IT'S EASIER, JUST DO IT GOD'S WAY
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1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed things; so the anger of the Lord burned against the children of Israel.
2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the country.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
3 And they returned 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 Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few.”
4 So about three thousand men went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai.
5 And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men, for they chased them from before the gate as far as Shebarim, and struck them down on the descent; therefore the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
6 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.
7 And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord 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 had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!
8 O Lord, what shall I say when Israel turns its back before its enemies?
9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”
10 So the Lord said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face?
11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed 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 their own stuff.
12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.
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IT'S EASIER, JUST DO IT GOD'S WAY
IT'S EASIER, JUST DO IT GOD'S WAY
SUBTOPIC: PREPARATION TO POSSESS MY PROMISE
SUBTOPIC: PREPARATION TO POSSESS MY PROMISE
PREPARATION, PROCESS, PROMISE
PREPARATION, PROCESS, PROMISE
PROMISE, PROCESS, PREPARATION
PROMISE, PROCESS, PREPARATION
PROMISE ME THIS: DON’T EVER LET YOUR ISSUES SHOUT LOUDER THAN YOU
PROMISE ME THIS: DON’T EVER LET YOUR ISSUES SHOUT LOUDER THAN YOU
Three major City
Gilgal
Circumcision
Somethings, some people you have to leave behind in your walk with God.
Stay in the camp and heal
It is not a good time to leave your church when you are hurt. Church hurt.
People are most vulnerable when they are hurt.
Surgeon who cut you knows best.
The manna ceased
There is a point in your walk with God that you should not be uncertain about his ability to provide for you
Gilgal
Obstacles
Things opposing you
Opposition
People opposing you
Opposition is the price of God’s favor
Opposition is the price of God’s favor
Somebody don’t like you
Somebody don’t like you
God rarely move opposition
God rarely move opposition
He make them harmless
He make them harmless
Obedience
It don’t feel good but its good for you.
Jericho - Joshua 6
YOU MUST LEARN THE MINISTRY OF “SHOWING UP”
One of the signs of the power of God in your life is when you show up
YOU MUST LEARN THE MINISTRY OF “SILENCE”
Everything you think, you don’t have to say
The greatest sign of immaturity is the need to speak out loud about everything
Everybody should not get a response from you
Everybody should not get a response from you
Stop spending your time trying to change people’s opinion about you
Stop spending your time trying to change people’s opinion about you
YOU MUST LEARN THE MINISTRY OF “PERSEVERANCE”
>>> PLAY VIDEO OF Ai
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POSSESSING YOUR PROMISE LAND SERIES PART lll
Sion, Og, Jericho, Ai
>>> MAJOR LEAD POINT!
How can you win, and lose
How can you have a promise, assurance of God’s presence and still lose?
There are things that you can do to abort God’s plan for your life.
There are things that you can do to abort God’s plan.
THEY NEGLECT THE COMMANDMENT OF COLLECTIVITY
3 And they returned 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 Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few.”
4 So about three thousand men went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai.
1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed things; so the anger of the Lord burned against the children of Israel.
God wanted to emphasize the importance of working together
God wanted to emphasize the principle of relevancy
Everybody wants to do their own thing
Fitly joined together supplying each others needs
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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Eph
A lack of unity shows that personal preferences have taken priority over God and His mission
God wanted to emphasize the principle of relevancy
Everybody wants to do their own thing
Fitly joined together supplying each others needs
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,
24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
Don’t exaggerate yourself.
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Esteem others better than yourself
3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
To fight together
The third time they send spies. The spies went out and said Joshua, we got this. They underestimated
The third time they send spies.
The spies went out and said Joshua, we got this.
They underestimated
God have a problem with us doing our own thing.
THEY FAILED BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT FAITHFUL WITH THEIR FINANCES.
Defeat at Ai
Defeat at Ai
ONE SIN, ALL SIN
Achan stole the treasures
Yet God said Israel has sinned
YOU CAN’T WALK BY STUFF IN THE CHURCH AND SAY IT’S NOT MY PROBLEM!
>>> BIG!!!!
What is a joint? It is a strategic connection
Doesn’t matter how strong the bicep or forearm muscles, if you have a defective joint there will be diminished return.
BIG!!!!
A story of four people:
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it.
Nobody realized Everybody wouldn't do it.
In the end. Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.
2. OUR SIN CANNOT BE HIDDEN FROM GOD
3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
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BE CAREFUL NOT TO STEAL GOD’S GLORY!
WHERE WILL YOU HIDE IT?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
When we move
WHERE WILL YOU HIDE IT?
