Joshua:
Courageous DiscipleshipJoshua:
Courageous Discipleship
by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
JesusWalk Publications, 2016
150 pages
| Preface | 3 | |
| Table of Contents | 5 | |
| Reprint Guidelines | 10 | |
| References and Abbreviations | 11 | |
| Introduction to the Book of Joshua | 12 | |
| Title | 12 | |
| Purpose | 12 | |
| Historical Background | 12 | |
| Literary Genre | 13 | |
| Authorship and Date | 13 | |
| Reading Joshua | 13 | |
| Outline of Joshua | 14 | |
| Studying Joshua | 14 | |
| Prayer | 14 | |
| 1. Be Strong and Very Courageous (Joshua 1) | 15 | |
| Bronze Age Values | 15 | |
| Forty Years in the Wilderness | 15 | |
| Joshua's Resume | 18 | |
| Camped at Shittim | 20 | |
| Struggling with Fear and Responsibility | 21 | |
| Wherever You Set Your Foot (1:3-4) | 21 | |
| God never leaves, never forsakes us (1:5b) | 22 | |
| Be strong and very courageous (1:6) | 23 | |
| Meditate on the Word (1:7-9) | 24 | |
| God's success formula (1:8b) | 25 | |
| The Order to Advance (1:10-11) | 27 | |
| Joined by the Trans-Jordan Tribes (1:12-18) | 28 | |
| 2. Rahab Hides the Spies (Joshua 2) | 29 | |
| Staying in a Prostitute's House (2:1) | 30 | |
| Prostitutes and Baal Worship | 30 | |
| Rahab's Faith in Hiding the Spies (2:2-11) | 31 | |
| Rahab's Faith (2:9-11) | 31 | |
| Show Me Your Faith by Your Actions | 32 | |
| A Trophy of Grace in Jesus' Family Tree (Matthew 1:5-6) | 33 | |
| Rahab's Faith Praised (Hebrews 11:31) | 34 | |
| Faith Counted as Righteousness (James 2:25) | 34 | |
| Rahab's Deceitfulness (2:3-7) | 35 | |
| The Ten Commandments | 36 | |
| Swearing by the LORD (2:12) | 37 | |
| The Scarlet Cord (2:17-21) | 38 | |
| The Lord Has Given Us the Land (2:22-24) | 39 | |
| Remarkable | 39 | |
| 3. Entering the Promised Land (Joshua 3:1-5:12) | 41 | |
| Breaking Camp (3:1) | 41 | |
| Consecrate yourselves (3:5) | 42 | |
| The Ark Goes Before Them (3:3-4, 6-8) | 43 | |
| The Water Stopped Flowing (3:14-17) | 44 | |
| Standing in the Water (3:8, 15-17) | 45 | |
| Twelve River Boulders (chapter 4) | 47 | |
| The LORD exalted Joshua (4:14) | 48 | |
| Circumcision and Passover (5:1-11) | 50 | |
| The Manna Ceased (5:12) | 51 | |
| 4. The Walls Fall Down (Joshua 5:13-6:27) | 55 | |
| The Commander Has Now Come (5:13-15) | 55 | |
| Yahweh the Warrior | 56 | |
| The Jericho March (6:1-14) | 59 | |
| The Seventh and Last March (6:15-21) | 60 | |
| What Shook Jericho's Walls? (6:20) | 60 | |
| Devoted to the Lord | 62 | |
| Destruction of Sin | 62 | |
| Rahab's Family Is Rescued (6:22-23) | 64 | |
| A Curse on Jericho (6:26) | 64 | |
| The Battle Is the Lord's | 65 | |
| 5. Sin in the Camp (Joshua 7-9) | 67 | |
| Achan Takes Plunder (7:1) | 67 | |
| Devoted Things (6:17a, 18, 19) | 68 | |
| The Sin of One | 68 | |
| The Sins of the Fathers | 69 | |
| Defeat at Ai (7:2-5) | 70 | |
| Identifying the Sinner (7:10-19) | 70 | |
| Taking Sin Too Lightly | 71 | |
| The Sin of Greed (Malachi 3:8-9; Luke 12:15) | 72 | |
| The Destruction of Ai (8:1-28) | 73 | |
| The Covenant Renewed (8:29-35) | 73 | |
