WEBVTT - Takers, Part 6 0:00:00.409 --> 0:00:04.970 Everything that I need is found in him. I can 0:00:04.970 --> 0:00:08.600 do all things through Christ who strengthens me. There are 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.379 no limitations. There are no barriers. Take the lid off. 0:00:12.380 --> 0:00:15.140 Break out the box. Let's do this thing. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.770 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:24.770 --> 0:00:27.979 junior senior pastor of Christ Bible Church in Chicago. I'm 0:00:27.980 --> 0:00:30.710 Steve Hiller. Glad you've joined us today. As we continue 0:00:30.710 --> 0:00:34.820 to look at Joshua chapter one in our message entitled takers. 0:00:34.850 --> 0:00:37.790 You know, pastor, I think many people may be quick 0:00:37.820 --> 0:00:40.280 to quote scripture. I mean, what we just heard there, 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.620 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me 0:00:42.620 --> 0:00:46.220 and try and find some encouragement in that. It's one 0:00:46.220 --> 0:00:49.550 thing to know that Bible verse, to even say you 0:00:49.550 --> 0:00:53.990 believe that Bible verse. It's quite another to live that 0:00:53.990 --> 0:00:57.980 verse out, to truly believe that. And I think some 0:00:57.980 --> 0:01:02.130 of us may struggle to really believe I can do 0:01:02.130 --> 0:01:04.830 all things well. How come when I try to do 0:01:04.830 --> 0:01:07.740 things they don't get done? How come God isn't answering 0:01:07.740 --> 0:01:10.170 my prayer in the way I want all things for real? 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:15.030 Yeah. All things. And here's what we have to realize. 0:01:15.060 --> 0:01:18.990 We have to line ourselves up with the Word of 0:01:18.990 --> 0:01:22.470 God and just stay there. I like to say it 0:01:22.470 --> 0:01:29.520 this way the word can't isn't in the dictionary of Deity. Now, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.539 let me just go on record as saying you're absolutely correct. 0:01:33.540 --> 0:01:37.200 There are certain areas where I apply this verse and 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:42.630 I'm strong. Oh yeah, I believe God. But then there 0:01:42.660 --> 0:01:48.990 are other areas where it seems like it's marshmallow promise, 0:01:48.990 --> 0:01:51.930 it's cotton candy, and, you know, cotton candy is and 0:01:51.930 --> 0:01:54.780 cotton and it isn't candy. You put it in your 0:01:54.780 --> 0:01:58.470 mouth and it disappears, leaves a sweet taste, but you 0:01:58.470 --> 0:02:03.220 get no nutritional value. And sometimes. Sometimes it happens that way. 0:02:03.220 --> 0:02:07.240 But let me tell you this, Steve, it's always because 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.350 of our lack of faith. The word of God. God 0:02:11.350 --> 0:02:13.240 has given us the word. He says things like this 0:02:13.270 --> 0:02:16.060 in John 15 three now you are clean through the 0:02:16.060 --> 0:02:19.930 word that I have spoken unto you. John 1717 sanctify 0:02:19.930 --> 0:02:23.350 them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. Isaiah 5511. 0:02:23.350 --> 0:02:25.630 So shall it be. The word that goeth forth from 0:02:25.630 --> 0:02:28.690 my mouth. It will always accomplish that which I set 0:02:28.690 --> 0:02:32.830 for it to do. It will never return unto me. Void. 0:02:32.860 --> 0:02:35.560 So the Word of God we can stand on it. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.280 Now what has to happen? There are certain areas where 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.130 our faith has to be built up. But how do 0:02:42.130 --> 0:02:46.990 you build faith? Faith comes by hearing. Hearing by the 0:02:46.990 --> 0:02:52.239 Word of God. Romans 1017. So faith comes by hearing. 0:02:52.270 --> 0:02:55.780 So you see how how it all comes together. 0:02:55.810 --> 0:02:57.790 Yeah. We need to be making sure that we're in 0:02:57.790 --> 0:03:00.340 the Word of God. And as we've been talking about earlier, 0:03:00.340 --> 0:03:03.610 rightly discerning the promises that apply to us. I remember. 0:03:03.700 --> 0:03:04.209 Definitely. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.660 A number of years ago, having some friends who thought, okay, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.780 my husband is sick, he is dying, and they were 0:03:10.780 --> 0:03:13.930 told by some prosperity preacher, if your faith was strong enough, 0:03:13.930 --> 0:03:16.420 he will be healed. He was a godly man who 0:03:16.419 --> 0:03:20.139 died anyway. And that rocked the widow's faith for a season. 