August 30, 2026, Joshua: Courageous Faith

Opportunity In Receiving Your Inheritance

Joshua 17:3–4 (NASB95)

³However, Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.

⁴They came near before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the leaders, saying, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” So according to the command of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers.

1. The Chance To Ask & Receive The Portion God Promised To You

Joshua 17:3–4 (NASB95)

Numbers 27:4–8 (NASB95)

⁴“Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

⁵So Moses brought their case before the Lord.

⁶Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

⁷“The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a hereditary possession among their father’s brothers, and you shall transfer the inheritance of their father to them.

⁸“Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

Numbers 27:9–11 (NASB95)

2. The Chance To Remain Pure Avoiding Idolatry & Partial Obedience

Joshua 13:13 (NASB95)

¹³But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for Geshur and Maacath live among Israel until this day.

Joshua 13:22 (NASB95)

²²The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their slain.

Numbers 25:1–13 (NASB95)

¹While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.

²For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

³So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry against Israel. …

Joshua 15:63 (NASB95)

⁶³Now as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day.

Joshua 16:4–10 (NASB95)

3. The Chance To Be Grateful, Faithful, & Work Hard

Joshua 17:12–18 (NASB95)

¹²But the sons of Manasseh could not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites persisted in living in that land.

¹³It came about when the sons of Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

¹⁴Then the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me only one lot and one portion for an inheritance, since I am a numerous people whom the Lord has thus far blessed?”

¹⁵Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

¹⁶The sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the valley land have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

¹⁷Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people and have great power; you shall not have one lot only,

¹⁸but the hill country shall be yours. For though it is a forest, you shall clear it, and to its farthest borders it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, even though they have chariots of iron and though they are strong.”

4. The Chance To Finish Well & Be Blessed

Joshua 19:49–51 (NASB95)