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And you may be seated at this time to children, may go downstairs.

As we make our way to the best story ever.

That is the story of the scriptures.

We have now made our way to the Book of Joshua.

And if you do not have a handout, go ahead and raise your hand and the Whitakers are passing those out.

Sometimes the handouts, are they really?

They have some blanks that are meaningful?

This morning,, If you pay attention to hand out, you're going to realize that you can figure out every blank without me saying a word but that's okay.

That's just the way it works this morning.

So the Bible is the best story ever, and we've made our way to Joshua this morning in Joshua.

Reminded.

We coming to Joshua.

Remind me of to hatch a p pass.

Did I mention this to you?

In a previous.

Remember how long ago?

And I don't know what the Split their the bottom, those big letters.

That's lost.

Angeles to hatch a b past is north of Los Angeles in the Bakersfield area.

So it's almost in the middle of the math are in Bakersfield is a pretty large town in its own right.

Really a city.

I think it's Highway 50, and this is very picturesque.

It's beautiful.

It's you have these Rolling Hills, you start to couldn't climb a hill and then you go down and up.

And then down, you're slowly making your way up in the mountains and the Seas.

Rolling Lush Green, Hills with Vineyards.

That are all those Hills.

It's just a beautiful picture, rest time and then as you get into the mountain pass, so I don't remember how many she has like five or six thousand feet.

I think it is and it's still pretty green.

But within about two or three minutes, you pass from all this beautiful green and then you Passed out the other side and you see the valley spread out and no longer.

Is it green?

It is Desert Brown my friends.

I mean it is just a stark.

Contrast you go from these beautiful Rolling Green Hills into just this desert plain and there's quite a few windmills there as well.

And that is experience.

We're going to happen is happening for us here in the book.

As we passed from Deuteronomy Into the Book of Joshua.

Joshua is not the desert land.

My point is, if there's a change of landscape of moving from Deuteronomy to the Book of Joshua.

There was a stark change of landscape.

So Joshua feel quite different from Deuteronomy in really.

Joshua feels different from Exodus, Leviticus and numbers as well.

The Book of Joshua is primarily narrative is primarily covering the story of what happened is the children of Israel occupied the promise slim Genesis, and Deuteronomy have been building building and climbing and climbing, and climbing and getting to that point to her.

Finally.

They reach the top.

And they claim the promised land in some of this building really on the edge of the promised land in the book of Deuteronomy.

Joshua is where you are.

There, they occupy the land.

God had promised his descendants got it.

Promised.

Excuse me.

Abraham's descendants that his family would turn into a nation in that Nation would occupied the land of Canaan or the land.

That was promised in the best story ever.

The story of the scriptures.

There are many periods of building, building building, and then arrival.

In what we have here with a ride in the promised land and Joshua is just one of those stories.

You also have a lot of many stories within the Bible.

For example, God, promises Abraham that he's going to have a child but there's a long time, is it?

It's a frustrating time for Abraham and he makes the mistakes as he's trying to realize the promise that God had given him, but he did it the wrong way.

But also when Israel is out of the lay of the land of Egypt and eventually oppressed, there is a time of building building building is when is God going to hear us?

Remember us and return us and get us out of this land of bondage and eventually in the book of Exodus, they realize and they are liberated.

But still, they have not fully realize God's promise.

And so there's more building building building and then they arrived in the promised land.

But then there is that promise.

This is in the Old Testament bills bills, bills bills all the way to the Old Testament till we have in the New Testament, that promised Messiah comes.

But then we realized from New Testament teaching that that was not the coming of the Messiah is.

So now we're in this building, building, building building, and someday.

Jesus is going to return.

And he is going to bring us to the ultimate promised destination of the new creation.

And so that is the album flow of the best story ever.

The story of scriptures.

There.

Is these mini dramas, the building to the ultimate drama, that take us all to mately to the promise destination.

There.

We today.

Are still waiting for Hebrews.

In the famous chapter on face, captures the waiting for it for the ultimate combination and he makes us the author of Hebrews makes his application for us.

So I want to look at Hebrews chapter 11.

Installing verse 13.

He was 11 13.

It says this these all died in faith.

So the writer of Hebrews had mentioned several of those Old Testament Heroes Patriarchs to Abraham was one of them, but there are others that he had mentioned.

He mentioned able as well.

And now he's making an application.

All these men died in faith.

Not having received the things from East, but having seen them and greeted them from afar and haven't acknowledged that they were strangers and X-Files on the earth.

For people, who seek does make it clear that they are seeking a Homeland.

I've been thinking of that land from which they have gone out.

They would have had opportunity to return, but as it is, they desire a better country.

That is a Heavenly one.

Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for.

He has prepared them for a city.

And that was my last first.

Kiss it goes on and on and the Hebrews 11 is beautiful.

Someday.

I'm going to spend a few Sundays in it with you.

But as we are building building building toward what is happening here with the Book of Joshua.

The people of God, they finally reached that new destination, the new creation.

Excuse me, that new destination of the promised land.

And if I'm going to apply it to us today.