Latest / Crosswalk / The Battle Is Already Won — Joshua 6:1–9
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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. All right, Joshua chapter six
- 0:47is where we're at. We're gonna do the battle
- 0:49of Jericho. You guys know the song? Joshua fought
- 0:58the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho. Who
- 1:03fought the battle of Jericho? It wasn't Joshua.
- 1:08That's what we're gonna find out as we go through
- 1:10this. Let's pray before we start. Again, Lord,
- 1:14we thank you for your word. Thank you for powerful
- 1:17men of God, people who walked in obedience to
- 1:21you and looked to you in faith, just trusting
- 1:25that you would be with them, that you would work
- 1:27through them. And Joshua is a great picture of
- 1:30that as we go through these passages. You don't
- 1:32see him making missteps when he's following after
- 1:35you. And Lord, we pray that you'd help us to
- 1:38have the same kind of heart, where we listen
- 1:40up to you, we get the battle plans from you,
- 1:42we understand what your will is in a situation,
- 1:45and we go out and perform those things. And so,
- 1:47God, as we're looking at this passage, we pray
- 1:49that you'd be speaking to our hearts and that
- 1:51you bless the time in your word and ask that
- 1:53you do this in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, chapter
- 1:57six, it says, now Jericho was securely shut up
- 2:00because of the children of Israel. None went
- 2:02out and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua,
- 2:05see, I've given Jericho into your hand. It's
- 2:08king and the mighty man of valor. You shall march
- 2:11around the city. All you men of war, you shall
- 2:14go all around the city once. This you shall do
- 2:17six days." Okay, so you can see that what's happening
- 2:21here is there's a quote, verse two. The Lord
- 2:24said to Joshua, and so when did the Lord have
- 2:28this conversation with Joshua? And one of the
- 2:32things that you have again in the Bible is a
- 2:34situation where we have chapter divisions, and
- 2:37those are good for being able to find verses,
- 2:39but they're bad sometimes for the narrative of
- 2:42the story. And so in this narrative of the passage,
- 2:47Joshua is talking to somebody and he's identified
- 2:50as being Jehovah, verse 2, see the L caps there?
- 2:54L -O -R -D. That means that's what's called the
- 2:57Tetragrammaton. That's the four letter name of
- 3:00God. And if you bring it across from Hebrew into
- 3:04English, it's Y -H -W -H. And that's where we
- 3:07get the term Yahweh. Jehovah comes from that.
- 3:11When you've seen the term Jehovah in your old
- 3:12King James version, for example. And the way
- 3:15that they did that was it went from Hebrew into
- 3:20Latinized English, basically. J used to be the
- 3:23Y sound. And so it would have been Jehovah. And
- 3:27V and W were synonymous in early English. And
- 3:33so what they did was they took the Tetragrammaton.
- 3:36And so it would be J -H -V -H. Problem there
- 3:40is there's no J in Hebrew. It's always a Y sound.
- 3:43But again. Latinized English, it was a white
- 3:45sound too. It's just not in our style of English.
- 3:49They took the four letters of the Tetragrammaton
- 3:51and then they took the term Adonai, and that's
- 3:54another Hebrew term for Lord in the Old Testament,
- 3:58and they took the vowels from that and put them
- 4:00in between the consonants of the Y -H -V -H or
- 4:04the Y -H -W -H. And that's where you get the
- 4:07name Jehovah. There's not actually a name Jehovah
- 4:10in the Bible. that just kind of made that thing
- 4:12up because we didn't know how to pronounce it.
- 4:15And so most likely, it's Yahweh. And we don't
- 4:18know that for sure. It could be yo -wo. It could
- 4:21be, because these are consonants, right? But
- 4:24most likely it's Yahweh, and that's the name
- 4:26for the Lord. So when did Joshua start this conversation
- 4:30with the Lord? You could see in the previous
- 4:31chapter, we already went through this, but if
- 4:34you look up in verse 13 of chapter five, it says,
- 4:37and it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho
- 4:40that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold,
- 4:43a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn
- 4:45in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said
- 4:48to him, are you for us or for our adversaries?
- 4:51So he said, no. I like that. Just no. But as
- 4:57commander of the army of the Lord, I have now
- 4:59come. I'm not for you. I'm not for your adversaries.
