What Do These Stones Mean? - Pastor Wirzfeld Sermon
- Catlettsburg Harvest
- Feb 2
- 2 min read
Joshua 4:1-7
[1] Now when the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, [2] “Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe, [3] and command them, saying, ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet are standing firmly, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the encampment where you will spend the night.’ ” [4] So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe; [5] and Joshua said to them, “Cross again to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel. [6] This shall be a sign among you; when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ [7] then you shall say to them, ‘That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.’ So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.”
Joshua 4:19-24
[19] Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho. [20] As for those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set them up at Gilgal. [21] And he said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ [22] then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’ [23] For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the Lord your God had done to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed; [24] so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”
Ephesians 2:1-3
[1] And you were dead in your offenses and sins, [2] in which you previously walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. [3] Among them we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest.
2 Corinthians 1:9-10
[9] Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, [10] who rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
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