It was a walled city, an impressive City, and God said that we’re going to have a special strategy for this city. The first city that they had to encounter was Jericho. They walked over on dry land, and this was during flood season when the Jordan River was at its biggest. God had performed a miracle parting the waters. The children of Israel had entered the Promised Land. The Backstory: Entering the Promised Land Verse one and then jumping down to verses 16-26. Let’s look at a situation in the Old Testament found in Joshua chapter 7. The Account of Achan’s Compartmentalization Compartmentalization has become an epidemic in the church. Singing songs and hearing sermons about integrity during the day and watching porn movies at night. I later learned (I don’t know that it was at that one, but at one of the big Promise Keepers meetings) the motels and the hotels in the area racked up record sales of pornographic movies by the Promise Keepers attendees – sickening. A lot of the song were talking about personal holiness. They said there were about 60,000 men present. Now that’s before your time for some you. I went to a Promise Keepers meeting in Indianapolis in the Hoosier Dome. The emphasis of this movement (and there were millions of men involved in it) was on being men of faith and integrity. What a spiritual disconnect! Years ago there was an impressive Christian men’s movement called Promise Keepers. Yay, yay, yay! On the way home, some of them wanted to stop and eat at Hooters. My step-brother told me about a group of men from a holiness church, a large holiness church – I’ve been there – who went to a Christian Conference. Is it any wonder that religion in America is so weak and powerless? It doesn’t even help the doctor. Buy title and profession they are men of God who publicly stand for truth and righteousness but in private they lust and commit adultery. One-half admit to looking at pornographic stuff on their computer devices. This terrible plague has become so widespread that half of ministers in America are caught up in it. Compartmentalization says that he was an honest person with some lapses. Practice makes perfect.Ĭompartmentalization is Not Accepted by GodĪlthough this is accepted in our culture today, it’s not accepted by God. He just lies sometimes.” Wow! Incredible! I always thought that people who lie are liars, but I learned differently. What shocked me was a major big-name news anchor said this at the time, “I believe that President Clinton is basically an honest man. I mean he did everything he could to get out of it and discredit the accusation. He tried to discredit those who were accusing him. They said, “Yep, buddy, this belongs to you.” Bill Clinton tried to deny it. They found some of his semen and did some testing. They’re just trying to smear him.” Well, he became elected as president, and he had an affair with an intern in the White House. Have you ever heard of the name Bill Clinton? Once Bill Clinton began to surface in public, there are all kinds of stories and rumors flying around that he was a womanizer and he was dishonest, but people said, “You know, people just don’t like him. This may seem like ancient history to you, but I can’t help that you chronologically challenged. Some of you students may not even have been wearing diapers yet. The widespread acceptance and practice of this really hit me one day when you were just wearing diapers. The Cultural Acceptance of CompartmentalizationĬompartmentalization is widely accepted and practiced. What I do on the internet is my business and nobody else’s business. I may think about things that I shouldn’t think about. There are some things I say that may not be so good. Now, I may do a little cheating on my taxes, but everybody else does. And over here is my tax compartment, how I fill out my taxes. And then here’s my recreation compartment. I go to church I put money in offering plate. Perhaps you have the bedrooms upstairs with some closets and some storage space up in the attic. In your house you have the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room. I am a good person as long as the majority of things that I do are good. It doesn’t matter what going on in the attic, the basement, or the closet. As long as my public rooms look good, I’m fine. There are public rooms and there are private rooms. According to compartmentalization, my life is like a house with many rooms. The sins of my private life are my own personal privilege and nobody’s business. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. I’ll tell you what God’s looking deeper than the image. It is my public persona and image that counts. I can claim to be good in public maintaining a respectable image and yet indulge in deviant behavior in private.
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