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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU ALL
TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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AND OUR FRIENDS JOINING US
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD, A VERY WARM, SPECIAL
WELCOME TO EACH OF YOU AS WELL.
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THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO
JOIN US AS WE STUDY GOD'S WORD
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TOGETHER. ALSO, A
WARM WELCOME TO THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH
MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS WHO
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ARE WITH US TODAY. WE
ARE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO
CONTINUE OUR STUDY DEALING WITH
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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY THEME.
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN
LESSON #4 TALKING ABOUT CONFLICT
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AND CRISIS DURING THE
TIME PERIOD OF THE JUDGES.
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BUT WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW,
BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY,
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ABOUT A FREE OFFER THAT
WE HAVE AT AMAZING FACTS.
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IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED
THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT .
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WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT
TO ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA WHO
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CALLS AND ASKS FOR
IT. THE NUMBER TO CALL IS
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866-788-3966 AND YOU
CAN ASK FOR OFFER #792.
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THAT PHONE NUMBER
AGAIN IS 866-788-3966.
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ASK FOR OFFER #792 - A
BOOK ENTITLED THE FLESH AND THE
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SPIRIT . WELL,
BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
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THIS MORNING, WE
HAVE A REAL TREAT FOR YOU.
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WE HAVE A GROUP OF MUSICIANS -
GRACE SYMPHONY - THAT IS JOINING
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US HERE AND THEY'RE GOING TO
BE BRINGING US TWO MUSICAL ITEMS
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BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY. WE'D LIKE TO INVITE THEM
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TO COME OUT AT THIS TIME.
>>WHY ARE YOU STANDING GAZING?
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YE MEN OF GALILEE THE SAVIOR
WILL DESCEND IN THE SAME MANNER
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IN WHICH YOU SAW HIM ASCEND
GO TO EVERY NATION TELL OF HIS
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RETURN SOON HE WILL DESCEND LIKE
A THIEF IN THE MIDNIGHT PREPARE
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HOLD ON TO THE FAITH NEVER EVER
LET GO THOUGH THE HEAVENS MAY
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FALL OR TORTURED ONLY 'CAUSE OF
GOD HOLD ON, NOT LONG FROM NOW
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WE'LL SEE THE LORD IN THE CLOUDS
COMING BACK TO TAKE ALL THE
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SAINTS AND THE REDEEMED
HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH ON HIGH
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WE WILL SEE HIM WITH HIS MIGHTY
ANGELS OUR LOVED ONES THAT HAVE
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GONE BEFORE US WILL RISE UP
TO MEET HIM WHAT A GREAT REUNION
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HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH ON HIGH
WE WILL SEE HIM WITH HIS MIGHTY
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ANGELS OUR LOVED ONES THAT HAVE
GONE BEFORE US WILL RISE UP TO
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MEET HIM WHAT A GREAT REUNION
WHAT A GREAT REUNION WHAT A
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GREAT REUNION
HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH.
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>>AMEN!
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>>HE DIDN'T BRING US
THIS FAR TO LEAVE US.
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HE DIDN'T TEACH US
TO SWIM TO LET US DROWN.
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HE DIDN'T BUILD HIS
HOME IN US TO MOVE AWAY.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US
UP TO LET US DOWN.
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HE DIDN'T BRING US
THIS FAR TO LEAVE US.
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HE DIDN'T TEACH US
TO SWIM TO LET US DROWN.
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HE DIDN'T BUILD HIS
HOME IN US TO MOVE AWAY.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US
UP TO LET US DOWN.
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THERE ARE SOME PROMISES IN THE
LETTER WRITTEN A LONG, LONG TIME
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AGO THEY'RE NOT GETTING OLD
THEY'RE GETTING BETTER BECAUSE
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HE STILL WANTS US TO KNOW
HE DIDN'T BRING US THIS FAR TO
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LEAVE US. HE DIDN'T TEACH
US TO SWIM TO LET US DROWN.
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HE DIDN'T BUILD HIS
HOME IN US TO MOVE AWAY.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US UP TO LET
US DOWN. NEVER USE THE WORD 'IF'
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HE CLAIM THE PROMISES TO
EVERYONE OF THEM EVERY SPOKEN
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WORD HE SAYS BECAUSE
YOU ARE EVERYTHING TO ME.
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HE DIDN'T BRING US
THIS FAR TO LEAVE US.
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HE DIDN'T TEACH US
TO SWIM TO LET US DROWN.
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HE DIDN'T BUILD HIS
HOME IN US TO MOVE AWAY.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US
UP TO LET US DOWN.
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HE DIDN'T BRING US
THIS FAR TO LEAVE US.
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HE DIDN'T TEACH US
TO SWIM TO LET US DROWN.
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HE DIDN'T BUILD HIS
HOME IN US TO MOVE AWAY.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US
UP TO LET US DOWN.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US
UP TO LET US DOWN.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US
UP TO LET US DOWN.
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US
UP TO LET US DOWN.
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>>AMEN! >>BEFORE
WE GET TO OUR STUDY
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THIS MORNING, I WOULD LIKE
TO INVITE YOU JUST TO BOW YOUR
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HEADS AS WE HAVE
A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE
THANK YOU FOR THE SCRIPTURES.
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WE THANK YOU FOR THE STORIES
THAT WE FIND IN THE BIBLE THAT
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BRING INSTRUCTION,
ENCOURAGEMENT, AND STRENGTHEN
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OUR FAITH AS WE SEE YOU'RE
DEALING WITH, AT TIMES, SOME
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RATHER STIFF-NECKED INDIVIDUALS.
BUT LORD, WE ASK YOUR BLESSING
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AS WE STUDY TOGETHER. MAY
WE SEE A CLEARER PICTURE OF
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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY AND HOW
YOU HAVE DEALT WITH US AND WITH
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MANKIND THROUGH THE
CENTURIES, FOR WE ASK THIS IN
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JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>AS MENTIONED A LITTLE EARLIER,
OUR LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #4
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ENTITLED CONFLICT AND CRISIS .
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT
TIME PERIOD OF THE JUDGES.
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NOW, DURING THAT TIME PERIOD,
IN ISRAEL, I THINK THE GENERAL
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FEELING OF THE NATION AT THE
TIME CAN BE SUMMARIZED BY WHAT
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WE READ IN JUDGES CHAPTER 17,
VERSE 6, WHICH SAYS, 'EVERY MAN
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DID THAT WHICH WAS
RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.
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IT WAS A TIME WHERE DIFFERENT
FAMILIES, DIFFERENT TRIBES,
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DIFFERENT GROUPS WERE REACHING
THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS AS TO WHAT
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TRUE WORSHIP REALLY WAS
ALL ABOUT - WHETHER THEY WOULD
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FOLLOW THE GOD WHO HAD DELIVERED
THEM FROM EGYPT, OR WHETHER THEY
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WERE GOING TO FOLLOW THE GODS
OF THE NATIONS SURROUNDING THEM.
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NOW, IN OUR STUDY FOR THIS PAST
WEEK, WE HAVE LOOKED AT SEVERAL
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DELIVERERS IN ISRAEL AND
HOW GOD USED THEM AND HOW THAT
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ILLUSTRATES THE THEME OF THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY DURING THIS
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TIME PERIOD OF THE JUDGES.
WE DO HAVE A MEMORY TEXT, WHICH
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COMES FROM 1
SAMUEL 2 AND VERSE 1.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU CAN
TURN TO THAT OR YOU CAN READ IT
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RIGHT OUT OF YOUR
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON QUARTERLY.
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IT IS THE PRAYER THAT HANNAH
PRAYED AFTER SHE RECEIVED A
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CHILD THE LORD
HAD GIVEN HER, SAMUEL.
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OUR MEMORY TEXT - 1 SAMUEL 2,
VERSE 1 SAYS, "AND HANNAH PRAYED
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AND SAID: 'MY HEART REJOICES IN
THE LORD; MY HORN IS EXALTED IN
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THE LORD.'" - NOW IN
THE BIBLE A HORN OFTEN IS
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ASSOCIATED WITH
DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY.
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THEN SHE GOES ON - "'I SMILE AT
MY ENEMIES, BECAUSE I REJOICE IN
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YOUR SALVATION.'" THAT
SUMMARIZES THE ATTITUDE THAT
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HANNAH HAD AND HOW THE
LORD BLESSED HER BECAUSE OF THAT
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HUMBLE SPIRIT WHEN SHE ASKED
FOR A CHILD. SO THE TIME OF THE
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JUDGES WAS A CHAOTIC
PERIOD OF SACRED HISTORY.
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GOD'S PEOPLE DID EVIL IN THE
SIGHT OF THE LORD AND THE LORD
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SOLD THEM INTO THE
HANDS OF AN OPPRESSOR.
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THE PEOPLE CRIED UNTO THE LORD
AND THE LORD RAISED UP DIFFERENT
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DELIVERERS WHO BROUGHT PEACE
TO THE LAND; HOWEVER, THAT ONLY
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LASTED UNTIL THE
SAME CYCLE RETURNED.
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SO IT WAS A LESSON THAT KEPT
REPEATING TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
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OPPRESSORS WOULD
COME AGAINST ISRAEL.
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THEY WOULD REALIZE
THE FOLLY OF THEIR WAYS.
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THEY WOULD CRY OUT TO
THE LORD FOR DELIVERANCE.
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GOD WOULD RAISE UP A DELIVERER.
THERE WOULD BE PEACE FOR SEVERAL
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YEARS AND THEN IT SEEMED LIKE
THEY WENT BACK INTO IDOLATRY.
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NOW IN THIS WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO
BE LOOKING AT SEVERAL DELIVERERS
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THAT GOD RAISED UP
DURING THIS TIME PERIOD.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
AT DEBORAH, WHO WAS ONE OF THE
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JUDGES IN ISRAEL.
WE'LL BE ALSO LOOKING
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AT THE STORY OF GIDEON WHO WAS
A DELIVERER WHEN THE CHILDREN OF
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ISRAEL FACED IMPOSSIBLE ODDS.
WE'RE ALSO GOING TO LOOK AT
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SAMSON WHO WAS A JUDGE IN ISRAEL
- VERY INTERESTING CHARACTER.
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AND THEN WE'LL BE LOOKING,
BRIEFLY, AT THE STORY OF RUTH
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AND THEN FINISH UP
WITH THE STORY OF SAMUEL.
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SO IT IS A LOT OF MATERIAL
TO COVER IN THIS WEEK'S LESSON.
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SO WE'LL JUST TOUCH ON THE
HIGH POINTS OF THESE VARIOUS
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DELIVERERS, ASKING THE QUESTION,
'WHAT DO THESE EXPERIENCES TEACH
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US ABOUT THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL?'
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SO WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH
DEBORAH AND WE'RE GOING TO GET A
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LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND WITH
REFERENCE TO WHO SHE WAS AND
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WHAT SHE DID. SO
DEBORAH WAS A PROPHETESS WHO
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APPEARED IN THE LIST OF
JUDGES OF ISRAEL AROUND 1125 BC.
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ACCORDING TO JUDGES CHAPTER
4, SHE LIVED NEAR THE TOWN OF
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BETHEL AND WAS CONSULTED THERE
BY THE ISRAELITES FROM VARIOUS
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TRIBES WHO WISHED TO
HAVE THEIR DISPUTES SETTLED.
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SHE COMMANDED BARAK - WE'RE
GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT HIM IN
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JUST A MINUTE - TO LEAD THE
ISRAELITES IN BATTLE AGAINST
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SISERA AND, AT HIS INSISTENCE,
SHE ACCOMPANIED HIM IN BATTLE.
