Joshua 7:12. Not accepting personal responsibility for your sin, separates you from God. God departs from you when you do not acknowledge that you have sinned. His spirit leaves you. With unacknowledged sin, we live defeated lives and cannot face the enemies in our lives. The only way for us to get God back in our lives is by accepting personal responsibility for our sins. Then God's mercy will reconcile us back to Him (Joshua 7:12, "Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.")

Joshua 7:12, "Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you."

Joshua 7:11. Accepting personal responsibility for our actions is a big thing to God. This was shown to Israel when they started to conquer the Promise Land. When Achan had taken the accursed things at Jericho, God was very angry at Israel. He was angry because Israel had not acknowledge their sin (Achan's sin), and they had not accepted personal responsibility for their sin. God had to directly tell Israel that they had sinned, before they understood that they needed to accept personal responsibility for their sin (Joshua 7:11, "Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.")

Joshua 7:11, "Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.")

Joshua 7:13. Once you know that you have sinned and are willing to accept personal responsibility for your sin, you need to follow through on your responsibility. Jesus, our Lord and Savior, gives us the means to turn away from sin and set aside ourselves for God. Accepting personal responsibility for our sins means that we repent and sanctify ourselves before God. We must set ourselves apart from profane or secular use and stand ready for sacred and holy use ([Joshua 7:13, " Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.").

Joshua 7:13, " Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you."

Joshua 7:24. We must separate ourselves from sin just as Israel separated themselves from everything associated with the trouble maker Achan. (Joshua 7:24, "And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor").

Joshua 7:24, "And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor."

Joshua 7:25. Our whole body, mind, and spirit must turn away from sin, and turn toward God. This is what Israel did with Achan by stoning and burning him and all of his possessions (Joshua 7:25, " And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones").

Joshua 7:25, " And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones."

Joshua 7:26. Only after accepting personal responsibility for our sin will God's anger turn away from us (Joshua 7:26, " And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day").

JOSHUA 7 BIBLE SCRIPTURE: Joshua 7:26, " And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day."