God uses physical things in this world to convey deep meaning.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

And so we have these powerful symbols in baptism and in the Lord's Supper that God has given us of our covenant relationship with Him.

Symbols that cause us to remember the cross, that take us back to Christ.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Tuesday, April 28th.

Water, Bread, grapes.

These are simple ingredients that take on extraordinary meaning in the right context.

Find out why these simple ingredients can become such a rich part of your life. As Nancy continues the series, Lessons from the Life of Joshua,

Part 8, before we conquer.

Well, after years of waiting, years of wandering,

years of perhaps wondering if God's purposes were ever going to be fulfilled,

if they would ever

actually see the promised land and stand there themselves.

The children of Israel are now there.

They're in the promised land.

They've crossed over the Jordan.

And you would think the next step would have been for them to move forward into battle.

Human reason would have suggested that now was the time to strike while the iron was hot.

We know that the Canaanites by this point are terrified because they have just heard

about what Jehovah has done in taking his people through the Jordan River.

You read in Joshua 5 beginning at verse 1, as soon as all the kings of the Amarites who were beyond the Jordan River. You read in Joshua chapter 5 beginning at verse 1, as soon as all the

kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who

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