Title: Slackers (21 of 29)
Series: Walking in Victory-Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living from the Book of Joshua
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 18-19
Keep in mind, Canaan is not a picture of heaven and it's not even a picture of how you get into heaven. IOW, Canaan is not a picture of salvation but it is a picture of how you LIVE OUT your salvation. Canaan is a picture of victorious Christian living.
Previously we've seen that this victory will never be experienced without war. Tonight, we continue to see that this victory will never be accomplished without work. You will never walk in victory if you are a lazy slacker who'd rather sit on the couch watching soap operas than get in the trenches and go to work.
Two weeks ago, billionaire motivational speaker Tony Robbins released a short video on how to motivate a lazy person. He said there were 4 things to keep in mind:
1. Take time to discover their passions
2. Get them to do something physical
3. People aren't lazy, they just have wrong goals
4. Never call them "lazy" because that's a character defect
My response to that is also 4-fold:
1. A lazy person's passion is to do as little as possible
2. If I could get them to do something physical, I wouldn't be having this problem with their laziness
3. If your goal is to lay around in bed all day every day, I'd call that a "wrong goal." I'd also call it "lazy."
4. Tell that to Joshua.
One commentator notes that chapters 17-19 are perhaps included to "alert the reader that the promise land, if it is to be possessed, requires the activities of the tribes." That's a nice way to say you're gonna have to get off your backside and do some work.
Conversion is by grace and it is totally apart from work.
But the converted LIFE is to be marked by work.
In our last lesson in chapter 17 we saw that the sons of Joseph wanted more land. They didn't really want the land they'd been given because it was covered with tre ...
Series: Walking in Victory-Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living from the Book of Joshua
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 18-19
Keep in mind, Canaan is not a picture of heaven and it's not even a picture of how you get into heaven. IOW, Canaan is not a picture of salvation but it is a picture of how you LIVE OUT your salvation. Canaan is a picture of victorious Christian living.
Previously we've seen that this victory will never be experienced without war. Tonight, we continue to see that this victory will never be accomplished without work. You will never walk in victory if you are a lazy slacker who'd rather sit on the couch watching soap operas than get in the trenches and go to work.
Two weeks ago, billionaire motivational speaker Tony Robbins released a short video on how to motivate a lazy person. He said there were 4 things to keep in mind:
1. Take time to discover their passions
2. Get them to do something physical
3. People aren't lazy, they just have wrong goals
4. Never call them "lazy" because that's a character defect
My response to that is also 4-fold:
1. A lazy person's passion is to do as little as possible
2. If I could get them to do something physical, I wouldn't be having this problem with their laziness
3. If your goal is to lay around in bed all day every day, I'd call that a "wrong goal." I'd also call it "lazy."
4. Tell that to Joshua.
One commentator notes that chapters 17-19 are perhaps included to "alert the reader that the promise land, if it is to be possessed, requires the activities of the tribes." That's a nice way to say you're gonna have to get off your backside and do some work.
Conversion is by grace and it is totally apart from work.
But the converted LIFE is to be marked by work.
In our last lesson in chapter 17 we saw that the sons of Joseph wanted more land. They didn't really want the land they'd been given because it was covered with tre ...
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