Crossing Jordan Season 2 Episode 1

Sermon: Crossing Our Jordan - Joshua 3. Scriptures: Joshua 3: 2- 1. Introduction. The two spies had returned from Jericho, having followed Joshua's orders to check out the land and the city.

They had escaped discovery with Rahab's help, and now they give their report to General Joshua. Their hearts were bursting with joy as they said the words of Joshua 2: 2. Everyone who lives in the land is also panicking because of us.

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Immediately he dispatched runners throughout the vast camp of Israel, announcing that first thing the next morning, they would break camp and pitch their tents on the banks of the Jordan River. They would finally come to the entry point of the Promised Land. Verse 1 of Chapter 3 records the event: Joshua started early the next morning and left Acacia Grove with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan and stayed there before crossing. The journey from Acacia Grove to the river's edge is an easy one- -just a few miles over smooth ground. So we can assume that the Israelites probably finished relocating before the sun had risen high in the sky. I'm sure the buzz throughout the tribes was the same: !

We will stand in the brink of a dream. We will come again to the place where our forefathers blew it; only this time, we will obey! The Jordan was defiantly uncrossable! There's a simple sentence in v. Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season.

The gentle Jordan was now a raging river, swelled to flood stage. Currents can reach up to 4. Jordan floods. What is more, the plain that surrounds this river was packed with tangled brush and dense growth. Jeremiah the prophet mentions the thickets of Jordan (Jeremiah 1. One writer said, . The Jordan has swelled its banks, spreading about a mile across, ranging in depth from 3 feet to 1.

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This was the sight that greeted the multiple hundreds of thousands that pitched their tents alongside the river. The Bible tells us that they spent the next three days right there, the passing torrent eroding all confidence. The waiting pounded reality into every Israelite. You could hear the doubts over night fires: . So many of us face . Our lives feel stalled, stuck on the wrong side of God's promises. We read about the abundant life, but can't make it out of the wilderness.

Churches can feel that way too, stalemated by the promise of something great with God, but blocked by all kinds of barriers. Watch Alto Streaming. But with God can turn a !

The great question that loomed over the camp of Israel and over our lives today is, ? Do we really believe God can handle the impossible? God was about to reveal the steps that must be taken in every life and in every church if we are to move from grounded to grateful, from marooned in the past to marveling at God's future! The experiences and decisions reported in this chapter were a major breakthrough for Israel. A whole new generation learned that victory depended totally upon Him! As we stand on the brink of the God- sized future and consider the obstacles that hinder us, it can feel like we're facing an impossible task between here and there.

But these things are no match for the God of the Uncrossable! He knows how to get you from stuck to triumphant! Just look. I. Follow the movements of God (3: 2- 4)After three days the officers went through the camp and commanded the people: ?

And why would God care so much about a piece of furniture that He required that it go first? What was the big deal? Well, we get a clue when we look inside the Ark. The stone tablets upon which the finger of God had written the Ten Commandments were inside that box, a sign to all Israel of God's desire for relationship. There was also a pot of manna, a reminder of God's gracious provision during the previous forty years (Ex. And one other item was included: Aaron's rod- -a dead stick that miraculously grew leaves and almonds to validate the power of God to use anything He willed to accomplish His will, down to the smallest detail (Numbers 1.

Three historical reminders, three witnesses to God's love and will and provision and power. The Ark was a monument of God's faithfulness to Israel! But it was much more than that! You see, on top of the Ark was a gold plate called the Mercy Seat over which two statues of cherubim knelt (Ex. Psalm 8. 0: 1 and 9. God as . He would, so to speak, take the first steps into Canaan.

Their task was to follow His lead, to pursue His presence, to come after Him. Verse 4 lays out the procedure by which they were to do this: But keep a distance of about 1,0. Don't go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven't traveled this way before. If the group in front crowded in too closely, only a handful would have seen it. So now picture the scene: All Israel is encamped on a sloping hill beside the Jordan River. The Ark is positioned 1. Everyone in the nation would be able to see it.

