Sermon Tone Analysis

Kids’ Corner

Play a game of tic tac toe with one of the kids, but avoid rules.

Come To the Altar

Intentional

Humble

Grateful

Visible

Vertical

Communal

Personal

Please turn in your Bibles to

Similar to when a coach or referee is explaining the rules of a sport.

God has Moses and now Joshua give them the details of the “rules and regulations”.

He helps them to see, not just how to score a point or points (kicking the ball into a goal, dropping a ball through a hoop or causing your opponent to miss a well placed shot in tennis, he also explains the things that we are not allowed to do.

The things that have been determined to be unfair, unsportsmanlike or in the case of God’s law, unholy.

In this passage Joshua calls it . . .

The Primary point of this message is that our worship/lives need to be Biblical.

Deut 11:26-

Deut 11:

Blessing

The things listed in this particular portion of the Law is the benefit that comes from obedience to the Law of God.

We may find it challenging to accept and believe these promises.

I would submit that a major obstruction to believing the promises of God is the effect of sin upon this world.

It is hard for us to see the goodness of God through the haze of the curse of sin.

We live everyday in a sin cursed world, yet God by His grace and through His spirit, revealing the truths of His Word, He opens the eyes of our understanding to allow us to see Him for who He truly is, and to see His Word for what it really is.

We are united with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection, which speaks of the UNION we have with Him, but other passages in Scripture address the Communion we have to strive for.

Turn to beginning in verse 13.

Paul talks about the struggle for communion, for our daily obedience and agreement with God’s commands in his letters to the Corinthians, The Ephesians and the Colossians, but Peter also addresses this . . .

Curse

There are also warnings.

Simply stating the negative effects that sin would have upon their lives.

All throughout God’s Word we are given examples, and even in our own lives we have experienced the effects of disobedience to His Law.

one stricken by misfortune and afflicted, whose existence is disastrous and whose presence brings misfortune.

Deut

These words were written as an encouragement and a warning.

Similar to when a coach or referee is explaining the rules of a sport.

God has Moses and now Joshua give them the details of the “rules and regulations”.

He helps them to see, not just how to score a point or points (kicking the ball into a goal, dropping a ball through a hoop or causing your opponent to miss a well placed shot in tennis, he also explains the things that we are not allowed to do.

The things that have been determined to be unfair, unsportsmanlike or in the case of God’s law, unholy.

In this passage Joshua calls it . . .

The Law of Moses

The Law of Moses- The Word of GodGod had spoken to Moses on Mt Sinai, and gave him the words to record in the law.

It was called here in Joshua “The Book of the Law of Moses” and also the “The Law of Moses” and “The Book of the Law”.

It is possible that this is referring to what we now know as the Torah.

The first five books of the canon.

Canon, being the 66 books of the Bible, established by the work of the Holy Spirit and recognized by church fathers based upon years of study, discussion, debate and prayer.

This was accomplished not by men but was a work of preservation done by and through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

We can have complete confidence and should have complete confidence and must have complete confidence in the Word of God that we now refer to as the Bible.

God had spoken to Moses on Mt Sinai, and gave him the words to record in the law.

It was called here in Joshua “The Book of the Law of Moses” and also the “The Law of Moses” and “The Book of the Law”.

It is possible that this is referring to what we now know as the Torah.

The first five books of the canon.

Canon, being the 66 books of the Bible, established by the work of the Holy Spirit and recognized by church fathers based upon years of study, discussion, debate and prayer.

This was accomplished not by men but was a work of preservation done by and through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

We can have complete confidence and should have complete confidence and must have complete confidence in the Word of God that we now refer to as the Bible.

We don’t merely accept this by means of blind faith, instead we are able to rest comfortably in the knowledge of God’s Words in part due to the science of textual criticism.

Because some have asked, and others will likely continue to ask, “How do we know this is God’s Word?”

The Israelites, were there watching Joshua proclaim the Law, and write down the law, but we don’t have that luxury or a person to person transfer in the way that they did.

66 books, by 35 authors, over a period of 1500 years, wrote the Scriptures as they Holy Spirit guided them.

Textual Criticism- Thousands of manuscripts that are only 150-300 years from the actual writings and events.

This far surpasses the number of texts and manuscript evidence for many of the most widely accepted literary texts from the ancient past.

We can logically and rationally accept that what we have in our hands is indeed the Word of God.

Deut

Our Worship is supposed to be Biblical, our lives are supposed to be obedient to God’s Word.

It is THE TRUTH.

IT IS THE FOUNDATION.

IT HELPS US TO KNOW GOD AND UNDERSTAND OUR DESPERATE NEED FOR HIM.

Intentional, Humble, Grateful, Visible, Vertical, Communal, Personal, Biblical

To the men, women, children and sojourners!

Everyone heard the Word of the Lord, Moses’ Law and each one would have heard something that educated them of their guilt and shortcoming before a Holy God.

It also encouraged them in the blessing of knowing His ways are best and would have recognized their need for a sacrifice that would cover the cost of their sins.

If you want to do a little extra credit assignment, you can read through , which is likely the “Whole law of Moses” that Joshua would have written on the sides of the altar on Mt Ebal, and what he also read in the presence of the people of Israel.

That passage likely encompasses all the blessing and the curse, which are spoken of in at least the amount that was written on the altar.

He may have read the entire Law from Genesis to Deuteronomy, which would have been their Scriptures.

Blessing

“Strong” is unbending, aligned with the faithful, unchanging Word of God.

Each of us need to have a steady intake of the Word of God, The Good News message, which works in concert with the acting power of the Holy Spirit, who is bringing us to know and believe in Christ and His beautiful redemption, in order that we can have a restored right relationship with our Heavenly Father.

The LORD God of Israel, the One God of Creation, in whose image we have been created.

These were warnings.

Simply stating the negative effects that sin would have upon their lives.

All throughout God’s Word we are given examples, and even in our own lives we have experienced the effects of disobedience to His Law.

As we obey the Word of God, it is for our good and for His glory.

The Argument of Circular reasoning: You are saying to do what the Bible says, because it says to do what it says.

You believe it is God’s Word because the Bible says it is God’s Word.

Yes, You can not rationally or logically argue for “an Ultimate” without Ultimately using itself as evidence.

You should not believe what I say, because I am the pastor, you should only believe what the Bible says.

Christians over the past couple of millenia have had our share of successes and failures in aligning with God’s Word and His will.

It is incredible and overwhelmingly obvious to all who honestly reflect upon history that God and His ways are good.

The very existence of an inkling of a moral code is evidence of God, and the correct application of that moral code (God’s Word) is always and forever will be a blessing!

PRAY

The things listed in this particular portion of the Law were the benefits that come from obedience to the Law of God.

We may find it challenging to accept and believe these promises.

I would submit that a major obstruction to believing the promises of God is the effect of sin upon this world.

It is hard for us to see the goodness of God through the haze of the curse of sin.

We live everyday in a sin cursed world, yet God by His grace and through His spirit opens the eyes of our understanding to allow us to see Him for who He truly is, and to see His Word for what it really is.

1 Peter 1:2

The testimonies of the lives and deaths of the apostles is additional proof of the truthfulness of the Word of God and proof of the reality that Christ indeed is the Messiah and Savior of the saints.

Historical evidence of the resurrection of Christ is overwhelming proof of Christ’s deity and the trustfulness of the Word Incarnate and the Message of Peace and Hope in His Word.