1. Can You Do It Again Lord? Joshua 3.1-17

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

3. Map Work

4. Nasa - [s;g’ “Journeyed”

5. 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

6. Abar - rb;[‘ “Cross Over”

7. 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

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

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

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

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

12. God’s Promise Joshua 3.9-13

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

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

15. 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…

16. God’s Power Joshua 3.14-17

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

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

20. God’s Purpose Joshua 3.7

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

22. 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

23. Application What About Today? Can You Do It Again Lord?

24. 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.

25. 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.”

26. 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).

27. 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.”

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

29. 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.”

30. 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.”

31. Application Sometimes We Doubt Because of Dishonesty…

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