JOSHUA CHAPTER 12:1-13:33,
“Lands Conquered / Lands To Conquer”
By
Jim Bomkamp
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. In our last study, we looked
at Joshua and the children of
1.1.1. In that study, we saw that
Joshua and the children of Israel went on an all out attack against all of
their enemies and that they pressed on in dividing up and conquering of the
land of Canaan, until they had conquered every one of the strongholds cities of
their enemies.
1.2. In our study today, we are
going to look at chapters 12 and 13.
1.2.1. We will see that chapter 12
gives us a list of the kings and cities conquered by the children of
1.2.1.1.
We will consider the importance of occasionally looking back in time at
the things that the Lord has done in our lives since we have been saved.
1.2.1.1.1.
We know that in the Christian life that there is just one battle after
another which we as Christians go through.
1.2.1.1.1.1.
We get victory in one area of our life only to be challenged in another
area that we thought that we had contained.
1.2.1.1.1.2.
We have victory over the direct assault of the enemy only to have him
come in the back door and cause us to be deceived with his subtlety.
1.2.1.1.1.3.
With the Lord’s help we get through one dry time in a valley He leads
into and we think that we have learned what God has for us, and then not too
long afterwards we often find ourselves in yet another valley and learning the
same lessons yet again.
1.2.1.1.1.4.
Sometimes it seems as if the Lord has forgotten about us and that we
are going to spend our entire life in a position of having to wait upon the
Lord to work and perhaps lead us into that next arena that we have long known
that we have been called to enter.
1.2.1.1.2.
Yet, looking back in this way on the previous victories that the Lord
has for our lives gives us courage and confidence in the Lord that helps us to
persevere and to trust the Lord for victory in our present battles that we are
going through.
1.2.1.1.3.
Looking back in this way from time to time also helps us to remember
the things that the Lord has saved us from, and where our sins were really
leading us, and thus it also helps us to be humble as we see that it was only
the grace of God that has triumphed in our life.
1.2.2. Chapter 13 then gives us a
list of the areas within the
1.2.2.1.
Though the strongholds of the land of Canaan had been brought down,
there was much of the land yet to be conquered, for there were probably more
peoples still living within the land given to the children of Israel even than
the number of those whom they had killed so far in their battles.
1.2.2.2.
We have seen in our study in the book of Joshua that the land of Canaan
symbolizes for us as Christians the blessing and victory that is our
inheritance in Christ as Christians, and that receiving the fullness of that
involves many battles and our stepping out and apprehending those promises that
the Lord has given us, and in our stepping out and reaching people for Christ,
taking back what the Devil has stolen.
1.2.2.3.
However, now that the land of Canaan has had its strongholds conquered
by Joshua and the children of Israel and that the various tribes will now have
to go and take possession of the lands that will be allotted to them, and
conquer their own battles against the people left within the territory allotted
to them, I want us to consider that the land of Canaan also symbolizes “Christ”
for us as Christians. We ought to
then consider how much of “Christ” Himself we have appropriated in our own life:
1.2.2.3.1.
How much of the love of Christ have you appropriated for yourself in
your life and allowed yourself to become a channel of?
1.2.2.3.1.1.
Paul wrote to the Ephesians in chapter 3 of that Epistle a beautiful prayer
for them, and in that prayer he prayed that they would be enlightened so that
they might be able to understand the breadth, length, height, and depth of
Christ’s love, and then he spoke of Christ’s love and said that it even
surpasses knowledge. Christ’s love is
a well, you see, that is deeper than any man has the ability to draw from…
1.2.2.3.2.
How much of the knowledge of God have you availed yourself of?
1.2.2.3.2.1.
Paul wrote of Christ in Colossians chapter 2, and he said, “in whom
are hidden all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
1.2.2.3.2.2.
Knowledge of God comes from His word, and we have to carefully and
thoughtfully study God’s word in order for us to really grow in our knowledge
of the Lord. How much of this land do
you have yet to conquer?
1.2.2.3.3.
How much have you been availing yourself of the wisdom and discernment
that the Lord promises to give us if we will just ask for it in faith (see James 1:5) ?
1.2.2.3.3.1.
