I. EXORDIUM:
Are you a good guard? No, JESUS is my Guard and Garrison.
Isaiah 58:8 (Amplified Bible)
58:8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To prove from secret messages from the LORD that we are carefully and constantly guarded by JESUS from sin and it's effects.
IV. TEXT:
Joshua 10:34 (Amplified Bible)
10:34 From Lachish Joshua and all Israel went on to Eglon, laid siege to it, and attacked it.
Joshua 10:34 (King James Version)
10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are carefully, constantly and infinitely protecting and guarding us against sin and it's effects.
Philippians 4:7 (Amplified Bible)
4:7 And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
VI. TITLE:
JESUS guards us from sin and its effects
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Joshua (uncertain)
B. Key Thought: How to be successful in the battle of life? (Joshua 1:8-9)
Joshua 1:8-9 (NLT)
8 Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.
9 This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
C. Leading Topic: Conquest and Division of the land of Canaan
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. JESUS delivered us from sin (Lachish) and slavery/effects (Eglon) of sin.
"From Lachish Joshua and all Israel went on to Eglon,"
Lachish is the beginning of sin.
Eglon: This town appears to have been no great distance from Lachish, with which it is mentioned, [Source: Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge] The insight is when you sin, it's not far from being a slave to sin. (Which, according to Bunting, was eight miles from Lachish.)
Micah 1:13 (New International Version)
1:13 You who live in Lachish, harness the team to the chariot. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, (born again believers in the New Testament of Grace) for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
Eglon symbolizes slavery just like Egypt but unlike Egypt, it's the one called for when people of GOD fell into sin under the old testament. Eglon also symbolizes the effects of sin such as slavery, punishment, sicknesses/diseases, death, poverty, etc.
Judges 3:14 (King James Version)
3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Judges 3:12 (King James Version)
3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
When you sinned, it's better to repent (change of mind) regarding that sin as quickly as possible or else Eglon (or effects of sin) will overtake you. Confess your sins right away and obtain forgiveness and cleansing from GOD - 1 John 1:9. If you have a certain disease, make sure you have no unconfess sin in your life.
These 2 cities: Lachish and Eglon are given to Judah (praise). The LORD JESUS came from the tribe of Judah. We are delivered and redeemed from sin because of JESUS. We can no longer sin because we're dead to sin, it's already been overcomed, now it's our choice to sin. We are already delivered from sin and it's effects (slavery, punishment, sicknesses/diseases, death, etc.)
Joshua 15:39 (Amplified Bible)
15:39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, (context is Joshua 15:21)
Romans 6:11 (Amplified Bible)
6:11 Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.
CHRIST JESUS delivered and redeemed us from sin and it's slaving powers over us.
Romans 6:6 (Amplified Bible)
6:6 We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin.
Romans 6:16-18 (Amplified Bible)
6:16 Do you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)?
6:17 But thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.
6:18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).
We are not slaves of sin but slaves to righteousness.
B. JESUS encamped and fought against it
"laid siege to it, and attacked it"
The LORD JESUS CHRIST is constantly and continuously protecting us and guarding us against sin and being enslaved by it again.
1 Peter 1:4-5 (Amplified Bible)
1:4 [Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
1:5 Who are being guarded (garrisoned) by God’s power through [your] faith [till you fully inherit that final] salvation that is ready to be revealed [for you] in the last time.
We are guarded or garrisoned by GOD's power (the LORD JESUS CHRIST) until He returns for us in our final salvation in the last time.
When the LORD JESUS was on earth, He Himself guarded the 12 apostles.
John 17:12 (Amplified Bible)
17:12 While I was with them, I kept and preserved them in Your Name [in the knowledge and worship of You]. Those You have given Me I guarded and protected, and not one of them has perished or is lost except the son of perdition [Judas Iscariot—the one who is now doomed to destruction, destined to be lost], that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Now He continues to guard over us in Heaven. He is the Prince of Peace that is constantly and continually guarding us.
Philippians 4:7 (Amplified Bible)
4:7 And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
We also cooperate in guarding our hearts and minds through the HOLY SPIRIT.
2 Timothy 1:14 (Amplified Bible)
1:14 Guard and keep [with the greatest care] the precious and excellently adapted [Truth] which has been entrusted [to you], by the [help of the] Holy Spirit Who makes His home in us.
Proverbs 4:23 (Amplified Bible)
4:23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.
IX. CONCLUSION:
We are focused on the LORD JESUS not on our victories over sin and it's effects but on the LORD JESUS CHRIST the Author and Perfecter of our faith.
Illustration: A VIP with a private army.
1 Corinthians 15:57 (Amplified Bible)
15:57 But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:37 (Amplified Bible)
8:37 Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
Hebrews 12:2 (The Message)
12:2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are carefully, constantly and infinitely protecting and guarding us against sin and it's effects.
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