Episode Transcript
So we'll take our Bibles and turn to the book of Joshua 1.
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Joshua 1.
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Joshua.
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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua.
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Joshua chapter 1.
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Give everyone time to turn there.
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That's right.
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Alright, so last week we ended up with the children of Israel.
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They sent spies into the Promised Land.
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And ten out of those twelve spies came back and said, "Can't be done."
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There's no way we can go in there and drive these people out.
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They're much too strong for us.
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Two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, said, "Man, let's go get them right now.
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God will take care of us. He'll win this battle for us."
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But instead of trusting in God, the majority of people listen to the spies.
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And they wanted to trust in themselves.
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And they said, "Oh, we can't do this."
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And so that's when we learned, don't listen to the majority of people.
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Just because most of the people in the world laugh at Christianity, laugh at the Bible, laugh at the idea of God,
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just because most of the people do something doesn't mean they're right.
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Most of the time, most of the people will be wrong.
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That's a good rule of thumb to go by.
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And so what did God do?
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God said, "Alright, here's what's going to happen.
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You folks are going to stay here in the wilderness for forty years
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until your carcasses drop dead here in the wilderness.
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And your children, they're going to come in after you,
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and they're going to go into the land."
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So that brings us to, on our chronological timeline,
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a time period of forty years where Israel was in the wilderness.
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Got a couple million Jews out here in the Sinai Desert,
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and they're there for forty years.
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And during this time,
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Moses became very frustrated with the children of Israel.
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I mean, they wouldn't obey God.
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They didn't want to listen to him half the time.
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He got frustrated. He got mad one day, and in his anger, he disobeyed God.
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And because of that, God told Moses,
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"You're not going to get to go into the Promised Land."
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Aaron wasn't going to get to go into the Promised Land.
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And so Moses and Aaron, even though they believed God
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to get into the Promised Land, that was Moses' punishment.
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He's not going to be able to go into the Promised Land.
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So Moses dies during this forty years in the wilderness.
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Aaron dies.
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Moses has a servant named Joshua.
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And Joshua is the man who's going to take Moses' place.
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And so Joshua takes Moses' place,
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and Joshua's going to be the one to bring them into the Promised Land.
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Moses couldn't do it.
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Joshua would.
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Now, God knew all of this was going to happen.
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And even though God wanted Moses to go into the Promised Land,
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even though God wanted Moses to take the people into the Promised Land,
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Moses failed to do so.
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So this is very important for us.
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Because once again, what we have here is a prophecy
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through the situations of Israel.
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It's a very amazing prophecy.
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Moses...
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Let me make sure we're still online here.
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Yep, we're still online.
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Hey, Tommy, good to see you.
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Moses is the one that God sent the law through.
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Any time you see Moses in the Bible,
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and his name is mentioned,
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and just his name is not in the story, it's just Moses,
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it's referencing the law.
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Those commandments that God gave from Sinai,
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the ones that people couldn't do,
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and they moved back away from the mountain,
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they said, "Man, we need someone to go between us."
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And so God makes this tabernacle,
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and that was the only way God could come to help with man,
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is through the sacrifice made to this tabernacle.
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So Moses represents God's law.
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God's law that shows the people their sinners.
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God's law that the people fail to do.
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Let's look at something real quick.
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Let's look at the word sin.
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The word sin means to miss the mark.
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So it has the idea of an archer shooting an arrow.
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Of course, the mark that we would call today
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would be the X or the bull's eye.
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And so this is going to be the mark,
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this is going to be the place
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that we're trying to land that arrow at.
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Now, if me and Chris and Jeff were out hunting,
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not hunting, we were out target practicing,
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and we each shoot an arrow.
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Now, let's say that Chris,
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that's all he does is eat, sleep, and drink archery.
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He's really practiced up on it.
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We're a long way away, though, from this target,
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and Chris shoots the arrow,
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and his arrow lands right here.
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Very good shot.
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Jeff shoots the arrow, his lands out here.
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Hey, hit the target.
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I shoot the arrow.
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Mine lands out here in a tree somewhere.
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I miss it all together.
