1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,440 I know with the kids home from school and, and a lot of us have 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,080 days off in here with, with not having to go to work and 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,600 everything else. I've really enjoyed it. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,600 And sometimes some years I'm just, I'm over Christmas and not 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:14,160 in a bad way, but just the holiday. 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,960 I'm ready to get back to the normal routine. 7 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,320 But I've I've really enjoyed myself this year. 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,800 And maybe it's maybe it's the age I was at or I don't know, 9 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,000 but we've had a really good time. 10 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,040 Not like this tree. This tree is over it. 11 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,760 This tree is it's struggling. It's got lights out at the top, 12 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,360 lights out at the bottom. We may have to do something 13 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,520 different for next year, but I've enjoyed this season. 14 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:36,440 Joshua Chapter 7 is where we'll be. 15 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,760 And I want to just give us a tiny little bit of review 16 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,520 because it's been a few weeks since we've been in Sunday 17 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,280 school. But if you remember, we're in 18 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,160 the series on mountains and valleys in the Bible. 19 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:49,200 And if you remember the mountains, we're, we're finished 20 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,160 with them, but we had seven different mountains that we 21 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:52,920 looked at. And the whole purpose of the 22 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:57,080 mountains was to inspire us to, to things that we know to do, to 23 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,320 do them better and to look at them in the Bible and see what 24 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,680 God commands us to do and be encouraged by them. 25 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,920 But then we, we jumped over to some valleys and we've got six 26 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,240 of those and we only got into one of them so far. 27 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,400 And this is going to stretch your memory. 28 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,080 Does anybody remember what valley we looked at 3 weeks ago? 29 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,240 The valley of it wasn't an actual place. 30 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:23,920 It was a it was a something we talked about the valley of 31 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,160 something that we all get into at times. 32 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:31,440 Anybody remember Miss Yes. What do we call it? 33 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,560 Discouragement. There we go, the valley of 34 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,520 discouragement. And I think the key take away 35 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,280 there was, you know, we, we do get discouraged and, and 36 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,120 remember the valleys are for instruction, right? 37 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,000 The the mountains that we talked about were meant to inspire us 38 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,600 to go on serving God. The valleys here we're talking 39 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,600 about are meant to instruct us. And so naturally they have more 40 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,600 of a preaching than a teaching tone because we need this 41 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,120 instruction. But we talked about the valley 42 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,120 of discouragement and how that we all get discouraged. 43 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,840 But just a reminder that our discouragement is can it can 44 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,960 infect others or can be transferred to others. 45 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,000 We need to be careful about letting that discouragement 46 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,880 really take take root and, and drag us down. 47 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,720 And so we talked about that this morning. 48 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,600 We're going to talk about the valley of disobedience. 49 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,800 Another, another lesson of instruction. 50 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,480 And you'll notice I'm going to read a few verses here and then 51 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,840 we'll pray and get into the lesson. 52 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,720 But Joshua Chapter 7, you'll know immediately what we're 53 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,120 going to talk about. But in verse one, But the 54 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,760 children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing. 55 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:43,960 For Aiken the son of Karmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zara of 56 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,280 the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing. 57 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,120 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of 58 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,440 Israel. Verse 2. 59 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,280 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to AI, which is besides Beth 60 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,240 Haven on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, 61 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:58,840 saying, Go up and view the country. 62 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,680 And the men went up and viewed AI. 63 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:02,960 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the 64 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,120 people go up, let about two or three thousand men go up and 65 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,080 smite AI, and make not all the people to labor, labor thither, 66 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,080 for they are but a few. So there went up thither of the 67 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,600 people about 3000 men, and they fled before the men of AI. 68 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,640 The men of AI smote of them about 30 and six men, for they 69 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:24,520 chased them from before the gate, even to Shibaram, and 70 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,320 smote them in the going down. Wherefore the hearts of the 71 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,880 people melted and became as water. 72 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,200 And Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face 73 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,800 before the ark of the Lord until the eventide he and the elders 74 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,800 of Israel and put dust upon their heads. 75 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,840 And Joshua said, alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all 76 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,440 brought this people over Jordan to to deliver us into the hand 77 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,080 of the Amorites to destroy us would to God we had been content 78 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,480 and dwelt on the other side of Jordan talk about this 79 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,200 disobedience have an effect on even the leader of Israel at 80 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,040 this point. Maybe we should, maybe we were 81 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,880 wrong. Maybe we should have just stayed 82 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,200 on the other side of Jordan. Verse 8 O Lord God, what shall I 83 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,880 say when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies? 84 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,640 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall 85 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:14,080 hear of it, and shall environ us around, and cut off our name 86 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,160 from the earth. And what wilt thou do unto thy 87 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,720 great name? And the Lord said unto Joshua, 88 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,480 Get thee up, Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face Israel 89 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,120 hath sinned. And they have also transgressed 90 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:26,760 my covenant, which I commanded them. 91 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:29,640 For they have even taken of the accursed thing and have also 92 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,000 stolen and dissembled also. And they have put it even among 93 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,760 their own stuff. And we'll stop right there. 