The Covenant Connector by Creflo Dollar

Author:Creflo Dollar
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-01-03T16:45:10+00:00

HIDDEN AMONG THEIR OWN STUFF

Go with me now to Joshua 7:1:

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing...

Uh-oh, somebody sinned. Somebody touched the tithe.

...for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing...

Achan has gone and taken of the tithe. Is your middle name Achan? Some of you may have to answer that question by faith. Go ahead and say no, we'll just call those things that be not as though they were. (Romans 4:17)

...and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. (Joshua 7:1b)

You can put your name in here if you're taking the tithe. You wonder if it makes God angry if you don't tithe? Of course it makes Him angry when only a small percentage of the church is bringing the tithes to the storehouse. He can't accomplish what He wants to accomplish in the local church, because of the crooks touching the accursed thing. Then what happens is that you have people wondering if God is on the job because they can't see the power of God operating in peoples' lives. Yes, it makes Him angry. Read on:

And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but a few. (Joshua 7:2-3)

So, the spies came back and said, "We shouldn't have a problem taking these folks. There are not that many of them. There's no reason why we should trouble ourselves. Just send a few thousand."

So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. (Joshua 7:5)

What happened here is that big, bad Israel came into battle thinking they would easily wipe out this people who should not have been a problem, only to have 36 men quickly destroyed and chased back from the gate.

And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! (Joshua 7:6-7)

In other words, "God, why did you bring us over here to get our butts kicked?"

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies? (Joshua 7:8)

What a cowardly act.

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