Line Upon Line

This teaching traces how the tribe of Levi—once cursed for their cruelty—became God's ordained priests who received no inheritance but were given 48 cities scattered throughout Israel. It shows that God faithfully provides for both His people's physical and spiritual needs, and that He supplies His ministers through the stirring of His Spirit rather than through human demand.

Pastor Miles teaches on the six cities of refuge established in Joshua 20, showing how this easily-overlooked provision for the accidental manslayer points forward to Christ as the true, seventh city of refuge. He argues that every person has unwittingly killed the Son of God by their sin, and that salvation comes only when we realize our guilt, confess it, and flee to Christ, staying in Him under...

As the remaining seven tribes of Israel gather at Shiloh without yet claiming their inheritance, Joshua confronts them with the question, "How long are you slack to possess the land?" Pastor Miles uses this to challenge believers against spiritual inertia, urging them instead to press in by faith and lay hold of the abundant, Spirit-filled life God has given them.

As the land of Canaan is divided among the tribes of Israel, Pastor Miles draws a portrait of Caleb seeking a man, Othniel fighting for a bride, and Aksa boldly asking her father for "the springs of water"—a picture of Christ winning His bride and the believer persistently asking the Father for the overflowing life of the Holy Spirit. He contrasts this persistent seeking with the tribes of Judah,...

A study of Joshua 14:6-15 centered on Caleb, who at 85 asked for Hebron—the mountain other spies feared because of its giants—as his inheritance. Hebron pictures fellowship with God, and the teaching shows how Caleb obtained it by giving a faithful report, following the Lord fully, and fighting the good fight of faith in God's promise and presence.

As the Lord tells the aged Joshua that "there remains yet very much land to be possessed," Pastor Miles draws a parallel to the Christian life: God has won our full salvation and given us the land as an inheritance, but we must actively go in and possess it through the Word and the Spirit. The teaching contrasts the Levites, whose inheritance was the Lord Himself, with Reuben, Gad, and the half-tr...

Working through the list of conquered kings in Joshua 11:23–12:24, this teaching traces Israel's journey from slavery in Egypt, through the wilderness, into the promised land, reading it as a picture of the believer's redemption and victorious rest in Christ. The chapter's recounting of victories becomes a model for communion—a pause to remember the one thing: Christ crucified and risen.

Teaching through Joshua 11, this message examines the massive Canaanite coalition of chariots and horses that gathered against Israel in the north, and how the Lord commanded Joshua to hamstring the horses and burn the chariots so that Israel would trust in God alone. The central challenge is whether we trust in "chariots and horses"—money, jobs, self, strongholds—or in the name of the Lord our Go...

Teaching through Joshua 10, Pastor Miles shows that the five-king alliance led by Adonai-Zedek pictures the Antichrist and the enemy's assault, while the Gibeonites picture believers who, having come to Christ to escape judgment, immediately face the battle. The remedy, taught through Joshua's victory, is to call out to our Joshua—Jesus—who fights for us, destroys the sin we bring out of the caves...

Using Joshua 9, Miles shows how the enemy, after we win battles against the world (Jericho) and the flesh (Ai), attacks with force and then with folly—as the Gibeonites deceived Israel. The deception succeeded because Israel judged by outward appearances and failed to ask counsel of the Lord, teaching that when communion with God breaks down, deception is near and perception becomes unclear.

Teaching through Joshua 8:30-35, where Israel builds an altar at Mount Ebal, writes the law on stones, and hears the blessings and curses pronounced between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. Pastor Miles draws from Deuteronomy 27-28 and Ezekiel to show that every person begins on Mount Ebal under the curse, and must travel through the valley—laying themselves on God's altar as whole stones—to receive...

Drawing on Israel's second battle against Ai in Joshua 8, this teaching shows how God responds to His people's failures: He calls them to repent, get up, and run the race again. The victory at Ai, following the defeat caused by Achan's sin, illustrates God's grace after failure, the danger of presumption, and the blessing of obedience.

