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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

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John Gill, the late great Baptist, who preached in the very same church 100 years prior to Charles Spursion,

in commentating on our text today, says the following. Joshua gave him religious worship and adoration,

which had he been a created angel he would not have given to him, nor would such a one have received it.

If this was an angel, when Joshua fell in his face and began to worship him, the angel would have told him to stop.

If this was merely a man, the man might have received, being sinful, chosen to receive praise and worship from another man.

But Joshua would have picked up on this and would not have offered worship.

So if this was a mere man, Joshua would not have worshipped.

If it was a mere angel, the angel would not have received Joshua's worship.

Rather, this is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, in terms of chronological order, this is before the cross. This is before the earthly

ministry of Jesus Christ, before the incarnation. But Jesus did not come into existence at the point of the incarnation. He is the eternal son of God,

eternally begotten. There is never a time in which the son was not. The gospel of John in the

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