Roger Thrower

1. To test your heart.
*Judges 2:21-22 – I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not.
A. Philistines – wallowing: Are you wallowing in something?
B. Canaanites – trafficker: Are you living for personal gain or for God’s glory? (Luke 9:25)
C. Hittites – sons of terror: What are you afraid of? (1 John 4:18)
D. Amorites – talker, self-boasting: Are you self-centered? 1 Cor. 1:26-31

2. To teach you to war.
*It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known war.
*For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ. 2 Cor 10:3-5

3. To Triumph in and through Christ.
*But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 2 Cor. 2:14
*Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Rev. 12:10-11