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Ordination: Be Strong and Courageous
Marion Clark
Joshua 1:1-9
Introduction
Chris, thank you for inviting me to speak. I am honored to have this privilege. I chose this text because it seems to carry some parallel to your own situation. After serving an apprenticeship of sorts, Joshua was about to take leadership of a people and travel to another land. Our passage presents the charge which God himself gives to Joshua for this undertaking. That charge is to be strong and courageous. Three times in this passage, God gives this charge. Joshua actually hears it a lot. In Moses' final words to Joshua, he tells him to be strong and courageous (Deuteronomy 31:7). The Lord then tells him the same thing as he commissions Joshua later in the chapter in verse 23. As if Joshua hadn't got the message, leaders of the people exhort him, ''Only be strong and courageous'' (Joshua 1:18). I don't think Joshua had difficulty remembering his charge! Let's see what we can learn from it.
Text
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, 2 ''Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Consider the circumstance. God's first word to Joshua is the blunt statement that Moses is dead. Moses. Never had there been (and never would be until Christ) a man through whom God worked such mighty miracles, all of which Joshua witnessed. He witnessed the ten plagues brought about through Moses' words. He walked through the Red Sea parted when Moses spread his arms, and he drank the water that poured from the rock when Moses struck it. He led the battle against the Amalekites, in which he prevailed only so long as Moses' hands were raised.
This was Moses the lawgiver, the man Joshua accompanied on Mt. Sinai, but not to the top. For only Moses could go to the very top and stand before the Lord to receive God's ...
Marion Clark
Joshua 1:1-9
Introduction
Chris, thank you for inviting me to speak. I am honored to have this privilege. I chose this text because it seems to carry some parallel to your own situation. After serving an apprenticeship of sorts, Joshua was about to take leadership of a people and travel to another land. Our passage presents the charge which God himself gives to Joshua for this undertaking. That charge is to be strong and courageous. Three times in this passage, God gives this charge. Joshua actually hears it a lot. In Moses' final words to Joshua, he tells him to be strong and courageous (Deuteronomy 31:7). The Lord then tells him the same thing as he commissions Joshua later in the chapter in verse 23. As if Joshua hadn't got the message, leaders of the people exhort him, ''Only be strong and courageous'' (Joshua 1:18). I don't think Joshua had difficulty remembering his charge! Let's see what we can learn from it.
Text
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, 2 ''Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Consider the circumstance. God's first word to Joshua is the blunt statement that Moses is dead. Moses. Never had there been (and never would be until Christ) a man through whom God worked such mighty miracles, all of which Joshua witnessed. He witnessed the ten plagues brought about through Moses' words. He walked through the Red Sea parted when Moses spread his arms, and he drank the water that poured from the rock when Moses struck it. He led the battle against the Amalekites, in which he prevailed only so long as Moses' hands were raised.
This was Moses the lawgiver, the man Joshua accompanied on Mt. Sinai, but not to the top. For only Moses could go to the very top and stand before the Lord to receive God's ...
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