Deuteronomy chapter 8. I will
have to hurry just a little bit, but I want to, if I can, just
to look at three things in the first ten verses of this chapter.
Here in verses 1 through verse 4, the Lord moved upon Moses
to tell his people to remember They were getting ready to go
over to the land of Canaan. They were right on the border.
They were still in the wilderness, but right on the border here
of the land of Canaan. And they were getting ready to
go in, and when they got there, the Lord was calling upon them
to remember. Let's read the first four verses. And the commandments which I
command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live
and multiply, and go in and possess the land, which the Lord swore
unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the
way which the Lord your God led thee these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was
in thine heart, whether thou would keep his commandment or
no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and
fed thee with manna, which thou knowest not, neither did thy
fathers know, that he might make thee know that man doth not live
by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of the Lord doth man live. Thy remnant wax not old upon
thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years." He called
them to remember. And then in verses 5 through
6, he calls them to consider the present. Remember the past,
consider the present. Look in 5 and 6. Thou shalt also
consider in thy heart that as a man chasteneth his son, so
the Lord your God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep
the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways,
and to fear him." And then he calls upon them to be expected,
live in expectation of the future. See that in verse 7? For the
Lord your God brings you unto a land, a land of brooks of water,
of fountains and depths and springs out of valleys and hills, a land
of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and palm granites,
a land of olive oil and honey, a land wherein thou shalt eat
bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it,
a land whose stones are iron, and out of those hills whose
hills thou best dig brass, when thou hast eaten and are full.
Then shalt thou bless the Lord your God for the good which he
hath given thee." So let's begin, if we can, and we may not be
able to cover all three of these, but let's begin with the first
one here. Remember. Remember. Now, it's important,
it's so, so important to remember and to know what he wanted them
to remember. There are some things that you
and I should not remember. There are some things they didn't
want to remember with any pleasure or any satisfaction at all. And
it was something that got their parents into trouble. If you
remember this, we've studied about their parents in time past.
Remember sometimes when they got in trouble and they got in
a narrow place, what they often said, it was better down in Egypt. Remember how they said that?
It was better when we sat by our flash pots. It's better when
we ate our garlic and our onions and our leaves. We had it better
down there than we had it now. Can you imagine what a reproach
that was upon God when He heard them say that? Here He had redeemed
them out of the house of bondage. He had led them all of these
years in the wilderness and watched over them and fed them and watered
them. Can you imagine what a reproach
that was on His name when He heard them say, It was better
down there. We wish we were sitting back
there by the fire. Can you imagine what ingratitude that was? It
would be almost like you take a young child, 8 or 10 years
old, in an awful, awful orphanage where he was beat. He wasn't
fed properly. He wasn't clothed properly. Nobody
loved him. He lived in a squalor. And some
good parents, some fine people came in and adopted him and took
him and bathed him and fed him and educated him. Can you imagine
what a reproach it would be on those parents if he'd come up
sometime and said, boy, it was better down there. It was better
when I was back there. Wouldn't that be awful? So what
they were to remember here wasn't that they had it good down in
Egypt. That wasn't what they were to
remember at all. God help us, brothers and sisters,
never to think back upon our lives before the Lord saved us
and say, boy, I miss those good old days. Anything that was separated
from Jesus Christ in our life is not worth remembering with
any pleasure or satisfaction at all, is it? Nothing is worth
mentioning. The Apostle Paul said this. He
said, this one thing I do. forgetting those things which
are behind. There are some things that's
not fit to be remembered. They're not fit to be held in
our affections anyway. What was the things that he said
he forgot? That's that old self-righteousness,
wasn't it? That old works that he used to
hang on to, that he depended upon to justify himself and to
save himself. He said, what used to be gained
to me, and I gloried in, now He says, I forgot about it. It's
done, isn't it? I count all lost for the excellence
of the knowledge. And He would never say, boy,
that was a good time in my life. Never to remember that. When Israel was to remember their
