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Consequences of Sin Part 2

Glenn Blankenship
05/21/17 - Sunday

Consequences of Sin:
How it affects others

Joshua 7

• Sin is not a group effort, but individual
• Achan’s Sin, Joshua 7
  • Reproach upon entire congregation, Josh. 6:18; 7:1, 4-5, 11-12; 1 Cor. 5:6
  • Reproach upon entire family tree, Josh. 7:1, 17-18
  • God’s wrath upon whole camp, Josh. 7:1, 12
  • Punishment brought upon others, Josh. 7:24-25, 5

Consequences of Sin:
How it can affect
“The guilty”

Romans 15:4

“whatever was written in the past was written for our learning”

Major lesson from Jericho:

How God views disobedience

of his will

Joshua, Achan, & Israel

Joshua 7:24, 25

24 Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had…25…And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

Joshua 7: What the Text Does NOT Say

• It was easy
• Achan was spoken to harshly
• Joshua consulted someone other than, or in addition to, God
• Achan was lost (spiritually)
• God didn’t love Achan
• Another way was better

Joshua 7: What the Text Does NOT Say

• Was there a better way?
  • “Just love him”
  • “Needs more time”
    • Achan – days?
    • Uzzah – immediately (2 Sam. 6)
    • David & Bathsheba – 9 months?
    • Ananias & Sapphira – days? less?

Joshua 7: What the Text DOES Say

• Confession was made
• God was glorified
  • In confession
  • In keeping his command
• Punishment was hard

“Too late?”

• Example so others won’t follow, Deut. 19:19
• Keep the group pure, Rom. 16:17-18;   1 Cor. 5:2, 6
• Save the person’s soul, 1 Cor. 5:5

CONSEQUENCES OF SIN:

OUR ATTITUDE

SHOULD MATCH

GOD’S ATTITUDE