Joshua 1:8 A New Interpretation

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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast

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making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Saturday, June the twenty

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second, twenty twenty four. It
is currently three thirty four pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live
from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. What
is your favorite verse in the entire Bible?

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You just love the verse. You
love it, You've memorized it,

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you love reading it, you love
talking about it. That verse that you

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just love the most. What is
your favorite verse in the entire Bible?

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Now? What would you do if
you cited your favorite verse in the entire

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Bble and someone said, okay,
what does that mean? And you gave

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your explanation and they looked at you
and said, you completely misunderstand that verse.

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That is not what it's saying.
You're interpreting it completely incorrect, that

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is completely wrong. How would you
respond? Would you respond with, oh,

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wow, I did not realize that. Thank you so very much,

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I'm embarrassed that I got it wrong. Or would you become defensive and pushback

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and go no, no, no, no, no, this is the

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right way. What would your reaction
be if someone challenged your interpretation of your

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very favorite verse, how would you
react. Let's offer a separate scenario.

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So their scenario number one. It's
your favorite verse, you love it,

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You've memorized it, all right.
Let's try a separate scenario. Let's say

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there is a verse may not be
your favorite, but it is one you

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memorize. As a young Christian,
right brand new Christian. You start you

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started learning certain verses. Maybe you
had a discipleship class, maybe you just

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bought a scripture memory pack. I
had one I carried around forever. It

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was a little green pack that had
cards in it, and you would,

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you know, you would take a
card, memorize the card, and once

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you have it memorized, and you
would move it to the other side of

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this little pack. I mean it
fit in the palm of my hand.

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The cards were very small. And
then what you would do is when you

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opened up the pack, the ones
you've already memorized, you would you would

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review and then on the other then
you would, you know, start memorizing

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another one. And by the end
of a month, two months, three

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months, you've memorized every card in
the memory pack, and you would you

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would do hopefully, you know,
that would be very beneficial for you.

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And as you're you know, starting
out your Christian life. I don't know

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how much how many scriptures you memorized
as a young Christian. Typically, if

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you're going to memorize them, most
people do it. I think most people

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do it when they are a when
they're a brand new Christian. I think

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when they're a young Christian that's typically
when scripture memory occurs, mainly because they

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probably end up in some kind of
class that kind of challenges them to do.

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So. I think as you become
older as a Christian, you tend

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to memorize less and less and less
and less and less and less and less,

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and you just kind of like,
well, you know, I read

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my Bible, study my Bible.
You probably don't put a lot of focus

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on scripture memory. There's always the
exception, but I think typically scripture memory

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really kicks in as a brand new
Christian and then it decreases over the years.

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There's the exception, but I would
say that's no you norm you can,

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if you don't believe me, Tomorrow
is Sunday, walk around your church

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and just you know, take a
clipboard and say, hey, how many

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scriptures do you memorize a month?
How many? How many? And come

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back and report to me. I
bet you the answer is going to be

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basically zero. For most everyone in
your church, they're not involved in any

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systematic scripture memory. I'm not even
there's times I'm not even involved in a

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systematic system of scripture memory. There
are times that I will try, and

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then I typically then get distracted and
I start focusing on this or focusing on

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something else. It's hard to maintain
that discipline. We all could do it.

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We all could pick a scripture every
week and memorize it. Every single

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person could do that. It really
isn't that hard. But we aren't disciplined

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to do it, we're not motivated
to do so. But the point of

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this scenario is, think of a
scripture you memorized. Now, what would

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happen? You've memorized it, you
know it, and someone comes to you

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and says, hey, what does
that scripture mean? And they, once

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again, just like in the first
scenario, tell you sorry, your entire

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understanding of that versus wrong. You're
misinterpreting it, you misunderstand it, you

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are completely wrong. How would you
react? Would you react? Going oh

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wow, thank you so very much? Or would you push back and become

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defensive? I think the better the
more we know a passage, the more

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we are acquainted with the passage.
The more we are familiar with the passage

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makes it very difficult for us to
hear someone challenge our interpretation because we've known

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that verse most of our Christian lives. So if someone pushes back on that,

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well, there's going to be problems. Well, ladies and gentlemen,

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I say all of that. I
spend five minutes in that opening illustration to

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set this up because I'm about to
challenge a very very well known verse,

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a verse that you have probably memorized, A verse that in my church we

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actually sing it. I don't know
if you sing it in your church.

