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to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 “the BATTLE is the LORD’s” OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. Jeremiah 17:9 ‘…deceitful and desperately wicked above all things…’ OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. Jeremiah 17:9 ‘…deceitful and desperately wicked above all things…’ John 3:19 ‘…people loved darkness rather than light…’ OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

reading Joshua 7:1-26 to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. Jeremiah 17:9 ‘…deceitful and desperately wicked above all things…’ John 3:19 ‘…people loved darkness rather than light…’ OBSTACLES reading Joshua 7:1-26 to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

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HIDDEN SIN

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... Joshua 6:18 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel. (v.1) OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel. (v.1) James 4:14 ‘…each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire…’ OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel. (v.1) James 4:14 ‘…each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire…’ Joshua 6:19 But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.” OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel. (v.1) James 4:14 ‘…each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire…’ Joshua 6:19 But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.” Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua in ch.1 “…every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised Moses…” v.3   OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua in ch.1 “…every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised Moses…” v.3   “…no man shall be able to stand before you… just as I was with Moses so shall I be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you…” v.5 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua in ch.1 “…every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised Moses…” v.3   “…no man shall be able to stand before you… just as I was with Moses so shall I be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you…” v.5 “…you shall cause the people to inherit the land that I swore to your fathers…” v.6 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua in ch.1 “…every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised Moses…” v.3   “…no man shall be able to stand before you… just as I was with Moses so shall I be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you…” v.5 “…you shall cause the people to inherit the land that I swore to your fathers…” v.6   “…that you may have good success wherever you go…” v.7 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua in ch.1 “…every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised Moses…” v.3   “…no man shall be able to stand before you… just as I was with Moses so shall I be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you…” v.5 “…you shall cause the people to inherit the land that I swore to your fathers…” v.6   “…that you may have good success wherever you go…” v.7 “meditate on it [the Book of the Law] day and night…then you will make your way prosperous…” v.8 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua in ch.1 “…every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised Moses…” v.3   “…no man shall be able to stand before you… just as I was with Moses so shall I be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you…” v.5 “…you shall cause the people to inherit the land that I swore to your fathers…” v.6   “…that you may have good success wherever you go…” v.7 “meditate on it [the Book of the Law] day and night…then you will make your way prosperous…” v.8 “…for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go…” v.9 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 1 Corinthians 10:12 Therefore, let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua 7:2-5: Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. [3] And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” [4] So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, [5] and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua 7:2-5: Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. [3] And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” [4] So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, [5] and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.   [a] the deception of sin OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua 7:2-5: Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. [3] And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” [4] So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, [5] and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.   [a] the deception of sin [b] just because the majority agrees doesn’t make it right OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 Joshua 7:2-5: Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. [3] And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” [4] So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, [5] and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.   [a] the deception of sin [b] just because the majority agrees doesn’t make it right [c] in our own strength we’ll eventually fail OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 1 Kings 18 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and THE DUST and licked up the water that was in the trench.   [a] the deception of sin [b] just because the majority agrees doesn’t make it right [c] in our own strength we’ll eventually fail OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 1 Kings 18 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and THE DUST and licked up the water that was in the trench. 1 Corinthians 2:5 …so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.   [a] the deception of sin [b] just because the majority agrees doesn’t make it right [c] in our own strength we’ll eventually fail OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #1. - affects MORE than just me: Joshua 7:1-5 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #2. - affects our ability to SEE: Joshua 7:6-9 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #2. - affects our ability to SEE: Joshua 7:6-9 Joshua 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #2. - affects our ability to SEE: Joshua 7:6-9 Joshua 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads. “…O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! [8] O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! [9] For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?” vs.7-9 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #2. - affects our ability to SEE: Joshua 7:6-9 Joshua 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads. “…O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! [8] O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! [9] For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?” vs.7-9 OBSTACLES “…why have you…” - v.7 to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #2. - affects our ability to SEE: Joshua 7:6-9 Joshua 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads. “…O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! [8] O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! [9] For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?” vs.7-9 OBSTACLES “…why have you…” - v.7 “…what can I say…” - v.8 to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #2. - affects our ability to SEE: Joshua 7:6-9 Joshua 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads. “…O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! [8] O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! [9] For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?” vs.7-9 OBSTACLES “…why have you…” - v.7 “…what can I say…” - v.8 “…what will you do…” - v.9 to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “GET UP” - v.10-15 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “GET UP” - v.10-15 Joshua 7:10-11a The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? [11] Israel has sinned… OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “GET UP” - v.10-15 Joshua 7:10-11a The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? [11] Israel has sinned… Psalm 40:2 "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “GET UP” - v.10-15 ‘the SLOUGH of DESPOND’ OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “GET UP” - v.10-15 ‘the SLOUGH of DESPOND’ Then I stepped to him that plucked him out, and said, "Sir, wherefore, since over this place is the way from the city of Destruction to yonder gate, is it that this plat is not mended, that poor travellers might go thither with more security?" And he said unto me, "This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended: it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run; and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond. For still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there arises in his soul many fears and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place: and this is the reason of the badness of this ground. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 "It is not the pleasure of the King that this place should remain so bad; his labourers also have, by the directions of his Majesty's surveyors, been for above this sixteen hundred years employed about this patch of ground to see if perhaps it might have been mended: yea, and to my knowledge," said he, "here have been swallowed up at least twenty thousand cartloads, yea, millions, of wholesome instructions. The cartloads have, at all season, been brought from all places of the King's dominions (and they that can tell say they are the best materials to make good ground of the place), if so be it might have been mended. But it is the Slough of Despond still, and so will be, when they have done what they can. "True, there are, by the direction of the lawgiver, certain good and substantial steps placed evenly through the very midst of this slough; but at such times as this place does spew out its filth, as it doth against change of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or, if they be, men, through the dizziness of their heads, step beside, and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be there… OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “DEAL WITH IT” - v.16-26 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “DEAL WITH IT” - v.16-26 Joshua 7:16-17 [16] So Joshua… brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken. [17] …he brought near the clans of Judah… and the Zerahites was taken… he brought near… man by man, and Zabdi was taken. [18] …he brought near his household man by man… and Achan …was taken. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

