Joshua 1:8 Pt 2

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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. Okay, who
is the person who was it?

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Who is the person? Who was
the person who suggested we study Joshua one

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eight this week? Who was that
person? Who is that person? Where

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are they? Okay? Where is
that person? Because wherever they are,

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I need to find them and I
need to slap them around, like why

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did you pick Joshua one A Okay, wait, actually it's yeah. I'm

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the one who decided we would study
Joshua one eight this week. And it's

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starting to get a little frustrating.
I don't know if you've experienced it yet.

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If you listen to part one and
our study of Joshua one eight and

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now, I did kind of an
introductory message where I offered my own This

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is one of those situations why I
offered my own interpretation before we started studying.

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So in a sense, my interpretation
serves as kind of the hypotheses.

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And then we're listening to all these
sermons offer up their counter arguments to what

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I put forth. A lot of
times I let all the other sermons put

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forth their hypotheses, and then at
the end I offer my interpretation or my

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perspective. In this case, mine
went first, and well it's just been

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nothing but frustration since then. But
I will explain everything. I will explain

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everything in just a moment. In
the meantime, let me go ahead and

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welcome you. Good afternoon everyone.
It is Monday, June the twenty fourth,

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twenty twenty four. It is currently
three point fifty pm Central time,

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

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in Abilene, Texas. I thought
it was a good idea, I really

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did. When I ask who is
it? Who was it? It was

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obviously me. I came up with
this great idea to focus on Joshua one

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eight, thinking it would be very
interesting, but it's really turning into something

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far more frustrating. For let me
just go ahead and read the text.

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I mean, you know, Joshua
one a, but let me read it.

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One of the things we can benefit
when we spend an entire week looking

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at a passage of scripture or a
section of scripture or a chapter of scripture

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is that if we read it and
read it over and over and over,

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that even if by the end of
the week or the end of the month

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or ever how long we spend time
studying a passage of scripture, Hopefully by

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the end you've heard it read so
many times that it almost starts becoming,

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you know, almost a part of
your memory. I don't know if we

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have ever accomplished that, but we
definitely have tried. Joshua one eighth.

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This book of the Law shall not
depart from your mouth, but you shall

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

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

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and then you will have good success. Oh, we know that verse

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that Versus cited over and over and
over and over and over and over again.

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It is mentioned in sermon after sermon
after sermon. But we're discovering kind

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of a problem. I have discovered
now on multiple occasions that the sermons that

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are listed about being about Joshua one
eight, they're in reality not about Joshua

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one eight. I don't know,
it's weird, Like, hey, they

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cite as the scripture Joshua one eight. You start listening and you're like,

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well, this is not really about
Joshua one eight. So it's been very

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frustrating. If you heard part one
of this, that was a total disaster,

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right. It was labeled Joshua one
to eight, and it was a

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part of what they called a survey
of the New Testament. They read it.

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They did make at least one major
claim that Joshua one eight is a

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universal promise. They didn't offer any
explanation to that. That should raise lots

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of questions and all in our minds. So that one was really a disaster.

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So I was looking around for a
couple of you know, trying to

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find another sermon on Joshua one eight. I know I'm supposed to be choosing

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them randomly, but I was checking
a couple and shockingly, guess what they

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weren't about. Really, they weren't
really about Joshua one eight either. They

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It may have been cited, but
it really wasn't a an in depth teaching

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of Joshua one eight. So I've
chosen another one. I chose this one

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somewhat randomly as well. I did
have to listen to a little bit of

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it, and then I had to
artificially increase the volume because it was recorded

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at such a low volume. It's
called be successful. So I think I

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already know which direction they're going to
go, but we're gonna be reviewing it

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for our week long study of Joshua
one eight. Now, as I've stated

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here at the beginning, let me
just stated again. Let me make it

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very clear. I've already put forth
my interpretation and my hypotheses. What I

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really want everyone to consider when you
look at Joshua one A. If we

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say that promise is for you,
and that promise is for me, then

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what we have to do if we
truly want to be successful, if we

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truly want to be prosperous, then
the word of God cannot depart out of

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our mouth. I've told everyone to
try to figure out exactly what that phrase

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means. We've only put forth a
you know, kind of a theory so

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far that that basically means the word
of God is so in you that it's

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constantly what you speak of. You
constantly are talking about it. So we

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would have to constantly be talking about
God's word. We'd have to be meditating

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on God's word day and night.
Oh and then on top of that,

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we have to obey everything that is
in it. So if we say this

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promise is for us, whether we're
all in trouble, ladies and gentlemen,

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because we're never going to accomplish that. We are not going to do that.

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You're never going to do that,
and if you claim you're doing that,

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then you're just lying to yourself.
So immediately we already realize there's a

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problem. So that's that's the first
thing that there's just no way can be

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about us because we can't accomplish this
yet. I believe most sermons preach it

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as if we can. They never
even entertain the idea. Will wait a

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minute, this was given originally to
Israel. They didn't accomplish it. No

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one has ever accomplished it. None
of us have ever accomplished it. So

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I put forth a counter an alternative
interpretation, and I said, well,

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maybe what we should see is that
this is a law passage saying do this,

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do this, do this to demonstrate
that we cannot to bring us to

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the end of ourselves that we can
scream out to God God, I am

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never going to be prosperous from a
spiritual perspective. I'm never going to have

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good success from a spiritual perspective because
I can't accomplish this. But by putting

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my faith in Jesus Christ, who
the word of God was continually in his

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mouth. It never departed from his
mouth, It was always there. He

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meditated on God's word day night,
and he observed everything that was written therein

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in him. Then I accomplished this, and in Christ I am blessed with

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all spirit ritual blessings. And I
am prosperous because He became poor so that

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I could become rich and so and
then I am more than a conquer in

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Christ. I am spiritually successful in
Christ Jesus. That was my one of

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my alternative interpretations. I also stress
that when we're looking for these sermons,

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do they connect Joshua one eight with
Deuteronomy twenty eight, And if they do

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not connect it to Deuteronomy twenty eight
and twenty nine, then they're not preaching

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Joshua one eight correctly. Joshua one
to eight is given a promise given directly

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to Israel in connection to what is
what is stated in Deuteronomy twenty eight.

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This is hey, this is in
a sense the land covenant I made with

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you, and here's what you have
to do under this covenant. And they

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fall short of it. That's why
God has to make a new Covenant.

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All right, So we talked about
all of that. That's kind of just

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all of the introductory Please go listen
to my message Joshua one ate a new

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interpretation or I go through a lot
of that in a much deeper and much

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more in depth way. Not Maybe
we still probably need to do a little

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bit more work on that, but
I think we did a pretty good job.

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So then we reviewed a sermon that
it was supposed to be about Joshua

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one eight. It wasn't. And
so then there's been some looking for other

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sermons those were not really about Joshua
one eight, And here we are today

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we found another one again. This
is called be successful. Be successful.

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Now, if someone asked me spiritually, how can I be successful spiritually?

