Latest / Crosswalk / Root Out the Evil — Joshua 7:10–18
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- 0:00Jesus tells us to take up our cross and follow
- 0:03him. You're listening to Crosswalk with Pastor
- 0:05Steve Winnery. Crosswalk is the radio ministry
- 0:08of Calvary Chapel Tri -Cities and it is our aim
- 0:10to lead you to the cross through the teaching
- 0:12of God's Word. I only got spanked by my grandma
- 0:47one time. It was effective, man. And she didn't,
- 0:50you know, it wasn't a real long thing. Switches
- 0:52are good. In any case, God talks about spanking,
- 0:56but he only spanks his own kids. And if you're
- 0:59not getting spanked, you're in sin. There's no
- 1:02situation where God is dealing with you on your
- 1:05sin. That's not a good thing. That's a bad thing.
- 1:09That's an indication that you're not walking
- 1:11with God. That's an indication that you're not
- 1:13His child. And so any time that God's gonna deal
- 1:16with somebody, He deals with His own and He starts
- 1:20with them. There's a passage in Joel 2 .25 where
- 1:25it talks about the fact that God will restore
- 1:27when we confess. It says, so I will restore to
- 1:31you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
- 1:34the crawling locust, the consuming locust. and
- 1:37the chewing locus, my great army which I sent
- 1:39among you. And so we have a promise from God
- 1:42that not only is God going to forgive us for
- 1:44our sin, but a lot of times what he's going to
- 1:46do is he's going to restore to us the things
- 1:48that we've lost because of our sin. I found that
- 1:51to be the case in my life. I came out of a non
- 1:54-Christian background. I did a lot of junk and
- 1:56I had a lot of consequences that came from it.
- 1:58Those are way far back in the rear view mirror.
- 2:01And for years and for years, God has been giving
- 2:04me good things. that I don't deserve that's what
- 2:07the grace of God is good things that I don't
- 2:10deserve God's good that way God's voice can be
- 2:15very clear when you make a mistake and specifically
- 2:20after you make a mistake and that's what happens
- 2:22with Joshua in this place with Peter New Testament
- 2:27Jesus you know Peter was bragging and said though
- 2:29all these deny you I will never deny you And
- 2:34Jesus says to him, you know, Peter, by the time
- 2:36the evening's over, you're going to have done
- 2:38it three times. The book of Luke says, Peter's
- 2:41standing by the enemy's fire. And there's a little
- 2:44girl there. And she says, you're one of his disciples.
- 2:47And he goes, nope, don't know him. I'm not. Another
- 2:50guy comes up and says, your dialect betrays you,
- 2:54is what it says in Greek. And you're one of them.
- 2:57And he goes, nope, I don't know the man. And
- 2:59then finally somebody else says it to him. And
- 3:01he curses. And the curse is basically, may I
- 3:05be cursed by God if I know this man? It's not
- 3:08like he's just cussing or something. It's the
- 3:10idea of, may I be cursed by God if I know this
- 3:13man? And the Bible says it's at that moment that
- 3:15Jesus walked out of the house. He was in the
- 3:18courtyard. Jesus walks out of the house. Peter's
- 3:20on one side of the courtyard. Jesus is on the
- 3:22other. They lock eyes. And then Peter goes off
- 3:26weeping. And God's voice can be very clear when
- 3:30you make a mistake. and all Jesus had to do was
- 3:33look at the man, and then you see God restoring
- 3:36him. Moses, we talked about 40 years in the wilderness
- 3:39after a murder, and then after the 40 years,
- 3:43God's voice becomes very clear. God gives him
- 3:46a little sign with a burning bush, and then Moses
- 3:49comes up and he goes, get your sandals off your
- 3:51feet, you're standing on holy ground, and he
- 3:53begins speaking to him about what he's gonna
- 3:55do with them now. Now after 40 years, now after
- 3:58you've toned it down, now after you think that
- 4:01there's nothing left for you. Paul was involved
- 4:03with the death of Stephen and he wanted to kill
- 4:05other Christians and immediately after he came
- 4:09into a relationship with God what happened was
- 4:11Paul went into the desert for three years and
- 4:14heard clearly from the Lord. Mistake after mistake
- 4:17after mistake and then there's repentance and
- 4:20then God begins speaking clearly. David. He's
- 4:24on the run for seven years. And at the end of
- 4:27that seven years, he spends the last year and
- 4:31a half or so in the enemy's camp, down with the
- 4:34Philistines. And God puts him in a position.
