Follow the Promises: Keep Walking

Ever stared down a problem so big it dares you to blink first? Joshua 6 opens with a fortified city and a God who simply says, “See.” We unpack why acknowledging the wall is not defeat—it’s the first act of faith. From there, the story reorders our instincts: promises before plans, presence before effort, and obedience before outcomes. The march around Jericho isn’t about clever strategy; it’s about learning courage, endurance, and humility under the sound of worship with the ark out front.

We talk through what active faith looks like when the instructions don’t make sense, why silence can be spiritual strength, and how Ephesians 2:10 reframes your day as a set of prepared works you simply walk into. Rahab’s rescue moves from footnote to headline, showing grace that adopts outsiders and rewrites family lines. At the same time, we draw clear boundaries around what corrupts the heart, tracing Deuteronomy 18’s warnings about counterfeit spirituality and the self-obsession that always takes rather than gives. Discernment isn’t niche; it’s survival for the soul.

When the walls fall, surprise gives way to memory: God keeps His word, down to Joshua’s prophecy about rebuilding Jericho fulfilled generations later. That track record fuels a practical way forward—walk in the Spirit with humility and faith, refuse to rebuild what God tore down, and learn to wait without panic. If you’re navigating addiction, anxiety, or an impossible decision, this conversation offers grounded steps to keep walking with your eyes on Jesus and your heart anchored in His finished work.

