Set For Restoration-4 Series

SET For RESTORATION-IV—Joshua 5:2-12

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Border Declaration

Finishing up their work at a trade show in San Diego, Maureen & her co-workers decided to go sightseeing across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. While there, they went shopping & bought a few pieces of clay kitchenware.

As we crossed back into the United States, a Border Patrol agent asked if we had anything of value to report.

"Not really," Maureen replied, as she dug in her bag for the bean crock she had purchased.

Maureen’s next statement caused her co-worker’s eyes to widen in horror, while everyone around them started straining to see the situation. Maureen’s answer to the agent was, “I only bought a little pot.”

Maureen’s reputation needed to be Restored in the Border Patrol’s eyes.

God’s people—You & me, we are urgent need of restoration!

God restored/renewed/rededicated Israel as His covenant people.

God’s people must be restored.

How can God’s people be restored?

What can bring restoration to God’s people?

4 settings for spiritual restoration.

Ps. 147:3— “He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.”

We have found that a setting for spiritual restoration is...

1. A RENEWED FLESH(:2-8)

2. A RENEWED HEART(:8-9)

3. A RENEWED WORSHIP(:10)

Today we will also discover that...

4—A Setting for spiritual restoration is...

A RENEWED BLESSING(:11-12)

Explanation:(:11-12)Future/Response

:11—“And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened cakes & parched grain, on that very same day.”

The children of Israel are about to embark on a new phase/era of ministry...

Will this mean that God is no longer with them? No!

But it does mean that God will be working with & thru them in a somewhat different manner than before, as they are now in the place which God had promised them.

Such a new diet of “unleavened cakes & parched grain” assumes a source of flour—“the produce of the land.” Israel must be taking from the fields which the Canaanites had planted. Israel is now aware of the land’s fruitful potential as the land of milk & honey.

“Ate”(See :12)—lka aw-kal’—Qal Imperfect—1) To eat, devour, burn up, feed—1a) (Qal)—1a1) To eat(human subject), 1a2) To eat, devour(of beasts & birds), 1a3) To devour, consume(of fire), 1a4) To devour, slay(of sword), 1a5) To devour, consume, destroy(inanimate subjects - ie, pestilence, drought), 1a6) To devour(of oppression). Strong—a primitive root; To eat(literally or figuratively).

“Produce/Old Corn”(See :12)—rwbe aw-boowr’—Noun Masc.—1) Produce, yield. Strong—the same as rwbe; or rbe[properly--Crossed, i.e. abstractly--Transit]; Passed, i.e. Kept over; used only of stored grain. Used 2X.

“Land”(See :12)—Ura eh’-rets—Noun Fem.—1) Land, earth—1a) Earth—1a1) Whole earth(as opposed to a part), 1a2) Earth(as opposed to heaven), 1a3) Earth(inhabitants), 1b) Land—1b1) Country, territory, 1b2) District, region, 1b3) Tribal territory, 1b4) Piece of ground, 1b5) Land of Canaan, Israel, 1b6) Inhabitants of land, 1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under)world, 1b8) City(-state), 1c) Ground, surface of the earth—1c1) Ground, 1c2) Soil, 1d) (in phrases)—1d1) People of the land, 1d2) Space or distance of country(in measurements of distance), 1d3) Level or plain country, 1d4) Land of the living, 1d5) End(s) of the earth, 1e) (almost wholly late in usage)—1e1) Lands, countries—1e1a) Often in contrast to Canaan. Strong—from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; The earth(at large, or partitively a land).

“Day After/Morrow”(See :12)—trxm mokh-or-awth' OR Mtrxm(1Sa 30:17) mokh-or-aw-thawm’—Noun Fem.—1) The morrow, the day after. Strong—feminine from the same as rxm maw-khar’[properly--Deferred, i.e. The morrow; usually (adverbially)--Tomorrow; indefinitely--Hereafter]; The morrow or adverbially--Tomorrow. Used 32X.

“Passover”(See :10)—xop peh’-sakh—Noun Masc.—1) Passover—1a) Sacrifice of passover, 1b) Animal victim of the passover, 1c) Festival of the passover. Strong—A pretermission, i.e. Exemption; used only technically of the Jewish Passover(the festival or the victim).

From—xop—a primitive root; to hop, i.e. figuratively--Skip over(or spare); by implication--To hesitate; also literally--To limp, to dance.

“Unleavened cakes/Unleavened Bread”—hum mats-tsaw’——from Uum[a primitive root; to suck[le]] in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness; properly--Sweetness; concretely--Sweet(i.e. Not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically--An unfermented cake or loaf, or elliptically--The festival of Passover(because no leaven was then used).

“Parched grain/Parched corn/Roasted grain”—hlq kaw-law’—Qal Passive Participle—1) To roast, parch—1a) (Qal)--To roast; 1b) (Niphal)--1b1) To be burned, 1b2) Burning(participle). Strong—a primitive root [rather identical with hlq through the idea of shrinkage by heat]; To toast, i.e. Scorch partially or slowly. Used 4X.

“Very same”—Mue eh’tsem—Noun Fem.—1) Bone, essence, substance—1a) Bone—1a1) Body, limbs, members, external body, 1b) Bone(of animal), 1c) Substance, self. Strong—A bone(as strong); by extension--The body; figuratively--The substance, i.e. as pronoun--Selfsame.

:12—“Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land, & the sons of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.”

The nation of Israel’s previous dependence(manna) is being removed.

“The manna ceased”--& now they must move on, graduate, let go of how they had operated in the past.