- 4:39where not only is he being disciplined, but everybody
- 4:42in his entourage is being disciplined. They've
- 4:45lost their families, they've lost their kids,
- 4:48they've lost all their goods because a group
- 4:50of raiders came in and took them, and the people
- 4:53that are following David are about to rebel against
- 4:55him and stone him to death. And David repents,
- 5:00and God begins speaking again clearly to David,
- 5:03gets him out of that situation, and then makes
- 5:05him the king of Israel. You make mistakes. and
- 5:08you give your heart back to the Lord in the sense
- 5:11of put yourself in the position where God can
- 5:13bless you and God will speak clearly to you about
- 5:17what he wants to do with you. He'll speak through
- 5:19the word, he'll speak through sermons, he'll
- 5:21speak to your heart in a still small voice. He
- 5:25will speak to you. He's totally capable of guiding
- 5:28you and he's been doing that for a very long
- 5:30time. And so what God tells Joshua to do is root
- 5:33out the evil and God's gonna help. So it's not
- 5:37just a matter of confession, it's a matter of
- 5:40getting rid of it, getting rid of it. And so
- 5:44I mentioned 1 Corinthians chapter five. Why don't
- 5:46you turn over there with me real quick. 1 Corinthians
- 5:48chapter five. And this is a pretty famous passage.
- 5:55Paul's writing a letter to these guys. He found
- 5:57out that there is a guy in the Corinthian fellowship
- 6:02that is sleeping with his step -mom, which is
- 6:07weird. Paul finds out about it and he rebukes
- 6:14the Corinthian Church because they're patting
- 6:16themselves on the back about how tolerant they
- 6:18are for allowing this guy and apparently the
- 6:21woman to be in the fellowship. I don't know if
- 6:23the woman was there because the guy is the only
- 6:25one who's out. Maybe the woman's not there because
- 6:27she has the sense to be ashamed of what she's
- 6:31doing. It's always ridiculous when you run into
- 6:34somebody who's absolutely in sin and they're
- 6:37brazen about it, not ashamed about the whole
- 6:39thing. You know, shame is something that people
- 6:41in America have lost over the years. I think
- 6:44a good touch of shame is a good thing in a person's
- 6:46life. You do something messed up, you should
- 6:49feel bad about it. And this guy doesn't feel
- 6:51bad. It's actually reported that there is sexual
- 6:54immorality among you and such sexual immorality
- 6:57as is not even named among the Gentiles that
- 6:59a man has his father's wife. And you're puffed
- 7:03up. and have not rather mourned that he who has
- 7:05done this deed might be taken away from among
- 7:07you. For I indeed as absent in body but present
- 7:11in spirit have already judged as though I were
- 7:13present him who has so done this deed. In the
- 7:16name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered
- 7:18together along with my spirit with the power
- 7:20of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one
- 7:22to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that
- 7:25his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
- 7:27Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Do you not
- 7:31know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
- 7:33Leaven is yeast. You put yeast into a lump of
- 7:36dough, it's going to spread throughout the dough.
- 7:38That's the picture that you have there. Therefore,
- 7:40purge out the old leaven that you may be a new
- 7:43lump. since you truly are unleavened, for indeed
- 7:46Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us." And
- 7:49what he's referring to there is that Jewish tradition
- 7:52that right before Passover, Passover was a time
- 7:55when they ate nothing but unleavened bread. It
- 7:57was also the time when they did spring cleaning.
- 7:59It's probably where we got the whole tradition
- 8:02of spring cleaning. but they would go through
- 8:04their houses, they would clean the house, and
- 8:06one of the ceremonies they would go through is
- 8:08they would make sure that there was no leaven
- 8:11in the house. So they'd get rid of all the leavened
- 8:13bread, which is like wonder bread, and they'd
- 8:15leave all the unleavened bread, which is like
- 8:16saltine crackers, right? But it was big flat
- 8:19pieces of like saltine crackers. So they'd get
- 8:22rid of all the leavened bread, and then they'd
- 8:24take little pieces of leavened bread, little
- 8:27crumbs of it, and spread it throughout the house.
