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Then you shall let your children know. Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.

For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over,

as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty,

that you may fear the Lord your God forever.

There is so much in this passage, so much in this passage to reflect on, to pray according to,

but the picture that I want to focus on is this question.

When your children ask you, what do these stones mean? So they're setting up these stones

as a remembrance of when God stopped the waters of the Jordan River, just like he had stopped the

waters of the Red Sea, and he made away for his people to cross through, and these stones will

be a remembrance, a marker of the day when God did that, so that all the peoples of the earth may know

that the hand of the Lord is mighty, and that you may fear the Lord your God forever.

Like tell your children what God has done, so they might fear the Lord,

and so that all the peoples of the earth may know that God is mighty.

That is a word for us, for sure, in our lives today.

Tell your children, tell the next generation, whether they're in your home,

or whether they're in the church, whether they're around you and your community,

tell the next generation what God has done for those who have trusted in Him that they might fear

Him, and that the nations might know all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand

of the Lord is mighty. See the relationship here between making disciples of all the nations and

making disciples of the next generation, they go together, and so we pray, oh God, please help us

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