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I would dare say that this may
be some of your some of you,

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this may be your favorite verse,
but I'm going to say that most of

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our understanding of it is completely and
totally wrong. Are you ready? I

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have my Bible open to it.
If you have a Bible, open up

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to the Book of Joshua. Oh
you know what verse? Do? Yes?

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You do? You know what verse? Right? Because you looked at

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the metadata on the beta dot sermon
audio dot com website. Didn't you okay?

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Here we go, Joshua, Chapter
one, verse eight. This book

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of the Law shall not depart from
your mouth, but you shall meditate in

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it day and night, that you
may observe to do according to all that

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is written in it. For then
you will make your way prosperous, and

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then you will have good success.
Then you will have good success. Don't

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you want to have a successful life. Don't you want to have a successful

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spiritual life. Don't you want spiritual
success? Don't you want life's success.

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Don't you want to be successful as
a mother, as a wife, as

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a sister, as a brother,
as a father, as a friend.

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Don't you want to be successful.
Don't you want to be successful in your

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Christian life? Don't you want to
be successful in every aspect? We all

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want success? And what is the
way to have good success? Not just

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success, but good success. Well, this book of the Law shall not

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depart from your mouth, but you
shall meditate in it day and night.

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So you can't let the word of
God. You can't let God's Law depart

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from your mouth. So it has
to constantly be there, and you meditate

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on it day and night. Oh
but wait, there's more you observe to

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do according to all that is written
in it. So if you want success,

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you can't let it depart from your
mouth. Whatever that means, we

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could discuss it. You have to
meditate on it day and night, and

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then you must observe all of it. If you want success, you've got

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to know God's word. You got
to be able to speak God's word.

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You gotta be meditating on God's word
basically twenty four to seven, and you

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must be obeying all of it.
Now, you would think this would not

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be anyone's favorite verse because immediately you
think someone would go raise their hand in

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class. You think there would be
one of the you know, one of

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those very you know, perceptive people
in class, and they would raise their

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hand and go. But sir,
if this is the key to success,

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there will never be anyone who is
successful, because I've never met anyone in

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church who meditates on God's word day
and night. This would require maybe a

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life and a monastery where you're doing
the liturgy of the hours. You know,

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early morning, you know, mid
morning, afternoon, you have the

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Liturgy of the hours, you have
Mass, and you have spiritual reading time.

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You can look up the schedule of
a monastery where your whole life is

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that, well, that would work. Well, well, no, you

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can meditate on God's word and this
and they and Christians try to come up

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with little tricks and how you can
do so. Well, if you'll have

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your devotions in the morning, right
then all throughout the day you can meditate.

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But even if you try to meditate
on what your devotional was in the

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morning, you know throughout the day
you're getting not mine is not even going

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to be thinking about God's Word.
You know it, and I know it.

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But the real issue is observe everything
that's in it immediately. I know

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I've got a problem. So because
this would imply that I can observe everything

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in it right, well, I
know I can't. So how do I

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understand Joshua one eight? Now the
reason I am asking this question, and

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the reason obviously you can tell where
I'm going. I'm going to challenge this

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verse. I'm going to challenge the
interpretation of this verse. It may be

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your favorite, it may be one
you memorize, but I'm about to completely

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just deny. I'm gonna I'm gonna
dogmatically assert I won't go so far to

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say dogmatically. So I'm going to
put forth the hypotheses. Let me do

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this, that everyone's interpretation of Joshu
one, or the majority of interpretations to

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Joshu one eight is absolutely completely wrong. I'm not gonna I want to be

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dogmatic, but I'm just gonna.
I'm gonna put forth the hypotheses, my

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hypothesis on this Saturday, Jill June. Did I say July at the beginning

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of this, I hope I did
not this June the twenty second, this

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June the twenty second, that the
majority interpretation of Joshua one eight is absolutely

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one hundred wrong. It's not it's
a misinterpretation. It's a wrong interpretation.

