<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 And Joshua now, his word was at stake (Yes, sir.), just as--as Noah of old. But Joshua must cross over this river. And looked like he picked the worst time that could ever be thought. It was in the month of April, and that's when the snow was melting in Judaea and coming down through the mountains. And the old Jordan is muddy and spread plumb out into the--to the fields, to water the fields of Jordan. And looked like, if it would've been mathematical, or--or educational, or scientific, he--he picked the worst time in all the year to cross Jordan. But God likes to take those kind of times to prove that He's God. And men of God who believe God and know what God has promised, is not afraid to do it, because God will stick with His Word just as certain as He is God.

L-22 And when... He said, "First take the ark and go forward." And when those priests' feet touched that Jordan, no matter how wild she was and how she was swelling, it give away to God's eternal Word, for the Word was in the ark. Jesus said, "Now, heavens and earth will pass away: but My Word shall never pass away."
So Joshua, knowing that his word must rest upon God's Word, and he put God's Word first. Wish you sick people here tonight would do that. Put God's Word with your confession. Put your confession; you believe it and set it out there and call those things which are not as though they were; then we're marching on. Do it that way. God's Word will take you through.

L-23 And as the priests' feet touched Jordan, she just rolled back from side to side and the water stayed. Do you realize the roaring of that river would've brought forth a bank there and twenty minutes time would've been as big as--as some of these modern big dams that we got in the Colorado Boulder Dam out there. Way that Jordan sweeps through there, is coming out of the mountains with a great force, and she's sweeping through those valleys, and when two million footmen, with women and children, could pass through there, probably taking four or five hours or more, and what do you think that river would've filled up? But God stayed the stream (Amen. Oh, I love that.), stayed the streams, and she laid there until they passed over.
Then God said to Joshua, "We want to make a memorial unto this. Go out there and send each Israelite, one out of a tribe, and pick up twelve stones and make a memorial. And this memorial shall be, that when your children are passing through this way, they will ask, 'What caused these stones to be here?' And you shall give them the story of how God stayed the Jordan." That's a wonderful memory. Someday I hope to look at those stones in the near future, of where they still stand as a memorial.

L-24 But then I think of another memorial. What a great blessed memorial that was. Then I think of another memorial. One day when a woman had made the wrong choice, she decided not to stay up in the well watered plains of--of--or stay in the well watered plains of Sodom and Gomorrah, and be sociable, and live like the rest of the women was in those days... She didn't take the good choice as Sarah who stayed up in the barren lands; only she kept God's Word in her heart. And she was obedient and lovely to her husband insomuch that she called him her lord. And there's where God came down with two Angels and visit them in the tent.


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