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Cross This Jordan- Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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Speaker 1: God is the god of new beginnings, second chances, and
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Speaker 1: fresh starts. God is the God of glory days. And
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Speaker 1: if you could use some welcome to the study of Joshua,
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Speaker 1: the Life and the book, the story of how God
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Speaker 1: brought a nation of people into the Promised Land. And
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Speaker 1: we believe that what he did then he does still.
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Speaker 1: And if you could use some glory days, then this
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Speaker 1: story is for you. Join with me in our Glory
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Speaker 1: Days declaration. The words will appear on the screen. I
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Speaker 1: need you to fill your lungs with air. I need
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Speaker 1: you to fill your hearts with hope. Say it like
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Speaker 1: you mean it. These days are glory days. My past
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Speaker 1: is past. May what we say today, Lord, go deep
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Speaker 1: in our hearts change the way we think. Please activate
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Speaker 1: hope where there is nothing but discouragement. Grant us courage
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Speaker 1: where there is nothing but fear. Let the message of
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Speaker 1: Sunday be the lifestyle of Monday. We pray this in
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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ and all God's people, said
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Speaker 1: New York City. If you want a view of the skyline,
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Speaker 1: go to the Empire State Building. For entertainment, go to
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Speaker 1: Broadway in a shop. There's some stores on Fifth Avenue,
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Speaker 1: just waiting on your credit card need some inspiration toward
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Speaker 1: the statue of liberty. But if you want to be discouraged,
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Speaker 1: utterly depressed, totally overwhelmed, absolutely distraught, then take a cab
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Speaker 1: to the corner of sixth Avenue and forty second Street
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Speaker 1: and spend a few moments standing in the presence of
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Speaker 1: the National Debt clock. The sign is twenty five feet wide,
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Speaker 1: It weighs fifteen hundred pounds. It uses three hundred and
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Speaker 1: six bulbs to constantly, endlessly, mercilessly declare the national debt
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Speaker 1: in each family's share. The sign can run backwards, but
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Speaker 1: the feature has never been needed. Plans are afoot to
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Speaker 1: expand the sign to make it able to broadcast a
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Speaker 1: figure of quadrillions of dollars. Now, I'm not an economist,
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Speaker 1: I'm a preacher, but it seems to me if you
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Speaker 1: owe more than you own, you're in trouble. I'm not
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Speaker 1: an economist, I am a preacher, which may explain the
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Speaker 1: odd question that popped in my mind as a few
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Speaker 1: months ago. Good in front of the sign, and I wondered,
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Speaker 1: does Heaven have a sign like this? Not for fiscal
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Speaker 1: debt but for spiritual debt. You've noticed how often the
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Speaker 1: Bible uses financial terms to describe sin. Jesus taught us
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Speaker 1: to pray forgive us our debts. Debt. A sin is
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Speaker 1: a debt, something we owe to God. So if sin
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Speaker 1: is a debt, do you and I have a dot
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Speaker 1: Matrix trespass counter in heaven? And every time we sin?
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Speaker 1: Click click, click, click, tell a lie, click greedy thought, click,
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Speaker 1: lose your temper, click cut someone off in traffic talk
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Speaker 1: about depressing. A financial liability is one thing, but a
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Speaker 1: spiritual liability is serious matter. According to scripture, sin has
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Speaker 1: a serious consequence. It actually separates us. It creates a
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Speaker 1: separation between us and God. Your iniquities, the Bible says,
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Speaker 1: have separated you from God. Your sins have hidden his
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Speaker 1: face from you so that he will not hear.
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Speaker 2: See.
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Speaker 1: The economy of Heaven comes down to one thesis, and
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Speaker 1: that is Heaven is a perfect place to be inhabited
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Speaker 1: by perfect people, which really leaves us in a perfect
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Speaker 1: mess because we're anything but according to Heaven's debt clock,
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Speaker 1: we really owe more than we could ever pay. And
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Speaker 1: every day brings more sin, more debt, and more questions
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Speaker 1: like the question of the apostle Paul, who said, who
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Speaker 1: will deliver me? Joshua asked a similar question, not about sin,
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Speaker 1: but about a river. The context of Joshua is this.
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Speaker 1: The Book of Joshua describes the exit from the wilderness
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Speaker 1: in the entrance into the promised Land. It is comprised
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Speaker 1: by seven years of almost uninterrupted victory in which the
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Speaker 1: wilderness wanderings ended and the promised land inhabitation began. The
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Speaker 1: question we're asking as we read through the Book of
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Speaker 1: Joshua is what did they know that we could know?
