S2:120 Joshua 11 - 12
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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 23 June 2023
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Summary
What does it mean that God hardened their hearts? In this episode, Emma Dotter walks us through Joshua 11-12, specifically focusing on how God calls his people to listen and obey him, even when the odds are against them.
Scriptures referenced in today’s episode:
Exodus 10:1,20: Pharaoh’s hard heart
Romans 8:31: If God is for us, who can be against us?
Exodus 8:15, 8:32, 9: Pharaoh hardened his heart
Exodus 10: God hardened Pharaoh’s heart
Genesis 15:16: The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:10.7 | Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading Joshua chapter's 11 through 12. But chapter 11, as you may have noticed in your journal, raises a question regarding the hardening of hearts, |
| 0:21.7 | how are we to understand Joshua 11, verse 20, which reads, |
| 0:26.5 | For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel so that he might |
| 0:31.8 | destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy as the Lord had commanded Moses. |
| 0:39.3 | Well, let's backtrack a little and remember how we got here. In Chapter 9, the Israelites made a treaty with the Givianites, |
| 0:44.8 | having failed to seek direction from the Lord, they blindly yoked themselves to the Gibyanites. |
| 0:50.0 | In Chapter 10, the five Amorite kings all teamed up against Israel because Israel's partnership |
| 0:55.8 | with Givian concerned them. But no worries, God was on Israel's side. They were miraculously |
| 1:01.6 | victorious and God caused the sun to stand still commemorating this day. And then basically, |
| 1:08.1 | the Israelites killed the five kings and take control of the whole region. |
| 1:11.6 | Chapter 11, another king hears of Israel's victorious battles, so he gathers some neighboring kings |
| 1:17.1 | and they all go up against Israel together. But this time, with a huge army and mighty chariots. |
| 1:22.5 | And again, the same thing happens. Israel, under Joshua's leadership, goes to war God's way and they win. |
| 1:29.0 | They win and they win and they win. Then we get to verses 16 through 20, where Joshua takes the |
| 1:35.4 | entire land and the why behind his success is sort of summed up. Joshua 11 versus 16 through 20 |
| 1:41.9 | in the NLT read. So Joshua conquered the entire region, the hill country, the entire |
| 1:48.4 | Negev, the whole area around the town of Goshen, the western foothills, the Jordan Valley, |
| 1:53.7 | the mountains of Israel and the Galilean foothills. The Israelite territory now extended all the way |
| 1:59.7 | from Mount Halak, which leads up to Sierra in the north. |
| 2:03.4 | As far north as Bal Gad at the foot of Mount Hermon in the valley of Lebanon. |
| 2:08.9 | Lots of hard names in there. |
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