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Joshua chapter 8, if you've been
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this time, in the live stream, 
you will know what we touched 

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last week in chapter 7 and you 
would agree that it was a very 

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dark chapter heavy filled with 
Despair and discouragement. when

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we come to chapter 8, we see 
that God is about to give his 

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people a new direction from the 
very low point that we have left

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off from and just to recap, what
happened in chapter 7, Was 

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essentially the revelation of 
God's hatred towards sin and the

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actually, the actual power that 
can come from a man who invites 

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and into his life and how that 
sin in his life can invite 

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trouble into the camp. 
And the very thing that we were 

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left with was an execution upon,
a man's Disobedience upon the 

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man himself and his family for 
their trespass, known as Aiken. 

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And this execution of judgment 
has literally left a memorial 

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for the people of Israel for 
generations to come and it's 

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known as the valley of achor and
it really just means the valley 

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of trouble From this time on the
people will be able to see this 

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heap of stones because they had 
to Stone this family and realize

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that God is Holy. 
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very seriously. 
And this is where we left off 

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with. until we come to chapter 
8, verse 1, Before we read, it's

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not hard to imagine. 
What this people felt at this 

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point. 
I mean, we read it and we 

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already feel something. 
Can you imagine being in their 

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shoes? 
They have already been 

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embarrassed by a defeat from a 
small town, after a great 

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Victory with a great place. 
And now they are facing the, the

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bitterness and they're tasting 
the sourness of what it's like 

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to disobey God. 
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at this point, we're wondering 
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What's the next move? 
What is God going to say? 

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How are they going to advance? 
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as much as they have, yes, sin, 
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God's instruction to deal with 
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As quick as they receive the 
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And so the direction that God is
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from the sin point. 
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It's from the place of 
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displayed and obedience from 
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So, what is the Lord saying? 
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said to Joshua, do not fear and 
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Hold on. 
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Do not fear and do not be 
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Well, the simple answer is 
because they were Fearful and 

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they were in the spirit. 
But the question is, why what 

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reasons? 
Are given for this people to be 

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crippled by anxiety. 
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dejected. 
I think there's at least two 

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reasons, and the two reasons 
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Israel. 
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reasons for the fear and the 
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experiencing are very much, the 
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people Christians, also, fear 
and despair. 

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When they fail, When they sin 
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When they disappoint, when they 
get off track these very same 

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fears are real in the state of 
anybody's failure in their 

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spiritual journey with God. 
So they disobey at least one man

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dead but it reflected the whole 
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So why the fear? 
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they feared, that God would no 
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before. 
I want you to think about it. if

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you understand the Holiness of 
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stance that he has against sin, 
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But what's dangerous? 
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you were thoroughly 
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the danger is that if sin is 
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convinced of his Purity that you
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there's no way that I can. 
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He is just too brilliant. 
He is just too holy 

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Transcendent. 
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walk with him in the same way 
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And that's certainly true for 
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experienced it with their own 
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How God is over and over Warren,
because you've done this, I'm no

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longer going with you. 
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and so you can imagine what 
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Surely we have lost God's favor.
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experience him the same way I 
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The only reason why somebody 
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After they have sinned, please 
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The only reason why that fear is
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If you are a person who thinks 
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think that you can be reconciled
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only planning to sin again. see 
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understand that no human would 
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reason, we convince ourselves 
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expect that from a human 
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I'm just going to keep attacking
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Keep going against your back. 
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sorry. 
And you're going to accept me 

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again. 
Maybe in forgiveness, but surely

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not in reconciliation, two, 
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But then, for some reason, there
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thinking. 
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merciful that he will receive my
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Not so he will forgive sure, but
not reconciliation, see Godly 

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sorrow. 
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condition to restore relational 
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Godly sorrow that leads to 
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Not the shallow, I'm sorry. 
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Knowing that you're going to do 
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No it's a deep understand that 
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it takes by his grace and his 
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very thing that grieve them in 
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But then again there is sincere 
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actually fail at some point. 
It can be grieveson or it can be

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some manifestation of on Christ 
like added to that just pops out

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of nowhere. 
And you realize, you mean 

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yourself, how did that come out?
I didn't even know that was in 

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me. 
Only to make you feel so 

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discouraged that you can't even 
think about how your future will

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look like with God again. 
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such a fears to understand, not 
just his Holiness, but his mercy

