<TITLE>07. Par 21-25</TITLE>L-21 But one thing Caleb looked at: God said before they ever left Egypt, "I have given you that land." So Caleb didn't care what the circumstance looked like. He looked at what God said.
That's the way you must do tonight. Don't look at what circumstances is; look what God said. It's God's promise that counts.
So he stilled the people; said, "Stand still." God was fixing to speak. Just a few days before that, when Moses, the great leader, the emancipator of Israel, had brought up the children from Egypt and had led them out, and had come out under the hand of God... And there was a perfect type of the Church today.

L-22 The first thing looked at that Church being led natural, they had what? The Word. They had the promise. Through Abraham, had promised the time was at hand. They had a prophet, Moses. They had a Angel of God, a Pillar of Fire, a leading them. They had signs, and wonders, and miracles among them. Why, exactly. And here they was going on their road with all good faith. And come to a place where they were totally cut off at the Red Sea. It seemed as if all nature quivered for them. The skies could've wept. Everything, the mountains could have shook. They were in a terrible condition, a covenant people as you are, as we are, and had come up against the blockade. Maybe you're there tonight. Maybe it's in the way. Maybe you got an affliction; maybe you got a habit. Maybe it's some besetting sin that you can't lay down. Something has blocked your road. And the world was looking, saying, "Now, let's see how much he's going to keep his religion in this kind of a time."
That's the way Israel stood. But Moses said, "Stand still and see the glory of God." Don't get flusterated. Stand still.

L-23 And then when the children of Israel stood still, God spoke from the heaven, and the Red Sea stood still. It stood on the sideline, and it heaped its great walls up like mountains, standing at attention. When Jehovah spoke, the Red Sea stood still. God commands to stand still. And Israel passed over through the Red Sea as if it was on dry land. And the waters of the mighty raging sea stood still.
Not long after that, some forty years after the people would not receive Caleb and Joshua's message... God said, "They'll not go over." They wouldn't stand still; they wouldn't listen to the Word. They wanted their own ideas. And God said, "They'll every one die here in the wilderness." And they did. Only Caleb and Joshua was the only two who went over, who stayed by the Word.

L-24 One day when Joshua came down in the month of April, and that was a time if God was figuring out anything, He sure done a poor job. He would've made a crossed over in the fall of the year when Jordan was almost dry. But He turns right back around and crosses Jordan when it's at its highest in the month of April. The snows are melting in Judaea, and the great Jordan is flowing plumb over the plains.
And God brought His people to Jordan when she was raging the highest. Oh, I wished I had some way I could place that into the heart of the people. Maybe you've been brought up against the difficult right in your Christian experience, that you question God, "Why?" But God wants you to stand still just a moment.
The Bible said, "All things work together for good that them that love God." Stand still. Don't be alarmed.
And when the Jordan, in her great muddy waves as she was flashing from the hills of Judaea, God had to speak. And when God spoke, Jordan stood still and listened to Jehovah when He spoke. She walled herself up, and the water stayed. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. When God speaks, something takes place. Nature hushed its mouth. God was speaking.

L-25 And Jordan, as a soldier, stood at attention while Jehovah moved His children across its bed. Certainly. Stood still and watched the hand of God move.
And then it stood still while Joshua and the Levites erected a memorial in the middle of that river, as a memorial to stand; Jordan felt still.


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