Bible Character - Rahab

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let me get you on in here. Praise God, Praise God.
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let me try speaker here. Get that going okay, wonderful. Okay.
Thank you everyone for coming. Really appreciate you listening. In
today's topic is Rahab. Let us come before the Lord
in prayer. Hallelujah, Heavenly Father, thank you for your word.

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Thank you that your word is a lamp to our
feet and a light to your path, to our path.
In the name of Jesus. I want to put you
in remembrance of something, Father, So let me see I
can get this. Ah, yes, here it is. I pray
Father that according to your word, your law is perfect

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and restores us. Your testimony is sure and makes us wise.
Your precepts are right, bringing joy and rejoicing to our hearts.
Your commandment is pure and bright enlightening our eyes. In
Jesus's name. The reverential fear of you is clean and
enduring in us forever. Your ordinances are true and righteous.
Altogether more desirable to us than gold. Yes, and much

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fine gold, sweeter to us than honey and the drippings
from the honeycomb. Thank you for warning us, reminding us,
illuminating us, and instructing us from your judgments, and that
we keep them and receive great reward. Thank you for
revealing to us lapses and errors, and clearing us from
hidden and unconscious faults, keeping us back from presumptuous sins,

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and not allowing those to have dominion over us, that
we would be blameless, innocent, clear of great transgression. I
pray for the words of our muff the meditation of
our hearts to be pleasing and acceptable in your sight.
You are our rock and our redeemer in Jesus's name. Hallelujah.
Thank you Lord, Thank you Holy Spirit for being for

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us the spirit wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of God.
And I pray that we learn and understand you and
your truth God in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, praise the Lord.
So glad to have you guys here. Thank you so much.
I want to get into today's Bible character rayhab It's

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really a blessing. She is really a blessing. And the
things that the Word of God shares about her is
really so so great. If you're not familiar, when someone
is mentioned in scripture, and I'll get to this later,
included in the Genealogy of Jesus. These are high honors

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in the world of God when someone's commended in the scriptures.
So praise God. We'll get to see more about her
and what God did in her life. So I'm going
to start in Joshua chapter two Joshua. So, Joshua's in
charge of the nation of Israel at this time, and

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they need to go in and possess the land that
God promised them by taking it forcefully in battle against
the evil inhabitants. Joshua chapter two, Joshua, son of Nunn

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sent two men secretly from Shidham as scouts, saying, go
view the land, especially Jericho. And they went and came
to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged
there fascinating right, And it was told the King of Jericho,

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behold there came men in here tonight of the Israelites
to search out the country. And the King of Jericho
sent to Rehab, saying, bring forth the men who have
come to you who entered your house, for they have
come to search out the land. But the woman had
taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, yes,

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two men came to me, but I did not know
from where they had come. And at gate closing time
after dark, the men went out. Where they went, I
do not know. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.
Oh boy, did she know how to talk or what.
But she had brought them up to the roof and

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hidden them under the stalks of flax, which she had
laid in order there So the men pursued them to
the Jordan as far as the fords. As soon as
the pursuers had gone, the city's gate was shut. Before
the two men had lain down, Rahab came up to

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them on the roof, and she said to the men,
I know that the Lord has given you the land,
and that your terror has fallen upon us, and all
the inhabitants of the land fate because of you. For
we have heard how the Lord dried up the water
of the Red Sea for you when you came out

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of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings
of the Amorites were on the east side of the
Jordan Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. When we
heard it, our hearts melted. Neither did spirit or courage
remain any more in any man because of you. For
the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above

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and on earth beneath. Now, then I pray you swear
to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness.
Look at this, she's already calling God, Lord, Wow, since
I have shown you kindness, that you also will show
kindness to my father's house and give me a sure sign,

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and save alive my father and my mother, my brothers
and sisters and all they have, and deliver us from death.
And the men said to her, our lives for years.
If you do not tell this business of ours, then
when the Lord gives us the land, we will deal
kindly and faithfully with you. What a promise. Then she

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let them down by a rope through the window, for
her house was built into the wall, so that she
dwelt in the wall. As far as I understand it, Historically,
the city of Jericho used to have chariot races on
the top of their walls, which gives an indication of

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how thick they were, and it's temptation when that kind
of thing is happening. To put your trust in that.
I think, okay, let me move on. Then she let
them down by a rope through the window, for her
house was built into the wall, so that she dwelt
in the wall. And she said to them, get to