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It's just doesn't make any sense.
Now. The reason I'm bringing this up

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is I was looking on the Sermon's
two point oh app I probably with at

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THEBTA dot sermon audio dot com website, and I saw a message and may

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have been in the featured ones or
suggested ones, I don't know which category.

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I found it, and it said
the key to spiritual success. The

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key to spiritual success. Now,
typically I would take it and review it,

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but I am not going to do
so because the message is very much

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associated with leadership of sermon audios.
I don't want to get myself in any

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trouble, but you can go find
it for yourself. Okay, I don't

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want to get myself in any trouble, but because I am, I'm going

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to put forth a very bluntly worded
perspective that I disagree with the interpretation not

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only put forth in their message,
but probably if you look up all the

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messages on Sermon's two point zero and
listen to messages on Joshua one to eight,

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by all means, feel free to
do that today. You can spend

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the evening listening to messages one.
I think I'm going to disagree with probably

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the interpretation of every single one of
them. Now I would love to have

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spiritual success. I would love to
have it, but again, if the

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requirements in Joshua one to eight are
the key to spiritual success, I am

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never going to obtain it. So
already it puts forth an idea that either

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you have to believe you can literally
keep all of God's law, which no

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one does, so then you've got
to modify it. Right. So this

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is how people kind of modify it
a right. This book of the law.

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Shall not depart from your mouth.
I don't know if we spend a

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lot of time trying to figure out
exactly what that means. Okay, but

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what does it mean not to depart
from my mouth? Meaning that I'm constantly

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speaking of it, I'm constantly talking
about it. Well, Christians talk about

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everything else other than God's word.
If you don't believe me, go to

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a church potluck, go to a
church fellowship. Everyone's talking about everything other

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that. They literally can come from
the sermon to the fellowship mill and nobody's

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talking about the talking about their grandkids, the weather, their job. They

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got a new truck out front with
a I don't know, some kind of

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engine, or they bought a new
hunting rifle, or they killed Bambi or

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whatever the case, everything other than
that. So what do you mean it,

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She'll not depart from your mouth.
We talk about so many other things

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in scripture. So there strike one. Next, you shall meditate on it

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day and night. Well, their
strike too, because most of the people

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in your church are not meditating on
God's word day and night. But even

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that we modify it, don't we, Right, So what we say is,

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well, I mean you're not going
to think about it all the time.

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But the idea here is that you
try as much as possible. It

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doesn't say try, it says don't
let it depart from your mouth, and

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meditate on it day and night.
These are their requirements if you want to

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be prosperous and have good success.
And then number three, look, everyone

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has to just throw up their hands
and say we're not going to do this

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one because look at number three.
Meditate on it day and night that you

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may observe to do according to all
that is written in it. Now,

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can you keep God's law perfectly?
Now? The minute you say you can,

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I would say, go from the
Old Testament, open up the Bible

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to the Gospel of Matthew, and
look at Jesus expound and explain the law

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and the Sermon on the Mount,
and guess what He's gonna make it very

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clear that God's law demands not only
an external perfection, but an internal perfection,

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and that you can be guilty of
God's law without ever actually committing a

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physical act. You can commit adultery
and never be a million miles Oh you

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can. You can be a million
miles away from someone, never even you

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can be guilty of it. Just
by looking. You can kill someone without

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ever physically touching them. All these
so we're guilty, We're guilty, We're

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guilty, we're guilty. The point
is we're all guilty. So then you

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have to go. Well, the
idea is you're trying to observe, so

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we got to modify it. But
that's this doesn't say try, It says

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do. Don't let God's word depart
from your mouth. Don't let it depart

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from your mouth. Meditate on it
day and night, and observe everything in

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it. So immediately I know that
the typical interpretation of Joshua one eight has

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already flowed because that's three strikes on
every look. I don't know if you've

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ever seen a baseball game, but
even in baseball, three strikes means you're

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out. Philologically, spiritually, this
would be three strikes, everyone would be

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out. So what do you do
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If we were going to go back
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this is a law passage. This
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it demonstrates our inability to keep it, and that we do not keep it.

