Title: Failure reveals the true taste of success.
Contents
life is a twist Good things - bad things, happy things - sad things, easy things - hard things
Ecclesiastes 7:14 Rejoice in the days of prosperity, and think in the days of trouble.
Chapter 6 Victory in the Conquest of Jericho
Chapter 7 Failed to capture Ai Castle
Chapter 8 Success in conquering Ai Castle
In the succession of victories and failures, learn the true taste of victory through failure and share grace about the method of victory.
- Absolutely no pride
Enjoy and share the joy of victory and go to occupy the next castle
Ai Castle - a small castle with about 12,000 inhabitants
After spying, about 3,000 men were sent.
After being defeated, about 36 men died, and the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
I wish I could keep winning in a row of victories, but I failed in small places
If they win, they can fall into the pride of winning with their own strength and ability.
Pride is what God hates the most
Pride is saying that you do not have the power of God and that you have done something in your own strength.
There is no God's grace, and he has achieved something through his own efforts.
We can think of God's grace by experiencing failure.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride precedes destruction, and a haughty heart precedes stumbling.
Proverbs 18:12 The pride of a man's heart precedes destruction, and humility precedes honor.
- Not asking God and not following God's ways
How to Occupy Jericho - God's Thorough Way
One lap a day, six days, seven laps on the seventh day
All they did was spin
But what they did in the days of Ai was spying and becoming proud, and did not ask God.
not following God's way
When they returned from defeat, it was only then that Joshua and the elders prayed to God.
Completely reversed the order of things
If God tells them to, they occupy Jericho in that way and in that order.
Humans think, spy and follow human ways
Victory is guaranteed only when you pray to God, ask first, and follow God's way.
Even Jesus must fast and pray for 40 days before starting his public ministry.
A prayer to start the day
Find the cause of failure
Instead of looking for it elsewhere, pray to God and see if you are doing it God’s way.
- Holiness is essential
Occupy Jericho
God's word to kill all men and women, old and young, cattle and donkeys in the city, and separate silver, gold, and copper and iron, and put them in God's treasury
Achan - one cloak, two hundred shekels of silver, and fifty shekels of gold (one shekel -11,4g)
Joshua 7:11 Israel has sinned, and has broken my covenant, which I commanded them: they took the sacrifices, and stole and defrauded them and placed them in their own wares. I will no longer be with you, unless I destroy the offering from among you. Arise, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, says the LORD, the God of Israel, among you, O Israel. You have sacrificed things, and until you remove them from among yourselves, your enemies will not stand against you.
Crime cannot bring success.
The nation of Israel was defeated because of the sin of one man Achan.
There was sin among the people of Israel.
If you do not sanctify and clean it, you will inevitably fail.
Joshua 22:20 Was not wrath come upon the whole congregation of Israel, because Achan the son of Zerah sinned against the sacrifices?
Not only Achan, but Achan's family, livestock, and house all perished. (Valley of Acchan)
If you get hit by an example, you get really scolded
Sin has no example, it must be removed unconditionally.
Romans 5:12-21 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men because all sinned.
19 For just as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous.
Although it is a parable of Adam and Jesus Christ, Achan's crime, which caused the entire nation to fail because of one man, has a huge ripple effect even though it is a very small thing.
It may be a small thing in itself that Adam ate of the fruit of good and evil, but because of that, sin entered the world and the problem of sin that must be solved by people called original sin was connected.
The death of a person on the cross might not have been such a big deal because it was the method of death at that time, but the death of Jesus opened the way for our sins to be resolved.
they pluck out the iniquity
I went back to conquer the city of Ai according to God's method.
There must be victory.
Knowing failure is the only way to know the true taste of victory.
know how to win.
Failure is not the end. Failure is possible.
But after failure there is always victory.
Chapter 7 is a failure, but Chapter 8 is behind it.
If you have tasted the joy of victory, you should never be proud.
You should ask God for even the smallest things and act in God's way.
Sin must be pulled out, even the smallest thing.