1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:04,680 Good morning. I was wondering if I was going 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:07,160 to make it like a, there's like a that feels powerful, you know, 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,440 And it's like, so I walked up here and I'm like, that pumps me 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,920 up more than I probably should. Good morning. 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,200 If we haven't met yet, my name is Preston. 6 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,880 I get to serve on staff here, specifically with our college 7 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:17,280 ministry called the Salt Company. 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,760 It is a joy and a privilege. Hey, if you didn't know, St. 9 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,280 City Chapel, we are a church plant. 10 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:25,680 OK. Our church, actually, our staff 11 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:31,040 team was just at a conference called Vintage Mission, OK, Vcon 12 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,840 is what we call it, Vintage Con. That's how cool people say it. 13 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,600 So we're there. It's hosted by a church, you 14 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,960 might know, called Christchurch. And Christchurch is actually one 15 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,360 of the sending churches of us here at Saint City. 16 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,640 So when we walk in there, like honestly, it's like you're the 17 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,120 favorite child, which I've never experienced before, but I go 18 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:47,760 there. That's a joke. 19 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,880 My parents are here. So we're there. 20 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,320 That's fun. And and I see Manu, you guys 21 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,040 know Manu. He's in our church, guys. 22 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,400 Incredible testimony. Manu has guy's an incredible 23 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,600 work in his life. You should ask him anyways. 24 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,840 Yeah, like I said, salt company, we meet Thursdays at 8:00. 25 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,320 That's my job, what I do here. Last week, I alluded to 26 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:08,680 something that our church got to be a part of. 27 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,000 It's called the Collegiate Night of Prayer put on by ASU United. 28 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:17,800 So our church, these guys back here, I really did nothing. 29 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,360 And they hosted almost 300 college students to come worship 30 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,880 and pray to Jesus on the campus of ASU. 31 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,760 So we, yeah, have clap for that, guys. 32 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,120 God is on the God is on the move. 33 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,880 Just it's so cool, honestly. Like there's people's to us, 34 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,320 some strangers, some other college students that we don't 35 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:38,520 know, a part of some other ministry that are following 36 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,920 Jesus at ASU, just crying out to the Lord crying because the 37 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,400 Spirit's meeting with them as they're praying to Jesus. 38 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,680 And so that was incredible. So if you're part of this 39 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,520 church, you are part of that. So thank you for being a part of 40 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:49,720 that. That's why that's why we're here 41 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,000 to see that happen. So thank you. 42 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 OK, enough for that stuff. Joshua 5, Joshua 5, That's where 43 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,040 we'll be. If you have a Bible, we can go 44 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,840 ahead get there. But here, here's a quick run up 45 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,600 on it. So I don't know if you guys are 46 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,000 in a community group here. My wife and I are. 47 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,800 Honestly, if you're here and you're not in a small group, 48 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,759 whether it's with the salt company or with St. 49 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:10,360 City, you're actually in the minority. 50 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,360 Most of us are in a group, which is amazing. 51 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,920 So you should join one. Tuesdays, 8:00 PM or 7:00 PM at 52 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:18,280 my house. You should come plug there. 53 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,800 It'd be great. And so in that group, just a 54 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,600 couple weeks ago, maybe you guys can relate. 55 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,120 We're going through Joshua too. You know, we kind of talk about 56 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,640 the sermons there and this, I like this, this question about 57 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:31,480 God's power. Like it keeps coming up week 58 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,240 after week. And this is like, I feel like 59 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,240 I've been talking about this forever. 60 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,560 I talked about this at song Company 2 weeks in a row, but 61 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,360 here it is again in this group. There's a gal, she brings up 62 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,080 this question. She goes, hey, is the reason is 63 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,560 the reason why we're not seeing God move powerfully is the 64 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,240 reason why we're not seeing God move powerfully around us? 65 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,640 Is it because we're not ready for him to this is this is a 66 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:55,000 question. It's been really been a rock, my 67 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,320 shoe for the past three weeks. And we come to a text like this. 68 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,320 And guys, this is the question we have to ask is it is the 69 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,520 reason why I'm not seeing God move powerfully is it is the 70 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:08,280 reason because I'm not ready because guys, think about it as 71 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,160 our church, we want to be a church who's ready for when God 72 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,560 moves powerfully to be right there with him. 73 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:21,160 And so in this text in Joshua 5, it is the perfect question for 74 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,160 this text because in in Joshua 5, if you remember the last 75 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,120 couple weeks, God's moving the people. 76 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,280 They're out of the wilderness now. 77 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,360 They've crossed the river, right? 78 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,240 The 12 Stones from last week. And God is getting them ready. 79 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,920 He's getting his people ready to move on a conquest, a physical 80 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,600 conquest to go get land. Now, God doesn't do that in the 81 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,480 same exact way today. That'd be crazy. 