in the Book of Joshua tonight and if you go to the tape table you'll be blessed I know you will amen there many many things there there's there's there's there's one for all singles out there I hope they have it I better not even talk about it if they don't have it out there that one is uh that's not for children amen successfully single now it has a part two to it amen and uh in in and did I say uh what did I say that's where we're going it's Joshua chapter 4 and I'm not
regarded in in my circles as an Old Testament preacher per se uh Hebrew is descriptive and Greek is definitive and I have by the help of God spent so much time in definition than in description however I would love for you to look at Joshua 14 and verse 7 Joshua 14 I'm sorry sometimes I think you're with me in in my mind but Joshua 14 and verse 7 and it is Caleb in this particular text who is now talking to Joshua at a place called gilgal yeah and he is talking to him about uh an
age-old promise a 45y old promise that he is now ready to receive and he says in verse 7 40 years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Bara to Espy out the land and I brought him word again as it was in Mine Heart nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt but I wholly followed the Lord my God and Moses swear on that day saying surely the land were on thy feet have trotten shall be thine inheritance and thy children's forever
because thou Hast holy followed the Lord my God and now behold the Lord hath kept me alive as he said these 40 and5 years even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness and now lo I am this day 8 and5 years old as yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go out and to come in now therefore give me this mountain where
if the Lord spake in that day for thou heardest in that day how the anakims were there and that the cities were great and fenced if so be the Lord will be with me then I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord sin and Joshua blessed him and gave unto Caleb the son of jeffon heon for an inheritance and heon therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of jepun the kenite unto this day because that he holy follow the lord god of Israel I want you to notice verse 12 now therefore
give [Music] me this mountain I want you to to look at somebody I might not tell you to do this for a while but look at somebody and say neighbor neighbor I've waited a long time but it's still mine it's still mine amen Caleb's name his name means bold and it's interesting that he was not an Israelite by birth but a kenite yeah and sometimes we see the unusual in people who have not always been around the church Caleb if you think about Caleb from the point of view of the 12 War Warriors who went
to aspy the land and I'm sure that when they got to uh kanes Baria that Moses and and that was just a just a few just a few hours journey into the land that Moses would have sent the most Valiant the most courageous of his group yeah because in that number along with Caleb he also chose Joshua who later became the leader and ultimately the individual who led them into the land so I would assume then maybe deductively uh I would deduce that the 12 that he had to go into the land were 12 of
the most Valiant and obviously two of them agreed that they could take the land and the the other 10 were so fearful in their presentation of how big the Giants were and it wasn't so bad that they saw how big the Giants were but it was awful that they saw themselves as grasshoppers it's not how you look at the opposition that will determine whether you have the victory but it's how you view yourself in light of the opposition if you looked at Caleb from that point of view then two out of 12 would make him
one out of six of the most Valiant Warriors that were in Israel it is true that 600,000 men left Egypt on the way to Canaan and of 600,000 men only two made it which would now make Caleb one out of 300,000 if you've got 300,000 then the chronicler declares that there has to be at least 2 million to 3 million people men women and children if that is so then Caleb has just become one out of a million or one out of 1.5 million Caleb is obviously in a Class by Himself who is not moved
by what the majority of people think that are around him but rather he's the kind of man who will hold on to what he believes and not allow it to be deteriorated by the disposition and attitudes of others I've come to talk to Caleb tonight I've come to find Caleb it is interesting because when I saw the uniqueness of this man Caleb I searched and I found a quote from the hidic rabbi susia and here's what he said I quote when when I get to heaven they will not ask me why were you not Moses
but they will ask me why were you not susal why did you not become what only you could become this of course is the existential guilt that comes when one's vocation is found and one fails to respond to it uh you can only be the best you that you know because you can't be anybody else and if you have to stand on your own two feet and have to walk 40 years with a group of folk who you could have achieved the goal in three days then you've got to have the kind of Faith that'll
pull you through every circumstance until you get the promise that God has declared it is interesting when I think about this man uh what kind of Faith does it take to hold on to a promise for 45 years uh I think about Abraham and for 25 years Abraham waited for the promise of his son but Abraham was one of the richest men in history it would be quite easy to be Abraham I mean I know I have to wait for God to give me this son but Abraham had over 300 servants born in his house
and if you remember Abraham Abraham defeated five Kings to get his nephew back Abraham as an individual was rich and as powerful as Nations for Abraham to have waited 25 years is remarkable and it is great but consider Caleb who had to wait 45 years and 45 years walking in the wilderness with a group of people that I would have a hard time waking up to every day ah I feel it can you imagine that he did not have the opulence and the affluence of Abraham and yet still he had the determination and the intensity
