Let's Go Back To Gilgal.

LET’S GO BACK TO GILGAL

JOSH. 10: 6,7,9,15,43

5 TIMES IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA. GILGAL IS NOT ONLY THE FIRST PLACE

ISRAEL CAMPED IN THE PROMISE LAND BUT IT WAS THE PLACE THAT ISRAEL

KEPT GOING BACK TO.

WHY DOES ISRAEL KEEP RETURNING TO GILGAL.

A PLACE OF SPECIAL MEANING TO THEM.

THERE ARE SOME PLACES IN OUR LIFE THAT ARE SPECIAL TO US.

PLACES WE NEED TO REVISIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

PLACES WHERE WE GET BACK ON TRACK WITH THE LORD.

LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT GILGAL.

1. PLACE OF REMEMBERANCE

Joshua 4:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of

the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east

border of Jericho. (KJV)

Joshua 4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan,

did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. (KJV)

A. UP OUT OF JORDAN

B. STONES CARRIED AND PLACED THERE FOR A MEMORIAL.

C. WHEN THEY WENT BACK THAT REMEMBERED

1. MIRACLE OF JORDAN

2. DELIVERENCE

OUT OF TYHE WILDERNESS INTO THE PROMISED LAND

2. A PLACE OF RENEWAL

Joshua 5:5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but

all the people that were born in the wilderness by the

way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not

circumcised. (KJV)

Joshua 5:9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled

away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the

name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. (KJV)

A. SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD, AND UNTO GOD

B. THE REPROACH OF EGYPT ROLLED AWAY.

THINGS THEY HAD TO DO

NOW IT’S DIFFERENT

3. RESTORATION

Joshua 5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept

the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even

in the plains of Jericho. (KJV)

A. PASSOVER KEPT IN THE PROMISED LAND

EXEMPTION

FROM THE SENTENCE OF DEATH.

OUR PASSOVER IS CHRIST AND CALVARY

4. REALIZATION

Joshua 5:11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the

morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and

parched corn in the selfsame day. (KJV)

Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had

eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the

children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat

of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

(KJV)

A. THEY REALIZED THE PROMISE

A LAND OF PROVISION

MILK AN DHONEY

5. A PLACE OF REVELATION

Joshua 5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he

lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood

a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand:

and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou

for us, or for our adversaries? (KJV)

Joshua 5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD

am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth,

and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord

unto his servant? (KJV)

JOSHUA MEETS THE LORD AT GILGAL

JOSHUA WORSHIPPED THERE

THIS PLACE CAN BE OUR GILGAL

REMEMBRANCE

RENEWAL

RESTORATION

REALIZATION

REVELATION.