94 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,840 But the whole, the whole passage, the whole chapter, 95 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,120 Chapter 7 talks about this story of Aiken and what happened. 96 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,000 And so we're going to look at a few things this morning about 97 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,440 the valley of disobedience and the effect it has on our lives 98 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,720 and what we can do about it. Some instructions on this topic 99 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,680 of disobedience. So let's pray and then we'll get 100 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,160 into it. Father, I thank you for this day 101 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,320 you've given us. Thank you for this Christmas 102 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,920 season that we've had to celebrate the birth of your son 103 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,280 and what it means to us. And God, I just thank you for 104 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,360 our salvation. Thank you for how it's changed 105 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,480 our lives. God, I thank you for the joy and 106 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,440 the peace that we can have knowing that you are Savior and 107 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,720 that no matter what happens in the world around us, that we 108 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,200 have one constant in our lives and that's you. 109 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,560 And we can depend on you. We can trust in you. 110 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,040 And I pray as we look at this lesson on disobedience, God, 111 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,600 that we would understand that even as adults, this applies to 112 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,360 us. We have commandments of from you 113 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,080 that we are to obey. And I pray that you just help us 114 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,080 this morning as we look at this topic in Jesus name, I pray, 115 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,280 Amen. Amen. 116 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,840 Now, the first thing I'll say is, you know, often when a 117 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:47,440 pastor gets up and talks about obedience, the first thing we 118 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,680 think of is good, my kids need to hear that. 119 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,200 And, and they do. And, but obedience is not just 120 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,240 for children. Obedience is for adults as well. 121 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,520 And I think often we give ourselves a pass on certain 122 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,240 things because we're the head of the, we're the head of our 123 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,800 houses or we're that we are the authority in our homes. 124 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,720 But there are many commands that God gives us in the Bible that 125 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,000 we disobey. And, and I think like I said, 126 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,680 we're, we're not harsh on ourselves. 127 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,680 We're harsh on our kids. It's obvious when they disobey. 128 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,760 And we'll get into this in just a little bit. 129 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,160 But we do the same thing. And I think I pray often that 130 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,840 God will give me patience and dealing with my own child and 131 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:33,800 our own children. Some of the things we see them 132 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,400 do, we should we should reflect on and look at ourselves. 133 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,200 We do the same thing to God and he is merciful. 134 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,760 He is gracious in dealing with us, and I'm not saying we don't 135 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,760 teach them and deal with the sin, but I think we need to have 136 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,760 some patience in doing that because we act the same way. 137 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,160 The word acor which we see here in Joshua Chapter 7 verse 26. 138 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,520 If you just turn the page. And they raised over him a great 139 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,560 heap of stone unto this day. So the Lord turned from the 140 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,360 fierceness of His anger. Wherefore the name of that place 141 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,440 was called the valley of Acor unto this day. 142 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,680 The word acor means trouble. And I think it's that's that's 143 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,840 aptly named. Look at the trouble it brought 144 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,520 on, not just Aiken and not just his family, the entire, the 145 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,800 entire nation of Israel, the trouble that it brought on them. 146 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,960 And we'll look at that in just a few minutes as well. 147 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,160 But you know, disobedience always has consequences. 148 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,400 If it's children, they have its consequences with their parents. 149 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,240 If a citizen disobeys, they have consequences with the law. 150 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,880 And if a Christian disobeys, we have a consequence with God. 151 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,040 Pastor says this all the time. We don't. 152 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,000 We can choose our sin, but we don't get to choose the 153 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,880 consequences that come from that sin. 154 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,440 Aiken chose his sin. He disobeyed. 155 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,440 He did exactly what God told him not to do, Disobeyed, but he 156 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:55,680 didn't get to choose the consequence. 157 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,720 And the consequence was pretty dire for his whole family, not 158 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:00,800 just for him. And you know, we look at this 159 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,840 story, He took a little bit of gold, a little bit of silver and 160 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,520 a Babylonish garment. It doesn't seem like that big a 161 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,120 deal, but it is to God because what he took wasn't the problem. 162 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,040 The sin of disobedience was the problem. 163 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:14,960 And so let's get right into this lesson. 164 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,280 Look at a few characteristics of this disobedience. 