We will turn our Bibles to James chapter 2. James chapter 2. Shall we read from verse 14 onwards? to the end of the chapter. James chapter 2 verse 14 onwards.

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

We thank God for this opportunity to continue the study of the book of James and we continue to pray to the Lord that He will bless the reading of His Word as well as the ministry of it. Last week, if you all remember, we were covering this very portion from verse 14 to 26 and we looked into detail about a faith that is dead. We tried to highlight why that is important to realize that there can be a kind of faith that is dead and how dangerous it is to be in that kind of a situation. And James is writing this with an elder heart, with a heart that wants to ensure that all who are under his care are indeed saved. He wants to ensure that they know very clearly about their situation, that they should not be amongst those who are surprised at the end. To have realized that they were never of the Lord, that they were never to begin with even of the Lord. And that's the concern with which James is addressing these topics. And here it is about faith and works. And we saw the problems with that kind of faith.

Firstly, that it was a delusional faith. Why do I say delusional? Because the person thinks that they truly believe, but in reality, they have a no real living or saving faith. We read about such kind of faith in Matthew chapter 7 verse 21, where there are many who will come to the Lord in the last days saying, Lord, Lord. So you see a set of people who are taking His name on their lips, who are professing Him to be their Lord, they are calling Him Lord, Lord. But as the Lord would look at them, He would say, depart from me, you workers of lawlessness, workers of iniquity, I never knew you. It's not that he stopped knowing them at some point or somehow they fell away, but rather I never knew you, clearly indicating that they were never his to begin with, because he knows all that are his, he knows his sheep by name and that's what it means and that they never really followed him, they never really believed in him. And so we are once again here in this topic, in this portion, where we today want to, in the grace of God, see more about that living faith. What does that living faith look like? And especially as it is shown to us in the examples before us.

Last week we had to more or less hurry through those examples, but today we want to particularly look deeper into the examples of Abraham and the example of Rahab and see what is that living faith. What is faith? According to James and before we look at that portion we can already see in the beginning of chapter 2 The way he presents that he says my brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Lord of Glory with respect of persons. A faith in the way James is bringing before us is not, clearly is not just intellectual affirmation or intellectual agreement to certain things but it is a thing that transforms one. It is causing a man, a person to change their way of living. It is something that influences their very direction, it guides them, it directs them, it restrains them, it causes them to be submissive to certain things. And that's why James is putting this together, that you cannot have the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ if we have truly come to see the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lord. Not only as our saviour but as the one who is our Lord, if we have truly come to see Him as the Lord of glory, have seen His glory, have come to understand His glory, then that and having partiality, having respect of persons hand in hand cannot go together.

Why is that brought together? Because that's how James is looking at faith. It's not only intellectual affirmation of things, but it has to be something that changes one. It is something that has to transform one. That's also how other writers in the New Testament look at it as well when we look at John for example. That's exactly how John would also portray this new relationship, this new fellowship, this new communion that we have with the Lord. It's not just intellectual affirmation. It has to be something more than that. It has to be something that changes us, transforms us. So firstly, that's something that we want to remember as we read this portion of verse 14. It's not merely intellectual faith, intellectual understanding that James is referring to when he is referring to what faith according to him is. And we see that there is clearly a distinction as we noted last time that there can be a way to be delusional about one's own condition, about one's own faith. Not only that, we see that it is the kind of faith that demons have about God.

So we saw how even demons have a very orthodox doctrines. They have a very orthodox view of the Bible or the times to come or God or the Lord Jesus Christ, they know all these things very well. They are able to also reiterate that, tell it out in a very clear manner. But they are not saved. But they rather shudder, they tremble, they fear knowing the terror that God brings into their lives. That is also a kind of understanding, faith. So as we highlighted last time, one could be in such a position that they can tell out a creed very well that they know very clear facts about who God is, about what salvation looks like, about what the end times look like, about every such doctrine. But it could be at the end the same state as demons who know much but it has done nothing to transform them. Their only reaction response is fear, terror, shuddering, trembling at the sound of the Son of God and at the presence of God. It has not caused in them any kind of change. And lastly, we saw that that kind of faith is dead.

