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Generation NextAnniversary Sunday 2010
Joshua 3:1-17
Big Idea:• The book of Joshua is basically the book of Ephesians illustrated.
Big Need:• Many times our deeds contradict our dreams.
Thesis:• Life is not a matter of
chance but a matter of choice, and you increase your chances when you make the right choices.
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF HAVING
FIRST CLASS SEATING TO THE WRONG DESTINATION1. When we give heed to
dwelling on heartbreak it hinders making clear decisions
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF HAVING
FIRST CLASS SEATING TO THE WRONG DESTINATION1. When we give heed to
dwelling on heartbreak it hinders making clear decisions
2. When we make decisions in a hurry and do not check the facts we often end up on the wrong tracks
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF HAVING
FIRST CLASS SEATING TO THE WRONG DESTINATION3. When we ask someone who
really doesn’t know, we get advice that is really not correct
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF HAVING
FIRST CLASS SEATING TO THE WRONG DESTINATION3. When we ask someone who
really doesn’t know, we get advice that is really not correct
4. When we get caught-up and carried-away in the current of circumstance we end up pulled in the wrong direction
Point 1.• Delay is not
denial, but often is for our development.
Point 2.• Some people are
designed to get you to your Promised Land, but not through your Promised Land, but just like God had a Moses, God also has a Joshua.
KEYS TO CROSSING OVER
1. You have to engage in preparation before you are ready for God to give you direction to a destination, 1-5
Definition:• Re-run religion is
where the same drama is going on with the same decisions being made resulting in the same outcome being reached.
Point 3.• The only way you’re going
to deal with the unfamiliar and the unknown is to sanctify yourself.
Definition:• To sanctify means to
let some things go, give some things up, and make yourself clean and clear enough to be set apart for what you know God has to give you.
KEYS TO CROSSING OVER
1. You have to engage in preparation before you are ready for God to give you direction to a destination, 1-5
2. You have to advance in anticipation so you are ready for God to give you anointing for your activity, 6-7
Point 4.• When you
have Jordan-like problems, then gaze at God, but just glance at the problem.
KEYS TO CROSSING OVER
3. You have to actualize in life what you have principlized from the Bible, 8-17
Point 5.• Your impossibility is really
your season of transition, where God is putting you in a new position, so he can fulfill the promise he made to you a long time ago.