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Speaker 1: What did they do that we could do that could
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Speaker 1: allow us the privilege of living a victorious Christian life.
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Speaker 1: Not a wilderness Christian life, but a victorious one where
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Speaker 1: we truly know more victories than defeats, feel more strength
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Speaker 1: than discouragement, more breakthroughs than breakdowns. I think one of
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Speaker 1: the answers is found in this particular story, the story
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Speaker 1: of the Jordan River. The Jordan River separated the children
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Speaker 1: of Israel from the Promised Land, just as sin separates
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Speaker 1: us from God. They needed a miracle to get through
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Speaker 1: the river. We need the same. They received one. We
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Speaker 1: did too. Their deliverance is a picture of ours. You
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Speaker 1: like to fill in the blanks. Here's your cue to
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Speaker 1: grab your outline, your pencil, your mascaristic blank. Number one.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the impossible task. The impossible task. The
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Speaker 1: Hebrew people had never crossed the Jordan ever. Ever, even
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Speaker 1: when Joshua and Caleb and the other ten Spies scouted
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Speaker 1: out the land some forty years earlier, they came up
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Speaker 1: through the south, up north over land. Now the children
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Speaker 1: of Israel were going from the east westward over the water.
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Speaker 1: They had never done this. But still the first command
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Speaker 1: of God to Joshua was now, therefore, go over this Jordan,
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Speaker 1: you and all this people. No small task. During most
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Speaker 1: of the months of the year, the Jordan River was
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Speaker 1: about thirty or forty yards wide, about six feet deep.
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Speaker 1: But during this time of year, the season of harvest,
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Speaker 1: the Jordan River swelled to get this a mile wide,
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Speaker 1: a mile wide think Mississippi River, think Amazon a mile wide,
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Speaker 1: and it was turbulent with the melting snows of Mount Heron.
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Speaker 1: Crossing a swollen current was no small task, especially with
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Speaker 1: two million people. God said, go over this Jordan, you
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Speaker 1: and all this people. God wanted everybody to get across everybody,
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Speaker 1: every man, every woman, The elderly, the young, the strong,
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Speaker 1: the heart, the week, the disabled. No one would be
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Speaker 1: left behind. Joshua might well have gulped at this command,
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Speaker 1: but to his credit he went straight to work. Joshua
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Speaker 1: rose early in the morning, and they set out from
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Speaker 1: a casia grove and came to the Jordan he and
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Speaker 1: all the children of Israel and lodged there before they
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Speaker 1: crossed over. So they lodged there they spent, if you remember,
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Speaker 1: they spent three days there. They pitched their tents on
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Speaker 1: the eastern side of the Jordan River. Three days plenty
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Speaker 1: of time to ask plenty of questions. How are we
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Speaker 1: going to get across? Does anybody have a boat? Is
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Speaker 1: anybody going to build a bridge? Three days plenty of
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Speaker 1: time to look at that swoll and current of copper
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Speaker 1: colored waters and yeasty waves carrying the debris from the
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Speaker 1: high country. Three nights they slept, at least they tried
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Speaker 1: to sleep. The only sound was the rushing of the
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Speaker 1: water all night long. Three days. How would a nation
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Speaker 1: of people cross a flooded, bridgeless, boatless river. Well, on
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Speaker 1: the third day the answer came blank. Number two. You
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Speaker 1: want to fill in as this look at the improbable path,
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Speaker 1: the improbable path. Officers went through the camp, and they
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Speaker 1: commanded the people, saying, when you see the ark of
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Speaker 1: the Covenant of the Lord, your God, and the priests
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Speaker 1: the Levites bearing it, then you shall set out from
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Speaker 1: your place and go after it. The ark of the Covenant.
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Speaker 1: Remember the ark of the Covenant raiders in search of
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the same box here. It was not
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Speaker 1: a large box, three feet nine inches tall two feet
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Speaker 1: three inches wide. Within this box were three Hebrew artifacts,
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Speaker 1: a gold jaw are of unspoiled man in aaron's walking
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Speaker 1: stick that had budded long after it had been cut,
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Speaker 1: and the precious stone tablets that had felt the engraving
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Speaker 1: finger of God. A heavy golden plate set over the top.
