Keep Yourselves From The Accursed Thing
Joshua 6:18 And you, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. God told the nation of Israel that as they moved to take possession of the promised land to keep themselves from the accursed thing. God said that the accursed thing would cause the whole nation to be cursed. He also said that the curse would bring trouble to the whole nation. They were not to pick up anything that God said was cursed that belonged to the nations he was having removed from the land because of their gross abominations. That was then. This is now. God is still saying the same thing to us today. He is saying it because since the Garden of Eden all mankind has been living under the curse of sin. When Adam sinned the curse of sin cursed everyone. Sin is in our nature. Therefore our nature has been cursed by sin. This means sin is on the inside of every person t