WEBVTT 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.359 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.679 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:24.719 I want you to turn with me in your Bibles this morning to Joshua chapter 7. 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:31.600 A couple of weeks ago, we looked at how to be a Christian that's a winner. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.759 And boy, was that enlightening. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.920 You know, don't you love the book? 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:39.280 Don't you love the word of God? 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:39.840 Amen. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:48.320 You know, the Bible is not just a book to be read, but it's a book to be lived. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:01:00.399 And it's so exciting to see how that as you get into the Word of God, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby. 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:02.640 It is powerful. 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:10.319 And today we want to look at, and if you do not have, I need my baby, my outline. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.760 If you do not have a worship guide this morning, raise your hand. 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.959 Want to make sure everyone has a worship guide. 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:38.799 Because again, as we look at Joshua chapter 7 this morning, I'm telling you, I don't think there's a greater passage of scripture that gives us enlightenment to how to deal with sin in our life. 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:48.480 And I'm convinced that if we don't learn how to deal with sin in our life, there's a consequence that we pay. 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.239 And the wages of sin is death. 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:57.040 But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.640 So today, I want us to look at spiritual death. 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.680 And here's the thing that I want you to remember. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:14.800 This spiritual death can come right after a tremendous spiritual victory. 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:20.719 Here's the important principle you want to see today that you don't want to miss. 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:32.719 Right after a mountaintop experience, it's when you and I are, hey, most vulnerable to be attacked and defeated. 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:34.960 Now let me repeat that. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:36.560 You gotta get it. 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.680 Because this is where most of us don't understand. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:51.840 After a mountaintop experience, we are more vulnerable right then than any other time, hey, to be taken out by Satan. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.280 In fact, if you see Elijah on Mount Carmel, same thing happened. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:10.000 He just defeated 450 prophets of Baal, and the next thing you know, Jezebel puts out a hit contract on him, and he turns around and runs like a scared rabbit. 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:11.759 Amen. 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:27.680 So it's important that you understand after you have one of the greatest victories in your spiritual life, that you're really sus, hey, hey, ready and vulnerable for a major defeat if you're not careful. 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:28.960 Amen. 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.159 Is that not good? 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:31.840 Somebody say that's good, preacher. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.919 I will back in the back, usually he sits right there. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.199 In fact, do you realize I will's grown three inches? 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.680 He got a hip replacement and grew three inches. 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:45.439 Amen. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.319 I had to look up to him today as he was walking in. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:50.000 Good to have you back, I will. 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:50.719 It really is. 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:59.599 But now listen, as we look at this unbelievable passage of scripture, Joshua had just defeated Jericho. 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.400 I'm talking about unbelievable victory. 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.479 The whole, I'm talking about the city of Jericho. 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:08.400 The walls had come tumbling down. 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:10.879 They walked in and didn't even lose. 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.759 There's not even recorded that they lost a soldier. 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:15.520 Amen. 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:25.759 600,000 Israeli soldiers walked in and took one of the strongest, most fortified cities in the Promised Land. 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:35.199 And now, and one thing you got to give old Joshua credit for, bless God, he didn't let any grass grow in between his toes. 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.800 I mean, the moment he got through taking Jericho, then he says, Okay, what's next? 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:41.680 Ai. 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:43.839 Let's go. 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.680 We're here for a mission, we're here for a purpose. 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:55.839 So I'm gonna grab me two spies and send them out and do my reconnaissance, and then bless God, we're going after them. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:57.920 What's next? 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:59.120 Next city. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:09.920 But what he forgot, the end of verse 6 is a very, I mean, the end of chapter 6 is very, very unbelievable. 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:20.800 Verse 27, so the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was noised throughout all the country. 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:29.759 See, you gotta realize in the Christian life, once you have a spiritual victory and people start talking about you, look out. 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:34.959 The honeymoon's over. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:41.199 I told somebody the other day, I said, we're four and a half years old, the honeymoon's over. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:43.519 Sometimes it doesn't last that long. 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.120 We've been very fortunate. 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:47.759 The honeymoon's over. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:50.720 Now you're down to nitty-gritty. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:52.000 Battle daily. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.240 I mean, hey, right where the rubber hits the road. 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:02.720 So, Joshua, hey, I'm, hey, we're the best, we're the strongest. 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:04.879 God's already said we've got the promised land. 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.000 Now he had something going for them. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:07.680 God said they were going to be victorious. 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.240 God said they're gonna win, so let's just go win. 