Well, praise, praise Jesus. It sure is good to see you gathering together today, amen? Amen and amen. Amen. It's always good to be able to gather with the brethren. That's one thing you... You can't use the gift of grace that God's given you without gathering and fellowshipping with one another. God gifted men and women in his body, and the only way to put those gifts to work is you gotta be able to gather, connect, and serve one another for those things to actually be put to use. And the gifts are only for the body of Christ. They're only for the body of Christ. We give God the glory for that. Amen Amen and amen. Amen. So look this is what I want y'all to do if you got a Bible widget if you don't have one Look in the pew beside you on the corner down on the end of it And I'm gonna get you to turn two places. We probably look at a Couple places in the word this morning. I'd mentioned to you already that we're gonna our summertime series what we're gonna do we haven't really ever done this but We are we're venturing off to do it along with our kiddos in the back They are going through a couple things out of the book of Joshua right now. And last week we looked at Joshua himself and how he was groomed, how he was groomed by the glory of God and how God put him in position for that. Now this morning, our kids are gonna slip through here at some point. So y'all just act like they're not even in here, okay? When they do that, don't be surprised when they come through. She's working with them in the back there, and we're talking about the spies and Rahab this week in the book of Joshua. So turn to Joshua chapter two. Joshua chapter two, if you got your red Bibles on the pew, it's page 117. page 117, and you can find that in Joshua chapter two. We will actually look at that today, but when you get there, I also want you to turn over into the newer testament book of Acts, Acts chapter 15, and that's on page 585 in those red Bibles or pew Bibles that you have. Hold your spot in Joshua and then turn to Acts chapter number 15. I just wanna draw out a thought out of Acts 15 as we look at Rahab. Rahab was a lady who was gripped by glory. Joshua was groomed by the glory of God. Rahab was gripped by the glory of God, and we'll see that about her life. But in the book of Acts, there's a little nugget in there, which is just nothing but nuggets, but there's one that I wanna bring out in regards to this work in the Older Testament as we look at Rahab. Just a little insight. Rahab's mentioned in the New Testament on several occasions. In, matter of fact, we're reading through James right now, and she's brought to light in James chapter two. James chapter two. What James does is that he draws out Abraham and Rahab, a Jew, and a Gentile, how they both lived and acted upon the faith that they had. And it's our works, our actions that validate what we say about our faith. You could say you have faith, but you don't have any kind of legitimate work that supports that faith. That faith is dead, James says. You always gotta have a corresponding work to go along with it because faith always works. Faith always works, and all God's people say it. If you believe it, you'll behave it. Whatever you behave is how you believe. It's just, that's what James is teaching us about the practical work of trusting God. But in Acts 15, in verse number 18, Acts 15, 18, it says this. Known to God, known to God from eternity, are all his works. And God's people said, known to God from eternity past. Remember eternity before time ever began because actually eternity doesn't have time, it's eternal. And prior to time, God knew everything that he would do. He knew everybody he would save. He knew every work that he would accomplish was known to him and everything his people would do, everything you would do for the grace of God, it's all known by God from eternity. And God fulfills what he promises, he always follows through, he always finishes. So Rahab, when we look at her today, when we think about her as we examine her life, and we're just talking about them from the perspective of how we then can apply some of these things in our daily journey, but also how you can help our little ones in the back when you're at home this week and talk about Rahab's life and who she was, where she was at, what God did with her, where'd God take her, what did God produce out of her life? And according to Acts chapter 15 verse 18, all this was already known of what God was gonna do in Rahab's life before he ever did it. Matter of fact, Rahab is in the lineage of Jesus. He's in the lineage of Jesus. Rahab was one of those that God brought to light and pulled through in the lineage of Christ. So take your Bibles and go back to the book of Joshua, back to Joshua chapter number two. And let's see what he says about this. Joshua chapter number two. Known to God are all his works. Known to God are all his works. So I'm gonna begin reading in verse number one of chapter number two. You just read along with me. This entire chapter is dealing with this whole setting around Rahab, around these spies, around Joshua, and what they was gonna accomplish. It says, now Joshua, the son of Nun, sent out two men from Acacia, or Shittim, in the old King James Bible, Acacia Grove, to spy secretly, to spy secretly. Y'all see our spies just come in? They were secretly coming in here. Y'all wasn't supposed to notice them. Did y'all notice them? Yeah, I didn't think you did. Now that's twofold though, that's twofold. Not only were they to be discreet when they went into Canaan, Jericho, as they were to spy out the land, but you gotta keep in mind, Joshua didn't want the rest of the Israelites to know that they went in. Remember the last time 12 spies went into the land, It didn't turn out so well. They sent 12 spies. 