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Good evening. Please open your bibles to Joshua chapter 20. Joshua chapter 20. By way of reminder, when we finished chapter 19 a few weeks ago we closed out a major section in this book. The people of God made their way into the land early in this book, just as God had promised. God gave them military victory and prominence in the land, just like he had promised. And beginning in chapter 13 he…
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Good morning. Please open your bibles again to the book of Joshua chapter 18. Joshua chapter 18. We’ve nearly made our way through the entire nation of Israel being given their inheritance in the promised land. The battles have been waged. Victories have been given by God. The land has been subdued, and the people...
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Good morning. Please turn with me in your bibles to Joshua chapter 15. Joshua 15. This week as we continue through the book of Joshua we are going to pick up the pace. If you will recall, the people of God have gained supremacy within the land of Canaan, the land that God had first...
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Please turn with me in your bibles to Joshua chapter 13. Joshua chapter 13. Within the book of Joshua, we have made it to another transition. Chapter 13 begins a new section stretching all the way through chapter 21, which describe the Israelites taking possession of the land as an inheritance. Specifically, many of these...
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  Last week we looked at how the Lord granted Joshua success against the 5 kings that had formed a coalition to come and war against the Gibeonites and against Israel. The Lord granted Joshua success in battle, and even stopped the Sun and Moon in the sky so that the battle could be won...
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What comes to your mind when you think about the Lord? When I ask you to think about God, what comes to mind? What feelings does that image evoke? I ask because many of our modern notions about God can be…incomplete, at best, if not downright wrong. And today we have a portion of text...
Please open your copies of God’s word to 9th chapter of the book of Joshua. Joshua chapter 9. We have before us an unusual text, which seems to be something of a recurring theme in Joshua. With many parallels to the story of Rahab in chapter 2, today’s text has military enemies, cunning deception and...
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  Good morning. Please turn with me in your copies of God’s word to Joshua chapter 8. Joshua chapter 8. On Sunday Evenings we have been working through the book of Joshua, and we’ve made it to chapter 8, which we’ll cover today. To catch us all up to speed, chapter 6 contains the most...
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Last week we looked at probably the most well-known story in this book, where Joshua leads the people of God into battle against the city of Jericho. Or, more precisely, the Lord leads Joshua, who then leads the people into battle, because we noted that the battle clearly belonged to the Lord. He told them...