I remember as a young believer when I had realized this promise in the
book of James that the Lord will give us wisdom if we ask Him for it, that
there were so many nights that I laid in bed praying and asking the Lord to
give to me His thoughts and wisdom concerning decisions that I would make, and
in discerning His leading. I would ask
the Lord to reason with me and give me insights.
1.2.2.3.4.
Paul wrote that we have been given the mind of Christ, and I just
wonder how much of the Lord’s mind you might have availed yourself of, how much
are you truly thinking His thoughts (see 1 Cor. 2:16) ?
1.2.2.3.4.1.
I believe that the thought life of many Christians is not too different
from that of non-Christians and that it is their own flesh and sinful nature
that dominates in the thoughts of their minds.
1.2.2.3.5.
I wonder how many of the resources of heaven you have been availing
yourself of?
1.2.2.3.5.1.
Jesus taught us that “whatsoever” we ask for in prayer we will receive
(providing we are doing some other things like asking in faith, keeping His
commandments, and praying according to His will), but I wonder how much you
have been availing yourself of the resources of heaven by your praying?
1.2.2.3.5.1.1. Jesus used “limitless
language” when He taught His disciples about prayer, just as He does here
saying “whatsoever.”
1.2.2.3.5.1.2. Remember, James wrote that
we have not because we ask not (see James 4:2).
1.2.2.3.5.2.
I heard the story once of a man who bought a ticket to take an ocean
liner across the Atlantic Ocean to
1.2.2.3.5.2.1. Like this man, many
Christians likewise live their life by their own resources instead of
apprehending those which are their inheritance in Christ.
1.2.2.3.5.2.2. A person once remarked that
many Christians live their lives as “practical atheists.” They trust the Lord for their eternal life,
however they cannot trust Him to provide for them in the here and now.
1.2.2.3.5.3.
So much of the time, we Christians end up being self-sufficient, you
see, instead of relying upon the sufficiency of Christ. Yet, the word of God teaches us that Christ
is “our sufficiency” (2 Cor. 3:5; 9:8) and tells us that we are “complete in
Him” (Col. 2:10).
1.2.2.3.6.
Finally, the scriptures teach us that we are to be conformed to the
very image of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
This is God’s will for us. How
much have you allowed the Lord to conform you into the image of Jesus?
1.2.2.3.6.1.
The Lord takes broken lives and turns them into a work of art as He
builds the character of Jesus into them, for He does an incredible work in
giving us “beauty for ashes” (Isaiah 61:3).
1.2.2.4.
So, we see then that just as was the case with the children of
1.2.2.4.1.
The question then for each of us to answer is whether or not we will be
satisfied with less than “all” that God has for us?
1.2.2.5.
We have to realize as Christians that we cannot begin to appropriate
all of the things that we have been given to us in Christ until we have first
surrendered ourselves to the Lord.
1.2.2.5.1.
We have to yield our lives and place ourselves unreservedly at His
disposal in order to truly apprehend Christ.
1.2.2.5.2.
We saw this principle originally in the fact that the children of
1.2.2.5.3.
Is there some area of your life that you have refused to let the Lord
into? Refused to surrender to Him? Something that you insist upon controlling or
using for your own personal benefit?
1.2.2.5.3.1.
You must let it go and let the Lord have it if you are to have all that
God has for you in Christ.
1.2.2.6.
When we have finished this race that we are in, completed all of the
battles, some surely of which we have lost ( nobody has won all of their
battles as a Christian ), we want to be able to meet Christ and be able to say
along with the apostle Paul in 2 Tim. 4:7, “7 I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.”
2. VS 12:1-6 - “1 Now these are the kings of the
land whom the sons of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed beyond the
Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon as far as Mount Hermon,
and all the Arabah to the east:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in
Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the brook
Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;3 and the Arabah as far as the Sea of
Chinneroth toward the east, and as far as the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt
Sea, eastward toward Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, at the foot of the
slopes of Pisgah;4 and the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant
of Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,5 and ruled over Mount Hermon
and Salecah and all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the
Maacathites, and half of Gilead, as far as the border of Sihon king of
Heshbon.6 Moses the servant of the Lord and the sons of Israel defeated them;
and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh as a possession.” - Joshua tells us of the land and the peoples
who were conquered under Moses’ leadership during their wilderness wanderings
after leaving the country of
2.1. In our study in this book, we
have already seen how that the tribes of Rueben and Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh (one of the two sons of Joseph) had requested that they be able
to take their inheritance on the wilderness side of the Jordan and that
this had been conceded to by Moses as long as they agreed to help their
brothers in Israel conquer all of their own lands.