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THE RESULT WAS A CRUSHING DEFEAT
FOR SISERA AND THE CANAANITE
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FORCES AT THE BATTLE OF KESHON,
AND THE LIBERATION OF ISRAEL
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FROM CANAANITE OPPRESSION.
SO DEBORAH WAS A PROPHETESS
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IN ISRAEL. SHE WAS ALSO A JUDGE.
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SHE WAS THE ONE THAT SUMMONED
BARAK TO GO UP AGAINST THE
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FORCES OF CANAAN. WHO WAS BARAK?
THE NAME BARAK MEANS LIGHTNING.
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HE WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF
NAPHTALI AND WAS SUMMONED BY THE
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PROPHET DEBORAH TO LEAD
ISRAEL IN BATTLE AGAINST SISERA.
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HE WAS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
OF THE CONFEDERATE CANAANITE
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FORCES. HE
AGREED, ON CONDITION, THAT
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DEBORAH ACCOMPANY HIM IN BATTLE.
THE DETAILS OF HIS VICTORY, WHEN
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A SUDDEN DOWNPOUR FLOODED
THE RIVER KESHON AND IMMOBILIZED
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SISERA'S 900 CHARIOTS IS
DEPICTED IN THE SONG OF DEBORAH
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THAT'S RECORDED IN JUDGES
CHAPTER 5. BUT BEFORE WE READ
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THAT, WE ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT
IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 32,
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BARAK IS LISTED
AMONGST THE HEROES OF FAITH.
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NOW HOW GOD DELIVERED ISRAEL
FROM THEIR ENEMIES IS SORT OF
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DESCRIBED IN THE SONG THAT
DEBORAH SANG AND WE READ IT IN
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JUDGES CHAPTER 5, VERSES 19
THROUGH 21 - JUST A PORTION OF
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THAT - SHE SAYS, "THE KINGS CAME
AND FOUGHT, THEN THE KINGS OF
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CANAAN FOUGHT IN TAANACH, BY THE
WATERS OF MEGIDDO; THEY TOOK NO
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SPOILS OF SILVER. THEY
FOUGHT FROM THE HEAVENS;
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THE STARS FROM THEIR
COURSES FOUGHT AGAINST SISERA.
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THE TORRENT OF KESHON SWEPT THEM
AWAY, THE ANCIENT TORRENT, THE
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TORRENT OF KESHON." -
AND THEN I LIKE THIS LAST
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PHRASE IN VERSE 21 - "O MY
SOUL, MARCH ON IN STRENGTH!"
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ISN'T THAT A GREAT DESCRIPTION?
GOD DELIVERED HIS PEOPLE AND THE
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MESSAGE IS MARCH ON IN
STRENGTH. NOW WHO WAS SISERA?
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SISERA WAS THE
COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF JABIN.
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JABIN WAS THE KING OF HAZAR, A
TOWN FURTHER NORTH, CLOSE TO THE
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SEA OF GALILEE. AND
FOR TWENTY YEARS HE CRUELLY
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OPPRESSED THE ISRAELITES.
SISERA SUFFERED A CRUSHING
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DEFEAT AGAINST DEBORAH AND BARAK
AND FLED ON FOOT TO THE TENT
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OF JAEL, THE WIFE OF HEBER THE
KENITE WHERE HE WAS DECEPTIVELY
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KILLED - AND WE'LL LOOK
AT THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
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THUS, DEBORAH'S PROPHECY THAT
THE SLAYING OF SISERA WOULD BE
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DONE BY A WOMAN WAS FULFILLED.
IN JUDGES CHAPTER 4, VERSE 17
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WE FIND OUT WHAT
HAPPENED TO SISERA.
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IT SAYS, "HOWEVER, SISERA HAD
FLED AWAY ON FOOT TO THE TENT OF
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JAEL," - THIS IS AFTER THE FLOOD
CAME AND DESTROYED THE CHARIOTS
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OF THE CANAANITE FORCES.
THE ISRAELITES WERE DRIVING THEM
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SOUTH AND SISERA FLED UP NORTH
TO MAKE HIS WAY TO HAZAR, AND ON
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THE WAY HE CAME
TO THE TENT OF JAEL.
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JAEL WAS NOT AN ISRAELITE AND
YET SHE RECOGNIZED THE TRUE GOD,
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AS WE SEE IN THE STORY, SHE WAS
- "THE WIFE OF HEBER THE KENITE;
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FOR THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN
JABIN KING OF HAZAR AND THE
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HOUSE OF HEBER THE KENITE...THEN
JAEL, HEBER'S WIFE, TOOK A TENT
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PEG AND TOOK A HAMMER IN HER
HAND, AND WENT SOFTLY TO HIM AND
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DROVE THE PEG INTO HIS TEMPLE,
AND IT WENT DOWN INTO THE
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GROUND; FOR HE WAS FAST
ASLEEP AND WEARY. SO HE DIED."
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SO JAEL'S CLAIM TO FAME - SHE
WAS THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY KILLED
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SISERA AND SHE WAS
NOT EVEN AN ISRAELITE.
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SO IN THE STORY WE SEE A
PROPHETESS PLAY AN IMPORTANT
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ROLE IN PROVIDING LEADERSHIP
FOR BARAK AND THE DELIVERANCE OF
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ISRAEL, AND THEN A WOMAN PUTTING
TO DEATH SISERA, THE GENERAL OF
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THE CANAANITE FORCES. SO,
A LITTLE BIT OF THE STORY,
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JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU THE
BACKGROUND. WE HAVE DEBORAH THE
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PROPHET - THE LORD COMES AND
SPEAKS TO HER AND SAYS IT'S TIME
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THAT DELIVERANCE
COMES FROM THE CANAANITES.
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AND SO SHE SPEAKS TO BARAK AND
BARAK SAID, 'WELL, I'LL ONLY GO
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IF YOU GO WITH
ME.' AND SHE AGREES.
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AND SO BARAK - YOU CAN SEE THERE
IN THE MAP - HE GATHERS HIS
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FORCES TOGETHER JUST SOUTH
OF THE SEA OF GALILEE - AND THE
00:15:13.74\00:15:18.01
ISRAELITES MARCH TOWARDS MOUNT
TABOR AS BEING THE RALLY POINT
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FOR THE FORCES OF ISRAEL.
YOU HAVE THE CANAANITES UNDER
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SISERA AND THEY ARE MARCHING
EAST AND THEY GATHER IN THE AREA
00:15:26.19\00:15:31.39
OF MEGIDDO AND THEY MARCH UP
AGAINST THE FORCES OF ISRAEL.
00:15:31.39\00:15:35.96
WELL, IT'S AT THAT TIME THAT THE
LORD RAINS DOWN FROM HEAVEN WITH
00:15:35.96\00:15:40.50
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AND THE
RIVER KESHON FLOODS ITS BANKS.
00:15:40.50\00:15:44.17
THE 900 CHARIOTS OF SISERA ARE
BOGGED DOWN IN THE MUD AND THE
00:15:44.17\00:15:48.24
LORD BRINGS A GREAT DELIVERANCE
FOR ISRAEL DURING THAT TIME.
00:15:48.24\00:15:52.38
SO IN THE STORY, WE CAN SEE
THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY WHERE GOD
00:15:52.38\00:15:56.65
COMES TO THE DELIVERANCE OF
HIS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE SOME
00:15:56.65\00:15:59.65
INTERESTING CONNECTIONS,
OR PARALLELS, YOU MIGHT SAY,
00:15:59.65\00:16:02.76
BETWEEN THIS EXPERIENCE OF
ISRAEL AND GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE
00:16:02.76\00:16:07.00
END OF TIME. IF
YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES,
00:16:07.00\00:16:08.86
TURN WITH ME TO
THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
00:16:08.86\00:16:11.40
THIS IS ACTUALLY A REFERENCE
THAT WE FIND IN OUR LESSON
00:16:11.40\00:16:13.77
QUARTERLY.
REVELATION CHAPTER 12 AND WE
00:16:13.77\00:16:17.77
AGAIN SEE GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE
END OF TIME VASTLY OUTNUMBERED
00:16:17.77\00:16:21.41
BY THE ENEMY, AND YET GOD
HAS A PLAN TO DELIVER THEM.
00:16:21.41\00:16:25.55
NOW REMEMBER THE STORY THAT WE
JUST LOOKED AT OF DEBORAH, SHE
00:16:25.55\00:16:28.32
WAS A PROPHETESS AND SHE
PROVIDED GUIDANCE FOR GOD'S
00:16:28.32\00:16:31.65
PEOPLE AND GOD DELIVERED
THEM WHEN THEY WERE OBEDIENT.
00:16:31.65\00:16:34.59
WE SEE A SIMILAR THING ARRANGED
HERE IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12.
00:16:34.59\00:16:38.49
SO LET'S LOOK IN REVELATION
CHAPTER 12, BEGINNING IN VERSE
00:16:38.49\00:16:41.53
13. THESE ARE
FAMILIAR VERSES TO US.
00:16:41.53\00:16:44.03
IT SAYS, "NOW WHEN THE DRAGON
SAW THAT HE HAD BEEN CAST TO THE
00:16:44.03\00:16:47.10
EARTH, HE PERSECUTED THE
WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO THE MALE
00:16:47.10\00:16:50.57
CHILD." NOW, IN
BIBLE PROPHECY, WHO
00:16:50.57\00:16:53.21
DOES THIS WOMAN REPRESENT
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12?
00:16:53.21\00:16:56.38
REPRESENTS THE CHURCH.
AND NOW WHO IS THE DRAGON?
00:16:56.38\00:17:00.08
THE DRAGON IS SATAN - OR
THE DEVIL - AND WHO WOULD BE THE
00:17:00.08\00:17:03.59
MALE CHILD IN THIS
PASSAGE? THAT REPRESENTS JESUS.
00:17:03.59\00:17:07.76
AND THEN VERSE 14 SAYS, "BUT THE
WOMAN WAS GIVEN TWO WINGS OF A
00:17:07.76\00:17:11.43
GREAT EAGLE, THAT SHE MIGHT
FLY INTO THE WILDERNESS TO HER
00:17:11.43\00:17:14.56
PLACE, WHERE SHE IS NOURISHED
FOR A TIME AND TIMES AND HALF A
00:17:14.56\00:17:18.33
TIME, FROM THE
PRESENCE OF THE SERPENT."
00:17:18.33\00:17:21.70
NOW THE TIME, TIMES, AND HALF
A TIME, THAT'S REPRESENTING THE
00:17:21.70\00:17:24.91
1260 YEARS OF PAPAL SUPREMACY
WHEN THOSE WHO REFUSED TO
00:17:24.91\00:17:29.21
ACKNOWLEDGE PAPAL RULERSHIP
FACED TERRIBLE PERSECUTION.
00:17:29.21\00:17:33.28
BUT GOD PROVIDED FOR
THEM. MANY FOUND SAFETY IN THE
00:17:33.28\00:17:36.38
MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN
ITALY IN THE WALDENSIAN AREA.
00:17:36.38\00:17:39.75
BUT THEN IT GOES ON, IN VERSE
15, IT SAYS, "SO THE SERPENT
00:17:39.75\00:17:43.12
SPEWED WATER OUT OF HIS MOUTH
LIKE A FLOOD AFTER THE WOMAN,
00:17:43.12\00:17:47.13
THAT HE MIGHT CAUSE HER TO
BE CARRIED AWAY BY THE FLOOD."
