Joshua 7: Courageous Confidence (Caleb)

Good morning and welcome to Family Worship with the church body of Eastern Hills! Whether you’re here in the room or online this morning, we’re glad you’ve decided to be a part of our worship and celebration of Jesus.

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Thanks to the people who served this morning in EHBC Kids and those serving in EHBC Children’s Worship this hour: Rebecca Crisler & Shanna Hale, Kathy Bartnick & Jenna Stanton, and Monica Seiler, JD & Kim Atkinson.

I have a few announcements to make before we get into the Scriptures:

Announcements

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Endeavor update

It’s so exciting that we were able to use all of the doors to our foyer this morning, which we haven’t been able to do for 15 weeks! Thanks to Tim and to our contractor, Ric Rutherford, for getting the outside finished to this point. I don’t think we’ll have to close the doors any more.

At this point, we are awaiting the arrival of the remaining heating/cooling units for the sanctuary, foyer, and offices (they should have shipped this week). Those will be installed when they arrive.

We are in the finishing touches of our contract work with the companies that are going to be doing the lighting and display work here in the sanctuary. That work is currently planned to begin in late January or early February.

Opening

We’re now in week 7 of our eight week series in the book of Joshua, where we have been using the narrative of Joshua’s and Israel’s boldness, courage, and obedience in taking the Promised Land to illuminate our own need for boldness, courage, and obedience in our walks of faith, and especially in the area of evangelism. Last week, we saw in Joshua 10 the courage and integrity of Joshua and Israel as they defended their allies in Gibeon from the coalition of kings from southern Canaan, and we saw the importance of remembering that the battle belongs to the Lord through the miraculous things that God did in and for Israel to make that victory possible. This morning, we will look at one of my favorite people in the biblical narrative: Caleb in Joshua 14.

As you are able and willing, would you please stand in honor of God’s holy Word as we read our focal passage together, Joshua 14:6-15:

Joshua 14:6–15 CSB

6 The descendants of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord promised Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the Lord’s servant sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land, and I brought back an honest report. 8 My brothers who went with me caused the people to lose heart, but I followed the Lord my God completely. 9 On that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land where you have set foot will be an inheritance for you and your descendants forever, because you have followed the Lord my God completely.’ 10 “As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these forty-five years as he promised, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then. 12 Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities. Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.” 13 Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as an inheritance. 14 Therefore, Hebron still belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance today because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, completely. 15 Hebron’s name used to be Kiriath-arba; Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. After this, the land had rest from war.

PRAYER (Israel; Restore Church, Justin Pearson: more Gospel opportunities with neighbors, more depth in the church, more visitors, more leaders, praise for two baptisms this month; We have prayed for every church in the Central Baptist Association since we started doing so weekly in March of 2022)

One of the near synonyms of the word “faith,” along with words such as “trust,” “belief,” or “assurance,” is the word “confidence.” The Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines confidence as:

Confidence (n): A trusting, or reliance; an assurance of mind or firm belief in the integrity, stability, or veracity of another, or in the truth and reality of a fact.

—Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

The Scripture itself uses these kinds of terms when it defines faith in Hebrews 11:1:

Hebrews 11:1 ESV

1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

But sadly, one of the lies that the world has believed is that it is merely some measure of “sincere faith” that saves—that faith is nothing more than being mentally confident in something… in anything. And as long as you have “sincere” confidence, then you’ll be all right, because sincerity is all that matters… like the pumpkin patch with Linus in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

No, the fact of faith is not what saves. It is that faith has been placed in a particular object that matters. If we haven’t placed our confidence in an object worthy of that confidence, we have no reason to be confident at all.

Let me see if I can illustrate this. I have here my wife’s softball bat. Because it was shiny and silver, Mel has dubbed it “Excalibur.” Anyway, let’s suppose that I had a deep, deep confidence in the fact that if I tap someone in the head with this bat, then they would have success in everything they wanted to succeed in in life. Would my sincere confidence make this true? Certainly not. But what if I called Trevor up here, and told him about my incredible bat and what I was confident that it could do, and he declared that he shared my confidence as well, and let me hit him in the head with it? Would our combined confidence make this true? Again, no.

