{"id":5818,"date":"2026-05-20T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:27:57","slug":"deuteronomy-135-36-surely-not-one-of-these-men-of-this-evil-generation-shall-see-that-good-land-of-which-i-swore-to-give-to-your-fathers-except-caleb-the-son-of-jephunneh-he-shall-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=5818","title":{"rendered":"Deuteronomy 1:35\u201336: “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the old generation that God swore would not enter the Promised Land, only Caleb, and Joshua as we know from Numbers, was allowed to enter in and inherit land. Caleb, of the original twelve spies sent to spy out the land of Canaan, was about 120 years old when they finally entered in. What was his secret to success? Where did he go right, where everyone else went wrong? Scripture tells us clearly it was “because he wholly followed the LORD” (Deut. 1:36). We are told he completely followed God, holding nothing back. We might say in today’s slang that Caleb was all in<\/em>! Or to say it in New Testament terms, Caleb was a disciple who was not afraid of the cost of discipleship.<\/p>\n

It has been correctly said that disciples are made not born. A new believer once said to me, “Serving God sounds<\/em> easy, but it’s not so easy living<\/em> it out.” The German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in his book The Cost of Discipleship<\/em>, wrote against believing in a cheap grace. He argues that grace was very costly to God Almighty, and, therefore, discipleship is very costly to us. Being a true disciple of Jesus Christ means a total life-style change, one that will continue to cost us everything for the rest of our lives.<\/p>\n

This is the radical, genuine discipleship God calls every person to when we decide to follow Him. It is at first a sobering choice that continues on every day after that to be a challenging one. But the rewards here are substantial, and the rewards in eternity are beyond even our own imaginations. So what does this discipleship cost? The gift of God’s grace is free but we must surrender everything. How do we surrender? We pray and give every thing to God. When does it happen? Every day we give back to God the things that we tried to again take a hold of the day before.<\/p>\n

“LORD, we give you our lives. It is not our lives but Yours.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Deuteronomy 1 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0These\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red\u00a0sea\u00a0<\/em>, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.\u00a0\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0(There are\u00a0<\/em>eleven days\u2019\u00a0journey\u00a0<\/em>from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first\u00a0day\u00a0<\/em>of the month,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had given him in commandment unto them;\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all\u00a0the places\u00a0<\/em>nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.\u00a0\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.\u00a0 9<\/sup>\u00a0And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0(The\u00a0LORD\u00a0God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>good\u00a0for us\u00a0<\/em>to do.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.\u00a0\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear\u00a0the causes\u00a0<\/em>between your brethren, and judge righteously between\u00a0every\u00a0<\/em>man and his brother, and the stranger\u00a0that is\u00a0<\/em>with him.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall not respect persons in judgment;\u00a0but\u00a0<\/em>ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>God\u2019s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>unto me, and I will hear it.\u00a0\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 19<\/sup>\u00a0And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God doth give unto us.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0Behold, the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God hath set the land before thee: go up\u00a0and<\/em>possess\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>, as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. 22<\/sup>\u00a0And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>down unto us, and brought us word again, and said,\u00a0It is\u00a0<\/em>a good land which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God doth give us.\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God:\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the\u00a0LORDhated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>greater and taller than we; the cities\u00a0are<\/em>great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.\u00a0\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORDyour God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0Yet in this thing ye did not believe the\u00a0LORDyour God,\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents\u00a0in\u00a0<\/em>, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,\u00a035<\/sup>\u00a0Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,\u00a036<\/sup>\u00a0Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the\u00a0LORD.\u00a0\u00a037<\/sup>\u00a0Also the\u00a0LORDwas angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.\u00a038<\/sup>\u00a0But<\/em>Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.\u00a039<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.\u00a040<\/sup>\u00a0But\u00a0as for\u00a0<\/em>you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.\u00a041<\/sup>\u00a0Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the\u00a0LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God commanded us. 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Of all the old generation that God swore would not enter the Promised Land, only Caleb, and Joshua as we know from Numbers, was allowed to enter in and inherit land. Caleb, of the original twelve spies sent to spy out the land of Canaan, was about 120 years old when they finally entered in. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15998,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/15998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}