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Forgetfulness: Never Forget What the Lord Has Done

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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...