165 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,720 The first that I want to show you is in actually go to Joshua 166 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,400 chapter 6. It might even be on the same 167 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,920 page, but verse 17. The first characteristic of this 168 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,720 sin of disobedience was it was a simple thing in in verse 17 of 169 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,600 chapter 6. It says in the city shall be 170 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,960 accursed. Even it and all that are therein 171 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,640 to the Lord only Rahab the harlot shall live. 172 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,320 She and all that are with her in her in the house because she hid 173 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,080 the messengers that we sent. So the city of Jericho is an 174 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,800 accursed place, and that's why God says, don't touch it in 175 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,480 verse 18. And ye in any wise keep 176 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,880 yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves 177 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,840 accursed. When you take of the accursed 178 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,480 thing and make the camp of Israel a curse and trouble it. 179 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,640 But all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron are 180 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,680 consecrated unto the Lord, they shall come into the treasury of 181 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:12,960 the Lord. So don't take them. 182 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,360 That's a simple command, very simple. 183 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:24,560 And we see with this simple command, Aiken disobeys, don't 184 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:26,000 take it. And what does he do? 185 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,640 He takes it. And we see that in verse one. 186 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,840 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the 187 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,480 accursed thing for Aiken, the son of Karma, the son of Zabi, 188 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,560 the son of Zara of the tribe of Judah took of the accursed thing 189 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,160 and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of 190 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,720 Israel. You know, I think we could 191 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,640 understand if if if Aiken was trying to do a sacrifice to the 192 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,120 Lord out of Leviticus. And some of those really may be 193 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,320 complicated that we at least think are complicated 194 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,600 sacrifices. We looked at these when we 195 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,720 looked at the different types of Christ with maybe the two birds 196 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,520 that you kill the one and dip it in the blood of, dip the live 197 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,520 one in the blood of the dead 1 and then let it fly to the 198 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,320 heaven. Remember all that, OK, He could 199 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,600 understand if Akin maybe missed a step. 200 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,280 It's not disobedience. This is a simple command. 201 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,320 Don't take it. He walks in and he takes it very 202 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,840 simple thing, but secondly, it was a sinful thing. 203 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,800 Joshua Chapter 7 and verse 20 we'll be jumping around but 204 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,080 pretty much staying in Joshua Chapter 7 here verse 20 and a 205 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,440 good answered Joshua and said I have sinned. 206 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,200 Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel and thus and 207 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,440 thus have I done. He did not need to be re 208 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,200 explained that what he did was wrong. 209 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,080 He knew what he did was wrong. He knew when he was doing it. 210 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:41,520 It was wrong. Why do you think he hit it? 211 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,040 It's it's a pretty telltale sign for even things we're doing in 212 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,160 our own lives. If you're hiding them, they're 213 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,440 probably wrong unless you're trying to surprise somebody. 214 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,680 But if you're hiding it, it's probably wrong. 215 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,560 That's what Aiken does. He he takes it. 216 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:57,360 He hides, goes, hides it under his tent. 217 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,600 And and when he's confronted in verse 20, he says, indeed, I 218 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,440 have sinned. I knew what I was doing. 219 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,880 It was a sinful thing. And you know, I think it's it's 220 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,120 this is where I was talking about at the very beginning. 221 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,280 I think we give ourselves a pass often. 222 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,480 Anyway. We have a joke, a running inside 223 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,920 joke in the family. We were on vacation and 224 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,800 something came up and a couple of the kids did exactly what 225 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,080 they were not supposed to do. And when they were confronted, 226 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,320 it was so funny. One of the kids was like, so now 227 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,160 it's our running joke anytime there's something going on. 228 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,200 But I think we do that for ourselves. 229 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:42,840 Well, God, I mean, it's so tiny or it's justified because I had 230 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:47,200 to do it because of but I think we need to recognize that often, 231 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,800 almost always, our disobedience is not a mistake. 232 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,600 It's something that we that we intentionally go out. 233 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,840 It's an intentional choice that we make to disobey the commands 234 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,320 of God. That's exactly what Aiken did 235 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,040 here. He would, he was not mistaken in 236 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,720 Oh, I, I, I thought it was just the gold and silver. 237 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,080 I didn't realize we couldn't take anything. 238 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,200 He knew exactly what he did. He knew it was sin and he knew 239 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,560 it was a sin against God exactly what God told him not to do. 240 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:20,600 Our outward actions, especially with disobedience are are a 241 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,160 result or a manifestation of a sinful heart. 242 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,560 That's that's what it is. And and so just just as if you 243 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:32,080 go keep your finger in Joshua Chapter 7, but go to first 244 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,600 Samuel chapter 15, very familiar story to us. 245 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:42,440 But in in first Samuel chapter 15 and verse 23. 246 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,920 And I won't even give you the whole the whole background to 247 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,520 this. But this is this is when Saul 248 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,720 was supposed to utterly destroy the Amalekites. 249 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,600 And he didn't was it an accident? 250 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,080 He purposely didn't do it when he is confronted by Samuel, he 251 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,200 says, well I kept the the best sheep and the and the best of of 252 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,600 these animals and things for sacrifices. 253 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,000 And Samuel says I didn't tell you to keep the best for 254 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,200 sacrifices. I said God told you to utterly 255 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,640 destroy them. And he says in verse 23 for 256 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,760 rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is 257 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,560 as iniquity and idolatry because thou has rejected the word of 258 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:24,320 the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. 