Title: Good Words in the Hard Words (18 of 29)
Series: Walking in Victory-Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living from the Book of Joshua
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 15
I will remind you tonight that Canaan is not a picture of heaven. In the book of Joshua, we see clear evidence Canaan is a picture of victorious and triumphant living.
In our last installment, we were in chapter 14 as Caleb, a giant of the faith, requested a mountain as part of his inheritance. Following his conquest of the Hebron region, chapter 14 concludes by saying, "the land had rest from war." That encounter serves as a transition from the entrance into Canaan and the conquering of Canaan to the division of Canaan.
When we come to chapters 15-19, we enter into a very wordy and seemingly boring section of the book. If you enjoyed the bloody battles and war scenes of chapters 6-14, you are not likely to enjoy the next five chapters...at least not at first reading.
The person who enjoys old war movies with John Wayne and action-thrillers starring guys like Arnold Schwarzenneggar and Tom Cruise is not likely to also enjoy the biography of Melvil Dewey, the thrilling librarian whose decimal system helped us learn to catalog books in a library.
For the next five chapters, we are going to feel like we are in the local surveyor's office studying land allotments and boundary lines. And yet, because we know that "every word of God is inspired and profitable," we know, by faith, there is a message even in the seemingly mundane details of land borders and property lines.
My intention is to read all 63 verses in this chapter. As I do, you will face a few dangers:
Fatigue because it is long.
Boredom because it may seem uninteresting.
Laughter because I'm trying to say all these names.
But all of those responses would be foolish. Because in the midst of the hard words of Jewish geography, your God wants to speak to you with a good word of grace. As He speaks, don't tune H ...
Series: Walking in Victory-Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living from the Book of Joshua
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 15
I will remind you tonight that Canaan is not a picture of heaven. In the book of Joshua, we see clear evidence Canaan is a picture of victorious and triumphant living.
In our last installment, we were in chapter 14 as Caleb, a giant of the faith, requested a mountain as part of his inheritance. Following his conquest of the Hebron region, chapter 14 concludes by saying, "the land had rest from war." That encounter serves as a transition from the entrance into Canaan and the conquering of Canaan to the division of Canaan.
When we come to chapters 15-19, we enter into a very wordy and seemingly boring section of the book. If you enjoyed the bloody battles and war scenes of chapters 6-14, you are not likely to enjoy the next five chapters...at least not at first reading.
The person who enjoys old war movies with John Wayne and action-thrillers starring guys like Arnold Schwarzenneggar and Tom Cruise is not likely to also enjoy the biography of Melvil Dewey, the thrilling librarian whose decimal system helped us learn to catalog books in a library.
For the next five chapters, we are going to feel like we are in the local surveyor's office studying land allotments and boundary lines. And yet, because we know that "every word of God is inspired and profitable," we know, by faith, there is a message even in the seemingly mundane details of land borders and property lines.
My intention is to read all 63 verses in this chapter. As I do, you will face a few dangers:
Fatigue because it is long.
Boredom because it may seem uninteresting.
Laughter because I'm trying to say all these names.
But all of those responses would be foolish. Because in the midst of the hard words of Jewish geography, your God wants to speak to you with a good word of grace. As He speaks, don't tune H ...
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