DAILY TRUTH - What To Plunder & What To Burn
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In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches on the importance of destroying the King who devised the rebellion against God, King Hazer, and why the destruction of his empire is so critical to the future of the nation. God's greatest judgments are not to be found in our own history, but in the history of our ancestors.
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There are many treasures of Babylon, or in this case, Canaan, that are ripe for the Christian
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to plunder. Greece is ours. It belongs to the Christian. Rome is ours. It belongs to the
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Christian. Babylon is ours. It belongs to the Christian. And Canaan, it belonged to covenant
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Israel and all that was there. There were certain things that God specified. These devoted things
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belong to my house or these things should be burned with fire and destroyed. But most of the
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plunder God permitted Israel to take for themselves. And so what we find as a principle is this. There
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are many treasures in Babylon or Canaan that are ripe for the Christian to plunder. Why? Because
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all truth is god's truth so whatever is true is true whether the church believed it or whether
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babylon believed it if it's true it's true two plus two being four is true no matter what time
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or what place because it's god's truth and if a particular place in a particular culture
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is good at engineering and Christians discover some of the things that they have learned and
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developed over decades or even centuries if those things are in fact true we should take them
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so what we find at the end of verse 6 of our text today is unique and I want you to hear
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the disclaimer. This is not a general, universal commandment to Christians in all places, in all
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times. Never use the resources of unbelievers. That's not the message from the text. This is
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a unique commandment. This is a particular specific commandment given to Israel in this place in this
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time. Because Israel did in fact, as we find later in our text, Israel did in fact plunder the
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treasures of all these northern tribes in Canaan. There's only one thing that God says they can't
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have two things to be precise one is the city of the first king the king of hazer who is the one
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who deliberately decided to rally all the other kings to come against israel all the other kingdoms
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in joshua chapter 11 right because they all join together it's not just one kingdom it's it's many
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kings, many kingdoms, many tribes all at once so that their number is like a great horde
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and all of the cities, all of them, spare one. Israel is allowed, permitted by God to go inhabit
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those cities, which is actually a fulfillment. It is a fulfillment of what God had already
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previously spoken through Moses to Israel in Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 10, that you will
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live and inhabit cities that you did not build. This is a sign of God's grace and kindness.
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Another one of his gifts to his covenant people Israel. Not only will I give you land, you won't
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even have to build some of your cities in the land. You'll just kind of walk in. Oh, there's
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my house. I get the land. I get the house. I get this. I get that. Not even just the house. I like
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look at the appliances. And these Canaanites were doing well for themselves. Thanks God. It's mine
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now. And that's the lion's share of what God does. It's the minority report throughout the
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book of Joshua when God says, no, you don't get to plunder this. You don't get to have this.
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So in the case of Joshua 11, there's only one city, one king, one specific place that they're
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called to burn, to completely and utterly destroy with fire, not just the inhabitants, but the stuff,
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their wealth their resources and it's the resources of the city of the particular king
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who devised this rebellion against Israel and ultimately against God and so it's fitting God
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is saying something in that he's saying you can't have this city this city can't just be redeemed
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this city needs to be destroyed because the rebellion of the federal head of this city namely
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the king was so great that I want to wipe it off of the map so that not even a stain of its history
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remains. And that's one of God's greatest judgments, by the way. It's not just death,
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destruction. One of God's greatest judgments that we find out through the entirety of
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scripture is this. It is to completely erase the heritage and future lineage of a people
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or an individual person. So that their line is cut off. One of God's greatest judgments
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is to end the line of a family, a household, a man, or a nation.
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that there's no posterity, no future descendants to remember their heritage, to continue
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what they've done. And so what God is doing in the case of Jabin, king of Hazor, because he's the
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one, all the kings were wicked, but he's the one who devised the plot to come against Israel,
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ultimately signifying his rebellion against God himself is to end his lineage, end his heritage,
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and to, in a sense, add insult to injury. Not only wiping out his descendants, his people,
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but even the place that they once inhabited. That it would be a desolate place, a forgotten place.
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So in Joshua 11, there are two, as I said, two instances where God says, you can't have this
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to his children, Israel. In every other instance, God says, it's yours. Plunder Babylon. All truth
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is God's truth. The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous. Not only will you get the
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land, you get the house, you get the stuff. It's all yours because God is gracious. See point A
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all the way back to verses 1 through 6. God is gracious. You can't out give God. He is generous,
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abundant in kindness. But the two things that God says you can't have, these must be destroyed with
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fire. One is the city of the original king who devised the plot against Israel. Two, the horses