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the mountain less pursuers meet you. Hide yourselves there three
days until the pursuers have returned, and afterward you may
go your way. The men said to her, we will
be blameless of this oath you made us swear. Behold,
when we come into the land, you shall bind this

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scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down,
And you shall bring your father and your mother, your
brother's and all your father's household into your house. If
anyone goes out of the door of your house into
the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and
we will be guiltless. But if a hand is laid
upon anyone who is with you in the house, his
blood shall be on our head. But if you tell

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this business of ours, we shall be guiltless of your
oath which you made us swear. Listen to this woman bargain,
God bless her. Okay, and she said, according to your words,
so it is. Then she sent them away, and they departed,
and she bound the scarlet cord in the window. They

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left and went to the mountain and stayed there three
days until the pursuers returned, who had searched all along
the way without finding them. So the two men descended
from the mountain, passed over the Jordan, and came to Joshua,
son of None, and told him all that had befallen them.

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They said to Joshua, truly, the Lord has given all
the land into our hands, for all the inhabitants of
the country are faint because of us. See what a
huge difference leadership makes. Because if you remember when Moses
sent out the spies, the ten came back and they met.

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That made the people's heart melt, and the people chose
a version of events if you can read about it
in I think numbers, perhaps chapters thirteen through fifteen, something
like that. And excuse me, is it Exodus? I think
it's Exodus chapters thirteen through fifteen. I apologize, and let

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me look it up. I need to be accurate.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Okay, let me just.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Do something nice and easy. Twelve spies numbers thirteen. Okay,
I was right the first time. That's good. Okay, So
numbers like thirteen through fifteen, that'll give you the story. Okay,
So next thing, So see how what a difference leadership
makes in that when these spies who were now under

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Joshua's authority, after Joshua had stood stood up for God,
stood up for the word the people. Just so you remember,
the Israelie people wanted to stone Joshua and Caleb for
resisting and opposing their mob mindset. You want to kill them,
murder them personally as a group because of standing up

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for God. And the Lord had the plan. He made
all of those rebellious adults die in the wilderness except
for Joshua and Caleb, and he said, everybody under such
and such an age, they'll go in and possess the land.
And sure enough, Joshua and Caleb were able to make

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the impact, have the influence to where now he sends
his spies out and they come back and they're like,
we can we got this, we can do this because
of the Lord. And uh, okay, so let me go
back if I mean, this story is so amazing, but
I want to read a little bit more before I

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start talking about rehab. Okay, Chapter three, Chapter four, Chapter five,
don't dun dum chapter six. Okay. Now, Jericho, a fence
town with high walls, was tightly closed because of the Israelits.

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No one went out or came in. And the Lord
said to Joshua, see, I've given Jericho it's king and
mighty men of valor into your hands. You shall march
around the enclosure, all the men of war going around
the city once. This you shall do for six days.
So everybody marches around the entire city of Jericho once

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once a day, for six days, over and over. This
is almost a week. Every day. Everybody goes around the
city once. And the seven priests shall bear before the ark.
So they're going to bring the Bible with them, because
the Arc of the Covenant had the Ten Commandments and
different things inside, so that's a representation of the Word.

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They're going to bring the Word with them, Word of God.
Verse four and seven priests shall bear before the arc
seven trumpets of rams horns. And on the seventh day,
you shall march around the enclosure seven times, and the
pre shall blow the trumpets. Trumpets. Now, if you don't
know about Carmen Licardello. You just look up Carmen, the

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gospel singer. Carmen's song about Jericho is so good. But
let me get back to the text. Okay, when they
make a long blast with the rams horn, and you
hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall
shout with a great shout, and the wall of the
enclosure shall fall down in its place, and the people

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shall go up, every man straight before him. This nonsense
of the walls come tumbling down. Don't believe that nobody
was climbing over any bricks here. This was those those
super thick walls with cherry. They were doing cherriot races
on had house, house and house in them houses, I assume, right,

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not just Rahab probably living in the wall. They fell
down flat. Now, not Rayhabs, we'll see, we'll see that.
But they fell down flat into the earth. This was
a complete miracle where the Lord brought judgment against uh
the inhabitants of Jericho, putting their trust in the walls,