82 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,200 If you have some people trying to conquer land for God, It's 83 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,560 like, oh, question, not a political statement, just an 84 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,160 observation. But today God does move in a 85 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,280 spiritual conquest. Like today, I believe that we're 86 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,360 here, that God is playing with this church, not so much to 87 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,600 conquer land, but to conquer hearts for Jesus. 88 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,920 And so us, as we sit in our seats and as we go through 89 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,400 Joshua 5, we're asking the same question. 90 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,480 How can we get ready for God to move powerfully? 91 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,320 And so there's the question. We can throw it on the screen. 92 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,160 How can we be ready for God to move powerfully? 93 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,000 And, and guys, I believe God will do it. 94 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,240 I believe he's going to do it. And whether we're ready or not, 95 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,280 it's not necessarily a question for the staff team of Saint 96 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:34,400 City. It's the question for us as a 97 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,600 people because, guys, we can preach it, but the question 98 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,960 isn't whether we preach or not. The question is, do we practice 99 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,520 it? That's a question for all of us. 100 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,480 OK, Joshua 5 about to go on this conquest of Canaan. 101 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,360 Let's read about it. Chapter 5, verse 1, Chapter 5. 102 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:59,040 So that's the big #5 the little #1 Here we go. 103 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,000 Sorry, I'm lost in my notes. I'm finding my place. 104 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,760 Here we go, Joshua 5 first one, if you got it, let me hear you 105 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,200 say got it. People are making fun of me 106 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,440 already. Didn't even start yet. 107 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,880 Verse one, Sorry, I'm a little nasal. 108 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,440 I'm getting over being sick. So here we go. 109 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,280 Verse 1. As soon as all the kings of the 110 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:27,040 Amorites who are beyond the Jordan to the West, and all the 111 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,200 kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, when they heard that 112 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,240 the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of 113 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,040 Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and 114 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,040 there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of 115 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,440 Israel. OK, you got to think about this. 116 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,560 These guys, right? These other kings, these other 117 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,840 nations, like they're, they're anticipating the nation of 118 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:54,480 Israel coming over. And, and literally, I, I mean, 119 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,720 just in my, you know, interpretation, they literally 120 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,360 crapped their pants, right? It says their hearts melted and 121 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,720 there's no longer spirit in them because of the people of Israel. 122 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,160 Like there's just a, a thing happening here, this 123 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,240 anticipation for God to move powerfully. 124 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,760 They see these people crossing over. 125 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,600 They're like, this conquest is about to happen. 126 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,280 So there's anticipation here, but that's not the point 127 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:14,720 entirely. Look at verse 2 with me. 128 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:21,480 We'll read a bit of a text here. Verse 2 At that time the Lord 129 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:26,520 said to Joshua, make Flint knives and circumcise the sons 130 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,240 of Israel a second time and I'm going somewhere with this. 131 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:30,560 OK, just buckle up. Verse 3. 132 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,040 So Joshua made Flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel. 133 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,600 I should practice Gilbieth Heyoralath. 134 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,600 That's it's a verse 4 and this is the reason why. 135 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:45,360 Hey, if you have a pen, this is important right here. 136 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,240 Let's get serious. Verse 4 And this is the reason 137 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,040 why Joshua circumcised all the mail of the all the males of the 138 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:58,040 people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, sorry, all 139 00:06:58,040 --> 00:06:59,400 the men of war. Let me just restart. 140 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:04,200 OK, I got way thrown off. Verse 4 if you have a pen, I 141 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,240 want you to underline this. It says this is the reason why. 142 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,200 OK, so we're talking about circumcision here. 143 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,760 Verse 4 this is the reason why and I'll restart. 144 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,360 Verse 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them. 145 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,040 All the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men 146 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,800 of war, they had died in the wilderness on the way after they 147 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,600 had had come out of Egypt. Though all the people who came 148 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,760 out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on 149 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,000 the way in the elderness, wilderness, after they had come 150 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,520 out of Egypt, they had not been circumcised. 151 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,160 Verse 6. For the people of Israel walked 152 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,760 forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of 153 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,880 war who came out of Egypt, perished. 154 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,840 You can underline this too, because they did not obey the 155 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,480 voice of the Lord. So the Lord swore to them that 156 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,360 He would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to 157 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,960 their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and 158 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,320 honey. So it was their children who God 159 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,200 raised them up in their place and that Joshua circumcised for 160 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,520 they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on 161 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:17,040 the way. OK, said that word more times 162 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,320 than I thought I would, but here we are. 163 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,120 There's a there's a lot happening here in this text. 164 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,640 There's a couple things we just pointed out underlined, but a 165 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:31,040 couple things I really hope you noticed was that God had a plan 166 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,360 from