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and his love. 
I think of a verse like, Micah 

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718, just listen to these words.
Who is a God Like, You know what

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that means? 
Who can compare to you every 

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other supposed God out there, 
none can compare to this God, 

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the god of the Bible. 
Why then it begins to describe 

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the strong qualities that make 
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Pardoning iniquity passing over 
transgression for the remnant of

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his inheritance. 
Now, listen to this, he does not

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retain his anger forever because
he Delights in steadfast love in

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the new King James because he 
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We understand, he's merciful, 
but you know, where many even 

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spiritual Christians fail, to 
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Delights and being merciful. 
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Because many people are 
convinced God will forgive we 

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counsel people and says, God 
will forgive you after they 

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confess sin and it's harder for 
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preach it to others, but it's 
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difficult, that God is merciful.
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But it's not just that he has a 
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am bound to forgive you, because
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a fracture in my appreciation 
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know, he Delights in giving 
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and deep gratification gratitude
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Towards the fact that you are 
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Now that's the hard part. 
God actually wants to do it and 

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he actually feels a way towards 
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So why don't we believe it? 
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right? 
But why does God find pleasure 

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in giving Mercy? 
We understand the contract part,

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right? 
I said my word, that's why I'm 

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going to do it. 
So here's some mercy, no. 

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He's waiting to give it he's 
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He is eager to extend it. 
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because he knows that it will 
restore the relationship that 

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was once lost because of your 
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Is the very thing that will 
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knows that that Mercy's the only
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delighting in the fact that you 
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I think that's where our heads 
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I think that's where we find 
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forgiveness, that he is longing 
for you to just turn and confess

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so that he can shower you with 
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Knowing that this is the very 
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again for you to walk 
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So, the thing that we have to 
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spiritual Believers, is that 
Mercy is just some contract, 

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it's just some benefit, but he's
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You just have to do it or else 
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That that Mercy, something that 
he regret, that he established 

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in his word, but he has to do it
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found to be a liar. 
That's completely false. 

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He's eager and he's longing to 
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is no other God like him. 
Here's the attitude that some 

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people have there is no way God 
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I blew it. 
God won't bless my life with 

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himself, like the way he would 
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If I didn't mess up. 
Have you ever thought that? 

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I can tell you that many, if not
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point Yes, sin has consequences.
There's one thing that if true 

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repentance comes to the table 
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With a Heart of Love behind it. 
Longing, in a waiting for you to

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receive it with the faith that 
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But it's not just that, that's 
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would have had, we don't have to
guess what? 

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Other fears that these 
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their own hearts, and the Lord 
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And do not be dismayed. 
Take all the fighting men with 

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you and arise. 
Go up to AI. 

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Here's the other fear. 
That they would not be able to 

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defeat the enemy again because 
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So the fear here is that they'd 
Fallen they've been embarrassed.

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They've been chaste. 
And God targets where their 

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terror is. 
And he says, listen, I want you 

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to get up and run back and fight
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You know what that means that 
when you and I sinned with we've

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Fallen, it doesn't mean that 
God's program for our lives is 

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canceled. 
It doesn't mean the whole thing 

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now is shattered. 
It doesn't mean now that we walk

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aimlessly and we were just 
wondering what other purposes 

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because we blew it. 
No. 

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The moment we fall God, has 
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back on our feet and to resume 
where we left off because 

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there's still a promised land to
be conquered, there's still an 

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inheritance for you and I to 
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And so these people were so 
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that they were paralyzed and 
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Now, here's the thing. 
In their case, it was an actual 

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physical enemy. 
Here's the fight that you, and I

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have it's against sin. 
And I have to tell you this the 

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same way that the Israelites 
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felt like they couldn't 
overcome. 

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AI is the same kind of fear that
many Christians experience when 

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they keep trying to overcome a 
sin in the lives and it can't 

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seem to be overcome I fought 
this thing for years. 

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I've had strides a victory only 
to fall back into it. 

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Again, I can't seem to break 
this habit and what you have as 

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a result is, many Christians 
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their spiritual journey. 
With Christ, never advancing or 

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growing or going from glory to 
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And it's very much, a fearful 
thing for many believers. 

