Name: The Hidden Truths of Rahab
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Joshua 2:1-7
1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.” 3 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.”
4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. 5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.” 6 (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) 7 So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.

Rahab lied for the spies before knowing whether or not they would spare her. She signed her own death warrant with absolutely no guarantees. The only thing she knew was that, if the rumors about this God were true, this is the kind of God she needed.

How you spell Faith = R-I-S-K

Faith Is a Risk

Rahab and the Nation of Israel

Rahab risked her life based on a rumor of a God she never experienced for herself.

Joshua 2:12-14
12 “Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign 13 that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and that you will save us from death.”
14 “Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.”

I want to show you how Rahab had at least 16 days to decide to try and save herself somehow, but she managed to convince her whole family to stay in the house.

Faith is tested by a wait. While you’re waiting, God is working.

The Wait Proved the Faith

The real faith wasn’t in just risking her life with the initial lie. The real faith came when Rahab had to wait in the house 16 days for them to come back for her.

Joshua 6:25
25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

When you read this story the fact that the text names her as a prostitute is the first thing that sticks out in your mind.

When she asked to be spared, God wasn’t responding to her request. He had a plan to save her when she was in her mothers womb. He was going to use her life to tell the story of His grace. How the Gentile outsiders were being planted not only among Israel, but AS Israel.

Rahab is a picture of the Gentile (us) being given a way in (no works possible) for no other reason than we believed the rumor we heard about God.

God saved Rahab to prove to us that he could save us, too.

All Can Be Saved

This story is a type and shadow for how the Gentiles were promised to be engrafted in the family of God’s people.

Joshua 6:22-25
22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

After Rahab helped save the people of God, they sent her she to live OUTSIDE their camp. Outside the camp would be a time of purification from her old evil life. Someone would come to teach her how to live among the Israelites.

When she was then planted among Israel, she was there as a witness. Not just to them, but for us.

Even Rahab’s life became a witness to others by simply going to a new place like she never experienced before.

Ostracized

Rahab’s  obedience to follow the Lord’s direction to go outside of the camp actually brought her into the family of God.

James 2:24-26
24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.
25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

If she died the day before, Rahab would’ve left a legacy of being a prostitute, devil worshiping Canaanite. And no children.
Instead
* She is in the lineage of Jesus himself 
* She’s used to instruct Hebrew men in the book of James’
* She’s in the Hall of faith in Hebrews 11

Her legacy is now a legacy of royalty and commendation by God.

One Decision Can Change Your Legacy

A lifetime of BAD decisions impacts your legacy, but for Rahab, one decision changed her entire legacy.

The Hidden Truths of Rahab

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<p>This course gives insight to Rahab the Prostitute in the book of Joshua and her role in the fall of the fortified city of Jericho.
Through five segments
1. How Rahab’s lie was an act of courage
2. How her story is about what God does while you are waiting on Him to act
3. Rahab being known as the prostitute was something that God will use to save all of us.
4. Have you ever been ostracized by the people you helped? 
5. After a lifetime of BAD decisions, she made one GOOD decision that became her legacy</p>


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Katy Kazadi

Bible Teacher | Public Speaker | Spoken Word Artist

<p>In five segments Katy Kazadi unveils aspects of the Old Testament woman Rahab like few have ever taught about.</p>


Your guide, Katy Kazadi