(Through the Bible) Joshua 1-8 — Chuck Smith

Joshua as a Servant Leader

This time you may be seated and we'll turn to the book of Joshua. Now, it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses' minister doesn't mean that Joshua was Moses' pastor.

The word minister there actually is in its true meaning, which is servant. It is interesting how that somehow we've really sort of twisted the concept of a minister. And so many men in the ministry today really don't look at the ministry as servanthood, but they're almost wanting people to serve them.

You know, you ought to bring it to me because after all, I'm your minister. And that's totally opposite of what the word minister really means. It means a servant. Jesus said, if any man would be chief among you, let him be the servant of all.

So, a true minister is a man who is there not to be ministered to, but who is there to serve the needs of the people. And so when it reads that he was Moses' servant or his minister, it means that he was Moses' personal servant.

He accompanied Moses, he helped Moses do the things, and Moses was, you know, he was just his valet sort of, just his servant. Now, after the death of Moses, God elevated him from Moses' servant to the servant of all of the people of Israel.

Faithful in the little things, now the Lord has entrusted into his hand even greater things. And this is always the process of God. Jesus said, because thou hast been faithful in little things, now I will make thee ruler over many.

He said, if I've entrusted to you the little things and you haven't been able to take care of them, how can I entrust to you the things of the kingdom? As the Lord encourages us to the faithfulness in our service, no matter what avenue of service he may call us to.

Many times we look with disdain upon particular ministries within the body. And we look with sort of envy or desirability on other ministries within the body. And men are prone many times to put greater honor on certain ministries.

Actually, the particular ministry that I have within the body is one that people often look up to in an enviable kind of a way, because it is a particular ministry that draws a lot of prominence, because I stand before people.

But it doesn't really follow that my ministry is more important than your ministry within the body. There are some ministries that never cause any attention or notice to be drawn to them, which God has placed as some of the most vital and important ministries within the body.

There is that ministry of intercessory prayer. Rarely do you know who it is who has that ministry. And yet, what an important ministry within the body. And what great honor God places upon that ministry.

And what great rewards will that person have who has and is faithful to that ministry. I don't know that they'll have rows in heaven. I hope not. Because I'm afraid I'll have a back row, because there is so much feedback to the ministry that I have.

It's so neat to have people like you who display and show so much love and so much warmth and so much kindness. And I fear less. I often am getting all my rewards here, and there'll be nothing left for me when I get up there.

And I'll have to stand in the back on my tiptoes trying to see down to the front. And some of you people who've never been on the platform, never been in the public eye, you'll be right down there in the front row, because you have been faithful to God in that ministry that He has called you to fulfill.

Though it wasn't one that caused a lot of attention to be drawn to you, but you were faithful in that to which God called you. We need to get away from this concept of full-time ministry, looking at that those who are on the Calvary Chapel staff, or those who have been hired by some mission board, are full-time ministers.

You are, all of you, called by God to be a full-time minister. Now, Sears and Roebuck may pay your salary, or some other corporation, but you have been called of God to full-time serving the Lord. And whatever you're doing in word or deed, you should be doing for the glory of God and as unto the Lord, and knowing that from the Lord you are going to receive your reward.

And so, we need to have the proper concept of the ministry, and especially those who do serve on any church staff. We need to get away from that idea that the minister, you know, is someone who is especially holy, or, you know, is someone above the others, because as a minister, I am actually a servant.

And can you imagine seeking to serve this many people? But yet, that's what God has called me to do. So, Joshua was Moses' minister. That is, he was his personal valet, or servant. Now, after the death of Moses, the Lord then spoke unto Joshua.

Joshua as a Type of Christ

His name is a very significant name. It was given to him by Moses. Originally, his mother called him Hoshea, which means salvation. But Moses, after he saw the quality and all in this man, called him Joshua, or Yahshua, which is Jehovah is, or Jehovah's salvation, or Jehovah is salvation.

