Victory is on the Other Side

Follow Along with the Message

Instead of moving away from something terrible, the nation of Israel is moving toward something life-giving and good.

It’s not that God was a God of miracles then; God is a God of miracles now and wants to make himself known and real in our lives.

The Lord wanted to do a miracle for the nation, but they needed to have…

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It has been well said that faith is not believing in spite of evidence but obeying in spite of consequence.

Warren Wiersbe said of this passage,“The crossing of the Jordan River is not a picture of the Christian dying and going to heaven, contrary to what is said in some songs. The crossing of the Red Sea pictures the believer being delivered from the bondage of sin, and the crossing of the Jordan River pictures the believer claiming the inheritance in Jesus Christ.”

The Lord wanted to do a miracle for the nation, but they needed to have…

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Joshua told the people we are going from here to there and asked them to have faith in the midst of the unknown.

Psalm 97:5 says, “The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.”

John McCallum wrote in his book Followership: the other side of leadership saying, “The flip side of leadership is followership.