Since the beginning of the new school year in September 2015, Rev Foster has been speaking at two morning assembly meetings each week. His theme for 2015-16 is DV, "Pictures of Christ in the Bible." Tenth Picture - Joshua Joshua 15:15-18 The crossing of the Jordan is a picture of us passing from death unto life at the new birth and the battles that ensue as we war against sin. Israel faced a wicked and depraved enemy. Deut 7:1-8. The destruction of the Canaanite nations by Israel was God's judgment for their iniquity. Deuteronomy 18:9-14. The Gibeonites are an example of the craftiness of the enemy with whom we must fight. Joshua 9:3-4. Their purpose was to escape the death sentence imposed by God. "And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them. . . . . And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes," Joshua 9:15, 18. The craftiness of the flesh as it pleads for its life is vividly illustrated by the actions and attitude of Agag, king of the Amalekites. "And Agag came unto him delicately. . . . . And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal" 1 Samuel 15:32-33. We are to likewise slay the flesh. " . . if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live," Romans 8:13. Our life depends upon the death of sin!