Title: The Deception of an Altar Named Ed (25 of 29)
Series: Walking in Victory-Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living from the Book of Joshua
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 22
In this lesson I am going to do something I don't recall having done before. I am going to preach a second sermon on the same verses as we consider Joshua 22 a second time.
Before we do I need you to have something straight in your mind. I've told you this in all 21 previous lessons in this series. But repetition is a great teacher, especially when I am trying to help you "unlearn" some things you may have learned incorrectly.
Canaan is not a picture of heaven. This is not a picture or a symbolic representation of what God wants to do in your life one day in heaven. This story is a picture of what God wants to do IN you, WITH you, and FOR you right now. Rather, Canaan is a picture of victory. And you will never walk in victory if you don't learn the very important lessons here.
Last week we considered the danger of conflict. When the chapter begins, all is well. But something happens that takes the nation of Israel to the brink of civil war.
It all involves an altar. It involves an issue of worship. It involves a religious dispute between believers.
Perhaps you heard about the church that needed better lighting for the church lobby. So, the deacons recommended to buy a new chandelier. One man rose to speak against it for four reasons.
1. We've done without it all these years.
2. $500 is too much money
3. Nobody in this church even knows how to play a chandelier
4. What we really need is a new light for the church lobby
There is a story here about the danger of complacency. The 2.5 tribes we read about are more than willing to settle in, settle down, and settle for less than God's best.
But there is a story here about the danger of compromise. The Transjordanian tribes are not guilty of the idolatrous motive they are accused of, but neither are they ...
Series: Walking in Victory-Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living from the Book of Joshua
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 22
In this lesson I am going to do something I don't recall having done before. I am going to preach a second sermon on the same verses as we consider Joshua 22 a second time.
Before we do I need you to have something straight in your mind. I've told you this in all 21 previous lessons in this series. But repetition is a great teacher, especially when I am trying to help you "unlearn" some things you may have learned incorrectly.
Canaan is not a picture of heaven. This is not a picture or a symbolic representation of what God wants to do in your life one day in heaven. This story is a picture of what God wants to do IN you, WITH you, and FOR you right now. Rather, Canaan is a picture of victory. And you will never walk in victory if you don't learn the very important lessons here.
Last week we considered the danger of conflict. When the chapter begins, all is well. But something happens that takes the nation of Israel to the brink of civil war.
It all involves an altar. It involves an issue of worship. It involves a religious dispute between believers.
Perhaps you heard about the church that needed better lighting for the church lobby. So, the deacons recommended to buy a new chandelier. One man rose to speak against it for four reasons.
1. We've done without it all these years.
2. $500 is too much money
3. Nobody in this church even knows how to play a chandelier
4. What we really need is a new light for the church lobby
There is a story here about the danger of complacency. The 2.5 tribes we read about are more than willing to settle in, settle down, and settle for less than God's best.
But there is a story here about the danger of compromise. The Transjordanian tribes are not guilty of the idolatrous motive they are accused of, but neither are they ...
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