Title: Living on Canaan's Side (5 of 29)
Series: Walking in Victory- Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 3:1-17
I have reminded you in each lesson in this series and will likely do so in each installment. But Canaan is not a picture of heaven. Canaan is a picture of victorious Christian living. Canaan is not a place of the sweet by and by. Canaan is a possibility for the nasty now and now.
One old gospel song put it this way:
Egypt was once my home. I was a slave.
Helpless, in sin did roam, love's light did crave.
But then I looked up to heaven's throne. Christ came to save.
I'm living in Canaan now.
Living on Canaan's side, Egypt behind.
Crossed over Jordan wide, gladness to find.
My soul is satisfied. No longer I am blind.
Living with Jesus up in Canaan right now.
This is a glorious chapter and one of the most miraculous stories in the Bible. The only sad thing is, it could have and should have happened 40 years earlier. That's when Israel was encamped at Kadesh Barnea and determined to believe the faithless report of the 10 spies. Since that time, all the Israelites over age 20, except 2, died in the wilderness. During the 40 years of wandering, Moses and Aaron even died.
4 decades earlier, the Israelites rightly determined that the cost of crossing the Jordan would be high. The problem is, they failed to rightly reckon the cost of NOT going over.
Churches get in trouble when in the midst of calculating the high cost of moving forward, they neglect to calculate the higher cost of staying behind.
Marriage end when disgruntled, disillusioned, and disheartened spouses only count the high cost of reconciling but fail to calculate the higher cost of divorce.
Businesses fail when penny-pinchers only consider the high cost of expansion but never consider the higher cost of lagging behind.
Car engines fail when uninformed people only calculate the high cost of oil changes but never contemplat ...
Series: Walking in Victory- Lessons in Triumphant Christian Living
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Joshua 3:1-17
I have reminded you in each lesson in this series and will likely do so in each installment. But Canaan is not a picture of heaven. Canaan is a picture of victorious Christian living. Canaan is not a place of the sweet by and by. Canaan is a possibility for the nasty now and now.
One old gospel song put it this way:
Egypt was once my home. I was a slave.
Helpless, in sin did roam, love's light did crave.
But then I looked up to heaven's throne. Christ came to save.
I'm living in Canaan now.
Living on Canaan's side, Egypt behind.
Crossed over Jordan wide, gladness to find.
My soul is satisfied. No longer I am blind.
Living with Jesus up in Canaan right now.
This is a glorious chapter and one of the most miraculous stories in the Bible. The only sad thing is, it could have and should have happened 40 years earlier. That's when Israel was encamped at Kadesh Barnea and determined to believe the faithless report of the 10 spies. Since that time, all the Israelites over age 20, except 2, died in the wilderness. During the 40 years of wandering, Moses and Aaron even died.
4 decades earlier, the Israelites rightly determined that the cost of crossing the Jordan would be high. The problem is, they failed to rightly reckon the cost of NOT going over.
Churches get in trouble when in the midst of calculating the high cost of moving forward, they neglect to calculate the higher cost of staying behind.
Marriage end when disgruntled, disillusioned, and disheartened spouses only count the high cost of reconciling but fail to calculate the higher cost of divorce.
Businesses fail when penny-pinchers only consider the high cost of expansion but never consider the higher cost of lagging behind.
Car engines fail when uninformed people only calculate the high cost of oil changes but never contemplat ...
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