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By Faith The Walls Fall · 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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  By faith, the walls fall. Today as we journey through the scriptures,
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  seeking wisdom from God's Word,
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  we are beginning our study in Joshua 6, 1-27 to learn lessons regarding God's
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  grace in our salvation as depicted in the utter destruction of Jericho.
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  This account of scripture vividly demonstrates the miraculous power and sovereignty
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  of God that faith in God unleashes.
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  The people of Israel had just crossed over the Jordan River into the land of
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  Canaan, Joshua 3, 14-17.
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  This was the land of milk and honey that God had promised to Abraham over 500
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  years earlier, Deuteronomy 6-3.
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  After spending 40 difficult years wandering in the desert of Sinai,
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  the people of Israel were now on the eastern banks of the Jordan,
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  facing yet another difficult challenge.
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  They were challenged with taking the land of Canaan, the promised land.
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  However, before they could do that, they had to overcome the difficult obstacle
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  of overcoming the city of Jericho, a seemingly unconquerable walled city.
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  Israel was standing before the city of Jericho, staring at a strongly fortified
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  city that by all human standards was impossible to conquer.
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  But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, With men this is impossible,
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  but with God all things are possible.
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  Matthew 19, 26 The gates to that city were shut due to the threat of Israel.
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  Yet God had declared that he had already given Jericho into the hands of Israel.
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  The Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho,
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  and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor, Joshua 6.2.
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  Clearly, the battle would be won, not by Israel's strength, but by Israel's
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  faith in God's word, his promise.
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  God's promise was greater than the problem before them.
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  However, this would require the Israelites to fully obey God's word and to act
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  through faith in ways that were illogical and to the human mind foolish.
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  Faith focuses on God's word. It doesn't deny the existence of obstacles.
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  Faith believes that God is greater than the obstacles.
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  Friend, you must filter every circumstance through God's promises rather than
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  filter God's promises through your circumstances.
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  God has given the Israelites a strategy to conquer Jericho that was unique in two ways.
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  First, the strategy was developed, planned, and laid out by God himself.
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  And secondly, the strategy had nothing to do with military might or strategy.
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  It was seemingly foolish.
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  God simply told Joshua to have his people, his warriors, to march silently,
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  march around Jericho for six days, and then on the seventh day,
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  after seven trips around the city, to blow their horns and shout.
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  When God has spoken, apparently impossibility does not cancel divine certainty.
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  For with God, nothing shall be impossible. Luke 1.37.
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  Joshua 6 and the falling of the walls of Jericho teaches us that there is a
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  vast difference between God's way and our way.
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  The walls of Jericho fell instantly. The walls collapsed by the sheer power of God.
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  God honored the obedience of the people of Israel. He commanded them to do what
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  must have seemed pointless to them, but they did it anyway.
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  There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways
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  of death, Proverbs 16, 25.
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  The people of Israel fully trusted God to keep his word, so they did what seemed
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  wrong in their eyes, fully believing that God knows best.
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  My friend, we need to learn to take God at His word, just as the Israelites
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  did when they were facing this humongous obstacle in their path.
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  We must never question God's purpose for our lives or His instructions.
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  God's methods may be unusual, but they are always trustworthy and best.
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  Friends, Hebrews 10.23 tells us, Let us hold fast the profession of our faith
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  without wavering, for he is faithful that promised.
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  These are words to live by and truths to heed.
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  Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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