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Winning Walk with Ed Young

January 17, 2021

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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.

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Dr. Ed Young: Four hundredyears, the Children of Israel.
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We have the Israelites righthere together in this bunch,
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400 years in slavery.
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God working through Mosesbrought them into freedom,
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but still they thoughtlike a slave, acted
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like a slave, and they could notunderstand freedom even though
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they had been liberated.
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So Moses brought themacross the sea, and it took them
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11 days to lead 2 million-plusthere to Sinai, and there they
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stayed for one year.
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Moses wentup with the Commandments, came
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down, idolatry, brokethe commandments, went back up,
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got a second copy, came down,and what did they do there
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for a year?
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They learned about moral law,they'd forgotten; civil law, how
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to run a nation, a country,a family; and ceremonial law,
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reminding them of Godworking in the history
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of the Jewish people.
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Remember, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,Joseph, they once had possessed
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the land, but they'd move backinto Egypt, they'd become
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slaves, and now the land stillbelong to God's people,
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but God's people now had to goback and claim again the land
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that they owned and the landthat God had given to them.
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So they sent out those 12 spies,remember?
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And they traveled over 500 milesall over Israel, spying
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out the land to seeing about allthose -ites that occupied
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the land: the Canaanites,the Moabites, and all the rest
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of the -ites.
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And they came back and gavea report, and 10 of the 12
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tribes said, let me tell ya,the land is fabulous,
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it's plush.
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Man, there's there's fruit,there's produce, there's
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animals; it's got everything youwant in land.
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Water, irrigation, it isa bountiful land.
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There's only one problem.
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The people who inhabit that landhave fortified cities and a lot
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of 'em are giants, and they aremilitant, they are warriors.
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And the 10 tribes'representatives reported back
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and said we can't take the land.
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We're not strong enough, wedon't have enough courage, we're
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not militant people.
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We can't take the land.
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But Caleb and Joshua--by the way, can anybody here
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name any one of those 10 spieswho gave the majority report?
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Anybody know have a name,without looking in your Bible?
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We can't remember them,but Caleb and Joshua we know.
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They said, look, everything theysaid about the land is true.
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And boy, they're a militantpeople that inhabit that land,
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but they said you know God hasgiven us that land, and he'll
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give us the ability to takeover that land.
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Let's go and claim that whichbelongs to us.
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And they voted.
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The vote was 2 million and 10to 2.
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That's how committees operate,isn't it?
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By the way, a camel is the onlyanimal on the Earth that was put
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together by a committee.
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And I don't know about you,but I'm fed up with committees
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and study groups and everybodyspend all their time studying
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and looking and examining.
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Enough, enough, is enough.
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Then and now!
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And so, they wanderedaround in the wilderness--
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desert place for 40 years, 40years, until everybody died
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of that generation except Caleband Joshua.
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All who were over 20 yearsof age died
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off in the wildernesswanderings, and there you have
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the largest funeral marchin history.
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Two things took place.
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Complaining and death.
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And all of that unbelievinggeneration died out, and now
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there was a new generation.
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And now they're ready to goand to take that land
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of promise.
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And if you follow along in yourscripture reading, they had
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everything together as to howyou relate, how you do business,
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how you live in thosemultiplicity of laws and rules
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and regulations.
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If you've read it, it is justoverwhelming.
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And then finally, they crossover the Jordan, and they're
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in the promised land,and the manna does not come.
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Now they eat from the land.
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And they, all the males arecircumcised as a sign, as a seal
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of the covenant they hadwith God.
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Then they participatein the Passover meal.
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Then they were praying, theywere prepared to go in the land,
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and then we have an unusualexperience takes place.
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And we'll look at that becauseit's a pivotal moment
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in the history of God's people.
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Remember the purposefor all of this.
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It is God's people, the Jews,who are to become a holy
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worshiping people, understandinghow to live life
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before the living Godand to live life with one
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another.
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And their call by God wasto take and to inform all
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the rest of the world.
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In the Bible, if you're nota Jew, you're a gentile.
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So this Jewish community wantsto take and give God's word
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and God's truth to the restof the world.
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Now, let's just pause herea moment and go to the Lord
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in prayer.
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Father, we are walkingthrough years and years
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of biblical history.
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Give us insight, and not onlythe lessons we are to learn
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but the lifestyles we areto adopt, is our prayer
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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A man named Wilbur Reese wrotethis, and he said, "I want
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to buy $3 worth of God.
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Not enough to explode my soulor to disturb my peace, but just
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enough produce a cup of warmmilk or a snooze
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in the sunshine.