- 5:02That's not the way this works. I've come as commander
- 5:06of the army of the Lord. And Joshua fell on his
- 5:09face to the earth and worshiped and said to him,
- 5:11what does my Lord say to his servant? Then the
- 5:13commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua,
- 5:15take your sandal off your foot for the place
- 5:17where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so. Now
- 5:21Jericho was securely shut up because of the children
- 5:24of Israel. None went out. None came in. And the
- 5:26Lord said to Joshua, see, I've given Jericho
- 5:29into your hand. And he's pointing because they're
- 5:33outside of Jericho. Joshua is looking at the
- 5:35city. And so this is a conversation. He's having
- 5:39with the commander of the army of the Lord in
- 5:42the passage. And so again, it identifies him
- 5:45as being Jehovah. And so we have an on earth
- 5:48appearance of Jehovah to Joshua in this situation.
- 5:52And it's coincidental with the appearance of
- 5:56God to Moses in the burning bush passage. Do
- 5:59you remember what God said to Moses when he came
- 6:01upon the burning bush? Yeah, take your sandals
- 6:04off your feet for the ground that you stand on
- 6:06is holy. And so we have exactly the same thing
- 6:09going on, only in this instance, it's not a burning
- 6:11bush, it's the commander of the Lord's armies
- 6:14that is standing in front of him. And I imagine
- 6:17that he's dressed in armed regalia at this point.
- 6:22Don't know it for sure, but he's probably dressed
- 6:24as a soldier at this point. And so in the Old
- 6:28Testament, when you have an appearance of God,
- 6:30who is it? It's Jesus. because in the New Testament,
- 6:34John chapter 1 verse 18, it says no man has seen
- 6:37God at any time. The only begotten son who's
- 6:40in the bosom of the Father, he has revealed him.
- 6:43And so what that passage is saying is that every
- 6:45appearance of God in the Old Testament is actually
- 6:48an appearance of Christ. It's always been Jesus's
- 6:50job to reveal the Father. And so while he was
- 6:53here on the earth in the gospel times, that's
- 6:57exactly what he was doing. He was revealing the
- 6:59Father. Thomas at one point said, Lord show us
- 7:02the Father and it'll suffice us. Oh, you know
- 7:04what, I think that was Philip. It was Thomas
- 7:06or Philip, I can't remember which one. They were
- 7:09always saying something. And show us the Father
- 7:11and the Lord says, how long have I been with
- 7:14you and you have not known me? He who has seen
- 7:17me has seen the Father. And so Jesus is always
- 7:20the revealer. the father and that's the situation
- 7:24that you have here and so the Lord comes down
- 7:26and this is Jesus telling Joshua the battle plan
- 7:30for taking the city of Jericho in this passage
- 7:33and again you have that. Another thing that you
- 7:36have with this is this is another one of those
- 7:38indications that you have a Trinity in the Old
- 7:41Testament because he says I've come as the commander
- 7:43of the army of the Lord and it looks like he's
- 7:46placing the Lord outside himself in this instance
- 7:49because if I'm the commander of the Lord's army
- 7:51He doesn't say to him, I'm just the Lord. He
- 7:53says, I'm the commander of the Lord's army. But
- 7:55then later on, it calls him the Lord. And so
- 7:58many times when you have an appearance of Christ
- 8:00in the Old Testament, he's identified as being
- 8:03Jehovah, and yet he's talking to Jehovah. Or
- 8:06he's identified as being Jehovah. And sometimes,
- 8:08actually, there's a passage at the point where
- 8:11Sodom and Gomorrah is destroyed. And it says,
- 8:14Jehovah comes down and meets with Abram. and
- 8:19they have a talk about what's gonna happen with
- 8:21Sodom and Gomorrah, then two angels go into Sodom
- 8:24and Gomorrah and take Lot and his family out,
- 8:28and then it says, and the Lord rained down fire
- 8:33and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven. And
- 8:37so we got the Lord in two places at that point.
- 8:40One is on earth, raining down fire and brimstone,
- 8:43the other one's in heaven, sending down fire
- 8:45and brimstone. And that's an indication of the
- 8:48plurality of the Godhead. That's a fancy term
- 8:51for there's a Father, there's a Son, there's
- 8:53a Holy Spirit, and they are all the one God.
- 8:55That's what God is. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- 8:59This is another one of those indications. You
- 9:01see them routinely throughout the Old Testament.