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Transcript

Facing Jericho Without Flinching

Promises First, Plans Second

Walk By Faith Not By Flesh

Silence, Trumpets, And Presence

Courage, Endurance, Humility In The March

Rahab’s Rescue And Holy Boundaries

SPEAKER_00 0:27

We're going to study the word today. We're in Joshua chapter six. So break out your Bibles or your phone with your Bible lap and we're going to get started. So, Father, we just lift up this time and we ask that you would open our minds and our hearts to be able to receive the blessings that you have for us today and the wisdom and understanding that you want to give us. Amen. Today's message is called Follow the Promises, which all our messages in Joshua are called that, but Keep Walking is the subtitle today. Keep walking, chapter six. Keep walking. Last week, if you remember, we learned how to surrender how our surrender to God must come first before we engage in any battle for God's kingdom or for the promised land. So as we're going in the promised land, you can't just go up in there willy-nilly with all this self-confidence. It doesn't work. You will fall, you will trip. God he stopped his people right as they crossed over Jordan and said, Stop. And he made them do three things. He made them build a memorial with 12 stones to remember God's miracle. He had them sat uh circumcise themselves, so cut away the flesh, and then he he made sure that they bowed before Jesus, bowed before the angel of the Lord. So it was a really neat time about learning how our surrendered hearts are the first priority when we're going into the promised land. So how do we win this crazy battle? Now we got we got Jericho right in front of us. We're walking straight towards Jericho. It's the big walls right there. And how do we win? You keep walking right? Has anyone ever watched Veggie Tales? Yes. Vegetales, beautiful biblical, you know, vegetables as Bible characters. If that's not heresy, I don't know. Just kidding. Um they had a great uh Josh and the big wall, and on top of the wall there was peas, you know, and they're they're mocking the children of Israel going around. Just keep that in your mind when you think of keep walking, and let's begin. Let's just dive right in and see what it says. Bless you. Was that Mildred? Oh. I thought it was Mildred. Okay, she's got a big sneeze, Mildred, for such a little puppy. All right. Um, now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel. None went out and none came in. So again, this is impossible. You're not getting in. Um, if you just Google the walls of Jericho, you're gonna see a lot of interesting stuff on the internet because archaeology has really helped us understand. The the walls really did come tumbling down, as we know, and they have pictures, they've dug it all up. I've been there, you can see the walls, they have it uncovered, and but these walls were like 35 feet high at the tallest, uh, at the tallest. And so just imagine the three-story tall walls, about a half a mile in diameter. This is a big city, and as a as a little people walking around, that's gonna be intimidating. Um, so it's it was a big deal, it's a big challenge. Okay, they're not doing this by typical warfare, by making a plan and executing it. No, and see what the the Lord said to Joshua, see S-E-E, with an exclamation point. The Lord said to Joshua, see in in verse 6, right there. I I want you to picture God just telling Joshua, you know, look at these walls, drink it in, take a long look. Don't ignore the problem. Don't ignore the problem. Look right at it. God doesn't say you need to talk about it, just look at it, acknowledge it. You don't need to comment on it, Joshua. You don't have to complain about it. Oh, I wish I didn't have these big walls right in front of me. None of those are the strategies that God says, I want you to look at it. Avoiding our problems is a very fleshly way to live life. We all want to avoid our problems. It was much easier to avoid our problems. You know, most of us are not confrontational people, some of us are. We like going right into our problems head on. That's fine. But avoiding problems isn't better. In fact, it's it takes no courage. It takes no courage to just avoid our problems. You have to have courage and faith to see the problem right in front of you and not run away screaming. Right? Just okay, here's the problem, here's what we need. And what is the other option besides run away screaming? Wait upon the Lord. That's the thing that takes courage. That's the thing that very few people do. When you have a trial, when you have a difficulty, we all want to start doing something. And God says, I want you to look at the problem and then wait upon me. God says, I have given Jericho into your hand. The tenses in the Bible, past tense, future, though, those are very important. So look at that. I have given Jericho into your hand, its king and all the mighty men of valor. When we have a problem, it's always so that God can supply grace to meet that need. Any problem, no matter how big or how small, is a chance for God to give us his grace. Any need is there, brought into your life, so that God can supply it. Any sickness is there for God to heal. Any broken heart is so that God can lay hold of it, lift that person back up, and bring health back to that heart. Doesn't this change the way we think about the