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Who hit the mark?
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Nobody.
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Now, Chris got closer than Jeff.
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They both got closer than me.
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But all of us sinned.
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We all missed the mark that we were intended to hit.
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Okay?
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Now, God's law is perfection, it's holiness.
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God created us in his image,
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if you'll remember back in the book of Genesis.
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He created us to be a representation
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of the God in heaven here on earth.
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So we have a perfect holy God in heaven.
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God makes a perfect man on earth,
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and we were intended to be the perfection of God here on earth.
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That's how we were created.
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To always think like God, act like God, do like God.
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Walk in God's truth perfectly.
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That's the way we were made.
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We weren't made to be--well, a lot of times we say,
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"Well, we make a mistake."
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We'll say, "Well, we're only human."
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As if humans were made to make mistakes.
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We were not.
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And so the Bible says in the book of Romans,
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"All have sinned."
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Is everyone familiar with this verse?
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No? Let's turn there real quick.
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Romans chapter 3.
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"All the way to the New Testament,
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turned past Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
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turned past Acts,
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go to Romans chapter 3."
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Romans chapter 3 verse 23.
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Romans chapter 3 verse 23.
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Everybody there?
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All right, let's read it now.
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Let's read it together.
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"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
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This is the glory of God.
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We were supposed to be God's glory here on earth,
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His perfect representation.
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But all of us have sinned and we've come short of God's glory.
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We've missed the intended mark that God created us to do.
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Some of us have come short more.
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Would we agree?
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There's some people in this world we'd rather have our neighbors than others?
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Sure.
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Who wants the sex offenders in your neighborhood?
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Right?
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Who wants someone to be released from prison?
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Who wants Charles Manson, you know, to come live in your house, you know?
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So there's some people who have really missed the target altogether.
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There are your mass murderers, chainsaw massacres, whatever.
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These are your bad, bad people.
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Child trafficking.
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Here's some folks over here.
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They live a lewd life, you know?
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They're not going to kill you.
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But they may not pay their bills to you either.
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They may cheat you out of something, you know?
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But, you know, they're only going to do so bad in life.
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But then you have folks like old Chris.
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They're the square deal, man.
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They're members of the Lions Club, you know?
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They're business people in town.
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They're the folks that run for mayor and politician.
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And they're the folks that are respected in the community.
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But just like these guys and these guys, they all miss the mark, you see.
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Now, God's law gives us statutes that tell us what that mark looks like.
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But all of us have sinned and missed it.
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God's requirement, here's the thing.
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We have a holy and a perfect God.
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And to be accepted by God, we have to be holy and perfect people.
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All right?
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Let's do this exercise here for a moment.
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Don't worry, we're not going to do push-ups or anything like that.
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Different kind of exercise.
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Our God is holy, whole.
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He's 100% perfect.
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Let's say we were like Chris.
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And let's say that we could obey God's word perfectly.
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80% of the time.
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Do you think anyone here obeys God perfectly 80% of the time every day?
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I can't.
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You know what?
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Just in case, because Jonathan, he's pretty innocent.
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Look at him.
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That's a sweet boy.
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Let's say Jonathan could do it 90% of the time.
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Those aren't halo holders.
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Huh?
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Those aren't halo holders.
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Right.
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Let's say that we have a really, really good person.
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Now, I don't believe anybody can obey God's word 80% of the time.
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I don't believe they can obey it 90% of the time in their thoughts, their actions, everything.
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I just don't think they can.
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But let's say they could.
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Let's say they were that good.
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For God to accept you at 90%, do you know what he would have to do?
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He would have to lower his standard 10% to accept you at 90%.
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Now what do we have?
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Now we no longer have a God that's 100%.
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Now we have an unholy God and an unholy man.
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You see, that's not what we need, is it?
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A lot of people say, "Well, God's a loving God.
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He'll just forgive me."
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It doesn't work that way.
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God's a loving God.
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So instead of God saying, "Well, the solution is I'll lower my standard.
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I'll meet you where you are and I'll be like you."
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No.
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God says, "I'm keeping my standard, but I through my power and my grace am going to
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bring you up to where I am."