10 of them came back and said, we cannot have what God said we can. But two guys wholly trusted God. One was named Joshua and one was named Caleb. And they said, no, God promised it. And if God promised it, we can have it. But everybody said, no, we're gonna believe those that have discouraged us and said, no, we can't go in there. They're too big, they're too many. They're not gonna give it up. We can't go in and fight them. We don't know how to fight. They know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives and we just can't take this land. So they discredited what God gave them and they went back the other way. So for the next 38 years, for a total of 40 years, they had to wander around in the wilderness. Now what Joshua just did was take two of his key guys, two of his key guys, and he sent them in secretly, and he didn't want the rest of the people to know that he sent them. because he wanted him to go in and take a look at Jericho. Tell us what Jericho looked like. Tell us how they had it fortified. Jericho sat about, Kate, anywhere between six and 10 miles, most likely about eight miles from the Jordan River. The children of Israel are at the Jordan River, and when they eventually cross over, which we'll look at over the next couple weeks, they're gonna cross over it, they're gonna come to a little town called Gilgal, and on the other side of Gilgal, about eight miles away from the Jordan River is the city of Jericho. That would be in relationship to us from here to Porterville. Downtown Porterville, the big city of Porterville. It was an eight-mile journey, 10-minute ride. Now if I was going as fast as Davin, I could make it in six, but about a 10-minute ride, even going pretty good speed, you can make it in about 10 minutes. Well, that is where The children of Israel were out at the Jordan, Jericho, so they crossed the river, they get over there, and these two spies go to see it. And of course, they wanna be discreet when they go into Jericho. They don't wanna just publicly let everybody know they come and spy out the land and see what's going on. But they also didn't broadcast it to their brethren that they were leaving to go spy it out. So that's where we are at this point. Let's read a little bit further. Now Joshua the son of Nun sent these two spies. He said, go view the land, especially Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there. A house of a harlot, a woman named Rahab. this house who was a harlot and her name was Rahab. Now for the kid's sake in the back, without them, Stephanie, having to get into all the minute details of what this woman was, some translations use the word innkeeper. It's one who would host people into their home as an innkeeper, or like a bed and breakfast in our modern day, that's what Rahab was, but Rahab was a prostitute. This translation of that word is used, if I ain't mistaken, some 93 times in the Older Testament, and it's the word zay, zay, nah, and it's always in relationship to whoredom, prostitution, harlotry, whether it be physical or even spiritual, Josh, because God's people who were married to him, when they venture off and do things apart from him, God describes that as spiritual harlotry, spiritual whoredom. So they went to the house of a harlot. Now, part of that was like many travelers would do in those days in the Canaanite world, as well as in the land of Jericho. This was a business that they gave the right to Rahab to do. She had a single home. It's obvious by the whole context of this, we're not talking about a brothel type place. We're just talking about a woman who had a home, who had a house that men would frequent for that purpose, and when they would, people, it was an acceptable thing, so these two spies, in their discreet measures, just went and took lodge in there. Nothing in the passage tells us that they went there for Rahab the prostitute, They just used it like a bed and breakfast, a place to stay. But the Bible also tells us that it was obvious people recognized these men as being different and notified the king that some of the Israelites had come into the land. And that's what this is gonna reveal to us. So verse number eight, I mean verse number two. And it was told the king of Jericho saying, behold, men have come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country. So the king of Jericho sent to who? Rahab, because word got back that that's where they dropped off. Remember, this was not an uncommon thing. This was a usual thing that would normally happen with visitors or different ones that would go to her house and it got word, that's where they planned it. Says, bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country. And the woman took the two men and she hid them. So she said, yes, the