Claiming your Canaan
Joshua 5:1-15
Isaiah 55:8-9
“8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “ For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Claiming your Canaan
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
“3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down
strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high
thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ”
Claiming your Canaan
1. Renewing their convenant with the Lord.
Joshua 5:2-5
“2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives
for yourself, and circumcise the sons of Israel again the
second time.” 3 So Joshua made flint knives for himself,
and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the
foreskins. 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised
them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were
males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the
way, after they had come out of Egypt. 5 For all the people
who came out had been circumcised, but all the people
born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of
Egypt, had not been circumcised.”
Claiming your Canaan
Colossians 3:1-17
2 Corinthians 6:17
“17 Therefore
„Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.‟”
Claiming your Canaan
Deuteronomy 10:16
“16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart,
and be stiff-necked no longer.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
“17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; old things have passed away; behold, all
things have become new.”
Claiming your Canaan
2. Re-affirming their confidence in the Lord.
Joshua 5:8
“8 So it was, when they had finished circumcising all
the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp
till they were healed.”
Claiming your Canaan
1. Noah was protected in the ark while the rest of
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humanity perished. (Gen. 6:9)
The first-born of Israel were spared while the
Egyptian children died. (Ex. 12)
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were spared
from the fire. (Dan. 3)
Daniel was spared from the lions. (Dan. 6)
Elisha was fed by the ravens and by a poor widow.
(1 Kings 17)
Paul was given grace for his race. (2 Cor. 12)
Claiming your Canaan
3. Removing their condemnation by the Lord.
Exodus 32:1-12: Numbers 11:14
Psalm 103:12
“12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us”
Isaiah 38:17
“17 Indeed it was for my own peace
That I had great bitterness;
But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of
corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.”
Claiming your Canaan
Isaiah 43:25
“25 „I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions
for My own sake;
And I will not remember your sins.‟”
Jeremiah 50:20; Micah 7:19; 1 John 1:7-9.
Claiming your Canaan
4. Remembering the commitment of the Lord.
Joshua 5:10-12
“10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and
kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month
at twilight on the plains of Jericho. 11 And they ate of
the produce of the land on the day after the Passover,
unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very
same day. 12 Then the manna ceased on the day after
they had eaten the produce of the land; and the
children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate
the food of the land of Canaan that year.”
Claiming your Canaan
a. He called us in love.
b. He saved us by grace.
c. He forgave our trespasses.
d. He kept us when we fell.
e. He conquered our enemies in the past.
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He gave us victory when there seemed to be no
hope.
Claiming your Canaan
Joshua 5:11-12
“11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day
after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched
grain, on the very same day. 12 Then the manna
ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of
the land; and the children of Israel no longer had
manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan
that year.”
Claiming your Canaan
Exodus 16:3
“3 And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we
had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt,
when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate
bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this
wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Claiming your Canaan
5. Recognizing the control of the Lord.
Joshua 5:13-15
“13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him
with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and
said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”
14 So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD
I have now come.”
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said
to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”
15 Then the Commander of the LORD‟s army said to Joshua,
“Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is
holy.” And Joshua did so.”
Claiming your Canaan
a. The final step in getting ready
b. This is a lesson that we must learn
c. Let‟s not miss the great blessing
1 Samuel 17:47
“47 Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD
does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is
the LORD‟s, and He will give you into our hands.”