(MUSIC)
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>>SO WHAT IS THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD?
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NATURALLY YOU'D SAY THE
SUN, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
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BRIGHTEST MAN-MADE
LIGHT IN THE WORLD.
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IT'S THE LIGHT THAT
SHINES OUT OF THE ROOF OF THAT
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PYRAMID-SHAPED HOTEL IN
LAS VEGAS CALLED THE LUXOR.
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THERE IN THE CAP OF THAT HOTEL,
THERE'S A ROOM THAT CONTAINS 39
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WASHING-MACHINE-SIZED XENON
BULBS AND EACH OF THOSE BULBS
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REQUIRES ABOUT 7,000 WATTS.
ALTOGETHER THEY PRODUCE ABOUT 40
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BILLION CANDLE POWER OF LIGHT.
CAN YOU IMAGINE GETTING THAT
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ELECTRIC BILL AT THE
LUXOR HOTEL EVERY MONTH?
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THAT LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT
THAT PLANES CAN SEE IT 250 MILES
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AWAY. THEY'RE
SHOOTING LIGHT TEN MILES
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UP INTO SPACE, MEANING THAT
IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE FLOATING BY,
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YOU COULD READ A
NEWSPAPER UP THERE.
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AND, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED,
THAT BRIGHT LIGHT HAS BECOME THE
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WORLD'S BEST BUG ATTRACTOR,
BRINGING IN MOTHS AND BATS AND
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OWLS, CREATING ITS OWN ECOSYSTEM
THERE AT NIGHT ABOVE THE HOTEL.
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BUT THE SAD THING ABOUT THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD IS,
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ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NIGHT AIR IS
CLEAR - WITHOUT ANY PARTICLES -
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THE LIGHT DOESN'T HIT
ANYTHING AND IT'S INVISIBLE.
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IT SHOOTS UP INTO EMPTY SPACE.
THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE
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WORLD ILLUMINATES NOTHING.
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
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THAT THERE'S ANOTHER
GREAT WASTED LIGHT, AND THAT'S
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THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
IT SAYS, IN PSALM 119, VERSE
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105, "THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY
FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH."
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AND YET, SO MANY PEOPLE
ARE WALKING IN DARKNESS.
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FURTHERMORE, JESUS SAID IF YOU
DO HAVE THAT LIGHT, MAKE SURE
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YOU DON'T PUT IT UNDER A
BUSHEL, BUT YOU LET IT SHINE AND
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ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
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5, SET YOUR LIGHT UP ON A
HILL, LIKE A CITY, SO THAT
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ALL MIGHT SEE IT. LIGHT
ONLY BENEFITS OTHERS WHEN
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IT REFLECTS OFF OF SOMETHING.
GOD WANTS OUR LIGHTS TO
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ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
SO ARE YOU GLOWING FOR GOD?
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REMEMBER, JESUS SAID,
'LET THERE BE LIGHT.' (MUSIC)
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>>TONIGHT'S STORY IS
GOING TO BE, WHAT I THINK IS, A
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WONDERFUL CATALYST FOR TALKING
ABOUT SOME VERY IMPORTANT
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EVENTS, NOT ONLY IN THE PAST,
BUT IT'LL HELP US UNDERSTAND
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SOME THINGS THAT ARE
COMING IN THE FUTURE.
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AND IT'S TITLED
THE RED ROPE OF RAHAB.
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NOW, IN OUR LAST PRESENTATION,
WE TALKED ABOUT A HERO OF FAITH,
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A WOMAN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
MARY MAGDALENE. TONIGHT WE'RE
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GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT A HERO
OF FAITH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
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ANOTHER WOMAN, BY THE NAME OF
RAHAB. AND SHE'S GOT - THERE'S
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ANOTHER HERO IN THE
STORY AND THAT'S JOSHUA.
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IT KIND OF TAKES AFTER
THIS PANEL THAT YOU SEE THERE.
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YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE RED ROPE
COMING OUT OF THAT WINDOW AND
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WE'LL TALK ABOUT
THAT AS WE PROCEED.
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WE'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER SO I'M
GOING TO INVITE YOU, IF YOU HAVE
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YOUR BIBLES, TO TURN TO THE BOOK
OF JOSHUA - JOSHUA CHAPTER 2 -
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AND JUST TO GIVE YOU THE STAGE
OF WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE: THE
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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE JUST
COME THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.
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THEY ARE ON THE BORDERS, ABOUT
TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND.
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BUT THEY WERE A LITTLE BIT
CONCERNED ABOUT ENTERING THE
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PROMISED LAND BECAUSE THE SPIES
THAT HAD LOOKED AT THE PROMISED
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LAND FORTY YEARS EARLIER HAD
SEEN THE STRONG NATIONS AND THE
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LARGE WALLS AND THEY THOUGHT,
'HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO
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CONQUER A NATION WITH
WALLS LIKE THAT?' YOU KNOW, A
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FEW YEARS AGO, KAREN AND I
WENT TO CHINA WITH OUR BOYS.
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I'VE BEEN THERE ABOUT FOUR
TIMES, BUT I REMEMBER WE WENT
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TOGETHER ONCE AND WE WENT
AND LOOKED AT THE GREAT WALL OF
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CHINA. IT IS AN ENGINEERING
MARVEL. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS
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ABOUT 1500 MILES LONG,
BUT THEY'VE DISCOVERED IT'S
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ACTUALLY LONGER THAN THAT -
WITH SATELLITE IMAGERY, THEY
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FOUND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF
MILES THAT THEY DID NOT EVEN
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REALIZE BEFORE THAT THEY CAN
DETECT - THAT HAD BEEN BUILT.
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AND THAT WALL - RIGHT NOW
SOMEONE SAID, 'IF YOU TOOK ALL
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THE MATERIAL THAT WAS INVOLVED
IN BUILDING THE GREAT WALL OF
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CHINA, YOU COULD MAKE A WALL
THAT WOULD BE ABOUT 5 FEET HIGH
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AND 3 FEET WIDE ALL THE WAY
AROUND THE WORLD AT THE EQUATOR.
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THE WALLS OF JERICHO
WERE ALSO PRETTY FORMIDABLE.
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THE MAIN CITY THEY NEEDED TO
CONQUER TO ENTER THE PROMISED
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LAND WAS THE CITY OF JERICHO,
AND IT HAD SOME MASSIVE WALLS
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AND GATES AND THEY THOUGHT, 'HOW
ARE WE EVER GOING TO CONQUER THE
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PROMISED LAND IF WE CAN'T TAKE
THIS PRIMARY CITY OF JERICHO?'
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NOW JERICHO WAS LOCATED RIGHT
ON THE INTERSECTION OF THREE
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CONTINENTS. IT WAS
- AND IT'S ONE OF THE
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OLDEST CITIES IN THE WORLD -
IT WAS JUST RIGHT THERE AT LAND
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BRIDGE, WHERE YOU'VE GOT ISRAEL
THAT CONNECTS AFRICA AND ASIA
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AND EUROPE, YOU KNOW, TO THE
WEST - I'M SORRY, TO THE EAST OF
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ISRAEL IS A BIG DESERT AND SO NO
ONE REALLY WENT THROUGH THERE.
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SO THEY ALL WENT
THROUGH THE JORDAN VALLEY.
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IT'S ONE OF THE
LOWEST PLACES IN THE WORLD.
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AND RIGHT THERE, WHERE THE CITY
OF JERICHO WAS, WAS SORT OF THE
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MAIN FUNNEL ENTRANCE POINT
WHERE THEY NEEDED TO CROSS.
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AND SO, TO CONQUER THE PROMISED
LAND - FIRST BIG BATTLE THEY
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WERE GOING TO HAVE - HOW DO THEY
DEAL WITH THE CITY OF JERICHO?
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AND SO, WE TAKE UP CHAPTER 2 AND
IT SAYS, "NOW JOSHUA THE SON OF
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NUN" - YOU THINK EVERYBODY'S GOT
TO BE THE SON OF SOMEBODY, BUT
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THEY ALWAYS TEASE THAT JOSHUA
WAS THE SON OF NONE - "HE SENT
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OUT TWO MEN FROM ACACIA GROVE TO
SPY SECRETLY, SAYING, 'GO, VIEW
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THE LAND, ESPECIALLY JERICHO.'"
- SO HE SENDS OUT THESE TWO
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SPIES. NOW, YOU
REMEMBER, FORTY YEARS
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EARLIER, TWELVE SPIES WERE SENT
OUT FROM THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO
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EXPLORE THE PROMISED LAND. THEY
LOOKED AT IT FOR FORTY DAYS.
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WHEN THEY CAME BACK, MOST
OF THEM DIDN'T HAVE FAITH THEY
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COULD TAKE THE PROMISED LAND.
THERE WERE ONLY TWO THAT HAD
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FAITH AND THEIR NAMES
WERE JOSHUA AND CALEB.
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SO NOW, JOSHUA DOESN'T
WANT TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE.
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THE SPIES FORTY YEARS EARLIER
HAD SORT OF BEEN PICKED BY
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DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND
NOW JOSHUA SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO
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HAND-PICK TWO MEN THAT I KNOW
HAVE FAITH.' AND SO HE PICKED
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THESE TWO MEN - WE ONLY CAN TAKE
AN EDUCATED GUESS ABOUT THE NAME
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OF ONE OF THEM.
I'LL GET TO THAT LATER.
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AND HE SENT THEM DOWN AND
HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO GO SPY
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JERICHO AND SEE WHAT THEIR
DEFENSES LOOK LIKE.' THESE TWO
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SPIES, THEY COME TO THE HOUSE
OF A HARLOT NAMED RAHAB AND THEY
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LODGE THERE. NOW
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A
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BUSINESS TRIP THAT WENT BAD.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE TWO
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PEOPLE HE'S SUPPOSED TO TRUST.
I SHOULD PROBABLY EXPLAIN THAT,
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IN BIBLE TIMES, THERE WAS A
VERY THIN LINE THAT DIVIDED THE
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HOTEL BUSINESS FROM
THE HARLOT BUSINESS.
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AND THE PEOPLE WHO OFTEN
OWNED ONE, OWNED THE OTHER.
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AND THEY WOULD LOCATE AT
THE CITY GATES WHERE ALL THE
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CARAVANS AND THE TRAVELERS WERE,
RIGHT BY THE WALL, AND THEY
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THOUGHT THE BEST WAY FOR US TO,
SORT OF, SLIP IN AND DISAPPEAR
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IN THE CROWD WOULD BE AT RAHAB'S
HOUSE - AT THE HOTEL WHERE
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THERE'S ALL THESE STRANGERS FROM
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THAT ARE
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COMING AND GOING AND PEOPLE
DON'T RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER
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BECAUSE THERE ARE ALL THESE
CARAVANS AND WE'LL JUST - AND
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WHAT A PLACE! YOU
KNOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE
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THE INTERNET BACK
THEN. IF YOU WANTED TO GATHER
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INFORMATION, YOU WANTED TO STAY
WHERE THE CIRCULATION OF NEWS
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WAS AND THAT WAS BY
THE GATES OF THE CITY.
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AND SO, IT WAS A STRATEGIC
REASON, IT WASN'T AN IMMORAL
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REASON, THEY
STAYED AT THIS HOTEL.
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AND RAHAB, SHE IS IDENTIFIED
SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE AS
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RAHAB THE HARLOT. IT'S
NOT A VERY GOOD PEDIGREE TO
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ALWAYS HAVE CONNECTED WITH
YOUR NAME, BUT THAT'S HOW - NEW
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AND OLD TESTAMENT -
HOW SHE'S IDENTIFIED.
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BUT SHE'S ALSO
IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON OF FAITH.
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WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT HEROES OF FAITH.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT, YOU CAN FIND
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WHERE IT SAYS IN HEBREWS 11:31,
"BY FAITH THE HARLOT RAHAB
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PERISHED NOT WITH THEM THAT
BELIEVED NOT WHEN SHE RECEIVED
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THE SPIES WITH PEACE." AND
SO, YOU SEE RIGHT AWAY THAT
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RAHAB IS A CHARACTER
THAT HAS GREAT FAITH.
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SO THEY CAME AND
THEY STAYED THERE.
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BUT BECAUSE THEIR ACCENT
WAS DIFFERENT AND BECAUSE THE
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KINGDOM WAS ON MAXIMUM ALERT
RIGHT NOW, THESE TWO MESSENGERS
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THAT WERE SENT FROM JOSHUA
BEGAN TO ATTRACT ATTENTION - NOW
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KEEP IN MIND, AS THEY STOOD ON
THE WALLS OF JERICHO, JERICHO'S
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NOT THAT FAR
FROM THE JORDAN RIVER.
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ON A CLEAR DAY, YOU CAN SEE
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN.
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WHO WAS CAMPED ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN?
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YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE CAMP OF
ISRAEL THAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE
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OF THIS RIVER, AND AS THE PEOPLE
LOOK ACROSS THE RIVER, THEY SEE
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SOMETHING THAT
REALLY IS UNNERVING.
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THEY SEE THAT THERE'S A PILLAR
OF FIRE RISING UP ABOVE THIS
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CAMP THAT IS ILLUMINATING
THE CAMP EVERY NIGHT.
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DURING THE DAY, WHILE THE PEOPLE
IN JERICHO ARE SWEATING AND
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SWELTERING UNDER THE HEAT OF
THE NOONDAY SUN, THERE'S A CLOUD
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SHADING THE CAMP OF ISRAEL.
IN THE MORNING, THEY LOOK FROM
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THEIR WALLS AND THEY SEE THE
ISRAELITES GOING OUT OF THE CITY
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AND GATHERING THEIR FOOD
FROM THE GROUND THAT SOMEHOW
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MIRACULOUSLY RAINED FROM HEAVEN
OVERNIGHT. THEY KNOW THERE IS
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SOME SUPERNATURAL POWER
THAT IS HELPING THIS GROUP.
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THEY'VE ALSO HEARD FROM THE
OTHER WARS THAT HAPPENED ON THE
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OTHER SIDE OF JORDAN THAT THE
INTENTION OF THE ISRAELITES WAS
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TO COME AND RECLAIM
THE LAND THAT WAS THEIRS.
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IT MADE THEM VERY NERVOUS.
SO THE CITY IS ON - YOU REMEMBER
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WHEN WE HAD ALL THE
HOMELAND ALERT COLORS?
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THEY HAD ORANGE AND
GREEN AND YELLOW AND RED.
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I GUESS THE WORST WAS RED.
RED ALERT - DO YOU EVER HAVE
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A RED ALERT HERE FOR HOMELAND
SECURITY IN MICHIGAN? MAYBE.