to wait for what God Said and hold on to it and not allow psychological or physical or or or financial debilitation to cause him to move from his faith H are you still with me cuz we're going deep and then we're going to come out all right I move now from The Narrative to the theological philosophy that surrounds the question what in the world did he hold on to and it brings me to this point and that is are we prepared to understand divine revelation and the knowledge of God in the Horizon of history or
the sphere of promise it sounds big but it's not uh am I prepared to look in my everyday life in the events of my everyday life and realize that it's in my everyday situation that God is going to reveal himself uh yes am I prepared to see God yes and and and I use the word see quote unquote to perceive God is a better word because I don't see God with my sensual perception my eyes don't see him my hands don't touch him I I wish I could have an appointment with God particularly when things
are going uh different from the way I thought they would go and in my everyday move in my everyday walk in my everyday circumstance I wish I could say uh pick up my cell phone and say you know Lord uh things are just a little Topsy turby here and I would like to come over to your office and sit and talk to you so you can explain to me why I lost my job or uh tell me why my child died so young or why did this man walk out on me and Lead me with
these children or why is this woman just so crazy Lord I I need a conversation with you I don't know how you have felt but I wish many days that I could just look him in the F but I but but if I go by my sensual position deception then I cannot navigate in the things of spirit because to operate in the things of spirit I have to have faith but I have to be willing to receive the fact that God operates in my everyday eventful life and so that he has to make me promises
and when he makes me a promise or gives me a vision Vision I do not see God when I get the vision and when he brings the vision or the promise to pass I still don't see God when the promise comes to pass because God does not fall within the radar screen of my sensual perception what he does is he makes me a promise and then he brings the promise to pass and it is in his making me the promise and then bringing the promise to pass that I have now received the Revelation and the
manifestation of his existence ah I told you we're going just a little you see to me God reveals himself as God where he shows himself as the same and is thus known by his promise it is God who speaks the promise he speaks it to my spirit he speaks it to my heart he doesn't show me himself when he speaks it he just lays the promise on me I don't see him while he's working out the promise in fact while he's working out the promise often times my circumstance is totally contradistinctive to what the promise
is all about then he works out the promise with me hollering and screaming and not understanding and then when it comes to pass it now shows me that there is a God because the God who made the promise kept his promise and built my faith oh I I hope you see this and that's why it is essential then for God to to be consistent he can't make me a promise and then change his mind and then not bring that promise to pass because he changed his mind that's why the Hebrew writer said to them when
they were in the moments of apostasy that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever he does not say it yesterday and change it today and don't allow other people or your circumstance to make you feel like what he said has changed because his unchangeableness is significant in establishing the consistency of the attributes that establish faith if he is not faithful to his promise then I cannot have faith growing in me oh God you see Faith cometh by hearing so he has to say something that engenders my faith if he is not consistent in
what he says and if he does not bring to pass what he says he cannot build my faith in order to build my faith he has to be consistent in his attitudes and treatment towards me he must be faithful in order to build my faith uh what I've done here is now I've established the presupposition for the knowledge of God because the knowledge of God is the revealing of God by God he speaks a word in order to get me to look at his word and then when he speaks the word to get me to
look at his word then he has brought me into a place of expectation based on his word then when he brings the word to pass he has satisfied my expectation in the word that he spoke and now he has just built my faith I hope you're with me you see you see God is always the subject and still the Lord over the process of Revelation ah how may I put this uh think for instance of the little family in Bethany Martha and Mary and Lazarus and it's interesting that they would fall sick that Lazarus would
fall sick and Mary of course and Martha they're believing in their heart that if the Lord if you had been here our brother would not have died wrong if you notice Jesus when he heard that he was dying he said to his disciples he's sleeping and they said well if he's sleeping it's okay and then around he said no he's not sleeping he said Lazarus is dead and the very next portion of the next verse says and I am glad Lazarus is dead and I am glad why are you glad because I'm about to give
them some Revelation that they would have never received if he didn't die he had to die for them to understand that I am the resurrection and the life I hope you're with me what he did was he controlled the process of Revelation and in order to reveal himself he had to face the challenge of him dying oh God the question arises what will God put me through in order to show me who he is I feel the Holy Ghost here it is he yes he he is the subject but he is the lord of the
process of my knowledge of him this makes it then impossible to be in the world and not of the world without the power of Revelation it is my expectation of Revelation in my situation that makes me in the world but not of the world oh I'm talking to Caleb tonight you see Caleb might be walking around in Israel he might be walking around in the wilderness he might be walking around in in the company of the people around him but he was not of those people oh you've got to understand the difference you can be
in your job but you're not of your job you can be in your family but not of your family you can you can be in the midst of your friends but not of your friends because I'm looking for something that they think is crazy when I know it's about to come to [Applause] pass oh I feel the Holy Ghost it it's here than that only those who are not limited by time and space can be in time and space but not be of time and space because my time and my space is simply a platform
for eternity and infinity to operate you're caught up with the situation but I'm looking for the Revelation because it's the Revelation that causes me to hold on in spite of the situation so you're asking me am I crazy to Keep On Believing when it doesn't look like it's coming to pass but I'm not in it because I'm not of it I'm not in the negative of the situation because I'm of the positive of the Revelation and that'll keep me holding on for as long as it takes I feel the Holy Ghost in here oh God
and so then and so then I understand that my time then and my space is my situation for an encounter with God and that encounter with God in my history in my eventful life in my everyday waking up in my everyday going and facing challenges is where God shows himself in my life uh since the revelation of God then our promises then God himself is revealed where he keeps Covenant and is faithful to what he says because the revelation of God is where God is faithful to any promise he has given and becomes manifest and
knowable as that self-same God who spoke that word you cannot ever understand him fully by my presentation to you of God I can present him as articulately Grand eloquently as any human being can verbalize I'm could be intoxicated with the verbosity with the exuberance of my verbosity and if I still cannot get you to see him like you can see him in the circumstance that he gave you victory over when everybody thought you would be wiped out uh back the limit us off a little bit sound man you've got to understand this that you have
to know him in the future of his promise to you because in order for him to reveal himself to you he's got to give you a promise and then the promise has to have a future to it and it's in goinging from the promise to the future of the promise that you get the strength to realize that I didn't bring this to pass myself but God has been with me ah I feel it here I feel it uh it is critical now as we take it to the next level and that is that This Promise
has to be given in a time that is contradistinctive and opposite to the promise it has to happen at a time when you knew this had to come from somewhere else than from my own mind ah because if I were to follow my mind in this circumstance I would be throwing in the towel I would be giving up everything uh if I were to follow my mind in the circumstance because what I'm saying to myself is that everything around me contradicts the vision that I just received from the Lord everything around me everything that's happening
anywhere completely turns me off from the vision can I tell you one of the things that will show you when God first showed it to you it shook you you thought you were crazy yourself because of the expensive greatness of the promise of God ah no wonder when you told somebody else they looked at you like oh you must be showing up out of your [Applause] mind w because nothing about the circumstance has anything to do with leading you to This Promise little old Joseph just a little guy among his brothers but he has this
fantastic dream and has the unmitigated Gall and audacity to tell his brothers that they're going to serve him immediately all hell breaks loose because when God gives you a vision it's not for everybody else it's I feel I feel I feel the Holy Ghost it is critical here because now the same thing of the vision that makes one person feel the presence of God is the same thing that forces other people people into hatred and into player hating yes yes it's the same thing so now the brothers want to destroy him because they don't have
any clue of how he can think he can ever become their ruler but don't fool yourself you got to learn how to praise God for folk who are against you because they don't really hurt you they help you to get where God wants you to go I feel it here don't forget your vision because you're in the pit don't forget your vision when you get to prison because that's on the way I wish I could talk to you you see the problem with Israel was that they saw a challenge as punishment uh the devil is
a liar what you're going through is not punishment it's preparation that's how the Lord ensures that it is him he ensures it is he because there is nothing about your scholasticism there is is nothing about your education there is nothing about your family background in fact you have come down through a group of family curses and yet in the midst of that family curse you see millionaire uh you see teacher you see doctor you see head of Corporation you see saved and Sanctified and you come out of a family of drug users I feel it
right here because the curse stops with your vision God will turn I feel everything is happening here it is here then that this pronouncement this pronouncement of the promise has to be contradistinctive to the circumstance around you and then that same God has to confess his promise by adopting by confirming by renewing sometimes In the Heat of the battle all you want to know is is there a word from the Lord uh I need you to talk to me again about this because I'm going through something that makes me feel as if it's not coming
to pass but I'm not looking at my situation I just need another word uh tell me again that no weapon formed against me shall prosper I feel the Holy Ghost I feel the Holy Ghost H have I told you touch your neighbor yet H that's coming that's coming uh there's a rock the devil has that he can't throw there's a gun he's got that he can't shoot there's a knife in his hand that he can't swing there's a kick in his foot that he can't move because no weapon formed against me sh Prosper I feel
