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Faith in a Scarlet Cord – Joshua Ch 2

Faith in a Scarlet Cord – Joshua Ch 2 . Sunday 12 th July 2009 Christ Church Cottingham. Joshua Ch 2. It would make a great start to a spy story Spies sent out for a reconnaissance trip They find safety in the house of a prostitute She shelters them against the king’s messenger

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Faith in a Scarlet Cord – Joshua Ch 2

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  1. Faith in a Scarlet Cord – Joshua Ch 2 Sunday 12th July 2009 Christ Church Cottingham

  2. Joshua Ch 2 • It would make a great start to a spy story • Spies sent out for a reconnaissance trip • They find safety in the house of a prostitute • She shelters them against the king’s messenger • They make a promise to protect her • Rahab and her families’ lives for the lives of the spies • She relies on the scarlet cord to save her when the enemy attacks

  3. Joshua Ch 2 • Rahab the Bridge Builder • Rahab and faith in a scarlet cord

  4. Joshua Ch 2 • Being a prostitute she would have been outcast by the family • She still loved her family and wanted to save them • Rahab would have to deal with relational issues, broken bridges that had grown between her and her family. • Offer apologies where they were necessary. • Undo the damage she had done • Rahab the Bridge Builder

  5. Joshua Ch 2 • For us too, if we want our families to enjoy the covenant benefits with us, • God calls us to the disciplines of • loving one another, • dealing with wrongs that have been done, • cleaning our house so that they are fitting places for the covenant • God calls us all to be Bridge Builders

  6. Joshua Ch 2 • Rahab also had a lot of persuading to do! • "Mum, Dad, brother, sister - you know those Israelites that are on the other side of the Jordan, they're going to kill us all. The whole city will be destroyed." "Don't be so negative!" • "Their God, the God of heaven and earth is with them and he is going to destroy us for what we have done." "You mean, what you have done!"

  7. Joshua Ch 2 • She would have to convince them of their destiny, that their future was grim indeed. • And then she would have to convince them of the covenant... • "Dad, there is a scarlet cord hanging out of my window, and its a sign that I made an agreement with two of their spies." "HOW COULD YOU?" "How could you betray your own people?" • "Dad, its our only chance..."

  8. Joshua Ch 2 • The truth of this passage is this. For the sake of the eternal futures of our families, eternal life, we as Christians need not only to constantly be bridge builders with our children, our parents, our brothers and sisters • we also need to do everything within our power to persuade them, that only the blood of Jesus has the power to save

  9. Joshua Ch 2 Rahab and faith in a scarlet chord • It was not her good qualities. • It was not who she knew • It was not that she was different from other people by race or otherwise. • She was from the city of Jericho, a gentile. • Her family lived there. • We cannot say that her accomplishments would save her.

  10. Joshua Ch 2 • Rahab and faith in a scarlet chord • There is no way we can find anything about this women that would merit her being saved in this coming onslaught by the nation of Israel except for the fact that Rahab trusted an agreement symbolized by a scarlet cord hanging out of her window • Why a scarlet cord?

  11. The Tabernacle Joshua Ch 2

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  14. Jesus said – This is my blood of the new covenant . . . For the forgiveness of sins. • The scarlet cord symbolizes the shedding of blood and it is what seals for us our covenant with God.

  15. Jesus had a scarlet robe placed over his shoulders as King of the Jews • He was mocked and judged by Pontius Pilot and condemned to a cross to hang and die.

  16. Joshua Ch 2 • Today what saves you? • Goodness can’t save you – Rom 3 v 23 • Accomplishments can’t save you – James 2 v 17 • Who you know can’t save you – not even participation in a church • The eternal covenant has been signed for you.

  17. Come in faith, trusting that the symbols of Christ’s broken body and shed blood, are signs of this eternal covenant that God makes with you. • Through Jesus sacrifice on the cross, the covenant is sealed to us, there our sins are forgiven, our life made new.

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