If you have a Bible, we're going to be in the book of Joshua today.

Joshua is an amazing book of the Bible and God is going to speak something to us in our River Wild

series. If you're joining us now, welcome. We have been looking at what the Bible has to say

about rivers, both what rivers mean and also rivers as a setting for some of the most incredible

stories in the Bible. And one of the rivers that is probably the most famous, especially in the

New Testament, we're introduced to in the Old Testament and that is the Jordan River, the Jordan

River. And we're going to see a really incredible story take place here. It says in Joshua 11 after

the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, son of none, free dad joke.

Joshua is the only person in the Bible besides Adam and Eve to have no parents because he was the son of

you're welcome. Verse two, Moses, my servant is dead. God said to Moses is servant. Moses is

servant is told Moses, my servant, because because everybody ultimately is God's servant. No

matter who you are in life, Moses was the master, Joshua was the servant, but God says, but Moses is

my servant. And if you want to do great things in the world, how you access them is through serving.

If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead in God's hand. The world says powerful people

assert their authority. And Jesus said, I'm the most powerful person who ever lives and I'm going

to wash your feet. And he said, I teach you a new and a better way. Greatness, leadership, it comes

through having a servant heart. That is as true in the Fortune 500 as it is true in the halls of

the church. That's not my sermon. Just got distracted because I love the play on words there.

Now then, verse two, you and all these people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land

I am about to give to them to the Israelites. I will give you, look at this, every place where you

set your foot as I promise Moses. I just want to encourage you that where you go, God's blessing

comes with you. And so you don't have to go look over here to find a place as God's blessing

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