Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Ai Lesson

"There was sin in the camp when Israel went up against Ai, and this was the cause of their defeat. The whole people suffered, not simply because of Achan’s sin, but because all had sinned.
Habakkuk 2
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
--Whether they were blinded by the deceitfulness of sin, and then
became exalted in their minds, 
 
--or whether their self-exaltation led to their sin, is not material; certain it is that the people had given place to sin, and had become self-confident, which is in itself sin.
 
It was not His design that they should have to fight for the possession of the promised inheritance.
 
We have already seen that numbers and arms had nothing to do with the taking of Jericho, and that when they depended on their weapons, force that in ordinary warfare would have been amply sufficient was of no avail.
Recall also the wonderful deliverance from Egypt, and the overthrow of the entire army of Pharaoh, without the lifting of a single weapon or the use of any human power." E.J. Waggoner