Follow God Fully (Numbers 14:24)
- Little Flock Church
- Sep 23
- 2 min read
Sermon on 23 September 2025 by Ps Gaius
Introduction

God said that He was giving the people of Israel the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:2). However, the people were intimidated by the size, strength and defences of the people (the descendants of Anak) who lived in Canaan. But Caleb knew that God’s promise was good. He knew to cling onto the promise of God and quieted the people (Numbers 13:30-31).
Message
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. - Numbers 14:24
The Israelites had already seen God’s power in bringing them out of Egypt. But in the wilderness, they grumbled (Numbers 14:2). They saw the worst of the situation and felt that they were better off in Egypt (Numbers 14:3), where they had been slaves. Although Joshua and Caleb tried to explain to the people that it was a good land that the Lord had promised to them and that they need not fear as the Lord was with them (Numbers 14:7-9), the congregation did not listen.
God was displeased by those who did not choose to obey Him and punished them.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.” - Numbers 14:11-12
Those who had brought up a bad report about the land died by plague (Numbers 14:37). In contrast, God kept alive Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 14:38), as they had followed God. As for the rest of the people, God willed that they would perish in the wilderness and not come into the land except for Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 14:29-30).
Many years later, Caleb who followed God fully, remained strong. Caleb had waited forty years, and a further 5 years of fighting, yet he remained faithful.
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. - Joshua 14:10-11
Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. - Joshua 14:14
Closing
Have faith in God, remain faithful to His calling, and persevere with forbearance.