1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Thank you for listening to this message from LifeHouse Church. 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:18,600 Good morning, good morning. 3 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,880 Turn to somebody give them a high five. 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:21,880 Welcome them. 5 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:22,880 Give them a high five. 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:27,000 Tell them it's good to have you here at LifeHouse this morning. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,640 Tell them they don't look bad for Sunday. 8 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,520 Come on, give them some encouragement. 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,440 Yeah, some of them need to hear it. 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:34,880 What is good to have you here at LifeHouse? 11 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,420 If you're listening online, thank you for joining us for worship online as well. 12 00:00:39,420 --> 00:00:41,160 And we are excited about what's coming up. 13 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:45,480 We only got two more after today, two more times in this building. 14 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:50,600 I did get a little sentimental in the driveway this morning, back and out, but I'm over it. 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,200 We're ready to go, right? 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:53,200 Seriously. 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,240 Yeah, we're ready for the new place and excited about what God's going to do there. 18 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:02,680 And you know, along with that, I want to just remind you and I know they do it during announcements, 19 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,000 but I want you to remind you about LH3. 20 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,560 We're encouraging everybody find those three people, right? 21 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,280 Three people to get together with God for three minutes a day. 22 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,040 Now listen, you're not going to get the three people to your house, but you're going to 23 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,960 spend at least three minutes a day with the creator of the universe. 24 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,060 We don't call it just doing your devotions. 25 00:01:21,060 --> 00:01:24,160 You got an appointment with God himself, right? 26 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,480 For at least three minutes, have three friends that you stay accountable to and do that for 27 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,480 at least three months. 28 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,920 And we're positive that you're going to start a pattern of just meeting with Jesus every 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:33,920 single day. 30 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,280 It will change your life. 31 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,200 I promise you will change your life. 32 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,640 So you haven't done that yet. 33 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:39,640 Find your three. 34 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,400 I know that takes some time to pray through. 35 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:42,920 Some of you have been praying about it. 36 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,360 Some of you have already told us you found your three and you're already connected. 37 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,000 Some of you've got a bigger tribe than three that you connect with. 38 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,360 So that's important. 39 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:51,360 Make sure you're doing that. 40 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:52,360 Amen. 41 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:53,360 Amen. 42 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:54,360 All right, that's good. 43 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,920 I can go with 50 percent for now. 44 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:03,120 But anyways, this morning, I want to they're going to put up the title slide and it's already 45 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:04,680 up there, right? 46 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,160 That is how many know what that is? 47 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,320 That's zero. 48 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,480 Say zero, zero. 49 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,920 That is the number of no value whatsoever. 50 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,000 It is the number of nothing, right? 51 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,680 It's the it's the number that holds no significance in the world around us. 52 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,640 As a matter of fact, some mathematicians actually don't even want it to be called a number because 53 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:27,200 it's a numeric value that has nothing. 54 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,200 Right. 55 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,640 There is no numeric value. 56 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,240 They've argued this as mathematicians. 57 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,440 And it is, you know, a number that represents nothing. 58 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,320 If you tell somebody, if you tell a child, if you know, a bunch of children just left 59 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:44,040 here, if you tell them, I need you to count one to ten, you know, or ask them to count 60 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:50,800 to ten, how many know they don't stand there and go zero, one, two, they don't do that. 61 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:51,800 Right. 62 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,720 If you tell somebody to take ten steps, they don't stand there and go zero, one, two. 63 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,300 They just don't do that. 64 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:02,800 And zero is just that number that has no value. 65 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,960 And it's certainly even though it's close to one, how many know it's not number one? 66 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:07,960 Amen. 67 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:08,960 Some of you into number one. 68 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:09,960 Yes. 69 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:10,960 OK. 70 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,480 Not even number two, not even number three. 71 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,000 There's no designation assigned to it like a gold or silver or bronze for first, second 72 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,360 or third place. 73 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:18,440 Right. 74 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,840 It's not a good thing if you score zero points in the game. 75 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:22,840 Right. 76 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,400 Good chance you lost the game. 77 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,400 It's zero quantity. 78 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,000 It's zero quality. 79 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,600 And if somebody calls you the big zero, turn to the person beside you right now. 80 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,180 Look him in the eye. 81 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:36,600 Don't call him zero. 82 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,600 OK. 83 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:38,880 Don't do it this morning. 84 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,700 Look, if someone calls you a big zero. 85 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:43,680 How many know that's not a compliment? 86 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:44,720 Right. 87 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,680 And there's a reason, you know, so few professional athletes actually have taken on the number 88 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,680 zero or even double zero. 89 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,920 I looked it up and there's been a few in history. 90 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:55,760 There's been a few in the past. 91 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,280 And the few that do have kind of these eccentric meanings for it. 92 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,400 You know, some of them think it's new beginnings and they had come up with all these other 93 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,620 ideas. 94 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:07,960 But this morning I submit to you that zero actually should be our number. 