It is the same name as Jesus. This is in Hebrew, Yahshua. In Greek, it is Jesus. And so we find in Joshua a very interesting type of Jesus Christ, who, Joshua, led the people into the inheriting of the land.

Now, Moses could only lead the people so far. Moses led them out of Egypt and to the border of the promised land. But Moses could not lead them in. Moses stands for the law, and the law cannot lead you in to the fullness of God's blessings for your life.

The law can lead you up to the border, but the law can't take you in. So Moses, the representative of the law, could lead them up to the border of the promised land. He could not lead them into the promised land.

It is necessary that Moses now lay down his leadership. Joshua takes up the leadership to lead them into the promises of God. Now, there have been given unto us exceeding rich and precious promises. God has a life for you that is a super-rich, abundant life in Jesus Christ.

It isn't God's will that you be on a spiritual roller coaster. That you be a yo-yo in your spiritual experience. It is God's desire that you enter into the full, rich life that He has for you in Jesus Christ.

And that you enjoy that life of victory in Christ. But the law can't lead you into that. Only Jesus Christ can lead you in. So where Moses had to leave off, Joshua took up. Where the law led them as far as it could.

And now their new relationship is going to be one of faith. They're going to have to begin by stepping out in faith. Coming into this land that God had promised. Now, their conquest of Canaan is typical of the Christians entering into the life of victory that God has for us as we are conquering over the giants of the flesh that have been entrenched so long in our lives.

As we enter into that glorious victory in and through Jesus Christ that the Lord has for us. Now, it is interesting that Joshua could only lead them so far. He led them into the conquering of the land, but he never brought them into a rest.

That is something that was reserved for Jesus Christ. And in Hebrews, the contrast is made of how that Joshua led them in, but could not bring them to the place of rest. That is a work that was reserved for the finished work of Jesus Christ.

And once Christ made the work of salvation complete through his death upon the cross, then he has brought us now into the rest where we rest our salvation, our eternal life in that finished work of Jesus.

And we have that neat rest in the Lord. So Jesus has done for us that which Joshua could not do. He brought them only into the land, not into the rest. But Jesus has brought us into a glorious rest. And so you get into some of the typology, and it makes a very fascinating study.

God's Promise of Victory and Possession

Now, God spoke to Joshua, and the words of the Lord were actually words of encouragement, commanding Joshua now to take up where Moses led off and for him to lead the people, the children of Israel, and the beautiful promise in verse 3 where God said, every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you as I said unto Moses.

Now, I like that because this is stepping in and laying claim to that which is already yours. Notice it's in the past tense. Every place you put your soul, I have already given to you. Now, God has already given to you a glorious, full, rich life of victory.

All you have to do is go in and take it by faith. Go in. Wherever you put the sole of your foot, the Lord said, I have given to you. You can go in and begin to lay claim to the blessings of God, to the promises of God.

And let us beware, lest God having given us a promise, that we would fail to receive it or enter into it. It is important that we begin to lay claim to those victories over the flesh life that God has promised to give to us.

Every place you put the sole of your foot, I have given to you. From the wilderness, from Lebanon, even to the great river Euphrates. Now, the tragic thing is that they didn't put their soul all the way.

You know, God said, you know, it's all yours. Every place you put your sole of your foot down, I've given it to you. And they only went so far and then they quit. They never did go over to the river Euphrates.

They never did take all that God had given to them. Now, it is also tragically true that so many times we fail to take all that God has given to us. We fail to enter fully into that life of victory in Jesus Christ.

We hesitate or we become, as they did, satisfied. We say, oh, this is all we need. And we become more or less complacent in our spiritual growth. We just hit a plateau and we say, oh, praise the Lord, this is wonderful.

And we don't press on any further. So, when God tells them the area that is theirs, it is sad that they never did take all of the area that was theirs. They never did fully possess their possessions, that which God gave to them.

That is why the Scriptures are constantly exhorting us. Let us go on. Let us go on into the completeness, into the fullness. God has so much for you. God wants to do so much for you. If you'll just press in by faith, lay claim, take it.