men came to me, but I don't know where they were from. And it happened as the gate was being shut, they went in the dark, the men went out. And where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them. But Rahab had brought them up to the roof of her house. She hidden them under the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof. And then the men pursued them by the road of the Jordan to the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate down. Now, before they laid down that night, she came up on the roof and she said to these men, I know the Lord. Now you gotta listen to her testimony. I know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on all of us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt. And you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed, word that done spread. And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted. Neither did there remain in any of us courage in anyone because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. Now therefore I beg you, I beg you, I plead with you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you this kindness that you will also shine kindness to my father's house and give me a true token and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death. So the men answered and they said, our lives for yours. if none of you tell this business of ours, and it shall be when the Lord has given us the land that we will deal kindly and truly with you. Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, that she dwelt on the wall, and she said to them, get to the mountain for fear they are pursuing you, meet you on your way back. Hide there three days until the pursuers have returned, and after that, you go your way. So the men said to her, we will be blameless of this oath of yours, which you have made with us, unless when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's house to your own home, so it shall be that whatever goes outside of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if our hand is laid on him. And if you tell this business of ours, then we will be free from this oath which we swear. Then she said, according to the words, let it be. And she sent them away that night and they departed and she bound the scarlet cord in the window. May God add a blessing to the reading of his word. You know, as we think about this situation here, here's a woman who as long as she was living in Jericho, here she is living a lifestyle that would not be a lifestyle that would be above reproach by any means. But here's a woman who had gotten word of what God had done and what God was doing and what God was planning to do, and she took that word that she heard and she believed it. And as a result, when these spies came in, you gotta keep in mind, known to God are all his works from what? Eternity. I mentioned to you in the New Testament, Rahab is mentioned on three different occasions. The first time she's mentioned is in the book of Matthew, chapter number one. We also see her in the book of James, as I've already mentioned, in James chapter two in our reading today. And we see her mentioned in the book of Hebrews chapter 11. And that work of faith of those witnesses that God has given us. And what we find with this sweet testimony of this harlot, this prostitute, who had been living a life that supported her ways in the wrong kind of living. It was acceptable in her society, but then a word came to her and messengers came to her. And you gotta keep in mind, the rest of Jericho also got that same word. God had already told his people. that he was gonna go before them and that he would melt the heart of the people. Let me give you a couple places to look at. Go back toward the very beginning of the Bible in Deuteronomy chapter number two. Look in Deuteronomy chapter number two in verse number 25. 225, let's look at this for a moment. Deuteronomy 225. The book of Deuteronomy was written in the very short brief of time. Moses knew he couldn't go over the Jordan and that Joshua would be taking his place and he was just preparing the people and this is one of the things that he said. Remember, the children of Israel didn't believe God. That's why they didn't go in the first time. Remember that, they didn't believe him. They didn't believe in this path. That's why they didn't go in. They were afraid to go in. All right, but God told them what he was gonna do before they ever went into the land. This is what he said he would do. Verse 25, this day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you. Now Rahab heard that report. The rest of Jericho heard that report. And they trembled and their hearts melted, but they did not have a heart within them to do anything about it. But when those messengers showed up at Rahab's door and entered into her house, Rahab saw her answer and her way out. and she trusted these messengers, and by faith, the scripture says, in the New Testament, she hid them away, and when the king asked, where were they, what did Rahab do? She protected them. And God tells us in the New Testament, her act of faith of protecting them, taking care of them, and sending them on, God honored that for all eternity. He blessed her. and he kept her alive. I'll give you another passage. Go to Exodus chapter 