The Commander of the Lord’s Army
September 22, 2024

This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the

between me and you.
“GENESIS 17:10-11 (NKJ)”


In Christ you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the

of the sins of the flesh – by the circumcision of Christ.
“COLOSSIANS 2:11 (NKJ)”


… Walk in the

, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
“GALATIANS 5:16 (NKJ)”


For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the spirit (of God) you put to death the deeds of the body, you will

.
“ROMANS 8:13 (NKJ)”


For God is working in you, giving you the desire to

him and the power to do what pleases him.
“PHILIPPIANS 2:13 (NLT)”


For we who worship God in the Spirit are the only ones who are truly circumcised. We put no

in human effort (the flesh). Instead, we boast about what Christ Jesus has done for us.
“PHILIPPIANS 3:3 (NLT)”


The flesh profits

.
“JOHN 6:63 (NKJ)”


me you can do nothing.
“JOHN 15:5 (NKJ)”


Let me ask you this one question. Did you receive the

by keeping the law?… Have you lost your senses? After starting your lives in the Spirit – why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?
“GALATIANS 3:2 (NLT)”


I no longer count on my own goodness, or my own ability to obey God’s will, but I trust Christ to

. For God’s way of making us right with Himself depends on faith.
“PHILIPPIANS 3:9 (NLT)”


Then she let them down by a rope through the

, for her house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall.
“JOSHUA 2:15 (NKJ)”


At that time the Lord told Joshua, ‘Use knives of flint to make the Israelites a circumcised people again.’ So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
“JOSHUA 5:2-3 (NLT)”


Those who left Egypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the exodus – during the years in the wilderness – had been circumcised. “For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord, to whom the Lord swore that He would not show them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, ‘a land flowing with

.’”
“JOSHUA 5:5-6 (NLT)”


So the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the

on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.
“JOSHUA 5:10 (NKJ)”


As Joshua approached the city of Jericho, he looked up and saw a man facing him with a sword in hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you friend or foe?” “Neither one,” He replied. “I am

of the Lord’s army.” At this, Joshua fell with his face to the ground in reverence. “I am at your command,” Joshua said. “What do you want your servant to do?”
“JOSHUA 5:13-14 (NLT)”


Then I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse. And He who sat on him was called “Faithful and True”, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns… He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The

. And the armies in , clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a , that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: “King Of Kings And Lord Of Lords.”
“REVELATION 19:11-16 (NKJ)”


But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have

you Jericho, its king, and all its mighty warriors.”
“JOSHUA 6:2 (NLT)”


So then, after the Lord had spoken to the disciples – He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right

.
“MARK 16:19 (NKJ)”