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00:09 >>SO WHAT IS THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD? 00:12 NATURALLY YOU'D SAY THE SUN, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 00:14 BRIGHTEST MAN-MADE LIGHT IN THE WORLD. 00:17 IT'S THE LIGHT THAT SHINES OUT OF THE ROOF OF THAT 00:19 PYRAMID-SHAPED HOTEL IN LAS VEGAS CALLED THE LUXOR. 00:23 THERE IN THE CAP OF THAT HOTEL, THERE'S A ROOM THAT CONTAINS 39 00:27 WASHING-MACHINE-SIZED XENON BULBS AND EACH OF THOSE BULBS 00:31 REQUIRES ABOUT 7,000 WATTS. ALTOGETHER THEY PRODUCE ABOUT 40 00:36 BILLION CANDLE POWER OF LIGHT. CAN YOU IMAGINE GETTING THAT 00:40 ELECTRIC BILL AT THE LUXOR HOTEL EVERY MONTH? 00:43 THAT LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT THAT PLANES CAN SEE IT 250 MILES 00:47 AWAY. THEY'RE SHOOTING LIGHT TEN MILES 00:50 UP INTO SPACE, MEANING THAT IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE FLOATING BY, 00:53 YOU COULD READ A NEWSPAPER UP THERE. 00:56 AND, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED, THAT BRIGHT LIGHT HAS BECOME THE 00:59 WORLD'S BEST BUG ATTRACTOR, BRINGING IN MOTHS AND BATS AND 01:03 OWLS, CREATING ITS OWN ECOSYSTEM THERE AT NIGHT ABOVE THE HOTEL. 01:07 BUT THE SAD THING ABOUT THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD IS, 01:10 ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NIGHT AIR IS CLEAR - WITHOUT ANY PARTICLES - 01:13 THE LIGHT DOESN'T HIT ANYTHING AND IT'S INVISIBLE. 01:17 IT SHOOTS UP INTO EMPTY SPACE. THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE 01:21 WORLD ILLUMINATES NOTHING. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 01:24 THAT THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT WASTED LIGHT, AND THAT'S 01:27 THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD. IT SAYS, IN PSALM 119, VERSE 01:31 105, "THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH." 01:36 AND YET, SO MANY PEOPLE ARE WALKING IN DARKNESS. 01:39 FURTHERMORE, JESUS SAID IF YOU DO HAVE THAT LIGHT, MAKE SURE 01:42 YOU DON'T PUT IT UNDER A BUSHEL, BUT YOU LET IT SHINE AND 01:45 ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS. JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 01:48 5, SET YOUR LIGHT UP ON A HILL, LIKE A CITY, SO THAT 01:51 ALL MIGHT SEE IT. LIGHT ONLY BENEFITS OTHERS WHEN 01:55 IT REFLECTS OFF OF SOMETHING. GOD WANTS OUR LIGHTS TO 01:59 ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS. SO ARE YOU GLOWING FOR GOD? 02:03 REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, 'LET THERE BE LIGHT.' (MUSIC) 02:14 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS 02:15 PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE 02:19 ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND PROBABLY TELLING STORIES 02:23 ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD 02:26 TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' 02:30 IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE 02:33 EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE 02:36 BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S WORD. GO DEEPER. 02:40 VISIT THE AMAZING BIBLE TIMELINE AT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 02:46 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM 02:51 OR CALL 1-800-538-7275. (MUSIC) 03:10 >>TONIGHT'S STORY IS GOING TO BE, WHAT I THINK IS, A 03:13 WONDERFUL CATALYST FOR TALKING ABOUT SOME VERY IMPORTANT 03:16 EVENTS, NOT ONLY IN THE PAST, BUT IT'LL HELP US UNDERSTAND 03:20 SOME THINGS THAT ARE COMING IN THE FUTURE. 03:22 AND IT'S TITLED THE RED ROPE OF RAHAB. 03:25 NOW, IN OUR LAST PRESENTATION, WE TALKED ABOUT A HERO OF FAITH, 03:28 A WOMAN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, MARY MAGDALENE. TONIGHT WE'RE 03:32 GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT A HERO OF FAITH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 03:36 ANOTHER WOMAN, BY THE NAME OF RAHAB. AND SHE'S GOT - THERE'S 03:39 ANOTHER HERO IN THE STORY AND THAT'S JOSHUA. 03:42 IT KIND OF TAKES AFTER THIS PANEL THAT YOU SEE THERE. 03:44 YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE RED ROPE COMING OUT OF THAT WINDOW AND 03:48 WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AS WE PROCEED. 03:50 WE'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER SO I'M GOING TO INVITE YOU, IF YOU HAVE 03:53 YOUR BIBLES, TO TURN TO THE BOOK OF JOSHUA - JOSHUA CHAPTER 2 - 03:58 AND JUST TO GIVE YOU THE STAGE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE: THE 04:04 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE JUST COME THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 04:08 THEY ARE ON THE BORDERS, ABOUT TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND. 04:13 BUT THEY WERE A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED ABOUT ENTERING THE 04:15 PROMISED LAND BECAUSE THE SPIES THAT HAD LOOKED AT THE PROMISED 04:20 LAND FORTY YEARS EARLIER HAD SEEN THE STRONG NATIONS AND THE 04:25 LARGE WALLS AND THEY THOUGHT, 'HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO 04:27 CONQUER A NATION WITH WALLS LIKE THAT?' YOU KNOW, A 04:31 FEW YEARS AGO, KAREN AND I WENT TO CHINA WITH OUR BOYS. 04:35 I'VE BEEN THERE ABOUT FOUR TIMES, BUT I REMEMBER WE WENT 04:37 TOGETHER ONCE AND WE WENT AND LOOKED AT THE GREAT WALL OF 04:41 CHINA. IT IS AN ENGINEERING MARVEL. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS 04:45 ABOUT 1500 MILES LONG, BUT THEY'VE DISCOVERED IT'S 04:48 ACTUALLY LONGER THAN THAT - WITH SATELLITE IMAGERY, THEY 04:51 FOUND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF MILES THAT THEY DID NOT EVEN 04:54 REALIZE BEFORE THAT THEY CAN DETECT - THAT HAD BEEN BUILT. 04:58 AND THAT WALL - RIGHT NOW SOMEONE SAID, 'IF YOU TOOK ALL 05:02 THE MATERIAL THAT WAS INVOLVED IN BUILDING THE GREAT WALL OF 05:05 CHINA, YOU COULD MAKE A WALL THAT WOULD BE ABOUT 5 FEET HIGH 05:09 AND 3 FEET WIDE ALL THE WAY AROUND THE WORLD AT THE EQUATOR. 05:14 THE WALLS OF JERICHO WERE ALSO PRETTY FORMIDABLE. 05:18 THE MAIN CITY THEY NEEDED TO CONQUER TO ENTER THE PROMISED 05:21 LAND WAS THE CITY OF JERICHO, AND IT HAD SOME MASSIVE WALLS 05:25 AND GATES AND THEY THOUGHT, 'HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CONQUER THE 05:29 PROMISED LAND IF WE CAN'T TAKE THIS PRIMARY CITY OF JERICHO?' 05:34 NOW JERICHO WAS LOCATED RIGHT ON THE INTERSECTION OF THREE 05:38 CONTINENTS. IT WAS - AND IT'S ONE OF THE 05:42 OLDEST CITIES IN THE WORLD - IT WAS JUST RIGHT THERE AT LAND 05:45 BRIDGE, WHERE YOU'VE GOT ISRAEL THAT CONNECTS AFRICA AND ASIA 05:50 AND EUROPE, YOU KNOW, TO THE WEST - I'M SORRY, TO THE EAST OF 05:55 ISRAEL IS A BIG DESERT AND SO NO ONE REALLY WENT THROUGH THERE. 05:58 SO THEY ALL WENT THROUGH THE JORDAN VALLEY. 06:00 IT'S ONE OF THE LOWEST PLACES IN THE WORLD. 06:02 AND RIGHT THERE, WHERE THE CITY OF JERICHO WAS, WAS SORT OF THE 06:06 MAIN FUNNEL ENTRANCE POINT WHERE THEY NEEDED TO CROSS. 06:09 AND SO, TO CONQUER THE PROMISED LAND - FIRST BIG BATTLE THEY 06:13 WERE GOING TO HAVE - HOW DO THEY DEAL WITH THE CITY OF JERICHO? 06:17 AND SO, WE TAKE UP CHAPTER 2 AND IT SAYS, "NOW JOSHUA THE SON OF 06:21 NUN" - YOU THINK EVERYBODY'S GOT TO BE THE SON OF SOMEBODY, BUT 06:24 THEY ALWAYS TEASE THAT JOSHUA WAS THE SON OF NONE - "HE SENT 06:28 OUT TWO MEN FROM ACACIA GROVE TO SPY SECRETLY, SAYING, 'GO, VIEW 06:32 THE LAND, ESPECIALLY JERICHO.'" - SO HE SENDS OUT THESE TWO 06:37 SPIES. NOW, YOU REMEMBER, FORTY YEARS 06:41 EARLIER, TWELVE SPIES WERE SENT OUT FROM THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO 06:45 EXPLORE THE PROMISED LAND. THEY LOOKED AT IT FOR FORTY DAYS. 06:48 WHEN THEY CAME BACK, MOST OF THEM DIDN'T HAVE FAITH THEY 06:51 COULD TAKE THE PROMISED LAND. THERE WERE ONLY TWO THAT HAD 06:54 FAITH AND THEIR NAMES WERE JOSHUA AND CALEB. 06:58 SO NOW, JOSHUA DOESN'T WANT TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE. 07:00 THE SPIES FORTY YEARS EARLIER HAD SORT OF BEEN PICKED BY 07:03 DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND NOW JOSHUA SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO 07:06 HAND-PICK TWO MEN THAT I KNOW HAVE FAITH.' AND SO HE PICKED 07:10 THESE TWO MEN - WE ONLY CAN TAKE AN EDUCATED GUESS ABOUT THE NAME 07:14 OF ONE OF THEM. I'LL GET TO THAT LATER. 