255: Frank Abel – Exhortation: Lessons from Rahab

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Welcome to good for selfie and
talks.

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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
Brian, thank you for joining us

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You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk

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this week.
We’re listening to an excitation

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that was given by Brother Frank
able back in 1998 at the

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Idyllwild.
Bible school brother, Frank is

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from the Shelburne Ontario
cliche.

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Canada and this excitation which
was given right at the end of

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the Ottawa Bible school.
He’s taking a look at the

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lessons from Rahab in the story
of Joshua and what I really

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appreciate about this is it’s a
really good reminder for us.

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He starts by talking about some
of the Ebbs and flows in faith

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that we can feel in our lives
and takes lessons from Rahab and

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how that we can apply that.
So that we can more whether

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those Ebbs and flows as we live
our life, waiting for the return

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of Christ.
I really appreciate.

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He does away.
Really great job at looking at

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the details of the story and
pulls out, some really awesome

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nuggets that I’ll save for you
to discover when you listen to

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it, to be able to kind of put
yourself more in rehabs place

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and understand what was going on
both for her for the spies and

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for everything else.
It’s a this expectation to me is

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just a classic example of
understanding.

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What is really great about some
of the Sunday school lessons

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that we’ve learned growing up
and how many details sometimes

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we can lose when we’re?
Otherwise just focused on the

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overall story that just makes
them More powerful as you dig

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deeper and deeper into them.
As always, thank you for

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listening and for sending in any
suggestions, I hope that you

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enjoy this excitation and find
it to be uplifting for your walk

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with that.
I will turn it over to our

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brother, Frank able for his
excitation entitled lessons from

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rehab, good morning, brothers
and sisters and young people.

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We At one final, time to open
our Bibles and to open our

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minds.
And to consider some things that

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will help us.
We pray when we come down from

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this mountain, I suppose there’s
not too many young people here.

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Have the tendency to wake up
early especially at bible

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school, but some of the older
people out of habit when they

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wake up in the morning, it’s
it’s very difficult to get back

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to sleep and sometimes there’s
real benefits in noticing that

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there is quite a time between
the first rays of day and before

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you ever see the sun, When you
think of it as a proportion of

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the day, it’s quite a period of
time which in various parts of

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the world, of course varies.
But in our part of the world

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would be about 60 to 90 minutes
at this time of the year.

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Now, God has told us that there
are certain things to think of

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when we see things like that,
you may not have thought of it

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this way.
But in Joel chapter 3, In verse

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1 and 2, he talks about the
return of the Jewish people from

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captivity.
And he does say in those days in

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that time when I bring again,
the Captivity of Judah and

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Jerusalem, I will also gather
all nations and will bring them

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down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat.

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So there are certain things
prophetically which are like the

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dawning of a day.
The first rays of the sun means

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something, the full sun means
something else.

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And it would seem to me that
there were good reasons for our

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brothers and sisters, quite
possibly a number of you here

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who can remember back to the joy
and the excitement in our

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community in 1947 and in a 48.
When finally Israel became a

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state And Joel chapter 3.
Without any doubt, we were now

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seeing the return of the
Captivity of Judah and

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Jerusalem.
Obviously, there would be people

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who would have said, they could
have seen those first rays of

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light in 1917 sometime before
that.

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But there was no question in
1948, that the first rays of

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light were there, Now, the
characteristics of the first

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rays of light, till the actual
appearance of the sun is that

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everything becomes brighter and
brighter.

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You can see more.
You might guess that there could

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be some link between that and
what the Prophet Daniel said

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that in the latter days,
knowledge would be increased.

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That’s exactly what happens when
the sun becomes Higher and

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Higher and almost comes to the
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You can see things you couldn’t
see at night.

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So the Brotherhood was looking
very strongly for the time of

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the Gathering of all Nations
because it tells us at that time

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I will also gather all nations.
So for some time now, there’s

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been high expectations in the
Brotherhood of the return of

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Christ.
That yes, there may not be many

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more times that we will break
bread together until he comes.

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And that’s the joy of our
community.

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That’s what so often binds us
together when we leave the

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assembly that we are in this
morning.

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That we may very well.
The next time.

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See each other at the calling
together of ourselves by the

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Lord.
Now, what was interesting this

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year we had a difficult time
with the strawberries in the

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spring because we had some very
late, Frost’s.

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And to deal with that, you have
to get up early in the morning

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at the earliest, you can see the
strawberries, get the hoses out

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and wash the frost off the
actual berries.

