This morning we will be asking ourselves, am I willing to Step Out by Faith and Start Stacking Stones that are Worth Remebering for all Eternity. Stones that Will make a difference in People’s Lives? The day has arrived when we are going to cross the Jordan River. Normally it would be no problem to ford the river. In fact there is today a place that you can ford the river. However, the Bible indicates that the River was in flood stage. And unfortunately, the Israelites, 2-3million strong were not like this guy and able to walk on water. WALKING ON WATER in Pamplona So what could they do but turn to God! Have you ever wondered why the Canaanites didn’t assemble an army across the Jordan? I think there were two reasons: First, it was the time of the barley harvest, and the Canaanites were busy with their harvest. Second, the Jordan River, normally only 20 to 60 yards wide, had swollen to nearly ¾ of a mile wide. They thought there was no way the Israelites could cross the River now. They thought they could finish the harvest, let the flood waters recede, and then assemble an army to confront the invaders. In order to understand, let me read an account from 1894, when the Jordan was not dammed up like it is today. In order to understand how the river appeared when it was thus out of its banks, let me state that the valley fourteen miles wide, lies about seventy-five feet higher than the bed of the river. As you walk across the valley toward the river, you come to a bluff, not very steep usually--in some places too steep for a horse to go down, in others a gradual slope--and you look down seventy-five feet into a river bottom, from a half mile to a mile wide. Now a river which falls as rapidly as the Jordan (falling nearly seven hundred feet in sixty miles) has a rapid current when it is low; but when it is so swollen that it leaves its crooked channel, and its waters rush in a direct line toward their resting place, we can see at once with what a terrific force it plunges along. And as that valley is..
This morning we will be asking ourselves, am I willing to Step Out by Faith and Start Stacking Stones that are Worth Remebering for all Eternity. Stones that Will make a difference in People’s Lives?
The day has arrived when we are going to cross the Jordan River. Normally it would be no problem to ford the river. In fact there is today a place that you can ford the river. However, the Bible indicates that the River was in flood stage. And unfortunately, the Israelites, 2-3million strong were not like this guy and able to walk on water.
WALKING ON WATER in Pamplona
So what could they do but turn to God! Have you ever wondered why the Canaanites didn’t assemble an army across the Jordan? I think there were two reasons: First, it was the time of the barley harvest, and the Canaanites were busy with their harvest. Second, the Jordan River, normally only 20 to 60 yards wide, had swollen to nearly ¾ of a mile wide. They thought there was no way the Israelites could cross the River now. They thought they could finish the harvest, let the flood waters recede, and then assemble an army to confront the invaders. In order to understand, let me read an account from 1894, when the Jordan was not dammed up like it is today.
In order to understand how the river appeared when it was thus out of its banks, let me state that the valley fourteen miles wide, lies about seventy-five feet higher than the bed of the river. As you walk across the valley toward the river, you come to a bluff, not very steep usually--in some places too steep for a horse to go down, in others a gradual slope--and you look down seventy-five feet into a river bottom, from a half mile to a mile wide. Now a river which falls as rapidly as the Jordan (falling nearly seven hundred feet in sixty miles) has a rapid current when it is low; but when it is so swollen that it leaves its crooked channel, and its waters rush in a direct line toward their resting place, we can see at once with what a terrific for