07:17 AND HE SENT THEM DOWN AND HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO GO SPY 07:20 JERICHO AND SEE WHAT THEIR DEFENSES LOOK LIKE.' THESE TWO 07:24 SPIES, THEY COME TO THE HOUSE OF A HARLOT NAMED RAHAB AND THEY 07:30 LODGE THERE. NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A 07:32 BUSINESS TRIP THAT WENT BAD. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE TWO 07:36 PEOPLE HE'S SUPPOSED TO TRUST. I SHOULD PROBABLY EXPLAIN THAT, 07:39 IN BIBLE TIMES, THERE WAS A VERY THIN LINE THAT DIVIDED THE 07:43 HOTEL BUSINESS FROM THE HARLOT BUSINESS. 07:46 AND THE PEOPLE WHO OFTEN OWNED ONE, OWNED THE OTHER. 07:50 AND THEY WOULD LOCATE AT THE CITY GATES WHERE ALL THE 07:53 CARAVANS AND THE TRAVELERS WERE, RIGHT BY THE WALL, AND THEY 07:56 THOUGHT THE BEST WAY FOR US TO, SORT OF, SLIP IN AND DISAPPEAR 08:00 IN THE CROWD WOULD BE AT RAHAB'S HOUSE - AT THE HOTEL WHERE 08:05 THERE'S ALL THESE STRANGERS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THAT ARE 08:08 COMING AND GOING AND PEOPLE DON'T RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER 08:10 BECAUSE THERE ARE ALL THESE CARAVANS AND WE'LL JUST - AND 08:13 WHAT A PLACE! YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE 08:15 THE INTERNET BACK THEN. IF YOU WANTED TO GATHER 08:17 INFORMATION, YOU WANTED TO STAY WHERE THE CIRCULATION OF NEWS 08:21 WAS AND THAT WAS BY THE GATES OF THE CITY. 08:24 AND SO, IT WAS A STRATEGIC REASON, IT WASN'T AN IMMORAL 08:26 REASON, THEY STAYED AT THIS HOTEL. 08:29 AND RAHAB, SHE IS IDENTIFIED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE AS 08:33 RAHAB THE HARLOT. IT'S NOT A VERY GOOD PEDIGREE TO 08:35 ALWAYS HAVE CONNECTED WITH YOUR NAME, BUT THAT'S HOW - NEW 08:38 AND OLD TESTAMENT - HOW SHE'S IDENTIFIED. 08:41 BUT SHE'S ALSO IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON OF FAITH. 08:45 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HEROES OF FAITH. 08:46 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, YOU CAN FIND 08:49 WHERE IT SAYS IN HEBREWS 11:31, "BY FAITH THE HARLOT RAHAB 08:55 PERISHED NOT WITH THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT WHEN SHE RECEIVED 08:59 THE SPIES WITH PEACE." AND SO, YOU SEE RIGHT AWAY THAT 09:02 RAHAB IS A CHARACTER THAT HAS GREAT FAITH. 09:05 SO THEY CAME AND THEY STAYED THERE. 09:07 BUT BECAUSE THEIR ACCENT WAS DIFFERENT AND BECAUSE THE 09:11 KINGDOM WAS ON MAXIMUM ALERT RIGHT NOW, THESE TWO MESSENGERS 09:17 THAT WERE SENT FROM JOSHUA BEGAN TO ATTRACT ATTENTION - NOW 09:19 KEEP IN MIND, AS THEY STOOD ON THE WALLS OF JERICHO, JERICHO'S 09:24 NOT THAT FAR FROM THE JORDAN RIVER. 09:26 ON A CLEAR DAY, YOU CAN SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN. 09:29 WHO WAS CAMPED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN? 09:32 YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE CAMP OF ISRAEL THAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE 09:35 OF THIS RIVER, AND AS THE PEOPLE LOOK ACROSS THE RIVER, THEY SEE 09:40 SOMETHING THAT REALLY IS UNNERVING. 09:42 THEY SEE THAT THERE'S A PILLAR OF FIRE RISING UP ABOVE THIS 09:45 CAMP THAT IS ILLUMINATING THE CAMP EVERY NIGHT. 09:48 DURING THE DAY, WHILE THE PEOPLE IN JERICHO ARE SWEATING AND 09:51 SWELTERING UNDER THE HEAT OF THE NOONDAY SUN, THERE'S A CLOUD 09:55 SHADING THE CAMP OF ISRAEL. IN THE MORNING, THEY LOOK FROM 09:58 THEIR WALLS AND THEY SEE THE ISRAELITES GOING OUT OF THE CITY 10:01 AND GATHERING THEIR FOOD FROM THE GROUND THAT SOMEHOW 10:05 MIRACULOUSLY RAINED FROM HEAVEN OVERNIGHT. THEY KNOW THERE IS 10:09 SOME SUPERNATURAL POWER THAT IS HELPING THIS GROUP. 10:13 THEY'VE ALSO HEARD FROM THE OTHER WARS THAT HAPPENED ON THE 10:16 OTHER SIDE OF JORDAN THAT THE INTENTION OF THE ISRAELITES WAS 10:20 TO COME AND RECLAIM THE LAND THAT WAS THEIRS. 10:24 IT MADE THEM VERY NERVOUS. SO THE CITY IS ON - YOU REMEMBER 10:28 WHEN WE HAD ALL THE HOMELAND ALERT COLORS? 10:31 THEY HAD ORANGE AND GREEN AND YELLOW AND RED. 10:34 I GUESS THE WORST WAS RED. RED ALERT - DO YOU EVER HAVE 10:37 A RED ALERT HERE FOR HOMELAND SECURITY IN MICHIGAN? MAYBE. 10:43 WELL, THEY WERE ON ORANGE ALERT IN JERICHO RIGHT THEN. 10:48 AND SO THEY'RE WATCHING VERY CAREFULLY, BUT THE GATES ARE 10:52 STILL OPEN. SO THESE TWO SPIES COME IN AND 10:57 THEY STAY AT RAHAB'S HOUSE AND THEY'RE TRYING TO GATHER 10:59 INFORMATION. AND AS THEY ASK QUESTIONS SOME 11:01 OF THEM NOTICED THEIR ACCENT AND THEY WENT TO THE KING OF 11:05 JERICHO. THEY SAID, 'THERE'S A COUPLE OF 11:06 CHARACTERS AT RAHAB'S HOUSE AND I'M ALMOST SURE THEY'RE 11:09 ISRAELITES AND THEY'VE PROBABLY COME TO SPY OUT THE LAND.' 11:14 NOW, BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER IN THE STORY, I WANT YOU TO 11:16 UNDERSTAND WHAT SOME OF THE ANALOGIES ARE SO WE CAN DRAW 11:19 SOME CONCLUSIONS. JOSHUA SENT TWO MESSENGERS TO A CITY THAT 11:24 WAS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION. HOW DO YOU SAY THE NAME JESUS IN 11:29 HEBREW? >>YESHUA. 11:32 >>JOSHUA, OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, YESHUA. 11:36 AND THE WAY THAT YOU SAY JOSHUA'S NAME IN GREEK IS JESUS . 11:41 JESUS AND JOSHUA HAD THE EXACT SAME NAME. 11:45 MARY DID NOT LOOK OVER THE BASSINET/MANGER AND CALL HIM 11:49 JESUS. SHE CALLED HIM YESHUA. 11:53 AND JOSHUA MEANS YAHWEH DELIVERS OR YAHWEH SAVES . 11:58 THERE'S THREE JOSHUAS IN THE BIBLE - THREE JESUSES - 12:02 PRINCIPLE ONES. YOU'VE GOT ONE THAT IS A GENERAL 12:06 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT LED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM THE 12:09 WILDERNESS INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 12:12 ONE IS A PRIEST DURING THE TIME OF NEHEMIAH THAT LED THE PEOPLE 12:15 FROM BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 12:18 AND THEN YOU HAVE JESUS, WHO LEADS US FROM SIN INTO THE 12:22 PROMISED LAND. HE DELIVERS - JOSHUA SAVES. 12:26 NOW THE KING OF JERICHO, HE'S THE OPPOSITE. 12:29 SO, IF JOSHUA IS JESUS, WHO'S THE KING OF JERICHO? 12:31 >>SATAN. >>HE'S THE DEVIL. 12:34 AND WHEN MESSENGERS COME FROM JOSHUA TO INVADE THE DEVIL'S 12:38 TERRITORY, DOES THE DEVIL KNOW ABOUT IT? OH YEAH, HE DOES. 12:42 SO HE SENDS SOME SOLDIERS TO RAHAB'S HOUSE WITH THE MESSAGE, 12:49 "SO THE KING OF JERICHO" - I'M IN VERSE 3 - "SENT TO RAHAB, 12:51 SAYING, 'BRING OUT THE MEN WHO HAVE COME TO YOU, WHO HAVE 12:54 ENTERED YOUR HOUSE, FOR THEY HAVE COME TO SEARCH OUT ALL THE 12:57 COUNTRY.'" NOW THEY DIDN'T JUST GO BARGING IN FOR A FEW REASONS: 13:01 ONE IS HER PLACE OF BUSINESS REQUIRED DISCRETION, AND SO THEY 13:06 DIDN'T WANT TO GO JUST BARGING IN. 13:08 THEY SAID, 'YOU NEED TO SEARCH. 13:10 WE UNDERSTAND THAT AMONG YOUR GUESTS, YOU'VE GOT TWO' - AND 13:12 SHE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I SORT OF - LET ME GO FIND THEM. 13:15 I'LL BE RIGHT BACK.' AND WHILE THEY'RE WAITING AT THE DOOR - 13:17 ANOTHER REASON THEY DIDN'T GO BARGING IN, IN BIBLE TIMES, A 13:21 PERSON'S HOME WAS CALLED A SANCTUARY. 13:23 YOU DIDN'T JUST GO INTO SOMEONE'S HOUSE. 13:25 IF YOU HAD A QUARREL WITH SOMEONE INSIDE, YOU WOULD SAY, 13:28 'BRING THEM OUT.' EVEN THE MOB, AT THE HOUSE OF LOT IN SODOM, 13:32 THEY SAID, 'BRING OUT THE TWO VISITORS THAT HAVE COME TO YOU.' 13:37 AND SO, A HOME WAS A SANCTUARY. YOU DID NOT GO INTO SOMEBODY'S 13:40 HOME. AND SO, THEY SAID, 'BRING THEM 13:43 OUT.' SHE SAID, 'I'LL GO FETCH 'EM. LET ME LOOK.' SHE - 13:46 SHE DOES SOMETHING THAT WAS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED BY ANYBODY. 13:50 SOMETHING IS GOING ON IN RAHAB'S HEART AND IN HER LIFE BECAUSE 13:54 SHE MAKES AN INSTANT DECISION TO PUT HER LIFE ON THE LINE TO SAVE 13:58 TWO STRANGERS. AND SHE GOES TO THEM AND 14:02 SHE SAYS, 'COME WITH ME. THERE'S A GUARD OUTSIDE. 14:04 DON'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS.' SHE BRINGS THEM UP TO THE ROOF. 14:07 SHE HIDES THEM UNDER THESE STACKS OF FLAX. 14:10 NOW FLAX IS A CLOTH FROM WHICH YOU MAKE - 14:13 IT'S A PLANT THAT YOU WOULD MAKE CLOTH FROM AND SHE'S DRYING THEM 14:17 AFTER DYING THEM, UP ON THE ROOF THERE. 14:20 EVIDENTLY SHE NOT ONLY HAD THE HOTEL BUSINESS AND THE BORDELLO 14:24 BUSINESS, BUT SHE HAD A CLOTH BUSINESS. 14:27 THEY DID A LOT OF MULTI-TASKING BACK THEN. 14:29 AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, LYDIA WAS A SELLER OF WHAT COLOR? 14:35 >>PURPLE. >>LYDIA WAS A SELLER OF PURPLE. 14:37 EVIDENTLY RAHAB WAS A SELLER OF SCARLET, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND 14:40 OUT LATER. BECAUSE THE SCARLET COMES IN 14:44 - AND IT'S A SYMBOL OF THE COVENANT. 