SNT 0307 Joshua 1:1ff
Joshua 1:1ff June 27, 1965 Expository teaching on Joshua 1:1-9 with exhortation to arise and cross over our spiritual Jordan and believe God the way Joshua did. SNT – 307 Jos 1:1, 2; Deu 34:9 Jos 1:3-5 Jos 1:6-9; _____________________ SNT-307-Joshua1-1ff DRAFT SUMMARY KEYWORDS: Joshua, Moses, God, arise, servant, lord, discouraged, courageous, meditate We're in the book of Joshua tonight in the first chapter, in order to understand this chapter and to set the background for it, I'll have to take you into a little preliminary discussion of it. You know, a year ago last November, so when our former president, Mr. Kennedy, was shot, I was out hunting with, some of our people are here in the auditorium tonight. And when the word flashed across the radio, we were in the cars that were We were sitting at the oval, I was sitting there, we're out in the field hunting. When I heard that our president had been shot. I just couldn't believe it. And then I got to think, well, with our beloved president dead, just a young man just full of vitality leading our great nation, with this man dead, who has only led our country for a couple of years, where would we go? What would we do? And tonight, as we're thinking about the book of Joshua, this comes back to my mind because the first verse of this first chapter says, not after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, Moses had loved the children of Israel for how many years? For 40 years, it was a shock to our nation when, when President Kennedy was killed, was it not a tremendous shock? To think that in our great nation, there would be anybody who would deliberately want to go out and shoot a man, let alone the president of these our United States, and he must have been a shock to the whole world. But suppose he led our great nation for some 40 years. Suppose he had taken us through the very same background and experiences that some of the children of Israel had gone through I suppose he had been the one who had set the origina
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a Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. Later he completed his work for the Doctor of Theology degree. Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953. Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982). Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the accuracy of God's "wonderful, matchless" Word. DOC AUDIO