The document discusses Caleb's story from the Bible, highlighting his confidence, commitment, and courage in serving God, which resulted in him receiving an inheritance despite his old age. It emphasizes the importance of trusting in God for strength and the call to live a life of faith and diligence. The text also contrasts false confidence with true reliance on God, encouraging readers to seek a deep relationship with Him.

1. Consider
Caleb
Joshua 14.6-15,
CB OT p. 352

3. But my servant Caleb, because he has a
different spirit and has followed me fully, I
will bring into the land into which he went,
and his descendants shall possess it.
(Numbers 14:24, CB OT p. 227)

4. I wholly
followed Jehovah my
God.

5. Jehovah has
kept me alive, just as
He said

6. I am this day 85
years old

7. I am still as strong
today as I was in the day that
Moses sent me

8. my strength now is as my
strength was then, for war and
for going and coming

9. So now give me this hill
country of which Jehovah
spoke on that day

10. for you heard on
that day how the Anakim
were there, with great
fortified cities

11. It may be that
Jehovah will be with me, and I
shall drive them out just as
Jehovah said.

12. Caleb 85 years old
So we do no lose heart.
Though our outer self is
wasting away, our inner
self is being renewed day
by day.
(2 Corinthians 4.16, CB NT p. 316)

13. Caleb 85 years old

14. Caleb 85 years old
They still bear fruit in old
age; they are ever full of
sap and green, to declare
that Jehovah is upright
(Psalm 92.14, CB OT p. 937)

15. Caleb 85 years old
I have fought the good
fight, I have finished the
race, I have kept the faith.
(2 Timothy 4.7, CB NT p. 374)

16. Caleb
Confident in God

17. Caleb
Confident in God
Committed to God

18. Caleb
Confident in God
Committed to God
Courageous for God

19. Can I be like Caleb?
Philippians 3.1-16,
CB NT p. 347-348

20. Rejoice in the Lord.
(Philippians 3.1, CB NT p. 347)

21. Confident
in God

22. False
Confidence
Trust in Jehovah with all
your heart, and do not
lean on your own
understanding.
(Proverbs 3.5, CB OT p. 1001)

23. False
Confidence Whoever trusts in his
riches will fall.
(Proverbs 11.28, CB OT p. 1015)

24. False
Confidence
Trusting in a treacherous
man in time of trouble is
like a bad tooth or a foot
that slips.
(Proverbs 25.19, CB OT p. 1037)

25. False
Confidence
Cursed is the man who
trusts in man and makes
flesh his strength, whose
heart turns away from
Jehovah.
(Jeremiah 17.5, CB OT p. 1229)

26. Blessed is the man who trusts in
Confident Jehovah, whose trust is Jehovah.
in God (Jeremiah 17.5, CB OT p. 1229)

27. knowing Christ
righteousness
resurrection
Confident
in God

28. Take care, brothers, lest there
be in any of you an evil,
Confident unbelieving heart
in God (Hebrews 3.12, CB NT p. 384)

29. If indeed we hold our original
Confident confidence firm to the end.
in God (Hebrews 3.14, CB NT p. 384)

30. for I know whom I have believed,
and I am convinced that He is
able to guard what I have
Confident entrusted to Him until that day.
in God
(2 Timothy 1.12 NASB, CB NT p. 371)

31. Committed
to God

32. Committed
to God
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my
soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in
a dry and weary land where there is no water.
(Psalm 63.1, CB OT p. 900)

33. Committed
to God
But also for this very reason, giving all
diligence, add to your faith...
(2 Peter 1.5, CB NT p. 414)

34. Committed
to God
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent
to confirm your calling and election
(2 Peter 1.10, CB NT p. 414)

35. Committed
to God
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast,
immovable, always abounding in the work of
the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is
not in vain.
(1 Corinthians 15.58, CB NT p. 310)

36. Courageous
for God

37. Courageous
for God
(2 Corinthians 11.23-29, CB NT p. 324)

38. Courageous
for God
(2 Corinthians 4.7-10, CB NT p. 315)

39. Courageous
for God

40. Caleb 85 years old
Confident in God
Committed to God
Courageous for God
“Then Joshua blessed him”
Joshua 14.13, CB OT p. 352

41. Will today be the day
you decide
to go to
heaven?

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43. Be Strong and Courageous Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
11 March, 2012
#15
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Consider Caleb
Joshua 14.6-15
Synopsis: Although we don’t read much about Caleb in the book of Joshua, he will remind you of the joy of serving the Lord. Caleb.
Caleb received his inheritance because he was confident in God, committed to God and courageous for God. Paul demonstrates that we
can have our inheritance through confidence, commitment and being courageous.
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