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Men and Women of Faith 🔥 and Courage, Joshua (Part 3) Deal with Evils in the Camp

By Pastor and Mrs Chifamba

2 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭

“I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.”

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ONE OF THE UNPLEASANT DUTIES OF LEADERSHIP IS TO REBUKE EVIL IN THE HOME, CHURCH AND COMMUNITY

Isaiah 58:1-2

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭5‬:‭20‬ ‭

“Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.”

Titus‬ ‭1‬:‭12‬-‭13‬ ‭

“One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,”

Today there is need of the voice of stern rebuke; for grievous sins have separated the people from God. Infidelity is fast becoming fashionable. “We will not have this man to reign over us,” is the language of thousands. Luke 19:14. The smooth sermons so often preached make no lasting impression; the trumpet does not give a certain sound. Men are not cut to the heart by the plain, sharp truths of God’s word. – {Prophets and Kings p. 140.2}

Joshua‬ ‭7‬:‭11‬ ‭

“Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff.”

Joshua‬ ‭7‬:‭24‬-‭26‬ ‭

“Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the Valley of Achor. And Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones. Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.”

LEADERS LIKE JOSHUA AND NOT ELI ARE NEEDED TO TODAY. LEADERSHIP IS A GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY

James‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬ ‭

“My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.”

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1 Samuel‬ ‭3‬:‭13‬ ‭

“For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.”

Ezekiel‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬-‭18‬ ‭

““Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.”

MAY WE ALL HAVE THE COURAGE TO REBUKE SIN AND BEAR NO STAIN OF ANYONE’S BLOOD

Acts‬ ‭20‬:‭26‬-‭28‬ ‭

“Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to