- 9:03Just want to throw that in there for you. And
- 9:05so when Joshua appears before the Lord actually,
- 9:10commander of the Lord's army comes and appears
- 9:12to Joshua, he tells him to get his sandals off
- 9:14his feet because the ground he stands on is holy,
- 9:17and then he gives him the battle plan. I think
- 9:19that what Joshua was doing was going out and
- 9:21praying. I think he knows he's about to send
- 9:24his men into battle the next day. He has to go
- 9:28and take Jericho because it's what God has ordained.
- 9:31He's supposed to be going in and fighting these
- 9:33battles, and so he's going out and spending time
- 9:35in prayer, and then the Lord shows up. And he
- 9:39doesn't recognize him as being the Lord, but
- 9:41he makes it clear really quickly that that's
- 9:43exactly what's going on. God kind of puts him
- 9:47in his place in the sense that, you know, Joshua's
- 9:50the general and he's like friend or foe? Are
- 9:52you for us or are you against us? And the Lord
- 9:54says, no, that's not the question. It's, are
- 9:57you for me or against me? It's that kind of idea
- 10:00there. It's not, is God on my side? It's, am
- 10:04I on his side? And again, Joshua wants to know.
- 10:08And so the Lord shows up to tell him what to
- 10:12do with Jericho. And I think that's cool about
- 10:16Joshua. I think that's cool about the Lord, because
- 10:18every time I want to know something, if I'm going
- 10:21to the Lord, I can expect that he's going to
- 10:23answer me. But the other thing that he's going
- 10:26to do is, again, put me in my place, right? So
- 10:29I'm the one who's in charge, not you, Steve.
- 10:32And the ground where you're standing, whenever
- 10:34you're talking to me, is holy. Get your sandals
- 10:38off. It's holy. And I think that sometimes when
- 10:42we... Approach God and we're not getting answers.
- 10:45It may be because of attitude That God's got
- 10:48to deal with my nonsense before he can ever get
- 10:51through to my intellect Because there's a lot
- 10:54of times when I'm just having a pity party or
- 10:56there's a lot of times when I'm just having an
- 10:58attitude Why aren't you doing the things that
- 11:00I want you to do? You promised me, you know some
- 11:01of the stuff that we talked about with Abraham
- 11:04and Sarah this morning That kind of thing and
- 11:06God's dealing with that stuff and we need to
- 11:08understand that when we come before the God of
- 11:10the universe We're on holy ground And we're dealing
- 11:13with our Father. He is our Father, but He's our
- 11:16Father who's in heaven. And so act accordingly
- 11:18with that whole thing. And when I come to the
- 11:21Lord and I'm in submission to Him and I recognize
- 11:23that He's the one in charge, I can say anything
- 11:25that I want to God. I'm not saying that you can't
- 11:27do that. But I do keep my foot when I enter the
- 11:30house of God, as it says in Ecclesiastes. And
- 11:33so on the one hand, I'm sharing my heart with
- 11:35the Lord. On the other hand, I know that I don't
- 11:37know what I'm talking about. I'm just sitting
- 11:39here on this planet and I am so confined in my
- 11:41flesh and the only vision that I have that I
- 11:45can't know the future, I can't know the plans
- 11:47of God, I can't understand all those things,
- 11:50they're gonna have to be revealed to me. So somebody
- 11:52has to be higher than me, basically, is the point
- 11:54that I'm making. And that's the point that the
- 11:58Lord makes. to Joshua in this passage, I think
- 12:00that if Christians would take their shoes off
- 12:03when they approach God, that they get a lot more
- 12:06answers to prayer. And I mean that figuratively,
- 12:08right? And I'm not saying, you know, every time
- 12:10you pray, you kick your shoes off. I mean, you
- 12:12can if you want, but that's not what I'm saying.
- 12:15I'm just saying you have respect, you have an
- 12:17understanding of who you're dealing with, you
- 12:19have a submission to his will. If God's constantly
- 12:22fighting you, about your attitude when you approach
- 12:25him, you're not gonna get much else done except
- 12:28for the fight at that point. But if I can come
- 12:31to the Lord in submission just going, God, whatever
- 12:33you want, I just wanna know what it is. You're
- 12:37going to get answers a whole lot more quickly
- 12:41than if you come. with another kind of attitude.
- 12:44And again, I think I'm preaching to the choir.
