As Louie Giglio continues our EXTRAVAGANT series, he reminds us of the true nature of worship: that as we lay things on the altar of praise, God is paying attention.
Key Takeaway
We can move the heart of God. That is no small thought, that each of us can touch the heart of God through our sacrifice of worship.
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“We can move the heart of God.”
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Louie Giglio
Scripture References
1.Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
2.Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3.March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4.Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 5.When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”
6.So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” 7.And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”
8.When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. 9.The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. 10.But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” 11.So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there.
12.Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13.The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. 14.So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
15.On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. 16.The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! 17.The city and all that is in it are to be devoted6:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 18 and 21. to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 18.But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19.All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”
20.When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21.They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
22.Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23.So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
24.Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. 25.But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
26.At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:
“At the cost of his firstborn son
he will lay its foundations;
at the cost of his youngest
he will set up its gates.”
27.So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.
15.Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16.And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
1.As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2.He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3.“Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4.All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
6.And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
28.And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who have been called according to his purpose.
32.He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
35.Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
8.“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
About the Contributor
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute. View more from the Contributor.