If God calls you to something, then know that you are qualified. Sometimes I don’t feel qualified to pastor, but I Pastor because I know that I am called by God to do so. Because God had called him, Joshua was qualified. 20 You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey. 19 Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight. So, after God tells Moses that he would die and not enter the promise land, Moses asked God to appoint a man to lead the congregation of Israel.ġ5 Moses spoke to the Lord, saying, 16 “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation 17 who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.” 18 So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. He would see it, but his foot would not step on it as a consequence for his disobedience. Even though water flowed, Moses would not be allowed to enter the promised land. The people were complaining they were thirsty, so God tells Moses to speak to the rock and that water would come forth, instead Moses strikes the rock out of anger.
He was God’s man who started the journey with the Israelites departure from Egypt to the promise land, however he was not allowed to finish the journey because his disobedience in the wilderness of Zin. To start off we must understand what disqualified Moses from leading the Israelites all the way into the promise land. His position and authority did not come overnight, it was a long process that started at an early age as he found himself serving and learning from the man Moses. In Numbers 11:28 we learn that Joshua was Moses assistant from his youth.
* What qualified Joshua to lead God’s people? Speak life into your children and walk in obedience to what God has called you to do, then your children will follow your example.
Let your faith be bigger than your fear meaning full#
Just a side note to the parents in the room, if we want to see our children reach their full potential for God, then it begins with blessings and obedience. So far in Joshua’s lineage we can already see blessings and obedience, as a result, Joshua’s life is spared. Thankfully his parents were Israelites who feared God and were obedient in applying the blood over the door as instructed by Moses. It was Ephraim that received the blessing that his offspring would become a multitude of nations. Joshua would have remembered this night very well and would have been extremely grateful to still be alive as he was the firstborn son of a man named “Nun” (from the tribe of Ephraim).Īs a reminder, Ephraim was the younger of the two sons of Joseph. There was a tumultuous cry that was heard in the middle of the night from Egyptian families that had just lost family members. If blood was not found on top of the door then the angel of death would enter that house and kill the first-born son. This final plague was death to all the firstborn sons of Egypt. It wasn’t until the tenth plague that God sends upon the land of Egypt that Pharaoh finally consented. But God had heard their cries and sent Moses to rescue them from the Egyptians.īut Pharaoh had hardened his heart and refused to let them go. The Hebrews at that time were slaves to the Egyptians forced to difficult working conditions under the supervision of brutal task masters. Just to recap a little, Moses had gone to Pharaoh and demanded that he let God’s people go.
Up to this point, Moses had been the leader, appointed by God, to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. He was chosen by God to lead His people into the promised land.
Many of us know Joshua to be Moses’ successor.
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