Joshua Chapter 4
In our study last week Joshua lead the people out to cross over Jordan. The priests and the Ark went before the people, signifying the presence of God going before and protecting them. We discussed how that Jesus Christ has went before us in death, and has gone on the Heaven today to prepare for us a place. The lesson this week begins as they cross on to the banks of Canaan. This is the second time we see Israel crossing over bodies of water on dry ground. In their Exodus from Egypt, the Lord God Jehovah showed Himself strong on the behalf of that people who had found shelter under the “Blood of the Lamb”.
David Parham
12/14/20243 min read
Joshua – Chapter 4
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Introduction: In our study last week Joshua lead the people out to cross over Jordan. The priests and the Ark went before the people, signifying the presence of God going before and protecting them. We discussed how that Jesus Christ has went before us in death, and has gone on the Heaven today to prepare for us a place. The lesson this week begins as they cross on to the banks of Canaan.
This is the second time we see Israel crossing over bodies of water on dry ground. In their Exodus from Egypt, the Lord God Jehovah showed Himself strong on the behalf of that people who had found shelter under the “Blood of the Lamb”.
Exo 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
Exo 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Exo 12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
All those that had the blood on the doorposts and lintel were passed over by the death angel that night. You and I will also be passed over when it comes to payment for our sins if we have accepted Christ as Savior, the sinless lamb that paid the debt for our sins with His own blood shed on Mount Calvary almost 2,000 years ago. At the Jordan, these chosen of God were shown their own passage through death and resurrection by the figure of the stones placed in the Jordan and the 12 stones taken out of Jordan.
Today, we see this like figure in baptism.
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
I. The Two Memorials
Josh 4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Josh 4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
Josh 4:3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
At the river Jordan was where the Lord’s forerunner (John the Baptist) started his ministry.
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