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We'll never have good success. So
what's my hope. Well, I

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would go something like this. Someone
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gentlemen. You want to be successful, you want to be prosperous, you

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want to have good success. Here
are the three things you must do.

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The Word of God should never depart
from your mouth. You'll meditate it on

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it day and night, and you
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Someone should raise their hand, Well, none of us is going to do

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that. Therefore we can't do it. And so then maybe someone else would

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raise their hand and say something like
but what if someone else did it for

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us? Well, that other person
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of God, the incarnation Jesus Christ, who the word of God did not

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depart from his mouth. He meditated
on it day and night, and he

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observed everything in it. And in
him, I am prosperous, and I

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have good success spiritually because I am
completely forgiven. So if we look at

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it from a law perspective, it
drives us to Christ. It doesn't drive

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us to effort. It drives us
to Christ. It doesn't drive us to

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work harder. It drives us to
Christ. Then I can find peace and

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rest. But that's not even the
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I think everyone misses the point of
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how how frequently this is so misunderstood. Everyone should know that what what does

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what precedes Joshua chapter one? Oh, it's the Book of Deuteronomy. Hmm,

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okay, all right, So let
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Joshua chapter one, the nation of
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enter into the Promised Land, and
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them going into the land. And
part of that instruction this is two Israel,

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right if you if you want to
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verse one, after the death of
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it came to pass that the Lord
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Moses' assistant, saying, Moses,
my servant is dead. Now therefore

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arise, go over this Jordan,
and you and all this people to the

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land which I am giving to them, the children of Israel. You may

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want to circle the word Israel.
I know it's so complicated, but and

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I'm being a little sarcastic here,
and maybe a little. You know,

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I'm not trying to be sarcastic,
but it really irritates me that how people

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memorize Joshua one eight and Israel gets
left out of this, and it becomes

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about me. I was given Joshua
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If you want to be successful as
a young Christian, if you want

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to prosper as a young Christian,
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if you want to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil,

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you will do this. You will
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your mouth. You will memorize it, you will meditate on a day and

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night, and you will keep it, and then you will have victory.

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And I'm like, cah, I'm
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it, and i will sin and
sin and sin and sin. And I'm

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thinking, man, if I could
just pull this off, because what was

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never mentioned Israel, this always become
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and oh drives me crazy. But
clearly the context is, hey, I'm

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gonna give the land. Now,
there's the land prop. There's the land

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part. There's the land part.
Right, there's the land part. Now,

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the land part clearly connects to Israel, and God had made a covenant

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and promises to them. And I
do apologize as my daughter once again calling

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me. My daughter always calls me
when I'm live on the air. Okay,

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but there's a land part. So
let's go through this again. Moses,

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my servant is dead. Now therefore
a rise go over this Jordan,

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and you and all this people to
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the children of Israel. So this
is very much connected to the promise

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God has made to Israel, the
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You cannot read Joshua one eight and
forget coven it and Israel. If

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you do so, you are completely
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But just stay with me, all
right, let's go to verse Let's go

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to verse four. All right,
well, let's continue reading in verse three,

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or let's read verse three. We
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that the soul of your foot will
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I have given you, as I
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a reference to things said to Moses. This is a reference to back to

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things spoken to Moses. So that
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understanding those things that were spoken to
Moses. Hmm, I think Joshua one

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eight may not be so much about
me or you? Does it? Okay?

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But let's continue. Let's continue.
He goes on every place the sole

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of your foot will I try to
of your foot? Well, let me

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read this again, every place that
the soul of your foot will tread upon.

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I have given you, as I
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and this Lebanon, as far as
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all the land of the hit Tights, and to the great South towards the

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going down of the sun, shall
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able to stand before you all the
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So I will be with you.
I will not leave you nor forsake

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you. Now that sounds like,
wait a minute, They're going to go

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in and no one's gonna be able
to stand against them, but something goes

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horribly wrong, does it not?
Hey, that seems to guarantee success.

