Covenant Compass Plus

RAHAB: NOT WHO SHE USED TO BE : JOSHUA 2:1-24 -- Intro: Ill. Once there was a rough, uncultured man who for some unknown reason fell in love with a beautiful vase in a shop window. Eventually he bought the vase and put it on the mantelpiece in his room. Once it was there, it became a kind of judgment on its surroundings. He had to clean up the room to make it worthy of the vase. The curtains looked dingy beside it. The old chair with the stuffing coming out of the seat would no longer suffice. The wallpaper and the paint needed redoing. Gradually the whole room was transformed. When you put Christ on the mantel of your heart, your whole life is transformed as well.  It is this kind of transformation we witness in this chapter. The Israelites were about to enter Canaan and claim their promised land. The first city they would have to face was the great walled city of Jericho. If they could take this city, they could easily split the country in two and then move from there to conquer ...

The inner change, that happens when you are born again is justification, Justification is effected at the moment of salvation. Sanctification is the outward change in the believer's daily walk, Sanctification continues throughout your entire life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is known, revealed or realized and appropriated by faith. You can never have a walk of sanctification without Justification first. There was a sheep on a farm giving birth and in doing so, the mother died so there was an orphan lamb. They tried to put another mother sheep with orphan, but it didn’t work. She sniffed it, knew it wasn’t hers and butted it away. Then the reverse happened. In giving birth, the mother’s lamb died. So they skinned the dead lamb and made a coat for the orphan lamb. Then they put the orphan with the mother sheep who lost her lamb and she sniffed it, smelled her own and allowed it to milk. ...