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Joshua 1:1

What a lovely example of a servant of the Lord Joshua proved to be. He was one of two adults who did not dishonour the Lord in the wilderness wanderings through murmuring and unbelief. He was also one of twelve agents sent to spy out the land of Canaan, but only Joshua and Caleb gave a faithful report that the land was a good land and that God was well able to deliver it into their hands.

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Joshua 1:2

Moses was the man God chose to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt and into Canaan. For four hundred years the Israelites had dwelled in the land of Egypt, but over time they became an enslaved people. However, God remembered the promise He made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; that He would give them the land of Canaan and make them into a great nation through whom all the families of the earth would be blessed.

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Joshua 1:5

This verse tells us of the encouraging promise that God gave to Joshua when he led the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt and into the Promised Land. This precious promise is no less true for God's people today who have been rescued from slavery to sin and subjection to Satan, than it was for His people who were in servitude to Pharaoh and slaves in the land of Egypt, and it all comes down to a matter of faith in God's promises - of trusting His Word - of read more...

Joshua 1:8

All Scripture is the Word of God, and Joshua was an example of a godly man who both believed God's Word and acted upon it. Joshua knew the value of hearing God's Word and meditating upon it. He knew that neglecting the Word of the Lord was a recipe for disaster and like Mary of Bethany, he learned the one thing that was needful, to listen to the voice of the Lord and to meditate upon all that He has said day and night. And like them, we too need to ponder it in our read more...

Joshua 1:9

The commands of the Lord are not difficult or tedious to those that trust in the Word of the Lord. The instructions from God are not impossible or unrealistic to those that are called by His name. Joshua was commanded to be strong and courageous. He was to draw his strength from the Lord God and was not to be dependent on his own brains or brawn. Had Joshua or the people of Israel sought to conquer the Promised Land by means of their own courage and strength, read more...

Joshua 1:11

Joshua was given the daunting task of leading the children of Israel into the Promised Land. For forty years, he witnessed the rebellious unbelief of an entire generation, all of whom had been buried in the wilderness - with the exception of himself and Caleb who trusted the Lord.

He was tasked with bringing the second generation of Israelites into the land which was promised to Abraham as an everlasting possession. But Joshua's read more...

Joshua 2:1

In Joshua chapter 1, we find Israel preparing to cross the Jordan and enter the Promised Land. We hear how Joshua was charged by God to lead the children of Israel into the land that was promised to their forefathers, while the people received their instructions from Joshua, their newly appointed leader.

The Lord gave Joshua some valuable spiritual principles to ensure his success over all his adversaries, principles all God's read more...

Joshua 2:6

The two men who were sent by Joshua to scout out the land of Canaan, were instructed to focus their mission on a secret survey of Jericho, the strongly fortified gateway city into the Promised Land. Arriving at the city at dusk, the two spies went to the house of a prostitute named Rahab. This inn for travellers was built into the city wall.

The two Israelite spies were observed entering the house, and the king was immediately read more...

Joshua 2:18

Rahab, the prostitute, secretly hid the two men that were sent to spy out the city of Jericho. She concealed them from the authorities in some stalks of flax on her roof and when questioned, told the guards they had already left the city. Hearing they had fled before nightfall, the king's men pursued them.

Rahab set about planning an escape-route for the spies and informed them that the king and citizens of Jericho were panicking. read more...

Joshua 2:21

The two spies sent to explore the land had entered Jericho and been hidden by a woman, named Rahab. As an inn-keeper and prostitute, their visit to her house would not excite the interest of her neighbours. However, they brought an offer of salvation to a sinner and her family, if they chose to trust in the God of Israel.

Rahab was a pagan living in spiritual darkness, in an idolatrous city, in the promised land of Canaan. read more...

Joshua 3:5

For 40 years the children of Israel had wandered in the wilderness instead of entering the promised land, due to their lack of faith. They were saved from Egypt, but because of unbelief, they lived a defeated life and failed to enter their promised rest. Despite their redemption, they failed to live a sanctified life. A whole generation died and was buried in the wilderness, but another was waiting, expectantly, to enter the promised land.

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Joshua 3:8

Joshua and Caleb were the only two who escaped Egyptian slavery and passed through the Red Sea... who would finally cross the River Jordan, into the promised land. 40 years had passed, since that eventful day, when the lambs were slain in Egypt, the angel of death passed over, and the people were redeemed. Moses had reminded a new generation of Israelites, of the covenant God made with His people, and their duty towards the Lord. Finally, just before his death, read more...

Joshua 5:13

Joshua was one of 2 people who did not die in the wilderness following Israel's escape from Egypt, because he was faithful and trusted the Word of the Lord. Having been appointed to lead God's people into the Promised Land, we find Joshua preparing for the task ahead, for the nation was to go and claim the land promised to their forefathers.

God instructed his servant to be strong and very courageous. He promised that just as He read more...

Joshua 5:14

A new generation of Israelites had grown up during their wilderness wanderings who had not been circumcised. But having passed through the River Jordan, they gladly renewed their covenant relationship with the Lord at Gilgal. Every male was circumcised, God's reproach was lifted from them, and at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month, the entire nation celebrated the Passover with unleavened bread and parched grain.

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Joshua 6:5

Soon after their supernatural redemption from Egypt on Passover night, the Israelites were to enter the Promised Land. However, rumours of giants, fear of the enemies, a lack of trust in God's promise to deliver the land into their hands, and a very short memory, caused a whole generation of redeemed Israelites to die in the desert. With murmuring mouths and unbelieving hearts, they wandered in the wilderness for forty years, without receiving all that had been read more...

Joshua 10:12

Joshua was the man whom God chose to lead His people across the Jordan and into the Promised Land. But the land of Canaan was filled with groups of Canaanites who had to be conquered.

The land was filled with cities that had to be defeated... and their indigenous kings united against the Israelite army who had come to challenge their authority and claim the land which God had promised to Abraham, as an everlasting covenant.

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Joshua 23:14

Only two people out of the multitude of Israelites whom Moses led out of Egypt after that first Passover meal, entered the Promised Land. Only two did not rebel against the Lord and die during the Israelite's 40 year-long trek through the wilderness. Joshua was one such person, and he was the man whom God chose to lead His people into the Promised Land of Canaan.

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Joshua 24:14

Joshua led the children of Israel across the Jordan and into the Promised Land to take up their promised inheritance. And as Joshua's death drew ever closer, he gave a farewell speech to the nation which had been chosen by God to be a holy nation unto the Lord and a peculiar people unto Himself. Joshua rehearsed his final instructions in the ears of a nation that was to frequently and repeatedly do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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Joshua 24:15

The most important life-choice anyone will ever make is their response to this fundamental question: "Choose today, Who you are going to serve." Will you serve God or Satan, the spirit or the flesh, light or darkness, life or death, faith or fear, the truth or the lie, for its answer has both temporal considerations and eternal consequences.

Belief in the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's read more...