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Sermon text: Joshua 6:12-21

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1. Prepare/Enrich discount this week, brochures in the back.

1. Paint a picture of where we are right now in the story of God
   
   1. Patriarchs – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
      
      1. Promised to be the ancestors of a favored people/nation and given a special land for settlement
      2. Jacob and his family went to Egypt during the famine when Joseph was in power . . . and the people had babies and more babies
      3. End of Genesis and beginning of Exodus – Jacob dies and so does Joseph and his generation
         
         1. new ruler that knew nothing of Joseph comes to power in Egypt and makes the Israelites Egyptian slaves

1. Moses is born and in a God-controlled series of events he ends up being raised by the Pharaoh’s daughter
   
   1. Moses grows up and has a run-in with a burning bush
      
      1. God says, “I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:10
      2. Exodus then is about the plagues, then what John discussed last week, the Israelites crossing the Red Sea and into the desert
      3. Israelites make their way through the desert under Moses’ guidance and God gives them the law starting with the 10 Commandments in Exodus all the way through Leviticus
      4. In Numbers, we hear more about the Israelites’ journey through the desert – moving towards the Promised Land ever so slowly
      5. The same throughout Deuteronomy
      6. Moses leads the Israelites across the dessert and to the banks of the Jordan; After 40 years, he is a river away from the land that God has promised for generations and God tells him, “You shall not cross the Jordan.” Deuteronomy 31:2
      7. Moses sees the land from the top of Mount Nebo and then he dies at the very end of Deuteronomy