All right, I see everybody here tonight. Let's all stand, grab a red hymnal, turn to page number six. Page number six. ♪ While traveling through this world of sorrow ♪ I'm on my way to glory land. I'll not turn back for some tomorrow. My trials here I'll understand. I want to know more about my Jesus. I want to know more about that mansion I'm going to live in. I want to know more about that homeland. I mean to go there someday, somehow. And after I reach that heavenly city, I mean to know more than I know now. I'm glad I know the blessed Savior. of the road I shall not waver For some glad day His face I'll see I want to know more about my Jesus I want to know more I wanna know more about that mansion. I'm gonna receive that fine reward. I wanna know more about that homeland. I mean to go there someday somehow. I reach that heavenly city. I mean to know more than I know now. On the last He promised when His soul ascended I'm coming back The Lord did say If on His promise you depended On wings of love I wanna know more about my Jesus. I wanna know more about my Lord. I wanna know more about that mansion I'm gonna receive. I want to know more about that homeland. I mean to go there someday, somehow. And after I reach that heavenly city, I mean to know more than I know now. Well, that ought to be all of our desire. Know more about Him. That's right. Well, I tell you right now, I ain't even scratched a half inch off the surface of all that. That's right. He's so mighty. You know, I've been reading a little bit after Tozer, and Tozer says if you could figure out God, He wouldn't be God. And so we can't figure out God. He's Almighty God. And I praise His name for that. I do want to learn more about Him, though. And the only way you'll do that is if you walk with him and talk to him. And I praise God that this thing is, he gives it to us a little at a time, amen. And I couldn't handle it all at one time, so praise God he gives me a little tidbit every now and then, amen. Well, it's good to be saved tonight, and it's good to be in the house of God this evening. And we had a few folk that's not gonna be coming in late, maybe not even be able to make it, so pray for them. And any time you try to have revival or even get excited about the Lord, you know the enemy's gonna fight. So we ain't worried about him too much, though. The Lord's in control of all these things. And I'm glad God's on our throne tonight. And we've come to worship, amen. And come to be revived and stirred. Appreciate Brother Daniel being with us. these days, and thank God for him, and he's gonna preach here in a little bit to us, and so we've done our best to try to repent and get right with God, and get lower than the dirtiest we can possibly get, amen. That's right. And so, you know, God hates pride. He hates arrogance, and you know what? The more I walk with God, the more I don't like it. That's right. This old flesh is prideful. And so we gotta humble it down, break it down, amen. And God said he'd dwell with those of a contrite and humble spirit. Well, I want him dwelling with me, don't you? Amen. And so let's, we're gonna have a word of prayer. Matter of fact, I want some of the men, any of the men that want to, if you don't come down here and gather around the altar, we're gonna pray tonight right before the service, and we're just gonna humble ourselves on down before the Lord tonight. And ask God to have mercy on us and help us. We need God to help us, amen. So let's pray for just a little bit here. Oh God, we humble ourselves before you tonight. Lord, we're thankful, God, for your goodness and mercies to us, Lord. Oh God, we're thankful for the blood of Christ. Lord, we're thankful for the blood of Jesus. Oh God, we're so thankful, Lord. God, that you can cleanse us and help us tonight. Lord, we want to pray, Lord, for this service this evening, God, that your touch will be upon this place. God, may you manifest yourself, may you manifest your presence. Lord, in our midst tonight, Lord Jesus, and oh God, we know that all is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down. And so, Lord, we pray that we won't have nothing in our lives that would hinder that. Lord, it would grieve the Holy Spirit. Lord, quench the Holy Spirit. And I pray, oh God, that you'll help us tonight as we sing thy face. Lord, we need revival over these hires in these days, God. Lord, our nations are going to hell. Lord, we need a move of God to have His churches all across this land. And God, that's what we've been praying for, God, that you'll send a move of God in our churches, Lord Jesus. Oh, God, I pray for unity tonight, Lord, that you'll bless them as they're going over their meeting tonight, Lord, that you'll touch them and use them, Lord, tonight in these other meetings, Lord. We pray, God, that your blessings on the opponent, Lord. We pray now, Father, that you'll bless the singing and help us to worship you, Lord. I pray for the man of God that you'll touch him this evening, Lord, and fill him with the Holy Ghost, I pray. Lord, you give him perfect liberty, Lord, to preach the word of God. I pray, Lord, you'll open our hearts, Lord, to receive the word of God. Lord, help us to humble our own flesh into hell. Help us to break our own pride. Oh God, help us tonight, Lord. Let it be pleasing to thy side. Oh Father, I pray that you'll anoint this service. I pray you put your power on this service tonight, oh God. And all through the week, Lord, may thy will be done. God, may you give glory to your name tonight, Lord. May Jesus be exalted this evening and lifted up in worship, Lord. Oh, God, I pray no man will be seen. However, Lord Jesus will be exalted and lifted up this evening. Oh, God, have your way now. And Lord, we do pray to be one of his tonight. Oh, Lord, he knows not the Savior this week, Lord. We know revival's for the church. But God, we pray for those who might not be saved. And God, that you'd heal their heart as well and help them to be saved before it's ever lasted too late. Oh, blessed God, I'm so glad. Lord, you can do it all. And God, we pray that you will help us now. Lord, we love you, and we thank you for saving our wretched souls. Help us this evening to let go and let God lift our eyes, Lord, far above this old world, and get them on Jesus tonight, and God help us, and we'll love you for what you do in Jesus' name. We humbly pray. Amen. Amen. All right, we'll have our ushers come. We're gonna take up an offering every night. Everything you put in place, And we're gonna be good God's men this week, amen? And you'll never give them enough, amen? You won't never give them too much, amen? I don't believe that. Praise God, they're worthy of all of it. And so I won't take good care of the preacher tonight. And you know, usually the preachers I get, if I had them to come down here, they'd come if I didn't give them a penny. That's exactly right. But God's blessing been good to us. And so we're going to give it away. Amen. And I like what Brother Carl said years ago. He said, God will give more through you than he does to you. Amen. And so let's have a giving spirit this week and be good to God's men. OK. All right. Mother Jo, how about you praying over the altar, please? Yes, yes. All right, let's all stand and grab a red hymnal and turn to page 318. 