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Keeping Promises
Big Idea - keeping promises .......
God is faithful
Big Idea of the Series:
Big Idea of the Series:
This six-week series tells the story of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and their journey through the desert into the promised land.
Working backwards through the narrative,
Fall and Deliverance provides a unique vantage point on the ups and downs of Israel’s journey.
This retelling of redemptive history examines God’s faithfulness to us despite our weaknesses, as well as the charge he gives us to live righteously for his name.
Big Idea of the Message: God will keep his promises because he is faithful.
Application Point: We can build up our faith and courage by drawing near to God through reading his Word.
Sermon Ideas and Talking Points:
Keeping promise - they are going in ..... even w/o Moses
They become stuck a number times and repeated their mistakes, but God remained faithful throughout the ordeal.
In that same way, if it wasn’t for God’s unfailing love and grace, we would surely be doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes, remaining stuck in our own sin.
But just as God delivered the Israelites into the promised land based on his faithfulness to his promises, so also God will show his faithfulness to us in spite of our weaknesses.
Several times in this passage, God commands Joshua to be strong and courageous as he leads the people to finally enter in to their land.
God repeats that this courage can be found in believing that he will be with Joshua; he will not leave him or forsake him (1:5, 9).
God’s presence made a difference.
Tell a personal story about a time someone’s presence helped you overcome a scary situation or when your presence helped someone else be courageous.
God does not need me or you
3. The ark of the covenant symbolized God’s presence on earth during the time of the Old Testament.
It was this presence that miraculously pushed back the waters of the Jordan River so the people could cross over (3:9–17).
5. Have someone from your church share her testimony (prepared beforehand) of what reading the Bible regularly on her own has done for her life.
What are the tools she has found that work best for her to have meaningful personal study in the Bible?
What are her challenges to reading faithfully and how does she overcome them?
How has her relationship with God been affected?
I The Passing of the Baton
Joshua’s commission (1:1–9)
1 The opening words announce the death of Moses.
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of Moses to Israel.
For forty years he had been their leader in religious, domestic, judicial, military, and civic concerns.
With Moses’ death one epoch ended and another began.
Moses’ death separates the Book of Joshua from the Pentateuch, for, obviously, Moses’ leadership had ended.
A close relationship to the Pentateuch, however, is maintained because everything Joshua accomplished was the fulfillment of what God had begun with Moses.
Observe the many links between Moses and Joshua in this chapter alone (vv.1, 3, 5, 7–8, 13–15, 17).
“Servant of the LORD” is a title of honor shared by Abraham, David, and the Servant of the Lord in Isaiah.
(It is used most frequently of Moses: Exod 14:31; Num 12:7–8; Deut 34:5; and thirteen times in Joshua; “my servant” occurs twice.)
The term “servant” was used to designate even the highest officials of a king.
With the words “The LORD said to Joshua,” leadership is transferred from Moses to Joshua.
Joshua was specifically prepared and divinely appointed for this moment (see Introduction; Num 27:15–23 and Deut 3:28; 31:1–8).
Joshua is called the “son of Nun” ten times in this book (here, 2:1, 23; 6:6; 14:1; 17:4; 19:49, 51; 21:1; 24:29).
Nothing is known about Joshua’s father.
Already in the Pentateuch Joshua was called “Moses’ aide” (Exod 24:13; 33:11; Num 11:28).
Only at the end of his life was he honored with the title “servant of the LORD” (24:29).
2 Because of his disobedience, Moses was not allowed to lead the people of Israel into the Promised Land (Num 27:12–14).
His death was the occasion for God to renew his command for Israel to enter the land.
The crossing of the Jordan marked Israel’s entrance to the Promised Land, just as crossing the Red Sea had marked their departure from Egypt.
Flood conditions and the presence of the enemy on the other shore made this a formidable undertaking.
The land was always considered to be God’s gift to Israel (vv.3, 6, 11, 13, 15, et al.).
The promise of the land, which was first given to Abraham in Genesis 12:7, is a major theme throughout patriarchal history and the Exodus, especially in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The fulfillment of that promise is one of the major themes in Joshua.