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:16.000 But see, just because God tells you you can take the promised land, you still have to do your part. 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.560 And what happened, they got lazy and they didn't do their part. 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:28.720 They got self-confident, overconfident, and that they could do it instead of depending on God. 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:34.800 See, what happens after a major victory in your life, you start thinking you're pretty, hey, you're pretty sharp. 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.120 Hey, you got your act together, man. 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:38.399 Hey, I'm doing pretty good. 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.839 Hey, I woo! Hey, I can do all things through Christ. 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.800 Yeah, long as you got Christ in you, you can. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.839 So here's what's taking place as we get to chapter 7. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:07:03.279 There's something called the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life that encompasses every one of us. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:05.120 Can I get an amen? 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:20.879 And what happens is after that spiritual victory, that pride said sin, and you become self-confident, and when you become self-conf, whoo, I'm being when you become self-confident, you become prayerless, and when you become prayerless, you become sinful. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:21.519 Amen. 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:35.680 And when you hey become prayerless and self-confident, you begin to be covetous. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:39.920 Oh yeah. 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.639 Prayerlessness equals powerless. 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:43.759 That's right. 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:44.879 Amen. 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:47.120 So look what happens. 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.040 They're big, they're strong. 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.680 The noise has run through the country. 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:53.519 The Israelis are here. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.040 So Joshua says, Good, that's right. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:07:59.920 We're going on. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:01.360 We're gonna take over. 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:03.680 We're gonna go to the AI now. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:04.399 Next. 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:10.639 So really, we go from a victory to a denouncement. 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:12.879 Ooh, did you just hear me? 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.639 A victory to a denouncement. 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:18.160 Verse 7. 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.959 There's the one word that I don't like here. 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:26.160 But there's that Billy Goat Christian always button. 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:35.039 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing. 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:47.440 For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zebedee, the son of Zara, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel. 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:54.080 Now in Hebrew literacy, you know what we see here in the literature of Hebrew? 00:08:54.240 --> 00:09:05.600 They always give you an overview of what the situation is before they then break it down and tell you step by step how it happened. 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:08.559 So right here, we get an overview. 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.440 In other words, God just puts it right in your face. 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:27.519 But he said, the problem with, hey, in fact, he said the reason that you have failed and have been defeated in AI by a small band of enemy soldiers is because you forgot me. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:28.399 Amen. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.840 You uh I you forgot me. 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:38.799 See, compared to, ooh, this is so good. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:46.159 Compared to Jericho, the big thing, God says, yes, I'm there for the big things, but don't forget me in the little things. 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:48.559 Ai was a little thing. 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:52.080 And because it was a little thing, they thought they could handle it. 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:54.320 Jesus. 00:09:54.879 --> 00:10:04.080 See, we wait a lot of times to call on God in the big things when we ought to be calling him, hey, calling on him in the little things, so the little things don't become a big thing. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:15.360 But so the first thing, this chapter begins by speaking of the defilement of Israel. 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:17.360 Now let's look at it. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:20.080 The first thing, the defilement of Israel. 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:21.679 Let's look at the first thing. 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.799 Look at the charge of the defilement in verse 1. 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:32.799 But, this is, hey, it interrupts the flow of the previous chapters, which was all victory. 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:40.799 We see up until chapter 7, everything's been victorious and now bam! But boom, there's defeat. 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.360 There's a major, hey, there's a major roadblock. 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.960 The progression has stopped. 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:52.960 The interruption has taken place. 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:54.799 Write this down. 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:01.120 Defilement of God's truth and God's word always stops progress. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.720 Now notice the iniquity in the charge. 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.120 The children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing. 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:13.279 Now, what Israel had done was sin. 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:14.480 That's what that means. 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:14.960 Sin. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.080 In fact, the word trespass is ma'al. 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.480 It's the Hebrew word ma'al. 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.840 It means falsehood, it means unfaithful. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:25.360 It means treacherous. 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:31.679 It means a treasure, a treacherous act against God and people. 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:33.360 That's what it means. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:35.840 So we see an accursed thing. 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:36.799 It was sin. 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:42.399 We often try to justify evil conduct by calling it other things than sin. 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.639 Well, I have a disease. 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:47.840 No, it's sin. 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:57.120 I have a I have a sugar problem. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:01.279 Donuts. 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.399 But overeating is sin. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:06.480 Drugs is sin. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:15.279 I mean, we we try to sugarcoat all these things and call it something so we can excuse ourselves for what we're partaking of. 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:16.000 Amen. 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:24.399 But now notice the second thing, or really, notice hey, the iniquity. 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.799 We are, hey, God doesn't hide anything, doesn't sugarcoat anything. 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.639 He says, hey, they've sinned. 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.600 The cause of the defilement was sin. 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:35.200 And watch what it was. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:36.320 Two things. 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:38.480 It was rebellion against God. 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:39.519 Look at verse 1. 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.679 They took of the accursed thing. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.360 Now remember Joshua 6, 18 and 19. 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:46.799 What did God tell them? 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.480 Listen to what God told them. 00:12:48.799 --> 00:13:03.200 He said in verse 18, and ye in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing and make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:10.720 And then verse 19, and all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron are consecrated unto the Lord. 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:12.639 They shall come unto the Lord. 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.000 They shall come into the treasury of the Lord. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:28.799 In other words, he says, everything in Jericho needs to be destroyed, other than the treasury and the gold and the silver, and it needs to be brought into God's house and given to God. 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.960 So that was a direct commandment from God. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:36.720 And the Bible very clearly didn't see it. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.120 Don't take of the accursed thing. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:48.480 Three times. 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:51.519 But they took. 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:53.120 So what is that? 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:54.960 Rebellion against God. 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:56.960 What caused the defilement? 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:58.879 Rebellion against God. 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.480 The Bible says, if you're willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:05.840 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword. 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.600 Isaiah 119 and 20. 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.360 Folks, it's our choice. 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.039 We can either obey God or rebel against God. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:17.600 But notice the second thing, not only was it rebellion against God, it was robbery against God. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:20.639 It was robbery of God. 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.120 They took of the accursed thing. 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:28.720 All the spoils, silver and gold and other valves, were to come into the treasury of the Lord. 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.440 In Malachi chapter 3, verses 6 through 12. 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:34.399 Mark it down. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.679 I'm not going to take time to read it, but you need to read it. 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.840 I quoted it to you a couple of weeks ago. 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.759 But he talks about people, will a man rob God? 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:45.519 Yet ye have robbed me. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.159 But ye say, Wherein have I robbed you? 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.360 God have I robbed you? 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.200 In my tithes, in my offerings. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:57.039 Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:11.519 Then he makes the fantastic statement that you hear me quote all the time bring you all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in my house, saith the Lord, and prove me here with, if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour ye out a blessing. 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:15.759 The only place in God's word he says you can test him is in your giving back to God. 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:16.559 Amen. 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:21.039 He says, You've robbed me. 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:22.559 You've taken mine. 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:23.440 What's mine? 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:36.799 And then verse 11, and I will rebuke the devourer of your, hey, for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine cast our fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:37.600 Wow. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:44.000 I have a little money track I keep in that passage of scripture in my Bible. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.279 Money will buy a bed but not sleep. 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.559 Books, but not brains, food, but not appetite. 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:52.240 Finery, but not beauty. 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:55.360 A house, but not a home, medicine, but not health. 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:59.679 Luxuries, but not culture, amusement, but not happiness. 00:15:59.919 --> 00:16:02.080 A crucifix, but not a savior. 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.320 A church pew, but not heaven. 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:08.559 Hello. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.840 I keep it right there. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.639 It reminds me. 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:19.039 Not to be covetous of what's God's. 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:21.919 Folks, let me tell you, he gives you 90%. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:24.720 Hello, that's pretty good. 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:27.200 Yeah, but I want more. 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:30.639 Well, that's just covetousness. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.600 And that brings on the curse of God. 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:50.240 Can you realize here's the nation Israel just had the greatest defeat in the history of Israel, the the new Israel, after all the old uh geezers that passed away, you know, and wandering from the wilderness in 40 years. 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.159 And now they robbed God. 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:58.480 Now here's what you said, but wait a minute, I didn't do it. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:00.960 Isn't it amazing? 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:02.639 Achan did it. 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.720 But he calls the people of God guilty too. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:10.960 That bothered me. 