I know this is ridiculous, but catch the point: the issue isn’t sincere confidence. The issue is the object of our confidence. We can place our confidence in things that can’t deliver, and we often do. But not only that, we can refuse to place our trust in that which actually can deliver.

Fortunately for Caleb, he did neither of those things. He didn’t misplace his faith in something or someone who couldn’t deliver, and he also didn’t refuse to place his faith in the One who could deliver on His Word.

Between what we saw last week in chapter 10 and this week in chapter 14 is the end of the “conquest narrative” of Joshua. The taking of most of the remainder of Canaan is summarized in chapter 11, and that chapter ends the same way as our focal passage today:

Joshua 11:23 CSB

23 So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the Lord had told Moses. Joshua then gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. After this, the land had rest from war.

After chapter 11, the book of Joshua rewinds a little bit, giving a reminder of history before it starts giving us the details of the allotments of land given to the various tribes of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River. Caleb’s story in chapter 14 is detailed information about the final taking of the hill country of Judah and the expulsion of the Anakim that is mentioned quickly in Joshua 11.

Caleb is one of my favorite people in Scripture because of how he lived his life. Caleb is the kind of figure that I want to be like. He inspires me, both as a follower of Jesus and as a man. Caleb’s confidence was in the only object of faith that is always worthy of our confidence: the Lord Himself. His life was one of courageous confidence in the God that he followed, the God who had called him and his countrymen out of slavery in Egypt, the God who had miraculously provided for them in their wanderings, the God who showed His power and might throughout their journey to the Promised Land.

And so Caleb becomes our model of what courageous confidence in God looks like. Courageous confidence in God trusts thoroughly, lives faithfully, and finishes effectively.

First,

1) Courageous confidence trusts thoroughly.

Nearly everywhere we see Caleb in Scripture, His trust in God is central to the narrative. We first met Caleb, as far as the Bible is concerned, he was one of the 12 spies chosen to go and spy out the Promised Land shortly after Israel first came up out of Egypt. Of the 12 spies, only Joshua and Caleb had given a good report of the land, and expressed their courageous confidence that God would do what He said, and so they should go and take the land. Caleb actually took the lead in that declaration:

Numbers 13:30 CSB

30 Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “Let’s go up now and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!”

When the people objected, Caleb and Joshua stood together in frustration and called the people to faith:

Numbers 14:6–9 CSB

6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who scouted out the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite community, “The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land. 8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us. 9 Only don’t rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t be afraid of them!”

You can hear his confidence! And in Joshua, this same Caleb is the one who has come to claim what God had promised to him.

Joshua 14:6–9 CSB

Caleb’s confidence in God allowed him to be confident in God’s plan, His provision, and His promises.

When God gave the plan for the Israelites to go and take the Promised Land in the first place, Caleb was confidently all in. He had a childlike faith, which isn’t a faith that recklessly believes foolishness, but a faith that is fully committed to One it believes in. If God gave the plan, then Caleb was going to see it through, even if it meant going up against giants, because if God said it, Caleb knew he could place his confidence in that plan.

We too can be confident in God’s plan. God’s plan for humanity is that, even though we have sinned and rebelled against Him, He wants us to be with Him for eternity because He loves us. So in His grace and mercy, He sent His Son Jesus to live a sinless life in our place, and then to die in our place to pay the penalty for our sins, and then to rise again so that if we surrender to Him in faith, we will be saved from our sins and given eternal life. Placing your confidence in Jesus is NOT misplaced. Yes, He really lived and He really died. But the most important piece is that He really rose again, because by His resurrection, He proved His power of sin, death, hell, and the grave:

Romans 1:1–4 CSB

1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God—2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures—3 concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh 4 and was appointed to be the powerful Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead.

So I call on you this morning who have never trusted in Jesus to place your faith, your belief, your confidence in Him even right now to save you. And if you’re already a believer, then let this reiteration of the Gospel bolster your confidence in what Jesus has done for you, and remind you that God’s plan for you—for each of us who belong to Him—is that we be useful vessels, carrying and sharing the hope of the Gospel to those around us who are without Christ.