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The frost doesn’t kill a plant
but it does damage the fruit.

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You have a period of time to do.
That is from the first light of

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day, when you can actually see
what you’re doing, till the sun

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rises, when the sun’s actually
on the horizon and provides heat

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to melt that ice itself, then
it’s too late to do anything.

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So it’s it’s a unique period and
we had a lots of time to think

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about spiritual analogies this
year because we had four nights

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in a row in the first week of
June when we had quite heavy.

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Frost’s And I was thinking, I
wonder how typical it is that we

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go through this roller coaster
ride between the first rays of

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light and the actual Sun
appearing that people’s

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expectations of the Lord Rises
and then it falls and it rises

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in it falls.
And you wonder, how many times

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you can go through that before
you get a little weary of the

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process and you get a little bit
callous to the even the

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suggestion that the law.
Is coming or is coming is near

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because we’ve been through this
scenario so many times.

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It just seems to be another one
of those times.

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So, in 1967, same people looked
at what was happening in the

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Middle East Saw Jerusalem now
becoming free, not totally, but

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becoming free of Gentile
domination and began to Rejoice

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again.
But nothing came of it and we

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had to wait until 1973 before
something else significant

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happened in the Middle East and
expectations rose again and then

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fell.
And then in 1989 the events in

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Europe and the brotherhood’s
expectations again a rose and

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fell and then the Gulf War and
there may be a number of other

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times like even this week being
together and being away from the

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influence of the world and
talking about these things are

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our expectations and our
feelings, about the coming of

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the Lord are probably high.
But I wonder what they’ll be

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like tomorrow.
And later on in the week, when

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we get back into those grooves,
that we came out of so happily

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at the beginning of last week.
We have to deal with this

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brothers and sisters this rising
and falling of expectations.

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There, can’t be any question
that when you see the first rays

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of light, the sun will appear on
the horizon being that way, ever

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since God created it, and he
guarantees that we’ll continue

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that day and night will continue
before him.

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So we don’t doubt that there
will be an appearance of the

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sun.
We don’t doubt that our Lord

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will come but we would sure like
to have a little more comfort as

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to how to deal with the rise and
the fall of the expectations.

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Well, we need to go to the Bible
to get that comfort.

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We were here yesterday in class
and there’s one major example in

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the life of Rahab.
We’d like to look at before we

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leave the subject in Hebrews
chapter 6, you may remember the

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theme we were working on was
revealed to us in verse 12 that

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you’d be not slothful or lazy or
fall back into sort of the

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spiritual doldrums but followers
of them who through faith.

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And patience, inherit the
promises.

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Now it’s those two
characteristics we’re working on

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it’s not as if they were all.
There was we know that there are

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only two of many seven, other
fruits of the spirit, we need to

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develop.
But there are at least two main

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things we need at this time, in
our lives, faith and patience.

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And we like to point it out in
the life of this young lady

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Rahab.
It’s there’s four things, I

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think in the life of that young
woman that are remarkable, and

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if we can remember them around
the four points, that will

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certainly help us later on.
I’ve often wondered.

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When you consider Rahab
mentioned in the New Testament,

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it almost seems a slam on her to
find her mentioned as Rahab.

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The Harlot, why would you ever
mention where a person came

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from?
When you talk about them years

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after their conversion, why
would you mention that?

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That’s where she was initially
found.

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So, for instance, in James in
chapter two were, it’s a verse

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about commending, this young
lady yet, it still says Likewise

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also was not Rahab the Harlot
justified by works, when she had

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received the messengers and had
sent them out another way.

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We can’t forget brothers and
sisters, how the gospel in that

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extends out so far as to embrace
people that maybe even we

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wouldn’t reach out to.
But God as he reached out to the

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Apostle, Paul and he considered
himself the chief sinner,

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because he had persecuted the
Ecclesia.

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That’s the breath.
That we must understand as well

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concerning this young lady.
I don’t know for sure but you

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know you wonder sometimes why
the record mentioned certain

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things and it doesn’t
immediately tell us But it does

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say that when she took the spies
up to the roof of her house, she

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covered them with flax of when
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Now, I don’t know too much about
flax.

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I haven’t really worked with it,
much on the farm, but we have

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had a little experience, and
flax is the kind of of a crop

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that after you get the seed out
of it, you’re pretty.

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We’ll have to burn it because
the stock is so strong and so

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likely to entangle anything that
that tries to rake it or bail it

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or some some water, otherwise
deal with it that most often in

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our area.
People growing flax will burn

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the stocks.
We do know however that the

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stocks are used in the
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So that we go to Revelation
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people who were clothed were
clothed in linen verse 8 to her.