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I wanna enough of him to make melove people.
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No, not make me love peopleof other races or to pick fruit
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with migrants.
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Oh no.
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I won't ecstasy, nottransformation.
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I want the warmth of the womband not a new birth.
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I want a pound of the eternalin a paper sack to buy about $3
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worth of God.
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I'll take the plastic Christ.
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No, no, no.
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Not the flesh and blood one.
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He will soil my linen and breakmy strand of matched pearls.
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I can't put up with punditsfrom Persia or sweaty shepherds
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trampling all over my nyloncarpet with their muddy feet.
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You see, my name isn't Mary.
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I want no living, breathingChrist.
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I want one I can keep in hiscrib.
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A plastic one will do just fine.
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I want, you know, only $3 worthof God."
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There's a time in my life that'sreally all I wanted of God,
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about $3 worth.
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I was brought up in a moderatelyChristian home.
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My dad was not a Christian, mymother was.
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And when my mother wentto church, I begged her to let
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me stay at home with dad,because church was anything
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but fun or exciting.
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And so I was brought up in thatkind of a home, but when I was
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about 11 years old I wentto vacation Bible School,
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and there I heard about JesusChrist in a clear way, and I
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made a decision.
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And I understood Christmas,understood the cross was Jesus
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died for my sins.
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I thought that was a good thing,and I celebrated Easter and I
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was baptized and I believed,but you know the truth was I
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didn't want what about$3 worth God.
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I didn't want him messingaround the way I talked, the way
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I lived, the way I handle myselfon dates, my future.
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No, no, no.
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I just want enough of God justto, just to get me
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through in case somethinghappened I would go zapped
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into heaven.
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I wanted just about, you know,$3 worth of God.
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That'd be enough for me.
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But as a freshman at Universityof Alabama, God dealt with me
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in a very profoundand a personal way,
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which is a long, long story.
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And finally, one nightabout 2:15 in the morning, AM,
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I was on an old stumpin the middle of an athletic
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field praying, and I lookedup to heaven, and I said, "Lord,
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I give you all that I am and allthat I'll ever be."
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All of a sudden, I knew that $3of God wasn't enough, I had
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to have all of him, and Iunderstood that he demanded
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all of me.
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That's surrender.
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That's surrender.
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And that wasn't justa one shot deal.
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Whoa I've got--no, no, no!
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It's a constant,daily lifestyle.
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The first thing I do everymorning, the first thing I do
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every night is fall on my knees,and I start off by saying, "I
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surrender."
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It's an ongoing lifestyle.
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So we see, this was a callupon God's people.
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They were prepared to goin the promised land, and they
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said, "Lord, I want you to leadus in that promised land.
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I want to claim that whichyou're given."
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But what were they lacking?
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They were lacking then probablywhat they lacked when they
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didn't go in 40 yearsbefore then.
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And if you were in Bible studythis morning, your teacher
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taught you Joshua chapter 1,and you find there four times,
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four times in the Bible it issaid, talking about strength
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and courage in that firstchapter.
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By the way, how many of you werein Bible study this morning?
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Lift your hands, good.
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How many of you heard yourteacher emphasize that four
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times here, in Joshua, they wereasked for strength
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and for courage?
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How many of you heard that?
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The rest of the Bible teachersdidn't read that chapter very
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carefully!
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Because when God says somethingone time--you know it, two
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times, three, four times in onechapter, I think he's trying
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to make a statement, right?
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And how you needed strengthand courage.
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Where do you get strengthand courage?
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We all need strength, we allneed courage.
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Many times we don't havecourage.
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By the way, courage is a veryimportant commodity to have.
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Read the Book of Revelation,toward the last chapter it talks
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about all of those who hadthrown in the fiery pit, they're
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thrown in the fiery furnace,they're thrown into the fire
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of judgment, and it's a toughlist.
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Adulterers, slanderers, liars,cheats, 40--I mean, it goes
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on and on.
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And on that list it says thosewho are cowards.
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I didn't know they're cowardswas such a bad thing.
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But you see, we need courageand strength, and that's what
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these Israelites were lackingthere.
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When they got rightto the promised land, they
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didn't felt they didn't haveenough strength to win
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the battle, they didn't haveenough courage to believe God
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and his promises.
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So, now Joshua says,"Man, we need strength,
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and we need courage."
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Then the question comes:how do you get strength?
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Well, you work out.
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How did you get courage?
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Oh, Lord, I'm gonna be strongthis time, I'm going to be...
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How do you get that?
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We discover, in a fabulouslittle verse in the Bible.
