Andy Blakey – Joshua 1 – 6 20th March 2011

Joshua 1:6 (NIV)
“Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them.

Mentioned several times in Joshua.

The people tell Joshua at the to be strong and courageous at the end of chapter 1

The Lord also told Joshua to read the word of the law.

Nothing more invigorating reading the word and God speaking to you.

Why not, when reading the bible write your thoughts and your notes rather than reading someone else’s notes.

Chapter 2 Joshua sends spy’s.

Rehab, although a prostitute, she was Part of the line of Jesus. Hides the spys.

Joshua had to cross the river Jordan. He told the priests to walk and continue walking, when you get to the river and as you go the river will part.

We are sometimes asked to do this, as we step out the road appears.

1909 & 1927 the banks collapsed and you can walk across the Jordan.

Sometimes we are called to step out.

Chapter 5: At the end, Joshua sees someone, the bible says it is an amgel. Joshua says are you with us or against us? The angel says neither.

Joshua 5:13-15 (NIV)
Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” [14] “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” [15] The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

Chapter 6 Battle of Jericho. Very strange thing to do, God had something different to do.

Chapter 7 the first defeat. Because of the sin of one person, the whole tribe were defeated.

Hebrews 12:14-17 (NIV)
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. [15] See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. [16] See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. [17] Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears.

Sometimes things happen that can go on and destroy things in our lives and others.

1 Peter 2:4-6,8-10 (NIV)
As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him— [5] you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. [6] For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” [7] Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected, has become the capstone”[8] and, “A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. [9] But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. [10] Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.