In Joshua 22 here, we're going to study the threat. The nation falls under the threat of civil war.

And I'm going to go through just a couple of slides to remind us where we got to here.

Because we, for the last few weeks, we've been doing a lot of studies around Christmas about the birth of Jesus and our Christmas services and things.

But as we're diving back into Joshua,

you know, start the New Year.

I got some messages from several people

over the break about how they finished the Bible

before New Year and they started over on New Year's Day.

And that is just a tremendous blessing.

So my encouragement to all of you, if you haven't started reading the Bible for

the New Year is to do that, make that a goal, that in 2026, you read through the Bible, cover to cover

in chronological order. It's really not difficult. And once you start doing it and you get into this

rhythm, your walk with the Lord and your faith just comes alive. I mean, it will change your life. And as you do it and you get into this rhythm, your walk with the Lord and your faith just comes alive. I mean,

it will change your life. And as you do it, you really need to lean on 1. John 2.27 and 28 that the

Holy Spirit, every time before you read, just ask the Lord, Lord, your Holy Spirit dwells within me.

The author himself dwells within me. Teach me everything out of your word. And that's our prayer every week as we dive into the Word of God that His Holy Spirit would teach us. And the second verse there, verse 28 is very important. And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear, so that's in the rapture of the church, we may have

confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. So as you study the Bible, you, and you

grow in your faith and you let the Lord refine you and burn things out of your life that shouldn't be

there and you become this vessel fit for service, when he appears in the rapture,

you will not be ashamed. You will be confident to stand before him. And unlike, remember the 10

virgins, five of them were ashamed, you don't have to be ashamed. You can have oil in your lamp

and ready for the Savior to bring you home. And that is what it's all

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