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And I can tell you that all you 
need to do is go to enough 

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conferences. 
You know conferences right where

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there's a special weekend where 
you give undivided attention to 

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the word of God, to be 
challenged to change a certain 

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way. 
So that by next year you look 

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different than how you came that
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And with those challenging 
messages and those calls to 

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surrender and to lay down 
certain sins and lay down 

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certain mentalities, what is 
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I mean, you have different 
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And here's one of them people 
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convicted by the Holy Spirit, 
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something in their lives that 
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be met with this objection but I
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I leave this environment. 
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Only to go back to my home, only
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friends. 
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by the same sin, that I know 
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I'm afraid that I'm going to 
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And that sin can be anything, it
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It could be envied, it could be 
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It can be the fear of, man, it 
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We can't seem to shake off. 
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paralyzed by is this fear that I
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And here's how some people think
God has given me Victory, when I

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got saved over certain things, 
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victory over. 
I've lived with it too long. 

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I've seen God Set Me Free from 
this sin and that sin and 

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listen. 
I know that I'm saved but this 

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thing can't seem to break off. 
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much I've tried, it's just going
to resurface again no matter how

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much I feel like those chains 
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I've run free. 
I feel like I'm arrested by that

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thing out of nowhere again. 
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bother Why bother confessing 
why? 

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Bother asking for prayer? 
Why bother fasting? 

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Why bother anymore? 
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Is the same solution found here 
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Look at the second part of verse
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See, I have given into your hand
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his City and his land, I look at
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and it's King as you did to 
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the answer. 
How is God encouraging his 

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people to get up and face his 
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That the enemy can't be overcome
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He says the same thing that 
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same thing that you would do to 
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Now why is that significant? 
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different levels of threats. 
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Fortress. 
Could even imagine penetrating 

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through that place and yet, God 
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is smaller place. 
Still the same solution Victory 

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is still possible. 
There's nothing too big, nothing

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too small. 
There's no big sins and small 

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sins in the eyes of God since I 
have different consequences but 

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all of them can no victory over.
If we what simply believe the 

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very same substance that would 
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And the Israelites is the very 
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require in the New Covenant, you
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Faith. 
Faith. 

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You can't look at one thing and 
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over that and look at another 
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me victory over that the moment.
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and talk like that. 
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forfeited, the substance that 
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And so what is necessary is to 
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which are greater than the old 
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ourselves of those promises 
bring them before God and allow 

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the Holy Spirit to tap us into 
that power so we can experience 

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it. 
But when we start saying things,

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like I don't think I can ever 
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This is just the way I'm wired 
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as I think, I have to live with 
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We forfeit the very thing that 
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victory Very dangerous. 
Everything hinges on faith even 

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victory over sin. 
It's not striving, it's not 

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sweating, it's not eliminating 
necessarily, it has to start in 

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the core place of believing and 
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God see, they needed to believe 
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If we overcame Jericho, surely 
we can overcome a, i guard, 

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targeted their lack of faith, 
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And try to breathe hope into 
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hope, then you will never know 
victory. 

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It was true for them in the 
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spiritual. 
You have to believe. 

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If you don't, you will see 
defeated. 

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You will stay Park where they 
were parked and never know 

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greater strides of inheritance 
in the Kingdom. 

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It's so true. 
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to realize that, This was their 
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Believing God. 
There are many prayers in the 

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Bible. 
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One of my favorite ones are, 
when Jacob knew that he was 

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going to face his brother Esau 
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You know, why he was terrified? 
Because his mother said go to 

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your uncle Laban and I will 
fetch for you when your 

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brother's anger subsides, he 
never came. 

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There was no messenger ever sent
for years. 

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Can you imagine go move in with 
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And when your brother is 
finished, convincing himself 

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that he wants to murder you, 
then I'll call you to come back 

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home, not one email. 
Now, one text message for years,

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Then as he's trying to travel 
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Esau is on his way and he's 
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does in Genesis 32 12, he says 
to God. 

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He says you said and he lays out
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him. 
Personally, you said he prayed 

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the very Promises of God. 
She, we need to know the 

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promises of God. 
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communicate them to God. 
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You said, sin shall not have 
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under the law. 
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that That's bold, but we have 
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then, as we bring these 
promises, God Honors that Act of

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Faith and then begins to animate
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how to trample over every enemy,
including your sin and mine 

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These are the fears that they 
were facing the very same fears 

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that many Christians experience 
when they fail. 