00:17:47.13\00:17:50.20
- VERSE 16 SAYS, "BUT THE EARTH
HELPED THE WOMAN, AND THE EARTH
00:17:50.20\00:17:52.87
OPENED ITS MOUTH AND SWALLOWED
UP THE FLOOD WHICH THE DRAGON
00:17:52.87\00:17:56.64
HAD SPEWED OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
NOW HERE'S THE POINT I WANT YOU
00:17:56.64\00:17:59.67
TO, IN A PARTICULAR WAY, NOTE:
VERSE 17, IT SAYS, "AND THE
00:17:59.67\00:18:03.61
DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE
WOMAN," - THE CHURCH - "AND HE
00:18:03.61\00:18:07.75
WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE" -
REMNANT OR - "THE REST OF HER
00:18:07.75\00:18:10.79
OFFSPRING," - THOSE
LIVING AT THE END OF TIME.
00:18:10.79\00:18:13.32
NOTICE THE TWO CHARACTERISTICS
THAT ARE GIVEN, OF GOD'S PEOPLE
00:18:13.32\00:18:16.69
AT THE END - THOSE "WHO KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE
00:18:16.69\00:18:20.16
TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST."
NOW, IN ORDER FOR BARAK TO GAIN
00:18:20.16\00:18:24.23
THE VICTORY OVER SISERA, HE HAD
TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
00:18:24.23\00:18:28.44
GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE END OF
TIME, IN ORDER FOR THEM TO HAVE
00:18:28.44\00:18:30.71
VICTORY OVER THEIR ENEMIES, THEY
NEED TO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.
00:18:30.71\00:18:35.41
YOU SEE, AT THE END OF TIME,
ACCORDING TO REVELATION CHAPTER
00:18:35.41\00:18:37.81
13, THERE IS A DEATH DECREE
THAT IS PASSED AGAINST GOD'S
00:18:37.81\00:18:41.25
FOLLOWERS. IF GOD'S
PEOPLE ARE TO ENDURE
00:18:41.25\00:18:44.15
AND BE FAITHFUL, THEY NEED TO BE
KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE
00:18:44.15\00:18:47.76
GOD COMES TO THEIR DELIVERANCE.
IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE
00:18:47.76\00:18:50.86
THAT GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE END OF
00:18:50.86\00:18:52.09
TIME HAVE THE
TESTIMONY OF JESUS.
00:18:52.09\00:18:54.46
ACCORDING TO REVELATION CHAPTER
10 - 19, VERSE 10 - WHAT IS THE
00:18:54.46\00:18:58.60
TESTIMONY OF JESUS? IT
IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.
00:18:58.60\00:19:02.07
SO GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE END
OF TIME, JUST LIKE ISRAEL DURING
00:19:02.07\00:19:05.61
THE DAYS OF BARAK AND DEBORAH,
GOD'S PEOPLE AT THE END WILL BE
00:19:05.61\00:19:09.58
GUIDED BY THE
SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.
00:19:09.58\00:19:12.81
SO THE COUNSEL GIVEN TO US (THE
CHURCH) TODAY IS THE COUNSEL
00:19:12.81\00:19:17.52
THAT CAME TO ISRAEL OF
OLD: KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.
00:19:17.52\00:19:20.39
HEED THE INSTRUCTION THAT COMES
FROM THE PROPHET AND GOD WILL
00:19:20.39\00:19:23.86
GIVE DELIVERANCE.
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT
00:19:23.86\00:19:26.16
LESSON FOR US TO REMEMBER.
SO, IN THAT STORY, WE SEE GOD
00:19:26.16\00:19:30.93
COMING TO THE DEFENSE
AND THE RESCUE OF HIS PEOPLE.
00:19:30.93\00:19:34.17
NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK
AT ANOTHER DELIVERER THAT GOD
00:19:34.17\00:19:36.81
RAISED UP WHO ALSO CAME TO
THE DEFENSE OF GOD'S PEOPLE,
00:19:36.81\00:19:42.28
THAT GOD USED IN A MIGHTY WAY.
ON MONDAY, THE LESSON IS ALL
00:19:42.28\00:19:45.45
ABOUT GIDEON, THAT GREAT
CHAMPION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:19:45.45\00:19:48.82
AND IT BEGINS BY
ASKING A QUESTION RIGHT AT THE
00:19:48.82\00:19:51.29
BEGINNING OF MONDAY'S LESSON.
IT SAYS, ACCORDING TO JUDGES
00:19:51.29\00:19:54.59
CHAPTER 6, VERSE 1 AND JUDGES
6:10, WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN
00:19:54.59\00:19:58.73
ISRAEL DURING THIS TIME?
WELL, IN JUDGES CHAPTER 6,
00:19:58.73\00:20:02.26
VERSE 10, IT TELLS YOU WHAT WAS
HAPPENING. IT SAID - THE LORD
00:20:02.26\00:20:05.87
SAID - "...THE LORD YOUR
GOD; FEAR NOT THE GODS OF THE
00:20:05.87\00:20:08.20
AMORITES, IN WHOSE LAND YE
DWELL: BUT YE HAVE NOT OBEYED MY
00:20:08.20\00:20:11.81
VOICE." SO ISRAEL
ENDED UP FOLLOWING
00:20:11.81\00:20:14.64
THESE PAGAN DEITIES FROM THESE
VARIOUS NATIONS THAT SURROUNDED
00:20:14.64\00:20:18.55
THEM AND, AS A RESULT, THEY CAME
UNDER SOME DEGREE OF AFFLICTION
00:20:18.55\00:20:24.32
BY THE VARIOUS
NATIONS THAT SURROUNDED THEM.
00:20:24.32\00:20:27.06
DURING THE TIME OF GIDEON, IT
WAS THE MIDIANITES THAT CAME UP
00:20:27.06\00:20:30.63
AGAINST ISRAEL. IN OUR
LESSON ON MONDAY WE READ:
00:20:30.63\00:20:34.83
"AFTER DEBORAH, THE LAND ENJOYED
PEACE FOR THE NEXT FORTY YEARS.
00:20:34.83\00:20:38.33
BUT SOON ISRAEL WENT BACK
INTO THE HANDS OF OPPRESSORS.
00:20:38.33\00:20:41.87
THIS TIME, IT WAS THE MIDIANITES
WHO, WITH THEIR ALLIES, WOULD
00:20:41.87\00:20:45.57
ENTER ISRAEL AND DESTROY ALL
OF THE NEWLY PLANTED CROPS AND
00:20:45.57\00:20:49.61
STEAL THEIR
LIVESTOCK. ISRAEL BECAME GREATLY
00:20:49.61\00:20:53.52
IMPOVERISHED AND
CRIED OUT TO THE LORD.
00:20:53.52\00:20:55.62
THEY FINALLY REALIZED THAT THEIR
FASHIONABLE GODS WERE OF NO USE.
00:20:55.62\00:21:00.79
SO GOD, NOW, RAISES UP
A DELIVERER, GIDEON, THAT
00:21:00.79\00:21:04.76
LIBERATES THESE PEOPLE."
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT GIDEON?
00:21:04.76\00:21:08.30
LET'S LOOK AT
THE STORY OF GIDEON.
00:21:08.30\00:21:10.50
THE WORD 'GIDEON' MEANS 'HEWER
OR SMITER' - THAT'S WHAT THE
00:21:10.50\00:21:13.64
NAME MEANS. HE
WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF
00:21:13.64\00:21:15.94
MANASSEH AND HE DELIVERED
ISRAEL FROM THE MIDIANITES SOME
00:21:15.94\00:21:18.54
FORTY YEARS AFTER DEBORAH.
GIDEON WAS CALLED BY GOD WHILE
00:21:18.54\00:21:23.35
THRESHING WHEAT IN A
WINEPRESS, SECRETLY, FOR FEAR OF
00:21:23.35\00:21:26.88
THE MIDIANITE
RAIDS. AFTER BEING CALLED,
00:21:26.88\00:21:29.58
HE DESTROYED HIS FATHER'S BAAL
AND ASHEROTH IMAGES, SIGNIFYING
00:21:29.58\00:21:33.99
PROTEST AGAINST THE
IDOLATROUS PRACTICE IN ISRAEL.
00:21:33.99\00:21:37.96
AT GOD'S COMMAND, GIDEON REDUCED
HIS ARMY FROM 32,000 TO JUST 300
00:21:37.96\00:21:42.36
MEN AND MADE A SUDDEN NIGHT
ATTACK, WHICH LED TO COMPLETE
00:21:42.36\00:21:46.30
VICTORY OVER THE MIDIANITES.
NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK AND
00:21:46.30\00:21:50.21
JUST REVIEW THE
STORY, BRIEFLY, ABOUT GIDEON.
00:21:50.21\00:21:52.97
GIDEON, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP,
WAS FROM THE TOWN OR THE CITY OF
00:21:52.97\00:21:56.24
OPHRAH, AND IT WAS THERE, WHILE
THRESHING WHEAT IN A WINEPRESS -
00:21:56.24\00:22:00.65
THE REASON HE WAS DOING IT IN A
WINE PRESS - HE WAS TRYING TO DO
00:22:00.65\00:22:02.95
IT WITHOUT ANYBODY SEEING
BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF THE
00:22:02.95\00:22:05.95
MIDIANITES COMING AND
TAKING AWAY THE WHEAT.
00:22:05.95\00:22:08.56
AND WHILE HE WAS THRESHING
WHEAT, "...THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
00:22:08.56\00:22:10.99
APPEARED UNTO HIM, AND SAID UNTO
HIM, 'THE LORD IS WITH THEE,
00:22:10.99\00:22:14.20
THOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOR.
AND GIDEON SAID, '...IF THE LORD
00:22:14.20\00:22:18.10
BE WITH US, WHY THEN
IS ALL THIS BEFALLEN US?
00:22:18.10\00:22:20.77
AND WHERE BE ALL HIS MIRACLES
WHICH OUR FATHERS TOLD US OF,
00:22:20.77\00:22:24.31
SAYING, DID NOT THE
LORD BRING US OUT OF EGYPT?'"
00:22:24.31\00:22:27.38
AND THEN, THE ANGEL OF
THE LORD, WHICH IS CHRIST, THE
00:22:27.38\00:22:30.45
MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT -
THEY'RE NOT SAYING JESUS IS AN
00:22:30.45\00:22:32.91
ANGEL, BUT 'THE
ANGEL' MEANS 'MESSENGER'.
00:22:32.91\00:22:35.38
AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, JESUS
SOMETIMES IS DESCRIBED AS THE
00:22:35.38\00:22:37.75
ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND HE SAID
TO GIDEON, THE LORD IS WITH YOU
00:22:37.75\00:22:43.46
AND YOU WILL DELIVER ISRAEL FROM
THE HANDS OF THE MIDIANITES.
00:22:43.46\00:22:48.33
AND GIDEON SAID, 'WELL, IF
I'M TO DO THIS, I NEED TO HAVE A
00:22:48.33\00:22:53.44
SIGN. SO HE ASKED THE ANGEL
OF THE LORD, HE SAID, 'WOULD YOU
00:22:53.44\00:22:56.47
WAIT HERE WHILE I
GO PREPARE A PRESENT?
00:22:56.47\00:22:59.17
AND THEN, IF I RETURN AND YOU'RE
STILL HERE, THEN I KNOW, YES,
00:22:59.17\00:23:02.44
THIS IS WHAT GOD WANTS ME TO
DO.' THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SAID,
00:23:02.44\00:23:05.25
'YES, I WILL WAIT.' SO GIDEON
WENT BACK HOME AND HE PREPARED A
00:23:05.25\00:23:07.95
GOAT AND HE MADE SOME UNLEAVENED
BREAD AND HE MADE A BROTH AND HE
00:23:07.95\00:23:11.32
BROUGHT IT OUT TO WHERE THE
ANGEL OF THE LORD WAS, AND THE
00:23:11.32\00:23:14.29
ANGEL OF THE LORD SAID, 'WELL,
TAKE THE FOOD AND PUT IT ON A
00:23:14.29\00:23:16.99
ROCK' - WHICH WAS THERE -
AND GIDEON DID THAT AND THEN THE
00:23:16.99\00:23:20.73
ANGEL OF THE LORD REACHED FOR
IT AND TOUCHED THE ROCK WITH HIS
00:23:20.73\00:23:23.10
STAFF AND, IMMEDIATELY, FLAMES
SPRUNG UP FROM THE ROCK AND
00:23:23.10\00:23:26.74
CONSUMED THE FOOD.