318. You ask me why I'm happy, so I'll just tell you why. Because my sins are gone. And when I meet the sufferers who ask me where they are, I say, ♪ My sins are gone ♪ There underneath the blood ♪ On the cross of Calvary ♪ As far removed as darkness is from dawn ♪ In the sea of God's forgiveness ♪ That's good enough for me ♪ Praise God It was at the old-time altar where God came in my heart, and now my sins are gone. The Lord took full possession. The devil did depart. I'm glad. ♪ There underneath the blood on the cross of Calvary ♪ As far removed as darkness is from dawn ♪ In the sea of God's forgiveness ♪ That's good enough for me, praise God When Satan comes to tempt me and tries to make me doubt, I say, my sins are gone. You got me into trouble, but Jesus got me out. I'm glad my sins are gone. ♪ There underneath the blood on the cross of Calvary ♪ As far removed as darkness is from dawn ♪ In the sea of God's forgetfulness ♪ That's good enough for me ♪ Praise God, my sins are gone ś Once I wandered in sin ś So far from my home ś I was wayward and burdened ś And I walked all alone ś But then at a meeting I heard Jesus say Won't you give me your heart And I'll save you today I was troubled that night No peace could I find I was searching in vain To untangle my mind Then the Spirit of God descended on me and He broke all sin's chains and He set me free. He's the rock of my soul. He's the rock of my soul. My sword and my shield. He's the rock of my soul. He's the rock of my soul. Praise God he is real. There's one thing for sure There's one thing for sure There's one thing I know Forever he'll be Forever he'll be The rock of my soul Many times in my life The devil tempts me And he tells me that I Was never made free Oh, but I know for sure Cause I remember that I That I was saved by God's grace Now I'm kept by His power He's the rock of my soul. He's the rock of my soul, my sword and my shield. He's the rock of my soul. He's the rock of my soul, praise God he is real. There's one thing for sure. There's one thing for sure. There's one thing I know. Forever he'll be. Forever he'll be. The rock of my soul. Forever he'll be. Forever he'll be. The rock of my soul. Forever he'll be Forever he'll be The rock of my soul When I first met Jesus, I was thirsty and dry. And nothing in this world could fill that longing inside. Oh, just a small drink of water is all I would ask. But he gave me something that he knew would last. Then up from my soul sprang a river was a spring of salvation that will never run dry. And this story of mercy is mine now to tell. I asked him for water, but he gave me the well. It's hard to believe I'm a part of his bride. For you see, no one was as worthless as I. For years I had searched for that life-changing source, but I never found it till I met you. Then up from my soul sprang a river of life. It was a spring of salvation that will never run dry. And this story of mercy is mine now to tell. him for water, but he gave me the well. Then up from my soul sprang a river, It was a spring of salvation that will never run dry. And this story of mercy, it's mine now to tell. I asked him for water, but he gave me Thank God I am free, free, free from this world of sin. I'm safe, safe, safe by His wonderful grace. I'm so glad that I found out He would bring me out and show me. For a long time I traveled down a long lonely road. My heart was so heavy and soon I sank low. Then I heard about Jesus, what a wonderful outing. I'm so glad that I found out He would bring me out through His holy power. Thank God I am free, free, free from this world of sin. Washed in the blood of Jesus, I've been born again. Hallelujah, I'm saved, saved, saved by His wonderful grace. I'm so glad that I found out He would bring me out and show me the way. Like a bird out of prison that's taken Like a blind man that God gave back his sight. Like a poor wretched beggar who's found fortune and fame. I'm so glad that I found out he would bring me out through his holy name. Thank God I am free, free, free from this world of sin. washed in the blood of Jesus, I've been born again. Hallelujah, I'm saved, saved, saved by His wonderful grace. I'm so glad that I found out He would bring me out and show me the way. I'm so glad that I found out He would bring me out and show me Sane, man, I love that word sane, don't you? Sane, free. Well, he didn't set me free, he makes me free. Amen, so praise God for that. I'm glad I'm free tonight. I'm glad I'm not in the bondage of sin of this old world. Man, I praise God for that. Amen, I'm glad I'm free. Serve the Lord, amen. And I'm glad God set us free, made us free, amen, when he saved us. Well, this is Brother Daniel Buchanan. He's not a stranger here. I haven't had him in a while. I didn't realize it had been this long. It's been several years back since we had Brother Daniel. But me and him go way back, way back. I said about this sometime last week about some of them old tent maids over there in Valdez. And he drug that old tent all over the place. We had them tent maids and stuff. And we'd go set that old thing up. Man, he preached, boy, I tell you. It was great. And of course, that one night, you know, he preached on the tombstones of rock and roll. Remember that, right? And preached on rock music, amen. That's right. And they dressed me up like a hippie. And I was in a casket. I was in a casket. I done died, went to hell. Thank God I didn't really do that, amen. And they carried me in there and they preached. And I tell you what, God fell on that place. Some people got saved. A lot of people thought it was a real funeral. They thought, man, we've come to the wrong place. They're having a funeral in this tent. He wasn't doing that, amen. Praise God. I praise God all those great times, amen. And so we went to the prior shack with him. We took some into the prior shack this past Saturday morning. We stepped out and prayed a while Saturday morning. Say, Mother Daniel, love him. He's one of my friends, amen. And so he's gonna come preach to us tonight, whatever God's put on his heart. And so he's got all the liberty I could ever give him. Pray the Lord to give him perfect liberty tonight. If you feel right at home, just be easy for him to preach. Make it easy for him, amen. He'll give us something. Amen. I love you, Pastor. Is this thing on? Yeah. Hallelujah. You come here in 1994, didn't you? Was it February? That's what I thought. This place has been like him, Sister Nikki, it's been a honeymoon the whole time. He cut one song out of that book, precious