hospital, as I hope
for pardon, that thing's black and blue finger marks showed on my
shoulder. I've been in a lot of places since that but I never got over
it. Finally it got so bad I couldn't stand it and I came back to
Chicago to confess." And just as we have all these things against us
so the children of Israel had the Amorites against them and the five
kings were unitedly arrayed to fight them.

II

But there was a sure deliverance for Israel and there is a sure
deliverance for us. God promised to be with Joshua and his people.
Joshua 1:5, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all
the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I
will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." Even the things that were
impossible he helped them to accomplish. Joshua 6:1-2, "Now Jericho
was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out,
and none came in. And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given
unto thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of
valor." Even where men had failed him he gave them victory. Joshua
8:1-2, "And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou
dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai:
see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his
city, and his land; and thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst
unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle
thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush
for the city behind it." Even where the forces were combined against
them it made no difference. Joshua 10:8, "And the Lord said unto
Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there
shall not a man of them stand before thee." So it is with us. God has
promised to deliver us, and over our sinful nature, the atmosphere of
the world, sins encouraged and sins committed, we may expect a complete
victory. Everything is at man's disposal if only God is with him. In
connection with the children of Israel even the day was made longer
that they might fight their battles. Joshua 10:12-14, "Then spake
Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites
before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun,
stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had
avenged themselves upon their enemies.