Rocks of Remembrance (5 of 13)
Series: Victorious
Brad Whitt
Joshua 4
INTRO: Take your Bibles now this morning and turn with me to Joshua, chapter 4. And as you're finding your place there let me tell you WHERE WE ARE here in our study through this daring and dynamic Old Testament book and then let me tell you WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING during our time together this morning.
As we come to Joshua, chapter 4, we find General Joshua and all the Children of Israel finally standing on Canaan soil. They have just crossed over a flooded, swollen, raging Jordan River - on dry, dusty ground.
(That's what it says in in the last verse of chapter 3.)
So, after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, they are finally standing in the Promised Land.
Behind them are the chains of Egypt.
Behind them - at the bottom of the Red Sea - are the bodies of Pharaoh and his army.
Behind them are more bowls of manna and quail than they care to remember.
Behind them are countless desert suns and night moons - each day marking time until God could kill off an entire disobedient generation.
They have finally come into their promised possession, and now they are standing on the plains of Jericho.
That's where we are as we come into Joshua, chapter 4.
Now, let me tell you what we're going to do.
As General Joshua and the Children of Israel move forward into Canaan, I want us to go back and pick up where they put down those memorial stones - those rocks of remembrance.
(I mentioned them in passing last Sunday morning in our study of the crossing of the Jordan, but I want to devote more time and specific attention to them today. Because you see, I believe that there are some very important lessons for us to learn from these simple stones.)
Again, don't ever forget that what happened to the people of the Old Testament isn't just some kind of ancient, unassociated history that has nothing to do with us today. This isn't just the impersonal record of peo ...
Series: Victorious
Brad Whitt
Joshua 4
INTRO: Take your Bibles now this morning and turn with me to Joshua, chapter 4. And as you're finding your place there let me tell you WHERE WE ARE here in our study through this daring and dynamic Old Testament book and then let me tell you WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING during our time together this morning.
As we come to Joshua, chapter 4, we find General Joshua and all the Children of Israel finally standing on Canaan soil. They have just crossed over a flooded, swollen, raging Jordan River - on dry, dusty ground.
(That's what it says in in the last verse of chapter 3.)
So, after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, they are finally standing in the Promised Land.
Behind them are the chains of Egypt.
Behind them - at the bottom of the Red Sea - are the bodies of Pharaoh and his army.
Behind them are more bowls of manna and quail than they care to remember.
Behind them are countless desert suns and night moons - each day marking time until God could kill off an entire disobedient generation.
They have finally come into their promised possession, and now they are standing on the plains of Jericho.
That's where we are as we come into Joshua, chapter 4.
Now, let me tell you what we're going to do.
As General Joshua and the Children of Israel move forward into Canaan, I want us to go back and pick up where they put down those memorial stones - those rocks of remembrance.
(I mentioned them in passing last Sunday morning in our study of the crossing of the Jordan, but I want to devote more time and specific attention to them today. Because you see, I believe that there are some very important lessons for us to learn from these simple stones.)
Again, don't ever forget that what happened to the people of the Old Testament isn't just some kind of ancient, unassociated history that has nothing to do with us today. This isn't just the impersonal record of peo ...
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