the very beginning to bring his people into the promised 167 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,840 land. That was his plan for the very 168 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,840 beginning. If you read all the, all the 169 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,960 books in the Bible, like the, the, it's a little bit 170 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:42,880 chronological here in the beginning, if you read these 171 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,800 books, you'll see it's been God's plan from the beginning to 172 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,400 bring his people into the promised land. 173 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,560 But you got to understand there's a generational thing 174 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:54,320 that's happening here. So there's an older generation 175 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,880 that God made the promise to in an older generation that God 176 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,280 brought out of Egypt, but that's not the generation that went 177 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,600 into the promised land. And maybe you noticed it. 178 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,120 Why was it? Why was it that they didn't 179 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,600 bring them out? Well, it says it. 180 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:15,560 It literally says This is why. And then it says in verse 6 181 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:19,760 because they did not obey the voice of the Lord. 182 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,360 Literally in verse 6, it tells us that this older generation 183 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,720 was a disobedient to God so much so even think about it so much 184 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,400 so they stopped circumcising their kids. 185 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,560 And why is that important? Well, circumcision. 186 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:41,120 It was a sign of of the covenant of God that they were were 187 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,600 entering into the covenant with God and that they were basically 188 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,360 taking their children and saying, Hey, we will raise them 189 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,200 up in the way of the Lord. But their hearts this 190 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,520 generation, this crooked generation, this older 191 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,040 generation that grew cold against God. 192 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,840 Like think about it, they had this this apathetic faith like 193 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,480 that, whether it was like they just stopped trusting God slowly 194 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,440 over time and it built in a build it was they just became 195 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,880 apathetic. There's some blatant 196 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,880 disobedience, probably some some carelessness to hear God's 197 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,640 voice, hardness of heart, maybe a lack of conviction. 198 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,760 They don't feel bad when they disobey God. 199 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,520 There's no conviction there because God called them to to be 200 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,560 set apart. But the hearts grew calloused, 201 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,240 the feelings there, it became numb. 202 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,880 There was calloused. It was lack of conviction. 203 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,080 And guys, I think this, I think we know what this is like. 204 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,800 We know what it's like to have an apathetic faith. 205 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,920 We know what it's like to just be blatantly disobedient towards 206 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,480 God, to feel the carelessness for what God has to say. 207 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:49,280 We don't care what this book has to say. 208 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:54,000 A hardness of heart, maybe a lack of conviction, That's an 209 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,640 important one. It's the Holy Spirit who 210 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,920 convicts us and maybe we lack of that feeling of conviction 211 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,760 because these people, I mean, they, they, they forgot the 212 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,520 covenant. They forgot what God had done 213 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,120 for them. They forgot what the Lord was 214 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:10,760 doing in their life. They forgot the power of the 215 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,000 Lord. They forgot what what God was 216 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 wanting to do not only around them, but what God was trying to 217 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,800 do within them. And ultimately they forgot what 218 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:27,320 the conviction of sin felt like. Their hearts were so calloused, 219 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,160 they stopped feeling bad for their disobedience. 220 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:39,160 And so God needed to remind his people in this new generation 221 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,200 about the covenant that he had made with them. 222 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,440 So think about this anticipation, right? 223 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,320 These other kings right there in verse one, they're like, dude, 224 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,720 God's people are coming. They're freaking out, doing all 225 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,720 the things. Hearts are melting. 226 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,240 Imagine the people of Israel, bro, they got to be ready for 227 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,560 this conquest, right? They got to be like, oh, bro, 228 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:02,080 the momentum's going right. The front lines are getting up 229 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:02,960 there. They're probably got their 230 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,560 swords ready. Like they're, they're ready for 231 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:06,520 battle. And God's like, hey, before you 232 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:13,480 take a sword against them, go make Flint knives and put it 233 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,360 against yourself. And remember the covenant that I 234 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:21,200 made with you, Remember the promises of God that God's like, 235 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,840 hey, I'm going to bring you into that land. 236 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,040 But you got to get ready first. You need to remember the 237 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:33,920 covenant. Look with me in verse 8 it says 238 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,120 when the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they 239 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,280 remained in their places in the camp until they were healed, 240 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,400 which makes sense. Verse 9 and the Lord said to 241 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,200 Joshua, if you have a pen, this is important. 242 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,120 Today I have rolled away. Look at that roll, at that 243 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,040 rolled away, the reproach of Egypt from you. 244 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:02,000 So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day, 245 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,760 Gilgal right there. My Bible, it's got a little #3 246 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,440 next to it. It's a little footnote. 