0:03:20.169 --> 0:03:22.989 You know, you need to understand what promises in Scripture 0:03:22.990 --> 0:03:25.120 actually are ours, right? 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:31.630 And God's sovereignty comes into play. Sure. Because for that person, 0:03:31.630 --> 0:03:33.700 that was the sovereign will of God. I like to 0:03:33.700 --> 0:03:36.790 say it this way God heals everybody. You know, he 0:03:36.820 --> 0:03:41.770 heals everybody. Some of us down here, all of us 0:03:41.770 --> 0:03:45.340 up there. Yeah. And we have to know his will. First, 0:03:45.340 --> 0:03:50.590 John 514 and 15 says if we ask anything according 0:03:50.620 --> 0:03:54.790 to his will, he hears us. And if we know 0:03:54.790 --> 0:03:57.670 that he hears us, we know that we have the 0:03:57.670 --> 0:04:01.430 petitions that we desired of him. And so we we 0:04:01.430 --> 0:04:05.630 have to discern what is your willingness area that job, 0:04:05.630 --> 0:04:10.160 what is your will in that area, that relationship, that sickness, 0:04:10.190 --> 0:04:13.610 whatever it is God, what is your will? Now I 0:04:13.610 --> 0:04:18.200 will say this, that God will speak to us, you know, 0:04:18.230 --> 0:04:20.180 when we desire to know, but most of the time 0:04:20.180 --> 0:04:22.489 we don't want to know it. Very often I just 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.020 if I'm sick, I just want to be healed. 0:04:24.050 --> 0:04:24.770 Healed. Yep. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.530 But then he told Paul, he said, this sickness is 0:04:27.529 --> 0:04:30.710 for the glory of God. Second Corinthians 12. You know, 0:04:30.740 --> 0:04:32.090 my grace is sufficient. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.040 Yeah, yeah. And that's where many of us. 0:04:34.070 --> 0:04:35.240 We've been reading the same. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.239 Bible, and many of us don't like that answer. But 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.120 that's what how he does answer at times. Well, today 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.300 we're in Joshua chapter one as we continue this message 0:04:44.300 --> 0:04:46.730 entitled takers, here's Pastor Ford. 0:04:46.820 --> 0:04:50.180 What if the songs we where we used to sing, 0:04:50.180 --> 0:04:52.880 we don't sing them anymore. But but but what if 0:04:52.910 --> 0:04:55.520 the truth would be known? We. There's a song called 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.599 Sweet Hour of Prayer. We don't pray. Five minutes. There's 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.820 a song. Onward, Christian Soldier. We got to be drafted 0:05:02.820 --> 0:05:05.670 and then we go AWOL or they will be showers 0:05:05.670 --> 0:05:07.560 of blessing. That's the title of a song and we 0:05:07.589 --> 0:05:10.080 don't come to church when it rains. Blessed be the 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.020 tie that binds. And we take that tie and try 0:05:13.020 --> 0:05:15.390 to hang each other with it. Yeah, serve the Lord 0:05:15.390 --> 0:05:18.930 with gladness. Yeah. And we gripe about what we do 0:05:18.930 --> 0:05:21.359 for him. We are marching to Zion, but we don't 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.910 march to Sunday school and the Wednesday night Bible study. 0:05:23.910 --> 0:05:27.089 I love to tell the story, but never witness or 0:05:27.089 --> 0:05:29.040 invite anybody to come to church. When the roll is 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.470 called up yonder, I'll be there. We're not there when 0:05:31.470 --> 0:05:35.220 the roll is called down here. Wow. Now here's my point. 0:05:35.250 --> 0:05:38.220 Get this if God gave you a promise, his plan 0:05:38.250 --> 0:05:41.700 didn't change. It's not a roller coaster. He doesn't capitulate 0:05:41.700 --> 0:05:43.770 that we got to get in there. Hang in there 0:05:43.770 --> 0:05:46.080 and hold on to what God has promised. He said, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.909 I want you to go in there. Don't listen to him. 0:05:47.940 --> 0:05:50.370 Don't watch. For hundred and 70 years, it hasn't changed. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.280 It's the same. Write down Jonah one and Jonah three. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.800 If you're taking notes, here's what happened. Go to Nineveh, 0:05:55.830 --> 0:05:59.220 chapter one. So he goes to Tarshish, which is 2000 miles. 