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That's the promise of the gospel.
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That's what this message of the Bible is all about.
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The thing is, us trying to hit the mark by obeying God's law, we can't do it.
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Once again, if your accelerator is stuck at 80 miles an hour,
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because you have a defective accelerator, all the speed limit signs in the world
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that say 50 miles an hour, is it going to make you slow down?
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Why?
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Your accelerator is stuck.
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It's broke.
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We are fallen creatures.
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We have fallen nature.
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We have faults that come in our mind that we'd be embarrassed for other people to see.
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We have things that we do, things that we say that we don't want other people to know about.
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We're broke.
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And the law can't fix it.
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It can only tell us how broke we are.
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This mark on the bullseye, it can't make Jeff get any closer to it.
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It can't make me be a better shooter.
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It can only tell me how far away I got.
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So why are we looking at all of this?
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Because Moses, the law couldn't get them to the promise that God gave them.
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And the promise is that God's going to make everyone who trusts in the coming Savior
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to be perfect like Him, to be perfect like Him, just like God.
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Do you remember the temptation that the devil gave Adam and Eve in the wilderness?
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You eat this fruit and ye shall be as God's.
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It was a lie.
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Sinning, disobeying God's word could not make them like God in every aspect.
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Only God will make us like Him and the gospel can do that.
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Moses couldn't get them into the promise land,
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showing us that the law cannot get us to hit the mark.
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Something else has to get us there.
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So instead of Moses going into the promise land and leading the people in the promise land,
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and Moses stays in the wilderness.
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Why?
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Because the law cannot get us to God.
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We're sinners.
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Enter Joshua.
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Joshua is the one who's going to bring the people of Israel into the promise land.
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Joshua is the one.
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Now if you'll take your Bibles, turn to the Gospel of John, Chapter 1.
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You're there in Romans, so just turn back to your left.
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The Gospel of John, Chapter 1.
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Keep your place there in Joshua, of course.
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So we'll be back there eventually, or as my grandparents used to say directly.
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John, Chapter 1.
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John.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, New Testament.
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Do you need some help?
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.
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There you go.
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Chapter 1.
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There we go.
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All right, sure.
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And go to verse 16.
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John, Chapter 1, verse 16.
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The Bible says, speaking of Jesus,
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"And of his fullness, fullness have we all received, and grace for grace,
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for the law was given by Moses.
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But grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
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So the law is what Moses gave.
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That couldn't get them into the promised land.
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It can't get us into the promised land.
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It can't get us to God.
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Why? We're all sinners.
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We all come short of filling that law 100%.
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So when Moses couldn't get the people into the promised land,
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here comes Joshua.
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Joshua is going to bring them in.
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The law came by Moses.
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Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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The name Joshua is the Hebrew word for Jesus.
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All of this is a prophecy that's being played out in a theatric event,
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real events in people's lives.
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The name Jesus is Yehoshua.
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It's Joshua.
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Joshua and Jesus are the same name,
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and they mean the same thing.
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Jehovah saves.
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Oh man, when we can't get into the promised land through the law,
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when we can't reach God's perfection on our own abilities,
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here comes Jesus, and He'll save us from our sin.
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See how that works?
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That's what the angel said.
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Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.
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Now here comes Joshua.
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This is just an Old Testament picture,
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once again, of Jesus bringing us into God's promise,
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of not perishing but having everlasting life,
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and living forever in His kingdom.
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It's a very beautiful thing.
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Now go back to the book of Joshua.
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Now that we've learned about the man,
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Joshua chapter 1,
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we learned how we got here.
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We learned why Joshua was taking them in and not Moses.
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And once again, before we leave that idea though,
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Moses was the one who was supposed to bring them to the promised land to begin with.
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But he failed to.
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He couldn't do it.
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God's law, God's Word,
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was what we were supposed to do to begin with.
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You see?
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But we couldn't do it.
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Moses couldn't do it because the people failed him,
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drove him to anger,
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and we can't do it because we failed God's law as well.
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Let's go ahead and look here now in verse 1, Joshua chapter 1, verse 1.
