Sermon Series: “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua”
Sermon Text: Joshua 13:1-14
Sermon Title: “Canaan: Its Significance for Our Inheritance”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide
SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: The Promise Made through Abraham is a Promise Kept through Joshua. Canaan is Israel’s Inheritance … But Our Inheritance Goes Beyond Canaan.
SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Significance of Israel’s Inheritance … The Land of Canaan.
SLIDE 4 – 1st Principle (from Point 1): “Our salvation is always more than being saved from somewhere. It’s also being saved to somewhere.”
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SLIDE 6 – 2nd Principle (from Point 1): “God keeps His promises … and time always proves it.”
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SLIDE 8 – Romans 5:1 – “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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SLIDE 10 – Joshua 18:1 – “Then the whole congregation of … Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.”
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SLIDE 12 – Picture (see attached)
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SLIDE 14 – 3rd Principle (from Point 1): “Our salvation is by God’s sovereign grace alone, but so is our inheritance. And our inheritance varies by degree.”
SLIDE 15 – Luke 19:11-17 – “[Jesus] said therefore, ‘A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come’ … When he returned … the 1st came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ And he said to him, “Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.”
SLIDE 16 – 4th Principle (from Point 1): “God rewards the faithfulness of His individual children. But rewards are not earned by our works but are given by God’s grace alone.”
SLIDE 17 – Conclusion: “The Significance of Israel’s Inheritance in Canaan is that God is revealed both as the Sovereign Savior of His Family and as a Generous Father who Gives to His Children as He Pleases.”
SLIDE 18 – Point 2: The Significance of Our Inheritance … Goes Beyond Canaan.
SLIDE 19 – Hebrews 11:8-16 – “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance … By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land … For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God … If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.”
SLIDE 20 – Hebrews 4:8-9 – “For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.”
SLIDE 21 – Principle (from Point 2): “Don’t go backwards in the story, when God is directing you forward. Therefore, don’t try to make your heaven on earth now.”
SLIDE 22 – Conclusion: “The Land of Canaan was a type of Heaven on Earth, but it was only the down payment of our inheritance. In Christ Jesus, soon and very soon, a New Canaan will span across the Transformed Earth.”