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You're going to go in and nobody's
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but something goes horribly wrong, because
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fall apart and people begin to stand
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there's war and there's fighting, and
then well, well wait a minute,

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they go into captivity. Something goes
wrong. Why but hang on, let's

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continue, right. I will be
with you. I will not leave you

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nor forsake you. Be strong and
of good courage. For this people you

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shall divide as an inheritance, the
land which I swore to their fathers to

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give them. Now we're clearly now
connecting to the Covenant. This is all

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Israel, Israel Israel. That has
nothing to do with you. I don't

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know what state you're in today,
Georgia. I don't know where Tennessee,

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Florida. You could be in another
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has nothing to do with you.
Oh. I know I'm going to offend

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some people with that, But this
is not about us. Only be strong

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and very courageous that you may observe
to do according to all the law which

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Moses, my servant commanded. You
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hand or to the left, that
you may prosper wherever you go. This

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is a conditional promise. If Israel
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what must they do? They must
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They cannot let it depart from their
mouth, and they must meditate on

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it day and night. Now,
anyone reading, if this is the first

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time you've ever read your Bible,
when you get to Joshua one to eight,

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you immediately should stop, or Joshua
one seven, or any of this

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passage, and you should stop and
go, Well, wait a minute,

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I know how the story's going to
end. They're going to fail. They

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are not going to be prosperous.
They're not going to have success. They're

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absolutely not going to be successful.
And then look, this book of the

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Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day

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and night, and you may observe
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in for then you will have then
you will then for then you will make

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your way prosperous, and then you
will have good success. How how are

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you gonna what's the requirement? What
is the condition for prosperity and success?

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They must not They must obey the
all of scripture. They must obey the

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law of God. They cannot let
it depart from their mouth, and they

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must meditate on it day and night. I'm sorry. Strike one, Strike

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two, Strike three. This is
all about Israel. Now this immediately,

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This comes right after Deuteronomy. Now, if anyone's just reading Deuteronomy and then

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you turn the page to Joshua,
right, if you're reading Deuteronomy and then

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you turn the page to Joshua,
immediately you know Joshua e Well, this

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fits perfectly with the end of Deuteronomy. This fits perfectly with Deuteronomy. How

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does this get obliterated in church after
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Look, I've reached I'm starting to
reach the point that sometimes going to church

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may be more detrimental and you understanding
the Bible than it is actually helpful.

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I know I'm gonna get I'm gonna
give so much trouble for saying that.

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Let me say it again, though, going to church may actually be more

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detrimental and you understanding the Bible than
it is helpful. I know, I

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know people are gonna get mad at
me, but I'm just I'm so tired

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of how the scriptures are just no
one wants to even attempt to handle them,

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even remotely carefully. This is all
about Israel. The promise of success

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mentioned and Joshua one to eight is
directed towards the people of Israel during a

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very specific historical context. I want
you to write that down. The promise

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of success, the promise of prosperity
mentioned in Joshua one eight is directed towards

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the people of Israel, not you, and it is given to them during

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a very specific historical context. And
Joshua one eight Joshua exhorts Joshua challenges the

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Israelites to meditate on the Law of
Moses day and night, emphasizing the importance

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of following God's commandments and teachings.
The success referred to here is completely linked

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to obedience to God's word and adherence
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nation of Israel. The issue is
there are elements now in deuteronomies. We

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sometimes refer to this as the land
covenant. Hey, when you go into

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the land, if you want success, if you want blessing, if you

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want prosperity, you must do this. If you don't, you get curses.

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Oh. I know this is going
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Where is all of that information found
in the book of Deuteronomy, which

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comes right before Joshua one eight.
Joshua one eight is always ripped literally out

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of its context, and then it
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And even if it's about you,
you don't get success by doing it,

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because you can't. You get success
by putting your faith in Christ,

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who did. But the price issue
is this is not about you. Starting

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in Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, we
read these words, Now it shall come

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to pass if you, if you
please no Deuteronomy twenty eight one. Now

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it shall come to pass if you. There's the key phrase, if you

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diligently obey the voice of the Lord
your God, to observe carefully all his

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commandments, which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set

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you high above all nations of the
earth, and all these blessings shall come

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upon you. What show these button
and enlist all the blessings. If you

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want prosperity and you want success,
obey God's word. But if you don't,

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Deuteronomy following twenty eight lists all the
curses. Joshua one is simply reminding

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Israel of the Covenant that we refer
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twenty eight. That's all that's happening
there. I don't know how this is

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ripped out of context and said,
hey, hey, your teenage Christian and

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you want to be successful when you
grow up. You want a prosperous life,

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you want spiritual victory. Memorize the
Bible, read the Bible, study

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the Bible, obey the Bible,
and you get it. And the teenagers

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like, I'm going to do it, and then well, just keep trying.

