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CALEB: THE LOYAL SERVANT

“Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea…And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.  Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel .” (Joshua 14:6, 13, 14).   One of my favorite individuals in all of scripture is the Old Testament Bible character Caleb.  You may remember that he and Joshua were among the twelve men that Moses selected to send into Canaan to spy out the land before the armies of Israel went in to claim it.  Of the twelve spies, only Caleb and Joshua had a positive report about the Promised Land that God had said was theirs.  The other ten spies had many things to say about the land, but most of them were negati...
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THEN THEY WILLINGLY RECEIVED HIM

“When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take Him by force, to make Him a king, He departed again into a mountain Himself alone.  And when even was now come, His disciples went down unto the sea, and entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum.  And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.  And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.  So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.  But He saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid .  Then they willingly received Him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went .” (John 6:15-21).   The sixth chapter of the Gospel of St. John tells the story of the miraculous feeding of above 5,000 people when Jesus multiplied two small fish and five small loaves of bread.   We find that account in the first 14 verses of the chapte...
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WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:3,4).   It is necessary for every Christian to understand the part that the divine Law plays in God’s great plan for mankind.  There are things that the Law can and does do in the lives of the citizens of the world, and there are things that it cannot do.  Oddly enough, one of those things that the Law cannot do is to make men more righteous.  It isn’t because of any flaw in the Law itself for the Law is “holy, and just, and good” (Romans 7:12), but the problem lies with man because the human flesh has an inherent weakness that renders him incapable of keeping all of the Law no matter how willing he may be to do so.  “ Therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no fles...
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