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.000 Well, Sylvester did it, bless God. 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:14.799 I didn't do it. 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.039 You're getting what you deserve. 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.119 How many times have we said that? 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:25.519 Or something happens and you and you think to yourself, well, they must not be living right. 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:27.519 You got problems. 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.279 They must not be living right. 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:33.279 Guess what? 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:40.079 If you're part of a body of people like this, a church, when one messes up, we all mess up. 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.119 Now you don't like that accountability. 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.440 That's why we have 82% of people aren't in church. 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:47.359 They don't like that kind of accountability. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:48.319 Amen. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:54.720 But if you're really a Christian, walking with the Lord, you love God, love people, love your brothers and sisters. 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:56.559 When one mess up, you mess up. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.400 When one rejoices, you rejoice. 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:00.000 When one weeps, you weep. 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:01.759 We're one in Christ. 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:02.960 Can I get an amen? 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:04.880 Amen. 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:06.960 One, one body. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:11.440 And we see this so plainly right here. 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:13.200 Oh, folks. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:14.480 They robbed God. 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:19.839 Therefore, to take them to yourself was by, hey, they were robbing God and defiling themselves. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.839 Now notice the third thing. 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:23.440 We see the cause. 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:25.759 The cause were rebellion and robbery. 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:27.279 The charge. 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:31.759 Hey, you have robbed me, you have rebelled against me. 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:32.640 Now who did it? 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:33.519 Now watch this. 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:35.279 Here we're going to get to that part. 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:37.039 The culprit. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:40.000 The person as the culprit. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:40.559 Now watch. 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:50.079 Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zebedee, the son of Zara of the tribe of Judah took of the accursed thing. 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:54.960 The summary statement makes it very clear who the individual was who did the evil. 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:56.000 Pretty clear. 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.480 But now notice he named not just Achan, he named the father. 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.279 He named the grandfather and the great-grandfather. 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:07.839 He said, Y'all all in this. 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:10.000 You're all in it. 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:14.720 And they were named as well as, and then also the tribe of Achan. 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:17.359 The whole tribe. 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:19.920 Hey, folks, you can run, but you can't hide. 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:20.559 Amen. 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.319 You can't, hey, you can't get away from your sin. 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:25.839 You can't do it. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:27.279 I like what Jesus says. 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:31.680 There, hey, there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed. 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:33.759 Luke 12, 2. 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:37.599 But now notice the people as a culprit. 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.680 You got the person naked, but then he says, Israel committed a trespass. 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:48.640 Wait a minute, preacher, I didn't take that silver and gold, and I didn't take that Babylonian garment. 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:51.920 Hmm. 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:54.319 That's pretty tough. 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:57.839 But then I thought, Israel was a unit. 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:00.559 Israel was like a football team. 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:06.559 Man, the college football has been upside down this year. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:12.079 I meant last week, two, number two, number three, and number four all lost. 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:15.519 Then Louisville got beat this week, too. 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.599 Alabama, I was beginning to worry about them with Chattanooga. 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.599 I meant, hey, but you know what? 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:26.000 When they win, they win as a what? 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:27.279 Team. 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:30.640 Now, what hey, you may have a great quarterback, but he can't do it by himself. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:31.599 Can I get an amen? 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:35.599 Michael Jordan never won championships till he got a team around him. 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:36.160 Amen. 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:40.480 Now he was the greatest basketball player, but he never won until he got a team. 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.640 So when you win as a hey, when you win, you win as a team. 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:46.160 When you lose, you lose as a team. 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:48.960 That's the same principle as the body of Christ. 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.160 Hey, we win as a body or we lose as a body. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:52.799 Amen. 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:55.680 We're in this together. 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.599 So when you start saying, well, what's the problem? 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:00.400 Guess what? 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:01.759 We're the problem. 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:04.319 We're all one. 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:05.519 It's us. 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:07.920 It's not just one person. 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:13.039 But yes, one person can start it, but then, hey, as a body, we have to deal with it. 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:14.319 Can I get an amen? 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:17.359 But that's that's the part of it. 