247 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,640 It tells you Gilgal. It sounds like the Hebrew word 248 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,680 to roll away or to roll. They literally called that place 249 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:20,160 to roll away. So when God, he doesn't do 250 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,720 something strategically, physically to his people, like 251 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:29,720 I'm not a a warrior, but that doesn't sound like the most 252 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,280 effective thing to do to get your men ready for battle. 253 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:38,440 But I think God's doing something very intentionally 254 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:43,120 spiritually here, that he's doing the most important thing 255 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,600 for anybody who is ever going to go on a conquest for the Lord, a 256 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,680 spiritual conquest. The first thing that we have to 257 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:54,200 do is remember the covenant. And for them it's this painful 258 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:59,680 mark, this painful reminder of the promises of God that he is 259 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:02,480 rolling away the reproach of Egypt, the place of slavery, the 260 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,440 place of sin, the place of captivity. 261 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,000 God rolls away the reproach of Egypt and he's like, we're going 262 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,040 to call this place roll away because from now on, you guys 263 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,320 have renewed the covenant and I'm rolling your sins away. 264 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,000 And so the issue for us today, it's not anything about 265 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,640 necessarily circumcision, but there is still a reminder that 266 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:31,080 we need of the covenant, perhaps even a painful reminder of the 267 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,200 promise that we've made with Jesus, maybe even like being 268 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,960 grieved by our so the conviction. 269 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,000 Because the issue I think for us today, it's not that we've 270 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,920 forgotten circumcision, it's that we've ignored our 271 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,840 convictions. We've ignored what it feels like 272 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,120 to grieve the Holy Spirit. So there's this book I had a 273 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,600 friend give me, but Doctor Martyn Lloyd Jones, if you want 274 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,240 to read something dense, you can read this one. 275 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,920 It's called Spiritual Depression, which it's an older 276 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,160 book, so it's not necessarily about depression, but it's kind 277 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,720 of about apathetic faith. And I haven't finished it yet, 278 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,880 but there's this chapter that I was reading. 279 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,320 And so he talks about, he talks about this, this gal in their 280 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,920 church that she grew up going to church and, and she's like, 281 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,720 like, serves there, does all these things. 282 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,680 But then she sees these guys who live these crazy lifestyles, 283 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,160 they're drinking, they're partying and they're doing all 284 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,320 the things. And then they come to faith in 285 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,040 Jesus. And now these guys, they have a 286 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,280 joy in Jesus, a powerful joy in Jesus that she wished she had. 287 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,160 And so she looks at these guys and she's like, man, I just 288 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,880 wish, I almost wish that I grew up like them so that I could 289 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:49,120 have the joy of Jesus like them. And Doctor Martin Lloyd Jones, a 290 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,840 great pastor that he is, he goes, the issue isn't 291 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:56,520 necessarily your upbringing. The issue is being convicted by 292 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,800 sin. And So what he's saying is that 293 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,560 this woman's never truly been convicted for her sin, that her 294 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,800 heart is actually calloused as if just like those men who lived 295 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:12,120 the way they lived before Jesus. And he goes on to say that to 296 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,200 feel the joy of Jesus, you actually need to feel the 297 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,600 conviction of your sin. And so like these men who had to 298 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,920 take the Flint knives to themselves first to feel the 299 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,120 pain of the covenant, I think this Holy Spirit is often 300 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,480 reminding us the pain that we have when we grieve God of our 301 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,720 sin. Our sin breaks the heart of God. 302 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:30,760 And I think we've forgotten that. 303 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,680 And so if we want to go on this spiritual conquest for God, to 304 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,360 see God, like change hearts here in Tempe, to see God change 305 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,920 hearts here at ASU, we need to remember. 306 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,920 We need to remember what God has done for us, Jesus on the cross 307 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:49,560 and for some of us here, right? They mean you've never felt the 308 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,960 conviction of sin. And that's simply just because I 309 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:56,280 mean, you're not a Christian and you wouldn't even say that you 310 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,280 are. And, and hey, this is what I 311 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,760 would say to you, this word, Gilgal, the Bible would go on to 312 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,640 say, there's, there's, there's this other place, Golgotha. 313 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,599 It's another Hebrew word to sound like roll away. 314 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,040 This is the hill that Jesus died on. 315 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,280 There's a connection here in the words with Gilgal and Golgotha 316 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,079 that Jesus would go. He'd live the life we could 317 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:23,440 never live. He'd die the death that we 318 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,599 deserve to die. But then he would raise again 319 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,720 from the grave, rolling the stone away and rolling our sins 320 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,880 away with it. That's the truth of the gospel. 321 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,600 That's the truth that we can have and believer. 322 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,520 If you're here and you're like, man, I just haven't felt the 323 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,560 conviction of the Holy Spirit for a while, you need to 324 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,560 remember that truth that God wants to do something not only 325 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,360 powerfully through you, but he wants to do something powerfully 326 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:45,760 within you. And you need to remember the 327 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,800 covenant that your sins are rolled away, that yes, there's 328 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,880 conviction of sin. You're doing things you 329 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,280 shouldn't do. You know you shouldn't do it, 330 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,200 but you need to realize there's a joy on the other side and that 331 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,400 Jesus has rolled those sins away on the cross in the empty grave. 