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"Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord,
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it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of none."
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Moses' minister, means servant, saying,
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"Moses, my servant, is dead."
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God still loved Moses.
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Moses is in heaven.
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But he's gone now.
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God says, "Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan,
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thou and all this people into the land which I do give to them,
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even to the children of Israel."
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So this Jordan is talking about,
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we'll blow this up right here,
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this Jordan River right here, okay?
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It runs right here.
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And so, once they get here,
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going to cross over the Jordan River,
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go into this nice area here by the Mediterranean Sea,
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and they're going to start conquering and capturing these people,
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and not capturing, driving out these people.
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And so God says, "Come on, get going.
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Let's get over this Jordan River."
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Now watch what he says here, verse 3,
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"Every place the sole of your foot shall tread upon,
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that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
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From the wilderness in this Lebanon,
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even unto the great river, the river Euphrates."
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All right?
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And so he's giving the boundaries here.
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This is the Euphrates River here.
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The original land that God gave Israel
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was not this tiny little slice, okay?
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It enveloped all this area here.
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And so this is God giving them this land
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and marking the boundaries out here.
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And he says, "All the land of the high tithes
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and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun
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shall be your coast.
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There shall not any man," verse 5,
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"be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life,
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as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
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I will not fill thee nor forsake thee."
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So who is the one fighting the battles here, God?
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I'm not going to fill you.
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I won't forsake you.
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It's God, not them.
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Verse 6, "Be strong and of good courage,
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for unto this people shalt thou divide
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for an inheritance the land,
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which I swear unto their fathers to give them.
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Only be thou strong and very courageous,
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that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law,
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which Moses my servant commanded thee.
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Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left,
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that thou mayest prosper whether so ever thou goest."
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And so God says, "All right, here we go, Joshua.
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We're going to take you in.
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I'm going to be the one that does this.
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Just remember, when you get into the Promised Land,
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make sure to obey my word so that you can be blessed
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and I can prosper you in the land.
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You obey me, I will prosper you."
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Okay?
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Now, let's go ahead and look here.
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Verse 10, "Joshua won ten,
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then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
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saying, 'Pass through the host,'"
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that means the army, "and command the people, saying,
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'Prepare you victuals.'"
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Yeah, Jed Clampett would call them vittles,
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but it's the same thing.
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It's food.
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"Get you some food, for within three days
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you shall pass over this Jordan to go in to possess the land,
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which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it."
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All right?
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Let's move on a little forward here, if you would, please,
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and look in Chapter 2,
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"And Joshua the son of non sent out of Shittim two men
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to spy secretly."
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Ah, we're going to have another reconnaissance mission this time.
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He's not sending 12.
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He's only sending two.
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But you know what, before that,
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look in Verse 17 of Chapter 1.
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Look what the people told them.
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"According as we hearken unto Moses and all things,
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so will we hearken unto thee, only the Lord thy God
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be with thee as he was with Moses."
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Now, the old generation,
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they've died in the wilderness.
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This is a new generation of folks.
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They were obedient to Moses.
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They were obedient to Joshua.
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And this is a very important lesson
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that I want to touch on real fast and then we'll move on.
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Every generation of people have to make their own decisions.
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Everyone.
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Sometimes you have folks, parents make very poor decisions,
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and their children have a choice when they grow up.
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They can say, "Well, I'm either going to live like my parents
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and continue on like them,
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or I'm going to recognize the mistakes my parents made.
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I'm going to do the opposite."
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My grandfather, on my dad's side, was a drunkard.
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And my dad, when he was 12 years old in Houston,
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he had to get a bicycle in Houston
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and get two paper routes before he went to school
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and run those paper routes to help put food on the table.
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He was so put out with his father
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that he promised himself
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that if God gave him children when he grew up,
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they would never see him drink alcohol.
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And I never saw my dad drink alcohol, ever.
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He kept his promise.
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He worked. He provided.
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And that's where someone says, "You know what?
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,120
I recognize my parents' failures.
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I'm going to do otherwise."
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But then you have to where you can have godly parents
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and you can have another generation,
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their children grow up and say,
00:28:01,620 --> 00:28:03,320
"I don't want to live like my parents.
