We've done a collection of talks. I think this is part six entitled the other

316 and we've of course based it on what is pretty sure the most famous verse in

all the Bible which is John 316 it says for

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that

whosoever whoever simply believes in him,

receives the free gift of forgiveness,

shall not perish but have everlasting life.

It is this verse that frames for us

the essence of what we believe and the essence of what Jesus has done for us.

And so in an effort to further understand what is called the gospel, we've looked at other

three sixteens in the Bible that shed more light on what Jesus has done.

And I am so excited.

I have been waiting to share with you from the book of Joshua, right?

Thousands of years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem,

there is this perfect, beautiful portrait

of what he would do when he came to the planet.

So we're gonna go to Joshua, chapter 3, and you know what,

let's begin our reading in verse 14, if that's okay. I know that's not a 16, but

we'll start in verse 14. It says, so when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the

priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant before the people and as soon as those

bearing the Ark had come as far as the Jordan and the feet of the

priests bearing the Ark were dipped in the brink of the water.

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