14:46 SO STAY WITH ME, WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 14:49 SO SHE BRINGS THEM UP TO THE ROOF. 14:51 SHE COMES DOWN TO THE GUARDS AND SHE SAYS TO THEM - I'M IN VERSE 14:55 5 - SHE SAYS TWO MEN DID COME "BUT I DID NOT KNOW WHERE THEY 15:00 WERE FROM." - SHE'S LYING - "AND IT HAPPENED AS THE GATE WAS 15:04 BEING SHUT, WHEN IT WAS DARK, THAT THE MEN WENT OUT. 15:07 WHERE THE MEN WENT I DO NOT KNOW; PURSUE THEM QUICKLY, FOR 15:10 YOU MAY OVERTAKE THEM.' (BUT SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UP TO THE ROOF 15:14 AND HIDDEN THEM WITH THE STALKS OF FLAX, WHICH SHE HAD LAID IN 15:16 ORDER ON THE ROOF.) NOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, HOW 15:22 COULD THIS WOMAN BE IDENTIFIED IN THE BIBLE AS A PERSON OF 15:26 GREAT FAITH AND HERE SHE JUST TOLD A BOLD-FACED LIE TO THE 15:30 GUARDS?' YES, SHE DID. 15:33 KEEP IN MIND, SHE WAS ALSO A HARLOT SO SHE HAD OTHER ISSUES. 15:37 (LAUGHTER) GOD KIND OF MEETS US WHERE WE'RE AT AND, FURTHERMORE, 15:41 IN TIMES OF WAR - THE BIBLE DOESN'T ENDORSE EVERYTHING 15:44 EVERYBODY DID, IT JUST GIVES AN HONEST RECKONING OF WHAT 15:47 HAPPENED. IN TIMES OF WAR, IT WAS 15:50 COMMON TO USE DECEPTION. YOU KNOW, ONCE DAVID DRIBBLED 15:55 ON HIS BEARD AND CLAWED ON THE WALLS AND ACTED LIKE HE WAS 15:58 CRAZY BECAUSE THE PHILISTINE KING WAS GOING TO ARREST HIM. 16:01 HE WASN'T CRAZY, BUT THAT WAS DECEPTIVE. 16:05 ANOTHER TIME, JOSHUA ATTACKED A CITY AND ACTED LIKE THEY WERE 16:08 BEING DEFEATED SO THEY COULD DRAW THE SOLDIERS OUT. 16:11 HE WASN'T BEING DEFEATED. IT WAS A TACTIC OF DECEPTION. 16:15 AND SO, IN WAR THEY DID THAT. I'M NOT JUSTIFYING IT. 16:17 I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT HAPPENED. 16:18 SHE, NOW, IS SAYING THIS BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY THING SHE COULD 16:21 THINK OF, ON THE SPOT, TO TRY TO SAVE THE MEN AND, ULTIMATELY, 16:25 HERSELF. SO THE SOLDIERS HAVE TO MAKE A 16:27 DECISION. 'DO WE BELIEVE RAHAB OR DO WE GO 16:31 RUNNING AFTER THESE GUYS BEFORE THEY GET FURTHER AWAY? 16:33 WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO SEARCH HER HOUSE SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE 16:35 WILL LOCK THE GATES OF THE CITY - IN CASE THEY'RE IN THE CITY 16:37 THEY CAN'T GET OUT - AND WE'LL GO LOOKING FOR THEM.' 16:40 SO THEY SEND A SQUAD OF SOLDIERS AND THEY GO LOOKING FOR THESE 16:43 TWO SPIES, WHICH THEY THINK HAVE LEFT AND ARE HEADING TOWARDS 16:47 THE JORDAN RIVER. MEANTIME, RAHAB GOES BACK UP ON 16:50 THE ROOF AND SAYS, 'NOW, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING ON.' AND 16:52 SHE HAS THIS VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATION WITH THEM. 16:56 SO SHE BRINGS THEM UP. "THEN THE MEN" - THE SOLDIERS - 16:59 "PURSUED THEM BY THE ROAD TO THE JORDAN, TO THE FORDS. 17:03 AND AS SOON AS THOSE WHO PURSUED THEM HAD GONE OUT, 17:08 THEY SHUT THE GATE. 17:10 NOW BEFORE THEY LAY DOWN, SHE CAME UP TO THEM ON THE ROOF," - 17:12 SHE SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU GUYS NEED TO LAY LOW FOR A LITTLE WHILE, 17:15 UNTIL THE SOLDIERS ARE OUT OF SIGHT. 17:16 BUT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU AND TELL YOU WHAT I'VE DONE.' - 17:19 EVIDENTLY, THEY COULD SPEAK THE SAME SEMITIC LANGUAGES - AND SHE 17:23 SAID TO THEM - NOTICE THIS - 'I KNOW THAT THE LORD HAS GIVEN YOU 17:28 THE LAND, THAT THE TERROR OF YOU HAS FALLEN ON US, AND THAT ALL 17:33 THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND ARE FAINTHEARTED BECAUSE OF YOU. 17:36 FOR WE HAVE HEARD HOW THE LORD DRIED UP THE WATER OF THE RED 17:39 SEA FOR YOU WHEN YOU CAME OUT OF EGYPT, AND WHAT YOU DID TO THE 17:42 TWO KINGS OF THE AMORITES WHO WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 17:45 JORDAN, SIHON AND OG, WHOM YOU UTTERLY DESTROYED. 17:48 AND AS SOON AS WE HEARD THESE THINGS, OUR HEARTS MELTED; 17:52 NEITHER DID THERE REMAIN ANY MORE COURAGE IN ANYONE BECAUSE 17:55 OF YOU," - NOTICE SHE SAYS - "FOR THE LORD (JEHOVAH) YOUR 18:01 GOD, HE IS GOD IN HEAVEN ABOVE AND ON EARTH BENEATH." 18:07 NOW THAT IS QUITE A DECLARATION. THIS IS A PAGAN CANAANITE WOMAN 18:13 AND SHE HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO MANY RELIGIONS AND MANY GODS. 18:16 BUT NOW SHE SAYS, 'YOUR GOD IS THE GOD OF GODS.' YOU SEE, I 18:21 JUST SORT OF EXPECT THAT RAHAB, IN HER YEARS OF DOING WHAT SHE 18:26 DID, SHE SAW ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE GO THROUGH ALL OF THEIR 18:30 RELIGIOUS INCANTATIONS AND SHE HAD TRAVELERS AND TRADERS THAT 18:35 WOULD STAY AT HER ESTABLISHMENT AND THEY WOULD BURN INCENSE TO 18:39 THEIR GODS AND CARRY AROUND THEIR LITTLE RELIGIOUS FETISHES 18:42 AND GO THROUGH ALL OF THEIR STRANGE RITES AND 18:45 SELF-MUTILATION AND ALL OF IT SEEMED SO EMPTY. 18:50 SHE WAS WONDERING, 'IS THERE A PURPOSE TO LIFE?' 18:52 MAYBE SHE GOT TIRED OF THE LIFE SHE WAS LIVING, BUT SHE LOOKED 18:56 ACROSS THE JORDAN RIVER AND SHE SAW THE CAMP OF THE ISRAELITES 18:59 GLOWING WITH A HOLY FIRE. SHE HEARD THE STORIES - EVEN 19:03 THOUGH THEY WERE 40 YEARS EARLIER. 19:05 EVERYONE KNEW - EGYPT HAD BEEN DECIMATED ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE 19:10 OF THESE PLAGUES AND THEY ALL KNEW THERE WAS - THIS WHOLE 19:11 NATION HAD BEEN DELIVERED FROM SLAVERY AND THEY HEARD THE 19:14 STORIES FROM THE ISHMAELITE TRADERS THAT WENT DOWN TO THE 19:17 DESERT THAT WOULD GIVE THEM REPORTS OF WHAT THE ISRAELITES 19:19 ARE DOING AND HOW THEY'RE PROGRESSING AND HOW GOD WAS 19:22 FEEDING THEM AND THEY GET WATER OUT OF A ROCK AND - THEY HEARD 19:25 ALL OF THIS. IT WASN'T THAT FAR AWAY FOR THEM. 19:29 SHE SAID, 'NOW THAT'S A REAL GOD.' AND SHE HAD BECOME TIRED 19:33 AND WEARY OF THE PHONY GODS OF CANAAN. 19:37 FURTHERMORE, SHE KNEW THAT, ACCORDING TO THE LORD, THE 19:41 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO ENTER INTO ANY 19:44 COVENANT WITH THE CANAANITES. THEY EITHER HAD TO RUN 19:46 FOR THEIR LIVES OR DIE. THE ONLY WAY THE CANAANITES WERE 19:50 GOING TO STAY IS - THEY COULDN'T STAY. 19:53 THEY HAD TO LEAVE BECAUSE GOD DID NOT WANT THE ISRAELITES 19:56 INTERMARRYING AND ADOPTING THEIR RELIGIONS. 19:59 SO THEY WERE TO BE EXPELLED FROM THE LAND. 20:01 AND SHE THOUGHT, 'THIS CITY IS A CITY OF DESTRUCTION.' ANY OF YOU 20:05 EVER READ THE BOOK PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ? 20:08 AND PILGRIM - HIS NAME IS CHRISTIAN - HE'S FLEEING FROM A 20:11 CITY THAT IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION. 20:14 NOW JOSHUA WAS GOING TO COME WITH HIS SOLDIERS AND THAT CITY 20:18 WAS GOING TO BE DOOMED. IS OUR JESUS - OUR JOSHUA - COMING? 20:23 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THIS WORLD WHEN HE COMES? 20:26 'THEN ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH WILL MOURN AND THEY WILL 20:29 SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON CLOUDS WITH POWER AND GREAT 20:33 GLORY.' AND THERE WILL BE GREAT 20:34 DESTRUCTION WHEN JESUS COMES - FOR THE LOST. 20:37 THE ONLY ONES WHO WILL BE SAVED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE MADE A 20:41 COVENANT WITH JOSHUA IN ADVANCE OF HIS COMING. 20:46 AND THIS IS WHAT RAHAB IS ABOUT TO DO. 20:49 SO SHE SAYS, 'I KNOW YOUR GOD IS THE GOD OF GODS.' "NOW 20:54 THEREFORE," - VERSE 12 - "I BEG YOU, SWEAR TO ME BY THE LORD, 20:59 SINCE I HAVE SHOWN YOU KINDNESS," - SHE SAYS, 'SHOW 21:05 MERCY TO ME' - "...TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE, AND GIVE ME A 21:08 TRUE TOKEN," - GIVE ME A SIGN - "AND SPARE MY FATHER, MY 21:12 MOTHER," - SHE'S NOT THAT OLD BECAUSE SHE STILL HAS HER 21:14 PARENTS - "MY BROTHERS, MY SISTERS, AND ALL THAT THEY HAVE, 21:17 AND DELIVER OUR LIVES FROM DEATH." 21:21 'WE ARE LIVING UNDER A DEATH DECREE. MAKE A COVENANT. 21:25 I BELIEVE THAT YOU SERVE THE REAL GOD. 21:28 I BELIEVE IN YOUR JOSHUA. MAKE A COVENANT. SHOW US MERCY.' AND 21:33 NOT ONLY IS SHE INTERESTED IN HER SALVATION, SHE'S INTERESTED 21:37 IN THE SALVATION OF HER FAMILY AND THOSE THAT SHE LOVES. 21:41 "SO THEY ANSWERED HER'" - IN VERSE 14 - I'M IN JOSHUA 2, 21:45 VERSE 14 - "OUR LIVES FOR YOURS," - YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE 21:51 WHOLE GOSPEL RIGHT THERE IN THOSE WORDS. 21:52 I'VE GOT IT UNDERLINED IN MY BIBLE - "OUR LIVES FOR YOURS". 21:57 YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAID? 