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Joshua 5:12 ESV
12 And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
The Manna Should Have Been Ceased.
They tasted the Fruit before but didn’t have enough faith for it to be perpetual
Savoring the Taste
Mamma was Supposed to be a temporary Meal
Exodus 16:1 ESV
1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:2 ESV
2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
Exodus 16:3 ESV
3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Exodus 16:4 ESV
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
Two years into the Journey
Numbers 13:26 NLT
26 to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
Numbers 13:27 NLT
27 This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
Allow Him to Change your Desire
Numbers 11:4 ESV
4 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
Strong Craving = to desire v. — to feel or have a desire for; want strongly.
Numbers 11:5 ESV
5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
Numbers 11:11 ESV
11 Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Numbers 11:12 ESV
12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
Numbers 11:13 ESV
13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
Numbers 11:14 ESV
14 I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
Exodus 16:35 ESV
35 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
The Warning to the Next Generation
Deuteronomy 8:11 ESV
11 “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deuteronomy 8:12 ESV
12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,
Deuteronomy 8:13 ESV
13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,
Deuteronomy 8:14 ESV
14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
Deuteronomy 8:15 ESV
15 who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,
Deuteronomy 8:16 ESV
16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
Deuteronomy 8:17 ESV
17 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV
18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
The Book of Joshua is the book of new beginnings for the people of God, and many believers today need a new beginning.
Numbers 11:4 ESV
4 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
Strong Craving = to desire v. — to feel or have a desire for; want strongly.
Numbers 11:5 ESV
5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
Numbers 11:11 ESV
11 Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
maturate verb
Numbers 11:12 ESV
12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
Numbers 11:13 ESV
13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
Numbers 11:14 ESV
14 I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
Exodus 16:1 ESV
1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:2 ESV
2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
Exodus 16:3 ESV
3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Exodus 16:4 ESV
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
synonyms MATURE, age, develop, grow, grow up, mellow, ||ripe, ripen
mature adjective
mature adjective
1 having attained the normal peak of natural growth and development <mature plants ready to bear fruit>
synonyms adult, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, grown, grown-up, matured, ripe, ripened
related words developed, ready
idioms of age
contrasted words childish, childlike; boyish, green, juvenile, maiden, puerile, youthful
antonyms immature
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synonyms DUE 2, payable
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synonyms UNPAID 2, due, outstanding, overdue, owing, payable, unsettled
mature verb
to become fully developed or ripe <she matured as an actress after several years of summer stock>
synonyms age, develop, grow, grow up, maturate, mellow, ||ripe, ripen
related words blossom, flower; advance, progress, round; season; decline, deteriorate, olden, wane
idioms come of age
matured adjective
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synonyms MATURE 1, adult, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, grown, grown-up, ripe, ripened
related words completed, finished; advised, considered, deliberate, designed, premeditated, studied
contrasted words callow, crude, green, raw, rough, rude, uncouth
antonyms premature, unmatured
2
synonyms RIPE 3, aged, mellow, ripened
The Book of Joshua is the book of new beginnings for the people of God, and many believers today need a new beginning.
After forty years of wandering in the wilderness, Israel claimed their inheritance and enjoyed the blessings of the land that God had prepared for them, “as the days of heaven upon the earth” (
That’s the kind of life God wants us to experience today. Jesus Christ, our Joshua, wants to lead us in conquest now and share with us all the treasures of His wonderful inheritance. He has “blessed us with all spiritual blessings” ( ), but too often we live like defeated paupers.
“God buries His workers, but His work goes on.”
But also He was the Servant of Moses
Your Past neither Your potential excuses you from serving
Joshua was a man of faith who knew the Lord and trusted Him to do wonders for His people
Joshua the soldier. The first official recorded act of Joshua in Scripture is his defeat of the Amalekites when they attacked Israel about two months after Israel’s exodus from Egypt (17:8–16). Moses was a prophet and legislator, but Joshua was a general with exceptional military skills.
He was also a man of great courage, who wasn’t afraid to confront the enemy and trust the Lord for victory

