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Joshua Part 5 – Harrisonburg Campus

After Jericho…

Review of the series:

WEEK 1: Be Strong & Courageous

WEEK 2: Rahab Hides the Men of Israel

WEEK 3: The 12 Stones – Remembering God’s Faithfulness

WEEK 4: God’s Victory at Jericho

TODAY: Consequences of Sin

Breakdown of the Book of Joshua

CHAPTERS 1-6: Entering the Promised Land

CHAPTERS 7-12: Conquering the Promised Land

CHAPTERS 13-22: Settling the Promised Land

Consider: What was the next thing that happened after the tremendous victory at Jericho?

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Joshua 6:16-19

The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”

Joshua 7:1-5

But the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things; Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel. Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the region.” So the men went up and spied out Ai. When they returned to Joshua, they said, “Not all the army will have to go up against Ai. Send two or three thousand men to take it and do not weary the whole army, for only a few people live there.” So about three thousand went up; but they were routed by the men of Ai, who killed about thirty-six of them. They chased the Israelites from the city gate as far as the stone quarries and struck them down on the slopes. At this the hearts of the people melted in fear and became like water.

Joshua 7:15

Whoever is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the Lord and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!’ ”

Two “Why” Questions:

1) Why did the Israelites crush Jericho but lose to a lesser opponent in Ai?

After all, they had just celebrated a dramatic victory over mighty Jericho. Ai was the underdog. Yet they scattered God’s people.

Joshua 7:10-12

The Lord said to Joshua, “Stand up! What are you doing down on your face? Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions. That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.

Joshua 7:20-23

Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.” So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath. They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the Lord.

Second “Why” Question:

2) Why was the response to Achan’s sin so extreme? The death penalty for theft? That doesn’t seem “fair.”

Without understanding God’s Holy Justice, we can never truly grasp, appreciate or enter into His Grace.

Today, we get to hear about Israel’s loss and Achan’s death from the shadow of the cross, where the Holy and terrible Justice of God was fulfilled on your behalf. In fact, it is a great gift to be shown the deadly underside of disobedience while there is still time. To get a clear picture of the darkness of sin is something to be grateful for. To get a clear picture of Holy God and an opportunity for repentance in His mercy, in the Name and for the cause of Christ.

Joshua 8:1-2

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”

Joshua 7: The Enemy Within – Psalm 139:23-24

• Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See
  if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.- Joshua is found in the OT of God’s Word
  • Being “old” does not mean it is not relevant, on the contrary this book is alive and
  well exhorting us in all things pertaining to life and godliness.- Joshua 6:17-19
• 17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the
  prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she
  hid the spies we sent. 18 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will
  not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will
  make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19 All the
  silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must
  go into his treasury.”- Donald Campbell
• God’s people are never more vulnerable, never in greater danger,
  than right after they have won a great victory.
  Joshua 7
  But the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things[a]; Achan son of Karmi,
  the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. So
  the Lord’s anger burned against Israel.- One commentator wrote in regards to the reciting of his lineage
• A warning is hereby administered to parents, to give the most diligent heed in
  training their offspring in the fear of God, lest they be a reproach to their memories
  when they themselves are no more.
  2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven to the east of
  Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the region.” So the men went up and spied
  out Ai.
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  3 When they returned to Joshua, they said, “Not all the army will have to go up against
  Ai. Send two or three thousand men to take it and do not weary the whole army, for
  only a few people live there.” 4 So about three thousand went up; but they were routed
  by the men of Ai, 5 who killed about thirty-six of them. They chased the Israelites from
  the city gate as far as the stone quarries and struck them down on the slopes. At this
  the hearts of the people melted in fear and became like water.
  6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of
  the Lord, remaining there till evening. The elders of Israel did the same, and sprinkled
  dust on their heads. 7 And Joshua said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord, why did you ever bring
  this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy
  us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan! 8 Pardon your
  servant, Lord. What can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies?
  9 The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will
  surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. What then will you do for your own
  great name?”
  10 The Lord said to Joshua, “Stand up! What are you doing down on your
  face? 11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them
  to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have
  lied, they have put them with their own possessions.
  12 That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their
  backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction.
  I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to
  destruction.- Warren Wiersbe
• “If God says something is wrong, then it’s wrong; and that’s the end of the
  debate.”
  13 “Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for
  tomorrow; for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are devoted things
  among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
  14 “‘In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord chooses shall
  come forward clan by clan; the clan the Lord chooses shall come forward family by
  family; and the family the Lord chooses shall come forward man by man. 15 Whoever
  is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs
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  to him. He has violated the covenant of the Lord and has done an outrageous thing in
  Israel!’”- Numbers 32:23
• 23 “But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the Lord; and you may be
  sure that your sin will find you out… (ministers in spotlight)
  16 Early the next morning Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes, and Judah was
  chosen. 17 The clans of Judah came forward, and the Zerahites were chosen. He had
  the clan of the Zerahites come forward by families, and Zimri was chosen.
  18 Joshua had his family come forward man by man, and Achan son of Karmi, the son
  of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was chosen. 19 Then Joshua said to
  Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and honor him. Tell me what
  you have done; do not hide it from me.”
  20 Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is
  what I have done:
  21 When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of
  silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are
  hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”- “I saw — I coveted — I took”
• So goes the story- So goes the way of the world – the flesh – the devil
  • So goes the unguarded and self-indulgence soul- So goes the one who loves the world
  • Eve did the same thing all the way back in the beginning when she was
  deceived and listened to the devil to satisfy a desire of the flesh.- It is the same story over and over and the consequences are always
  terrible!- Pastor Vic Bright
• “Those who willingly withhold their tithes from God are spiritually binding their
  family.”

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Joshua Part 4- Harrisonburg Campus

Joshua Part 4

Review of the series:

WEEK 1: JOSHUA BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS

WEEK 2: MINOR CHARACTER RAHAB HIDES

WEEK 3: 12 STONES- REMEMBER GODS FAITHFUL

CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN

WHAT ARE THE STONES YOU ARE LEAVING ?

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Joshua Breakdown

CHAPTERS 1-5/6 ENTER THE LAND

CHAPTERS 7-12 CONCQUER THE LAND

CHAPTERS 13-22 SETTLING IN THE LAND

Joshua 5:13-15

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

Joshua 6:1-7

Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.” So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

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MUHAMMED ALI DEFEATS YOUNGER GEORGE FOREMAN

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Hebrews 11:29-31

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days. By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

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What Happened To Jericho

Luke 22:14-20

When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.” After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

Genesis 22:9-14

When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

“THERE ARE TIMES IN OUR LIFE WHEN GOD CALLS US TO STAND, THERE ARE TIMES IN OUR LIFE WHEN GOD CALLS US THROUGH PRAYER TO FIGHT- B UT THE GREATEST WEAPON WE HAVE IN OUR LIVES IS A WEAPON OF WORSHIP.” LOUIE GIGLIO

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Joshua: Part 4 “Walls and Worship”

Joshua 5:13-15

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

Joshua 6:1-27

Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.” So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.” When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there. Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days. On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.” When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel. Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day. At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: “At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.” So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

Obedience is the way to our Promised Land.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Isaiah 55:9

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Joshua 1:9

Here is what I am commanding you to do. Be strong and brave. Do not be afraid. Do not lose hope. I am the Lord your God. I will be with you everywhere you go.”

Worship is a weapon we carry in our hearts, and we must pour it out.

“There are times in our life when God calls us to stand – there are times in our life when God calls us through prayer to fight – but the greatest weapon we have in our lives is a weapon called worship” – Louie Giglio