life before the Lord called them, they were to remember it this
way. We were Pharaoh's slaves. down in Egypt. That's the way
the Lord said, if you remember when you were down in Egypt,
remember it this way. You were slaves. And the only
way you and I can remember our life before Christ is that we
were without God and were without hope in the world. That's the
way we can think of it. So then, what were they to remember
then? Well, He tells them here in verse
2 and verse 4. Look at it. Thou shalt remember
all the way which the Lord your God led thee these forty years
in the wilderness." They were to remember how he brought them
out of Egypt and how he led them there to the Red Sea. He led
them through the Red Sea, led them out into the desert, and
for forty years he clothed them, he provided them with water,
and he provided them with food. And they looked at their shoes
and they hadn't waxed old. They looked at their clothes
and they were just like you. They were to remember that it
was a miracle of God that brought them out these 40 years into
death. Don't remember when you were
down there and had it good. Remember all the ways that the
Lord has led you and brought you out of the house of bondage
and kept you these 40 years, provided everything that you
need. How did He do that? Remember He did it and how did
He do it? From the beginning, now listen to this, here's the
way he did it. From the very beginning, he proved
them, and here's what he proved them, that they were utterly
dependent upon him to deliver them and to provide for them
in every last thing. They came to the Red Sea, and
what happened? Remember that? And who led them
there? Who led them there? You know,
the Lord could have led them a different way, and they'd got
to the land of Canaan a lot quicker. But He led them, and He led them
and hemmed them in. They couldn't go forward because
the Red Sea was there. They couldn't go to either side
because the mountains were there. And they looked behind them,
and here comes Pharaoh and his army, going down on them. And
what happened to them? Oh, we're going to perish. And
tell me what they said. What are we going to do now? Well,
they were humble, weren't they? They were humble. The Lord led
them, but He led them in such a way that they didn't get pumped
up in pride, but they were filled with humility. What are we going
to do now? And what did the Lord tell them?
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. You talk about a
humbling thing. And boy, when they crossed that sea, when they
went into that sea, and they came out on the other side, remember
how thankful they were? Boy, they sang unto the Lord. The horse and his rider, he's
cast into the sea. He's my strength. He's become
my salvation. He's led us. He's led us by his
mercy, they said. He led us. They crossed the Red
Sea, and where did the Lord bring them to then? He brought them
to a place called Myra. And they were starving to death
for water. I can almost see some of these fellows running over
there and dunking their heads down in there. And boy, they
were raised up and they were spitting that water everywhere.
So sour and bitter you couldn't eat it. What are we going to
do now? We're starving for water. What are we going to do now?
If the Lord don't provide us water, we're going to die of
thirst. What did the Lord tell Moses to do? He showed him a
tree. He said, you cut that tree down
and throw it into that water and it'll be made sweet. The
Lord provided. They left that place a couple
of days' journey. They got thirsty again. They
said, we're going to die. We're going to starve to death
for water out here in the wilderness. They cried unto the Lord, and
the Lord said, Moses, you smite that flint. There was eight or
ten or fifteen foot tall rock, flint rock, and Moses smote it.
It split, and water began to gush out of it like a river.
And they drank to their fill. It went on for a little while. They got hungry. And they said,
we're going to starve to death. We don't have anything to eat.
And what happened? They were utterly dependent upon
the Lord. He caused you to be hungry. He caused you to have need. Why? So you'd humble yourself before
Him and realize if He don't get us through this mess, if He don't
give us water, if He don't give us bread, we're not going to
make it. He humbled you to test you and to prove. And he sent
manna down from heaven. And for forty years they lived
off of that manna. The Lord provided them manna
to eat. They began to murmur. The Lord
put the whip to them. He sent serpents among them.
Began to bite them. Many of them died. They cried
unto the Lord. All of us are going to die. What
are we going to do? Why don't you find a remedy? We don't have
a remedy. We've piled up rocks. We've used
sticks. And these things are killing
us. cried to the Lord, and what did he tell Moses to do? Put
a serpent upon a pole. Bitten by a serpent, and now
put a serpent on a pole. I tell you, the Lord is a mysterious
Savior, isn't He? They looked. What happened? When
they looked, they lived. They looked, they lived. And
they praised the Lord, and they learned to trust Him, and they
learned to bless Him. And here it was forty years.