- 12:45I don't think that you guys are like that. But
- 12:47it's again something to keep in mind. Sometimes
- 12:51our emotions can overwhelm our manners. So the
- 13:00Lord shows up. Joshua's obviously going out on
- 13:03his own. Looks like to me that he was going out
- 13:05to pray about this stuff and to think about what
- 13:08was going to happen in the battle. Jesus shows
- 13:11up and he gives him the battle plan and again
- 13:14in verse 2 That's where we're at and the Lord
- 13:15said to Joshua see I've given Jericho in your
- 13:18hand It's King the mighty men of valor and that's
- 13:22it. I've done it and Jesus is the one who hands
- 13:28him Jericho it's going to happen and That's the
- 13:33way it's gonna be Because God's ordained it That's
- 13:37the first point that he makes there. That's what's
- 13:39gonna happen because God's ordained it. You're
- 13:42getting Jericho. You're going to get the king.
- 13:45And then he tells him what he needs to do, right?
- 13:48And so, you know, when I look at the way that
- 13:51God works in our lives, one of the things that
- 13:53I understand is God has certain issues that he's
- 13:57going to take care of in my life, and I am always
- 14:01going to win. I'm always going to win. So I always
- 14:07have the victory in areas. So does God want me
- 14:11living according to the flesh? No. So what's
- 14:15his will? His will is that I don't live according
- 14:18to the flesh, right? Now is that always gonna
- 14:20happen? And the answer to that is no. There are
- 14:23gonna be times when I do live according to the
- 14:26flesh. Is that God's fault? No. Whose fault is
- 14:30it? Yeah, it's mine. It's my fault. Because I've
- 14:34got the power, I've got the position, I've got
- 14:38the possession of the Holy Spirit in my life.
- 14:41I get to win every single time if I want to,
- 14:44and all I gotta do is go through the motions.
- 14:47All I gotta do is do the things that God's called
- 14:49me to. And so in the battle of the spirit versus
- 14:52the flesh, the Bible talks about the fact that
- 14:54you put away the old man, put off the old man
- 14:56who's corrupt and all that stuff, and then you
- 14:58put on the new man. And so putting away lying,
- 15:01you speak the truth to your neighbor. If you're
- 15:03a thief, stop thieving, get a job, give. And
- 15:06you know, God lays out battle plans. for me to
- 15:09conquer in my life, and that's exactly what God
- 15:11does with Joshua. The battle's already been won,
- 15:14it's already been done, all you gotta do is go
- 15:16through the motions. And the motions are gonna
- 15:18be, you know, you know the story, I tell it all
- 15:20the time. The motions are gonna be, you're gonna
- 15:22be walking around Jericho, and we'll read about
- 15:24that. But it's exactly the same thing in our
- 15:26lives. And a lot of times, we get overwhelmed
- 15:28by the circumstances, we get overwhelmed by our
- 15:30feelings, and we end up not following through
- 15:32on the things that God's caught us to, and we
- 15:34end up losing. I hate to lose, I hate losing.
- 15:37You know, and everything to me is a sports illustration.
- 15:41And so my coaches, you know, there would be times
- 15:43I was a lineman in high school, and there would
- 15:45be times when I would get creamed by the guy
- 15:47on the other side. I had the benefit of in practice,
- 15:52I always, I was a defensive end, and I went out
- 15:54the, we had a 4 -3, and you don't care. That
- 16:00was a defensive end, and I went up against a
- 16:02tackle on the other side. The tackle on the other
- 16:04side was all league, all county, all CIF. That
- 16:08was like all state down in Southern California.
- 16:12And so that's the guy I practiced against. And
- 16:14so every day at practice, I'm going up against
- 16:17him, trying to get around him. And so when I
- 16:19got into a game, it was just easy, you know,
- 16:22when I got in the game, because I practiced so
- 16:25hard against one of the best guys in the state.