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Speaker 1: It was called the Mercy seat. It was a lid
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Speaker 1: to the chest to Cherubim. Two angels of gold with
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Speaker 1: outstretched wings faced each other and looked down on the
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Speaker 1: golden lid. And it was considered that the dwelling place
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Speaker 1: of God was right there between the two angels. So
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Speaker 1: for God to say follow the ark was actually for
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Speaker 1: God to say, follow me, follow me. The ark was
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Speaker 1: going to go first. God was going to lead the way,
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Speaker 1: not Joshua, not a corps of engineers, not military personnel.
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Speaker 1: God would lead the way. When it came time to
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Speaker 1: pass the impassable God was going to lead the way.
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Speaker 1: They were told to wait until the Ark of the
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Speaker 1: Covenant appeared. What a scene that must have been. On
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Speaker 1: the day that it did, at the close of three days,
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Speaker 1: there was a stirring in the Hebrew camp. A chosen
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Speaker 1: band of priests, barefooted and robed in white, walked toward
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Speaker 1: the river. On their shoulders. They carried the ark with
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Speaker 1: the acacia poles that ran through the rings on the corners.
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Speaker 1: People stepped out of their tents and watched in hushed
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Speaker 1: silence as the priests inched their way toward the river
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Speaker 1: and walked their way down the terraced bank of the Jordan.
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Speaker 1: The only sound was the fury of the water, and
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Speaker 1: the water did not let up. Thirty feed out, still
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Speaker 1: a rushing river, twenty feed out, still roaring waves, ten
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Speaker 1: feet out, still a mile wide, five feet out. How
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Speaker 1: are they gonna do this? Don't you know it? About
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Speaker 1: two feet those priests began to look at each other.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're carrying the chosen, the most choice relic
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Speaker 1: in the nation. Of Israel. They're about to wade into
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Speaker 1: a wild, white, watered, furious river. What if they lose it,
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Speaker 1: don't you know? They wondered, should we proceed? That's when
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Speaker 1: they remembered the instruction of Joshua. When you have come
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Speaker 1: to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you
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Speaker 1: shall stand in the Jordan. And they did. The scripture says,
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Speaker 1: the feet of the priest who bore the ark dipped
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Speaker 1: in the edge of the water. I appreciate the honesty here,
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Speaker 1: don't you. They just dipped in. They didn't run, plunge
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Speaker 1: or dive in. They placed ever so carefully the front
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Speaker 1: edge of their big toes in the water. It was
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Speaker 1: the small steps, But in God's plan, the smallest step
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Speaker 1: of faith can result in the greatest of miracles. Because
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Speaker 1: as they touched the water, a miracle was activated and
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Speaker 1: the river stopped. It's like someone shut off the water main.
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Speaker 1: The waters which came down from upstream stood still and
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Speaker 1: rose in a heap very far away at Addam, the
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Speaker 1: city that is besides Zara Tan Zarah Tan. That's thirty
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Speaker 1: miles upstream. Thirty miles upstream. In my childhood imagination, I
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Speaker 1: remember hearing this story thinking they could walk and they
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Speaker 1: could just touch the water as they walked across. Well,
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Speaker 1: I guess they could have if they were thirty miles upstream.
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Speaker 1: God created a swathe wide enough for all the children
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Speaker 1: of Israel to cross over the Drawer river. And cross
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Speaker 1: they did, and all Israel crossed over on dry ground,
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Speaker 1: until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan.
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Speaker 1: All Israel crossed over. The men, the women, the old,
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Speaker 1: the young, the strong, the feeble, the forceful, the doubters,
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Speaker 1: the faithful, All of them crossed over. Did you see it?
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Speaker 1: On dry ground? On dry ground might as well have
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Speaker 1: been a highway, might as well have been concrete. They
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Speaker 1: crossed over on dry ground. As they stood on the
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Speaker 1: western shore. They had no mud on their sandals, no
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Speaker 1: water on their robes. They had no doubt in their hearts.
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Speaker 1: They received the unmistakable message, the unmistakable message. God did
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Speaker 1: for them what they could not do. God did for
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Speaker 1: them what they could not do. Our question is what
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Speaker 1: did they know that enabled them to route to run
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Speaker 1: the table in the land of Canaan over the next
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Speaker 1: seven years. I think this is a big part of
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Speaker 1: the answer. If God could turn a raging river into
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Speaker 1: a red carpet. Watch out, Jericho, here we come, as
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Speaker 1: their leader had promised. By this crossing, you shall know
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Speaker 1: that the Living God is among you. The miracle was
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Speaker 1: a message. The deliverance was a demonstration. Imagine the Israelites
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Speaker 1: as they stood on the western side of the Jordan River.