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Put your faith in Jesus Christ.
And then if you are in Him,

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and because of his imputed righteousness,
you will be blessed with all spiritual blessings,

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and you will be more than a
conqueror in Christ Jesus, and no

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one can accuse you of anything because
in Christ you are forgiven, perfect and

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holy, and in Christ you have
eternal life, and nothing can separate you

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from the love of God. I
would look at it from that your success

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is found only in Christ. Your
success is found in his success. Your

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prosperity is found in his prosperity,
your hope is found in Him. And

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it has literally very little to do
with us practically. That's what I would

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point you to. Let's see what
they're going to do. So are you

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ready? I don't know. Have
you Have you found who's responsible for this

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Joshua one a study? Did you
find who who did it? Who was

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responsible? Who is currently responsible?
Who is it? Well, it happens

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to be me. I'm nervous.
I know it's only Monday, but I'm

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nervous that by the time we get
to Friday or Saturday, this entire,

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this entire study is going to be
an absolute disaster. By the time we

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get to the end of the week, It's just I'm going to be sitting

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on the side of the road and
just the train has you know, derailed

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and exploded all around me, and
everything's on fire and there's smoke everywhere,

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and I'm just sitting in the midst
of it, going, well, that

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didn't go well. OK, That's
that's that's how I feel this is going

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to go. But are you ready? Hopefully that was that was kind of

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a quick introduction, not really ten
minutes. Are you ready, ladies and

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gentlemen, Joshua one eight? Open
your bibles, have your notebooks open,

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grab a pencil, let's find out
what. I don't know what's getting ready

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to happen, but we're getting ready
to find out. Well, I want

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to open up the scriptures to the
Book of Joshua Joshua chapter one in the

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very beginning, and I want to
read just a few verses, but focus

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primarily on verse eight. Okay,
I'm a little hopeful he's actually going to

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read some verses before Joshua one.
Ain't That means he may be able to

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establish context and who this is for. But then at the same time,

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I get a little nervous when he
says, but we're primarily going to focus

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on one eight. And only reason
I get nervous is because that usually means

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then the rest of the context is
going to be ignored. Let's hope that

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I'm wrong. Joshua chapter one.
I want to pick up from verse six.

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Read along with me. If you
have your Bibles with you, and

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if you memorize this passage, well, good for you. That's exactly what

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you should be doing all right,
Joshua, Chapter one, verse six,

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Could we all stand for the reading
and the honoring of God's work. This

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is the reading of God's word.
Be strong and courageous, for you shall

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cause this people to inherit the land
which I swore to their fathers to give

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them. Only be strong and very
courageous, to be careful to do according

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to all the law which Moses,
my servant commanded. You do not turn

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aside from it to the right or
to the left, so that you may

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be prosperous wherever you go. This
book of the Law shall not depart from

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your mouth, but you shall meditate
on it day and night, so that

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you may be careful to do according
to all that is written in it.

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For then you will make your way
successful, and then you will be prosperous.

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Now I would ask the question,
why didn't he go back and read

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the whole thing right? Why didn't
he go back and start in verse one

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right, Because then you really kind
of get an exact idea who's being spoken

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of. But I will point out
even what he read. Be strong and

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of good courage for to this people, For to this people this Joshua one

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six, Be strong enough good courage
for to this people? Who is it?

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To this people? Remember how I
started this whole thing. Who was

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it? Who is it that came
up with this idea for Joshua one to

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eight? Well, who was it? Who is it? Who was it

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to? Who is it to?
For to this people you shall divide as

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an inheritance the land which I swore
to their fathers to give them. Who

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is it? Who was it?
This is to Israel. This is about

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Israel. This is about their requirements
and what they are to do and not

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do when they go into the land, which is established in Deuteronomy twenty eight.

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This is what we referred to as
the Land Covenant, and the Land

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Covenant it very much had do this
and you get blessing. Don't do this,

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you get cursed. This is simply
restating what was already said. This

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is directly to Israel. Now that
you're going to go in, don't forget.

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You got to do everything God has
told you to do. And if

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you don't do it, well it's
going to be bad. If you do

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it, it's going to be wonderful. And they don't accomplish it. You

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know why, because they could not
accomplish it. Because no one can keep

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keep God's law perfectly. No one
can. Meaning this is a law passage

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which demonstrates why we need Christ.
All right, let's see if he's going

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to even acknowledge that that verse.
Right here we go. Have I not

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commanded you be strong and courageous.
Do not be in dread or be dismayed

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for yahweh, Your God is with
you wherever you go. Amen, please

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be seated. Boys and girls,
God wants you to be successful, just

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like God wanted Joshua to be successful. All right, let's stop right here.

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Oh boy, he's telling the kids
that God wants them to be successful.

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Now I've oh boy, oh man, oh man, oh man,

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oh man, oh man, oh
man. Okay, okay, deep breath,

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Okay. So we've got a lot
of we got a lot of things

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to consider. So if you're taking
notes, you may want to write these

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notes down. Now I'm going to
start giving you assignments. First of all,

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I want you let's let's make this
a priority. All right, Let's

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make this a priority for this week. When that when the Bible says be

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prosperous and have good success. I
want you to come up with a definition

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of the prosperity and success that is
being promised here. Now, I think

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the prosperity and success being promised in
Joshua one eight goes back to Deuteronomy twenty

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eight. I think when you look
at Deuteronomy twenty eight, that's the prosperity

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and success, meaning, then this
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then you would have to then you
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in twenty eight and say, well, if I constantly talk about God's word,

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I meditate on a day night,
and I obey everything in it,

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then God's going to do exactly what
he promised in Deuteronomy twenty eight. Look

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that that is some bad hermeneutics,
right. Deuteronomy twenty eight is a land

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promised to Israel based off a covenant. But so what I would say if

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we say the success and prosperity is
found in Deuteronomy twenty eight, then list

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all of the prosperity and success in
Deuteronomy twenty eight. Now some people will

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come along and try to spiritualize that
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I don't think that's I don't even
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the more prosperity gospel. Who would
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This would be being rich and having
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and being healthy and being wealthy and
being prosperous. I completely reject that outright,

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But I want you to try to
define what is the prosperity and success

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being spoken of in Joshua chapter one, verse eight. What is it?

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I was going to try to expand
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What is that? Now? When
this pastor tells these boys and girls God

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wants you to be successful. Here's
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So first, I want you to
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prosperity and success promised in Joshua.
Won me again, I've already told you

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my answer. I think it's found
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just obvious, it's clear. I
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it's complicated, all right, But
here's the thing. If a pastor stands

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and tells the boys and girls in
the church, God wants you to be

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successful, so you're telling me God
wants something, and what God wants he

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can't achieve. God wants you to
be prosperous and successful, but it really

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is all up to you. So
God wants it, but I have to

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accomplish it. Now, if you
say God helps us accomplish what is required

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to be successful, then why aren't
all Christians successful? Can God want something

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and it doesn't occur? God wants
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can't find a way to get you
there. It's the same thing if God

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wants. On one hand, if
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if he truly, why can't we
get there now? Ultimately we will

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get there in glorification, we will
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and christ but a lot of people
have this. On one hand, we

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say God is all powerful, he
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And then we say, well,
God wants this, and God wants

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this, and God wills this,
but something constantly stops him from getting what

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he wants. God has to be
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frustrated and disappointed deity and the history
of deities the way Christianity sometimes teaches it,

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God wants this, and he wants
this, but he just cannot get

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what he wants. That's a weak
God. But this, this man just

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told boys and girls, God wants
you to be successful, Okay, And

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is that based off Joshua one to
eight, Because unless they're unless they are,

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you know, I don't know,
coming out coming out from their wilderness

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wanderings and just getting ready to cross
into the promised land. I don't really

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know how this, this promise of
success and prosperity has anything to do with

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the boys and girls that you're currently
looking at. I'm just perplexed by this.

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He gave the secret to success here
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That's why you're a want of leaders, and your teachers want you to

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be successful, and that's why they're
teaching you the scriptures because the scriptures,

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the word of God is the path
to eternal success, not just temporary,

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short term success, but eternal success. Knowing the Word of God is the

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path of knowing God himself. Oh, this is very very concerning. This

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is very concerning. I know he
doesn't mean it this way, but if

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you tell everyone, hey, God
wants you to be successful, not only

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temporal, but he wants you to
be successful in eternity, well then Joshua

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one A would say, the way
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it's by obeying. So now your
success in eternity is depended upon your obedience

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to the Word of God. You've
got to know it, you've got to

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talk about it, you got to
meditate, and you got to do it.

