Can You Do It Again Lord?

Can You Do It Again Lord? • Joshua 3.1-17

God’s Plan • Joshua 3.1-6; 8 • Shittim to Gilgal

Map Work

Nasa - [s;g’ • “Journeyed”

Journeyed • Ramses (Exod 12.37) to Red Sea (Exod 14.15) • Repeated: Exod 16.1; 17.1; 19.2 • 89 times n Numbers • Exod 40.36-37 • Only 3x in Joshua (3.1; 3.3; 3.14) • Comparison: Arrived/ Departure

Abar - rb;[‘ • “Cross Over”

Cross Over • 21x - Joshua 3.1- 5.1 • Different words referring to Red Sea • aAB - “went” - Exod 14.22 • %l;h’ - “walk” - Exod 14.29

Cross Over • “abar” - crossing over a border • Physical • Political • Moral - enter into Covenant (Deut 29.12) • Transgress a commandment (Jos 7.11; 15)

Directions Given (2-4) • Delegation • Ark of the Covenant • interesting change • Element of Holiness • 2,000 cubits • Sabbath Day journey (Acts 1.12)

Lives Prepared (5) • “Sanctify Yourselves” • Exod 19.10-15 • Deut 23.14 • Day they selected the passover lamb (Exod 12.3)

Charge Given (6; 8) • Priests and the Ark of the Covenant

God’s Promise • Joshua 3.9-13

Promise From God (9) • Joshua speaks to the People what God spoke to Him • Like a Solemn Assembly

Assurance of God’s Presence (10-13) • Disposes the People of the Land • Lists • Speaks to previous fears • Numbers 13.28-29

Assurance of God’s Presence (10-13) • Stop the Waters of the Jordan • For God will do it again • Spring time - raging river • Not possible for man to cross • God has another idea…

God’s Power • Joshua 3.14-17

God’s Power (14-17) • Priest Toes Touch • 10th Nisan - the day they left Egypt • Water Piles Up • Village of Adam

God’s Power (14-17) • Cross Jordan on Dry Ground

God’s Purpose • Joshua 3.7

Affirm Joshua • Validation of Joshua’s Leadership • Inherits Moses’ Divine Authority & Office

Fulfill Promises • God’s promise to be with Joshua • God’s promise to bring into Promise Land • God’s promise to cast out Enemies • God’s promise to go with them

Application • What About Today? • Can You Do It Again Lord?

Application • God has a Plan for You (Jeremiah 29.11-13) • “For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Application • God has Given Promises to You (Hebrews 13.5b) • “For He Himself said: “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.”

Application • God has Demonstrated His Power to You (Ephesians 2.5) • “Even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).

Application • God has a Purpose In This World (Philippians 2.9-11) • “For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Application • Can You Do It Again Lord? • He Can and He Will…

Application • Sometimes We Ask Wrongly (James 4.3) • “You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.”

Application • Sometimes We Do Not Ask According to His Will (1 John 5.14) • “This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.”

Application • Sometimes We Doubt Because of Dishonesty…

Application • Which Side of the Bank are You? • Journeying or Crossing Over

Can You Do It Again Lord?