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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. The second and final main point from today

is it Joshua slays the giants, but Israel plunders the house. That's the shadow way of stating it, the substance way of stating it,

is that Jesus binds the strong man and the church takes the land. In your notes, I've written this,

Joshua thoroughly crushed all the strongholds of the Canaanite kings,

and in this sense, Joshua took the whole land, as Chapter 11 concludes. However, there were still

many small towns and villages remaining. It was the task of each individual tribe to fight and plunder the land that was specifically

apportioned to them as their inheritance.

If these tribes failed to do so, it was not because of any lack in the power of God,

but their own failure to take for themselves what Joshua had given and allotted to each of them.

In the same sense, Jesus, who is the ultimate Joshua, has already defeated the enemy and conquered the land,

but he also calls us into battle to further secure what is already ours.

Mark chapter 3, verse 27, Jesus says this,

but no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods

unless he first binds the strong man.

Then, indeed, he may plunder his house.

This is what Jesus has already done 2,000 years ago,

in his life, his death, his resurrection, and glorious ascension to the right hand of God,

the Father Almighty. Jesus has bound the strong man. This does not mean.

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