{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Journaling: Joshua 6-9","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4263,"description":"God-ordained and effective strategies for defeating our enemies include: 1) psychological warfare (6:1-16 w/20; 4-5 -“march around the city…blow the trumpets” = Sign that battle is beginning; 10-11 – “you shall not shout or make your voice heard…spent the night in the camp” = Sign that they are withdrawing from battle; 14-16, 20 – “marched around the city once…so they did for six days…on the seventh day…they marched around the city seven times…And at the seventh time…the people shouted” = Jericho’s citizens were mentally frazzled and emotionally drained by the time “the wall fell down flat” making them an easy target), 2) subterfuge/military deception (8:1-22, 3-8).\n \nThe first of our success (given by God) is to be “devoted” (or given back to God) as “first-fruits” (6:1-2 w/17-21, 24; 2- “See I have given to you…” w/17 w/5:10 and Lev 23:5-11 = Feast of Firstfruits [day after the sabbath of Passover] – e.g. Sunday = The day/sabbath of Firstfruits in Christ – 1Co 15:20; e.g. first-fruits given back to God = our tithe – Num 18:12 w/21-32).\n \nWhen we take what God says is to be “devoted” to Him, we: 1) make the covenant community a “thing for destruction and bring trouble on it” (6:17-18), 2) lose the ability to be successful or overcome life’s obstacles (7:10-13; e.g. of devoted thing other than our tithe = Our sexual purity – 1Co 6:12-20).\n \nWhat God devotes to destruction can never be rebuilt/redeemed/ransomed/rekindled and will result in great personal penalty to those who try (6:18 w/26 w/1Ki 16:34; e.g. someone devoted to destruction today = The apostate and the wicked who fight against God’s people – Lev 27:28-29; Jer 7:16-29, 14:11-12 w/44:27; Isa 34:5).\n \nThe wicked of this world welcomed to God (versus being “devoted to destruction”) would include those who help His people (6:22-23, 25).\n \nThe only kind of “fame” we should pursue is the kind that comes when we are “very strong and courageous” to do exactly what God says (6:27).\n \nA good indicator that...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}