SOME THINGS NEVER SEEM TO CHANGE

JOSHUA 9

 

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. THE ENEMIES OF GOD’S PEOPLE

 

1. The Wiles of the World [v. 1-5, 1 John 2:15]

 

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

 

2. The Wiles of the Devil [v. 6-13, John 8:44]

 

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

 

3. The Wiles of the Flesh [v. 12-15, Galatians 5:17]

 

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

 

II. THE MISTAKES OF GOD’S PEOPLE

 

1. Failure to Pray [v. 14a, James 4:2]

 

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

 

2. Failure to Search the Word of God [v. 14b, Luke 6:46]

 

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

 

3. Yoking up with the Unbelievers [v. 15, 2 Corinthians 6:14]

 

III. THE LESSONS OF GOD’S PEOPLE

 

1. Wrong Behavior Opens the Door to Criticism [v. 16-18]

 

2. Wrong Behavior Opens the Door to Compromise [v. 19-27]

 

3. Wrong Behavior Opens the Door to Conflict [10:1-7]