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,720
That church stuff's not for me.
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,220
I'm going to go have all the fun I can out here."
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I'll tell you what, no person in this world
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,020
has any more fun than me.
00:28:12,020 --> 00:28:15,020
But I have the right kind of fun.
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And it's up to each generation.
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I arrested a man one night for drunk driving
00:28:22,420 --> 00:28:25,720
when I was on the highway patrol.
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,120
And he said, "The reason I'm drunk
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:32,620
is because my daddy was drunk,
00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:34,720
so he raised me to drink alcohol."
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,820
And he had an excuse for being drunk, he said.
00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:43,020
And I said, "Well, my daddy was drunk
00:28:43,020 --> 00:28:45,820
and my daddy doesn't drink."
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And I said, "You make your own decisions.
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Grow up."
00:28:51,620 --> 00:28:52,820
That's what I was telling him, "Grow up, man."
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So don't ever blame.
00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:56,920
Once you become an adult,
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,320
don't blame anything on your parents.
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,920
It's time to be your own man, your own woman,
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,620
and you have to stand or fall
00:29:04,620 --> 00:29:07,620
with decisions you make with God.
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:10,120
So let's go ahead and look here now.
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,020
Again, Joshua chapter 2,
00:29:12,020 --> 00:29:14,620
he is now going to send these spies out.
00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:16,920
Look in verse 1, "And Joshua the son of Nun
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,620
sent out of Shittim two men
00:29:18,620 --> 00:29:20,620
to spy secretly saying,
00:29:20,620 --> 00:29:22,020
'Go view the land, even Jericho.'"
00:29:22,020 --> 00:29:24,420
So they're going to target the city of Jericho,
00:29:24,420 --> 00:29:27,320
go spy out Jericho,
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,520
and they went and came into a harlot's house
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,420
named Rahab and lodged there.
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A harlot is a whore.
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,120
It's a prostitute.
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,620
They're not going in to do business with a prostitute,
00:29:37,620 --> 00:29:41,820
but they're going in because they're undercover.
00:29:41,820 --> 00:29:45,920
And there's a perfect cover to go into this place
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,720
because they're used to seeing traffic
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,520
coming in and out.
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:51,920
So they go in there,
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,520
and, you know, when I was in law enforcement,
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,520
you know, we did undercover stuff too,
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,920
and you would have law enforcement officers dress.
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:03,120
We went during the David Koresh standoff in Waco,
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:09,520
one of our officers mixed in with some folks.
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:15,720
He was a rough-looking guy, man.
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,120
And they loved this guy.
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,720
They invited him back to the hotel, man,
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,920
and that night with him,
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,920
and he just fell right into the group.
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,720
They never had a clue who he was.
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,720
And that's what these people are doing.
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,120
They're going in, and they tell Rahab,
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,120
"Look, here's your money.
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,820
We're not here for sex trafficking.
00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:39,420
We're here because we're going to come destroy this land.
00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:42,820
You just keep your mouth shut,
00:30:42,820 --> 00:30:45,020
keep your money, and we'll be out of here, okay?
00:30:45,020 --> 00:30:47,920
This would be the easiest night you ever had."
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,520
All right?
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:51,520
And so look what happens here now, verse 2.
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,220
"And it was told the king of Jericho, saying,
00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:56,120
'Behold, there came men in hither tonight
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,720
of the children of Israel to search out the country.'
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,020
And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying,
00:31:02,020 --> 00:31:04,620
'Bring forth the men that are come to thee,
00:31:04,620 --> 00:31:06,820
which are entered into thine house,
00:31:06,820 --> 00:31:08,820
for they become to search out all the country.'"
00:31:08,820 --> 00:31:11,520
Now, Rahab had a choice.
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,120
Am I going to help protect my city?
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,120
Or am I going to help protect these men
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,420
in the country that's coming to destroy my city?
00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:23,920
Let's see what she did.