259 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,000 But he says rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. 260 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,960 And I got to thinking about that rebellion, disobedience against 261 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:36,000 the command of God or against your parents or against whatever 262 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,440 authority in your life. But rebellion is as the sin of 263 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,800 witchcraft. I don't know if in the history 264 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,240 of mankind anybody has accidentally gotten into 265 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,680 witchcraft. And I and I think it's, it's 266 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:48,240 interesting to think about it that way. 267 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:51,800 It's purposeful. You purposely seek out think 268 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,440 about when Saul went to the witch of Endor didn't 269 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,400 accidentally happen upon a place he went to the witch of Endor 270 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,680 for a very specific purpose. Let me talk to Samuel again. 271 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,160 I know he's dead. Bring him back. 272 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,200 I need to talk to him. I don't think anybody ever has 273 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,240 fallen into witchcraft on accident, getting with the wrong 274 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,320 crowd and and ending up there. Sure, but it's a purposeful 275 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,560 thing and I think that's the point Samuel was making. 276 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:18,000 Their rebellion is purposeful, it's against God. 277 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,000 It is something that we purposely, from, from our 278 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,600 hearts, from a sinful heart, we purposely do, we purposely go 279 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,040 after. Think about this when you tell 280 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,800 your kids and I, I, I have seen it in my own child. 281 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,720 So I'm not, I'm not picking on anybody's kids. 282 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,600 But think about when you with your own kids, or maybe you see 283 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,040 somebody else's kids, they're told to do something. 284 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,680 And I mean, 30 seconds later, they're doing the exact 285 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,200 opposite. That's not an accident. 286 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,320 While you were telling them to do that, they were thinking in 287 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,000 their minds. Yeah, I'm not going to do that. 288 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,400 I'm going to do this. It's purposeful from a sinful 289 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,520 heart, which is why we are commanded as parents to, to, to 290 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,800 discipline that and to, to correct that. 291 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:06,200 But we do the same thing. God tells us something and maybe 292 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,520 through a message or through what we're reading in the Bible. 293 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,440 And we know in our minds that's not happening. 294 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,480 That's that's rebellion, that's disobedience. 295 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,720 And it is a simple thing, but it's also a very sinful thing in 296 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,200 the eyes of God, not a mistake. It's a purposeful act from a 297 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,080 sinful heart. And and I think that's why the 298 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,760 Bible tells us that we need to guard our hearts because every 299 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:35,240 one of us is capable, capable of that kind of of action from a 300 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,040 sinful heart. But but thirdly, the third 301 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:42,040 characteristic, it was a serious thing says that in Joshua 302 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:48,280 chapter 1 seven and verse one and the anger of the Lord was 303 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:54,160 kindled against Joshua Aiken. Now the children of Israel, all 304 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,280 of them. It was a serious thing that 305 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,400 happened here to the point where Joshua goes to God and says, did 306 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,680 we make a mistake in coming across Jordan? 307 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:05,640 They knew they didn't make a mistake. 308 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,920 Jericho was given to them by the hand of God and but it was it 309 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,400 was the wrath of God was kindled so much that they were Joshua 310 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,000 was even concerned that they were not doing what God wanted 311 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,840 them to do at this point and God says no, no, you're doing what I 312 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,600 want you to do, but they're sin in the camp and you got to go 313 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,600 fix it before we go on. So it was a serious thing. 314 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,200 But what was the cause of Akins disobedience? 315 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:35,120 There had to be a reason surely. Remember when they left Egypt, 316 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,120 the Egyptians gave them all this gold and and thing the Bible 317 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,480 says they were really were blessed by the Egyptian people 318 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,440 in giving them all these things. Did he really need a wedge of 319 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,680 gold? What was he going to do with it? 320 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,520 You can't eat it, right? I mean, you're camping. 321 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,000 What are you going to do with this? 322 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,200 I thought about this too while I was studying. 323 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:02,240 He's got a Babylonish garment. If he ever wore it, everybody 324 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,680 else is going to go. Hey, I know where he got that. 325 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,400 He got that from Jericho. Did he really think he was going 326 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,040 to get away with it? I don't know. 327 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,079 I don't know if it even crossed his mind that he was going to 328 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:14,920 get away with it. He just had to have it. 329 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,400 So what was the cause of his disobedience? 330 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:23,400 Look at verse 21 of Chapter 7. First thing was uncontrolled 331 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:29,200 eyes. Verse 21 and when I saw among 332 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,960 the spoils A goodly Babylonish garment and 200 shekels of 333 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:38,360 silver and a wedge of gold of 50 shekels wait when I saw these 334 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:43,920 things, you know, all through the Bible we we see sins 335 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:49,000 committed by people that start by looking think about Eve, she 336 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,800 sees the fruit. She hadn't seen that before. 337 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,800 But all of a sudden when Satan tempts her, she sees it maybe 338 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,240 through a different lens, through a different set of eyes 339 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:04,240 and goes, I have to have it. I've got to have this fruit. 