WHAT’s THE TRIBE?

WHAT’s THE CLAN?

the Zerahites

WHICH FAMILY? the Zerahites

Zabdi the Zerahites WHO’s the MAN?

Zabdi the Zerahites Achan

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “DEAL WITH IT” - v.16-26 Joshua 7:16-17 [16] So Joshua… brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken. [17] …he brought near the clans of Judah… and the Zerahites was taken… he brought near… man by man, and Zabdi was taken. [18] …he brought near his household man by man… and Achan …was taken. Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived, GOD is not mocked…” OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “DEAL WITH IT” - v.16-26 Joshua 7:16-17 [16] So Joshua… brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken. [17] …he brought near the clans of Judah… and the Zerahites was taken… he brought near… man by man, and Zabdi was taken. [18] …he brought near his household man by man… and Achan …was taken. Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived, GOD is not mocked…” “Truly I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I did: [21] when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.” 7:20-21 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “DEAL WITH IT” - v.16-26 Luke 8:17-18 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. [18] Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.” OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “DEAL WITH IT” - v.16-26 Luke 8:17-18 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. [18] Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.” …NO MORE condemnation - Romans 8:1 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “DEAL WITH IT” - v.16-26 Luke 8:17-18 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. [18] Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.” …NO MORE condemnation - Romans 8:1 …we OVERCOME - 1 John 4:4 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “MOVE ON” - 8:1-29 OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... LESSON #3. – doesn’t escape GOD’s correction: Joshua 7:10-26 “MOVE ON” - 8:1-29 Joshua 8:18-19 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. [19] And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it... OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... …affects MORE than just me OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

…affects our ABILITY to SEE… the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... …affects MORE than just me …affects our ABILITY to SEE… OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

…affects our ABILITY to SEE… the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... …affects MORE than just me …affects our ABILITY to SEE… …doesn’t escape GOD’s correction OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

…affects our ABILITY to SEE… the OBSTACLE of HIDDEN SIN... …affects MORE than just me …affects our ABILITY to SEE… …doesn’t escape GOD’s correction 1 Peter 5:8-9 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. [9] Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. OBSTACLES to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7

to POSESSING GOD’s INHERITANCE Joshua 7 OBSTACLES

HIDDEN SIN