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We Gather Together…
We Gather Together…
Entice: How many will you have at your table on Thursday?
Will one table even be enough?
Thanksgiving is the ultimate comfort festival.
At home.
With Nanny in the kitchen.
Entice: How many will you have at your table on Thursday?
Will one table even be enough?
Thanksgiving is the ultimate comfort festival.
At home.
With Nanny in the kitchen.
Engage: Did you realize that some of the thanksgiving celebrations recounted in the Bible were anything but comfortable, and homey?
Today we are going to look at a celebration which was on the edge.
Literally, on the edge of Canaan.
Engage: Did you realize that some of the thanksgiving celebrations recounted in the Bible were anything but comfortable, and homey?
Today we are going to look at a
celebration which was on the edge.
Literally, on the edge of Canaan.
Expand: Israel was about as close to the Jordan as we are to the Wabash.
They had secured the doorstep to Canaan in conquering the trans-Jordan.
And now God had brought them to the land of promise.
Ir's risky enough to be there and then God commands this.
"Surgery for everyone!"
Not just any surgery, circumcise the warriors!
and Joshua complied because he knew that they were there in Canaan only because of God's graciousness.
Israel understood risk.
Expand: Israel was about as close to the Jordan as we are to the Wabash.
They had secured the doorstep to Canaan in conquering the trans-Jordan.
And now God had brought
them to the land of promise.
Ir's risky enough to be there and then God commands this.
"Surgery for everyone!"
Not just any surgery, circumcise the warriors!
and Joshua complied
Excite: Thanksgiving brings us into the numinous presence of God.
It is an act of worship wherein we declare our dependence upon Him.
There is risk.
Who Dares, Wins.
Israel had come by faith from slavery, through the wilderness, into the promised land.
When they lived by faith they prospered.
When they walked by sight they faltered.
Joshua was there the whole time and saw what happened every time faith was overwhelmed by doubt.
Here on the brink of success he was not about to change course whatever God commanded he intended to do, even if it seemed foolhardily reckless.
because he knew that they were there in Canaan only because of God's graciousness.
Israel understood risk.
Excite: Thanksgiving brings us into the numinous presence of God.
It is an act of worship wherein we declare our dependence upon Him.
There is risk.
Who Dares, Wins.
Israel
had come by faith from slavery, through the wilderness, into the promised land.
When they lived by faith they prospered.
When they walked by sight they faltered.
Joshua was
Explore:
there the whole time and saw what happened every time faith was overwhelmed by doubt.
Here on the brink of success he was not about to change course whatever God
commanded he intended to do, even if it seemed foolhardily reckless.
Every faith response God expects from us requires us to embrace risk.
Every faith response God expects from us requires us to embrace risk.
Explore: Every faith response God expects from us includes an element of risk which we must embrace.
Explain: It is the defining benchmarks of faith which create the greatest risk…
Explain: It is the defining benchmarks of faith which create the greatest risk…
First there is the...
Body of Sermon:
1 Risk of Obedience.
1.1 Sometimes God requires us to do things that are clearer than we wish they were.
v. 2
1.1 Sometimes God requires us to do things that are clearer than we wish they were.
v. 2
1.1.1
Mystery gives us time, space, distance...
1.1.2
We get to calculate, cipher and "figure out" what He really wants…
1.1.3
…not here.
There is no doubt what obedience requires.
Cut the men.
1.2 Clarity of response requires us to depend on God in new ways.
v. 3
1.3 Understanding "why" does not always remove the risk.
vv.
4-7
1.4 The risk of obedience is worth the results.
vv.8-9
Next consider the
2 Risk of Trust.
2.1 Worship is an act of trust in hostile territory.
v. 10
2.1.1
It was true there on the edge of Canaan, and it is true today on the edge of our culture.
2.1.2
Worship draws attention to itself, Israel could not hide as it praised God during the passover.
2.1.3
We trust God to bless us as we honor Him with worship in a hostile place.
2.1.3
We trust God to bless us as we honor Him with worship in a hostile place.
2.2 Trusting God means that we accept the shifting nature of providence.
2.2.1 They had been fed by Manna.
2.2.2 Now they will have to plant, cultivate, harvest.
Each of these require God's blessings for success-but in different ways.
2.3 Trust becomes permanent as when it is a faith partnership…
3 Risk of Holiness.
3.1 Holiness requires a reorientation…It is more important to be on God's side than for Him to be on ours!
3.1.1
The risk is that we begin to confuse what we want with what God wants.
3.1.2
This incarnate appearance of the Word who became flesh, disabuses Joshua of confusing human purposes with God's.
3.2 Holiness requires submission.
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