2.2. These verses then tell us
that after Moses’s successful conquests on on the wilderness side of the Jordan
River, that he gave the conquered lands to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the
half tribe of Manasseh.
3. VS 12:7-24 - “7 Now these are the kings of the
land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel defeated beyond the Jordan toward the
west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even as far as Mount Halak, which
rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession
according to their divisions,8 in the hill country, in the lowland, in the
Arabah, on the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the Negev; the Hittite,
the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite:9 the
king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;10 the king
of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the
king of Lachish, one;12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;13 the
king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;14 the king of Hormah, one; the king
of Arad, one;15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;16 the king
of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king
of Hepher, one;18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;19 the king
of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;20 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the
king of Achshaph, one;21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;22
the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;23 the king of Dor
in the heights of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;24 the king of
Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.” - Joshua details for us the
cities and 31 kings whom the Lord gave Joshua and the children of
3.1. As was mentioned in a
previous study, the cities and kings that were conquered in these campaigns in
the
3.2. The children of
3.3. It would now be up to each
of the individual tribes to conquer all of the rest of the peoples who reside
within their allotted territories which they will receive.
3.4. Thinking of all of the
cities and kings whom the children of Israel had conquered brings to mind the
fact that for us as Christians that it is a good thing for us periodically to
take into account and ponder the work that the Lord has done in our lives up
this present.
3.4.1. Recalling past victories
gives us courage to trust the Lord in our present battles.
3.4.2. As we have seen in the book
of Joshua, the setting up of the many memorials to the things that the
Lord had done in their life was done for this very purpose of remembering
and passing on to the next generation the great things that God had done.
3.4.3. Recalling what victories we
have already had also helps us to never forget where we came from and the
things that the Lord has saved us from.
It is so important to never lose sight of where we came from, never to
glory in the sin, but to remember what the Lord graciously and gloriously saved
us from.
4. VS 13:1 - “1 Now Joshua was old and
advanced in years when the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in
years, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.” - Joshua tells us that the Lord spoke to him
and told him that he was now old and that that much of the
4.1. This word from the Lord was
not a rebuke to Joshua, for Joshua had been faithful to the Lord and very zealous for Him,
but simply a statement from the Lord to tell Joshua that now at this point
in time that the Lord had another responsibility for him to perform.
4.2. Joshua was at this point in
time somewhere between 90 and 100 years old, but probably closer to 100.
4.3. Joshua wasn’t being sent by
the Lord into retirement at this point in time. It would appear that Joshua was now going
to be slowing down a bit however.
4.3.1. We Christians should never
think of retiring from Christian service as we get older, for as we age we may
slow a bit but we are just to enter yet another phase of Christian service.
4.3.2. Remember, there is much
Biblical precedent for God’s people being used in a greater way in their
elderly life than during the rest of the years of their life: Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Joshua, Caleb,
etc.
4.4. Joshua could no longer be
the general of God’s people leading them to battle. Now, he would be in charge of making sure
that each tribe was given the land that the Lord desired for it to have as
its possession.
4.5. After the incredible things
that the Lord had done through Joshua, he needed to be the one to oversee the
apportioning of the land of Canaan to the various tribes, for none in Israel
would question his leadership and decisions or the fact that the Lord was with
Him.
4.5.1. The people could never
forget for instance that Joshua was the man who had spoken to the sun and moon
and caused them to stop in their place in the skies.
5. VS 13:2-6 - “2 “This is the land that
remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;3
from the Shihor which is east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to
the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines: the
Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the
Avvite4 to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to
the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite;5 and the land of
the Gebalite, and all of Lebanon, toward the east, from Baal-gad below Mount
Hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.6 “All the inhabitants of the hill country from
Lebanon as far as Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will drive them out
from before the sons of Israel; only allot it to Israel for an inheritance as I
have commanded you.” - Joshua details for us all of
the lands that were yet to be conquered in the
5.1. As was mentioned at the
outset, the
5.1.1. It is good for us as
Christians regularly to consider how much we have not yet appropriated of
Christ into our lives.
