No Reserves No Retreat No Regrets

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

and put their feet on their necks. [25] And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.” [26] And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening. [27] But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

5. Christus Victor – To Christ be the victory!: Joshua’s wrap up summary, Josh. 11.16-12.24

6. “Waged war for a long time” against the Canaanites; never quit, never shrunk back, always persevered in the fight, cf. 11.18

D. Speed-bumps in your past don’t matter; it’s not where you’ve been, but your level of surrender: Achan versus Rahab.

1. The just will live by faith: Rahab (Josh. 2) with Achan

(Josh. 7). Rahab’s faith: Josh. 2.8-13 – Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof [9] and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. [10] For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. [11] And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. [12] Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with