Aim: To come to realize that worldly associations provide both challenges and opportunities for the church.
Exegesis: Woodcutters and water carriers create relational problems for us. Their proximity (v. 16), size (v. 17), and existence (v. 18) are a challenge for us. Woodcutters and water carriers create spiritual problems for us. They may impose unnecessary constraints on us (v. 19), bring unnecessary harm to us (v. 20), and foist unnecessary duties on us (v. 21). Woodcutters and water carriers create practical problems for us. We have to control them (vv. 22-23), ''protect'' them (vv. 24-26), and train them (v. 27).
Key verse: v. 27 ''And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, in the place which He would choose, even to this day.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.