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Look what happens here in verse 
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He says you shall do to a on its
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it's King. 
Only it spoil and it's 

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livestock. 
You shall take us plunder for 

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yourselves. 
Lay an ambush against the city 

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behind it. 
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You know why? 
Because it's very much a 

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different instructions than what
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What did he tell them concerning
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He says as you go in and attack 
you be careful that you don't 

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take one thing to yourself. 
It's all devoted to destruction 

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and the gold and silver. 
That's mine. 

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You are leaving empty-handed. 
Nothing belongs to you, 

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everything. 
Belongs to me. 

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But then here he says the 
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The plunder is yours. 
Joshua 6. 

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Nothing is yours. 
Joshua 8. 

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It's all yours. 
You know why? 

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That's a sad truth, can anybody 
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Because there was a man named 
Aiken. 

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Who could have just waited a 
little longer. and the very 

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thing that his heart desired, he
would have experienced What was 

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Akins fault. 
When God says, it's not yours. 

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He took it anyway, and he paid 
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And just a few moments later if 
he had just obeyed God the very 

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thing that he wanted to have. 
He would have had and had God's 

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blessing on it but he couldn't 
wait and trust God. 

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This is a very important lesson 
in life, brothers and sisters 

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Oftentimes, when we want to move
ahead of God, or we want to do 

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something against his word, we 
convince ourselves that it's 

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because we will be at Advantage.
Let me guarantee you something. 

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Whenever you are tempted, with 
that thought to move ahead of 

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God to do something, apart from 
his permission, to disobey his 

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written word, you will always 
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See God said, no, he didn't say 
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going to have he didn't reveal 
the whole thing. 

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And God doesn't have to reveal 
the whole thing. 

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We just have to trust him at his
word. 

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So when he says, no, we say 
Amen. 

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When he says, yes we say Amen. 
Sometimes we want explanations. 

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For why doors are closed. 
We want explanations for why 

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things are not going the way. 
We think they should be going 

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yet on the other side. 
There's something to experience 

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yet. 
Many people have sabotage that 

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experience like Aiken has 
because they don't know how to 

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Simply trust God in what not 
just his word, but his timing. 

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It was a timing issue. if he had
just waited a little longer, he 

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would have known what God wanted
him to know, but he didn't wait 

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on God. 
And he lost not just this but a 

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lifetime experience. 
Oh a can. 

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If you would have just waited 
for God don't let that be the 

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commentary for you and me in our
life. 

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Trust God at his word. 
Trust God in the sovereignty 

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over your Affairs in life, 
believe him and believe in his 

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timing and you will know maximum
blessing you know many 

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Christians they want something 
something so bad enough that 

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they're willing to push through 
all Council push through all 

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advice, even push through the 
barriers of the word of God to 

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get what they want and they pay 
for it in the end. 

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God knows what he's doing. 
And we see this on this side, a 

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can we didn't know it, but we 
see it. 

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And God has given us these 
things for us to consider. 

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Don't rush. 
God, don't rush in life. 

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Trust him at his word and he 
will bless you for it. 

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Now, what happens we come to 
verse 3, down to verse 8, Joshua

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is going to give the Israelites 
a new set of instructions of how

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to overcome a. 
I that fear that this pair is 

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eliminated because of Truth 
shining upon the character of 

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God and his nature. 
And what's important from verse 

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3 down to verse 8, as he begins 
to give instructions, is verse a

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look at verse 8 with me, he says
in as soon as you have taken the

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city, you shall set the city on 
fire. 

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You shall do according to what 
the word of the Lord. 

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So you know, where these 
instructions came? 

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I'm from not Josh was mine. 
God's mind. 

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God gave them to Joshua and they
came through Joshua to the 

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people. 
Why is that important? 

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Why is it important to know that
these verses have come from God?

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These instructions? 
Because they look very much 

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different than the strategy that
they had in their initial attack

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to a I very much different. 
You put these instruction side 

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by side. 
You see completely different way

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of understanding this whole 
circumstance. 

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For example, look at verse 3, So
Joshua and all the fighting men 

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are rose to go up to a i and 
Joshua chose 30,000, Mighty Men 

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of Valor and sent them out by 
night. 

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Now, go to Joshua 7, verse 3. 
Same verse number, different 

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chapter. 
This is when he sent his spies 

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to go out to Ai and they being 
despised returned to Joshua and 

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said to him. 
Do not have all the people go up

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but let about two or three 
thousand men go up and attack 

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AI. 
Do not make the whole people 

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toil up. 
Therefore they are few Do you 

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see the difference? 
So when the spies went out in 

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their own understanding and 
estimation, they thought we 

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don't need everybody to go up. 
This is a small place. 

