DAILY TRUTH - Providence & Presence | Two Forms Of Grace Through Trials

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Just as Joshua and Israel found great success in conquering their enemies in Joshua 10, God now grants them the same success against an even greater enemy in Joshua 11. In Joshua 10, Israel goes to war against five kings and their armies. In Joshua 11, all the remaining kings in the land of Canaan now unite against Joshua, so that their number was like “the sand that is on the seashore.” God's ordinary design for the Christian life is that we often face challenges in a progression of increasing difficulty. The victories of our past serve to be training grounds for the next trial. And when fresh challenges arrive, God provides fresh grace and assurance.

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0:00.0	In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000
0:05.3	downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,
0:11.6	the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus
0:17.5	Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star
0:24.0	review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. God is also gracious in his revelation,
0:31.5	in his word, not just what he orchestrates through providence in terms of degrees of challenges at various
0:39.1	times but he's also gracious in his explicit word to his people what god says to joshua in
0:47.4	verse six is do not be afraid of them and god would be perfectly within his rights to say nothing. God's already given them the
0:56.9	command. They don't need a reiteration of what obedience would look like. The command was given
1:04.8	multiple times through Moses before Joshua ever even came into leadership, and the command
1:09.6	has been remade several times underneath
1:12.4	Joshua's command. They know what is expected of them. They know precisely what God has commanded
1:17.9	them to do, namely to drive out all the wicked pagan inhabitants of the land. What I'm saying is that
1:26.1	in this moment, as Joshua and Israel are surrounded by the greatest number of the land. What I'm saying is that in this moment, as Joshua and Israel are surrounded by
1:29.7	the greatest number of opposition they've faced yet, God is not obligated in any sense to speak
1:38.8	to them. Why? Because God has already spoken. He's not spoken in riddles or rhymes, but he's spoken plainly.
1:48.6	They know their marching orders. They know God's command. They know precisely what they are called and commanded, expected by God to do.
1:58.0	To go to war. To face down the enemy, to face them with courage, with everything that
2:04.3	they have, every resource available to them, and to give no quarter, no surrender, no peace
2:12.0	treaties to be made, but to face the opposition head on and to put all the wicked inhabitants of this land to the edge of the sword.
2:22.9	Israel is not ignorant, but God is gracious.
2:28.4	Israel is not ignorant, but God is gracious.
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