00:23:26.74\00:23:28.64
SUDDENLY GIDEON REALIZED THAT
THIS JUST WASN'T ANY ANGEL, BUT
00:23:28.64\00:23:31.71
HE WAS STANDING IN
THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
00:23:31.71\00:23:34.31
AND HE CRIED OUT AND HE SAID,
'OH, LORD GOD.' AND THEN CHRIST
00:23:34.31\00:23:38.55
SAID TO HIM, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID
FOR I WILL BE WITH YOU.' AND SO
00:23:38.55\00:23:42.72
GIDEON, AFTER THAT, GOES BACK
TO HIS HOME TOWN AND THAT SAME
00:23:42.72\00:23:45.82
NIGHT THE LORD SPEAKS TO GIDEON
AND SAYS, 'YOU NEED TO DESTROY
00:23:45.82\00:23:49.46
THE ALTAR OF BAAL THAT YOUR
FATHER HAD ESTABLISHED THERE IN
00:23:49.46\00:23:52.59
THE TOWN AND ALSO CUT DOWN THE
WOODEN IMAGE THAT HAD BEEN MADE
00:23:52.59\00:23:56.46
TO ASHERAH, ONE OF THE
DEITIES OF THE PAGAN NATIONS.
00:23:56.46\00:23:59.23
AND SO, DURING THE NIGHT, GIDEON
AND TEN OTHER MEN GOT UP AND
00:23:59.23\00:24:02.14
THEY DESTROYED
THE ALTAR OF BAAL.
00:24:02.14\00:24:03.97
THEY CUT DOWN THAT WOODEN STATUE
AND, ACCORDING TO WHAT GOD HAD
00:24:03.97\00:24:08.24
TOLD GIDEON, HE MADE AN ALTAR
AND HE USED THE WOOD FROM THE
00:24:08.24\00:24:11.38
STATUE, PLACED THAT ON THE
ALTAR, AND HE PRESENTED THE
00:24:11.38\00:24:14.68
SACRIFICE. IN THE
MORNING, THE MEN FROM THE
00:24:14.68\00:24:17.05
TOWN CAME AND THEY WANTED TO
KNOW WHO DESTROYED THE ALTAR OF
00:24:17.05\00:24:20.76
BAAL, AND THEY FINALLY
FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS GIDEON.
00:24:20.76\00:24:24.09
SO THEY WENT TO GIDEON'S FATHER
AND SAID, 'GIVE US GIDEON SO WE
00:24:24.09\00:24:26.46
CAN PUT HIM TO DEATH BECAUSE
HE DESTROYED THE ALTAR OF BAAL.'
00:24:26.46\00:24:29.56
BUT GIDEON'S FATHER
ANSWERED VERY WISELY AND SAID,
00:24:29.56\00:24:32.83
'LET BAAL FIGHT FOR HIMSELF.
IF HE IS THE GOD, YOU DON'T HAVE
00:24:32.83\00:24:37.34
TO DEFEND HIM, HE CAN DEFEND
HIMSELF.' RIGHT AROUND THIS TIME
00:24:37.34\00:24:41.88
PERIOD THEN, THE MIDIANITES,
WITH THE AMALEKITES, GATHERED
00:24:41.88\00:24:45.58
TOGETHER TO COME
UP AGAINST ISRAEL.
00:24:45.58\00:24:48.05
AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME
UPON GIDEON AND HE SOUNDED THE
00:24:48.05\00:24:50.95
TRUMPET AND HE SENT OUT A
MESSAGE TO THE TRIBES NEARBY HIM
00:24:50.95\00:24:54.42
AND HE CALLED FOR
ALL THE MEN TO COME.
00:24:54.42\00:24:57.26
AND 32,000 MEN FROM THE TRIBES
NEARBY CAME TO GIDEON AND THEY
00:24:57.26\00:25:02.30
GATHERED TOGETHER IN THE AREA OF
- LET'S SEE - CLOSE TO MEGIDDO
00:25:02.30\00:25:07.47
IS WHERE THEY'RE FIRST ASSEMBLED
- AND THEN THEY BEGIN TO MARCH
00:25:07.47\00:25:10.77
DOWN SOUTH AND THEY MET WITH
SOME ADDITIONAL MEN THAT CAME
00:25:10.77\00:25:14.11
AND JOINED AND FINALLY CAMPED
CLOSE TO THE TOWN OF HAROD.
00:25:14.11\00:25:19.21
THERE WAS A SPRING THERE
AND THAT'S WHERE THE FORCES OF
00:25:19.21\00:25:21.18
GIDEON GATHERED. JUST
A LITTLE FURTHER WERE THE
00:25:21.18\00:25:24.05
MIDIANITE ARMY, 'AS THE SAND
OF THE SEA', THE BIBLE SAYS -
00:25:24.05\00:25:28.02
LIKE GRASSHOPPERS THEY'RE
JUST GATHERED THERE TOGETHER.
00:25:28.02\00:25:31.03
AND THEN THE LORD SAID TO
GIDEON, 'I CAN'T GIVE YOU THE
00:25:31.03\00:25:33.83
VICTORY BECAUSE THERE ARE
TOO MANY MEN WITH YOU.' NOW THEY
00:25:33.83\00:25:37.70
WERE VASTLY OUTNUMBERED
WITH 32,000 AND STILL, GOD SAID,
00:25:37.70\00:25:41.74
'THIS IS TOO MANY.' AND SO
GIDEON SAID, 'THOSE WHO ARE
00:25:41.74\00:25:44.84
AFRAID, THEY CAN GO HOME.'
AND 22,000 OF THE 32,000 WENT
00:25:44.84\00:25:48.11
HOME AND HE WAS
LEFT WITH 10,000.
00:25:48.11\00:25:50.38
AND STILL, THE LORD
SAID, 'THIS IS TOO MANY.
00:25:50.38\00:25:52.15
I CAN'T GIVE MIDIAN INTO YOUR
HANDS LEST ISRAEL SAY, 'MY OWN
00:25:52.15\00:25:55.45
HAND' - OR ARM - 'HAS DELIVERED
ME.' AND SO GOD SAID THERE WAS
00:25:55.45\00:26:00.66
GOING TO BE A TEST AND ALL
OF THE MEN, THE 10,000, WERE
00:26:00.66\00:26:03.09
BROUGHT DOWN TO
THE RIVER TO DRINK.
00:26:03.09\00:26:04.93
THOSE WHO SCOOPED THE WATER WITH
THEIR HAND AND LIFTED UP THEIR
00:26:04.93\00:26:08.26
HAND TO THEIR MOUTH AND DRANK,
THEY WERE SET ASIDE FROM THE
00:26:08.26\00:26:11.43
REST WHO GOT DOWN ON THEIR HANDS
AND KNEES AND DRANK DIRECTLY
00:26:11.43\00:26:14.54
FROM THE RIVER.
00:26:14.54\00:26:15.80
AND FINALLY GIDEON
ENDED UP WITH 300 MEN.
00:26:15.80\00:26:19.24
AND THEN, THAT NIGHT, GOD SPOKE
TO GIDEON AND HE SAID, 'TAKE
00:26:19.24\00:26:22.71
YOUR SERVANT AND GO DOWN
INTO THE CAMP OF THE MIDIANITES.
00:26:22.71\00:26:26.82
GO UP TO A
TENT.' AND SO HE DID SO.
00:26:26.82\00:26:29.62
NOW JUST PRIOR TO THIS, AFTER
THE 32,000 CAME, GIDEON WANTED
00:26:29.62\00:26:34.66
TO MAKE SURE THAT GOD WAS
CALLING HIM TO LEAD THE ARMY
00:26:34.66\00:26:37.63
INTO BATTLE, AND SO HE PUT OUT
THE FLEECE AND THE FLEECE WAS
00:26:37.63\00:26:41.66
WET IN THE MORNING - THE GROUND
WAS DRY - AND THEN HE SAID,
00:26:41.66\00:26:44.10
'LORD, LET'S DO IT ONE MORE
TIME.' HE PUT OUT THE FLEECE
00:26:44.10\00:26:45.87
AGAIN AND THE GROUND WAS
DRY - THE GROUND WAS WET AND THE
00:26:45.87\00:26:48.77
FLEECE WAS DRY - AND KNOW GOD
WANTED TO LEAD HIM IN THIS, BUT
00:26:48.77\00:26:52.31
THAT NIGHT HE WENT DOWN TO
THE CAMP OF MIDIAN AND HE WAS
00:26:52.31\00:26:54.91
LISTENING AS TWO OF THE
MIDIANITE ARMY SOLDIERS WERE
00:26:54.91\00:26:58.28
TALKING ONE TO ANOTHER AND THE
ONE SAID, 'I HAD A DREAM LAST
00:26:58.28\00:27:00.88
NIGHT AND IN THE DREAM THIS LOAF
OF BARLEY ROLLED DOWN TO THE
00:27:00.88\00:27:05.79
CAMP OF THE MIDIANITES AND
KNOCKED DOWN A TENT.' AND THE
00:27:05.79\00:27:09.59
OTHER INTERPRETED THE DREAM AND
SAID, THIS MEANS THAT THE SWORD
00:27:09.59\00:27:12.83
OF GIDEON IS COMING AGAINST
US AND THAT GOD WILL DELIVER US
00:27:12.83\00:27:16.43
INTO THEIR HANDS.' WELL
THAT REASSURED GIDEON THAT,
00:27:16.43\00:27:19.40
YES, GOD WAS LEADING.
00:27:19.40\00:27:20.90
SO HE WENT BACK TO THE CAMP
OF ISRAEL - HE HAD 300 MEN - HE
00:27:20.90\00:27:24.01
DIVIDED THEM UP INTO THREE
GROUPS, GAVE EACH MAN A TRUMPET
00:27:24.01\00:27:27.01
AND A TORCH AND A CLAY PITCHER
AND HE COMMANDED THAT THEY WERE
00:27:27.01\00:27:30.61
TO SURROUND THE
CAMP ON THREE SIDES.
00:27:30.61\00:27:33.31
AND THEN, AT GIDEON'S SIGNAL,
THEY WERE TO BLOW THE TRUMPETS,
00:27:33.31\00:27:36.25
BREAK THE CLAY PITCHER,
REVEALING THE FLAMING TORCH -
00:27:36.25\00:27:39.12
AND THAT'S
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
00:27:39.12\00:27:41.26
AND WHEN THE MIDIANITES SUDDENLY
HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPETS
00:27:41.26\00:27:43.46
AND THEY SAW THE TORCHES AND
THEY HEARD THE CRY OF THE SWORD
00:27:43.46\00:27:46.93
OF THE LORD AND OF GIDEON, THE
MIDIANITES AND THE AMALEKITES
00:27:46.93\00:27:50.10
WERE FILLED WITH FEAR AND THEY
BEGAN FIGHTING ONE UPON ANOTHER
00:27:50.10\00:27:54.17
AND GIDEON WAS ABLE TO DRIVE
THEM ALL THE WAY OUT OF ISRAEL
00:27:54.17\00:27:57.91
AND REALLY BROUGHT A TIME PERIOD
OF PEACE FOR ISRAEL FROM THE
00:27:57.91\00:28:01.21
MIDIANITES. WELL
AFTER GIDEON HAD GAINED
00:28:01.21\00:28:03.85
THIS GREAT VICTORY, THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL CAME TO HIM AND SAID,
00:28:03.85\00:28:06.55
'WE WANT YOU TO BE OUR KING.'
