Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Alright, welcome to episode 11 of the plan.

If you are visiting us and you expecting a Thanksgiving sermon, this is not going to be a Thanksgiving sermon, what we're doing this year is, were reading through the entire story of the Bible and we're looking at it as one single story that is one plot drives.

Everything from Genesis to Revelation, were wanting to understand that story because that's the story that we are invited into his Christians and it's the story that we invite others into when we share the gospel and what we've been finding as we as we go through the story, is that the Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

God created the world, and he put human beings in it, and he gave them the purpose of ruling on his behalf.

And then on the 7th day, he came to rest in the world with And then human beings, messed it up and sew in later.

And Genesis God starts this project to restore his plan to humanity by working through one family.

He chooses, Abraham and Sarah and their descendants 2. He's going to give the established, the plan with them, for the sake, of all, the rest of the nation's.

He says, they will all the world of you blast through them.

And so as we've been going through the story so far what we found is that God has been putting each one of these pieces in place.

So, in Exodus, he saved his people out of slavery and he would actually use the language when he talks to me.

Like he bought them, he saved them, so that they are now his people.

So that's how he established them as His people's, and he brought them out of slavery.

And then he brought them to Mount Sinai where his presence was resting, and he had them build the Tabernacle, and he came down to live among them.

And that's how he established his presence among his people.

At the same time.

He was giving them the law of Moses.

Give them their purpose, it showed them what it meant for them to to live out God's purposes.

Wherever he was sending them until he has given them.

He's made in the people.

He's given his presents and he's given their purpose, the part.

We're still missing is the place.

They still need the place cuz we're still at this point.

In the story.

We are in the wilderness outside the promised land.

And last week, we looked at the when they came right to the edge of the promised land and they were going to go in, but they lost faith.

They didn't trust God.

And they mutinied.

And God says, and this was, this is one of 10 different times at this generation just failed to trust God.

And so he said, all right.

I'm not going in with this generation.

You're not the ones I want to go into battle with.

I'll take your kids in and now is we going to Joshua?

That's the generation that we're looking at.

So the the old Generations passed away and now the younger generation is ready to go in.

And so I'm going to redo the beginning of the Book of Joshua and as I'm reading, this is where you'll fill in your coordinates, so you'll be one Need to watch for people whose the story about places.

Where is their home presents is, how do they meet with God and purpose is, what does God tell them to do?

Some of the things you'll feel?

And just if you are familiar with the way the story does.

But this is how the stage is set in Joshua chapter 1.

After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord.

The Lord said to Joshua, son of nun.

Moses's Aid, Moses.

My servant is dead.

Now then you and all these people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land.

I'm about, to give them to the Israelites.

I will give you every place where you set your foot.

As I promised Moses, your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon in from the Great River.

The Euphrates, all the hittite country to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

Be careful to obey.

All the law.

My servant Moses gave, you do not turn from it to the right or to the left that you may be successful.

Everywhere you go keep this book of the law, always on your live, meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.

Then you'll be prosperous and successful.

I who's the story about?

It's been about Moses and the Israelites for a while.

Now, Moses is dead.

So now it's about Joshua and the Israelites.

So, God appointed Joshua to take over after Moses his death.

So, we got a new generation of Israelites and a new leader.

Where is their home?

And it's the promised land, which is just across the border.

Now, they are just about ready to go in.

Instead of going in, from the south are going to go in from the east across the Jordan.

But they're they're ready to go in.

Okay.

How can I meet with God?

In the Tabernacle.

God has a tent in the camp.

If you want to go meet with God, you can go down to the tent and meet with God.

He you can make an appointment to worship with him to experience his presence.

And finally, what did God tell them to do.

Now I find in my experience.

There's two things that people preach on when you preached to Joshua, cuz everything else is hard to preach.

Number one is chapter one.

We just read and it's about being strong and courageous but he says that like eight times now, God tells you to be strong.

It's like eight times and that passage.

The other one is Jericho.

We're not going to talk about either of those things, but it's important to remember he's telling him too.

He's not telling him to be strong and courageous.

He's telling them to do something and be strong and courageous while he does it.

What does he need to be strong and courageous?

While he's doing what did he, what did actually tell him to do? Obey the law, specifically obey, the book of the law.

And what's the book of the law?

Or the book of the law, refers to the book.

We skipped over.

If you've been keeping track in your table of contents last week.

We were in numbers this week, were in Joshua and we missed Deuteronomy.

That's because there are no stories in Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy is a sermon and what happened was at the end of the Moses's lifetime.

They're just about to go in, Moses is about to die.

But he's he's he's actually still in charge of this new generation.

It's about to go in.

He gives them a State of the Union Address this summarizes all the laws.

They've been looking at.

And also, specifically focuses in on what they need to do as they go into the promised land.

So Deuteronomy has his focus on going on, what they need to do, once they have the land.

So a lot of the laws are repeated because he's summarizing everything.

Again.

That's why it's called Deuteronomy Deuteronomy is Greek for second law, but there's also things in there to specifically focused at at what they need to do when they actually go into the promised land.

So, what he's telling me to do is obey those instructions that I had Moses, give you a whole list of things.