| Gibeonite Deception (9:1-15) | 74 | |
| Sanctity of the LORD'S Name (9:16-27) | 74 | |
| Inquiring of the Lord (9:14) | 75 | |
| 6. Possessing the Land (Joshua 10-22) | 79 | |
| Every Place Where You Set Your Foot | 79 | |
| Battle at Gibeon with the Five Amorite Kings (10:1-28) | 80 | |
| Southern Campaign (10:29-43) | 83 | |
| Northern Campaign (chapter 11) | 84 | |
| Summary of the Conquest (11:16-12:24) | 85 | |
| 1. Take | 86 | |
| 2. Divide | 86 | |
| 3. Possess | 87 | |
| Distribution of the Tribal Lands (chapters 13-19) | 88 | |
| Cities of Refuge (chapter 20) | 91 | |
| Towns for the Levites (chapter 21) | 91 | |
| The Trans-Jordan Tribes Return Home (chapter 22) | 91 | |
| Lessons from the Conquest | 91 | |
| 7. Caleb: Give Me This Mountain (Joshua 14:6-15) | 95 | |
| One of the 12 Original Spies (Numbers 13-14) | 95 | |
| Caleb's Faith | 97 | |
| Following Fully | 98 | |
| Was Hebron Reconquered by Caleb? (Joshua 14) | 99 | |
| Caleb's Bold Claim (14:6-15) | 100 | |
| "Give Me This Mountain" (14:12) | 101 | |
| Hebron | 101 | |
| Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai (15:14) | 103 | |
| Ambition and Faith | 103 | |
| A Faith-Filled Son-in-Law (15:15-17; Judges 1:11-13) | 104 | |
| A Faith-Filled Daughter (15:17-19) | 105 | |
| A Faith-Filled Heritage | 107 | |
| 8. As for Me and My House (Joshua 23-24) | 110 | |
| The LORD Will Fight for You | 110 | |
| I Sent the Hornet (24:12) | 112 | |
| Take Possession of the Land (23:3-5) | 113 | |
| Holiness before the Lord (23:11-13) | 114 | |
| Sanctification, Holiness | 114 | |
| The Necessity of Grace | 115 | |
| Living in Holiness | 115 | |
| Throw Away Your Foreign Gods (24:23) | 116 | |
| Do Not Associate and Intermarry with Them (23:7-13) | 117 | |
| Loving Sinners | 118 | |
| Refusing to Conform | 118 | |
| Reciting and Remembering Our History (24:1-13) | 119 | |
| Choose This Day Whom You Will Serve (24:15) | 120 | |
| My Decision | 121 | |
| Choose This Day (24:15-27) | 121 | |
| The Decision's Consequences | 122 | |
| Joshua, the Servant of the LORD (24:29) | 123 | |
| Appendix 1. Participant Handout Guides | 126 | |
| Appendix 2. The Peoples of Canaan | 127 | |
| Canaanites | 128 | |
| Hittites | 129 | |
| Hivites | 129 | |
| Perizzites | 130 | |
| Girgashites | 130 | |
| Amorites | 130 | |
| Jebusites | 131 | |
| Philistines | 131 | |
| Appendix 3. Whose Land Is the Promised Land? | 133 | |
| Promises | 133 | |
| Right by Might | 133 | |
| Right by Law | 134 | |
| Appendix 4. Weapons in Joshua's Time | 136 | |
| Appendix 5. Canaanite Religions and Baal Worship | 139 | |
| Baal and Ashtoreth | 139 | |
| Cult Prostitution | 140 | |
| Monotheism | 140 | |
| Idolatry | 141 | |
| Detestable | 142 | |
| Summary | 143 | |
| Appendix 6. Why the Slaughter of Jericho? Devoted to Destruction (Herem) | 144 | |
| A Culture of Violence | 144 | |
| Genocide | 145 | |
| 1. Punishment for Sin | 146 | |
| 2. Danger of Syncretism | 147 | |
| 3. Herem - Devoted to Destruction | 148 | |
| 4. Standards of the Time | 149 | |
| 5. Death the Ultimate Punishment? | 149 | |
| Judging God | 150 | |