Joshua chapter 2, go back there
with me, Joshua 2. Studying this, I hope it comes
out just half the way it went in. Studying this, I thought
I was in that little upper room with Rahab and the two spies. The book Joshua is named after
Joshua. His name means Jehovah Savior. The Lord our Savior. As you know,
it's the Old Testament name for the New Testament Jesus. Our
Lord Jesus Christ. This book is about Him. This
story of Joshua is all about Joshua, what he came to do. This
chapter is where Joshua came. He sent some men to save a sinner. That's why he sent those men.
And that's who Christ is. He's the Lord, our Savior, and
that's what he came to do. He came to save harlots and publicans. This man receiveth sinners. Two
men were sent by him. Verse 1, Joshua the son of man,
a son of nun, sent two men to spy secretly, saying, go view
the land, even Jericho. Two men were sent by Joshua to
a condemned city, Jericho. Jericho was a cursed city, cursed
by God. After this, cursed by God. The
Lord said, don't build it again. When the Lord Jesus Christ came
to this earth, he didn't save one person in Jericho. Not one. He went through it. He saved
blind Bartimaeus on the way in, and he saved Zacchaeus on the
way out up a tree. A publican. A blind man, a publican. Passed through Jericho, didn't
save one person. Jericho, as you know, is a picture
of this work. Jericho was a decadent, vile
city that God said, destroy it. God's purpose to destroy Jericho
and God has said He's going to destroy this world. He sent two
men to spy it out, the Lamb. These two men represent the Word
of God. the eyes of the Lord that run
to and fro throughout the earth. His eyes behold, His eyelids
try the sons of men. The Word of God. All things are
naked and open. Hebrews 4, 12. Naked and open
before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. And all men by
the Word of God are weighed in the balances and found wanton,
sinful. God said, I'm going to destroy
Jericho. And He sent these two spies.
But look. He sent these two men, they went
straight to the house of a harlot. Did she invite them in? No. They
went straight there by order of Joshua. And look at it, verse 1 says,
they lodged there. They lived there. They stayed
there. They abode there. They made it their abode. Our
God has sent His Word, the preaching of His Word, to this sinful world. And have they not all heard?
Yes, verily." We read, you read with me, that all the inhabitants
of the land heard something of Joshua and his conquest, and
even trembled somewhat, some of them. But as we see, as we're
going to see, they wanted these men gone. They wanted him out
of there. They didn't want anything to
do with these men. It's like our Lord. Remember
when our Lord came to that and healed that demoniac one man
in that town and the whole town came out there, remember? And
they all asked him to leave. They asked him to leave. But God, Joshua, A merciful man
sent these two men, these that represent the word of God, to
the house of the chief of sinners in that town. A harlot. A harlot. And that's who God
sends his gospel to. If you're going to hear this
message this morning, you heard the first message. Repent. And you're going to want you're
going to beseech God for his mercy like Rahab did. So the Lord sends his word, his
gospel to this world, but he sends it effectually, particularly
to his chosen people. Rahab, Rahab, he comes to a harlot's
house. Her name is Rahab. You know what
her name means? Proud. Proud. Maybe her parents named
her this because they had a little girl and she was so beautiful
and they thought, she's so beautiful, she's going to be something.
We're so proud of her. Oh, they brought them nothing
but shame. She's proud of herself. She's
beautiful. Look at her. And so she plied that beauty
into making money and she sold herself to sin. She was once
proud, but I think now she's totally ashamed. Totally ashamed. Because the proud, the Lord will
bring down. The Lord hates, worse than anything,
a proud look. And that's all men and women
and young people by nature. Proud. Proud look. Look at me. And if God's going to save you,
he's going to bring you down. and convict you of that pride.
And you're going to beseech him like this proud woman. You're
going to beg him for mercy. That's the word kindness. Would
you please have mercy on me and my house? We've been nothing
but proud, rebellious, wicked sinners up to this point. Have
mercy on us. But they came to this harlot's
house. The Lord Joshua sent two men
to the harlot's house and Christ sends his preacher, his preachers
with the gospel to save sinners, the chief of sinners, publicans
and harlot, and it abides there. Do you remember in Matthew 10,
Matthew 10, where the Lord said, you go into, he said he sent
two, sent them by two. into every village and town whither
he would come. Wherever he was going to come,
he sent two preachers of the gospel. And he said, you find
a house that is worthy. Worthy. That is, they need what
you're going to say to them. They're going to need me. You
find a house that's worthy, and he said, abide there. Stay there. If they receive you, stay there.
