What did Joshua do? Joshua mobilized them and he sent them into battle to take the land.

Can you see the difference? Moses prepared them. Joshua put them into action and put into motion the principles.

Moses taught the people how to enter the Promised Land. He gave them the most detailed explanation, description and plan of action like only a true analytical can do.

He was the perfect planner; an absolute analytical temperament type. He laid it all out systematically - Point A, Sub-point 1, Sub-point 1.1.2, etc. Do you know what I am talking about? It was all laid out in true Government style. That is the way Moses laid it out for them.

Joshua said, "Come on guys, let me show you how to do this."

He showed them how to take the land. He didn't just talk. Joshua put action to it.

Moses had given them the full explanation on exactly how to go about it. And I can see somebody standing there and saying,

"That looks pretty good on paper Moses, but how do we do it?"

Moses probably would say,

"Well I think what you should do is do it this way, and do it that way. And what I would sincerely recommend is that you try that, and if that doesn't work then try that. If that doesn't work then I suggest you go to plan B."

They were great ideas, but it was a case of,

"Follow me boys, I'm right behind you."

Moses was like all good generals who stay at home in headquarters while the people go out to fight. Joshua was the poor guy who had to lead them into battle.

Moses stood up on the hill with his rod. It was a very important role, but Joshua had the practical role of showing the people how to do what Moses had taught them.

You know in life it is a proven fact that there is no substitute for hands-on experience. It is not sufficient to tell people how to go out and win the lost. You need to take somebody with you and say,

"Come, let me show you how to do it."

Hands-on Practice

I remember my experience in sales. I had my time of training and learning all about my product, about how you should present the product and the benefits of it. I learned how you would tell people about it and what sales techniques you should use to tell the people.

It sounded pretty good on paper. But when you stood at somebody's doorstep and they opened the door and glared at you, you would stand there and mutter and stammer. And all those brilliant principles that were built into your mind over those months flew out of the window (or into the sky as the case may be).

You needed somebody to go with you and show you so that you could watch him in action. You could see how he took those principles that you had learned, and apply them practically to a real living situation. Then you could say,

"Well, I can do that."

You could have a bash at it and copy the way you saw him doing it. If you made a mistake, he would be there to say,

"You did this wrong and you did that wrong. This is what you should do. And if the guy says that next time this is what you should say to him."

You are now getting practical training in the field.

That was Joshua's role. Without hands-on in the field training, nobody is going out and nobody is succeeding. You can have a head full of university degrees, and it is a known fact in this day and age in which we live, that everybody is cramming their heads with knowledge.

You will have a person who has spent years at college getting all this knowledge into his head. Then he comes out and steps into his exalted job position, only to find out that some little lackey underneath him is the guy who has to teach him how to do his job.

Although he has all this knowledge, he doesn't know how to apply it. Usually he has to go and learn on the bench from somebody who is just an ordinary technician. An ordinary laborer sometimes has to teach him how to do the job.

Head knowledge is not enough, and the Mosaic ministry is not enough to get the Body of Christ mobilized to action. It will prepare them. It will tell them how and give them the means and the tools. But somebody has to take them out and show them how to use those tools. That is where Joshua comes in.

Theory is Not Enough

Moses gave the classroom training. Joshua gave the on-the-job training.

It is nice being a Moses isn't it? You can stand up and tell the people how to do it, and you don't have to go out and face the pressure of actually doing it yourself.

I think for Joshua he probably felt more comfortable not being the Moses, because Joshua was not exactly your greatest scholar I don't think.

I think Joshua was somewhat lacking in normal intellectual ability. That is why God had to tell him to memorize and keep speaking the Law of Moses. It was so that he didn't forget it, because if he forgot it he would mess up. God took somebody who was more practical in his orientation.

You always see them in college and School don't you? They are the brawns and the brains. You see those who have all the natural ability and the skill and the great physical strength.

They are usually the basketball players and the football players; the guys who do all the heavy duty sports stuff. Everybody sees them because they are in the public eye. Sometimes they don't need to have much intelligence to do what makes them famous.

Do I sound bitter? I was the Moses type; the bookworm and the pen pusher. It was painful to be pushed out and to have to go and do the real thing.

It is great taking your car to a garage and having a mechanic fix it for you. But when you can't afford to pay for the mechanic, and you have to get your hands dirty with grease and try and fix it yourself, it is another story. And when you don't know what you are doing it becomes a bigger story.

You decide to do a simple job like changing the points and plugs on your car. And you find you end up stripping the main thread on the plughole of the cylinder head.

Then you have to take the whole engine out just to replace the cylinder head, and you find out after you've stripped it that you don't know how to put it back together again. Now you find out why people take it to the garage and let somebody do it who knows what they are doing.

You say, "But I read the book. I read the instruction manual. It gives it all to you step by step."

I followed every step, but it didn't work. Theory is not enough. You should have called the mechanic in to show you how to do it. He's done it plenty of times. He has learned the tricks of the trade.

Do you know what I'm talking about? This is the difference between Moses and Joshua.

Keep it Simple

Moses does not build. He gives the blueprint for the building. Joshua takes the blueprint and makes the building. You see together they are fulfilling one task. But each of them has a different part to play in the final completion of that task.

Moses originates the concepts while Joshua makes them work. Moses laid out the plan in detail as I said before, like a true analytical in absolute, elaborate detail.

Don't ever ask an analytical a simple question. They will not give you a simple answer.

Ask a true analytical the directions to a spot in town, and he will tell you exactly which traffic light to pass through, what distance it is and how many roads you will go through. He will describe the scenery and give you so much detail that you will be lost before you get there.

He has given you the facts, but he elaborates too much. He gives you a lot of facts you didn't ask for. That was Moses. He gave it in absolute detail.

Now you try and give this big complicated explanation and blueprint to somebody who doesn't have a clue. You give this blueprint to an ordinary laborer out there who knows how to take a pick and shovel and hammer and just do ordinary things. You say to him,

"Here it is; here's the blueprint. I want you to make the building."

He says, "Umm, so that's the blueprint. Now this doesn't look like a building."

"No it's not a building. It's a blueprint."

"Yes, I can see it's blue. What is that funny thing over there?"

"That's a window."

"It doesn't look like a window to me."

Step by Step Instructions

You have to have a master builder who says,

"Now you, I want you to dig over there. There's the plan. It is so many feet left and so many feet right."

You begin to lay it out and you give them step by step instructions.

You say, "You do that. You do that, and while he's doing that I want you to do that."

You give each person their part to play. And once they have done the job you have given them to do you say,

"Okay that's fine. Now that you have completed that I want you to go a bit further. I want you to do this and I want you to do that."

You are there to give them step by step instructions. That is what Joshua did. Joshua had meditated on the Law of Moses. He had been there when Moses received it. He was saturated with Moses' Law. He knew it inside out.

The difference is he knew how to make it work. He knew how to get the building up; how to take it from blueprint to the real building.

That is what makes the Joshua apostle so unique. He is so totally practical. He implements those principles that the Moses apostle has originated, and he gives it to the people piece by piece and step by step. As he does that the blueprint starts to become a building.

That is the difference between a Joshua apostle and a Moses apostle.