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If you're telling people to keep trying
to do Joshua one eight, that

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you just as well tell them.
You just tell me who you told.

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I'm just going to go say,
hey, you probably just give up now

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because it's not working. Well,
what do I do? You need someone

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to do it for you, just
like Israel needed someone to do it for

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them because Israel could not succeed either. So the promise of success mentioned in

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Joshua one to eight is directed towards
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historical context. In Joshua one eight, Joshua challenges the israel Lites to meditate

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on law on God's law day and
night, emphasize the importance of following God's

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commandments and teachings. The success referred
to here is forever linked to obedience to

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God's word and adherence to the covenant
established between the nation of Israel. The

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connection between Joshua one eight, Now
this is from a source. Listen to

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this carefully. This is not me. The connection between Joshua one eight and

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the Promise outline and Deuteronomy twenty eight
is significent. The connection between Joshua one

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eight and the Promises outline and Deuteronomy
twenty eight is signific. Kent is significent.

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Now I want you to go listen
to all the sermons you can on

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Joshua one eight and see how many
of them say the connection to Joshua one

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eight and Deuteronomy twenty eight is signific
Kent. Think of all the sermons you've

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heard in your church. Think about
what's been taught to your kids about Joshua

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one eight. If you have Auana, it's probably been a memory verse.

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Probably some of your homeschool curriculum has
made it a memory verse. Not only

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you are obliterating the proper distinction between
law and gospel, you may be teaching

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them the worst hermeneutics and the history
of hermeneutics. In Deuteronomy twenty eight,

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known as the Blessings and Curses chapter, God outlines the consequences of obedience and

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disobedience to his commandments for Israel.
The blessings promise for obedience include prosperity,

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victory, o for enemies, and
abundance, while the curses for disobedience in

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Vov's defeat, hardship, and exile. Well, guess what they got.

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They got curses because they got defeat, hardship, and exile. Why because

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nobody can keep God's law the end. Therefore, the success promised in Joshua

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one to eight can be understood as
being conditioned upon the faithfulness and obedience of

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the Israelites to God's commands, as
outlined in the broader context of the Mosaic

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Covenant and the blessings and cursing curses
associated with it in Deuteronomy twenty eight.

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Now Here, I'm gonna read this. This is not for me, And

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you say, well, which pastor
gave this to you? Which sermon did

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you get this from? I got
it from artificial intelligence, because there was

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no point in going to commentaries.
Are you ready? This last paragraph from

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AI? It is important to interpret
these scriptures within their historical and theological context,

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recognizing the specific promises and responsibilities given
to the nation of Israel under the

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Old Covenant. While the principles of
meditating on God's word and obedience apply universally,

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the specific promise of success and blessings
outline in Joshua one to eight are

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primarily directed towards Israel and Rei to
the Covenant establish with them at that time.

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Even Ai understands it. But the
Church seems incapable of being able to

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say, well, I think that
mentions Israel. This is now I'm not

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When I say the church, I'm
speaking in general, not speaking universally for

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every single one. It's a general
statement. Okay, I'll get someone going,

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well, my church says it the
right way. Okay, well then

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this is not applicable to you.
Right. But I've just witnessed this my

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whole Christian life, and then today
I start listening to something and immediately it's

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like, hey, you want to
be successful in your Christian life. And

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even in the message, I've been
trying to really instill this in my kids.

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I want my kids to understand this
that if they want success, that

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they want do Joshua Onet eight.
How are they going to accomplish that?

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Are you going to minimize meditate on
God's word day and night? Are you

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going to find some way to say
that that doesn't mean you do it all

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the time. Because your kids are
not meditating on God's word day and night.