0:05:59.220 --> 0:06:02.260 If he would have went to Nineveh. It's 500 miles, 0:06:02.260 --> 0:06:04.660 so he went four times as far to get out 0:06:04.660 --> 0:06:06.130 of the will of God as he would have done 0:06:06.130 --> 0:06:08.740 to stay in the will of God. Then he had 0:06:08.740 --> 0:06:11.290 a fish experience, and that's what many of us need. 0:06:11.500 --> 0:06:15.520 That's a problem because some people listen. Some people are 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.609 motivated by a pat on the back, some are only 0:06:18.610 --> 0:06:21.430 motivated by a foot in their behind. And so that's 0:06:21.430 --> 0:06:23.710 what it took for Jonah. And come on now, that's 0:06:23.710 --> 0:06:25.960 what it takes for a whole lot of us. And 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.510 so God said chapter two foot in the behind and 0:06:28.510 --> 0:06:30.640 chapter three. Here's what it says. And the word of 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.750 the Lord came unto Jonah again. Arise, go to Nineveh 0:06:34.750 --> 0:06:38.860 and preach. Same words. Plan didn't change, but it took 0:06:38.860 --> 0:06:44.289 the fish because God's not trying to change the circumstance. 0:06:44.290 --> 0:06:45.940 He's trying to change our mind and the way we 0:06:45.940 --> 0:06:48.010 look at it. That's what he's trying to do. So 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.109 let me finish this up. I said I was only 0:06:50.110 --> 0:06:52.990 going to do one point, so why did God have 0:06:52.990 --> 0:06:55.630 to urge Joshua to respond to his plan? Here it is. 0:06:55.630 --> 0:06:59.020 Here it is. People past and problems. Let me drop them. 0:06:59.020 --> 0:07:00.960 I'm not going to push them. You've been here long enough, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.979 number one people. Moses name is prominent. Now. I got 0:07:04.980 --> 0:07:06.990 some information on that, but I'm going to let that go. 0:07:07.020 --> 0:07:09.630 I was going to tell you that his name is 0:07:09.630 --> 0:07:12.330 in this chapter more than three times in the book 0:07:12.330 --> 0:07:16.260 of Joshua, more than 60 times Moses, Moses, Moses, Moses. 0:07:16.260 --> 0:07:19.410 Here's what it says. Moses my servant is dead. And 0:07:19.410 --> 0:07:24.690 so Deuteronomy 31, uh, they're mourning the the death of Moses. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.450 It said, they mourn for 30 days. Here's what God 0:07:27.450 --> 0:07:31.110 is saying. He is dead, I am alive. Get going. 0:07:31.110 --> 0:07:33.960 John Wesley's gravestone says this. He's one of the ones 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.980 that started the Great Awakening. It says God buries his workers, 0:07:37.980 --> 0:07:41.130 but his work goes on. That's on his tombstone. That's right. 0:07:41.130 --> 0:07:45.630 And that's what God is telling him. Hey, listen. He's dead. 0:07:45.660 --> 0:07:47.850 They've been mourning for 30 days. Tell them to get 0:07:47.850 --> 0:07:51.390 up and get over there and claim that promise. One 0:07:51.390 --> 0:07:54.090 monkey don't stop my show. Now get this. Let me 0:07:54.090 --> 0:07:55.590 give one illustration here, about three of them, just to 0:07:55.650 --> 0:07:57.330 give you one. Can I give one? Say give one. Okay. 0:07:57.330 --> 0:08:00.990 Thank you for the permission. Chapter one of Isaiah. Was 0:08:00.990 --> 0:08:04.950 he a believer? Yes. Was he preaching? Yes. What's he 0:08:04.980 --> 0:08:10.650 say in chapter six? In the year that King Uzziah died. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.790 I also saw the Lord. Now get this. He didn't 0:08:14.790 --> 0:08:18.990 see the Lord in all of his glory. Until Uzziah died. 0:08:18.990 --> 0:08:23.520 Which means? Then for five chapters of preaching, he's preaching, 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.120 but not in the fullness of knowing who God is. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.920 So what happens? Uzziah had the. There's something about Uzziah. 0:08:31.950 --> 0:08:33.179 I don't have time to tell you about him. You 0:08:33.179 --> 0:08:34.830 ought to read about him. He was a great king 0:08:34.830 --> 0:08:38.969 that usurped his vision of God. Now he didn't need 0:08:38.970 --> 0:08:41.250 to use the word also that preposition. But here's what 0:08:41.250 --> 0:08:44.579 it means. Here's what it means. He died. And at 0:08:44.580 --> 0:08:47.489 the same time I saw God. Here's my point I'm 0:08:47.490 --> 0:08:50.730 going to make it and move on. What? Uzziah is 0:08:50.730 --> 0:08:56.310 keeping you from fullness of God. What? Uzziah? You know 0:08:56.309 --> 0:09:01.890 why I asked you that? Because Uzziah has to die 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:07.260 before you see God in His fullness. When you ask somebody, 0:09:07.290 --> 0:09:11.609 who's your Uzziah who had to ask somebody, what's your Uzziah? 