Joshua - Salvationنموونە

Joshua was born an Israelite slave around the time Moses fled Egypt after trying to judge Israel by his own authority.  Forty years before that, Pharaoh permanently baptized the male children of Israel when he sacrificed them on the altar of the Nile river.

When Joshua turned forty, he was reborn into freedom.  God, through Moses, miraculously saved Joshua and the rest of Israel as He baptized them through another sea of death – the Red Sea.  When Moses raised his staff and lifted his hand over the Red Sea, God turned that altar of death into a dry road to life.  With heaps of water on both sides, Joshua walked to freedom through the Red Sea's dry valley of death.  

Suddenly Moses and the Israelites began to sing:

"The Lord is my strength and song,

And He has become my salvation"  

– Exodus 15:2 NASB

Challenge:

• Memorize Exodus 15:2
• What does Salvation mean to you?