1. UNDERSTANDING THE VIOLENT PORTRAYALS OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMANET

2. VIOLENT GOD OF OLD TESTAMENT
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess & drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites & Jebusites, seven nations larger & stronger than you— & when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you & you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.  – Deuteronomy 7:1,2
The city & all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute & all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. – Joshua 6:17
Etc

3. VIOLENT GOD
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess & drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites & Jebusites, seven nations larger & stronger than you— & when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you & you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.  – Deuteronomy 7:1,2
The city & all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute & all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. – Joshua 6:17
Etc
LOVING GOD
 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor & hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies & pray for those who persecute you.” – Matthew 5:43, 44
 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? – John 14:9
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory & the exact representation of his being… Hebrews 1:3
Etc

4. STUDY SCRIPTURE THROUGH LENS OF JESUS
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets & the Psalms.” Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. – Luke 24: 44, 45

5. WHAT IS AT STAKE: BLESSING THE WORLD
“All the peoples on the earth will be blessed through you.” – Genesis 12:3
“Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own & that they will be enslaved & mistreated there... In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites (Canaanite people group) has not yet reached its full measure”. – Genesis 15: 13,16

6. GOD’S JUSTICE LEVER: GOD’S HOLINESS DEMANDS JUDGMENT
400 YEARS OF SIN
JUSTICE
DESTRUCTION
LIFE
JUDGEMENT OF
A HOLY GOD
GOD’S JUSTICE LEVER: GOD’S HOLINESS DEMANDS JUDGMENT

7. GOD’S JUSTICE LEVER: GOD’S HOLINESS PROVIDES HOLY GRACE
HUMAN SIN
GOD’S GRACE
JUSTICE
DESTRUCTION
LIFE
JUDGEMENT OF
A HOLY GOD
GOD’S JUSTICE LEVER: GOD’S HOLINESS PROVIDES HOLY GRACE

8. GOD’S GRACE IN DRIVING OUT THE CANAANITES
“I will send my terror ahead of you & throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs & run.  I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites & Hittites out of your way.” – Exodus 23: 27,28
“I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you…” – Joshua 24:12

9. THE CROSS: GOD’S HOLY RIGHTEOUSNESS & HOLY LOVE MEET
HUMAN SIN
GOD’S GRACE
JUDGEMENT OF A HOLY GOD
“God’s judgement & God’s grace kiss at the cross.”

10. LIVES SAVED THROUGH REPENTANCE
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went & entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab & stayed there… She said to them “I know that the Lord has given you this land & that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.” – Joshua 2:1, 9

11. LIVES SAVED THROUGH REPENTANCE
“Now the men had said to her, “This oath you made us swear will not be binding on us  unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down… So she sent them away, & they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.” – Joshua 2:

12. “The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”