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.510 Don't have to be a person. And so what happens, man? 0:09:15.540 --> 0:09:18.510 God says, listen, get people out of the way. You 0:09:18.510 --> 0:09:20.520 heard about two lines in heaven. You got to tell 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.800 you about it. Two lines in heaven, you know. And 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.650 there was one line, and it was like hundreds of 0:09:25.650 --> 0:09:27.870 millions of men in that line. And the sign said 0:09:27.870 --> 0:09:31.770 men who were dominated by their wives on earth. Then 0:09:31.770 --> 0:09:34.170 there was another line with a sign that said men 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.439 who were never dominated by their wives on earth, and 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.200 that line where men were dominated by their wives on earth. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.429 Pastor Betts was there. I was there, Brother Yarborough was there. 0:09:44.460 --> 0:09:47.850 The newlywed Minister Swim's was there. We were all in 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.180 that line. Well, then all the men in this church 0:09:51.179 --> 0:09:52.920 that were married were in there, and there was only 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.410 one person in the other line. It was Pastor Green. 0:09:55.410 --> 0:09:57.450 So they said, Pastor Ford, go over there and ask 0:09:57.450 --> 0:10:01.000 Pastor Green. We all in this line that said everybody 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.760 was dominated by their wives on earth, and he's the 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.059 only one over there that that was never dominated by 0:10:07.059 --> 0:10:09.010 his wife. Go over here and see how it is. 0:10:09.010 --> 0:10:11.890 He got to be over in that line by himself. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.739 I said, no, the green. The guys want me to 0:10:14.740 --> 0:10:18.250 ask you, why are you over here? Elder green said, 0:10:18.250 --> 0:10:20.589 I don't know, I'm just standing where my wife told 0:10:20.590 --> 0:10:23.890 me to stand. All I got to say is, who 0:10:23.890 --> 0:10:27.520 has to die before you believe God? Now it could 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:32.410 be this. Why is he so intimidated? Because Moses was big. 0:10:32.530 --> 0:10:36.250 Moses was. He's the lawgiver. He was his servant. He 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.670 was the first line Moses servant. He was the assistant. 0:10:39.700 --> 0:10:42.460 Now he's stepping into some big shoes and he might 0:10:42.460 --> 0:10:44.800 be afraid. You know what? I'm gonna go here and 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.569 try to take him across Jordan. And you going to 0:10:46.570 --> 0:10:48.580 tell me to tell the people to put their foot in, 0:10:48.580 --> 0:10:52.360 and they're going to say, we a rod stretching church. See, 0:10:52.390 --> 0:10:55.300 under Moses, we ain't stepped no foot in no water. 0:10:55.300 --> 0:10:59.650 Moses came to the water and he raised the rod. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.750 You know what that means? There are people who are 0:11:02.750 --> 0:11:06.980 afraid to do what they've already done. There are people 0:11:06.980 --> 0:11:10.910 who only want to do what they've always done. And 0:11:10.910 --> 0:11:13.490 you got individuals who are coming in. I told you 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.620 last week, I'm gonna say it again. Some of us 0:11:15.620 --> 0:11:18.920 got to be very careful because we see new people 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.520 sometimes as an intrusion when God gave them to us 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.820 as an infusion. Gotta be careful, gotta be careful, gotta 0:11:25.820 --> 0:11:28.189 be careful. And so what do you mean? He could 0:11:28.220 --> 0:11:30.500 have said all that. Let me, let me let me 0:11:30.500 --> 0:11:31.460 give it to you. Let me give it to you 0:11:31.460 --> 0:11:33.170 and get you on out of here. Then the second 0:11:33.170 --> 0:11:38.150 one is the past. He represents the past. And they're saying, man, 0:11:38.150 --> 0:11:40.429 we haven't done it this way before. I mean, every 0:11:40.460 --> 0:11:42.830 time I make a change, somebody asked me a question 0:11:42.830 --> 0:11:45.260 when I. When I made a change because the Bible 0:11:45.260 --> 0:11:47.540 says we ought to have elders and we had elders 0:11:47.540 --> 0:11:50.059 