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If you want to be successful eternally. I thought my success eternally is

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based on what Christ did, not
what I did. This sounds very Catholic

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and my estimation. Oh and this
is too and this church has a wanna

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Oh man, oh boy, what
are these kids being taught? I just

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don't know. It's just it's it's
it's just like a complete undermining of a

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gospel of grace and just basically telling
the kids, if you want to be

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successful, I mean, clear what
He's doing, you've got to do Joshua

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one to eight. If you want
to be successful eternally, not just in

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life eternally. No, if you
want to be successful eternally, you put

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your faith in Jesus Christ. His
obedience is imputed to you, and you

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stand before God, Holy, perfect
and righteous. That is success. You're

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now in Christ. You're a conqueror, You're in Christ, you're blessed with

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all spiritual blessings. Maybe that's where
he's gonna go. I'm all right,

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I'm just gonna be hopeful. I'm
gonna be hopeful. I'm gonna be hopeful,

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I'm gonna be hopeful, I'm gonna
be hopeful, I'm gonna be hopeful.

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Here we go. Apart from God's
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himself, and knowing God will lead
you to a life that is a successful

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life, a blessed life, a
joyful life. Wait, you just told

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kids that if they know God,
they're gonna have a blessed life and a

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joyful life. Okay, blessed as
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Joyful. Now you've got to make
sure you explain what that means,

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because many of these kids will grow
up and some may be murdered, and

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some may be raped, and some
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abused, and some may suffer horribly
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and who knows what horrible things that
they may go through. Some may

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join the military and find themselves a
prisoner of war, or come back without

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an arm or a leg some of
them may find themselves diagnosed with cancer and

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slowly suffer and die. So if
you know God it, you don't have

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to worry about any of that.
Are you saying that, well, you're

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gonna be blessed and you're gonna be
even though you may suffer, and that

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is that the concept? Are the
kids gonna understand this? Because if I'm

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a kid, I'm thinking, Man, if I know God, boom,

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life's gonna be perfect. But maybe
maybe he's gonna maybe he's just setting it

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all up and then he's gonna clarify
it. That's what we're gonna hope for.

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And he will lead you into his
perfect ways because God is perfect.

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Now your parents want you to be
successful. Here's God will lead you into

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his perfect way. Now here's what
I would hope Instead of leading people into

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their perfect way, could God just
lead the church into one correct doctrinal understanding

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so that we can all be unified. I don't know. Could he lead

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us into a proper understanding of baptism
or the Lord's Supper, of ecclesiology,

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eschatology, any other other ologies?
If God's leading, could he just lead

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us so that we can all believe
the same thing, and we can be

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unified. And if God okay,
well there's all okay. Be patient.

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Be patient because I know this is
going to work out. I know this

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is going to work. I've got
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so jaded, can't be so jaded. But sometimes we even though we mean

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well, we love our children.
I have three children of my own.

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We don't know how to lead them
into success. We don't. We think

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we do, but we don't if
we are not following the blueprint of God's

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success. This is the way of
true success. So your parents want you

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to be successful. But before we
continue, let's define what does it mean

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to be successful? What is success? Well, let me give you what

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the world sees success and see if
you can relate to this. I give

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you the dictionary definition the favorable or
prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors. Wow,

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there's a fancy words. Have two
big words. How about here is

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a shorter one. The accomplishment of
one's goals? Do you have goals?

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Boys and girls? One day when
I grow up, I want to be

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like this. I want to do
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that While those are goals. Here's
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the gathering of wealth, position,
honors, or the like. This is

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what the people of the world consider
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Well, look how rich I am
that how many things I can buy?

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Position? Look how hi I am. Look at the kind of degrees

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or position I have. People recognize
me and they respect me because I'm in

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high position or honors. They said, Wow, that person graduated with high

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honors. That person graduated with higher
honors. That person graduated with the highest

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honors. One of my children graduated
with the highest honors. Boys and girls,

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what do you think, wow,
successful? Well, the word of

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God defines success because only God can
give the honor. Only God. Okay,

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from a preaching standpoint, In some
ways, I'm glad that he's not.

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He obviously is going to offer a
different interpretation or a different definition of

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success than the ones he just read. So in one way, in one

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way, I want to say,
that's really good. But I think he's

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walking himself into a corner from a
hermai neutical exegetical perspective, because the definition

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of success cannot just be taken from
anywhere. We have to understand how is

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success and prosperity being defined in Joshua
one eight. That's the real question.

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Now it sounds like he's going to
go import some spiritual understanding of success and

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prosperity to Joshua one eight. But
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And Joshua one eight, I'm going
to put forth the hypotheses and I'm

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still and I'm stressing hypotheses right now. Just my theory, just my theory

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right now. I'm not being dogmatic
that the success in Joshua one eight has

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to be defined by Deuteronomy twenty eight
and following I'm gonna I'm just gonna stand

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firm on that as of right now. I may change my mind dramatically.

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I just don't think these people heard. Oh wait a minute, wait a

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minute, Okay, Joshua's telling us
that if we constantly talk about God's word,

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if we meditate on it day in
that and we obey everything, we're

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going to be spiritually successful and spiritually
prospers. This has nothing to do with

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the land we're about to obtain,
nothing about being victorious over our enemy.

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No, this is just all spiritual
success. This hasn't it. They,

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I don't think you would if we
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the camp and start at, hey, did you hear the message Joshua?

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Yeah, he said, if we
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God's world and we obey it,
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That and I ask them, what
does that mean. I don't think you're

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going to find one of them?
Well, that just means I'm going to

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be spiritually prosperous and spiritually successful.
I think that that is utterly reject I

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think that is completely ignoring the historical
context. That is my position as of

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right now. I am free to
change that. As we continue to listen

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to sermons on Joshua one eight,
I'm more than willing to hear every perspective.

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That's why. Look, that's why
we review these sermons, because I

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want to hear a different perspective,
because I want to be challenged, just

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I in this particular study, I've
already put forth a lot of my interpretation

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first, So these these things are
challenging, but I'm more than willing to

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change my mind. So what I'm
going to do here is I've told you

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what I think, but I'm going
to set aside what I think. I'm

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just going to forget about it,
and now I'm going to be open for

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him to define success and see if
that works here in Joshua one. Ain't

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remember, the issue isn't how he
defines success. The issue is what is

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the success and the prosperity that is
being talked about in Joshua one to eight.

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He has to be able to convince
me that whatever definition he's about to

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provide is the definition that I am
to put into Joshua one eight. That's

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going to be the test here.
God can give the true well. Only

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God can exalt and elevate one's position
from a lowly position like a little shepherd

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boy, youngest of eight children,
little boy who wasn't even invited David who

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became a mighty king in the hand
of the Lord who exalted, and the

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Lord Jesus Christ came from the family
of David. It's the only God can

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give true success. So there's two
words here, prosperous and success. There

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are synonyms, which means there are
similar meaning words, but neither of these

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words in the original language of the
Biblical language of Hebrew means financial success.

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It doesn't mean prosperous, material success. Okay. So he's saying in the

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Hebrew, neither word has anything to
do with materialistic prosperity or wealth. That's

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okay. Now, maybe he's going
to convince me here that it's not Deuteronomy

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twenty eight. So maybe I was. Maybe my theory is falling apart right

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here. So I've got to look
this up. I'm going to go to

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I'm opening up the blue Letter Bible, app. I'm going to Joshua,

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chapter one, verse eight. All
right, we're going to look up the

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Hebrew words. All right, thou
shall make thou prosperous. It's this Hebrew

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word. It's this Hebrew word.
All right, here we go. Strong's

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age sixty seven forty three salaya,
salaya silak. I guess is how you

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would say that? It says to
advance, prosper make progress, succeed,

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be profitable. Well right, there
says be profitable, to make, to

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make prosperous, to bring to successful
issue, cause to prosper to show or

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experience prosperity or prosper Strong's definition break
out, go over, be good,

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be meet, be profitable. Okay, it's used it's used how many times?

