Sunday, September 6 | Pastor Jason Browning

How do I come out of the wilderness?”

Joshua 6 1-20
1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.

God doesn’t always do what we expect, when we expect it or the way we expect it.

2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.

The people were ready to fight, but God was telling them to

2 “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men”

10 But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!”

He’s preparing you for the

A big part of obedience to God has to do with our

Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, He uttered not a word

John 8:28 I speak what the Father tells me

15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times.16 The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city!

They were shouting a testimony of Gods promise.

How do you come out of the wilderness? You come out with a shout.

20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.