difficulties in our life? If we were to say, anytime something bad or difficult happens, it's so that I can see God do something in my life. It changes everything. It changes how we live our life, it changes how we walk by faith. How does God meet all these needs? How does God give this grace? By making promises. God loves to make promises. And then, because of his character, he always keeps his promises. He loves fulfilling his word by his power and his grace. He says, I have already given you the victory. For him, it's not if I help you, it's I've already chosen to help you. I'm gonna teach you to wait upon me, but the problem isn't me. The problem is us. We refuse to wait upon him. We neglect to uh live by faith, to walk by faith. We doubt him. There's a there's a verse that says, the promises of God are yes and amen. You know what that means? When God makes a promise, the answer is already yes. You can stand on that promise, and you can when you pray that promise, the answer is yes. And amen, which means so be it. It's done. It is already done. Now that means you might have to wait for it, you might have to exercise some patience and faith, but the answer is already yes. God, I need you to help me in this addiction that I have. I give it to you, I acknowledge it to you, you promise me that you will give me victory and deliverance. The answer is yes, you have it. Amen. So be it. Now wait upon me, keep your eyes on me, and you'll see it happen as you keep your eyes on me. That's how this works. He loves giving promises. It might seem like a big battle in front of you, but from God's perspective, it's already over. Like, right? Because He doesn't, he's not worried about past, present, future, he sees it all. So, where do we find the promises of God? 12 Jesus points for anyone who knows. In the what? In the Bible? Good job. 12 Jesus points for you. 13. Let's make it a baker's dozen. All right. Yeah, in the Bible, the Bible contains thousands, if not millions, of promises that God makes you. And he's got no problem making promises because he keeps every single one of them. Every do you know every single prophecy that was prophesied in the Bible has come true? That that's its time has come. There's some that are still coming, and they'll happen just like he said. But every God has never lied, and he promises you his faithfulness. This is why we read the word. This is why we eat the word, chew on the word, we study the word, because the word is where his promises are. And if we choose to believe his promises, that's walking by faith. The walls can't stand before you when you are walking by faith. Okay, so what's the plan? Keep walking, right? Walk by faith. He says this you shall march around the city. All your all you men of war shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And the priest shall bear the uh seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark, but on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priest shall blow the trumpets, and it shall come to pass when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people will shout with a great shout, then the wall of the city will fall down flat, and all the people shall go up, every man straight before him, and this makes no sense to the human mind. Obviously, we're talking about a miraculous divine deliverance. This is not smart, this is not cunning, this is not militarily clever. You might even say it's kind of passive, although it's, you know, that's what mockers always say about the life of faith. You take no responsibility for anything. You say, just trust the Lord. Absolutely. Now, does that mean we sit there like a bump on a log and do nothing? No, we keep walking, we walk the walk of faith. And what does the walk look like? What is active faith look like? Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10 says, we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Yes, this battle of Jericho that we're learning about, Joshua, is really about you and your everyday life. It really is just about you. How you live your life, how you walk by faith, or you can instead choose to walk in the flesh. You have those two choices. You can walk by faith or walk by flesh. And how we live our lives matter. We should do good works, right? It should be very common sense that we should represent God by doing good works. How? But how do we do that? By walking only in faith in what Jesus does and how he lives through us. That's how to do it. What Jesus creates in us, it says he has created in us. We are created in Christ Jesus. We are new creations. That means we're born again. We have a new life inside. And who is the new life inside us? Jesus. He literally lives inside you. It's called His Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit of who? Jesus. His Spirit lives in us. So walking in that spirit is completely different than walking in our flesh. When you walk in your flesh, you're depending on yourself. How do I feel? What do I think I should do? Well, I think I should start throwing stuff over the wall or pounding the wall with a hammer, and all these things are dumb because they're not going to work. Listening to the Spirit, listening to Jesus, walking in the Spirit is about hearing his word and obeying it, trusting that what he did works. They have to have the faith and trust, okay? Israelites had to trust in God's unusual battle instructions. They had to