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:21.279 And you ought to deal with it because you love them, not because you're being judgmental. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:22.559 Big difference. 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:24.880 Huge difference. 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:32.960 So, no man, Romans 14, 7, I got it in your outline, no man lives unto himself. 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.880 Genesis 4, 9, I am my brother's keeper. 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:39.200 I love Romans 12, 5 and 9. 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:44.640 So we being many are one body in Christ, everyone members one of another. 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:51.759 And then verse 9, he says, Let love be without dissimilation, abhor that which is evil and clean to that which is good. 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:57.200 In other words, when he says, Let love be without dissimilation, he's saying, Let love be without disguise. 00:21:57.680 --> 00:21:59.680 And let me say, love confirms. 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:01.279 Wrong. 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:07.519 The reason I correct my grandchildren is because I love them. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:11.839 Not because I'm trying to be a dictator or trying to rule over them. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:12.960 I love them. 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:16.799 The reason my wife corrects me, she loves me. 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:24.400 So, the culprit, who's the culprit? 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:25.119 Achan. 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:28.799 Yes, Achan brought aching to the body. 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:33.279 But the body is guilty too. 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:38.960 Listen, when we know somebody's in sin and we don't lovily go and approach him and say, I love you. 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:39.599 Can I help? 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:41.839 What can I do to help you get out of this? 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:43.839 Hey, we've not done our part. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:44.799 We're guilty. 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:47.440 Well, what if I don't know it? 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:49.440 That's a good excuse. 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:51.119 And that's true sometimes. 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:53.440 But notice the consequences. 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:58.640 The anger, number four, the consequences, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel. 00:22:58.799 --> 00:22:59.200 Mm-mm. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:07.759 God often gets upset when the hey, when the world's not upset. 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:16.799 You know, the world we live in today has even made laws that, hey, upset God, but it doesn't upset a nation. 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:18.960 For example, abortion's legal. 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:21.359 Murder is legal. 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:23.279 God help us. 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:24.880 God help us. 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:26.160 And we need to pray. 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:36.160 We need to pray that these next Supreme Court justices will be so conservative that they can do maybe do something about Roe versus Wade. 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:37.920 Well, you never know. 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:40.559 You have not because you ask not. 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:41.599 Can I get an amen? 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:47.279 But what the world accepts, hey, seeing, God hates. 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:51.119 And we see that very clearly. 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:56.640 God, he says in Psalm 7.11, God is angry with the wicked every day. 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:05.200 The anger, look at it, of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:14.640 Let me remind you, men may do harm to you when they are angry, but they cannot do to you the harm that God can do when he is angry. 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:25.599 Matthew 10, 28 says, Fear not them which are able to kill the body, but fear him which is able to cast thy soul into hell. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:29.440 That's pretty powerful, folks. 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:37.680 So we see the defiance, the defilement of Israel. 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:39.039 Now, watch the second thing. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.440 Look at the disaster that comes next. 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:43.519 Verses 2 through 5. 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:51.519 After the defilement and the anger of God against Israel, then there comes a disaster. 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:54.400 Look at what he says. 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:59.599 First of all, look at the preliminaries to the disaster. 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:03.680 Things begin to go wrong right out the gate. 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:14.000 You know, isn't it amazing when you, hey, when you're not, when you're going your own way, after you've been going God's way, things start happening that seem to be going backwards. 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:16.160 Ever been there? 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:20.559 And my first inclination is, what have I done? 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.599 Or maybe it's maybe not what I've done. 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:28.880 I know what I've done, but I don't want to meet. 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:33.200 Or here's a better way. 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:34.960 That's just a little sin. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.480 That's just, that's not gonna bother us. 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:40.720 I mean, it's just a little thing. 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.599 See, Ai was just a little thing in comparison to Jericho. 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:54.400 We're talking about 12,000 people compared to hundreds of thousands of people in Jericho. 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:56.640 Just a little sin. 00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:58.799 Just a little thing. 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:01.200 Can I remind you? 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:05.759 It's the small foxes that, hey, spoil the vine. 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:08.720 Solomon said in chapter 2, verse 15. 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:15.039 Let me remind you in 1 Corinthians 5, 6, a little leaven leavens the whole up. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:18.079 Only takes a little. 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:21.440 Only takes a little. 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.200 Look at verse 2. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:28.640 Joshua sends men from Jericho to Ai, and the men went up and viewed Ai. 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:32.160 Oh, yes. 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:34.319 Now, that's a great plan. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:35.200 That's good. 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:36.720