Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons

A Red-Handed Thief and a Red-Handed Savior

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Sermon Series:            The Good Law and The Good Life
Sermon Text:               Exodus 20:15; Joshua 7:1-26
Sermon Title:               “A Red-Handed Thief and A Red-Handed Savior”
Sermon Slides:


    • SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide
    • SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    Stealing Isn’t Just Taking … What Isn’t Yours.

      • Stealing is Also Robbing … What is Only God’s.


        • SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Red-Handed Thievery … God’s Property & Achan’s Sin (Josh. 7:1-18)
              • SLIDE 4 – Exodus 19:5 – “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.”
              • SLIDE 5 – Deuteronomy 20:16-18 – “But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites … that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices.”
              • SLIDE 6 – Joshua 6:16-19 – “Joshua said to the people, ‘Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and … her house shall live … But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest [you] make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction … But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”
              • SLIDE 7 – “Stealing is taking what belongs to another, without their permission. So, stealing not only takes a person’s property unlawfully, and violates a person’s will illegally, but disrespects a person’s honor inhumanly.”
              • SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
              • SLIDE 9 – Genesis 38:27-30 – “When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb. And … one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread … saying, ‘This one came out first.’ But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out … therefore his name was called Perez. Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.”
              • SLIDE 10 – Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”


                  • SLIDE 11 – Point 2: High-Handed Robbery … God’s Glory & Achan’s Punishment. (Josh. 7:19-26)
                        • SLIDE 12 – Genesis 3:6 – “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”
                        • SLIDE 13 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon
                        • SLIDE 14 – Matthew 1:1-3 – “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez … by Tamar.”


                            • SLIDE 15 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week
                                  • SLIDE 16 – Is There Sin in Our Camp … Keeping Us from Victory?
                                  • SLIDE 17 – The 8th Command Applies Not Only to Taking from God … But Withholding from Him.
                                  • SLIDE 18 – Are We About Making Our Church’s Name Great … or God’s Name?
                                  • SLIDE 19 – Which Thief on the Cross … Are You?
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