<TITLE>07. Par 57-66</TITLE>L-57 And the Lord spoke to him, and said, "As I was with Moses, so will I be with you." That's good enough for Joshua. Said, "Be strong and very courageous, for the Lord thy God is with thee wherever thou goest. And every place the soles of your foot shall set, that I have given you." Then, footprints meant possession. The whole land belonged to them. It was a promise.

L-58   Way before it ever happened, when he come down there with Caleb and the other spies, and they seen the great opposition, the Amalekites, and--and the Perizzites, and Hittites, and so forth, all fenced in, and there at Jericho could run a chariot race on top of the--of the place, and great strong man. That, some of the--the unbelieving among them, said, "Why, we look like grasshoppers by the side of them."

L-59 But Caleb said, and Joshua, "We are more than able to take it."

L-60 Why? God said, "I have given you this land." No matter what the opposition is, how great and--and the--the--the difficults look, yet God said it was theirs. Oh! God is able to keep what He has promised.

L-61 It was a paradox, to see a handful of people, unarmed, almost, but what they had picked up on the deserts, and where they had chased other man, probably with such as old rakes and saws, and whatever they could get a hold of. Go in there and beat those man down, that were giants. It was a paradox. God knew that they had courage to do it. And He give them the promise, and they went in and performed exactly what God promised them to do.

L-62   One day, in the heat of the battle, when the kings had made a great covenant among themself and had come down against Joshua and the children of Israel. That, God had promised them the land. And he had routed the enemy, and they were in the woods and hills, scattered out through the wilderness there, and Joshua looked and he seen the sun going down. He knew if those armies got a chance to replace themselves and--and come back again at him, why, he know that he would have twice as hard a time and would probably lose more man, if they ever got a place to unite themselves together.

L-63   There is where, ministers, there is where we fail. There is where the church fails. When this revival that we've just had, this great campaigns that started across the country, when we had the enemy running, we should kept him on the run. But, the thing of it is, we have to go off just on tantrums and so forth, and big sprees of building and "making more for our groups," and so forth. And there you come, and separating ourselves from the Word, and taking this, that, and then building up some more of their organizations, and starting something else. That's the way it always goes. That's the way it was in the days of Luther, Wesley, and Moody, Sankey, Finney, Knox, Calvin, all the way down. It's been the same way. They get their eyes off of the--the revival, and get it onto what they can do for themselves.

L-64   But you know what happened? Joshua wasn't that type of a man. He needed time. The sun was going down, and he knowed if the enemy ever built up... The revival was almost at the end of the close of it, like we stand today. He knew if he ever waited till the enemy got fortified against him, it would be hard to win that battle. You know what he did? He knowed that God promised that land. He needed more time. So the sun was about to go down, then he said, "Sun, stand still." Amen. A paradox, indeed. And that sun stood there for a full day, and never moved; and the moon over Ajalon, never moved, also.

L-65 Because, the Bible said here, that, "It was never a time before, or since, like it, that God hearkened to a voice of a man."
You say, "Oh, if I knowed we just lived in that day!"

L-66 Jesus said, in Saint Mark 11: 24, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you've said." Still grace, and the paradox, on down into our age. Sure.


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