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I'm thinking today of a verse in Joshua. It is

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chapter 7, verse 12. Joshua 7, 12. It says, So

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basically what's going on here is there are those

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amongst Israel who have transgressed against

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God. They took exactly that which God told them

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they could not take. They did exactly that which

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God told them they could not do. So what this

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verse reminds us is that God will not stand with,

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stand for, bless, provides strength for the one

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who overtly sins against God. If a person intentionally

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stands against God, then they will not have his

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strength to fight their battles. Without God's

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strength, we tend to run or fail. Do we have

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enemies? Of course we do. We deal with evil spirits,

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demons, the world's system, temptation, our flesh.

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Even government at times can be an enemy. But

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the truth is, if we want to stand up against

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our enemies, we had better honor God the way

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we know how to. And when it's very clear from

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God what we are to do, that's what we're supposed

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to do. And when it's very clear from God what

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we are not supposed to do, that's what we're

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not supposed to do. What we're not supposed to

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have, we're not supposed to have it. What we

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are supposed to have, we're supposed to have

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it. And so on. God said they turned their back

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on their enemies because they have become accursed

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and I will not be with them anymore unless you

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destroy the things under the ban from your midst.

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God help us be faithful to you in this crazy

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day that we live.