332 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,000 And so I don't know what else to say but come to faith in Jesus. 333 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,200 OK, usually they put that at the end of the sermon, but here it 334 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,640 is for you. So a conclusion here, I know we 335 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,960 spend a lot of time on that, but I think that's most important. 336 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:18,520 But what God does conclusion to this point is that God readies 337 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,040 His people for conquest by renewing the covenant. 338 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,840 That's what He does. And so if we want to be ready 339 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,680 for God to move powerfully to take us on this spiritual 340 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:35,400 conquest, first we must remember and have this freshness in 341 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,520 ourselves, the covenant that we have through Jesus. 342 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,960 That's what we must remember. OK, so I got two more points. 343 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,520 I'm supposed to tell you that early up conviction, communion 344 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,000 and commander, and so sorry, covenant. 345 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,400 And so we just talked about the covenant. 346 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,320 But there's something more I want you to see here in the text 347 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:59,200 where God, after he renews the government covenant with his 348 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,680 people, he restores communion with them as well. 349 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:09,720 It's right here in verse 10. Let me read it 1st 10 While the 350 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,160 people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the 351 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:18,520 Passover on the 14th day of the month in the in the evening on 352 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,640 the plains of Jericho, and the day after the Passover on that 353 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,320 very day they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes 354 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,120 and parched grain in the manna ceased on that day. 355 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,360 That's important in the manna ceased the day after they ate of 356 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:39,040 the produce of the land, and there was no longer manna for 357 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:44,640 the people of Israel, but the ate of the fruit of the land of 358 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:50,160 Canaan that year. OK, So that's important, right? 359 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:53,720 Let me show you a couple things here. 360 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,560 We're pretty aware at this point that there is a generation in 361 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,160 the wilderness that wasn't very obedient to God, right? 362 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,920 They stopped circumcising. Their kids up to that point and 363 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,320 and also they did a bad job of keeping the Passover. 364 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,920 There's really not a lot of of stuff in the Bible that would 365 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,840 show us they kept the Passover every week. 366 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,360 I think there's like another text perhaps in numbers. 367 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,840 But God's people, they were very disobedient. 368 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,080 They didn't keep the Passover. They didn't do these things and 369 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,840 so on. God, he's like, hey, get ready 370 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,800 for conquest. First, let's renew the covenant 371 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,080 and now let's re establish the Passover or communion to keep 372 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,720 the seas alliterated, you know, to commune with him. 373 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,560 But if you think about the Passover, what was this meal? 374 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,480 What was the Passover meal? Well, in Exodus it would tell us 375 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,320 they would sacrifice a lamb. They'd eat this great BBQ, 376 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,000 right? They'd gather around the table 377 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,880 and they'd remember the promise of God. 378 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,320 And so at the Passover meal, they would do two things. 379 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,280 The first is they would commune with God. 380 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,600 They would remember what God has done, these promises. 381 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,680 So for these guys sitting down here, Joshua's time, they're 382 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:04,680 probably thinking, bro, I swear that river was dry inches deep. 383 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,360 I bet they're like a foot deep. They probably they were metric 384 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:11,160 system, you know, so you know, a meter, half a meter. 385 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,320 That was a joke because you guys said they didn't create the 386 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,360 metric system yet. You guys, you're with me. 387 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,640 They're thinking about what God has done. 388 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,600 And so they're communing with God, but not only that, they're 389 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,640 doing it with each other. So this Passover meal, they 390 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,080 would commune with one another as well. 391 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,880 They would they would eat food together, right? 392 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:36,680 And here it's very important to see that they that the manna 393 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,160 cease. Do you guys remember what manna? 394 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,600 Do you just remember that perhaps in, in, in Exodus, God 395 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,400 starts giving his people food in, in the wilderness. 396 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,640 So going through the desert, whatever, he starts dropping 397 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,360 stuff from this. They call it manna. 398 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,120 The literal word for like manna is what is it? 399 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,120 They're like, oh, what is this? And so that's what they called 400 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:56,040 it. They call it the, what is it? 401 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:57,880 That's what mana means. That's what the Hebrew word 402 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:58,680 means. They're called what is it? 403 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,000 So don't even know what this is. These are like travel food, 404 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 right? So it's not even good food. 405 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,800 But now they enter into the promised land and God's like, 406 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,760 hey, let's have the Passover meal, but eat from the land. 407 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,800 You don't need this stuff that I've been providing for you. 408 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,760 The promise of provision, it's here. 409 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,240 It's in the land. The promise is being fulfilled. 