340 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:05,880 I mean, think about the Garden of Eden. 341 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,080 Think about the fruit and the things that the food that was 342 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:13,160 available to them. She didn't need that, but she 343 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,720 saw it through a different through, through a set of maybe 344 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,640 sinful eyes, we could say, and she had to have it. 345 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,200 Same thing with Akin here. When I saw it, I knew exactly 346 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,720 what God said to do. I mean, think about how long ago 347 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,000 God had told them not to touch this stuff. 348 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,880 Days, hours. I mean, he just told them don't 349 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,720 touch it, don't take it. That is holy to God. 350 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,720 It's to be consecrated to to to the temple and he's got to have 351 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,000 it. He sees with that. 352 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,920 Think about David sees Bathsheba and has to have it. 353 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,760 David had anybody he wanted available to him, but he's got 354 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,400 he, he saw with his eyes and he had to go get it. 355 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,880 And I say, you know, I said it's at the beginning that 356 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,680 disobedience is not just for our children. 357 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,320 So is this not just for our children? 358 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,720 The song, Oh, be careful little eyes, what you see. 359 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,720 That's for us. Be careful what your eyes see. 360 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,000 And so I will say this to you and to myself. 361 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,080 Be careful what your eyes see on social media. 362 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:17,400 You know, if you have to, if you have to delete an app because 363 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,600 you can't control what you're seeing, delete the app. 364 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,680 Bible says that it's better to pluck your eye out than to go 365 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,680 that then to die and have sin because of your eyes. 366 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,320 Delete that stuff. And I'm not saying social media 367 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,120 is all bad. We use it for our church. 368 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:33,800 We we use it to get our name out there. 369 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,800 We use it for for different things. 370 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,400 But if you cannot control your eyes in those things, get rid of 371 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,720 it. It's not worth it defiling your 372 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,160 heart because of what your eyes are seeing. 373 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:50,400 So he, he, the first part of what happened, why this 374 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,080 disobedience happened, was uncontrolled eyes on Akin's 375 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,280 part, but the second was an unsubmitted heart. 376 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,840 In Exodus chapter 2020, verse 17, we have the 10 commandments. 377 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:07,720 And one of the 10 commandments is thou shalt not covet, right? 378 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,680 I mean, it's very simple in practice. 379 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,440 A little harder to do, sure, but a very simple command. 380 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,240 Don't covet. And what does Akin say in verse 381 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,640 21? When I saw all these things, the 382 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,200 very next thing then I coveted them. 383 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:28,040 I had to have them at all cost, really at the cost of your own 384 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,600 life, at the cost of your own family, at the cost of 36 men 385 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,520 dying. The these fathers, these sons, 386 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,760 these husbands, you had to have them at that cost. 387 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:42,120 Yep, he did. He coveted unsubmitted heart. 388 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:47,240 And that's what I'm saying is this disobedience is not, we 389 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:53,680 can't couch it. We can't pass it off as oops, I 390 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,000 made a mistake. Yeah, it's a mistake. 391 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,280 But it's not a, it's not a it's not a, an accident. 392 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,560 This was a purposeful taking of these things because he saw 393 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,000 them. He coveted them. 394 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,360 And then thirdly, unrestrained hands. 395 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,160 Still again in verse 21, when I saw among the spoils these 396 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:18,920 things, then I coveted them and I took them and behold, they are 397 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,880 hid in the midst of my tent and the silver under it. 398 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,560 You know as you read through this passage, when God tells 399 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,120 Joshua, OK, go to these, go to the tribes, separate the tribes 400 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,200 and then separate the families and then separate the families 401 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,840 within these families and go man by man and figure out who did 402 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,440 it. Aiken knew what was happening 403 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,880 and he waits till they get all the way down to him and he says 404 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,520 listen I mean imagine the turmoil it inside of him when 405 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,760 this is going on. Just such a foolish thing for 406 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,880 him to have done in the 1st place. 407 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,880 But that's This is why uncontrolled eyes and 408 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,480 unsubmitted heart to God and unrestrained hands. 409 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,400 Just I already mentioned this first, but in Proverbs chapter 4 410 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,360 verse 23. Keep thy heart with all 411 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:10,680 diligence for out of it are the issues of life. 412 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,040 So did his disobedience start with an accident? 413 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,440 No, it started with his heart. When it when when Joshua was 414 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,920 telling them these are the commands. 415 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,920 Don't take this stuff. He knew in his mind, I'll take 416 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,560 it. He he, he was maybe greed, but 417 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,880 he was covetous and he couldn't he could not hold back because 418 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,160 he had not kept his heart with diligence. 419 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:37,920 You know, I, I wrote these things down. 420 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:43,520 But I want, I want to, I want to mention this, that disobedience 421 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:47,680 is ultimately the fruit of an unsurrendered life or an 422 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,320 unsurrendered heart. And, and what are we 423 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,840 surrendering to? We're surrendering for sure to 424 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,080 the word of God. We're surrendering to God 425 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,560 himself, but we're surrendering to the authority that God has 426 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,480 placed in our life. For kids, that's parents for us, 427 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:06,040 that's our pastor. You know, I think it's a 428 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,240 dangerous thing. And I say the I say what I'm 429 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,480 about to say, not because I'm the pastor, because I'm not the 430 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,600 pastor, and not because my brother's the pastor, because I 431 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,480 grew up with him and I know his flaws. 