Caleb’s courageous confidence also trusted in God’s provision for him. He knew when he came back from the Promised Land spy trip that they had gone on that God’s provision for taking that land was sufficient, and that they would succeed if they went up. He knew that God had the strength to defeat the inhabitants of the land, even if Israel didn’t have the strength on their own.

We can also trust in God’s provision for us. If He is with us by His Spirit, which He promises to be for those who belong to Him, we can walk in complete confidence in Him:

Isaiah 12:2 CSB

2 Indeed, God is my salvation; I will trust him and not be afraid, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 26:4 CSB

4 Trust in the Lord forever, because in the Lord, the Lord himself, is an everlasting rock!

2 Corinthians 3:4–5 CSB

4 Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

And part of that confidence that we can have through Christ is that God will provide us with what we need in order to do the things that He calls us to. Just like He provided the means for Israel to take the land that He called them to, He will provide for us the means to accomplish the things that He wants us to do in His strength, so that He will get the glory. So we can confidently share the hope of the message of the Gospel of Jesus, because He is our provision, our foundation.

And finally for this point, Caleb had courageous confidence in God’s promises to him, even after more than four decades, as we saw in our focal passage.

So now, Caleb was able to come and confidently request that Joshua, as Moses’s successor, give to him what he had been promised. Caleb had an inheritance waiting for him in the allotment to the tribe of Judah. He had waited patiently, and had not wavered from his confidence that God would keep His Word to Him.

God’s promises are true, and we can trust them completely. Jesus is the fulfillment of the promises of God regarding our salvation, as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 1:

2 Corinthians 1:20–22 CSB

20 For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us. 22 He has also put his seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

Because of God’s fulfillment of His promises in Christ, we can declare those promises courageously and confidently as we live our lives, telling others about God’s great love for them, about what Jesus has done for them, and about the inheritance that awaits them in the Spirit. Jesus promised that those who belong to Him would receive an eternal inheritance in eternal dwellings:

John 14:1–3 CSB

1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.

We can confidently share the promises of the Gospel because God is absolutely trustworthy. He will always keep His Word. And since we have these great and precious promises, we, like Caleb, can organize our lives around the fact that we can live securely and faithfully in the here and now:

2) Courageous confidence lives faithfully.

One of the things that inspires me about Caleb’s story is that his confidence in the plan, provision, and promises of God drove how he lived in the in-between. His life was so focused on living for God that he was able to state, not proudly or arrogantly, that he had followed the Lord completely throughout his life, and even Moses and the author of Joshua agreed with that bold assessment:

Joshua 14:8–9 CSB

8 My brothers who went with me caused the people to lose heart, but I followed the Lord my God completely. 9 On that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land where you have set foot will be an inheritance for you and your descendants forever, because you have followed the Lord my God completely.’

Joshua 14:13–14 CSB

13 Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as an inheritance. 14 Therefore, Hebron still belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance today because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, completely.

Caleb was 40 when he was sent to spy out the Promised Land. Verse 10, which we will get to in our last point, tells us that 45 years had passed since then. This tells us about how much time we’ve covered in the book of Joshua in just 14 chapters. If the wanderings were 40 years from the point of spying, then the conquest part of Joshua has taken five years. Five years of difficult living, including being under threat of attack and having actual life-and-death battles to participate in. And Caleb could still stay that he followed God completely (note, that’s not to say “perfectly”).

How we live matters. The reality is that it is foolish for us to claim the blessings of God if we are unwilling to live faithfully for God. Yes, He will still save us because of Christ if we truly belong to Him, even if we don’t always live like it. But if we have zero desire to live a faithful life, then we shouldn’t walk in confidence of our salvation at all, and we should repent, believe the Gospel, and surrender to Christ as Lord.

Our salvation is a moment that should define the rest of our moments, because from that moment of surrender forward, Jesus is in charge. He is Lord, and He calls us to live a life that is different from the world, and He even supplies the power with which to do that:

2 Peter 1:3–4 CSB

3 His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 By these he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.

