God Loves Even You or Me

Joshua 6

As I continue to read through the book of Joshua, the work of the Israelites, the work of Joshua, and more importantly the work of God continue to amaze me. In Joshua chapter 6 God gives Joshua the orders to march around the city of Jericho and on the seventh day march around the city seven times, have the priest blow their horns, and have the people shout and the walls will fall down and the Israelites will be able to take everything in Jericho. Let us not forget that Rahab the PROSTITUTE (who hid the spies) still lives in Jericho. Isn't that funny that's the way that we sometimes view Rahab or other people who are caught in sin. Yeah I mean we view them capitalized and in bold type, like they are some type of disease. Yet we fail to realize that we have our own disease that continually hold us back from doing what God called us to do. Let me remind you what Joshua 6:24,25 say.

Joshua 6:24,25--"Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it. Only the things made fro silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of the LORD"S house. So Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute and her relatives who were with her in the house, because she had hidden the spies Joshua sent to Jericho. And she lives among the Israelites to this day."

Rahb is also mentioned in Hebrews 11:30-31--"It was by faith that the people of Israel marched around Jericho for seven days, and the walls came crashing down. It was by faith that Rahab the prostitute was not destroyed with the people in her city who refused to obey God. For she had given a friendly welcome to the spies."

The plain fact is both you and I have sin in our lives but by faith we can be heros of the faith as well!

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