If they don't, shake the dust, leave. If people quit needing
this gospel, God removes it. Not only from a church, but of
an individual. But a house that's worthy is
an unworthy sinner, like Rahab. She knew, she thought she was
the worst sinner in Jericho. You know she did. A harlot. Everybody in town thought she
was the worst sinner. But who did the Lord send these men to? Her. He's beginning this work
of salvation, and she's going to beg them to save her and her
house. Well, that's why they came. That's
why they came. All right? And it says in verse
2, it's told the king that Jericho, they were there. Behold, the
men came in hither, and verse 3, the king sent to Rahab, bring
these men out. Bring them out. Betray them.
Give them up. Give them away. She's not going to give them
up for anything. Anybody. At the risk of losing
her life. No. What's the gospel mean to you? Will you give up this gospel
for anyone? Our Lord said, if you love father, mother, husband,
wife, son or daughter more than your own life, you're not worthy. Didn't he say that? You're not
worthy. Be my disciple. And what did she do? She hid
them. Look at verse 4. It says, the woman took the two
men and hid them. In verse 6, she brought them
up to the roof of the house and hid them. What is this? But when the gospel comes in
power, the Spirit of God into the heart of a broken-hearted
sinner, And they lay hold of the word and the truth and the
gospel, and they take it to heart. And David said, Thy word have
I hid in my heart. Or as David said, Hide me, O
my Savior, hide me. Who's hiding who? She hiding
them? Do they need her help? Oh, these
are men sent from Joshua. We're about to see We're about
to see Joshua's coming. He takes everything. This whole
book of Joshua. He doesn't ask you. He takes
whatever pleases Him. He conquers everyone. It's said in Joshua 1, no man
shall stand before thee all your day. Not one person will stand
before thee. They're all going to bow. Everyone
you come, you'll conquer. You'll either kill them or save
them. This is Joshua. And our Lord Jesus Christ. The
Lord is King. And bow to Him ye must. Great is He. Great is He. And
great in mercy. Great in love. To whom? Sinners. Sinners. She hid them in her... Now look where she hid them.
Up on the roof. These men came to her with a message of fear,
of destruction, but mercy, salvation, grace. You know where she put
these two men sent by Joshua? In a high place. She exalted
them. She didn't put them in a damp,
dark basement. She elevated them. She held them in high esteem. The world has no use. The world
wanted these men gone. The God of this world wants to
put away the Word of God. If you'll read Revelation 11
in conjunction with this, you'll be beside yourself. That's the story of the two witnesses,
the two olive trees, the two candlesticks sent out in the
world Killed them. Thought they had them. Because
it says they tormented them. But God raised them. God exalted
them. Raised them. And then He took
it away. Then He took that word away.
And nobody has it anymore. It's awful, isn't it? Rahab had it. We do too. We still have it. This little
house full of sinners, this little pool of Bethesda, we still have
it. The gospel. I ain't selling it for nothing.
How about you? No one. I'm going to hide it. I'm going
to hide it in here with the Word of God. Is that not current or
relevant? The men pursued after them anyway,
they couldn't find them, couldn't destroy them. Verse 8, look at
this, here's the sinner's request. Before they laid down, these
two men, before they laid down, she came to them upon the roof. She went up. She ascended to
where they were and came to them. God's not the beggar, neither
is His preacher. All the people at Pentecost,
they came to Simon Peter and James. James and John. Simon
and Andrew. They came to them whom God had
exalted as His messengers. They came to them. And this sinner,
this woman, she came, this is her request, she couldn't sleep. She couldn't sleep that night
for fear of the God. of glory. She couldn't sleep.
So what did she do? She's going to come, and she's
going to call, and she's going to ask, and she's going to seek,
and she's going to knock, and she's going to beg these men,
please, save me and my house. Save my house and me. So she
came. She called. She heard. How did
she know? She heard. She said in verse
10, we have heard. See, faith comes by hearing. We have heard. But as soon as
we heard, our hearts were broken. Who's she talking about? Well,
I think she's talking about her house. Her father and her mother, apparently,
and her brothers and sisters, they came in the house. Joshua
saved them all, like Lydia, like Cornelius. We're here to hear. God saved them all. This is her
request, verse 9. This is her faith, verse 9. I know the Lord has given you
the land. I know Joshua is coming to destroy this. It's yours.
