The Sword of the LORD

This fourth message in the series looks at God's rest as described in Hebrews 3 and 4 and how the Promised Land is a type and shadow of that rest.   We will also explore the contrast between faith and works in the light of God's sabbath. "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.   For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.   For we which have believed do enter into rest."   (Hebrews 4:1-3). There is a place of rest and peace that God has promised to His people today.   It is a glorious place where we can cease from our own works, and enter into the promises of God.   The Promised Land in the Old Testament was just a shadow of what God truly intended for His loved ones.   Just as Canaan flowed with all good things, so today does this place that God would ...

This third message in the series continues to explores how Joshua is a picture of Jesus Christ our Savior.   Because Christ has fulfilled the promises, then "in Him" they are ours as well. "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.   From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.   There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee."   (Joshua 1:3-5). God told Joshua that every place that the sole of his foot would fall would be his.   By association, therefore, all who followed him would gain the same ground that Joshua gained.   God further said that no man would be able to stand before Joshua in battle all the days of his life...

This second message in the series explores how Joshua is a picture of Jesus Christ our Savior.   His ministry truly is a beautiful representation of Christ's ministry to the church.   It also addresses the importance of faith in securing God's promises, and the meaning of the Promised Land. Joshua is a picture of the Savior.   His name in the Greek is literally translated "Jesus," and means "Jehovah is salvation."   Joshua had actually been to the promised land and seen its beauty and riches.   He had returned and testified to his people of what he had seen saying, "If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.   Only rebel not ye against the LORD."   (Numbers 14:8,9).   The Israelites would not believe Joshua's report, however, and were condemned to wandering for 40 years and dying in the desert rather than entering into the land immediately.     I ...