If we are in Christ He HAS GIVEN us everything we need to live a life that is godly, so that we can enjoy His promises and share in His very nature, being set free from the world’s corruption and evil desires. Again, it’s a first moment that defines the rest of our moments, because being made to be like Jesus, called “sanctification,” is an ongoing process that will take the rest of our lives. And that process includes the decisions that we make on a daily basis:

Romans 6:11–14 CSB

11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. 13 And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

Doesn’t this kind of life sound courageous? Living for God instead of for sin. Instead of being controlled by our desires, we are to be controlled by God. Being ruled by grace instead of by sin, and being useful as weapons of righteousness instead of unrighteousness.

I look at the world as it is right now, and whether we are talking about abortion or homosexuality or transgenderism or the war in Israel or any number of other things, the world (mostly represented by the media) loudly tells us what we’re supposed to think, how we’re supposed to act, in order to be in line with the current cultural narrative. Well, the cultural narrative in Rome in Paul’s day was not much different than what we face today. While abortion per se wasn’t as common as now (it was practiced, however, just not as easily), a culturally acceptable form of birth control was to carry a baby to term and then leave it on the street, especially if that baby was a girl. Homosexual relationships and even transgenderism were commonplace, with even Emperor Nero getting in on the lie by once dressing up as a bride to marry a man (Pythagoras), and once marrying a man who was dressed up as a bride (Sporus). Israel was under Rome’s thumb, and just a few years after Paul wrote this letter to the church at Rome, Jerusalem was destroyed by the future Emperor Titus. Modern times don’t have the historical market cornered on anti-biblical practice and sentiment.

So Paul’s perspective certainly isn’t out of touch or outdated—it addresses the very issues that we face today. And being courageously confident means that it is what God says that is true, what God says that is right, what God says that must rule, because we are to be “slaves of righteousness,” as Paul went on to say in verse 19:

Romans 6:19 CSB

19 I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

We are to live lives that are faithful to the truth of God’s Word, courageously confident that the truth with stand on is solid ground, because it is the foundation of Jesus Christ, as we just sang:

On Christ, the solid rock I stand;

All other ground is sinking sand.

The only real solution to the problems that our world faces is for us to surrender to Jesus, for the Kingdom of God to expand through the declaration of the Gospel, and for us to live out the faith we claim to hold while the world looks on, even if they mock and deride, criticize and insult, threaten and attack.

Do you know what eventually turned Rome’s morality around? Christians living courageously confident Christian lives, standing up for the truth even if it meant they would be ostracized or in some cases, killed. They challenged the cultural narrative of the day by (for example) starting orphanages for babies found on the street; by living heterosexual, monogamous married lives; and by sharing the Gospel wherever they went.

And many of them were martyred. They finished effectively, which is our last point.

3) Courageous confidence finishes effectively.

Caleb started out courageous. He continued to live a courageous life through four-and-a-half decades of wandering. And nearing the end of his time on earth, he asked for and set out on one more courageously confident adventure to take the land that had been promised to him away from a formidable enemy.

Joshua 14:10–12 CSB

10 “As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these forty-five years as he promised, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then. 12 Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities. Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”

Caleb could see God’s promise in his past, seeing that it was God who had preserved his live during the wanderings and battles. He could see God’s provision in his present, still being as strong and able as he had been then. Now I’m only 52, and even though I’ve spent this year exercising regularly, I don’t know that I’m as strong as I was when I was 40. I certainly won’t be by the time I’m 85. But Caleb was.

And now he was going to finish the task that God had called him to. Back in Numbers 14, the specific promise that the Lord had made to Caleb 40 years earlier regarding the land that he would receive is that it was “where he [had] gone” when he spied out the land:

Numbers 14:24 CSB

24 But since my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.

And where had they gone? Where the giants were:

Numbers 13:32–33 CSB

32 So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size. 33 We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

Caleb wanted to take the toughest part of the land as likely the oldest person left in Israel, because everyone else from his generation had already died, other than Joshua. He wanted to finish well. And just to finish Caleb’s story, he did exactly that:

Joshua 15:13–14 CSB

13 He gave Caleb son of Jephunneh the following portion among the descendants of Judah based on the Lord’s instruction to Joshua: Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron; Arba was the father of Anak). 14 Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

I’m going to say this in the clearest way I can, and my goal is not to offend, but to inspire: there’s no retirement plan for service to God. To quote something Shane Pruitt from the NAMB tweeted on Friday:

“If you’re still breathing, God’s not finished with you.”