It's yours. Now, the Lord is encouraging him. No man will be able to stand against you. As I was with Moses, so I'm going to be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you. Be strong and of good courage.

For unto this people you're going to divide this inheritance, the land. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do all that is written according to the law and all. Now, the encouragement for Joshua.

As God promises his presence, his power. And then as God again tells him the conditions upon which he will experience that presence and power of God, be careful that you observe to do the whole law. Don't turn, don't deviate from it to the right or to the left.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. For thus thou shalt make thy way prosperous and thou shalt have good success.

Now, God is saying, look, keep the law, don't deviate from it. For it is by this, observing it day and night, meditating in it, thus thou shalt make thy way prosperous, thus you will have good success.

As we turn to the first Psalm, we read, Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord.

And in his law does he meditate both day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

People looking for prosperity, people looking for success, God has given you the rules. Meditate in it, observe it, and thus shalt thou make thy way prosperous. For these are the rules to prosperity, these are the rules to success.

And so, the conditions upon which he can know the power, the presence, the victory. So, Joshua commanded the officers of the people saying, Pass through the land and command the people saying, Prepare your food, for within three days you're going to pass over this Jordan and go in and possess the land which the Lord your God gives to you to possess.

And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and after the tribe of Manasseh he said, All right, now you promised Moses you were going to go in and help us and all. And he reminded them of their promise, told them now to leave their wives and so forth, and to get the fighting men together that they might cross with them and take this land that God had promised unto them.

Until the Lord has given, verse 15, your brother's rest as he has given you, and they have possessed the land which the Lord your God has given to them, then you will return and enjoy this land. And they answered Joshua saying, All that you command us we will do, for whethersoever thou send us, we will go.

And as we hearken unto Moses, so will we hearken unto you. Now in chapter two, Joshua sent out two men to spy out the land, actually to spy out Jericho, because Jericho was the first city that they were going to come to.

Jericho is one of the oldest cities in the world. And it was one of the first, it was the first city that they came to once they crossed the Jordan River. So these two spies came to Jericho, and they went into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab.

And Rahab received them into her house. And she shared with them how that everybody was afraid of them. For they had heard how that God was with them, and how that God had parted the Red Sea so that they could come through.

They heard how that they had destroyed the strong kings, Sihon and Og. And thus the fear of them had come upon all of the inhabitants of the land. Now, someone came to the king of Jordan, or Jericho, and he told him that there were two spies from Israel who had come into the city of Jericho, and they had gone to the house of Rahab.

So he sent to Rahab, and she said, Oh, well, last night about the time it got dark, just before they closed the gate, these men slipped out. Maybe if you hurry, you can catch them. In reality, she was drying flax up on her roof, and she hid them under the flax.

And so the king sent out men down towards the Jordan River to find these spies. And after they were gone out, she told them, you know, the king knows you're here, and I know that God is going to give you this city, and I want you to spare me and my family.

And so the spies said, All right, we'll make a covenant with you. Now, she lived right on the wall of the city, and she let them down over the wall with a scarlet cord, a rope. And they said, When we take the city, you leave this scarlet robe out, and everyone who is within the house will be saved.

If any of your family goes out into the streets, then they're taking their lives into their own hands. They'll be slain with the rest of the people. But in order that they might be spared and be safe, they've got to stay in the house.

So you let this scarlet rope down so that we'll know the house, and when we take the city, we'll spare all of your family that is gathered in the house. Of course, there is a beautiful picture, really, of our place in Christ Jesus, the safety that we have abiding in Him.

Those that are within Christ are safe. No matter what comes, abiding in Christ, I have that safety. Outside of Him, I have nothing. I'm an open prey, but within Christ, that beautiful safety that is ours.

So the spies made this covenant with her, and she said, Now, look, when you get down from here, you flee on up into the mountains. Now, the mountains are right behind Jericho. They're actually the opposite direction from Jordan.