BUT HE REFUSED TO BECOME KING
00:28:06.55\00:28:10.39
FOR HE RECOGNIZED THAT
GOD WAS THE KING OF ISRAEL -
00:28:10.39\00:28:14.32
IT WASN'T TO BE A MAN.
NOW A FEW OTHER LITTLE THINGS
00:28:14.32\00:28:17.23
ABOUT THIS BATTLE THAT MIGHT
BE OF INTEREST: IT SAYS THAT THE
00:28:17.23\00:28:19.83
DEFEAT OF THE MIDIANITES WAS
DECISIVE AND ISRAEL HAD PEACE
00:28:19.83\00:28:22.76
DURING THE
REMAINDER OF GIDEON'S LIFE.
00:28:22.76\00:28:26.43
AFTER THE DELIVERANCE,
GIDEON WAS ASKED TO ESTABLISH A
00:28:26.43\00:28:29.40
KINGSHIP IN ISRAEL, BUT HE
REFUSED, THUS EMPHASIZING THE
00:28:29.40\00:28:32.64
FACT THAT ISRAEL'S IDEAL
GOVERNMENT WAS A THEOCRACY AND
00:28:32.64\00:28:36.75
NOT A MONARCHY.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 32,
00:28:36.75\00:28:39.91
GIVES GIDEON A PLACE AMONGST THE
HEROES OF FAITH, FOR HE TRUSTED
00:28:39.91\00:28:43.52
GOD RATHER THAN A LARGE ARMY.
NOW THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION
00:28:43.52\00:28:48.49
THAT ONE OF THE
CRUCIAL COMPONENTS OF GIDEON'S
00:28:48.49\00:28:51.83
STRENGTH WAS HIS OWN SENSE
OF UNIMPORTANCE AND WEAKNESS.
00:28:51.83\00:28:56.10
HE RECOGNIZED HIS DELIVERANCE
- OR HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD FOR
00:28:56.10\00:28:59.90
DELIVERANCE. AND
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT LESSON
00:28:59.90\00:29:03.04
FOR US, THE CHURCH, TO RECOGNIZE
TODAY: OUR SECRET OF VICTORY
00:29:03.04\00:29:07.58
IS OUR DEPENDENCE UPON
GOD. TURN IN YOUR BIBLES, IF YOU
00:29:07.58\00:29:11.95
WOULD, TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 16
- MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 - AND WE'LL
00:29:11.95\00:29:16.18
LOOK AT THE WARFARE THAT THE
CHURCH IS TO BE ENGAGED IN AND
00:29:16.18\00:29:20.09
THE SECRET OF THE STRENGTH OF
THE CHURCH IN THESE LAST DAYS.
00:29:20.09\00:29:23.53
MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 AND WE'LL
BEGIN READING THERE IN VERSE 13
00:29:23.53\00:29:28.86
- MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, BEGINNING
HERE IN VERSE 13 - IT SAYS,
00:29:28.86\00:29:35.17
"WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE COASTS
OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED
00:29:35.17\00:29:39.37
HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'WHOM
DO MEN SAY THAT I THE SON OF MAN
00:29:39.37\00:29:43.31
AM?'" SO JESUS ENTERS INTO
THIS REGION AND HE ASKED HIS
00:29:43.31\00:29:47.28
DISCIPLES, 'WHO DO
THE PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM?'
00:29:47.28\00:29:49.48
WHY DO YOU SUPPOSED
JESUS ASKED THAT QUESTION?
00:29:49.48\00:29:52.29
DIDN'T JESUS KNOW WHAT
THE PEOPLE THOUGHT OF HIM?
00:29:52.29\00:29:55.06
YES HE DID, BUT HE WANTED THE
DISCIPLES TO THINK ABOUT IT SO
00:29:55.06\00:29:57.73
HE ASKED THEM, 'WHO DO
THE PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM?'
00:29:57.73\00:30:00.56
AND THEY RESPONDED AND SAID,
"...SOME SAY THAT THOU ART JOHN
00:30:00.56\00:30:03.60
THE BAPTIST:" - BY THIS
TIME JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD BEEN
00:30:03.60\00:30:06.50
BEHEADED BY HEROD, BUT SOME OF
THE PEOPLE LOOKED AT JESUS AND
00:30:06.50\00:30:09.87
SAID, 'THIS IS JOHN THE BAPTIST
RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.'
00:30:09.87\00:30:13.17
OTHERS SAID, 'NO, HE IS ELIJAH.'
AND THE REASON THEY SAID JESUS
00:30:13.17\00:30:17.01
WAS ELIJAH IS BECAUSE OF THE
PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND IN THE
00:30:17.01\00:30:19.98
BOOK OF MALACHI THAT SAYS,
'BEHOLD, I SEND YOU ELIJAH THE
00:30:19.98\00:30:22.68
PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING OF THE
GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE
00:30:22.68\00:30:25.55
LORD.' AND PEOPLE LOOKED AT
JESUS AND SAID, 'THIS IS ELIJAH
00:30:25.55\00:30:28.06
THAT IS COME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN.' OTHERS SAID, 'NO, HE IS
00:30:28.06\00:30:31.33
JEREMIAH' OR 'HE'S JUST ONE
OF THE PROPHETS.' BUT THEN VERSE
00:30:31.33\00:30:34.30
15: JESUS SAID TO THEM,
"BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?"
00:30:34.30\00:30:38.90
NOW HERE'S THE KEY: THE PEOPLE
SAID THAT JESUS WAS EITHER
00:30:38.90\00:30:42.84
JEREMIAH OR JOHN THE BAPTIST OR
ONE OF THE PROPHETS OR ELIJAH,
00:30:42.84\00:30:47.34
BUT JESUS SAID TO THE DISCIPLES,
'WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?'
00:30:47.34\00:30:50.21
AND SIMON PETER - VERSE 16 -
ANSWERED AND SAID, 'YOU ARE THE
00:30:50.21\00:30:53.08
CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING
GOD.' THAT'S THE SECRET OF
00:30:53.08\00:30:58.75
VICTORY FOR THE CHURCH - THE
FACT THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
00:30:58.75\00:31:05.79
NOW THE WORD
'CHRIST' MEANS 'THE ANOINTED'.
00:31:05.79\00:31:08.10
IT'S THE DELIVERER - IT'S THE
PROMISED REDEEMER - THE ONE WHO
00:31:08.10\00:31:11.20
WOULD COME AND
DELIVER HIS PEOPLE.
00:31:11.20\00:31:13.50
JESUS IS OUR CHRIST. HE IS
OUR DELIVERER. HE IS OUR GIDEON.
00:31:13.50\00:31:17.74
HE IS THE ONE THAT WILL
BRING VICTORY TO HIS PEOPLE.
00:31:17.74\00:31:21.44
BUT NOTICE, JESUS GOES ON,
IN VERSE 17, "JESUS ANSWERED AND
00:31:21.44\00:31:25.51
SAID TO HIM" - SPEAKING TO
PETER - "BLESSED ART THOU, SIMON
00:31:25.51\00:31:28.28
BARJONA: FOR FLESH AND BLOOD
HATH NOT REVEALED IT UNTO THEE,
00:31:28.28\00:31:31.49
BUT MY FATHER
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN."
00:31:31.49\00:31:34.66
FOR A PERSON TO COME TO A
CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF WHO
00:31:34.66\00:31:37.56
JESUS IS, IT'S REALLY THE MOVING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THAT
00:31:37.56\00:31:41.40
PERSON'S HEART.
00:31:41.40\00:31:42.76
YOU SEE, JESUS MUST BE
MORE THAN JUST AN INTELLECTUAL
00:31:42.76\00:31:46.13
UNDERSTANDING THAT, YES, HE
IS THE CHRIST - HE'S THE SON OF
00:31:46.13\00:31:49.40
GOD. HE CAME 2,000 YEARS AGO.
00:31:49.40\00:31:51.54
HE DIED FOR OUR
SINS ON THE CROSS.
00:31:51.54\00:31:53.27
TO REALLY EXPERIENCE VICTORY, WE
NEED TO SEE JESUS AND EXPERIENCE
00:31:53.27\00:31:58.21
JESUS AS OUR PERSONAL SAVIOR -
OUR PERSONAL DELIVERER - THE ONE
00:31:58.21\00:32:02.12
WHO HAS COME TO
GIVE US PERSONAL VICTORY.
00:32:02.12\00:32:05.72
AND THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT
YOU CAN JUST READ ABOUT, THAT IS
00:32:05.72\00:32:08.09
THE MOVING OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT UPON A PERSON'S HEART.
00:32:08.09\00:32:11.83
JESUS SAID, 'EXCEPT HE BE BORN
AGAIN' - SPEAKING TO NICODEMUS -
00:32:11.83\00:32:15.63
'YOU CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN.' IT IS THE MOVING OF THE
00:32:15.63\00:32:18.23
HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE
HEART. IT IS GENUINE CONVERSION.
00:32:18.23\00:32:21.67
BUT THEN JESUS GOES ON IN VERSE
18 AND HE SAID, "AND I SAY ALSO
00:32:21.67\00:32:25.17
UNTO THEE, THAT THOU ART PETER,
AND UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD
00:32:25.17\00:32:29.28
MY CHURCH; AND THE GATES OF
HADES SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST
00:32:29.28\00:32:33.28
IT." NOW I HOPE
WE ALL UNDERSTAND
00:32:33.28\00:32:35.72
THAT PETER IS NOT THE ROCK
UPON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT.
00:32:35.72\00:32:38.89
THE WORD 'PETER'
MEANS 'PEBBLE' OR 'STONE'.
00:32:38.89\00:32:41.79
BUT THE STATEMENT THAT PETER
HAD JUST MADE, THAT JESUS IS THE
00:32:41.79\00:32:45.16
CHRIST, WELL THAT'S THE
FOUNDATION UPON WHICH THE CHURCH
00:32:45.16\00:32:48.56
IS BUILT. PETER
NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE
00:32:48.56\00:32:51.90
THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH.
ACTUALLY, WHEN PETER PREACHED
00:32:51.90\00:32:54.87
AND WHEN HE WROTE IN 1 AND 2
PETER, HE SPOKE OF JESUS BEING
00:32:54.87\00:32:58.54
THE CORNERSTONE - BEING
THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH.
00:32:58.54\00:33:01.64
BUT THEN JESUS GOES ON IN VERSE
19 AND HERE, IN PARTICULAR, IS
00:33:01.64\00:33:06.98
THE POINT I WANT US TO NOTE:
VERSE 18 HE SAYS THAT THE GATES
00:33:06.98\00:33:11.52
OF HELL - THE LAST PART OF VERSE
18 - JESUS SAID, "UPON THIS ROCK
00:33:11.52\00:33:15.12
I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE
GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL
00:33:15.12\00:33:18.79
AGAINST IT." NOW THE 'IT'
IN THE VERSE IS THE CHURCH.
00:33:18.79\00:33:23.93
THE FACT THAT JESUS IS OUR
CHRIST - JESUS IS OUR DELIVERER
00:33:23.93\00:33:28.67
- THAT EMPOWERS THE CHURCH TO BE
VICTORIOUS IN THE BATTLE AGAINST
00:33:28.67\00:33:33.54
SIN. INSTEAD OF
THE CHURCH BEING ON
00:33:33.54\00:33:36.61
THE DEFENSE AND TREMBLING AT
THE PRESENCE OF THE DEVIL, THE
00:33:36.61\00:33:41.28
CHURCH IS TO BE MARCHING
FORWARD. NOTICE, IT'S NOT THE
00:33:41.28\00:33:44.85
DEVIL BREAKING DOWN THE GATES OF
THE CHURCH IN THIS VERSE, BUT IT
00:33:44.85\00:33:49.96
IS THE CHURCH BREAKING
DOWN THE GATES OF THE DEVIL.