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WELL, THEY WERE ON ORANGE
ALERT IN JERICHO RIGHT THEN.
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AND SO THEY'RE WATCHING VERY
CAREFULLY, BUT THE GATES ARE
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STILL OPEN. SO THESE
TWO SPIES COME IN AND
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THEY STAY AT RAHAB'S HOUSE
AND THEY'RE TRYING TO GATHER
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INFORMATION. AND AS
THEY ASK QUESTIONS SOME
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OF THEM NOTICED THEIR ACCENT
AND THEY WENT TO THE KING OF
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JERICHO. THEY SAID,
'THERE'S A COUPLE OF
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CHARACTERS AT RAHAB'S HOUSE
AND I'M ALMOST SURE THEY'RE
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ISRAELITES AND THEY'VE PROBABLY
COME TO SPY OUT THE LAND.'
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NOW, BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER
IN THE STORY, I WANT YOU TO
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UNDERSTAND WHAT SOME OF THE
ANALOGIES ARE SO WE CAN DRAW
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SOME CONCLUSIONS. JOSHUA SENT
TWO MESSENGERS TO A CITY THAT
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WAS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION.
HOW DO YOU SAY THE NAME JESUS IN
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HEBREW? >>YESHUA.
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>>JOSHUA, OR MORE
SPECIFICALLY, YESHUA.
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AND THE WAY THAT YOU SAY
JOSHUA'S NAME IN GREEK IS JESUS
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. JESUS AND JOSHUA
HAD THE EXACT SAME NAME.
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MARY DID NOT LOOK OVER THE
BASSINET/MANGER AND CALL HIM
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JESUS. SHE CALLED HIM YESHUA.
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AND JOSHUA MEANS YAHWEH
DELIVERS OR YAHWEH SAVES .
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THERE'S THREE JOSHUAS IN
THE BIBLE - THREE JESUSES -
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PRINCIPLE ONES. YOU'VE
GOT ONE THAT IS A GENERAL
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IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT LED
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM THE
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WILDERNESS INTO
THE PROMISED LAND.
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ONE IS A PRIEST DURING THE TIME
OF NEHEMIAH THAT LED THE PEOPLE
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FROM BABYLON INTO
THE PROMISED LAND.
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AND THEN YOU HAVE JESUS,
WHO LEADS US FROM SIN INTO THE
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PROMISED LAND. HE
DELIVERS - JOSHUA SAVES.
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NOW THE KING OF
JERICHO, HE'S THE OPPOSITE.
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SO, IF JOSHUA IS JESUS,
WHO'S THE KING OF JERICHO?
00:12:29.28\00:12:31.95
>>SATAN. >>HE'S THE DEVIL.
00:12:31.95\00:12:34.65
AND WHEN MESSENGERS COME FROM
JOSHUA TO INVADE THE DEVIL'S
00:12:34.65\00:12:38.32
TERRITORY, DOES THE DEVIL
KNOW ABOUT IT? OH YEAH, HE DOES.
00:12:38.32\00:12:42.79
SO HE SENDS SOME SOLDIERS TO
RAHAB'S HOUSE WITH THE MESSAGE,
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"SO THE KING OF JERICHO" -
I'M IN VERSE 3 - "SENT TO RAHAB,
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SAYING, 'BRING OUT THE MEN
WHO HAVE COME TO YOU, WHO HAVE
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ENTERED YOUR HOUSE, FOR THEY
HAVE COME TO SEARCH OUT ALL THE
00:12:54.74\00:12:57.07
COUNTRY.'" NOW THEY DIDN'T JUST
GO BARGING IN FOR A FEW REASONS:
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ONE IS HER PLACE OF BUSINESS
REQUIRED DISCRETION, AND SO THEY
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DIDN'T WANT TO
GO JUST BARGING IN.
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THEY SAID, 'YOU NEED TO SEARCH.
00:13:08.98\00:13:10.22
WE UNDERSTAND THAT AMONG YOUR
GUESTS, YOU'VE GOT TWO' - AND
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SHE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I
SORT OF - LET ME GO FIND THEM.
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I'LL BE RIGHT BACK.' AND WHILE
THEY'RE WAITING AT THE DOOR -
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ANOTHER REASON THEY DIDN'T
GO BARGING IN, IN BIBLE TIMES, A
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PERSON'S HOME WAS
CALLED A SANCTUARY.
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YOU DIDN'T JUST GO
INTO SOMEONE'S HOUSE.
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IF YOU HAD A QUARREL WITH
SOMEONE INSIDE, YOU WOULD SAY,
00:13:25.57\00:13:28.14
'BRING THEM OUT.' EVEN THE MOB,
AT THE HOUSE OF LOT IN SODOM,
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THEY SAID, 'BRING OUT THE TWO
VISITORS THAT HAVE COME TO YOU.'
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AND SO, A HOME WAS A SANCTUARY.
YOU DID NOT GO INTO SOMEBODY'S
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HOME. AND SO,
THEY SAID, 'BRING THEM
00:13:40.48\00:13:43.85
OUT.' SHE SAID, 'I'LL GO
FETCH 'EM. LET ME LOOK.' SHE -
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SHE DOES SOMETHING THAT WAS
TOTALLY UNEXPECTED BY ANYBODY.
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SOMETHING IS GOING ON IN RAHAB'S
HEART AND IN HER LIFE BECAUSE
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SHE MAKES AN INSTANT DECISION TO
PUT HER LIFE ON THE LINE TO SAVE
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TWO STRANGERS. AND
SHE GOES TO THEM AND
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SHE SAYS, 'COME WITH
ME. THERE'S A GUARD OUTSIDE.
00:14:02.50\00:14:04.64
DON'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS.'
SHE BRINGS THEM UP TO THE ROOF.
00:14:04.64\00:14:07.04
SHE HIDES THEM UNDER
THESE STACKS OF FLAX.
00:14:07.04\00:14:10.71
NOW FLAX IS A CLOTH
FROM WHICH YOU MAKE -
00:14:10.71\00:14:13.52
IT'S A PLANT THAT YOU WOULD MAKE
CLOTH FROM AND SHE'S DRYING THEM
00:14:13.52\00:14:17.79
AFTER DYING THEM,
UP ON THE ROOF THERE.
00:14:17.79\00:14:20.69
EVIDENTLY SHE NOT ONLY HAD THE
HOTEL BUSINESS AND THE BORDELLO
00:14:20.69\00:14:24.69
BUSINESS, BUT SHE
HAD A CLOTH BUSINESS.
00:14:24.69\00:14:27.36
THEY DID A LOT OF
MULTI-TASKING BACK THEN.
00:14:27.36\00:14:29.93
AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, LYDIA
WAS A SELLER OF WHAT COLOR?
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>>PURPLE. >>LYDIA
WAS A SELLER OF PURPLE.
00:14:35.24\00:14:37.21
EVIDENTLY RAHAB WAS A SELLER
OF SCARLET, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND
00:14:37.21\00:14:40.54
OUT LATER. BECAUSE
THE SCARLET COMES IN
00:14:40.54\00:14:44.68
- AND IT'S A
SYMBOL OF THE COVENANT.
00:14:44.68\00:14:46.55
SO STAY WITH ME, WE'LL
GET TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:14:46.55\00:14:49.32
SO SHE BRINGS
THEM UP TO THE ROOF.
00:14:49.32\00:14:51.52
SHE COMES DOWN TO THE GUARDS AND
SHE SAYS TO THEM - I'M IN VERSE
00:14:51.52\00:14:55.32
5 - SHE SAYS TWO MEN DID COME
"BUT I DID NOT KNOW WHERE THEY
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WERE FROM." - SHE'S LYING -
"AND IT HAPPENED AS THE GATE WAS
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BEING SHUT, WHEN IT WAS
DARK, THAT THE MEN WENT OUT.
00:15:04.23\00:15:07.70
WHERE THE MEN WENT I DO NOT
KNOW; PURSUE THEM QUICKLY, FOR
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YOU MAY OVERTAKE THEM.' (BUT SHE
HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF
00:15:10.91\00:15:14.04
AND HIDDEN THEM WITH THE STALKS
OF FLAX, WHICH SHE HAD LAID IN
00:15:14.04\00:15:16.64
ORDER ON THE ROOF.) NOW SOME OF
YOU MIGHT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, HOW
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COULD THIS WOMAN BE IDENTIFIED
IN THE BIBLE AS A PERSON OF
00:15:22.55\00:15:26.76
GREAT FAITH AND HERE SHE JUST
TOLD A BOLD-FACED LIE TO THE
00:15:26.76\00:15:30.93
GUARDS?' YES, SHE DID.
00:15:30.93\00:15:33.56
KEEP IN MIND, SHE WAS ALSO A
HARLOT SO SHE HAD OTHER ISSUES.
00:15:33.56\00:15:37.77
(LAUGHTER) GOD KIND OF MEETS US
WHERE WE'RE AT AND, FURTHERMORE,
00:15:37.77\00:15:41.84
IN TIMES OF WAR - THE
BIBLE DOESN'T ENDORSE EVERYTHING
00:15:41.84\00:15:44.81
EVERYBODY DID, IT JUST GIVES
AN HONEST RECKONING OF WHAT
00:15:44.81\00:15:47.81
HAPPENED. IN
TIMES OF WAR, IT WAS
00:15:47.81\00:15:50.28
COMMON TO USE DECEPTION.
YOU KNOW, ONCE DAVID DRIBBLED
00:15:50.28\00:15:55.55
ON HIS BEARD AND CLAWED ON
THE WALLS AND ACTED LIKE HE WAS
00:15:55.55\00:15:58.29
CRAZY BECAUSE THE PHILISTINE
KING WAS GOING TO ARREST HIM.
00:15:58.29\00:16:01.66
HE WASN'T CRAZY,
BUT THAT WAS DECEPTIVE.
00:16:01.66\00:16:05.03
ANOTHER TIME, JOSHUA ATTACKED
A CITY AND ACTED LIKE THEY WERE
00:16:05.03\00:16:08.06
BEING DEFEATED SO THEY
COULD DRAW THE SOLDIERS OUT.
00:16:08.06\00:16:11.43
HE WASN'T BEING DEFEATED.
IT WAS A TACTIC OF DECEPTION.
00:16:11.43\00:16:15.64
AND SO, IN WAR THEY DID
THAT. I'M NOT JUSTIFYING IT.
00:16:15.64\00:16:17.51
I'M JUST TELLING
YOU WHAT HAPPENED.
00:16:17.51\00:16:18.87
SHE, NOW, IS SAYING THIS BECAUSE
IT'S THE ONLY THING SHE COULD
00:16:18.87\00:16:21.38
THINK OF, ON THE SPOT, TO TRY
TO SAVE THE MEN AND, ULTIMATELY,
00:16:21.38\00:16:25.55
HERSELF. SO THE
SOLDIERS HAVE TO MAKE A
00:16:25.55\00:16:27.82
DECISION. 'DO WE
BELIEVE RAHAB OR DO WE GO
00:16:27.82\00:16:31.05
RUNNING AFTER THESE GUYS
BEFORE THEY GET FURTHER AWAY?
00:16:31.05\00:16:33.36
WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO SEARCH
HER HOUSE SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE
00:16:33.36\00:16:35.49
WILL LOCK THE GATES OF THE CITY
- IN CASE THEY'RE IN THE CITY
00:16:35.49\00:16:37.63
THEY CAN'T GET OUT - AND
WE'LL GO LOOKING FOR THEM.'
00:16:37.63\00:16:40.76
SO THEY SEND A SQUAD OF SOLDIERS
AND THEY GO LOOKING FOR THESE
00:16:40.76\00:16:43.87
TWO SPIES, WHICH THEY THINK HAVE
LEFT AND ARE HEADING TOWARDS
00:16:43.87\00:16:47.30
THE JORDAN RIVER.
MEANTIME, RAHAB GOES BACK UP ON
00:16:47.30\00:16:50.34
THE ROOF AND SAYS, 'NOW, LET ME
TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING ON.' AND
00:16:50.34\00:16:52.87
SHE HAS THIS VERY INTERESTING
CONVERSATION WITH THEM.
00:16:52.87\00:16:56.85
SO SHE BRINGS THEM UP.
"THEN THE MEN" - THE SOLDIERS -
00:16:56.85\00:16:59.88
"PURSUED THEM BY THE ROAD
TO THE JORDAN, TO THE FORDS.
00:16:59.88\00:17:03.52
AND AS SOON AS THOSE WHO
PURSUED THEM HAD GONE OUT,
00:17:03.52\00:17:08.76
THEY SHUT THE GATE.
00:17:08.76\00:17:10.36
NOW BEFORE THEY LAY DOWN, SHE
CAME UP TO THEM ON THE ROOF," -
00:17:10.36\00:17:12.99
SHE SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU GUYS NEED
TO LAY LOW FOR A LITTLE WHILE,
00:17:12.99\00:17:15.13
UNTIL THE
SOLDIERS ARE OUT OF SIGHT.
00:17:15.13\00:17:16.80
BUT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU
AND TELL YOU WHAT I'VE DONE.' -
00:17:16.80\00:17:19.47
EVIDENTLY, THEY COULD SPEAK THE
SAME SEMITIC LANGUAGES - AND SHE
00:17:19.47\00:17:23.41
SAID TO THEM - NOTICE THIS - 'I
KNOW THAT THE LORD HAS GIVEN YOU
00:17:23.41\00:17:28.44
THE LAND, THAT THE TERROR OF YOU
HAS FALLEN ON US, AND THAT ALL
00:17:28.44\00:17:33.11
THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND
ARE FAINTHEARTED BECAUSE OF YOU.
00:17:33.11\00:17:36.72
FOR WE HAVE HEARD HOW THE LORD
DRIED UP THE WATER OF THE RED
00:17:36.72\00:17:39.62
SEA FOR YOU WHEN YOU CAME OUT OF
EGYPT, AND WHAT YOU DID TO THE
00:17:39.62\00:17:42.89
TWO KINGS OF THE AMORITES WHO
WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
00:17:42.89\00:17:45.46
JORDAN, SIHON AND OG,
WHOM YOU UTTERLY DESTROYED.
00:17:45.46\00:17:48.86
AND AS SOON AS WE HEARD
THESE THINGS, OUR HEARTS MELTED;
00:17:48.86\00:17:52.23
NEITHER DID THERE REMAIN ANY
MORE COURAGE IN ANYONE BECAUSE
00:17:52.23\00:17:55.24
OF YOU," - NOTICE SHE SAYS
- "FOR THE LORD (JEHOVAH) YOUR
00:17:55.24\00:18:01.38
GOD, HE IS GOD IN HEAVEN
ABOVE AND ON EARTH BENEATH."