There is no life in that faith, which is not at all the way faith is presented before us throughout scripture. It is living, it moves, it works, it does something. It is not meant to be dead. And the wrong kind of faith, these are the characteristics of it. It is delusional. is the kind of faith demons have. It is also a dead faith. Now today we want to especially look at the portions where we are seeing about justification by works. It's something that has always continued to be a challenge to explain what does James mean when he's bringing before us the fact that there is justification by works. Abraham was justified by works and even so was Rahab justified by works. Let's first of all clarify certain things about justification itself. What is justification? It is to be declared righteous. It is to be made right with God. What does scripture tell us very clearly about justification? will have a quick review from Romans chapter 3. We talk to Romans chapter 3, verse 24. Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Being justified freely by His grace. That's the first thing we note about justification. It is freely by His grace. The source, the one who has initiated it, the one who is giving it out is God. How is He doing it? Freely by grace. And grace simply means unmerited favor in this context that it cannot be of works, it cannot be that we labor in any way. towards achieving our justification, then it is simply not grace as it is given for us in the religious. That it cannot be grace if it is going to be any bit works involved in it. If there is any bit works involved, then God is a debtor to that person to reward him according to that works. It cannot be then of grace. That's very clear. The source is from God. It is by grace. It is given very freely. We turn to Romans chapter 5 verse 1, where we read, By faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We've seen justification is by grace. We're seeing now justified by faith.

So how does a man be justified? This is how God gives justification. It is by grace. What is man's part here? It is by faith. That is the only response from man to accept it with open hands, to accept it with entire trusting on who God is and what he gives witness. about His Son and about our own condition. So it is entirely by faith. In the same chapter we see verse 9, 5 verse 9, much more than being now justified by His blood. We shall be saved from wrath to Him, justified by grace, justified by faith, now justified by His blood. And this is for God to be just and the justifier of those who put their faith in Him. This justification, the means of it, the basis of it, the entire foundation is not even our faith, it is the blood of Jesus Christ who has died for our sins, upon whom our sins were slain, where God has paid the price entirely, so that sinners who believe in Him, their forgiveness can be achieved and by having faith in God, God imputes, God reckons, God counts.

God credits righteousness unto their account. This is how justification is seen in the scriptures. is by grace freely from God. It is by faith the part of man to put their entire trust on this witness of God. And thirdly, its basis, foundation is nothing of man but entirely by the blood of Jesus Christ. So why then are we talking about justification by works? One beautiful scripture, last time also we took that, which clearly puts all of this together is from Ephesians chapter 2. We read in verse 8, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8, For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. It cannot be of works. so that there is no provision, no place for anyone to boast that God gave me justification, God gave me salvation because of my works, it's not of works. But here comes the second part of it or the consequence of this kind of justification, of this kind of salvation.

For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works. We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works. You see the whole chain coming together. If one is truly saved by grace, through faith, if one is truly saved, what is going to follow? Good works. Why? Because such a person is created as a workmanship in Christ Jesus unto good works which God beforehand ordained that he or she should walk in them. It's entirely coming from God. So the works very clearly is not the reason for our justification. It's not the cause for our justification, but rather it is the consequence of our justification. If one is saved, if one is justified, what will happen? They are seen to be evidently the workmanship of God. They seem to be the workmanship in Christ Jesus. You see that they are coming or they are those who are unto good works, creator unto good works which God beforehand ordained that they should walk in there.

Returning back to James and today we are particularly looking at the examples that James brings before us, Abraham and Rahab. This is the question that James has to us, was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Now when Abraham is called as a father. It's a very good way of calling Abraham and bringing him before us as an example of faith. Because not only to the Jews in a physical way that he is their father, in Galatians chapter 3, we read how Abraham is a father to all who would have like faith, faith like him. They are all spiritually in that way his children. Abraham becomes a kind of model, a kind of type, a kind of case or a specimen of God to show this is how faith looks like, this is how faith in me looks like, this is the kind of life that comes out when one has faith in Him. And so all who believe in God in like manner are called to be the children of Abraham.