15. Look at this, Exodus 15. Rahab's name means wide, large, broad. And now that we know more about her from a New Testament perspective and what God did with her, I mean, that was her given name that she was born with, Rahab, wide. we can see that her testimony has been broad and wide and spread abroad through the years. You think about everywhere the Word of God has gone. Everywhere around the world, Brother Shannon, way back some nearly 4,000 years ago, this testimony still runs today that this was a woman of faith who God did a work in and who God blessed richly because she simply believed what God's people wouldn't believe. that God's people wouldn't believe. Exodus 15, this was a song that Moses wrote. Look what verse 14 says, and this was way before all of them turned back into the wilderness. He says in verse number 14, in chapter 15, verse 14, God says that the people will hear, and when they hear, what are they gonna be? They're gonna be afraid. Sorrow, will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed. The mighty men of Moab trembling will take hold of them and the inhabitants of Canaan, Jericho, their hearts will what? Melt away. By the greatness of your arm, they will all be as still as a stone till your people pass over, Lord, till the people pass over whom you have purchased. You will plant them or bring them and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance in this place, O Lord, which you have made, for you are our own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. I wanna tell you, known to God are all his works from what? eternity. So no matter what we have to deal with in our day, no matter what you and I still have to face in our time, can we trust God and take Him at His word? Does God always do what He says He's gonna do? Does He always fulfill what He sets out and makes a promise on? Do we have victory in the Lord Jesus Christ? Even in a world that looks like it's falling apart, we can take God at his word, hold on to it, and cling to it, and watch God do marvelous things that everybody around us may all fall apart. You think about Rahab for a moment. Here she is living a lifestyle totally contrary to anything what we would consider godly, biblical, true, noteworthy, but God sent spies to her because God was already what? Working in her heart. He was working in her heart. She had heard this word, but not only did she hear this word, the rest of the nation there in Canaan, the rest of the city heard it too, Brother Shannon. The king had heard it. They were all afraid of the people. But you see, the children of Israel, prior to going back into the wilderness for 40 years, when they wouldn't believe God, you gotta remember what God said he was already doing with the people in Jericho. He was already melting their heart away. They was already afraid. God was already at work doing this, but because they wouldn't take God at his word, you know what they did? They believed the lie and they had to go back and wander in the wilderness for the next 40 years. because they simply wouldn't take God at his word. But there was a woman, as long as those walls of Jericho were up, she was acting or living out the life of a prostitute. But when those messengers showed up in her life, and they came and she recognized where they were from and what they were doing. She knew it was her time to act on the word that she had and she believed what God had said he was gonna do. And when she did that, God delivered her, but not only her, who else did he deliver? Everybody she began to ask for. She said, can you save my father? Can you save my mother? Can you save my brothers and my sisters? And what did those spies tell her? It says, as long as they come into what? Your house. As long as they come into your house, they get under your roof. And as long as you take that scarlet thread and hold it out that, tie it out that window. And I wanna tell you, as soon as she dropped those boys out of the window, she tied it up and put it on. Did she risk her life in doing what she was doing? Oh, she did. that she had risked everything that she had. You think about that with her father, with her mother. In that day, we don't know. We're not told here, Tammy, about the issue or the circumstances. She obviously lived by herself. She didn't live with her mama. She wasn't living with her daddy. Nobody else was living with her. But she wanted them to have what she had been promised. And therefore, she now, a woman of ill repute, Had to go to her daddy. I'm sure her daddy didn't like what she was doing as a living. I could only imagine. I can't foresee a dad valuing what she was doing as a way of living. Amen. I can't foresee that. I can't foresee a mama valuing her lifestyle choices of what she had made. But here she comes to them and tells them that God had sent messengers to her. and that she housed them. Can you imagine maybe what was going on in their mind? And they said, well, you always get messengers come to your house. You always get men come to your house. What's different between this and that? But you see, known to God are all his works. from eternity past. So God had already had to start working where? In her dad's heart, in her mom's heart, in her brother's heart. And now she goes to them and now