An Untethered life is a dangerous life! (It was never meant to be lived alone.) We were each born tethered to someone.
*a flexible cable, pipe, or other line carrying essential services or supplies.
➣Our current worldview is jacked up with individualism.
➣Our identity is shaped by community ~
➣The change that’s rendered by human contact, holy love, genuine concern, tangible compassion, is what I am referring to as hospitality.
➣Tethering is different that were altruism because of its aim
*FOL must be hallmarked by our hospitality! (FOD & biz community response)
Why is tethering important? The untethered is who he came for…
Joshua 2
Rahab:
- Her house was part of the city wall
- She recognized God in/on them
- She knew their history
- She acquired the Lord’s grace by her act of hospitality
- She knew God’s actions and asked for a blessing/sign as a result
Rahab’s actions:
- Her house was part of the city wall
- tied scarlet rope
- searched for 3 days
These men told Joshua about their promises:
22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
Ahas:
➣Who saved who?
➣This prostitute held King David & the Heaven’s savior inside her
➣While you question someone’s worthiness of your time; you could actually be saving yourself, or someone you love.
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,
4. There are four women, and but four, named in this genealogy; two of them were originally strangers to the commonwealth of Israel, Rahab a Canaanitess, and a harlot besides, and Ruth the Moabitess;
In Jesus Christ ~ strangers and foreigners are welcome. (He didn’t hide family skeletons)
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?
➣Stop worrying about being tethered…go tether yourself to someone!
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