 but it just it just it just does something to me it it it moves me and it's not like I haven't heard the song I've heard the song that's probably even low ball in the number it's just something about that that song but it's also something about these videos they never and never will do a lot in terms of getting a whole lot of views but they are easily my most favorite videos with it's not even close it's not even close because this is just what I just like to do it really is I like to go I like to do it's like to go over this and so I don't know what it is about it but it's just something about the word of God I'm not trying to be uh cliche ish I'm not trying to just Lord knows I am this is this really is a true and so that being this that being stated this is I think the 14th or the 15th yeah the 14th or the 15th uh session and so now we have made our way to and I don't know why I don't have this on it's not it's not like I don't do this all the time of course you should have this waiting and ready but uh we've covered this before this the 14th or 15th I think the 14th I think session uh we have made our way through Genesis Exodus and Numbers we have also covered the the complimentary books that being Job as well as Leviticus and Deuteronomy we just finished up Numbers and so now as we've stated before we can go back and use those books that we've covered anything that we've covered we can use remember we have to earn our statement so far we have not heard of Jesus so we don't get to bring in the name Jesus as a matter of fact now you can bring in the you can bring in a Holy Spirit even though we haven't heard him heard him being called the Holy Spirit but that's fine we haven't heard about the church so you can't bring up the church you can't bring up the cross you can't bring up any of those things only what we've covered why because we want to try to divorce ourselves at least for this time of any preconceived notions not trying to read into the text but just simply take what the text says because again God doesn't think highly of our intellect he's not trying to make it into a guessing game he's not saying hey think really deeply think hard try to remember no all we have to do is read what it says what he says and take it for what he says and we're going to see that what God says he means he doesn't have to kind of razzle dazzle us he didn't have to try to say something and then when it didn't come out to be quite like he said it he's got to try to make it fit no that is not the case and so that being stated we'll see because what we are seeing though we are seeing without question God's character we are seeing literally from Genesis one up till now he is a God who doesn't change as a matter of fact we read last week that he says I am not a man who does not lie I don't I don't have to make up something I don't have to make something fit if I said it it will be amen so that being the case now we have we're picking up with Joshua remember they are getting ready to go into the promised land now you would think about this after all that we have heard and seen in the scriptures these people still hadn't made to the promised land talking about wasting some time they could have literally been there and you're going to find out that one specifically at least no two things at least that they've complained about they didn't even have to complain about if they would have just done what God had them to do but that being the case let's go ahead and jump into it and for some reason I'm in the wrong chapter the right book but the wrong chapter and so let's start in Joshua one chapter one chapter one verse one and it reads as thus I'm looking at something else over here I'm sorry now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord and remember Joshua has been hanging out and hanging around Moses when Moses goes up on the mountain we read and found out that actually Joshua is there with him we don't hear him being spoken about that a lot but he was he was there and so he gets to he gets to be intimately involved with what Moses is doing with God not only that everywhere that Moses went Joshua was there but still and then also we know about Caleb these are one of the two spies who went into the land and who came back with a favorable report we'll talk about that part in just a second as well but now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of none Moses serving saying Moses my servant is dead now therefore arise cross this Jordan again hadn't crossed the Jordan yet you and all this people to the land which I am giving to them to the sons of Israel this is the same land that was spoken of prophesied that was promised to who to Abraham and then obviously to Isaac and Jacob and so why would God why would God still deal with these hardheaded people well the same way he deals with us hardhead people as well in this case because of a promise the promise wasn't initiated by Abraham or Isaac or Jacob it's not because they were so great so awesome as a matter of fact it's not even because they were the most faithful they did believe but it's almost as though God had to God had to do a number just to get them to believe had to show some things to get them to believe and they didn't always believe and certainly didn't always act as though and so here they are reaping the promises of what God has stayed or getting ready to he says in verse 3 every place on which the soul of your foot treads I have given it to you very important everywhere that the soul of your foot treads I have given to you so where you walk that's your land far from just I spoke to Moses far I mean from the wilderness and this Lebanon even as far as the great river the river Euphrates all the land of the Hittites and as far as the great sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory no man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life just as I have been with Moses I will be with you so I'm going to be with you Josh for the same as I was with Moses now notice as he's kind of telling the land he's not given specific dimensions of the land but if you were to go back and just look at the land as promised for the Jews for the for Israel they have never I think it's important to state they have never in the history of their existence ever occupied all of what God has given them well that's important either God doesn't come through all the way or these promises are still yet to be fulfilled they've gotten some but not all now we know the main reason the reason why they haven't gotten all of it because of their disobedience he says verse six now here's important he says but be strong and courageous for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them their father being Abraham Isaac and Jacob to give this people possession of the land which I swore to their father seven only be strong and very courageous be careful to do according to all the law which most my servant commands you and do not turn from it to the right or to the left so that you may have success wherever you go this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success he says again have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not tremble or be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go why would God have to tell him at the end of that to do not do not tremble or be dismayed for the Lord your God why would why would you telling Joshua you're getting ready to take possession of the land so why would God in that in saying that don't be a don't don't tremble don't be dismayed don't get disappointed or anything but remember the Lord your God is with you wherever you go why well wouldn't it be the same reason for us to have similar promises because the road to our destination is never or I should say rarely if ever a straight road it's it's always fraught with detours stopping go traffic that's all these different hazards as you go but he says no that the Lord your God is with you wherever you go now he says he says be strong be courageous he tells them to remember the words of this law the book of this law don't let it depart from you meditate on it day and night and you show how success do they meditate on it day and night even Joshua are they do they keep this as perfectly as possible no they do not they do not but again going to show God's graciousness his mercy because again who did he promise who did he promise that he was going to do what he's going to do well he promised to Abraham Isaac Jacob but more importantly to himself this was a cut this is all this is still guys in keeping with the covenant that he made now he makes a covenant with abram that benefits not just his physical descents but but will ultimately benefit now we don't know how even though we do know how but according to but so far as far as we've gone so far we if we're on the ground we have no idea what that meant when he tells abram that in you all the nations or all the families I should say nations but all the families of the world will be blessed not and I had to be clear it's not nations but all the families mishpaka which is families which indicates that it won't be all of the nations that's which means this by the way why is that important to say not all the nations the differentiation between nations and families well because nations would indicate all the nations would indicate that would be Cuba that would be Guatemala that would be the United States that would be Canada that would be Greenland that would be Georgia that would be Syria no not all the nations there's only one nation that God has promised to bring salvation to but all the families so now we see the different ethnicities the different people groups they will they will also be a part of this now not all of them not all that are in these families but we but the question is how is that going to happen God well they don't know we don't know yet now we know obviously because we have the benefit of having the rest of the book but but you said I'm I'm it's soft okay let me make sure it's loud then make sure my volume's up and I have no problem I'll pull it a little closer so make sure this is good over here I don't know how how the rest you always level are hope it's hope it's good enough anyway so they don't know what's going to happen they don't know how this is going to happen all they do know guys and this is what's important a promise was made God has stated that these things are going to happen if they're going to happen then guess what they're going to happen I cannot stress this and emphasize this enough because sometimes we forget sometimes we forget God's promises and treat his promises like ours yeah our promises maybe we don't mean to or maybe we do have good intentions but we don't carry them out God is not only a person who has good intentions but he also has the power to carry them through remember what do we say we say that God is we use of these three omnis omnipotent omniscient omnipresent well that all helps in and we've seen all of those attributes as well as others in God thus far he is omnipotent mean that he has the power to carry out whatever he wants to do he has the power to do anything and everything according to his good pleasure his will not according to your pleasure or your understanding as a matter of fact he didn't even ask you if you understand what he's doing as a matter of fact even more so he didn't even ask you if he should do it God doesn't he didn't he didn't consult Moses he didn't consult Abraham he didn't consult Isaac Jacob and he's not going to consult Josh as a matter of fact we're going to see him not consult Josh for a second he doesn't he doesn't consult us and ask what do you think I should do now he will test them to see like he's tested Moses before but he's not asking us what do you think I should do because how will we we found this out with with Joe are you going to counsel me who are you that you should counsel me where were you when I formed this when I laid the foundations of who who determines how far and scientists still don't know by the way how far the seas can come who determine the boundaries of the seas not you so why don't you just sit back and relax and ride so god is omnipotent but he's also omniscient he's all knowing he knows everything everything about you he even has what we call middle knowledge he knows not only what you will do what you have done but also what you would do if this were the case then we also have what's called he's also not just omnipotent all powerful and all knowing but he's also omnipresent all present he's everywhere where everywhere is god well i'll tell you where everywhere god is god is in the past he's in the present and he's in the future he's in he's in Dallas he's in Chicago he's in Washington DC he's in Maryland he's in Johannesburg he's in Cape Town he's in Sydney he's in Austin he's in the UK he's everywhere at the same time like David said if I go where could I go that you're not if I go to if I make my bed in hell there you will be now he's everywhere at the same time but he's everywhere all of the time at every time meaning that he's in all these places in the past he's in all these places in the present and he's in all these places in the future he's where you're going to be whether you be in hell or heaven he knows so this is a god who is more than we can ever even comprehend just to think about that the vastness of that's that and the reason why i'm harping on that because it's important we forget that the Jews forget that but let's be honest so guys we do too even even somebody said he's not in Detroit he's in Detroit he's in Detroit now he he gives Detroit a little bit of leeway sometimes you know sometimes you guys in Detroit you folks in Detroit and and and but it's not just Detroit there was Chicago Baltimore Philadelphia east st louis st louis anyway but he's everywhere he's everywhere so there's a reason why it's important guys because even us with the holy spirit we sometimes forget this and so what does god do he will remind you of who he is amen so let's go back to what he says says so this is why it says do not tremble or be dismayed you're gonna you are going to run into some things all right amen but now let's let's keep reading we won't we won't read all of these chapters all of these verses up to the main points but we'll get a couple of them in then josh will command his officers of his people saying pass through the midst of the camp and the and command the people saying prepare provisions for your sales for within three days you are going to cross the jord to go into possess the land which the lord your god has given you to possess it now think about this though think about this i'm sorry i'm leaving the choice alone but think about this though guys think about this here are these younger people no one is older than 40 years old no one is older than 40 years old so 40 years old 35 30 25 these are young people getting ready to go in but all they've ever heard from the time they were a baby was this promised land most of these people there were some some of these people actually saw the red sea crossing but a lot of them haven't remember this is a this is a 40 year period since the red sea and all of these most of these people weren't born at that time some people were born immediately after the red sea crossing somewhere a year some 10 years after some 20 we're 40 years into it so can you imagine the height the expectation the anticipation some of y'all don't remember this some some of you young folk i know some you're kind of red does and jeff does uh but some of you younger people lisa does you y'all remember we there was a song back in the day prince says we're gonna party like it's 1999 and we just just to hear the song then just imagine 1999 huh i want what's the world going to be like in 1999 or in 2000 we'll be in flying cars and all the now we've got a lot of gadgets that that looks like we're the jetsons but it was just hard to imagine the turn of the century once the turn of the century is like just just remember guys go back to the 70s go back to the 80s go back to the 90s the anticipation of 2000 as a matter of fact it was so much anticipation that you had people freaking out with y2k remember that people were freaking out about what is going to happen at 2000 because we didn't even have the foresight to put it into our clocks and into our computers what's the plans are going to crash the computer people were running getting their monies out of atm's and so forth because they just didn't know if the banks were going to crash on that day much to do about nothing it really was but that kind of anticipation would pale in comparison to the jews their anticipation to going into the land remember this land was promised before they were even born they that's all they heard about it even their parents and grandparents while they were in slavery what about what happened to this promised land so that's the level of anticipation so they say in three within three days we are going y'all we're going within three days we are going to be there but just think about the the excitement and then he goes and talks about who who was going to go in he starts numbering the people and so forth and he gets to people that are ready for battle his valiant warriors they will be getting ready for battle uh after he tells him that they come back in verse 16 they answer josh was saying all that you have commanded us we will do by the way where have we heard that before oh i know their parents their grandparents their forefathers remember when they make this covenant with moses for the this this old covenant the mosaic covenant this covenant they're making they say all that you say we will do all that you say okay heard that before but let's just see so he says all that you have commanded us we will do and wherever you send us we will go just as we obey most and all things so that so we will obey you only just as we obey moses he didn't always obey most but anyway may only may the lord be with you as he was with most anyone who rebels against your command and does not obey your words and all that you command him shall be put to death only be strong courage now they're saying this okay we'll see okay we will see now interesting story here you all know the story about ray have the harlot by the way oftentimes and folks will ask why do we continually call this woman ray have the harlot she didn't die a harlot well one it is interesting to to note that her sin is before the people they want to and and i get it there's always there's always somebody always and that's that's just the way human beings are there's always somebody to remind you of your sin is what you did this what you were it's not what i am now but it's what you did how dare you okay but again most folks who are quick to remind you of your sin hate it for you to bring up any of their sins or even a misstep that's just that is just human nature it really is and so when people are when people are quick to like ray have to remind you of your sin your past well again ray have the name is not just for her that's all also a uh a location that's in the bible as well as to indicate you know there's differentiation so when i talk about this place with these people we're talking about her but back to this point here though while there always will be someone to bring up the fact that she was a harlot what similarly there was all there will always be someone to bring the fact of what you did she could always point to this one thing yet you talk about me and my harlotry i'd much rather talk about what else the bible talks about my real lasting legacy you know who jesus is yeah jesus that's my great great great great great great great grandson i'm part of this lineage so when they pointed that wear it as a badge of honor yes i sinned i did this i did that i did this i did that you want to hear about my sins how much time you got mister i got more i got books and books and books to tell you about all the sins you talk about the bible saying that uh there we don't have enough room which is really idiomatic saying st metaphor to write about all of jesus's miracles we don't have enough books on the plan to talk about all the sins the ones that i did and the ones i thought about amen but thanks be the god that there's another chapter written about me a man rehab so let's go back to rehab and so he's looks he says the then josh will the son of nun sent two men yet we're not gonna do it this time we are not going to sin all you different folks in this bible and you know why because you don't have it in you we're gonna send two men two men two men uh spy secretly from shatim saying go view the land especially jericho now let me just say this these aren't the best spies they're loyal spies they're faithful but when you think of a spy you think of a spy that's kind of tiptoeing you don't think of a spy wearing cowbells and and blowing horns and and you know bright red or bright yellow jackets or whatever deer hunt you know they know these spies aren't they aren't the quietest spies i guess they're not stealthy uh so they went in and came to the house of a harlot whose name was rahab and lies there here's how we know they weren't that great at being quiet it was told the king of jericho saying behold men from the sons of israel have come here tonight to search out the land not only they know that we have they've come they know why they came because it's almost like you see in in these old war movies where it's uh the revolutionary war you got a guy playing the drums and the guy carrying the flag it might have been these two people that came in one was playing the drums with the flag those were the two that came in me i'm i'm i'm joking but uh someone told and the king of jericho sent word to rahab saying bring out the men uh who have come to you who have entered your house for they have come to search out all the land but the woman had taken the two men and hidden them and she said yes the men came to me but i did not know where they where they were from it came about when it was time to shut the gate at dark that the men went out i do not know where the men went can you imagine how she's telling this lie hey you all ever seen a good liar i don't know yeah i don't know i i wish i knew i would love to help you let me think hmm ask jerry yeah i think i saw them going that way and jerry might have seen them so ask ask jerry let me make this story real believable so these people couldn't believe me even though i'm lying ask jerry ask mabel i think i i think she was on her porch uh when they walked by yeah so ask so she's she's got this thing going she said pursue them quickly for you will overtake madman gone wrong though so so just go after him but she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof now i want you to think about this she is taking a serious risk and the question is going to be since we know what god is going to do with her and through her she's lying though she is lying wait a second is it lying a sin yeah lying is a sin well what what do we to make of this smart christians what do we to make of this she's a liar just doesn't know if ends but she's she is a on top of being a harlot you are a lie you are a lying harlot let's just be mean you are a lying harlot let's keep going so the men she was a good liar the men pursued them on the road to the jordan to the fords and as soon as those who were pursuing them had gone out they shut the gate now before they lay down she came to them on the roof and said to them men i know look what she says she says i know that the lord has given the land and the terror of you has fallen on us and all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you for we have heard how the lord dried up the water of the red sea before you when you came out of egypt and what you did to the two kings of the amorites who were beyond the jordan to see han and ag whom you utterly destroyed i want to pause for a second let me go and look up something real quick let me go and look up something real quick where we had uh hold on one second i just something just popped something just popped in my head something just popped in my head and i want to make sure what popped in my head wasn't a blood vessel wasn't some nerve endings moving but it was actually something that i if i recall correctly if i actually recall this correctly let's see yeah yeah that's what i thought that's what i thought it wasn't a wasn't a blood vessel it was actually being reminded of the word of god i want to show you guys something i didn't intend on this but it just it popped in my head and i had to i have to go there okay y'all remember well first of all let's go let's go back to it let's go back to it notice what what what she says because again all of this stuff all of this stuff is important she says verse 10 for we have heard we have now heard or heard how the lord dried up the water the red sea okay uh before you went before you when he came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to see Han and whom you utterly destroyed now these two kings of who remember again you may not understand what god is doing how he's going to do it sometimes he makes a statement that just doesn't even make sense do y'all remember this statement that that that was made with with abram y'all remember abram right abram was told this story by god and he says how will i know and he tells them about how he is going to know um he says you will know because let's go to verse verse 13 god said abraham know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not there where they will be enslaved and oppressed that's how you'll know now you won't be around but they who are in the future should be able to look back read and hear the story of what god said to abram and so in hearing this story of what god said to abram they'll know wait a second the reason why we were enslaved god actually said that was going to happen and we'll be there for four hundred years and we'll come out with great possessions how do i know because look what he says he says no for certain that your descendants will be strangers in the land where they will be enslaved for four hundred years but i will also judge the nation that is israel i mean egypt whom they will serve and afterwards they will come out with many possessions well we've got a lot of possessions and so god did say that but now notice what else he says as for you you shall go to your father's in peace which abraham did uh at a good old age then in the fourth generation they will return here for the iniquity of the amirite is not yet complete what do you mean about the iniquity of the amirite so god is going to deal with the amirites well what does she bring it up she's bringing up when god dealt with these two amirite kings and so god is going to this is now let's start dealing with him all right with me so what god says he's going to do god is going to do that was genesis 15 i believe 15 12 through 18 i'm sorry i didn't i thought i should have told you i put on the screen i should have told you guys uh as a matter of fact let me do something here because you guys it just dawned on me you guys cannot see over here the scripture that i put up i think i have it covered up do i have it covered up no okay it's you can see it you can see it okay i just want to make sure that you guys can see the scripture right above my head yeah there it is you can see right above my head the scripture so all right so now let's let's keep reading joshua now she said she we've heard about all these things and you'll see why i titled this particular study the the way i did when we heard it our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you for the lord your god he is god in heaven above and on earth the lord your god he is god the lord your god he is god now therefore please swear to me by the lord since i have dealt kindly by the way this is also this word cassette cassette also refers to being loyal um with you this refers to her faithfulness to them that you will also deal kindly with my father's household and give me a pledge of truth and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters and all who belong to them and deliver our lives from death so the men said to her our life for yours if you do not tell this business of ours in other words and it and and shall come about when the lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you now i want you to notice something she makes a statement first of all how in the world does god bless her because we know she's going to be blessed but she lied you mean tell me is it is it is it ever okay to lie what do you guys say is it ever okay to lie well i you would think well the answer has got to be no it's it's never good to lie it's it's never lie no we no don't lie but but she did if ray have let's say let's say ray have the day before turned over a new leaf decided my my harlotry days are over i'm i'm going to straighten narrow i'm not gonna i'm not gonna cover it i'm not going to have any false guides i'm not going to i'm not going to lie but then so since i've taken about i'm not gonna lie and these men have come in here and then now these soldiers come in looking would you have it would you advise her would you have advised her to not lie kind of tricky isn't it would you have advised ray have don't lie telling people well here's what we do know had she had she told were the jews were was israel still going to possess the land sure sure because all they're doing all they are doing now is just repeating but in this case coming back with the exact same report a little bit favorably but they already know what the land is 40 years prior they knew what was in the land a land flowing with as i said milk and honey grapes and all these different things just all this fruit and so forth that yeah they knew what it was so they're going again so god was still going to give them the land but wait a second we're talking about this lady here this harlot this lying harlot what gives what gives now first of all notice what she said she says i know that the lord and she uses the word yahweh or your whole however you want to pronounce it she uses uh yahweh she calls him the lord we we she didn't say i know that your god or i know that god she uses that name she uses that name wow okay ma'am kudos to you miss ray have kudos to you we know the lord has given you the land and look what she says and the uh oh the terror of you has fallen on us this terror of you has fallen on us now there are three words that we're going to look at that will indicate terror this word comes from word emma um it means terror to be afraid of um i'm scared i'm frightened the terror of you has fallen on us so that the inhabitants of the land had melted away before you for we have heard heard these great things and so uh what you did what happened the jordan river i mean the the the red sea what happened with these with these kings um beyond the jordan to syhan and ah whom you utterly destroyed when our when we heard it our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you for the lord your god look what he says she said is is he is god so one what she did even in her lie she still demonstrated the utmost faith in god she has this fear of god but she also has this fear of god what do i mean well first of all this is not uh something that god did not tell about earlier let's go to this but and i said before this is new in deuteronomy 225 now this was way back when their parents were young and getting ready to go into the land look what god says this day i will begin to put the dread and fear now we got these other two words that are here this word pachad and this word uh ira saying what the word dread pachad is the same as the other word emma which is this fear this terror i'm scared and in this other word ira they they really go hand in hand they they really do but he says this day this is deuteronomy chapter two 25 this day i will begin to put my fear of you in them well what did god do god did just what he said will do he says everywhere under the heavens who when they hear the report of you will tremble and be in anguish because of you they will tremble and be in anguish because of you what did ray have this report we have heard about this and we have melted exodus go to exodus 2327 look what he says i will send my terror there's that word emma i had a view and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come and i will make all your enemies turn their backs to you so god is going to before they even get there he's really preparing the way before they get there making these people afraid remember this is what joshua and calib understood when they originally go into the land like the other giants and they got these big fortified cities and they got some of the sweetest apples and oranges and grapes and so forth and and they got i mean the animals they're awesome too they got just colts galloping all over the place if anybody wants a coat you just pick out one that's what kind of land it was not a land full of donkeys but colts somebody caught that anyway he said what he's going to do and he does it so when joshua and calib they see this their thought is yeah they got a lot of stuff but their stuff is our stuff all they did was make it all they did was get it ready for us which is why god spared the two of them are with me and so ray have she's verifying what they already know the people were scared then now no no god and god has just stated what he is going to do i'm going to prepare this place for you so what happens then she let them down verse 15 by rope now obviously she's not holding them down she's not she's not doing that okay but she's pretty strong uh she left them down by rope through the window for her house was on the side of the wall remember this is a walled city which is hard to do it's hard to go in it's hard to go in and fight a fortified city which is what they would do pretty difficult so that she was living on the wall she said to them go to the hill country so that the pursuers will not happen upon you and hide yourselves there for three days into the pursuers remember he said within three days god tells uh uh joshua to tell the people so within three days they're gone so within three days is what she's bringing up then afterwards you may go on your way the men said to her we shall be free from this oath to you which you have made us um unless we come into your land you tide this cord of a scarlet thread into when in the window through which you let us down so you're gonna let us know y'all know the story you'll let us know this is where you are and that you're ready by putting this scarlet thread out have all have all you people ready when we come don't make us have to come look for you when we come have them ready it should come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house into the streets his blood should be on his own head and we shall be free but anyone who was with you in the house his blood should be on our head if a hand is laid on him but if you tell this business of ours then we shall be free from this oath which you have made us wear they said if you snitch on us snitches get stitches if you're telling us that's it she said according to your words so be it so she sent them away and they departed and she tied the scarlet cord in the window could you imagine somebody walking by hey rey have hey sister girl how you doing hey quote i'm just wondering why do you have that red thing hanging out your window i could imagine i i'm just thinking i could imagine somebody come by and ask her and she just she'll probably lie about that too i'm kidding i'm kidding so verse 22 they departed and came to the old country remain three days until the pursuers returned now the pursuers had sought them all along the road and had not found them then the two men returned and came down from the old country uh and crossed over and came to jordan i mean to joshua the son of nun and they related to him all that happened they said to joshua surely the lord has given all the land into our hands more over all the inhabitants of the land had melted away before us which is just what god said he would do amen now we're gonna see some some funny things some some weird things uh that this is probably not what you would think would happen let's just i'm gonna read this real quickly and then i want to get to another chapter we're not gonna read all of this but i want to get to something that that is really really interesting that we didn't think about then joshua rose chapter three verse one early in the morning and he and all the sons of israel set out from shatim and came to the jordan and they lodged there before they crossed at the end of three days the officers went through the missus camp and they commanded the people saying when you see the ark of the coming of the lord your god with the political priest carrying it then you shall set out from your place and go after it however there shall be between you and its distance about 2000 cubits by measure do not come near it that you may know the way by which you shall go for you have not passed this way before in other words don't get ahead of yourself just follow follow the distance y'all be be cool be kind uh but be careful we'll tell you how to get there so what's gonna happen is they are going to go out before them the people that are carrying the ark they're gonna step foot into the jordan and when they step foot in the jordan we won't read all of this the river will dry up as a matter of fact they will hold god will hold back this water from way back there uh at one city up to where they are and so the land will be dry and everyone will cross he says them so consecrate yourselves for tomorrow the lord will do wonders among you consecrate yourself for the lord will do wonders not you not you but the lord will do wonders and josh spoke to the priest saying take up the ark of the covenant and cross over ahead of the people now i won't read all of that but i want to read something something kind of interesting i think it's i think this is really really interesting end of note this is them um this is their crossing and let's go to to josh chapter five verse one by the way they're part of this covenant right are they not they are part of this covenant and what is the sign of the covenant what is their sign to say yeah we will keep this covenant and really it's only the men can only keep this covenant or they can only show the sign only the men can show this sign and when i say show i don't mean show the sign they're not going around showing everybody the sign hey check me out that's not what they're doing but to indicate that they are part of they're taking part of this covenant they have to be what they have to be circumcised isn't it funny interesting i shouldn't say funny or interesting that you get so busy doing stuff and you may even be doing things for the lord you think you're doing for the lord and you forgot to do some of the main things some of the more important things like moses himself moses is getting ready to go speak to ferro what did moses not do moses didn't even circumcise his own kid moses didn't circumcise his own kid and so here comes uh his wife the messes as she circumcised the kid poor kid by the way she's like y'all could y'all could have did this earlier you gotta wait till i'm i'm going to i'm going to elementary school you want but it wasn't as bad for them as it was for these folks did you realize that these guys had not been circumcised josh verse five when it came about when all the kings of the amorites who were beyond the jordan to the west and all the kings of the canaanites who were by the sea heard how the lord had dried up the waters of the jordan before the sons of israel until they had crossed that their hearts melted and there was no spirit in them they're here y'all they are here i'm saying y'all this is southern this is southern part of a of jericho i guess this is the south side this is southern part y'all they're here and they and their hearts melted they fear comes upon them and there was no spirit in in them any longer because of the sons of israel at that time look what look at this the lord said to josh well make for yourself flint knives and circumcise again the sons of israel the second time that they in between the first time and now they had not been circumcised their parents didn't bother to do it so they're not circumcised again these are grown men 40 year old 30 year old 20 year old old enough for this to hurt we know it hurts because who i was like who put the scissors in the chat that's just mean monkey moves that is just he put a picture of scissors yeah yeah buddy but but if only it were it were a scissors only it was no this is uh this flint knife this isn't the sharpest thing so yeah there's there's a whole lot of it's not a quick slice either hey yeah i'm not gonna say it i'm not gonna say let's let's move on i don't want to present a a painful picture so josh made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of israel at gibbief harlott i'm sorry i'm i'm thinking about when you ever had to cut some meat and you get a good knife and just or you get one where it's a little i don't know why i'm thinking that y'all forgive me but they were in pain how do we know this is the reason why josh will circumcise them all the people who came out of egypt were who were male all the men of war died in the wilderness along the way after they came out of egypt for all the people who came out uh were circumcised but all the people who were born who were born as these guys who were born in the wilderness along the way they came out had not been circumcised so here's the child you can see it out out indeed now notice this so all of them that cross over now we say there are some that were alive to have seen the first red sea crossing there were those but these they didn't the one that we're talking about these valiant men they hadn't seen it why they hadn't been circumcised so those that came before the red sea crossing they were circumcised the ones after so we've got people who have never seen it for all the people who came out were circumcised but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way they came out i had not been circumcised for the sons of israel walked 40 years in the wilderness until all the nation that is the men of war came out of egypt perished because they did not listen to the voice of the lord uh to whom the lord has sworn remember everyone i'm sorry wait a second everyone 20 and under um so if you were let's say five or 10 now you might be you'd be 50 but you're not listed amongst these valiant men by the way so anyway so they're getting ready to go to the land so look what he says verse seven their children whom he had raised up in their place josh was circumcised for they for they were uncircumcised because they had not circumcised them along the way now when they had by the way that's not a good military strategy we're getting ready to go into war let's circumcise the men first now when they had finished circumcising all the nation they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed yes this wasn't this wasn't um this was this was i want to say it was minor surgery unless you were the men but they were they needed to heal up then josh i mean then the lord said to josh today i have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you so the name of that place is called Gilgoth to this day while the sons of israel captured gilgoth they observed the Passover on the evening of the 14th day of the month on the desert plains of jericho on the day after the Passover on that day they ate some of the now listen to this this is important guys i won't expand your i won't do that it's 1689 i won't i won't expand on i'm sorry but i want you all to notice this these very same people are repeating they said something that their parents said that all that you've commanded all that you said we will obey well their parents are the same thing but their parents are also the very same ones who gotten manna from heaven it came about they got bread every day and they complained about then they got some quail so they had Chick-fil-A every day they complained about it they these people that but remember this journey was never it wasn't even supposed to be a oh it didn't have to be a long journey this is a short route this is a fairly short route so if you're going to be eating manna and complaining about it you wouldn't have to eat for very long the trip is long but not that long but they complained and so you'll eat manna for how long how long have these folks been eating manna they've been eating manna for 40 years yes i'm pretty sure they are sick of manna i would do look he says on the day after the Passover on that day that very day they ate some of the produce of the lamb notices ate some of the produce of the land unleavened cakes and parched grain the manna ceased important ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land so the sons of israel no longer had manna but they ate some of the yield of the land of canaan during that year you could have been eating good if you guys wouldn't rumble and complain and say that nah we can't go into that land really okay well fine tell you what keep eating manna but once they got into the land this is they they know this is a land flowing with milk and honey they know the what the produce is because the original spies came back and told them what this was verse 13 now came about when joshua was by jericho that he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold a man was standing this important a man standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand uh oh and joshua went to him and said to him because you know josh was bold but joshua don't get too big for your bridges mister he says are you for us or for our adversaries mister you don't know you're talking to joshua i think you i think you need to take listen what you better do joshua take some of that air out of your chest take some of that base out take the volume down and step back because you're not talking to any old body no no sir you're you're not talking to fred over there you're not even talking to calo you're not even talking to moses who is he talking to his answer was not an opening he said no no there's a pause rather i indeed come now as captain of the host of the lord i'm the man in charge i'm the head god in charge i'm the head deity in charge that's me the hd ic the head deity in charge do you know who you're talking to back up joshua how do i know he said back up uh he said joshua fell to his face onto the earth and bowed down and said to him what has my lord to say to his servant the captain of the lord's host said to josh remove your sandals from your feet for the place where you are standing is holy and joshua did so all right let me bow down and worship so who so where do we see in the bible where there's holy ground and you bow down and worship before the lord before the lord now we don't get a full accounting of what was said there don't know but before this battle he spends time with the lord chapter six verse one now jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of israel so they were scared that hey um lock up everything like when you would do if you're one of these cities where there's where a hurricane may come through and you know it's coming we're gonna board everything up let's get let's get ready hope they just decided to move on now jericho was tightly shut up uh because of the sons of israel no one went out and no one came in the lord said to josh will see i have given jericho into your hands with this king and his valiant warriors you shall march around the city all the men of war circling the city once you shall do so six days of the each day and they're gonna do six days and then on the seventh day you all know the story they're gonna blow these trumpets and yell they're gonna shout and then what happens the walls come tumbling down y'all know the little the little song josh will in the battle of jericho know the little song uh so let's drop down to verse 12 now early now josh will rose early in the morning and the priest took up the ark of a covenant the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of ram's horn before the ark of the lord went on continually and blew the trumpet and the armed men went before them and the rear guard came after the ark of the lord while they continued to blow the trumpets thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp and they did so for six days so there's it there's the accounting of that and then what happened the shout came and the city fell the city shall be under a band i'm sorry he tells me to go in he says shout for the lord verse 16 the lord has given you the city verse 17 the city has shall be under the band meaning you can't just go and take anything all right and it and all uh that is in it belongs to the lord only ray had the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live because she hid the messengers whom we sit so what does god what does josh will what do they not note they don't note her lie they note her faith and in helping them they note that god notes that she believes that god is god that he is the lord but as for you only keep yourselves from the things under the band so things you're not supposed to touch don't touch so that you do not covet them and take some of the things under the band and make the camp of israel accursed and bring trouble upon it that is going to happen not today but it's going to happen but all the silver and the gold and articles of brines and iron are holy to the lord they shall go into the treasury of the lord so the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat won't go into all of that but y'all know the story uh they go and grab the men i mean uh ray have and her family and we know the story of ray have we know she she marries salman who is the father of is the father of uh boas uh who then becomes i think the father of is it obed and then jesse and then david so when you think about it we're not that far off from david now obviously there's a whole lot that's going to take place in in the meantime because we don't even have a king yet which is interesting because we read in genesis that there is going to be this king because the separate should not depart from this particular tribe hmm so what does ray have what does that mean that ray have has to do ray have marries a person of the tribe of judo pretty cool so she she married up not not i haven't skipped numbers we read numbers a little bit numbers we we didn't read all of numbers uh six ninety nine but we read we read some of it a matter of fact uh didn't we we we left off of numbers on last week we i think we read numbers in two different readings so next time uh sir mister be here on saturday morning or just go back and watch them i'm kidding not really kidding anyway uh so now josh wood verse 26 made them take an oath at that time saying curse be the lord cursed before the lord is the man who rises up and builds this city jericho so the city's destroyed don't come back and try to rebuild this don't don't make this an opportunity for a real estate development do not do that the problem is though here comes ai now we'll pause here we'll pick back up and likely finish all of josh wood on at the next session but i want to cover something there are there should be two groups who fear the lord and i mean fear in both in both respects i mean fear in the sense that you are afraid of what he can do to you you don't want to mess with him remember jesus makes a statement he says wouldn't we eventually get there and read it he says do not fear him who could kill the body but you know you should fear fear the one who can kill the body and then after that send him to hell so it's that fear but it's also the yirai which is this in awe and that kind of encompasses the whole thing this yirai it it it it doesn't it it it it connotes this reverence this being and all but also there's a fear my father had that sort of reverence from me not that i thought that he was so hired like that or whatever that's my father um that he there was a level of respect so much so that as a as an adult and i'm at an age where if i if he and i were to get into a fight i could take him he couldn't my father he couldn't whip me when i got older but i wasn't gonna try him and if my father were to hit me he didn't but if he were to hit me i would take it i mean it's my father right it's just that kind of respect so much so that at my age i'm yes sir no sir he would say go do this and i i didn't talk back to my father even as an adult now i as a youngster growing up i also have this this fear i don't want to i don't want my father to hit me i don't want to get a spank and i don't want to you know so i had that as well it goes hand in hand but he's also demonstrating the kind of man that he is that would instill a healthy respect on reverence if my father who was a who was a man like any other man matter of fact probably had more sins than the average if he could if i can get that out of with him certainly with god and so what happened with the jews and happens with us is that we don't fear god and we don't fear god we don't fear god in the sense that we don't think that there are repercussions that come about as a result of our sin none of us do none of us do uh now we'll think about it but then we'll move on and forget about it they have all of these lessons where they can learn to see how god deals with people who don't do well let me give you a passage that i think we that that that should not be forgotten in numbers speaking of numbers 1689 we read in chapter 33 let's go to verse 51 i want to read this moses is speaking to the children of israel he says speak to the sons of israel and say to them when you cross over this is important when you cross over into the land of kanan then you shall drive out all of the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all the figured stones and destroy all their molding images and demolish all their high places those things is what he's talking about that band don't don't touch their stuff and you shall take possession of the land and live in it or i have given the land to you to possess it you shall inherit it you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families to the larger you shall give more inheritance in other words the bigger the group you get more the smaller the group you get less but you shall inherit according to the tribes of your father's verse 55 but if you do not look what he says if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides and they will trouble you in the land in which you live now look what god says it's important and as i plan to do to them so i will do to you listen what he says israel as i plan to do to them so i will do to you drive them out if you do not then what's planned for them i'm going to do it to you now this isn't me speaking this isn't josh was speaking this isn't moses speaking this isn't some man this is god what i plan to do to them i am going to do to you that's important because what will they not do we're going to see this next week they will not drive them out because they will not drive them out god's plan is to do to them what they did what they didn't do god's plan is to do to them not only drive them out of the land also because he will how do we know they're going to drive him out he's going to drive him out of the land look what he says and do to run me 30 he says show us so it shall