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    Increasing Your Christian Footprint
    Increasing Your Christian Footprint
    Increasing Your Christian Footprint
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    Increasing Your Christian Footprint

    By Brian Johnston

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    Brian Johnston digs into the archaeology of Israel to explain what’s below the surface of the Old Testament Gilgals and the events that happened there - and to encourage disciples to put their foot down and possess the land in their Christian walk!

    CHAPTER ONE: FIRST STEPS

    CHAPTER TWO: POSSESSING THE PROMISES AND BLESSINGS

    CHAPTER THREE: GAINING A FOOTHOLD

    CHAPTER FOUR: PUTTING OUR FOOT DOWN

    CHAPTER FIVE: STEPPING OUT FULLY INTO GOD'S WILL

    CHAPTER SIX: WHEN OUR FOOT SLIPS

    CHAPTER SEVEN: REGAINING A FOOTHOLD

    CHAPTER EIGHT: STEPPING INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOES

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateMar 20, 2017
    ISBN9781386163381
    Increasing Your Christian Footprint
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    Brian Johnston

    Born and educated in Scotland, Brian worked as a government scientist until God called him into full-time Christian ministry on behalf of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info). His voice has been heard on Search For Truth radio broadcasts for over 30 years (visit www.searchfortruth.podbean.com) during which time he has been an itinerant Bible teacher throughout the UK and Canada. His evangelical and missionary work outside the UK is primarily in Belgium and The Philippines. He is married to Rosemary, with a son and daughter.

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      Increasing Your Christian Footprint - Brian Johnston

      INCREASING YOUR CHRISTIAN FOOTPRINT:

      A DIG INTO THE OLD TESTAMENT GILGALS

      BRIAN JOHNSTON

      Copyright © Hayes Press 2017

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, without the written permission of Hayes Press.

      Published by:

      HAYES PRESS Publisher, Resources & Media,

      The Barn, Flaxlands

      Royal Wootton Bassett

      Swindon, SN4 8DY

      United Kingdom

      www.hayespress.org

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible®, (NASB®) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). All rights reserved.

      Scriptures marked NKJV are from the HOLY BIBLE, the New King James Version® (NKJV®). Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc.  Used by permission. All rights reserved. 

      ISBN: 9781911433507

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      Table of Contents

      Copyright Page

      CHAPTER ONE: FIRST STEPS

      CHAPTER TWO: POSSESSING THE PROMISES AND BLESSINGS

      CHAPTER THREE: GAINING A FOOTHOLD

      CHAPTER FOUR: PUTTING OUR FOOT DOWN

      CHAPTER FIVE: STEPPING OUT FULLY INTO GOD’S WILL

      CHAPTER SIX: WHEN OUR FOOT SLIPS

      CHAPTER SEVEN: REGAINING A FOOTHOLD

      CHAPTER EIGHT: STEPPING INTO SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES

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      CHAPTER ONE: FIRST STEPS

      When we say ‘step on it!’, we’re usually intending someone to hurry up by asking them to imagine they’re stepping on a ‘go faster’ pedal like the accelerator pedal in our car. ‘Put your foot down,’ is another expression we like to use when we’re encouraging someone to stamp their authority on a situation – perhaps to take control of misbehaving children. But stepping onto a piece of land, or putting one’s foot on it so as to walk over it, already had an understood meaning from ancient Bible times. Let’s rewind back to very early in the Bible, to the time of Abraham in fact – so we’re talking some 2000 years before the birth of Christ. What follows is set in the period of Abraham’s early life when his name was still Abram.

      Abram encountered the God of heaven, the God of glory, when he was a city-dweller. Yes, Abram lived in what has become known to us as ‘the fertile crescent’ – in the famous city of Ur of the Chaldees where the populace worshiped the moon. Abram’s life was never the same after that encounter with the God of the Bible. He abandoned city life altogether to become a wanderer – a wanderer with God. He didn’t need to know where he was going, he implicitly trusted the God who’d said to him: Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing (Genesis 12:1-2).

      Abram obeyed, and so he went, trusting the promise of the God who’d turned him away from all his idols in the vividness of that epic encounter in Mesopotamia. Abram came into the land of Canaan, and then spent a short time in Egypt. On his return to the land of God’s promise, in Genesis 13:17, God told Abram: walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you. Now, we hear those words and we’re tempted to think about an enjoyable stroll in the countryside, taking in the beauty of the land. But the sense of this command conveys much more intention than that. Walking about like that on the land back then would seem to symbolize legal ownership. The background for saying this can be found in early Egyptian and Hittite empires, where the king would take a periodic ceremonial walk around a field or a tour of his realm in order to symbolize the renewal of his sovereignty over the land. Doesn’t it seem like something similar here in the case of Abraham?

      In fact, in one Mesopotamian city east of the Tigris River (Nuzi), property was once transferred from one person to another by the former owner lifting his foot from his property and placing the new owner’s foot on it – all at the same time a deed was drawn up. This action with the foot symbolized a legal property transaction. I would imagine this is equally the thought behind what we find in Psalm 60: God has spoken in his holiness: ‘With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth. Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter. Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph’ (Psalm 60:6-8).

      In the clear context of ownership there, it’s entirely reasonable that

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