00:18:01.38\00:18:07.02
NOW THAT IS QUITE A DECLARATION.
THIS IS A PAGAN CANAANITE WOMAN
00:18:07.02\00:18:13.05
AND SHE HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO
MANY RELIGIONS AND MANY GODS.
00:18:13.05\00:18:16.69
BUT NOW SHE SAYS, 'YOUR GOD
IS THE GOD OF GODS.' YOU SEE, I
00:18:16.69\00:18:21.63
JUST SORT OF EXPECT THAT RAHAB,
IN HER YEARS OF DOING WHAT SHE
00:18:21.63\00:18:26.53
DID, SHE SAW ALL KINDS OF
PEOPLE GO THROUGH ALL OF THEIR
00:18:26.53\00:18:30.11
RELIGIOUS INCANTATIONS AND SHE
HAD TRAVELERS AND TRADERS THAT
00:18:30.11\00:18:35.68
WOULD STAY AT HER ESTABLISHMENT
AND THEY WOULD BURN INCENSE TO
00:18:35.68\00:18:39.81
THEIR GODS AND CARRY AROUND
THEIR LITTLE RELIGIOUS FETISHES
00:18:39.81\00:18:42.72
AND GO THROUGH ALL OF
THEIR STRANGE RITES AND
00:18:42.72\00:18:45.02
SELF-MUTILATION AND
ALL OF IT SEEMED SO EMPTY.
00:18:45.02\00:18:50.43
SHE WAS WONDERING, 'IS
THERE A PURPOSE TO LIFE?'
00:18:50.43\00:18:52.93
MAYBE SHE GOT TIRED OF THE LIFE
SHE WAS LIVING, BUT SHE LOOKED
00:18:52.93\00:18:56.23
ACROSS THE JORDAN RIVER AND SHE
SAW THE CAMP OF THE ISRAELITES
00:18:56.23\00:18:59.63
GLOWING WITH A HOLY FIRE.
SHE HEARD THE STORIES - EVEN
00:18:59.63\00:19:03.84
THOUGH THEY WERE
40 YEARS EARLIER.
00:19:03.84\00:19:05.94
EVERYONE KNEW - EGYPT HAD BEEN
DECIMATED ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE
00:19:05.94\00:19:10.05
OF THESE PLAGUES AND THEY
ALL KNEW THERE WAS - THIS WHOLE
00:19:10.05\00:19:11.95
NATION HAD BEEN DELIVERED
FROM SLAVERY AND THEY HEARD THE
00:19:11.95\00:19:14.88
STORIES FROM THE ISHMAELITE
TRADERS THAT WENT DOWN TO THE
00:19:14.88\00:19:17.32
DESERT THAT WOULD GIVE THEM
REPORTS OF WHAT THE ISRAELITES
00:19:17.32\00:19:19.99
ARE DOING AND HOW THEY'RE
PROGRESSING AND HOW GOD WAS
00:19:19.99\00:19:22.39
FEEDING THEM AND THEY GET WATER
OUT OF A ROCK AND - THEY HEARD
00:19:22.39\00:19:25.13
ALL OF THIS. IT WASN'T
THAT FAR AWAY FOR THEM.
00:19:25.13\00:19:29.73
SHE SAID, 'NOW THAT'S A REAL
GOD.' AND SHE HAD BECOME TIRED
00:19:29.73\00:19:33.07
AND WEARY OF THE
PHONY GODS OF CANAAN.
00:19:33.07\00:19:37.14
FURTHERMORE, SHE KNEW
THAT, ACCORDING TO THE LORD, THE
00:19:37.14\00:19:41.91
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
NOT SUPPOSED TO ENTER INTO ANY
00:19:41.91\00:19:44.65
COVENANT WITH THE CANAANITES.
THEY EITHER HAD TO RUN
00:19:44.65\00:19:46.95
FOR THEIR LIVES OR DIE. THE
ONLY WAY THE CANAANITES WERE
00:19:46.95\00:19:50.45
GOING TO STAY IS -
THEY COULDN'T STAY.
00:19:50.45\00:19:53.69
THEY HAD TO LEAVE BECAUSE
GOD DID NOT WANT THE ISRAELITES
00:19:53.69\00:19:56.36
INTERMARRYING AND
ADOPTING THEIR RELIGIONS.
00:19:56.36\00:19:59.26
SO THEY WERE TO BE
EXPELLED FROM THE LAND.
00:19:59.26\00:20:01.53
AND SHE THOUGHT, 'THIS CITY IS A
CITY OF DESTRUCTION.' ANY OF YOU
00:20:01.53\00:20:05.60
EVER READ THE BOOK
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ?
00:20:05.60\00:20:08.60
AND PILGRIM - HIS NAME IS
CHRISTIAN - HE'S FLEEING FROM A
00:20:08.60\00:20:11.54
CITY THAT IS
DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION.
00:20:11.54\00:20:14.28
NOW JOSHUA WAS GOING TO COME
WITH HIS SOLDIERS AND THAT CITY
00:20:14.28\00:20:18.41
WAS GOING TO BE DOOMED. IS
OUR JESUS - OUR JOSHUA - COMING?
00:20:18.41\00:20:23.35
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
TO THIS WORLD WHEN HE COMES?
00:20:23.35\00:20:26.55
'THEN ALL THE TRIBES OF THE
EARTH WILL MOURN AND THEY WILL
00:20:26.55\00:20:29.69
SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING
ON CLOUDS WITH POWER AND GREAT
00:20:29.69\00:20:33.06
GLORY.' AND THERE WILL BE GREAT
00:20:33.06\00:20:34.46
DESTRUCTION WHEN
JESUS COMES - FOR THE LOST.
00:20:34.46\00:20:37.87
THE ONLY ONES WHO WILL BE
SAVED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE MADE A
00:20:37.87\00:20:41.44
COVENANT WITH JOSHUA
IN ADVANCE OF HIS COMING.
00:20:41.44\00:20:46.84
AND THIS IS WHAT
RAHAB IS ABOUT TO DO.
00:20:46.84\00:20:49.61
SO SHE SAYS, 'I KNOW YOUR
GOD IS THE GOD OF GODS.' "NOW
00:20:49.61\00:20:54.52
THEREFORE," - VERSE 12 - "I BEG
YOU, SWEAR TO ME BY THE LORD,
00:20:54.52\00:20:59.95
SINCE I HAVE SHOWN YOU
KINDNESS," - SHE SAYS, 'SHOW
00:20:59.95\00:21:05.26
MERCY TO ME' - "...TO MY
FATHER'S HOUSE, AND GIVE ME A
00:21:05.26\00:21:08.40
TRUE TOKEN," - GIVE ME A
SIGN - "AND SPARE MY FATHER, MY
00:21:08.40\00:21:12.23
MOTHER," - SHE'S NOT THAT
OLD BECAUSE SHE STILL HAS HER
00:21:12.23\00:21:14.34
PARENTS - "MY BROTHERS, MY
SISTERS, AND ALL THAT THEY HAVE,
00:21:14.34\00:21:17.81
AND DELIVER OUR
LIVES FROM DEATH."
00:21:17.81\00:21:21.41
'WE ARE LIVING UNDER A
DEATH DECREE. MAKE A COVENANT.
00:21:21.41\00:21:25.51
I BELIEVE THAT YOU
SERVE THE REAL GOD.
00:21:25.51\00:21:28.28
I BELIEVE IN YOUR JOSHUA. MAKE
A COVENANT. SHOW US MERCY.' AND
00:21:28.28\00:21:33.82
NOT ONLY IS SHE INTERESTED IN
HER SALVATION, SHE'S INTERESTED
00:21:33.82\00:21:37.29
IN THE SALVATION OF HER
FAMILY AND THOSE THAT SHE LOVES.
00:21:37.29\00:21:41.80
"SO THEY ANSWERED HER'" -
IN VERSE 14 - I'M IN JOSHUA 2,
00:21:41.80\00:21:45.53
VERSE 14 - "OUR LIVES FOR
YOURS," - YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE
00:21:45.53\00:21:51.14
WHOLE GOSPEL RIGHT
THERE IN THOSE WORDS.
00:21:51.14\00:21:52.71
I'VE GOT IT UNDERLINED IN MY
BIBLE - "OUR LIVES FOR YOURS".
00:21:52.71\00:21:57.11
YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAID?
'MY LIFE FOR YOURS.' WHEN DAVID
00:21:57.11\00:22:03.49
LOST HIS SON ABSALOM HE SAID,
'OH, WOULD GOD THAT I HAD DIED
00:22:03.49\00:22:06.42
FOR THEE.' IT'S THE STORY OF THE
SUBSTITUTION - WHEN THE MAN FELL
00:22:06.42\00:22:13.06
AMONG THIEVES IN THE
STORY OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
00:22:13.06\00:22:15.76
THE SAMARITAN SAID, 'I WON'T
RIDE ANYMORE, I'LL WALK AND YOU
00:22:15.76\00:22:19.03
RIDE.' THEY TRADED
PLACES. AND JESUS IS
00:22:19.03\00:22:22.04
OFFERING TO MAKE THAT TRADE.
THEY SAID, 'LOOK, YOU HAVE SAVED
00:22:22.04\00:22:25.21
US. YOU HAVE
DELIVERED US AND SO WE
00:22:25.21\00:22:29.01
ARE GOING TO DO ALL
WE CAN TO DELIVER YOU.
00:22:29.01\00:22:32.51
IF YOU DON'T DECLARE OUR
BUSINESS OR TALK ABOUT WHAT
00:22:32.51\00:22:35.08
WE'VE DISCUSSED WITH YOU, IT
WILL BE THAT WHEN' - SHE DOESN'T
00:22:35.08\00:22:39.25
SAY IF - 'WHEN THE LORD HAS
GIVEN US THE LAND, THAT WE WILL
00:22:39.25\00:22:43.09
DEAL KINDLY AND TRULY' -
HOW DOES THE LORD DEAL WITH US?
00:22:43.09\00:22:47.76
'KINDLY AND TRULY WITH YOU.'
"THEN SHE LET THEM DOWN BY A
00:22:47.76\00:22:51.60
ROPE THROUGH THE WINDOW, FOR HER
HOUSE WAS ON THE CITY WALL; SHE
00:22:51.60\00:22:57.07
DWELT ON THE WALL."
- NOW WHERE'D SHE LIVE?
00:22:57.07\00:22:59.64
SHE DWELT ON THE WALL. AND
IT SAYS SHE LET THEM DOWN BY
00:22:59.64\00:23:04.78
A ROPE. HERE
DEAR, YOU WANT TO - WHY
00:23:04.78\00:23:06.78
DON'T YOU - YEAH, LET'S SEE
- GOOD TOSS. LOWE'S RED ROPE.
00:23:06.78\00:23:16.62
I WANT YOU TO KNOW
WHERE THIS IS GOING NOW.
00:23:16.62\00:23:20.20
"THEN SHE LET THEM DOWN BY A
ROPE THROUGH THE WINDOW, FOR HER
00:23:20.20\00:23:24.00
HOUSE WAS ON THE CITY WALL;" -
THROUGH A WINDOW - YOU KNOW, THE
00:23:24.00\00:23:28.14
BIBLE SAYS THAT THE ONLY
WAY THAT PAUL COULD ESCAPE FROM
00:23:28.14\00:23:30.47
DAMASCUS - THEY TRIED TO KILL
HIM - IS SOMEBODY LET HIM DOWN
00:23:30.47\00:23:33.07
BY A ROPE IN A BASKET.
PAUL WAS A BASKET CASE.
00:23:33.07\00:23:36.58
(LAUGHTER) WE DON'T KNOW THAT
THEY USED A BASKET BUT - I MEAN,
00:23:36.58\00:23:39.61
MOSES WAS SAVED BY
A BASKET TOO, RIGHT?
00:23:39.61\00:23:42.32
ISN'T IT GOOD TO KNOW GOD'LL
SAVE A BASKET CASE LIKE THIS?
00:23:42.32\00:23:46.22
AND SO THEY PROBABLY CLIMBED
DOWN - "SO THE MEN SAID TO HER:"
00:23:46.22\00:23:50.89
- VERSE 17 - "'WE WILL BE
BLAMELESS OF THIS OATH OF YOURS
00:23:50.89\00:23:55.03
WHICH YOU HAVE MADE US SWEAR,
UNLESS," - HERE'S THE CRITERIA -
00:23:55.03\00:23:58.73
SHE ASKED FOR A TOKEN - "...WHEN
WE COME INTO THE LAND, YOU BIND
00:23:58.73\00:24:02.64
THIS LINE OF SCARLET CORD IN THE
WINDOW THROUGH WHICH YOU LET US
00:24:02.64\00:24:08.11
DOWN, AND UNLESS YOU BRING
YOUR FATHER, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR
00:24:08.11\00:24:12.18
BROTHERS, AND ALL YOUR FATHER'S
HOUSEHOLD TO YOUR OWN HOME.
00:24:12.18\00:24:16.48
SO IT SHALL BE THAT WHOEVER GOES
OUTSIDE THE DOORS OF YOUR HOUSE
00:24:16.48\00:24:18.79
INTO THE STREET, HIS BLOOD SHALL
BE ON HIS OWN HEAD, AND WE WILL
00:24:18.79\00:24:22.16
BE GUILTLESS. AND
WHOEVER IS WITH YOU IN THE
00:24:22.16\00:24:24.19
HOUSE, HIS BLOOD SHALL BE ON
OUR HEAD" - WE ARE RESPONSIBLE
00:24:24.19\00:24:26.90
WITH OUR LIVES FOR THE
LIFE OF EVERYBODY IN YOUR HOME.
00:24:26.90\00:24:31.13
NOW YOU GOT WHAT THE TERMS OF
THE DEAL ARE? WE'RE COMING BACK.
00:24:31.13\00:24:36.67
SHE - THEY DIDN'T SAY EXACTLY
WHEN THEY'RE COMING BACK - THEY
00:24:36.67\00:24:39.31
SAID, 'BUT WE'RE COMING WITH
JOSHUA AND WHEN WE COME BACK THE
00:24:39.31\00:24:43.48
ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS THEY MUST
BE IN YOUR HOUSE WITH THE RED
00:24:43.48\00:24:48.22
ROPE IN THE WINDOW - AND ONLY
THOSE THAT ARE IN THE HOUSE WILL
00:24:48.22\00:24:52.82
SURVIVE. A TIME OF
JUDGMENT IS COMING.
00:24:52.82\00:24:55.42
YOU'VE GOT TO BE READY.
YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS THEN?
00:24:55.42\00:24:58.26
"THEN SHE SAID, 'ACCORDING TO
YOUR WORDS,'" - VERSE 21 - "'SO
00:24:58.26\00:25:01.56
BE IT.' AND SHE SENT
THEM AWAY, AND THEY DEPARTED.