3. WE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONFESS OUR SINS AND NOT WAIT UNTIL WE ARE CAUGHT
6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, Call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts: And let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; And to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isa
6 Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
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To be sorry we are caught is not true repentance
13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
4. THE CHURCH CANNOT TOLERATE SIN IN IT’S MIDST
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1cor5 6
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1cor
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
The whole church at Peragmos was told to repent when it allowed sin to remain in its midst
1cor
14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
15 Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
16 Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
Rev
The church cannot have the victories it should when there is sin in the camp
5. BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS
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20 And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I have done:
21 When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.”
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
23 And they took them from the midst of the tent, brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord.
24 Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the Valley of Achor.
21 When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.”
Covetousness is idolatry
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Achan wanted those material things more than a right relationship with God.
He placed a chunk of metal and some clothing above his relationship with God.
He placed a chunk of metal and some clothing above his relationship with God.
He placed a chunk of metal and some clothing above his relationship with God.
5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
STORY
Several years ago, construction workers were laying a foundation for a building outside the city of Pompeii.
Several years ago, construction workers were laying a foundation for a building outside the city of Pompeii.
They found the corpse of a woman who must have been fleeing from an eruption of the nearby volcano, but was caught in the rain of hot ashes.
They found the corpse of a woman who must have been fleeing from an eruption of the nearby volcano, but was caught in the rain of hot ashes.
The woman's hands clutched jewels, which were preserved in excellent condition. She had the jewels, but had lost her life.
The woman's hands clutched jewels, which were preserved in excellent condition. She had the jewels, but had lost her life.
Ai SUMMARY
THEY NEGLECT THE COMMANDMENT OF COLLECTIVITY
THEY FAILED BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT FAITHFUL WITH THEIR FINANCES.
THEY FAILED BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT FAITHFUL WITH THEIR FINANCES
THEY DID NOT PRIORITIZE PRAYER
THEY DID NOT PRIORITIZE PRAYER
Battle strategy of Jericho to the battle strategy of Ai
Jericho
Jericho
Spies
People pray
People prayGod gave them a PlanThe people are Victorious
God gave them a Plan
The people are Victorious
Ai
Spies are sent
Spies devise the plan
The people took a lost
Then Joshua prayed
Don’t pray now, Get up stop praying now
The reason you took a lost is because you didn’t pray.
>>> Success can create the delusion of self-sufficiency
3 Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.
prov
Hid it in his camp
1 Now the Lord said to Joshua: “Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.”
1 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid or discouraged; take the entire army and go to Ai, for it is now yours to conquer. I have given the king of Ai and all of his people to you.
2 You shall do to them as you did to Jericho and her king; but this time you may keep the loot and the cattle for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”
Not only talking about tithing
Three problems he commit
I saw some garment
I saw some silver
I saw some gold
MATERIALISM
How many car
How many house can you live in
How many rings you need
Do you have to wear your whole pay check.God don’t like when things have you.
MISUSE
Garment and money, buried it in the ground
I would make sense if they were seeds
They rotten
Toy or a tool?
Play with or Build with
MISTAKE
Hid it in the camp
Joshua didn’t know
But God knows
He thinks I don’t know what he has.
Guilty of two crimes Achon
He have stolen
He took stuff that don’t belong to him.
He took it and put it again’st his own stuff
Will a man rob God!!!! ---- Yes he will
It’s deception
You are lying
You earn all your money
Battle strategy of Jericho to the battle strategy of Ai
Jericho
SpiesPeople prayGod gave them a PlanThe people are Victorious
Ai
Spies are sentSpies devise the planThe people took a lostThen Joshua prayed
Don’t pray now, Get up stop praying now
The reason you took a lost is because you didn’t pray.
DECISION WITHOUT PRAYER LEADS TO DISTRUCTION
JOSHUA, WHEN DID YOU START LISTENING TO SPIES AND NOT TO GOD
How come you can talk to people and not to GodWhy did’t Joshua prayed?Success can create the delusion of self-sufficiency
(NKJV)
The Fall of Ai
8 Now the Lord said to Joshua: “Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. 2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.”
LOST IN
TREASURES REVEAL REAL COMMITMENT
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
(NKJV)
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
THEY NEGLECT THE COMMANDMENT OF COLLECTIVITY
3 And they returned 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 Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few.”
4 So about three thousand men went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai.
God wanted to emphasize the importance of working together
God wanted to emphasize the principle of relevancy
Everybody wants to do their own thing
Fitly joined together supplying each others needs
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
A lack of unity shows that personal preferences have taken priority over God and His mission
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,
24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Esteem others better than yourself
3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
To fight together
The third time they send spies.
The spies went out and said Joshua, we got this.
They underestimated
THEY FAILED BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT FAITHFUL WITH THEIR FINANCES.