Joshua: The Trumpet and Sword

Rev. Joby Fowler
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  1. 03/26/2023

    Called and Consecrated

    We have reached the concluding chapter of the book of Joshua and with it a final exhortation given by Yahweh, through the one who has led them so faithfully, now at the end of his life. He communicates God's covenant faithfulness that they are the true ecclesia of the Lord, the called out ones, those brought across rivers and waters time and again as evidence of the Lord's calling and consecration. Life from nothing, salvation from imprisonment of sin and death, and then brought into life with Christ - how glorious is the life-giving call of God. May we now walk in covenant faithfulness with Him.

    38 min

  2. 03/19/2023

    Not One Word Has Failed

    When it comes to determining what are our lives are for, how we ought to live our lives, and by what standard that are to be shaped, we cannot improve upon the instruction of God's Word. In fact it is that only standard by which we are to ground our lives that leads us from immaturity to maturity, from glory to glory. Seeing the grace that God has worked for us, we are then called to walk in the way which He has laid down for us. This is the path to continued blessing and victory.

    36 min

  3. 03/12/2023

    An Altar Called Witness

    As we endeavor to live lives of faithfulness before the Lord, to keep covenant and to give our children something to see as a reminder to seek after the Lord all our days, it is essential that we weave the contours of Christ work of redemption into all that we say and do. We need practical, covenantally authorized helps to show us the way we are to go, not to supplant the real act of Christ's work, but to show us that we are, even when we are separated from one another by geography bound together by one covenant of grace. It is the altar where peace with God and men is made good, namely in the once and for all sacrificing of Christ Jesus for sinners.

    35 min

  4. 03/05/2023

    A Tale of Two Cities

    The establishment of the these two types of cities served as not just concepts or reminders, but actual provisions for actual people that also served to show just how precious the blood of men was to the YHWH and the essential role that priests play not only in the application of the law, but in the proclamation of grace and restoration. What God is showing Israel over and over again, even as the law is woven into their hearts and life, is that God loves those who are His, those who are under the law, under the curse, prone to wander and war, and to Redeem them and protect them through the Priest who stands between God and men.

    35 min

  5. 02/26/2023

    Run to Reach the Goal

    Having recorded the kings that Joshua slew by the sword, brought their cities to destruction, and made way for the people of God to dwell in the land. The job was not yet finished, there was work left to be done, but what a start we find in the first twelve chapters of Joshua! The Lord has promised not only victory, but He allots land for each of the tribes that those who have fought might live, thrive, and delight in the good gifts which God gave, and they fourth for, and continue to fight for in order to bring about the fullness of God's covenant promises. There is something glorious here that is a timeless principle for the Church then and now. Firstly, that chosen man begins and makes possible the great work of taking dominion, that the work does not end until the fullness of Christ's kingdom has been established, and finally that the saints of God will experience their inheritance as spoils of the their worship and warfare.

    36 min

  6. 02/19/2023

    God Orchestrated Conquest

    Joshua is filled with stories of Israel's conquest over various tribes, cities, nations that were located in the land of Canaan, a land which was promised to Israel, which was theirs, given to them by the One who reserves the right and authority to dole out to the tribes of men the boundaries of their dwelling (Acts 17). God has given to Israel, not by right of ethnic superiority, but according to the content of His covenant of grace. The gift was not merely theirs for the taking, it had to be conquered, it had to be taken by force. This inheritance required trumpet and sword, to conquer in the Name of the Messiah, that Israel might devote themselves to the Lord - heart, soul, mind, and strength and seek to remove from the land those who made it unholy.

    35 min

  7. 02/12/2023

    God Given Conquest

    Victory belongs to the Lord. This is a lesson that is often learned, often communicated, and often repeated in the book of Joshua. We see in addition that victory is directed, sovereignly administered, and granted by the One who leads Israel, not Joshua, but the Messiah. We must ask ourselves when we read the Old Testament and all the exploits of the Israel, "From where does the victory of God's people come?" It comes through the powerful working of the Messiah among us to bring about His purposes, to bring to an end on earth the chaos and misery that sin has wrought upon the world God has made. What Isra began, however imperfectly, Christ would finish through the Church and Spirit, unto the full realization of the promise made in the Great Commission, to bring cross and crown to all nations.

    38 min

  8. 02/05/2023

    Cursed Cunning and Rash Vows

    We see here, in this episode, a drama unfolding between the Gibeonites and Israel where we find decisions that challenge our own understanding of what is virtuous and wise for men to do in light of God's directives. We find a pagan nation exercising evil through deceitful cunning, endeavoring to make a covenant on false pretenses by tricking Israel into a unwise peace treaty. We also find Israel falling for their trick and entering into a rash vow. Neither acted uprightly and neither got what they were looking for, because the covenants are not made through trickery or through folly, but only upon the grace and mercy of God.

    29 min
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