95 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,280 Zero should be a number as believers and followers of Jesus Christ said it's our goal. 96 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,680 It should be our mission. 97 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,480 It should be something that we grab hold. 98 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,720 Zero is actually the win. 99 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:22,320 If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, if you are in the kingdom of God, it is when 100 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,980 we get to zero that the mission is accomplished. 101 00:04:24,980 --> 00:04:29,820 So if you got your Bibles this morning, I want you to begin to flip to Joshua chapter 102 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:32,000 two, verse one. 103 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,280 We're going to start with we're going to go to 21. 104 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:36,340 Joshua chapter two. 105 00:04:36,340 --> 00:04:37,440 We're going to start verse one. 106 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,440 We're going to go to 21. 107 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,440 We're going to work down through that. 108 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,580 Hopefully you've got your Bible this morning and your notebook, right? 109 00:04:43,580 --> 00:04:48,440 Your Bible because it's the sword of God and your notebook because your memory is not that 110 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,440 what? 111 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:50,440 Your memory is not that good. 112 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:51,440 All right. 113 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,440 So make notes. 114 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,000 Listen, write down what God's telling you. 115 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,880 Some will write some of you even write in the pages of scripture, right? 116 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,940 And the margins, but have that with you because God could speak to you at any time this morning 117 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:05,080 as the words coming forward. 118 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:06,600 Father, we thank you for this day. 119 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,080 God, thank you for the word that we're about to open. 120 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,360 God break the bread of life, Lord, pull it into our spirits, into our hearts and minds. 121 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,840 God, I pray that you would just get our ears ready and our hearts attuned, Lord, to what 122 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:19,840 you're saying today. 123 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:21,000 And we just give you praise. 124 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,000 We give you glory. 125 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,560 We give you honor today in Jesus name. 126 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,560 And everybody said together. 127 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:25,560 Amen. 128 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:26,560 Amen. 129 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,920 Now, listen, before we go to reading those verses of scripture, let me give you just a 130 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,200 quick synopsis of what's going on. 131 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:37,240 Let me get you up to speed with what's taking place here in this very historic biblical 132 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,300 story that we're talking about today, because you got to understand a little bit that leads 133 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:44,440 up to this for it to completely make sense. 134 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,360 And just to go back to the beginning, the nation of Israel is birthed through a covenant 135 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:55,240 between God and one man, between God and the man Abraham and God, Jehovah, God, the great 136 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,280 I am speaks to Abraham and he comes to me and he says, Abraham, I'm going to make a 137 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:00,940 great nation of you. 138 00:06:00,940 --> 00:06:03,920 It's going to come from your seed and I'm going to multiply. 139 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,960 This is he's talking about the nation of Israel that would come from him. 140 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,520 And your seed will be like the sands of the seashore. 141 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:10,520 Right. 142 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:11,520 And God does. 143 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:17,640 He actually fulfills his promise in what we would call a slow manner, but he does it. 144 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:23,160 And if we jump ahead just a bit, Abraham's family grows to about 70 in number. 145 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,240 And all of a sudden, the shift takes place because of famine in the land. 146 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:32,640 They end up moving to Egypt and he relocates his entire family to Egypt. 147 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:40,080 And it's in Egypt where Abraham's family literally grows into a nation of people, million plus 148 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:41,080 people. 149 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:46,640 They swell into this group of people, a free nation at first in the land of Egypt, but 150 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,880 then pulled into slavery by the Egyptians. 151 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:55,720 They spent 400 years as a nation enslaved by Egypt. 152 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:03,920 And God miraculously delivers Israel from this evil and from this slavery. 153 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:09,840 And how he does is he inflicts God himself through the man Moses inflicts 10 plagues 154 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,080 on Egypt and on Pharaoh both. 155 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,640 And by the 10th plague, which was the death angel that came through and killed all the 156 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:23,720 firstborn, Pharaoh finally, finally releases this nation of Israel out of slavery and says 157 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,600 leave and go. 158 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,520 And God miraculously goes with him because he leads this nation of people, these nation 159 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,400 of slaves, honestly, who are delivered now. 160 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,440 He leads them with a cloud by day. 161 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,600 It's a pillar, a cloud of what they kind of called a pillar or a cloud by day. 162 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,680 And by night it was a pillar of fire. 163 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,300 And God would literally lead them out into the wilderness by his promise. 164 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:52,360 And for 40 years now, listen, along with this, God said, I'm going to take you to a promised 165 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,360 land. 166 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,040 I'm going to take you to a place on the west side of the Jordan River. 167 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,740 And it's going to be the promised land. 168 00:07:57,740 --> 00:07:59,320 It's going to be a land of milk and honey. 169 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:00,320 I'm going to get you there. 170 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:01,800 It's going to be amazing. 171 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,820 And they should have got there as a nation. 172 00:08:03,820 --> 00:08:06,080 They should have got there in a couple of weeks. 173 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:11,000 But because of disobedience, they get right up to the edge of it and they disobey God 174 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,920 and they wander for 40 years in the wilderness. 175 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,280 They don't go into the promised land, but God's still with them. 176 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,200 And he and he's providing for them. 177 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,160 He feeds them with manna, say manna. 178 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,380 This is he puts manna out on the ground every morning, just like the dew on the ground. 179 00:08:26,380 --> 00:08:29,960 They would go out and he said it was a lot like coriander seed and it would be on the 180 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,680 ground and they would pick it up and eat it. 181 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,440 And it was nutritious for them. 182 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,840 God also their clothes and their shoes did not wear out for 40 years. 