Forty years. And now they were on the edge
of the promised land, and God had led them every step of the
way. He had fed them, He had delivered
them, He provided them water, He provided clothes for their
backs, shoes for their feet, and He did it in such a way that
they humbly acknowledged that it was Him that did it all. I said something to this effect
Sunday. And it's sort of the same way with this. We start
our Christian life, our Christian journey, and we don't know much of anything
of it. We thought we did, but we didn't
know anything. We knew we were sinners, and
we knew the Lord Jesus Christ was the only Savior. That's just
about all we knew. We knew that we'd obtain mercy.
He'd give us some assurance for that. But we didn't know much
else then. And then what happened? I tell
you, as we began to live our Christian life, we began to experience
some things. We began to get ourselves into
some situations, or we were led into some situations we couldn't
get ourselves out of. We got caught in some snares
that we couldn't deliver ourselves from. And as we began to live
our Christian lives, we began to humbly see, I can't do a thing. if He don't give me grace to
do it. I can't even believe, I can't even walk humbly before
Him or His people if He don't give me grace. I can't go any
further than what He draws me. That's a humbling thing, isn't
it? I can't learn any more than what
He teaches me. I am no more than what I am by
His grace. And I tell you, as you begin
to teach us these things and lead us into these humiliating
places and deliver us, we begin to see the same thing that these
children of Israel saw. He's led us every step of the
way. And we praise Him for it, don't
we? You look back over your Christian life, and that's what you see.
That's what you see. that he saved you and he's been
leading you every step of the way. But he's led you in such
a way that you can't get puffed up with pride about it all. You're
humiliated, aren't you? And you praise him for it. You
praise him for it. They went about to kill him.
They went about to kill him. Told him some things that he'd
been suffering, and then he stopped and said this, Having therefore
obtained help of God, I continue to this day. See where his mind
turned. He turned to remember. How have
I made it this far? I've obtained help from God. He was writing to Timothy. telling
Timothy about how he'd fought a good fight, he'd kept the faith,
told about all the opposition that he had faced in his ministry,
how all of those in Asia had turned away from him, and then
he said this, nevertheless, the Lord stood with me. I am what I am by the grace of
God. And everything I owe, I owe to
Him. I've come this far because I've
obtained Him. I've obtained mercy. That's what
the Lord is telling you and I, brothers and sisters, to remember. And this comes by experience.
This comes by hardship. This ain't something that we
know when the Lord first saves us. It took these fellows almost
40 years to learn that. And they looked back over and
saw it more clearly than they ever did. Look what he says here
in verse 2 again in our text, chapter 8. Thou shalt remember
all the way which the Lord your God led thee these forty years
in the wilderness, to humble thee, to prove you, to test you,
to know what was in your heart." Now, we're not so naive enough
to believe and think that the Lord doesn't know what's in our
heart. I mean, the Bible teaches us
that That the heart is deceitful above all things, who can know
it? And then in the very next verse it says, I, the Lord, I
know the heart. You've searched me and you've
known me. All my ways are naked unto Him.
But listen to this, and see if this ain't so. We believe that
He knows our hearts. But you know something? Until
He proves it to us by experience, we really don't believe it as
we should. We say we do. The Lord knows
my heart. But boy, let Him prove it to
us. Let me give you an example. You hold Deuteronomy Chapter
8. Look at Matthew Chapter 26. Look
at Matthew Chapter 26. Here was a fellow that thought
he knew himself better than Christ knew Him. He thought he knew himself better
than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And look here what he says in
Matthew chapter 26, and look in verse 30. This is where they
left the upper room. They had sung a hymn. And when
they had sung the hymn, Matthew 26, 30, they went out into the
Mount of Olives, the Lord Jesus and His eleven disciples. And
Jesus said unto them, All of you shall be offended because
of me this night. For it is written, I will smite
the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered
abroad. But after that I am risen again, I will go before you into
Galilee. Peter answered and said to him, Lord, you are wrong about
me. Ain't that what he said? Though
all men should be offended because of thee, yet I will never be
offended. Now you may be right about the
other ten. But Lord, you just really don't know me. Well, the
Lord said, Peter, listen to this, verse 34. before this night,
before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice." Peter, I'm telling
you, I know you. I know what you'll do. I know
what you won't do. I know your disposition. I know
your heart. I know what gets to you. I know you better than
you know yourself. Lord, I'm telling you. I know
you've read the thoughts of these Pharisees and these scribes,
but I'm telling you, Lord. I'll never do what you say I'll
do. And he was adamant. Look at verse 35. Peter said
unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny
thee. Likewise, all said, sent all
to decide. Who was right? Peter or the Lord? The Lord was right. The Lord
was right. Peter would have never denied
the Lord couldn't read hearts and minds and thoughts. But he
thought he knew himself better than the Lord did, until the
Lord proved it to him. Don't you imagine, after he had
denied the Lord three times before the rooster crowed, he went out
and thought to himself, Lord, you know me better than I know
myself. And that's the way he teaches us. He proves to us,
by experience, that he knows us better than we know ourselves. Back over here in our text again.