memories. Oh Lord, all this and heaven too. God, y'all, this is such a beautiful church inside. God, I commend you for that. This building's worthy of the Lord. He's worthy. It looks so good, so good. And Sister Nikki, I'm sure you had a lot to do with that, didn't you? You can always tell a woman's touch. Amen, ain't no man got all this together. But the colors are just beautiful. Amen. Praise the Lord. Turn to Joshua 14, please. And it is just wonderful to be, not just to be saved, but know how saved we are. Amen. And we won't tell too many stories, we'll get bogged down up here. But we've had some good ones. And there's not a preacher in this country I got any more confidence in than your pastor. I mean, I got confidence in him. That he'll live right, do right, started right, stayed right, and end right. That means a lot. Praise the Lord. Amen, Caleb, I seen you barely even singing. Give somebody something to look at. You named well. You do know what your name means, don't you? That's one that means dog. Like that Seraphimician woman told the Lord, I might be a dog, but I'm your dog. Amen. Man's best friend. Hallelujah. Ain't nothing more loyal than a good dog. Ain't nothing to be ashamed about that. Okay, Joshua 14 and verse number five. It says here, As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land. Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua, and Gilgal, Caleb the son of Jephiut, or the Kenizzite, said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, a man of God, concerning me, and thee, and Kadesh, Barnea. 40 years old, Zion, Moses, a servant of the Lord, came from Kadesh, Barnea, to spy out the land, and I brought him word again, as it was in my heart. Now, I'll say something about this right quick. I got a sermon I preach on this, but notice what the Lord called Moses. The servant of the Lord. The greatest thing God can ever say about you is you his servant. I don't know that God ever called Moses a servant of the Lord till he died. He never called Joshua that till he died. You gotta finish right for God said the servant of the Lord. What did he say for those that were faithful? Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people to melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God. And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance and the children's forever, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord thy God. And now behold the Lord that kept me alive, as he said, these 45 years. And even since the Lord spake the word unto Moses, while the children of his were wandering in the wilderness, now lo, I am this day four score and five years old, 85. He said, I'm as strong this day as I was the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day, for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and cities were great and fenced. It was so the Lord will be with me, that I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. Don't let nobody steal your dreams that God's put in your heart. There's some things God's put in our hearts so strong, and even though some of them haven't happened, they're going to. They're going to. God don't lie. He don't play games. God always, when you serve God, there's always something to look forward to. The best is always yet to come. FOR AN INHERITANCE. HEBREN THEREFORE BECAME THE INHERITANCE OF CALEB, THE SON OF JEPHUNAH, THE KIN OF ZION UNTIL THIS DAY, BECAUSE HE HOLY FOLLOWED THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. THE NAME OF HEBREN BEFORE WAS KERJETHERBA, WHICH ARBA WAS A GREAT MAN AMONG THE ANAKIMS, AND THE LAND HAD REST FROM WAR. YOU CAN BE SEATED. I'm gonna talk to you about Caleb's spiritual capital. Brother Terry, pray for us one more time, will you? Go, Lord. Go, Lord. Oh, God. Oh, God. Lord, thy will be done. Give us holy unction for this hour. God, we've come to be a blessing. God, we want to be a blessing. Good Lord. Hey man, there's words in the Bible that's lost their meaning. When you think about the word hope, you think of a wish in our day. But that's not the word hope in the Bible. Hope is a well-founded and a well-grounded, confident expectation of a future event. And that's why it's called the blessed hope. Well-founded, well-grounded, confident expectation of a future event. THAT PRINCIPLE. SO, IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, IF YOU'RE GONNA GAIN LATER, YOU GOTTA GIVE SOMETHING NOW. THAT'S THE WAY THIS THING IS. YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE HAVE THINGS IN LIFE AND SOME DON'T. CAUSE SOME PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF BLOWING EVERYTHING THEY MADE, THEY STARTED SAVING A LITTLE BIT. IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING AT THE END OF THE ROAD, YOU GOTTA PUT SOMETHING INTO THIS THING. THERE'S A PRINCIPLE IN THE BIBLE OF THE SEVEN YEARS OF PLENTY AND THE SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE. And when you're young, you work, you better be saving, because those years of famine are coming, the years of bad health, the years when you lose your sight and lose your hearing, and I forget the other things that you lose, I think it's your memory. But what I'm trying to say, God gives us an opportunity to do this thing long term. That's what it is. Your pastor has been here long term. You can't get nothing done if you ain't committed to it. That's what this story is all about. A man, thank God, who was long term and put his heart in it and kept his heart in it and holy fallen, the Lord is God. In spite of the unbelief, in spite of that wilderness generation, he never got over WHAT GOD PUT IN HIS HEART, AND HE STAYED WITH IT, AND HE FOLLOWED THAT. LIFE IS AN INVESTMENT. IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING TOMORROW, YOU GOT TO INVEST TODAY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT BANKS ARE AROUND HERE. IF YOU GO TO A BANK TO MAKE A WEDDING DRAWING TOMORROW, YOU BETTER PUT SOMETHING IN IT. If you go to take 1,000 out, you better put 1,000 in. You can't withdraw if you don't invest. The Christian life is one of investment so that as you live your life, you can make withdrawals in prayer. That's what prayer is. It's making a withdrawal over investments that you've made with God. When trouble comes, hard times come. I hope you prayed before. I hope you got some rank with God. I hope you got some cred, credibility with God. It ain't always what's said, it's who says it. When you live for God, he gives you a voice. He'll put power on what you say. Man, you gain rank with people. Our faithfulness today, our obedience today is capital for tomorrow. Boy, God pays attention. And God writes it down. Thank God Jesus went about doing good. I want to go about doing good. I want to be a blessing to people. Amen. I want to do something that'll last. In Revelation 5, 8, and then in Revelation 8, the Bible says that the prayers of the saints of God are put in a vial. And one day