The Jews took great pride in being identified as the children of Abraham, but we know when we look at the Gospel of John, how the Lord would equate Being a child of someone, necessarily imparts some kind of characteristics, some kind of behaviour that is consistent with the father. So those who took great pride in their physical descent from Abraham, the Lord was very particular in telling them, examine your works. You not working or you are not behaving, you are not responding as Abraham did to me. Abraham saw my day, he rejoiced, he was glad, but you rather you are... rejecting me, my word has no place in you and they were bound or they were very eager to reject him entirely and in that they were showing that they were murderers, were liars and they were rather showing the characteristics of the devil from the beginning is a murderer and a liar. So in that context children are to have the characteristics of the father. So if one is the child of Abraham, we will see that there are those characteristics, those spiritual characteristics also of how they are to be.

So when James is calling here Abraham our father, it's in that context as well. It is largely addressed to Jewish audience, but also very clearly from Galatians we can support that. For all who will believe in God in like manner as Abraham did, he is unto us in that way a father of faith, a model of faith to follow. Now, when did Abraham begin believing in the Lord? When did we have to look at the journey to understand what is James talking about here? We see beginning from chapter 12 verse 1, where God or in the words of Stephen, in Acts how he would say the God of glory appeared unto Abraham and he spoke this word to Abraham that he had to... come away from his kindred, come away from his country and he had to leave everything that he knew about and come to a place which was not named, come to a place which he had no contact with, nothing he knows. Faith began there. Abraham in chapter 12 verse 1 believed in what God said and he simply obeyed. He went ahead and he took his journey towards Canaan.

Now we come to chapter 15 of Genesis. which is the most critical part in all of this discussion. Genesis 15 verse 5, And he brought him forth abroad and said, Look now toward heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And note verse 6, He believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness. This is the moment when we see in scripture recorded that Abraham believed and that belief was counted, credited, reckoned, accounted for as righteousness. His faith was given back or was created as righteousness unto Abraham. This is the moment when Abraham believed what God said. In the book of Romans, we see what this belief was about. Abraham saw the deadness of his body. He saw the deadness of Sarah's womb, but believed in the one who promised that he was able to do what he had promised. That was the faith of Abraham that, yes, God will indeed provide me such a promise.

He believed and for that it was reckoned to him as righteousness. So that is the moment in scripture, clear, that that is where it starts with. Abraham, we know, had to go through multiple rounds of trials, testings as he went on his journey in faith. And finally, we would read of the great testing that he had and that was... in chapter 22, which is what James is referring to. So we come to chapter 22 of Genesis. Here is the test of faith that Abraham had to undergo. So we are clear. When was Abraham justified? Long back in chapter 15. Here comes a test. said, Take now thy son, thy only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of. Here was Isaac, the only visible representation of any of the promises that the Lord gave to Abraham.

Everything depends on this one boy who he got after so much waiting. Abraham has not seen multitudes, Abraham has not seen many children, Abraham has not seen anything in terms of the fulfillment of the promise, but just this one boy and everything rests on this one boy and the Lord is telling him now that Him, your son, your only son, the one whom you love, take him and offer him unto me in Mount Moriah. Why was the Lord doing that? Why was the Lord testing Abraham's faith? It's a question that we ought to consider. When we look in the book of Job again, what do we see there? It is the Lord giving testimony about His servant, that here is one who fears Me, who shuns evil. This is the testimony from God. was God doubting Job's faith there. Rather, God was bringing to light, God was commending the faith of Job. And such faith was then tested fiercely to show indeed that it was genuine living faith, true faith.

And something similar is happening here with Abraham also. Faith is there and it was now going to be tried, it was going to be tried very fiercely. And we see in this journey that Abraham takes a very clear faith from Abraham. Verse 5, we read, said unto his young men, abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you. Abraham already before going, he will tell, I will come again to you. It's not just I, but both of them are going to come again to you. Verse 8. Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamp for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together. Abraham goes with that faith that whatever is required for the offering, it is going to come from the Lord Himself. But now comes the ending, the conclusion of that test in verse 12. He said, lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him.

