Moses would lead the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Joshua would lead the children of Israel into that land which God promised Abraham for his seed.
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Joshua 23:1-16 And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is HE that hath fought for you.
(When God has told us to do something, we can be assured that God will also fight for us. Go in the will of God. Ask yourself: Did God lead me to do this? If so, you can pray in faith.)
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
And the Lord your God, HE shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath promised unto you.
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside there from to the right hand or to the left;
* That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
But cleave unto the Lord your God, as ye have done unto this day.
Cleave to the Word of God, the scriptures and that word given you by God through HIS Spirit.
For the Lord hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.
As we speak the Word the people of this world who hide in churches will leave us and we will identify them before they do their various perversions among us. God drives them out from before us with the Word which we speak to them.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.
The "Lord" our God is Jesus, "The Word." We love the Word of God, the scriptures. Jesus loved the scriptures so much he died to fulfill those scriptures. Matthew 26:53-54 Jesus says: Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? So Jesus went to the cross to fulfill the scriptures which were written about HIM.
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Joshua 23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
* Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
If we will speak "the Word" when we are around the people of this world, or even when we are among the counterfeit church, they will leave us. If we hold back, they will be thorns in our lives.
If we will speak "the Word" when we are around the people of this world, or even when we are among the counterfeit church, they will leave us. If we hold back, they will be thorns in our lives.
Several years ago, Pam Padgett, our little church group, was engaged to be married. Her fiancé had a son who was planning to marry a divorced woman. After Pam found out, she told Chuck that if the son married a divorced woman he would commit adultery. Matthew 5:32 After she told Chuck this, he no longer wanted to marry Pam, though Chuck said he was a Christian. (Many say they are Christians but they are not.) The Word of God separated Pam from this man who was a counterfeit Christian.
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For those of us who follow the Spirit of God doing the will of God as instructed by the Spirit, it is good to examine the good given to us by God to see that nothing has failed that God has said concerning us.
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until HE have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which HE commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which HE hath given unto you.
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New Testament church:
We do not follow the Old Testament law of Moses where animals are sacrificed for sins.
We have a better covenant. Jesus paid for our sins with His own blood. He made one sacrifice, HIMSELF, for all.
Therefore when God reveals HIMSELF to us we are born again as a new creature that we no longer have to serve the sin nature of man. We reckon the old man dead, crucified with Christ, that we no longer have to yield to sins of our flesh but we now have the power of God in us to refuse the sins we once did and choose to go in the way of the Spirit of God who lives in us.
Galatians 5:19-25 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft (following superstitions), hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
When temptations of the flesh rise up in us, the Holy Spirit of God makes a way of escape for us in that temptation so we can choose not to do that which we once did. We can deliberately choose the way shown us by God's spirit and resist our flesh in the temptation.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. (walking in love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance)
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Everyone who is born of God today has the Holy Spirit of God living in him to teach him and to guide him in ways of God, to remind him of all Jesus has said so he can go in the ways of God, and to show him things to come. (John 14:26 & John 16:13)
In the Old Testament a few had the Holy Spirit, but not all.
And since blood had to be shed for remission of sin, they were required by God to present animal sacrifices over and over for those sins for none were perfected by the blood of animals but Jesus had not yet paid with HIS own blood so this was the only thing they had for sins, animal sacrifices.
Hebrews 9:11-28 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by HIS own blood HE entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Nor yet that HE should offer Himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must HE often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath HE appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall HE appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by HIS own blood HE entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
(So "who" has shed HIS blood to pay for my sins. It requires the shedding of blood. I cannot pay for my sins with my own good works. And I have shed no blood to pay for my sins. We reckon that it is by the shed blood of Jesus that our sins are paid for.)
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Nor yet that HE should offer Himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must HE often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath HE appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall HE appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
And when they cried unto the Lord, HE put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve HIM in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Jesus, the Word, is Lord. Therefore the scriptures rule and we follow the Word doing as instructed by the Word and thereby we serve the Lord. And God also speaks the Word to us by HIS Spirit and we follow "that" word for "that" word is also Jesus, the Lord.
We cannot serve God or Jesus unless we obey the Word.
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Joshua 24:23-25 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.
Examine all things by the Word, the scriptures in the New Testament Bible. If what you are doing at church is not shown in the Bible, you must not do that at church. It is an idol set up in the church by men.
And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and HIS voice will we obey.
Examine all things by the Word, the scriptures in the New Testament Bible. If what you are doing at church is not shown in the Bible, you must not do that at church. It is an idol set up in the church by men.
And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and HIS voice will we obey.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
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Joshaua 24:29-33 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
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