the Holy Ghost it is here then that God has to give me a word because if he keeps talking to me I'll keep holding on for him to pull me through 45 years uh it was juron molan who said and I quote he said the essence and the identity of God lies not in his absoluteness over and Beyond history but in the consistency of his freely chosen relationship to his creatures the constancy of his electing mercy and faithfulness unquote it is God keeping his promise it's simple because most of us are looking for God in
the obscurity of lurgical and symbolic ritual but it ain't about just that coming into the house it's when you have praised and worshiped and when you walk out of the house and have to deal with all elements of evil that God shows who he is I feel the Holy Ghost You' got to grasp the fact then that you got to get over your past H can I preach like I feel it uh can I preach I I feel it here can I go down there for a minute you see the thing is this and that
is in the course of your life you will find that you did not meet God sitting on a fence when you and I met God we had already been steeped in a lot of negatives when I met God I had come through a series of attempts to do business but the business failed and that left an imprint in my spirit I I came up and I had a friend who betrayed me and that left imprint in my spirit I I was in love and thought it would work out and she walked out and that left
an imprint in my spirit so I'm going into my future with a lot of baggage from my past and and and if I'm not careful I will walk into my future looking at the failures of my past so instead of looking for something good I'm always looking for the negative but when my have my vision it's got to pull me out of my past and pull me to my future and tell the devil that's over but this is getting ready to begin oh I feel the Holy Ghost I feel it little churchy right here it
is true then that the knowledge of God then is the knowledge of the future of God which is upheld by the hopes that are called to Life by his promises I was minding my own business and Lord you spoke to me and that's why the Lord will bring it to pass because he dislikes truce Breakers I was raised with folk promising and not delivering so I've been hurt by folks so I become very untrusting but the promise of God is beyond my control because most of us have become control oriented because when you control a
person or a situation you don't have to trust but what when the promise is so big you can't make it happen now you got to trust that God will bring it to pass I feel the Holy Ghost it is he then that the only reason I have a future is because God Made Me a promise if he didn't make me a promise I wouldn't have a future oh I hope you understand that the devil can't kill you until the promise comes to pass hey I feel it's something pushing me I'm trying to behave a devil
can't take your promise and he can't take your life you will not miss your promise and your promise will not miss you your brother can't get your promise and your sister can't get what God's got for you God's going to keep you and keep your promise and bring them both together ah and I take it a little further so future then becomes a not yet resisting existing reality that's what the future is it's a not yet existing reality because it's not here yet does not mean it's not real because it's real when God said it
oh I feel this thing the promise then is the ground of the revealing of the Divinity of God and the promise depends entirely on real fulfillment uh of the promise in every bit of its particulars because now then it now demands that I make personal adjustments when I know God has promised me the best I don't settle for anything less I feel the Holy Ghost here I don't tell the devil well I'm not there yet so I'll just stay right here no the devil don't offer me that that ain't what God promised me h no
I don't want that that's not what God promised me uh-uh you ain't the one honey that ain't what God promised me I'm not buying that car that ain't the one God promised me no I'm not settling for this house that's the one God promised me and I waited too long to settle for anything right about now I feel I feel a little churchy right about now give somebody high five and said I got to have it because God promised it and I'm waiting for it woo I feel it here y'all sit down a little bit
I I got some work to do y'all rest just rest it is clear than that now I begin to contradict my own environment because promise recognized as promised Revelation recognized as promised is now embraced and hope accepts the suffering of the present time that was the problem with Israel that they could not accept the suffering of the Wilderness without seven murmuring and complainings why should I complain when on the end of this road is everything God promised me why should I complain on my way to my greatest blessing I'm already delivered with a mighty hand
and the greatness of the Deliverance ought to indicate that there is a greatness in the blessing if you can just go through a few folk talking about you if you could just get through a few folk trying to trip you up if you can just get through a few folk not liking you I feel like preaching here for what I'm about to get on the other end you can hate me all you want got to wake up I feel I feel like lifting him up without the promise the revelation of God in Christ is in
danger of being incomplete because it's the promise that brings everything together he can walk up to Calvary already looking to the resurrection when all power is in his hand I would rather go down a road with obstacles that's leading somewhere that could go down a road with no trouble but it ain't got nothing on the other end so every time something else comes up I give God the glory cuz I'm one step closer to what the Lord has promised Shake somebody's hand like you go Shake It Off and say it's about to happen in your