00:33:49.96\00:33:53.86
IN OTHER WORDS, THE CHURCH,
RECOGNIZING THAT JESUS IS THE
00:33:53.86\00:33:57.07
CHRIST, RECEIVING HIM AS OUR
PERSONAL DELIVERER - OUR SAVIOR
00:33:57.07\00:34:01.20
- BEING OBEDIENT TO HIS
COMMANDS, THE CHURCH IS ABLE TO
00:34:01.20\00:34:04.21
GO FORWARD ENTERING INTO SATAN'S
STRONGHOLD AND SETTING SIN'S
00:34:04.21\00:34:08.58
CAPTIVES FREE
BECAUSE JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
00:34:08.58\00:34:13.18
THE GOOD NEWS IS
WE'RE ON THE WINNING TEAM.
00:34:13.18\00:34:16.38
JESUS IS OUR DELIVERER.
HE WILL SEE US THROUGH.
00:34:16.38\00:34:20.39
AND THAT'S THE CHURCH TODAY.
00:34:20.39\00:34:22.92
WE LEARN THIS LESSON BY LOOKING
AT ISRAEL OF OLD AND SEEING HOW
00:34:22.92\00:34:26.86
GOD RAISED UP DELIVERERS
WHO BROUGHT DELIVERANCE TO THEM.
00:34:26.86\00:34:30.33
GOD WANTS TO
BRING DELIVERANCE TO US.
00:34:30.33\00:34:33.87
NOW ON TUESDAY, WE'RE GOING TO
BE LOOKING JUST BRIEFLY AT QUITE
00:34:33.87\00:34:37.81
A COLORFUL CHARACTER - SAMSON
- STRONGEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED.
00:34:37.81\00:34:43.01
AND IT'S VERY UNUSUAL THAT GOD
WOULD USE SAMSON, IT SEEMS, WITH
00:34:43.01\00:34:48.28
ALL OF HIS FLAWS AND ALL OF HIS
SELFISHNESS, TO BE A DELIVERER,
00:34:48.28\00:34:52.15
BUT HE WAS A DELIVERER OF GOD'S
PEOPLE. NOW BEGINNING AT THE TOP
00:34:52.15\00:34:55.56
OF THE LESSON ON TUESDAY,
IT SAYS THAT THE BATTLE LINES
00:34:55.56\00:34:57.96
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL ARE
BLURRED IN THE STORY OF SAMSON.
00:34:57.96\00:35:01.06
HIS LIFE STARTS WITH AN
IMPRESSION - WITH AN IMPRESSIVE
00:35:01.06\00:35:04.30
FASHION WITH AN ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM THE ANGEL OF THE LORD THAT
00:35:04.30\00:35:07.14
HE IS TO BE A
NAZARITE FROM BIRTH.
00:35:07.14\00:35:09.90
AND IT SEEMED THAT
THINGS WERE GOOD THUS FAR.
00:35:09.90\00:35:13.54
GOD, INDEED, HAD A
SPECIAL PLAN FOR SAMSON.
00:35:13.54\00:35:16.28
UNFORTUNATELY, THINGS DID NOT
WORK OUT AS WELL AS THEY COULD
00:35:16.28\00:35:19.65
HAVE BECAUSE OF SAMSON'S HARD
HEARTEDNESS AND SELFISHNESS.
00:35:19.65\00:35:24.29
SO LET'S LEARN JUST A
LITTLE BIT HERE, ABOUT SAMSON.
00:35:24.29\00:35:27.66
SAMSON WAS THE SON OF
MINOAH, WHOSE WIFE, LIKE SARAH,
00:35:27.66\00:35:30.76
HANNAH AND
ELIZABETH, WAS BARREN.
00:35:30.76\00:35:32.96
HIS BIRTH, LIKE THAT OF
ISAAC AND JOHN THE BAPTIST, WAS
00:35:32.96\00:35:35.70
ANNOUNCED BY AN ANGEL. HE
WAS TO BE A NAZARITE, MEANING
00:35:35.70\00:35:39.27
SEPARATED OR CONSECRATED
TO GOD FROM HIS BIRTH.
00:35:39.27\00:35:42.84
SAMSON'S PARENTS LIVED IN
A PLACE CALLED ZORAH, ON THE
00:35:42.84\00:35:46.34
BORDER BETWEEN DAN AND
JUDAH. SAMSON POSSESSED UNUSUAL
00:35:46.34\00:35:50.28
STRENGTH, WITH WHICH
HE PERFORMED HEROIC DEEDS
00:35:50.28\00:35:53.01
OF EXTRAORDINARY VALOR. IF
HIS MORAL CHARACTER HAD BEEN
00:35:53.01\00:35:57.89
EQUAL TO HIS STRENGTH, GOD COULD
HAVE USED HIM TO A MUCH GREATER
00:35:57.89\00:36:01.52
DEGREE THAN HE DID FOR
THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL.
00:36:01.52\00:36:06.23
YOU SEE, GOD HAD GREATER PLANS
FOR SAMSON, BUT SAMSON DIDN'T
00:36:06.23\00:36:09.93
ALWAYS FOLLOW GOD'S PLAN.
00:36:09.93\00:36:12.17
SAMSON MOVED AGAINST THE
PHILISTINES IN A NUMBER OF WAYS,
00:36:12.17\00:36:15.40
EACH IN ANGRY
RESPONSES TO PERSONAL SLIGHTS.
00:36:15.40\00:36:19.47
FIRST - YOU CAN READ THE ACCOUNT
IN JUDGES - HE KILLED THIRTY MEN
00:36:19.47\00:36:23.08
AND TOOK THEIR CLOTHES BACK TO
HIS WEDDING FEAST TO PAY A DEBT.
00:36:23.08\00:36:27.72
THEN HE DESTROYED THEIR CROPS
WHEN HIS WIFE WAS GIVEN TO HIS
00:36:27.72\00:36:30.92
BEST MAN. THEN
SAMSON KILLED MANY IN
00:36:30.92\00:36:33.59
REVENGE FOR THE PHILISTINES
KILLING HIS WIFE AND HER FATHER.
00:36:33.59\00:36:37.56
WHEN THE PHILISTINES TRIED TO
AVENGE THAT ACTION, HE KILLED A
00:36:37.56\00:36:42.43
THOUSAND WITH A DONKEY'S
JAWBONE. FINALLY, HE PULLED DOWN
00:36:42.43\00:36:45.80
THEIR TEMPLE AND KILLED
THREE THOUSAND FOR BLINDING HIM.
00:36:45.80\00:36:50.34
IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A SOAP
OPERA - ONE THING HAPPENS AND
00:36:50.34\00:36:53.21
THEN SAMSON TAKES REVENGE AND
THEN SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS -
00:36:53.21\00:36:55.91
AND YOU WONDER, 'SAMSON, IF
YOU WOULD HAVE JUST FOLLOWED GOD
00:36:55.91\00:36:59.65
FROM THE BEGINNING, HOW
DIFFERENT THINGS COULD HAVE
00:36:59.65\00:37:02.45
ENDED UP.' AND YET, WE STILL
SEE GOD, AT THE END OF SAMSON'S
00:37:02.45\00:37:05.99
LIFE, WHEN HE HUMBLES HIMSELF
AND HE CRIES OUT TO GOD, GOD
00:37:05.99\00:37:10.36
HEARS HIS PRAYER. IN
SPITE OF SAMSON'S GRAVE
00:37:10.36\00:37:13.90
FAILURES, THE NEW TESTAMENT
LISTS HIM AMONG THE GREAT HEROES
00:37:13.90\00:37:17.67
OF FAITH IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11,
VERSE 32, POSSIBLY BECAUSE HE
00:37:17.67\00:37:22.37
FINALLY REALIZED HIS TOTAL
DEPENDENCE ON GOD AND CALLED
00:37:22.37\00:37:26.44
UPON HIM IN HIS
LAST ACT OF VALOR.
00:37:26.44\00:37:29.78
THE STORY OF SAMSON NOT ONLY
GIVES US A PICTURE OF A CHOSEN
00:37:29.78\00:37:32.55
INSTRUMENT OF GOD WHOSE
SELFISHNESS AND PASSION MADE IT
00:37:32.55\00:37:35.92
IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO FULFILL
HIS FULL CALLING, BUT IT ALSO
00:37:35.92\00:37:39.82
PROVIDES A PICTURE OF GOD'S
MERCY. WHEN SAMSON TURNED BACK
00:37:39.82\00:37:43.29
TO GOD WITH ALL OF HIS HEART,
GOD HEARD AND GOD ANSWERED.
00:37:43.29\00:37:48.03
SO FROM THE STORY OF SAMSON
WE BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT EVEN
00:37:48.03\00:37:52.10
THOUGH WE MAKE MISTAKES AND WE
DON'T ALWAYS DO THINGS THE WAY
00:37:52.10\00:37:55.37
GOD INTENDS FOR US TO
DO, GOD DOES NOT ABANDON US.
00:37:55.37\00:37:58.77
HE IS RICH IN MERCY AND, IF WE
BUT TURN TO HIM, HE WILL BE ABLE
00:37:58.77\00:38:02.38
TO EVEN TAKE THOSE BAD
SITUATIONS AND, BY HIS GRACE,
00:38:02.38\00:38:05.58
OFTEN TURN THEM
AROUND FOR ULTIMATE GOOD.
00:38:05.58\00:38:08.92
SO GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD AND WE
SEE THAT IN THE STORY OF ISRAEL.
00:38:08.92\00:38:11.72
HOW MANY TIMES DID ISRAEL GO AND
WORSHIP THESE PAGAN GODS THAT
00:38:11.72\00:38:15.49
SURROUNDED THEM AND YET,
WHEN THEY TURNED TO GOD WITH
00:38:15.49\00:38:17.99
SINCERITY, GOD RECEIVED THEM
AND GOD RAISED UP A DELIVERER.
00:38:17.99\00:38:22.26
IN THE BOOK PATRIARCHS AND
PROPHETS , ON PAGE 563, WE HAVE
00:38:22.26\00:38:25.97
THIS QUOTE: "JUST AS HE"
- SPEAKING OF SAMSON - "WAS
00:38:25.97\00:38:29.70
ENTERING UPON MANHOOD - THE TIME
WHEN HE MUST EXECUTE HIS DIVINE
00:38:29.70\00:38:32.74
MISSION - THE TIME ABOVE ALL
OTHERS, WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN
00:38:32.74\00:38:35.64
TRUE TO GOD, SAMSON CONNECTED
HIMSELF WITH THE ENEMIES OF
00:38:35.64\00:38:39.55
ISRAEL." SO INSTEAD
OF BEING FAITHFUL TO
00:38:39.55\00:38:42.35
GOD, HE GAVE IN TO THE PRESSURES
OF THOSE NATIONS SURROUNDING
00:38:42.35\00:38:46.05
HIM. AND THEN
THERE IS A QUESTION
00:38:46.05\00:38:48.62
THAT WE HAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE LESSON ON TUESDAY, IT SAYS,
00:38:48.62\00:38:52.63
'HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
GOD USED SAMSON'S WEAKNESSES FOR
00:38:52.63\00:38:56.36
WOMEN AS AN OCCASION TO
MOVE AGAINST THE PHILISTINES?'