march around the city seven days. And this teaches us that, you know, God's grace, it invites us to live by faith. This that means you have to trust God's word over understanding. It will not make sense to trust God's word. Your brain, it doesn't correlate with what I think I should do. I think I should work hard and put things in order and do things my way. And God says, nope, take time, don't be efficient, be inefficient, and dig into a relationship with me, and there you will find victory. That's this new covenant that we have in Jesus. We're called to walk by faith in the finished work of Christ. Jesus said, when he was dying on the cross, it is almost done, except for everything you're gonna have to do. No, he said, it is finished. In 2 Corinthians 5 7, it says, For we walk by faith and not by sight. That means if you're living your life based on what you can see, you're doing it wrong. You're living life wrong. That's not the way to walk by the Spirit. That's your eyes are literally flesh. You can't see God's ways. You have to hear the promise, follow the word, believe it, and step forward in that. You can't see Jesus right now. He's up in heaven, right? He's seated at the right hand of the Father, but you can still trust him and you can still hear his voice because his spirit is in you if you are a believer in Jesus. His spirit lives in you. And so we have to learn how to follow that spirit. And I'm gonna teach you how to do that today. How can you hear his voice? How can you trust, walk in the spirit? Well, by you can do that by knowing his character. How? His character is revealed in the word of God. This is so vital. We study the word to understand the character of God. And then his character we choose to trust in his character and his words. This all is not religious work. Religion is not about learning God's character. Religion is about us trying to do stuff to impress him or earn something from him. This is real relationship. God says stuff, and we either believe it and trust in him, or we disregard it and we walk our own path. And trusting our own wisdom instead of what our Father in heaven is trying to reveal to us. So vital to be in the Word and let the Word guide you and lead you. It says here that then the walls of the city will fall down flat and the people shall go up, every man straight before him. So this is going to show when God does this miracle, it's going to show that it's all God who gets this victory. He gets the glory for this. He wants to be the hero. And he does. But he gives Israel something to do. Right? He doesn't say just sit there. He says, I want you to participate with me by doing what? Walking. Walk in faith. This is going to do several things. Their job is to walk, shut up, and walk. Obviously, it's something that God could have done without Israel's help at all. He could have just spoken a word. He could just imagine it, and the walls would fall down flat or they could just disappear. But he wanted them to participate in the work, just like he wants you to participate today in the victory that he wants to work in your life by walking. Ephesians 2.10. Again, I'm going to read the same verse we read in Ephesians. We are his workmanship created in Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. He wants you to participate by walking, by believing, and then we'll see what happens. Verse 6. Then Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant. Remember that represents Jesus. It's it pictures God's presence with them. And let seven priests bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark of the Lord. And the and he said to the people, Proceed and march around the city, and let him who is armed advance before the ark of the Lord. So again, that ark, it represents Jesus, and he wants to keep God's presence in front of them the whole time. Keep your eyes on the presence. And this was Israel keeping their hearts and their minds on the Lord and his presence. Instead of putting their hearts and their minds on the difficulty of the problem and how they're going to figure this out. No, just keep your mind on me, keep your heart on me, and listen to some music. That's literally his plan. How much more clear can God be that they are not the source of victory? You're not the source. I'm the source. I love you, and I'm gonna give you this victory. So I need you to chill out, stop talking, keep your eyes on me and listen to some music. Walk, focus on Jesus. Don't talk. Listen to music. This is great advice for us in our everyday life. Anyone got any rocking Ramshorn albums? Ramshorn sounds like a good metal band. We're the Ramshorn. All right. Verse 8. So it was when Joshua had spoken to the people that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of Ramshorns brought before the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets in the Ark of the Covenant. Of the Lord followed them, and the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while the priest continued blowing the trumpets. Now Joshua had commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth until the day I say to you, Shout, and then you shall shout. So he had the ark of the Lord circle the city, going around it once. Then they came into the camp and lodged in the camp. And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priest took up the ark of the Lord. The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of