No Reserves No Retreat No Regrets

24 • No Reserves, No Retreat, No Regrets: SIAFU Men’s Conference 2016

priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city. [17] And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. [18] But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.

[19] But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.”

5. God will stop the sun, and rain huge hailstones down upon the enemy (Josh. 10). (For those who surrender, the battle belongs to the Lord!, e.g., 1 Sam. 17.45-47 – Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”)

E. Joshua’s surrender to God was fortified by God’s command to meditate on and obey his Word, Josh. 1.8.

1. God commanded Joshua to be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that God had given to the people through Moses, Josh. 1.7-8 – Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not