Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of today's post is

The Importance of Faith and Action. Psalm 115-16 tells us the heavens are the heavens of the

Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men or the sons of mankind.

Moffat translates the latter part of the verse,

the earth he has assigned to men, not given, but assigned.

His use of the word assigned communicates with greater accuracy, the contextual meaning of the Hebrew word

nathan in this verse. God didn't give away ownership of the earth. He assigned the responsibility

of managing and governing it to humans.

The Passion Translation says he has, quote, put us in charge, end quote, of the earth.

God's gifts are often also assignments, an example being our children.

Holy Spirit uses this word Nathan, spelled just like the name Nathan, by the way.

He uses this word Nathan no less than six times in the first chapter of Joshua to remind Israel that he had given them the land of Canaan.

Canaan was the land he had promised or given their forefather Abraham.

They were now being assigned the task of conquering and taking possession of what God had given.

Someone once asked, well, what was it? Was God giving? Or were they taking? The answer is yes.

Another word in this passage also aligns with this concept.

Verse 11 uses the phrase,

the land the Lord your God is giving,

Nathan, to giving you to possess.

The Hebrew word Yaris. The word Yarrash has different shades of meaning.

It means legally an heir. A lot of people don't realize that. It's yours. Legally an heir.

But also military invasion in order to seize or possess. In other words, God was telling Israel, I have given it to you legally. Now I'm assigning you the task of militarily taking

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