6. VS 13:7 - “7 “Now therefore,
apportion this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe
of Manasseh.”
– The Lord tells Joshua to apportion the lands mentioned in verses 2 through 6
above to the 9 ½ tribes who were to receive their inheritance on the Canaan
side of the
6.1. We saw in our very first
study of the book of Joshua that the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the ½
tribe of Manasseh ( the other descendant of Joseph was Ephraim )
obtained a concession from Moses so that they could take their inheritance on
the wilderness side of the Jordan River if they helped their brothers conquer
the rest of their inheritance in the land of Canaan.
6.2. Though Moses conceded to the
tribes of Reuben and Gad having their inheritance on the wilderness side of the
6.2.1. They were the first to
always be attacked by
6.2.2. They were also the first tribes to go into captivity to
6.2.3. It was also the case that
their children were heavily influenced by the paganism of the nations
surrounding them outside of the land of Canaan, so they were the first
tribes to go into apostasy and to stray away from the Lord.
6.3. There is a huge price to pay
for a Christian who compromises and learns to be content having less than that
which the Lord has for him, one who chooses to be in God’s “permissive will”
instead of His “perfect will.”
7. VS 13:8-13 – “8
With the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their
inheritance which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses
the servant of the Lord gave to them;9 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the
valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and
all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;10 and all the cities of Sihon king of
the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of
Ammon;11 and Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and
all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;12 all the kingdom of Og in
Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant
of the Rephaim); for Moses struck them and dispossessed them.13 But the sons of
Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for Geshur and
Maacath live among Israel until this day.” - The
Lord gives orders concerning places and
boundaries for the tribes of
8. VS 13:14 - “14
Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire
to the Lord, the God of
8.1. The tribe of Levi were not
given a specific territory within the
8.2. We will see later that the
tribe of Levi were given specific cities in which to dwell throughout the lands
occupied by the various tribes of
8.3. Why was Levi chosen for this
task, to be dedicated to the Lord and have Him for their inheritance? Was it because they had always been more
faithful to the Lord than the other 11 tribes?
The answer to these questions is a very interesting tale and an object
lesson that should give all of us tremendous encouragement:
8.3.1. In Gen. 34:25-31, we
read the story of how that brothers Simeon and Levi had committed a very
egregious murder of a bunch of Hivite men because of the rape of their
sister Dinah by one of the young men of the city, “25 Now it came about
on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and
Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares,
and killed every male.26 And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the
edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went forth.27
Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled
their sister.28 They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that
which was in the city and that which was in the field;29 and they captured and
looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all
that was in the houses.30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought
trouble on me, by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather
together against me and attack me and I shall be destroyed, I and my
household.”31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister as a harlot?””
8.3.2. Later on in Gen. 49:5-7
when Jacob was issuing blessings on each of his sons and their descendants,
he uttered only a curse upon the descendants of Levi and Simeon because
of this murder which they committed, “5 “Simeon and Levi are
brothers; Their swords are implements of
violence. 6 “Let my soul not enter into
their council; Let not my glory be
united with their assembly; Because in
their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they lamed oxen. 7 “Cursed be their anger, for it is
fierce; And their wrath, for it is
cruel. I will disperse them in Jacob,
And scatter them in Israel.”
8.3.3. After this point in time,
the tribe of Simeon sort of dissolved into the tribe of
8.3.4. Years later we read in the
scriptures that the Levites regained the Lord’s favor. Years later in the history of Israel, we read from
the book of Exodus that when Moses was up on Mt. Sinai receiving from the
Lord His Law that the people became impatient waiting for him to
return, and that they convinced Aaron to design and make for them a golden calf
for them to worship the Lord. After
the calf was made the people began to worship and a big party as well as an
orgy broke out. Then, when Moses
came down and found the people in rebellion against the Lord, he told
the people in Exod. 32:26 to either choose the Lord and join with
him or turn away, and it was the Levites who first came to his side, “26 then
Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come
to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him.”
8.3.4.1.
Because of this act, the Levites were given this privilege of having
the Lord for their inheritance and ministering before Him.
8.3.4.2.
Unlike Simeon, the Levites had repented and turned towards the Lord.