He's gonna pour them out. What's that mean? That means you're gonna answer Him. That's right. Every prayer you ever prayed, you pray and you pray right. God answers prayers. Amen. Oh, thank God. What a hope we've got in God. We ain't wasting our time serving Him. He didn't waste His time serving us. This thing matters to Him. It might not matter to a lot of people, but it matters to Him. What do you think when you think of Caleb? You think of a man that wholly followed the Lord as God. He was a man full of faith and full of obedience. Remember them, which have the rule over you, who've spoken unto you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. What kind of man was Caleb? A man you could follow. I mean, you can follow his example. I mean, a man that's got faith. I mean, is the glass half full or half empty? With Caleb, it's half full. Amen. He doesn't just look at the thorns, he sees the roses on the thorns. Some people are so negative, they'll find something wrong with God. Well, I tell you, live your life in a positive way. Thank God where you've done things, where you're building capital in this world, where you got influence with people. So when you try to witness to somebody, they'll know you're real. I love this word, capital. Not of the United States. I used to be proud of that, ain't no more. Lord, don't let me go down that rabbit hole. I won't get out. God won't let me cuss. I'll tell you one thing. Oh, Lord. Hey, I got to be raised in the old America. Thank God. Capital is accumulated assets. accumulated assets. It means achieving importance or influence. Capital is not just money, it's influence. Capital means to use one's means to take advantage of the name, the influence, the impact, the effect, the status that one has obtained. It means an emanation of spiritual or moral force. It means to have a positive effect because of the devotion, the allegiance. One is achieved because of the excellence of a reputation. SPIRITUAL CAPITAL IS THE CREDIBILITY AND QUALITY OF BEING BELIEVABLE, WORTHY OF TRUST. IT MEANS TO BE TRUSTWORTHY. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S SOMETHING OTHER THAN A PERSON, WHAT THEY SAY, THANK GOD, CARRIES SOME WEIGHT. A MAN CARRIES SOME WEIGHT. GOT POWER BEHIND IT. A MAN GOT THE PUNCH BEHIND IT. Boy, it takes years in the United States military to become an officer. You can't only become one no more unless you go to West Point or one of the schools. It wasn't that way in the old days. You started private and then you make your way through. But the thing about rank, it takes years to gain rank, but you can gain it real quick under one circumstance. That's called war. In the time of war, you can get ranked quick. And if you're in the war, you can get ranked with God. If you're just on the parade field, you ain't getting much rank there. But if you're in the trenches in a foxhole, thank God fighting the good fight of faith, you can gain rank with God. And Caleb, he is the epitome of a man that gains spiritual capital. Oh, this story is about a man that made an investment 45 years before. And now it's payday. Now it's time to make a withdrawal. What? Listen to me, dear saint of God. He stood when it counted. When everybody else run off, he stood when it counted. Anybody jump on a wagon going downhill, it takes somebody with some strength and dedication to push it uphill. I'm telling you, old Caleb, the cause of his faithfulness of standing when it counted. Can you imagine this scenario? Over two million adults miss God, not him and Joshua. They were the only two that did. I'm determined, I know you are too. Hey, Simeone, you got that determination in your soul. If everybody else quits on God, I ain't quitting. By God's grace. Old Dr. Ray said, go ahead and goof off. I'll get you rewards. Yeah. That's the principle of the pounds and the talent. You don't do nothing, what God give you, them that did's gonna get what you could have. Boy, it's a Bible principle. Caleb, we see the longevity of faithfulness, a man with the heart of a warrior. Boy, don't you like a warrior? Man, this is a warrior. This is a fighter. Caleb, have vision. Boy, that vision will motivate you. You know what? A man got credibility with God, sees what other people can't see. He saw a big tract. He saw the land, he saw the grapes, he saw the fruit, and he saw the enemy. And he saw them dead, dead, dead. He saw the vision. You know why? He believed God's word. And God quickened that word and gave him faith to stand and see things that others did not see. Number two, he didn't just have vision, he had virtue. Boy, this man's faithful. Man, you hang your hat on him, he ain't out here chasing somebody else's wife. He's faithful. Number three, he got valor. Boy, don't you like brave people? Courage. Man, he had courage. And then because of that, he had victory. 45 years before, Moses sent 12 men, a prince from East Tribe. Now, y'all have known already what people thought of him. He's chosen out of the whole tribe of Judah. Oh yeah, Joshua come from the tribe of Ephraim. That's Joseph's tribe. So here's Joseph and Judah going into Canaan land with them other 10 unbelieving men, but these were the best the tribe had. They're the ones they represented. He's 40 years old and he goes into the land of Canaan to do reconnaissance of the land. because they're going to find out the strength of the Lamb. God set this thing up because everything ... Listen to me, folks, listen to me. Everything in life's a test. It's all a test. Adam and Eve in the garden, it's always a test. You're going to have a test tomorrow, and you're going to keep taking it until you pass it. You're like Jethro Bodine, you're going to stay in the sixth grade until you pass. God ain't gonna move you up just cause he feels sorry for you. You gotta pass the test. Boy, I tell you, if you pass it, you don't have to take it again. Amen. Thank God. So, he goes up in 10 out of 12, bring back an evil report. You know this story. Brother Terry's probably briefed on this a thousand times. Here's a thousand more. Caleb and Joshua, had a different spirit. Because they had seen something different than anybody else had, they come back and said, Moses, it is fertile and filled with abundance. I'll tell you how abundant that land was. It took two men to carry a tag of grapes. the size of grapefruits. You think about taking two men to put them on a pole. They're saying, Moses, it's everything that God told you it was, and it's worth the fight, and it's worth taking. All they had to do was show up. I mean, look at that fiasco happened to old Pharaoh in the greatest empire in the whole world at that time, and God put them in the bottom of the Red Sea, and then washed them up on the bank. Before you think about that, I think if God can take care of the biggest enemy they ever faced, how these city-states are no match for God. The other 10 men, their report was evil. My cause is full of