STONES STILL SPEAK!

I. Telling us what Joshua knew

II. Us telling what we know

Joshua 4:1-9 When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the

LORD said to Joshua, 2 “Choose twelve men from among the people, one

from each tribe, 3 and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of

the Jordan from right where the priests stood and to carry them over with

you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.” 4 So Joshua

called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one

from each tribe, 5 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD

your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone

on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to

serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you,

‘What do these stones mean?’ 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was

cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the

Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a

memorial to the people of Israel forever.” 8 So the Israelites did as Joshua

commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan,

according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the LORD had

told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where

they put them down. 9 Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the

middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of

the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.

In the name of Jesus “the Christ, the Son of the living God”, dear Christian

friends,

When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan is how our text

begins. That is a phrase worth looking at more closely! The whole nation of Israel is