Terror has fallen upon us. We're afraid. We faint. We melt
our hearts smitten, we've heard how the Lord drives, we've heard,
we've read, we've heard the stories throughout the scriptures of
what, who God is and what he's done for his people to the world
of unbelief. Verse 11, as soon as we heard
our hearts did melt, did break, there's no more courage, no more
spirit in us. No, no more goodness, no more
nothing. Just sin and fear. But there's faith there. She
believes. And here's her testimony, one
line. Your God, the Lord your God is
God. Heaven above and earth beneath.
Is that not saving faith? Didn't our Lord say in John 17
3, this is life eternal that they might know thee the only
true God. This is what everyone God saves
first comes to see. They fear God as God. They say
the Lord He is God. He is God. And I'm a sinner. I'm nothing but a harlot and
a publican. And I deserve to die. But, but,
may God have mercy. Look at this. Look at this. Now here's the sinner's request. And here's the oath, a covenant,
and a true token to every sinner that asks. 13, she says, verse 12, I pray you,
I beg you, swear, make an oath unto me by the Lord, since I've
showed you kindness, that you will show kindness, the words
mercy, unto my father's house. Swear unto me, give me an oath,
make an agreement with me, give me a true token. You'll save
alive my father, verse 13, my mother, my brother, my sister.
She's thinking of everybody else but herself first. Is God going
to hear somebody like that? Oh, the Lord taketh pleasure
in them that fear Him and them that hope in His mercy. I was
just talking to someone on the phone yesterday. They were talking
about a lost loved one. They were just so distraught
over it. how they were lost. And they
said, but I hope in God's mercy. I said, the Lord loves that.
He taketh pleasure in them that fear Him and those that hope
in His mercy. Meaning, that you hope not only in His mercy for
you, but you hope in His mercy for others. Rahab said, I hope,
would you show mercy to my father, my mother, my brothers, and my
sister, would you please? The Lord loves that. The Lord
loves that. Those who, with the merciful,
who show himself merciful. Give me a true token. Give me
something that tells me that your oath and your covenant are
true. Something to lay hold of, something to look at, something
to always have, that I can know that your word to me is true,
a true token. I need something to lay hold
of until you come. All right. Look at this. Here's
the true token. Here's the oath and the covenant. The man, verse 14, answered her.
Our life for yours. The margin says, in the stead
of. Instead of. Instead of you die. We'll die for you. Our life for
you. You're looking for mercy. You're
looking for an oath, for a covenant, and a sure token. Here's where
it starts. We'll die for you. What does
the Word of God declare? What is the Scriptures all about
from beginning to end? What do the Law and the Prophets
testify of? Christ and Him crucified. Christ
who came to die for sinners. Scriptures must be fulfilled
how that Christ died for sinners according to the Scriptures. God's oath and His covenant.
God sent His Son to this earth to save sinners, to die for them,
to be made sin for them, and give them His blessed righteousness
in the stead of. All the way back in Genesis,
when Abraham took his son Isaac, whom he loved, up on that mountain
to offer him as a burnt offering, and his son said, Here's the
wood, here's the fire, where's the lamb? Gotta have a substitute. Gotta have a lamb, the blood.
And Abraham uttered those wonderful words, prophetic words. My son,
God, will provide himself a lamb as a burnt offering. God will
provide. God will provide himself. God
was manifest in the flesh. God became the burnt offering.
He shed his own blood for his people. And they look, it says,
Abraham started to take that knife and plunge it in the heart
of his beloved son, and God said, Abraham. He stayed his hand. Abraham, look behind you. Look,
Abraham. Look, Isaac. Look, behind you. Been there all along. Been there
all along. It was there before they got
up on that mountain. a ram caught in a thicket by his horn, by
his crown. That ram had a crown of thorns
on his head. And it says, Abraham laid hold,
and I think he took Isaac off that altar, and Isaac laid hold
of him too, by the horns. And it says, Abraham offered
the ram up in the stead of his son. Substitution. Substitution. Substitution. Here's the token,
Rahab. Rahab, are you with me? It says in verse 15, she let
them down by a cord through the window. Her house was upon a
town wall. She dwelt upon the wall. She
said, go to the mountain, and if you'll read Revelation 11,
verse 11, it says the pursuers are there, and they stayed there
three days. Well, that's how long the witnesses stayed dead
in Revelation 11. Three days, and they rose again. But the men said in verse 17,
we will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made
us swear. We will be blameless. Our life
for yours. The Lord hath given us the land.
We will be kind. You're asking for kindness. We
will be merciful. You're asking us to save you.
