1. There
are no impossible, immoveable, or undefeatable barriers that can stand in the
way of God’s promises.
2. God doesn’t need our conventional weapons to make the walls come down.
3. Our weapons are divinely powered for bringing down strongholds. We hope, we praise, and we obey. God then brings down the walls.
4. Walls do two things. They keep you out or keep you in. Rahab was entombed in Jericho till God brought the walls down. Israel was kept out from their promised land till Jericho fell.
5. Jericho was the Hollywood of its day, promising wealth and prosperity while delivering mostly poverty and a promiscuity that was ruining.
6. The culture has to be abandoned if we are to truly experience God today just as Rahab did.
7. Rahab was resurrected from the tomb of her old life.
8. Walking around for 7 days was a test of Israel’s praise, hope, and obedience to God.
a. Nothing is written about this generation complaining, grumbling, and testing God.
b. The Levites’ trumpeting was about announcing God. Trumpets always introduce the God of creation!
9. 7 trumpets, 7 Priests, 7 days, 7 times on the last day. The God who created in 7 days is known in the ruins of Jericho.
10. Joshua demonstrates that leading for God is following God. Be a follower to lead followers.
11. We march against those barriers that prevent God’s promises by praying in silence or with a calm assurance. We live calmly assured of God’s promises and march.
12. Rahab’s story illustrates that no one no matter how cursed is beyond God’s reach, to restore, and transform. She goes from prostitute to a mother of King David. She goes from condemned as a Canaanite to a chosen woman redeemed. She goes from a stake in Jericho to a house in heaven.
2. God doesn’t need our conventional weapons to make the walls come down.
3. Our weapons are divinely powered for bringing down strongholds. We hope, we praise, and we obey. God then brings down the walls.
4. Walls do two things. They keep you out or keep you in. Rahab was entombed in Jericho till God brought the walls down. Israel was kept out from their promised land till Jericho fell.
5. Jericho was the Hollywood of its day, promising wealth and prosperity while delivering mostly poverty and a promiscuity that was ruining.
6. The culture has to be abandoned if we are to truly experience God today just as Rahab did.
7. Rahab was resurrected from the tomb of her old life.
8. Walking around for 7 days was a test of Israel’s praise, hope, and obedience to God.
a. Nothing is written about this generation complaining, grumbling, and testing God.
b. The Levites’ trumpeting was about announcing God. Trumpets always introduce the God of creation!
9. 7 trumpets, 7 Priests, 7 days, 7 times on the last day. The God who created in 7 days is known in the ruins of Jericho.
10. Joshua demonstrates that leading for God is following God. Be a follower to lead followers.
11. We march against those barriers that prevent God’s promises by praying in silence or with a calm assurance. We live calmly assured of God’s promises and march.
12. Rahab’s story illustrates that no one no matter how cursed is beyond God’s reach, to restore, and transform. She goes from prostitute to a mother of King David. She goes from condemned as a Canaanite to a chosen woman redeemed. She goes from a stake in Jericho to a house in heaven.
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