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A i this is nothing like Jericho
why send most of our troops when

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we can just send some of our 
troops. 

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And if we send some of our 
troops, then we don't have to 

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get everybody. 
All worked up and tired for 

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nothing. 
Hey, if you read chapter seven 

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without eight, you think this is
smart. 

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This is wisdom. 
This is good thinking The only 

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missed it by multiplying the 
soldiers by 10. 

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Here's the idea. 
How do we get this verse 3 and 

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verse 3 from these chapters. 
Very simple, very simple 

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conclusion. 
God does things differently than

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we do? 
God thinks differently, he 

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strategizes differently. 
He plans differently, he 

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executes differently. 
And what embarrassment, what a 

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humbling experience it would 
have been for Joshua to hear 

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30,000 men. 
We only missed it by so many. 

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We thought two or three 
thousand. 

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And then God says, no, I 
actually want 30,000 to go up to

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AI. 
How can this be? 

452
00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,100
Well, we can't condemn this man,
too quick, because many of us do

453
00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:34,800
the same thing. 
We kind of take on life and we 

454
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,400
look at situations and 
circumstances and we think that 

455
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,600
we can do it with our own 
thinking. 

456
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,100
Apart from God's intervention or
wisdom or word or Council? 

457
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:51,300
Only to find out later on that. 
God's way was the best way. 

458
00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:56,400
And I want you to think how many
people take on different aspects

459
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,900
of life. 
Without dependency on the Lord. 

460
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,700
How many people try to do 
ministry without God's word? 

461
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,700
Many, you'd be shocked to know 
how they think that. 

462
00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:09,000
If we just do it this way, we 
will win more people. 

463
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,900
If we just do it this way, we 
will get more money. 

464
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,500
If we just do it this way, fill 
in the blank. 

465
00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:21,100
Because culture is changing and 
people have different attention 

466
00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:24,100
spans. 
Now, So let's move away from 

467
00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:26,400
this and let's introduce this 
and this and this and that as 

468
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:27,800
well, God didn't know what he 
was talking about. 

469
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,600
As though, God didn't have 20/20
in mind when he gave us his 

470
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,300
word. 
Or take on relationships without

471
00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:38,600
God's advice. 
We are so given to our emotions 

472
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,800
in our judgment. 
So we go, this is right when God

473
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,000
has clear warnings and God has 
given us people to give us 

474
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,200
warnings. 
And yet we still move ahead 

475
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,200
without him because we think we 
can do this apart from him. 

476
00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:56,600
Business, you name it? 
This is a perfect example. 

477
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,000
You look at chapter 7, you see 
nothing of god mentioned. 

478
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:07,100
Nothing of god mentioned that is
always a recipe for disaster and

479
00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:10,700
it's very simple, know his word 
and bring it to him and prayers.

480
00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:13,200
I know it's not deep, but it 
saves you from a lot. 

481
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,800
And they thought we are going to
save our resources. 

482
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,900
Men are not going to be tired. 
We can get this over quickly. 

483
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,100
Whatever. 
Seems to make sense, if it's not

484
00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:27,400
aligned with God's will, no 
matter what people say, if it's 

485
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,000
not according to this, it's 
bound to fail. 

486
00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:34,500
It's bound to fail but we don't 
have to wait for us to fail to 

487
00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:38,700
experience the bitterness of it.
See, they came to this low point

488
00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:41,200
because of their own decision 
mainly because of a consent, but

489
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,200
secondly, we see that they have 
they have come to this point of 

490
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,700
thinking, we understand how this
whole thing works. 

491
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,000
And you know what, all it took 
for them to come to that point 

492
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,000
one victory over Jericho, That's
not an accident. 

493
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,100
The sequence is Not an Accident 
victory over Jericho then they 

494
00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,500
come to a on the go. 
We got this figured out get two 

495
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:02,100
or three thousand let's send him
over and we'll move on wrong. 

496
00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,100
But how does a person come to 
that kind of mentality of being 

497
00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:09,000
independent from the Lord. 
I can guarantee you from many 

498
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,800
examples in the Bible that it 
usually grows after a taste of 

499
00:29:13,808 --> 00:29:19,400
victory. 
After God has used you for 

500
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,600
something. 
After you've seen yourself 

501
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,800
living consistently in a state 
of spiritual power. 

