Getting Old but Not Giving Out

14 Getting Old but Not Giving Out Joshua 14:1-15 1.THE PORTIONS THAT WERE COMMANDED. “By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses” (v. 2). A. The Navigator and the Heads. “Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel” (v. 1). B. The Nine and the Half. “for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe” (v. 2). 2.THE PROPERTY THAT WAS COLLECTED. “For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan” (v. 3). A. The Land That Was Distributed. “For Moses had given the inheritance” (v. 3). B. The Levites That Were Denied. “but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them” (v. 3). 3.THE PAIR THAT WAS CONSIDERED. “For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim” (v. 4). A. The Occupation That Was Offered. “therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance” (v. 4). B. The Obedience That Was Observed. “As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land” (v. 5). 4.THE PROMISE THAT WAS CLAIMED. “and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him” (v. 7). A. The Familiarity That Was Recalled. “Thou knowest” (v. 6). B. The Fulfillment That Was Required. “the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea” (v. 6). 5.THE PERIOD THAT WAS COUNTED. “Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea” (v. 7). A. The Trip That Was Taken. “to espy out the land” (v. 7). B. The Truth That Was Told. “and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart” (v. 7). 6.THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZED. THAT WAS “but I wholly followed the LORD my God” (v. 8). A. The Warmth That Melted the Heart. “Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt” (v. 8). B. The Warrant That Made the Heritage. “And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever” (v. 9). C. The Will That Marked the Habit. “because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God” (v. 9). 7.THE PRESERVATION THAT WAS CREDITED. “And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive” (v. 10). A. The Language of the Lord in the Assurance. “as he said” (v. 10). B. The Length of Life in the Announcement. “and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old” (v. 10). 8.THE POWER THAT WAS CARRIED. “As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me” (v. 11). A. The Evenness in the Exertion. “as my strength was then, even so is my strength now” (v. 11). B. The Encounter with the Enemy. “for war” (v. 11). C. The Effort in the Exit. “both to go out” (v. 11). D. The Energy in the Entrance. “and to come in” (v. 11). 9.THE PEAK THAT WAS CHOSEN. “Now therefore give me this mountain” (v. 12). A. The Speech to Settle. “whereof the LORD spake in that day” (v. 12). B. The Size to Scare. “for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there” (v. 12). C. The Strength to Secure. “and that the cities were great and fenced” (v. 12). D. The Skill to Scatter. “if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said” (v. 12). 10. THE PERMISSION THAT WAS CONTRIBUTED. “and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh” (v. 13). A. The Blessing That Was Breathed. “And Joshua blessed him” (v. 13). B. The Benefit That Was Bestowed. “Hebron for an inheritance” (v. 13). 11. THE PEACE THAT WAS CREATED. “And the land had rest from war” (v. 15). A. The Gift That Was Imparted. “Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day” (v. 14). B. The Gamut That Was Indicated. “because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel” (v. 14). C. The Giant That Was Identified. “And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims” (v. 15).