- 8:29The kids would go around the house with a wooden
- 8:31spoon and a feather and carry it all back to
- 8:34the dad. He'd throw it in the fire. And there
- 8:36was a ceremony where they pronounced the house
- 8:38to be clean. And that's what he's talking about
- 8:41here. Jesus is our Passover. And if we're going
- 8:44to celebrate the Passover in the way that God
- 8:46wants us to, then the old leaven needs to be
- 8:49taken out. Your house needs to be purged. It
- 8:51needs to be cleansed. And that is the case with
- 8:55the church. The Bible says that judgment begins
- 8:58not with the Gentiles, not with the unbelievers.
- 9:01Judgment begins at the house of God. Yeah, at
- 9:06the house of God. And so it always starts with
- 9:08us. And so Paul's being consistent here. He says,
- 9:13therefore let us keep the feast. And he's talking
- 9:15about Passover, not with old leaven, nor with
- 9:17leaven of malice and wickedness. but with the
- 9:20unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. So no
- 9:23sexual immorality, no malice, no wickedness.
- 9:27There needs to be sincerity and truth. He says,
- 9:30I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company
- 9:32with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly
- 9:35did not mean with the sexually immoral people
- 9:37of this world or with the covetous or extortioners
- 9:40or idolaters. Since then you would need to go
- 9:43out of the world. But now I've written to you
- 9:44not to keep company with anyone named a brother
- 9:47who is sexually immoral or covetous. That means
- 9:50greedy. Somebody who wants money. That's a standard
- 9:56in the Bible. Somebody who's always after money.
- 9:59Somebody who's always greedy. Somebody who's
- 10:01always trying to do a deal. Somebody who wants
- 10:04to get rich quick. Somebody who rips people off
- 10:06in business. That kind of stuff. That's covetousness.
- 10:10And we're not supposed to be hanging out with
- 10:12people who are covetous. Or an idolater. That's
- 10:15people who put things before God. Or a reviler.
- 10:18That's people who are just over the top. That's
- 10:22a party guy who's constantly fighting. That's
- 10:24basically it. or a drunkard, or an extortioner,
- 10:28not even to eat with such a person. For what
- 10:30have I to do with judging those also who are
- 10:33outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
- 10:35But those who are outside, God judges. Therefore,
- 10:38put away from yourselves the evil person." And
- 10:41in that passage, what Paul is teaching is that
- 10:43we don't judge unbelievers. God's their judge.
- 10:46We do judge believers. And so when a believer
- 10:50says, don't you judge me, wrong. You claim to
- 10:54be a believer, you are under my jurisdiction,
- 10:57according to what scripture says. And Jesus said,
- 11:00judge not that you be not judged, but what he
- 11:01was talking about is going around condemning
- 11:03people. You're just having an overbearing type
- 11:06of attitude. This is talking about looking at
- 11:08a situation and going, you know what, this is
- 11:10not right. You need to straighten this out. That
- 11:12is not judgment in the sense that Jesus was talking
- 11:15about. As a matter of fact, in the passage in
- 11:18Matthew chapter seven where Jesus was talking
- 11:20about don't judge lest you also be judged right
- 11:23after that, he says don't give what's holy to
- 11:25the dogs. Well, if I'm not doing any judging,
- 11:28how am I going to figure out who's a dog? Don't
- 11:31cast pearls before swine. If I don't have any
- 11:34discernment, if I'm not allowed to... specify
- 11:38what is somebody who is actually following the
- 11:40Lord and what is somebody who is acting like
- 11:43a swine, then how am I going to fulfill those
- 11:46commands? Obviously, that includes discernment,
- 11:50that includes a judgment in that situation. And
- 11:54so I don't need to be condemning towards people,
- 11:55but when somebody is in absolute sin, it needs
- 11:58to be taken care of for them. In the passage
- 12:01here in 1 Corinthians 5, what Paul says is deliver,
- 12:05verse 5, deliver such a one to Satan for the
- 12:08destruction of the flesh that his spirit may
- 12:10be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. So what's
- 12:13the goal? And the goal is that his spirit would
- 12:16be saved. One of the things that does not happen
- 12:19with people who are like this guy, who could
- 12:22come to church, openly proclaim that he's shacking
- 12:25up with his stepmom, and be okay with it, and
- 12:29get people to pat him on the back. One of the
- 12:32things that does not happen with people like
- 12:34that is them going to heaven. The Bible teaches
- 12:38that if you are sexually immoral, you will not
- 12:41enter the kingdom of heaven. And so there are
- 12:44standards in scripture. And one of the things
- 12:46that happens with guys like that, when they're
- 12:47in that kind of position, is they do not repent.