But she said, They're going to look for you, and you wait there in the mountains until they come back into the city, and then, you know, scat on down and cross the Jordan and get back to your people. So they went up into the mountains just above Jericho there and waited for the men to come back from their futile search, and then they made it on back, and they told Joshua all that Rahab had told them of the fear that had come upon the inhabitants of the land and how that the Lord had delivered them into their hands.

Rahab and the Genealogy of Jesus

It is interesting to me that as we read the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, that there are a few women that are listed in the genealogy. I can think of three offhand. One is a prostitute, Rahab.

She's actually listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. The other is Ruth, a Moabitess, and the third was Bathsheba, David's wife, that he took by illicit kind of ways. Interesting that three such women should be chosen by God to be in the lineage of His Son.

But yet, to me, there is a beauty to it because Jesus came to identify with sinful man, that He might take upon Himself man's guilt and sin and die in His place. And so rather than coming from some pure, royal, blue-blood lineage, we find very common sinful people listed in the line of Jesus Christ.

Crossing the Jordan by Faith

As we get into chapter 3, Joshua rose early in the morning and they removed from Shittim and they came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and they lodged there before they passed over. And he commanded the people and he said, now when you see the Ark of the Covenant moving out, you stay behind it 2 ,000 cubits, which is about a half mile that they were to stay behind the Ark, maybe two-thirds of a mile back from the Ark of the Covenant.

And the Levites were to bear the Ark of the Covenant before the people. And then he said, sanctify yourself, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. And Joshua spoke to the priest and he said, take the Ark of the Covenant and pass over before the people.

And they took up the Ark of the Covenant and went before the people. The Lord said unto Joshua, this day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

And thou shalt command the priest that bear the Ark of the Covenant, saying, when ye are come to the brink of the water of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. And Joshua said to the children of Israel, come hither and hear the words of the Lord your God.

Joshua said, hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and he will without fail drive out from before you the inhabitants of the land. Behold, the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes before you into Jordan.

Now therefore, take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, every tribe a man, and it shall come to pass that as soon as the souls of the feet of the priests that bear the Ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above, and they shall stand upon a heap.

And so it came to pass that the people removed from their tents to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant before the people. And as they bear the Ark, and as they had come to the Jordan, the feet of the priests that bear the Ark were dipped in the brim of the water, for Jordan at this time overflowed all of its banks during the time of the harvest.

And the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon a heap, very far from the city Atam, which is beside Zeratan. And those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed and were cut off, and the people passed over right against Jericho.

And the priests that bear the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all Israel passed over.". So even as God parted the Red Sea, now God stopped the Jordan River in flood season.

So that they were able to pass over. Now the interesting thing to me about this is, when they came to the Red Sea, Moses stretched forth his rod, and the Red Sea was parted. They went through on dry land.

But with the Jordan, the Lord is now testing their faith and developing their faith. He let the priests get their feet wet, walking right into the edge of the river, getting their feet in the water, stepping out now really in faith.

That wasn't easy, I'm sure. I imagine that even Joshua himself had some anxious moments, as he saw those guys starting to wade into the water. Now Lord, that's what You said. But this is coming into a new relationship with God, that relationship of faith, which is so very important for every one of us to really develop in that full relationship with God.

It has to be that relationship of faith. And God is bringing them now into a new relationship of faith. Before they sought, before they stepped in, they saw the sea parted. But now, God is letting them take one step further in faith.

Go ahead and step out before you see any evidence, before you see any signs. Go ahead and step out in faith. Get your feet wet. And so here is a new relationship, an exciting relationship to be sure. As they stepped into the water, and as they did, God caused the waters to cease flowing.

Memorial Stones and Passing Faith to Children

God threw up a dam, and the waters of Jordan ceased, and the people all passed over. Now, they were commanded to take these stones out of the bottom of the Jordan River, where the priests were standing, holding the Ark of the Covenant.