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but not in him. Okay, here we go verse number six. Joshua,
the son of None called the priests and said to
them take up the ark of the covenant. Let seven
priests bear seven trumpets of ramshorns before the ark of
the Lord. He said to the people, go on march

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around the enclosure, and let the armed men pass on
before the ark of the Lord. When Joshua had spoken
to the people, seven priests bearing seven trumpets of ramshorns
passed on before the Lord and blew the trumpets, and
the ark of the Covenant of the Lord followed them.
Huh so exciting. Verse nine. The armed men went before

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the priests, who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard
came after the ark, the priests blowing the trumpets as
they went. Can you imagine the sound, just trumpet, trumpet, trumpet, trumpet, trumpet,
just over and over as they did this march and

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and that. Oh anyway, let me get let me keep
to the text. It's so so good. There's so much
symbolism here, but also so much drama of history and life.
Listen to what they did, Listen to how they lived,
Listen to what God, what God's plan look like, the

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excitement that is involved in obedience. Okay, here we go.
Verse ten. But Joshua commanded the people, you shall not
shout or let your voice be heard, nor shall any
word proceed out of your mouth until the day I
tell you to shout, then you shall shout. So he

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caused the Ark of the Lord to go around the
city once, and they came into the camp and lodged
in the camp. Joshua rose early in the morning, and
the priest took up the ark of the Lord, and
the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of ramshorns before
the Ark of the Lord passed on blowing the trumpets continually,

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and the armed men went before them, and the rear
guard came after the Ark of the Lord, the priests
blowing the trumpets as they went. That must have been electrifying, okay.
On the second day, they compassed the city enclosure once
and returned to the camp. So they did for six days.
On the seventh day they rose early at daybreak and

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marched around the city as usual. Only on that day
they compassed the city seven times. Must have taken a
good portion of that morning, okay. And the seventh time,
when the priest had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to
the people, shout, for the Lord has given you the city,
and the city and all that is in it shall

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be devoted to the Lord. For destruction. Only Rayhab, the harlot,
and all who are with her in her house shall live,
because she hid the messengers whom we sent. But you
keep yourselves from the accursed devoted things, Lest when you
have devoted it to destruction, you take of the accursed things,
and so make the camp of Israel cursed and trouble it.

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But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze
and iron are consecrated to the Lord. They shall come
into the treasury of the Lord. So the people shouted,
and the trumpets were blown. When the people heard the
sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and
Jericho's walls fell down in its place, so that the

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Israelites went up into the city, every man straight before him,
and they took the city. Then they utterly destroyed all
that was in the city, both men and women, young
and old, ox sheep donkey with the edge of the sword.
But Joshua said to the two men who had spied
out the land, go into the harlot's house and bring
out the woman and all she has, as you swore

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to her. So the young men the spies went in
and brought out Rayab her father, and mother, her brethren,
and all that she had. And they brought out all
our kindred and set them outside the camp of Israel,
and they burned the city with fire, and all that
was in it. Only the silver, gold, vessels of bronze
and iron they put into the treasury house of the Lord. So,

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first of all, the Lord saved Rayhaven her family, because
their house didn't collapse into the ground with everything else,
with the whole rest of the wall. And then it says,
so Joshua saved ray Haab the Harlot, with her father's
household and all that she had. And she lives in
Israel even to this day because she hid the messengers

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whom Joshua sent out to spy out Jericho. What an adventurer.
Then Joshua laid this oath on them, cursed as the
man before the lord who rises up and rebuilds the
city with the loss of his firstborn, shall he lay
its foundation, when the loss of his youngest son, he
shall set up its gates. Which actually happened, by the way,

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there was somebody who was determined to raise up Jericho,
and his oldest and his youngest died for what he did.
Super super exciting and so let's continue on with her story. Actually,
but I wanted to continue on a little bit before
I get into too much of my own thoughts, and

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I so this is what happened. Rayhab ended up in
the Genealogy of Jesus. So Matthew chapter one, verse five.
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rayhab. She

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married this former prostitute, married an Israelite man named Salmon,
and they had a son together named Boaz, who became
the father of Obed. And Boaz of course married Ruth

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from Moab. So like fatherlike son here, both opening up
their hearts to these women who came to the Lord
for refuge. And Boaz and Ruth had Obed, who was
the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of
King David, and so on it went until Jesus. And

