“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
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… Then the commander of the Lord's army replied, Take off your sandals for the place where you are standing is holy. And Joshua did so. Write down the last point today. Faith steps are daily decisions. comes up to the guy with a sword getting ready to conquer Jericho he's like what's up bro you for us are you against us and the commander of the army says neither God sent this commander to remind Joshua, before I deal with what's in front of you, I'm going to deal with what's inside of you. I'm not trying to come to get on your team, but I've come to remind you you're on our team. See, we got to understand that today, the battle is a battle within before it's a battle on the outside. And it's a battle of surrender. And Joshua, before the commander, bowed his face down to the ground and went low. And he said, take off your sandals for the place is holy ground. In other words, right before Joshua steps into victory, God reminds him that it's about surrender before it's about the victory. …
… but look at the awareness that was going on. Exodus chapter three, verse five. Do not come any closer, God said. Take off your sandals. Let me stop. Whenever we're in the presence of God, whenever we're on holy ground, we have to take off something that could be hindering us. That's the picture here. Don't come any closer. Take off your sandals for the place where you are standing is, say it with me, holy ground. Now, holy ground is ordinary ground invaded by an extraordinary God. That's what it is. Holy ground. Holy ground. It's the presence of God. Ground in and of itself is not holy, but as believers, because we walk in the presence of God, because God has infiltrated our lives wherever we walk, wherever we tread, it's holy ground. This room is holy ground. Where you are sitting is holy ground because the Bible says where two or more are gathered. It's holy ground. This is not common ground. It's not. It's not common ground. …
I believe there are many of us, maybe not all of us, who would find ourselves in a moment like that. And so today I want to continue that from Exodus chapter 3, verses 1 through 11. and all the bible school students already know who we're talking about today somebody say moses moses we grew up singing a song in church called pharaoh pharaoh oh baby let my people go and then if you really got into it you would go uh yeah yeah yeah yeah it was to the tune of louie louie i don't want to get a copyright strike on youtube so i won't sing it but we would do that Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oh baby, let my people go. And then everybody would go, uh. And a quick story, one time I was 17 years old, just getting started in ministry. And I was leading that for the youth. And one of the parents was really uptight and she walked in and she saw how I had all the kids going, uh. And she said, don't do that again. That's not a holy, that's not a holy gesture. …