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Their mouth is filled with all kinds
of other things other than God's word.

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And I guarantee you they will never
obey all of it. They will

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never even come close on their best
day. They will not even if they

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do it externally. Internally, you
have no idea what's going on. Look,

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your kids may be young, but
wait till they're thirteen, fourteen,

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fifteen, sixteen. What's going on
in there? They may be sitting in

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church looking nice, saying Amen,
allelujah. They may be reciting the apostles

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Creed. I believe in God the
Father, Almighty, maker of heaven and

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earth, and his only son Jesus
Christ, born of the Virgin Mary suffered

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under ponstas. Okay, I'm not
gonna sit turn quote. They may cite,

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recite the apostles Creed, nice and
Creed. They may even know the

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Athenacious Creed, the athenaician Creed right, not written by Athenasius, but the

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Athenationian Creed named after him, but
not written by him. Right. I

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want to get into church history.
The point is, you have no idea

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what's going on in their minds,
And don't act all spiritual because you'll be

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sitting in church tomorrow and who knows
what's going on in your mind. Oh

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wait, tomorrow, I'll be standing
behind a pulpit preaching. You have no

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idea what's going on in my mind? Now, Joshua demonstrates Israel's failure under

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the old Covenant. It demonstrated that
they were going to need something other than

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trying to obey or keep it,
because they couldn't do it. Even though

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success was right there, they could
not obtain said success because the law was

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designed never to bring success. It
was designed to bring absolute failure and condemnation,

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so that then God would have to
make a new covenant, so that

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he would send his son to obey
the law on behalf of those who cannot

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keep it, and then in him
we find success. Spiritual success. This,

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this, this physical prosperity and physical
promises was for Israel under that covenant,

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But spiritual success is found in Christ, because in Him I'm perfect,

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holy, redeemed, and well have
eternal life. Joshua one eight has been

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misinterpreted, misapplied, mishandled, I
will say, to the detriment to many

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lives. Now, for some reason, a lot of people quote Joshua w

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a aclect that they pull it off
blows my mind. Everybody will sing Joshua

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and amen, amen, I are
so good, and they haven't meditated on

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God's word in sixteen months, probably
having read it or studied it. But

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ahmen, that's the way to success. We need to get God back into

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this country. How about you get
God back in your own mind for crying

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out loud, like come on,
it's so weird how we can't see sometimes

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like wait a minute, I'm not
doing that. I'm not doing that.

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I'm not doing that. Every day
you open your Bible, you should be

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confronted with I'm not doing that,
I'm not or I'm doing what I'm not

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supposed to be doing. That's your
life as a Christian. Well, I'm

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not doing what God tells me to
do, and I'm doing what He told

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me not to do. Well,
what's my hope. It's in Christ Jesus

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now, I know, I just
took your favorite verse and probably messed it

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up, or took one that you
have fond memories of because you memorized it

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when you're young, or you memorized
it as a New cre Christian, or

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or it may even be depending on
your child's Sunday school, you may have

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something somewhere in the house with the
Joshua one eight written on it. I've

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seen that. You know how many
times when it comes to graduation, not

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only will people give graduates something with
you know, Joshua or Jeremiah. You

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know, I know the plans I
have for you to prosper you, okay,

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which is a complete again misapplication,
but you know, you can't believe

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how many things that are made for
new for graduates that will have Joshua one

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eight on it. And I just
want to I just I just want to

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scream. Now the message I found
this is not even about You can go

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find the message, but I'm not
even really here to criticize the message because

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that message is probably one of thousands. I mean, right now, get

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on the sermon's two point oh app
and just type in Joshua one eight.

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I'm just gonna go here I'm gonna
go to Discover to go to the search

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bar. I'm just gonna type in
Joshua one eight Joshua. I don't have

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a number here, but it is. I mean, I am just scrolling

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down and there's one sermon after another. Look, this one is seven keys

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to a successful life. Oh,
I want success, success, successful Christian

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living part one, two, three, four, five, successful Christian living

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and what not. No, this
is successful Israel living as a nation,

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and they failed. And if this
is going to be your key to successful

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Christian living, you're going to fail. But the bigger issue is this is

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for Israel, and what it should
show me is Israel couldn't keep God's law.

