Joshua: Courage Entering Canaan

In Joshua 1:7, the Bible says: 'Only be very strong and courageous, and observe to do all the law that I have commanded you.' Welcome to our study of the Book of Joshua. Joshua is such a wonderful book that tells us about the people of God, coming into the land of Canaan, receiving that Promised Land that God has blessed them with, and ultimately the great leadership of Joshua himself. In this lesson, we're thinking about one of the more powerful books in the Old Testament, and that is the book of Joshua. That great promise that God gave to Israel going back to Genesis chapter 12, where they would receive the Promised Land blessing as well as the blessing promise that would come through the seed, God is now fulfilling that promise to give them the Canaan land. When we think about the history of Israel, we've got this period of Joshua through Esther, which tells us the continued history of Israel. This section will cover nearly a thousand years in history, and really there are three types of government that we find. We have a theocracy, where God is ruling as king, everything is going well as long as they realize God is king. Then there is a monarchy, where God will allow them, they asked for a king and God gives them one, but it was never his will. And then of course there is captivity, in the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and some of the chronicles as well we learn about that. (The full transcript is available in the "Download Document" button above.)