THE PROMISED LAND PATTERN
Exodus 34, Judges 2 & Joshua 4
What Is NEXT For First Baptist? – Part 3 of 4
THE PROMISED LAND PATTERN IS A CALL TO …
REALIZE THE Culture Is Not Nourishing OUR FAITH [Exodus 34.11-16]
Deuteronomy 9.1 “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you …” (esv)
v. 16 “… and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.” (esv)
Proverbs 14.12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” (niv)
Matthew 13.22 “As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.” (esv)
RESIST THE Pressure To Redefine OUR FAITH [Judges 2.7, 10-14]
v. 10 “And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.” (esv)
v. 12 “… they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt.” (esv)
v. 14 “… they could no longer withstand their enemies.” (esv)
RELAY THE Power That Defines OUR FAITH [Joshua 4.6–7]
vv. 6-7a “When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’ then you shall tell them …” (esv)
- RELAY IT Doctrinally
Matthew 28.20 “… teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” (esv)
- RELAY IT Personally
Philippians 3.8 “… I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord …” (niv)