1. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 Honest Concern 22:9,10
Humble Submission 22:11-29
Horrible Agreement :30-34

2. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 Honest Concern
Canaan was God’s chosen land
Spiritual values versus material gain
Built an altar to keep them close
Heart was right but actions wrong

3. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 Humble Submission 22:11-29
The alarm - Joshua 22:11-14
Proverbs 18:13,17
Phinehas’ delegation Numbers 25
Deuteronomy 12 & 13
The appeal - Joshua 22:15-20
Trespass - An act of treachery
Turned away - no longer following God
Rebel - deliberately resisting God’s will

4. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 Humble Submission (cont’d)
The Argument - Joshua 22:21-29
Used Lord’s name 6x (3 different ones)
God knows our heart - Jeremiah 17:9,10
2 Corinthians 8:21
No sacrifices were to be made!
The children were of concern!
God created this problem!

5. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 Horrible Agreement 22:30-34
Phineas/delegation/Israel pleased
No civil war necessary
No judgment of God
But was God pleased? 22:19
James 3:17
1 Chronicles 5:25,26

6. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 Principles of Rumors
Never discount rumors (get to heart)
Gather information calmly
Talk frankly with whom rumors are about
Deal completely with the situation

7. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 Application
“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.”
Matthew Henry

8. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34 How is your peacemaking?
Are you holding to the truth in your peacemaking?

9. Check it out! Joshua 22:9-34
“Peace, combined with truth, is the highest priority; without truth, it is a compromise. Truth without a desire for peace is brittle legalism.”
John Huffman