There's a suffocating weight to secret sin.

The constant fear of discovery, the sleepless nights, the slow erosion of peace.

Whether it's a financial indiscretion, a hidden addiction, or words spoken in betrayal,

unconfessed sin becomes a prison

of our own making. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reveals how one man's buried

secret triggered catastrophic consequences, and how swift confession could have changed everything.

But here's the hope that pulses through this sobering story. God stands

ready to forgive. Teaching from Joshua 7, Chuck titled his message, Aiken, the man

whose sin brought calamity.

The man at the top, Joshua, the commander-in-chief,

pours out his heart before the Lord because he has come upon a mystery.

Humanly inexplicable, unexplainable, totally illogical.

The Lord answers him in 10 to 15 in no uncertain terms.

Rise up, Joshua.

Why is it you fallen on your face?

Israel has sinned.

Israel has sinned.

They have transgressed my covenant, which I commanded them.

They have taken, have even taken some of the things under the ban, had both stolen

and deceived. Moreover, they've put them among their own things. It's not that they took them

and tossed them aside. They're hiding those things. You've got sin in the camp. Everything living was to have been put to death.

Everything valuable was to have been taken and put in the treasury of the Lord.

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