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Speaker 1: Don't you know there were a few high fives. Don't
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Speaker 1: you know? There were a few men alives. Don't you know?
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Speaker 1: They were brimming with confidence, standing in awe of God.
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Speaker 1: Don't you know they looked at their enemies with different eyes.
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Speaker 1: God got them in, He would stand them up, He
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Speaker 1: got them through the Jordan, he would lead them into battle.
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Speaker 1: How did they lead their way into Canaan? Was such confident? Simple?
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Speaker 1: They had experienced deliverance, and they knew down in their
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Speaker 1: core they did nothing to deserve it, but God did
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Speaker 1: it all, and they knew God was with him. It
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Speaker 1: was like they were running a relay race and got
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Speaker 1: handed the baton for the final lap. With an eight
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Speaker 1: lap lead, they couldn't lose. On a bicycle race downhill
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Speaker 1: with the wind to their back. They won the lottery.
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Speaker 1: They didn't even buy a ticket. They were dealt four aces.
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Speaker 1: They're playing with house money. They didn't know how not
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Speaker 1: to win. They had every right to celebrate. So do
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Speaker 1: we can I talk to you for just a minute
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Speaker 1: about your Jordan and mine. The name Jordan in Hebrew.
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Speaker 1: In the Hebrew language means wide, judgment, wide judgment, jor
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Speaker 1: means spread or why, Dan means judging. So Jordan is
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Speaker 1: a picture of the judgment of God. Mild, wide, turbulent, torrential,
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Speaker 1: impossible to cross on our own. It separates all people
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Speaker 1: from the promised land. We cannot cross the river without help.
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Speaker 1: God is holy, we are not. His character is flawless.
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Speaker 1: Ours is flawed. He is sinless. We are sinfull sin filled,
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Speaker 1: and our sins back up a debt faster than the
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Speaker 1: US government racks a debt. Theology one oh one starts
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Speaker 1: right here. How can a sinless God receive sinful children?
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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll just pretend we never send. Maybe he'll turn
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Speaker 1: his back on our sin. Maybe he'll just gloss it
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Speaker 1: over and say, oh, boys will be boys, girls speaker.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll just pretend we never send in Heaven will
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Speaker 1: be inhabited by people who bring a lot of sin
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Speaker 1: in with them. Problem with that is that the Bible
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Speaker 1: describes God, as a god of justice, judgment justice. He
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Speaker 1: must judge, or he is not just right. A just
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Speaker 1: judge judges sin. A just judge must judge what is wrong.
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Speaker 1: At least that's what the judge told me. I stood
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Speaker 1: in front of a judge once I was in college.
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Speaker 1: I received a parking ticket for parking in a no
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Speaker 1: parking zone. I did not know I had parked in
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Speaker 1: a no parking zone. When I came back to my
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Speaker 1: car and saw the parking ticket on my windshield, I
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Speaker 1: looked for a sign. I didn't see it, but then
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Speaker 1: I saw, Oh, the curb is red. Actually it was pink.
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Speaker 1: The sun had bleached it a bit. And I thought
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Speaker 1: to myself, I think I have a case here. So
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Speaker 1: I went to municipal court. It's not that I didn't
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Speaker 1: have five bucks, but I really didn't have five bucks
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Speaker 1: to spare for the ticket, and it guy's got his
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Speaker 1: pride right, And I thought, well, I'm talking my way
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Speaker 1: out of this. And so I appeared before a judge
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Speaker 1: and he looked like a judge, bearded, stern faced, robed.
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Speaker 1: I pleted my case. I told him how the red
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Speaker 1: paint had turned pink. He was unimpressed. I told him.
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Speaker 1: I'm a pretty good guy. I'm a college student, I'm
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Speaker 1: on a budget. I told him, I'm making good grades.
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Speaker 1: I'm told him, told him otherwise, I'm really a good driver.
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Speaker 1: I told him all the reasons he should dismiss my penalty.
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Speaker 1: He finally spoke up, asked me one question, did you
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Speaker 1: park in the no parking zone? Yes, sir. He slammed
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Speaker 1: the gavel, just like they do on TV. He slammed
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Speaker 1: the gavel. There you have it, he said. I had
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Speaker 1: to pay five dollars. I couldn't escape the facts. Didn't
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Speaker 1: matter if the paint was pink, didn't matter if I
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Speaker 1: was a good guy. At the core of the issue
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Speaker 1: was this, I broke the law. Mustn't the just judge
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Speaker 1: punish my crime? If he is just, he must mustn't
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Speaker 1: a just god punish our sins. We can't escape the facts.