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Here? It's used sixty five times
in sixty four verses. I I

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I'm having a heart that it has
nothing to do with money or material wealth

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than the Hebrew. I I'm I
don't know about it's you sixty four times.

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I could start walking through those sixty
four times right now, Okay,

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I would challenge you. Look up
the Hebrew word there, the Hebrew word,

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So look up Joshua one eight.
Look up the Hebrew word which is

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this strong's age sixty seven forty three, salleyah, salleah, silaak, okay,

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silaak. That's a If I look
at the Hebrew word, I would

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not get silaak. I would be
saying everything else. Okay, So I

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have to listen to it because if
I look at it, I'm like,

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I'm not gonna say silak, even
though I should know how to say it.

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I'm just being honest with you.
If I look at it, I'm

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not gonna say say it that way
by silak. So yeah, so we

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would have to look. I'm just
sixty sixty four times. I kind of

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want to go through pase and he
said into him, hinder me not seeing

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the Lord hath prospered my way,
and the Lord was with Joseph, and

419
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he was a prosperous man and was
in the house of I don't know how

420
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:20.680
you're gonna say this has nothing to
do with money. I don't know.

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00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:24.480
I don't know. I don't know. All right, Well, you can

422
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:28.599
look them up. You can look
them up. I'm already I'm already questioning

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00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:30.599
this. I'm already questioning that claim. He was very dogmatic about it.

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Go back to Joshua one eight.
I'm gonna go back to Joshua one eight.

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So there is prosperous and I have
good success. As this Hebrew word

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Strong's age nineteen hel hel that one
is use sixty three times now. A

427
00:33:53.680 --> 00:34:00.640
success here means circumspect, intelligent,
consider, expert, instruct prosper to prosper

428
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.279
again, have good success, teach
to understand. I mean this, There's

429
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.119
there's a million different things this can
this can refer to so many. The

430
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:10.079
outline of biblical usage to be prudent, to be circumspect, wise, understand,

431
00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:14.480
prosper to be prudent, to look
at upon, to give attention,

432
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.960
to have insight, to cause,
to consider, to act circumspectully, to

433
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:22.800
prosper to cost to prosper. I
mean the idea of prosperity is right there

434
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.239
with it. Now, I may
this may also have being smart or being

435
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:36.400
given insight so that you could be
successful. It is used sixty three times,

436
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:40.800
and then yeah, it's used to
make one wise. Okay, but

437
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:45.639
then keep there for the words of
the covenant, and do them that ye

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00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:50.400
may prosper and all that ye do. That's Deuteronomy twenty nine, using the

439
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:58.719
exact same Hebrew word Joshua one.
It's used for prosper Joshua it's define success,

440
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:04.360
so and Joshua translated prosper Joshua one
to eight. It's translated success.

441
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:10.480
It's translated wisely a number of times. Prosper in first Kings right is written

442
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:15.480
in the Law of Moses that thou
may us prosper and all that thou doest.

443
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:20.719
So there's a second King's eighteen seven, and the Lord was with him

444
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:27.239
and he prospered. So I don't
know where you could say that this has

445
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:32.159
literally nothing to do with money or
material like he made that dogmatic. And

446
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:37.280
not only do the words seem to
at least allow it, the context would

447
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:45.280
scream it right again Joshua one eight
is very much connected to Tudoronomy twenty eight.

448
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:47.519
And look, and we can just
start reading about it right here Deuteronomy

449
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:51.000
twenty eight. I was trying to
avoid going here because I'm trying to get

450
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.800
everyone else to look at it on
their own. But I'll just I mean,

451
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.760
we've got to just pick it up
now. Now is shall come to

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00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:00.079
pass if you diligently obey the Lord
your God to a deserve it carefully all

453
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:05.360
his commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set

454
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:08.000
you high above all nations of the
earth, and all these blessings shall come

455
00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:12.159
upon you and overtake you. Because
you have obeyed the voice of the Lord.

456
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.000
Blessed. Shall you be in the
city blessed, shall you be in

457
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the country blessed. It shall be
the fruit of your body, the produce

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00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:21.480
of your ground, and the increase
of your herds, and the increase of

459
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:23.480
your cattle and the offspring of your
flocks. I mean, come on,

460
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:29.519
that's material wealth. I don't know
how you can. Oh, I don't

461
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:36.360
understand one of the things that is
so like one thing that almost drives me.

462
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.440
And I know people think I'm being
over dramatic, but the thing that

463
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:45.639
will drive me sometimes to wanting to
take everything my microphone, my computer,

464
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:51.559
my Bible, my notebooks, my
pencils. The thing that will drive me

465
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:54.559
to want to take all of those
things and just throw them literally out the

466
00:36:54.599 --> 00:37:00.519
window, throw them across the room, and just walk away and say I

467
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.280
quit. The thing that will drive
me to that faster than anything is when

468
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:08.920
I listen to a sermon where they
say the Hebrew word means this, or

469
00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:14.039
the Hebrew word doesn't mean this,
or the Greek word means this, or

470
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:17.119
the Greek word doesn't mean this,
and five minutes of study, you're like,

471
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:22.159
that is a valid possible interm That
is, what you're saying is not

472
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:28.079
accurate because the Hebrew or Greek word
has a variety of possible meanings, and

473
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:30.039
what you're saying it can't mean,
it actually can mean, or in some

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00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:37.440
cases it explicitly is what you said
that it's not if we can't even within

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00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.599
Christianity agree on the meaning of a
Hebrew at Greek word. Just think about

476
00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:46.559
this. Two thousand years of preaching
and we still in Christianity cannot agree on

477
00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:51.079
what a Greek or Hebrew word means. We can't even agree with what the

478
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:55.079
word baptizo means we don't even agree
on with the well, I think there's

479
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:59.400
a number of Greek words for repentance
that we don't even agree on what the

480
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:05.320
meaning of the word repentances. How
is that even humanly possible? And the

481
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:07.760
people sitting in the pew are supposed
to find some way of figuring out what

482
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.679
to believe When preachers can't even agree
on the actual meaning of a Greek or

483
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.679
Hebrew word, I mean, at
that point, there's just no way of

484
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.480
ever understanding anything like It's it's like, forget it. The game is up.

485
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:29.239
We can't understand God's word he just
dogmatically asserted has nothing to do with

486
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.719
those things. Well, the only
way to prove that he would have to

487
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.800
we would have to go to the
Hebrew word that's translated, go back to

488
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.599
Joshua one eight. And even if
we ignored the context, we would have

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to go to Joshua one eight.
This book of the Law shall not depart

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00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:47.159
from your mouth, but you shall
meditate in it day and night, that

491
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:50.679
you may observe to do it according
to all that is written in it.

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00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:54.440
For then your way, then will
you will make your way prosperous we'd have

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00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:59.599
to find that Hebrew word for prosperous, then look up every place in the

494
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:04.280
Bible where that Greek word is used
sixty four times, and see does it

495
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:09.280
ever have anything to do with wealth, prosperity, material possessions. And if

496
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:13.639
it does, then what he just
said is proven false. And if it

497
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.960
doesn't, then what he just said
is proven to be true. And we'd

498
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:21.360
have to do the same thing with
success. Well, I just started looking

499
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:23.920
through some of those and immediately found
some that would almost immediately call it into

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00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:28.880
question. And that is completely ignoring
the fact that the context of Joshua one

501
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:32.760
to eight is Deuteronomy twenty eight.
You cannot ignore that context. And the

502
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:37.480
thing is the Hebrew words that are
the Hebrew words from which that prosperous and

503
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:43.119
success is translated in Joshua one to
eight. Both of those words have a

504
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:50.800
wide range of meaning, a wide
range of meaning, meaning that there's plenty

505
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:55.079
of room for them to include the
very things he said that are excluded by

506
00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:02.400
the Hebrew word. It doesn't mean
that you have all the collection of Pokemon

507
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:07.719
cards and so you're successful. It
doesn't mean you have the largest collection of

508
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:12.920
pink Puffy Teddy bear dolls. So
you're successful. You have the nicest wardrobe

509
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:17.480
of pretty dresses, you're successful.
No, those aren't the definitions of success.