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But before that, I want to setout just three principles for us
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to just sit down on beforewe get to our principal
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primary text.
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Number one, people are people.
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Well, better write that down.
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You know, we look at the peoplein the Bible, we say, boy,
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here's a great Biblicalcharacter.
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Boy, I could never belike Esther.
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Man, to think I could belike Joshua.
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Man, that these are way beyond.
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And we look at people and we saythey're so abnormally gifted.
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They're so privileged.
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They they talked with God.
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Listen, people are people.
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Doesn't matter if you droveup in a Porsche or 1983 Chevy,
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people are people.
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I've met President of the UnitedStates who could quote Bible,
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and they would tell you they'rea Christian, and I've met
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someone who didn't have hardlythe shirt on their back,
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and didn't know where their nextmeal would come, and they say
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they're a Christian.
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People are people.
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There's not those who haveand those who have not.
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There are not those who, well,they're real smart and those who
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are real, real dumb.
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No, no, no, people are peopleare people are people.
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And that's what we need to see,is read the Bible.
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People are people.
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We look at biblicalpersonalities, we give them
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too high a position.
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And many times we give Godsuch a low position.
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We see someone who isa celebrity, and we say, oh,
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there's somebody who is justsuper special.
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No, no, no, no,people are people.
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We have to understand that.
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God looks at you and looksat me, and at the foot
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of the cross it is just as levelas it can be.
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It is level, level, level.
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God is no respecter of persons.
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We have to understand thatpeople are people.
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Now the second thing:God is God.
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Better write that down!
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Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christis the same yesterday, today,
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and forever."
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What does that mean?
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It means God doesn't change.
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How God operated yesterday, heoperates today.
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How he operates tomorrow isthe way he operate today.
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There is a consistencyabout the unchanging God.
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God is God.
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We take people and make them toogodly, and we take God and make
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God too much like people.
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A fourth grade class was askedif God understood
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nuclear energy?
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62% of the class said no,nuclear energy has come
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about since God.
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People are people, God is God.
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How he operated in the Bible ishow he operates today in his
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general principles in your life,and in my life, and all
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around this world.
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And the third thing--principle:Miracles are miracles.
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What is a miracle?
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A miracle is when somethingtakes place that's outside
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the norm and it is of sucha degree that there is no
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possible human explanation,and this that takes place gives
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glory to God.
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That's a miracle.
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Not normal, abnormal,supernatural, it gives glory
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to God.
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And miracles are miracles,and miracles still take place.
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Now, you don't have miraclesunder every bush.
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Some people say praise God,hallelujah every other breath.
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Some people never saypraise God, Hallelujah
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every other breath.
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And so my point is but God isoperating in this domain,
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and in his economy heperformed miracles.
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In one sense they are rare,in one sense
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they're commonplace.
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In one sense they stand out,but in another sense they
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operate in a subtle way in life.
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Last week 3:00 AMin the morning--about 3:05--
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I wake up, and a namecomes to my mind.
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A man in our church.
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I hadn't thought of him, I'd hadno reference to him in I don't
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know how long, but a name comesup, and I said, "Well,
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I'll pray for him."
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And I did.
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The next morning when I checkedthe hospital list, as I do
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virtually every morning, Ilooked and there was his name!
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He hadn't been inthe hospital before.
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I said, "You know, that was Godsomehow, in the family of faith,
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touching my heart and lifeto pray for the--"
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That happens to allof us, right?
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Someone comes to your mind,and you call them--
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family, friend, or somebodyout of the blue--and it's
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amazing when we followup on that how they were
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prepared and how our call or ourtouch made a great difference
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to them in that particularmoment.
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Is that a miracle?
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It's how God operatesin the family of faith.
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People are people, God is God,miracles are miracles.
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And we come here and we tryto ask the question, well, do
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the Israelites need a miracleto go in?
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Well, first of all, they hadto take down Jericho, a strong
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city with double walls.
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And now we read a little obscurepassage of scripture that I
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think is ever so powerful.
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Look at the Book of Joshuachapter number 5
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verse 13, following.
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It reads, "And it came to pass,when Joshua was by Jericho, that
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he lifted up his eyesand looked."
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Now, when was the last timeJoshua was in Jericho?
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Man, it's been, oh gosh,how many years ago?
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They wander aroundfor 40 years, there.
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It's been 40 years.
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He's one of the spies, remember?
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And now he goes back to Jericho,and he's looking over the city
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they were going to haveto capture.
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"It stood right therebefore him, and he lifted his
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eyes and looked, and behold,a Man stood opposite him
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with His sword drawnin His hand.
