Who do you think you are? 19.04.2024
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Intro and Tension
Intro and Tension
Year was 99 | Champ leauge Final | Man utd | Ole Solsjaar put on bench | Told not good enough to start | Got his shot | Extra time | Scored - Man utd won 2-1
Wonder how many people here today told - not good enough.
How many people have had a label put on them | Have a reputation | Maybe benched yourself
I want to speak to those people that don’t feel good enough | On bench, not in game | Or in stands because today, you’re invited
I wonder | How many people today | Heard Gospel (Good news) but forgotton Salvation is the start of your walk, not the end.
made for something bigger than say prayer and die
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Title: Who do you think you are?
*Prayer*
Series: Small step for man, Giant leap for kingdom.
1st week | Outside the gate | Some things we need to break off
2nd Week | Pray ther prayer, Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
This week; Who do you think you are - turning to Joshua 2- Spies in Jericho and an old lass Rahab.
Rahab - One of most unlikely heroes - based on her reputation.
Something I want you to remember from Joshua 1:3
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
Parrelell Ephesians | Spiritual Blessings | We have spiritual blessings to bless others and further God’s kingdom. Just shelf that.
[Context] - Joshua made commander - Sneds 2 spies into canaan to look over Jericho.
Why Jericho? First city you would see | 2nd Reason there was someone in Jericho they could not see, but God could.
Something need to know | God is evicting the people of canaan because they are under judgement | Refused to respond | Important becaues Rahab right in middle of this | Coming under judgement and God stops whole thing | why? There is a soul to be saved | Heart of faith in Jericho.
That’s God’s MO - HE is looking for people with heart for Him.
Remember LOT
God today - Is looking for Hearts for Him
Let’s see what we can learn from Rahab.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
Interesting | Moses sends 12 | Josuah 2 | When Moses sent 12, 10 came back scared.
Perfect place for info | Lived in walls of city
What do we need to know | Rahab Prostitute - Inn keeper
Kings men saw spies and came to check
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”
Not only prostitute | Lying Prostitute. Did Rahab Lie? Yes
Side bar | 2 schools of thought | Isreal culture not “Agreemenet with fact” but “Loyalty toward the neigbor and Lord”
Or - Yes, she Sinner.
and not the point - She was willing to die
So we have lying prostitute | This is her reputation - What did God do? Decided to use her.
Nothing you can do that disqualifies you from Salvation if you have a heart for Lord.
Put that in ya theological pipe and smoke it.
God about to use her in big way.
so what happens - Kings men left
and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Lord = Yawheh.
For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.
First thing to notice - SHE HEARD |
She was behind enemy lines | didn’t grow up in christian household | In city about to be destroyed but she heard.
Yes - May have heard of Cross, Resurrection but there is something else
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
If you on bench today | Living under condemnation you need to hear what God says about you.
yes born of Sin | Created in Christ Jesus.
Rahab HEARD what GOD had DONE
but it didn’t stop there;
And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
Rahab Heard | Then Believed
Many in Jericho Heard | Did not believe.
Many people watching game in stadium | See what’s going on, chooses not to believe
[that one guy in a game - we won’t win]
She Believed God was all powerful. Do you?
Your difficulty should always be measured by agent doing the work.
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Theologians debate thorn but their ego missing point.
Do you believe God can do mighty things through your weakness and submission?
It’s not about your rep its about God’s rep.
Rahab didn’t care about her rep | She heard the rep of Almighty God
Then what happens
Rahab begs for family to be saved, then
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.
First she heard, then she believed, then she TOOK ACTION.
Match illustration
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
God calling you off bench today | Into Game
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
You been made to do more than say prayer and die.
You where made to take territory for the kingdom
Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
Scarlot Cord | Sounds Familiar | Passover | Didn’t look to see qualifications of those in house | Saved by identification
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Close and Inspo
Close and Inspo
Rahab Heard | Changed entire trajectory of Life.
She not just in OT in NT.
She believed - Hebrews - Hall of Faith, 1 of 2 women mentions.
She took action and James used her as example of faith.
Both times being called harlot - why? so we wouldn’t forget.
Biggest Miracle - Married on of spies became great grandmother King David
Found in Matthew 1 - Geneology of Messiah
Went from Prostitute…to Princess.
Nature forms us - Sin deforms us - Schools informs us, prison can reform us - World conform us but JESUS WILL TRANSFORM US.
God wants to transform you from ____ to Child of God with a Purpose
[Israel - Cave - Why are you looking for the living amongst the dead]
Hearing and taking action without believing is called legalism
Hearing and believing without taking action is apathy
but hearing, and believing, and taking action is called stepping with Purpose.
For God’s Glory and your good.
Will you come out of the tomb today?
*prayer*