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so that's Matthew chapter one, the Genealogy of Jesus. And
then let's look at there's a couple of honorable mentions.
One of the most significant praising like praising methods of
someone to be acknowledged in the Bible is in the

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Hero's Hall of Fame of Faith Hebrews. Hebrew's Hall of
Fame of faith, which is Hebrews chapter eleven. And it's
a tremendous account spanning I suppose that I would get, say,
thousands of years. I think that's appropriate to say talking
about things that people achieved by faith. And so she's

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in here, So okay, I think it's let me see
here she is in like verse thirty thirty one. But
I think it's it's fine to take the time to
read this. This is really good. Excuse me, okay, Hebrews eleven. Now,

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faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed of
the things we hope for, being proof of things we
do not seek the conviction of their reality. Faith perceiving
is real fact what is not revealed to the senses.
For by faith, trust, and holy fervor born of faith,
men of old had divine testimony born to them and

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obtained a good report. By faith. We understand that the
worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that
what we see was not made out of things which
are visible. Of course, we know that there are current
scientific discoveries that even people who are not acknowledging or

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pursuing the Lord are aware of very obviously limited broken
knowledge when they have their requirements and rules that do
not center in on the Lord and his word. But

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nonetheless they are coming into realizations about things that the
Word of God has said for thousands of years. So
let's keep going. Verse four, prompted actuated by faith, able
brought God a better, more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, because
of which it was testified of him that he was righteous,

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that he was upright and in right standing with God,
and God bore witness by accepting and acknowledging his gifts.
And though he died, yet through the incident he is
still speaking ooh, talk about it, offering glory to God.
That is a seed that made an impact. Verse five.

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Because of faith, Enoch was caught up transferred to heaven
so that he did not have a glimpse of death,
and he was not found because God had translated him. Woooo.
For even before he was taken to heaven, he received
testimonies still on record that he had pleased and been
satisfactory to God. But without faith, it is impossible to

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please and be satisfactory to him, For whoever would come
near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and
that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly diligently
seek him out by faith, Noah being forewarned by God
concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign.

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As I understand that there had never been rain in
the earth before, there had only been a mist that
arose from the ground like dew that watered the earth.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
In that way.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
And so okay, let me get back to the battle
took He diligently, reverently constructed, prepared an arc for the
deliverance of his own family. By this he passed judgment
and sentence on the world's unbelief, and became an heir
and possessor of righteousness. Urged on by faith, Abraham, when

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he was called, obeyed and went forth to a place
which he was destined to receive as an inheritance. And
he went, although he did not know or trouble his
mind about where he was to go. Praise God. Prompted
by faith, he dwelt as a temporary resident in the
land which was designated in the promise of God, though

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he was like a stranger in a strange country, living
intense with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs with him of
the same promise, for he was waiting expectantly and confidently
looking to looking forward to the city which has fixed
firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God. Praise the Lord.

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Because of faith. Also, Sarah herself received physical power to
conceive a child, even when she was long past the
age for it, because she considered God, who had given
her the promise, to be reliable, trustworthy, true to his word.
So from one man, though he was physically as good
as dead, there have sprung descendants whose number is as

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the stars of heaven, and as countless, and as the
innumerable sands on the seashore. People all died controlled, sustained
by their faith, but not having received the tangible fulfillment
of God's promises, only having seen it and greeted it
from a great distance by faith, all the while acknowledging,

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confessing there were strangers, temporary residents, exiles on the earth.
Glory to God. You know, there's a picture made by
the Star Trek vessels where the camera affects the camera

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the way they do. The camera affects the visualization that
you have to where you understand that the vessel is
hurtling through space while appearing when you're in the scenes

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inside the vessel that it is standing still, or as
if it was standing still to the occupants of the vessel.
This isn't the easiest concept to explain. I apologize if
I'm stumbling. So in other words, when they do the
miniatures or whatever all they do, the way they handle

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the camera work, you as the viewer understand this ship,
this vessel, this space space faring craft to be hurtling
through space, going literally hurtling through space. But when they
handle the camera work for the scenes taking place inside

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this ship, this space ship, this vessel, it appears as
though for the occupants of that ship, that vessel for
transporting through space, it is standing still. And so that's
kind of a pretty good analogy to me as far

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as how it works travel to make distance in the spirit.
When it comes to the Kingdom of God, you can
end up traversing great distances in the spirit, which obviously
the people of God have done. While to you, it