432 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,400 He's not perfect. And so I'm not saying this 433 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,000 because, well, I got to get some backing for the pastor. 434 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,480 I'm saying this for our own good. 435 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,480 All right. And here's here's what I want to 436 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,360 say. God has put you under the 437 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:30,320 authority of your pastor in this church. 438 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,400 We need to be careful not to disregard that authority because 439 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,920 I know better. And I and I think, you know, I 440 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,680 have there's it's a good thing to to have men who are not yes 441 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,160 men, they are thoughtful and and, and purposeful. 442 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,840 That's good. But the but the danger in that 443 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,480 is to think I know better than him. 444 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,720 Who is he? Well, he is just a man, but he 445 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,680 is the authority God has placed in your life. 446 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:03,840 And that's what happens as far as this disobedience is aching. 447 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,000 I know better. I don't know what was going 448 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,240 through his mind other than I saw it, I took it, I I had to 449 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,080 have it. But I know better than what 450 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,800 Joshua was telling me. This authority in my life. 451 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,000 And and I'll say this so that so your pastor is not just your 452 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,720 friend, even though he he can be. 453 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:26,560 He's not just a fellow Christian, even though he is and 454 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,640 he's not one of the boys, even though he goes does a lot of 455 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,280 stuff with, with, with the men in our church camping and all 456 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,160 that. But he's not just one of the 457 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,400 boys. He is the authority God has 458 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,360 placed in your life. And you know, when we were when 459 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,840 we were moving to come help start this church, one of the 460 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,600 things that my pastor asked me, he said, Are you sure you can 461 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,040 let your, your pastor, your brother can pastor you? 462 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,360 And I don't think that's the pastor's problem. 463 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:56,520 I think that's my problem. If I can't let him pastor me. 464 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,640 And the same thing with men that are older than him, that have 465 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,320 been Christians for decades longer than him. 466 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,720 If you put yourself in this church, this is that's the 467 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,080 authority of God has placed in our lives. 468 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,360 It's, it's really that simple. Joshua was not the oldest one in 469 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,120 in Israel. He was probably not the most 470 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:18,680 spiritual one in Israel, but he was the leader God had chosen. 471 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,120 And when when God gave the command through Joshua, it was 472 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,960 to be followed and I'm not, and so I'll continue on. 473 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,600 He is the God-given authority, your pastor in your life, not to 474 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:36,600 rule over you, but to help you. And we cross a dangerous line 475 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,120 when we rebel against that authority. 476 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,360 We see that all the way through the Bible. 477 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:43,920 They rebel against Moses and what does God do? 478 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,800 The earth swallows them up. Not because it's Moses. 479 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,760 It's because that's the leader God placed and and he he will 480 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,280 protect that man. And the last thing I'll say 481 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,880 about that, that doesn't mean he's a king, just that he's the 482 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,440 God appointed authority in this church, not to be worshipped, 483 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,200 but to be respected as the authority in this church. 484 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,360 And and I, I say that I'm glad he was is not in here. 485 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:11,520 But you know, sometimes that's what we get in our minds. 486 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,240 Well, who does he think he is telling me that? 487 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,200 Well, he's just the authority God put in your life for this 488 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,520 church and and so we need to keep our hearts with all 489 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,440 diligence for out of it are the issues of life. 490 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,280 Now we got a few minutes left, but I want to look at two more 491 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,040 points the cost of this disobedience. 492 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:37,160 Look at Joshua Chapter 7 and verse 25 and Joshua said why 493 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,440 hast thou troubled us? The Lord shall trouble thee this 494 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,760 day. And all Israel stoned him with 495 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:49,080 stones and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them 496 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:55,400 with stones. Aiken brought trouble to himself 497 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,520 through this disobedience that was the cost his very life over 498 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,520 a garment and A and a little bit of silver and a little bit of 499 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,880 gold that he had to have brought trouble on himself. 500 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,440 It also brought trouble to his family. 501 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,280 Look at verse 24. And Joshua and all Israel with 502 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,320 him took Aiken, the son of Zara, and the silver and the garment 503 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,200 and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his 504 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,200 oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he 505 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,760 had, and brought them under the valley of Akor, the valley of 506 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,360 trouble. And they stoned them and burned, 507 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,080 burned them after they stoned them. 508 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,840 That's what happens, happened to his family. 