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change you know um we’ve been studying
David and we’ve been studying the men of
God in the Old Testament we’ve been
looking at different people and the
things that they’ve gone through in
their lives so that we can begin to
glean from it David was a man who wasn’t
perfect David was one who um the Bible
says was a man after God’s Own Heart and
you know people look at the outward
appearance people look at the mistakes
you make people look at the flaws um
they’ll begin to amplify maybe areas of
your life maybe your age or maybe your
past um all kinds of things to even
disqualify you or to discredit you and
so uh in spite of David’s Brothers his
family who had disqualified him and said
that you know you just need to stick
with the sheep and stay out there where
you are and you’re too young and
inexperienced and untrained to be where
we are and so David didn’t allow that to
face the Giant in his life he didn’t
allow that to keep him from being used
by God and to understand the importance
of that and so we want to look at some
other examples today I uh am blessed
because I have always studied the life
of Rahab in the Old Testament and I want
to spend some time with it as it relates
to uh what we want to talk about today
and what we want to title this is is the
god of Second Chances the god of Second
Chances uh I don’t know about you I’m
thankful that he is a god of not just
the first chance but the second third
fourth fifth 6th 10th 20th 30th 100th a
thousand a million in chance and uh it
just keeps going on and on and on
because he is so full of love and so
full of grace and it just amazes me
because as a parent as a wife as a
mother that I can begin to tap in
through his example as a heavenly father
and uh as a Earthly parent to try to
model that same love to model that same
Grace to forgive and to give chances
over and over and over again and uh it’s
just so
wonderful to be able to see God’s love
as relates to how he used David how he
used Moses how he used the Apostle Paul
how he used Saul um just the list goes
on and on and on how he used Joseph I
mean it was no
one that uh didn’t make mistakes because
we’re human and we’re going to make
mistakes but yet God was able still to
allow them um to get to that place to
fulfill the will of God for their life
and so uh we may just go ahead and jump
into this let’s turn over to um the Book
of
Joshua and we’re going to look at where
we see some of the things that reference
this woman who trusted God in the Old
Testament and so let’s
start in
chapter two and then we’re going to go
through um up to chapter
6
now this is
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um a story of a woman who as we know uh
if we don’t know she was a woman who was
a prostitute and prostituted herself for
a long period of time and and uh made a
decision that in spite of that she was
going to trust God and so um let’s look
at chapter
6 verse
23 chapter 6 verse
23 and we’re going to look at this from
the New Living Translation and then
we’re going to look at a couple
scriptures from the message and uh look
over at how the Bible describes her in
Hebrews as even you know her being a
prostitute that she was included with
the Heroes of Faith think of that think
of that that she was recognized in
that way so it says um here in Joshua 6:
23 the
men uh who had been spies there were
some spies who had come and needed to be
hidden and she made herself available to
hide them it says the men who had been
spies went in and brought out Rahab her
father her mother brothers and all the
other relatives who were with her
they moved her whole family so not just
her but all her her parents to a safe
place somebody say safe place safe place
they moved our whole family to a safe
place near the camp of
Israel then the Israelites burned the
town and everything in it only the
things made from silver gold bronze or
iron were kept for the treasury of the
Lord’s House and so we see here that
because she was willing to give of
herself as she uh had a place to hide
those who were spies and then as a
result of that um she was able to put
this Scarlet Red um piece of fabric out
and then they bypassed her and as a
result she was preserved and she was
kept safe and so you know uh this was
the thing that caused her to be
recorded as one of the Heroes of Faith
amen now let’s look at this here God
Saves those with the
past no matter what our past Whispers to
us no matter what our past holds our
past is the reason why Jesus was born so
God Will Save to the
uttermost people like Rahab people like
ourselves with a past and so Rahab had
come across and she is one who the Bible
speaks of and we know her profession we
don’t know why she chose to be a
prostitute or prostituted herself uh was
in the you know in this day of time what
