len rivers but it always goes straight on with an eye single to the glory of God Himself. I am sure that the story is familiar to all of us as to how the children of Israel marched each day around the mighty walls and on the seventh day they moved around the city seven times. All of the people were quiet, there, was no sound except the sound of the blowing of the horn. They uttered not a word and there were no questions. Faith never questions but moves forward. Certainly they did not understand and for six days their faith was tested but on the seventh day it testified and a mighty shout of triumph went up before the face of the. Lord. The increased activity near the end is surely significant of the increased ac tivities found today among God’s true children as the end of the age of grace begins to draw nigh. It is quite signi ficant to notice that the children of Israel were to take nothing from the city that was conquered. They were not to lean upon what they had con quered. They were to draw daily upon the Lord. You and I are to count heavi ly upon the Lord even in the hour of spiritual victory. It is so easy to lean upon what we have accumulated and 10
, “Whatsoever is born of God over- cometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (1 John 5 :4 ). W e want to share with you the idea that out of the land of Israel and out of the history of this earthly people of God, God is bringing a people by faith into the Land of Promise and so we find that in the land of Canaan Joshua did not argue with the Lord as to the frailty of his own military powers nor the lack of equipment. Immediately he called for the priests and the people, and in Joshua 6:6 we read very clearly that God brought them a real spiritual vic tory. “Faith without works is dead.” Ac tion is a necessary thing and now God having spoken, it was time to go forth, hence the call issued by their leader Joshua. Mere empty profession is not to be mistaken for. true faith. Painted fire will never boil an egg. Later on we read, in Joshua 6, verse 12 that Joshua arose early in the morning. You see this mighty man was full of zeal and he was ready to go the limit for the Lord. True faith never worries about the circumstances nor the swol
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