510
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:22.480
So what is the definition. Well, for let's look at what Joshua

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had. Joshua had to lead this
huge group of people, the Israelites,

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into an unknown land where the people
were hostile. They were ready to fight

513
00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:40.519
them to the death. And Moses, the great leader, whom God used

514
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:45.519
to defeat the Egyptians with the Ten
Plagues, split the Red Sea open and

515
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:50.440
sustained them, fed them, took
care of them for forty years in the

516
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:58.039
wilderness, had died. He couldn't
lead them into the promised land. Now

517
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:06.800
Moses's mentory, protege or student,
if you will, Joshua is now being

518
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:10.079
called by God and saying, I've
chosen you to lead the people. That's

519
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:17.639
why God says again and again and
again, be courageous, be very courageous,

520
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:24.480
don't be afraid. And then instead
of God giving okay, here is

521
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:30.719
the military strategy. Here's the way
that you need to set aside the Israelite

522
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.679
armies to attack. This is the
way that you will win wars. God

523
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:38.800
didn't do that, but he said
this is the way you will have true

524
00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:55.119
success if you read, meditate,
keep obey the scriptures. Did you notice

525
00:41:55.119 --> 00:42:02.719
something He dogmatically asserted what they Hebrew
words don't mean. Didn't bother to look

526
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:09.679
up or even handle the antilinear or
in a Hebrew dictionary or anything. He

527
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:13.400
didn't even bother even to give the
Hebrew words. I know it sounds like

528
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:15.480
he's speaking to children, but still, if you're going to tell the kids

529
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:21.000
the word doesn't mean that in Hebrew, you have to do something to back

530
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:23.840
it up, right, And then
what he is saying is okay, what

531
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:28.159
you have to do then to get
success. But he hasn't even given us

532
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:32.039
a definition of success. He's not
even dealt with the Hebrew words. Even

533
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:37.079
though he mentioned the Hebrew words and
now he said they don't mean this.

534
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:40.039
But he's not given us a positive
definition of success. But he's made it

535
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.239
very clear that the way you get
whatever success he's about to define, however

536
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.000
he's about to define it. Kids, you get it if you do this.

537
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:51.880
You meditate on God's word day night. Yeah, those kids, I'm

538
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:53.800
sure those kids are going to be
meditating on God's word day night. You

539
00:42:53.920 --> 00:43:01.960
constantly talk about it, and you
obey it. Moses didn't do it,

540
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.599
Israel didn't do it. Nobody has
ever accomplished what Joshua one eight says we're

541
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:12.280
supposed to do because it's law,
and those kids can't do it. You're

542
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:17.559
setting them up for a lifetime of
absolute failure. All right, But maybe

543
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:22.559
maybe he's going to define success.
Maybe he's going to define success. So

544
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:29.320
the Bible and the spiritual success is
true success. The word of God leads

545
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:32.519
us to ultimate success. At the
end of your life, you will never

546
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:40.119
say I regretted reading the Bible.
Okay, So the success is spiritual success.

547
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:47.320
So you're telling me Joshua one eight
was promising those people spiritual success.

548
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:54.920
I do Deuteronomy twenty eight hasn't.
It's all about material prosperity and success.

549
00:43:55.000 --> 00:44:04.400
It's about oh man, I understand, don't understand, don't understand. I

550
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:10.000
don't understand. I don't understand,
and I and A no. It's sometimes

551
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:15.960
sometimes when I'm engaged in these studies
and I'm looking at a text, I'm

552
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:22.079
just i feel like I'm a complete
stranger, like I'm a foreigner in a

553
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:28.639
strange land. Because I listen to
sermon after sermon and I'll be like am

554
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:32.599
I the only one like I can't
be the only one who calls into question

555
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:38.960
how everyone handles the text. Now
I understand what he's doing. Ninety nine

556
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:43.400
percent of you will agree with and
think that it's perfectly correct, and that's

557
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:45.599
fine, that's okay. I'm always
the one on the outside, and that's

558
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:49.480
okay. I got no problem with
that. But I would just challenge you.

559
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:52.199
I don't Joshua one eight is attached
to dude around me twenty eight.

560
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.519
There's no way to get around it. I remember how I started this entire

561
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.880
message. Who who? Who was? The person? Who is the person

562
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:05.039
who suggested Joshua one eighth. Well, let me see who was and who

563
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:08.840
is? When you read Joshua chapter
one, verse six, be strong and

564
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:14.599
of good courage, for to this
people, who was and who is?

565
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:20.599
This people that is Israel? You
shall divide as an inheritance the land which

566
00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:27.599
I swore to their fathers. Who
is and who was there in Joshua one

567
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:31.679
six? And give them who was
and who is? The them and Joshua

568
00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:37.679
one six There is all Israel.
This is all about Israel, and this

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00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:50.239
is in direct connection to the Land
Covenant made in Deuteronomy tand Oh, I

570
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:55.000
regretted keeping the law of God,
the command of the Lord. I regretted

571
00:45:55.679 --> 00:46:00.960
building a relationship with the Lord Jesus
Christ. I regret it following his commands.

572
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:04.960
I regretted it. No one,
no Christian, has ever said that.

573
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.280
They've always said, Lord, thank
you for allowing me to finish the

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00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:14.400
race. If I had another life, I would live it even stronger for

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00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:19.920
you. But thank you for giving
me a life and opportunity to live for

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00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:25.800
you. I am successful because you
made me successful, and that's what I

577
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:35.119
wish. Wait, God makes us
successful. No, wait, ladies and

578
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.239
gentlemen. If God is the one
who makes me successful, then it cannot

579
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:43.199
be dependent upon what I do.
If you say my success it's depended on

580
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:46.719
what I do, then I'm making
myself successful. You can't say, on

581
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:51.239
one hand, do this to be
successful, and then on the other hand

582
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.199
said, God is the one who
made you successful. No, it's not.

583
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:58.239
God didn't do anything. If it's
me who has to keep the word

584
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:00.519
of God in my mouth, meditate
on it day and night, and obey

585
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.239
it, then it's me. They
say, Well, God is the one

586
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:07.400
who allows you, who gives you
the ability to meditate on a day and

587
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:08.880
night and to keep the law perfectly. Well, if God gives us the

588
00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:13.320
ability to do that, then all
Christians should meditate on God's word day and

589
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:15.679
night and obey every part of it. Well, Christians don't obey all of

590
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.400
it. So then whose fault is
it? Is it God or us?

591
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:23.719
Oh? Wa, Christians do this
double speak constantly. God is the one

592
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:27.760
who makes you successful. But you
have to do this, this, and

593
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:30.719
this. Well that sounds like I'm
making myself successful. Well, you can't

594
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.239
do those things unless God gives you
the ability to do those things. So

595
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:37.639
you're telling me all Christians have the
ability ability to obey all of God's word.

596
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:40.199
That means all Christians should be perfect. Well, no, you can't

597
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:43.559
be perfect. Well, if I
can't be perfect, then I don't have

598
00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:46.480
the ability to obey all of God's
word. Therefore I can't be successful.

599
00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:57.480
Oh, it's like going in circles, it's like circular reasoning. It's just

600
00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:01.400
insanity. It's like logical fallacy.
A logical fallacy. I don't under it.

601
00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:05.760
And it's not even this sermon,
this is just the standard teaching of

602
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:08.599
Joshua one to eight and on one
end I'm glad that he presented it this

603
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:15.880
way because this look. I was
worried when he said that the Hebrew word

604
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:21.039
absolutely is not about any kind of
material wealth or prosperity, that none of

605
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:22.400
the Well, then I got nervous. I'm like, well, man,

606
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.199
maybe I'm wrong. But then I
look and I'm like, wait a minute,

607
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.239
that's not actually correct. And then
when I connected to Deuteronomy twenty eight,

608
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:37.880
then I'm even more convinced that my
original interpretation currently stands. We're not

609
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:39.920
gonna I don't think we're not gonna
make it through all of this. I

610
00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:43.840
don't think of there's gonna be much
value in making it through all of this.

