If the Lord is pleased with us

"If the Lord is pleased with us" Numbers 14:6-7 Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the crowd, they did not fear them, but they did fear Jehovah their God. There were two brave Caleb and Joshua, but the people wanted a captain not God and they were going to choose him themselves. Caleb and Joshua also did what was in their power: They tore their garments, because they were sacredly indignant at the sin of the people and rightly feared the wrath of God, which they saw about to break out against Israel, speaking and reasoning with all authority.

I. Faith is victorious.

A. In the lack of faith is defeat.

1. We please God by believing Him; that is absolutely: faith.

2. How much do you doubt?

3. The cry and voices were so great that it was not possible to hear Moses or Aaron, they fell on their faces, implying their humiliations and humble prayers to God.

4. Caleb and Joshua gave them assurances of the goodness of the land they had explored and that it was truly worthy of conquering.

5. They made them see that the difficulties that seemed to oppose their entry to possess it were unimportant.

6. Caleb and Joshua say, “We will eat them like bread”.

7. They are before us rather to devour them (eat eagerly and quickly) than to defeat them (win, win).

8. (V. 24) But Caleb my servant was in the other spirit and decided to go after Me," the land was given to him (Joshua 14:12-14).

9. (Joshua 14:6-15) Before casting lots to determine the portion corresponding to each tribe, Caleb was assigned the one that belonged to him.

10. Caleb was now, bringing out Joshua, the oldest man in all Israel.

11. Caleb presents his request to be given or given Hebron as his possession (Mount), showing that God, through Moses, had long promised him.

12. In his petition, he presents: The matter of the spies, his conscience as it acted in his heart, in full conviction of the truth of his report and by an unshakable faith in the promise of God.

13. (V. 9) "He fulfilled by following Jehovah his God," therefore, it was not boastful of him to speak in this way, any more than it is for the children of God.

14. That he did so when all his other "brothers" and "companions" in that service, taking Joshua out, had given a bad report.

15. The experience he had had since that day of God's goodness to him: His life was preserved in the wilderness, the dangers, the fatigues, the tedious march, the entire generation of Israelites except him and Joshua, had fallen in the desert.

16. (V. 10) Now, Jehovah has made me live as He said, these forty-five years through the plagues and dangers of war in the wilderness and five years he has been in Canaan through the dangers of war.

17. We must live and be more grateful to God's goodness in preserving our lives, in His care, in prolonging this fragile life, and for His "patience" in enduring how much we offend Him throughout our lives.

18. That he was still fit to fight now in Canaan.

19. Although he was eighty-five years old, he was as in good spirits as when he was forty.

20. (V. 11) I am still as strong as the day Moses sent me.

21. This was the source of God's promise, which always gives more than He promises, so that the promised life may be a blessing and a comfort.

22. (V. 9) The promise God had made to him, through Moses, that he would possess this mountain.

23. This mountain was precisely the place from which, more than from any other place in Canaan, the spies had taken material for their report, for it was here that they met the sons of Anak (Numbers 13:22), whose sight so frightened the other spies (Numbers 13:33).

24. He chose this place "only because it was the most difficult to conquer."

25. To show that his spirits had not decayed more than his body and still retain the same mood.

26. Joshua had already conquered the city of Hebron (10:36-37), but the nearby mountain, where the sons of Anak dwelt, was still unconquered.

27. Perhaps Jehovah (v. 12b) will be with me, and I will cast them out as Jehovah has said, "God is pleased with those faithful to Him."

28. Without any presumption on his part.

29. In fact, he is completely sure that he will be so, for he depends entirely on the sovereignty and sufficiency of God who can easily cast the children of Anak before him.

30. (v. 13) Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb as an inheritance.

31. He extolled (praised) his bravery, applauded his demand, and granted him what he asked for.

32. Place where Sarah died (Kiriath-Arba) in its surroundings lived Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob most of their lives, and nearby there was the cave of Machpelah where they were buried.

33. Perhaps when he went as a spy to this part of the country and made him desire it as an inheritance as a preference to any other in that territory.

34. City was appointed to the priests (Joshua 21:11) and joyfully ceded the city to God's priests and ministers.

35. It was a royal city and at the beginning of David's reign, it was the metropolis of the kingdom of Judah; This is where the people came to him and this is where he reigned for seven years.

36. It shows how God was pleased with Caleb and blessed him. Amen.