If you disobey God, you may be dealing with the results for years, according to Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's what happens with sin. We don't think about how this one thing I want, if I demand it and I get it in a way that is not in accordance with God's word, all the long-term implications that will result.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, October 7th, 2014.

Stories of heroes doing heroic things have always had a hold on our imaginations, but we

actually can relate more to characters who face failure. We can see our own struggles in their

stories. Well, yesterday Nancy described to defeat Joshua and the children of Israel suffered.

We can learn a lot from this setback, and Nancy is going to pick up the story in the series, Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 10, Rising from Defeat.

Have you ever had the experience of hearing some kind of hubbub or commotion in the next room where your children were

playing. And maybe you hear like a blood-curdling scream. You know that something has gone really

wrong or you hear something crashed to the ground. You know that something is broken. And you

walk into the room, but there are five kids in there and you have got to figure out who did what.

And you ask the kids and they're not about to tell you.

And they're all just looking like little angels or pointing at somebody else, and you've got to figure out, how do I get to the bottom of this?

How do I find out who did what?

Well, we're going to look in Joshua Chapter 7 today at an incident where there were

a lot of people, and Joshua didn't know who had done what, and he was the leader of these people,

but God devised a means that brought the guilty person to the forefront. And we've been looking

at this passage. Let me just back up for those of you who've not

been with us in the last few sessions, you know that the children of Israel won this incredible

victory at Jericho, and God won the victory through the children of Israel, and God got all the

credit. He deserved it all. And then the very next battle they thought was going to be a small one by

comparison, but they suffered this humiliating defeat, had no idea why. God has told us why in verse one of Joshua

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