For now I know that thou fearst God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thy only son from me. The word used there, please notice that. For now I know that thou fearst God. There is a difference in saying that one believes in God and one fears God. It is in stark contrast to the response of the demons. There is also fear there that James just... highlighted to us. They are trembling, they are shuddering, they are frightened, they are filled with terror. But this fear is different. This is reverential fear. This is fear which is in awe of the one that they are fearing. It is a fear which, as we were discussing, directs. It is a fear which causes one to be submissive gladly towards the one whom they fear. So here in all of this that happened, Abraham clearly showed, what did he show? That he feared God, that he was willing entirely to submit himself to the God in whom he believed.

And you see that's clearly the point that James wants us to understand as well. Faith results in works. What kind of works? Last week we saw what kind of works it cannot be. we looked at the portion from Galatians, it cannot be any kind of works that brings confidence to the flesh, to glory in oneself and that's any human ritual, that's anything that is a tradition, that's anything that we may look as of the flesh which includes church attendance, which includes taking part in the Lord's Supper, which includes baptism, which includes circumcision, which includes anything that we would like to put confidence in the flesh as this is the reason, these are the reasons why I think I am saved and James or Paul very clearly highlights that's not what we are after. is very particular in addressing that issue in Galatians. You have started with faith, now we are not going to continue our journey suddenly with works of the law. We have started with faith, it's not midway that we are now suddenly going to take confidence by being submissive or submitted to the law.

of the Old Testament and therefore bring upon ourselves another burden which nobody can bear. It's also as we saw not works which claim to have been done in His name like performing miracles, like casting out demons or in way where lot of miracles are being done in His name. But then what are those works? There are some works that James really wants us to understand which should follow fate. And our conclusion is very clear, it is works of obedience. is works of obedience. James has been stressing about that very thing from the beginning. When we look at chapter 1, he's been trying to tell us who God is. He's given us a clear impression of who God is. And what has God done to bring us forth as a new creation? It was to the Word of Truth. And he was putting so much significance, so much attention on... the Word of God in the life of a believer.

It has to be like an engrafted word. We cannot neglect it. We have to look into it deeper and not just look and forget what we read, but we have to also comply ourselves to it, adhere ourselves to it, submit ourselves to the Word of God and change ourselves by it. In Chapter 2 also, it is a clear continuation of that very topic that it is, how are we looking at the Word of God? Is our faith that we have in the Law of Jesus Christ, has that changed our way of looking at the Word of God, of treating its commands, of treating its desires that God has towards us? Chapter 2, starting about the partiality topic we saw. It is necessary that those who have faith in the Law of Jesus Christ, their behaviour is going to be adhering to it. Why? One of the reasons. Otherwise, you are a transgressor of the commandment. The Royal Law, the Law that tells, love your neighbour as yourself, that Law which ties up the entire Old Testament Law or the entire Law of God is broken, is shattered.

Why not? or by being partial, we are in effect being transgressors of the commandment. We are not keeping the word of God. And then we see here in the same continuation, faith must result, will result in works. What are those works? They are not works of the flesh. They are not works of the law, but rather they works of obedience. The illustration that James gave us about the brother coming in or sister coming in and having need, again... When one meets that need, what are they doing? They are obeying the commandment. They are being obedient to the word of the Royal Law to love one's neighbor as yourself. What has Abraham just now shown to us from chapter 15, chapter 12 onwards? What is characteristic of Abraham? It is obedience. His faith that he had really resulted in what? Obedience. Lord says to come out of that country, he obeys. Lord says to do...