'MY LIFE FOR YOURS.' WHEN DAVID 22:03 LOST HIS SON ABSALOM HE SAID, 'OH, WOULD GOD THAT I HAD DIED 22:06 FOR THEE.' IT'S THE STORY OF THE SUBSTITUTION - WHEN THE MAN FELL 22:13 AMONG THIEVES IN THE STORY OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN. 22:15 THE SAMARITAN SAID, 'I WON'T RIDE ANYMORE, I'LL WALK AND YOU 22:19 RIDE.' THEY TRADED PLACES. AND JESUS IS 22:22 OFFERING TO MAKE THAT TRADE. THEY SAID, 'LOOK, YOU HAVE SAVED 22:25 US. YOU HAVE DELIVERED US AND SO WE 22:29 ARE GOING TO DO ALL WE CAN TO DELIVER YOU. 22:32 IF YOU DON'T DECLARE OUR BUSINESS OR TALK ABOUT WHAT 22:35 WE'VE DISCUSSED WITH YOU, IT WILL BE THAT WHEN' - SHE DOESN'T 22:39 SAY IF - 'WHEN THE LORD HAS GIVEN US THE LAND, THAT WE WILL 22:43 DEAL KINDLY AND TRULY' - HOW DOES THE LORD DEAL WITH US? 22:47 'KINDLY AND TRULY WITH YOU.' "THEN SHE LET THEM DOWN BY A 22:51 ROPE THROUGH THE WINDOW, FOR HER HOUSE WAS ON THE CITY WALL; SHE 22:57 DWELT ON THE WALL." - NOW WHERE'D SHE LIVE? 22:59 SHE DWELT ON THE WALL. AND IT SAYS SHE LET THEM DOWN BY 23:04 A ROPE. HERE DEAR, YOU WANT TO - WHY 23:06 DON'T YOU - YEAH, LET'S SEE - GOOD TOSS. LOWE'S RED ROPE. 23:16 I WANT YOU TO KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING NOW. 23:20 "THEN SHE LET THEM DOWN BY A ROPE THROUGH THE WINDOW, FOR HER 23:24 HOUSE WAS ON THE CITY WALL;" - THROUGH A WINDOW - YOU KNOW, THE 23:28 BIBLE SAYS THAT THE ONLY WAY THAT PAUL COULD ESCAPE FROM 23:30 DAMASCUS - THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM - IS SOMEBODY LET HIM DOWN 23:33 BY A ROPE IN A BASKET. PAUL WAS A BASKET CASE. 23:36 (LAUGHTER) WE DON'T KNOW THAT THEY USED A BASKET BUT - I MEAN, 23:39 MOSES WAS SAVED BY A BASKET TOO, RIGHT? 23:42 ISN'T IT GOOD TO KNOW GOD'LL SAVE A BASKET CASE LIKE THIS? 23:46 AND SO THEY PROBABLY CLIMBED DOWN - "SO THE MEN SAID TO HER:" 23:50 - VERSE 17 - "'WE WILL BE BLAMELESS OF THIS OATH OF YOURS 23:55 WHICH YOU HAVE MADE US SWEAR, UNLESS," - HERE'S THE CRITERIA - 23:58 SHE ASKED FOR A TOKEN - "...WHEN WE COME INTO THE LAND, YOU BIND 24:02 THIS LINE OF SCARLET CORD IN THE WINDOW THROUGH WHICH YOU LET US 24:08 DOWN, AND UNLESS YOU BRING YOUR FATHER, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR 24:12 BROTHERS, AND ALL YOUR FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD TO YOUR OWN HOME. 24:16 SO IT SHALL BE THAT WHOEVER GOES OUTSIDE THE DOORS OF YOUR HOUSE 24:18 INTO THE STREET, HIS BLOOD SHALL BE ON HIS OWN HEAD, AND WE WILL 24:22 BE GUILTLESS. AND WHOEVER IS WITH YOU IN THE 24:24 HOUSE, HIS BLOOD SHALL BE ON OUR HEAD" - WE ARE RESPONSIBLE 24:26 WITH OUR LIVES FOR THE LIFE OF EVERYBODY IN YOUR HOME. 24:31 NOW YOU GOT WHAT THE TERMS OF THE DEAL ARE? WE'RE COMING BACK. 24:36 SHE - THEY DIDN'T SAY EXACTLY WHEN THEY'RE COMING BACK - THEY 24:39 SAID, 'BUT WE'RE COMING WITH JOSHUA AND WHEN WE COME BACK THE 24:43 ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS THEY MUST BE IN YOUR HOUSE WITH THE RED 24:48 ROPE IN THE WINDOW - AND ONLY THOSE THAT ARE IN THE HOUSE WILL 24:52 SURVIVE. A TIME OF JUDGMENT IS COMING. 24:55 YOU'VE GOT TO BE READY. YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS THEN? 24:58 "THEN SHE SAID, 'ACCORDING TO YOUR WORDS,'" - VERSE 21 - "'SO 25:01 BE IT.' AND SHE SENT THEM AWAY, AND THEY DEPARTED. 25:04 AND SHE BOUND THE SCARLET CORD IN THE WINDOW." 25:07 IT WAS GOING TO BE WEEKS OR MONTHS BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY CAME 25:10 BACK, BUT SHE WASN'T TAKING ANY CHANCES. 25:12 AS SOON AS THEY LEFT SHE TIED THE SCARLET CORD IN HER WINDOW. 25:17 NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS CORD REPRESENTS? 25:21 SCARLET OUGHT TO BE A CLUE. WHAT WILL WASH AWAY MY SIN? 25:26 NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS. DO YOU REMEMBER 40 YEARS 25:29 EARLIER, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ESCAPED FROM EGYPT, THERE 25:33 WAS A JUDGMENT THAT CAME THROUGH THE LAND AND THERE WAS A SIMILAR 25:37 COVENANT THAT WAS MADE AND ONLY THOSE THAT WERE IN THE HOUSE 25:41 WITH THE SCARLET - THE LAMB'S BLOOD - ON THE DOOR OR THE 25:45 WINDOW, WERE GOING TO SURVIVE. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 25:51 40 YEARS LATER THERE'S A SIMILAR UNIQUE TOKEN OF SALVATION. 25:55 DURING THE EXODUS IT WAS THOSE THAT HAD THE SCARLET CORD ON 26:00 THEIR DOOR OR THE PAINT ABOVE THEIR DOOR. 26:02 THEY WERE SAVED FROM THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE ANGEL OF 26:05 JUDGMENT. THEY WERE ALL JEWS. 26:08 NOW WHAT YOU HAVE IS 40 YEARS LATER - IS RAHAB A JEW? 26:12 AND THOSE IN HER HOUSE? THEY'RE ALL GENTILES 26:15 - SIMILAR COVENANT. SACRIFICE OF JESUS IS FOR THE 26:19 JEWS FIRST AND THEN FOR THE GENTILES, ACCORDING 26:23 TO THE BIBLE. BUT EVERYBODY THAT'S GOING 26:25 TO BE SAVED IS SAVED BY WHAT? BY THE BLOOD. 26:28 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN FIND THIS SYMBOL ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. 26:31 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN JUDAH'S WIFE, TAMAR SHE GOT 26:38 PREGNANT AND HAD TWINS - SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED - 26:41 AND, YOU KNOW, JESUS CAME THROUGH THE LINE OF JUDAH - ONE 26:43 OF THE TWINS ACTUALLY PUT OUT HIS HAND FIRST AND THE MIDWIFE 26:48 ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW WHO WAS THE FIRST BORN BECAUSE THAT 26:50 MEANT EVERYTHING - THAT MEANT WHO GOT THE PROPERTY, WHO BECAME 26:52 THE LEADER OF THE FAMILY - EVEN IF YOU WERE FIVE MINUTES EARLY. 26:56 REMEMBER, JACOB WANTED TO GET THE FIRSTBORN RIGHT FROM HIS 26:58 BROTHER, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE TWINS. 27:00 SO AS SOON AS ONE WAS BRIEFLY BORN, SHE TIED A SCARLET THREAD 27:04 AROUND HIS HAND. THAT SCARLET THREAD OF THE 27:08 FIRSTBORN IS ALL A SYMBOL OF JESUS. 27:10 IT SAYS, 'WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED.' THE SCARLET RIBBONS 27:14 ON THE BACK OF JESUS - HE TOOK OUR SUFFERING FOR US. 27:17 THIS IS ALL A SYMBOL OF SALVATION. 27:19 NOW I'M GOING TO PUT THIS HERE SO I KEEP IT IN YOUR MIND, BUT I 27:22 WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THIS STORY BECAUSE IT GETS VERY 27:25 INTERESTING. SO SHE PUTS THE CORD IN HER WINDOW. 27:29 BEFORE SHE'S WORRIED ABOUT BRINGING ANYONE IN HER HOUSE, 27:32 SHE WANTS TO MAKE SURE THE CORD IS IN HER WINDOW. 27:34 AND BEFORE YOU CAN REACH OTHERS FOR JESUS, YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE 27:36 SURE YOU'RE READY. >>AMEN. 27:38 >>AND THEY DEPARTED AND THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAIN. 27:41 ALL THE SOLDIERS ARE LOOKING FOR THEM DOWN BY THE RIVER AND THEY 27:45 THOUGHT, 'WE'RE GOING TO HANG OUT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION 27:46 UNTIL THEY'RE TIRED OF LOOKING FOR US, THEN WE'LL GO CROSS 27:48 THE RIVER AND GO BACK TO JOSHUA. 27:51 SO THE MEN DESCENDED FROM THE MOUNTAIN AFTER THREE DAYS. 27:54 THREE DAYS IS AN INTERESTING NUMBER - AFTER THREE DAYS, JESUS 27:58 ROSE. "...AND THEY CAME TO JOSHUA THE 28:01 SON OF NUN, AND TOLD HIM ALL THAT HAD BEFALLEN THEM. 28:05 AND THEY SAID TO JOSHUA, 'TRULY THE LORD HAS DELIVERED ALL THE 28:08 LAND INTO OUR HANDS, FOR INDEED ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE 28:12 COUNTRY ARE FAINTHEARTED BECAUSE OF US.'" YOU KNOW WHAT ONE OF 28:16 THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IS TO WIN A BATTLE? 28:19 COURAGE. COURAGE. I THINK IT WAS JOHN WESLEY THAT 28:24 SAYS 'IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BIG A DOG IS IN A FIGHT, IT MATTERS 28:28 HOW BIG THE FIGHT IS IN A DOG.' AND DAVID - IT DIDN'T MATTER 28:32 HOW BIG GOLIATH WAS, DAVID HAD COURAGE. 28:36 YOU KNOW WHAT GOD SAID TO JOSHUA? 28:38 GOD SAID IT AND MOSES SAID IT - AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN 28:40 JOSHUA 1, VERSE 5 AND MOSES IN HIS DYING WORDS SAID, 'BE VERY 28:44 COURAGEOUS.' BECAUSE IF YOU GO INTO BATTLE YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE 28:48 FAITH. HOW IS IT THAT WE'RE GOING 28:50 TO OVERCOME THE ENEMY? THROUGH FAITH. 28:53 WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE ENEMY SOLDIERS IN JERICHO? 28:56 THEY'D LOST FAITH. THEY'D LOST THEIR COURAGE. 29:00 'THE LORD HAS GIVEN US THE LAND BECAUSE THE INHABITANTS OF THE 29:03 COUNTRY ARE FAINTHEARTED BECAUSE OF US.' ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING 29:07 TO GO TO A FAMILIAR STORY IN THE BIBLE - GO TO CHAPTER 6 OF 29:10 JOSHUA - AND WE'RE GOING TO READ ABOUT THE FOLLOW-UP. 29:13 "NOW JERICHO WAS SECURELY SHUT UP BECAUSE OF THE CHILDREN OF 29:19 ISRAEL;" - NOW THEY'RE ON RED ALERT. THEY'VE SHUT THE GATES. 