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Choose This Day

• A journey through the Book of Joshua
• Achan

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HomeWord

• Next Week Joshua 91-27

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Sobering Thoughts

• (Ezekiel 184, 20) For every living soul belongs
  to Me, the father as well as the son--both alike
  belong to Me. The son will not share the guilt of
  the father, nor will the father share the guilt
  of the son. The soul who sins is the one who will
  die.

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Sobering Thoughts

• 1. Sin kills
• 2. it kills individually
• 3. and God shares in the hurt...

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Sobering Thoughts

• (Ezekiel 1831-32) Rid yourselves of all the
  offenses you have committed, and get a new heart
  and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of
  Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of
  anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and
  live!

• of a plausible solution

wrapped in an impossible feat
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Sobering Thoughts

• God grieves over sin because it kills

do you?
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Serious Trespass

• (Josh 710-12) The LORD said to Joshua, "Stand
  up! What are you doing down on your face? 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

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Serious Trespass

• (Josh 710-12) That is why the Israelites
  cannot stand against their enemies they turn
  their backs and run because they have been made
  liable to destruction. I will not be with you
  anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is
  devoted to destruction.

become
a curse.
a curse.
Destruction Hebrew cherem a thing thats
cursed
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Serious Trespass

• Observation 1
• We become what we treasure

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Serious Trespass

• (Mat 619-21) "Do not store up for yourselves
  treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy,
  and where thieves break in and steal. But store
  up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth
  and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not
  break in and steal. For where your treasure is,
  there your heart will be also.

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Serious Trespass

• (John 627) Do not labour for food that
  perishes, but for food that endures to eternal
  life, which the Son of Man will give you.
• So
• Where do I set my heart?
• What am I labouring after?

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Sensibility Test

• (Josh 713-15) "Go, consecrate the people. Tell
  them, 'Consecrate yourselves in preparation for
  tomorrow for this is what the LORD, the God of
  Israel, says That which is devoted is among you,
  O Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies
  until you remove it

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Sensibility Test

• (Josh 713-15) In the morning, present
  yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe that the
  LORD takes shall come forward clan by clan the
  clan that the LORD takes shall come forward
  family by family and the family that the LORD
  takes shall come forward man by man

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Sensibility Test

• (Josh 713-15) He who is caught with the
  devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along
  with all that belongs to him. He has violated the
  covenant of the LORD and has done a disgraceful
  thing in Israel!"

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Sensibility Test

• Observation 2
• God gives us time to come to our senses

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Sensibility Test

• (2 Pet 39-10) The Lord is not slow in keeping
  His promise, as some understand slowness. He is
  patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
  but everyone to come to repentance

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Sensibility Test

• (2 Pet 39-10) But the day of the Lord will
  come like a thief. The heavens will disappear
  with a roar the elements will be destroyed by
  fire, and the earth and everything in it will be
  laid bare.

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Sensibility Test

• So,
• how long does it take us to become sensible to
  sin?

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Sifting Time

• (Josh 716-19) Early the next morning Joshua had
  Israel come forward by tribes, and Judah was
  taken. The clans of Judah came forward, and he
  took the Zerahites. He had the clan of the
  Zerahites come forward by families, and Zimri was
  taken

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Sifting Time

• (Josh 716-19) Joshua had his family come
  forward man by man, and Achan son of Carmi, the
  son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of
  Judah, was taken. Then Joshua said to Achan, "My
  son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel,
  and give Him the praise. Tell me what you have
  done do not hide it from me."

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Sifting Time

• Observation 3
• Even as judgement approaches, Gods desires our
  escape.

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Sifting Time

• (Hosea 61-3) "Come, let us return to the LORD.
  For He has torn us, but He will heal us He has
  wounded us, but He will bandage us...So let us
  know, let us press on to know the LORD. His going
  forth is as certain as the dawn And He will come
  to us like the rain, Like the spring rain
  watering the earth."

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Sifting Time

• (Psa 1038-12) The LORD is compassionate and
  gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in
  lovingkindness. He will not always strive with
  us Nor will He keep His anger forever. He has
  not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor
  rewarded us according to our iniquities...

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Sifting Time

• (Psa 1038-12) The LORD is compassionate and
  gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in
  lovingkindness. He will not always strive with
  us Nor will He keep His anger forever. He has
  not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor
  rewarded us according to our iniquities...

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Sifting Time

• (Psa 1038-12) For as high as the heavens are
  above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness
  toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is
  from the west, So far has He removed our
  transgressions from us.

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Sifting Time

• So,
• what holds you back from coming to God?

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Stark Truth

• (Josh 720-23) Achan replied, "It is true! I
  have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel.
  This is what I have done When I saw in the
  plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two
  hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold
  weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took
  them

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Stark Truth

• (Josh 720-23) They are hidden in the ground
  inside my tent, with the silver underneath." So
  Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent,
  and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the
  silver underneath. They took the things from the
  tent, brought them to Joshua and all the
  Israelites and spread them out before the LORD.

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Stark Truth

• Observation 4
• There comes a time when coming clean just comes
  too late.

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Stark Truth

• (Josh 724-25) Then Joshua, together with all
  Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the
  robe, the gold wedge, his sons and daughters, his
  cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that
  he had, to the Valley of Achor. Joshua said,
  "Why have you brought this trouble on us? The
  LORD will bring trouble on you today." Then all
  Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the
  rest, they burned them.

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Stark Truth

• Sin seems pretty when it calls us to follow it,
  but

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Stark Truth

• there is a certain ugliness to sin that we do
  not want to see
• And that is its consequences.

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Stark Truth

• (Gal 67-8) Do not be deceived God cannot be
  mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who
  sows to please his sinful nature, from that
  nature will reap destruction the one who sows to
  please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap
  eternal life.

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Stop Tuning out

• (Heb 312-15) See to it, brothers, that none of
  you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns
  away from the living God. But encourage one
  another daily, as long as it is called Today, so
  that none of you may be hardened by sin's
  deceitfulness...

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Stop Tuning out

• (Heb 312-15) As it is written "Today, if you
  hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you
  did in the rebellion."

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Stop Tuning out

• (John 524) Jesus said, "I tell you the truth,
  whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent
  Me has eternal life and will not be condemned he
  has crossed over from death to life.

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Stop Tuning out

• (Ezek 3625-26) I will sprinkle clean water on
  you, and you will be clean I will cleanse you
  from all your impurities and from all your idols.
  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
  in you I will remove from you your heart of
  stone and give you a heart of flesh.

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Time tostop tuning God out