unbelief. Now, we know how wicked this world is, ain't no need to even get into it. Man, you preach the rest of the night how evil this world is. Man, it's full of violence, vulgarity, vice, just wickedness. I can't even think as wicked as some people act. Now, if I wasn't saved, I could. What did the 10 men say? They said, Moses, it's all you said it was. Nevertheless, despite all that, the people are strong that dwell in the land. The cities are walled and very great. And moreover, we saw the Anakim there. Well, that's right. Listen to me, folks. I don't know if you ever paid any attention to this. Israel has never fought anybody that wasn't bigger than them. They're little people. Most of them about five foot six, seven probably. Saul's six foot four, six foot six. He's head and shoulders taller than anybody else. And Goliath, Lord God, what a name. He's about 10 foot tall at least. And those Philistines were big people, seafaring people. And a lot of these people in the land were giants. I'll tell you one thing, God will never let you face the enemy that you don't have to trust Him. They're always bigger than us. BUT THEY AIN'T BIGGER THAN HIM. THAT'S WHY IT TAKES FAITH. BECAUSE THE ENEMY IS SO POWERFUL AND SO STRONG, ALL THE FAITHFUL MEN IN ISRAEL SHOULD HAVE CRIED OUT, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? NEVERTHELESS, WHAT DID GOD SAY? WHAT DID GOD SAY? WHAT DID GOD SAY? HE SAID, I'M GIVING YOU THE LAND. IT'S THE LAND OF PROMISE. DEAR CHURCH, YOU'VE GOT THAT LAND IN FRONT OF YOU. It's still there. Some of you probably in it. And you fightin' the giants, I don't doubt that a bit. But despite the promises of God, they said the inhabitants are strong. And then they said the cities are fortified, walled up in huge. Then they said we saw Anak, the giants. Despite God's promise, the Amlekites are there, and the Amorites are there, and the Jebusites are there, and the Cainites are there. You ought to be like Orkin and kill all them termites. Lord God, that bunch, whoever named them, gotta be a kin of the devil. It'd be hard to find a more unbelieving and unfaithful report. Boy, this is a disgrace to the God they serve. Boy, this is less than two years after they saw the Lord deliver them from Pharaoh and his army. Every single day, God rained men out of heaven. Except on the seventh day, and he gave them twice as much on Friday, so that they'd have plenty to eat. I'm talking about 10 plagues that God sent on Egypt. God bankrupted them financially, economically, socially, politically, and militarily. He humbled them. And then when they left there, those women of Egypt, God so touched their heart, They weighed them down with so many riches, gold and silver and different jewels. That's how they built that tabernacle out of all that Egyptian gold and silver and jewels. They had to take their young'uns to carry off the spoil. What? To the victor goes the spoil. THE BLOOD OF THE PASSOVER LAMB WAS PUT ON THE DOOR POST AND THE LENTIL. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT THAT FORMS, THAT FORMS A CROSS. AND THAT BLOOD DRIPPED DOWN ON THE GROUND. THE NORTH, SOUTHEAST, AND WEST WAS COVERED BY THE BLOOD OF FIRSTBORN MALES OF EGYPT WERE SLAYED THAT THE RED SEA. I'M TELLING YOU, WHEN GOD PUT THAT, HAD HIM PUT THE BLOOD ON THE DOOR POST AND THE LENTIL, IT REPRESENTED JUSTIFICATION. But when I went through that Red Sea, that's regeneration. When you got saved, you didn't just get forgiven, you got a new spirit and new heart. And God put a perfected place in you for him to live called the Holy of Holies and called the spirit of man. I know you've heard this. Let me just show you right quick how big God is. I just let you know there's no excuse in them not believing the Lord. I ain't got no excuse today either. I got 66 bucks of all these miracles. You know, you know God wrote that Bible, it's called one word, prophecy. Only God can give prophecy. All through that Bible, God foretold things that was gonna happen, and he's back in 1,000. Everything he said is happening. What about all this antisemitism? It's got to happen in the last days for the antichrist to come to power. I mean, it's happening right before our eyes. I'm telling you, God's given us salvation. Thank God. It's like the Red Sea crossing. You ever thought I'd like to? How'd you like to have been there? I was there. How'd you like to see that man fall from heaven? I've seen it. How'd you like to see the Lord feed all them people with five loaves and two fishes? I seen it. Cause when I read it, I saw it. And it's just real to me. Cause that book's right as if I was there. I can read this Bible and go back 6,000 years. I can get in the middle of this thing. Had an old deacon one time tell me you'll never worship God without using your imagination. You gotta put yourself out. Lord God, let God expand your mind, expand your heart. Quartermaster in the United States Army once calculated the provisions that would be necessary to feed three and a half million people in the wilderness every day. Listen to this, we're talking about 40 years. When they come out of Egypt, how they didn't come, or come out through the Red Sea, they didn't cross that Red Sea two by two. If they would have, the line would have been 800 miles long. Took 35 days and night. And so, for them to get across the Red Sea in one night, it had to be five miles across. 50,000 abreast. And then you got parted that thing. And they went over on dry ground. So God delivered them from their slave masters, and God watered them and fed them for 40 years. three and a half million people. Now, some of y'all were raised in a house. You didn't have a bathroom, you had a bath. And the big thing back then, that your mamas and daddies and grandparents, their biggest burden was having enough water and enough wood. Because you cook with wood, you heat it with wood, and therefore you always had to have wood. And you had to have water. And you had to carry it. You had to go to a creek or a river, or you had to pull it up out of a bottom of a well. What I'm trying to say, how much water would it take to water three and a half million people. Not just them, but their animals. You know how God done that? There's a rock to follow them, which is Christ. Dear people, listen. That wasn't some little old trickle. It was a gushing river. Ain't no way three and a half million people can drink water every day and their animals without it being a wide river. And right in the middle of that desert, God had that river running through it. where they went. I'd say he be big God. Amen. 1,500 tons of food a day. Two freight trains each a mile long to feed three and a half million people. Three million pounds of food a day. 8 million pounds or 4,000 tons of firewood if you had to cook all your food. Five more freight trains a mile long to bring the train or the wood. 11 million gallons of water a day to drink and wash themselves. A freight train, a tank car of 1,800 miles long just to bring the water. And God just did it. And you worried about some little old walled city? That insults God! You worried about some giant in there? That insults God! Don't be looking at giants, be looking at God! Don't look at the foe, look at the fruit, amen. God protected them. Man, they'd have burned up in that desert. God put a cloud above them. and a pillar of fire by night that'll froze to death at night. God'll give them central heat and air condition every day for 40 years. I believe that. How can you see that and doubt God? Because of our wicked heart of unbelief, that's why we are. Hey, don't you let Satan rob you of the promises of this book. Believe what God says and he'll use you. So he just delivered them from the greatest army in the whole world. And they can't deliver them from the old Jerichoites. Verse 29, the Anakims dwell in the land of the south. Hittites, Jebusites, Samurites dwell in the mountains. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of Jordan. Lumbers 1330, and Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, we are well able to go up against the people, for they are not stronger than we. stronger than God's promise. There ain't nothing stronger than God's promise. God said it. That settles it. And I'll get blessed if I'll just believe it. Verse 32, and they brought up an evil report of the land which they searched to the children of Israel, saying the land through which we've gone to search is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof. All the people we saw in it are men of a giant stature. Folks, Unbelief lies and exaggerates. There were giants in the land, but the land wasn't eating up all the people, nobody could have lived there. Verse 33, there we saw the giants of Sinai neck, which come of the giants, we were in our own sight grasshoppers. Now, let's just use some common sense. If you're a grasshopper, compared to these people, they're over 200 feet tall. If you're a grasshopper, You see how stupid unbelief is? You see what an idiot it makes out of you? So now they're exaggerating and assuming the worst. You know what a lie is? A good lie's always a mixture of truth. But it'll always have that poison in there. Old Caleb come in to the people. He said, he tried to quiet them down. Trust God, they're bread for us. Why? Because God's doing our fighting. Boy, you can be real bold. You know Simon Peter? You know how bold he was? They come to arrest Christ. Listen, they sent about 600 men. He cut off the ear of Malchus right in front of the whole crowd. Because you belly bad when Jesus is standing beside of you. But the Lord wasn't beside of him. He melted in front of a little old teenage girl. BOY, IF YOU'RE AWARE OF THE PRESENCE AND THE POWER OF GOD, YOU CAN STAND AGAINST ANYTHING. FAITH AND UNBELIEF BOTH COME FROM THE HEART. FAITH AND FEAR CAN'T DWELL IN THE SAME HEART. NUMBER 14, ALL THE CONGREGATION PANICS IN FEAR THAT WE PAUL NOT MURMURED AGAINST MOSES, AARON AND THE LORD. THEY ACCUSE GOD OF BRINGING THEM INTO A LAND TO KILL THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN. IF GOD WANTED TO DO THAT, ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS LET THEM STAY THERE IN EGYPT. HOW STUPID IS THIS? I tell you one thing, when you don't want to obey God, you start talking stupid. When you're not behind the church going forward, oh, we'll go bankrupt. Oh, how are we gonna make it? We're gonna make it the same way our grandparents made it. We're gonna believe God, trust God, and live for God. Joshua and Caleb were in their clothes in grief and tried to reason with the people. You can't reason with people of unbelief. because they don't have faith. They're full of fear. Chapter 14, verse 7, they said it's an exceeding good land. Verse 8 and 9, the Lord delight in us. He'll bring us into the land and give it to us. A land that floweth with milk and honey. Now think about that. If you got milk and you got honey, you got pollination and you got fertility. You gotta have all that grass, have all them cows. You gotta have all them bees to pollinate all that fruit. Milk and honey represents wealth and prosperity. He said, only rebel not against the Lord. Neither fear the people of the land. They're bred for us, their defense is departed from them. And the Lord is with us, fear them not. So, Here's the mighty Moses, a colossal of a man. The greatest man in the Old Testament. No man saw God face to face like Moses did. Moses, they about to stone him. Unbelief can't stand somebody got faith because it challenges them and they get our conviction They can't stand somebody prays They can't stand somebody got God on them. They gotta run around people as dead as they are I'm full of unbelievers. They are Now Joshua, in Joshua 14, Caleb tells Joshua, he said, remember that day Moses promised me that? Now I've come to make a withdrawal. I made an investment then. I believed God, I trusted God, I stood with God's man, and now I've come to withdraw the promise of God. He said, I've waited 45 years for this. He said, Joshua, by the way, Joshua's the same way. He said, I'm as strong right now. 85. That's what it was at 45 or 40. 45 years before. That ain't nothing. Moses was as strong at 120 as he was at 30. His eyes were not dim. His natural strength was not abated. How do you understand that? They ate of the fountain of youth. They got stuck the aging process. Now each year they got older, but they didn't get weaker. If they disobey God, that man is from heaven. That's a miracle food. That's got steroids in it. That's got nutrients in it. That's why they didn't age. They've been eaten from heaven's throne. And you can have a stronger faith right now at 85 as you had at 30, have a whole lot more. This thing of serving God, we can get stronger as the days go by. For the glory of God. I mean, old Moses, he'd do as many pull-ups at 120. He didn't even die of old age. God just put him to sleep. Now, Caleb and Joshua, that manna was cut off. When they brought them stones, set up that monument, God cut the manna off. They ate the old corn of the land, and then the next day, God cut the manna off. And they got to aging. That's exactly right. You say, well, I don't believe that. Well, how are you going to explain it? How can a 120-year-old man, as strong as he was at 30, that ain't right? Hey, man, I'm going to believe it anyhow. God showed me that one time. I've been shouting about it. Joshua went from being a second man to being a leader. Why? He stood. He stood when it mattered. I mean, from going to the spy to being a general, I got hurt. So, as Paul got older, he became a mentor to a lot of people. They say that an older man, that a preacher always needs somebody older than him to be his mentor. He needs somebody his age he can confide in. He needs somebody younger than him that he's pouring his life into. Amen, you stay faithful, God will give you credibility. Hey, if