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Title: Preparing for Victory


1
Preparing for Victory
  • Joshua 5

2
  • Now on the other side of Jordan River the
    countries were afraid
  • People of Israel were united while the people of
    Canaan were paralyzed by fear
  • Two weeks of preparation before their first
    victory
  • Gods people must be prepared before they can be
    trusted with victory
  • Three Steps of Preparation
  • Renewing the Lords covenant (51-9)
  • Pause at Gilgal
  • To renew their covenant relationship (2-7)

3
  • Israel, a covenant nation
  • Israek, a marked people belonging to God
  • Their bodies belong to God
  • They were special people, separate people, holy
    nation
  • Not practiced circumcision during the years of
    wandering
  • Older generation died off
  • New generation now in inheritance
  • Circumcision symbol of spiritual operation on
    the heart
  • Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your
    heart, and be stiff-necked no longer (Deut
    1016)
  • God of covenant, not of external mark
  • To test their faith (58)
  • Camping in an enemy territory

4
  • Testing
  • Abraham (Gen 12)
  • Elijah (I Kings 18-19)
  • Jesus (Matt 313- 411)
  • Circumcision unlike Meribah
  • God allows us to be tested in order to remind ud
    to depend on Him
  • To remove their reproach (9)
  • Gilgal Hebrew word means to roll
  • Reproach of Egypt ridicule of the enemy when
    Israel (Num 1411-14)failed to trust God
  • Kadesh Barnea Mt Sinai when golden calf was
    created (Ex 311-12)
  • To qualify them to eat the Passover (Ex 1243-44,
    48)
  • No male could participate unless circumcised

5
  • To picture some important spiritual truths
  • Old Testament events lead to illustrations in New
    Testament (Rom 154, I Cor 1011)
  • Identification with Christ in His circumcision
    (Col 211-12)
  • Physical surgery vs spiritual surgery
  • Jews only part of the body while whole body of
    the sins of the flesh for Christians (Col 211)
  • False teaching on circumcision to be saved (Act15
    Gal)
  • Names dogs, concision,
  • True circumcision believers (Phil 31-3)
  • Men at Gilgal submitted to Gods will while the
    believers yield to the Spirit
  • Remembering the Lords Goodness (510-12)
  • Passover
  • No circumcision, no participation

6
  • The death of Jesus Christ is typified in slaying
    of the Passover lamb (I Cor 57)
  • Wave offering resurrection
  • On a day after Sabbath (Lev 23 10-14, I Cor 15
    23)
  • On the day of Passover manna stopped (40 years)
  • God took people out of Egypt, but it was
    difficult to take Egypt out of people
  • Same with Christians
  • Col 3 1-2
  • Harvest death and ressurection
  • Jesus the manna (John 6 26-29) harvest (John
    12 20-28)
  • Reaffirming the Lords Presence (5 13-15)
  • Pre-incarnation appearances of the Lord Jesus
    Christ in Old Testament

7
  • Abraham (Gen 18 1-8)
  • Jacob (Gen 32 24-32)
  • Three Hebrew men (Daniel 35)
  • Joshua the Captain of the Lords armies
  • Loneliness in leadership
  • The Lord is a man of war the Lord is His name
    (Ex 153)
  • Joshua worshipped and waited for His orders
  • Not until we take the place of a servant can He
    take the place as Lord Watchman Nee
  • Second in command
  • Without me you can do nothing (John 155)
  • Lords first order stand on the holy ground
  • We behave accordingly
  • Do all things to the glory of God (I Cor 1031)

8
  • Sequence humble worship, holy walk, then
    heavenly warfare
  • Joshua bowed (Eph 314) then he submitted to the
    holy walk (Eph 4 1, 17 52, 8, 15) then he
    battled the enemy in the power of God (Eph 61
    ff)
  • When Joshua met the Lord, he realized the battle
    was the Lords He already overcome the enemy
  • Listen obey God will do the rest
  • Step by faith claim the victory by obeying the
    Lord
  • Hudson Taylor Three ways to do Gods work
  • Make the best plan we can carry them out to the
    best of our ability
  • We may aske God to help and prosper us as we lay
    down the plan carry through

9
  • Begin with God to ask His plans offer
    ourselves to Him to carry out His purpose
  • The main lesson we must be spiritually prepared
    if we are going to do the Lords work
    successfully glorify His name
  • Take time to be holy
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