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Speaker 1: We've all violated the law. We all have. Sometimes we
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Speaker 1: thought the paint was pink, other time we knew it
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Speaker 1: was red. And we did it anyway. But we broke
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Speaker 1: the law of our conscience, the laws of society, the
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Speaker 1: laws of morality, but ultimately the law of God. And
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Speaker 1: now we stand before at Jordan River Wide judgment on
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Speaker 1: the wrong side. Promised land is over there, we're over here.
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Speaker 1: What are we going to do? Scripture says that God
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Speaker 1: will judge everyone according to what they have done. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's not hopeful. The clock clicks, the river rages, and
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Speaker 1: we congregate on the water's edge, and we look across
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Speaker 1: this amazon of god judgment. We ponder our predicament. How
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Speaker 1: are we going to reach the other side. For Joshua's people,
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Speaker 1: the answer came in the form of priests shouldering and
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Speaker 1: arc For us, the answer comes in the form of
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ shouldering across. The priests descended into the Jordan.
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Speaker 1: Jesus ascended onto Mount Calvary. The priest stepped into the
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Speaker 1: angry river. Jesus stepped into the anger of humanity, where
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Speaker 1: they threw him on the ground, and they pounded nails
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Speaker 1: in his hands and his feet, and they lifted the
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Speaker 1: cross up into the air, so high it eclipsed the
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Speaker 1: morning sun, and they plunged it into the soil. The
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Speaker 1: most severe torment, however, came not from the cruelty of
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Speaker 1: the soldiers, but from the punishment of God. For God
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Speaker 1: caused Christ, who himself knew nothing of sin, to actually
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Speaker 1: be sin for our sakes, so that in Christ we
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Speaker 1: might be made good with the goodness of God. Our
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Speaker 1: debt had to be paid. Right. Justice demanded that our
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Speaker 1: sins be punished, and that day they were. They were,
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Speaker 1: Our sins were punished. Jesus took the punishment for us.
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Speaker 1: He stood beneath our sin clocks, and he announced to
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Speaker 1: the tribunal of heaven, I'll take the punishment. I'll pay
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Speaker 1: the debt. There is no denial of sin, yet there
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Speaker 1: is no punishment of our sin on ourselves. Christ sufficiently
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Speaker 1: paid the debt, He sufficiently injured the punishment. The justice
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Speaker 1: of God was satisfied, and the mercy of God was
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Speaker 1: spread wide, wider than the wide river of God's judgment.
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Speaker 1: In the Jordan River moment, the priests stayed in the
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Speaker 1: river until every person had crossed over. In our case,
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Speaker 1: Jesus stayed on the cross until he could cry out,
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Speaker 1: it is finished, it is finished. He left nothing to chance.
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Speaker 1: No work was undone, Every law was satisfied, Every objective
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Speaker 1: was attained. The river we could not cross, He crossed it.
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Speaker 1: The tide we could not face. He faced it for you,
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Speaker 1: for me, for all of us, our deliverance was complete.
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Speaker 1: For it is by grace, yes, that you have been
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Speaker 1: saved through faith. This is not from yourselves. It is
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Speaker 1: the gift of God, not by works. So no one
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Speaker 1: can boast. No Hebrews stood on the western side of
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Speaker 1: the Jordan and said, look what I just did? Right.
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Speaker 1: No one said, did you see me paddle the boat?
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Speaker 1: No one said did you see me swim? No one
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Speaker 1: said look what I just did, because they did nothing.
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Speaker 1: What they did say was look what God just did.
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Speaker 1: No Christian who gets grace can ever say look what
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Speaker 1: I just did. Rather they live with this this awe
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Speaker 1: that says, look what God did for me. See, we
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Speaker 1: entered Canaan by the goodness of God. We did not
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Speaker 1: swim a stroke, We did not paddle a boat. But
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Speaker 1: God decided to take us from one side to the other,
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Speaker 1: and did so in such a way as to satisfy
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Speaker 1: every demand, every requirement. His justice is ratified, our dead
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Speaker 1: is satisfied, his love is magnified, our souls are miraculously sanctified,
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Speaker 1: and our victory is clarified. Like the Hebrew people, we
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Speaker 1: are dramatically delivered. I think the Hebrew people marched into
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Speaker 1: Canaan with a bit of a swagger because of what
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Speaker 1: God had just done for them? Have you lost your swagger?