Ram's horns before the Ark of the Lord went on continually and blew the trumpets, and the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the Ark of the Lord, while the priest continued blowing the trumpets. And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days. So let's let's just think about what it would have been like to participate in this. Okay? It was about a half a mile walk. So I know that's a burden already, because we don't walk that much. It would take courage. Why? Because you're walking around the city completely vulnerable to attack. Right? All the people in the city could just shoot an arrow at you or toss a cow, as I've learned from Monty Python. So it would take courage. I don't want to get hit by a bovine. It would take endurance, right? They would have to persist in believing and obeying, even though it doesn't make sense. Now, if you're inside the city, you have two options. You can look at all these people marching around your city and you can make fun of them, like the peas did in the Veggie Tails movie, and they sung a song. Or you could repent and you could come out of the city and join them. Those are your two options. Isn't God merciful that He would give everyone in that city seven days that you don't have to die. You don't have to rebel. You don't have to be killed in the in the destruction that's coming. Be saved. We're not coming, we're not shouting like threats at you. We're playing ramshorns. It's a clear invitation. Our God, we're we're we're just serving our God here, and our God is a God of mercy and love and grace. Join us. Rahab did. Rahab made that choice. We're gonna see that here in just a second. Any person in the city could have also made that choice. But many continued in their rebellion. So they had to have this endurance. And the fourth thing I see here is that it would take humility to walk around this many times. They have to stare at this wall for six days, and each day that wall got bigger and bigger and bigger. They're like, what is going on? Why is it so? Ah, it just looks bigger every single day. They would be more convinced every day of their utter inability to do this themselves. To conquer the whole city, to conquer the whole promised land. They would be convinced of that. We have to get helpless before we can get help. Always. You have to acknowledge you can't do it to be able to have faith that God can and will deliver you. Humility is given, sorry, grace is given to the humble. All right. Verse 17 Now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. And you by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel accurse and trouble it. Ever heard of foreshadowing? Remember that. But all the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are consecrated to the Lord, and they shall come into the treasury of the Lord. So he mentions Rahab's story, which we talked about, but remember, Rahab was a Gentile and a prostitute who was spared because of her faith in God. And so she becomes part of the nation of Israel. In fact, she marries a Jew. In fact, she becomes one of Jesus' great-great-great-great-great-grandmas. She's in one of his grandmas. And what does that teach us? What does that show us? Is that grace loves including people into God's family, regardless of their past. Regardless of their past. And then he says, by all means abstain from the accursed things. Jesus, you know, or Joshua, he commands them, don't touch their idols and all the what he means is that they they were a very demon-worshiping community. This entire culture, the entire promised land was filled with these Canaanites, and these Canaanites, just Google Canaanite occult artifacts, and you'll see that they they were all about worshiping these demonic entities. And how did they worship them? Well, they sacrificed their babies to them, they you know did terrible, terrible things and made, you know, it was just an awful, awful. They were basically a culture that was completely trashed. And so this was more of a cleansing, resetting of the the land by God. And so, yes, there was a there was this total rebellion of the Canaanites against God, and God says, we have to start this over. This, you know, anyone who wants to repent and change and do what's right can can enter this new new way, this new kingdom, but we're not doing any of that old stuff anymore, so don't participate. It was a severe judgment, right? When God wants to judge, He will judge, and that's an important thing to remember. He is the judge. Uh, it's by his mercy that we're not consumed the day that we sin, but he's so merciful, right? He is patient many years beyond what we think we should. So the people shouted when the trees blew the trumpets, and it happened when they heard the sound of the trumpet that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat. And the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city and utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey with the edge of the sword. So the miracle happened. Do you think? I'm serious. Serious question. Do you think all the people were surprised when it worked? Yeah, but God always fulfills his promises, so we don't we shouldn't be surprised, but we are every time. God healed me! God provided, oh my. We have such a short memory when it comes to God's faithfulness. But every time that we think God let us down, oh, we remember that for 50 years.