410 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,640 You can now eat from the land and have communion with one 411 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,000 another, share a meal with one another. 412 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,600 And So what God is doing here is he's saying, hey, before you go 413 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:38,000 on this conquest, first you must spend time not only with me, but 414 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,200 spend time with one another. Hey, guys, this is an important 415 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,800 truth for us today that we want to be people. 416 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,000 Like if God's about to go on the spiritual conquest, we're about 417 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,640 to go with him. We're about to see people come 418 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,240 to face like crazy, which I actually, I think we are. 419 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,920 If we want to be a part of that man, we need to be commuting 420 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,240 with God. We need to be a people who are 421 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,680 commuting with the Lord that we're spending time with him. 422 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,360 And not like this old generation who forgot the voice of the 423 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,520 Lord, but this generation who's going to remember the words of 424 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,040 God. And I don't know what it is for 425 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,360 you, but like, I've, I've talked to some guys, some some college 426 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:19,080 guys, they've come up with some pretty great substitutes for 427 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,880 God's word. Some of them are honorable, some 428 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,520 of them not so honorable reasons why they're not going to read 429 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,360 the Bible or they're trying something else because I just 430 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:30,240 don't know. I'm not that educated, but I'm 431 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,240 pretty sure there's not a good substitute for this. 432 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,200 Like this is what we need. We need to know the voice of 433 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,840 God. We need to know his word. 434 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,560 And so the question for you, are you spending time with God? 435 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,240 Are you communing with him daily? 436 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,960 Like do you have a daily devotion to God in his word? 437 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,480 And maybe for you, you're like, man, I don't know where to 438 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,640 start. There's, there's so many great 439 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,960 resources. My favorite is just the ESV 440 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,480 study Bible cross way. Great publisher. 441 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,480 They got to study Bible, man, it's great. 442 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,080 You can pick that baby up. They got the Bible up on top. 443 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,200 They got some notes at the bottom. 444 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,520 They call that commentary that you can read. 445 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,680 It explains everything. They explain what the book is 446 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,840 before you get there. Man, it's a beautiful thing. 447 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,600 I, I use it. Anybody can use it. 448 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,320 It's written really well. ESV study Bible. 449 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,480 Maybe you need to find a great Bible reading plan. 450 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:21,280 Maybe you need to buy a book on prayer man learning the Psalms. 451 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,680 There's the the Psalms that's right in the middle of your 452 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,200 Bible and it could just teach you how to call out to God. 453 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,280 It's beautifully written. It'll teach you how to pray. 454 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,760 Learn how to pray. I don't know what it is for you, 455 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,160 but we need to be people who can, who can commune with God 456 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,080 and learn how to do it. We all have a next step in that. 457 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,000 Maybe you need to learn how to pray. 458 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,880 Maybe you need that study Bible. Maybe you just got to put a time 459 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,240 on the calendar because you've done it before you. 460 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,600 You were great at reading your Bible before, but now you've 461 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,840 been in one of those seasons. Hey, get back into it. 462 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,880 We need to be people who commune with God. 463 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,200 And so, you know, not only did they commune with God, but they 464 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,680 communed with others. And now we've talked a few about 465 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,280 generations here, and it's pretty obvious to me we have an 466 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,280 easy divide in generations in this room. 467 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:16,800 We got 24 year olds to 18 year olds and we got everybody else. 468 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:25,160 So let me, let me speak to the, the older generation, if you'd 469 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,400 let me. I won't make you stand up, you 470 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:38,960 know, because you're older. But that's a joke, guys. 471 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:46,640 As as the younger generation, we need your wisdom like we need 472 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,560 your wisdom. We, we need what you guys have. 473 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:54,640 Like you guys have walked seasons in in front of us. 474 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,160 You know what it's like literally, you know what it's 475 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,640 like not to have a cell phone, which go with me here. 476 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:12,120 We and our generation, guys, we wake up and it's just instant 477 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,400 gratification after instant gratification after instant 478 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,320 gratification. And it does something to us. 479 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,880 And we need people who, to be honest, set the pace on what it 480 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,040 looks like to follow Jesus in adulthood. 481 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,960 Like we need you guys in our church to show us what it looks 482 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,960 like to live radically for Jesus outside of your college years. 483 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,800 That's what's going to make this church a beautiful church. 484 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,680 We need you guys to run, run the race. 485 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,480 We need you to run the race so that we can see you run it too. 486 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,080 And, and let me say this too, this this might sound a little 487 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,400 arrogant, but I'm just going to say it anyways. 488 00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:00,000 I'm convinced that this is the most strategic church for you to 489 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,440 follow Jesus at and be a part of from ages 28 to 85 and maybe 490 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:05,480 beyond. Just had to pick a range. 