A Harlot’s Faith: The Story of Rahab

White Horse Inn

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Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In the story of Rahab, we encounter a startling twist in the narrative of redemption. As one commentator noted, “Rather than playing the harlot, Israel is now saved by one.” Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller explore how God’s people were delivered through the unlikely and mysterious figure of Rahab in Joshua 2

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Featuring: Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter R. Strickland II, Bob Hiller

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0:58.4	This is so important when you read through one of my favorite conversations, James
1:03.4	Chapter 2, because Rehab actually comes up in James Chapter 2 as an example of faith and works.
1:09.4	But notice here, she's not righteous before God on account of her
1:14.6	performance. She's a pagan temple prostitute. She didn't earn salvation this way. Faith came to her
1:20.8	through hearing, and she vindicated the fact that she had that faith by saving the spies and protecting the promise. And so
1:30.1	there's a sense here in which her works demonstrate that she has faith. But it's not it's not her
1:36.1	works that are making her righteous in the sight of God. She just trusts the promise. She knows this
1:40.4	God. She sees what he's done and she believes that he's going to take out this land
1:44.8	as he's promised to do. And so she acts on that faith. But that's a very important point,
1:49.6	unless you start to think that Rahab is a picture of righteousness by works. No, no, no, no, no, no. She's
1:55.1	righteous on account of the promise and faith in the promise and then demonstrates that with what she does. the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. This is Whitehorse's Inn, a weekly roundtable
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