I agree with much of what John M. Johnson wrote yesterday about the difference between The Gift of Righteousness and The Fruit of Righteousness.

I believe that the crossing of the Red Sea depicts Justification/Gift of Righteousness (i.e. trusting Christ as Saviour.) And the crossing of the Jordan depicts (not death nor resurrection nor rapture) the time in our life when we realize (as Paul did in Romans 7) our "struggle under law", so that we pass from that law-struggle into the ("rest of" the-) "walk in the Spirit" (as seen in Romans 8.)

Romans 8:2-4 says, "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh [as Romans 7 shows], God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled IN US [not BY us, mind you], who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Moses = struggle under law; Joshua = those who "believe God" in their walk/condition (i.e. walking in the Spirit.) (See also 2 Cor. 3:6-18; and 4:7.)

When we "abide in the Vine" we simply bear His fruit... fruit that remains (as opposed to manifesting our own works: wood, hay, stubble.) This has to do with (future) "rewards" in that only those things accomplished by the Spirit (His fruit), in and through us, will remain. Those things attempted by me, and by means of "the law" will be worthless. Apart from Him we can do nothing.

Hope to see you all soon. Let us keep watching.