00:38:56.36\00:38:59.60
NOW WE CAN READ IN JUDGES
CHAPTER 14 - AND MAYBE I'LL JUST
00:38:59.60\00:39:02.84
READ THIS PORTION TO YOU -
JUDGES 14 FROM 1 THROUGH TO
00:39:02.84\00:39:06.51
VERSE 4 IT SAYS, "AND SAMSON
WENT DOWN TO TIMNATH, AND SAW A
00:39:06.51\00:39:10.21
WOMAN IN TIMNATH OF THE
DAUGHTERS OF THE PHILISTINES.
00:39:10.21\00:39:13.85
AND HE CAME UP, AND TOLD HIS
FATHER AND HIS MOTHER, AND SAID,
00:39:13.85\00:39:16.32
'I HAVE SEEN A WOMAN IN
TIMNATH OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE
00:39:16.32\00:39:18.55
PHILISTINES: NOW THEREFORE
GET HER FOR ME TO WIFE."
00:39:18.55\00:39:22.92
NOW GOD HAD GIVEN STRICT
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE ISRAELITES
00:39:22.92\00:39:25.46
THAT THEY WERE NOT TO TAKE WIVES
OF THE PAGAN NATIONS AROUND THEM
00:39:25.46\00:39:29.23
FOR THESE WIVES WOULD
LEAD THEM INTO IDOLATRY.
00:39:29.23\00:39:32.30
AND YET, SAMSON
IGNORED THAT COUNSEL.
00:39:32.30\00:39:34.80
HE WANTED THIS WOMAN AS A WIFE
- VERSE 3 - "THEN HIS FATHER AND
00:39:34.80\00:39:37.84
HIS MOTHER SAID UNTO HIM, 'IS
THERE NEVER A WOMAN AMONG THE
00:39:37.84\00:39:40.74
DAUGHTERS OF THY BRETHREN, OR
AMONG ALL MY PEOPLE, THAT THOU
00:39:40.74\00:39:44.35
GOEST TO TAKE A WIFE OF
THE UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINES?'
00:39:44.35\00:39:47.78
AND SAMSON SAID TO HIS
FATHER, 'GET HER FOR ME; FOR SHE
00:39:47.78\00:39:51.35
PLEASETH ME WELL.'" NOW, NOTICE
VERSE 4: "BUT HIS FATHER AND HIS
00:39:51.35\00:39:55.96
MOTHER KNEW NOT THAT IT WAS
OF THE LORD, THAT HE SOUGHT AN
00:39:55.96\00:40:02.63
OCCASION AGAINST THE
PHILISTINES: FOR AT THAT TIME
00:40:02.63\00:40:05.73
THE PHILISTINES HAD DOMINION
OVER ISRAEL." SO EVEN THOUGH IT
00:40:05.73\00:40:09.60
WAS NOT GOD'S IDEAL OR GOD'S
PURPOSE THAT SAMSON FOLLOW THIS
00:40:09.60\00:40:13.34
COURSE, GOD WAS STILL ABLE
TO WORK OUT HIS WILL IN THE END.
00:40:13.34\00:40:18.11
BUT HOW MUCH BETTER IT WOULD
HAVE BEEN IF SAMSON WOULD HAVE
00:40:18.11\00:40:20.25
FOLLOWED GOD FROM
THE VERY BEGINNING.
00:40:20.25\00:40:22.95
WHAT A GREATER DELIVERANCE HE
MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BRING.
00:40:22.95\00:40:26.05
NOW, ON WEDNESDAY, WE
LOOK AT THE STORY OF RUTH.
00:40:26.05\00:40:30.39
NOW WE DON'T THINK OF RUTH AS
BEING A DELIVERER IN THE SENSE
00:40:30.39\00:40:32.69
OF GIDEON OR BARAK OR DEBORAH,
AND YET, WE DO SEE IN THE STORY
00:40:32.69\00:40:36.90
OF RUTH, IN HER FAMILY, A
CONFLICT - WE SEE THE STRUGGLE
00:40:36.90\00:40:41.44
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
THE GREAT CONTROVERSY IS
00:40:41.44\00:40:43.97
ILLUSTRATED IN
THE STORY OF RUTH.
00:40:43.97\00:40:46.57
BEGINNING ON WEDNESDAY'S LESSON
IT SAYS, "RATHER THAN TALKING
00:40:46.57\00:40:49.14
ABOUT VAST ENEMY ARMIES THAT
THREATEN GOD'S PEOPLE, THE STORY
00:40:49.14\00:40:52.81
OF RUTH SPEAKS ABOUT SOMETHING
SMALLER - A FAMILY ALMOST DYING
00:40:52.81\00:40:56.48
OUT. INSTEAD,
THOUGH, AT THE END,
00:40:56.48\00:40:58.85
BEING REVIVED AND STRENGTHENED
BY GOD'S MERCY. SO WHAT DO WE
00:40:58.85\00:41:03.16
KNOW ABOUT THE STORY OF RUTH?
NOW RUTH, SHE WAS A MOABITE WHO
00:41:03.16\00:41:07.93
LIVED IN THE TIME OF
THE JUDGES - ABOUT 1230 B.C.
00:41:07.93\00:41:11.97
IN HER OWN LAND, RUTH
HAD MARRIED THE ELDEST SON OF
00:41:11.97\00:41:16.00
ELIMELECH AND NAOMI,
ISRAELITES FROM BETHLEHEM-JUDAH,
00:41:16.00\00:41:21.28
WHO HAD COME TO
MOAB DURING A FAMINE.
00:41:21.28\00:41:24.48
NAOMI WAS WIDOWED AND THEN
HER TWO SONS DIED WITHOUT HEIRS.
00:41:24.48\00:41:30.89
AFTER THIS SHE DETERMINED TO
RETURN TO HER NATIVE COUNTRY,
00:41:30.89\00:41:34.06
WHEREUPON RUTH ANNOUNCED THAT
SHE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY HER,
00:41:34.06\00:41:37.43
ADOPTING BOTH HER NATION AND HER
GOD. ONLY BY DEATH WOULD THEY BE
00:41:37.43\00:41:41.93
SEPARATED. AND HERE
WE FIND IN RUTH CHAPTER
00:41:41.93\00:41:44.87
1, VERSE 16 - THIS FAMILIAR
VERSE - "AND RUTH SAID, ENTREAT
00:41:44.87\00:41:49.34
ME NOT TO LEAVE THEE, OR
TO RETURN FROM FOLLOWING AFTER
00:41:49.34\00:41:52.71
THEE: FOR WITHER THOU GOEST, I
WILL GO; AND WHERE THOU LODGEST,
00:41:52.71\00:41:56.34
I WILL LODGE:" - NOTICE THE LAST
PART - "THY PEOPLE SHALL BE MY
00:41:56.34\00:42:00.22
PEOPLE AND THY GOD MY GOD:"
NOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, YOU
00:42:00.22\00:42:05.35
CAN KIND OF GET AN IDEA OF
THE DISTANCE TRAVELED: YOU HAVE
00:42:05.35\00:42:08.49
BETHLEHEM AND THEN JUST
ABOVE IT YOU HAVE JERUSALEM.
00:42:08.49\00:42:10.56
NAOMI AND HER FAMILY WERE FROM
BETHLEHEM AND THEY TRAVELED UP,
00:42:10.56\00:42:15.83
PROBABLY THE NORTHERN PART OF
THE DEAD SEA, AND THEN THEY HAD
00:42:15.83\00:42:19.07
TO TRAVEL ALL THE WAY DOWN
TO THE AREA OCCUPIED BY MOAB AND
00:42:19.07\00:42:23.27
THEY WERE THERE
FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.
00:42:23.27\00:42:25.11
HER HUSBAND PASSED AWAY - HER
SONS PASSED AWAY - SHE DIDN'T
00:42:25.11\00:42:28.61
HAVE ANY CHILDREN AND
SO NOW SHE'S GOING BACK.
00:42:28.61\00:42:31.18
SHE HEARS THAT THE FAMINE
HAS LESSENED IN ISRAEL AND SHE'S
00:42:31.18\00:42:33.95
GOING TO GO BACK TO HER HOME
TOWN AND RUTH FOLLOWS AND SAYS,
00:42:33.95\00:42:37.25
'I'M GOING TO GO WITH YOU; YOUR
PEOPLE WILL BE MY PEOPLE AND
00:42:37.25\00:42:40.56
YOUR GOD WILL BE MY GOD.' NOW,
DURING THE BARLEY HARVEST - THEY
00:42:40.56\00:42:44.66
ALL GO BACK TO BETHLEHEM -
DURING THE BARLEY HARVEST IN
00:42:44.66\00:42:47.13
BETHLEHEM, RUTH WENT TO GLEAN
IN THE FIELDS OF BOAZ, A WEALTHY
00:42:47.13\00:42:51.47
RELATIVE OF ELIMELECH.
BOAZ NOTICED HER AND GAVE HER
00:42:51.47\00:42:56.77
HIS PROTECTION IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF HER LOYALTY TO NAOMI.
00:42:56.77\00:43:01.44
AFTER BOAZ REDEEMED A
PLOT OF LAND WHICH BELONGED TO
00:43:01.44\00:43:04.85
ELIMELECH, HE MARRIED RUTH
AND THEIR FIRST CHILD, OBED, WAS
00:43:04.85\00:43:09.25
GIVEN TO NAOMI TO
CONTINUE THE NAME OF ELIMELECH.
00:43:09.25\00:43:13.59
OBED WAS THE GRANDFATHER
OF DAVID, THROUGH WHOSE FAMILY
00:43:13.59\00:43:17.79
THE LINEAGE OF JESUS WAS BORN.
00:43:17.79\00:43:20.80
SO HERE WE FIND, IN THE LINEAGE
OF JESUS, SOMEONE WHO WAS NOT
00:43:20.80\00:43:24.90
EVEN AN ISRAELITE -
RUTH THAT CAME FROM MOAB.
00:43:24.90\00:43:28.20
SO RIGHT THERE WE CAN LEARN THIS
IMPORTANT LESSON OF GOD'S MERCY
00:43:28.20\00:43:31.67
- NOT ONLY FOR HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE
- FOR ISRAEL - BUT GOD EXTENDS
00:43:31.67\00:43:35.21
MERCY, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO COME
FROM THE ENEMY OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:43:35.21\00:43:40.28
IN OTHER WORDS, GOD HAS FAITHFUL
PEOPLE WHO ARE OUTSIDE OF THE
00:43:40.28\00:43:45.75
FAMILY, SO TO SPEAK, BUT HE WILL
CALL THEM AND THEY WILL COME.
00:43:45.75\00:43:49.46
NOW IN THE LESSON IT SAYS THAT
IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THE LAND
00:43:49.46\00:43:52.49
OF JUDAH SUFFERED FROM
A FAMINE DURING THAT TIME.
00:43:52.49\00:43:55.53
THAT WAS BECAUSE THE ISRAELITES
HAD APOSTATIZED AND GONE AFTER
00:43:55.53\00:43:57.97
THESE PAGAN DEITIES. THIS
WAS A SIGN THAT THE PEOPLE
00:43:57.97\00:44:00.97
OF THE COVENANT
HAD FORSAKEN THEIR GOD.
00:44:00.97\00:44:03.94
AND THEN WE SEE, IN THIS STORY
HERE OF RUTH, HER COMMITMENT FOR
00:44:03.94\00:44:07.38
HER TO COME WITH NAOMI AND TO
ALLOW HER GOD - RUTH WANTED TO
00:44:07.38\00:44:12.68
COME WITH NAOMI - TO
ALLOW NAOMI'S GOD TO BE HER GOD.
00:44:12.68\00:44:15.92
AND THAT'S THE LESSON
THAT I THINK WE CAN REALLY TAKE
00:44:15.92\00:44:17.45
FROM HERE IN THIS CONFLICT IDEA.