We will truly come for you. We will. These are Joshua's men. They
don't lie. We will. Will you? I will. Isn't that what they all said
that came to Christ, the leper? I want to be cleansed. I will
be thou cleansed. Blind man, I want to receive
my sight. I will receive your sight. To every sinner, Lord,
I need mercy. I will be merciful. Have mercy. Sins are gone. Well, they said now, when we
come into the land, Verse 17, we'll be blameless of this thine
oath which you made us swear. Behold, verse 18, when we come
into the land, bind this line of scarlet thread in the window
which you let us down by. Now, it wasn't a little slender
thread, says thread, says line, scarlet line in verse 21, but
verse 15 says a cord, a strong cord. Two grown men were hanging on
it. In the end, Rahab's whole family is going to climb down
this thing. The men are going to come back up it and take the
whole family down it, all the way to Joshua. What is this cord? It's the cords of a man. It's
the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Everything depends upon
it. Our salvation hangs upon it.
I told you before, I still may do it, I've been wanting to do
it for years, to take a drill, I've got a bunch of Bibles, I'm
going to do it, and drill through the pages of this book and put
a red line through it, so that every page I turn to, I will
see the cord, the line that goes through this whole book. There's
a scarlet line that goes through this whole book, starting in
Genesis, where God himself killed that lamb to cover the first
sinners, a substitute, and covered them. And all the way to Revelation,
where everyone in heaven sees a lamb as it had been slain. It's the scarlet line. It's the
line of redemption. It's the line of salvation that
runs through this book. The line, the blood, the true
token, scarlet line, scarlet, red in color. Why not blue? Why
not gold? Why scarlet? Because it's the
blood that make the atonement for the sin. It's not a slender
thread, as I said, it's a strong cord. He's bound the sacrifice
to the altar with a strong cord, the cords of a man. His oath,
his covenant, and his blood support us in the whelming flood. It
will not come nigh there. It's the blood, it's the blood,
it's the blood. Didn't we sing, when I see the blood, I, what? Will pass over you. If we confess
our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
like Rahab, and the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses
us from all sin. By His own blood, He entered
into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us. I told the men in Mexico teaching
the Bible class, I mean, teaching their preacher's class, I said,
if you're stumbling and fumbling and trying to preach and don't
feel like you have any liberty, just every ten minutes or so,
holler, Blood! And the Lord will bless that. This
is the line. that runs through scripture.
This is the line of Christ. This is the true token. True
token. You want a true token? David
said in one of the Psalms, Lord, show me a token for good. All
right, here it is. It's the line that runs through
all the scripture. When I see the blood. When I see the blood. I'll pass over again. Where was that line, that cord,
all that time? I mean, Rahab, the man said,
take that line there. What line? Oh. Apparently, she'd
never been using it. She didn't even know it was there.
Well, look, Barrett, hmm, I didn't know that was there. Yes, take
that red line and tie it in the window. And we're going to go
down on this. And you leave it there from now on. It was there
all along. It was in her house. before she
knew the Lord, before she knew them, before she heard the truth,
it was there. Why? Because Jesus Christ is
the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The blood of Jesus
Christ was applied to every sinner before they knew Christ. Why
were we yet sinners? Christ died for us. We were forgiven in the mind
and the heart of God before we ever committed a sin, before
the world began, because Christ is the Lamb slain before. It's
the blood, you see. From Abel to Zechariah, they're
all saved one way, Christ said. What's that? Blood. Well, he
hadn't shed his blood yet. Yes, he did. Yes, he did. They're not saved
by the blood of bulls and goats. When God said it, we will. We
will. We will. We will. God said, I
shall. I shall. I'm sending His Son.
He has to do it in time. But when God said it, it's done.
Some men don't like that, eternal justification before the world.
I do. I like it. I think everything
hangs on God's Word. These two men say, we will. Yeah, we will. I love that. I
love it. That's why I hollered it. I love
it so much. We're going to be hollering in glory. We're all
going to be hollering unto Him that loved us and washed us from
our sin and His own. Let's hear everybody say it.
Blood. Get used to it. That's what we're going to sing.
Unto Him that washed us in His own blood. Blood. The world doesn't have no more
bloody religion for us than you have no salvation. Christ, here's the sinner's hope.
