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Briarwood Presbyterian ChurchSaeyoung Park · December 29, 2025 · 43 min
Looking Back; Remembering the Jordan | Rev. Saeyoung Park
Joshua 3-4 is structured with deliberate repetitions and flashbacks not primarily to narrate the crossing of the Jordan but to teach Israel; and the church looking back on 2025; the discipline of remembering God's redemptive acts, a remembering fulfilled in Christ's own baptismal crossing of the Jordan into death for us.
Stories told
the crossing of the Jordan (Joshua 3-4)the report of the twelve spiesthe setting up of the twelve memorial stones at GilgalJesus's baptism in the Jordan
Scripture referenced
Joshua 3Joshua 3–4Joshua 3:1–13Joshua 4Joshua 4:1–7Hebrews 12Joshua 3:1Joshua 3:3Joshua 3:5Matthew 3:13Joshua 3:14Joshua 4:1
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