183 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,560 Pair of Nikes lasted for 40 years. 184 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:40,880 Can you imagine? 185 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:41,880 Come on. 186 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:42,880 Right. 187 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,280 They're clothes didn't wear out. 188 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,280 God was with them the entire way. 189 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:51,840 But they wonder for 40 years, the original generation of doubters about going into the 190 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:58,720 promised land die off and the next generation of Israelites rise up their children. 191 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,480 And I don't know if they were called Gen Z or Gen Alpha or millennials. 192 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:04,480 They weren't millennials. 193 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:05,800 Millennials are getting old now. 194 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:06,800 I'm sorry. 195 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:07,800 All right. 196 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:08,800 You're not young anymore. 197 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:09,800 Right. 198 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,960 But I don't know what they called them, but the next generation go in with with God. 199 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,040 They go into the promised land by faith. 200 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,640 Moses led originally and now to Joshua. 201 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:26,080 And as they edge up to the Jordan River and get ready to cross over to the west side on 202 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,800 the east side, there's enemies. 203 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,640 They have to go through King Shehan, who's of the Amorites. 204 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,400 And they go up against King Shehan and God is with them. 205 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,920 And he ruled from the Arnon Gorge to Jabouk River. 206 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,280 And he took care of that territory. 207 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,600 He was king over that territory. 208 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:52,320 Israel comes and walks through and takes him in that whole east side. 209 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,960 And King Bashan, who is also there, is ruling and they step through. 210 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:03,240 And as Israel advances and readies themselves to cross the Jordan River to go into the land 211 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:08,160 in the first city that they're going to hit is Jericho. 212 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:13,200 Everyone knows in the surrounding areas on the east side and on the west side of the 213 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:21,360 river that the God of Israel fights for them and that he wins every time, every time, not 214 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,280 one time, not two. 215 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,680 They know that they got defeated Egypt. 216 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:27,400 They know Shehan was defeated. 217 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:32,720 All was defeated and they know and there's a reputation goes and it's in this moment 218 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,800 in time that we pick up today. 219 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Right? 220 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,920 Right before Israel is ready to go in and take Jericho and Joshua is now leading him. 221 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,680 And it says this in Joshua 2 verse 1. 222 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:49,920 Now Joshua, the son of Nun, sent out two men from Asiagrove to spy secretly saying, go 223 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,480 view the land, especially Jericho. 224 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,020 So they went and they came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there. 225 00:10:57,020 --> 00:10:59,680 They're getting ready to go over. 226 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:03,840 Joshua says, I need spies to go in to check this all out, bring a report back to me. 227 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:10,400 These spies go into Jericho and they lodge at a harlot's house named Rahab. 228 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:15,080 Now the Bible doesn't really say why they went to a harlot's house, you know, prostitutes 229 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,080 house. 230 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:21,120 I'm thinking they did it just for the sake of not blending in and maybe just trying to 231 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:22,560 get a place to stay. 232 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:24,520 How many know we're going to go with that this morning? 233 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:25,520 Amen. 234 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,880 We're going to believe that it was for good reasons and good purposes, but they go to 235 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,720 this harlot's house and this is where they're hiding out. 236 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,680 They're in spying out the land. 237 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:39,220 And verse 2 says, and it was told the king of Jericho saying, behold, men have come here 238 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:42,720 tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country. 239 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:47,300 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab saying, bring out the men who have come to you, who 240 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:51,440 have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country. 241 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,420 Then the woman then the woman took the two men and hid them. 242 00:11:55,420 --> 00:12:01,580 So she said, yes, the men came to me, but I do not know where they were from. 243 00:12:01,580 --> 00:12:06,040 And it happened as the gate was being shut when it was dark that the men went out where 244 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:11,480 the men went, I do not know, pursue them quickly for you may overtake them. 245 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:16,720 But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stocks of flax, which 246 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,080 she had laid in order on the roof. 247 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,060 Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan of the the fords. 248 00:12:23,060 --> 00:12:28,680 And as soon to those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate. 249 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,120 These guys go to this. 250 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,160 These spies go to Rahab's house and they're hiding out. 251 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,400 And the king finds out that they're there, that there's spies in the land. 252 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,920 And when they come to question Rahab, Rahab lies and tells them all they left. 253 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:44,140 I don't know who they were. 254 00:12:44,140 --> 00:12:48,640 They went out the gate, but she really took them up to the roof, left them hide among 255 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,240 the flax stalks to keep them safe. 256 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:59,000 And you got to think, why would this Canaanite prostitute cover for Israeli spies? 257 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,720 Why would she risk her life and her family's life hiding out two men that she doesn't even 258 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,320 really know who are from the enemy's camp? 259 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:10,320 And I'll tell you to hear. 260 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:11,820 I'm here to tell you this morning. 261 00:13:11,820 --> 00:13:14,280 The reason she did it is the number zero. 262 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,500 Let's read a little further. 263 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:20,800 Now before they laid down, she came up to them on the roof and she said to the men, 264 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:25,320 I know the Lord has given you the land that the terror of you has fallen on us and all 265 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,140 the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. 266 00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:32,860 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came 267 00:13:32,860 --> 00:13:33,860 out of Egypt. 