At The Movies | Message 4: American Underdog | Pastor Chad Dingess | 10/22/2023

Joshua 2: 1 (NIV)
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So, they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Joshua 2: 2-3 (NIV)
The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.” ³ So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.

Joshua 2: 4-5 (NIV)
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. ⁵ At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

Joshua 2: 6 (NIV)
But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof

Joshua 2: 8-11 (NIV)
Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof ⁹ and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. ¹⁰ We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. ¹¹ When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below

When life labels you an underdog, faith crowns you a champion

John 16: 33 (NIV)
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

1 John 5: 4
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

Joshua 2: 12-13 (NIV)
Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign ¹³ that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and that you will save us from death.

Joshua 2: 14-15 (NIV)
Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.” ¹⁵ So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall.

Hebrews 11: 31 (NIV)
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient