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Song, a mighty Victory.

Remember the latter part of chapter 6? God told the children of Israel to destroy everything within the city of Jericho.

The only thing that they were to take was the gold and the silver but they're not.

They were not to take that thing out of the golden the silver to them individually that was to go to the treasury of the house of the Lord.

So remember that, God told them, don't take any of that is to go to the treasury of the house of the Lord, all the silver and the gold until you go to chapter six you think.

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All is well, everything's going great.

And then we read chapter 7.

So Joshua chapter 7 verse 1.

It says, but the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things for Aiken This enough, and it's none of that died.

The son of Sarah of the tribe of Judah.

Took of the accursed things, so the anger of the Lord burnt against the children of Israel.

Not Joshua sent me in from Jericho to AI, which is beside Beth Haven on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them saying, go up and spy out the country.

So they, so the man went up and spot out a eye and then return to Joshua and said to him, do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack a.

I do not worry about do not worry all the people there for the people of AI are few So about three thousand men, went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of AI in the men of AI struck down about thirty-six men for the taste them from before the gate so far as far as a share of them, and struck them down on The Descent there, for the hearts of the people melted, it became like water then, Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the Earth on his face before the Ark of the Lord until evening.

He and the Elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads and Joshua said, I last Lord of God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all?

To deliver us into the hand of the amorites to destroy us?

Oh, that we would have been content and dwells on the other side of the Jordan.

Oh Lord!

What shall I say?

When Israel turns its back before, it's in a me for the Canaanites and all them having the inhabitants of the land will hear it and and we'll surround us and cut off our name from the earth.

Then what will you do for your great name?

The Lord said to Joshua get up.

Why do you lie?

This on your face is real has sinned and they have also transgress my Covenant, which I commanded them for.

They have even taken some of the accursed things and have both stolen and deceived.

And they have also put it among her on stuff there for the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction, neither will I be with you anymore.

Unless you destroy the accursed thing from among you, get up sanctify, the people and say, sanctify yourself or tomorrow because this says, the Lord of Israel, there is an accursed thing in your missed.

So, Israel, you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away that first thing from among you.

In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes and it shall be that the tribe which the Lord takes shall, according to families and the family which the Lord takes y'all come by households and the household was the Lord takes y'all come Man by man, then it shall be that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire.

He and all that is he is because he has transgressed the Covenant of the Lord.

And because he has done a disgraceful thing in his real.

So Joshua Rose early in the morning and brought his real by the tribes by their tribes.

And the tribe of Judah was taken.

You brought the clan of Judah and he took the family of the Zaire.

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And he brought the family of the Tsar Heights Man by man and Zeb.

I was taken that he brought his household Man.

By man in Aiken, the son of karma, the son of The son of his era.

Of the tribe of Judah was taken.

Now, Josh was said to Akin my son, I beg you, give glory to the Lord God of Israel and make confession to him and tell me.

Now what you have done do not hide it from me.

An anchor in Aiken, answered Joshua and said, indeed, I have sinned against the Lord, God of Israel.

This is what I have done.

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment two hundred shekels of silver in a wedge of Gold Wing fifty shekels, coveted them and took them and they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent with the silver under it, so Joshua sent Messengers and they ran to the tent and there it was hidden in his tent with the silver under it.

And they took them from the midst of the 10th, brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel and lay them out before the Lord.

The Joshua and all is real with them.

Took Aiken the son of Sarah.

The silver, the Garment, the wedge of gold.

His son's, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that he had.

And they brought them to the valley of achor and Joshua said, why have you trouble us?

The Lord will trouble you this day.

So all is real stoned him with stones and they burn them with fire after they had stolen them with stones.

Then they raised over him.

A great heap of stones, still there to this day.

So the Lord turn from the fierceness.

So the lore Turner from the fierceness of his anger there, for the name of that place has been called the valley of achor to this day us, pray Our Father We thank you, Lord, for this gathering, this evening to come and to meditate upon your word.

And to glean some Cruz lore from a very difficult chapter.

As we read about a defeat, we read about Disobedience and we read about death, And father, I pray that we would see the spiritual applications.

that are very evident evident in our text that father that's That we would take this to heart, that we would have a more reverence for you for your Holiness and your hatred toward the things that you hate.

Father, help us to understand your righteousness and your reverence in your Holiness more.

We love you.

We have all of these things of Christ name.

Amen.

well we see, first of all in we we read just in chapter 7 verses 2 and 3 of a painful defeat at painful to feed, but before the defeat And vs 2 and 3. We see that the children of Israel were a confident people.

They're very confident.

As a matter of fact, some of the spies came back at after they looked at the city of AI in the came back to Joshua and said, hey, we don't need the whole Army, we just need a few thousand men.

We can, we can annihilate, the city of a I, and I, and so, there were, there were competent people.

As I said, just a moment ago, Israel was still basking in the glow of the victory at Jericho, and they looked then at AI as an easy victory, that there be no problem for Israel and their great Army.

but if you look closer at this, that they were a confident people, but their confidence was absolutely misplaced, right?

The first three they feel like they just needed a few soldiers to secure a victory in little AI.

But Israel did not realize it.

But here's the thing.

They were they were living through one of the most dangerous times of life.

you see that the time just after a great spiritual victory, Is really a dangerous time.

That is true of us individually.

You might have just been in a Mountaintop experience individually.

It is true of a church corporately.

It is true.

Even hear of a nation that after a time of great Victory, you are at a very vulnerable moment in your life.

If you're not careful to suffer a great defeat because all too often we are so tempted to put our confidence into ourselves.

And to put the confidence as to why we had this great spiritual Victory because it was something that we did or something that I did or something that a nation has done.

But anytime we do that, we are doomed to fall.

And it will be the Lord who causes us to fall that he might humble us back into reality, knowing that it is not us who it is, that we have the victory through.

Jesus Christ is through the Lord.

So Israel was a confident people.

They were overly confident in themselves.

But we see also Israel, the cause of this overconfidence.

They were a conquered people.

Amber Sports house is so about 3,000 men.

Went up there from the people but they fled before the men of AI.

Response says in the men of AI struck down about thirty-six men.

Now this had to be very devastating to the nation of Israel, right?

I mean, they had just especially that just came off a mighty Victory from Jericho at Jericho.

But if we look at this situation closer, We look at their action, just really easy to see that the children of Israel made a lot of key mistakes or a few key mistakes.

Mistakes that I feel many of us are guilty of making or at least we're prone to make.

First of all, the first mistake that we see her text.

Is notice that Nowhere In this passage.

Does it even hint that Joshua or the people of Israel sought the will of God for how to deal with the city of AI.

They did not even pray about the matter.