611
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:45.239
I will tell you the name of
the sermon said that you can go

612
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:49.880
make it through all of it,
because you may find maybe I miss something,

613
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:54.360
But let's see how far we can
get and pray that you would say

614
00:48:54.400 --> 00:49:00.320
at the end of your life.
But God always gives us a dis decision

615
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:04.360
to make. So let's take a
look at what Joshua did and what God

616
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:08.679
said to Joshua to do. Let's
find out what God's word says about true

617
00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:13.079
success and how you can be successful
in your life too. Boys and girls.

618
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:17.280
Now, God makes you successful.
But you see now how this this

619
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:22.320
is almost a bait and switch.
God will make you successful, but bye,

620
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:24.960
but wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait wait switch.

621
00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:30.239
Now you gotta do something, you
gotta do something. Well, I

622
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:36.599
thought God's the one who I don't
understand. Understand. Okay, man,

623
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:44.719
okay, all right, here we
go. I'm waiting to see something good

624
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:46.239
is going to happen. Something good
is going to happen. I know it,

625
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:50.559
I know it. I'm counting on
it. I'm I'm I'm counting on

626
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:54.840
something good getting ready to happen.
Now, the key to Joshua and Israel's

627
00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:00.960
success is the same. Is the
same. The key to Jusha success is

628
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.719
the same for Israel's success. And
that is here the law of God,

629
00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:09.880
the word of God, which Moses, God's servant commanded. That's it.

630
00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:15.880
We have the same word from the
same God given to us. Because the

631
00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:20.239
word of God tells us about him, his character, what God is like,

632
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:24.960
what he did for us, what
he did for Israel. So that's

633
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:30.920
the key to our success. So
Scripture says this in Micah chapter six,

634
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:34.960
verse eight. He has told you, well, man, what is good?

635
00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:38.239
You want to know what's good here
it is and what does Yahweh require

636
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:44.280
of you? But to do justice, you need to act justly. You

637
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:49.840
must act fairly. You can't just
be nice to your friends and be mean

638
00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.199
to everybody else. You can't.
That's not just. You must treat all

639
00:50:53.320 --> 00:51:01.639
people with love and respect and equally. That's justice. You know what I'm

640
00:51:01.719 --> 00:51:10.519
hearing. Christianity, moralism, Be
good boys and girls. That's what you

641
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:16.360
must do. Now. Remember at
the beginning he talked about that this is

642
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:20.920
what you must do to be successful
even into eternity. So this becomes very

643
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:25.320
workspace. But someone needs to tell
someone in this story, Moses didn't accomplish

644
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:31.519
this. Israel didn't accomplish this.
No one has ever accomplished this other than

645
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:36.880
Jesus Christ. This well, when
you can read Micah, you can read

646
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:38.159
anywhere where there's law that says,
do this, do this, do this,

647
00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:42.159
do this, do this, do
this. It will only condemn you

648
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:47.719
because you cannot keep it. Oh. Oh, the proper distinction between long

649
00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:52.920
gospel. It is so lost in
modern day evangelicalism. It is so the

650
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:58.679
proper distinction between long gospel. I'm
telling you Luther fought for the proper distinction

651
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:02.199
between long and gospel. Protestantism as
it developed and expanded and evolved, just

652
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:08.039
threw out that concept and almost reverted
back to a moralistic, a moralistic understanding

653
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:15.719
that's more akin to the Catholicism that
Luther was fighting against. To love,

654
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:21.760
loving kindness, that means you need
to be loyal, loyal to your parents,

655
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:29.039
to children, to your brothers and
sisters, to your teachers. What's

656
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:34.199
amazing. What's amazing here is the
commands, and Joshua one eight weren't enough.

657
00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:37.239
He had to go find even more
commands. He had to even go

658
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.199
fight. By the time these kids, if these kids were taking notes,

659
00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:44.559
they're gonna leave here going man.
Okay, I went to church and got

660
00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:51.320
a list of things that I I
I must do and if I do them,

661
00:52:52.960 --> 00:53:01.239
I I will be successful because of
what I do. Okay, all

662
00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:05.639
right, It's just funny that Joshua
whe it wasn't enough commands, so we

663
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:08.159
had to go find more things to
give them more things for them to do.

664
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:16.000
You need to know what it means
to be loyal to them consistently and

665
00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:21.599
not be fickle and go by your
feelings. But you need to learn to

666
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:24.760
do what is loving and what is
kind? And how to do that in

667
00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:30.320
a consistent way. This is what
God wants from us. And to walk

668
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:35.559
humbly. You need to be lowly
in your thinking, and not even to

669
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:38.559
think about yourself, but to think
about God and think about others. You

670
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:42.599
need to be so busy thinking about
God and thinking about others. You don't

671
00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:45.800
think about yourself. You don't think
about your feelings. You don't think about

672
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:50.079
what you want or what you feel. You really think about what does God

673
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.719
want, what does he feel?
What do other people need? How can

674
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:58.119
I help? This is the way
God wants us to live. This is

675
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:02.119
the path of true success and true
joy. People who live like this are

676
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.840
very joyful people. People who don't
live like this, they're very upset people.

677
00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:15.119
There must be a lot of upset
people, because no one lives the

678
00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:19.960
way he's describing even remotely consistent.
And even if you pull it off faking

679
00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:29.000
it externally, you're guilty of violating
internally because they're never going to get their

680
00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:32.639
desires met, so they're going to
be very grumpy. So here it is,

681
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:38.639
God says, don't turn to the
right or to the left. If

682
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:42.800
you want success, you have to
be focused. That's what God says.

683
00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:49.880
So here we come to the climax
of God's instruction to Joshua verse eight.

684
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:54.639
And I'm going to give you four
things that you should be remembering from Joshua

685
00:54:54.719 --> 00:55:01.800
one to eight. Just these four
things. The first, second, and

686
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:07.599
third are all commands by God.
If we can keep these three commands,

687
00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:13.199
we're going to be on the path
of success. And the fourth is the

688
00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:19.199
result. I want you to hear
that He's even acknowledging these are commands,

689
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:22.320
meaning their law. If their law
the law, you cannot do. The

690
00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:27.119
law is there to show you your
inability to do so. It condemns you,

691
00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:30.440
it breaks you so that you will
run to Christ who did it for

692
00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:34.079
you. That is the proper distinction
of law and gospel. But please note,

693
00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:37.320
hey, if you want success,
you have to obey these three So

694
00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:44.159
then success, the spiritual success,
is based off your doing. Don't tell

695
00:55:44.199 --> 00:55:47.400
me God is the one making you
successful. You're making yourself successful according to

696
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:54.480
this perspective and according to this hypothesis. But again this remember I started off,

697
00:55:55.119 --> 00:56:00.679
who was who is the person who
told you to study Joshua. This

698
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:02.360
week I'm going to read it to
you again. Be strong, enough good

699
00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:07.880
courage for to this people, who
was and who is? For this people,

700
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:13.519
you shall divide an inheritance. Inheritance, you shall divide as an inheritance

701
00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:16.400
to the land which I swore to
their fathers. Who is and who was

702
00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:22.559
the there? And Joshua won six
to give them who was and who is

703
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:24.800
the them? And Joshua one went
six. This is Israel, Israel,

704
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:29.639
Israel. Joshua one eight is a
promise to Israel based off the Land Covenant

705
00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:32.000
in Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight. I
do not know how many times I have

706
00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:35.760
to say that, but I'm going
to say it a million times this week.