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Judgment, Idolatry, And Discernment

Walls Fall, Memory Fails, God Remains

Do Not Rebuild What God Removed

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So why such a complete destruction? Why do they have to kill everything? Men, women, children, like why such a complete destruction? Well, two things. Number one, this is hyperbole. So we actually find out later that many people did repent and choose to join Israel because they're given little jobs, and we see them later in this book many times. So this is hyperbolic that we destroyed everything. They destroyed everything they should have destroyed, is what it means. Okay. Secondly, this was a bad country, this was a bad place. And I want to read to you Deuteronomy chapter 18, because it kind of sets the stage for this. In Deuteronomy 18, verse 9, it says, When you when you come into the land, so this is this is 40 years before, or a little bit before what we're talking about here. When you come into the land which the Lord God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall be not found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire. That means so they had this God that the way they worshiped the God of pleasure is they would burn their babies as an offering to this. It's it was kind of like their their idea of we don't need this child anymore. It's more fun to not have kids, so we're gonna worship at the altar of fun by sacrificing this kid. And he God says, I hate that, obviously. And then he says, Um, or anyone who practices witchcraft. Okay, so that's this engaging with demons and talking with demons and uh and like, oh, maybe they'll give me wisdom, maybe I can get some spiritual enlightenment from them. God says it's crap. Don't don't touch that, don't mess with it. But they do, they were doing that, or a soothsayer, kind of the same thing, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritus, or anyone who calls up the dead. He puts them all in there in case someone's like, Well, you didn't say I couldn't talk to the sorcerer. I mean, all those other guys, but for all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord because of the abominations the Lord your God drives them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. For these nations which you uh will dispossess, listened to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you. What did he say was the big problem? Who did they listen to? Who had their ear? These demons espouse a message of self. That's Satan's whole deal. Think about yourself. Think about yourself, think about yourself, think about yourself. And God's like, hey, eyes up here. Listen to me. And Satan's like, no, no, no. Think about yourself. Think about yourself. Think about yourself. And God says, that is not the life you have been appointed to. See, for us, we've been filled with the Holy Spirit of God, and God's spirit is always giving love. He is always focused on others. Jesus always focused on others. Satan's spirit is always self-centered. This is the easiest way to tell what is good and evil, what is right and wrong, what is selfish versus love-giving selflessness. Love-giving. God is always giving love while Satan is always taking love. That was the message. And God says, I don't want any of that self-centered message to get into your ears. Fill up your mind with the promises of God, right? Back in Joshua verse 22, Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the country, go into the harlot's house and and from uh there bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her. And the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought all her relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel. But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. So Rahab is saved, and then you see this really neat contrast between salvation, her being saved and protected, and fire. Right? Just a neat contrast. Joshua 6, 26. Then Joshua charged them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city, Jericho. For he shall lay its foundations with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates. So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout all the country. Okay, so what's this weird prophecy? So Joshua says, This city is done, no one should build it. If anyone does build it, they're in big trouble. They're gonna start the project, their firstborn's gonna die. When they finish the project, their youngest is gonna die. Well, guess what? In 1 Kings 16, 34, that happens. Remember, I told you God always keeps his promises. In his days, Hail of Bethel built Jericho. Aw bro, why'd you do that? He laid his foundation with Abraham, Abiram, his firstborn, and with his youngest son Sigub, he wasn't great at names, he set up his gates again according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken through Joshua, the son of Nun. Alright, so don't try to go back to this terrible culture and this self-centered culture. Just leave it alone, right? Alright, so what do how do we keep walking? What's the big message today? Keep walking. To walk in the spirit, I'm telling you guys right now, is really not that complicated. Now you might have heard teaching saying to walk in the spirit, you have to, um, or you have to do this, or you have to get yourself in a mode, or like it's none of that stuff. The Bible is very clear. To walk in the spirit is a relationship with God based on humility and faith. Humility and faith. Faith means you trust in God. These are relationship realities. They aren't works. How do you do faith? How do you do humility? You can't. There are things that are on the inside in your heart. And God says that's the only way you can walk in the Spirit. You walk wherever you're walking. It doesn't matter where you walk, it's how you walk. Are you walking with a heart that trusts in God's Son, Jesus? I trust in you. I'm gonna listen to your word. I believe in you. And humility, saying, God, I need you. And you don't run away from your problems, but you walk straight where God tells you to walk, no matter what the problem looks like in front of you. You don't run from your problem. And what does that look like when you're walking in the Spirit? You're you're living with humility and faith. It looks like you're resting in the Lord or you are waiting upon the Lord. Not stressed out, not doubting that He's gonna take care of you, but I will wait upon you, God, for what I need, for what you've called me to do, for the thing that is right in front of me. That's it. Instead of typical battle preparations, right? Israel's primary actions in this in this situation was to obey God and wait upon God. And that's what you can take today about what your actions are to be. When we learn about grace, we learn that we are relying and depending on the grace of Jesus, the finished work of Jesus. And rather than striving in our own efforts and trying to fight our own battles, we're waiting on him and depending on what he has already done. I can walk forward in faith because of what Jesus already did, because of what Jesus already promised, that he will live in me and through me. It's done, and I can depend on that. We're gonna end looking at Hebrews chapter four, and as the guys come up here, Hebrews chapter four says, For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains, therefore, a rest for the people of God. That's us. For he was entered into his rest, has himself also ceased from his works as God did from his. What that means is that Jesus really did the work. He really finished what he came to finish. What did he do? He came to wash away our sin and make us pure holy vessels. And if you believe in him, your sin has been washed away. Completely washed away, completely pure. That's who you are. But why? So you could just do your own thing? No, so that he could live in you by his spirit and he will inspire you and he will lead you. And as you read his word, you will be able to walk according to his spirit.