268 00:13:33,860 --> 00:13:35,680 I didn't even tell that story. 269 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:38,920 Just suffice to say, God opened up the Red Sea. 270 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,680 The children of Israel went across. 271 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:44,680 Egypt tried to follow and God just filled it all back in, wiped out the entire Egyptian 272 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:45,760 army. 273 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,520 And what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, 274 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,140 Shehan and Og, who you utterly destroyed. 275 00:13:52,140 --> 00:13:55,400 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted. 276 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,160 Neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you. 277 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,640 For the Lord your God, He is God of heaven above and on earth beneath. 278 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,320 Now listen, she's talking to people. 279 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,820 These two spies are nomads with their Israelites, man. 280 00:14:09,820 --> 00:14:11,440 They live in tents. 281 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:17,680 She's in a fortified city with fortified walls, walls so thick that there was housing built 282 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:21,880 in the walls, walls so thick that chariots could go around and race on. 283 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,560 And she's telling them, we're fearful of who you are because of your God, right? 284 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,600 Now in verse 12, she says, now, therefore I beg you, swear to me by the Lord, since 285 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:35,560 I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father's house and give 286 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:42,760 me a true token and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters and all they have 287 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,620 and deliver our lives from death. 288 00:14:45,620 --> 00:14:48,100 So the man answered her, our lives for yours. 289 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:53,240 If none of you tell this business of ours and it shall be that the Lord has given us 290 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:58,920 the land that we will deal kindly and truly with you. 291 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,840 The heart of the Rahab, she helps these Israelites spies, right? 292 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:04,880 She hides them. 293 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:06,320 This goes down as one of the greatest. 294 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,720 She goes down as one of the greatest people in biblical history. 295 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,680 A woman of a very questionable occupation, right? 296 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:13,680 A sinful occupation. 297 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,560 A woman who was a citizen of the enemy's camp. 298 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:18,560 She's a Canaanite. 299 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:19,680 She's not an Israelite. 300 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:25,600 A woman who knows nothing about the God of Israel, except that he fights for the Israelites, 301 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:26,600 right? 302 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,440 Risks everything to protect these two Israelite spies. 303 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,120 Why did she do it? 304 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:32,120 This is the reason. 305 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,040 A broken heart will cause us to do whatever it takes, right? 306 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,360 To have zero casualties. 307 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,600 A broken heart will cause us to do whatever it takes to have zero casualties. 308 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,160 Rahab's heart broke for her family. 309 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:52,920 She knew when Israel came in, because God of the Israelites was so powerful that her 310 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,460 family would be destroyed in the war that was about to take place. 311 00:15:56,460 --> 00:16:01,760 She was so worried about her mother, her father, her brother, her sisters. 312 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,780 Her heart broke. 313 00:16:03,780 --> 00:16:07,080 She was not okay with any of them. 314 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,320 Zero casualties was in her mind. 315 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,920 And the fact that the Israelites were intense was irrelevant to her. 316 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,000 She knew and she heard about the God, right? 317 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:23,200 She lived in this fortified city, but she knew everything around her was about to crumble 318 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,160 because God was with Israel. 319 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,560 I can imagine her thinking about all this. 320 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:34,920 I can imagine her thinking about her family and probably in her mind's eye, like we do, 321 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:35,920 right? 322 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:39,940 In her mind's eye, she probably sees the invasion taking place. 323 00:16:39,940 --> 00:16:43,460 She probably sees, and I don't know how she pictured this in her mind. 324 00:16:43,460 --> 00:16:45,160 We don't know because the word doesn't tell us. 325 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,760 I don't know if she saw, because God literally does crush the walls of Jericho. 326 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:53,120 If you read the story of that, I don't know if she saw the walls or felt like God somehow 327 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,820 is going to let them, somehow in her mind, she saw the invasion taking place. 328 00:16:57,820 --> 00:17:03,760 She probably pictured her family being killed, possibly at the edge of a sword, taking captive 329 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,440 and it broke her. 330 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,680 It broke her. 331 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,760 She couldn't bear the loss of one family member. 332 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:16,800 It had to be zero casualties, so much so that she would risk everything to hide the two 333 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,360 spies, to talk to them, to work out a deal with them. 334 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:26,120 Zero casualties in her family was the only acceptable outcome. 335 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:31,400 She couldn't bear the thought of maybe witnessing a family member who would die at the edge 336 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:32,400 of the sword. 337 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:33,880 She couldn't do it, right? 338 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,520 And she had it right. 339 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,080 She sends a clear message to all of us. 340 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,340 She lets each of us know, right? 341 00:17:40,340 --> 00:17:45,680 Does my heart break for those who will perish and be far from Jesus? 342 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:47,360 Does my heart break for them? 343 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:52,360 Can I picture in my mind what it's like for somebody not to know Jesus as Lord and Savior 344 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:57,480 and one day come to the end of their life and slip out of this life into all of eternity 345 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,960 and enter hell and be separated from God? 346 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,880 Does that break my heart enough that I'll do whatever it takes? 347 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,280 Is zero my number? 348 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,760 Zero, it's zero, right? 349 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,020 Zero casualties. 350 00:18:11,020 --> 00:18:14,240 That's the only number we can have. 351 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,160 And I had to ask myself the question. 352 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,600 I want you to ask yourself the question. 353 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:24,000 Are you okay with one casualty, two casualty, three casualties, a hundred casualties? 