life you waited a long time but it's still yours it's still mine I've cried over it but it's still mine they tried to take it from me but it's still mine and I'm holding on I feel like preaching a little bit when I look at the circumstance and I discovered something about it and that is if it's impossible for me to do it does not mean it can't be done because that's what God does he stretches you when he holds the thing from coming right away he builds your body and your spiritual Vitality because he
proves to every enemy around you that all I got to do is give my child a promise I don't have to bring it to pass immediately all I got to do is speak it and from the moment I speak it they're locked into it and nobody can move them can I preach like I feel it Abraham God waited till he was aund somebody say impossible and he waited for Sarah to be 90 somebody said double impossibility and after Double impossibility comes the miracle the next thing on your agenda now that everything is out of your
hand is the miracle of the promise that will reveal that God is in your life let everybody talk like they want to God's getting ready to change their speech I feel it in here we might as well have Church might as well have church I'm not going to keep you too much longer but I looked in the Greek and in the Greek the word for Faith it says faith is the substance and the word substance is hoost stasis of things hoped for the elos or the conviction of Things Not Seen I studied Molton and Mulligan
the Greek TR laders and they had a wonderful take on the word faith they say faith is a title deed of the things that God has promised you it is a title to the things that God has put in your spirit it's a title to the thing that God showed you in the Midnight Hour well I spend a lot of money in real estate and I just bought some un in Hollywood about 3 months ago and I haven't seen them yet my buddy said to me when you're going to look at the property I said
I don't have to go look they said why don't you go look somebody may take it from you I said I don't have to put up a sign on the property I don't have to have a guard on the property because nobody can get it because I've got the title I feel like preaching in here for 45 years Kaleb had the title to the land that he walked in 45 years later and I Rose to tell the devil you're trespassing on my property and when I get ready to get it you got to get off
it I feel like preaching today somebody sitting behind a desk that you got the title to and when God gets ready to move you there they've got to go somebody built a house that you got a title to and when God gets ready for you to move in your house they got to go somebody's got a business that you got the title to and when God gets ready for you to walk in your title they'll tell you walk in it touch your neighbor say I'm entitled to it I've cried over it I'm entitled to happiness
because God promised it to me I'm entitled to be the head and not the tail because God said it I'm entitled to have Victory and not be weak because God said it and I'm getting ready to walk in it touch your neighbor say it's walking time it's time to walk walk in your land walk in your joy walk in your victory walk in your power walk in your Prosperity walk in it God told me to tell you Caleb get ready to walk walk in your victory walk in your power walk until the devil knows it's
been mine all the time cuz God said it you can't have it nobody can get it it's mine Shake somebody's hand said the PHD mine the house M join mine Prosperity mine it's been mine all the time and I'm getting ready to walk in it get the Giants out get the devil out get the trials out cuz it's mine I've waited for it I've cried for it I've fasted for it I've been lied on but it's [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] still [Applause] [Music] it's I feel the Holy Ghost I'm trying to quit but give somebody
high five say This Is My Season God said it God promised it God entitled me to lift him up I praised him for it I dance for it I jump for it it is [Applause] [Music] m [Music] [Applause] man I'm trying to quit but I feel the victory coming give your neigh a high five say this is confirmation this is another word I was getting a little weak but I'm so glad I've been through through the fire I've been through the water been through Jehovah Gyra been through Jehovah n been through Jehovah rehea been through
Jehovah roica been through Jehovah Shalom been through Jehovah siku and all the time you were running away but I saw Victory so now give me what's mine give me that mountain give me that River give me that water give me those fruit give me those I waited a long [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] time go get amnesia don't get amnesia [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] SM [Music] [Applause] anting this becomes this becomes the tenacity of faith that can pull you through a plethora of obstacles yes sir sir and challenges yes sir yes sir with every
Ploy that Satan can release broke everything around you but not your [Applause] spirit [Applause] so now Joshua don't have [Applause] amnesia I know it's been 45 [Applause] years but don't change nothing now Hallelujah one of the great concerns we have yeah is that when it finally comes will I be able to enjoy [Applause] [Applause] it the same [Music] God that made you the promise is the same God who has your life in his [Music] hand and what he told me to tell you is you will be beginning to live abundantly when most people are on
the way down I'm 85 and I'm still a strong as I was when he made me the promise and if I got to go to war now I'll go to war because I have the same strength I am convinced tonight that you should pick up that Vision that you have allowed to Decay pick up that Quest that you have walked away from because of circumstances and situations go back and [Music] renew that in intense faith that you have had in God and don't allow those things that have transpired to cause you to become like the
average when there is nothing average about [Applause] [Music] you don't turn away from it [Applause] to Curry anybody's favor because anybody trying to pull you down is below you [Applause] anyway