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looks like or your experiences of your five senses, is
that kind of like the interior of those ships where
it looks like everything is kind of standing still, nobody's
going anywhere, and we're all just living our lives, and

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there's no progress happening in relation to the larger world
grand expedition.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I don't know that I'm doing that good.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Of a job of explaining it. Let me get back
to the Bible. Okay, so this is verse fourteen. Now,
those people who talk as they did plainly show plainly
they are in search of a fatherland, their own country.
If they have been thinking with remembrance of that country
from which they were immigrants, they would have found constant

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opportunity to return to it. But the truth is they
were yearning for, aspiring to a better, more desirable country,
that is a heavenly one. For that reason, God is
not ashamed to be called their god, even to be
surnamed their god, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
for he has prepared a city for them by faith. Abraham,

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when he was put to the tests, had already brought
Isaac for an offering. He, who gladly received welcomed God's promises,
was ready to sacrifice his only son, of whom it
was said, through Isaac shall your descendants be reckoned. He
reasoned that God is able to raise up even from
among the dead. Indeed, in this sense that Isaac was

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figuratively dead, potentially sacrificed, he actually did receive him back
from the dead with eyes of faith. Isaac, looking far
into the future, invoked blessings upon Jacob and Esau. Prompted
by faith. Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of
Joseph's sons and bowed in prayer over the top of

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his staff. Actuated by faith. Joseph, when nearing the end
of his life, referred to the promise of God for
the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, gave instructions
concerning the burial of his own bones, prompted by faith.
Moses after his birth, was kept concealed for three months
by his parents because they saw how calmly the child was,

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and they were not overawed and terrified by the king's decree,
and very beautifully his mom was able to continue to
raise him while he was still nursing. But you'll have
to look that up on your like you'll have to
look that up on your own. Because aroused by faith, Moses,
when he had grown to maturity and become great, refused

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to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter because he
preferred to share the oppression suffer the hardships and bear
the shame of the people of God, rather than to
have the fleeting enjoyment of a sinful life. He considered
the contempt, abuse, shame born for the Christ, the Messiah,
who was to come to be greater wealth than all

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the treasures of Egypt. For he looked forward and away
to the reward, the recompense. Motivated by faith, he left
Egypt behind him, being unawed and undismayed. Sounds like his mama, well,
his parents right, it sounds like he was. He was
their son, being unawed and undismayed by the wrath of

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the king. For he never flinched, but staunchly held to
his purpose and endured steadfastly as one who gave on
him who is invisible wow. By faith, simple trust and
confidence in God, he instituted and carried out the passover
and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer

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of the firstborn might not touch those of the children
of Israel. Urged on by faith, the people crossed the
Red Sea as though on dry land. But when the
Egyptians tried to do the same thing, they were swallowed
up by the sea. Because of faith, the walls of
Jericho fell down after they had been encompassed for seven
days by faith. Rayhab the prostitute, was not destroyed along

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with those who refused to believe and obey, because she
had received the spies in peace without enmity. Okay, And
then it goes on verse thirty two and onwards. I
won't read all that. It's so beautiful and amazing, but
Rahab is right in there. Rayhab is right in there
with the heroes of the of faith. And let's look

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at her. In the Book of James. This is the
letter that James, the brother of Jesus wrote to believers.
He says verse chapter two, verse M. Yeah, let's start
with verse twenty four. You see that a man is
justified through what he does, and not alone through faith.

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So also with Rayhab the harlot, was she not shown
to be justified by deeds when she took in the
scouts and sent them away by a different route. For
as the human body, apart from the spirit, is lifeless,
so faith, apart from works of obedience, is also dead.

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Praise God. So that is the Bible account of Rayhab.
And I had a few observations. One of the things
I was thinking about is, I would because obviously the
provision of God in regard to people being made in
His image and likeness and the infinite, eternal nature of

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the human soul is such that is such that even
with somebody who's got as much sin in their life
as a harlet a prostitute does, the provision of God
is so exceeding in abundant that people in those situations

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can still have access to wisdom and insight even in
the midst of all that sin and darkness. And I
was thinking about how twisted and horrible it is with
the father of lies, Satan, when through his mouthpieces he
attempts to convince people that it's because of prostitution and

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harle tryt that these people have wisdom and insight into humanity.
But that is utterly disgusting, vile lies from hell to
trap people and continue to oppress them. The truth is,
the finished work of Jesus is so glorious and so
surpassing in nature that even after even in the midst