707
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:43.000
This is what happens when you keep
these commands and make it easy for

708
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:45.719
you. Well, first, it
says this book of the Law shall not

709
00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:50.599
depart from your mouth, and that
is we'll make it short. Keep the

710
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:53.360
word. If it's not going to
depart from my mouth, I'm going to

711
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:59.719
constantly be talking about it, talking
about it, memorizing it over and over

712
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:05.039
again. This book of the Law
shall not depart from him. Okay,

713
00:57:05.199 --> 00:57:08.079
so you have to constantly be talking
about it and be memorizing it. So

714
00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:14.159
how much do I have to talk
about it? And how much of it

715
00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.719
do I have to memorize before I
actually obey this command? He said it's

716
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:22.480
a command himself. So look,
if you tell everyone it's a command and

717
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:25.480
you have to obey this in order
to be prosperous or successful, then you

718
00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:34.360
have to identify. You've got to
clearly articulate the amount of talking and the

719
00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:40.400
amount of memorizing must be done in
order to fulfill this. Is it going

720
00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:43.559
to be defined? I guarantee it's
not going to be defined. It's not

721
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:45.559
even going to be it's not even
going to be clue. We're not even

722
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:49.239
going to have a clue. He
just he says, constantly talking about it.

723
00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:52.679
Well, I don't what is the
definition of the word constantly? What

724
00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:57.840
is the definition of the word constantly? I almost want to ask Siri,

725
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:00.960
but I won't do that here because
of it go wrong. I'm gonna just

726
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:12.239
type in constantly definition constantly, continuously
over a period of time always, So

727
00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:15.960
you have to continuously, over a
period of time, always be talking about

728
00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:22.400
God's word always every day, oh
twenty four to seven. Nobody does that.

729
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:23.719
Nobody even comes close. And I
know somebody's gonna say, well,

730
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:28.480
that's just crazy. It doesn't mean
that, okay, then what does it

731
00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:32.440
mean. That's where we always take
these standards God gives and we say,

732
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:36.199
well, there's no way we can
do that, and we lower the standard

733
00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:37.360
till we feel like we can do
so. Then it'll be like, well,

734
00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:40.559
you know, it's predominantly what you
talk about. Have you ever been

735
00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:44.079
to a church pollock? Have you
ever been to a church picnic? Have

736
00:58:44.159 --> 00:58:47.199
you been to any church fellowship.
Everyone's talking about everything other than God's word.

737
00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:52.519
Nobody's talking doctrine. No one's talking
theology other than maybe men who feel

738
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:54.400
called and to the ministry. No
one is even talking about the sermon that

739
00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:59.159
they just heard before they arrived at
the pollock. Everyone's talking about their grandkids,

740
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:02.480
their job, their truck, they
went hunting and killed, Bambi wears

741
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:07.440
good fishing, the weather, sports, everything, So stop that nonsense.

742
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:21.960
And nobody follows this. Oh man, I don't fall and look I'm not

743
00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:27.800
saying. I'm saying no one does, including me. See when I get

744
00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:31.239
done with this program, well,
first I'm gonna, you know, turn

745
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:34.920
on the AC because I'm about to
pass outcause it's nine hundred and seventy five

746
00:59:34.920 --> 00:59:36.840
degrees here in text. Oh wait, a minute. I'm not talking about

747
00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:38.639
God's word, am I? Okay? But then I'm gonna go downstairs,

748
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:43.800
probably get something cool to drink,
all right, may may may have to

749
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:45.199
take a shower because you know it's
one hundred and ten degrees up here,

750
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:49.159
because you know a little sweat.
I've got to take a shower, Okay,

751
00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:52.360
And then I'm gonna sit back and
relax, and I'm gonna probably watch

752
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:55.920
something on television tonight, probably spend
two three hours watching television tonight. I'm

753
00:59:55.920 --> 01:00:00.639
not gonna be talking about God's word. I'm not gonna be meditating God's word.

754
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:10.320
And then when I may listen to
some music, Well, it doesn't

755
01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:15.480
mean all the time. Doesn't mean
all the time. Okay, Well then

756
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:19.480
okay, Well then if it doesn't
mean all the time, how little can

757
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:22.079
I get away with and still be
in obedience to it? You have to

758
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:27.800
define it. If you tell me
this is an absolute requirement for spiritual success,

759
01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:30.440
not only here on earth, but
even in eternity, then I need

760
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:37.360
to know clear guidelines of what is
required. This book is a larg shall

761
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:38.960
not depart from your mouth, but
you shall meditate on a day and night.

762
01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:42.440
But you shall meditate on a day
and night. But you shall meditate

763
01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:45.159
on a day and night, so
that you may be careful to do everything

764
01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:47.679
in it. That you may be
careful to do everything in it. You

765
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:51.760
may be careful to do everything written
in it. Then you will make your

766
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:54.119
way prosperous. And you will make
your way prosperous, and you will have

767
01:00:54.559 --> 01:01:01.960
success. You will have good success, prosperous success. This must be constant,

768
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:08.920
sir, So life is all about
habits. Look, he stressed it

769
01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:15.800
twice. It must be constant,
It must be constant, I think,

770
01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.199
he said, continuously and constant.
Continuously and constant, and then he kept

771
01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:23.360
repeating it over and over to demonstrate
continuously and constant. Well, then everyone

772
01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:25.480
in the church should be like,
well, we're finished, we're done.

773
01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:29.400
Hey, kids, come on,
just come home with me. We're all

774
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:32.599
failures. We're not gonna have any
success. We're all losers. There's no

775
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:36.400
point in even trying anymore. Just
give up, okay, because we all

776
01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:37.679
know as soon as we get in
the car, no one's gonna be talking

777
01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:40.480
about God's Word. We're gonna be
talking of what's for supper. We're gonna

778
01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:44.280
be talking about this, We're gonna
be talking about that you're gonna be fighting

779
01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:45.800
with your sister. You're gonna be
wanting to play with your toys and they're

780
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:49.119
gonna be doing this. You're gonna
want to play outside, and then I'm

781
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:51.519
gonna be fighting with your mother,
and then she's gonna be fighting with me.

782
01:01:51.599 --> 01:01:52.280
And we're gonna be doing this.
We're gonna be talking about this,

783
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:54.760
and we may watch TV, and
then we may making a plans to go

784
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:58.719
somewhere for the summer vacation, and
then we may be doing that. We

785
01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:00.840
may go We're not gonna be doing
any of this. We're all losers.

786
01:02:01.079 --> 01:02:05.039
Just forget it. Let's go home. Unless you live in a monastery,

787
01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:13.239
it's all about habits. You have
good habits. You brush your teeth every

788
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:15.400
night before you go to bed,
You make your bed before you go out

789
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:22.000
to play. You wash your hands
after you come back from playing, before

790
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:28.239
you eat. Good habits. You
put your shoes away nice orderly, and

791
01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:30.960
after you wash your hands, do
you take a little towel and kind of

792
01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:35.760
clean up on the sink so that
the other person can have a nice thing

793
01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:42.519
to use. See, you have
good habits, then you would do that.

794
01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:46.800
If you develop bad habits, he's
like throw everything. He's like wash

795
01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:51.920
everything. You do whatever, And
guess what if you keep doing that,

796
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:54.360
If you keep doing it over and
over and over and again, that will

797
01:02:54.400 --> 01:03:02.360
be your lifestyle. You're going to
be a very messy person and not going

798
01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:07.840
to be very thoughtful of other people. You're not going to be very responsible

799
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:12.880
in big things if you can't do
these little things. Well, now all

800
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:16.400
of us need work in this area. I need work in this area.

