Psalms 66:6. They went through the flood on foot; there did we rejoice in him.
Perhaps some of you say, "But we were not there." No, we were not personally there; but do you not remember what the prophet Hosea says about God meeting with Jacob at Bethel? It is written, "There he spake with us." We were not personally there, yet believers have been everywhere in the Bible where other representative believers have been before them. "No prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation." What God spoke to any one of his people he has spoken to all of whom that one was typical. Paul tells us that the Lord hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," yet it was to Joshua that he said that; but, as he said it to Joshua, he virtually said it to me, for I am a believer even as he was. All the promises belong to us who are in Christ Jesus, for the heavenly inheritance is left to all the spiritual seed; and if we are in the Lord’s family, we shall share alike with all the rest of the children. ‘There did we rejoice in him." Then, if we rejoiced in the Lord there, let us rejoice in him here. Brethren and sisters in Christ, let us rest assured that, when our turn to go through the sea shall come, we shall find that the Lord has "turned the sea into dry land" for us, whether it be a sea of troubles or the sea of death. "They went through the flood on foot;" and so shall we. The God who made a way for them through the sea, virtually made a way for us also, for the army of God is one, and when the first ranks of the innumerable host passed through the flood, the army itself began to pass through, and that army can never be divided. So we are passing through the flood at this moment, and rejoicing in the God who cleaveth the sea in twain to make a highway for his people.
Psalms 66:6. They went through the flood on foot; there did we rejoice in him.
Perhaps some of you say, "But we were not there." No, we were not personally there; but do you not remember what the prophet Hosea says about God meeting with Jacob at Bethel? It is written, "There he spake with us." We were not personally there, yet believers have been everywhere in the Bible where other representative believers have been before them. "No prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation." What God spoke to any one of his people he has spoken to all of whom that one was typical. Paul tells us that the Lord hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," yet it was to Joshua that he said that; but, as he said it to Joshua, he virtually said it to me, for I am a believer even as he was. All the promises belong to us who are in Christ Jesus, for the heavenly inheritance is left to all the spiritual seed; and if we are in the Lord’s family, we shall share alike with all the rest of the children. ‘There did we rejoice in him." Then, if we rejoiced in the Lord there, let us rejoice in him here. Brethren and sisters in Christ, let us rest assured that, when our turn to go through the sea shall come, we shall find that the Lord has "turned the sea into dry land" for us, whether it be a sea of troubles or the sea of death. "They went through the flood on foot;" and so shall we. The God who made a way for them through the sea, virtually made a way for us also, for the army of God is one, and when the first ranks of the innumerable host passed through the flood, the army itself began to pass through, and that army can never be divided. So we are passing through the flood at this moment, and rejoicing in the God who cleaveth the sea in twain to make a highway for his people.