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Speaker 1: How long has it been since you stood on the
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Speaker 1: west extern side of the Jordan, or better said, stood
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Speaker 1: in the shadow of the cross and said, look what
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Speaker 1: God did for me. These people were convinced, convinced to
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Speaker 1: the core that no matter what tomorrow brought, God had
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Speaker 1: already proven his loyalty and faithfulness to them. Are you convinced?
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Speaker 1: Can you join the chorus of the convinced and say,
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Speaker 1: with the apostle Paul, I am convinced that nothing can
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Speaker 1: ever separate us from God's love. Indeed, nothing in all
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Speaker 1: creation will ever be able to separate us from the
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Speaker 1: love of God that is revealed in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.
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Speaker 1: Glory days happen to the degree that we place our
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Speaker 1: trust in the finished work of Christ. Glory days happen
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Speaker 1: to the degree that we place our trust in the
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Speaker 1: finished work of Christ, and we let the finished work
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Speaker 1: of Christ on the Cross define and refine us. You
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Speaker 1: at your best are a rescued, redeemed child of God.
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Speaker 1: That's who you are. Male, female, old, young, rich, poor, employed, unemployed.
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Speaker 1: All of those are characteristics, but you at your best.
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Speaker 1: Here's who you are. You are a redeemed child of God.
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Speaker 1: There's something in you that God wants in his Promised Land.
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Speaker 1: Comes down to that you deserved a swagger.
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Speaker 3: A bit me.
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Speaker 1: He would do that for me. Let that define you,
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Speaker 1: Let that refine you. If he would do that, if
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Speaker 1: he would get you out of the wilderness into the
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Speaker 1: Promised Land with such power, don't you think he'll walk
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Speaker 1: you into your tomorrow with equal power. He didn't bring
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Speaker 1: you over here to let you flounder fail. Having given
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Speaker 1: his own son, will he not also along with him
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Speaker 1: righteously and graciously? Paul said, give you all things? Is
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Speaker 1: the cross, not a demonstration of his utter loyalty to you?
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Speaker 1: Stand firm. Look at you, Look at you. There's no
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Speaker 1: mud on your sandals. You're sanctified. You're cleansed, every sin
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Speaker 1: washed away. There's no stain on your robe. Your past
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Speaker 1: is passed. God does not see that you are a
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Speaker 1: card carrying recipient of God's grace, an inhabitant of the
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Speaker 1: Promised Land. Let it go deep, sink deep within you,
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Speaker 1: come to think of it. There may be debt clocks
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Speaker 1: in heaven, and I can't speak for everybody, But as
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Speaker 1: far as the clock that does a lot of ticking,
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Speaker 1: that has beneath it the name max Locato. Beneath that
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Speaker 1: there is a sign that says paid in full, no
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Speaker 1: more debt, Jesus Christ. May the same be said about yours. Lord,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for grace, Thank you that even in the
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Speaker 1: book of Joshua we find the Gospel. Thank You for
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Speaker 1: the hope. May that hope be our greatest hope. Lord.
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Speaker 1: We offer this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: And all the church.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, everything I used to live for fad is
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Speaker 4: slowly out of sight. Now my day's your circle around you,
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Speaker 4: like I'm lost without life.
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Speaker 5: Oh the noise and stern's just silence when your memory
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Speaker 5: comes through, and the world I want was chasing and
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Speaker 5: now feel small.
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Speaker 3: Shape than you. My whole world is only every dog
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Speaker 3: he's breaking through.
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Speaker 6: You're so close inside my mind but so far. And
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Speaker 6: realize I can feel you everywhere else and the things
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Speaker 6: we know sh.
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Speaker 3: All this all I'm going through never reaches you.
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Speaker 7: Every image feels so real now, like you're standing next
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Speaker 7: to me. But the truth is in the silence you
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Speaker 7: were never.
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Speaker 1: Meant to see.
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Speaker 6: My whole world is only every dog keeps breaking through
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Speaker 6: your soul close inside my mind, but so far in
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Speaker 6: real life I can feel you everywhere and the things
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Speaker 6: we live ship, Oh this leve I'm going through, never
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Speaker 6: reaching you. If you fail to fall moment, it would
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Speaker 6: have changed the ways.
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Speaker 4: Stay with a stupid shadow thatches face.
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Speaker 6: My whole world is only your one, is only your
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Speaker 6: world a different you. I'm just something one passion by
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Speaker 6: in your old and Scott still hold on to every
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Speaker 6: Harvey costs for you.
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Speaker 3: On this love, I always know who'll never read you.
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