JOSHUA
LESSON #11
JOSHUA 10:15-43
LESSON #11
OVERCOME BY NOT LEAVING ANY ENEMY BEHIND TO HAUNT YOU
MEMORY VERSE: EPHESIANS 6:12-13
READ JOS 10:15-28
THE FIVE KINGS AND THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN:
A CONFEDERATION OF FIVE AMORITE CITY-STATES (JERUSALEM, HEBRON, JARMUTH, LACHISH, AND EGLON) HAD FORMED TO OPPOSE THE ISRAELITES. THE CONFEDERATION WAS DOMINATED BY THE KING OF JERUSALEM. THEY WERE UPSET AT THE GIBEONITES FOR DEFECTING TO THE ENEMY. THE CITY-STATES DECIDED TO ATTACK THE GIBEONITES TO TEACH A LESSON AND SET AN EXAMPLE TO OTHER POSSIBLE DEFECTORS.
VERSE 22 SPIRITUALLY TELLS US NOT TO LEAVE SIN IN THE CAVES TO LATER
HAUNT US.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THESE SINS HIDDEN IN THE CAVES OF OUR INNER MAN?
THEY ARE THE BATTLES OF OUR OWN PERSONALITY, SUCH AS:
ANGER, GREED, PRIDE, INSECURITY, LAZINESS, INSINCERITY, UNFAITHFULNESS, ETC.
PICK A PERSONALITY TRAIT TO WORK ON THIS WEEK USING 10:8, 14 AND 11:15
VERSE 24 "FEET UPON THE NECKS" = SYMBOL OF TOTAL VICTORY (SEE JOS 1:3)
VERSE 26 A PUBLIC TESTIMONY OF GOD'S VICTORY.
VERSE 27 THE FIFTH MEMORIAL OF STONES
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS NEW MEMORIAL OF STONES IN JOS 10:27 THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS?
MARK THE PLACE WHERE VICTORY RESULTS WHEN ONE IS FAITHFUL TO COMMITMENTS AND BELIEVERS DO BATTLE TOGETHER AGAINST THE ENEMY.
MARK THIS IN YOUR OWN LIFE
READ JOS 10:29-43
THE SOUTHERN BATTLE :
FROM MAKKEDAH TO LIBNAH, TO LACHISH, TO GEZER, TO EGLON, TO HEBRON, TO DEBIR. (IF YOU HAVE A BIBLE MAP YOU MAY WANT TO LOCATE THESE PLACES ON THE MAP.)
THEY HAD THE DIRECTION OF GOD FOR THE CAMPAIGN (SEE 10:8)
THE WHOLE SOUTHERN PORTION OF LAND WAS CONQUERED IN ONE CAMPAIGN BY BREAKING THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL STRENGTH OF THE ENEMY.
HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT TOTALLY OCCUPIED AT THIS TIME. (SEE VERSE 43)