509 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,080 Now, I think some of the reason we dismiss our our disobedience 510 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,960 and we pass it off as a mistake or a I'll get that right here in 511 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,920 a little bit is because we don't see the consequences like this 512 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,960 to our families. But those consequences, I 513 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,720 believe are there. You know, sometimes we, we 514 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,560 wonder man, what happened to what happened to to this kid or, 515 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:00,160 or what I think sometimes they see the unsurrendered heart of 516 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,120 their parents and they are the consequence. 517 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,960 They they leave the church or they they walk away from from 518 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,040 God. But his family paid the 519 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,440 consequences. But but thirdly, he brought 520 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,080 trouble to the nation of Israel to the fellowship God had given 521 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:19,880 him. And you know, it kind of goes 522 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,120 without out saying. We already mentioned it with the 523 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:28,360 with AI36 men died 36 husbands, 36 fathers, 36 sons. 524 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,000 They're gone. That brought trouble to the 525 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,080 nation of Israel. But I think there's something we 526 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,800 don't think about. Aiken was a fellow warrior. 527 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,920 Surely he had friends that were, you know, the other soldiers. 528 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,320 Surely in, in within his tribe, if not within the nation of 529 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,440 Israel. You know, they did what we would 530 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:50,960 have done. Hey, we're just sitting here 531 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,360 camping. We're doing nothing for for 40 532 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,160 years they wandered in the wilderness, remember? 533 00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:00,120 And so surely Aiken would have had people over to his tent to 534 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,920 eat with him and they would have gotten to know his family. 535 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,040 Think about the trouble that he brought on those people that had 536 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,840 to go stone him. They knew him. 537 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,040 They knew his kids. Maybe their kids played with the 538 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,880 others kids. I don't think we think about 539 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:22,960 that as much because we just see this little this little blurb 540 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,120 here in the Bible where they're destroyed and that's the end of 541 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,880 Akin. But he brought trouble to these 542 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:33,680 to these men that he forced to have to stone him and then burn 543 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,560 his family. You know, there's a, there's a, 544 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,280 a famous story, Wyatt Earp, you know, you know Wyatt Earp, the 545 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,240 famous lawman. And he had four deputies in 546 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,240 Wichita, KS. And at one point anyways, and 547 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,080 I'm sure he had more than that. But at one point one of his 548 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,400 deputies takes a bribe. One of his very, very trusted 549 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,480 deputies takes a bribe from one of the saloon owners or whatever 550 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:00,680 for the gambling that they had to do. 551 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,480 He takes a bribe to kind of overlook what's going on in the, 552 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:08,000 in the salons. And it's brought to Wyatt Earp's 553 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,520 attention. He says there's no way. 554 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,520 There's no way. This guy's name was Sam Renfro. 555 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,880 There's no way it's him. I'd, I would trust him with my 556 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,800 life. It's not him. 557 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,960 And anyway, come to find out this guy Sam Renfro was the one 558 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,560 that had taken this bribe, ends up shooting one of the other 559 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,280 deputies that found out about it and was going to tell Wyatt Earp 560 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:29,120 about it and and then shoots the guy that bribed him because he 561 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,240 knows about it. He can't talk and he's on his 562 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,680 way to kill one other person that knew about it when Wyatt 563 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,360 Earp intercepts him and ends up basically disabling him. 564 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,720 And he drags him before the court and he and he tells them, 565 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,360 normally I would let the court, you know, bring justice to this 566 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,200 man, but I am asking for the death penalty by hanging to one 567 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,200 of his very, very good friends. And that's what I'm saying is 568 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,920 this man, you know, this is this is just a story in history, it 569 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,920 is true. But this man because of his 570 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,680 selfishness, his his selfish acts, makes his own really close 571 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,280 friend have to ask for his his death by hanging. 572 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,280 Same thing here with Aiken. He forces these men to have to 573 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,000 stone him and burn his family because of his selfishness, his 574 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,600 disobedience to what God had commanded them to do. 575 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,600 You know, when there's any kind of church discipline or anything 576 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,840 like that in the church, I think what goes, what gets looked over 577 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,720 is the fact that that hurts the people in the church that have 578 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,320 to vote that way. Yeah, vote him out of the church 579 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,600 because of their selfishness. It hurts other people in the 580 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:42,600 fellowship of Christ. And lastly, Akins sin brought 581 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,320 trouble for the future. First Chronicles chapter 2, 582 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,840 verse 7. I'll just read it, but this is 583 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,800 the this is chronicling the nation of Israel and all the 584 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:55,800 tribes and this is what it says about Akin and the sons of Karmi 585 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,240 Achor Akin, the troubler of Israel who transgressed in the 586 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,480 thing that cursed all the way in the Chronicles of the kings of 587 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,720 what's happening. That's what they mentioned about 588 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,920 Aiken, the troubler of Israel. Nothing else. 589 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,000 I'm sure he was a great warrior. Who knows what else he had done. 590 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,880 He was he was probably, you know, a great man in Israel in 591 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,640 his tribe, but that's what's noted about him in the 592 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,240 Chronicles. Aiken, the troubler of Israel 593 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,400 who transgressed in the accursed thing. 594 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,760 It brought trouble even for his future. 595 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,120 But then lastly, what is the cure then for disobedience? 