- 12:50They do not repent. And so there are times when
- 12:53things need to get gnarly and stuff needs to
- 12:56be put into people's faces so they'll consider
- 12:58what they're doing and they'll stop and they'll
- 13:01turn. You guys, if we turn a person from wickedness,
- 13:04we've saved a soul from death, is what the Bible
- 13:07says. And so that's what's happening in this
- 13:10passage. That's also what's happening back in
- 13:13the book of Joshua. And so what Paul did was
- 13:16he told them to practice Matthew chapter 18.
- 13:19The guy had already been talked to, obviously.
- 13:22Everybody knew what the sin was, obviously. The
- 13:25guy hasn't repented, obviously. And so now the
- 13:28next step is you're out. And so you don't get
- 13:31the fellowship with us. You don't get to hang
- 13:33here. You know, go home. Because you're not going
- 13:36to be part of the church. And there needs to
- 13:39be a consequence to this. And you know what,
- 13:41you guys? Every time, well, not every single
- 13:43time. I've done this a number of different times
- 13:46with people. And... The most notable time was
- 13:50a guy, I've told this story before, the pastor
- 13:54was on vacation. I was an assistant pastor. I
- 13:57was teaching a single study. And a guy that the
- 14:00pastor had been counseling with was committing
- 14:03adultery on his wife with a woman. And so the
- 14:07pastor goes on vacation. This dude shows up at
- 14:10my single study with his mistress and walks in.
- 14:17and expected me not to do anything because that's
- 14:19what Christians do. They don't do anything. And
- 14:24so when he came walking in, I said, what are
- 14:27you doing here? And he goes, well, I'm coming
- 14:30to Bible study. And I go, no, you're not. And
- 14:34he started getting gnarly with me. And so I said,
- 14:37let's take it outside. We'll go out in the driveway
- 14:39and have a talk. And I threw him and his girlfriend
- 14:42out. And we had words at that point. He comes
- 14:45back in. and wants to talk to the pastor, and
- 14:49I'm there. We go over the whole thing and end
- 14:52up having conversations with him and his wife.
- 14:55Him and his wife came in, his wife now, not the
- 14:58girlfriend. The wife comes in with him and she
- 15:01defends his behavior, which is weird. It's weird
- 15:05to us, but it's something that's normal with
- 15:07somebody who's in a situation like that. What
- 15:09she wants is a marriage. And so she was willing
- 15:12to compromise all kinds of nonsense to try to
- 15:15keep her husband. and so he had her convinced
- 15:18that this was okay and basically we again had
- 15:21words in my office and I told him you're not
- 15:24coming to church here and obviously the pastor
- 15:27backed me up on all this stuff and so he left
- 15:30he left mad his girlfriend gets saved and she
- 15:36just becomes a real follower of Jesus she had
- 15:39a whole bunch of kids how many kids she had like
- 15:42seven or something like that She had a whole
- 15:44bunch of kids and her husband had left her and
- 15:46she was somebody who was just looking to glom
- 15:48on to anybody. And she ends up getting saved
- 15:51and ends up not too long after that getting married
- 15:55to a guy who loves the Lord. That kind of thing
- 15:57happened. Two years later this guy comes walking
- 15:59back into my office and he apologizes to me.
- 16:03And he goes, you were absolutely right. You were
- 16:05right. You were right in everything that you
- 16:06said to me. You were right to kick me out. You
- 16:09were right. And God's been dealing with me, and
- 16:11I turned my life back over to Jesus, and He just
- 16:15came in and said, I am really sorry. And that's
- 16:17the goal. That's what's supposed to be happening
- 16:20in a situation like that. And so it's always
- 16:22cool when that takes place. What you're doing
- 16:26is you're putting people into a position where
- 16:28they have to, on some level at least, begin listening
- 16:32to the Lord. And so we need to make sure that
- 16:35this is taking place in our own life. You purge
- 16:38out the old leaven. You go through and you get
- 16:40rid of sexual immorality, you get rid of wickedness,
- 16:43you get rid of covetousness and attitude, you
- 16:47know, idolatry and all these different kind of
- 16:50attitudes in your own life. And if you've got
- 16:52a friend that's doing these things, friends wound
- 16:57friends on purpose. Faithful are the wounds of
- 17:01a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
- 17:05And so if you've got a friend who's in some kind
- 17:08of sin and they are unrepentant about it, you
- 17:10are obligated as a man of God, as a woman of
- 17:12God, to talk to them about this stuff and to
- 17:15turn them around. You don't have to go in and
- 17:17be a volcano on people, but you can talk to them.
