Wednesday, May 1, 2013

King of the Mountain

Remember playing king of the mountain  as a child?  I loved knocking people down!  I loved that power and authority rush that came when I knocked down a formidable 30lb kindergarten opponent.  That was just yesterday when as pastor I challenged the 4&5 year olds after Sunday School.  Imagine playing king of mountain at 85.  That's exactly what Caleb did and he knocked those giants right off the monntain.  He as king of the mountain at 85.

Joshua 14:10-14 ESV
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said." Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord , the God of Israel.

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