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<div class="SSN_title">"THE DAY THE SUN STOOD STILL."</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro. Last week we saw how Joshua and the men of Israel were deceived into making a treaty with the men of Gibeon because they sized things up by appearance and did not inquire of the Lord. Now we see how soon this treaty began to get them into trouble.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE CONFEDERACY THAT WAS FORMED AGAINST GIBEON.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The king of Jerusalem called on four other kings to join him in a battle against Gibeon because of the covenant they had made with Israel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They came with their armies and set siege against Gibeon.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The men of Gibeon sent messengers to Joshua calling on him to honor the treaty and help fight against these five kings of the Amorites.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Ungodly alliances have a way of getting you into trouble.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The yoke with an unbeliever is always unequal, for you play by different sets of rules.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You believe in honesty, they feel free to tell lies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You believe in integrity, they do not mind cheating.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. You believe in keeping your promises, they do not mind breaking their promises.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. You feel bound to do what is right, they do not care if what they do is wrong.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. Had Israel been attacked, I doubt if Gibeon would have come to their aid.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. So Joshua and the men of war came up from Gilgal to fight against this confederation of kings.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is interesting how that God does not require us to make vows, but if we make a vow, He requires us to keep it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus said, "let your yes be a yes, and your no be a no." We are to keep our word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. JOSHUA RECEIVED ASSURANCE FROM THE LORD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. I love the way the word of the Lord can give us assurance when we are faced with problems and difficulties.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God said to Joshua, "Fear them not."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. As you are facing your battles today, God is saying to you, "Fear not."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. There was a time in the history of Israel when Elisha was a prophet that the King of Syria was planning to set an ambush against the king of Israel, but Elisha warned the king against the planned ambush. Not only once but many times until the King of Syria called his generals together and declared that one of them was for their enemies. They all denied the charges and told the king about the prophet in Israel that was informing the King of Israel of every plot. They said that he could not even tell his wife things after they had gone to bed, but that he did not know it. The king said spy out where he is and capture him. They said he is in Dothan. So the king ordered the city of Dothan to be taken and the prophet captured. So the Syrians came by night with their army and the horses and chariots and surrounded the city of Dothan. When the servant of the prophet went out in the morning to chop wood, he saw that the city was surrounded by the Syrian army and he panicked. He ran in and woke up the prophet with the words, "Alas we have had it, we are surrounded by the Syrian army." Elisha answered him, "There are more that be with us than that be with them." He then prayed that the Lord would open the eyes of the servant, and the servant saw the angels of God surrounding the Syrians.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. This is much like the promise that we have, "Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. As we look at our problems, we are often prone to say, "Alas, I've had it." Oh may God help us to realize His power to help is greater than all the problems that we might be facing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The Lord told Joshua not to fear for the Lord would deliver the Amorite kings into his hand, that they would not be able to stand before Joshua.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Strengthened by these assurances, Joshua led the men of Israel into the battle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They enter into the battle with confidence because of the promises of the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. In the spiritual battles that we face, we always should enter with the great assurance of victory.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. The victory is assured, for our Captain, Jesus Christ has already won the victory.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. Paul wrote, "He has spoiled those principalities, and powers, that are against us, as He triumphed over them on the cross."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Joshua's men traveled all night and came upon the Amorites in the morning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The Amorites began to flee with Joshua and his men in pursuit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The Lord began to fight with Joshua against them and sent great hailstones down upon them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. More were killed with the hailstones than by the men of Joshua.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. We often read of hail storms in the Midwest or in Texas, for everything is bigger in Texas, of hailstones the size of baseballs. These can do a lot of damage.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. In the book of Revelation, we read of a time when God is going to send hailstones that weigh 90 pounds.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. It was now in the early afternoon and Joshua had the enemy on the run, but he realized that he did not have enough time for a complete victory before darkness fell, so Joshua cried in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." And the sun stood still and the moon stayed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THIS IS THE PART OF THE STORY THAT STUMBLES MANY PEOPLE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. If this stumbles you and you have a hard time believing it, it is because your concept of God is too small.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If the heavens are the work of His fingers, if He stretched them out as a curtain, then stopping the earth from spinning on its axis for a day, and then beginning it spinning again would be no big deal.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is very interesting how that man has to always try to invent some naturalistic way by which God has done the things attributed to Him in the scriptures.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. With the Jordan stopping its flow at flood time long enough to allow the children of Israel to cross into the land, people imagine that upstream there was probably a cave in of one of the steep banks of the Jordan River that caused an earth dam to stop the flow of the water for a period of time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Yes, I suppose God could have done it that way, but He could have also just said, "Jordan stop flowing," and it would have stopped.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. If God could say, "Let their be light and their was light." If Jesus could say to the raging winds, "Peace, be still." and immediately there was a great calm. All it takes is a word from God and it is done. You do not need some natural explanation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. With the walls of Jericho falling outward, people explain, it was probably an earthquake that came at that precise time. Yes, that is possible, but on the other hand God could have just said, "Walls fall." And they would have fallen.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. When we get to the sun standing still and the moon, this is hard to come up with some kind of a naturalistic explanation. This is the kind of story that separates the men from the boys, the sheep from the goats. Explain to me that an earthquake could have caused an earthslide to dam the Jordan, and I can accept the story, that an aftershock felled the walls of Jericho. Oh, I see.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. You ask, "Do you really think that the sun and the moon stood still for about a day?" I surely do. That is, I believe that the earth stopped spinning on its axis for that length of time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. You ask, "How could that possibly be?" My answer is God. How did He do it, I do not know, that He did it, I am completely convinced.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. You say that if the earth suddenly stopped spinning everyone would have flown several hundred feet.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Who said that it suddenly stopped? God could have just put on the brakes and brought it to a gentle stop over the period of a half an hour to keep people from flying around.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. You say that if such a thing did happen, there would surely be recorded in the annals of other people around the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When Columbus and Cortez arrived in America, they found literate people with books of their own. Most of those books were burned in the 16th century by the Dominican monks. A few are preserved in the libraries of Paris and the Vatican. They are called codici.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The Mexican annals of Cuauhtitlan, which records the history of the empire of Culhaucan and Mexico. These were written in the 16th century but they tell how in the remote past, the night did not end for a long time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. In the Mexican annals, it declares that the earth was deprived of the sun for a fourfold night.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The Midrashim, the book of ancient traditions, speaks of the sun and moon standing still for thirty-six itim, or 18 hours.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Around the world in the stories and lore of the various countries, you will find accounts of long mornings, or evenings or nights according to their relationship to Israel at the time of Joshua.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. The Indians over here probably wondered why the sun did not come up as it should for several hours. Little did they know that on the other side of the world, Joshua was needing more daylight time to complete his victory over the Amorite kings. And had cried "Sun stand still."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. Jesus said:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Mar',11,23);">MAR 11:23</a> For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Imagine the power of God, able to stop the rotation of the earth on its axis, and able to start it up again.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Imagine the power of God available to the man who is fully in touch with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Here is Joshua saying to the sun and moon, "stand still," and they do.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I take great delight in knowing the power of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I take great delight in knowing the extent that God is willing to go to help His people when they are in need.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The Bible often uses the argument from the greater to the lesser.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. If God spared not His own Son but freely delivered up for us all, how much more shall He not freely give us all things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. If God is big enough to stop the world for a day for Joshua's victory over his enemies, how much more shall He not take care of the little things in our lives.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. I dare say, though your problems may seem great to you today, even overwhelming, they really are nothing for God. Surely your problems are not so great as to necessitate the world standing still for a day. If they are, God can do it again.</div>
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