2. GOD’S ADVICE TO JOSHUA JOSHUA 1:6-9

3. God’s Advice to Joshua  Book of the Law Shall Not Depart from Your Mouth

4. Shall Not Depart from your Mouth  It Becomes a Part of Our Lives:  Deuteronomy 6:4-9 – “talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up”

5. Shall Not Depart from your Mouth  Jesus  Matthew 4:1-11 – “It is written”  Paul  Acts 20:31-32 – “for three years I did not cease to warn”

6. Shall Not Depart from your Mouth  Us  Mark 16:15 – “Go into all the world and preach the gospel”  I Peter 3:15 – “always be ready to give a defense to everyone”  Psalms 19:14 – “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight”

7. God’s Advice to Joshua  Book of the Law Shall Not Depart from Your Mouth  Meditate in it Day and Night

8. Meditate in it Day and Night  Psalms 1:1-6 – “his delight is in the law of the Lord and in His law he meditates day and night”  Psalms 19:7-11 – “More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold”

9. Meditate in it Day and Night  II Timothy 2:15 – “Be diligent… a worker… rightly dividing the word of truth”  I Timothy 4:6-8 – “exercise yourself toward godliness”  I Timothy 4:13-16 – “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them”

10. God’s Advice to Joshua  Book of the Law Shall Not Depart from Your Mouth  Meditate in it Day and Night  Do according to all that is Written

11. Do according to all that is Written  God has always required obedience  Ecclesiastes 12:13 – “Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all”  Matthew 7:21 – “he who does the will of My Father in heaven”  I John 2:3-5 – “if we keep His commandments”

12. Do according to all that is Written  According to all that IS WRITTEN  Deuteronomy 12:32 – “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it”  I Corinthians 4:6 – “not to think beyond what is written” John 12:48 – “the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day”

13. Results of this Advice You Will Have Good Success  Psalms 1:3-6 – “whatever he does shall prosper”  Matthew 6:33 – “seek first the kingdom of God… all these things shall be added to you”  Romans 8:28 – “all things work together for good to those who love God”  Revelation 22:12-17 – “they may have the right to the tree of life”