491 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,880 And I'm not trying to be arrogant, but I just think guys, 492 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,960 the, the, the spiritual battle, the front lines, the spiritual 493 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,640 conquest, the front lines of the battle is the public university. 494 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,040 And God doesn't say raise up assault company and the gates of 495 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:27,240 hell shall not stand against it. No, he says it's the church, us, 496 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,840 the local church to push back the gates of hell. 497 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,320 And I believe that this is the spiritual, it's the lies of the 498 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,080 enemy. Where do they flourish the most? 499 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,920 Where are they put at? Where are they cultivated? 500 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,600 Where are they sent out from? It's the public university. 501 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,280 And there's so many amazing churches in the valley. 502 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,920 We know them, we love them, but I just don't know of a church 503 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,800 that's trying to reach the campus as hard as we are with 504 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,800 the gospel. And man, we need you. 505 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,840 And I hope you see that, that you actually have a big part to 506 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,640 play here. And it's not just giving us 507 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,800 money, although that'd be nice it you guys have a huge part to 508 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,480 play like we need you to be a part of this mission with us. 509 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,080 And so here's a couple of things I was thinking like how, how can 510 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,320 you guys, how can you guys help us reach, teach and and send 511 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:17,880 college students? How can you be a part of it? 512 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:20,040 This is how the older generation can help the younger generation 513 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,320 within our church. There's a little tangent from 514 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:22,720 the sermon, but I'll loop it back in. 515 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,480 First, this first thing, two things. 516 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,600 First thing, say hi, OK? It's not that hard, but say hi 517 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,480 to college students. If you're here and you're like, 518 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:32,800 I'm definitely not a college student. 519 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,680 Say hi to the other college students that are here and don't 520 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:36,760 be like, oh, it's going to be weird. 521 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:37,880 I'll just wait for them to initiate. 522 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,120 Guys, we're addicted to our phones. 523 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,640 We're not going to initiate. OK, You set the pace on that. 524 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,960 Like talk to us. I know what's happening, but 525 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,760 like, there's my invitation. This is how you can be in our 526 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,320 lives within our local church. But here's the other thing. 527 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,360 This will loop it back for us. Invite us in, invite us in, like 528 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,480 invite us into our lives, into your lives. 529 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,200 Invite us into your house and invite some college students to 530 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,480 come get lunch with you after this. 531 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,680 Invite them to your home. Sure, you can go to like Pei Wei 532 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,600 or something, but invite us into your house. 533 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:08,960 Let's just see how you raise your kids. 534 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,320 Let us see the chaos of your life and how you're following 535 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:15,120 Jesus or how things are like the authenticity of that man. 536 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,800 That's going to go so far for us. 537 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,520 Invite us in, invite us in, you know, to conclude this point of, 538 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,880 of communion, right? I kind of went all over the 539 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,600 place there, but man, we want to be a people who is ready for God 540 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,440 to move powerfully. But first we need to commune 541 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,680 with God in the way that we can commune with one another is 542 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,600 sharing meals together with you guys. 543 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,560 So we'd like that. Here's the last thing. 544 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,880 This will be really fast. Then we're done. 545 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:52,840 Joshua 5 verse 13. So when Joshua was led, or 546 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,760 sorry, when Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes. 547 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,720 Imagine this. And behold, a man was standing 548 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,640 there before him with his drawn sword in hand. 549 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,720 And Joshua went to him and said, Are you for us, or for our 550 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,000 adversaries? And then he said, No, but I am 551 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,080 the commander of the army of the Lord. 552 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,200 Now I have come. And Joshua fell on his face the 553 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,560 earth, and he worshipped. And then he said to him, What 554 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,520 does my Lord say to his servant? And then the commander of the 555 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,320 Lord's Army said to Joshua, take off your sandals from your feet, 556 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,040 for the place where you're standing is holy ground. 557 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:36,080 And Joshua did so right. There's a lot to imagine here 558 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:41,440 going on. 1st, this commander of the Lord's Army, that's the last 559 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,920 point. Commander, this commander of the 560 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,680 Lord's Army, like Joshua, he's probably strapped for battle. 561 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,520 Like he's ready to RIP. One commentator says that he 562 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,680 actually thinks that Joshua had his sword drawn and he basically 563 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,440 was like, Hey, who goes there? As if Josh was ready to go to 564 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,120 battle with the the commander of the Lord's army. 565 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,760 And he just says, no, You imagine that like, Hey, who are 566 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,640 you with us? Are you with them? 567 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,680 It's just no. It's like, oh, what do you say 568 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,600 to that really is he's saying neither. 