354 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,060 Do you not even think about it? 355 00:18:27,060 --> 00:18:29,640 Or is it only zero? 356 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:35,800 Is our heart broken because those around us don't know Christ and they're far from Him? 357 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,760 Is my number zero? 358 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:39,760 Is it zero? 359 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:40,760 Turn to somebody, tell them zero. 360 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:41,760 Just tell them zero. 361 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:42,760 Speak it out. 362 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,320 Zero, right? 363 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:49,720 Rahab was a difference maker in her family for a reason. 364 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,560 And it's never a reason that it would cross our minds because when we think about somebody 365 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,080 that's a difference maker, right? 366 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,980 We think about somebody who's charismatic. 367 00:18:55,980 --> 00:18:58,560 We think about somebody who's got it all going on. 368 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,880 We think of somebody who can crush it, right? 369 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,920 But that's not what made her a difference maker. 370 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,440 What made her a difference maker in her life is that she was crushed. 371 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,600 That she was broken, right? 372 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:15,240 That she, her heart hurt for her family. 373 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:21,040 Psalms 34, 18 says this, the Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and say such 374 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,940 as have a contrite spirit. 375 00:19:23,940 --> 00:19:24,940 Contrite means crushed. 376 00:19:24,940 --> 00:19:29,560 It means, it actually means crushed to powder is what it really means. 377 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,720 A contrite spirit. 378 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,600 God supplies the power to make the difference, but He's looking for people that have broken 379 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,000 hearts for the people that are around them. 380 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,320 God doesn't do it like the world. 381 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,060 He's not looking for charisma. 382 00:19:42,060 --> 00:19:44,280 He's not looking for somebody who's got it all going on. 383 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:48,040 He's looking for somebody that's broken about the world around them. 384 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,040 Amen? 385 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,040 It's true, man. 386 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,040 It's quiet in here, right? 387 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:57,480 Psalm 51, 16 says this, for you do not desire sacrifice or else I would give it. 388 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,480 You do not delight in burnt offering. 389 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:05,760 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. 390 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,520 These O God, you will not despise. 391 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,640 I think God Himself is looking for heaven, from heaven. 392 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:16,320 He's looking at Jesus followers and I think the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are 393 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,280 looking down from heaven and they're looking and they're saying, you know what? 394 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Right there's one. 395 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:22,280 I see one. 396 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,280 Their hearts broken for the people that are around them. 397 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,140 Their hearts broken for their family. 398 00:20:26,140 --> 00:20:29,800 Their hearts broken for their friends that are far from God. 399 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,240 And I think and they look and they said, that's one right there. 400 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,240 We can use them. 401 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:34,240 Right. 402 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,240 They can be a difference. 403 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:36,640 How many times have we seen this? 404 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:37,640 Right. 405 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:42,520 How many times have we seen somebody that their heart gets broken and it changes everything? 406 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:48,520 They go to a foreign land and they pick up a starving child in their arms who's not going 407 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:53,040 to make it unless they get nourishment and it breaks them. 408 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,040 It breaks them. 409 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,600 And God uses them to make a difference. 410 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,600 Right. 411 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,400 So somebody somebody's family is ravaged by addiction and they walk with that family member 412 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:09,280 and Dixie and I know what that is in her side of the family in history to have a family 413 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:14,680 member who is ravaged by addiction and their life taken from them through the addiction 414 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:19,720 and it breaks your heart and somebody will do something. 415 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:20,960 They'll be a difference maker. 416 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:21,960 Right. 417 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:28,320 So a family member, one co-worker, somebody that's perishing and far from God. 418 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:33,760 Once we're crushed for those who are being crushed by the enemy, that's when God can 419 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,880 use us. 420 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,640 Even if you're a Canaanite prostitute in the city of Jericho. 421 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:41,640 Right. 422 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:48,760 I remember many, many, many years ago after high school, I had a friend that I went to 423 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:49,760 high school with. 424 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:50,960 His name was Brian. 425 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:57,400 And Brian's kind of one of those guys that I would call got kind of a raw deal in life. 426 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,760 He came from a really good family. 427 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,320 Originally his family was together. 428 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,240 He had brothers and sisters and they actually attended a Pentecostal church and him and 429 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,120 I chat and talk about that kind of thing. 430 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,120 But something happened. 431 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,720 Brian's mom passed away when he was pretty young. 432 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,960 And I think he was somewhere around 10 years old when that took place. 433 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,880 His mom passed away, which was brutal. 434 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,160 It was very difficult on the family, but they began to walk through it. 435 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,640 And his dad remarried. 436 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:29,520 And the woman that he remarried was not somebody who brought healing to the family. 437 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:35,320 And matter of fact, she hated the kids, literally hated the kids so much so that the family 438 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,880 broke apart and all his siblings went to live in different homes. 439 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,840 And I met Brian around that time. 440 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:46,020 He ended up going to the high school where I was at and I became friends with them. 441 00:22:46,020 --> 00:22:48,880 And I remember him walking through that and struggling with that. 442 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,040 And I watched him go through high school and I watched him slip into drug use. 443 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,980 And I watched him begin to spiral going through high school. 444 00:22:55,980 --> 00:22:58,980 And I remember getting out and graduating from high school. 445 00:22:58,980 --> 00:23:03,920 And because the path he began to choose, we kind of kind of went separate ways because 446 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,760 of where he was walking in and where I was walking. 