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Verse 4, "And the woman took the two men and hid them,
00:31:26,420 --> 00:31:30,220
and said thus to the king that is,
00:31:30,220 --> 00:31:33,120
'There came men unto me, but I wish not,
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,020
or I knew not, once they were.
00:31:35,020 --> 00:31:37,520
And it came to pass, about the time of the shutting of the gate,
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,920
when it was dark, that the men went out,
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,120
whither the men went, I want not,
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,820
pursue it to them quickly, for you shall overtake them.'"
00:31:43,820 --> 00:31:46,220
In other words, she says, "Hey, yeah, there were two men here.
00:31:46,220 --> 00:31:50,020
I remember those guys, the ones you're describing."
00:31:50,020 --> 00:31:53,020
She said, "Yeah, they came here, right?
00:31:53,020 --> 00:31:54,620
But about the time the gate was closing, they left.
00:31:54,620 --> 00:31:57,620
I don't know which direct--
00:31:57,620 --> 00:31:58,720
I don't know where they were going to,
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,420
but if you'll hurry, you'll catch them.
00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:01,720
They-- it hasn't been that long since they've left."
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,720
The truth is, she took them up on the roof.
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,720
She hid them under some flax,
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,920
which would be like-- to us, kind of like corn stalks
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,720
and hit them over them, okay?
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,320
So she hides them under this flax.
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,020
And so the people of Jericho, they take out,
00:32:18,020 --> 00:32:22,720
chasing on a wild goose chase after these men, all right?
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,220
So we see that this woman Rahab believed
00:32:26,220 --> 00:32:32,720
that God had given those people the city,
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,620
that God was going to let them overcome the city.
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:39,520
God was capable of doing so.
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,920
And so she, just by what she did,
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,120
was showing her faith in what she believed,
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,720
that she did not have any allegiance
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,620
to the country that she was in,
00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:53,220
but to the country that was on its way.
00:32:53,220 --> 00:32:56,220
You see, that's what Christians are today.
00:32:56,220 --> 00:33:00,120
We understand that God's going to judge this nation
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,420
that we're living in.
00:33:03,420 --> 00:33:05,320
We understand that another kingdom is coming
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,720
when King Jesus comes.
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,020
And we, in our faith,
00:33:10,020 --> 00:33:12,020
have pledged allegiance to the coming king.
00:33:12,020 --> 00:33:15,720
And so look now what happens in verse 7.
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:23,020
"And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan
00:33:23,020 --> 00:33:25,220
and to the fords."
00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:26,220
"Fords" means little crossing,
00:33:26,220 --> 00:33:27,320
whether you would cross the river.
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:28,720
"And as soon as they which pursued after them
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,720
were gone out, they shut the gate.
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And before they were laid down,
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she came up unto them upon the roof.
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And she said unto them,
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'I know that the Lord hath given you the land,
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and that your terror is fallen upon us,
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and that all the inhabitants of the land faint,
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or grow weary, or scared because of you.'"
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Verse 10.
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"For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water
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of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt,
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and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites
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that were on the other side of Jordan,
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Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
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And as soon as we heard these things,
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our hearts did melt,
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neither did they remain any more courage
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than any man because of you."
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Listen to this now.
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"For the Lord your God,
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He is God in heaven above
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and in the earth beneath.
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This woman believed in the one true God.
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She had rejected the false gods of her own land.
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She had embraced the one true God of Israel."
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Now look what she says.
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Verse 12.
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"Now therefore I pray you swear unto me by the Lord,
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since I have showed you kindness,
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that ye will also show kindness unto my father's house,
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and give me a true..."
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Boy, we've seen this word before, haven't we?
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"Token."
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Every time we've seen "token" so far,
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it has been a representation
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of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Every time.
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The rainbow?
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"Token."
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The blood on the door?
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On Passover?
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"Token."
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Everything is representing the Lord Jesus Christ
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in His gospel.
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So she's asking them,
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"I want you to save me and my family alive.
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I want to be spared from the coming judgment
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upon our land."
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You know, that's what we as Christians have done.
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We know God's going to judge this wicked world,
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and we want to be spared from God's coming judgment
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upon this land.
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All right?
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So look what she says here.