The Lord made them to know something else. And brothers and sisters,
they were to remember this, and I hope He's taught us this. Boy,
here's a blessing if He's taught us this. The last part of verse
3. Look in verse 3. And He humbled
thee, and He suffered you to hunger, and He fed you with manna
which you knew not, neither did your fathers know, that He might
make you know. That man doeth not live by bread
only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God doeth man live. He made you to know that. Ain't
that wonderful? Isn't it wonderful when he makes
us to know the power of his word? How his word feeds us. What a
wonderful thing to come to the knowledge of. You see some poor
saint around, he's got his Bible out, she can't quit reading.
Just about every time you see them, they're sitting over in
a corner, and boy, they're just reading and reading. What's happened
to that person? The Lord's taught them something about His Word.
It's food to their souls. It nourishes your spirit. Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God. Ain't this wonderful? that the
Word came from the mouth of God. When you think about that, ain't
that something? We want to hear people preach.
We want to hear people give speeches and all of that. Great men. Imagine
where this Word came from. Out of the mouth of God. And
people tell us this is obsolete. You know, it's outdated. Well,
let's see how outdated it is. This is the first temptation
that the Lord Jesus suffered there when He was in the wilderness. Remember that? Matthew chapter
4 and Luke chapter 4? Remember when the Holy Spirit
drove Him out into the wilderness and He was there for 40 days
and 40 nights and ate nothing? Now, boy, there was a contrast
when our Master went to the wilderness as opposed to our first father
and how unfaithful he was. He was in a garden. He wasn't
unfaithful in a garden with all the beautiful surroundings. He
yielded to the suggestion of the devil. Our master was in
a wilderness. And unlike Moses, who was tempted
by men, our master was there tempted of Satan. And not just
one time, but forty days and forty nights, the Bible says
he was tempted of the devil. There alone, and his company
was beasts, living with the beasts. And Satan came to him and said
to him, if you be the Son of God, if you're really the Son
of God, then prove it. Make these stones bread. You're
hungry? Turn these stones into bread
and you can eat, if you're really the Son of God. And you know
the Lord Jesus Christ could have put up all kinds of evidence
that He was who He said He was. He could have said, why, didn't
you just see what happened to me? I was just come up out of
the waters. Didn't you see the heavens open?
Didn't you see the Spirit descend on me like a dove? Didn't you
hear that voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased? I've got all kinds of evidence
of who I am. But He didn't do that, did He?
And you know why? There's something more important
than evidence. And what is that? That's that
God be honored. There's but one way to put the
devil to flight, brothers and sisters. And it's not by arguing,
yes, I believe I'm the son of God. I've got evidence that I'm
a son of God. I believe I've been born again.
You won't shake him with arguments like that. But I'll tell you
what will shake him. The Lord Jesus quoted this passage
of Scripture to him. He said, Satan, it's not about
me. It's not about who I am. This
is about God's glory. This is about God's Word. Man
shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God. And Satan came to him two more
times, and every time he came to tempt him, He quoted a passage
from the book of Deuteronomy. Now somebody says, this is obsolete? This is old? I tell you, this is so powerful.
