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Joshua

Walk Thru the Bible

Promises Possessed

Deut 34:5-6 - 5 And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in

Moab, as the Lord had said. 6 He buried him[a] in Moab, in the

valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his

grave is.

Josh 1:1-2 - After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the

Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide: 2 “Moses my

servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to

cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to

them—to the Israelites.

1. The Need to Lead – Josh. 1:5-9 - 5 No one will be able to

stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with

Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor

forsake you. 6 Be strong and courageous, because you will

lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their

ancestors to give them. 7 “Be strong and very courageous.

Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you;

do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be

successful wherever you go. 8 Keep this Book of the Law

always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you

may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be

prosperous and successful. 9 Have I not commanded you?

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be

discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever

you go.”

a. Leadership is a necessity

b. Everybody is a leader

c. Everybody need to be lead

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2. The need to believe

a. Josh. 2:11, 12, 18 – 11 When we heard of it, our hearts

melted in fear and everyone’s courage failed because

of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above

and on the earth below. 12 “Now then, please swear to

me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my

family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me

a sure sign. 18 unless, when we enter the land, you

have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which

you let us down, and unless you have brought your

father and mother, your brothers and all your family into

your house.

3. The need to remember

a. Joshua 4:3, 19 - 3 and tell them to take up twelve

stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where

the priests are standing, and carry them over with you

and put them down at the place where you stay

tonight.” 19 On the tenth day of the first month the

people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal

on the eastern border of Jericho.

b. What’s your memory of God

4. The need to Cut the Flesh

a. Deut. 10: 16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do

not be stiff-necked any longer.

b. Deut. 30: 6 The Lord your God will circumcise your

hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you

may love him with all your heart and with all your soul,

and live.

c. Col. 2:11-13 - 11 In him you were also circumcised with

a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your

whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were

circumcised by Christ, 12 having been buried with him

in baptism, in which you were also raised with him

through your faith in the working of God, who raised

him from the dead. 13 When you were dead in your

sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made

you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

d. Rom. 8:13 - For if you live according to the flesh, you

will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the

misdeeds of the body, you will live.

5. The need to have piety with the promise.

a. Josh 7:11, 20-21 - 11 Israel has sinned; they have

violated my covenant, which I commanded them to

keep. They have taken some of the devoted things;

they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them

with their own possessions. 20 Achan replied, “It is true!

I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This

is what I have done: 21 When I saw in the plunder a

beautiful robe from Babylonia,[a] two hundred

shekels[b] of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty

shekels,[c] I coveted them and took them. They are

hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver

underneath.”

b. Josh 11: 23 So Joshua took the entire land, just as the

Lord had directed Moses, and he gave it as an

inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions.

Then the land had rest from war.

6. The need to parse out the promise

a. Josh 14: 2 Their inheritances were assigned by lot to

the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded

through Moses.

b. Gen 48:19-22 - 19 But his father refused and said, “I

know, my son, I know. He too will become a people,

and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his

younger brother will be greater than he, and his

descendants will become a group of nations.” 20 He

blessed them that day and said, “In your [a] name will

Israel pronounce this blessing:  ‘May God make you

like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim

ahead of Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am

about to die, but God will be with you [b] and take

you [c] back to the land of your [d] fathers. 22 And to you I

give one more ridge of land [e] than to your brothers, the

ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my

bow.”

c. Josh 21:43-45 - 43 So the Lord gave Israel all the land

he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took

possession of it and settled there. 44 The Lord gave

them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their

ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the

Lord gave all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one

of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every

one was fulfilled.

d. Josh 14:2-3 - 2 Their inheritances were assigned by lot

to the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had

commanded through Moses. 3 Moses had granted the

two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan

but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among

the rest,

7. The need for grace/refuge

a. Joshua 20:1-6 - Then the Lord said to Joshua: 2 “Tell

the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I

instructed you through Moses, 3 so that anyone who

kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee

there and find protection from the avenger of blood. 4

When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand

in the entrance of the city gate and state their case

before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to

admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to

live among them. 5 If the avenger of blood comes in

pursuit, the elders must not surrender the fugitive,

because the fugitive killed their neighbor unintentionally

and without malice aforethought. 6 They are to stay in

that city until they have stood trial before the assembly

and until the death of the high priest who is serving at

that time. Then they may go back to their own home in

the town from which they fled.”

8. The need to leave a legacy

a. Josh. 24:14-15, 29 - 14 “Now fear the Lord and serve

him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your

ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and

in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord

seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves

this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your

ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of

the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for

me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” 29 After

these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the

Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten.

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