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The bride was, granted that she
should be arrayed in fine, linen

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clean and white for the fine.
Linen is the righteousness of

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saints.
So you see this flax in the

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initial stages of what could
become fine linen.

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Or righteousness.
And it seems to me that that

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unfolds a little bit about the
life of this lady of how in the

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later part of the scriptures the
New Testament, it keeps on

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bringing back the idea of Rahab
the Harlot, she covered the

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spies with stalks of flax
unprocessed righteousness.

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But nevertheless The first stage
of it and so many people we find

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in the scriptures when we first
see them, they’re just in the

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first stage of being called out
because God seen something in

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them that will mature into the
bride of Christ.

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So that that person can be
clothed with the fine linen is

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the righteousness of the Saints.
So we see Rahab initially

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deliberately lying to cover up
the fact.

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She had hid these spice.
We see her as a harlot coming

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out from the world.
That’s where she was.

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That’s where many people that we
preach to our found today.

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But we don’t stop preaching to
them.

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We don’t stop reaching out to
them because that’s where they

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start.
If in fact, God is drawing them,

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then they will respond to the
gospel message and I believe

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that is the point.
One about the life of this

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woman.
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They weren’t found in the way of
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something about them that
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opportunity, they would develop
the final in the righteousness

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of the Saints.
Saints.

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Now, what is stated about this
person is very brief.

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We have one chapter.
We have a few comments on it

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later on but just really have
the one chapter So as the

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scriptures come to our Aid.
So often with just the minimum

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number of words but saying quite
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On those words we find her
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of Joshua She says to the spies
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heard because it does say that
verse 10.

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We heard how Yahweh dried up the
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When you came out of Egypt, and
what you did to, the two kings

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of the amorites, which were on
the other side, Jordan sihon and

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OG whom you utterly destroyed.
As soon as we had heard these

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things, our hearts didn’t melt
neither, did the In any more

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courage in any, man because of
you for Yahweh, your God, he is

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God in heaven above and in Earth
beneath. now, it’s that

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Declaration of this young lady,
which separated her, it would

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seem from everybody else in
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99% of the people all melted.
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There was no courage in them.
But in this young woman what she

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had seen and heard, I should
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don’t believe she ever did see
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She only saw it in the eye of
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It was what she heard and what
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That convinced her that Yahweh
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So she says, for Yahweh your
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Now that’s the Declaration.
God had tried to get out of the

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Jews.
It go back to Deuteronomy in

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Chapter 4 and see what God
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of Egypt to try to get the
Jewish people to come to the

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same conclusion. so, he says,
Inverse. 31 Deuteronomy, chapter

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4 at verse 31.
Maybe will read verse 32, Port

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connection, when our and
tribulation and all these things

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are come on.
The even in the latter days if

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they’ll turn to Yahweh, thy God,
and shall be obedient unto his

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voice for Yahweh.
Thy God, he is a merciful god,

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he will not forsake thee, nor
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Covenant of our fathers, which
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And he goes on to say, you ask
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Ask anywhere you like verse 33
was there ever people that ever

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people hear the voice of God
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Speaking of the fire, as you
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had any other goddess Aid to
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of another Nation by Temptations
and signs and wonders and War

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and by a mighty hand and by a
stretched-out arm and B great

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Terrors.
According to all that Yahweh,

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your god did for you in Egypt
before your eyes.

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Unto thee.
It was showed that thou mightest

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know that Yahweh he is God,
there is none else beside him.

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Now God had done this for
Israel.

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They had the opportunity to walk
through the Red Sea and see the

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walls.
The water on either side and

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think about it as they went
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God did that for them so that
they might come to that

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conclusion, that Yahweh, he is
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But here Rahab without ever
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believe the same thing, she came
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Now that can’t help but strike a
note in you going right to the

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New Testament.
You have a look at John chapter

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20 verse 29.
This was Thomas’s.

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Declaration.
To of Jesus Christ, Thomas

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answered and said unto him, my
Lord.

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And my God after he had actually
put his his fingers into the

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holes that were left in the body
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Concerning the, the crucifixion
based on that Thomas was to say,

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my Lord and my God and Jesus
said unto him Thomas because you

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have seen me, you have believed
blessed?

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Are they?
That have not seen.

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And yet have believed.
Now Rahab was the type of those

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people.
She was a person who could by

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just hearing perceived that this
must be God, who could possibly

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do these great wonders and signs
except he be God.

