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time to face today instead of                             Let me ask you this question;

        looking back.                                             what does your life statement
                                                                  about you?
        In Isaiah 43:18-19
                                                                   it does not matter what you are,
        The Lord says “Do not remember                            a housewife, a lawyer, a

        the past events, pay no attention                         mechanic; whatever you do or
        to the things of old, Look I am                           wherever you are headed, your
        about to do something new, even                           life is making a statement to the

        now it is coming, do you not see                          world.
        it?

                                                                  Does your life statement include
        Do you believe that? I do. I                              Jesus? Does it show your reason

        believe that God is on the verge of                       for living?
        and has already begun a new
        thing like we have never seen                             JOSHUA 6:1-5

        before, and I want to be part of
        it. Amen.                                                 1  Jericho was shut up tight as a
                                                                  drum because of the People of
        None of us knows exactly what                             Israel: no one going in, no one

        tomorrow will bring or even                               coming out.
        what our life may be like..                               2  GOD spoke to Joshua, "Look
                                                                  sharp now. I've already given
        We are hearing a lot now, that                            Jericho to you, along with its
        we are living in not just the last                        king and its crack troops.   Here's
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        days, but possibly the last                               what you are to do: March
        minutes of time, that Jesus is                            around the city, all your soldiers.

        coming soon, that the end of the                          Circle the city once. Repeat this
        world is near.                                            for six days.   Have seven priests
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                                                                  carry seven ram's horn trumpets
        Well, if we believe that, then
        shouldn’t we be busy letting                              in front of the Chest. On the

        everyone around us know. Should                           seventh day march around the
        we not be introducing the world                           city seven times, the priests                  5

        to the Lamb of God?                                       blowing away on the trumpets.
                                                                  And then, a long blast on the

        Most of the church today finds it                         ram's horn—when you hear that,
        so easy to say that difficult to                          all the people are to shout at the

        live in that manner.                                      top of their lungs. The city wall
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