The God Who Redeems: Rahab's Story of Joy

Pastor Moss opened by reading the entire story of Rahab from Joshua 2, where two Israelite spies hide in the house of a prostitute named Rahab in Jericho. He used an illustration from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia about Aslan not being safe but being good to establish that Christians should be marked by both love and fear of the Lord. The main point was that the Lord redeems the stories of those who fear Him. Pastor Moss emphasized how the text identifies Rahab by her sin first, noting that no little girl grows up wanting to become a prostitute, and connected this to how people today feel stuck in various ways - debt, addiction, broken hearts, or embarrassing histories.

In this message:

The Lord redeems the stories of those who fear Him.The text identifies Rahab by her sin first, calling her 'a prostitute named Rahab' rather than 'Rahab who was also a prostitute.'No little girl grows up wanting to become a prostitute - people become trapped through wicked things that happen to them.The Lord is not afraid to face the worst of us and confronts our sin not to destroy us but to liberate us.If the Spirit is going to gain any foothold in our lives, we're going to have to deal with the brokenness and sin in our lives.