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And Joshua went to him and said,'Are You for us or
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for our adversaries?"'
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Stay with me.
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Joshua goes over and looksat that vast city, and he says,
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"My, how are we gonna do this?"
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He's trying to find strengthand courage.
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He was the Commanderof the army of the Lord.
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He was the leader.
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And there standing before himwas a man with a sword drawn!
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And he's standing there,and Joshua--
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notice Joshua went to him.
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Very important.
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And I think Joshua went to him,and he had his hand on his
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sword, and he went to the manwith the sword drawn, he said,
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"Are you for us orfor our adversary?"
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In other words, whose sideare your on?
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Are you on my side?
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Are you on the other side?
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Are you for me, orare you against me?
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Now, notice this answer.
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It is so strong yet so subtlebut so informative.
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So words, "And he drewthe sword.
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Are you for me or against me?"
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And verse 14, this is the manwith the drawn sword--
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"Said 'No!'"How about that?
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"Are you for me or against me?
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No!"
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What does he say?
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He says I'm not for you, and I'mnot against you.
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And then he goes, it said, "Butas Commander of the army
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of the Lord I have now come."
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You get that?
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He says as the Commanderof the army of the Lord,
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I have now come.
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And next passage it says Joshuafell down and worshipped him.
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And worshiped him.
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What's it what's he saying here?
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He's saying that the Commanderof the army of the Lord has now
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come, and Joshua, I'm notfor you, I'm not against you.
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The Commander of the armyof the Lord has now come,
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and all you have to do is enrollin my army!
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And you see what happened?
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Joshua fell downand worshiped him.
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He says, "Oh, Lordwhat am I to do?"
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He said, "Just take off yourshoes, because this is holy
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ground, and worship me."
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We need to understand something.
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Lord, are you for meor against me?
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The Lord saying, "I'm notfor you, I'm not against you,
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you just worship me.
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The Lord God Almighty has come."
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Understand this, ladiesand gentlemen, Jesus doesn't
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come to help you and help mefulfill our agenda, fulfill our
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program, that which I think isgood, and that would say I think
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is right, that's which I thinkis beautiful, the Lord God
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doesn't come as Commanderof the army to sign up as
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a lieutenant while you are stillthe general.
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God isn't a lieutenant, he isa general.
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And the verse is very clear,the Commander of the army
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of the Lord has come.
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Joshua, it's not that I'mfor you, I'm against you,
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I'm here to take overthe whole enterprise.
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You just sign up and get in lineas a private.
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Lot of us come to Christ, say,"Boy, what God can do for me,
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what Christ can help me.
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Boy, I need healing, I needlife, I need a job, I need
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forgiveness."
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We come for all that Jesus cangive us, and all that is part
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of it, but that's notthe primary thing.
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We come primarily to say,"Lord, I want you to come
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and run my life."
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You lack courage or strength?
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That's when I'm running my life,you're running your life.
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I lack courage and strengthand fear comes, and we fail
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over and over again, but whenthe Commander of the army of God
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comes and fills our life, thenwe don't have a problem
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with courage or strength,because we rely on his courage
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and his strength operatingthrough you and operating
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through me.
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And that is what happened hereto Joshua.
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"What must I do Lord?"
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"Nothing, you just worship."
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Remember the purpose...
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what God wanted to buildout of these Israelites, these
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Jews, to teach them that God washoly, that he wants them to be
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holy and different and separateand to be worshipers of him,
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and when that happened,the Children of Israel were
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absolutely bulletproof.
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When Jesus Christ becomesCommander-in-Chief of a life,
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of a family, of a nation,healing always takes place,
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every single time!
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[congregation applauding]
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So what are we to do?
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Take our shoes off.
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Let's take our shoes off,worship him.
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Say, "Lord, this is it.
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Not my agenda.
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I want your agenda.
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Not my goals, what I think.
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I want what you know and whatyou have planned, I surrender."
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And through surrender alwayscomes victory.
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Ed: It is not always easy tokeep track
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of all God does foryou and for me.
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so you can remember what God hasdone in your life.
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I know this will become atreasured record
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Dr. Ed Young: The Apostle Paultells us that God has called
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each of us to be a good soldierof Christ.
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And no good soldier getsentangled in the affairs
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of everyday life.
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Instead, he focuses on his toppriority, and that is to please
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the one who enlisted himthe army.
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When God becomes yourCommander-in-Chief, you'll be
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ready to follow wherever heleads.
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When the trouble comes, if Godis in charge there is never any
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doubt about the outcome, the endresult: victory is certain!
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