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For Sunday,
July 9th
By Dr. Paul Caudill
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UFE’S UNFINISHED
CONQUESTS
Bible HeUriAl:
Joahoa 18-14; Judges
l:19-ai, 27, 86
Whether or not we like to admit
It, and whether or not we are de
pressed or Inspired hr the realiza
tion of it, this fact remains: We
are contlnnallr surrounded by
life’s galaxy of unfinished tasks.
The present lesson drives this
truth home in no uncertain terms.
In the words of Jehovah to Joshua,
‘'There remaineth yet very much
land to be possessed.” The con-
Queets of Joshua had indeed been
notable, from the day the mantle
of Moses fell upon him; but there
was yet much to be done. There
was still land to be conquered and
divided among the nine tribes and
the half-tribe of Manassah. The
lull measure of the occupation of
the Land of Promise had not yet
been achieved. There were yet
large areas of land* in the hands of
unfriendly peoples—people who
were in no wise concerned with
the cause of Israel’s God. As we
think on the lesson before us, in
the light of its signlfance for our
own day and generation, a num
ber of Important factors demand
our consideration.
THE NATURE OP OUR UN
FINISHED CONQUESTS
Joflhua 13:1-15:5
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There is, in the first place, the
fact of our unfinished conquests.
On every side of us there are grim
reminders of our failure to carry
through in the assignments that
are ours by virtue of our relation
ship to our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. We have failed to live
lives that are in keeping with our
calling. Said Jesus. "And why
call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not
the things which I say?” (Luke
6:46). And again. “Not every one
that saith unto me. Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the
will of my Father who is in heav
en” (Matt. 7:21). Perhaps the
head and front of our offending,
as Christians, lies in the shabby
character of the dally lives that so
many of us live. We permit our
selves to become so enamored by
the enticing claims of worldliness
that oftentimes there is little man
ifest difference between our lives
and those of unbelievers. I have
often said that if, for instance, the
Christians would abstain from the
use of beverage alcohol, the prob
lem of strong drink would imme
diately be of a different scope and
magnitude. And what is true in
the realm of beverage alcohol is
true of many other forms of
worldliness. The elect, lady of
culture and refinement who
gambles for a bottle of perfume,
around the card table, is no less
guilty in the sight of God- -of the
sin of gambling—than the person
who plays for larger stakes in a
less respectable environment.
Mere robes of respectability can
never make “respectable" that
which stands condemned in the
light of His standard. Many of ns
li%Te lieKva ^
Hn«M, po4«R>l® 1*1 oarlst
have.hardly more than touched
the hem of the garment. Then,
too, there Is the patent fact that
we have fallen far short of our
goal as Boul-Wlnners. And this is
our chlefest task, as Hlfl followers.
We are told that Southern Bap
tists fell below, in number of bap
tisms. the previous year’s record
by more than 6,000. This is a
staggering admission and cannot
be explained away on the basis of
"conditions” Incident to our war
effort. Dr. Alldredge has said
that the world Is actually going
pagan at the rate of six million
yearly! Certainly our task In the
realm of evangelism, the world
around, is little more than begun.
The fields on every side are
“white unto harvest”.
Even so, one might mention our
■‘unflnl8hed”task In the realm of
race relations, in the sphere of In
ternational relations, in the realm
of politics, and in the common
place ‘‘bread and butter” prob
lems of life. On every hand a lost
world awaits the practical applica
tion of our Christian way of life
in every sphere of man's complex
relations.
for ^
That iii
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what HsiSht. Be asked
for the land Anaklms—the
land of the ^ata. He would
choose the hard "places, and, but
tressed by htg ’itfe. of faith and
previous rich gips^ences of fel
lowship with the Father, he would
go forth to oosdner. He would
‘‘finish” his fields of conquest, Ir-
reepectlve of thg difficulties In
volved.
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THE EXAMPLE OP CALEB
Joshua 14:6-15; Judges l:l»-20
In Caleb we have a stirring ex
ample of one who sought with all
his might to ‘‘finish” his task. It
will be recalled that he was some
forty years of age when he Joined
Moses in the colossal program of
liberation which had as its ob
jective the freeing of the Children
of Israel from the bondage of
Egypt. Forty-five years lay be
hind him as he approached Joshua
in his petition for his "new” as
signment. In all of these years he
had tried to be faithful. It will
be recalled that in the report of
the spies only he and Joshua had
proved themselves to he men of
vision. The hearts of the others
had ‘‘melted’ ‘and become as water
in the face of the giants, the Ana-
kims, who dwelt In the land. It
remained for Caleb and Joshua to
point the way to victory and to In
spire their frail-hearted followers
to go forward.
Moreover, one finds in review
ing the life of Caleb, that he
“wholly followed” the Lord his
God. He sought to do not his will
but the will of Him who sent him.
It matters little, in the sight of
the world, what may be the
"status" of our “task” so long as
we are mov'lng In the circle of
God's will. Our chief concern
.should be: Am I wholly moving l.i
the circle of God’s will?
Then too, Caleb gave God the
glory for whatever sense of
achievement he had enjoyed. In
his sight it was the Lord who had
THE PHtQB OF tnXXPPINO
SHORT OF GOAL
Jiuleei l;iu. 27, 86
In Judges 1:11 we reed: "And
the children of Benjamin did not
drive out the Jebusites that In
habited Jeruselra; but the Jebu
sites dwell with the children of
Benjamin in Jerusalem unto-this
day”. Again, in verse 27 we read:
“Neither did Manasseh drive out
the inhabitants of Bethihean and
her towns, nor Thanach and her
towns, nor the inhabitant* of Dor
and her towns, nor the Inhabi
tants of Ibleam and her towns, nor
the inhabitants of Megidde and
her towns; but the Cananites
would dwell In that land."
In the above verses we have the
graphic story of the penalty im-1
posed upon the Children of Israel
for their failure to ‘‘finish” their
task—the task of freeing the land ;
of their Inheritance of their un
friendly, pagan neighbors. The
price consisted of having to live
In their midst throughout all their
days, and of having to feel con
stantly the sting of their worldly
presence.
It is so easy for Christians to
compromise, to fell to go all out
in their stand for Christ. There
are so many powerful pulls of ex
pediency that we are often prone
to follow the short-sighted line of
least resistance, unmindful of the
tremendous costs that are ulti
mately Involved In our procedure.
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