The Spirit is With Us.Exodus 33:14-1514!

The LORD replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest—everything will be fine for you.” 15 Then Moses said, “If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place.!

The Spirit is With Us.Isaiah 11: 1-21 !

Out of the stump of David’s familyfn will grow a shoot— yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root. 2

And the Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—!the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,!the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD

The Spirit is With Us.

Isaiah 61: 1!

1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, for the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed.fn

Possessing the Land

Numbers 33:50-53! While they were camped near the Jordan River on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho, the LORD said to Moses, 51 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel:

Possessing the LandNumbers 33:50-53!When you cross the Jordan River into the land of Canaan, 52 you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines. 53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, because I have given it to you to occupy.

Make No Treaty!Deuteronomy 7: 1-51 !

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Make No Treaty!Deuteronomy 7: 1-51 !

2 When the LORD your God hands these nations over to you and you conquer them, you must completely destroyfn them. Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy. 3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters, 4 for they will lead your children away from me to worship other gods.

Make No Treaty!Deuteronomy 7: 1-51 !

Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and he will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols. 6 For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.

Worship an Idol!

1 John 5 :21!Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Worship an Idol!1 John 5 :21!Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts. NLT

Worship an Idol!Hebrew words. Shachah: to bow down and depress, to prostrate before a superior. Abad: to work or serve, to make yourself a servant of, to surrender or subject yourself to another.

Worship an Idol!Greek words. Proskyneo: to bow down and to kiss. Latreuo: to work or serve, to make yourself a servant of, to serve for hire…

Worship an Idol!

An idol is anything, any attitude or emotion, any person that I bow down to, work for and serve,that takes the place of God in my heart. Anything that I “love” that is in control of my life that is not God.

New Lives Need new Associations!

1 Corinthians 15:33!Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

New Life’s Need new Associations!Old Company:!Old Attitudes.!Old Emotions.!Old Ways,!Old Places,!Old Music,!Old Stuff.

New Lives Need new Associations!Col 1:1-101 !

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 

New Life’s Need new Associations!Col 1:1-101  !

When Christ, who is yourfn life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.fn 7 

New Life’s Need new Associations!Col 1:1-1017 !

You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9

New Life’s Need new Associations!

Col 1:1-1017 !

9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

No treaty with the things from yesterday!

Ephesians 4:22-2422 !

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.