Faithful to Deliver
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INTRODUCTION.
Jericho one of the oldest cities in the world.
about 9 acres in size.
Walls wide enough for 2 chariots to pass side by side.
MESSAGE.
I. City on LOCKDOWN.
I. City on LOCKDOWN.
1 Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in.
2 The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.
No one IN.
No one OUT.
Would a fortified city be a cause for alarm or concern? Why or Why not?
II. Battle PLAN of ATTACK.
II. Battle PLAN of ATTACK.
3 “You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days.
4 “Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
5 “It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.”
6 So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.”
7 Then he said to the people, “Go forward, and march around the city, and let the armed men go on before the ark of the Lord.”
8 And it was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord went forward and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they continued to blow the trumpets.
God had already PROMISED to give Israel the land; but He did remove the need for their PARTICIPATION.
MARCH our the city ONCE for six days and SEVEN times on the seventh day.
The march of SILENCE.
10 But Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout!”
11 So he had the ark of the Lord taken around the city, circling it once; then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.
The priests would blow the SHOFAR while the people were to remain SILENT.
The moving of the arch and blowing of the shofar were signs of WORSHIP.
Are you more into sound or silence in your meditation and worship? - How can you do both?
Marching around the WALLS of Jericho.
12 Now Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; 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.
14 Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.
How do you think it made the Israelites felt marching around the big walls?
How do you think it made those inside of Jericho feel?
15 Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times.
16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city.
Shouting for the JOY of the LORD.
Shouting was common in battle - this was not for scare tacts but praise to God for giving them the land.
The BAN of the ITEMS inside of Jericho.
17 “The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
18 “But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not covet them and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it.
19 “But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”
III. The COLLAPSE of the WALL of Jericho.
III. The COLLAPSE of the WALL of Jericho.
20 So the people shouted, and 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, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.
21 They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
The wall fell FLAT in PLACE.
The command to DESTROY everything in the city.
IV. The DELIVERANCE of RAHAB.
IV. The DELIVERANCE of RAHAB.
22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the harlot’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.”
23 So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel.
24 They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
25 However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
RAHAB’S life and FAMILY was spared because of her FAITH.
Because of Rahab’s role in INVITING her family to take REFUGE with her we could connect this act to EVANGELISM.
V. Taking OATH before God to be OBEDIENT Him.
V. Taking OATH before God to be OBEDIENT Him.
26 Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”
God DESTROYED the city of Jericho, no one should try and REBUILD it.
34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
VI. The FAME of Joshua through his OBEDIENCE to God.
VI. The FAME of Joshua through his OBEDIENCE to God.
27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.
CONCLUSION.