considered the adult entertainment world
but she came maybe she came from a place
of Brokenness or childhood trauma which
I see in many instances um women who
choose that uh style of Life uh perhaps
there’s some situation from the past or
you know I don’t think that a woman
would just decide hey I’m going to be a
prostitute but I think circumstances and
situations many instances lead to that
maybe her past was one of pain or abuse
that left her trapped by disrespect and
shame maybe Rahab had been uh rejected
or abandoned or made a choice but night
after after night we know and we see
that this was the decision and this was
her life so the good news today is that
no choice we ever
make no scars ever inflicted can keep us
from the saving grace of
God our past is never good enough to
earn God’s salvation nor enough to keep
us from
it so number one I want us to understand
this morning that God Saves those with
the
past God
Saves those with a past we all have a
past and like rlo was saying the other
day we just choose not to live in the
past I’m sure Rahab you know when she
was presented with this situation or
maybe it was an opportunity to save the
spies people around her may have thought
what is she doing she’s a prostitute who
does she think she is why in the world
would a prostitute choose to get
involved in this
situation
but for whatever reason she made up in
her mind that she would be a blessing
and that she would get involved and then
as a result of her choice and her
decision it saved her family and kept
everybody safe not just her she wasn’t
thinking about herself but it saved her
her parents it saved so many things to
the point that everything else that
wasn’t affiliated with her was burned
down and so I applaud her in the fact
that she trusted God despite her past
despite where she had come from the
whatever trauma if there were trauma
Brokenness or whatever uh led her into
that but God was so important to her to
the point where she was willing to trust
him and to allow him to use her and as a
result we see her name even included in
the genealogy of Jesus when we look at
Matthew and we look at the genealogy
through which Jesus came uh the lineage
and how he was birthed into the Earth
Rahab is mentioned there and we’ll look
at that in a minute but God will save
those with a past that’s good news this
morning and so you know we think so many
times that our past has to be squeaky
clean that I have to just do everything
right dot every eye cross every T before
God will use me but you know what if God
can use a prostitute how many you know
God will use whoever makes themselves
available whoever chooses to trust in
him but it begins by making a decision
making a quality decision that I’m going
to live this life life and use my life
as a sacrifice look at what he says here
in Romans 12:1 as it relates to being
used by
God Romans 12:1 says I beseech
you therefore Brethren by the mercies of
God that you present your bodies a
Living Sacrifice and see the thing I
love about Rahab is the fact that she
was willing to sacrifice herself when
she took in the Spy because after the
spies had been taken in they came to her
they were looking for the spies she had
put herself in danger by making this
decision but you know what she was
willing to do what she felt needed to be
done at the time to present her self her
body as a Living Sacrifice
holy acceptable unto God which is your
reasonable service so the first stage of
finding God’s will for our lives just
like Rahab was able to find God’s will
for her life she was able to be
considered one of the Heroes of Faith is
by becoming a Living
Sacrifice
holy acceptable unto him as we read here
and so number two God uses those with a
past he will use those with a past asked
we looked at David we looked at um many
people in the Old Testament uh Moses how
he got himself in a situation where
someone was murdered but in spite of
that he was able to be used because he
trusted God he renounced his past he had
an assignment on his life and just like
Moses Rahab made the decision to do the
same thing God used Rahab
mightily despite her past in the first
battle to conquer the promised land god
used Rahab to not only save the spies
but to save her family which we just
read in verse
23 and
so God had even more for Rahab God used
Rahab to shape the character faith and
godliness of a man named Boaz who would
one day res rescue a young moabit let’s
look at that uh situation here over in
Matthew chapter 1 Book of
Matthew chapter 1 and um we’ll look at
how it’s included here I think it’s down
in verse
15 Matthew 1 chapter verses 1-5 chapter
1 chap verse 1-5 verse 1-5 thank
you now the book of the generation of
Jesus Christ the son of David the son of
Abraham the book of the uh it shows how
Abraham begat Isaac Isaac
Jacob Jacob begat
