Hebrews: Everything Starts with Jesus, pt. 2: Mountain-Moving Faith: Rahab - Audio
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- Well, as you can see, if you're new here, we're trying out a kind of a different way of going about the service. I hope that it's good and smooth. So we're working on it and we'll do a survey here in a couple weeks during September to kind of talk about, you know, what's working, what's not. But I'm Tom and lead pastor here at Coast and we are in a series on Hebrews. But Hebrews is taking us to the Old Testament because Hebrews 11 is a chapter that's all about the heroes of faith. Like the people who had radical life altering, we call it mountain moving faith. And so we're continuing that today with Rahab. So if you're not familiar with her, we're gonna get some meter. Here's where she gets mentioned in Hebrews 11. By faith, the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient. Kind of an interesting little tag there. That's all the author of Hebrews says. He expects us maybe to know who Rahab is. And so I wanna bring you up to speed. Last week, we talked about Moses. And we ended, I have a shot here from Mount Nebo where Moses was looking into the promised land, but he never got to go there. He died before entering the land that God had promised to Israel. And so he had this view. He saw this incredible place, but he wasn't the one who got to receive it. That was given to Joshua. And Joshua is, we're starting with him. Joshua's like, he's thinking about entering into land. The very first place they're gonna have to go is a place called Jericho. And we found Jericho. We had the archeologists have located it. It's a little bit below sea level. So very, very hot in the summer and the winter, but it was, it's been populated for about 4,000 years, we think, and the people of Israel are gonna have to go through and clean house. Okay, so before they do, and here's the text from Joshua. Joshua's son of none secretly sent two spies from Chateem, which is in the lands,
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