be when all of these things have come upon you the blessings and the curse which i have said before you wait a second now this is before they even got into the land he says which i have said before you and you call them to mind in all the nations where the lord your god has banished wait a second so before we get there you're telling us that you're going to banish us well why because you won't do what was told to you in numbers two to drive out all the inhabitants uh as well as what you're going to do with the land as well he says he says so verse two and you return to the lord your god and obey him with all your heart and so according to all that i command you this day you and your sons then the lord your god will restore you from captivity what captivity will the worm will send you in and have compassion on you and you and will gather you again from all the peoples where the lord your god has scattered you so it hadn't happened but it will if your outcasts are at the ends of the earth from there the lord your god will gather you and from there he will bring you back we hadn't gotten into the land lord are you going to scatter us the lord your god will bring you into the land with your fathers possessed and you shall possess it and he will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers moreover the lord your god will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants to love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul so that you may live so now when they come back after being put out they're going to get put out for two reasons what they don't do with the land and then keeping the not driving these people out was all part of not driving them out sharing in their idols not giving the land its rest so you got to go you have to go and so god is going to do to them what should only have been done to the enemies of god will punish it but now remember this though this punishment is designed to bring them back the punishment is to bring them back this fear remember when i beat you when i when i whoop you when i hurt you when i when i put my fist down on you when i do to you what should only been done to them it's to bring you back it's to bring you closer it's that you would remember so that you would know these things so that you would learn from this stuff remember even even as far as we're concerned the bible tells us that for whatever was written in the earlier times was written for our instruction so that so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope so we can know of what was spoken of because of what was spoken of we can know these things and also let's be honest let's just be honest what's happened in our lives what all has happened in our lives we can convey this to other people second Corinthians 511 therefore knowing the fear of the Lord we persuade men but we are made manifest to God we drop down a little further verse 13 i'm sorry not 13 uh where is it oh hey i'm sorry 14 for the love of christ controls some verses may say compel us uh have included this that the one died for all there for all died so the love that we have for him and for others but also this fear this terror what do we do we persuade me we won we left him no and then we have not only just history just the book written but we also have our lives as an example don't do this because i did this and i know what it's like don't go there because i went there and i know what's gonna happen don't act this way don't become this way because if you do i know what's going to happen no because what's going to happen that punishment that should only be reserved for those who are enemies of God who uh are sinful people god will put the god with the exact same don't think that because you're a christian you don't have to suffer consequences don't think that because you're a christian you don't have to deal with whatever god is listen god's belt can get them and you at the same time god can punish the wicked and he can punish you as well god can't now his punishment for us is different than for those who are not his his punishment for them is to condemn them his punishment for us is to bring about reconciliation that is if you're his and by the way and you know you're his one of the one of the telltale signs to know that you are his that you belong to him is when you get disciplined what do you do you come back it's one of the telltale signs because throughout scriptures when we see people that are disciplined they don't come back if they're not his they either are killed those that don't die they stay away you would you would have thought you would have thought that someone like an esau would have all right i see what's happening let me let me go serve god he he hears he hears what god is doing but they don't because just like rehab the harlot just like she understands who god is they could have done the same thing but they don't so hear us as believers if you are his if you absolutely are his when you get punished and guess what guys let's just be clear you will get punished i don't care how how long you've been saved you're going to mess up and your mess ups do come with consequences your consequences are designed to teach you and when they teach you one again you you'll know you're his because what do you do when you when you get something good what do you do you hopefully you praise god indicative of a christian when you sin and you get punished what do you do you praise god you you fall down and you go to him indicative of a christian but then there are those that and you all know them you've seen them who will have suffered some consequences and they move on they keep on moving on because god heard i told you the story about that about the guy who was so hurt that a tornado came to through his through his city and his son was killed he was so upset that he just went left he went left decided that he wanted to become a woman decided that god isn't a good god now he said that he was a christian before he loved god he believed in god before his son died because he said he was angry oh wait a minute you killed my son and he recognized that god is the one that gives life and takes life i said well my question to you was you've heard of hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and all these different natural disasters why did you not have the same feeling before well before it was someone else's kids it was it was there it wasn't mine why would you take mine what is it he's taking somebody's kids well your anger shows exactly where your heart is your anger shows exactly where your heart is and so because of that we found out that you would never really hear to begin with that that's so true uh discipline no discipline seems pleasant at the time but painful uh later however produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it amen amen you you spank your child you discipline your child you punish your child not because you're just mean i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna show you no i want to show you i want to guide you that's why fire is hot touch fire one time i learned that lesson i couldn't even articulate the pain that i was going through and how i could i couldn't i could write a thesis paper on it right now about why i would never touch fire but i didn't need to at the age of two or three when i touched fire good enough the screams were enough now guess what i will never do voluntarily touch fire that's what god doesn't so this this fear of the lord it's a good fear of the lord these children of israel they can go back and look yeah they didn't fear god and interestingly enough they didn't fear god but the people who god is getting ready to to destroy they feared god it should never be that way it should never be the way but we learn and we keep learning we learn from others mistakes as well as ours so guys i want to thank you um so much look forward to seeing you all again uh in the meantime guys be well and behave amen