447 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,200 And I remember not seeing him for a long period of time. 448 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,200 I started going to school. 449 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,480 I was working two jobs. 450 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:12,680 I got really busy. 451 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,040 And one day I was driving up through Richland, which is right above Wimber from where I lived. 452 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,600 And it was pouring down rain. 453 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,440 You know when it's raining like buckets, right? 454 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,440 Cats and dogs. 455 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:22,600 It was pouring down rain. 456 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,320 And I saw Brian walking along the road and I stopped and picked him up. 457 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,680 He was skin and bones. 458 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,200 He was living in this dirt hole of apartment, just this little one room apartment. 459 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,600 I took him to where he lived. 460 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,720 He was leaving work from Kentucky Fried Chicken. 461 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,620 He worked in KFC and he was a wreck. 462 00:23:39,620 --> 00:23:41,560 He was a mess. 463 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:46,120 And I remember dropping him off and I remember talking to him and I remember being kind of 464 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:47,120 crushed. 465 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:50,080 But I'm going to be honest, I didn't do anything about it. 466 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,640 And I left broken hearted, but I didn't do anything about it. 467 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,200 I went back to try to find Brian. 468 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,920 I couldn't find him. 469 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,240 Later on, days later, I went back. 470 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,240 I never did. 471 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,560 I've never I haven't found him since. 472 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,560 I can't find him on Facebook. 473 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:05,560 I can't find him anywhere. 474 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:06,560 I don't know where he's at. 475 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,240 I don't know what happened to him. 476 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,840 But I should have been crushed enough to stop, right? 477 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,660 I should have been crushed enough to follow up. 478 00:24:14,660 --> 00:24:16,440 And I walked away. 479 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,120 And to this day, it tears me up when I think about Brian because I don't know where he's 480 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,120 at. 481 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:23,120 I don't know what happened to him. 482 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:28,080 I just pray that God somewhere God met with him with somebody else because I didn't do 483 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,880 it at that moment when I should have. 484 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:31,880 Right. 485 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,440 We got to get crushed. 486 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,920 You might get a moment in time with someone. 487 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,080 And the numbers got to be zero. 488 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,080 Zero casualties. 489 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,920 Rahab's number zero. 490 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,720 She continues to cover for the two spies. 491 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:48,720 Fifteen says this. 492 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,800 Then she let down. 493 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,080 Then she let them down by a rope. 494 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,360 Now, listen, they're in her place. 495 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,440 She's talking with them. 496 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,080 She wants them to save her family. 497 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,080 Right. 498 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,080 And she negotiates with them. 499 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:04,000 And she she in verse 15 says, then she let them down by a rope through a window for her 500 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,960 house was on the city wall. 501 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,520 She dwelt on the wall. 502 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,960 And she said to them, Go to the mountain, let the pursuers meet you. 503 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,200 Hide there three days until the pursuers of return. 504 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,720 Afterward you may go your way. 505 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,040 So the men said to her, We will be blameless of this oath of yours, which you have made 506 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,840 us made us swear. 507 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:22,840 I love this part. 508 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:23,840 Right. 509 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:24,840 She she. 510 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:25,840 Rahab is so intense about this. 511 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:30,400 She made these two spies swear that they would follow through with protecting her family. 512 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,400 You can see right here. 513 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,400 She made them swear. 514 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,400 Right. 515 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,440 Unless they come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through 516 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,000 which you will let us down. 517 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,800 And unless you bring your father, your mother and your brothers and all your father's household 518 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:47,240 into your own home, so it shall be that whatever goes outside the doors of your house into 519 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,080 the street, his blood shall be on his own head and we will be guiltless. 520 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:56,120 And whoever is within your house, this blood shall be on your head if a hand is laid on 521 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:57,120 him. 522 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:02,200 And if you tell us this business of ours, then we will be free of the oath, which you 523 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,200 made us swear. 524 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,760 Says it again. 525 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,200 And she said, according to your words, so be it. 526 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,760 And she sent them away and they departed. 527 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,240 And she bound the scarlet cord in the window. 528 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,160 She makes them swear these spies that you'll protect my family. 529 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,160 I've helped you out. 530 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,920 I'm I'll let you down through the wall. 531 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,280 You run to the mountains. 532 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,280 Right. 533 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,280 And here's the deal. 534 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:29,760 If number if your number is zero, if God's broken your heart for something, it will cause 535 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,800 you to have a plan. 536 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:32,800 Right. 537 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,240 You won't just think about it. 538 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:35,900 You won't just pray about it. 539 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:37,520 You won't just talk about it. 540 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,720 You won't even get just emotional about it. 541 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,200 You'll have a plan. 542 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,880 Ray have engaged in a plan to save her family. 543 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,080 She thought this through. 544 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,040 She spent time thinking, OK, I have these two spies. 