you want to end right, have the blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, and their works do follow them. You want a trainload of works following you, you got to do something while you're alive. Balaam said, let me die the death of the righteous. Let my latter in be as theirs. You can't die the death of the righteous if you don't live the life of the righteous. Children grow up in this church, they'll know your testimony. They'll know your testimony. They've been here any length of time. I'll tell you, brother Terry, I believe it's everything in me. One of the greatest gifts that you could ever give your children, your grandchildren, is at your funeral, them play your testimony on video or tape. You tell them when you got saved. If it ain't real to you, it ain't gonna be real to nobody else. What a heritage to leave behind. When God saved my soul, I believe in that mental man. On a skull-shaped hill and a blood-soaked cross, they hung him high and they stretched him wide. After you and me bled and died, amen, I'm saved and going to heaven because of that man on the mental tree. The greatest acts of Abraham and Sarah was in their old age. Abraham's 100. Sarah's 90 when old Isaac's born. She dies when she's 127. He's 137. He marries Keturah. When God fixed him, he fixed him. He's having young as battle, he dies. I'm talking about fruitful in old age. When you retire, it ain't time to step down. It's time to get more powerful than you've ever been. THE GREATEST UNTAPPED RESOURCE WE GOT IS OUR RETIRED PEOPLE, IF THEY GET TO PRAYING. WHO ABOUT ZACHARIAH AND ELIZABETH? OH, ZACHARIAH TOLD THE ANGEL, SHE'S WELL STRICKEN IN YEARS. THAT MEANS SHE'S AT LEAST 90. YOU START GETTING OLD AT 70. But when you're well stricken in yours, you're over 90 years old. And she's having a young, I'm probably older than Sarah was. What am I trying to say? I'm trying to say, hey man, when you get older, it can be your best days. Joshua 14, 10, and behold, the Lord hath kept me alive. Thank God, I'm glad I'm still breathing. Glory to God. I'm still above ground. Amen. And I'm still in love with the one that bled and died for me. Boy, when you get older, what about Anna? She's 107 years old. She's up there at the temple being the mentor of all the women that come up there, come to the temple. God's using her, and she's a prophesying. She was a prophetess. That means God let her know the future. Here's a woman can come, and she can pray and say, God's gonna give you a husband in a year. That's what that means. I've met people like that. God told them his secrets. That don't mean she's a preacher. That means she foretold things. Amen. Luke 2, 34, she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise to the Lord and speak of him all that look for redemption in Israel. Who else does God have? Another old man. His name's Zimeon. Boy, the older you get, you get the young ones raised and get the empty nest. Boy, you got time to go after God. Hey, listen, don't waste your last years on the sideline. Put me in, coach! Put me in, coach! Put me in, coach! If you're right with God, you win. All God's people's on the field. If we're right with God, we ain't sitting on a sideline, we ain't sitting on a bench. We're in the game if we're right with God. Boy, the longer you walk with God, the stronger your testimony gets. Thank God, and the more you can encourage others. Paul told the older women to teach the younger women how to love their husbands. I gotta hurry now. I'm gonna show y'all something. Here is the blessing. of a godly, full of faith, and the Holy Ghost deacon. These truths are mentioned in the faithful execution of the office of a deacon. For they that have used the office of a deacon well, that's like Joshua and Caleb's, like Moses' deacons, his ministers, well purchased to themselves a good degree. and great boldness in the faith, which is in Christ Jesus. You know that powerhouse deacon was in the book of Acts, Stephen? He personed himself a great degree. Oh, the blessing to learn how to submit to the authorities in your life. Boy, this spiritual capital, spiritual credibility. Nobody walks in the back door of a church with credibility, because people don't know you. Lay hands on no man suddenly, and people start watching you. And they hear your testimony. And they hear you pray. And they watch your life. And they say, hey, I believe they're real. And they watch you a little longer, hey, I believe they're real. A person that's got spiritual capital, people will be drawn to them. You know why? They got something to say. They know that book and they know the mind of God. And they got experiences. You know what, some people can say something and offend everybody. Somebody else can say something and influence everybody. What's the difference? It's credibility. So let me go and finish this. Let's shuck this corn down the cob right quick. Parents ought to have spiritual credibility with their children. Now, your children may not always serve God, but they ought to know you do. Somebody got to have an example. Thank God I grew up around people I knew was saved. Before I ever got saved, I knew these people it was. And I knew this thing was real, because I watched people's lives. Oh, what a blessing to be raised around people that thank God, live for God, and you know they're saved. Caleb's a great victory, brother Terry. was delayed because of unbelief, not his, other people. I wonder how many years the real victory God wants to give to this church has been delayed. Oh, there ain't no doubt about it. Where I'm at here, a lot of places, what God's doing, He's wanting to fulfill these promises He's put in our heart. Our victory, don't dismiss this, is connected with each other. IF YOUR PASTOR IS SUCCESSFUL, YOU WILL BE TOO. IF YOU'RE SUCCESSFUL, HE'LL BE. THERE AIN'T NO MAN CAN PREACH LIKE A MAN'S GOT HIS PEOPLE PRAYING FOR HIM. THAT'S WHAT SPURGEON SAID. SOME OF YOU HAVE SUFFERED BECAUSE OF THE DISOBEDIENCE OF OTHERS. THE DISOBEDIENCE OF MAYBE YOUR PARENTS, MAYBE A SPOUSE, MAYBE A PREACHER, MAYBE CHURCH MEMBERS, BUT YOU'VE BEEN HELD BACK BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF FAITHFULNESS OF OTHER PEOPLE, BUT YOU LAID RIGHT IN THERE, SAID, MY HEART, AND I'MMA STAYING WITH IT TILL I GET TO THE MOUNTAIN." BOY, WHAT A BLESSING. HAVE GOD TELL YOU HIS SECRETS. THAT'S WHAT GIVES YOU FAITH. THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE GREAT TRIBULATION, THE SAINTS OF GOD, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, MANICRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS WOULD DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT. YOU KNOW WHY THEY CAN'T DECEIVE THEM? BECAUSE THEY KNOW GOD'S WORD. IF THEY DIDN'T KNOW GOD'S WORTH, THEY COULD BE DECEIVED. BUT BECAUSE THEY KNOW GOD'S WORTH, THEY'LL NOT BE DECEIVED. EVERYTHING THAT GLITTERS AIN'T GOLD. YOU KNOW THAT. SO, WE SEE HERE, PRAISE GOD, JOSHUA 15, 63, THE JEBUSAHS