Sermons on Joshua

Joshua 24:29-33 Let’s hear God’s word together, Joshua 24, verses 29 to 33. It says, after these things, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old. They buried him in his own inheritance at Temnath-Sara, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gash. Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the…

Joshua 24:1-28 All right, turn in your copy of God’s Word to Joshua, Joshua 24, verses 21 to 28 will be our passage for the night. We’ll have one more lesson in the book of Joshua and then move on, I think, to the book of James in two weeks. I figure we need wisdom, so we better go there and get it. James is the wisdom literature of the New Testament. I think we’ll find lots of good teaching…

Joshua 23 Amen. Turn in your copy of God’s word to the book of Joshua chapter 23. I think I mentioned, uh, last time, which would have been two weeks ago that there are three final addresses or, uh, summons for different folks to gather and hear Joshua speak. And so, uh, the last time the summons was for the. two and a half tribes that would go back across the Jordan River and they would live across the Jordan.…

Joshua 22 Amen, turn in your copy of God’s word to Joshua 22. We’re on the backstretch as it were, got just a couple more chapters, 22, 23, 24, and we’ll be on our way into the book of Judges. So tonight, Joshua chapter 22, and we’ll read all of it. It’s a little bit lengthy, but I think you’ll manage quite well. So this is Joshua 22, beginning at verse one. It says, at that time, Joshua summoned the…

Joshua 21 Amen. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Joshua 21. Joshua 21 is a chapter in its entirety about the Levites not receiving an inheritance, but having places to live. We’ll talk about that and explain that a bit more. Uh, if you flip over a page or two, you can see, we only have three chapters to go, uh, after this. So we’re nearing the end of Joshua. And I think, uh, the next place…

Joshua 20 Amen. You can be seated. Turn to Joshua chapter 20. Tonight we have just, I think, nine brief verses. This is quite a change from weeks past where we’ve read sometimes two or three chapters of hundreds of name places and surveyor stakes and orange flags. And you all have been watching with keen eye to make sure I pronounced all these places correctly. So tonight you get short change. There are only six city names, I believe.…

Joshua 18 Joshua chapters 18 and 19 will be our reading. We’re finishing tonight the allotment of all the land to all the tribes in Israel. And then we’ll get on to obviously the rest of Joshua, but there’s some smaller chunks, smaller sections. Some you might find a little more exciting. Some of you did wonder at the outset, though, how in the world were we going to get through the list of cities and towns and borders and…

Joshua 15 Amen. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Joshua 15. I think I gave you warning in the last couple of weeks that we were going to get into some tedious chapters. And so we had a little of that last week, but tonight, um, I don’t know what’s going to be more painful, me having to read it or you having to hear it. But we got to remember that when we open the word and…

Joshua 14 As you’re making your way to Joshua 14, let me just point out, um, uh, A couple of facts that’ll help you think through where we’re going in the book of Joshua. So Joshua 14 through 19, chapters 14 through 19, are about the allotment of the promised land to the Western tribes. So remember two and a half tribes stayed east of the Jordan, the tribes of Reuben, Gad, the half tribe of Manasseh. The other half…

Joshua 13 All right, turn to Joshua chapter 13. Joshua 13, the whole chapter will be our reading for tonight. And as you make your way there, I’ll point out to you, this is a new section in Joshua. The first five chapters, I believe, of Joshua were Israel crossing over the Jordan River. So remember, they were out in the wilderness. Moses is dead. Joshua’s got to do it now. Miraculous river crossing, high waters, spring waters, the river…

Joshua 10:29 Turn in your copy of God’s word to Joshua chapter 10. We are going to do like you might do on your iPhone. If you listen to a podcast or something and you put it on 1.5 X or 2.0 and it talks fast. We’re going to, we’re going to zip through about what a chapter and a half, two chapters. of Joshua, it has one major, major theme. So I think you’ll be glad that we’ve done…

Joshua 10:1-28 Let’s give our attention to God’s Word, Joshua 10 verses 1 through 28. As soon as Adonai Zedek, the king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, he feared greatly because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal…