One Man's Sin
Chapter seven in the book of Joshua starts out right after a huge victory over Jericho. God did an amazing thing for the Israelite army. Then, the Israelites went and spied out the region. They sent a couple thousand men to go whip “Ai” and instead they got trampled on by the small amount of men in Ai. They cried out to God and tore their clothes, asking, why He would bring them out to this place to only let them get delivered into the hands of their enemies. God answers by letting Joshua know that someone had gone against his commands and now they couldn’t be victorious until they had removed the sin from among the people. Wow! Joshua and his army went from seeing victory, because God was with him, to defeat. Joshua didn’t know that one of his men had disobeyed God’s command and all the Israelites felt the effects of his sin. Some sins are just plain obvious and some are secret. Hidden sins that nobody knows someone has done or is in the act of doing. How do these secret sins affect a