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08/29/2023

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09/27/2022

When Joshua led the Israelites to Jericho, and after the wall fell down, God gave Joshua specific instructions to give to the Israelites in Joshua 6: “Keep yourself from things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.” However, Achan did not obey. He took some of those devoted things, and because of it, many men died in a war.

When the Lord told Joshua that there was sin in the camp, and said things like, (chapter 7) “The people of Israel can’t stand before their enemies, in fact they turn their backs toward their enemies because they have become devoted to the things that were devoted for destruction. You must remove them if you want to stand before your enemies.”

Joshua had to scan each man in the camp to figure out who did it, saying, “Tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
After Achan fessed up, he was taken to the Valley of Achor (valley of trouble) to be stoned and burned, along with all of those things devoted for destruction.

The Valley of Achor was only spoken of two more times in the Bible, one being in Hosea 2:14-15, “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.”

Those things that were to be destroyed, that were taken for his own even though they were not his, brought destruction upon many people and eventually killed Achan from the punishment. The Valley of Achor was a place of shame for the Israelites.

But that place of shame needed to be GONE BACK TO to bring about repentance so that it can be turned into a door or a gateway of hope. What if the Lord is trying to allure you to go WITH HIM back to those places of shame, pain, and destruction, to turn it into a place of hope, redemption, and devotion to Him?

Maybe it’s time to go back there.

09/21/2022

08/07/2022

Facts 💯

07/17/2022

"The great concern of the New Testament Epistles is not about the size of the Church, it is about the purity of the Church. The Apostles never said to the first Christians, ‘You are antagonizing people by emphasizing doctrine. Say more about the love of God and less about the wrath of God. They do not even like the Cross, and they cannot abide the story of the resurrection! Drop that talk about the wrath of God and Christ’s ethical teaching!’ Not so do the Apostles speak! There is an exclusiveness in the New Testament that is quite amazing. The Apostle Paul writing to the Galatians says, ‘Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached, let him be accursed’ (Galatians 1:8). ‘My Gospel!’, says Paul writing to Timothy. He denounces other teachers. So many of these modern preachers are much nicer people than the Apostle Paul! They never say a word against anyone at all, they praise everybody, and they are praised by everybody. They are never ‘negative’! They never define what they believe and what they do not believe. They are said to be ‘full of love’. I am not misjudging them when I say that that is not the explanation. The explanation is that they do not ‘contend for the truth’, they are innocent concerning the ‘wiles of the devil’. It is not for us to decide what to leave out and what to drop for the sake of unity. My business is to expound this truth, to declare it—come what may! We must not be interested primarily in numbers, we must be interested in the truth of God."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

07/14/2022

Make sure your verse-by-verse ministry in the home contains an evangelistic element.

For more: https://www.expositoryparenting.org/blog/2022/3/22

07/13/2022

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