00:25:01.56\00:25:04.53
AND SHE BOUND THE
SCARLET CORD IN THE WINDOW."
00:25:04.53\00:25:07.84
IT WAS GOING TO BE WEEKS OR
MONTHS BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY CAME
00:25:07.84\00:25:10.14
BACK, BUT SHE
WASN'T TAKING ANY CHANCES.
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.21
AS SOON AS THEY LEFT SHE TIED
THE SCARLET CORD IN HER WINDOW.
00:25:12.21\00:25:17.71
NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT
THIS CORD REPRESENTS?
00:25:17.71\00:25:21.92
SCARLET OUGHT TO BE A CLUE.
WHAT WILL WASH AWAY MY SIN?
00:25:21.92\00:25:26.79
NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF
JESUS. DO YOU REMEMBER 40 YEARS
00:25:26.79\00:25:29.39
EARLIER, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL ESCAPED FROM EGYPT, THERE
00:25:29.39\00:25:33.96
WAS A JUDGMENT THAT CAME THROUGH
THE LAND AND THERE WAS A SIMILAR
00:25:33.96\00:25:37.30
COVENANT THAT WAS MADE AND ONLY
THOSE THAT WERE IN THE HOUSE
00:25:37.30\00:25:41.14
WITH THE SCARLET - THE LAMB'S
BLOOD - ON THE DOOR OR THE
00:25:41.14\00:25:45.77
WINDOW, WERE GOING TO
SURVIVE. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:25:45.77\00:25:51.75
40 YEARS LATER THERE'S A SIMILAR
UNIQUE TOKEN OF SALVATION.
00:25:51.75\00:25:55.55
DURING THE EXODUS IT WAS THOSE
THAT HAD THE SCARLET CORD ON
00:25:55.55\00:26:00.09
THEIR DOOR OR THE
PAINT ABOVE THEIR DOOR.
00:26:00.09\00:26:02.96
THEY WERE SAVED FROM THE
ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE ANGEL OF
00:26:02.96\00:26:05.63
JUDGMENT. THEY WERE ALL JEWS.
00:26:05.63\00:26:08.36
NOW WHAT YOU HAVE IS 40
YEARS LATER - IS RAHAB A JEW?
00:26:08.36\00:26:12.60
AND THOSE IN HER
HOUSE? THEY'RE ALL GENTILES
00:26:12.60\00:26:15.50
- SIMILAR COVENANT.
SACRIFICE OF JESUS IS FOR THE
00:26:15.50\00:26:19.17
JEWS FIRST AND THEN
FOR THE GENTILES, ACCORDING
00:26:19.17\00:26:23.01
TO THE BIBLE. BUT
EVERYBODY THAT'S GOING
00:26:23.01\00:26:25.15
TO BE SAVED IS SAVED
BY WHAT? BY THE BLOOD.
00:26:25.15\00:26:28.15
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN FIND THIS
SYMBOL ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:26:28.15\00:26:31.39
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN
JUDAH'S WIFE, TAMAR SHE GOT
00:26:31.39\00:26:38.13
PREGNANT AND HAD TWINS -
SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED -
00:26:38.13\00:26:41.30
AND, YOU KNOW, JESUS CAME
THROUGH THE LINE OF JUDAH - ONE
00:26:41.30\00:26:43.87
OF THE TWINS ACTUALLY PUT OUT
HIS HAND FIRST AND THE MIDWIFE
00:26:43.87\00:26:48.14
ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW WHO
WAS THE FIRST BORN BECAUSE THAT
00:26:48.14\00:26:50.24
MEANT EVERYTHING - THAT MEANT
WHO GOT THE PROPERTY, WHO BECAME
00:26:50.24\00:26:52.27
THE LEADER OF THE FAMILY - EVEN
IF YOU WERE FIVE MINUTES EARLY.
00:26:52.27\00:26:56.44
REMEMBER, JACOB WANTED TO
GET THE FIRSTBORN RIGHT FROM HIS
00:26:56.44\00:26:58.38
BROTHER, EVEN
THOUGH THEY WERE TWINS.
00:26:58.38\00:27:00.82
SO AS SOON AS ONE WAS BRIEFLY
BORN, SHE TIED A SCARLET THREAD
00:27:00.82\00:27:04.35
AROUND HIS HAND.
THAT SCARLET THREAD OF THE
00:27:04.35\00:27:08.16
FIRSTBORN IS ALL
A SYMBOL OF JESUS.
00:27:08.16\00:27:10.76
IT SAYS, 'WITH HIS STRIPES WE
ARE HEALED.' THE SCARLET RIBBONS
00:27:10.76\00:27:14.73
ON THE BACK OF JESUS - HE
TOOK OUR SUFFERING FOR US.
00:27:14.73\00:27:17.57
THIS IS ALL A
SYMBOL OF SALVATION.
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.97
NOW I'M GOING TO PUT THIS HERE
SO I KEEP IT IN YOUR MIND, BUT I
00:27:19.97\00:27:22.94
WANT TO CONTINUE WITH
THIS STORY BECAUSE IT GETS VERY
00:27:22.94\00:27:25.31
INTERESTING. SO SHE
PUTS THE CORD IN HER WINDOW.
00:27:25.31\00:27:29.64
BEFORE SHE'S WORRIED ABOUT
BRINGING ANYONE IN HER HOUSE,
00:27:29.64\00:27:32.35
SHE WANTS TO MAKE SURE
THE CORD IS IN HER WINDOW.
00:27:32.35\00:27:34.32
AND BEFORE YOU CAN REACH OTHERS
FOR JESUS, YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE
00:27:34.32\00:27:36.25
SURE YOU'RE READY. >>AMEN.
00:27:36.25\00:27:38.15
>>AND THEY DEPARTED AND
THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAIN.
00:27:38.15\00:27:41.52
ALL THE SOLDIERS ARE LOOKING FOR
THEM DOWN BY THE RIVER AND THEY
00:27:41.52\00:27:45.33
THOUGHT, 'WE'RE GOING TO HANG
OUT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION
00:27:45.33\00:27:46.86
UNTIL THEY'RE TIRED OF LOOKING
FOR US, THEN WE'LL GO CROSS
00:27:46.86\00:27:48.86
THE RIVER AND GO BACK TO JOSHUA.
00:27:48.86\00:27:51.37
SO THE MEN DESCENDED FROM
THE MOUNTAIN AFTER THREE DAYS.
00:27:51.37\00:27:54.77
THREE DAYS IS AN INTERESTING
NUMBER - AFTER THREE DAYS, JESUS
00:27:54.77\00:27:58.11
ROSE. "...AND
THEY CAME TO JOSHUA THE
00:27:58.11\00:28:01.34
SON OF NUN, AND TOLD HIM
ALL THAT HAD BEFALLEN THEM.
00:28:01.34\00:28:05.51
AND THEY SAID TO JOSHUA, 'TRULY
THE LORD HAS DELIVERED ALL THE
00:28:05.51\00:28:08.75
LAND INTO OUR HANDS, FOR INDEED
ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE
00:28:08.75\00:28:12.79
COUNTRY ARE FAINTHEARTED BECAUSE
OF US.'" YOU KNOW WHAT ONE OF
00:28:12.79\00:28:16.69
THE MOST IMPORTANT
THINGS IS TO WIN A BATTLE?
00:28:16.69\00:28:19.73
COURAGE. COURAGE. I
THINK IT WAS JOHN WESLEY THAT
00:28:19.73\00:28:24.97
SAYS 'IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BIG
A DOG IS IN A FIGHT, IT MATTERS
00:28:24.97\00:28:28.27
HOW BIG THE FIGHT IS IN A DOG.'
AND DAVID - IT DIDN'T MATTER
00:28:28.27\00:28:32.84
HOW BIG GOLIATH
WAS, DAVID HAD COURAGE.
00:28:32.84\00:28:36.11
YOU KNOW WHAT
GOD SAID TO JOSHUA?
00:28:36.11\00:28:38.28
GOD SAID IT AND MOSES SAID IT
- AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN
00:28:38.28\00:28:40.82
JOSHUA 1, VERSE 5 AND MOSES IN
HIS DYING WORDS SAID, 'BE VERY
00:28:40.82\00:28:44.62
COURAGEOUS.' BECAUSE IF YOU GO
INTO BATTLE YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE
00:28:44.62\00:28:48.36
FAITH. HOW IS
IT THAT WE'RE GOING
00:28:48.36\00:28:50.86
TO OVERCOME THE
ENEMY? THROUGH FAITH.
00:28:50.86\00:28:53.60
WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE
ENEMY SOLDIERS IN JERICHO?
00:28:53.60\00:28:56.73
THEY'D LOST FAITH.
THEY'D LOST THEIR COURAGE.
00:28:56.73\00:29:00.50
'THE LORD HAS GIVEN US THE LAND
BECAUSE THE INHABITANTS OF THE
00:29:00.50\00:29:03.77
COUNTRY ARE FAINTHEARTED BECAUSE
OF US.' ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING
00:29:03.77\00:29:07.48
TO GO TO A FAMILIAR STORY IN
THE BIBLE - GO TO CHAPTER 6 OF
00:29:07.48\00:29:10.18
JOSHUA - AND WE'RE GOING
TO READ ABOUT THE FOLLOW-UP.
00:29:10.18\00:29:13.28
"NOW JERICHO WAS SECURELY SHUT
UP BECAUSE OF THE CHILDREN OF
00:29:13.28\00:29:19.05
ISRAEL;" - NOW THEY'RE ON RED
ALERT. THEY'VE SHUT THE GATES.
00:29:19.05\00:29:23.49
YOU KNOW WHY
THEY'RE ON RED ALERT?
00:29:23.49\00:29:25.29
- "NONE WENT OUT,
AND NONE CAME IN."
00:29:25.29\00:29:27.30
BECAUSE SOMETHING HAD
HAPPENED AT THE JORDAN RIVER.
00:29:27.30\00:29:30.80
ONE DAY JOSHUA TOLD ALL THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 'THE TIME
00:29:30.80\00:29:35.27
HAS COME. STRIKE CAMP. GET
IN FORMATION.' THEY WRAPPED
00:29:35.27\00:29:39.27
UP THEIR TENTS, THEY BROKE
CAMP, THEY GOT IN FORMATION, AND
00:29:39.27\00:29:42.84
HE SAID, 'LET'S ALL LINE UP.
I WANT THE PRIESTS OUT FRONT.'
00:29:42.84\00:29:45.51
THE PRIESTS GOT OUT FRONT.
NOW THE PEOPLE IN JERICHO ARE
00:29:45.51\00:29:48.18
WATCHING ABOUT A MILE
AWAY FROM THEIR WALLS - THEY'RE
00:29:48.18\00:29:51.12
GOING, 'WHAT IS GOING
ON?' THEY SAW ALL THE DUST.
00:29:51.12\00:29:53.49
THEY SAW THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
MARCHING DOWN TOWARDS THE JORDAN
00:29:53.49\00:29:58.46
RIVER - AND THIS IS SPRINGTIME
- THE JORDAN IS FLOODING.
00:29:58.46\00:30:02.36
AND AS THEY'RE MARCHING TOWARDS
THE JORDAN RIVER, THE PEOPLE OF
00:30:02.36\00:30:04.83
JERICHO ARE GOING,
'WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM?
00:30:04.83\00:30:06.57
THEY'RE JUST GOING TO ALL DROWN
THEMSELVES.' BUT AS THEY GET
00:30:06.57\00:30:10.74
CLOSER TO THE RIVER, THEY'VE
GOT THE ARK GOING OUT IN FRONT.
00:30:10.74\00:30:13.31
THE PRIESTS - AS SOON AS THEY
GET TO THE BORDERS OF THE RIVER,
00:30:13.31\00:30:15.84
THEY PUT THEIR FEET IN THE EDGE
OF THE WATER - BOY, THAT TAKES
00:30:15.84\00:30:19.08
FAITH TO BE CARRYING THE ARK
- GOLDEN ANCHOR - YOU'RE JUST
00:30:19.08\00:30:22.28
WALKING OFF INTO DEEP
WATER. YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE FAITH.
00:30:22.28\00:30:25.19
BUT GOD SAID, 'GO
FORWARD.' AND THEY LEARNED.
00:30:25.19\00:30:27.62
HE WANTED TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHEN
THEY FIRST - 40 YEARS EARLIER -
00:30:27.62\00:30:30.53
HE SAID, 'FOLLOW ME. I
WANT YOU TO CROSS THE OCEAN.'
00:30:30.53\00:30:32.69
THEY WEREN'T GOING
ANYWHERE UNTIL HE PARTED IT.
00:30:32.69\00:30:35.63
NOW HE SAID, 'I WONDER
IF YOU LEARNED TO TRUST ME.
00:30:35.63\00:30:37.60
I WANT YOU TO WALK OUT BEFORE
I PART IT.' GOD WANTS US TO
00:30:37.60\00:30:42.04
BELIEVE HIS WORD AND OBEY
EVEN WHEN WE DON'T KNOW HOW.
00:30:42.04\00:30:44.77
SO THEY PUT THEIR FEET IN
THE WATER AND AS SOON AS THE
00:30:44.77\00:30:46.64
PRIESTS' TOES TOUCHED THE WATER,
THE WATER JUST WENT - BAROOMPH!
00:30:46.64\00:30:50.25
- AND IT BEGAN TO WALL UP
UPSTREAM AND IT WASHED AWAY
00:30:50.25\00:30:54.82
DOWNSTREAM AND IT WAS LIKE GOD
HAD PUT AN ELECTRIC HAIR DRYER
00:30:54.82\00:30:57.92
ON THE PATH AND HE INSTANTLY
DRIED UP THE MUDDY BOTTOM AND IT
00:30:57.92\00:31:02.06
WAS DRY GROUND. AND THE
PRIESTS MARCHED OFF INTO
00:31:02.06\00:31:05.43
THE LOW BED OF THE RIVER AND THE
WATERS JUST KEPT DAMMING FURTHER
00:31:05.43\00:31:09.43
AND FURTHER UPSTREAM AND THE
WATERS DOWNSTREAM RAN OFF TO THE
00:31:09.43\00:31:14.14
DEAD SEA - AND WHILE THE PRIESTS
STOOD IN THE MIDDLE, GOD TOLD
00:31:14.14\00:31:18.54
THE SOLDIERS AND ALL THE PEOPLE
TO CROSS OVER AND, TO THE RIGHT
00:31:18.54\00:31:21.11
AND TO THE LEFT OF THE ARK, THEY
ALL HAD TO MARCH BY THE PRESENCE
00:31:21.11\00:31:24.61
OF GOD TO GET
INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:31:24.61\00:31:26.58
BY THE WAY, HOW ARE WE
GETTING INTO THE PROMISED LAND?