The Urgency of Maturity

The Push into Maturity

Joshua 1:2 ESV
2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Moses is Dead: Dead to make full end...
Now= Nevertheless
Arise=to depart ⇔ to depart, conceived of by the initial act arising (before departing).
Rise, Get up, stand up: come to fruition, to stand on one’s (own) feet
to stand on one’s (own) feet
The Dawning of A New Day
The Urgency of Maturity
Joshua Served
This former slave in Egypt wasn't afforded the same lux as Moses was to spend part of his life growing up in Pharaohs house and another 40 years hiding at Jethros house
No Joshua was a slave his whole life.
Born in Bondage then forged in the wilderness
But also He was the Servant of Moses
Your Past neither Your potential excuses you from serving
Joshua was a man of faith who knew the Lord and trusted Him to do wonders for His people
Joshua the soldier. The first official recorded act of Joshua in Scripture is his defeat of the Amalekites when they attacked Israel about two months after Israel’s exodus from Egypt (17:8–16). Moses was a prophet and legislator, but Joshua was a general with exceptional military skills.
Joshua the soldier. The first official recorded act of Joshua in Scripture is his defeat of the Amalekites when they attacked Israel about two months after Israel’s exodus from Egypt (17:8–16). Moses was a prophet and legislator, but Joshua was a general with exceptional military skills.
He was also a man of great courage, who wasn’t afraid to confront the enemy and trust the Lord for victory
Psalm 118:13 ESV
13 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.
Ps

The Path to Maturity

Joshua 1:3 ESV
3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
Josh
To tread = to put down or press the foot, place the foot, to tread a path
qal: pf. דָּרַךְ, דָּֽרְכָה, דָּרַכְתָּ, impf. יִדְרֹךְ (Sam.M91 tidrak) תִּדְרְכִי, יִדְרְכוּן
Joshua 1:5 ESV
5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
Joshua 1:6 ESV
6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
Joshua 1:7 ESV
7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
Det
Joshua 1:8 ESV
8 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 good success.
Joshua 1:6 ESV
6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
5
Joshua 3:1 ESV
1 Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Joshua 3:2 ESV
2 At the end of three days the officers went through the camp

Josh 1

The Presence Because of Maturity

Joshua 3:3 ESV
3 and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.

No Order, No Glory
Joshua 3:4 ESV
4 Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”
1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV
33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV
40 But all things should be done decently and in order.
1 Cir
When You see the Glory Follow It
When You see the Glory Follow It
Joshua 3:4 ESV
4 Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

The Precision that Brings about Maturity

Joshua 5:2 ESV
2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”
Joshua 3:5 ESV
5 Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”
Joshua 5:3 ESV
3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Joshua 5:4 ESV
4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.
Joshua 5:5 ESV
5 Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
Joshua 5:6 ESV
6 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Joshua 5:7 ESV
7 So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.
Joshua 5:8 ESV
8 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Joshua 5:9 ESV
9 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
josh 5

The Produce of Maturity

The Produce of Maturity

Josh
Joshua 5:11 ESV
11 And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
Joshua 5:12 ESV
12 And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
They tasted the Fruit before but didn’t have enough faith for it to be perpetual
Savoring the Taste
Numbers 13:26 NLT
26 to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
Numbers 13:27 NLT
27 This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
Exodus 16:1 ESV
1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:2 ESV
2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
Numbers 14:22 ESV
22 none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,
Exodus 16:3 ESV
3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Exodus 16:4 ESV
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
Why is God doing this ? To test them to see if They would walk in His Law
Exodus 16:35 ESV
35 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
Deuteronomy 8:11 ESV
11 “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deuteronomy 8:12 ESV
12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,
Deuteronomy 8:13 ESV
13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,
Deu 812
Deut
Deuteronomy 8:14 ESV
14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
Deuteronomy 8:15 ESV
15 who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,
Deuteronomy 8:16 ESV
16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
Deuteronomy 8:17 ESV
17 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV
18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Allow Him to Change your Desire
Numbers 14:23 ESV
23 shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
Num
Numbers 11:4 ESV
4 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
Deuteronomy 1:35 ESV
35 ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,
Strong Craving = to desire v. — to feel or have a desire for; want strongly.
deut 1 35
Deuteronomy 1:36 ESV
36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’
Deu
Numbers 13:23 NLT
23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! They also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs.
Numbers 13:24 ESV
24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.
Numbers 13:26 NLT
26 to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
Numbers 13:27 NLT
27 This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
Numbers 11:5 ESV
5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
Numbers 13:28 NLT
28 But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!
28
Numbers 13:30 ESV
30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Numbers 11:11 ESV
11 Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Numbers 14:24 ESV
24 But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
Numbers 13:31 NLT
31 But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”
Numbers 11:12 ESV
12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
Numbers 11:13 ESV
13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
Numbers 11:14 ESV
14 I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
Exodus 16:35 ESV
35 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
Ex
Exodus 16:1 ESV
1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:2 ESV
2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
Exodus 16:3 ESV
3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Exodus 16:4 ESV
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
Why is God doing this ? To test them to see if They would walk in His Law
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