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of growth, darkness, just serious sin ongoing in somebody's life,
they can still access wisdom and truth by the grace
and mercy of God to give them that light and
create an opportunity for them, a path forward. So the

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way I see this in Rehev's life is she had
those men's number of the city of Jericho. She had
their numbers, She knew what was up with them, she
knew their way. She had them figured out in a
way that that enabled her to make the decisions she did,

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make the assessments she did did, and make the recommendations
that she did right. She had their number to such
an extent that she already had the spies hidden on
her roof before the king's messengers came. She had them
so figured out these men of Jericho that she was
able to tell the spies how many days these guys

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had enough bandwidth to keep focused for. She told them
exactly how long they needed to stay in the mountains.
How would she know that because she knew those guys,
those men that she got into sin with, that they
came and paid her to use her body. So the
other thing I was thinking of is is I was, Yeah,

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it's just so cool. It's so cool that the way
that she was, the way that she had such an
appetite for the things of God, the way that she
saw opportunity and the chance for a new life and
the softness of her heart to want to include her family.

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The idea that nobody in her family was embarrassed at
all by her lifestyle is unrealistic and just her generous nature.
You know, religion necessarily carries carries a component of detriment

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with it, and it's just not a good idea to
accommodate religion without keeping in mind the determent. And one
of the things that's so beautiful about this story is
how welcomed anybody with faith is, anybody with that sense

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of adventure, that zeal for life, that openness and willingness.
They hadn't even given her what she asked for yet,
and she's already calling their god the Lord. She's already
calling him Lord m and she made them swear to
her by the Lord. This is what faith this woman had,

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What a sense of adventure, and what a negotiator. She
was just ready for it. And I'll mention also that
this scarlet cord that she put in the window, this
was representative of the body of the blood of the
Lord Jesus. And it's so amazing. So verse fifteen of Jeshure,

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chapter two, she let them down by a rope through
the window for a house was built into the wall,
so that she dwelt in the wall. This means that
for her the rope being scarlet was just that was
just the rope that she had. It was scarlet. And
then it specifies as you go on and story, that
was a scarlet rope. And they told her hang the

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scarlet rope down out of the window, because obviously that
would stand out and be distinctive and be easy for
the warriors to distinguish. And I was thinking about that
because and the loyalty and the unity that the spies
were confident of amidst their fellow warriors, that they had

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confidence that these men that they were fighting with. And yeah, okay,
some of them were immediately related to them, some of
them were cousins, brothers, etc. But not all of them.
And yet they had so much confidence in the unity
in their midst as a whole army that they were

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able to swear to They were confident enough to swear
to her, we will be guilty. If anybody in under
your roof is dead, it will be Let me see
what they said, our lives for yours whoa right. This

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was such a dramatic moment and history was going down
at right hands.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
So then they they it was a big deal to
them that she not tell their business, but it was
a big deal to her what happened when they were
conquering the city.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
And so she was just totally up for the entire negotiations,
totally ready to carry through on everything that was her end.
And yeah, according to your words, So it is in
verse twenty one of Joshua chapter two, that is a

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confident person. This crap and garbage that they put out
these days about empowering to women, blah blah blah, ego
garbage and immaturity, this is an empowered woman. This is
a woman who is taking her destiny into her hands
and making some decisions and using her leverage. And I

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am so impressed and so happy for her. One of
the things I'd like to point out is that, of
course she left behind her life of prostitution, but that
it didn't mean like in fact, she was referred to
in the Bible as the harlot, she wasn't referred to
in the Bible as the wife of Salmon.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
Even though she left behind her life of prostitution and
became a married woman and had a child and became
in the genealogy of Jesus and the thing that one
of the things I think is important. One of the
reasons why I think the Lord does that is because he's.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Holding out the hope to people who've been involved in
prostitution that there's a future and a hope for them
in his word, and that they can be part of things,
and that their past doesn't have to create a stigma
or an a stain or anything that gives them reason

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to be embarrassed. The blood of Jesus is more than
enough for leaving behind a life of sin. Glory to God.
So thank you for listening. I hope you've enjoyed this.
I certainly enjoy talking about Rahab today and reading up
on her. So God bless you guys. I'm sure I'll
be back. I expect to be back next Sunday. Thank you. Bye,