00:31:26.58\00:31:29.32
DON'T WE ALL HAVE TO
GO IN REVIEW BEFORE GOD?
00:31:29.32\00:31:33.19
SO THEY ALL MARCHED BY
THE ARK. WHAT WAS IN THE ARK?
00:31:33.19\00:31:35.96
>>TEN COMMANDMENTS.
>>EVERYONE THINKS, 'I'D LIKE TO
00:31:35.96\00:31:38.59
FIND THAT GOLDEN BOX WITH THE
ARK' - EVERYONE THINKS, 'THE ARK
00:31:38.59\00:31:41.10
OF THE COVENANT, WOW, THAT'D
BE A GREAT ADVENTURE.' WOULD YOU
00:31:41.10\00:31:44.17
LIKE TO KNOW WHERE IT
IS? IT'S IN YOUR HANDS.
00:31:44.17\00:31:48.87
IT'S CALLED THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:31:48.87\00:31:50.24
EVERYONE WANTS THE BOX - THEY
DON'T WANT THE ROCKS IN THE BOX.
00:31:50.24\00:31:53.04
THE ROCKS IN THE BOX HAD THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS - AND IT'S RIGHT
00:31:53.04\00:31:55.31
HERE. I KNOW
WHAT WAS IN THE ARK.
00:31:55.31\00:31:57.61
SO THEY ALL WALKED BY THE ARK.
00:31:57.61\00:31:59.05
PEOPLE UP ON THE WALLS OF
JERICHO - IF YOU COULD SEE THE
00:31:59.05\00:32:02.42
KNEES ON THE SOLDIER, THEY
WOULD HAVE BEEN GOING LIKE THIS,
00:32:02.42\00:32:06.45
BECAUSE THEY SEE 'THEY'RE COMING
FOR US NEXT.' THEY'RE THINKING,
00:32:06.45\00:32:09.39
'HOW DO YOU
FIGHT A GOD LIKE THIS?'
00:32:09.39\00:32:12.23
SO THEY CROSS OVER. NOW
THEY SAY, 'LOCK THE GATES!
00:32:12.23\00:32:14.56
HIGH ALERT!' THE
CITY IS ALL LOCKED DOWN.
00:32:14.56\00:32:17.03
THEY'VE PROBABLY GOT FOOD
STORED UP AND WATER STORED UP.
00:32:17.03\00:32:19.80
THEY'RE EXPECTING A LONG SIEGE
AND THEN GOD GIVES JOSHUA SOME
00:32:19.80\00:32:23.67
VERY INTERESTING MILITARY
TACTICS THAT NO GENERAL HAS EVER
00:32:23.67\00:32:27.18
USED BEFORE OR
SINCE, AS FAR AS I KNOW.
00:32:27.18\00:32:30.91
THE LORD SAID TO JOSHUA, 'I'VE
GIVEN JERICHO INTO YOUR HAND,
00:32:30.91\00:32:35.02
ITS KING, ITS MIGHTY MEN OF
VALOR - YOU'RE TO MARCH AROUND
00:32:35.02\00:32:37.42
THE CITY, YOU AND ALL OF YOUR
MEN OF WAR - GO AROUND THE CITY'
00:32:37.42\00:32:39.79
- HOW MANY TIMES? >>SEVEN.
00:32:39.79\00:32:41.82
>>THIRTEEN. EVERYONE SAYS SEVEN.
00:32:41.82\00:32:44.99
THEY WERE TO GO AROUND THE CITY
ONE TIME FOR SIX DAYS AND THEN
00:32:44.99\00:32:49.50
SEVEN TIMES ON THE
SEVENTH DAY. AM I RIGHT?
00:32:49.50\00:32:52.00
>>AMEN. >>A TOTAL
OF HOW MANY TIMES?
00:32:52.00\00:32:53.60
THIRTEEN. NOW
YOU'RE THINKING, 'WHY
00:32:53.60\00:32:55.84
THIRTEEN? ISN'T
THAT AN UNLUCKY NUMBER?'
00:32:55.84\00:32:57.71
HOW MANY PEOPLE
WERE AT THE LAST SUPPER?
00:32:57.71\00:33:00.78
TWELVE APOSTLES
AND JESUS. >>THIRTEEN.
00:33:00.78\00:33:03.14
>>HOW MANY TRIBES
OF ISRAEL WERE THERE?
00:33:03.14\00:33:06.08
TECHNICALLY THIRTEEN, BECAUSE
YOU'VE GOT THE TWELVE SONS OF
00:33:06.08\00:33:09.98
JACOB, BUT WHAT HE DID - HE
SAID, 'BECAUSE JOSEPH WAS SOLD
00:33:09.98\00:33:13.46
BY HIS BROTHERS, I'M GOING TO
GIVE THE TWO SONS OF JOSEPH AN
00:33:13.46\00:33:17.03
EQUAL SHARE' - EPHRAIM
AND MANASSEH BECAME INDIVIDUAL
00:33:17.03\00:33:20.86
TRIBES - AND IT ENDED UP ADDING
UP TO THIRTEEN - LEVITES BECAME
00:33:20.86\00:33:24.17
PRIESTS FOR EVERYBODY SO
THEY KEPT SAYING TWELVE TRIBES
00:33:24.17\00:33:27.60
BECAUSE LEVITES
DIDN'T GET AN INHERITANCE.
00:33:27.60\00:33:29.90
I KNOW THAT'S
CONFUSING. THAT'S CALLED TOO
00:33:29.90\00:33:31.64
MUCH INFORMATION.
ANYWAY, SO BACK TO THE SERMON.
00:33:31.64\00:33:35.88
AND SO HE SAYS, 'I WANT YOU
TO MARCH AROUND IT AND 'SEVEN
00:33:35.88\00:33:39.28
PRIESTS WILL BEAR SEVEN
TRUMPETS' - NOW WAIT A SECOND -
00:33:39.28\00:33:41.92
DO WE HEAR ABOUT SEVEN
TRUMPETS IN REVELATION?
00:33:41.92\00:33:45.95
'SEVEN PRIESTS BEARING SEVEN
TRUMPETS OF RAMS' HORNS BEFORE
00:33:45.95\00:33:49.46
THE ARK...BUT ON THE SEVENTH
DAY YOU'LL MARCH AROUND THE CITY
00:33:49.46\00:33:52.33
SEVEN TIMES AND THE PRIESTS WILL
BLOW THE TRUMPETS AND IT WILL
00:33:52.33\00:33:55.70
COME TO PASS THEY WILL MAKE A
LONG BLAST WITH THE RAM'S HORN
00:33:55.70\00:34:00.07
AND WHEN YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF
THE TRUMPET THEN ALL THE PEOPLE
00:34:00.07\00:34:03.07
WILL SHOUT WITH A GREAT SHOUT
AND THE WALL OF THE CITY WILL
00:34:03.07\00:34:06.94
FALL DOWN FLAT AND THE PEOPLE
WILL GO UP EVERY MAN STRAIGHT
00:34:06.94\00:34:10.51
BEFORE HIM.' NOW
HE GIVES THEM FURTHER
00:34:10.51\00:34:13.35
INSTRUCTIONS, IF
YOU GO TO VERSE 10.
00:34:13.35\00:34:15.92
JOSHUA TOLD THE SOLDIERS,
"YOU SHALL NOT SHOUT OR MAKE ANY
00:34:15.92\00:34:19.29
NOISE WITH YOUR VOICE, NOR
SHALL A WORD PROCEED OUT OF YOUR
00:34:19.29\00:34:22.66
MOUTH, UNTIL THE DAY
I SAY TO YOU, 'SHOUT!'"
00:34:22.66\00:34:26.36
NOW THAT MUST
HAVE BEEN PRETTY HARD.
00:34:26.36\00:34:27.73
BY THE TIME THIS TOOK PLACE, THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD OVER A
00:34:27.73\00:34:33.03
MILLION MEN - THEY HAD 900,000
MEN WHO COULD FIGHT AT THE
00:34:33.03\00:34:37.44
BEGINNING OF 40 YEARS AND
GOD TOLD THEM TO BE FRUITFUL AND
00:34:37.44\00:34:41.38
MULTIPLY AND WE'RE EXPECTING
IT WAS BIGGER THAN THAT.
00:34:41.38\00:34:44.25
SO IT WAS LIKE A
MILLION-MAN ARMY.
00:34:44.25\00:34:45.68
I DON'T KNOW WHAT
IT WAS, BUT IT WAS BIG.
00:34:45.68\00:34:47.08
AND SO HE TELLS THIS
ARMY TO START MARCHING.
00:34:47.08\00:34:51.05
THEY'RE JUST
OUTSIDE OF BOW SHOT.
00:34:51.05\00:34:53.52
THE PEOPLE IN JERICHO ARE
WONDERING WHAT IN THE WORLD IS
00:34:53.52\00:34:55.62
GOING ON. THEY SEE THE SOLDIERS
GET READY. THEY SEE THE PRIESTS.
00:34:55.62\00:34:58.79
THEY SEE THEM GOING RIGHT
TOWARDS THE CITY OF JERICHO AND
00:34:58.79\00:35:01.40
THEY'RE ALL MARCHING IN
FORMAMTION - YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
00:35:01.40\00:35:03.47
WHEN SOLDIERS MARCH THEY CHANT,
THEY HIT DRUMS, THEY DO ALL
00:35:03.47\00:35:06.23
THESE THINGS.
SOLDIERS DON'T UTTER A WORD.
00:35:06.23\00:35:08.90
ALL THEY CAN HEAR IS THE
OCCASIONAL BLAST OF THE TRUMPET
00:35:08.90\00:35:13.24
(MAKES TRUMPET NOISE) FROM THE
TRUMPETS OF SEVEN RAMS' HORNS.
00:35:13.24\00:35:17.71
AND THOSE PRIESTS, THEIR PUCKERS
MUST HAVE BEEN PRETTY TIRED AT
00:35:17.71\00:35:21.62
THE END OF THE DAY, BUT THEY
JUST KEPT GOING AROUND. THEY'D
00:35:21.62\00:35:24.55
BLOW THE TRUMPET - SHORT BLASTS,
BECAUSE THE LONG BLAST WAS A
00:35:24.55\00:35:28.46
SIGNAL ON THE SEVENTH DAY.
AND THE SOLDIERS JUST (STOMPING
00:35:28.46\00:35:33.19
NOISES) - THEY'RE OUTSIDE
OF BOW SHOT FROM THE CITY.
00:35:33.19\00:35:36.60
THEY CAN'T HIT THEM WITH A SPEAR
OR AN ARROW OR A BOW, SO THEY
00:35:36.60\00:35:39.43
CAN'T FIRE AT THEM.
THEY'RE AFRAID TO OPEN THE GATES
00:35:39.43\00:35:42.00
AND ATTACK THEM, AND THEY DO THE
STRANGEST THING: THEY ALL MAKE
00:35:42.00\00:35:45.34
ONE COMPLETE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF
THE CITY - THEY GO BACK TO CAMP.
00:35:45.34\00:35:50.68
AND EVERYBODY IN JERICHO,
THEY'RE GOING, 'WHAT WAS - THAT
00:35:50.68\00:35:54.05
WAS WEIRD. WHAT
WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?'
00:35:54.05\00:35:57.35
AND THEY DO THIS DAY AFTER DAY
- THEY MARCH AROUND THE CITY ONE
00:35:57.35\00:36:03.09
TIME, BLOWING THE TRUMPETS - NO
SOLDIERS - AND YOU KNOW, THOSE
00:36:03.09\00:36:07.00
SOLDIERS WANTED TO TALK TO
EACH OTHER BUT THEY COULDN'T.
00:36:07.00\00:36:08.56
THEY WERE SO EXCITED BUT
THEY COULDN'T SAY ANYTHING.
00:36:08.56\00:36:12.93
GOD DID THAT ON
PURPOSE. I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT
00:36:12.93\00:36:14.84
THAT IN A MOMENT. SO
SECOND DAY, THIRD DAY, FOURTH
00:36:14.84\00:36:21.04
DAY - MARCH AROUND THE CITY JUST
A MILLION MEN (MAKES STOMPING
00:36:21.04\00:36:24.91
NOISES) CAN YOU
IMAGINE HOW THE GROUND SHOOK?
00:36:24.91\00:36:27.68
TRUMPETS (MAKES TRUMPET NOISES)
- AFTER FOUR OR FIVE DAYS THE
00:36:27.68\00:36:31.22
MEN INSIDE JERICHO, THEY'RE
JUST - 'WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
00:36:31.22\00:36:34.49
THE TRUMPET - MARCHING' -
THEY'RE GOING CRAZY FROM ALL OF
00:36:34.49\00:36:37.36
THIS. IT'S DRIVING THEM NUTS.
AND SO THEY JUST KEPT GOING -
00:36:37.36\00:36:41.06
SIX DAYS - SEVENTH DAY
THEY CHANGED IT UP A LITTLE BIT.
00:36:41.06\00:36:45.07
NOW SOME OF YOU ARE THINKING,
'THEY MARCH AROUND THE CITY
00:36:45.07\00:36:48.70
SEVEN DAYS - SEVENTH DAY OF
MARCHING - THE BIBLE SAYS THE
00:36:48.70\00:36:52.67
SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH -
DOES THAT MEAN ON THE SEVENTH
00:36:52.67\00:36:55.31
DAY OF THE WEEK HE TOLD THEM TO
ATTACK THE CITY OF JERICHO AND
00:36:55.31\00:36:58.51
DO ALL THAT? IT
DOESN'T SOUND LIKE VERY GOOD
00:36:58.51\00:37:00.12
CHURCH SERVICE - SABBATH KEEPING
TO ME.' NO, IT WAS SEVEN DAYS
00:37:00.12\00:37:04.79
OF SEQUENTIAL MARCHING AND
THE SEVENTH DAY OF MARCHING - IT
00:37:04.79\00:37:09.02
WASN'T NECESSARILY THE
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:37:09.02\00:37:11.79
BUT YOU'RE THINKING, 'WELL DOES
THAT MEAN THAT ONE OF THOSE DAYS
00:37:11.79\00:37:15.70
THEY WENT OUT AND MARCHED AROUND
JERICHO, BLOWING THE TRUMPETS
00:37:15.70\00:37:18.77
AND THEN CAME BACK?' MAYBE.