she's gotta convince them that what she heard and what they promised her, that these people were gonna preserve them. Because remember, every word they heard was that these people were coming in and they was gonna kill them all. And they was gonna destroy them and they was afraid of them. And now they're gonna take her word for it. And now God's getting involved in this, Brother Shannon, and given her the ability to speak life into her father and her mother and her brothers and her sisters and brought those relatives into her house. And now they believing her and coming and resting and waiting. And she said, you can't leave the house, you gotta stay in it. If you're out in the streets in any kind of way, you're gonna die with everybody else. I mean, here's a dad, now he's gotta submit to his daughter who lived in a lifestyle that most likely he didn't approve of, but something is happening in the midst of this that God's doing a work that nobody can explain except God. And you see that God's still doing this today. There's people that you know, there's people that we know that we would consider that are like the Rahab's out there that are still doing what they do, but God's put it in your heart to go bring a word to them and you're the messenger like the spies that Joshua sent to go in and not make yourself known to everybody else in the world, but he sent you to them and to go tell them what he's about to do. and that they're gonna have to take you at your word of what Christ has already done, and they're gonna have to be covered under that scarlet thread too, but not a thread, but the blood of the Lamb, and they're gonna trust Him with their life. There's people out there right now. I think about all this that's going on across the land with the decision that the Supreme Court made and passing these things down to the states to make these decisions. And I'm hearing all this outcry of defending the right to murder and kill. It don't make sense when you hear all that. It's just like, what in the world is our society? Where are they? and defending these rights, and that's the difference between somebody who wants to be right with God and somebody who will wanna defend their rights. And you're gonna continue to see that brought to light. But I wanna tell you, those that are still defending their rights are like many of the Rahabs out there that just need a messenger sent to them. a word brought to them, so that the walls of the lies can crumble and fall down, and when those walls fall down of those falsehoods and those lies, now you got somebody who can be delivered from what God had promised he would do, because everybody else in Jericho, which we're gonna learn about, what happened to everybody else? Everybody perished, with the exception of those that were what? In the house of Rahab. Now when you think about Rahab, something that is, a lot of people know, but then again, some people don't know, is that Rahab is gonna be a different person when she comes out of Jericho. Josh, when those guys went in there and honored their word and took her out of that environment She met a man and she became a wife. She had some children. And one of those boys that she had turns out to be the grandfather, great-grandfather of King David. And that grandson and great, great, great, and great, great grandson's gonna be the great, great grandmother, her great grandmother's gonna be a Rahab in the line of Jesus. Known to God. are all his works. Do y'all think for one minute that God had not already predetermined and set aside this woman in Jericho, that God just threw his hands up one day and said, well, I guess I'll use Rahab to do this. I guess I'll use Rahab to be in the lineage of the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember, because Jesus was slain in the counsel of God before time ever began, amen. So when God called Noah and God called Abraham, as much as the calling on Abraham's life was a calling on Rahab's life. that God was sending a word into Jericho, God was sending messengers into Jericho, God was sending life into Jericho to what? Rescue this woman out of this despair, out of this darkness, out of these lies, and bringing her out of this paganism, cultural, living and thinking, and he was gonna do something in her, and he was gonna make her one of the great grandmothers of the Lord Jesus Christ. That didn't happen by accident, amen? Known to God are all his works from eternity. So yeah, her name is wide because her testimony has been spread abroad widely through time. And man, we can't help but rejoice and give God the glory for it. and there's some Rahabs out there. You know, we're just like old Rahab. Are you with me? And all God's people said? We was living in a Gentile world, committing nothing but what? Spiritual whoredom and holitary, doing our own thing, but you know what? God sent who? He sent messengers. You know what those messengers come and told us? That there was somebody who stepped in our place. and somebody who died in our place, somebody who took our punishment, somebody who took our judgment in our place, somebody who would die on our behalf, who would shed his blood so that everybody in him would be covered under his blood, just like everybody in Rahab's house would be covered under her