Nancy Lee-Demaw says, God knows how to balance justice and mercy.

That is the heart of God.

He loves to show mercy.

He delights to show mercy.

He hates to show judgment, but he will show judgment when he has to.

It is not his will that any should perish, but many will perish because they

refuse this offer of mercy. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, October 3, 2014.

Nancy's continuing in the series Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 9, Defeating Your Jericho.

Well, in our last session here on Revive Our Hearts, we took a look at the fall of Jericho. And most of us have known

that story since we were very little children. We sing the songs about and the walls came

tumbling down. And sometimes, as I said earlier, the danger of knowing these stories so well

is that our eyes kind of glaze over when we hear them. And we don't stop to think about why

they're in the scripture and what application

they may have for our lives. And so I want us to take a little more time today to reflect on the

whole story of Jericho and to deal with some questions that arise out of that story and some

applications for our lives as well. If you're a child of God, you are a part of the

army of God. We talked about how the Israelites were God's army. God is the commander of the Lord's

hosts, and the Israelites were his army that he commanded, and God is also the commander of the

heavenly host, that angelic army that works with us in accomplishing

God's will here on earth. But as believers today, we are a part of God's army, not in a physical

sense. It's not literal arms that we take up to do God's cause in this world, but we're in a spiritual

battle. And the enemy, the ultimate enemy,

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