Fifteen hundred years after this verse was written, our Master
quoted it and put the devil to flight. And that's what the Word
will do today, brothers and sisters. In the hour of temptation, it
will put the devil to flight. When the world learns this, will
secure you. When the flash tempts you, this
will secure you. It's the word from God's mouth. And you know what the Bible says
about itself? That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works. It's all we need. It's from God's
mouth. From God's mouth. Wonderful thing, isn't it? It's
not obsolete. Blessing now. That's the first
thing. Let's go on to number two right
quickly. We'll have to cover these quickly. Verse five in
chapter eight. Remember the past and consider
the present. What about the present? Verse
five. Thou shalt also consider in your
heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God,
he chastens thee. Consider in your heart. Why consider
it in your heart? What is there to consider about
chastisement? You know one of the first things
that we err in concerning chastisement. You know why he tells us to consider
in your heart that as the father chastened his son, so the Lord
chastened you. The first thing we do about chastisement
is we forget it. We forget it. Listen to what
Paul said in Hebrews 12. You have forgotten. You have
forgotten. That which speaketh unto you
as sons. My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord. You have forgotten. We forget
it, don't we? What happens? Sometimes the Lord
sets His face against us. Against His own children. Sometimes
He hides His face from us. Sometimes He brings us into trouble.
He'll take our health from us. He'll take something else we
love from us, and we almost faint in our minds, and we get discouraged
because we've forgotten what's taken place. We don't consider
what's happening. My son, don't forget, the Lord
chastens His people. That's the first thing. That's
the first thing. And we should always be examining
ourselves when trouble comes, to see if it's just a trial of
our faith or to see if it's our Father's chastening rod. That's
the first thing. The second thing is this. Who
does He chasten? His sons. As the Father chasteneth
His son. Hebrews 12 again. If you endure
chastening, God deals with you as with sons. For what son is
He whom the Father chasteneth not? If you be without chastisement,
Then what are you? You're illegitimate, aren't you?
You're not a son. God doesn't have one son that
He doesn't chasten. He chastens all of His children. Thirdly, consider this in your
heart. How does it feel to be chastened? Hebrews 12 again. No chastening for the present
seems to be joyous but grievous. Boy, it hurts, don't it? This
is not a smack on the wrist. This is not a parent giving a
little baby a pat on the butt and saying, don't you do that
anymore. Boy, when the Lord chastened. The old prophets used to say
things like this, Oh Lord, rebuke me not in your anger and don't
chasten me in your hot displeasure. For your arrows stick fast in
me, your hand presseth me sore. David used to pray when the Lord
chastened him, how long, oh Lord, forever? Ever? Oh, correct me, Lord, but do
it in mercy, lest you bring me to nothing. Why did they pray
like that? Because it hurts. Man, it hurts. You ever been chastened, Dave?
Yeah, he knows what I'm talking about. Grieve your sin. Grieve
your sin. Fourthly, remember this. Why does he do it? because He
loves you. Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth. Boy, that makes you kiss the
rod, doesn't it? Can you imagine when your dad
used to lay a weapon on you? Man, I know one of us here probably
can remember when our dad pulled his belt off. I never knew my
dad pulled his belt off and put it back on without leaving some
stripes on my butt and on my legs. I don't know what he'd
have said. If he jerked his belt off and
I said, Dad, wait a minute, let me kiss that thing. Let me kiss
it. He dropped it. But you know,
out of love. Father, thank You for chasing
me. Let me kiss the rod. Let me kiss
it. Because you're doing it out of
love. He whom Thou loveth is chastened. And fourthly is this. It's good for His people. Listen
to Hebrews 12 again. We have had fathers of our flesh
which corrected us, and they chastened us after their own
pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of
His holiness." He doesn't chasten us because He enjoys it. He chastens
us because it's good for us, that we might be partakers of
His holiness. And fifth, and lastly, consider
this in your heart. The effects of chastening. What's
the effects of being chastened to the Lord? Afterwards, it yields
the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby. Ain't it wonderful when the rod
is lifted? When He's corrected you and has
relieved you half to death, and then He lifts the rod. Oh, boy,
you rejoice, don't you? It's peace then. It's peace. You ever go into a grocery store
If you're a child, seven or eight years old, and he's got his mother
there, and he's jerking on his mother's dress down, and he's
screaming, and ready to start tearing shelves down, you think,
that child's miserable, ain't he? And you know why? He's not
loved. Let's be honest about that. The
mother don't know how to love him. Therefore, the child is
miserable. And you probably grew up to be
miserable. God don't have mercy upon you. Why? He's not corrected. He's not chastened. You take
a child that's out of order and screaming and trying to run the
house, and boy, you set them down and you give them a piece
of your mind, just politely put some pressure on them. Listen,
child. You sit here and you be still.