596 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,080 We just got 3 or 4 minutes. What is the cure for 597 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,200 disobedience? Go to Romans chapter 6 and we're 598 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,600 done in Joshua Chapter 7, so you don't have to hold your finger 599 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,480 there anymore. But go to Romans chapter 6. 600 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,840 What is the cure for disobedience? 601 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,000 Well, for sure get it right, but Akin got it right in this, in 602 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,480 this instance, and the punishment was still there. 603 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,520 When it finally comes down to it, he says I have sinned. 604 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,560 I saw it, I coveted it, I took it and the consequence was still 605 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,760 there for akin. But what is the cure for 606 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,920 disobedience in in our lives? And we see this in Joshua 607 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,200 Chapter 7 verse 25. The solution was death. 608 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,280 It has to be killed, put out of the put out of the out of the 609 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,720 camp so that the that Israel can go forward now and conquer AI 610 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,800 and the and the and the rest of Canaan. 611 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,680 But Romans chapter 6 verses 6 and seven says this, Knowing 612 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,880 this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the 613 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,240 body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not 614 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:41,240 serve sin, for he that is dead is freed from sin. 615 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,120 That is the only answer to the that is the cure for 616 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,520 disobedience. Crucify the flesh, crucify the 617 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:52,000 old man. First Corinthians 15 and verse 618 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,880 31, Paul says that I die daily. What is he talking about? 619 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,440 He's talking about this. I die to what myself wants to 620 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,760 do. I die to those uncontrolled 621 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,040 eyes. I die to that unsubmitted heart. 622 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,000 I die to that there's that's the only remedy. 623 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,760 It's first sin in general, but specifically for an 624 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,280 unsurrendered heart, you've got to die to self. 625 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:21,000 Put that sin to death. I think at the heart, and we 626 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,600 talk about this often, but at the heart of disobedience, at 627 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:30,480 the heart of an unsurrended life or an unsurrended heart is what 628 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,440 Solomon talked about often. Pride. 629 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:36,080 I know better than what I'm being told to do. 630 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,320 I, I know what you're saying the consequence is going to be, but 631 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:42,719 I don't think that's going to happen. 632 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,719 I know better. I'm going to try it. 633 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,800 And then we get the consequence, probably worse than we thought 634 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,040 it was going to be. And then, you know, not always, 635 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,920 but sometimes we get this consequence and then we come to 636 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,080 the to the pastor. Pray for me. 637 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,320 I need help. No, you do need help. 638 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,560 But it's your fault. You did it. 639 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:07,000 And and if we would die to ourself, die to that to to what 640 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,640 our heart wants to do, give that to God, we would, we would save 641 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,960 ourselves so much trouble. Who knows what what Aiken had 642 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,800 left to do in his life? Who knows? 643 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,040 We don't hear anything else about him except that he was the 644 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,480 troubler of Israel. That's it. 645 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,040 So the valley of disobedience, I think some good, some good 646 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,200 thoughts here that we can apply to our own our own lives. 647 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,240 Surrender that pride. And you know, I don't think 648 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,880 we'll ever conquer pride. I think pride is in is in the 649 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,600 crevices of every little part of our lives. 650 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,600 And we can pluck it out. We can we can clean it up when 651 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,120 we see it and when we find it, but it always pops its head up. 652 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:53,000 It's, it's like fighting Satan. You can fight and you can win 653 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,400 and we can have victory. But as soon as he gets a chance, 654 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,520 he's right back. He's back, back at it. 655 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:01,240 Pride is the same way. And I think that's the, that's 656 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:03,840 what disobedience is an unsurrended heart. 657 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,520 And we can surrender our heart at times and, and get victory 658 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,200 over it. And soon as it gets a chance, 659 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,120 it'll be back. That's why Paul said I die 660 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,640 daily. I surrender my heart daily to 661 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,840 what God wants me to do. It's not an easy thing, but it's 662 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,800 purposeful and and we must do it. 663 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,440 All right, Valley of disobedience. 664 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,880 Let's pray and then we'll be dismissed. 665 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,120 Father, I thank you for this story we have in the Bible just 666 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,320 to understand that none of us are immune to the consequences 667 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,680 of the sin that we allow into our lives, especially this of 668 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,800 disobedience. God, I pray that you would help 669 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,760 us as we sit under this pastor that you've given us in our 670 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,480 lives that we would just submit to that authority. 671 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,200 Got it. We're submitting to you is is 672 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,520 what we're doing when we submit to that authority. 673 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,840 I pray that you'd help each one of us to do it and got this this 674 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,800 idea of disobedience in our hearts. 675 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,440 I pray that we would root it out surrender our hearts to you 676 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:03,680 daily and God lets you and and see the blessings that you can 677 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,320 give us in our lives when we do that. 678 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:07,080 Pray that you bless this next hour. 679 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,920 Be with our pastor as he preaches that you give him 680 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,520 wisdom and power and that you'd feed us from your word. 681 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,600 In Jesus name I pray. Amen or dismissed.