29:23 YOU KNOW WHY THEY'RE ON RED ALERT? 29:25 - "NONE WENT OUT, AND NONE CAME IN." 29:27 BECAUSE SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED AT THE JORDAN RIVER. 29:30 ONE DAY JOSHUA TOLD ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 'THE TIME 29:35 HAS COME. STRIKE CAMP. GET IN FORMATION.' THEY WRAPPED 29:39 UP THEIR TENTS, THEY BROKE CAMP, THEY GOT IN FORMATION, AND 29:42 HE SAID, 'LET'S ALL LINE UP. I WANT THE PRIESTS OUT FRONT.' 29:45 THE PRIESTS GOT OUT FRONT. NOW THE PEOPLE IN JERICHO ARE 29:48 WATCHING ABOUT A MILE AWAY FROM THEIR WALLS - THEY'RE 29:51 GOING, 'WHAT IS GOING ON?' THEY SAW ALL THE DUST. 29:53 THEY SAW THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MARCHING DOWN TOWARDS THE JORDAN 29:58 RIVER - AND THIS IS SPRINGTIME - THE JORDAN IS FLOODING. 30:02 AND AS THEY'RE MARCHING TOWARDS THE JORDAN RIVER, THE PEOPLE OF 30:04 JERICHO ARE GOING, 'WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM? 30:06 THEY'RE JUST GOING TO ALL DROWN THEMSELVES.' BUT AS THEY GET 30:10 CLOSER TO THE RIVER, THEY'VE GOT THE ARK GOING OUT IN FRONT. 30:13 THE PRIESTS - AS SOON AS THEY GET TO THE BORDERS OF THE RIVER, 30:15 THEY PUT THEIR FEET IN THE EDGE OF THE WATER - BOY, THAT TAKES 30:19 FAITH TO BE CARRYING THE ARK - GOLDEN ANCHOR - YOU'RE JUST 30:22 WALKING OFF INTO DEEP WATER. YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE FAITH. 30:25 BUT GOD SAID, 'GO FORWARD.' AND THEY LEARNED. 30:27 HE WANTED TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY FIRST - 40 YEARS EARLIER - 30:30 HE SAID, 'FOLLOW ME. I WANT YOU TO CROSS THE OCEAN.' 30:32 THEY WEREN'T GOING ANYWHERE UNTIL HE PARTED IT. 30:35 NOW HE SAID, 'I WONDER IF YOU LEARNED TO TRUST ME. 30:37 I WANT YOU TO WALK OUT BEFORE I PART IT.' GOD WANTS US TO 30:42 BELIEVE HIS WORD AND OBEY EVEN WHEN WE DON'T KNOW HOW. 30:44 SO THEY PUT THEIR FEET IN THE WATER AND AS SOON AS THE 30:46 PRIESTS' TOES TOUCHED THE WATER, THE WATER JUST WENT - BAROOMPH! 30:50 - AND IT BEGAN TO WALL UP UPSTREAM AND IT WASHED AWAY 30:54 DOWNSTREAM AND IT WAS LIKE GOD HAD PUT AN ELECTRIC HAIR DRYER 30:57 ON THE PATH AND HE INSTANTLY DRIED UP THE MUDDY BOTTOM AND IT 31:02 WAS DRY GROUND. AND THE PRIESTS MARCHED OFF INTO 31:05 THE LOW BED OF THE RIVER AND THE WATERS JUST KEPT DAMMING FURTHER 31:09 AND FURTHER UPSTREAM AND THE WATERS DOWNSTREAM RAN OFF TO THE 31:14 DEAD SEA - AND WHILE THE PRIESTS STOOD IN THE MIDDLE, GOD TOLD 31:18 THE SOLDIERS AND ALL THE PEOPLE TO CROSS OVER AND, TO THE RIGHT 31:21 AND TO THE LEFT OF THE ARK, THEY ALL HAD TO MARCH BY THE PRESENCE 31:24 OF GOD TO GET INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 31:26 BY THE WAY, HOW ARE WE GETTING INTO THE PROMISED LAND? 31:29 DON'T WE ALL HAVE TO GO IN REVIEW BEFORE GOD? 31:33 SO THEY ALL MARCHED BY THE ARK. WHAT WAS IN THE ARK? 31:35 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. >>EVERYONE THINKS, 'I'D LIKE TO 31:38 FIND THAT GOLDEN BOX WITH THE ARK' - EVERYONE THINKS, 'THE ARK 31:41 OF THE COVENANT, WOW, THAT'D BE A GREAT ADVENTURE.' WOULD YOU 31:44 LIKE TO KNOW WHERE IT IS? IT'S IN YOUR HANDS. 31:48 IT'S CALLED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 31:50 EVERYONE WANTS THE BOX - THEY DON'T WANT THE ROCKS IN THE BOX. 31:53 THE ROCKS IN THE BOX HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - AND IT'S RIGHT 31:55 HERE. I KNOW WHAT WAS IN THE ARK. 31:57 SO THEY ALL WALKED BY THE ARK. 31:59 PEOPLE UP ON THE WALLS OF JERICHO - IF YOU COULD SEE THE 32:02 KNEES ON THE SOLDIER, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN GOING LIKE THIS, 32:06 BECAUSE THEY SEE 'THEY'RE COMING FOR US NEXT.' THEY'RE THINKING, 32:09 'HOW DO YOU FIGHT A GOD LIKE THIS?' 32:12 SO THEY CROSS OVER. NOW THEY SAY, 'LOCK THE GATES! 32:14 HIGH ALERT!' THE CITY IS ALL LOCKED DOWN. 32:17 THEY'VE PROBABLY GOT FOOD STORED UP AND WATER STORED UP. 32:19 THEY'RE EXPECTING A LONG SIEGE AND THEN GOD GIVES JOSHUA SOME 32:23 VERY INTERESTING MILITARY TACTICS THAT NO GENERAL HAS EVER 32:27 USED BEFORE OR SINCE, AS FAR AS I KNOW. 32:30 THE LORD SAID TO JOSHUA, 'I'VE GIVEN JERICHO INTO YOUR HAND, 32:35 ITS KING, ITS MIGHTY MEN OF VALOR - YOU'RE TO MARCH AROUND 32:37 THE CITY, YOU AND ALL OF YOUR MEN OF WAR - GO AROUND THE CITY' 32:39 - HOW MANY TIMES? >>SEVEN. 32:41 >>THIRTEEN. EVERYONE SAYS SEVEN. 32:44 THEY WERE TO GO AROUND THE CITY ONE TIME FOR SIX DAYS AND THEN 32:49 SEVEN TIMES ON THE SEVENTH DAY. AM I RIGHT? 32:52 >>AMEN. >>A TOTAL OF HOW MANY TIMES? 32:53 THIRTEEN. NOW YOU'RE THINKING, 'WHY 32:55 THIRTEEN? ISN'T THAT AN UNLUCKY NUMBER?' 32:57 HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE AT THE LAST SUPPER? 33:00 TWELVE APOSTLES AND JESUS. >>THIRTEEN. 33:03 >>HOW MANY TRIBES OF ISRAEL WERE THERE? 33:06 TECHNICALLY THIRTEEN, BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THE TWELVE SONS OF 33:09 JACOB, BUT WHAT HE DID - HE SAID, 'BECAUSE JOSEPH WAS SOLD 33:13 BY HIS BROTHERS, I'M GOING TO GIVE THE TWO SONS OF JOSEPH AN 33:17 EQUAL SHARE' - EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH BECAME INDIVIDUAL 33:20 TRIBES - AND IT ENDED UP ADDING UP TO THIRTEEN - LEVITES BECAME 33:24 PRIESTS FOR EVERYBODY SO THEY KEPT SAYING TWELVE TRIBES 33:27 BECAUSE LEVITES DIDN'T GET AN INHERITANCE. 33:29 I KNOW THAT'S CONFUSING. THAT'S CALLED TOO 33:31 MUCH INFORMATION. ANYWAY, SO BACK TO THE SERMON. 33:35 AND SO HE SAYS, 'I WANT YOU TO MARCH AROUND IT AND 'SEVEN 33:39 PRIESTS WILL BEAR SEVEN TRUMPETS' - NOW WAIT A SECOND - 33:41 DO WE HEAR ABOUT SEVEN TRUMPETS IN REVELATION? 33:45 'SEVEN PRIESTS BEARING SEVEN TRUMPETS OF RAMS' HORNS BEFORE 33:49 THE ARK...BUT ON THE SEVENTH DAY YOU'LL MARCH AROUND THE CITY 33:52 SEVEN TIMES AND THE PRIESTS WILL BLOW THE TRUMPETS AND IT WILL 33:55 COME TO PASS THEY WILL MAKE A LONG BLAST WITH THE RAM'S HORN 34:00 AND WHEN YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET THEN ALL THE PEOPLE 34:03 WILL SHOUT WITH A GREAT SHOUT AND THE WALL OF THE CITY WILL 34:06 FALL DOWN FLAT AND THE PEOPLE WILL GO UP EVERY MAN STRAIGHT 34:10 BEFORE HIM.' NOW HE GIVES THEM FURTHER 34:13 INSTRUCTIONS, IF YOU GO TO VERSE 10. 34:15 JOSHUA TOLD THE SOLDIERS, "YOU SHALL NOT SHOUT OR MAKE ANY 34:19 NOISE WITH YOUR VOICE, NOR SHALL A WORD PROCEED OUT OF YOUR 34:22 MOUTH, UNTIL THE DAY I SAY TO YOU, 'SHOUT!'" 34:26 NOW THAT MUST HAVE BEEN PRETTY HARD. 34:27 BY THE TIME THIS TOOK PLACE, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD OVER A 34:33 MILLION MEN - THEY HAD 900,000 MEN WHO COULD FIGHT AT THE 34:37 BEGINNING OF 40 YEARS AND GOD TOLD THEM TO BE FRUITFUL AND 34:41 MULTIPLY AND WE'RE EXPECTING IT WAS BIGGER THAN THAT. 34:44 SO IT WAS LIKE A MILLION-MAN ARMY. 34:45 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, BUT IT WAS BIG. 34:47 AND SO HE TELLS THIS ARMY TO START MARCHING. 34:51 THEY'RE JUST OUTSIDE OF BOW SHOT. 34:53 THE PEOPLE IN JERICHO ARE WONDERING WHAT IN THE WORLD IS 34:55 GOING ON. THEY SEE THE SOLDIERS GET READY. THEY SEE THE PRIESTS. 34:58 THEY SEE THEM GOING RIGHT TOWARDS THE CITY OF JERICHO AND 35:01 THEY'RE ALL MARCHING IN FORMAMTION - YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES 35:03 WHEN SOLDIERS MARCH THEY CHANT, THEY HIT DRUMS, THEY DO ALL 35:06 THESE THINGS. SOLDIERS DON'T UTTER A WORD. 35:08 ALL THEY CAN HEAR IS THE OCCASIONAL BLAST OF THE TRUMPET 35:13 (MAKES TRUMPET NOISE) FROM THE TRUMPETS OF SEVEN RAMS' HORNS. 35:17 AND THOSE PRIESTS, THEIR PUCKERS MUST HAVE BEEN PRETTY TIRED AT 35:21 THE END OF THE DAY, BUT THEY JUST KEPT GOING AROUND. THEY'D 35:24 BLOW THE TRUMPET - SHORT BLASTS, BECAUSE THE LONG BLAST WAS A 35:28 SIGNAL ON THE SEVENTH DAY. AND THE SOLDIERS JUST (STOMPING 35:33 NOISES) - THEY'RE OUTSIDE OF BOW SHOT FROM THE CITY. 35:36 THEY CAN'T HIT THEM WITH A SPEAR OR AN ARROW OR A BOW, SO THEY 35:39 CAN'T FIRE AT THEM. THEY'RE AFRAID TO OPEN THE GATES 35:42 AND ATTACK THEM, AND THEY DO THE STRANGEST THING: THEY ALL MAKE 35:45 ONE COMPLETE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE CITY - THEY GO BACK TO CAMP. 35:50 AND EVERYBODY IN JERICHO, THEY'RE GOING, 'WHAT WAS - THAT 35:54 WAS WEIRD. WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?' 35:57 AND THEY DO THIS DAY AFTER DAY - THEY MARCH AROUND THE CITY ONE 36:03 TIME, BLOWING THE TRUMPETS - NO SOLDIERS - AND YOU KNOW, THOSE 36:07 SOLDIERS WANTED TO TALK TO EACH OTHER BUT THEY COULDN'T. 36:08 THEY WERE SO EXCITED BUT THEY COULDN'T SAY ANYTHING. 