and deacons instead of deacons and trustees. And we got 0:11:50.059 --> 0:11:53.449 rid of trustees, and I got a call from one 0:11:53.450 --> 0:11:57.140 of my good friends. You went Pentecostal? What do you mean? 0:11:57.230 --> 0:12:00.660 You're Elder Ford and Elder Ward, and I said, I 0:12:00.660 --> 0:12:04.350 ain't go Pentecostal. I went Bible. Went Bible. The Bible 0:12:04.380 --> 0:12:10.620 says this says, is there anybody here that believes the Bible? Oh, Amen. Amen. Amen. 0:12:10.650 --> 0:12:13.559 And so here it is. Break out the box. Why? 0:12:13.590 --> 0:12:16.410 Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly 0:12:16.410 --> 0:12:18.300 above all that we could ask or think, according to 0:12:18.330 --> 0:12:22.020 his mighty working power in us? What are you talking about, 0:12:22.020 --> 0:12:25.830 Pastor Ford? The great commission. It is ours. Go ye 0:12:25.860 --> 0:12:28.380 therefore in all the world and preach the gospel to 0:12:28.410 --> 0:12:32.460 every creature. Folk, listen, listen. Now, there's some good things 0:12:32.460 --> 0:12:35.640 about the past, but the past has a tendency to 0:12:35.670 --> 0:12:38.069 drag us in it. I was, I was, I was 0:12:38.070 --> 0:12:42.449 in a store and I was shopping. This was last week. 0:12:42.450 --> 0:12:46.260 And on the box it came on, it was heat wave. 0:12:46.260 --> 0:12:51.330 And me. Me and the cart just start tearing it up. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.360 I was bumping with the cart, going down the aisle, 0:12:54.390 --> 0:12:58.320 bumping with the cart. Then I heard, Pastor Ford, what 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.429 are you doing? I said, oh, I got a little 0:13:00.429 --> 0:13:04.000 crick in my back. Got a little crick in my back. 0:13:04.030 --> 0:13:06.970 Uh uh. I've been watching you all the whole hour. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.170 You went back. You went back. I said, you're right, 0:13:11.170 --> 0:13:14.650 I went back. Yeah. And it drew me back. And 0:13:14.650 --> 0:13:17.140 it wasn't all good stuff. It drew me back, too. 0:13:17.170 --> 0:13:19.569 Here's the last one. Here's the last one, he says 0:13:19.570 --> 0:13:22.420 in spite of the problem, he says, he says this. Jordan. Okay, 0:13:22.420 --> 0:13:25.780 check this out. If I said this pulpit, uh, you 0:13:25.780 --> 0:13:29.260 know what that means? I'm pointing to it. God is 0:13:29.260 --> 0:13:31.839 pointing to the Jordan. Now, what do you know about 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.770 the Jordan at this time? It's swelling. He's pointing to 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.250 where he's got to go and cross to get to 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.210 his promise. He's pointing to it. But right now it's 0:13:43.210 --> 0:13:46.719 overflowing and can't be crossed. Don't miss that. I don't 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.180 have to explain everything. Do I know you got that? 0:13:49.210 --> 0:13:54.910 He's pointing to that provision that's across that problem. This. Jordan, 0:13:54.910 --> 0:13:57.849 there's the problem. Now here it is. God said, here's 0:13:57.850 --> 0:13:59.290 what I want you to do. I want you to 0:13:59.290 --> 0:14:02.150 do whatever you can, and then what you can't do, 0:14:02.179 --> 0:14:05.420 I can. And then. So you come to the river. 0:14:05.450 --> 0:14:07.640 That's what he tells them in chapter three. You come 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.890 to the river, stop there because you can't go any further, 0:14:09.890 --> 0:14:12.290 and then I'll take over. But get this, I want 0:14:12.290 --> 0:14:15.230 you to put your foot in it while it's overrunning. 0:14:15.260 --> 0:14:19.130 Don't wait until the problem's over. You step on it 0:14:19.130 --> 0:14:23.870 before the problem's over, because you trust God to deal 0:14:23.870 --> 0:14:26.720 with the problem. And when they stepped in the water, 0:14:26.750 --> 0:14:28.130 the water became a wall. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.330 This is treasure truth. With Pastor Ford really pointing out 0:14:32.330 --> 0:14:35.060 the importance of just understanding what God has called us 0:14:35.060 --> 0:14:38.510 to do, and then walking or acting in obedience. I 0:14:38.510 --> 0:14:40.490 don't know about you. Sometimes I feel that little nudge 0:14:40.490 --> 0:14:42.980 in the spirit to support some type of ministry. And 0:14:42.980 --> 0:14:46.250 maybe you're considering giving a gift to treasure truth. If 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.320 you're kind of feeling that little nudge right now and 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.850 you'd like to give a gift to support so we 0:14:49.850 --> 0:14:52.370 can continue to bring you Pastor Ford's teaching each day. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.190 Just come to treasure Truth Radio org and click on 0:14:55.190 --> 0:14:57.950 the donate button. Well, let's get back to the message 0:14:57.950 --> 0:14:59.870 once again. Pastor Ford. 0:15:00.050 --> 0:15:04.580 What you have here in this particular book is you 0:15:04.580 --> 0:15:09.410 have Joshua as the Jesus who's taking us through sanctification. See, 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:14.000 Pharaoh represents the devil and Egypt represents the world. And 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:18.800 making bricks without straw represents how sin dogs you out. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.430 And then the Red sea represents salvation. Why? Because you 0:15:22.460 --> 0:15:25.400 cross over the Red sea and you come across on 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.200 dry land. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.060 a new creature. They're going into a new land. It's 0:15:29.060 --> 0:15:32.900 new everything. And so the Red sea then closes. Why? 0:15:32.930 --> 0:15:36.650 Because our salvation is separated by the cross of Jesus Christ, 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.770 on which he died. So the Red sea represents the salvation. 0:15:39.770 --> 0:15:42.770 Those who are unbelievers died, and they're going to hell 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.890 because of the cross. And we are alive. We can 0:15:45.890 --> 0:15:48.770 never go back because justification is once and for all. 0:15:48.770 --> 0:15:51.440 It's done by God. Therefore, even when they talked about 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.330 going back, they couldn't go back because who was going 0:15:53.330 --> 0:15:55.460 to open up the Red sea? Now they wander in 0:15:55.460 --> 0:15:59.420 the wilderness that represents Betweeners say, Betweeners, what's the betweener? 0:15:59.420 --> 0:16:02.160 It's a person who is really saved but ain't living 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.570 like it because they're stuck between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.600 The Holy Spirit is resident Good Friday, but he's not 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.440 President Resurrection Sunday, so they're in betweeners. They're living a 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.650 carnal life, which is represented by wandering in the wilderness 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.130 and unbelief and not taking the possessions and the promise 0:16:20.130 --> 0:16:24.870 of God. But then Joshua represents Jesus in sanctification, where 0:16:24.870 --> 0:16:26.160 he says, come unto me, all ye that labor and 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.619 are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. That's justification. 0:16:28.620 --> 0:16:32.370 Take take my yoke upon you, and take. Be a taker. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.410 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me. For 0:16:34.410 --> 0:16:35.910 I am meek and lowly of heart, and you shall 0:16:35.910 --> 0:16:39.180 find rest. That's Cain and rest. That's complete rest. And 0:16:39.180 --> 0:16:41.460 so here it is, consecrated rest. And so you can 0:16:41.460 --> 0:16:45.210 have that rest. But he gets them across, because Canaan 0:16:45.210 --> 0:16:48.090 is not a picture of heaven, because you don't fight 0:16:48.090 --> 0:16:50.520 in heaven. Now we fight in church, but you don't 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.130 fight in heaven. So what's he saying? Here it is. 0:16:53.130 --> 0:16:55.860 You don't fight for victory. You fight from victory. So 0:16:55.860 --> 0:16:58.890 it's Ephesians. Put on the whole armor of God that 0:16:58.890 --> 0:17:01.090 you may be able to stand against the wiles of 0:17:01.090 --> 0:17:04.030 the devil. Put on all of it. Now get this. 0:17:04.030 --> 0:17:06.100 And I and I close. And you've been so gracious. 0:17:06.130 --> 0:17:09.250 During my summer vacation, I went to different churches. I 0:17:09.250 --> 0:17:12.130 went to four different churches. Some of the young, up 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.290 and coming preachers, I went to their churches. One of 0:17:14.290 --> 0:17:16.660 them was Charlie Church. And when I go, I sit 0:17:16.660 --> 0:17:18.430 in the back and they say, That's Pastor Ford back there. 