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WHERE is Salvation? #3

Is there ever a time—in all of the Bible—when God confined salvation—to just ONE location?

cotton_rope_bright_red.800THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT the following question please.

Is there ever a time—in all of the Bible—when God confined salvation—to just ONE location?

Let’s explore this together with an open mind and open Bible (cf. Acts 17:11).

Please read the following chapters and then answer the questions listed below—Joshua 2, 6-7:

  • WHAT did Rahab the harlot say that knew the LORD was going to do to Jericho? 2:9-11

 

  • WHAT request did Rahab make of the two spies she had hidden on the roof? 2:12-13

 

  • WHAT did Rahab have to do in order to assure the salvation of her family? 2:17-18

 

  • WHAT would happen if Rahab and any of her family left the safety of her house? 2:19-21

 

  • WHAT had to be hung in the window of her house to assure the salvation of Rahab and her household? 2:18, 21

 

  • WHO won the battle of Jericho? 6:2; 7:17, 22-23, 25

 

  • WHO exactly was spared in the attack upon Jericho? 7:17, 21

 

  • WHAT IF a member of Rahab’s family had watched her as she hung the scarlet cord in the window and asked, “Rahab, do you think we are the only ones who are going to be saved (or spared) in Jericho?” WHAT would/could Rahab have said?

 

 

  • WOULD it have been arrogant for Rahab to tell her family member that salvation was confined to just one place (i.e., inside her house where the scarlet cord had been tied)? Would it have been wrong or unloving for Rahab to say that “salvation was found only in this this house?”  (Explain your answer).

 

 

  • If it had been neither arrogant, wrong, nor unloving, for Rahab to tell a loved one that salvation was confined to just one place (i.e., the house), would it be arrogant, wrong, or unloving for a Christian to say that “God tells us through His Word that salvation is found only in one place (i.e., the church) today? 1 Tim. 3:15; Mat. 16:13-18; Acts 2:47; 20:28; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:4; Col. 1:18

We Men, Ain’t We?

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IN A TIME of crumbling traditions and values, in a day of dangerous streets and collapsing homes, people long for stability and hope.

They need to catch a glimpse of the powerful High Kings who loves them.  And the King wants His knight-companions at His side.

In the movie Glory, one scene portrays a Union regiment of freed slaves, the 54th Massachusetts, sitting around a campfire on the night before the big battle.

The fire crackles, the cicadas chirp, and several of the men hum a spiritual in union as they clean their rifles.  They know that on the morrow their lives will be on the line, and they must seize the day.

One soldier looks up from the fire at his fellows, willing them to give him eye contact.

He says, “We men, ain’t we?”

That says it all, doesn’t it?

We’re men.

Men.

We’ll face the danger.

We’ll take the risks.

We’ll absorb the pain.

We’ll square our shoulders and–for the sake of heaven–we’ll look death and hell square in the eyes.

And it will be this generation that gets it done.

You and me.

To paraphrase Churchill, when masculinity has endured a thousand more years, may they say that this day was among its finest hours.

Listen to the apostle’s battle cry: “The night is almost gone, and the day is at hand.  Let us therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:12).

Stu Weber, All The King’s Men, “Rusty Knights in a Hostile Land,” 52

WHERE is Salvation? #2

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THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT the following question please.

Is there ever a time—in all of the Bible—when God confined salvation—to just ONE location?

Let’s explore this together with an open mind and open Bible (cf. Acts 17:11).

Please read the following chapter and then answer the questions listed below—Exodus 12:

  • WHAT was God going to do to the land of Egypt? v. 12

 

  • WHERE exactly were the children of Israel to be on the night of the first Passover? v. 22

 

  • HOW were the children of Israel to prepare for the Passover? vv. 3-11

 

  • WHERE exactly was salvation found on this first Passover? vv. 22-23

 

  • WHAT would happen to anyone who left their house on the night of the first Passover? vv. 22

 

  • WHO died/perished on the night of the first Passover? vv. 29-30

 

  • WHAT did God do when He saw the lamb’s blood on the door posts and lintel of each house? vv. 11, 13, 23

 

  • WHAT IF an Egyptian had watched Moses and the Israelites as they placed lamb’s blood on their door posts and lintels and this individual asked, “Moses, do you think you and the rest of the Israelites are the only ones who are going to be saved (or spared) in Egypt tonight?” WHAT would/could Moses have said?

 

  • WOULD it have been arrogant for Moses to tell the Egyptian that salvation was confined to just one place (i.e., inside the house)? Would it have been wrong or unloving for Moses to tell the Egyptian that “God told me that salvation was found only in the house?”  (Explain your answer).

 

  • If it was neither arrogant, wrong, nor unloving, for Moses to tell an Egyptian that salvation was confined to just one place (i.e., the house) back at the first Passover, would it be arrogant, wrong, or unloving for a Christian to say that “God tells us through His Word that salvation is found only in one place (i.e., the church) today? 1 Tim. 3:15; Mat. 16:13-18; Acts 2:47; 20:28; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:4; Col. 1:18