36:12 GOD DID THAT ON PURPOSE. I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT 36:14 THAT IN A MOMENT. SO SECOND DAY, THIRD DAY, FOURTH 36:21 DAY - MARCH AROUND THE CITY JUST A MILLION MEN (MAKES STOMPING 36:24 NOISES) CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THE GROUND SHOOK? 36:27 TRUMPETS (MAKES TRUMPET NOISES) - AFTER FOUR OR FIVE DAYS THE 36:31 MEN INSIDE JERICHO, THEY'RE JUST - 'WHAT DOES IT MEAN? 36:34 THE TRUMPET - MARCHING' - THEY'RE GOING CRAZY FROM ALL OF 36:37 THIS. IT'S DRIVING THEM NUTS. AND SO THEY JUST KEPT GOING - 36:41 SIX DAYS - SEVENTH DAY THEY CHANGED IT UP A LITTLE BIT. 36:45 NOW SOME OF YOU ARE THINKING, 'THEY MARCH AROUND THE CITY 36:48 SEVEN DAYS - SEVENTH DAY OF MARCHING - THE BIBLE SAYS THE 36:52 SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH - DOES THAT MEAN ON THE SEVENTH 36:55 DAY OF THE WEEK HE TOLD THEM TO ATTACK THE CITY OF JERICHO AND 36:58 DO ALL THAT? IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE VERY GOOD 37:00 CHURCH SERVICE - SABBATH KEEPING TO ME.' NO, IT WAS SEVEN DAYS 37:04 OF SEQUENTIAL MARCHING AND THE SEVENTH DAY OF MARCHING - IT 37:09 WASN'T NECESSARILY THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. 37:11 BUT YOU'RE THINKING, 'WELL DOES THAT MEAN THAT ONE OF THOSE DAYS 37:15 THEY WENT OUT AND MARCHED AROUND JERICHO, BLOWING THE TRUMPETS 37:18 AND THEN CAME BACK?' MAYBE. 37:21 IT'S JUST CALLED A SABBATH WALK AND SPECIAL MUSIC - 37:24 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. (LAUGHTER) 37:27 SO - SEVENTH DAY THEY GO AROUND THE CITY SEVEN TIMES 37:34 AND THOSE SOLDIERS ARE - THEY'RE JUST WANTING TO SHOUT - THEY'RE 37:37 - THE REASON THAT THEY COULDN'T SAY A WORD IS THAT WHEN THEY 37:41 FINALLY SHOUTED, THEIR VOICES HAD RESTED. 37:43 THESE MEN, THEY'D RESTED THEIR VOICES FOR SEVEN DAYS AND THEY 37:46 WERE LIKE CAGED LIONS BEING RELEASED AND THEY HAD ALL THIS 37:48 PENT-UP ENERGY AND ALL THAT TESTOSTERONE OF A MILLION-MAN 37:52 ARMY WHO'D BEEN MARCHING, WAITING TO FIGHT, AND FINALLY, 37:56 AFTER SEVEN TIMES AROUND THE CITY - I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU 38:00 WHAT HAPPENED YET. WHAT IS RAHAB DOING? 38:06 WHAT DO YOU THINK IS HAPPENING IN THE CITY WITH RAHAB? 38:08 WHEN THEY GO FIRST CIRCUIT AROUND THE CITY, WHAT'S RAHAB 38:11 BEEN DOING IN THE WEEKS OR MONTHS THAT TRANSPIRED BETWEEN 38:15 HER MEETING THE TWO SPIES AND THEM SHOWING UP? 38:22 THEY SAID, 'ONLY THOSE IN YOUR HOUSE WILL LIVE.' NOW SUPPOSE 38:27 YOU'RE RAHAB. YOU KNOW JOSHUA AND THE SOLDIERS 38:29 ARE COMING - THAT THE CITY'S GOING TO BE DESTROYED AND BURNT 38:32 WITH FIRE - THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO OUR WORLD. 38:36 THE ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT. 38:37 THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT WILL BE BURNED UP. 38:40 THE ONLY ONE WHO'S GOING TO BE INSULATED AGAINST THE DISASTER 38:44 ARE THOSE IN YOUR HOUSE. 38:47 HOW EARNESTLY WOULD YOU TRY TO GET PEOPLE INTO YOUR HOUSE? 38:52 RAHAB WAS DOING ALL SHE COULD - PROBABLY FIRST WITH HER FAMILY. 38:56 AND WHEN YOU FIND JESUS, THE FIRST MISSION FIELD - YOU DON'T 38:58 HAVE TO GO TO A FARAWAY MISSION FIELD TO BE A MISSIONARY - FIRST 39:01 THING YOU DO - JESUS SAID, 'GO FIRST TO JERUSALEM' - THAT MEANS 39:06 YOUR HOME TOWN, HE TOLD THE APOSTLES - 'THEN GO TO JUDEA, 39:10 THEN SAMARIA, THEN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.' START WITH 39:13 YOUR FAMILY. SHE WANTED HER MOTHER AND HER 39:15 FATHER, HER BROTHERS AND HER SISTERS - FIRST PEOPLE YOU TRY 39:18 TO REACH AND THEY'RE THE HARDEST TO REACH. 39:19 IF YOU CAN REACH THEM YOU CAN REACH ANYBODY, USUALLY, BECAUSE 39:22 THEY KNOW YOU. AND THEY SAID, 'RAHAB, WHAT 39:24 DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? YOU'RE GOING TO PREACH TO US?' 39:27 AND SHE SAID, 'MOM, DAD, I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU. 39:31 THE ONLY WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO LIVE IS YOU'VE GOT TO BE IN THE 39:33 HOUSE WHEN JOSHUA COMES.' AND THEN SHE GOT HER BROTHERS AND 39:38 HER SISTERS AND THEY STARTED SHOWING UP AT THE DOOR - AND 39:40 I'LL BET YOU, AFTER THE SECOND OR THIRD DAY OF THE ISRAELITES 39:44 MARCHING AROUND THE CITY, IT WAS GETTING EASIER AND EASIER TO 39:48 TALK HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY INTO THE HOUSE. 39:51 THEY SAW THE JORDAN RIVER PART AND SHE SAID, 'JOSHUA'S COMING.' 39:55 THEY SAID, 'I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.' AND THEY WANTED TO GET 39:58 IN THE HOUSE BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED WOULD BE TO BE 40:00 IN HER HOUSE. BY THE WAY, JOSHUA REPRESENTS WHO? 40:05 >>JESUS. >>JESUS. KING OF JERICHO? 40:08 THE DEVIL. CANAANITES? THE LOST. WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? 40:14 >>CHURCH. >>RAHAB IS A WOMAN WHO HAS 40:17 MADE A COVENANT WITH JESUS. ISN'T THAT THE CHURCH? 40:21 ONLY THOSE IN HER HOUSE WILL BE SAVED. 40:24 DOES IT MATTER WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE PART OF A CHURCH WHEN JESUS 40:28 COMES? >>AMEN, YES. 40:30 >>PEOPLE OFTEN SAY, 'OH, YOU KNOW, I'M A CHRISTIAN. 40:32 I DON'T GO TO CHURCH.' THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PART 40:36 OF A BODY. AND IF YOU'RE NOT PART OF 40:39 A BODY, IT'S NOT HEALTHY. ANY PART OF A BODY SEPARATED 40:43 FROM THE WHOLE DOESN'T LAST VERY LONG, RIGHT? 40:48 AND WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS. 40:50 PAUL SAYS, YOU KNOW, SOME OF US ARE THE EARS AND SOME ARE THE 40:52 EYES AND THAT WOULD MEAN SOME ARE THE TOES AND SOME ARE THE 40:54 NOSE. AND IF I SAY TO YOU, 'OH LOOK, A NOSE. 40:58 YOU THINK, WELL, THAT'S KIND OF ODD, DOUG, YEAH, WE'VE ALL GOT A 41:02 NOSE.' IF I POINT TO SOMEONE AND SAY, 'LOOK, A NOSE.' THAT 41:05 DOESN'T REALLY SURPRISE YOU, BUT I GO, 'LOOK, A NOSE ON THE 41:07 FLOOR!' THAT'D BE KIND OF SCARY, 41:11 WOULDN'T IT? BECAUSE A NOSE BELONGS ON A 41:13 FACE. HOW LONG IS THAT NOSE GOING TO 41:14 LAST ON THE FLOOR? NOT VERY LONG. 41:19 AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, I'VE ACCEPTED 41:21 JESUS BUT I DON'T REALLY NEED TO BE PART OF A CHURCH.' AND I 41:26 IMAGINE, AS JOSHUA WENT AROUND THAT CITY FIVE TIMES AND SIX 41:30 TIMES, PRETTY SOON RAHAB WAS HEARING, 'KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK' 41:34 ON THE DOOR. SHE'D LOOK THROUGH THE PEEP HOLE 41:37 AND SAY, 'WHAT'S THE PASSWORD?' THEY'D SAY, 'RED ROPE.' AND 41:42 SHE'D OPEN THE DOOR AND THERE THEY'D BE STANDING WITH ALL 41:45 THEIR BAGGAGE AND SHE'D OPEN THE DOOR A LITTLE FURTHER AND SAY, 41:49 'I WANT YOU TO SEE ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE. 41:50 WE DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR YOUR BAGS. 41:53 IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, YOU HAVE TO BE IN THE HOUSE, NOT NECESSARILY 41:55 YOUR STUFF.' IT REMINDS ME OF A STORY WHEN GENGHIS KHAN WAS 42:00 GOING ACROSS ASIA, CONQUERING DIFFERENT CITIES AND TOWNS THAT 42:03 - HE WENT TO THIS ONE TOWN AND TWO PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN KIND TO 42:08 HIM HE SAID, 'I WILL LET YOU LIVE AND YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING 42:14 THAT YOU CAN CARRY OUT OF THE CITY WITH YOU, BUT THEN I'M 42:17 GOING TO DESTROY THE CITY AND EVERYONE ELSE IN IT.' SO THOSE 42:20 TWO MEN APPEARED COMING OUT OF THE CITY, ONE CARRYING HIS 42:22 MOTHER AND THE OTHER ONE CARRYING HIS FATHER. 42:25 KHAN SAID, 'YOU CAN HAVE ALL YOU CAN CARRY.' AND SO INSTEAD OF 42:30 CARRYING STUFF, THEY CARRIED THEIR FAMILY. 42:33 WHAT IS IT THE LORD WANTS US TO REACH? 42:35 A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS HE 42:38 POSSESSES. IT'S ABOUT SAVING PEOPLE. 42:41 AND THEY'D LEAVE THEIR BAGS AT THE BAG CLAIM AND SHE STARTED 42:45 LETTING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE IN HER HOUSE. 42:47 AFTER THE SEVENTH DAY, JOSHUA MARCHES AROUND THE CITY WITH HIS 42:51 MEN, THE SEVENTH TIME AND THEN THE TRUMPETS BLOW AND THEY'D 42:59 BEEN PRACTICING FOR SIX DAYS - THEY WERE REALLY GOOD BY THEN. 43:03 AND THEN JOSHUA SAID, 'LET OUT THE SHOUT.' HE ACTUALLY SAYS 43:07 SOME WORDS THAT HAVE HARBINGERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 43:12 VERSE 17 - VERSE 16 - JOSHUA CHAPTER 6:16, "AND THE SEVENTH 43:16 TIME IT HAPPENED, WHEN THE PRIESTS BLEW THE TRUMPETS, THAT 43:19 JOSHUA SAID TO THE PEOPLE: 'SHOUT, FOR THE LORD HAS GIVEN 43:23 YOU THE CITY! NOW THE CITY SHALL BE DOOMED BY 43:27 THE LORD TO DESTRUCTION, IT AND ALL WHO ARE IN IT. ONLY RAHAB 43:33 THE HARLOT" - WHAT A STRANGE THING TO SAY - "ONLY RAHAB THE 43:38 HARLOT" - THAT'D PROBABLY BE THE LAST PERSON IN THE WORLD YOU'D 43:41 EXPECT TO BE DELIVERED - "RAHAB THE HARLOT WILL LIVE AND ALL 43:45 WHO" - NOT ALL THE STUFF, BUT "ALL WHO ARE WITH HER IN THE 43:50 HOUSE, BECAUSE SHE HID THE MESSENGERS THAT WE SENT." 43:55 ALRIGHT, WE TALKED ABOUT RAHAB REPRESENTS WHAT? 43:57 >>CHURCH. >>JOSHUA IS A TYPE OF JESUS 44:00 - IT'S WHAT HIS NAME MEANS. WHO ARE THE MESSENGERS? 