On the heels of their glorious win at the Battle of Jericho, something truly horrific

happened to the Israelites.

A victorious warrior took advantage of the enemy, and in doing so he kept his ugly sin under

wraps.

Remember the story?

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall brings this ancient event to life as we continue

to our study in the book of Joshua.

We'll be reminded that secret sins rarely remain so, and the aftermath of exposure is both

humiliating and damaging.

Chuck titled this cautionary message, Post-Mortem of a Deceiver.

I have a serious word for us from God's book today.

It doesn't all end here, but it leads into next week where we turn the corner and hear

of God's grace at work to lead the people into victory, but today is a story of defeat.

We've all known defeat, so we'll not have difficulty identifying with what it means to fail.

Is the Hebrews failed?

When they attempted to take the little city of AI without once consulting the Lord?

So I'll be reading for you the story of this failure in Joshua chapter 7.

Bear with me, it isn't an easy message to deliver.

Joshua 7, beginning in verse 1.

But Israel violated the instructions about the things set apart for the Lord.

A man named Akin had stolen some of these dedicated things so the Lord was very angry with

the Israelites.

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