protection when they saw that red scarlet cord. Y'all remember when the children of Israel left Egypt? Y'all remember when they left Egypt? And God did great and mighty signs and wonders? And he preserved and kept a group of people, but at the same time, he brought all these troubles upon another group of people who wouldn't let his people go. And the very last thing that he brought on those Egyptians was that Passover night. Y'all remember that Passover night when God told him to go out and sacrifice a lamb for a household? And they went out and sacrificed that lamb. That message wasn't told to the Egyptians. That message was told to who? To the Israelites, to his people. And they sacrificed that lamb. What did Moses tell them to do with that blood of that lamb? cover up the door so that it would be what? Recognizable so that when the angel of death came through Egypt that night, he would see the blood and everywhere he saw the blood, he would not enter into that home. But if he didn't find blood on the doorpost, he would enter in the home and the firstborn in that home would die. See, that was a lamb for a household. Rahab's scarlet thread was a sign for what? A household. You see, Jesus shed his blood for a household too. It's called the bride of Christ. It's called the church. It's called the church of the living God. It's called his people, his sheep, who he laid his life down. But you gotta come what? Not because you are living in a house. The only way to come in is you gotta come in through him, amen? You gotta come in through him. And when you trust him, that a world around you won't trust, you'll be covered under his blood and you'll be delivered and safe. You see, the rest of the people of Jericho didn't believe like this woman believed and therefore the rest of the people minus her people all perished. Y'all got some people y'all need to be praying for? Do we have some folks that we know that need to be covered under the blood? Is there some family members that you care for? Anybody got a mom or a dad or a brother or a sister or a neighbor or a friend? You know, we sang that song, Greg lead us in, and sometimes he tells us to go over in the plains or the valleys or the mountains, but sometimes it's just right down the street to our neighbor. Just to our neighbor. Think about how many, which there's not many people out here, we recognize that, but let's ask this question. How many people on 498, on 12, on 17, 28, 45, that we go past on a given basis that still need to be covered under the blood? Just think about it, think about it. Is there some folks out there we pass by? This is what I want to encourage you to start doing. Every time you come across a house on 498, or head it back down something to 12, turn on 17, and hit up 28, or cross over to Townsend, or go up towards Schubert, or run toward Meridian, start praying for those households. Because those households got people in them. And those people like in Jericho are gonna die if they die without Jesus. They need to be covered under the blood. But we, we need to have a burden for them, amen? We need to have a burden for them. We need to ask God to help us. We need to ask God to help us. Lord, put these people on our heart. that they need to hear. I need to be the messenger that brings this living word. Do you think God's gotta prepare their heart for you when you come? Oh yeah, had God prepared Rahab's heart? Oh yeah, he sure had. He sure had. Was God at work in Rahab's mom and dad and brothers and sister to get them to believe her and be convinced by her? Oh, he had to be, amen? Does God have to work in their heart for them to receive the message we bring to them about Jesus? Yes. So what we need to be doing is praying. God, send forth your word. We trust you. We trust you. Those people in Jericho trembled over the word of God when God's people, the Israelites, wasn't trembling over it. And we don't wanna be that way, amen? We wanna be the ones who take his word as his word and start praying for the people that he puts in our path so that we could be those messengers, those witnesses who bring his message to them and that we too can see a difference made in the Rahab's and Rahab's people in this life to see them delivered, amen. There's gonna be some people right now that you're gonna, in this society we live in, with the things that are going on right now, with all this stuff happening around us, there's gonna be some people that's gonna shock you in some of the things they stand on. You probably have already seen that. Like, I can't believe that they would stand and defend and fight for somebody's rights, but don't have a desire to be right with God on this. Well, look, just remember, what was Rahab before those messengers ever showed up to their house? What was she? You know, even the New Testament, when it refers to her two of the three times, one says Rahab the harlot, the other one says the harlot Rahab. Only as an identifiable marker who they're talking about. Because it also says that not only is she Rahab the harlot, the harlot of Rahab, She's been redeemed. She's been rescued. And that which is done in faith is that which lives forever, Keith. And her acts of faith live on forever. Remember when she told the king that lie? That they wasn't