44:04 YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THERE ARE TWO WITNESSES IN 44:07 REVELATION - SOMETIMES IT REFERS TO THEM LIKE MOSES AND ELIJAH - 44:12 MOSES AND ELIJAH REPRESENT THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 44:15 TWO INDIVIDUALS APPEARED TO JESUS TO CONFIRM HE WAS THE 44:18 MESSIAH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. MOSES AND ELIJAH, THE LAW AND 44:21 THE PROPHETS - AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT ANOTHER NIGHT. 44:23 THIS IS TELLING US THE WORD OF GOD. 44:26 'THY WORD I'VE HID IN MY HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN.' BECAUSE 44:30 RAHAB HID THE MESSENGERS IN THE UPPER ROOM - YOU KNOW, I ALSO 44:35 THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING - THEY WERE SAVED BY BEING HIDDEN 44:38 UNDER THE FLAX. WHAT WAS SHE DOING? SHE WAS 44:42 DYEING CLOTH. WHAT COLOR WAS SHE USING? 44:45 >>SCARLET. >>WHAT SAVED THEM? 44:47 THEY WERE HIDDEN UNDER THE - THE RED - AND THEY WERE DELIVERED. 44:51 IN THE ROOF - THE UPPER ROOM. WHERE WAS THE HOLY 44:54 SPIRIT POURED OUT? THE UPPER ROOM. 44:57 WHERE DID ELIJAH RESURRECT A BOY? UPPER ROOM. 45:00 WHERE DID ELISHA RESURRECT A BOY? 45:02 IN THE UPPER ROOM. LAST SUPPER? 45:06 IN THE UPPER ROOM. THAT'S YOUR UPPER ROOM. 45:09 'THY WORD I HAVE HID IN MY HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST 45:13 THEE.' HOW DID JESUS FIGHT THE DEVIL'S TEMPTATION? 45:17 'IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN. 45:21 IT IS WRITTEN.' THESE ARE THE TWO WITNESSES. 45:24 IT'S A SWORD WITH TWO EDGES. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 45:28 MOSES AND ELIJAH - THE WORD OF GOD. 45:29 "BECAUSE SHE HID THE MESSENGERS THAT WE SENT." 45:34 VERSE 18 - AND, WELL, WE CAN GO ON IN - IT SAYS THE ONLY THING 45:38 SAVED IS THE TREASURE IN THE CITY AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS 45:41 GOING TO SAVE WHEN HE COMES FOR THIS WORLD, WHICH IS THAT WHICH 45:43 IS PRECIOUS. FRIENDS, IS OUR JOSHUA COMING? 45:48 >>YES. >>ARE TRUMPETS GOING TO BLOW? 45:52 >>YES. >>IS IT TRUE THAT THERE'S GOING 45:54 TO BE DESTRUCTION? >>YES. 45:57 >>AND JOSHUA GAVE THE SIGNAL - THE TRUMPETS - THOSE SEVEN 45:59 TRUMPETS BLEW AND THE SOLDIERS ALL GAVE A SHOUT - AND THAT MUST 46:04 HAVE BEEN AN EARTH-RENDING SHOUT. 46:06 THEY SHOUTED AND THEY STOMPED THE GROUND AND THEY CLASHED 46:09 THEIR SWORDS AGAINST THEIR SHIELDS AND THERE WAS A RUCKUS 46:11 LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE - A CACOPHONY - A ROAR CAME FROM 46:16 THAT. AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS A 46:18 COMBINATION OF SOUND WAVES AND GOD'S ANGELS, BUT THE VERY 46:21 FOUNDATIONS OF JERICHO BEGAN TO RUMBLE AND THERE 46:25 WAS AN EARTHQUAKE. DOES THE BIBLE SAY THE LORD 46:28 HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A WHAT? 46:30 >>A SHOUT. >>A SHOUT! 46:32 IS THERE GOING TO BE AN EARTHQUAKE WHEN JESUS COMES? 46:34 >>YES. >>THERE'S A MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE 46:36 SO MIGHTY AND SO GREAT THERE'S NEVER BEEN ONE LIKE IT. 46:39 THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHOUT - ARE THERE GOING TO BE TRUMPETS? 46:40 >>YES. >>WITH THE TRUMP OF THE LORD 46:42 - THE LORD WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN. 46:44 THIS STORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IS A KEY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND 46:48 WHAT IS COMING IN THE FUTURE. 46:50 THE ONLY WAY, IN THE LAST DAYS, FOR PEOPLE TO SURVIVE THE COMING 46:55 OF OUR JOSHUA AND THE BLOWING OF THE TRUMPETS AND THE DESTRUCTION 46:58 THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, AND THE SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL, IS TO BE 47:02 IN THE HOUSE WITH THE RED ROPE. >>AMEN. 47:05 >>AND WHEN THEY BLEW THE TRUMPETS THE GROUND SHOOK AND 47:07 THE WALLS IMPLODED. THEY ALL FELL DOWN OUT FLAT - 47:12 WITH ONE EXCEPTION - ANY OF YOU EVER DRIVEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY? 47:16 YOU PROBABLY SEE THIS HERE IN MICHIGAN - WE DON'T HAVE IT SO 47:18 MUCH BACK IN CALIFORNIA, BECAUSE WE DON'T BUILD ALL THE HOUSES 47:21 THERE WITH A FIREPLACE, BUT YOU EVER SEEN WHERE A FARM BURNS 47:25 DOWN AND THE ONLY THING LEFT STANDING IS A CHIMNEY? 47:28 THE STONE - AND IT'S JUST SORT OF A SAD SILHOUETTE STANDING UP 47:32 BY ITSELF WHERE YOU KNEW THERE WAS ONCE A HOUSE AND A FAMILY. 47:35 AND WHEN THAT EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED, AND WHEN THE GROUND 47:39 SHOOK, AND WHEN EVERYTHING FELL, AND ALL THE CITY FELL, AFTER THE 47:45 SMOKE FROM THAT IMPLOSION CLEARED, THEY SAW THE SHADOW - 47:50 ONE LITTLE SECTION OF THE WALL WAS STILL STANDING AND AS THE 47:54 DUST BEGAN TO BLOW AWAY THAT ONE SECTION HAD A WINDOW IN IT AND 47:58 IT WAS JUST BIG ENOUGH FOR ONE HOME AND THAT COLUMN THAT WAS 48:02 LEFT STANDING - AND A BUNCH OF FACES WERE VERY ANXIOUSLY 48:06 LOOKING OUT OF THAT WINDOW AND IN THAT WINDOW WAS A RED ROPE. 48:10 YOU KNOW, IT SAYS IN PSALMS 91 THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID 48:14 OF THE LAST DAYS - A THOUSAND MAY - VERSE 7 - 'A THOUSAND 48:18 MIGHT FALL AT YOUR SIDE, AND TEN THOUSAND AT YOUR RIGHT HAND; 48:22 BUT...ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU SEE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE 48:25 WICKED. BECAUSE YOU HAVE MADE THE LORD, 48:27 THE MOST HIGH, YOUR HABITATION, THERE WILL BE NO PLAGUE THAT 48:30 WILL COME NEAR YOU OR TO YOUR DWELLING.' AND SO RAHAB AND HER 48:34 FAMILY, THEY COULD HEAR THE ROAR. 48:35 THEY COULD FEEL THE SHAKING AND EVERYTHING AROUND THEM FELL, BUT 48:39 THEIR HOME DID NOT FALL. GOD HELPED THEM SURVIVE. 48:44 NOW I IMAGINE THAT CONDITIONS INSIDE HER HOUSE - PEOPLE WERE 48:49 PROBABLY COMPLAINING ABOUT THE ROOM SERVICE AT THAT POINT, 48:52 DON'T YOU THINK? AND YOU GET ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN 48:55 THE HOUSE - YOU GET A LOT OF FAMILY UNDER ONE ROOF. 48:57 WHO WAS IT - BEN FRANKLIN - THAT SAID, 'AFTER THREE DAYS, 48:59 COMPANY AND FISH START TO SMELL.' (LAUGHTER) 49:04 AND THEY PROBABLY HAD A FEW SCRABBLES AND ARGUMENTS AS THEY 49:08 WERE DEALING OUT THEIR MEAGER PROVISIONS. 49:12 AND SOME OF THEM SAID, 'I CAN'T STAND IT IN THIS HOUSE ANYMORE. 49:15 YOU'RE - IT'S JUST - I CAN'T GET ALONG WITH THESE PEOPLE.' AND 49:17 RAHAB SAID - WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO THE DOOR SHE SAID, 'THE 49:19 ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO STAY INSIDE.' NOW I IMAGINE NOAH, 49:24 DURING THE FLOOD, WITH ALL THE BILLOWING - BELLOWING ANIMALS - 49:30 DIDN'T SMELL VERY GOOD, BUT IT WAS A LOT SAFER IN THE ARK THAN 49:35 OUTSIDE IN THE STORM. AND SOMETIMES THE CHURCH, I 49:39 AGREE IT MAY HAVE PROBLEMS, AND THERE ARE SOME KOOKY PEOPLE AND, 49:43 YES, EVEN JESUS HAD A JUDAS IN HIS GROUP. 49:47 DON'T LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU BECAUSE WE MUST BE IN CHRIST - 49:50 AND WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? THE BODY OF CHRIST. 49:53 WE MUST BE IN CHRIST'S BODY WHEN HE COMES. 49:57 WE NEED TO BE PART OF A COLLECTIVE THAT ARE UNDER THE 50:00 BLOOD - THAT BELIEVE THE COVENANT. 50:03 ARE YOU GETTING THE MEANING IN THIS INCREDIBLE STORY? 50:06 >>AMEN. >>AND I'M ALWAYS INSPIRED 50:07 BY THE FAITH OF RAHAB. SO THE WALLS FALL. 50:11 RAHAB AND HER FAMILY - THE TWO SPIES - JOSHUA TELLS THEM, HE 50:15 SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU GUYS BETTER GET IN THERE.' HE SAYS TO THE TWO 50:19 MESSENGERS - JOSHUA SAID - VERSE 22 - "...TO THE MEN WHO HAD 50:23 SPIED OUT THE COUNTRY, 'GO INTO THE HARLOT'S HOUSE,'" - NOW 50:25 USUALLY IT'S NOT THE MISSION OF - COMING FROM JOSHUA, BUT HE 50:30 SAID, 'GO INTO THE HARLOT'S HOUSE,' - AND - TO THE MEN - 50:33 BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE - THERE'S NO 50:36 PHOTOGRAPHS - 'AND GET THE WOMAN AND EVERYBODY IN HER HOUSE. 