- 16:28on that whole thing. And so when I would lose,
- 16:32my coaches would watch me, and usually it was
- 16:35a technique issue. Usually it was I was standing
- 16:38up too tall, I needed to get lower, I needed
- 16:41to drive with my legs, and it wasn't all this
- 16:43hard stuff, it was just pretty straightforward
- 16:45stuff, and all I had to do was make sure that
- 16:48I was doing it correctly. If I'm trying to get
- 16:50around them, I lean into them and... You don't
- 16:53curl around the guy and, you know, sometimes
- 16:55spin and that kind of stuff. They gave me a few
- 16:56techniques and then I would win. When I didn't
- 16:59win, they would go back to technique. They wouldn't
- 17:01say, oh, he's just too big or he's just too good
- 17:04or, you know, they wouldn't do that stuff. They
- 17:07would give me instruction on what needed to be
- 17:10going on. And it's exactly the same thing in
- 17:11the Bible. And it's not that you're doing this
- 17:13stuff on your own. It's just a matter of you
- 17:15got to show up. And there's a few things that
- 17:18need to happen. And if you'll show up and these
- 17:21few things happen, like I turn away from the
- 17:23flesh and I turn towards the things of the spirit,
- 17:26I stop looking at pornos and I start reading
- 17:28my Bible, my life will be different if I do these
- 17:32things. And if I don't, then my life won't and
- 17:35I can whine about it all day long, and I'm just
- 17:37a loser. And the reason I'm losing is because
- 17:40I refuse to go in the direction that God tells
- 17:43me to go. So the battle's won, there's just certain
- 17:46things that need to happen to... Get the fruit
- 17:49of the battle and again the things that God is
- 17:52gonna tell him to do are ridiculously easy so
- 17:55he says Again verse 2 see I have given Jericho
- 17:59into your hand It's king and the mighty men of
- 18:01valor you shall march around the city all you
- 18:04men of war and you shall go all around the city
- 18:06once This you shall do for six days. How many
- 18:09days in a week and one of those days is the Sabbath
- 18:14day. Okay, so watch out for this and seven priests
- 18:19shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before
- 18:22the ark. But the seventh day, and that's probably
- 18:25talking about the Sabbath day, but the seventh
- 18:28day you shall march around the city seven times
- 18:30and the priest shall blow the trumpets. Are you
- 18:33supposed to be marching on the Sabbath day? Nope.
- 18:36God gets to break his own rules, doesn't he?
- 18:39He definitely does it in the Old Testament. He
- 18:41definitely does it in this passage right here.
- 18:44And so whether you want to make the Sabbath day
- 18:46one of the previous six days or whether you want
- 18:48to make the seventh day as it says in this passage,
- 18:51either way the Sabbath day was broken because
- 18:54they were out marching on the Sabbath. It shall
- 18:56come to pass when they make a long blast with
- 18:59the ram's horn and when you hear the sound of
- 19:01the trumpet that all the people shall shout with
- 19:03a great shout, then the wall of the city will
- 19:06fall down flat. and the people shall go up every
- 19:09man straight before him. Then Joshua the son
- 19:11of Nun called the priests and said to them, take
- 19:13up the Ark of the Covenant and let seven priests
- 19:16bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the
- 19:18Ark of the Lord. And he said to the people, proceed
- 19:21and march around the city and let him who is
- 19:23armed advance before the Ark of the Lord. Here's
- 19:26another thing that you have. Was the Ark of the
- 19:28Covenant supposed to go into battle? Do you know?
- 19:33The answer is no, it was never supposed to go
- 19:36into battle. And so again, God's breaking his
- 19:38own rules. Don't take the Ark of the Covenant
- 19:40into battle. The Ark of the Covenant stays in
- 19:43the tabernacle. The one other time that you see
- 19:46the Ark of the Covenant going into battle, it's
- 19:48with the sons of Eli. And they pull the Ark of
- 19:52the Covenant out because they're afraid they're
- 19:54going to lose to the Philistines. And that's
- 19:56exactly what happens. They lose to the Philistines.
- 19:58The Ark of the Covenant is captured. It goes
- 20:00to Dagon's temple. And then there's a whole interesting
- 20:02thing that happens there with the Lord in Dagon.
- 20:05It's really funny. and then they send the ark
- 20:08back with a box of golden hemorrhoids. No joke,
- 20:14that's exactly what they do. They send the ark
- 20:16back with a box of golden hemorrhoids and it
- 20:18comes back into Israel. Anyway, it wasn't a good
- 20:22thing. And so the ark wasn't supposed to go to
- 20:24war. Also, it talks about the priests, the seven
- 20:27priests, what tribe do they come from? Levi,
- 20:31and the Levites weren't go to war either. Numbers
- 20:34chapter 10. So the Leviants weren't supposed
- 20:36to go to war, the ark was not supposed to be
- 20:38used in battle, and you're supposed to keep the
- 20:40Sabbath day. And all three of those are broken
- 20:43in the battle of Jericho. And again, it's because
- 20:46God's allowed to change the rules. Jericho is,
- 20:50in the Bible, a type of rest. It's the idea that
- 20:53God is going to fight the battle for you. And
- 20:55again, the whole point that I was making earlier,
- 20:57all you gotta do is show up. Jesus at one point
- 21:00said, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath
- 21:03day? and he was about to heal a guy. And he was
- 21:06making the point to the people that were watching
- 21:08him that they were hard -hearted and they were
- 21:11putting a day above a man who was afflicted,
- 21:15and it wasn't a good thing. In fact, the Bible
- 21:17says he looked at them with anger when he was
- 21:20saying these things. In any case, it goes on.
