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Obedience Is The Key To Victory · The Bible Bit Podcast

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  Welcome back. This is Kimmy Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries bringing
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  you another Bible bit for you to enjoy.
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  Today, as we continue our journey through the scriptures, gleaning valuable
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  lessons from the falling of the walls in Jericho, as recorded in Joshua 6,
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  1 through 27, we are focusing on the vital importance of complete obedience.
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  God gave specific instructions to the Israelites to march around the city once each day for six days.
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  They were to have seven priests carry seven trumpets of ram's horns before the
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  ark, march around the city seven times on the seventh day, have the priests
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  blow the trumpets, and at Joshua's command, shout.
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  Joshua 6, 3-5.
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  These instructions were clear and very specific, but they were also difficult to follow.
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  To see this plan through to completion, the Israelites would have to overcome
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  their own hesitancy to follow a plan that no doubt to them seemed ridiculous.
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  They would also have to be patient and wait for the results,
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  all the while believing the results would be favorable.
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  They would have to trust the plan even though it didn't make sense.
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  God's commands do not have to make sense to us, for us to be required to obey them.
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  Victory comes from obeying God's commands, not trying to modify or improve them.
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  To stay the course, the Israelites had to have faith and maintain their faith.
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  Friends, we are required to do the same.
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  We don't have to understand what God is asking us to do. We must do what God is asking us to do.
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  We must have enough faith to trust in Him and to believe that regardless of
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  what He is asking, it is the right thing to ask of us and the only thing we are to do.
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  But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God
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  must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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  Hebrews 11.6 God may lead people in ways that make no logical sense to the human
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  mind, but his word is always right.
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  Trust and obey.
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  The Israelites completed the march. They did not modify or stop short of God's commands.
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  They did exactly what God commanded them to do.
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  After doing all that God commanded, they shouted.
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  And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets,
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  Joshua said unto the people, Shout, for the Lord hath given you the city.
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  Joshua 6.16 This shout carried great meaning.
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  It was their expression of their confidence that God had already promised the victory.
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  Though it seemed pointless and foolish, Joshua and his people followed God's
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  instructions to the letter.
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  It was when the people of God, by faith, followed the commands of God,
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  that the walls of Jericho fell.
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  So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets,
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  and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet,
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  and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat,
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  so that the people went up into the city,
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  every man straight before him, and they took the city. Joshua 6.20.
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  Israel's responsibility was obedience. God's responsibility was the outcome.
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  We must always do what God commands us to do and leave the results to Him.
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  Have faith in God. His word is truth, John 17, 17.
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  Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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