50:43 YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS. RESCUE HER BEFORE WE PUT THE 50:46 TORCH TO THE CITY.' SO THEY GO AND THEY TOOK OUT RAHAB AND HER 50:51 FATHER AND HER MOTHER AND HER BROTHERS AND ALL THAT SHE HAD. 50:54 THERE WERE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE BESIDES HER FAMILY. 50:56 THEY BROUGHT OUT ALL OF HER RELATIVES AND THEY LEFT THEM 51:00 OUTSIDE THE CAMP IN A SAFE SPOT AND THEY BURNED THE CITY WITH 51:03 FIRE. WHAT IS THE LORD GOING TO DO 51:04 WHEN JESUS COMES? IT SAYS THE - WE WILL BE - 51:08 'THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE. WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET 51:11 THE LORD IN THE AIR.' AND THEN BEHIND THAT RAPTURE OF THE LORD 51:15 WHEN HE CATCHES US UP, THERE'S GOING TO BE TREMENDOUS 51:18 DESTRUCTION, BUT HE SAVES US FROM IT BEFORE IT HAPPENS. 51:23 ISN'T THAT GOOD NEWS? >>AMEN. 51:25 >>HE SAVES US AND THEN THERE'S DESTRUCTION IMMEDIATELY AFTER. 51:28 BY THE WAY, SOME SAY THAT THE SECOND COMING IS A SECRET. 51:32 YOU'RE JUST GOING TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING AND EVERYBODY'S GONE. 51:35 WAS IT QUIET WHEN JOSHUA CAME TO JERICHO? 51:38 >>NO. >>OR WAS IT EXCEEDINGLY LOUD? 51:41 >>LOUD. >>WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE 51:43 WHEN JESUS COMES? >>LOUD. 51:45 >>IT SAYS THERE'S GOING TO BE A ROAR. 51:47 THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHOUT. AT THE LAST TRUMP THERE'S 51:49 GOING TO BE AN EARTHQUAKE. THERE'S GOING TO BE A 51:51 RESURRECTION. EVERY ONE OF YOUR SENSES WILL BE 51:53 SHOUTING THAT SOMETHING CLIMATIC - TRAUMATIC - HAD HAPPENED. 51:57 YOU WON'T HAVE TO READ ABOUT IT WITH A TEXT MESSAGE. 51:59 HE SAID IT'LL BE LIKE LIGHTNING GOING FROM THE EAST EVEN UNTO 52:02 THE WEST. EVERY EYE WILL BEHOLD HIM. JESUS IS COMING. 52:08 THEY TOOK RAHAB OUTSIDE THE CITY. 52:11 EVERYTHING IN JERICHO WAS DESTROYED. 52:14 AND RAHAB AND HER FAMILY, THEY'RE ALL SAYING, 'WE ARE SO 52:16 THANKFUL THAT YOU TOLD US TO COME INTO YOUR HOUSE.' 52:20 RAHAB REPRESENTS THE CHURCH. WHY WOULD GOD PICK SOMEONE 52:23 LIKE RAHAB TO BE THAT SYMBOL? WELL, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, 52:27 EVEN IN THE BOOK OF HOSEA THAT SOMETIMES HIS BRIDE HAS BEEN 52:31 UNFAITHFUL, BUT HE STILL LOVES HER. 52:35 GOD SAYS THAT SOMETIMES WE'VE BEEN UNFAITHFUL. 52:38 PETER DENIED THE LORD AND AFTER HE ROSE, HE TOLD MARY MAGDALENE, 52:42 'GO TELL THE DISCIPLES - AND PETER - THAT I'M ALIVE.' NOT 52:46 ONLY WAS RAHAB SAVED, AFTER THINGS SETTLED DOWN, SHE'S JUST 52:49 OUTSIDE THE CITY. SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO. 52:52 HER WHOLE LIFE WAS IN THE CITY - BURNED WITH FIRE. 52:54 SHE'S GOT HER FAMILY AND SHE SAYS TO ONE OF THE SPIES, 'YOU 52:57 GOT ANY RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT WHAT WE DO NOW?' 53:02 AND ONE OF THE SPIES, I THINK HIS NAME WAS SALMON, HE SAID, 53:06 'WELL LOOK, I'LL KEEP AN EYE ON YOU.' RAHAB MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN 53:13 ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LADY AND HE WAS INSPIRED BY HER FAITH AND HER 53:18 COURAGE. AND SHE THOUGHT HE WAS PRETTY 53:20 BRAVE TOO. BECAUSE, YOU READ IN THE BIBLE 53:24 AND IT TELLS US THAT - YOU GO TO THE GENEALOGIES OF JESUS IN THE 53:28 BOOK OF MATTHEW - HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THAT? 53:32 IT TALKS ABOUT CHRIST'S FAMILY TREE - RAM BEGAT AMMINADAB, 53:36 AMMINADAB BEGAT NAHSHON, AND NAHSHON BEGAT SALMON AND SALMON 53:42 BEGAT BOAZ BY RAHAB - AND RAHAB AND SALMON - RAHAB AND SALMON 53:50 HAD BOAZ AND BOAZ MARRIED RUTH, WHO HAD OBED, AND OBED BEGAT 53:56 JESSE, WHO BEGAT DAVID, OF WHOM CAME THE CHRIST. 54:02 ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT IN THE FAMILY TREE OF JESUS YOU'VE GOT 54:07 TAMAR, WHO DRESSED UP LIKE A PROSTITUTE, YOU'VE GOT BATHSHEBA 54:11 WHO WAS AN ADULTERESS, AND YOU'VE GOT RAHAB. 54:17 MAYBE THE LORD'S TRYING TO TELL US THERE'S HOPE FOR US, WHAT DO 54:20 YOU THINK? >>AMEN. 54:22 >>CHRIST CAME THROUGH THE LINE OF RAHAB. 54:27 AND THEN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE SOME VERY INTERESTING - ALMOST 54:29 CONTRADICTIONS - IT SAYS NOT ONLY ARE WE INSPIRED BY RAHAB'S 54:33 FAITH, IT TELLS US THAT IN HEBREWS 11:31, "BY FAITH THE 54:38 HARLOT RAHAB DID NOT PERISH." WHAT'S GOING TO KEEP US 54:41 FROM PERISHING, FRIENDS? FAITH. 54:44 WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING 54:47 LIFE. JAMES SAYS, "LIKEWISE WAS NOT 54:49 RAHAB THE HARLOT NOT JUSTIFIED BY WORKS?" 54:52 I WISH THESE APOSTLES WOULD MAKE UP THEIR MIND. 54:54 PAUL SAYS 'BY FAITH', JAMES SAYS 'BY WORKS'. 54:57 WELL, WE'RE NOT SAVED BY WORKS, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 55:00 IF YOU HAVE FAITH IT'LL BE SEEN IN YOUR WORKS. 55:02 >>AMEN. >>AND BECAUSE SHE DID HAVE FAITH 55:04 IN JOSHUA - SHE SHOWED IT BY PUTTING HER LIFE ON THE LINE AND 55:08 RECEIVING THE MESSENGERS WHO CAME TO HER. DO YOU HAVE FAITH? 55:14 FRIENDS, I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU - AND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING 55:18 - JESUS IS COMING - JOSHUA IS SURELY COMING. 55:21 WE DON'T KNOW WHEN BUT HE'S PROMISED HE'S COMING AND HE 55:24 NEVER BREAKS HIS PROMISE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 55:25 >>HE SAID, 'I WILL COME AGAIN.' HE CAME ON TIME THE FIRST TIME. 55:28 HE WILL COME AGAIN ON TIME THE SECOND TIME. 55:31 AND THERE'S GOING TO BE TRUMPETS THAT WILL BE BLOWING. 55:33 AND THERE'S GOING TO BE AN EARTH THAT WILL BE SHAKING. 55:36 AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHOUT WHEN HE COMES AND THERE'S GOING 55:39 TO BE A DELIVERANCE AND A RESURRECTION AND THERE'S GOING 55:41 TO BE TREMENDOUS DESTRUCTION AND OUR ONLY WAY OF ESCAPE DURING 55:45 THAT TIME - LIKE THE ISRAELITES IN EGYPT, WE NEED THE BLOOD ON 55:50 OUR DOOR. LIKE RAHAB AND HER HOUSEHOLD, WE 55:54 NEED THE SIGN OF THAT SCARLET ROPE. 55:57 JESUS IS THE LADDER THAT REACHES TO HEAVEN. 55:59 HE LET DOWN A SCARLET LINE SO THAT WE COULD BE REDEEMED. 56:04 AND IT'S GOING TO BE THE ONLY WAY. 56:06 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO JUST HANG ON TO 56:08 THAT LINE. HOW LONG CAN YOU HOLD ON TO A ROPE? 56:12 YOUR HANDS GET WEAK AFTER AWHILE IF IT'S HOLDING YOU UP. 56:15 YOU WANT TO WRAP IT AROUND AND TIE A KNOT, DON'T YOU? 56:18 HAVE YOU MADE A DECISION TO ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR? 56:21 THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON IN JERICHO THAT COULD DISTRACT 56:25 YOU - A LOT OF ENTERTAINMENT IN SIN CITY. 56:28 BUT THE ONLY WAY TO BE SAFE IS TO BE IN CHRIST. 56:32 YOU ACCEPT JESUS. YOU ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE FOR YOU. 56:34 HE PROMISES THAT THE BLOOD OF HIS SON CAN WASH AWAY ALL OF OUR 56:39 SIN AND YOU BECOME PART OF HIS PEOPLE - IN SPITE OF PROBLEMS 56:45 YOU MIGHT SEE IN THE CHURCH. HE WANTS US TO BE 56:47 PART OF HIS BODY. AND WHAT DOES RAHAB DO? 56:50 SHE TELLS EVERYBODY JOSHUA'S COMING - INVITES THEM INTO HER 56:53 HOUSE SO THEY'LL BE READY WHEN HE COMES BACK. 56:56 IS JESUS COMING? IT'S NOT JUST OURSELVES BEING 56:58 READY, WE WANT TO GET OTHERS READY. 57:00 HOW ABOUT YOU, FRIENDS? ISN'T THAT YOUR DESIRE? 57:02 THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING? THIS IS THE GOSPEL STORY - THE 57:05 STORY OF RAHAB, THIS HERO OF FAITH, TELLS US HOW TO BE SAVED. 57:09 AND I WANT TO BE READY, DON'T YOU? 57:11 >>AMEN. 57:12 >>FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GOOD NEWS. 57:15 AND I PRAY THAT EACH ONE OF US CAN ACCEPT THAT COVENANT THAT 57:18 YOU'VE OFFERED IN GIVING US YOUR OWN BELOVED SON. 57:22 BE WITH US THROUGH THIS SERIES AND IN OUR LIVES, THAT WE CAN BE 57:24 PART OF YOUR PEOPLE, IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN. 57:29 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM 57:33 OR CALL 1-800-538-7275 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS 57:40 BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 57:42 NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT 57:46 THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 57:51 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 57:56 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 58:00 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 58:04 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. (MUSIC) |
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