3 In the Hebrew text nearly the same wording is found in vv.3–5a as in Deuteronomy 11:24–25a.
This is another of the many ties between Joshua and the Pentateuch, especially Deuteronomy.
The author has taken pains to demonstrate that the work of Joshua is the fulfillment of the Pentateuch.
4 The promise in Deuteronomy 11:24 (cf.
Deut 1:6–8) is reiterated here, although the territory that Joshua and Israel actually conquered was not nearly so vast.
The literal and complete fulfillment of this promise was not experienced by Israel until the reigns of David and Solomon (see 1 Kings 4:21, 24) and then once again in the time of Uzziah and Jeroboam.
Though this vast area on both sides of the Jordan was promised to Israel (Deut 11:24), there is another tradition that regards only the land west of the Jordan as the Promised Land.
According to this latter tradition, the territory possessed by the two and one-half tribes east of the Jordan lay outside the Promised Land (Josh 22:19).
In Deuteronomy 12:10, for example, Moses stated that Israel would arrive at the land God promised them after they had crossed the Jordan.
The word “desert” refers to the Negev in the south, and “Lebanon” (lit., “the Lebanon”) refers to the Lebanese mountains.
Palestine was referred to as “the Hittite country” by both Egypt and Babylonia even after the Hittites had withdrawn from the area (cf.
Judg 1:26; cf.
NIV Study Bible, p. 292 n. 1:4).
“The Great Sea” is the Mediterranean.
5 The conditions for the promise, “No one will be able to stand up against you,” are stated in vv.6–9.
It was Israel’s failure to observe these conditions that caused their humiliating defeat at Ai (7:1–5).
God’s promise, “I will be with you,” is most comforting and comprehensive (cf.
Deut 31:6–8).
The secret of Moses’ success had been God’s presence with him.
It would be the secret of Joshua’s success also, and it continues to be the secret of success for the church (cf.
Matt 28:19–20).
The conditions for this promise are found in vv.7–8 (cf.
7:12).
The statement “I will never leave you nor forsake you” is an example of the doubling of synonyms for emphasis, a common feature in this chapter (cf.
vv.7–9, 18).
6 The command to be “strong and courageous” is repeated three times in God’s charge to Joshua (vv.6–9) and again in the people’s reply to Joshua (v.18).
Perhaps Joshua was intimidated by the greatness of his predecessor Moses and the awesomeness of his own responsibility.
For this reason courage is emphasized in the Lord’s charge to him.
This passage introduces the two major parts of the book: the conquest of the land (chs.
1–12) and the division of the land (chs.
13–21).
7 “The law my servant Moses gave you” was probably some part or all of the Book of Deuteronomy (cf.
Deut 1:5 where the contents of Deuteronomy are specifically called “this law,” and see Deut 31:9–13).
The many material and verbal parallels with Deuteronomy show that the author of Joshua was familiar with its contents.
The covenant relationship between Israel and God as given at Sinai was contingent on Israel’s obedience to the law.
The expression “to the right or to the left” is a vivid way of stating that no deviation would be permitted.
8–9 Verse 8 is the theme verse of Joshua.
Throughout the rest of the book, the author draws illustrations from this crucial period in Israel’s history to demonstrate that God blesses his people when they obey him.
The book may have been written in a period of apostasy and national disaster in an effort to call the people back to obedience (see Introduction, p. 244).
The phrase “from your mouth” refers to the custom of muttering while studying or reflecting.
The Hebrew word translated “meditate” (hāg̱āh) literally means “mutter.”
When one continually mutters God’s Word to himself, he is constantly thinking about it.
Knowledge of God’s law is not enough; one must also “be careful to do” what it commands.
Thus the law of God is to control all thought and action.
“Everything written in it” must be observed, because obedience to certain parts only is no obedience at all.
As the Epistle of James (2:8–13) explains, such a practice shows respect for certain parts of the law only, but not for the Lawgiver.
It time enter the promised land.
But Moses would not go .....
He disobeyed God by striking the Rock for water rather than speaking to it....
Humble and obedience is needed God will get His work done with or with out you or me ....
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