To go to the next place, Abraham obeys. Lord tells to offer His son on the altar, Abraham again obeys. This is the work that follows faith, its works of obedience. We know what Abraham was thinking all along while he was going up the mountain. He really believed in God that God would even raise his son from the dead. That's how he logically concluded what's going to happen with Isaac. Even if I have to kill Isaac, offer him up, he was so confident God is going to actually raise him up. The first resurrection is going to happen there that God will raise Isaac up and give him back to Abraham. So this is what we see there that when James is Talking about works, it is works of obedience which necessarily are a compliment to faith. There is no conflict whatsoever between works and faith and we need not be worried about it. Rather it is entirely about a compliment that works should follow those true faith. Abraham is called here.

a friend of God. Before that in verse 23, what do we see here? Scripture was fulfilled which said the very same scripture we read in Genesis chapter 15, how Abraham believed and it was counted to him for righteousness. The word used here is it is fulfilled. That righteousness which God gave to Abraham, it is seen to be very perfect. It is seen to have been fulfilled when Abraham obeyed. It is a fulfillment of that word that God said concerning Abraham that we see when he offered up Isaac or was willing to offer up Isaac on the altar. Verse 22 we see faith works together with works. So they are in cooperation. They are in no way conflict. So one has faith it will work together with the works of obedience in order to work the works of God. Now as we look at Abraham we can of course learned so much from Abraham, but the question also arises, was Abraham a perfect man in any way?

We know how many times he fell, how many times he also sinned, how many times he would fall short of the glory of God. And that's also the point we must stress on here. By what James means in terms of works of obedience or faith is followed by works is not referring to sinlessness as also John in the first episode, in the first chapter, very clearly tells us. He writes all of it that he may sin not, but indeed if any do sin, then we have a advocate for us, Jesus Christ the righteous. It is his blood that becomes the propitiation for our sins. The path that we are to take, the life direction, the life pattern that should evidence one who has true faith is works of obedience. is an entirely different view towards the Word of God that he truly wants to obey. Abraham is also called here a friend of God. So let's also turn to John chapter 15. A friend of God, who do we call a friend?

We read from the Old Testament, he is not actually called a friend in the book of Genesis. All throughout his life we don't read in Genesis him being called a friend, but his life evidenced what a friend looks like to God. He had a communion with God. God did not want to hide the future things from Abraham and particularly we see obedience, a submission to all that God would reveal unto him. And in like manner, very like manner, Lord Jesus calls us, His disciples, friends. John chapter 15 verse 14. You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you. Couldn't be more clearer than this. You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you. This is how friends, according to the Lord Jesus Christ, are. Those who are His friends, firstly, they will do whatsoever He... command, just like Abraham towards the Lord, what so the Lord told, he obeyed. Not only that, they are also having a communion, they are having insight into the heart of the Lord, into the will of the Lord.

We read that in verse 15, Henceforth I call you not bondmen, not servants, for servant knoweth not what is Lord to it. But I have called you friends. Why? For all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you. There is communion, there is this clear revelation from the Lord Jesus to His disciples. They are coming to know the secret things of God. These two characteristics are what defines a friend in the scriptures in this manner. Abraham's life demonstrates that. And again, for us as an application, that's what is meant here. That just like Abraham is called a friend of God, if we are also to be called a friend of the Lord Jesus, this is what we characterize as. We will know His will. We will do what serverly commands us. Now we move to the next example of Rahab. Now it could not have been a more polar opposite example that James could take.

Abraham is a very likely candidate to show us about faith. But why Rahab? If you look at it, are so different from each other. Abraham a man, Rahab a woman. Abraham the one to whom all the promises were given. Rahab far away, far away from any covenant, any promises. nothing to do with any of these things. Abraham is the patriarch of Israel. Rahab, she is a prostitute. She was a prostitute. Abraham is the father of Israel and you have Rahab who is a canonite. She is a gentile, she is a heathen. Such different people and James wants both of them together and he wants to show us that the principle of faith works likewise, whether it is for Jew, whether it is for a Gentile, the principle of faith is going to work likewise. And we must again turn to what Rahab was doing. Joshua chapter 2 verse 9, few words that you want to note about Rahab's testimony.

