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Forgiveness

Sun, 2nd Mar 2014
Gary Iddon
Joshua chapter 7
Summary: 

Achan looked at something, took it and made excuses. He took something that belonged to the Lord and he knew he shouldn't have took it.
God is able to look after his great name. God said that Israel had sinned, he looks at us as a body. We are members of Christ's body.
God does chastise us to let us know if he is not happy with what we are doing. God says there will be no victory until the sin is dealt with.
For God to hear our prayers we need to get rid of our sins. Adam and Eve tried to hide their sin. God is willing to forgive, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin. We will make mistakes we are humans and we have faults. God wants us to be right with him.
When we sin it affects other people. People dies because of Achan's sin.
1) God says that Israel took the gold not Achan. We are a body
2) A painful defeat. God chastises the people. He wasn't with them. They should have sought the Lord and so we should seek the Lord. 36 men died. Israel's confidence was in themselves not in God. Our confidence should be in the Lord. We need Jesus with us all the time, he says he will never leave us nor forsake us.
Joshua's camp was full of fear. We can learn from the Israelites and the Word of God. The bible says to walk by faith and not by sight. We cant live in faith if we have fear. He is everywhere, he knows what is being said and done.
3) A painful discovery. Achan is discovered. If we have sin in our hearts God is not going to hear our prayers. Sin must be dealt with and we must confess our sins asking God to deal with it.
Sometimes we need to examine our own lives and hearts and not blame God. We cannot hide our sin from God, he has a plan for our sin. If we confess he will forgive us. Sin hinders the work of God.
4) A painful death. Achan had a terrible death. If only he had confessed. Achan had an opportunity to confess as God was gracious to him. "Your sins will find you out" It is much easier to put things right than have to clean up afterwards. Achan repented but it wasn't true repentance.
God is merciful and he is willing to sort our problems