Jonah uh Judah feris and Zarah of
thear uh let’s go to verse
four Aram
aminadab so forth and so on sees here
and Nan
begat
Salon look at what it says here in verse
5 and
salmon
begat Boaz that should be
Boaz of
Rahab and Boaz begat OED of Ruth and oad
begat Jesse so isn’t it interesting
how of all the
people that could have been a part of
Jesus’s Jesus’s
lineage he used Rahab to be a part of
how the Son of God the
Christ would be birthed into the Earth
the
fact that there were probably more noble
people who maybe didn’t have a past like
r
who maybe were not flawed as much as
Rahab uh maybe not scarred from having
so many relationships with men but the
fact that God would choose someone like
her and
mention Rahab because he used her in
spite of her
past and to the point where
Boaz was born and we know
Boaz uh was engaged to Ruth and married
Ruth and and uh they had kids and things
like that and um it’s just shows an
attest to the power of God and once we
begin to understand God’s will for our
lives that we too can be used by God in
spite of our
past many of you sit here today and you
walk with the Lord and you
figure uh can God use me my answer to
you is yes emphatically
yes he
will use whoever makes themselves
available and the enemy wants us to
discredit ourselves discount ourselves
to count ourselves out
and God says no count yourself in
because when we understand the past and
the uh shame and the condemnation that
the enemy wants to bring
on the mind and to cause one to think
that they’re unusable that causes us to
make a decision that we have to lean
rely and trust in
God and to abandon this ability in and
of ourselves to be able to do God’s will
but because we can do it through
God he’ll be able to work through
us and
so
Salon is the
father of
Boaz
and
Rahab is his is his mother so Rahab was
saved
she was a part of this in fact let’s
look at a couple things concerning her
life turn over to um James chapter
2 verse 25 James chapter 2 verse
25 God wants to use you
more then you want to be
used he wants to use use you more than
you want to be used if you make yourself
a Living
Sacrifice and commit your life to the
Lord he will start developing your
talents and directing you as soon as you
get usable God will use
you and let it just be a
living testimony I never had imagined
that I would
be before you to day sharing scriptures
and talking about the
Lord just is a
living uh testament to God’s grace and
his
power uh that he will use you he will
save
you and he will do it in a way that is
unimaginable so look at what it says
here in in James chapter 2 verse 25 it
says
likewise also was not Rahab the Harlot
justified by
works when she had received the
messengers and had sent them out another
way look at this in the New Living
Translation it says that she’s the
Harlot that was justified it says Rahab
The Prostitute is another
example because I know sometimes you
know in the church we wonder why you
know do prostitutes have a place do the
drug dealer have a place does the person
who does a thug have a place it’s like
you know what why why who who are we to
determine who God can
use and who is welcome into the house of
the
Lord he says Rahab The Prostitute is
another
example I want her to be an example for
you this morning you know some people
might say well you know I can’t learn
anything from a prostitute well the
Bible says and mentions her and
describes what she did and we can learn
from her example of course we’re not
elevating and making it something to
glamorize but the Bible talks about how
she was shown to be right with God by
her
actions she was
shown to be right with God think of
that that she was
justified despite her
past with what she had
done the men that she had done it
with it says that she was right with God
by her actions when she hid those
Messengers talking about the spies that
we were just reading about in Joshua
chapter 6 when she hid those
spies and sent them safely Away by a
different Road and so we see here that
the scripture says that she was right
with God somebody say I am right with
God I am right with God and when we
receive Jesus as our our Lord and as our
personal savior we got to remind
ourselves that I am right with
God when he comes and moves on the
inside of us I am
right I have the opportunity to be an
example I have the privilege by which my
life can minister to someone else that
it can be used
to change someone else’s life and so
that’s what Rahab was able to
do and so we must understand the will of
God because she trusted God we need to
get to a point that we’re not doing what
we do out of our own ability out of Our
Own Strength but getting to a place
where we do what we do through the power
of God
like she did where she trusted God and
then as a result God was able to trust
her and use
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