00:37:18.77\00:37:21.40
IT'S JUST CALLED A
SABBATH WALK AND SPECIAL MUSIC -
00:37:21.40\00:37:24.31
THERE'S NOTHING
WRONG WITH THAT. (LAUGHTER)
00:37:24.31\00:37:27.14
SO - SEVENTH DAY THEY GO
AROUND THE CITY SEVEN TIMES
00:37:27.14\00:37:34.28
AND THOSE SOLDIERS ARE - THEY'RE
JUST WANTING TO SHOUT - THEY'RE
00:37:34.28\00:37:37.35
- THE REASON THAT THEY COULDN'T
SAY A WORD IS THAT WHEN THEY
00:37:37.35\00:37:41.12
FINALLY SHOUTED,
THEIR VOICES HAD RESTED.
00:37:41.12\00:37:43.22
THESE MEN, THEY'D RESTED THEIR
VOICES FOR SEVEN DAYS AND THEY
00:37:43.22\00:37:46.36
WERE LIKE CAGED LIONS BEING
RELEASED AND THEY HAD ALL THIS
00:37:46.36\00:37:48.93
PENT-UP ENERGY AND ALL THAT
TESTOSTERONE OF A MILLION-MAN
00:37:48.93\00:37:52.80
ARMY WHO'D BEEN MARCHING,
WAITING TO FIGHT, AND FINALLY,
00:37:52.80\00:37:56.04
AFTER SEVEN TIMES AROUND THE
CITY - I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU
00:37:56.04\00:38:00.58
WHAT HAPPENED YET.
WHAT IS RAHAB DOING?
00:38:00.58\00:38:06.15
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS HAPPENING
IN THE CITY WITH RAHAB?
00:38:06.15\00:38:08.72
WHEN THEY GO FIRST CIRCUIT
AROUND THE CITY, WHAT'S RAHAB
00:38:08.72\00:38:11.45
BEEN DOING IN THE WEEKS OR
MONTHS THAT TRANSPIRED BETWEEN
00:38:11.45\00:38:15.02
HER MEETING THE TWO
SPIES AND THEM SHOWING UP?
00:38:15.02\00:38:22.43
THEY SAID, 'ONLY THOSE IN YOUR
HOUSE WILL LIVE.' NOW SUPPOSE
00:38:22.43\00:38:27.00
YOU'RE RAHAB. YOU KNOW
JOSHUA AND THE SOLDIERS
00:38:27.00\00:38:29.87
ARE COMING - THAT THE CITY'S
GOING TO BE DESTROYED AND BURNT
00:38:29.87\00:38:32.51
WITH FIRE - THAT'S WHAT'S
GOING TO HAPPEN TO OUR WORLD.
00:38:32.51\00:38:36.14
THE ELEMENTS WILL
MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT.
00:38:36.14\00:38:37.88
THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT
ARE IN IT WILL BE BURNED UP.
00:38:37.88\00:38:40.85
THE ONLY ONE WHO'S GOING TO BE
INSULATED AGAINST THE DISASTER
00:38:40.85\00:38:44.99
ARE THOSE IN YOUR HOUSE.
00:38:44.99\00:38:47.49
HOW EARNESTLY WOULD YOU TRY
TO GET PEOPLE INTO YOUR HOUSE?
00:38:47.49\00:38:52.86
RAHAB WAS DOING ALL SHE COULD -
PROBABLY FIRST WITH HER FAMILY.
00:38:52.86\00:38:56.56
AND WHEN YOU FIND JESUS, THE
FIRST MISSION FIELD - YOU DON'T
00:38:56.56\00:38:58.83
HAVE TO GO TO A FARAWAY MISSION
FIELD TO BE A MISSIONARY - FIRST
00:38:58.83\00:39:01.90
THING YOU DO - JESUS SAID, 'GO
FIRST TO JERUSALEM' - THAT MEANS
00:39:01.90\00:39:06.71
YOUR HOME TOWN, HE TOLD THE
APOSTLES - 'THEN GO TO JUDEA,
00:39:06.71\00:39:10.65
THEN SAMARIA, THEN THE UTTERMOST
PARTS OF THE EARTH.' START WITH
00:39:10.65\00:39:13.28
YOUR FAMILY. SHE
WANTED HER MOTHER AND HER
00:39:13.28\00:39:15.78
FATHER, HER BROTHERS AND HER
SISTERS - FIRST PEOPLE YOU TRY
00:39:15.78\00:39:18.42
TO REACH AND THEY'RE
THE HARDEST TO REACH.
00:39:18.42\00:39:19.92
IF YOU CAN REACH THEM YOU CAN
REACH ANYBODY, USUALLY, BECAUSE
00:39:19.92\00:39:22.56
THEY KNOW YOU. AND
THEY SAID, 'RAHAB, WHAT
00:39:22.56\00:39:24.73
DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?
YOU'RE GOING TO PREACH TO US?'
00:39:24.73\00:39:27.96
AND SHE SAID, 'MOM,
DAD, I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU.
00:39:27.96\00:39:31.50
THE ONLY WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO
LIVE IS YOU'VE GOT TO BE IN THE
00:39:31.50\00:39:33.97
HOUSE WHEN JOSHUA COMES.' AND
THEN SHE GOT HER BROTHERS AND
00:39:33.97\00:39:38.37
HER SISTERS AND THEY STARTED
SHOWING UP AT THE DOOR - AND
00:39:38.37\00:39:40.44
I'LL BET YOU, AFTER THE SECOND
OR THIRD DAY OF THE ISRAELITES
00:39:40.44\00:39:44.21
MARCHING AROUND THE CITY, IT
WAS GETTING EASIER AND EASIER TO
00:39:44.21\00:39:48.35
TALK HER FRIENDS AND
FAMILY INTO THE HOUSE.
00:39:48.35\00:39:51.25
THEY SAW THE JORDAN RIVER PART
AND SHE SAID, 'JOSHUA'S COMING.'
00:39:51.25\00:39:55.76
THEY SAID, 'I THINK YOU'RE
RIGHT.' AND THEY WANTED TO GET
00:39:55.76\00:39:58.49
IN THE HOUSE BECAUSE THE ONLY
WAY TO BE SAVED WOULD BE TO BE
00:39:58.49\00:40:00.96
IN HER HOUSE. BY THE
WAY, JOSHUA REPRESENTS WHO?
00:40:00.96\00:40:05.50
>>JESUS.
>>JESUS. KING OF JERICHO?
00:40:05.50\00:40:08.70
THE DEVIL. CANAANITES? THE LOST.
WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT?
00:40:08.70\00:40:14.58
>>CHURCH. >>RAHAB
IS A WOMAN WHO HAS
00:40:14.58\00:40:17.65
MADE A COVENANT WITH
JESUS. ISN'T THAT THE CHURCH?
00:40:17.65\00:40:21.75
ONLY THOSE IN HER
HOUSE WILL BE SAVED.
00:40:21.75\00:40:24.79
DOES IT MATTER WHETHER OR NOT WE
ARE PART OF A CHURCH WHEN JESUS
00:40:24.79\00:40:28.42
COMES? >>AMEN, YES.
00:40:28.42\00:40:30.56
>>PEOPLE OFTEN SAY, 'OH,
YOU KNOW, I'M A CHRISTIAN.
00:40:30.56\00:40:32.79
I DON'T GO TO CHURCH.' THE BIBLE
SAYS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PART
00:40:32.79\00:40:36.13
OF A BODY. AND IF
YOU'RE NOT PART OF
00:40:36.13\00:40:39.47
A BODY, IT'S NOT HEALTHY.
ANY PART OF A BODY SEPARATED
00:40:39.47\00:40:43.24
FROM THE WHOLE
DOESN'T LAST VERY LONG, RIGHT?
00:40:43.24\00:40:48.64
AND WE ALL HAVE
DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS.
00:40:48.64\00:40:50.21
PAUL SAYS, YOU KNOW, SOME OF
US ARE THE EARS AND SOME ARE THE
00:40:50.21\00:40:52.05
EYES AND THAT WOULD MEAN SOME
ARE THE TOES AND SOME ARE THE
00:40:52.05\00:40:54.18
NOSE. AND IF I SAY TO
YOU, 'OH LOOK, A NOSE.
00:40:54.18\00:40:58.89
YOU THINK, WELL, THAT'S KIND OF
ODD, DOUG, YEAH, WE'VE ALL GOT A
00:40:58.89\00:41:02.12
NOSE.' IF I POINT TO SOMEONE
AND SAY, 'LOOK, A NOSE.' THAT
00:41:02.12\00:41:05.16
DOESN'T REALLY SURPRISE YOU,
BUT I GO, 'LOOK, A NOSE ON THE
00:41:05.16\00:41:07.93
FLOOR!' THAT'D BE KIND OF SCARY,
00:41:07.93\00:41:11.27
WOULDN'T IT?
BECAUSE A NOSE BELONGS ON A
00:41:11.27\00:41:13.30
FACE. HOW LONG IS
THAT NOSE GOING TO
00:41:13.30\00:41:14.64
LAST ON THE
FLOOR? NOT VERY LONG.
00:41:14.64\00:41:19.04
AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY,
'WELL, YOU KNOW, I'VE ACCEPTED
00:41:19.04\00:41:21.84
JESUS BUT I DON'T REALLY NEED
TO BE PART OF A CHURCH.' AND I
00:41:21.84\00:41:26.21
IMAGINE, AS JOSHUA WENT AROUND
THAT CITY FIVE TIMES AND SIX
00:41:26.21\00:41:30.42
TIMES, PRETTY SOON RAHAB
WAS HEARING, 'KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK'
00:41:30.42\00:41:34.79
ON THE DOOR. SHE'D
LOOK THROUGH THE PEEP HOLE
00:41:34.79\00:41:37.39
AND SAY, 'WHAT'S THE PASSWORD?'
THEY'D SAY, 'RED ROPE.' AND
00:41:37.39\00:41:42.53
SHE'D OPEN THE DOOR AND THERE
THEY'D BE STANDING WITH ALL
00:41:42.53\00:41:45.80
THEIR BAGGAGE AND SHE'D OPEN THE
DOOR A LITTLE FURTHER AND SAY,
00:41:45.80\00:41:49.27
'I WANT YOU TO SEE ALL
THE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE.
00:41:49.27\00:41:50.87
WE DON'T HAVE
ROOM FOR YOUR BAGS.
00:41:50.87\00:41:53.21
IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, YOU HAVE TO
BE IN THE HOUSE, NOT NECESSARILY
00:41:53.21\00:41:55.94
YOUR STUFF.' IT REMINDS ME
OF A STORY WHEN GENGHIS KHAN WAS
00:41:55.94\00:42:00.58
GOING ACROSS ASIA, CONQUERING
DIFFERENT CITIES AND TOWNS THAT
00:42:00.58\00:42:03.65
- HE WENT TO THIS ONE TOWN AND
TWO PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN KIND TO
00:42:03.65\00:42:08.72
HIM HE SAID, 'I WILL LET YOU
LIVE AND YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING
00:42:08.72\00:42:14.66
THAT YOU CAN CARRY OUT OF
THE CITY WITH YOU, BUT THEN I'M
00:42:14.66\00:42:17.40
GOING TO DESTROY THE CITY AND
EVERYONE ELSE IN IT.' SO THOSE
00:42:17.40\00:42:20.57
TWO MEN APPEARED COMING OUT
OF THE CITY, ONE CARRYING HIS
00:42:20.57\00:42:22.90
MOTHER AND THE OTHER
ONE CARRYING HIS FATHER.
00:42:22.90\00:42:25.67
KHAN SAID, 'YOU CAN HAVE ALL YOU
CAN CARRY.' AND SO INSTEAD OF
00:42:25.67\00:42:30.58
CARRYING STUFF, THEY
CARRIED THEIR FAMILY.
00:42:30.58\00:42:33.55
WHAT IS IT THE
LORD WANTS US TO REACH?
00:42:33.55\00:42:35.78
A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST
IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS HE
00:42:35.78\00:42:38.39
POSSESSES. IT'S
ABOUT SAVING PEOPLE.
00:42:38.39\00:42:41.32
AND THEY'D LEAVE THEIR BAGS
AT THE BAG CLAIM AND SHE STARTED
00:42:41.32\00:42:45.26
LETTING MORE AND
MORE PEOPLE IN HER HOUSE.
00:42:45.26\00:42:47.66
AFTER THE SEVENTH DAY, JOSHUA
MARCHES AROUND THE CITY WITH HIS
00:42:47.66\00:42:51.87
MEN, THE SEVENTH TIME AND THEN
THE TRUMPETS BLOW AND THEY'D
00:42:51.87\00:42:59.24
BEEN PRACTICING FOR SIX DAYS
- THEY WERE REALLY GOOD BY THEN.
00:42:59.24\00:43:03.51
AND THEN JOSHUA SAID, 'LET
OUT THE SHOUT.' HE ACTUALLY SAYS
00:43:03.51\00:43:07.85
SOME WORDS THAT HAVE
HARBINGERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:43:07.85\00:43:12.85
VERSE 17 - VERSE 16 - JOSHUA
CHAPTER 6:16, "AND THE SEVENTH
00:43:12.85\00:43:16.99
TIME IT HAPPENED, WHEN THE
PRIESTS BLEW THE TRUMPETS, THAT
00:43:16.99\00:43:19.89
JOSHUA SAID TO THE PEOPLE:
'SHOUT, FOR THE LORD HAS GIVEN
00:43:19.89\00:43:23.90
YOU THE CITY! NOW THE
CITY SHALL BE DOOMED BY
00:43:23.90\00:43:27.07
THE LORD TO DESTRUCTION, IT AND
ALL WHO ARE IN IT. ONLY RAHAB
00:43:27.07\00:43:33.44
THE HARLOT" - WHAT A STRANGE
THING TO SAY - "ONLY RAHAB THE
00:43:33.44\00:43:38.31
HARLOT" - THAT'D PROBABLY BE THE
LAST PERSON IN THE WORLD YOU'D
00:43:38.31\00:43:41.45
EXPECT TO BE DELIVERED - "RAHAB
THE HARLOT WILL LIVE AND ALL
00:43:41.45\00:43:45.39
WHO" - NOT ALL THE STUFF,
BUT "ALL WHO ARE WITH HER IN THE
00:43:45.39\00:43:50.29
HOUSE, BECAUSE SHE HID
THE MESSENGERS THAT WE SENT."
00:43:50.29\00:43:55.00
ALRIGHT, WE TALKED
ABOUT RAHAB REPRESENTS WHAT?
00:43:55.00\00:43:57.43
>>CHURCH.
>>JOSHUA IS A TYPE OF JESUS
00:43:57.43\00:44:00.67
- IT'S WHAT HIS NAME
MEANS. WHO ARE THE MESSENGERS?
