Sermon Tone Analysis

The book opens at the doorstep of Israel’s entrance into Canaan.

Deut 2 3

Hayford, J. W. (Ed.).

(1997).

Spirit filled life study Bible (electronic ed., ).

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson.

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The forceful charge

1) Be strong & courageous in your task: To lead the people to inherit the promised land

6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

2) Be strong & courageous in obeying God—His law, His Word

• Obey all God’s law

• Do not turn away from it

The Call into Maturity

• Meditate on it day & night: To assure obedience

• The result: Prosperity & success

Leadership Ministries Worldwide.

(2003).

The Book of Joshua (p.

9).

Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.

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God Knew What the People Needed So He selected Joshua

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CALLING

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

—Frederick Buechner

The Walk into Maturity

Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting.

The Lord gave them title to the territory but they had to possess it by marching on every part.

Thirty-eight years earlier Joshua had explored this good and fruitful land as 1 of the 12 spies (; there [] he is called “Hoshea,” a variant spelling of his name).

The memory of its beauty and fertility had not dimmed.

Now he was to lead the armies of Israel to conquer that territory.

Campbell, D. K. (1985).

Joshua.

In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.),

The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 1, p. 328).

Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.

The forceful charge

1) Be strong & courageous in your task: To lead the people to inherit the promised land

Be strong & courageous in obeying God—His law, His Word

Be strong & courageous in obeying God—His law, His Word

• Obey all God’s law

• Do not turn away from it

• Obey all God’s law

• Do not turn away from it

Never stop sharing God’s law (Word)

Never stop sharing God’s law (Word)

• Meditate on it day & night: To assure obedience

• The result: Prosperity & success

1:8 Meditate: The Hebrew word denotes an active recitation, a re-speaking of God’s words; thus they shall not depart from your mouth.

Be strong & courageous in overcoming fear & discouragement

• Is a command of God

• Are assured of God’s presence

Be strong: chazaq (kah-zahk); Strong’s #2388: Be strong, courageous, valiant, manly, strengthened, established, firm, fortified, obstinate, mighty.

Generally the words “strong” or “strengthened” define chazaq, but there is a wide range of meaning for this word, which occurs nearly 300 times in the OT; for example, “to encourage,” as when David encouraged himself (literally, “made himself strong”) in the Lord ().

Chazaq is the root of several Hebrew names, including “Hezekiah,” meaning “Strengthened by Yahweh.”

f1:9 be strong, chazaq (kah-zahk); Strong’s #2388: Be strong, courageous, valiant, manly, strengthened, established, firm, fortified, obstinate, mighty.

Generally the words “strong” or “strengthened” define chazaq, but there is a wide range of meaning for this word, which occurs nearly 300 times in the OT; for example, “to encourage,” as when David encouraged himself (literally, “made himself strong”) in the Lord ().

Chazaq is the root of several Hebrew names, including “Hezekiah,” meaning “Strengthened by Yahweh.”