8.3.5. From this story, we can
learn that it is not how we start out in our Christian walk that really
matters, but rather how we finish.
8.3.5.1.
Though we may fail the Lord horribly and become deeply backslidden such that for many years we
suffer in our lives the grave consequences for our sinning, when we
repent and turn back to the Lord He begins to restore the years eaten by the
canker worm and He does an incredible work in and through our life.
8.3.6. Also, the Levites had no
earthly inheritance and there are many Christians for whom all of their great
hopes in life of having a wonderful marriage, raising a family, having a
successful career or business life, have fallen by the wayside. They too have no earthly inheritance. There is much loneliness and loss
in many Christians lives because they have lost their dreams and hopes
for the future. However, the Lord can
now be their inheritance and they can find even a greater fulfillment in having
their lives dedicated to His service as they are not distracted as are
others by many of the affairs and concerns of life. If these people will be dedicated to serve
the Lord and busy about His affairs and the ministry He gives to them, as the
Levites were to be, then they can have they greatest privilege also of serving
before the Lord and having Him as their inheritance.
8.3.6.1.
The blessings of the Lord always out-weigh by far all of the things in
this life that we may lose because of following and serving the Lord with our
life.
8.3.6.2.
In Mark 10:29-30, Jesus promised we would receive back 100 fold
even in this life of whatever we have lost or given up as a result of following
Him, “29 Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left
house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My
sake and for the gospel’s sake,30 but that he shall receive a hundred times as
much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and
children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal
life.”
9. VS 13:15-23 - “15
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to
their families.16 And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of
the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and
all the plain by Medeba;17 Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain:
Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,18 and Jahaz and Kedemoth and
Mephaath,19 and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the
valley,20 and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth,21 even all
the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who
reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi and Rekem
and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.22 The
sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword
among the rest of their slain.23 And the border of the sons of Reuben was the
Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their
families, the cities and their villages.” - The
Lord describes places and borders of the inheritance that was to be given to
the tribe of Reuben on the wilderness side of the
9.1. Notice in verse 22 that a
reference is made to the fact that in the battle that ensued for the capture of
this land for the inheritance of Reuben, that the diviner Balaam, who was hired
by the king of Moab to curse Israel, was killed in that battle (see Numbers
chapters 22-24). This is included
because Reuben’s inheritance included part of the land of the nation of
9.1.1. In the scriptures, we see
that Balaam was this strange diviner who also managed to prophesy for the
Lord. He was hired by the king of
10. VS 13:24-28 - “24
Moses also gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad,
according to their families.25 And their territory was Jazer, and all the
cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which
is before Rabbah;26 and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and
from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir;27 and in the valley, Beth-haram
and Beth-nimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of
Heshbon, with the Jordan as a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of
Chinnereth beyond the Jordan to the east.28 This is the inheritance of the sons
of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.” - The Lord describes places
and borders of the inheritance that was to be given to the tribe of Gad on the
wilderness side of the
11. VS 13:29-32 - “29 Moses also gave an inheritance to the
half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe of the sons of Manasseh
according to their families.30 And their territory was from Mahanaim, all
Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which
are in Bashan, sixty cities;31 also half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth and Edrei,
the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son
of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families. 32 These are the territories which Moses
apportioned for an inheritance in the plains of
12. VS 13:33 - “33 But
to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the Lord, the God of
13. CONCLUSION:
13.1.
I would have you consider this morning how much of Christ you have left
to apprehend in your life…
13.1.1. How much have you truly
apprehended your inheritance in Christ?
13.1.2. How much of Christ’s love
have you understood and allowed yourself to be a channel of?
13.1.3. How much of the knowledge of
God from His word have you gained?
13.1.4. How much do you seek His
wisdom, discernment, and resources?
13.1.5. Will you determine today to
not accept less for your life than all that God has to give you?
13.2.
Is there anything in your life which you have not surrendered to
Jesus?
13.2.1. You cannot begin to
apprehend your inheritance in Christ without first surrendering all of your
life, your hopes, your gifts, talents, and resources to Him.
13.3.
I ask you today to commit to making it a life goal for yourself to
apprehend “all” of Christ into your life today, all of what your inheritance
consists of in Him. I know that in this
life we will never be able to fully apprehend all of Him, however this ought to
be our goal in life as Christians…