00:44:00.67\00:44:04.34
YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS
THAT THERE ARE TWO WITNESSES IN
00:44:04.34\00:44:07.68
REVELATION - SOMETIMES IT REFERS
TO THEM LIKE MOSES AND ELIJAH -
00:44:07.68\00:44:12.45
MOSES AND ELIJAH REPRESENT
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:44:12.45\00:44:15.92
TWO INDIVIDUALS APPEARED
TO JESUS TO CONFIRM HE WAS THE
00:44:15.92\00:44:18.32
MESSIAH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
MOSES AND ELIJAH, THE LAW AND
00:44:18.32\00:44:21.29
THE PROPHETS - AND I'LL
TALK ABOUT THAT ANOTHER NIGHT.
00:44:21.29\00:44:23.69
THIS IS TELLING
US THE WORD OF GOD.
00:44:23.69\00:44:26.86
'THY WORD I'VE HID IN MY HEART
THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN.' BECAUSE
00:44:26.86\00:44:30.30
RAHAB HID THE MESSENGERS IN THE
UPPER ROOM - YOU KNOW, I ALSO
00:44:30.30\00:44:35.70
THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING -
THEY WERE SAVED BY BEING HIDDEN
00:44:35.70\00:44:38.37
UNDER THE FLAX. WHAT
WAS SHE DOING? SHE WAS
00:44:38.37\00:44:42.04
DYEING CLOTH. WHAT
COLOR WAS SHE USING?
00:44:42.04\00:44:45.15
>>SCARLET. >>WHAT SAVED THEM?
00:44:45.15\00:44:47.35
THEY WERE HIDDEN UNDER THE - THE
RED - AND THEY WERE DELIVERED.
00:44:47.35\00:44:51.62
IN THE ROOF - THE UPPER
ROOM. WHERE WAS THE HOLY
00:44:51.62\00:44:54.16
SPIRIT POURED
OUT? THE UPPER ROOM.
00:44:54.16\00:44:57.19
WHERE DID ELIJAH
RESURRECT A BOY? UPPER ROOM.
00:44:57.19\00:45:00.76
WHERE DID
ELISHA RESURRECT A BOY?
00:45:00.76\00:45:02.93
IN THE UPPER ROOM. LAST SUPPER?
00:45:02.93\00:45:06.07
IN THE UPPER ROOM.
THAT'S YOUR UPPER ROOM.
00:45:06.07\00:45:09.77
'THY WORD I HAVE HID IN MY HEART
THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST
00:45:09.77\00:45:13.34
THEE.' HOW DID JESUS
FIGHT THE DEVIL'S TEMPTATION?
00:45:13.34\00:45:17.61
'IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN.
00:45:17.61\00:45:21.02
IT IS WRITTEN.' THESE
ARE THE TWO WITNESSES.
00:45:21.02\00:45:24.09
IT'S A SWORD WITH TWO
EDGES. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:45:24.09\00:45:28.12
MOSES AND ELIJAH
- THE WORD OF GOD.
00:45:28.12\00:45:29.96
"BECAUSE SHE HID THE
MESSENGERS THAT WE SENT."
00:45:29.96\00:45:34.56
VERSE 18 - AND, WELL, WE CAN GO
ON IN - IT SAYS THE ONLY THING
00:45:34.56\00:45:38.47
SAVED IS THE TREASURE IN THE
CITY AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS
00:45:38.47\00:45:41.37
GOING TO SAVE WHEN HE COMES FOR
THIS WORLD, WHICH IS THAT WHICH
00:45:41.37\00:45:43.74
IS PRECIOUS.
FRIENDS, IS OUR JOSHUA COMING?
00:45:43.74\00:45:48.78
>>YES. >>ARE
TRUMPETS GOING TO BLOW?
00:45:48.78\00:45:52.21
>>YES. >>IS IT
TRUE THAT THERE'S GOING
00:45:52.21\00:45:54.75
TO BE DESTRUCTION? >>YES.
00:45:54.75\00:45:57.32
>>AND JOSHUA GAVE THE SIGNAL
- THE TRUMPETS - THOSE SEVEN
00:45:57.32\00:45:59.65
TRUMPETS BLEW AND THE SOLDIERS
ALL GAVE A SHOUT - AND THAT MUST
00:45:59.65\00:46:04.19
HAVE BEEN AN
EARTH-RENDING SHOUT.
00:46:04.19\00:46:06.86
THEY SHOUTED AND THEY STOMPED
THE GROUND AND THEY CLASHED
00:46:06.86\00:46:09.06
THEIR SWORDS AGAINST THEIR
SHIELDS AND THERE WAS A RUCKUS
00:46:09.06\00:46:11.90
LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE
- A CACOPHONY - A ROAR CAME FROM
00:46:11.90\00:46:16.17
THAT. AND I
DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS A
00:46:16.17\00:46:18.24
COMBINATION OF SOUND WAVES
AND GOD'S ANGELS, BUT THE VERY
00:46:18.24\00:46:21.78
FOUNDATIONS OF JERICHO
BEGAN TO RUMBLE AND THERE
00:46:21.78\00:46:25.25
WAS AN EARTHQUAKE.
DOES THE BIBLE SAY THE LORD
00:46:25.25\00:46:28.05
HIMSELF WILL DESCEND
FROM HEAVEN WITH A WHAT?
00:46:28.05\00:46:30.42
>>A SHOUT. >>A SHOUT!
00:46:30.42\00:46:32.45
IS THERE GOING TO BE AN
EARTHQUAKE WHEN JESUS COMES?
00:46:32.45\00:46:34.89
>>YES. >>THERE'S
A MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE
00:46:34.89\00:46:36.26
SO MIGHTY AND SO GREAT
THERE'S NEVER BEEN ONE LIKE IT.
00:46:36.26\00:46:39.16
THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHOUT -
ARE THERE GOING TO BE TRUMPETS?
00:46:39.16\00:46:40.93
>>YES. >>WITH
THE TRUMP OF THE LORD
00:46:40.93\00:46:42.83
- THE LORD WILL
DESCEND FROM HEAVEN.
00:46:42.83\00:46:44.27
THIS STORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
IS A KEY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND
00:46:44.27\00:46:48.54
WHAT IS COMING IN THE FUTURE.
00:46:48.54\00:46:50.97
THE ONLY WAY, IN THE LAST DAYS,
FOR PEOPLE TO SURVIVE THE COMING
00:46:50.97\00:46:55.04
OF OUR JOSHUA AND THE BLOWING OF
THE TRUMPETS AND THE DESTRUCTION
00:46:55.04\00:46:58.55
THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, AND THE
SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL, IS TO BE
00:46:58.55\00:47:02.62
IN THE HOUSE WITH
THE RED ROPE. >>AMEN.
00:47:02.62\00:47:05.89
>>AND WHEN THEY BLEW THE
TRUMPETS THE GROUND SHOOK AND
00:47:05.89\00:47:07.92
THE WALLS IMPLODED.
THEY ALL FELL DOWN OUT FLAT -
00:47:07.92\00:47:12.83
WITH ONE EXCEPTION - ANY OF YOU
EVER DRIVEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY?
00:47:12.83\00:47:16.56
YOU PROBABLY SEE THIS HERE IN
MICHIGAN - WE DON'T HAVE IT SO
00:47:16.56\00:47:18.57
MUCH BACK IN CALIFORNIA, BECAUSE
WE DON'T BUILD ALL THE HOUSES
00:47:18.57\00:47:21.94
THERE WITH A FIREPLACE, BUT
YOU EVER SEEN WHERE A FARM BURNS
00:47:21.94\00:47:25.57
DOWN AND THE ONLY THING
LEFT STANDING IS A CHIMNEY?
00:47:25.57\00:47:28.88
THE STONE - AND IT'S JUST SORT
OF A SAD SILHOUETTE STANDING UP
00:47:28.88\00:47:32.08
BY ITSELF WHERE YOU KNEW THERE
WAS ONCE A HOUSE AND A FAMILY.
00:47:32.08\00:47:35.52
AND WHEN THAT EARTHQUAKE
HAPPENED, AND WHEN THE GROUND
00:47:35.52\00:47:39.32
SHOOK, AND WHEN EVERYTHING FELL,
AND ALL THE CITY FELL, AFTER THE
00:47:39.32\00:47:45.33
SMOKE FROM THAT IMPLOSION
CLEARED, THEY SAW THE SHADOW -
00:47:45.33\00:47:50.27
ONE LITTLE SECTION OF THE WALL
WAS STILL STANDING AND AS THE
00:47:50.27\00:47:54.14
DUST BEGAN TO BLOW AWAY THAT ONE
SECTION HAD A WINDOW IN IT AND
00:47:54.14\00:47:58.97
IT WAS JUST BIG ENOUGH FOR ONE
HOME AND THAT COLUMN THAT WAS
00:47:58.97\00:48:02.54
LEFT STANDING - AND A BUNCH
OF FACES WERE VERY ANXIOUSLY
00:48:02.54\00:48:06.11
LOOKING OUT OF THAT WINDOW AND
IN THAT WINDOW WAS A RED ROPE.
00:48:06.11\00:48:10.95
YOU KNOW, IT SAYS IN PSALMS 91
THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID
00:48:10.95\00:48:14.99
OF THE LAST DAYS - A THOUSAND
MAY - VERSE 7 - 'A THOUSAND
00:48:14.99\00:48:18.53
MIGHT FALL AT YOUR SIDE, AND
TEN THOUSAND AT YOUR RIGHT HAND;
00:48:18.53\00:48:22.73
BUT...ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL
YOU SEE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
00:48:22.73\00:48:25.13
WICKED. BECAUSE
YOU HAVE MADE THE LORD,
00:48:25.13\00:48:27.74
THE MOST HIGH, YOUR HABITATION,
THERE WILL BE NO PLAGUE THAT
00:48:27.74\00:48:30.51
WILL COME NEAR YOU OR TO YOUR
DWELLING.' AND SO RAHAB AND HER
00:48:30.51\00:48:34.18
FAMILY, THEY
COULD HEAR THE ROAR.
00:48:34.18\00:48:35.71
THEY COULD FEEL THE SHAKING AND
EVERYTHING AROUND THEM FELL, BUT
00:48:35.71\00:48:39.11
THEIR HOME DID NOT
FALL. GOD HELPED THEM SURVIVE.
00:48:39.11\00:48:44.02
NOW I IMAGINE THAT CONDITIONS
INSIDE HER HOUSE - PEOPLE WERE
00:48:44.02\00:48:49.82
PROBABLY COMPLAINING ABOUT
THE ROOM SERVICE AT THAT POINT,
00:48:49.82\00:48:52.09
DON'T YOU THINK? AND
YOU GET ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN
00:48:52.09\00:48:55.50
THE HOUSE - YOU GET A
LOT OF FAMILY UNDER ONE ROOF.
00:48:55.50\00:48:57.67
WHO WAS IT - BEN FRANKLIN -
THAT SAID, 'AFTER THREE DAYS,
00:48:57.67\00:48:59.60
COMPANY AND FISH
START TO SMELL.' (LAUGHTER)
00:48:59.60\00:49:04.91
AND THEY PROBABLY HAD A FEW
SCRABBLES AND ARGUMENTS AS THEY
00:49:04.91\00:49:08.64
WERE DEALING OUT
THEIR MEAGER PROVISIONS.
00:49:08.64\00:49:12.11
AND SOME OF THEM SAID, 'I CAN'T
STAND IT IN THIS HOUSE ANYMORE.
00:49:12.11\00:49:15.02
YOU'RE - IT'S JUST - I CAN'T GET
ALONG WITH THESE PEOPLE.' AND
00:49:15.02\00:49:17.52
RAHAB SAID - WHEN THEY WERE
GOING TO THE DOOR SHE SAID, 'THE
00:49:17.52\00:49:19.25
ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO STAY
INSIDE.' NOW I IMAGINE NOAH,
00:49:19.25\00:49:24.79
DURING THE FLOOD, WITH ALL THE
BILLOWING - BELLOWING ANIMALS -
00:49:24.79\00:49:30.30
DIDN'T SMELL VERY GOOD, BUT IT
WAS A LOT SAFER IN THE ARK THAN
00:49:30.30\00:49:35.80
OUTSIDE IN THE STORM.
AND SOMETIMES THE CHURCH, I
00:49:35.80\00:49:39.14
AGREE IT MAY HAVE PROBLEMS, AND
THERE ARE SOME KOOKY PEOPLE AND,
00:49:39.14\00:49:43.65
YES, EVEN JESUS HAD
A JUDAS IN HIS GROUP.
00:49:43.65\00:49:47.12
DON'T LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU
BECAUSE WE MUST BE IN CHRIST -
00:49:47.12\00:49:50.65
AND WHAT IS THE CHURCH
CALLED? THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:49:50.65\00:49:53.46
WE MUST BE IN
CHRIST'S BODY WHEN HE COMES.
00:49:53.46\00:49:57.46
WE NEED TO BE PART OF A
COLLECTIVE THAT ARE UNDER THE
00:49:57.46\00:50:00.70
BLOOD - THAT
BELIEVE THE COVENANT.
00:50:00.70\00:50:03.10
ARE YOU GETTING THE MEANING
IN THIS INCREDIBLE STORY?
00:50:03.10\00:50:06.20
>>AMEN. >>AND
I'M ALWAYS INSPIRED
00:50:06.20\00:50:07.67
BY THE FAITH OF
RAHAB. SO THE WALLS FALL.
00:50:07.67\00:50:11.94
RAHAB AND HER FAMILY - THE TWO
SPIES - JOSHUA TELLS THEM, HE
00:50:11.94\00:50:15.84
SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU GUYS BETTER GET
IN THERE.' HE SAYS TO THE TWO
00:50:15.84\00:50:19.78
MESSENGERS - JOSHUA SAID - VERSE
22 - "...TO THE MEN WHO HAD
00:50:19.78\00:50:23.59
SPIED OUT THE COUNTRY, 'GO
INTO THE HARLOT'S HOUSE,'" - NOW
00:50:23.59\00:50:25.82
USUALLY IT'S NOT THE MISSION
OF - COMING FROM JOSHUA, BUT HE
00:50:25.82\00:50:30.36
SAID, 'GO INTO THE HARLOT'S
HOUSE,' - AND - TO THE MEN -
00:50:30.36\00:50:33.70
BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
SHE LOOKED LIKE - THERE'S NO
00:50:33.70\00:50:36.33
PHOTOGRAPHS - 'AND GET THE WOMAN
AND EVERYBODY IN HER HOUSE.
00:50:36.33\00:50:43.00
YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS.