Verse 9 of Joshua chapter 2, and she said unto the men, I know, I know that the Lord has given you the land. and that your terror is fallen upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. Verse 10, for we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you and so forth. She will describe. There is one knowledge that she has got of the Lord and she tells how that knowledge was not only for her but to many in that land. The response from them like the demons, it was filled with terror. They were filled with terror that this is the Lord who is going to command. attackers, but a response that was not seen in anyone else is seen in Rahab. A response that was like of the demons is seen in the rest of the canonites, but in Rahab it began to cause a change in her. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and Rahab had heard what the Lord had done.

He had heard of His mighty works and that's what caused her to have faith in the Lord. And again we see what does Rahab do. It would have been very easy for her to simply say these bold statements and to give a very nice oration of what she thinks of the Lord, declare things about the Lord. But if she would not have acted according to that faith, it was not going to save her. If she had not hidden the men in her house, if she had not told the king also a different story concerning the men and if she had not sent the men away in another direction after a few days. She would not have received that privilege of being saved from the attack that was to come. And that's what is primarily what James is trying to say. Let's put it all together. One is justified by faith. A man, a woman, a person is justified by faith. And here we see faith being justified by works.

I hope that makes sense. So you have Abraham being justified by faith. How do know Abraham's faith is real faith? How do we know that anyone's faith that they say, yes, I believe, yes, I believe this about the Lord Jesus, yes, I believe this about God, I believe this about myself. How do we know that is true? It's really to be believed. It is justified, it is vindicated. That's also another meaning of the root Greek word there. not only to declare righteous but to be vindicated that that faith is justified by the works, it evidences. What does Hebrews tell us about faith? Faith is the evidence of things. It shows when there is real faith, it shows what we are actually believing in. It's not invisible. Faith rather in the New Testament is something that can be seen, should be seen through works. That's how James Cell concludes because just as a dead body cannot move, cannot show that there is no life.

Why? Because there is no life. It's just an outward thing, outward expression of something. But there is no life. Such is faith without works because in reality there is no faith. In reality there is no living, genuine faith which otherwise should certainly be seen in works. If faith is not followed by works, then there has never been real faith, there has never been real salvation. Such a person is still in their sins and they need to truly know who the Lord is, not just intellectually, but to commit oneself entirely unto such knowledge, to be filled with awe, reverential fear, such that it causes one to be submissive, to obey the word that the Lord gives. Such is the life that will characterize. And there we see But indeed, is entirely consistent with everything that we read in the New Testament writings. It's entirely consistent with all that we read. In conclusion, we also look at the great grace of God in all of this.

So, as we look at these two characters, Abraham and Rahab, they are mentioned in New Testament writings. Where do we see them? Together. We see them together in beautiful ways. So in Matthew's genealogy, we see Abraham, begins with Abraham, then comes to David, comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. Who's there in between? We see Rahab, Rahab the harlot. She's there in between. She's the one who gives birth to Boaz, who was to be the great-grandfather of King David. We look to Hebrews chapter 11. There you see Abraham, great man of faith. He so many great things. But they right there. You have who? Rahab. Why? By faith. That is the grace of God that he takes that kind of faith. He does not look at their background. He does not look at how qualified they are or they are not, their whole history.

Nothing. All of that is taken away and they are seen to be in the same standing in principle of faith how God uses such lives, every life, every person who puts their faith in this living God. And that's what we also can be encouraged by knowing that it is not about our faith, it's about our God. It's not about how well we are, how great we are, but rather it is entirely about how great are Goddess and how great are His purposes for those who are in Christ Jesus, who put their faith in Christ Jesus. What God achieved in Abraham, He also was able to achieve through Rahab. Like through them came Christ Jesus. That just as Abraham is part of the cloud of witnesses that encourages us to go, leave behind everything and go in the parts of the Lord Jesus Christ, Rahab is also a cloud of witness in encouraging us. to go forward out of the camp like our Saviour did. May we continue in these words, in the meditation of these words and in applying these truths into our lives. May his name alone be glorified.