REMEMBERING GOD S FAITHFULNESS Joshua Recap
REMEMBERING GOD S FAITHFULNESS TO BE WITH US How has God been faithfully present with you in your life?
REMEMBERING GOD S FAITHFULNESS TO BE WITH US How has God been faithfully present with you in your life? How have you remembered God s faithfulness to you? OR How will you remember God s faithfulness to you?
ISRAEL S BODY LIFE SERVICE
CONNED INTO A COVENANT Joshua 9
THE FAITHFUL FIGHTER Joshua 10:1-27
SETTING THE FIGHT SCENE Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us. Joshua 10:6
THE LORD FIGHTS And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Bethhoron and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword. Joshua 10:10-11
OBEDIENTLY ELIMINATING IDOLATRY Joshua 10:28-11:23
OBEDIENTLY ELIMINATING IDOLATRY And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned. And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed. Just as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses. Joshua 11:11-15
CONFIDENCE & COMPROMISE: POSSESSING THE PROMISED LAND Joshua 12-19
CONFIDENCE AND COMPROMISE God s Promise: I myself will yarash them from before the people of Israel. (Josh 13:6)
CONFIDENCE AND COMPROMISE Confidence in Lord Succeeded YARASH Compromise Failed Caleb Z s Daughters Joshua God s Promise: I myself will yarash them from before the people of Israel. (Josh 13:6)
CALEB S CONFIDENCE = GOD S FAITHFULNESS You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God. Joshua 14:6-9
THE FAITHFUL FINISHER Joshua 20-21
THE FAITHFUL FINISHER Chapter 20 Cities of Refuge Mercy introduced to the judicial system
THE FAITHFUL FINISHER Chapter 20 Cities of Refuge Mercy introduced to the judicial system Chapter 21:1-42 Levites arrangements Provisions made for the word/work of the Lord
FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS Joshua 22
THE ALLEGATION: REBELS BREAKING FAITH Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the Lord by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the Lord? Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the Lord, that you too must turn away this day from following the Lord? And if you too rebel against the Lord today then tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. But now, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over into the Lord's land where the Lord's tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against the Lord or make us as rebels by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God. Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity. Joshua 22:16-20
CLING TO THE KING Joshua 23
Jesus CLING TO THE KING! Remember Cling to Yahweh Life of rest in land REST = Life in Land w God through following the Law
Jesus CLING TO THE KING! Remember Forget Cling to Yahweh Cling to Nations Life of rest in land Lose land/inheritance REST = Life in Land w God through following the Law
THE CHOICE IS YOURS Joshua 24
ISRAEL S CHOICE Good or Evil Life or Death Blessings or Curses
JESUS BREAKS THE CYCLE! Good Evil Life Death Blessings Curses
JESUS BREAKS THE CYCLE! Good Evil Life Death Blessings Curses Cling to JESUS!!
JESUS BREAKS THE CYCLE! Good Evil Life Death Blessings Curses Remember & Cling to JESUS!!
JESUS BREAKS THE CYCLE! Good Evil Life Death Blessings Curses Remember, Cling to, & Serve JESUS!!
REMEMBER God is faithful God is with us