Text: Joshua 5
Hymn: 713, From God Can Nothing Move Me
Kretzmann Commentary: Joshua 5
Bonus Bumper: Mahalia Jackson, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
The Lord marks his people for battle and gives them His name to advance. The reproach has been lifted; the people of Israel will reap the promise God has for them. He sends one final reminder of who is the deliverer: the Commander of the Lord’s Army himself, the pre-incarnate Christ, who would later effect the final deliverance of the world.
Text (sts. 1-2, 6): © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship
Text (sts. 3-5, 7): © 2002 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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Setting from Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission.
From God Can Nothing Move Me
- From God can nothing move me;
He will not step aside
But gently will reprove me
And be my constant guide.
He stretches out His hand
In evening and in morning,
My life with grace adorning
Wherever I may stand. - When those whom I regarded
As trustworthy and sure
Have long from me departed,
God’s grace shall still endure.
He rescues me from sin
And breaks the chains that bind me.
I leave death’s fear behind me;
His peace I have within. - The Lord my life arrages;
Who can His work destroy?
In His good time He changes
All sorrow into joy.
So let me then be still:
My body, soul, and spirit
His tender care inherit
According to His will. - Each day at His good pleasure
God’s gracious will is done.
He sent His greatest treasure
In Jesus Christ, His Son.
He ev’ry gift imparts.
The bread of earth and heaven
Are by His kindness given.
Praise Him with thankful hearts! - Praise God with acclamation
And in His gifts rejoice.
Each day finds its vocation
Responding to His voice.
Soon years on earth are past;
But time we spend expressing
The love of God brings blessing
That will forever last! - Yet even though I suffer
The world’s unpleasantness,
And though the days grow rougher
And bring me great distress,
That day of bliss divine,
Which knows no end or measure,
And Christ, who is my pleasure,
Forever shall be mine. - For thus the Father willed it,
Who fashioned us from clay;
And His own Son fulfilled it
And brought eternal day.
The Spirit now has come,
To us true faith has given;
He leads us home to heaven.
O praise the Three in One!