801
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:25.840
H But how much more of good
habits in the world of God? Keep

802
01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:30.920
the word? This is what?
What what it means? Do you take

803
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.800
cleanex and you blow your nose and
oh, how precious. I'm going to

804
01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:42.480
keep that for later. Pick up
another napkin? Oh dirty? Oh this

805
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:45.239
is this is too precious. I'm
gonna put it in this pocket. Do

806
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:50.480
you collect all the trash? No? I don't think so. You throw

807
01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:55.480
it away? Why because it's not
valuable? What do you keep your favorite

808
01:03:55.519 --> 01:04:03.599
toys? Right? Your favorite pictures? Your You need tell those parents to

809
01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:08.280
go home and burn their kids toys
because they're not gonna be successful because they

810
01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:12.880
got to be continuously memorizing, talking
about God's word and meditating on a day

811
01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:17.320
and night. Burn their toys,
burn any books that they have, tell

812
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:21.599
them to drop out of school and
build a commune in the backyard and say

813
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we're gonna wake up and we're gonna
we're gonna pray and memorize scripture all day,

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every day and all night. That's
this is your life. You're not

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gonna have any friends or not.
And people say, well, that's just

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ridiculous. Well, then don't say
continuously You've got to be speaking and memorizing

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God's word because continuously means there.
You can't continuously be doing this and then

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mean doing other things. The minute
you're doing other things. You're not continuously

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doing that unless continuously has some other
meaning that I'm not quite understanding. Painting

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your photos, what's in important to
you? Look at the adults. What

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do they care about the cars?
Right? They take a nice care of

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their cars, their house. They
have big toys too. They think that

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those are valuable. But you see
most adults having a Pokemon collection or stuff

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doll collection. No adults have grown
out of that. But watch them.

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They have new toys and bigger toys. That's what they consider valuable. That's

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what they keep. Watch what they
throw away, what they don't care about

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and watch what they keep, and
then you could see what they value.

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And the Word of God says,
this book of the Law, the scriptures,

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shall not depart from your mouth.
You need to keep it. You

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need to keep it. Keeping means
guarding it. Keeping means valuing it.

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That's what this means. And the
key to the says is trusting and believing

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in God and his word. Faith
comes from the word of God Romans ten

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seventeen. Faith comes from hearing,
and the hearing by the word of Christ.

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David wrote in Psalm nineteen, verse
eleven. Moreover, by them your

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word, your servant is warned.
The word of God warns us and keeps

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us from harm. In keeping them, there is great reward. If you

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keep God's word. There's great reward, eternal reward. So keeping means safeguard,

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and you guard what is precious while
you throw away what is useless.

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Most people in the world throw away
the precious word of God, while they

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keep the trash of the world,
which will rought with them, it will

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rust with them, it'll be thrown
into the dump of the world with them.

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But God's people are commanded to keep
or guard the Word, so that

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they may receive a great reward.
That's the path of true success. What

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do you value? And that's why
your teachers are teaching you to value the

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word of God. The Psalmist wrote, I have treasured your word in my

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heart that I might not sin against
you Psalm one nineteen, verse eleven.

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You need to treasure, you need
to value the word of God. You

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need to keep it all right.
Secondly, think the word, keep the

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word, but also think the word, but you shall meditate on it day

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and night. Meditate. The Hebrew
people, the people who originally receive the

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word in the Old Testament, they
meditated on it by murmuring it, do

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not let this booklet the law depart
from your mouth, but meditate on the

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day and night. And they even
had a little motion to where the accents

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were, and so that they can
keep the rhythm of it and chant the

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word right bit of sheet. But
I touched, and they would just do

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this over and over again, Alice, Hebrews, pretty good there, Okay,

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I'm impressed there. I couldn't do
that, right, okay, but

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let's continue. And they would murmur
and so what are they doing? So

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the Buddhists and the Hindus and other
religions when they go you know, when

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they meditate, they're trying to empty
their minds from thinking. They think that

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that will give them inner peace.
But no, it just makes you dumb.

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It doesn't make you inner peace.
You have nothing in your head.

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One thought goes in this way,
one thought goes out. No. True

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meditation is when you bring the truth
of the Word of God and bring it

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into your mind and you muld it
over over and over again. That is

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going to give you inner peace when
you know his truth. His truth will

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01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:54.319
set you free from all worries and
concerns and fears and doubts. This is

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01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:58.279
why God said do not fear.
Well. If God says it, then

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chah, if God is for me, who's against me? I will fear

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no evil, I will fear no
man because the Lord is my champion.

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So that's the meditation, filling your
mind with the thought of God. Yeah,

872
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he's not going to offer us any
real, meaningful understanding. And how

873
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much do we have to do this? What do we have to do just

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01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:32.399
giving us a basic idea like I
this is offering this is and again it's

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01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:39.760
completely disconnecting this from Deuteronomy twenty eight
that even if you applied this to us,

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we would need to know exactly then
how much do I have to speak

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of it? And how much do
I have to meditate on it? How

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much do I have to memorize?
And nothing has been even closely defined,

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are in any way articulated, And
that is extremely, extremely frustrating. I

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01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:01.520
want to say more. You can
go listen to the rest. We're at

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seventy minutes, so you know,
i'd just be belaboring the point at this

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point. So you can look up
the sermon be successful John shim And I'm

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probably seeing his name incorrectly, but
there you go, and you can.

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You can look it up and you
can you can you can check it for

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yourself. For those who've been listening
to us on the Church one app and

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on the sermon's two point oh app, I have no idea what happened,

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but we lost connection for a very
long time. So I will upload this.

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The recording should be okay. The
recording seems to be okay, but

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yeah, we lost we lost connection
just I don't know for a very long

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time. So if you were listening
to us on the Church one app or

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Sermon's two point oh, you missed
you missed everything, okay, So I

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will upload this in about five minutes
and then you can go back and listen

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to the rest. I don't know
why it lost connection. I'm so glad

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that we we record on a different
place because if we if we recorded on

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using the software that we use for
the sermon's two point oh app in the

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church one app, there would be
multiple times we would lose everything. So

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I don't know why it disconnected.
It disconnected for a very long time.

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Everything else seems to be working properly. So I will upload this and you

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can listen to the rest. I
apologize again. The sermon that we reviewed

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is called be Successful. You can
go listen to it and finish the rest

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01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:30.439
of it. We didn't even We
probably got about twenty minutes left of it.

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But at this point again we're I'm
just saying the same thing over and

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over and over and over and over. He's not connecting it any way,

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shape or form. To Deuteronomy twenty
eight, which is frustrating, doesn't really

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give us a tangible definition of success
and prosperity. He made a claim about

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01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:53.800
the Hebrew that does not seem to
be supported by looking at the Hebrew he's

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making a claim that you know that
this premise of success is for us,

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and he's seemingly making the claim that
we can obviously do this. So we're

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the ones who make ourselves successful.
But it's not really defining how much of

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these things we have to do in
order to reach the level of success.

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Do I just do it a little
bit? But then he used words.

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He used words like constantly, you
have to be talking about God's word continuously,

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you have to be memorizing God's word, you have to be meditating on

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01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:24.520
it day and night. Well,
then, ladies and gentlemen, I don't

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like at that point, I don't
know who's going to have success. And

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so again, if this is law, the law will show your inability to

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do it and you need Christ.
But again, I think the as I

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started this, I'll end with this. I turned on the microphone and said,

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who is? Who was the person
who said let's study Joshua one eight,

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And obviously I'm the person. Well, when I read Joshua one eight,

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there's some who was and who is
questions. I'm going to do it

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one more time. Joshua won six
be strong enough, good courage for to

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this people. Who is the four
to this people. Well, who was

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the four to this people? It
was Israel. You shall divide as an

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01:13:02.479 --> 01:13:06.800
inheritance the land which I swore to
their fathers. Who was and who is

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the there? Well it is Israel
that to give them? Who is the

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them? This is Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. Joshua one to

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eight is specific instructions to them and
in the context of the land covenant made

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in Deuteronomy twenty eight, and they
felled miserably. There we go. Thanks

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for listening everyone, Have a great
day. God bless