The priests would bear it by rods upon their shoulders as they stride toward the white water of Jordan. And everybody would understand the point: God intended for Israel to breach the Jordan with Him! But it could only be done if they focused on and followed Him. Centuries later, the true Ark of God would come among us, the living Immanuel. The Ark contained the Ten Commandments; Jesus fulfilled the Law (Matt. The Ark preserved the manna by which God fed them in the wilderness; Christ is the bread of life (John 6: 3. The Ark held a symbol of God's power to bring life out of death; Jesus is alive from the dead and seated at the right hand of the Father.

And so Hebrews 1. Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith. As we gaze ahead at the challenges, filled with words like cancer, creditors, and crisis, it's easy to conclude that we're stuck in the wilderness, away from the abundance of God. As we consider a change for the better, so many of us throw in the towel: !

I can't help it. We can't see our way clear, don't know what's lurking under the rushing water of our Jordan. We've looked at the bottom line, we've assessed the size of the plans we believe came from God, and concluded that there's no human way across. What do you do when you're facing the impossible? You do what Peter when he walked on the water: you fix your eyes on Jesus. The minute he took his eyes off Jesus and saw the raging sea around him, he remembered that . We must all focus and follow the movements of our Lord, so that where He leads, we will follow. II. Consecrate ourselves.

Joshua told the people, . The Hebrew word for consecrate means .

They must be holy. That involved basically two things: a. Personal repentance of every known sin. One of the primary reasons Israel found their way blocked, and one of the reasons we find ours often blocked, is sin.

Isaiah the prophet wrote, . But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have made Him hide . God shows us. It was some time later, when they had already entered Canaan when one man sinned- -one, out of all the hundreds of thousands, disobeyed the clear instruction of the Lord. But Achan's sin brought misery and defeat on the entire nation. Many of his kinsman died in what should have been an easy victory (Joshua 7). On the eve of one of the greatest days in their history, Israel was commanded to be certain they were right with God- -to examine their lives, confess and forsake sins, and devote themselves wholly to the Lord. Putting oneself on spiritual alert to see God at work.

Consecration in the OT also involved things like washing your clothes, abstaining from sexual relations, changing your work schedule, and other things. They deliberately interrupted good and normal functions in life by God's command in order to be on spiritual alert. God was about to do .

Step out and stand still (7- 1. Look at v. 7- 8: The LORD spoke to Joshua: . Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.' . When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the Jordan's waters, its waters will be cut off.

Crossing the Jordan (Joshua 3: 1- 4: 2. Introduction. Can you think back and remember a day you waited for a long time with great anticipation and excitement? Most of us can. As a child, Christmas and birthdays were such days. Later it may have been graduation day, your wedding day, or maybe earning the right to compete in some great competition like the Olympics. Depending on the nature of the day and what it might hold, such a time might also bring about a certain amount of anxiety because of the challenge you might face. For months, weeks, and days you waited, and then finally, the day arrived.

Can you imagine the anticipation and excitement the children of Israel faced as they stood before the River Jordan the evening before they were to cross over into the land? The earlier generation had failed to enter because of unbelief and the new generation had waited a long time, for some it was close to forty years. Joshua and Caleb, who were now about eighty years old, had waited even longer.

According to the promise to the Patriarchs, Jewish anticipation went back some five hundred years. But now, Joshua tells the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you” (3: 5).

But if there was excitement, there must also have been some anxiety as they beheld the swollen river and thought about the fortified cities that lay on the other side. Life is like that. Often, with our hopes at their highest, there are accompanying challenges and problems that we face at the very same time. After hearing a message at a Bible conference on how to cope with discouragement, three people greeted the speaker: a young mother who had not slept the previous night because her husband had come home at 1. Along with our hopes and joys there are always problems for which we simply have neither the strength nor the wisdom to meet the challenge.

We need strength from above. The battle is really the Lord’s and this is what Israel was being taught in this chapter. Donald Campbell titles chapter 3, “Fording Uncrossable Rivers.”The Preparations Needed for Crossing (3: 1- 6)1 Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and he and all the sons of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they lodged there before they crossed.