- 17:20This stuff happens around here all the time.
- 17:21I'll have people come up to me after service
- 17:24and go, you know what, we've been coming to church
- 17:25and usually it's after I've talked about something
- 17:28like this. We've been coming to church and we've
- 17:30been living together and we need to do something
- 17:32about this. We need to get married and stuff.
- 17:34I don't go, I can't believe you've been living
- 17:36together. I never do that. What I start doing
- 17:40is talking to them about options, what they can
- 17:42do as far as getting things straight and that
- 17:44kind of thing. And we go through it with them
- 17:46and we get them out of the sin. You don't have
- 17:47to beat them up over it. That's where we all,
- 17:49well, not all of us, but that's where all the
- 17:52people who are like me came from. That's what
- 17:54people in the world do. And so the people in
- 17:56the world come into the church and they're doing
- 17:57this stuff. And what happens is Jesus gets a
- 18:00hold of them and they turn around and they just
- 18:02go, I don't want to live like this anymore. This
- 18:04is wrong. And they come up and ask for direction
- 18:06on something. And when you got a friend who's
- 18:09doing that, you just give them the direction.
- 18:11Show them what they need to do in this situation.
- 18:13Usually when somebody does that with me, I'm
- 18:15like, okay, you know, you got to straighten this
- 18:17whole thing out. That means you move out. Or
- 18:20you just go up to Coeur d 'Alene and get married.
- 18:22Do it immediately. You know? And a lot of times
- 18:25what they want to do is they want to have a church
- 18:26wedding and that kind of thing, which is good
- 18:28and that's fine, but you don't get to shack up
- 18:30with each other while you're waiting for that.
- 18:33You know, there's standards here. Unbelievers
- 18:35are looking at us and they see the things that
- 18:38we're doing and they are judging us. They're
- 18:40judging Jesus based on our actions, right? And
- 18:43so what I'll do with them is I'll go, okay, you
- 18:45need to fix this whole thing. You got some place
- 18:47that you can stay. Usually I'm talking to the
- 18:49guy. You got a place that you can stay until
- 18:51the wedding date. And they'll go yay or nay,
- 18:54and if it's nay, then I'll find them a place
- 18:56to stay and give them that kind of option. And
- 18:58sometimes I'll tell them, you know what? If you
- 19:01want a Christian wedding service, that's not
- 19:04something that has to be the first thing. Go
- 19:06up to Coeur d 'Alene, get married, we go through
- 19:07the counseling, and at the end of the counseling,
- 19:10we'll do a religious service for you. And they're
- 19:11like, oh, really? You would do that for us? Yes,
- 19:14absolutely. Whatever needs to happen to get out
- 19:16of this stuff. I had one guy who he and his wife
- 19:19got saved. and they didn't want to go to Coeur
- 19:22d 'Alene. What they wanted to do was they wanted
- 19:24a regular service. They had three kids. They'd
- 19:26been living together for over seven years. And
- 19:29so what he did was he parked a fifth wheel out
- 19:33in front of his parents' house, and he stayed
- 19:35in that place until their counseling was done
- 19:37and they could do the wedding. And it was just
- 19:39like, that's way cool. That's just way cool.
