1. Communication of message from God (vv. 1–13)
2. Communication of message lest they forget (vv. 14–15)
3. Communication of message to always choose (vv. 16–25)
4. Monument as witness to the words of God (vv. 26–27)

Take Home Points

• Never underestimate the value of a father’s decision to serve the Lord.
• Never assume that choosing to serve God is a once-in-a-lifetime choice.
• Never forget that your life is not about you—it’s about God.

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1. Communication of message from God (vv. 1–13)
2. Communication of message lest they forget (vv. 14–15)
3. Communication of message to always choose (vv. 16–25)
4. Monument as witness to the words of God (vv. 26–27)

Take Home Points

• What is your life about?
  • When you get up in the morning and think, “this is what I’m going to do”—recognize this as a sinful thought.
  • “What will God do through me today”—that is Biblical thought.
• Worship Him, then He gives you a purpose. He did it for Israel—He’ll do it for you.

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1. Accept no substitute for the love of the Lord. (vv. 1–8)
2. Allowing a substitute for the love of God brings devastation. (vv. 9–13)
3. Don’t dare substitute anything for the love of God. (vv. 14–16)

Take Home Points

• Real religion is not a matter of feeling leading to truth. Instead, it is truth that leads to feeling.
• The destruction of family values (leadership, understanding and teaching) will effectively weaken the believer’s influence on the world.

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1. Congenial parting (vv. 1–8)
2. Concientious precaution (vv. 9–10)
3. Concern producing action (vv. 11–12)
4. Cautious proceeding (vv. 13–30)
5. Calm peace (vv. 31–34)

Take Home Points

• Obedient unity as well as love must be our focus.
• Truth and love are met in God. (Psalm 85:10)
• Solving difficulties is accomplished best when two parties desire to promote obedient unity at the sacrifice of self.
• What will your zeal for God cause you to do?
  • The zeal for God caused them to build an altar.
  • The zeal for God caused soldiers to gather together and say, “We need to put aside error.”
  • The zeal for God caused them to send and find the real answer.
  • The zeal for God caused them to live in peace.

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Related Scripture:

1. Joshua 21:1–3
2. Exoudus 21:12–13
3. Numbers 35:6, 9–34
4. Deuteronomy 4:41–45
5. Deuteronomy 19:1–13
6. Hebrews 6:17–20

Take Home Points

• We as guilty sinners are to fly to refuge, to the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • He doesn’t bar the door or bar the gate.
  • He protects us from the avenger of death.
  • His blood covers our sin.
• It is upon the death of the High Priest—Jesus Christ—that our freedom is founded. We are released from that guilt that we so rightly deserve.
• When we as believers go out into a lost world, we have the message of a place of refuge.
  • We are supposed to be making sure that the path is clear.
  • We are supposed to put up signs, “This Way to Refuge.”
  • We are supposed to make sure that people know where they should go to find refuge from the guilt of their sin.
• When we are tempted to follow the moral relativism of this world, we have ignored that which fixes law. We should remember to value things through God’s eyes.

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1. Division according to God’s Word (Joshua 13:1–7)
2. Division by lot (Joshua 13:8–33, Joshua Chapters 14–18, Joshua 19:1–48)
3. Belated division by lot (Joshua 19:49–51)

Take Home Points

• Just as the people of Israel, we have a great inheritance. (Ephesians 1, Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 15)
• The people of Israel had a written Word of God which they considered binding. Do you consider the written Word of God as binding upon you and your life of faith, practice and belief?
• Joshua was still serving at the age of 90.—What’s your excuse?
• God didn’t only task the leaders—He tasked everyone.
• Do not look at what you don’t have, look at what you do have from God.
• Go out and possess your inheritance—serve and obey faithfully. Your inheritance from the Lord includes:
  • The fruit of the Spirit: love, joy and peace, and long-suffering—Know what it is to possess them and use them rightly.
  • Being invited into His presence in prayer at any time—At all times pray without ceasing.
  • The Word of God—Do you possess it? Do you know it?