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That’s what we’re trying to
still in ourselves brothers and

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sisters.
That’s what we’re trying to

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instill in our children who can
make that connection, that if

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God did those things, then he
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And it was on the basis of that
that this woman, then acted in

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the way of faith and she was
accepted when 99% who knows.

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Maybe everybody else in Jericho
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Their hearts melted in them when
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Here’s a young lady who is
filled with faith who identifies

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completely with that God and her
life is so totally different

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because of it.
Now, look at what she did.

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That was point, two point.
Three is look at what she did.

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Verse 13, 12, and 13.
Again, we have to rely on the

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text of the scriptures to tell
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There’s nothing added, nothing
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Nothing to be taken away.
Just look at what it says she

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said.
Now, therefore, I pray you swear

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unto me by Yahweh since I have
showed you kindness that you

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will also show kindness unto my
father’s house and give me a

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true token that you will save a
live, my father, my mother, my

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brethren, and my sisters.
And all that they have and

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deliver our lives from death.
And I thought, well, surely she

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would have said herself.
Save me.

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Do you notice that’s not in that
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She says, give me a true token
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My mom, my brothers and my
sisters and all that they have

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And I think that’s a secret
brothers and sisters of how to

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go about our life after we leave
the mountain. if our life is

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consumed in trying to serve and
save others, That very process

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is how we save ourselves.
Like someone might say, well,

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first thing you do is save
yourself and in the sense of

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Doctrine we’d have that
admonition from the scriptures

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that we save ourselves first.
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But when it comes to working it
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processes that drive us in our
life, it was her desire, her

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burning desire to save her dad,
and her mum to save her

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brothers, and her sisters, and
quite possibly her little nieces

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and her little nephews.
That was moving her to say these

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things.
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that as had been done to the two
kings on the other side of the

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Jordan.
So they would do to Jericho,

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they would kill everybody.
Now, brothers and sisters, we’ve

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talked about this already this
week.

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But if we’re really interested
in the life of our children, we

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got to set examples for them.
We’ve got to show them the way

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instead of many times coming
into the conflicts that we have

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in the Ecclesia with how to do
things.

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Theoretically just to show
people how to do it is the the

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more honorable The Higher Ground
which were called to in Christ

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Jesus.
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Lord Jesus Christ, who was
laying down his life that we

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might live.
So Rahab was risking her life

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better family, might live.
And in both cases, God honored

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them so that they lived as well.
I mean, there’s wonderful

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principles, involved in what
drives people, what motivates

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people to do the things they do
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But I tend to think the fourth
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what’s most benefit to us this
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Now you contemplate, this
present sisters or what

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happened.
The spies told her very

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specifically in verse 18 and 19.
When we come into the land, find

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this line of scarlet thread in
the window, when did she do it?

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It seems to need that Rahab must
have thought they were going to

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come back almost immediately.
So it tells us just over in

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verse in verse 21, according to
your word Soviet and she sent

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them away and they departed and
she bound the Scarlet line in

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the window as far as Rahab was
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There was not going to be any
question about whether she

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carried out her obligations as
soon as they left, it was bound

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in the window, ready for her
salvation but they went on and

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said You’ve got to bring your
father, your mother, your

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brother, and all your father’s
household home to You Verse 18,

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verse 19.
It shall be, that whosoever

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shall go out of the doors of
your house into the street.

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His blood shall be upon his head
and we will be Guiltless

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whosoever shall be with the in
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His blood shall be on our head
if any man be a if any hand be

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upon him Further verse 20, if
you alter this our business,

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then we will be quit of thine
oath, which thou Hast made us to

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swear.
So Rahab was bound, just like,

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it seems with the Scarlet thread
to get it in the window as soon

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as possible to go to her father
and her mother, which probably

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were not in her house and her
brothers and her sisters and to

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bring them to that house on the
wall.

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And to tell them they had to
stay there.

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They could not go out.
And don’t tell anybody about

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what we’re doing.
You just think about how she

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could have possibly carried this
out.

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She had no idea of how long it
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Add up the days that are in the
scriptures and you come up with

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at least two weeks, at least two
weeks later before they came up

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in the walls, actually fell and
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It would seem to me by how
quickly she put the Scarlet line

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in the window that she must have
called her family together and

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told them right away.
You can’t leave the house.

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But not knowing it would take
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I’ve often wondered, did she
take enough food?

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Did you take enough water to
last two weeks?