- 19:43And he was like, I just want Jesus to be in control
- 19:45of my life. I want Jesus to be glorified in the
- 19:48things that I do. And again, I didn't beat up
- 19:50anybody with that kind of stuff. I just said,
- 19:52here's options for you. Here are the things that
- 19:53you can do. And you can do this stuff with people
- 19:55without getting all over them and that kind of
- 19:57thing. Because obviously, again, many of us came
- 20:00from that kind of world. And what needs to happen
- 20:02is repentance. And when you see repentance, then
- 20:05what you do is work with people. When you don't
- 20:07see repentance, what you do is you make it intense
- 20:11at some point. And that's what Jesus says. You
- 20:14up the ante on people. So you got a problem with
- 20:16somebody go to them you and them alone is what
- 20:18Jesus said If that doesn't take care of the issue
- 20:21and it needs to be big issues Not I was walking
- 20:24to church this morning and you didn't say hi
- 20:26to me, you know We're talking about big issues
- 20:30here like what we're talking about with this
- 20:32guy and his stepmom You got a problem with somebody
- 20:35you go and talk to them you and them alone and
- 20:37if they don't receive it then you take two or
- 20:39three people with you because two or three people
- 20:42may be able to convince them or the two or three
- 20:44people coming with you may be able to convince
- 20:47you because you're off the wall. There's always
- 20:50that option, right? Maybe I'm overboard on this
- 20:53whole thing. Maybe I'm wrong about this whole
- 20:55thing. And I've been in situations where somebody
- 20:57wanted me to correct somebody and they brought
- 21:00them in or we talked and stuff. And I just went,
- 21:03what are you talking about? That's not sin. There's
- 21:07nothing wrong with what this person is doing.
- 21:09This is you, man. And so, you know, it gets fixed
- 21:12that way. So two or three people go with them
- 21:14and you hear every word. And this is not to be
- 21:16done over texts. This is not to be done in letters.
- 21:20This is the stuff that you do in person with
- 21:22people. That way you don't get all the problems
- 21:24with texts and letters where people don't write
- 21:27well or they assume the worst when you're reading
- 21:30something. And if they're not convinced after
- 21:33two or three people, then the Bible says that
- 21:36you take it before the church and at that point,
- 21:39they are not allowed to come to church until
- 21:41they repent. And when they repent, then you let
- 21:44them back in. Second Corinthians, Paul has to
- 21:47write these guys back and say, let the guy back
- 21:49in. He repented. And so they swing from one pendulum
- 21:53to the other side of the pendulum and they go
- 21:56from being radically tolerant to being completely
- 21:58intolerant of somebody who's actually repentant.
- 22:02And when somebody's repentant, you work with
- 22:04them. Okay, back over to Joshua. I thought we
- 22:07were gonna get into chapter eight, but maybe
- 22:08not. So, you root out the evil. And so, God gives
- 22:13him the plan, and what God says to him is, I
- 22:16want you to go out in verse 14, call them according
- 22:20to your tribes, and it shall be that the tribe
- 22:23which the Lord takes shall come according to
- 22:26families, and the family which the Lord takes
- 22:29shall come, excuse me. Come by households and
- 22:33the household which the Lord takes shall come
- 22:35man by man And so what God's doing is setting
- 22:40up a situation Where Aiken that's the guy that
- 22:43we're going to be talking about where Aiken sees
- 22:46the judgment coming where it's clear to him that
- 22:50God's involved in this whole thing and Let's
- 22:54go through and read the narrative and see what
- 22:56happens here Verse 15 it says then it shall be
- 22:59he who is taken with the accursed thing shall
- 23:01be burned with fire he and all that he has because
- 23:04he's transgressed the covenant of the Lord and
- 23:06because he's done a disgraceful thing in Israel
- 23:08so verse 16 Joshua rose early in the morning
- 23:12first thing it brought Israel by their tribes
- 23:16and the tribe of Judah was taken now you got
- 23:18to think of being this guy who did this stuff
- 23:20and you're in the tribe of Judah and so out of
- 23:2312 tribes you got a 1 in 12 chance of your tribe
- 23:26being taken and you see that tribe taken. Apparently
- 23:30they're casting lots or something. And so the
- 23:33tribe of Judah was taken. He brought the clan
- 23:35of Judah and he took the family of the Zorahites.
- 23:38Now I haven't gone through and looked at how
- 23:40many clans there were in Judah, but what you're
- 23:42talking about is families there. There's a whole
- 23:44bunch of them. And so now the statistics are
- 23:46getting more intense. It's way better than 1
- 23:48in 12 at this point. So the family of the Tsarites
- 23:51are taken, and he brought the family of the Tsarites
- 23:54man by man, and Zabdi was taken. And then he
- 23:58brought his household man by man, and Achan,
- 24:01the son of Cormie, the son of Zabdi. You've been
- 24:05listening to Crosswalk with Pastor Steve Winnery.
- 24:07Crosswalk is the radio ministry of Cowrie Chapel
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