If It Wasn't For The Women

Introduction

Illustration: Taylor’s Dane’s fear was her salvation

Feared her father

Her father gave her $6000 to pay for recording a music demo which launched her into stardom

Body- Signs Of Rahab’s Faith In The LORD God

Rahab Chose The LORD God

Joshua 2:1–4 ESV

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. And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.” Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.” 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.

Joshua 2:1

over politics, country, culture, & Family

Why?

Rahab Knew Of The LORD God

and what he had done for the children of Israel

Joshua 2:8-

Joshua 2:8–10 ESV

Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 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. 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.

Rahab Heard Of The LORD God

Joshua 2:11–14 ESV

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. Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.” And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”

So...

Rahab Partnered With The LORD’s People

committed herself/covenanted with God’s people

Rahab becomes an unlikely partner for the two spies and hence the children of Israel

The two spies unlikely partnership with Rahab (still known as the prostitute/harlot)

Rahab Possesses The Sign Of Obedience

identification/mark of obedience

so that the LORD God will save her/ the red scarlet

An opportunity for preparations for Rahab & her family to be saved

Why red scarlet?

John 14:15

John 14:15–17 ESV

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Conclusion

Illustration: The full story of Josephine Baker’s life

Almost sexually abused at 12

Sexually abused at 13

Married at 13

Married again at 15

Married again at 19

Married again at 25?

Civil rights activist

World World II French Freedom fighter