJV) 34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

The 10 Spoke What Was In Their Heart-

Numbers 13:33 (NKJV) 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Influence-

John Maxwell- socologists say even the most introverted person will influence at least 10,000 people.

Joshua 14 v8 Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt,................

Melt- consume with fear, be very afraid, to disolve courage and hope

Sam Childer- Get around Serious people- Get Serious People Around You

Dissolved Courage & Poured Fear, Weakness and Negativity

Gods People have An inheritance- The children of Israel had an inheritance promised by God, revealed through their leader Moses.

Inheritance- Land, property, possesions passed to a successing generation given by someone.

Colossians 1:12 (NIV) 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.

Ephesians 1:18 (NKJV) 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Galatians 3:29 (NKJV) 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

What is Your Inheritance ?

....but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

Moses to Caleb.....because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’

Joshua to Caleb....because he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.

Wholly- to be filled up with, be full- no room for anything else

(Wholeheartedly NIV)

Caleb was full of God, His word, his purpose. There was no room for fear to take hold of him. It was all around him but there was no room for it in his life.

What Are You Full Of?

Half Hearted- they do it without any real effort, interest, or enthusiasm. someone whose heart is not really in what they are doing.

There are no half-hearted champions.----John C. Maxwell

God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

Francis Chan

Followed- to be so full of something it comes out in actions.

“We will see what your made of” “see whats really inside”

Moses And Joshua- saw what was inside Caleb by what he did under pressure- He didnt give in to public opinion or the majority.

Wholly Fulled Hearts Say “Give Me My Mountain”- He Didnt Want The Easy Way- Give me the giants.

Calebs Inheriatnce Was The land of The Giants

The Mountian Was The Home of Bigest and Strongest Giant.

Give It a shot, Have a go :It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

Caleb lived to 100 years old.