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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Food Sacrificed to Idols, #18
And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. (Joshua 7:24)
Notice that not only Achan, the sinner, was brought to judgment but also his entire family and all their possessions. When we sin we affect not only ourselves but our loved ones as well. If we yield to a spirit of adultery, or lying, or stealing, the spirit of the sin often will enter other members of the family, especially children and they will lie and steal, and commit adultery when they are grown.
What takes place in the Valley of Troubling? Israel puts the sin to death and then burns it with the fire of God.
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. (Joshua 7:25)
Paul commands us to put our sins to death.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify [put to death] the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)
Matthew informs us that the Lord is ready to baptize us with the fire of Divine judgment, laying the axe to the root of the tree, removing all chaff from the threshing floor of our personality.
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3:12)
Then the Lord's wrath will be turned away from us.
And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day. (Joshua 7:26)
Now we are ready to proceed to the next victory.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: (Joshua 8:1)
We do not receive such comfort and assurance of victory from the Lord until His wrath has been turned away from us.
And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. (Isaiah 12:1)
We turn away the Lord's anger when we specifically confess our sins as they are revealed to us. We repent of them diligently and put them to death by resolving with steel-like determination never, never, never to do such a thing again!
Then the Lord is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, through the atoning blood of the Lord Jesus and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. To be continued.