502
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,800
After being used even a moment, 
all it takes is one sermon 

503
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,600
brother. for people to say, 
Whatever they want to say to 

504
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,200
praise all. 
It takes is one sermon for this 

505
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:45,100
type of thinking to rush. 
At the Takeover. 

506
00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:49,300
Or you fail to feel as though 
you need to continually depend 

507
00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:52,200
upon the Lord. 
You know what the scary part is.

508
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,800
They thought they can do this 
without God's counsel after one 

509
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,500
victory over Jericho, right? 
But think about the victory over

510
00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:01,500
Jericho, did it have anything to
do with them? 

511
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:06,900
No, it was God's Supernatural 
intervention, based on what 

512
00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:13,200
marching around walls, God 
intentionally made it seem like 

513
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,400
they would look foolish so that 
he would receive maximum Glory, 

514
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,200
not just in the eyes of the 
Israelites, but the eyes of all 

515
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,500
the people in the land of 
Canaan. 

516
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:26,100
But here's how subtle pride is 
that, even if you and others 

517
00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:28,900
know that it was God. 
You somehow are able to convince

518
00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:30,700
yourself that there was 
something about you in it. 

519
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:37,000
That's how subtle this thing is.
You can be totally convinced 

520
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,900
that one moment that surely this
was God in and through me only 

521
00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:44,100
for the next for you to think 
well, God could have chosen 

522
00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:48,700
anybody but he chose me. 
I'm the vessel that God used to 

523
00:30:48,708 --> 00:30:51,400
bless others. 
I'm the person that God gave 

524
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,500
surely, There's Something About 
Me, forgot to give it to me and 

525
00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:59,900
not her and not him. 
Dangerous thinking and this is 

526
00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:06,800
how sinful we really are that 
even in being just a vessel just

527
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,300
a cup in the hand, just an 
instrument, we can still think 

528
00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,900
that it has something to do with
us and then we begin to think 

529
00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,100
that we can do this on our own 
and figure it all out. 

530
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,900
And from there things go, really
South. 

531
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,300
I think it was. 
I remember that, man. 

532
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,600
The year that King Uzziah died. 
I saw the Lord high and lifted 

533
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,300
up. 
Who's I died? 

534
00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:31,100
A tragic death. 
He died of Pride, leprosy broke 

535
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,500
out on his forehead, no accident
there. 

536
00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:38,300
Because the man was filled with 
pride, how he became king at 16 

537
00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:42,300
years old, he had a good Mentor,
he knew how to seek the Lord and

538
00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:45,100
as long as he sought the Lord, 
he prospered and boy, did he 

539
00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:49,100
Prosper read? 
Second chronicles 26, Victory 

540
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:53,000
inventions Fame. 
And then there's one scary verse

541
00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:59,700
when he died Shia became strong.
Everything went downhill. 

542
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:05,600
See you again, it's in that 
place where you are seeing 

543
00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:08,200
blessing flow through you and to
you. 

544
00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,500
That the cancer of pride has 
some soil to work with so that 

545
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:16,700
it can spread only to create a 
spiritual leprosy. 

546
00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:20,800
And have us crashing down for 
all men to see. 

547
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,300
And so here we see an example of
that. 

548
00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:29,900
Different set of instructions, 
guys, God thinks about life, got

549
00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:32,900
things about money, got things 
about relationships, God thinks 

550
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,600
about modesty, God thinks about 
church, God thinks about every 

551
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,800
aspect of who we are differently
than you. 

552
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,300
And I do and the closer we align
our minds and our hearts to his 

553
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:45,900
will, the more we will know 
Victory and we will save 

554
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:48,100
ourselves time energy and much 
pain. 

555
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,200
When we do. 
So that's certainly true in this

556
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,300
case. 
So what happens? 

557
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,900
They move on? 
And then we see here in verse 4 

558
00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:02,400
down to verse 24, long details 
of what. 

559
00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:05,300
Well, the first Chunk we see 
that God gives the explanation 

560
00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:08,000
of what they were supposed to do
in the second part, we get a 

561
00:33:08,008 --> 00:33:11,400
detailed record of the execution
of what they were supposed to do

562
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,600
and so we can read through all 
of it and there seems to be a 

563
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,400
lot of repetition but it's all 
to just show that they obeyed 

564
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,100
perfectly what God demanded of 
them. 