Teaching through the opening of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-20), Pastor Miles traces the Beatitudes as a progression of spiritual brokenness leading to righteousness, then shows that Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it. The righteousness that saves is not the external, manufactured righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees but a righteousness God implants within the heart...

Teaching through Joshua 7, Pastor Miles examines how one man's hidden sin brought defeat on all Israel at Ai, drawing out the dangers of self-reliance after victory, the deceitfulness of sin, and the need to die to self. He closes by showing how the Word of God is the means of purging sin, and how the Valley of Achor—a place of death and trouble—becomes a door of hope and place of rest.

Teaching through Joshua 6:17-27, Pastor Miles shows how the fall of Jericho unfolds in three movements—Rahab delivered, the goods devoted to the Lord, and the city destroyed—and applies this pattern to the believer's life: after God delivers us, we must devote what is good and destroy what is wicked. Rahab's faith that worked, Jephthah's costly vow, and the coming trumpet of Christ's return all po...

Teaching through Joshua 6:1-20, Pastor Miles shows how God handed Jericho to Joshua, but required the Israelites to lay hold of the promise through foolish-looking obedience—walking around the city for seven days until the walls fell. The sermon calls believers to see trials as God does, to build faith through the Word, to be still before God, and to obey even when faith seems foolish to the world...

Teaching through Joshua 5:13-15, Pastor Miles shows how Joshua, facing the stronghold of Jericho, encountered the Commander of the Lord's army (a pre-incarnate Christ) and responded not by arguing but by falling down to worship and asking, "What do you want me to do?" The central challenge is whether we have truly enlisted in God's army and surrendered to Him, rather than treating God as a lucky c...

Teaching from Joshua 5:10-12, where Israel keeps the Passover in the promised land before battle, showing that spiritual victory begins by remembering God's work rather than trusting in our own strength. The message leads into communion as a time to humbly remember Christ's finished work and, where needed, to repent and be restored.

Using Israel's crossing of the Jordan and the twelve memorial stones in Joshua 4–5, Pastor Miles teaches that the believer is called to leave the wilderness of self-effort behind and cross into the Spirit-filled, victorious Christian life by daily laying down the old life and taking up the new in Christ.

Teaching through Joshua 3, Pastor Miles shows how Israel's crossing of the Jordan pictures the believer's call to leave the wilderness and step by faith into the abundant, victorious life God won for us. He emphasizes rising early to seek God, following close behind the ark (a type of Christ), sanctifying ourselves through the Word, and crucifying the flesh daily.

A verse-by-verse study of Joshua 2 showing that God directed Joshua to send spies into Jericho not from a lapse of faith but to rescue one believing convert, Rahab the harlot. Her story becomes a picture of salvation through the blood and the call for believers to go out as spies into the mission field around them.

A communion teaching from the road to Emmaus, showing how the risen Christ draws near to brokenhearted disciples, opens the Scriptures, and makes Himself known in the breaking of bread. Pastor Miles urges believers to approach communion with joy, to understand Christ's redemption as spiritual rather than merely physical, and to commune with the Lord daily.

Using Joshua 1:10-18 and the backstory of Israel at the border of Canaan, Pastor Miles teaches that God desires His people to enter fully into His promises, and warns against two failures: refusing to enter because the obstacles look too big (the ten spies), and settling comfortably short of the promised land (Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh). He calls believers to reject the lukewarm Manasseh-l...

Teaching through Joshua 1:3–9, Pastor Miles presents Joshua as a type of Christ and shows how God's commission and command to Joshua apply to believers today: God has given us spiritual blessings we must actively possess, promises His presence in the battle, and calls us to be strong and courageous by meditating on His Word and walking in obedience to the Spirit-led life.

Opening a study through the book of Joshua, Pastor Miles shows that the Old Testament pictures New Testament truths: God has given believers an inheritance of spiritual blessings they must actively lay hold of, just as Israel owned but had to possess the Promised Land. From Joshua 1:1-2, he presses the one word "arise" as God's call to His people—especially amid loss—to rise in faith and go forwar...