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1. Caleb’s timber (vv. 6–8)
2. Caleb’s thirst (vv. 9–11)
3. Caleb’s faith (v. 12)
4. Caleb’s total surrender to God (vv. 13–15)

Take Home Points

• What characteristic has God been working out in your life?
• What is a long-standing prayer in your life?
• Do you know the difference between great giants and a little god, and a great God and little giants?

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1. Completion of the main battle for the south (vv. 10:16–27)
2. Success in the southern campaign (vv. 10:28–42)
3. Success in the northern campaign (vv. 11:1–15)
4. Review of the conquest of Canaan (vv. 11:16–23)
5. Tally of the victories (chapter 12)

Take Home Points

Joshua’s Qualities of Leadership

• Nothing distracted him from pursuing the fullest victory. Do not be distracted or disoriented, but keep your eyes on the chief task. (v. 10:19)
• He communicated what made him strong by taking every teaching opportunity. (v. 10:25)
• He pursued his goals step by step with forethought. (v. 11:23)
• He used his errors as learning moments. (v. 11:6)
• He believed God without reservation (vv. 1:6, 10:42, 11:6) despite knowing that he had enemies who were coming for him. (v. 11:20—a verse especially for those who think they know more about God than God does)
• He obeyed God completely (v. 11:15)—a worthy statement to be striven-for in each of our lives.

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1. Wild-eyed rage (vv. 1–5)
2. Worried plea (v. 6)
3. One night’s march (vv. 7–9)
4. Worried enemy (v. 10)
5. Wonders in the sky (vv. 11–15)

Take Home Points

• God is not restricted by the laws of nature.
• We do not need to "cover" for God—He needs no apology. He will have victory.
• Do not pray according to man’s natural laws, but according to God’s promises—but make sure they are relevant to the subject.
• Let God call you to that same sense of general-ship in your life:
  • Be faithful.
  • Be creative.
  • Take the initiative.
  • Trust & obey—no slacking, no shirking, no falling short of His commands.

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1. Senses: common and otherwise (v. 14)
   1. Living by sight produces an error.
   2. We are equipped with wisdom for the asking.
2. Surprises (vv. 16–23)
3. Sovereignty (vv. 24–27)

Take Home Points

• As the Gibeonites, though you are unworthy to live—count yourself privileged to serve in the courts of the Most High God.
• Recommit to being identified with His people and "stick by the stuff."
• Challenge your kids to move beyond the material realities (common, fleshy sense) to the other realities (good sense, moral sense, and spiritual sense).
• The higher in accumulated and observed wisdom we go, the further divorced from dependence on common, fleshy sense we are.

Special Notes

1 Corinthians 2:14 teaches:

• The natural man has a natural nature and natural actions.
• The spiritual man has a spiritual nature and spiritual actions.
• The carnal man has a spiritual nature and natural actions.

From this we recognize that there is a sliding scale to wisdom and sense.  The more "common" sense (sense shared in common), the more close fellowship which we can enjoy.  Babies start with the five senses shared in common with humanity—taste, touch, feel, see, hear.  This is common fleshy sense.  The parent’s role is to use this common fleshy sense to draw the child from fleshy sense reality to the realities which one cannot experience with fleshy sense.

Observe the following scale:

Fleshy Sense  —>  "Horse" Sense —>  Moral Sense  —>  Spiritual Sense.

Observations:

• Of course spiritual sense cannot be had without regeneration by the grace of God (1 Corinthians 2:14), but that does not keep us from pursuing a recognition of the reality of the spiritual when witnessing, even with our kids.
• You may experience common sense with someone else that only goes so far as fleshy sense (like your baby), but does not extend to horse sense realities (like how to do some task successfully or with wise application of knowledge).
• Babies must be raised to maturity to appreciate realities that you cannot see, but are enforced by realities that they have attained.  (Teach wisdom in horse sense and show the horse sense of valuing moral sense.)

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