RESCUE HER BEFORE WE PUT THE
00:50:43.00\00:50:46.01
TORCH TO THE CITY.' SO THEY GO
AND THEY TOOK OUT RAHAB AND HER
00:50:46.01\00:50:51.01
FATHER AND HER MOTHER AND HER
BROTHERS AND ALL THAT SHE HAD.
00:50:51.01\00:50:54.55
THERE WERE A LOT OF OTHER
PEOPLE BESIDES HER FAMILY.
00:50:54.55\00:50:56.18
THEY BROUGHT OUT ALL OF HER
RELATIVES AND THEY LEFT THEM
00:50:56.18\00:51:00.29
OUTSIDE THE CAMP IN A SAFE SPOT
AND THEY BURNED THE CITY WITH
00:51:00.29\00:51:03.56
FIRE. WHAT IS
THE LORD GOING TO DO
00:51:03.56\00:51:04.89
WHEN JESUS COMES? IT
SAYS THE - WE WILL BE -
00:51:04.89\00:51:08.10
'THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE.
WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET
00:51:08.10\00:51:11.17
THE LORD IN THE AIR.' AND THEN
BEHIND THAT RAPTURE OF THE LORD
00:51:11.17\00:51:15.40
WHEN HE CATCHES US UP,
THERE'S GOING TO BE TREMENDOUS
00:51:15.40\00:51:18.71
DESTRUCTION, BUT HE SAVES
US FROM IT BEFORE IT HAPPENS.
00:51:18.71\00:51:23.85
ISN'T THAT GOOD NEWS? >>AMEN.
00:51:23.85\00:51:25.35
>>HE SAVES US AND THEN THERE'S
DESTRUCTION IMMEDIATELY AFTER.
00:51:25.35\00:51:28.88
BY THE WAY, SOME SAY THAT
THE SECOND COMING IS A SECRET.
00:51:28.88\00:51:32.95
YOU'RE JUST GOING TO WAKE UP ONE
MORNING AND EVERYBODY'S GONE.
00:51:32.95\00:51:35.62
WAS IT QUIET WHEN
JOSHUA CAME TO JERICHO?
00:51:35.62\00:51:38.76
>>NO. >>OR WAS
IT EXCEEDINGLY LOUD?
00:51:38.76\00:51:41.60
>>LOUD. >>WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE
00:51:41.60\00:51:43.57
WHEN JESUS COMES? >>LOUD.
00:51:43.57\00:51:45.77
>>IT SAYS THERE'S
GOING TO BE A ROAR.
00:51:45.77\00:51:47.30
THERE'S GOING TO BE A
SHOUT. AT THE LAST TRUMP THERE'S
00:51:47.30\00:51:49.64
GOING TO BE AN EARTHQUAKE.
THERE'S GOING TO BE A
00:51:49.64\00:51:51.14
RESURRECTION. EVERY
ONE OF YOUR SENSES WILL BE
00:51:51.14\00:51:53.21
SHOUTING THAT SOMETHING CLIMATIC
- TRAUMATIC - HAD HAPPENED.
00:51:53.21\00:51:57.08
YOU WON'T HAVE TO READ
ABOUT IT WITH A TEXT MESSAGE.
00:51:57.08\00:51:59.95
HE SAID IT'LL BE LIKE LIGHTNING
GOING FROM THE EAST EVEN UNTO
00:51:59.95\00:52:02.75
THE WEST. EVERY EYE WILL
BEHOLD HIM. JESUS IS COMING.
00:52:02.75\00:52:08.52
THEY TOOK RAHAB
OUTSIDE THE CITY.
00:52:08.52\00:52:11.79
EVERYTHING IN
JERICHO WAS DESTROYED.
00:52:11.79\00:52:14.36
AND RAHAB AND HER FAMILY,
THEY'RE ALL SAYING, 'WE ARE SO
00:52:14.36\00:52:16.16
THANKFUL THAT YOU TOLD
US TO COME INTO YOUR HOUSE.'
00:52:16.16\00:52:20.54
RAHAB REPRESENTS THE CHURCH.
WHY WOULD GOD PICK SOMEONE
00:52:20.54\00:52:23.91
LIKE RAHAB TO BE THAT SYMBOL?
WELL, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS,
00:52:23.91\00:52:27.08
EVEN IN THE BOOK OF HOSEA THAT
SOMETIMES HIS BRIDE HAS BEEN
00:52:27.08\00:52:31.65
UNFAITHFUL, BUT
HE STILL LOVES HER.
00:52:31.65\00:52:35.85
GOD SAYS THAT
SOMETIMES WE'VE BEEN UNFAITHFUL.
00:52:35.85\00:52:38.69
PETER DENIED THE LORD AND AFTER
HE ROSE, HE TOLD MARY MAGDALENE,
00:52:38.69\00:52:42.22
'GO TELL THE DISCIPLES -
AND PETER - THAT I'M ALIVE.' NOT
00:52:42.22\00:52:46.19
ONLY WAS RAHAB SAVED, AFTER
THINGS SETTLED DOWN, SHE'S JUST
00:52:46.19\00:52:49.96
OUTSIDE THE CITY. SHE
DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO.
00:52:49.96\00:52:52.03
HER WHOLE LIFE WAS IN
THE CITY - BURNED WITH FIRE.
00:52:52.03\00:52:54.34
SHE'S GOT HER FAMILY AND SHE
SAYS TO ONE OF THE SPIES, 'YOU
00:52:54.34\00:52:57.14
GOT ANY RECOMMENDATIONS
ABOUT WHAT WE DO NOW?'
00:52:57.14\00:53:02.11
AND ONE OF THE SPIES, I THINK
HIS NAME WAS SALMON, HE SAID,
00:53:02.11\00:53:06.48
'WELL LOOK, I'LL KEEP AN EYE ON
YOU.' RAHAB MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN
00:53:06.48\00:53:13.05
ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LADY AND HE WAS
INSPIRED BY HER FAITH AND HER
00:53:13.05\00:53:18.49
COURAGE. AND SHE
THOUGHT HE WAS PRETTY
00:53:18.49\00:53:20.93
BRAVE TOO. BECAUSE,
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE
00:53:20.93\00:53:24.63
AND IT TELLS US THAT - YOU GO TO
THE GENEALOGIES OF JESUS IN THE
00:53:24.63\00:53:28.64
BOOK OF MATTHEW -
HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THAT?
00:53:28.64\00:53:32.57
IT TALKS ABOUT CHRIST'S FAMILY
TREE - RAM BEGAT AMMINADAB,
00:53:32.57\00:53:36.54
AMMINADAB BEGAT NAHSHON, AND
NAHSHON BEGAT SALMON AND SALMON
00:53:36.54\00:53:42.05
BEGAT BOAZ BY RAHAB - AND RAHAB
AND SALMON - RAHAB AND SALMON
00:53:42.05\00:53:50.83
HAD BOAZ AND BOAZ MARRIED RUTH,
WHO HAD OBED, AND OBED BEGAT
00:53:50.83\00:53:56.93
JESSE, WHO BEGAT DAVID,
OF WHOM CAME THE CHRIST.
00:53:56.93\00:54:02.30
ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT IN THE
FAMILY TREE OF JESUS YOU'VE GOT
00:54:02.30\00:54:07.04
TAMAR, WHO DRESSED UP LIKE A
PROSTITUTE, YOU'VE GOT BATHSHEBA
00:54:07.04\00:54:11.85
WHO WAS AN ADULTERESS,
AND YOU'VE GOT RAHAB.
00:54:11.85\00:54:17.52
MAYBE THE LORD'S TRYING TO TELL
US THERE'S HOPE FOR US, WHAT DO
00:54:17.52\00:54:20.52
YOU THINK? >>AMEN.
00:54:20.52\00:54:22.89
>>CHRIST CAME
THROUGH THE LINE OF RAHAB.
00:54:22.89\00:54:27.03
AND THEN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE
SOME VERY INTERESTING - ALMOST
00:54:27.03\00:54:29.73
CONTRADICTIONS - IT SAYS NOT
ONLY ARE WE INSPIRED BY RAHAB'S
00:54:29.73\00:54:33.87
FAITH, IT TELLS US THAT IN
HEBREWS 11:31, "BY FAITH THE
00:54:33.87\00:54:38.61
HARLOT RAHAB DID NOT
PERISH." WHAT'S GOING TO KEEP US
00:54:38.61\00:54:41.08
FROM PERISHING, FRIENDS? FAITH.
00:54:41.08\00:54:44.15
WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT
NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
00:54:44.15\00:54:47.92
LIFE. JAMES
SAYS, "LIKEWISE WAS NOT
00:54:47.92\00:54:49.98
RAHAB THE HARLOT
NOT JUSTIFIED BY WORKS?"
00:54:49.98\00:54:52.35
I WISH THESE APOSTLES
WOULD MAKE UP THEIR MIND.
00:54:52.35\00:54:54.76
PAUL SAYS 'BY FAITH',
JAMES SAYS 'BY WORKS'.
00:54:54.76\00:54:57.96
WELL, WE'RE NOT SAVED BY
WORKS, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:54:57.96\00:55:00.46
IF YOU HAVE FAITH
IT'LL BE SEEN IN YOUR WORKS.
00:55:00.46\00:55:02.80
>>AMEN. >>AND
BECAUSE SHE DID HAVE FAITH
00:55:02.80\00:55:04.87
IN JOSHUA - SHE SHOWED IT BY
PUTTING HER LIFE ON THE LINE AND
00:55:04.87\00:55:08.90
RECEIVING THE MESSENGERS WHO
CAME TO HER. DO YOU HAVE FAITH?
00:55:08.90\00:55:14.88
FRIENDS, I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR
YOU - AND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING
00:55:14.88\00:55:18.48
- JESUS IS COMING -
JOSHUA IS SURELY COMING.
00:55:18.48\00:55:21.75
WE DON'T KNOW WHEN BUT
HE'S PROMISED HE'S COMING AND HE
00:55:21.75\00:55:24.05
NEVER BREAKS HIS
PROMISE, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:55:24.05\00:55:25.72
>>HE SAID, 'I WILL COME AGAIN.'
HE CAME ON TIME THE FIRST TIME.
00:55:25.72\00:55:28.22
HE WILL COME AGAIN
ON TIME THE SECOND TIME.
00:55:28.22\00:55:31.03
AND THERE'S GOING TO BE
TRUMPETS THAT WILL BE BLOWING.
00:55:31.03\00:55:33.96
AND THERE'S GOING TO BE AN
EARTH THAT WILL BE SHAKING.
00:55:33.96\00:55:36.77
AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHOUT
WHEN HE COMES AND THERE'S GOING
00:55:36.77\00:55:39.67
TO BE A DELIVERANCE AND A
RESURRECTION AND THERE'S GOING
00:55:39.67\00:55:41.97
TO BE TREMENDOUS DESTRUCTION AND
OUR ONLY WAY OF ESCAPE DURING
00:55:41.97\00:55:45.94
THAT TIME - LIKE THE ISRAELITES
IN EGYPT, WE NEED THE BLOOD ON
00:55:45.94\00:55:50.48
OUR DOOR. LIKE RAHAB
AND HER HOUSEHOLD, WE
00:55:50.48\00:55:54.02
NEED THE SIGN OF
THAT SCARLET ROPE.
00:55:54.02\00:55:57.25
JESUS IS THE LADDER
THAT REACHES TO HEAVEN.
00:55:57.25\00:55:59.72
HE LET DOWN A SCARLET LINE
SO THAT WE COULD BE REDEEMED.
00:55:59.72\00:56:04.16
AND IT'S GOING
TO BE THE ONLY WAY.
00:56:04.16\00:56:06.06
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC) YOU KNOW,
WE DON'T WANT TO JUST HANG ON TO
00:56:06.06\00:56:08.50
THAT LINE. HOW LONG
CAN YOU HOLD ON TO A ROPE?
00:56:08.50\00:56:12.90
YOUR HANDS GET WEAK AFTER
AWHILE IF IT'S HOLDING YOU UP.
00:56:12.90\00:56:15.14
YOU WANT TO WRAP IT AROUND
AND TIE A KNOT, DON'T YOU?
00:56:15.14\00:56:18.77
HAVE YOU MADE A DECISION TO
ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR?
00:56:18.77\00:56:21.88
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON
IN JERICHO THAT COULD DISTRACT
00:56:21.88\00:56:25.55
YOU - A LOT OF
ENTERTAINMENT IN SIN CITY.
00:56:25.55\00:56:28.92
BUT THE ONLY WAY TO BE
SAFE IS TO BE IN CHRIST.
00:56:28.92\00:56:32.25
YOU ACCEPT JESUS. YOU
ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE FOR YOU.
00:56:32.25\00:56:34.96
HE PROMISES THAT THE BLOOD OF
HIS SON CAN WASH AWAY ALL OF OUR
00:56:34.96\00:56:39.23
SIN AND YOU BECOME PART OF HIS
PEOPLE - IN SPITE OF PROBLEMS
00:56:39.23\00:56:45.50
YOU MIGHT SEE IN THE
CHURCH. HE WANTS US TO BE
00:56:45.50\00:56:47.90
PART OF HIS BODY.
AND WHAT DOES RAHAB DO?
00:56:47.90\00:56:50.24
SHE TELLS EVERYBODY JOSHUA'S
COMING - INVITES THEM INTO HER
00:56:50.24\00:56:53.31
HOUSE SO THEY'LL BE
READY WHEN HE COMES BACK.
00:56:53.31\00:56:56.11
IS JESUS COMING? IT'S
NOT JUST OURSELVES BEING
00:56:56.11\00:56:58.88
READY, WE WANT
TO GET OTHERS READY.
00:56:58.88\00:57:00.55
HOW ABOUT YOU,
FRIENDS? ISN'T THAT YOUR DESIRE?
00:57:00.55\00:57:02.42
THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING?
THIS IS THE GOSPEL STORY - THE
00:57:02.42\00:57:05.85
STORY OF RAHAB, THIS HERO OF
FAITH, TELLS US HOW TO BE SAVED.
00:57:05.85\00:57:09.56
AND I WANT TO BE
READY, DON'T YOU?
00:57:09.56\00:57:11.43
>>AMEN.
00:57:11.43\00:57:12.59
>>FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GOOD NEWS.
00:57:12.59\00:57:15.40
AND I PRAY THAT EACH ONE OF
US CAN ACCEPT THAT COVENANT THAT
00:57:15.40\00:57:18.60
YOU'VE OFFERED IN
GIVING US YOUR OWN BELOVED SON.
00:57:18.60\00:57:22.10
BE WITH US THROUGH THIS SERIES
AND IN OUR LIVES, THAT WE CAN BE
00:57:22.10\00:57:24.94
PART OF YOUR PEOPLE,
IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN.
00:57:24.94\00:57:29.48
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