there? You know when the New Testament brings it up, Tammy? It don't mention that she lied, it just says she protected God's messengers. Why? What she lied about and what she done and how she lived had been covered under the blood. And every act of faith she had now will endure for all eternity. And the same thing for you and me, amen? How many of y'all got a past that needs to be covered under the blood? How many's future needs to be covered under the blood? All of us, amen? All of us. Because we live in a world that's constantly changing. Are you with me? Is things changing every day? Man, I bought 10 pounds of chicken yesterday for $30. Lord have mercy. Chicken breast, $3 a pound. Last week I paid $2.85 a pound. A couple weeks back, I was finding it at $1.97 a pound. Y'all remember those days? $1.98, $1.97. Now it's $3 a pound. It's always changing. Does gas prices change every week? Rusty, is the price for the timber, is it changing every week? Steel, is it changing every week? Josh, your prices, your business, is it fluctuating every week? How far out can you give a man a bid on something? A couple weeks, why? It's constantly what? It's constantly changing. Two things in this world are not ever gonna change. Number one, the price for salvation. The blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus. Unchanging, amen? That crimson blood. Second thing, the wages of sin. What's the wages of sin? The wages of sin is never gonna change. It's always death. And the only solution for death and the wages of sin is the cost of salvation. And that's the life, the lifeblood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So when things are steady changing, Brittany, may we go forth praying, believing, convicted messengers who continue to go give an unchanging word. Hey, the blood of the Lamb and the wages of sin is death. And we all deserve death, amen. We all deserve death. We all deserve to be in Jericho and die that day, but somebody else died for us, amen. Somebody else died. You know, that same one that died for you and me is the same one who died for Rahab. Same blood that was spilt for me and you was spilt for Rahab. The same blood that was spilt for Abraham is the same blood that was spilt for me and you. And the same blood that was spilt for these neighbors of ours on 498, 45 Townsend, and Sautner 12 and 28 is the same blood. the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust him, amen, trust him. Father, we thank you, we bless you, help us today. I pray that this week as we continue to help our kids be strong and courageous because you have commanded us, you've sent us, you promised you'd go with us, that what that meant for Joshua now means for Rahab. simply because she took you at your word. She believed your people who were sent with your message and who stood for you. Lord, now she has a command to be strong and courageous just like us. Everything that we have in Christ is yes and amen to us. So Lord, we're gonna ask you to help us today, help our little ones in the back as they study these things, that we will see you transform lives and make differences in people's lives through the work that we get to do because of the work you've done. for us, in us, and through us. In Jesus' name, amen. Would you stand with us today? And all God's people said? That was Rahab's message. Don't pass me by when you come through here, amen? Don't pass me by, don't pass me by. Let him be the glory. Anybody have anything, anything else before we go today? He is so good, he is so good. That's right, Carolyn, he is so good. Yes, yes, Rahab, she was gripped by that glory. I wanna be gripped with the glory of God, amen? Gripped by, gripped by, gripped by. And I believe you wanna be too. Hey, tell them I said hello. Tell them I said hello, amen? Amen and amen. All right, all right, all right. Yeah. Yeah. and our boss at central office came up and he looked at her square in the face and said, hallelujah, hallelujah twice. And clear as a bell. Clear as a bell. No tickle because all week he, like if he said his numbers or his colors, it would just be like, say I said four, he would say four. Like he wasn't even making a word. He's clean as day. He said hallelujah, hallelujah twice. And we all looked at each other like. Look at that. Clear as a bell. Amen, amen. That is a treat. That is a treat. And you know, we talked about this before, that in all the languages of the world, no matter what language it is, every known language says hallelujah the same way. The exact same way. They say hallelujah. Doesn't matter where it's from. Everybody says hallelujah. And y'all know what hallelujah means, right? What does it mean? Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah, amen. It's crazy, ain't it? That in every language that it speaks, and then somebody who is nonverbal and can barely speak, if they can get anything out, they got hallelujah out. Amen, come on. And a lot of behavior issues too. Yeah, amen. Now most people can't spell hallelujah, but you can say hallelujah, amen. Amen and amen, praise the Lord. Thank you for sharing, that blesses me, that blesses me, amen. Anybody else? Always good to have our guest with us today, and we're always a delight to be able to fellowship with one another, amen? Amen and amen.