Someday Is Today
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Intro: Parking Lot Party, Regroup,Kids First Rally/SNOOKS /Last week
oSuccess: 5.8B results in .58 seconds, Amazon—60,000 books, 100 podcasts, culture’s ideas? Sand on the laptop
Success: what others will say of us someday. Problem is we’ll always have problems. When we get that house, job, relationship, move benchmark further.
Transition:
o Immovable Goalposts: God’s definition of success. Moses is dead—end of era. Your time/Military strategy, but God interrupts with His definition of success
The success of your someday is courageous obedience to God’s Word today.
The success of your someday is courageous obedience to God’s Word today.
- Today, define success the way God defines success.
Joshua 1:6-9 (NASB 2020)
6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
7 Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may achieve success wherever you go.
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 achieve success.
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not be terrified nor dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Pray
Somedays Require Strength and Courage.
Somedays Require Strength and Courage.
o Recap: cont. with “Be strong & cour.” (3X in 4 vv.) Only be strong and VERY courageous
Be Strong:
Be Strong:
chaza: strengthen, uphold, stubborn/Construction: “build up, REPAIR (66X in Neh.)
Be Courageous.
Be Courageous.
Schmidt[3]: I love how one author puts it:
“Courage will take you anywhere you believe God is leading you. Without courage, you will go only where you are comfortable.”
· Why was God commanding Joshua’s courage? Battles, enemies, discouragement, pressure.
not following Moses, Joshua. You’re following Me.
o “Daniel, Be Bold.”
- we get the someday we’ve dreamed of, but it is the someday we couldn’t have imagined.
The late Charles Stanley said it best:
“You have to have courage to be obedient to God.”
brings me to the second thing that God told Joshua…
Be Obedient to God’s Word.
Be Obedient to God’s Word.
o A Changeless Core, Stephen Covey
Joshua needed his feet planted, mind fixed, changes would come, but his core would not
Let’s look at verse 7.
7“…be careful to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may achieve success wherever you go.”
Success Plan: Don’t Be Afraid and Be Careful
3 million people over Jordan, 500+ year promise, Someday was today for Israel, too
Don’t Be Afraid and Be Careful
o Future Battles, crossing, spies, Jericho: heart committed/not conforming Word for own desires, culture
no luxury of 2020 foresight. We don’t know what’s on the other side of today.
Listen to what God tells him…
Joshua 1:8 (NASB 2020)
Joshua 1:8 (NASB 2020)
8This 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 achieve success.”
8This 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 achieve success.”
Do you want to be successful? Here’s how:
Be COREageous
Be COREageous
1. Stick to it.
1. Stick to it.
· “Do not turn to the right or to the left.”
· “Do not turn to the right or to the left.”
- This is a command that God had given Moses before, and now He’s repeating it to Joshua.
o By the Book
Application
· But there is no substitute for the Word of God/Railroad Track
William Penn puts it beautifully…
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn
2. Speak It.
2. Speak It.
· v 8
8This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth…”
8This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth…”
· Today. Your words matter.family. doubts fear
3. Think it.
3. Think it.
“…but you shall meditate on it day and night…”
· “Meditate” is a word that means “to mutter,” “muse,” “moan.”/cud
4. Do it.
4. Do it.
· Lastly, God tells Joshua to “do it.”
“…so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it…”
“…so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it…”
· Stick to the Word, speak the Word, think the Word, so that we can do what it says.
- Imagine that: doing what the Word says!
o Fries
· TFN called “The Hungry Games.”/customers subconsciously felt that since they saw the salad, it was just as good as buying the salad, so they felt better about splurging on fries![5]
not enough to hear the Word, read the Word, speak or think about the Word.
- Looking at picture not the same as “eating the Book.”
Response
· Let’s stand together.
“His Word is a light to our feet, not a spotlight to our future.”
- Joshua’s someday would mean fervent adherence to God’s Word today.
The success of your someday requires courageous obedience to God’s Word today.
The success of your someday requires courageous obedience to God’s Word today.
Salvation
· The picture of salad doesn’t mean we ate the salad. We still went for the fries.
· picture salad gives us permission to delay the salad and feel better that it’s an option, right?
· But Someday is Today.