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Good morning.

Everyone.

Welcome 2 episode 12 of the plan, when I started planning the series, I decided that telling the whole story.

I wanted to try and sync up with Easter so that we hit the story on that story would take up with the Christian calendar on Easter.

What that means is that we are nowhere near Christmas in our sermons, this Advent.

And so, if you're joining us for the first time of the first time in this series, I change the background to read that made it more Christmassy, but and the Decker, we did it, you know, we went all out with the decorations and I made sure to wear a Christmas sweater.

So, I will make some connections, but we're in a very different part of the Bible.

Right now.

We're going to be in the Book of Judges and read the Book of Judges, because we've been following the story of the Bible book by book as we go through from the very beginning.

And we've been looking at the one story that unites everything in the Bible.

And I think this is especially helpful for us in the Book of Judges, because the Book of Judges Is one of those books that is most susceptible to the Sunday School approach, where we take a story out of context.

And we tell the story of Gideon or we tell the story of Samson and we say, yeah, you should be like getting her.

You should be like Samsung you should be like you taken completely out of context and we don't know the significance of the story.

As I remember.

I taught their youth group, the plan, the very first time we went through it and then we did a study of judges and I remember, it was one of the kids went through.

I get it.

I understand.

And that was, that was awesome to see that moment.

So hopefully, this will help us to understand what's going on in this book.

The story that unites the whole Bible and young and explains.

The Book of Judges.

Is this, the Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence all throughout the Bible.

This is what God is doing.

He made the world.

Do you put people in it?

He gave him the job of ruling on his behalf, and then he came down to live with them and then we famously mess that up.

And so God responded by restoring the plan to us through one group of people you chose the Israelites and restore the plan through them.

And that's the stage of the story.

Setting up the plan, through Israel for the sake of all the other nations.

And as we've been following the story.

What we've seen is God has put on each of these pieces in place.

So he started out by saving the people out of slavery in Egypt.

So he has a people.

He brought them to sign, I where you at them.

Build the Tabernacle in his presence, moved into the Tabernacle so that he now lives with his people, he gave him the law while they were at Mount Sinai, to show them how to live out his purposes last weekend.

In the Book of Joshua.

We saw how he brought them into the promised land, and help him to conquer that land.

So, they could actually have a place where they set up God's God's plan.

And so, the promised land is now that place and now we're moving into the Book of Judges which follows her right on the Book of Joshua.

In fact, our coordinate passage is the very end of Joshua because it helps us Understand where we're headed is moving to the next book.

I read this, I want you to watch for these four points guy.

Who is God's people.

Where is their home?

How can I meet with God?

And what did God tell them to do?

All right.

So there's going to be a smattering of verses from Joshua 24.

The Joshua assembled, all the tribes of Israel at shechem.

He summon the elders leaders, judges, and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

Joshua said to all the people, this is what the Lord, the god of Israel says... And then he tells the story of everything God did that.

Like basically what I just told you, right?

Which is interesting that this happened so many times as a leader of Israel will just stop and retell the story.

The story repeated to you so many times because the story is really important story, and then we pick it up back here in verse 12.

He says this when they came in the Book of Joshua, I sent the Hornet ahead of you which drove the cainites out before.

You also the two Amorite Kings, you did not do it with your own sword and bow, so I gave you land on.

What you did not Toil and cities.

You did not build and you live in them and eat them.

Eat from Vineyards and Olive Groves that you did not plant.

Now, fear the lord and serve him with all faithfulness, throw away the gods, your ancestors, worshipped Beyond Euphrates river.

And in Egypt and serve the Lord.

After these things, Joshua, son of nun, the servant of the Lord died at the age of 110 and they buried him in the land of his inheritance at.

Tim not Sarah in the Hill Country of Ephraim.

North of mountain.

Ash.

All right.

So who are the people?

Israel.

So notice benepass.

You can talk about Moses and Israel.

And then Joshua in Israel, but there is no one that gets appointed to replace Joshua.

So actually what happens if there's no central leader for Israel.

So if we want to be a little bit more precise we're talking about the tribes of Israel.

Now, it's like if the United States life if the federal government just disappear and you will you have left in the United States is state governments there, a collection of tribal tribal, group of tribes.

So that's who we're dealing with now.

There's no Central person to lead them.

One of the famous Montrose of this book is in those days, Israel had no clue.

They had no central leader.

Where is there home?

We've been calling it The Promised Land but they're in the land now, so I didn't we can just call it to the land of Israel.

The land has a name on it.

People updated their maps at this point and wrote is real on that part of the map.

It's no longer just some claim that they're making about what God will some day.

Do they are in the land?

Where can I meet with God?

We can meet him in the Tabernacle?

And actually, this is a very important thing to understand about the Israelites being in the land, cuz it'll change later.

All Israelites live within a journey distance of the Tabernacle where they can Journey their relatively easily.

There's rice all live in this one.

Contiguous of the area of land until they can all travel to the Tabernacle whenever they need to.

And so they all have access to the presence of God.

Now, what did God tell them to do in this passage?

You told him to serve God Alone.

This is where one of the millions of people who have something at the front of our house that says, as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

That's from this speech at some Joshua 24.

He's telling them, they serve the Lord.

I don't, you do what you want.

But we're going to serve the Lord and they all say they're supposed to serve God.

Now that they have the land, they got to, I got to live out the commands.

Which their 613 of them.

So, one of the things with you read the story, if you don't really find out until you get into the story sometimes, which of those 613 commands are really going to be important, but it'll usually clue you in.