The Sword of the LORD

  “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...

  “But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one [Adam] many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many .  And not as it was by one that sinned [Adam] , so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification .  For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ .)  Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life .  For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous .” (Romans 5:15-19). " Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable [indescribable] gift.” (2 Corinthians 9:15). T he ...