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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. And so once again, the principle that seems to jump

off the text is this, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

So whether it's giving the first fruits of a harvest back to the Lord, in the case of Jericho

taking the devoted things into the treasury of the Lord rather than taking them for yourself,

or another example, as we find explicitly in our text for today or whether it's setting up a monument

at an altar and renewing the covenant with the lord saying that this land we're only going to be

blessed in it so long as we are faithful to the lord who has given us victory and success, the Lord who brought us into

the land. We can't say that, well, the Lord brought us here, and these border tribes, border

cities have now been destroyed by the Lord's providence and his supernatural power, but now that

the Lord has brought us into the land,

he supernaturally allowed us to cross on dry land, across the Jordan. He gave us victory over

Jericho and victory over AI. Now we don't need God anymore. Now that dog won't hunt. That's not

going to work. And so instead, what Joshua does is a good leader is he says,

we're going to, we had to rely upon the Lord to get in.

And the same way in is the way on.

The way in is the way on.

The same reliance upon God, his mercy, his grace, his provision,

the same reliance that we had to have on God in the wilderness

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