Jesus is Magnified in His Finished Work

"And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee." (Joshua 3:7)

Joshua, whose name means "savior", is a type of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He replaced Moses, who represents the law. The law can lead us in the wilderness, but the law cannot take us into the Promised Land of grace and righteousness (Hebrews 4: 1-11). Only Jesus can do that.

"11And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. 12And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: 13About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho." (Joshua 4: 11-13)

The Israelites passed over the River Jordan, which represents our death in Christ, and when the crossed over, the entered the Promised Land, which represents our resurrected life in Christ.

"On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life." (Joshua 4: 11-14)

Unlike Moses, who had to beg the LORD for grace and signs and  miracles to keep the Israelites in line, Joshua led the Israelites over the river, and that one act alone granted him respect for the rest of his life.

Joshua was magnified when the Israelites crossed the River Jordan. Just as Joshua would be magnified in leading the Israelites across the Jordan River, so too Jesus our Lord and Savior is magnified because He died on the Cross, rose from the dead, and justifies us to this day.

Every time that we rest in the mindset and revisit this truth, that in Christ, all our sins are forgiven, Jesus is glorified.

To believe on Jesus Chris, that through Him all our sins are forgiven, is to live out the abundant live, to work out  our salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2: 12).

The more that we allow His Work at the Cross to occupy our thoughts, the more that we reject fearful thoughts of yesterday and tomorrow, the more that we "hasten" to enter the rest (Hebrews 4: 11), the more that Jesus is glorified.