565
00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:21,700
But you know what? 
I love about the strategy. 

566
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,200
You know what's wonderful about 
this Victory, here it is. 

567
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,600
We see here in verse 6. 
That Joshua perhaps inspiration 

568
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,100
by God, knew ahead of time. 
What the enemy was going to do 

569
00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:40,000
and they plan accordingly. 
So let's summarize what this 

570
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,200
strategy was. 
They were supposed to go up as 

571
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,500
one group only for another group
of Israelites to come behind the

572
00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:49,700
city of AI. 
And what the strategy was is 

573
00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:53,700
that this group would come and 
plant themselves before AIA, I 

574
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,500
would see the Israelites and 
they would say we got him before

575
00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:59,500
we're going to get him again. 
So they come with all their men 

576
00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:01,900
to the point where they actually
leave the city behind. 

577
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,300
Not one man was left behind an 
AI and they chased the 

578
00:34:05,308 --> 00:34:08,900
Israelites as the Israelites on 
the front, pretended that they 

579
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:11,500
were defeated, pretended, that 
they were fearful. 

580
00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:15,100
And as they chase them, Joshua 
would turn and bring up a 

581
00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:18,400
javelin, as a signal. 
And the ones that were an We're 

582
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,199
now come and burn down the city 
and as the smoke would rise to 

583
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,699
heaven, the people of are would 
turn around. 

584
00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:27,000
See it, they would come and it 
would be a sandwich. 

585
00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:29,400
That was the that was 
essentially the plan beautiful 

586
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,600
plan, wonderful plan. 
But what makes this so important

587
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,699
is verse 6. 
Look at verse 6, this is what 

588
00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:37,000
Joshua is instruction. 
He goes and they being the 

589
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,900
people of a I will come out 
after us until we have drawn 

590
00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:42,699
them away from the city for they
will say, they are fleeing from 

591
00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:45,600
us just as before so we will 
flee before them. 

592
00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:53,199
What's important with that? 
Joshua knew ahead of time. 

593
00:34:53,500 --> 00:35:00,200
What the enemy was going to do? 
And Joshua 8. 

594
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,200
That's very important. 
In real war strategy. 

595
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:09,500
In the pages of the New 
Testament in the realm that you 

596
00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,600
and I are living in, it is as 
equally as important in our 

597
00:35:12,607 --> 00:35:18,700
spiritual battle. to do what to 
know ahead of time of what the 

598
00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:25,800
enemy can do in our lives, in 
our church, That is not a call 

599
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,600
to be mystical. 
Nor is that a call to just 

600
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,900
pretend and think maybe this is 
no, it is actually instructed by

601
00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:36,100
the Holy Spirit towards you. 
And I and here's the verse 

602
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,700
second, Corinthians 2:11 Local. 
Paul tells this church and for 

603
00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:42,400
all churches, for all time. 
What? 

604
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,700
They are instructed to do now, 
look at this. 

605
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,300
He says here, so that we would 
not be outwitted by Satan. 

606
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,400
For, we are not ignorant of his 
designs. 

607
00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,200
We've been taught our lives to 
know what God is able to do and 

608
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,200
what God wants us to do. 
Sure. 

609
00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:03,800
I don't think we spend much 
time. 

610
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:09,200
Understanding how Satan works. 
Paul says, you're called not to 

611
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,700
be unaware of his designs of his
schemes of his craft, the 

612
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:18,700
abilities of his strategies. 
You know why? 

613
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:25,000
Because you and I are in a war. 
You've heard this many times, 

614
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,500
but I'll say it again. 
As much as you might not want to

615
00:36:27,508 --> 00:36:30,000
believe you're in a war, you're 
in a war. 

616
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:32,900
As much as you might think that 
you're not on wartime mentality,

617
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:37,100
you were still in a war. 
And the less you think you're in

618
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:42,500
a war the more you are a Sitting
Duck for Satan pretend all you 

619
00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:44,600
want be an ostrich and plant 
your head in the sand and 

620
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,300
pretend that there's no danger 
around you. 

621
00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:50,100
You are literally becoming easy 
prey for the enemy. 

622
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,700
And you don't have to be a super
Christian to figure out how 

623
00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:58,500
Satan works. 
We have to be spiritual, 

624
00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,600
absolutely, but why did Paul say
this to the Corinthian Church? 

625
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,600
Why did he say so that we would 
not be out with it so that we 

626
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,000
will not be unaware of the 
schemes of Satan. 

627
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,300
Now, understand the context 
here. 

628
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,900
Last week we talked about how 
one man sin in the camp can 

629
00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:15,500
affect the whole Camp. 
Remember and we went to First 

630
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:17,500
Corinthians to see the example 
of that. 

631
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,700
There was a man who had an 
unlawful relationship with his 

632
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,900
father's wife. 
Even the world doesn't even 

633
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:28,700
celebrate such a thing. 
And he says, get rid of him, see

634
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:32,700
there are sometimes certain sins
in the local church sometimes 

635
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,700
where you don't have to go 
through the necessary steps 

636
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:39,500
where you have to sometimes, use
Extreme Measures for the sake of

637
00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:41,000
saving. 
The whole congregation. 

638
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:42,500
That was certainly true in this 
case. 

639
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,800
So he was excommunicated in that
moment and then when you come to

640
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,600
Second Corinthians, something 
happens between those two books.

641
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,100
At first, he has to go, he has 
to go because he's not 

642
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:56,800
repentant. 
So he goes then you come to 

643
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,400
Second Corinthians and what 
happens? 

644
00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:00,400
He is. 
Now speaking to the same group 

645
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,800
of people and he's saying, 
listen, don't add sorrow to him.

646
00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:10,100
If he's come back and he's 
asking for forgiveness, do not 

647
00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:14,600
withhold that forgiveness, do 
not withhold, Your Love, shower 

648
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,800
him with your love, shower him 
with your compassion and then he

649
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,400
goes on to say so that we would 
not be outwitted by Satan. 

650
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,800
For we are not ignorant of his 
designs. 

651
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:29,200
That's the context. 
So, what is he trying to say? 

652
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,500
He's trying to say this, in this
particular situation in your 

653
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:37,500
church Corinthians, As you are 
trying to figure out how to 

654
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:40,500
handle this situation, know that
Satan is lurking. 

655
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,300
And that, as this penitent 
broken man is coming to you 

656
00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:51,900
asking for restoration. 
Give it to him because if you 

657
00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:54,500
think you can withhold it, 
listen, because many people 

658
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:58,200
think if I withhold forgiveness 
and love, it will teach them a 

659
00:38:58,207 --> 00:38:59,800
greater lesson never to do it 
again. 

660
00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:03,100
And so, who knows? 
What was going on in their mind 

661
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:05,500
to think? 
Let's not give it to him, he 

662
00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:07,100
blew it. 
He embarrassed us. 

663
00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:08,900
Look how Paul spoke to us, who 
knows? 

664
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:09,900
What was going on there. 
Mine. 

665
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:13,200
But listen, if it did not come 
to the point of restoration and 

666
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,300
rebuilding they were playing at 
this Athens hands. 

667
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,300
Because Satan would love nothing
more than for this person to be 

668
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:23,800
so overwhelmed by despair that 
he would be crushed to the 

669
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,100
point. 
Where who knows what he would do

670
00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,700
to himself, or who knows what 
direction you would be headed 

671
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:30,400
into. 
Just be careful. 

672
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,900
Be careful how you handle the 
situation. 

673
00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:36,000
Now, you know how subtle Satan 
is? 

674
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,900
Check this out? 
The first time. 

675
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:42,500
With this church, he was working
in another way. 

676
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:44,100
I believe, you know, how he was 
working. 

677
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When the man was unrepented and 
sitting in the church, and they 

678
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all knew to knew about it, they 
were tolerant He was working 

679
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there. 
He didn't want to make him think

680
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that it was that serious. 
He didn't want to think that 

681
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this was an emergency situation.
So he convinced them to the 

682
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point where they weren't morning
over. 

683
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They weren't broken over it and 
when Paul sheds light, they go, 

684
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huh, and they get rid of him. 
And now, the enemy is still 

685
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,500
there, so that when he comes 
back, he's trying to convince 

686
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them. 
See he always wants to find an 

687
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open door in. 
In the first case is, When sin 

688
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came into say, tolerate it, when
they got rid of it, he wants the

689
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,800
Other Extreme now, be legalistic
and condemn him. 

690
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Christianity. 
Is not a game church is not a 

691
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game. 
We are dealing with people's 

692
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Souls here. 
And so, when we understand this 

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example, it calls for 
a