I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spake unto Moses.
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… I kind of think about it like this. Joshua 1, verse 3, God told Joshua, wherever you put the sole of your foot, I will prosper you. It's one of my favorite verses in the Bible. Joshua 1, 3, I will give you every place where you set your foot. As I promised Moses, so I promised you. Go put your foot on some places. But he then laid out boundaries, okay? Look what he says next. your territory that you can put your foot on is within the desert from Lebanon on one side, the Great River Euphrates on the other, the Hittite country on the other, and then the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Do you see this? So you could picture it in your mind. Okay, so if you cross the Euphrates River, are you blessed there? No, you're not. If you cross over the desert and you go outside the desert, can you put your feet on places and believe God's with you there? No. I'm with you. …
… dead. Now then you and all these people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them, to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the great river, the Euphrates, all the Hittite country, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. Write down the title of today's message. It's called Private Preparation. And I just love this about God. He develops you in private. He develops you in secret. He develops you in the shadows. I want to encourage you today, don't take light. Do not minimize your secret life. Do not minimize your private life, because God is doing something in you that nobody can see, that nobody knows about. And at the right time when God wants to bring it into public, he will. And if you don't know the Bible very well, Moses was the guy. Moses was the dog. Moses was the leader. Moses got him out of Egypt. …
… to the people of Israel every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you just as I promised to Moses from the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. All the land of the Hittites to the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses, my servant, commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. …
… end of his life. It ends with him on Mount Nebo. But it begins with this incredible call to all of us today. He says, see, I have given you this land. This is the promised land that Joshua is about to lead the people into. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to their descendants after them. And we talked last week at Trillith for sure, and now we're kind of bringing the whole church on board to this idea that he says, go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore that he would give. So there's this tension going on, right? The Lord's promising to give this land, but he's saying to the people, go in and take the land. So which is it? Is God giving it, or are we supposed to go in and take it? And the answer is yes. God's giving it, but you have to take it. God's prepared a place for you, but you have to go live by faith into what God has given you in Christ. It's the difference between a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and the possessing of faith in Jesus Christ. There are a lot of people, if I can just cut to the heart of it, who raised their hand, who prayed a prayer, who came down to the front of a church, who filled out a membership card, who checked a box and said, yes, I want to put my …
… I am about to give them, to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the great river, the Euphrates, all the Hittite country to the Mediterranean Sea in the West. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. Do me a favor before you sit down. I need you to be a prophetic voice in the hearing of your neighbor. Find a neighbor next to you and give him the sermon title. Tell them, neighbor, oh neighbor, the wait is over. You may be seated. The wait is over. I feel a shout right there. The wait... It's over. I need to share with you that I owe a woman named Olivia an apology. …