tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post8191573990064625459..comments2023-10-03T06:25:41.357-05:00Comments on Grace Roots Blog: Rahab's FaithJoel Bruesekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-81073075864498283532016-01-14T00:59:01.498-06:002016-01-14T00:59:01.498-06:00Good post!! I love hearing about how God moves in ...Good post!! I love hearing about how God moves in our lives and recognizes people apart from their works. Timeiz2schorthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797479604298235992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-23670114256242535352015-10-24T16:13:58.372-05:002015-10-24T16:13:58.372-05:00Thank you for responding. ..So humility is a gift ...Thank you for responding. ..So humility is a gift of God not of ourselves. ..as is free will...and God's sovereignty. ..a gift not of ourselves. ...somewhere in between all this is the secret things that belong to God..what is greater than our heart or mind...on one hand Jesus says You didnt choose Me I chose you...yet on the other hand we arent robots that He programmed to love Him either....we choose.And in the middle is the secret place...the mysteries of Love....the leaning not on our own understanding. ...Humility is Jesus' Yoke He says for us to take upon ourselves. ..His attitude in His walk with the Father and us...and so so so much more is humility that Grace may ignite. ..I am learning and receiving. Thanks.....Law and Satan only try to make humility works so it may be stolen...works and grace dont mix...Thanks for your wisdom on this....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-23434274139880633332015-10-23T07:00:25.526-05:002015-10-23T07:00:25.526-05:00This post about Rahab gives one example of many ex...This post about Rahab gives one example of many examples of faith and humility. In this case, Rahab heard of the mighty things God had done for Israel. This humbled her and led her to believe that "He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath."Joel Bruesekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-83689093020248307852015-10-23T06:35:30.422-05:002015-10-23T06:35:30.422-05:00Just as faith isn't a work (since we are saved...Just as faith isn't a work (since we are saved by grace, through faith <i>apart from</i> works, humility also isn't a work that we do to earn grace. Faith and humility are responses of individual people's hearts, when they realize that they are helpless apart from God. Rather than justifying themselves (self-justification) and boasting before God of how wonderful their works are, they are humble before Him and they give themselves over to His finished work. They believe <i>Him</i> rather than their own works. That's humility. That's faith.Joel Bruesekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-16015417900758415152015-10-23T03:12:44.389-05:002015-10-23T03:12:44.389-05:00I have my take on this Q but would like to hear yo...I have my take on this Q but would like to hear yours....God gives grace to the humble but resists the proud the new test says....so where does humility come from? Us? Is humility our new law to be under? Sounds a bit like earning grace from God? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-56127350541751871162015-09-19T16:52:33.331-05:002015-09-19T16:52:33.331-05:00Indeed, that is the rest of the story, as told in ...Indeed, that is the rest of the story, as told in the last half of Joshua 2. Her faith that she is remembered for in both Hebrews 11 and James 2 has to do with the first part of Joshua 2, when "she had received the spies with peace" and "sent them out another way."Joel Bruesekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-5719507979920941342015-09-19T15:31:30.216-05:002015-09-19T15:31:30.216-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619260161335779886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-8709109821579735172015-09-19T15:25:57.107-05:002015-09-19T15:25:57.107-05:00Had Rahab omitted hanging the scarlet cord out her...Had Rahab omitted hanging the scarlet cord out her window, taking the spies instructions, just as on the night of the Exodus, where Moses told the people to place the blood on the doorpost as a token unto God, had Rahab omitted the scarlet cord, her house would have fallen, just as the firstborn in Egypt in those houses that didn't apply the blood. It wasn't her hospitality, nor her lies, nor her occupation that saved her. Leave out the token, she would have been dead with all the others of Jericho, God's first-fruits..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619260161335779886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-19144918930067271422015-09-19T12:10:17.509-05:002015-09-19T12:10:17.509-05:00In Rahab's case it indeed wasn't about her...In Rahab's case it indeed wasn't about her devotion or love for God, or having always done right. She didn't even know Him, but she had heard about what He'd done and she believed then that "He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath."Joel Bruesekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395847887953875757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29606082.post-28014923137753193722015-09-19T05:40:59.347-05:002015-09-19T05:40:59.347-05:00She had nothing to boast in but God...wow. Does th...She had nothing to boast in but God...wow. Does that really work? I mean I am really devoted to God and what a jip if God isnt impressed or fooled by my strong willed love FOR Him...I mean God is so blessed to have a son like me! One who always does what He wants right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com