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I can't keep God's law. They
couldn't have success. I can't have

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success, But in Christ I can
because you know what, the Word of

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God never departed from his mouth.
He meditated on it day and night,

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and he observed everything that is in
it. For me, email me news

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if at yahoo dot com. Newsif
at yahoo dot com. Here is your

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challenge. Find me a sermon on
the sermon's two point oh app that handles

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Joshua one to eight by first connecting
it to Deuteronomy twenty eight and second acknowledging

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Israel could not keep it and that
we cannot keep it the first one to

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find one. When's the privilege?
When's the privilege? I have a Recis

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peanut buttercup here, I have a
Reese's Peanut butter cup. Here. You

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will get this Reese's Peanut buttercup.
Now, I don't think I'm even gonna

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try to send that to you.
It'd be I'll smash them. Oh,

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I got I gotta Oh, I
got a box of Reese's pieces right here.

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I could send those to you.
Okay, that doesn't work. Oh

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wait, I have a Nature's Bakery
oat mill crumble apple, real fruit and

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whole grain plant based, no high
fruit or current corn syrup if I can

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read correctly. Well, that's actually
been open and I've eaten part of it.

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So actually, now you don't want
that. Yeah, I got junk

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all around me. But I mean, I guess Nature's Bakery. The oatmel

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crumble apple is actually not really it's
probably not super healthy, but it's better

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than the probably the Reese's pieces of
the Reese's Peanut buttercup. But actually you

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don't get anything. Oh wait,
you'll if you if you find it,

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you will get good success. I
can't make that promise, and pastors who

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use Joshua to make promises, they
cannot make do the very same thing.

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I guess I could just make you
a fake promise and while just like other

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people other pastors do with Joshua one
eight and say you'll get a million dollars.

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But you know, okay, all
right, now I'm gonna get over

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into the prosperity gospel nonsense. Okay, but all right, I digress.

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The point is you're not Israel.
Joshua one eight is about Israel, and

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Israel couldn't even keep it now either
can you. And it's connected to Deuteronomy

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twenty eight. And if you don't
realize that, then you've had your your

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maybe your favorite verse or the verse
you've memorized. It's great that you memorized

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it, it's great that it's your
favorite, But of what value is a

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favorite memorized verse if you completely misinterpret
it? Thanks for listening, everyone,

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have a great day. You can
email me at news I F at yahoo

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dot com. News i F at
yahoo dot com. And you know what

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I have to do now? I
have to call my daughter back and how

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much. You bet I'm gonna call
my daughter back, and it's going to

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be something like, hey, September
the thirteenth, that's when Taylor Swift is

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going to release her Taylor's Version of
Reputation because it's September the thirteenth and her

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thirteen is her favorite number. What
you watch? I bet you that's what

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I'm gonna get. Or she's gonna
be like, hey, I saw this

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on TikTok, and I'm gonna be
like, great, thank you so much

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for your your your theories about the
new Taylor Swift Taylor's Version of Reputation,

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or or you know, stop calling
me when I'm broadcasting. But no,

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I'm gonna be nice because I obey
everything in God's word. Unlike the rest

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of you heathens, I obey everything. So I'm gonna call and be dear

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daughter. What can I do for
you today? How can I serve you

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today? How can I make your
life better? Because I'm just so godly

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I'm lying to you. Okay,
I'm not that godly, but I am

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gonna be nice outwardly, but internally
I'm like, oh, how many how

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many episodes has she messed up with? Calling me? I know, I've

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got to learn to turn off the
notifications. That's what I have to learn

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to do. I've got to do
that. I got to do that.

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We see, if I turn off
the notifications, I always forget to turn

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them back on, and then someone
will be calling and one of my daughters

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will be calling me, like you
never answer? Why do you never answer?

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Okay, so all right, it's
nine hundred and fifty seven degrees currently

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here in the studio in West Texas. Y'all have a great day. News

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if it Yahoo dot com. News, if it Yahoo dot com, tell

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someone about Joshua one eight. Have
that conversation. Let me know how it

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goes. God bless