And when they came up on the other side, they were put to put these stones in a heap. And Joshua commands them there in chapter 4, that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones?

He shall answer them, that the waters of Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord when it passed over Jordan. The waters of Jordan were cut off, and these stones shall be a memorial unto the children of Israel forever.

And so the children of Israel did as Joshua commanded. So, it is interesting to me that God is desiring that His power and His truth is transmitted to our children. That they not forget what God has done for us.

It is sad and it is tragic that very few revivals ever go into a second generation. Now, I don't know if you know it or not, but we are experiencing here a marvelous revival. What God is doing in our midst is a spiritual phenomena that the whole world is looking at and talking about.

Because of God's marvelous work in our midst, and there is a real move of God's Holy Spirit. God's raising up a whole new element of people, you might say. There are now over 150 formal fellowships that have sort of sprung out of Calvary Chapel, plus hundreds of other informal fellowships that are developing.

One sociologist that was studying this whole thing that is happening, he said, if the Lord doesn't come in the 1980s, he said, at the rate things are going, I anticipate that there will be 10 ,000 Calvary Chapels across the United States.

God is working in a very beautiful way. And we have had the excitement and the thrill of seeing God work. When you consider that we're only 14 years old, and you look at what God has done, we just stand in amazement and in awe.

But unfortunately, there have been other moves of the Spirit like this in the history of the church that are marvelous. The people are there, they enjoy it, but rarely do they ever carry into a second generation.

Because you see, as we grow, it'll be necessary to more or less begin to formalize things, to establish sort of codes and rules. And the minute you start putting the fences around it, then you're restricting that work that God wants to do.

And when I die, some fool will want to raise a memorial to Chuck Smith, and we'll have a Chuck Smith gymnasium or something, you know. Oh, God forbid. This should remain a memorial to Jesus Christ for what He has done.

And never a memorial to any man. God keep us from that memorial state. Nobody needs to remember me. We need to remember the work that God has done. The monument wasn't built for Joshua. The monument was built so that the children, when they say, hey, what's that pile of stones, Daddy?

Those stones were once in the bottom of the Jordan River, and when we walked through, we picked up these stones out of the river. That's because God stopped the river so that we could come through. That's the kind of a God we serve.

And it was to remind them of the work of God. And oh, that we will always keep that in the forefront of our minds, that the work that we see is not a work of man, nor is it to the credit of any man. The work is to the glory of God.

And let's keep our memorials unto the Lord for the work that He has wrought. Now, God seeks actually that we would pass on to our children His truths, His glory, His power. And His method for doing this is by creating questions in the minds of the children.

You ever wondered why a child is so inquisitive? That's been placed there by the Spirit. And the purpose of that inquisitive mind of the child is that he may learn. Teach him. And let your memorials be memorials that will allow you the opportunity to share.

Share the work of God and the power of God. It is marvelous that we remember what God has done. But it is also important that we relate to our children who did not have the privilege of seeing that work that we saw.

The work that God has wrought by His Holy Spirit. So, these stones were to create questions in the minds of the children to give them the opportunity to share with their children the glorious power of God.

So, Joshua, verse 9, set up the twelve stones in the midst of Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the covenant stood. They're there unto this day. Now, it'd be fun. They set up two memorials.

They took stones and set them in a pile in the Jordan River. And then they also set a pile up on a bank. It'd be fun to get some scooby gear. It says they were there till that day to see if the stones were still there in the Jordan River that Joshua set up.

Now, the priests which bear the ark stood in the midst of Jordan till everyone was finished, that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak to the people. All that Moses commanded Joshua, the people hastened and passed over.

And so it came to pass when the people were clean, passed over, the ark of the Lord passed over the priests in the presence of the people, all the children of Reuben, Gad, Manasseh, about 40 ,000 of those from those two and a half tribes prepared for war.

On that day, the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel. They feared him as they feared Moses all the days of his life. And the Lord spoken to Joshua saying, command the priest that they bear the ark of the testimony that they come up out of Jordan.