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You must wonder what the
excitement that they had when

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they first saw Israel.
Coming towards the city and the

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Army may have been 40,000 of
them that would came first

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before the ark and marched
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Totally silent, except for the
blowing of those horns, by the

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priests who wouldn’t have any
idea of what was going to

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happen.
There was no suggestion that the

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two spies knew how that City
would be taken.

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It’s only revealed later on, So
she wouldn’t have known what was

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going on, but she had been
convinced.

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She had convinced her dad her
mom her, brother’s her sisters

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to get into this house and stay
there and don’t dare go out of

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that door.
And with possibly the rations

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and the house running short
possibly being on the wall,

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there would be other problems
you think of the sanitation

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problems they would have in that
house.

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And they saw the army’s coming.
And they walked around the house

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or what around the city and they
went back to their camp and

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nothing happened.
You see the expectations were

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raised.
And they fell under difficult

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situations.
Maybe not enough food enough

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water, cramped conditions, no
one can leave the house.

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Boy, that lady must have had
tremendous power over the rest

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of the family often thought
about whether one of my

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daughter’s could ever come into
our house and have such an

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influence on all of us.
Like, it doesn’t mention

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faithful.
Dad.

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Or faithful, mom, or faithful,
Brothers, our sisters.

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It only talks about her.
So she’s calling the shots at

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influencing the family.
So, the next day they come and

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everybody now is thinking, well,
I guess they were just looking

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out over the city, the first I’m
in wanted to see where the

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weaknesses were.
So they all come around the

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city.
Again, silent, except for these

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priests blowing, the horns.
No one can figure out what’s

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going on.
And again, they disappear, they

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disappear because imagine the
questioning that may have went

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on in that house.
The brothers and sister, you

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really think you know what’s
going on here, and let’s just go

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through this story once once
more, we’re not to leave the

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house, we’ve got to stay in
here.

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Nobody can say anything to
anyone about what’s going on.

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Then the third day.
Then the fourth day.

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Then the fifth day you would
think it might have been a

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laughing stock at that stage
where people were starting to

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mock her in the house.
I doubt it myself but you can

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see that human nature being what
it is.

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Now, here’s the fifth time.
These people are coming marching

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around that what is going on,
but he stands and they don’t

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take the city.
And then, finally, the seventh

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day I think God does put us
through, trials, brothers, and

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sisters.
It’s through faith and patience.

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We inherit the promises.
It’s looking to people like

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Rahab that when our expectations
rise and fall we remember what

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it must have been like in that
house with the limited rations,

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with the sanitary conditions,
that would have been there.

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All those people in this house
on the wall all that time.

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Yet, the Scarlet thread was in
the window and she Faithfully

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held on not knowing how long it
would be before the city walls

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would finally come down.
I think it is a tremendous

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credit to the faith and patience
of Rahab as it is attested to in

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both James and Hebrews that this
woman was able to influence her

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household not to go out
discipline.

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It would seem did not break down
They were all there when the

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walls fell and they came in to
take her out of that City.

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Have a look at Joshua 6, verse
20.

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So the people shouted when the
priests blue with the trumpets

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and it came to pass, when the
people heard the sound of the

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trumpet and the people shouted,
with a great shout that the wall

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fell down flat.
So the people went up into the

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city, every man straight before
him, and they took the city, and

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they utterly destroyed, all that
was in the city, both men and

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women, young, and old ox, and
sheep and ass with the edge of

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the sword.
But Joshua had said unto the two

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men that had spite of the
country.

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Go.
Do the harlots house and bring

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out fence the woman and all that
she have as you swear unto her,

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and the young men that were
spies went in and brought out

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Rahab and her father, and her
mother, and her brother and and

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all that she had.
And they brought out all her

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Kindred, all her family’s, the
margin says, and left them

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without the camp of Israel.
And they burnt the city with

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fire and all that was there in
only the silver and the gold in

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the vessels of brass and iron.
They put into the treasury.

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Of the House of Yahweh and
Joshua saved, Rahab the Harlot

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alive, and her father’s
household and all that she had.

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And she dwelleth in Israel even
unto this day because she hid

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The Messengers which Joshua sent
to spy out Jericho.

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When we leave this mountain
brothers and sisters in your

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faith wavers.
Just remember this case.

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Of the rising and the falling of
expectations of the faith.

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And the patience of this
remarkable young woman who was

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able to influence all her family
to be faithful unto the end for

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it, is through the faith and the
patients that we develop that

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the Lord will surely come and
find us waiting.

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