- 21:23So the Lord gives him the battle plan, and then
- 21:26Joshua goes and tells the guys the battle plan.
- 21:29And he said to the people, proceed and march
- 21:31around the city and let him who is armed advance
- 21:34before the ark of the Lord. So it was when Joshua
- 21:36had spoken to the people that the seven priests
- 21:38bearing the seven trumpets of ram's horns before
- 21:42the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets and the
- 21:46ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
- 21:48The armed men went before the priests who blew
- 21:50the trumpets and the rear guard came after the
- 21:53ark. while the priests continue blowing the trumpets.
- 21:55Now Joshua commanded the people saying, you shall
- 21:58not shout or make any noise with your voice,
- 22:00nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth until
- 22:03the day I say to you, shout, then you shall shout.
- 22:07And apparently what Joshua is doing is again
- 22:09giving these guys commands as they go. Remember
- 22:13when they were gonna cross the Jordan River,
- 22:14he did exactly the same thing. God told him at
- 22:18each point what to do. And God's already told
- 22:20him the outlines of this whole thing. But he's
- 22:23giving these people commands. And one of the
- 22:25things that these people had said was, we're
- 22:27going to do whatever you do or whatever you tell
- 22:29us to. And this is another example where these
- 22:32guys were actually faithful to do it. Totally
- 22:35different than their parents. Totally different.
- 22:38because their parents in the wilderness failed
- 22:40to do anything that God told them to do and were
- 22:42always griping and complaining about stuff. These
- 22:45guys are going into the land and they're willing
- 22:48to do the things that Joshua has told them. They've
- 22:50already done silly things in going through the
- 22:53Jordan River and seen God do miracles in that
- 22:55situation. And so here they are once again going,
- 22:58okay, okay, we'll do that. And so it goes on
- 23:02and says again, Verse 14 of the second day they
- 23:06marched around the city once and returned to
- 23:08the camp so they did six days But it came to
- 23:11pass on the seventh day that they rose early
- 23:13About the dawning of the day and marched around
- 23:16the city seven times in the same manner on that
- 23:20day only They marched around the city seven times
- 23:24and the seventh time it happened when the priests
- 23:26blew the trumpets The Joshua said to the people
- 23:29shout for the Lord has given you the city Now
- 23:32the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction,
- 23:35it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot
- 23:39shall live. She and all who are with her in the
- 23:41house because she hid the messengers that we
- 23:44sent. And you by all means abstain from the accursed
- 23:48things. Lest you become accursed when you take
- 23:52of the accursed things and make the camp of Israel
- 23:55accursed and trouble it. All the silver and gold
- 23:59and vessels of bronze and iron are consecrated
- 24:02to the Lord. You've been listening to Crosswalk
- 24:06with Pastor Steve Winnery. Crosswalk is the radio
- 24:08ministry of Calvary Chapel Tri -Cities in Kennewick,
- 24:11Washington. If you're wanting to know more about
- 24:13what it means to follow Christ, then please contact
- 24:15our church office by phone at 509 -736 -2086.
- 24:21You can also look us up online at calvary -tricities
- 24:24.org. Calvary Chapel Tri -Cities is offering
- 24:27two in -person training courses for those seeking
- 24:30to serve in missions or ministry. The School
- 24:33of Missions starts with 12 weeks of classroom
- 24:35-style learning and local outreach in the Tri
- 24:37-Cities, Washington, followed by a 10 -week cross
- 24:40-cultural mission outreach. The School of Ministry,
- 24:43this course is 18 weeks of in -person learning
- 24:45environment followed by a four -week mission
- 24:48trip. Find out more at calvarytrainingcenternw
- 24:51.com.