With a heart filled with trust in God Caleb asks for the most challenging piece of real estate. Caleb trusted in God’s promises. Taking the role God gave to men in the home also takes courage, valor, and strength. All these we can get only in a close relationship with Christ. 

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<p>With a heart filled with trust in God Caleb asks for the most challenging piece of real estate. Caleb trusted in God’s promises. Taking the role God gave to men in the home also takes courage, valor, and strength. All these we can get only in a close relationship with Christ. </p>

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Eli Rojas

Mountains and Valleys

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And you have to understand what he was asking for.

He was talking about taking the city of Hebron and the territory around it.

Now chronologically, by this time, the city had been conquered.

So it wasn't necessarily the city, but the surrounding territory.

It was the taking of the caves and strongholds of the Anakim.

And you know, and we can talk more about this in just a moment, but the Anakim were the giants.

So you know, you start putting this together.

He is talking about taking the territory that that scares the Israelites into a 40 year journey.

So, so, yes, he is making a very intentional decision.

I mean, Caleb was not naive about what decision he was making.

He had been there 40 years earlier, had seen these giants, he knew what he was getting into.

It means that it was a test of endurance.

He had been working, well, originally 40 years earlier, he said, let's do it, we can do it, we have the energy.

Now, he's gonna go for another few more years.

He could have said to Israel, you know you guys this is your fault I'm gonna take a valley you guys take the mountain right?

You know and that's the thing about man We should never be taking the cowardly way out.

We need to always understand that God has made us man so we can take the challenges, and not just the easy way out.

Because 40 years earlier, he said, God is going to give us the land.

Now 40 years later, he was 40 years older, he was 40 years dealing with the Israelites, 40 years tired of the people of Israel, and yet he still says, God is going to do this for me.

You think about the decision that he was making.

Now, a little more about the background, once again, so you can understand the big picture of the decision he was making.

We go to the book of Deuteronomy, chapters 1 and 2, where this journey of Israel is narrated, where they say, we're not going to enter the land, and now they're just about to enter the land.

They had to confront the, let me see if I can say it well, the Zanzumim.

This was the people that they were going to be facing.

Notice what it says in Deuteronomy chapter 2 verses 20 and 21.

That was also regarded as a land of giants.

Now since formerly, there were still giants in that land.

Well, just wait a second but the Ammonites call them then zoom in then that's what the name comes in a people as great as numbers install as the Anakim but the Lord what?

Okay, so He destroyed the Ammonites, the Sansoumene, He destroyed them before whom?

No, just a second, We'll get there in just a moment.

So they disposed of the land and dwelt in the plains.

He was talking about the descendants of Lot.

The descendants of Lot actually were in that place because, remember, God had told the Israelites not to mess with them as they were going into the promised land.

So the descendants of Lot are ahead of the people of Israel.

They have claimed the land based on God's promises, and they've taken it.

The story of Lot is not a story that has a tremendous value to the Bible.

When you think about it, you could not have the story of Lot and the Bible would have been almost the same.

Maybe the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, that's a really good 1, but Lot is not a main character so what's going on?

Lot was, it says neither Lot nor his children were important characters in the story of God's people.

Not important in the story of God's people, yet it is there.

He is mentioned in the Bible just 3 in 3 places.

We find it in 2 Peter, and we are going kind of backwards in the Bible from the end to the beginning.

2 Peter 2.7 where it talks about Lot being delivered from among the wicked.

Then we go to Luke chapter 17 where Jesus Christ says, as in the days of Lot, and then he also says, remember Lot's wife.

Just a brief mention by Jesus about the days in which he lived and the days also the decision that his wife had made.

Powerful lessons, and I'm sure you have probably great term and space on that.

Then we go to Genesis 11-14 where he is mentioned as part of the story of Abram.

And the reason Lot is able, well not Lot, but his descendants are able to take over this land is because of what is going on with his uncle.

They were living in Sodom, the angels come, This is what happens in Genesis 19.

He lives nervously because he is in sore.

Where his 2 daughters get him drunk, commit incest and he has children by them.

His 2 sons Moab and Ben Amin, Moab meaning Abba father or referring to, I'm referring to the Ab that comes from Abba Father and that basically means son of dad in this case is the daughter talking so this is a grandson and a son at the same time If you can imagine that as a result of that.

The other son is called Ben Amin and it means son of my people once again referring to the incest and what had taken place.

So this will not be a glorious people to have a background from but there is something that happens why is it that God does this and it's because the promise that is registered in Genesis 1929 and he says right there and it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the flame that God remember Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow why did they conquer this land why was this land given to them because of God's promise isn't that awesome because of God's promises And the reason I'm making the case with Lot is Lot did not deserve it.

He was in a game, big character and Bible story.

Yet because of the promise that God made to Abraham, they go and conquer this land.

They fight the giants and they win so that's that's the story with Lava.

Esau is another 1 that is able to conquer the land in spite of the mistakes that he made.

He refuses the birthright, sells it for a bowl of soup and he is promised that he will break the yoke that his brother will have on him so they will become a nation and that happens but this nation goes out and conquers that same land that had been promised to the children of Israel because they were descendants of God's seed or connected to God's seed through Abraham and that's what they get the promises.

He says and when we pass go beyond our brethren the descendants of Israel who dwell in Seir so it makes clear that they're descendants and so these individuals unfortunately for the rest of their story, the people fighting against each other and Pastor Skeets mentioned it this morning, even today.

The last Edomite or descendant of Edom or Esau that we see in the Bible story.

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