569 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,440 I'm not for you. I'm not for them, but I am the 570 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,960 commander of the Lord's army. And then he tells Joshua to take 571 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,400 his shoes off. So I think about home alone, 572 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,480 like off, Why don't you take your shoes off? 573 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,680 That's what I think about. It's, it's not great, but more 574 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,000 commentaries like what people will say, like what's really 575 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,920 happening here? Is this just some Angel, a part 576 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,840 of God's army or what is this? People will call this a fancy 577 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,600 word, Christophany. So Christophany, right, kind of 578 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,560 fancy word just to say Jesus in the Old Testament. 579 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,200 So people will say this is Jesus and there's much more we could 580 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,480 go on with that. And where you fit that out, not 581 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,120 too big of a deal, but the commander of the Lord's Army is 582 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,560 here. So think about it. 583 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,400 Joshua's ready for this conquest. 584 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,360 First you got to do circumcision, then you got to do 585 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,680 communion, and then you got to do what? 586 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,640 Like, he's ready for this battle. 587 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,640 So why is it so significant that the commander of the Lord's Army 588 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,320 is in front of Joshua in this moment? 589 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,560 Well, he's telling Joshua he's like, hey, you might think 590 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,120 you're in charge, but you're not in charge. 591 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,000 The commander of the Lord's Army is here. 592 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,040 It's the commander who's leading this conquest. 593 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,920 You're not leading this. I am. 594 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,600 And for us, we need to know it's Jesus who leads us. 595 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,640 It's Jesus who leads this church. 596 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,200 It's not us up on stage, it's not Ronnie, it's not Brandon. 597 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,200 It's definitely not me. It's Jesus. 598 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,520 Jesus leads this church. Jesus is the one who's leading 599 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,200 us on this spiritual conquest in Tempe at ASU. 600 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,640 He's the one who wants to go after the hearts. 601 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:55,320 We're just praying before this like God's not after just the 602 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,320 99. The 99 is not enough for God. 603 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,240 God's going after the one. He's going after the one like 604 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,840 God is the one who's came to seek and save the lost. 605 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,800 And so if we want to be ready, ready for God to move 606 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,200 powerfully, is Jesus the one who's going to lead us there? 607 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,640 Jesus is the one who leads this church. 608 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,040 And so we got a final slide for us. 609 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,000 Jesus leads this church. And guys, this is where our 610 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,800 confidence comes from. This is where confidence comes 611 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,360 from. Our expectation comes from that 612 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,400 God is going to move powerfully here, that he's going to make 613 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,120 Tempe as it is in heaven. I believe he's going to do that. 614 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,520 And this is how he's going to do it. 615 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,480 Because if we want to be a people who are ready for God to 616 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,040 move powerfully, we must renew the covenant. 617 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,360 Remember Communion and then Revere the commander. 618 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,640 Like some of us, you're lacking conviction in your sin because 619 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,800 you haven't fallen on your face before the Lord that you don't 620 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,320 even fear God. But you got to Revere the 621 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,120 commander because God wants to do holy things in you, but he 622 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,440 also wants to do holy things around you. 623 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,880 So let me pray that we'd be these people. 624 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:22,080 So Jesus, Lord, help us, Lord, help us be a people who are 625 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,960 ready, God, ready to be a part of what you want to do here. 626 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,520 God, we truly believe, God, this is the place that you want to 627 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,239 make more like heaven. God, that Tempe is a place that 628 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,159 you're ready to to take ground in the form of hearts. 629 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,560 God that there are souls that are ready to fall in love with 630 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,280 Jesus, that the harvest is actually plentiful. 631 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,159 And God that we've been praying that you'd raise up laborers to 632 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:51,760 reach that harvest, to reach Tempe, to reach ASU. 633 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,560 God, we believe that you want to do that. 634 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,120 And God look at the laborers. God, look at us. 635 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,480 God, we desperately, we want to be a part of it. 636 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,080 And God we, we're going to, we're going to preach like we're 637 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,400 part, we want to be people who renew the covenant who are 638 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,400 pursuing you. God that we let us be people who 639 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,200 are sensitive to your Holy Spirit that as your word is 640 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,120 proclaimed God that it would Pierce our hearts and God we'd 641 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,800 be convicted, but that conviction would lead to joy in 642 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:24,680 Jesus. We would not just sit in that 643 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,120 and it Stew around in the guilt and the disobedience, but that 644 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,240 would motivate us to follow you more deeply. 645 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,240 And so God would you do that Lord, would you help us commune 646 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:38,120 with you Lord. So Father, even ready our hearts 647 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,760 now is before we take the Lord's Supper later. 648 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,920 And God, would you call us Lord God, would you even compel us 649 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,680 got to spend time with one another to spend time with you? 650 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,760 God, I pray that we get all the dust off our Bibles. 651 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,600 God that we'd mark in our Bible. God, we'd just be people of your 652 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,400 word communing with you. And God teach us to Revere you. 653 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,880 God, you lead this church, you lead this church. 654 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,760 We do not. And so, God, it's in your name 655 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,760 we can pray. Amen.