You don't run this house. You've got yourself in trouble,
and it's going to be bigger trouble if you don't sit down and be
quiet. And boy, you put some pressure on them, and you make
them to know who's the boss, and then what happens? They'll
come up and start living on you after a while. They'll get so
peaceful, they'll trust you. They love order. The children
of God love order, don't they? They love protection. They want
the Lord's guidance. They want Him to teach them.
It brings peace to them. Think about these things, Moses
said, in your heart. Consider these things. That you
have a Father. And He loves you. And He's going
to seek the best for you, whether you want it or not. He's going
to seek the best. He's going to chastise you. And lastly is
this. Anticipation of the future. Verse
7-10. Can you imagine this? Here these
fellows have been out in the wilderness for 40 years. Man,
all they know is Dry, dry, dry. Stick won't even hardly grow
where they're living at now. All the water is what the Lord
gave them out of the rock. And boy, he begins to tell them
about fountains of water coming up out of the deeps. Barley,
wheat, mountains and valleys. Ah, he begins to tell them these
words and describes this land to them. Can you imagine how
they felt? The anticipation in their hearts. Man! Grapes that
it takes two men to carry. Just a cluster of them. Water
springing up. Cool water. Fish in the stream. Ain't it wonderful when the Lord
tells us that He saved us and He's been guiding us for all
these years. And sometimes He chastens us sore, but at the
same time, He tells us about His house, His heaven, His kingdom,
where there's untold comforts, untold pleasures, unexplainable
to our poor finite minds, where there's no tears, there's no
sorrow, there's no death, there's no dying, there's no pain. And here we are in these bodies,
just floundering around and suffering, and so much sadness and affliction,
and He comes to us and He says, listen, I've got this place prepared
for you that I'm going to give you, and I want you to live in
expectation of it. I want you to be often thinking
about heaven. Don't you think He'd have us
to think about it? Some people say, well, the Lord
mentioned hell so many times. much more times than he did heaven.
Well, maybe he did. But does that mean he don't have
us to think on him? This is a bulletin from Sunday,
William Mason. He was commenting on this Hebrews
11 where he said, those old pilgrims confessed that they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth. And listen, you've read this,
but listen, let me remind you what he said. Nothing will kill
the love of a bewitching world in a deceitful heart but the
view of heaven by faith." A view of heaven by faith. I bet these
men went to bed that night and they couldn't sleep. Those ladies
went to bed and they couldn't sleep thinking about the land
of Canaan. No man will confess himself a
stranger to the world and a pilgrim on this earth until he sees himself
a fellow citizen with the saints and of the household of God.
What caused this confession that they made? They had not received
the promises, not the fulfillment of the promises. The Messiah
was not come from heaven with all His inestimable blessings
of His kingdom, yet they believed Him. They looked to Him and lived
by faith upon Him as promised, though they saw the precious
promises aforeof, yet they were realized to their hearts by faith
The distance of them did not weaken their confidence in their
real existence. Faith brought them nigh to their
minds. They were persuaded of them and
embraced them, and they clanged to the promises of God as a chief
delight and the greatest joy of their souls." If you belong
to Christ, the brothers and sisters live in the expectation of heaven. That'll wean you from this world.
You don't have to live in doubt of it. You don't have to live
in fear of it. Has the Lord washed you from
your sins? Has He saved you? Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?
Then don't doubt your interest in that place. That's what happened
to these fellas' parents here, wasn't it? But it didn't happen to them,
did it? I think when the Lord When the Lord says it's time
to go in and they crossed that Jordan, marched around Jericho
and it fell and they went on in and hurried to land. That's
what happened to you too. As sure as God is faithful, that's
what happened to you. You're here tonight that's in
Christ. And he'll have you to live in the expectation of that
wonderful place. Any questions?