Heb # 39 Rahab the prostitute and the Jericho walls Heb 11 vs 30 & Joshua 6

1. IF we can understand Rahab we will understand God's way of salvation.--2. But we need to be more than Rahab. God does not want us to know about a good girl called Rahab. No, Just Rahab will not give us hope. God wants us to know that Rahab was a prostitute. --3. There is a difference between just being Rahab and Rahab the prostitute. There is no offense in just saying Rahab, but there is both the offense and the good news in having a prostitute being called righteous by faith alone and not by her works.--4. God from the book of Joshua to Hebrews 11 still identified Rahab as a prostitute. And that offends the self-righteous because they would want her to stop her harlotry before she can be put in their own Hall of Faith. But that is not God's way. God only saves harlots-He came not for well man, but the sick. --5. But Rahab has even more scintillating testimony as she relates to Christ in more than one way-and we develop this even more. --6. And Joshua now goes into Jericho to take the city. And God prescribed a very unusual way of destroying the city and its walls, the way of the priests and blowing of trumpets and the gospel testimony is great.--7. And so, we learn of God's way of taking down walls, of defeating His enemies-even your own enemies and that means God's way of doing salvation. --8. This is a very gospel nugget feast and it will be over before you know it. May God give you the desire and the ears to hear His gospel to the prostitutes. --9. And it is free-