And it came about at the end of three days that the officers went through the midst of the camp; 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God with the Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about 2,0.

Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.” 5 Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.” 6 And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over ahead of the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people. The Preeminent Place of the Ark (vss. Aside from the miraculous way the river was crossed, the most important feature of this chapter is the Ark of the Covenant. Its prominence is stressed in the number of times it is mentioned in chapters 3 and 4 (nine times in chapter 3 and seven times in chapter 4) and by the nature of the commands and statements given in its regard.

What’s so important about the Ark? It represented the person and promises of God. It pointed to the fact that as the people of Israel set out to cross the Jordan, invade, and possess the land, they must do so not in their own strength, but in God’s for it was God Himself who was going before them as their source of victory. And such is the case with all of life. As Paul cried out when contemplating the challenges and trials of ministry, “And who is adequate for these things?” But he then answered his own question with these words: “And such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God” (2 Cor. The People Consecrated (vss.

In verse 5, Joshua commands the people to consecrate themselves in view of the wonders God would work among them on the next day. But what does the word “consecrate” mean? This is not exactly what we might expect from a military standpoint. Today, the military leader would have said, “Sharpen your swords and spears and polish your shields!” But God’s ways are not our ways. For God’s people, spiritual preparation is the vital element for it is being rightly related to God that brings the power of God on our work and ministry.“Consecrate” is the Hebrew qadash and it may mean, “be hallowed, set apart, consecrated” or “consecrate, set apart, prepare, dedicate.” But here it is in the hithpael stem which is reflexive and means, “consecrate yourselves, set yourselves apart, prepare yourselves.” This stem points out personal responsibility.

In the Old Testament this word is often used (particularly in Exodus and Leviticus) in connection with the Old Testament sacrifices, priesthood, washings, and with regard to the children of Israel as God’s people. In this regard, it was especially used in connection with confession or cleansing through the use of Old Testament sacrifices, washings, and offerings (Ex. It portrays the need to deal with sin in the life.

It was used of setting something apart for use by the Lord and His purposes in the sense of cleansing, preparing, and dedicating it to the Lord (e. Mt. 1. 9: 2. 2); preparing Aaron via the priestly garments and anointing for ministry (Ex. God’s use through sacrifice, and anointing (Ex. Application: Note Joshua 3: 5b, “for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” When there is a lack of consecration through confession for the defilement of sin along with a commitment to God’s purpose for our lives in service or ministry, we hinder the power of God. But there is more included here in this call for consecration.

They were to be eager, gripped by a sense of wonder. Israel was not to lose sight of their God who can do the incredible and the humanly impossible.”1. Two key ideas are involved here—Preparation and Dedication: (1) It reminds us of God’s holiness. God is absolute holiness, completely set apart from sin.

He is a holy God who cannot have fellowship with sinful man or allow sin in His presence without a solution to the sin problem. Without faith in the cross and its cleansing, no man can be set apart for God’s use or blessing.(3) God does not use unclean vessels. For believers, those saved and cleansed by the work of Christ, this command for consecration demonstrates the necessity for cleansing through confession or getting right with God and with men in order to be used of God and to experience His deliverance.

To experience God’s power, protection, and deliverance, we need to prepare our hearts and deal with the known sin in our lives through confession (cf. Ex. It meant they were to set themselves apart to Yahweh to cross the Jordan so they could enter the land, defeat the enemies, and become a testimony to the nations (Ex. The command, especially in New Testament theology, suggests the need of the ministry of the Holy Spirit and His control for consecrated living. This command suggests this because of the prevalence of anointing mentioned in connection with consecration of the priests, etc. It stresses the need of the filling of the Holy Spirit as God’s enabling agent for dealing with the forces arrayed against us—the flesh, the devil, and the world (Acts 1: 8; Eph. Gal. 5: 1. 6f and 6: 1). The Promise of Passage Through the Jordan (3: 7–1.

Now the LORD said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you. You shall, moreover, command the priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, .