And so he commanded them to come up out of Jordan. And when they were come up from the midst of Jordan and the soles of the priest's feet were lifted up to the dry land that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place and overflowed their banks as they did before.

And the people came out of Jordan on the 10th day of the first month. They encamped in Gilgal in the east border of Jericho. And so it is actually just four days prior to the feast of Passover. And those 12 stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua pitched in Gilgal.

And he spoke to the children of Israel saying, when your children will ask their fathers in time to come, what are these stones mean? Then let your children know saying Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Circumcision, the Passover, and Walking by the Spirit

So the memorial by which they could share with their children the work of God. Now in chapter 5, we read where all of the adult males were at this point circumcised. It was a right that they did not follow while they were in the wilderness.

So that those who were born in the wilderness, now were men, did not go through the right of circumcision. But now that they are to enter into the land, the circumcision was always a type of the cutting away of a heart after the flesh.

God wanted a people whose heart was after the spirit. And so it was a symbolic act. And God said, circumcise your hearts. In other words, cut away from your heart that longing or desiring after the flesh.

And Paul in the book of Romans speaks of the error of the Jews in observing a right without the reality. And though they had gone through the right of circumcision, yet their hearts were after fleshly things.

And thus there was an inconsistency there. Now that they are going to enter into this new relationship with God coming into the land, because it is to typify a new relation after the spirit, which is that new relationship that God wants to bring you into, a life of victory over the flesh.

So it was necessary that they go through the right of circumcision and all of the adult males be circumcised in order that they might cut away the flesh and thus signify the fact that they were going to walk after the spirit and a heart after God.

And so, as I said, it was not done in the wilderness. And so it was done after they entered into the land. The first thing was this circumcision in order that they might again declare themselves a people unto God to walk after the spirit and not after the flesh.

And so God said this day, have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off of you. Therefore, the name of the place is called Gilgal, which means a rolling because God there rolled away the reproach of Egypt, which is a type of the flesh and the life after the flesh.

They long for the flesh parts of Egypt. And Egypt always is symbolic of living after the flesh and lusting after the flesh. And so the children of Israel encamped there in Gilgal. They kept the Passover from the 14th day of the month even at even in the plains of Jericho.

So this is the first Passover in the promised land. They came in just four days beforehand, circumcised themselves and now are beginning this new relationship with God, observing the Passover now in the new land.

And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, the unleavened cakes, the parched corn, the selfsame day. And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land.

Neither had the children of Israel manna anymore, but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. So again, coming in now to a new diet. The life of the Spirit is a life of variety. It's a life of excitement.

It really is thrilling to walk after the Spirit and live after the Spirit. You never know what God has planned for you today. It's just an exciting life, a life of variety. I never lack for excitement.

Walking after the Spirit is the most exciting experience in the world. And so they are leaving now the old manna, that monotonous kind of a diet, and now going to begin to eat of the fruits of the land that God had promised as they come in now to the land of Canaan.

Joshua Encounters the Captain of the Lord's Host

I love verse 13 through 15. And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho that he lifted up his eyes, and he looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went unto him and said to him, Are you for us or for our enemies?

And he said, Not for your enemies, but as captain of the host of the Lord. Am I now come? And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?

And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so. Here, Joshua met Jesus. Jesus, the captain of the Lord's host.

You see, if it were an angel, then he would have refused his worship. John, several times in the book of Revelation, tried to worship the angel. And he said, Stand up, worship the Lord. The Lord said, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only.

Therefore, the captain of the Lord's host is none other than Jesus, who is standing there ready to lead him into the land of promise. As the captain of the Lord's host, have I come? And Joshua fell on his knees on his face and said, What do you want me to do, Lord?

Much like Paul, the apostle, Lord, what will you have me to do now? Here is a true picture of leadership. The finest leader is the man who is led. The finest ruler is a man who is ruled. God chose Joshua for a leader to rule over the people of Israel because Joshua was ruled over by the Lord.