0:17:18.460 --> 0:17:21.070 Leave me alone. Leave me alone. I'm on vacation. Well, 0:17:21.070 --> 0:17:23.980 come and pray for us. No, no, I'm sticking right 0:17:23.980 --> 0:17:26.920 back here. I ain't I'm not saying anything. I'm not 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.370 doing anything. And they say you're on vacation. Yeah, because 0:17:30.369 --> 0:17:32.649 if I'm a good pastor, I need a break from them. 0:17:32.650 --> 0:17:34.210 And if I'm a poor pastor, they need a break 0:17:34.210 --> 0:17:36.790 from me. I say both of them's going on. And then. 0:17:36.820 --> 0:17:39.160 And then he closed and I said, I'm using that. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.500 I'm using that when I go back. He said, when 0:17:41.500 --> 0:17:43.240 he came there, he's only been there three years, and 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.880 God has taken him from 100 to 1000 in three years. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.850 That man, that's great growth. And and so he said 0:17:48.850 --> 0:17:50.950 when he went in, there was a big awkward piano 0:17:50.950 --> 0:17:54.700 on the stage and they needed more stage. So he said, man, 0:17:54.700 --> 0:17:56.380 I need to get rid of that piano. But he 0:17:56.380 --> 0:18:00.740 found out that that piano was 78 years old, and 0:18:00.740 --> 0:18:03.050 some of the members had given their money to get 0:18:03.050 --> 0:18:06.050 that piano. So he knew as a wise pastor, if 0:18:06.050 --> 0:18:08.630 you move that piano, they're going to throw you up 0:18:08.630 --> 0:18:12.560 out of here. Amen. Because some things you just don't touch. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.780 You're doing sitting in my seat. I've been sitting in 0:18:14.810 --> 0:18:17.090 that seat for 25 years. I've been sitting in that 0:18:17.090 --> 0:18:19.490 seat as long as Pastor Ford been a pastor at 0:18:19.490 --> 0:18:21.950 this church. You're in my seat. And so and so 0:18:21.980 --> 0:18:26.750 he said, well, let's fix it. So he called a 0:18:26.750 --> 0:18:28.820 piano company. They came in and looked at it and 0:18:28.820 --> 0:18:30.890 they said, I'll tell you what, we'll give you a 0:18:30.890 --> 0:18:35.840 brand new electric baby, grand piano and some money. Just 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.690 give us that. He wasn't born. He was born at night, 0:18:38.690 --> 0:18:41.659 but not last night, he said. I said to myself, 0:18:41.660 --> 0:18:43.910 wait a minute. They're going to give me a brand 0:18:43.940 --> 0:18:49.610 new electric baby, grand piano and money for this old thing. Uh, 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.790 so guess who he called? He called in the same 0:18:52.790 --> 0:18:56.870 guy that fixes our stuff. The old guy from Indiana, 0:18:57.020 --> 0:18:59.550 he came in and he said, let me tell you 0:18:59.550 --> 0:19:02.790 this piano. They wanted to give me this. He said, 0:19:02.790 --> 0:19:05.430 let me see. He opened the. What do you call 0:19:05.430 --> 0:19:11.760 that thing? This. The lead. I thought I had to tinkle. 0:19:11.790 --> 0:19:15.600 He opened the lid. He looked in. He said, uh huh. 0:19:15.810 --> 0:19:18.300 He said, let me tell you something, pastor. Don't you 0:19:18.330 --> 0:19:22.040 sell that piano. He said, it's worth more than 3 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:26.460 or 4 brand new baby grand pianos and money broke. 0:19:26.490 --> 0:19:27.899 He said, well, wait a minute. He just looked at it. 0:19:27.900 --> 0:19:29.730 He said, no, you you missed it. He said, I 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.710 looked in there. It didn't look like anything to me. 0:19:31.740 --> 0:19:33.930 He said, let me show you what you missed. And 0:19:33.930 --> 0:19:35.609 he looked in there. And you know what? He missed 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:40.890 the name. The name in the piano was Steinway. It 0:19:40.890 --> 0:19:50.550 was a handcrafted, handmade piano worth about 200,000. Broke, broke. 0:19:50.580 --> 0:19:54.119 What's the name of this book? Joshua. Do you know 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.960 what the equivalent is in the New Testament? Jesus. It 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.419 means the same in Hebrew, Yahweh is Savior, and you 0:20:01.420 --> 0:20:05.800 shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:10.270 people from their sin. His name means Yahweh is Savior. 