—Shane Pruitt, tweet on November 3, 2023

Now, God might change your position in the body of the church, He might change your function in the body, but He’ll never be done with your usefulness to the body if you’re in Christ! It doesn’t matter if you’re 8 or 18 or 48 or 88: if you’ve got the Spirit of the living God within you, you have a part to play in the body and in the Kingdom!

To the younger ones here this morning, I say this: like Caleb, decide NOW that you are going to go the distance—that nothing and no one is going to come between you and your God, and then give yourself wholeheartedly to that relationship with Jesus so that you grow closer and closer and closer to Him. No one can do that for you. It’s you walking with God. But you can engage in intentional relationships with older believers who can point you in the right direction. Choose to walk the path toward continued maturity, because:

Proverbs 13:20 CSB

20 The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

To those older saints in the house this morning, I issue the challenge that Paul gave to Titus for his congregation:

Titus 2:2–5 CSB

2 Older men are to be self-controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. 3 In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. They are to teach what is good, 4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered.

Paul encourages older men and women both to live exemplary lives that would be good examples for others. Those of you who are older might not feel that you have a lot to bring to the table of ministry. That’s just not true. Find a place of service that fits with your talents and health or other constraints. Don’t just throw your hands up and decide that it’s time for the younger generation to step up. While that may be true to some extent (we all have responsibility for the body), the younger believers (teens and adults) need you. They need to meet you, get to know you, and talk about faith and life with you. They need you to disciple them—to show them what it is to be a follower of Jesus. To set that example for them. You will not set an example if you’re not willing to meet people outside of your age demographic. We’re all going to have to stretch a little if we’re going to fulfill this instruction.

All of us are to finish effectively, walking in courageous confidence as Caleb did.

Closing

In closing, I want to leave us with the example of the apostle Paul, from what he wrote to Timothy in what we have as his last letter in the Scriptures:

2 Timothy 4:5–8 CSB

5 But as for you, exercise self-control in everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 There is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me, but to all those who have loved his appearing.

Live out a courageous confidence in God, trusting Him thoroughly, living for Him faithfully, and finishing with Him effectively. Just as God used Caleb through all of that over many, many years, so He wants to use you as well. Be engaged in the larger family of the body of the church. Look for opportunities to build deeper fellowship with others in the family. Get outside of your comfort zone a little and stretch to build new relationships with other believers. Share the Gospel with the lost, so that they might become believers and enter both the Kingdom of God and eternal life. This is no time to shrink from God’s call to us in Christ. Fight the good fight. Finish the race. Keep the faith. Receive the promise made to you, just like Caleb did.

This morning, you might need to spend a moment in repentant prayer. You can do that where you are, or you can come and pray at the steps or with one of us. You might need to go and find someone that you’ve been meaning to get to know better and start the ball rolling. Be obedient to what God is leading you to do during the invitation song that the band will play in just a moment.

If you’ve never trusted in Jesus, you should have no confidence whatsoever about what is coming for you after you die. According to the Bible, if you don’t belong to God through faith in Christ, you are lost, separated from God because of sin. But Jesus came and died for that sin, taking your place on the cross in death, but rising from the grave to give eternal life to those who believe in Him. Believe the Gospel and surrender to Jesus in faith right now. And come tell us about your surrender if that’s you, or if you just have questions about salvation. You can also send me an email.

If you believe that Eastern Hills is a church where you can grow and serve alongside brothers and sisters in the faith, and you’d like to know more about joining in formal membership, please come and let me know so that we can sit down and talk, share testimonies, and go through the church’s statement of belief.

PRAYER

Closing Remarks

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Bible reading (Psalm 146, starting Revelation on Friday)

Pastor’s Study tonight

Prayer Meeting

Tithes and offerings

Instructions for guests

Benediction

Hebrews 12:1–3 CSB

1 Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, 2 keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you won’t grow weary and give up.

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