The teachers who have faithfully guided Nancy Lee DeMoss have emphasized the Bible first.

Everything else flows out of it.

Now, it's important to have exhortation and teaching, but if you haven't had the word read,

what are you exhorting and what are you teaching?

That's what biblical preaching is.

It's opening the word of God, reading it to the people, and then shedding light on it. This is what it means,

making it clear to the understanding of the people. And Paul says, give yourself, devote yourself

to the public reading of scripture. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-D-Moss for Wednesday, April 8th. What role should the public reading of the Bible have in a church service?

To answer that question, there's no better place to look than the Bible itself.

That's what Nancy will do, continuing in a series called Lessons from the Life of Joshua,

Part 7, indispensable ingredients for life.

Well, we've been kind of parked in Joshua chapter one, the first nine verses, and we've seen the changing of the guard as Joshua has become the leader of the people replacing Moses, who is now dead.

And in those first nine verses, God gives some wonderful words of encouragement to Joshua as he faces this impossible task

that lies ahead of him. I've spent the last several months meditating on the first nine

verses of Joshua chapter one. It's been so rich to me and I would encourage you to get into that

passage yourself for whatever season of life you may be in and define words of encouragement and

exhortation that will help you in this season of life. Now we saw that Joshua has been

commissioned. God has told him what his task is, what his responsibility is. Verse six of Joshua 1,

you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

You're going to take the children of Israel into the promised land.

And the natural question is, humanly speaking, how can this happen?

How can this be?

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