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She says, "Give me a true token.
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I don't want something that I can hang my head on
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and worry was going to fall through.
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I don't want you to give me some vain promise or something.
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I want something I can be sure of,
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that I know without a shadow of a doubt
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that when judgment comes upon this land,
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when God's judgment comes upon this land,
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I will be saved from that judgment."
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Well, it's a good thing she wants to be saved from that judgment
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because Joshua means Jehovah saves.
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I want to be saved from that judgment.
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So they're going to give her a token.
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Look here now.
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Verse 13, "And that ye will save alive my father
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and my mother and my brethren and my sisters
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and all that they have and deliver our lives from death."
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This is nothing but a picture of God saving us from our sins
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and eternal death.
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Look here now.
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"And the men answered her, 'Our life for yours,
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if ye utter not this, our business,
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and it shall be you when the Lord hath given us the land
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that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.'
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Then she let them down by a cord to the window
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for her house was upon the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
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And she said unto them, 'Get you to the mountain,
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lest the pursuers meet you and hide yourselves there
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three days until the pursuers be returned,
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and afterward may ye go your way.'
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And the men said unto her, 'We will be blameless of this thine oath,
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which thou hast made us swear.'"
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In other words, we will keep our word.
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We will save you and your house alive.
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Look what they say now.
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Now they're going to give her a token that she can have
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that will give her assurance that she'll be saved.
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Verse 18, "But behold, when we come into the land,
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thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window,
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which thou didst let us down by.
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And thou shalt bring thy father and thy mother and thy brother
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and all thy father's household home unto thee.
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And it shall be that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house
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into the street, his blood shall be upon his head.
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And we will be guiltless, and whosoever shall be with thee in the house,
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his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
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If thou utter this, our business, then we will be quit
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or guiltless of thine oath, which thou hast made us to swear.
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And she said, 'According unto your words, so be it.'
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And she let them down--I'm sorry--and she sent them away
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and they departed, and she bound the scarlet line in the window."
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So here's what happens.
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I say, "Here's what you do."
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Her house is on the wall.
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Her house is on the wall.
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She had this window here.
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She's got a rope that's red.
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She takes this red rope,
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and the men descend, and they get down that--out of her house by the rope.
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They scale down the wall.
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The deal was, on the day that they came to judge the land,
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she was to take that same red rope,
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tighten her window,
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and bring all of her family into the house.
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They said, "If anyone gets outside your room where that red rope is,
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we'll kill them.
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But everyone inside your room behind that red rope will save."
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"It's a deal," she says.
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So what does she do?
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She took them at their word.
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She bound that scarlet line in the window,
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and that scarlet line became the token of her assurance of her salvation.
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Does that scarlet line hanging off the window and those people in the house
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being spared from judgment?
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Do you realize what the people are doing?
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They're getting everybody else in this town wall.
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Judge, then they pass over her and go to the next house
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because of that red rope on the window.
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Red rope on the window, red blood on the door.
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As God passed over one, so He passes upon the other.
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As the red blood signified the death of the coming Savior,
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the red rope does the same.
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She simply believed the promise and tied the token thereof in the window.
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When I was saved, I did the same thing.
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The blood on the door, the red rope in the window,
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it's all a picture of the cross where Jesus died and shed His blood for me.
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And I was given, and you were given, the same promise that she was given
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and that they were given on Pass overnight.
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Men said, "Our life for yours."
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Here she is. She simply hears the promise,
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takes the men at their word, binds the rope in the window.
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I've heard God's promise.
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God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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Christ died for our sins according to Scriptures,
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and whoever believes in Him shall be saved from God's judgment.
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And having heard that promise, I take God at His word
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and I bind the token of the cross in my window.
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Christians are people who are just like the folks on Pass overnight,
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just like the folks in Rahab's house.
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Like Rahab, we're sinners. We've all missed the mark.
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But you know what?
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We put our faith in what Christ has done
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and we hide behind that blood-stained cross.
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And all who do will be saved from God's coming judgment.
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Makes sense?
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Alright, with that, we'll go ahead and close,
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and Lord willing, we'll see you next door.
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