You know, I was writing these notes, and my handwriting has
become ineligible. You can't read it. I'm even having
trouble reading it. Ineligible? No. Anyway, I wrote
The Sinner's Hope, and Wesley, when I looked at it, it looked
like an R. The Sinner's Rope. I thought that's it. Yes, the
sinner's hope is a rope. A scarlet cord. My salvation
and my family. If God is going to save my father,
my mother, my son, my daughter, my husband, my wife, He is going
to do it one way. And they are going to see it.
Rahab's father and mother. What's that? Rope. She said,
that's our hope. That's the token. That's what
Joshua said, when I see it, I'm coming for you. What's that?
You know she wasn't hoping in a robe. She knew this God. She knew the true God. Now she's
going to know who Christ is. She's going to know who the Messiah
is. That she's a sinner and only
saved by the blood. This is long after Exodus 12.
She heard it all. But the center's hope is a rope.
Cord of a man. He's drawn me with cords of a
man. The center's rope. Hey, John,
where are you? You asked for a title for this
message? Maybe that ought to be it. The center's rope. You know what she said? They
said this. We see this in verse 19. Now,
this is important. Whoever goes out of the house, He's got to perish. Now that
didn't start here, that started all the way back in Exodus 12,
where Moses said, you tell the people now, The elders take the
blood and strike it on the doorpost and the lintel. And he said,
you stay in that house. You stay in that house where the blood
is. Don't come out. If you leave that house, there's
no sacrifice for sin. That's what Hebrews 10 said.
Let us not forsake the assembly of ourselves together as a matter
of some end. And so much more as we see Joshua approaching.
Don't leave the house where the blood is. Don't leave the gospel.
Don't do it. Because he said, if you do, if
you sin willfully, and we do what we want to do, we go where
we want to, we do what we will do, there's no more sacrifice
for sin. No more. That's how serious it
is. They said, they said, don't leave
that house. And it's not the first time it
says this. Over and over again, wherever the blood is, wherever
the gospel is, don't leave. But I don't like to... You're
there to hear the blood. That's why. And if you're the
chief of sinners, you'll beg Him. You'll beg Him, don't let
me leave. Rahab believed. You know what
she did? Here's what she said, verse 21,
so be it. You know what the word Amen means?
So be it. She said, Amen. When she heard
all this, she heard the oath, she heard the covenant, she heard
the sure promises. Yay and Amen. We will, we will,
we will, we will. And here's the token, that red
line, bind it in the wind. She said, Amen. And you know
what she did? She bound it in the wind. She
bound it in there tight and tight. Oh, let us lay hold. Let us not Let's hold fast the beginning
of our confidence. And you know what it says, the
joy, Hebrews. Let's hold the beginning of our confidence and
the joy if we ever cease to rejoice in this gospel. We've never heard
it. So let us hold fast the beginning
of our confidence, steadfast to the end. How tight do you
think she was tying that? She tied it in a knot. She tied
it in a double knot. She tied it in a, you know, we
fishermen. How many fish have we lost because
we tied a bad knot? Oh, tied it up, tied it up, tied
it up wrong. She tied it up, tied it up. I
don't want to let this slip. And I hope that Joshua is going to
come get me. And I'm going to stay right here
in this house and wait on Joshua until he comes." And she did. And you know, those men did not
tell her when. They did not say, we're coming
at such and such time. They didn't say it. They just
said, wait. And she did. You know, here's
the thing. That line was at the window of
her house, wasn't it? Everybody saw it. Everybody saw it, and God's people,
their testimony, we make it known, we reveal, we talk to people,
don't we? And the church is known for one
thing, the blood, the gospel of God. But the whole town saw
it. Did anybody come in and think,
what's that rope? What's that scarlet line? We
want to know what that's all about. No. They didn't. They weren't interested. Why
was Rahab and her house in there? Sovereign elect in grace. Sovereign
elect in mercy. Well, these men left. They left.
Now, here's a sinner saved. Chapter 6. Chapter 6. Turn over there. Chapter 6. It
says, Jericho was shut up. Joshua shut it up. One of these
days, he's going to shut the door of mercy. The door of the
ark is open. Jericho was open up until this
time. And now he says, it's shut up, and it's surrounded. And
brothers and sisters, you see the clouds out there this morning?
That's the dust of his feet. Do you see the fig tree? The
parable of the fig tree? Fig tree! You see its leaves
green and tender begin when the leaves begin to fall? He's near. The trump's about to sound. And
Paul said, it shall sound. And that lion hung out the window,
okay? And one day, the trumpets sounded. Loud. To the pain of the people of
Jericho. They heard this trumpet sound,
not once, not twice, not six times. Look at verse 15, on the
seventh day, seven times. And these people were around,
walking around that, blowing these trumpets. These men were
blowing these trumpets and the town was going, is that all you
can play? Is that the only thing? And it
was noise to their ears. It was grating to their ears.