545 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,920 I can hide them on the roof or I can turn them in or I can use this to save my family. 546 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:54,920 Right. 547 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:55,920 She was crushed. 548 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:56,920 She was moved. 549 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,660 But she didn't just she didn't just get crushed and praying and sit aside and wait for God. 550 00:27:01,660 --> 00:27:03,840 She began to work a plan. 551 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,480 She made these guys swear that they would not harm her family. 552 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,440 And these spies tell her, listen, when we come back and we come back to invade, you 553 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,440 better have your family. 554 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,480 You better have your father. 555 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,600 You better have your mother. 556 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,520 You better have your brothers and sisters in your house. 557 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,320 All your stuff in your house, because we come if they're outside, we can't guarantee their 558 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,320 safety. 559 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,840 But you keep them in the house and you put a red cord out the window. 560 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:27,840 Right. 561 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,840 On the wall. 562 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,080 And we'll know it's you and you will not be harmed. 563 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,320 They swore to her they wouldn't. 564 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,480 And she weighs out the risk. 565 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,240 She had a plan. 566 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,320 This woman had a plan. 567 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,360 She didn't just get broken and sit off on the side. 568 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,220 She was she counted the cost. 569 00:27:44,220 --> 00:27:48,680 She knew she might die in the middle of all this and somebody she gets found out every 570 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:49,680 day. 571 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:50,680 I can see her. 572 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:51,680 Right. 573 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:52,680 She lets these guys go. 574 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:53,960 They go to the mounts for three days. 575 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:54,960 They hide out. 576 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:55,960 Go back to Joshua. 577 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,800 I don't know how long it was in between, but I'm sure it was some days every day. 578 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:00,880 I can see her getting up. 579 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,680 She's making sure the scarlet cords right out the window because this could be the day. 580 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:05,680 Right. 581 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,480 She's talking to her family and instructing them saying, look, if you hear anything, if 582 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,680 you hear a trumpet sound, you hear a blast, if you hear rumblings, that an invasion is 583 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,680 taking place, you get to my house immediately. 584 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,640 Get in here and we're going to lock the door. 585 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:18,800 Right. 586 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,560 Let's talk about your routine each day. 587 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,120 How can you make sure you don't get caught up in the chaos? 588 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:24,400 Don't talk to anyone. 589 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,960 Don't tell anybody what's happening. 590 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,200 You just keep your head down and get here as quick as you can. 591 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,320 She had a plan, man. 592 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,000 She was crushed and she was working the plan. 593 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,800 And Israel does invade Jericho. 594 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,560 If you read this story, God crushes the walls of Jericho. 595 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,480 And I, you know, when I thought about that, when I read the story of Jericho and it's 596 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,440 actually they've uncovered some of what they believe is Jericho. 597 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,880 And they said, literally, it looks like somebody just took a hand, a giant hand and pushed 598 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:58,640 the walls in, in Jericho and in some of these ancient ruins. 599 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,520 And I got thinking about that. 600 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,440 Rahab lived in the walls of Jericho. 601 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,780 God crushed the walls of Jericho, but not Rahab's house. 602 00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:12,320 He had to preserve it because we see her later on in scripture. 603 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,720 Right. 604 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,160 We see her later showing up. 605 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,640 She actually her and her family are saved. 606 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:20,900 She actually go back. 607 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:24,200 She goes back and marries an Israelite. 608 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,640 God spared her. 609 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,200 God spared her family. 610 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,640 But she had a plan. 611 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:30,640 Right. 612 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,280 Her number was zero and she worked the plan. 613 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,560 I'm going to ask for the worship team would come. 614 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:42,120 I got to ask us, is our heart broken? 615 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,480 And are we working the plan? 616 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,240 That God has. 617 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:46,240 Right. 618 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,960 Rahab's testimony is incredible. 619 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,920 Rahab goes on to marry this Israelite and his name is Salman and she becomes the mother 620 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,920 of Boaz. 621 00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,600 Now, you probably don't you may or may not know Israelite history, but she becomes the 622 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:01,600 mother of Boaz. 623 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,680 And you might say, well, what's the big deal about that? 624 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,440 Let me read you Matthew chapter one, verse two. 625 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,720 And then I'm going to go a little further with this. 626 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:09,720 It says this. 627 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,040 Remember, we started with Abraham, right? 628 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,800 Father Abraham, who was the beginning of the nation of Israel. 629 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:15,800 Abraham begot Isaac. 630 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,760 Isaac begot Jacob. 631 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,880 Jacob begot Judah and his brothers. 632 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,600 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar. 633 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,200 Perez begot Hezron. 634 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,880 Hezron begot Ram. 635 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:26,880 Ram begot Abedab. 636 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,760 Abedab begot Nashon. 637 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,320 Nashon begot Salman. 638 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,520 Salman begot Boaz by Rahab. 639 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:34,520 Right. 