If God is God, and he is God, and he's worthy to be served, and he is worthy to be served,

we're to follow him fully. God is either worth everything or he's worth nothing, and he's a fake.

Dr. Beake, thank you for sitting down. I wanted to ask you an important question.

You know, in the Christian world, sometimes we feel a tug towards worldliness. There's even,

I think it's Dr. Sinclair Ferguson that says the super glue of this world is still sometimes

strong with even those who have regenerated hearts.

God has made us new, but we still feel that tug towards the things of the world at times.

My question for you is, how do we live solely and holy for Jesus Christ?

And I'm assuming that's the desire of every true Christian, maybe even when

they feel that temptation towards worldliness, they do go, I do want to live for Jesus. And the

question is, how do we do that exclusively, absolutely? Yeah. Yeah, well, my model for this is Caleb. Yeah. And I preached a sermon once many, many years ago in my own church on Caleb. On Numbers 1424, this is my servant, Caleb, who has followed me fully.

And in working with that sermon, I was really convicted that we have to just follow God,

holy and solely.

And, you know, Caleb faced great persecution. In Numbers 9 they actually were picking up stones to stone him to death because he said we should go into the land of canaan God's promised us victory

and they were going to kill him and he didn't back down he didn't say, well, let's go to a negotiation table. Maybe we can

compromise. Now, he was ready to take the stones, but then the glory of the Lord appeared and God

intervened. But Caleb is such a notable example because, you know, then the Israel went into

the wilderness for 40 years, and they come back out.

Imagine this.

All the adults of the generation of 20 and older, they all perished in the wilderness,

except for Joshua and Caleb.

I did the math one time.

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