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Intro:
Seated & Dismissed
Topic
Finished Ephesians
Book of Joshua
Intro to Devotions Series
Intro to Judges Series
Text
Transition: The Promised Land was not
Transition: The book of Joshua is among the historical books.
Accounting for how the people of Israel finally made it into the promised land.
The Book of Joshua shows Joshua as a type of Moses and ultimately a type of Christ.
The beginning of Joshua starts like the gospels end and how the book of Acts begins.
With a great commission.
Like the books of Acts, the entire outline and purpose of the book can be found in the introduction.
Look with me
Joshua
Joshua As The New Moses
The promise was given to Moses, but Moses was unable to take the people into God’s promise land.
The Book of Hebrews tells us that The Promised Land was likened to Eden.
It would be a Holy Land, in which God would dwell with his people.
This Rest reminds us of the 7th day of creation.
When God creates all things and creates man to enjoy all things, and to chiefly glorify God and enjoy him fully.
Moses could not bring his people into this NEW EDEN, Moses died and so did all the people he brought out of Egypt.
They died in the wilderness, for God swore in his wrath that they would not enter, due to their disobedience and lack of faith & trust in Yahweh.
But, Joshua was leading all of the children of the people who came out of Egypt.
He would lead the next generation, who were born in the wilderness.
Joshua, unlike Moses, would lead them through the Jordan and into paradise.
Though, Joshua would not be a different kind of leader than Moses.
Actually, there are many ways in which Joshua resembles Moses.
Joshua As The New Moses
The Red Sea & the Jordan
:
Exodus 4:
They both hand to remove their sandals due to being on Holy Ground
Joshua 5:13-
Joshua and Moses both had to have their Sons circumcised or the LORD would have killed them.
The Commander of the LORD’s Army had his sword drawn, Joshua and his people needed the sign of the covenant to show whose side they were on.
Good thing that 10 verses before… Joshua made…
Exodus 4:24-
… All the
comparison with Moses and Joshua on how many Kings they conquered
Exodus
Transition: There are many other connects to be made to Moses, but it is very clear that the people who followed Joshua, followed him as if he were Moses.
There are many other connects to be made to Moses, but it is very clear that the people who followed Joshua, followed him as if he were Moses.
Transition: There are many other connects to be made to Moses, but it is very clear that the people who followed Joshua, followed him as if he were Moses.
Joshua
Theme of the Book: So this is the great theme of the Book.
Joshua will be the new & greater Moses, able to lead God’s people into the promised land, so long as they trust and obey him they will be successful.
Transition: So that is the overall theme of the book, let’s take a look now at the Structure of the Book.=
Structure of Joshua
I. Commissioning of Joshua
II.
Crossing the Jordan
Jericho
III.
Circumcision / Consecration
(“Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”)
IV.
Commander of the Heavenly Armies
Commander of the Heavenly Armies
V. Conquest Begins
VI.
Conquest Fails
VIII.
Covenant Renewal
VIIII.
Conquest Continued
X. Conquest Unfinished
XI.
Commissioning from Joshua
Two Rules:
Be Strong & Courageous (Trust Me)
Be Careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you (Obey Me)
Transition: So with the Structure of the Book to give us our bearings, and these Two seemingly simple Rules … I want us to pause a moment and imagine ourselves to be in Joshua’s shoes.
Think of the confidence he must have had!
I mean the guy prayed for the sun to stand still and it did!
How could Joshua be so confident?
The Confidence of Joshua
Perfect Tense: “I have given you” “Not I will give you”, I Have.
Joshua
Joshua 1:6
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All of this in just chapter 1!
And in all these verses Yahweh is speaking to Joshua.
Joshua 18
In Chapter 10, when Joshua prays for the sun to stand still, you see Joshua speaking this same confidence into the hearts of his warriors.
Israel conquered the land and divided it among the twelve tribes.
In these battles it became evident that God fights for his people when they are “strong and courageous” (1:6, 7, 9, 18; 10:25) and
Joshua 10
Joshua spoke and the sun and moon obeyed him.
Creation obeyed the voice of Joshua.
Joshua & The Commander of the LORD’s Army
Now before we apply this verse to us, let’s apply this verse to Jesus.
Joshua 5:
For when Jesus spoke, even the winds and the waves obeyed him.
Joshua and Jesus have alot in common too.
Take their names for example.
Jesus - Greek | Joshua - Hebrew | Zachary (English), Zechariah (Hebrew), Zacchaeus (Aramaic), Zacharias (Greek)
I am the same person.
However, Joshua and Jesus are not the same person.
Joshua was given the promised land, a little place over in the middle east.
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