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Intro - What is God’s greatest priority for your Christian life?
If you were to be living what you would describe as perfect Christian life?
Experience
get out of jail free card
Heaven - abstract notion of place.
stuff - relationship, to be happy?
Those might be your priorities but what does God want from Christian life.
Purpose.
Joyfully submit to Jesus.
4 reasons, why we are to submit, spent most time on the last, as covers largest section of our text.
The LORD is in charge
God wants Joshua to see whose agenda it is to take Jericho, and whose army it is that will fight the battle.
Not Joshua’s
Joshua needs a very quick reset.
Who is in charge.
Who is it we meet here in these verses.
appearance of a man, he commands the army of the LORD - not just Joshua’s army but heavenly army.
Joshua bow downs and worships him.
And then is told
“Take of sandals for place you are standing is Holy ground” sound famiiar - Moses and burning bush.
Lord appeared to him.
Not just an angel - this is LORD.
I ppersonally believe there is no reason to believe this is anyone other than 2nd person of trinity, the pre incarnate Jesus.
Joshua won’t fight battle for Jericho - the LORD will - he is in charge through entire journey.
Love writers note in 6:1.
“Jericho was shut up and it was shut up”
Like when someone says “Theyve shut up shop” Business closed.
Jericho was this inpenetrable fortress.
Esepcially for a people with little military skill or experience.
But the LORD is in charge.
Very next line.
Simple truth.
Whether with are for him or against him.
LORD JESUS is in charge.
Where do we see that more clearly than at the cross, where even his death was in his own timing - it is finished, he breathed his last.
Total control.
And ressurection is like the corronation - declaration.
He is King.
Fighting with a friend for other friend to take his side.
Whose side are you on
How often we do that with God.
Look at circumstance of our lives, or challenged in our sin.
Whose side are you on.
Talked about reseting to truth of God’s faithfulness, but part of that is reseting to truth Jesus is LORD.
God is for us only true if we are recognising he is in charge, and that battle is his and victory is his, and our experience of it will depend on whether or not we are recognising his Kingship.
First reason we should submit to Jesus - he is in charge.
The LORD is judge
Might find this verses hard to read.
Pretty extreme, accusasion that God of OT is monster.
But we should not down play what it happening here, nor excuse it.
Nor assume people living in Jericho are innocent.
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One author helpfully summarises:
“Leviticus 18 recounts the wicked behaviour of the Canaanites: the practice child sacrifice, incest, adultery, temple prostitution and various other abominations.”
John Currid
Not new, since time of Abraham this has been going on in Gen 15 Abraham told that sin of Amorites has not yet reached it’s limit.
What is happening at Jericho is God’s just judgement on those who have rejected his law, and God’s people are the intruments of judgement.
I suspect actually though its not the canaanites judgement people are really upset about.
Its actually the idea that God is judge at all.
Lad with tattoo, “Only God can judge me” - wanted to say to him - but yes - God will judge you.
What he meant is that no one could judge him.
Reality is we all love justice until we are on the recieving end of it.
Truth is this.
LORD is our maker, and he is in charge, then he will also judge.
There will not be single human who does not face him as judge, and by nature not single human who does not deserve destruction.
Yet there is the best news - third reason passage gives:
The LORD is gracious
Thought about this a few weeks ago, but worth seeing it here.
The writer comes back to Rahab.
Saves this detail until now.
Wants us to see that admist this truth that LORD is in charge, and no one can stand in opposition.
And admists this truth that LORD is judge of whole world, who will destroy his enemies.
There is also another glorious truth.
That he is gracious to those who reach out to him.
Rahab this canaanite, this prostitute.
Here recieves just as was promised.
Back in chapter 2 we saw her respond in faith - and here she recieves rescue.
And here is reality.
God is not quick tempered.
Over reacting.
For generations the people around have been witness to God’s power, and could have responded like Rahab.
God is gracious and compasionate and abounding in love, and as we saw with Rahab holds out a life line to all who will take it.
That is what we see at the Cross - God’s grace and compassion.
Forgiveness and life and acceptance offered to anyone who will repent, turn from their sin, and trust in King Jesus to save them.
But that means recognising he is in charge.
3 reasons we are to submit to him - but come back to question - what is God’s greatest desire for us in our Christian lives?
Forth reason.
The LORD desires obedience
Did notice marjority of the section entitled “Fall of Jericho” is not on the fall of Jericho but happens before.
And what people do is not so much war cry as a victory lap!
Writer meticulously details, the command from the LORD, then Joshua passaing on instructions to the people, then the people following them.
illustration - following detailed instructions (maybe interative)
To go up.
ark of the covenant, with preists ahead carrying trumpets, and at front and rear an armed Guard, and people are to follow.
for 6 days they are to march once around city and return.
And trumpets were to be blown continuously, but the people were to remain silent.
3 times Joshua says you must not speak, shout or make a sound.
Only trumpets.
Then on 7th day they are to march 7 times around on when trumpets blow a long blast, only then are people to shout.
Writer carefully shows how people obeyed every specific instruction.
And then after all this verse 16
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