0:20:10.750 --> 0:20:14.109 Do you know what you have in the name? There's 0:20:14.109 --> 0:20:17.949 healing in the name of Jesus. There's power in the 0:20:17.950 --> 0:20:22.120 name of Jesus. There's joy and peace in the name 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:26.560 of Jesus. And so that's the name we can possess it. Why? 0:20:26.590 --> 0:20:31.630 Because everything we want. John 15. If you ask anything 0:20:31.630 --> 0:20:34.869 in my name, all I do is get a checkbook 0:20:34.869 --> 0:20:38.949 from heaven. And I write in, in the name of Jesus. Lord, 0:20:38.950 --> 0:20:43.330 I claim this in the name of Jesus. That's the name. Oh, 0:20:43.330 --> 0:20:46.660 you know Jesus, the one who spoke the nothing and 0:20:46.660 --> 0:20:50.500 nothing listened to his voice until nothing that was not 0:20:50.500 --> 0:20:55.270 became everything that is. Yeah. Jesus, Jesus. Yeah. The one 0:20:55.270 --> 0:20:58.899 in Hebrews 11 three that said he spoke the world 0:20:58.900 --> 0:21:03.070 worlds into existence. He said. Light, be and light was 0:21:03.100 --> 0:21:06.850 the Jesus or the one who made wet water come 0:21:06.850 --> 0:21:10.810 out of a dry rock? Jesus, that's the one. Yeah. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:15.580 The one who turned a waterway into a parkway and 0:21:15.580 --> 0:21:19.119 a freeway. Yeah. Jesus. That's the name. That's the name 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:23.350 that's above every name. Jesus. Yeah. The one who turns 0:21:23.350 --> 0:21:29.320 some sardines and some crackers into a Moby Dick sandwich. Jesus. 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.889 The great provider. The one who turned the praise team 0:21:32.890 --> 0:21:39.280 into the United Forces of the United States of America. Jesus. Yeah. 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.330 That one who said everything that you need is found 0:21:43.330 --> 0:21:47.109 in me, in his life. Jesus is our example. First 0:21:47.109 --> 0:21:51.010 Peter 221 and his death Jesus is our Redeemer. First 0:21:51.010 --> 0:21:54.880 Corinthians 15 three and his burial Jesus is our scapegoat. 0:21:54.880 --> 0:22:02.600 Romans 425. In his bodily Resurrection. He's our justification. Romans 425. 0:22:02.630 --> 0:22:06.080 Jesus didn't break out of the tomb. Jesus walked out 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:09.800 of the tomb. Why? Because there's power in the name 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.340 of Jesus, he and his ascension. He is the head 0:22:13.340 --> 0:22:17.600 of the church. First Colossians 118 and 19. In his 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.260 second coming, he's the hope of the believer, the blessed hope, 0:22:21.260 --> 0:22:25.250 and for all of eternity. Jesus is our God and King, 0:22:25.250 --> 0:22:29.359 the King of kings and the Lord of Lords. Everything 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:33.200 that I need is found in him. I can do 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:37.639 all things through Christ who strengthens me. There are no limitations. 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:41.090 There are no barriers. Take the lid off. Break out 0:22:41.090 --> 0:22:44.780 the box. Come on, Christ Bible, let's do this thing. 0:22:44.810 --> 0:22:47.750 It's in the name of Jesus that we need to 0:22:47.750 --> 0:22:57.440 do it. Come on, help me call that name Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:02.700 Because there's power in that name. There's redemption in that name. 0:23:02.700 --> 0:23:06.450 There's salvation in that name. For there is no other 0:23:06.450 --> 0:23:12.449 name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Amen. 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:18.000 Amen, indeed. Well, you're listening to Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford. 0:23:18.030 --> 0:23:21.840 A message entitled takers from Joshua, chapter one. Love. How? 0:23:21.869 --> 0:23:23.909 No matter where Pastor Ford is in the Bible, all 0:23:23.910 --> 0:23:25.200 the way back in the Old Testament, in the book 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.109 of Joshua, he's beaten a path to Jesus because it 0:23:28.109 --> 0:23:31.320 is all about him. Well, I'm glad that you've tuned 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.690 in today, and if you ever miss part of this 0:23:33.690 --> 0:23:36.660 series entitled takers from Joshua one, come to our website. 0:23:36.660 --> 0:23:41.490 Listen online at Treasure Truth radio.org. Thanks for listening today 0:23:41.490 --> 0:23:44.040 and thanks to our producer, Amy Rios for Pastor Ford, 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:47.609 I'm Steve Hiller. Treasure truth is a production of Moody Radio, 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.129 a ministry of Moody Bible Institute.