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The Jericho Wars:
Joshua was out looking the situation over, getting ready for the conquest of the land.
Now can you imagine how Joshua must have felt?
He was following a very great leader, Moses.
“Moses my servant is dead, now arise and conquer the land.”
Joshua knew that his biggest problem was not the PAST and trying to live up to Moses achievements.
His biggest problem was not BEFORE him, conquering the land.
God had given them promise about that.
IT WAS WITHIN HIM.
And by the way, when we are defeated on the outside, it is because first of all we’ve been defeated on the inside.
We win the battle before the war ever starts or we lose the battle before the war starts.
And God wanted to make sure that before this battle began, Joshua had the victory---and that is why Jesus came to see him.
YOU SEE.....PUBLIC VICTORIES ARE WON IN PRIVATE.
The most important part of your life is the part only God sees.
The people didn’t see this event take place.
Just as it was with Jacob; Jacob was left alone and wound up wrestling all night long.
.Jacob was alone with God; it determined the course of his public life afterward.
Nobody saw David kill the lion and the bear.
He did that ALONE, but it prepared him to fight the giant.
You’re liable to think to yourself, “Well, it’s really important when I’m standing in front of the Sunday school class, or behind the pulpit, or seated at an instrument”.
They are important places.
But the most important part of your life is THE PART ONLY GOD SEES, when you and God meet alone.
It is there that God gives you victory.
Joshua made THREE very encouraging discoveries when he went through this crisis experience.
I think if you and I would lay hold of these same discoveries it might help us when we face crisis experiences.
There is someone here today who is so glad to be here, because you are away from the battlefield.
Oh, you have had a rough time.
There are problems to solve, there are people to help and when you came this morning it was as though God had said, “Look—you’ll have to go home again, you can’t run away.
You can’t do like Jonah.
But when you go back you’re going to be better equipped to face your Jericho.
If you will lay hold of these 3 discoveries that Joshua made, you can face your Jericho.
\\ *1st - JOSHUA DISCOVERED HE WASN’T ALONE!*
You say, “Well, he had a million Jews working with him, fighting with him.”
I’m not talking about that.
Have you ever considered the loneliness of leadership?
I remember when I first started going to church I’d sit there and say of those preachers, “They’ve got it made!”
Now, I’m beginning to understand some of the loneliness of leadership.
A leader has to make decisions that have far reaching consciences.
If I were on my own, just doing my own thing, going where I want to go and preaching were I want to preach, it would be a relatively simple thing.
But every decision I make involves other people.
And it has far reaching results.
That is the loneliness of leadership.
But, you say, “You are surrounded by people.
There are people praying for you.”
That’s right!
And I have council and this is good, thank God for that.
But as the late President Harry Truman had on his desk---“the buck stops here”.
Here is Joshua looking at his army and saying, “These people have put their lives in my hands.
Here are families, here are children.”
Joshua is the man who is going to give them a place to live, water to drink, and food to eat.
Here is Joshua with the future of a nation in his hand.
That is a big undertaking; that is the loneliness of leadership.
And yet, Joshua discovered he wasn’t alone.
Now he knew he would not be alone, because, back in chapter 1 God had promised to be with him.
God has promised that He would be with us.
“Lo, I am with you always, or at least till it gets rough”.
If your Bible says that you better get a new Bible.
“Lo, I am with you always, even till the end of the age.”
It is one thing to read my Bible that God is with me, and it is another to experience it.
You say, “I don’t think God is with me the way He was with Joshua.”
I think He is.
Hebrews 13:5 says, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.”
/Lo, I am with you always/ is the assurance that in every circumstance of life, the Lord is with us.
Joshua discovered he was not alone.
The devil wants you to feel alone.
In fact, when you are going through a crisis experience, one of the worse things you can do is to isolate yourself from God’s people.
That’s what Elijah did.
Be careful, when the devil comes to you and says, “You’re all alone.
Your friends don’t care, your pastor doesn’t care about you, God doesn’t care; you are all alone.”
That’s when you’re the target for every kind of assault.
Discovery #1 was that he discovered he was not alone.
*#2 - HE DISCOVERED THAT HE WAS 2nd IN COMMAND.*
That must have been a revolting development, second in command.
Joshua sees this soldier standing with a sword, it’s the Lord Jesus.
HE ALWAYS COMES TO US IN THE WAY WE NEED HIM.
The Lord Jesus didn’t come to Joshua as a pilgrim, or as a fisherman, or as a carpenter.
He came as a soldier.
THAT’S WHAT JOSHUA NEEDED.
Joshua says, “Whose side are you on?”
The response of the Commander was, “No, but as commander of the Lord’s army I have come.”
You see, it is not a question of whether God is on your side; THE QUESTION IS WHETHER YOU ARE ON GOD’S SIDE.
The Soldier answered, “You are mistaken.
I did not come to take sides, I came to take over!”
Joshua had everything going for him; he had faith and patience, experience.
But you know what?
But all of that would have been useless had he not done what he did that night.
He fell before the Lord Jesus and said, “Alright, I’m second in command”.
You know, it is a great day in the life of a person when he discovers he is 2nd in command.
We are not first in command.
Every father is 2nd in command.
Every mother is 2nd in command.
Every pastor is 2nd in command.
Every Christian leader is 2nd in command.
A great tragedy takes place when a person thinks he is 1st in command.
He realized he was 2nd in command and the first order the Lord gave him was to take off his shoes.
What a thing to say to a general.
Our Lord said, “He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greatest.”
If I can’t trust you to bring back 10 cents change, when I send you to the store....I can’t trust you with a million dollars.
If you are not faithful with the ministry God has given you, He won’t give you more.
“Well done thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things, enter thou into the joy of the Lord.”
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