I. EXORDIUM:
Who gave you victories upon victories?
the LORD JESUS.
1 Corinthians 15:57 (Amplified Bible)
But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ.
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that GOD's Victory is the LORD JESUS CHRIST who dwells in us who gave us victories upon victories.
IV. TEXT:
Joshua 9:3 (Amplified Bible)
But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for I trust, lean on, and am confident only in You, You will never allow me to be disappointed and You will never allow my enemies to triumph over me.
Psalms 25:2 (Amplified Bible)
O my God, I trust, lean on, rely on, and am confident in You. Let me not be put to shame or [my hope in You] be disappointed; let not my enemies triumph over me.
VI. TITLE:
GOD's victories is JESUS
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:
Joshua 9:3 (Amplified Bible)
But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
Joshua 9:3 (King James Version)
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
A. Victories that can be heard (JESUS CHRIST)
"But when the people of Gibeon heard"
Joshua 10:2 (Amplified Bible)
He feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
2 Samuel 21:1-2 (Amplified Bible)
THERE WAS a three-year famine in the days of David, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. The Lord replied, It is on account of Saul and his bloody house, for he put to death the Gibeonites.
So the king called the Gibeonites—now the Gibeonites were not Israelites but of the remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah had sought to slay the Gibeonites—
JESUS CHRIST our LORD, MASTER and SAVIOR prophesied about this:
Luke 12:3 (Amplified Bible)
Whatever you have spoken in the darkness shall be heard and listened to in the light, and what you have whispered in [people’s] ears and behind closed doors will be proclaimed upon the housetops.
The victories of the LORD JESUS CHRIST in saving souls will be heard from our mouth.
Psalms 132:6 (Amplified Bible)
Behold, at Ephratah we [first] heard of [the discovered ark]; we found it in the fields of the wood [at Kiriath-jearim].
Ephratah is ancient Bethlehem where the LORD JESUS CHRIST will be born as a human being that is True GOD that became men to save us from our sins, and we HEARD the victories of GOD - GOD became Man to save a dying and lost man.
The signature of the ALEPH-TAV, the FIRST and the LAST, the BEGINNING and the END is placed after the word "heard" giving it a special meaning. Victories that can be heard are given to us always, every moment by moment that the LORD JESUS desires.leanpesy
B. Jericho and Ai - two enemies of GOD's people
"what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,"
Joshua 6:1-27 (Amplified Bible)
NOW JERICHO [a fenced town with high walls] was tightly closed because of the Israelites; no one went out or came in.
And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho, its king and mighty men of valor, into your hands.
You shall march around the enclosure, all the men of war going around the city once. This you shall do for six days.
And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns; and on the seventh day you shall march around the enclosure seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
When they make a long blast with the ram’s horn and you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the enclosure shall fall down in its place and the people shall go up [over it], every man straight before him.
So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.
He said to the people, Go on! March around the enclosure, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.
When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the Lord and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went.
But Joshua commanded the people, You shall not shout or let your voice be heard, nor shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout!
So he caused the ark of the Lord to go around the city once; and they came into the camp and lodged in the camp.
Joshua rose early in the morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord passed on, blowing the trumpets continually; and the armed men went before them and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went.
On the second day they compassed the city enclosure once and returned to the camp. So they did for six days.
On the seventh day they rose early at daybreak and marched around the city as usual, only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
And the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout! For the Lord has given you the city.
And the city and all that is in it shall be devoted to the Lord [for destruction]; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
But you, keep yourselves from the accursed and devoted things, lest when you have devoted it [to destruction], you take of the accursed thing, and so make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
But all the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.
So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and [Jericho’s] wall fell down in its place, so that the [Israelites] went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Then they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
But Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the harlot’s house and bring out the woman and all she has, as you swore to her.
So the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred and set them outside the camp of Israel.
And they burned the city with fire and all that was in it; only the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
So Joshua saved Rahab the harlot, with her father’s household and all that she had; and she lives in Israel even to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Then Joshua laid this oath on them, Cursed is the man before the Lord who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.
So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.
Joshua 8:1-35 (Amplified Bible)
AND THE Lord said to Joshua, Fear not nor be dismayed. Take all the men of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that its spoil and its cattle [this time] you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city behind it.
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; [he] chose thirty thousand mighty men of strength and sent them forth by night.
And he commanded them, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us, as the first time, we will flee before them
Till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee before them.
Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.
When you have taken the city, you shall set it afire; as the Lord commanded, you shall do. See, I have commanded you.
So Joshua sent them forth, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the men, and went up with the elders of Israel before the warriors to Ai.
And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of [it], with a ravine between them and Ai.
And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.
So they stationed all the army—the main encampment that was north of the city and their men in ambush behind and on the west of the city—and Joshua went that night into the midst of the ravine.
When the king [and people] of Ai saw it, they hastily rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle [at a time and place appointed] before the Arabah [plain]. But he did not know of the ambush against him behind the city.
And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten by them, and fled toward the wilderness.
So all the people in Ai were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. Leaving the city open, they pursued Israel.
Then the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. So Joshua stretched out the javelin in his hand toward the city.
The men in the ambush arose quickly out of their place and ran when he stretched out his hand; and they entered the city and took it, and then hastened and set it afire.
When the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to the heavens, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. Then the Israelites who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city went up, they turned again and slew the men of Ai.
And the others came forth out of the city against them [of Ai], so that they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And [the Israelites] smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
When Israel had finished slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field and in the wilderness into which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the sword until they were consumed, then all the Israelites returned to Ai and smote it with the sword.
And all that fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, including all the men of Ai.
For Joshua drew not back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He commanded Joshua.
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins for ever, even a desolation to this day.
And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset, Joshua commanded and they took the body down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the city gate and raised a great heap of stones over it that is there to this day.
Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted up an iron tool; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.
And there, in the presence of the Israelites, [Joshua] wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.
And all Israel, sojourner as well as he who was born among them, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before that they should bless the Israelites.
Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, all that is written in the Book of the Law.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and little ones, and the foreigners who were living among them.
Jericho from it's Hebraic name meaning "perfume" and Ai signified "self-confidence". As a believer, I have to stay away and be careful of smelled beautifully in the eyes of men but full of dead works and also self-confidence, my confidence is the LORD.
Psalms 25:2 (Amplified Bible)
O my God, I trust, lean on, rely on, and am confident in You. Let me not be put to shame or [my hope in You] be disappointed; let not my enemies triumph over me.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for I trust, lean on, and am confident only in You, You will never allow me to be disappointed and You will never allow my enemies to triumph over me.
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