“The God Who Goes Between”
From Joshua 5
Until you with the Lord, to and – you will never know how to to those on the .
In times of great division:
1. God’s people must with God as He is.
📖 Joshua 5:13 (ESV) When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand.
📖 Joshua 5:14 (ESV) And he said, “No…”
REMEMBER: When the Lord to be , He’s .
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” – A.W. Tozer
There’s how (WANT TO) the world… and there’s how the world.
He is the God who seeks justice.
📖 Micah 6:8 (ESV) He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
📖 Matthew 23:23 (ESV) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
📖 Isaiah 42:4 (ESV) He (the Lord’s Servant) will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
📖 Isaiah 51:4 (ESV) “Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
He is also the God of and .
📖 Romans 13:1–4 (ESV) Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
📖 Joshua 5:14 (ESV) And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.”….
In times of great division:
2. God’s people must to God as He is.
📖 Joshua 5:14 (ESV) And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
THREE RESPONSES OF SURRENDER:
- Joshua falls down before Him.
- Joshua worships Him.
- Joshua listens FOR Him.
In times of great division:
3. God’s people must what God .
“What does MY LORD say to HIS SERVANT?”
Who is our in the Middle?
📖 Romans 5:10 (ESV) For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.
Jesus is our in the who us to so that we can be with .
📖 Isaiah 59:15–16 (NLT) Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked. The Lord looked and was displeased to find there was no justice. 16 He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So He himself stepped in to save them with His strong arm, and His justice sustained him.
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