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  Lessons of Faith from Joshua - Sabbath School Lesson 3 -  Wednesday “Never Forget What the Lord Has Done” Scripture Reading: Joshua 4:20–24 After the Israelites crossed the Jordan River, Joshua took the twelve stones from the riverbed and set them up at Gilgal as a memorial. He said, “He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God” (Joshua 4:24). The purpose of those stones was remembrance — to make sure that future generations never forgot what God had done. In Joshua 4:23 , Joshua uses the words “us” and “we.” He didn’t distance himself from the miracle but included himself among those who had been delivered: “For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what He had done to the Red Sea when He dried it up before us until we had crossed over.” This collective language emphasizes that remembering...

  Lessons of Faith from Joshua - Sabbath School Lesson 3 -  Tuesday “Remembering God’s Faithfulness” Scripture Reading: Joshua 4 After the miraculous crossing of the Jordan River, God commanded Joshua to have twelve men, one from each tribe, take a stone from the riverbed and set it up as a memorial. The Lord said, “In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord” (Joshua 4:6–7). The memorial was not just a monument—it was a testimony. It reminded Israel of the power and presence of the living God who brought them safely into the Promised Land. God knew how easily His people could forget. Just as the Israelites needed tangible reminders of His mighty acts, we too need memorials in our spiritual journey. These are not always made of stone—they may be moments, places, or symbols that mark God’s faithfulness in our lives. It could be a journal entry about a pra...