Joshua
2015
Joshua Study Notes (2015-2016)
The theme of this book, the theme of these 24 chapters, the theme of Joshua’s life, and the theme for your life today…. Joshua 1:3 (NKJV) 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. God wants us living the victorious Christian life today! Joshua will be a book of war, a book of battles, a book of taking ground, a book of God leading them and bring them into victory. Do you want the victorious Christian life, the spirit-filled, spirit-lead, victorious, abundant, zoe life? God wants to give it to you, and he has written and preserved this Book of Joshua to show us how to have it and live it.
Joshua 1
August 30, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
Do you want the victorious Christian life, the spirit-filled, spirit-lead, victorious, abundant, zoe life? God wants to give it to you, and he has written and preserved this Book of Joshua to show us how to have it and live it. In this chapter, we will find the 4 Keys for living a Victorious Christian Life: 1. The Dependency of the Flesh must Die (1:1) 2. We must Remember the Lord never Fails (1:5) 3. The Word of God – (The Key to Prosperity) - (1:6-8) 4. Be Strong & Courageous – (The Promised Land is no Place for Cowards) - (1:9) Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 2
September 6, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
In our passage today Joshua sends two spies into the land and city of Jericho to spy the lay of the land, and to bring a report back, what are we up against, what are their strongholds, where are their weaknesses, a typical military strategy. Today it is simply called “ISR” (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance). The ISR that these spies will bring back that the victory is ours, the enemy is already defeated in heart, and now all that is left is for us to go take what God has promised us. Well if the calling of this book is to bring us into and give us the victorious Christian life, to claim the all the spiritual blessings God has for us (Galatians 5 are just to name a few); God is giving us an INTEL report, it’s yours, all that you want, believe and go and take it. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 3
September 13, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
In our passage today, after 40 years of wilderness wandering, they will cross over into the Promised Land. Imagine the excitement, imagine the anxiety, imagine the unknown, and imagine the power! Last week God gave us “Intel” on our enemy, that he is a defeated foe, the victories are ours to take. In our passage today, the Lord will give us the “First Steps” in taking the land, receiving the promises of God, of entering into the abundant, victorious, Christian life that He desires for us. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 4
September 20, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
The theme of chapter 4 is the memorial stones; God is not content with just crossing a river, He is not content with just doing a supernatural work of taking Jericho, God's heart is filled with the next generation and the next generation and the next generation and all memorials are for succeeding generations. Joshua has been called to lead the people. If you are going to take these great steps of faith, you have to be sure that you are hearing from the Lord, being led by the Lord, and are in the will of the Lord. So for you who are getting ready to make a step of faith, there are 7 things to consider when making decisions. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 5
September 27, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
God has given them the them the land, but first there are some things to deal with before they move into all that He has for them, and the same is for us too, as all these stories are examples for us to glean and apply to our lives personally. In today's passage, we will see that God established three very clear principles that they were to keep and return to often. These three things that would not only prepare them to enter into all the Promises of God, but also to maintain them. So often we fight to receive the promises of God, but then we lose them shortly thereafter because we forget these principles and because we don’t return to them. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 6:5-27
October 11, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
We covered five chapters of preparation and then 2 verses of total victory, destruction, utter collapse of the great fortified city that was impenetrable to all, but just a shout to the Lord and down it goes. Christian, what are the obstacles that are before you that seem so impenetrable, that seem impossible, that you feel you will never have a victory over, that there will never be a coming into the presence of the Lord and the promises of God and all the fruit of the spirit that He wants to give us as we live a spirit filled life, a spirit fed life, a spirit led life. What is it keeping you from that? May we look at Jericho today and see that it's just one shout away. The shout is never at the obstacle, the battle is never against the impenetrable thing that's before us. The shout as always to the Lord, and the shout is always up to the Lord. When we shout to the Lord that's when he engages, and comes, and shows himself strong. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 7
October 18, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
Oh that our lives could just end on chapter 6, great victory, great faith, conquering the giants in the land, but that isn’t the reality of the Christian life, and the example here in Joshua 7 is a startling reminder of that. Although God has promised to give them every place they put their sole, it has to be done in accordance with His ways, not theirs. And to do it any other way, especially our way, in our flesh, in willful disobedience, we can be sure we will stop the flow and move of God right in its tracks. In today's passage, we will see 7 things that will quench the Holy Spirit. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 8
January 25, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
So we left off in chapter 7 with a crushing and humiliating defeat of the Children of Israel at Ai. In today's passage, we see a God of second chances, even after we have failed, did our own thing, our own way. We see that He is restoring us, leading us, fighting for us, and bringing us back into the victorious Christian life. Oh the loving and amazing God of second (and 3rd and beyond) chances. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 9
November 1, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
In today's passage, God wants to teach us “That things are not Always what they Seem”, and we have to learn to live this Christian life in the spiritual realm, and not in the physical, because the physical things we see are not always what they seem to be. The world paints such a beautiful picture, often times a heart-gripping picture, but God will show us and warn us in our passage today that things are not always what they seem, and we need to be on guard and wise on how to handle them. Today we specifically address “compromise”, making an alliance, a treaty, entering into a union with the world and the flesh. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 10
November 8, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
In our chapter today we will see the great lengths God will go to for His people to bring them into and give them the abundant, victorious, Christian life. He will stop the whole world if need be, just for you, and He literally does that in the passage before. Let’s see all the words the Lord has for us today in this wonderful chapter. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 13-14
November 22, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
Lots of details as we look down at today's passages, and lots of details in these remaining chapters, because God is a God of details. He is divinely working in every detail of your life too, just as He is in these chapters before us. You can trust God in the details of your life, past-present- and future. And the details in these chapters, all have details for us on how to live this victorious, abundant, Spirit-filled, Christian life. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas
Joshua 15
November 29, 2015 • Pastor Ray Bollas
In chapter 15, we see a description of the land given to Judah. Again, while this may be tedious to us, it was as important to the people of Judah as discovering our own unique place and function in the body of Christ is to us. We also see an example for us in Caleb. There are 6 things to remember about Caleb and to apply to your life today, so that you may finish as strong as Caleb did. Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel | Pastor Ray Bollas