Walls of Jerico
Joshua
6:1-16 & 20
1) Marched around
2) blew ram's horn
3)
Compassed the city
4)
blew long blast with trumpet
5)
the people shouted
These people believed God. they not only
believed in God the they believed what God had said. No matter how silly it may have seemed.
How silly this must have seemed to the people in
Jerico, with its wall that never had
been scaled.
The Children of Isreal
did it with all faith and sincerty. Not just Joshua and the preist but all the people. I can hear what people would say today.
But they said not
a word. Can you imagine not a word for a
week.
Wow! that is
serious. That is dedication and
devotion. No playing
here.... Could you go for a week without a word.
They obeyed God with steadfastness and
singleness of heart
What do you think would have happened, if after
the 6th day some had said. Nothing going to happen here and did not
march on the 7th day. Or after they had marched 7
times the people said that is enough we do not have to shout.
If thay had said that
shouting will do nothing to that wall, we do need to
do that. The wall would not have fallen.
1)
Marched around _ Hearing Ro
2)
blew ram's horn
_ Believe John
3)
Compassed the city _ Repent Luke 13:3; 2Peter 3:9
4)
long blast with trumpet_Confess
Mat.
5)
the people shouted
_ Baptized Mat. 28:18-20; 1Peter
they marched around and blew around and around they
went. Hearing and believing around and
around we go until it causes action in our life. Rom.
This is very important for the wall of satan to come down.
It is like a courtship prior to engagement. Before you agree to get married there is a
period of getting to know and understanding a person. There is period of shareing
dreams and ideas.
So is the hearing and believing. Marching around and blowing the horns. Hearing and believing.
Repentace
is like deciding to be commited to just one in
courtship. Just as when all the people compassed the City of
Confessing Love toward you spouse is like the
Confession given about Christ being God's son.
Like the blowing of the long blast of the trumpet.
Saying here I come.
Being baptized
is settting the marriage. Being truly engaged. We are the bride of Christ. Gal.
3:26-27
It was God that
took the wall down at Jerico so also it is God that
takes Satan's wall down when we obey his gospel. Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye
are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised
him from the dead. 13 ¶ And you, being dead in your sins and the circumcision of
your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;
With satan's
wall down we are a new creature. 2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become
new.
when the wall of Jerico fell down they had to go in to the battle and they
were not to touch the unclean thing. the same is true of a Christian. Once satan's
wall comes down we are to go into the battle and to keep ourselves form sin. 2Co
10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;) 5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;
1Ti
6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on
eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good
profession before many witnesses.
What do you think would have happened at Jerico if the Hebrews had not went
in to the battle. Or
if they had taken the acursed thing. One did.
Achan took of the spoil. becuse
of it 36 men died becuse of it and Isreal fled before A'i a small
group of people. then
Achan was stoned ..
The same concept is true for us today. 1Co 9:27 But I
keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when
I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
What
about your life. 1 John 2:1
and 1 John 1:9
1
John 1:7 this
is written to those that have been baptized into Jesus Christ to those for whom
God has taken down the wall of Satan
Acts 2:36-38
