Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

The people of God were defeated at AI, when they tried to go to battle in that particular place.

They were defeated. Why? Because they had sinned against God and God was not with them.

God had not promised to give them that land. Now, as a result of what happened in the last part of

Joshua chapter 7 and judgment toward Aiken in his sin, now God says to Joshua,

don't be afraid, don't be dismayed, go up to AI, and I will give it into your hands.

And the lesson is crystal clear when you put Joshua chapter 7 and 8 together.

When God is not for you, then you have no hope.

But when God is for you, then you have all hope. That's just simple, significant truth that we

see echoed all throughout the Bible. If God is not for you, then you have no hope.

But if God is for you, then you have all hope. The point is, put your hope in God.

Put your trust in God, seek God, honor God, glorify God. This is your hope in this life.

Nothing else, like you can face the biggest challenge in the world. With God, you have no reason to fear.

Without God, you have every reason to fear. This is Romans chapter 8. This is the gospel.

If God is for us, who can be against us? He did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all.

He not also along with him graciously give us all things. Who will bring any charge against those

whom God has chosen? It's God who justifies. Who is He that condemns? Christ Jesus who died.

More than that, who has raised a life, is at the right hand of God, inner seeding for us.

This is the gospel for all who have trusted in Jesus. You're a child of God. Jesus is at the

Father's right hand right now, inner seeding for you. And nothing can separate you from his love.

That's Romans 8, 38 and 39. Neither death nor life, nor angels, nor demons, nor the present,

nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else, and all creation

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