DWELLED AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH HAD JERUSALEM TO THIS DAY, BUT THE CANAANITES DWELLED AMONG THE EPHRAIMITES UNTO THIS DAY AND SERVED UNDER TRIBUTE. THEY WASN'T DRIVEN OUT OVER AND OVER AND OVER. IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA, WE SEE THE INABILITY OF THEM TO DRIVE OUT ALL THE ENEMY. drove out not just the enemy, but the dreaded giants of 45 years before. Let me give you a track quick. What did David do when he killed Goliath? He cut his head off with his own sword. And where did he go? He ran to Jerusalem and he held up that head of Goliath and said, hey, you're next. Amen. You know what Caleb said? It's bye-bye now, but you're next. And he waited 45 years to get his hands on that demon hide. He could have took them 45 years before, had it not been the unbelief of others. Oh, thank God. Hey, there's a lot of victories we could have won if we could have just got the people behind the will of God. Let me give you a couple of illustrations. Heard of a very rich man who loved art. Loved art. One day he got an art magazine. He seen this beautiful painting by Terry. He said, I gotta have that, I gotta have that painting right there. He calls in his man that's over all this buying of his artwork, cause money's no, there's no limit to the money, he's just got, he like a billionaire, he can buy anything he wants. He said, I don't know where it's at, and I don't know who's got it, but I gotta have it. I got all them buildings full of paintings, but I want that. You know, man's eyes ain't never satisfied, not unless he's satisfied in God. And so that man got to look over that piece of art. He comes back in about three months and says, sir, about that painting, I got good news and bad news. He said, well, let's hear the, Let's hear the good news. He said, a very, very wealthy man owns that thing. He said, but there ain't no way he's gonna sell it. That's the bad news. I found it, but a very wealthy man's got it and won't sell it. He said, who's that man? He said, it's you. It's been down there in one of your buildings for years and you didn't even know you had it. We've had this power the whole time. We've had these promises the whole time. Oh God, help us to reach in and believe what God says. God means business. Why did Cale have such boldness and confidence to ask such a thing? Because he believed God. He got a promise from God. He stood when nobody else would. He stood when it mattered. He stood against all of the pressure of all that. I'm talking about two men. Them 20 and older, just two men, believe God. Because his faith would be rewarded. because he believed God. He aggressively went after him. Caleb followed the Lord. The Bible says here, holy followed the Lord. And Caleb and Joshua had another spirit. I wonder how many times, oh Joshua, he's the captain and God's training him to be the big heffy, the big chief, the big cheese. He's gonna replace Moses. I wonder how many times old Caleb encouraged him. He said, Joshua, remember we went over there in that land? We're gonna suck them grapes. We're gonna suck the juice out of them grapes. We're gonna behead that crab. We're gonna win. And old Caleb said, you remember what God promised us? He gonna do it. And true story, Roman Empire, they finally got to England. Julius Caesar went across between France and England and, my goodness, I forgot the name of that, what's that water? Dunkirk. Anyhow, I'll think of it in a minute, the English Channel. He went and took his men over there. He got them all out and took them up to the cliffs of Dover. When he got all of his troops to the cliffs of Dover, he said, now men, turn around and look out over the English Channel. Every ship was set on fire. He burned every ship down and destroyed them. He said, men, there will be no retreat. That's the attitude we need. Great God, don't you retire me, you refire me. He deliberately cut off any possibility of anybody going back defeated. I don't have time to preach this, I'll just mention it. Sister Nikki, you gonna come and bless them here in a second. Revelation two and three, ever church. God gives a promise to the overcomer. I mean, if the Lord didn't say this stuff, God wants you to labor for the reward. I mean, you say, well, the Lord's my reward. I agree with that. I agree. And serving the Lord, brother Terry, we don't need to be rewarded, but I'm not the one who promised it. God did. So if he promised it, why shouldn't I want it? Especially who's given it, especially what he's got. Lord God Almighty. Here's what he said in Revelation 321. To him that overcometh, will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I overcame and sat down with my father in his throne to those that overcome. What you talking about? Overcoming what? That's the way out of sin. If you overcome the indifference of this age, that's what it is. If you'll overcome the lukewarmness, the compromise, and the self-reliance of this age, and you believe God and trust God, and you end up still believing the Lord, he is gonna give you a special reward for standing against the compromise of this age. Second John, look to yourselves that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but we receive a full reward. But Terri, we work today for tomorrow. We saved today to have something tomorrow. We labor with God today so we can have it here as well done tomorrow. Hey, you gotta see, some people can't see the forest for the trees. You gotta see the big picture. God's left you down here. I'll tell you how much the Lord loves you. He loves you so much that He'll aggravate you, just aggravate you, to do something for Him. And then finally you'll do it. Then He'll empower you to do it. He'll set up all the circumstances so you can do it. And then when you do it, he'll let you feel like you done something. Now, who can serve God like that and then reward you for it? When God was behind the whole thing. You know, you can start your investments tonight. Pray. Give God your heart. He's already in there. Give it to him. Yield to him. Ask him to fill you with the Holy Ghost. Would you agree with me in closing that? God said that be you filled with the Spirit. Then there's a part of you empty. If you wasn't empty, you'd already be filled. What part of you is empty? Your soul. Your spirit's filled. with the Holy Ghost. But your soul's where your mind, will, and emotion is. And when God fills you with the Holy Ghost, when you're yielded to Him, and your sins are confessed, and He moves out of that holy of holies into that holy place, and He gets in your emotions, your mind, and your will, and expresses Himself through your body, and He said, out of your belly will flow, your belly's your spirit, will flow rivers of living water. Amen. That's what we should want. Lord God, I just want all you got for me. No more, no less. Just give me my inheritance. Let's bow our heads. Praise you, Lord. God, I ain't