We don't need this. Leave. Leave. We don't want this. There's one person. And there
were a few people. A few people in a house where
a scarlet line was. It was the sweetest note on Sarah's
song. Sweetest thing they'd ever heard.
Sweetest music. It was the sound of their going
out, their redemption. If Rahab was sticking her head
out the window and said, play it louder, her redemption has drawn nigh. Look at it. Look at verse 15.
It says, the seventh day they compassed the city. Verse 16,
the seventh time the priest blew the trumpet and Joshua said,
shout, the Lord's given you the city. Remember Brother David's
message? Now the spies sent in, it's ours, two men were faithful,
Caleb and Joshua, it's ours. Ten others brought an evil report.
No, no, we're never, we're going to be overcome. Joshua said,
no we're not. The city's a curse, verse 17,
the city's a curse and all that therein, but Rahab shall live. She and all with her in the house,
she hid the messenger, because they'd said, verse 21, utterly
destroy the city, verse 22, but Joshua had said unto the two
men that spied out the country, go into the harlot's house, bring
out, bring her out, all that she hath, as you swear unto her,
as you promised unto her. So they went in, the men went
in and brought Rahab out. How? Down that rope. And her
father down the road, her mother, her brethren, all that she had,
they brought all her kindred, kindred out of every kindred,
left them without the camp. You know these verses. That thrills
my heart. Hebrews 13 says, let us go therefore
unto him without the camp. bearing his reproach. That's
all you ought to do is preach Christ's crucifixion. That's
all there is. That's the only hope. Without the camp. They brought
her out and set them without the camp. And look at this, they
burnt the city with fire. 2 Peter 3, all these things shall
be met with a fervent heat. And Joshua, verse 25, saved Rahab
the harlot alive, and her father's household, all she had, and she
dwelleth right now. She's in Israel right now, to
this day, because she hid the message which Joshua sent to
spy out. She's there right now. Where?
She's with Joshua. Who? Jesus Christ. Right beside
her is Mary Magdalene. Right beside her is Thief on
the Cross. Right beside Thief on the Cross
is Margaret Brown. And this is not the end, okay?
This is not the end. Go with me in closing, Matthew
chapter 1. Matthew chapter 1, okay? Here's
the end. Every story has a postlude. Every song has a... Is that it? Postlude? What's the song? Final
note, the end of the song. Matthew chapter 1. This is not
the end of the story. Rahab is in Jerusalem. And she's married, married a
man named Salmon. Okay? And she has a boy on her
lap. She has a baby boy. And she says
to that boy, son, the Lord is coming. and teaches him the fear
of the Lord in the Scriptures, the story. She tells her story,
what great things the Lord had done for her. She says, son,
bow to the Lord. Son, believe on the Lord, and
you'll be saved. Son, confess your sins. Son,
ask the Lord for mercy. Son, ask the Lord to be merciful
to you, and tell others. And you be merciful. If He shows
you mercy, you be merciful to those whom you come in contact. You know what the son's name
was? Boaz. Chapter 1, verse 5, Salmon beget
Boaz of Rahab. You see, these sinners are in
Christ's bloodline. Bloodline. It's the bloodline. Rahab has to be saved. She can't
perish, John. She can't perish. She belongs
to the Lord. She's going to come out. She's
in the line of Christ. She's in His bloodline. Alright? That's not all. Boaz. Okay, he grows up to be a fine
man, a believer, strong man, a merciful man. Boaz. Well, he
runs into a lady out in his field. The Lord sent. Poor heathen girl
named Ruth. And he marries her. Well, he
brings Ruth home to meet his mother, Rahab. It's true. That guy brought my wife home
to meet my mother, Doris. She already knew him, but I did.
But Boaz brought Ruth home to meet his mother, Rahab, and he
said, Mama, I want you to meet my bride. This is Ruth. And Ruth, you know what Ruth
said? He said, Ms. Rahab, I've heard about you.
I've heard wonderful things about you. Your faith is known by all
people in Israel. And Ruth said, Ms. Rahab, I don't
deserve to be a member of this family. And Rahab the harlot said, Honey, I am the chief of sinners. You just don't know. Welcome
to the family. Welcome to the family of sinners
saved by grace. Why? The blood. One thing.