So, You Think You Got It All Figured Out?
Joshua 16-17
July 26, 2026
Memory Verse: Joshua 21:45 Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; everything came to pass.
- A reminder of God’s ways
- A reminder of God’s word
- A deviation from God’s plan
- A discontent with God’s gift
- A Reminder of God’s Ways - 16:1-4
- Joshua 16:1-4
- Genesis 48:1-5
- Chart of Mothers of 12 tribes of Israel
- Genesis 29:25-26 So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this that you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?” (26) But Laban said, “It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.
- Genesis 29:30 So Jacob had relations with Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.
- 1 Chronicles 5:1-2 Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; so he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright. Though Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came the leader, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),
- Genesis 48:5-13
- Genesis 48:14-19
- Genesis 48:20-22
- Joshua 16:5
- Genesis 49:8-12
- “God is never prisoner of what fallen man regards as normal”
- 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 For consider your calling, brothers and sisters, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the insignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no human may boast before God.
- Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.
- A Reminder of God’s Word – 17:3-6
- Joshua 17:3-6
- Numbers 27:1-7
- Numbers 36:6-13
- A Deviation from God’s Plan – 17:7-13
- Joshua 17:7-13
- Exodus 23:23-33
- Exodus 34:11-16
- Deuteronomy 7:1-6
- Failure:
- Judah – could not drive out the Jebusites – 15:63
- Ephraim – did not drive out the Canaanites – 16:10
- Manasseh –
- Canaanites persisted in living in this land – 17:12
- They did not drive them out completely – 17:13
- A Discontent with God’s Gift – 17:14-18
- Joshua 17:14-18
- Deuteronomy 7:17-22
- Deuteronomy 20:1-4
- Application
- A reminder of God’s ways
- Is your life bringing glory to God?
- A reminder of God’s word
- Are you living by God’s promises?
- A deviation from God’s plan
- Are you allowing sin to remain close?
- A discontent with God’s gift
- Are you wanting or are you thankful?