640 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,800 Boaz begot Obed by Ruth. 641 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:43,560 Obed begot Jesse and Jesse begot David the king. 642 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,040 David the king. 643 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,880 14 generations after David the king. 644 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,720 Do you know who's born? 645 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,200 Jesus Christ. 646 00:30:53,200 --> 00:31:02,440 This Canaanite prostitute is a direct ancestor of Jesus Christ. 647 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,440 A direct ancestor. 648 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,920 She is in the line of Judah. 649 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,600 She is in the history. 650 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,880 14 generations later. 651 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,880 You want to talk about redemption. 652 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,440 All because she had a broken heart and she worked the plan, right? 653 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,440 What's your number this morning? 654 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:22,440 Is it zero? 655 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,680 What's the, what's your plan in the middle of God's plan? 656 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,080 What is it, right? 657 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,200 I started thinking about this a little about a heart being broken and I started thinking 658 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:38,760 about Brian and and here's what it's like honestly and we got to see it this way. 659 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,120 The day that I just walked away and didn't really do anything. 660 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,560 It's a little bit like seeing somebody in quicksand, right? 661 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:50,400 And, and they're sinking in quicksand and you never extend a staff. 662 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,120 You never throw them a rope. 663 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:53,120 You never extend any effort. 664 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,120 I'll stand out here and pray for you, right? 665 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,120 That's what I did for Brian. 666 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,120 I prayed for him. 667 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,920 I prayed for you but I never extended a stick. 668 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,200 I never threw him a rope. 669 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,120 I never worked the plan of any kind. 670 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,160 And that's what it's a little like. 671 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,160 And they'll sink into the sand and disappear. 672 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:19,160 I mean, I asked you to stand. 673 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:27,760 It begins with a broken heart. 674 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,320 And if your heart isn't broken for those who are lost and far from God and what they will 675 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,080 one day face, it should be. 676 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:35,200 It should be. 677 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,080 Every one of us. 678 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,640 Somebody's heart was broken and you're here because of that. 679 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,320 If you're in the kingdom of God and you're saved it's because somebody else's heart was 680 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,200 broken and they went and did the plan. 681 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,640 They went and did the work. 682 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,480 And you're here, you got the gospel message because somebody else did that. 683 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,480 That's why you're here. 684 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,480 Somebody along the way. 685 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,440 You could probably name the people. 686 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,600 You could probably remember some of them. 687 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,060 But you've got to be crushed first. 688 00:33:03,060 --> 00:33:05,360 God only uses what's crushed. 689 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,360 What's contrite. 690 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:11,000 As a matter of fact, he says you resist the proud, right? 691 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,400 It's what's crushed. 692 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,680 And then you've got to work the plan. 693 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,800 Some people sit around for a long time and never start working the plan. 694 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:20,800 They get crushed. 695 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,640 Listen, start working the plan and pray while you're working. 696 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,160 God will start directing what you're doing, right? 697 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,360 If you know that, if you're crushed, just go for it. 698 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:31,640 He'll start directing you. 699 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:32,640 It's okay if you mess up. 700 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:33,920 He knows, I mess up all the time. 701 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,000 He'll just kick you back in the right direction and keep you going. 702 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Amen? 703 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 It's true. 704 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000 You got to start the plan. 705 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,520 But you got to be crushed first. 706 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:47,320 And we're about to take communion, and I'm going to have you come down the middle and 707 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,920 go back to your seats with the communion. 708 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,680 We're going to take it together. 709 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,680 But God never asks you to do something that he doesn't do himself. 710 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,960 And you have to understand, God the Father was crushed first. 711 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:04,040 When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, God could have just blew it all off, honestly. 712 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,880 There was only a couple humans on the face of the earth at that time. 713 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,360 He could have said, you know what, this isn't working out very well. 714 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,440 How about we just kind of wipe this clean and start all over again, right? 715 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,000 He could have done that, but he didn't. 716 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,560 He got crushed over the whole thing. 717 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,480 And he said, you know what, one day I'm going to send my son Jesus. 718 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,640 I'm so hurt, I'm so crushed about them being separated from me, that I will send my son 719 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:24,640 Jesus. 720 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:25,640 He will die on the cross. 721 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,560 He will be buried in a tomb. 722 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,480 He will rise three days later. 723 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,880 And because of what he's doing, that sacrifice that he's going to make, he will make, there 724 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:34,880 will be remission of sins. 725 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,520 There will be an ability for sin to be pulled out of people's lives and for people to come 726 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:39,960 back in a relationship. 727 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:45,080 God was crushed first and most. 728 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,200 And now he calls us to be crushed. 729 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,320 So this morning as we take communion together, we want you to remember Jesus because he's 730 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:52,320 the one that made the sacrifice. 731 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,320 That's what he said to do. 732 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,360 But we got to ask ourselves, were we crushed like he was crushed? 733 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:09,360 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 734 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:14,120 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 735 00:35:14,120 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