00:44:17.45\00:44:20.09
TURN IN YOUR BIBLES
TO REVELATION CHAPTER 18.
00:44:20.09\00:44:23.09
AND HERE WE FIND GOD'S CHURCH AT
THE END OF TIME WITH A MESSAGE
00:44:23.09\00:44:26.93
THAT HAS TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD
- REVELATION CHAPTER 18 AND
00:44:26.93\00:44:32.17
WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN HERE IN
VERSE 1 - REVELATION CHAPTER 18,
00:44:32.17\00:44:35.40
BEGINNING IN VERSE 1 - IT SAYS,
"AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW
00:44:35.40\00:44:39.84
ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN, HAVING GREAT AUTHORITY;
00:44:39.84\00:44:43.81
AND THE EARTH WAS
ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY."
00:44:43.81\00:44:46.78
NOW IN BIBLE PROPHECY, AN ANGEL
HERE, REPRESENTS A MESSENGER OR
00:44:46.78\00:44:50.49
A MESSAGE THAT HAS
TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD.
00:44:50.49\00:44:53.09
IT REPRESENTS GOD'S
PEOPLE AT THE END OF TIME.
00:44:53.09\00:44:55.69
VERSE 2 SAYS, "AND HE CRIED
MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE,
00:44:55.69\00:44:58.89
SAYING, 'BABYLON THE GREAT
IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS
00:44:58.89\00:45:02.66
BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF
DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL
00:45:02.66\00:45:06.90
SPIRIT, AND A CAGE FOR
EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD!"
00:45:06.90\00:45:10.91
VERSE 3 SAYS, "FOR ALL THE
NATIONS HAVE DRUNK THE WINE OF
00:45:10.91\00:45:14.41
THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION,
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH HAVE
00:45:14.41\00:45:17.05
COMMITTED FORNICATION WITH HER
AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH
00:45:17.05\00:45:20.42
HAVE BECOME RICH THROUGH
THE ABUNDANCE OF HER LUXURY."
00:45:20.42\00:45:23.42
SO HERE IS A MESSAGE THAT HAS TO
GO TO ALL THE WORLD BEFORE JESUS
00:45:23.42\00:45:27.09
COMES: 'BABYLON IS FALLEN,
IS FALLEN.' BUT I WANT YOU TO
00:45:27.09\00:45:30.33
NOTICE VERSE 4: IT SAYS, "AND I
HEARD ANOTHER VOICE FROM HEAVEN"
00:45:30.33\00:45:34.46
- THIS IS THE VOICE OF GOD -
THE VOICE OF JESUS SPEAKING -
00:45:34.46\00:45:37.63
"SAYING, 'COME OUT OF HER, MY
PEOPLE...LEST YOU SHARE IN HER
00:45:37.63\00:45:41.47
SINS AND LEST YOU RECEIVE OF HER
PLAGUES.'" NOW, JUST LIKE IN THE
00:45:41.47\00:45:45.34
TIME OF ISRAEL, GOD HAD FAITHFUL
MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE OUTSIDE
00:45:45.34\00:45:48.61
OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL. AT
TIMES, THEY WERE EVEN AMONGST
00:45:48.61\00:45:51.78
THE ENEMY OF GOD'S PEOPLE,
YET THEIR HEARTS WERE LOYAL AND
00:45:51.78\00:45:55.25
SINCERE AND GOD CALLED
THEM INTO THE FAMILY OF ISRAEL.
00:45:55.25\00:45:59.19
SO, LIKEWISE,
AT THE END OF TIME.
00:45:59.19\00:46:01.49
GOD HAS GOT FAITHFUL MEN
AND WOMEN IN BABYLON - BABYLON
00:46:01.49\00:46:04.49
REPRESENTS RELIGIOUS
CORRUPTION AT THE END OF TIME.
00:46:04.49\00:46:07.86
THE TIME WILL COME WHEN GOD WILL
CALL HIS FAITHFUL PEOPLE TO COME
00:46:07.86\00:46:11.70
OUT OF RELIGIOUS APOSTASY
AND TO MAKE THEIR STAND WITH
00:46:11.70\00:46:14.30
GOD'S
COMMANDMENT-KEEPING PEOPLE.
00:46:14.30\00:46:17.34
SO IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO
REALIZE THAT OUR MISSION AS A
00:46:17.34\00:46:20.34
CHURCH IS TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS
- THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES -
00:46:20.34\00:46:25.25
WITH THE WORLD BECAUSE GOD
IS GOING TO CALL HIS PEOPLE TO
00:46:25.25\00:46:28.52
COME OUT OF RELIGIOUS CONFUSION.
THE PROBLEM WITH ISRAEL WAS THEY
00:46:28.52\00:46:31.69
THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE THIS
PRIVILEGED GROUP OF PEOPLE AND
00:46:31.69\00:46:34.26
THAT THEY WERE SUPERIOR TO
ALL THE NATIONS AROUND THEM.
00:46:34.26\00:46:38.66
THEY DIDN'T REALIZE THAT GOD
RAISED UP ISRAEL FOR THE VERY
00:46:38.66\00:46:41.36
PURPOSE OF BRINGING AND
PROCLAIMING AND PREACHING THE
00:46:41.36\00:46:44.70
COMING OF THE MESSIAH -
THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS.
00:46:44.70\00:46:47.37
SO LIKEWISE TODAY, THE CHURCH
HAS BEEN RAISED UP BY GOD TO
00:46:47.37\00:46:50.47
PREPARE THE WORLD FOR
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
00:46:50.47\00:46:54.34
AND THEN, ON THURSDAY, WE JUST
GET A QUICK GLIMPSE OF ANOTHER
00:46:54.34\00:46:58.15
BIBLE CHARACTER DURING THE
TIME OF THE JUDGES, SAMUEL.
00:46:58.15\00:47:03.32
NOW WHAT DOES THE BEGINNING
OF THE BOOK OF SAMUEL HAVE TO DO
00:47:03.32\00:47:06.39
WITH THE GREAT
CONTROVERSY THEME?
00:47:06.39\00:47:08.29
THERE IS NO OBVIOUS THREAT TO
THE CREATED ORDER AND THERE ARE
00:47:08.29\00:47:11.89
NO VAST ARMIES AT THE BORDER.
00:47:11.89\00:47:14.10
THE ATTACK OF EVIL IS MORE
SUBTLE, BUT NO LESS REAL, AS
00:47:14.10\00:47:18.17
WE'LL SEE IN THE STORY OF
SAMUEL. SO LET'S JUST KIND OF
00:47:18.17\00:47:22.20
GET A LITTLE BIT OF A MORE CLEAR
IDEA OF SAMUEL. SAMUEL OR, AT
00:47:22.20\00:47:26.21
LEAST HIS MOTHER
HANNAH - HER NAME WAS 'GRACE'.
00:47:26.21\00:47:29.28
SHE WAS THE FAVORITE OF THE TWO
WIVES OF ELKANAH, AN EPHRAIMITE
00:47:29.28\00:47:34.35
OF LEVITICAL STOCK, WHO
LIVED IN THE TOWN OF RAMAH.
00:47:34.35\00:47:38.35
THE OTHER WIFE, PENINA, MOCKED
HER BECAUSE SHE HAD NO CHILDREN.
00:47:38.35\00:47:42.62
SHE PRAYED AND VOWED THAT
IF GOD WOULD GIVE HER A SON,
00:47:42.62\00:47:45.46
SHE WOULD DEVOTE HIM
TO GOD AS A NAZARITE.
00:47:45.46\00:47:48.93
A YEAR AFTER THIS VOW SHE
BORE A SON AN NAMED HIM SAMUEL.
00:47:48.93\00:47:53.34
THEN, AT THE APPROPRIATE
TIME, SHE DID JUST AS SHE HAD
00:47:53.34\00:47:56.74
PROMISED, AND HE
SERVED AS A PRIEST BEFORE GOD.
00:47:56.74\00:48:01.11
SHE BROUGHT SAMUEL A ROBE EVERY
YEAR WHEN SHE CAME UP TO SHILOH
00:48:01.11\00:48:04.78
TO WORSHIP. SHE
LATER BECAME THE MOTHER OF
00:48:04.78\00:48:07.32
THREE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS.
NOW WHAT ABOUT SAMUEL HIMSELF?
00:48:07.32\00:48:12.59
WHILE STILL A BOY HE EXPERIENCED
THE PROPHETIC CALL AT A TIME -
00:48:12.59\00:48:16.06
AND THE TIME WAS ESTABLISHED
- AS TIME WENT ON, HE WAS
00:48:16.06\00:48:19.29
ESTABLISHED AS A
PROPHET AND A JUDGE IN ISRAEL.
00:48:19.29\00:48:21.90
IN HIS OLD AGE, HIS LEADERSHIP
WAS CHALLENGED BY THE TRIBAL
00:48:21.90\00:48:25.20
ELDERS WHO WANTED A KING IN
ISRAEL. HE WAS TOLD BY GOD TO
00:48:25.20\00:48:29.37
ANOINT SAUL AS THE FIRST KING
IN ISRAEL AND THEN, LATER, AFTER
00:48:29.37\00:48:33.17
THE APOSTASY OF SAUL, WAS
DIRECTED TO ANOINT DAVID AS
00:48:33.17\00:48:36.41
KING. SAMUEL
MARKED A TRANSITION POINT
00:48:36.41\00:48:39.31
IN THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE,
FROM THAT OF A THEOCRACY,
00:48:39.31\00:48:42.72
TO THAT OF A MONARCHY. HE
DIED AT THE AGE OF 112 YEARS
00:48:42.72\00:48:46.35
AND WAS BURIED IN RAMAH AROUND
1017 BC. NOW, WITH REFERENCE TO
00:48:46.35\00:48:52.13
ISRAEL WANTING TO HAVE A KING -
1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 8, VERSE 4 - WE
00:48:52.13\00:48:57.20
READ, "THEN ALL THE ELDERS
OF ISRAEL GATHERED TOGETHER AND
00:48:57.20\00:49:00.64
CAME TO SAMUEL AT RAMAH, AND
SAID TO HIM, 'LOOK, YOU ARE OLD,
00:49:00.64\00:49:04.94
AND YOUR SONS DO
NOT WALK IN YOUR WAYS.
00:49:04.94\00:49:07.38
NOW MAKE US A KING TO
JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS.'
00:49:07.38\00:49:11.45
BUT THE THING DISPLEASED SAMUEL
WHEN THEY SAID, 'GIVE US A KING
00:49:11.45\00:49:15.35
TO JUDGE US.' SO
SAMUEL PRAYED TO THE LORD.
00:49:15.35\00:49:19.22
AND THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL,
'HEED THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN
00:49:19.22\00:49:22.46
ALL THAT THEY SAY TO YOU; FOR
THEY HAVE NOT REJECTED YOU, BUT
00:49:22.46\00:49:27.00
THEY HAVE REJECTED ME, THAT
I SHOULD NOT REIGN OVER THEM.'"
00:49:27.00\00:49:31.87
SO DESPITE THE FACT THAT ISRAEL
HAD THE WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE AND
00:49:31.87\00:49:35.20
BLESSING OF HAVING GOD BE THEIR
KING, THEY DIDN'T WANT GOD AS
00:49:35.20\00:49:38.81
THE KING, THEY WANTED TO HAVE A
KING LIKE ALL THE PAGAN NATIONS
00:49:38.81\00:49:41.34
AROUND THEM, AND THIS
GRIEVED THE HEART OF SAMUEL.
00:49:41.34\00:49:44.21
NEVERTHELESS, SAMUEL WAS THAT
TRANSITIONAL PERSON FROM THE
00:49:44.21\00:49:49.08
TIME OF A THEOCRACY TO
BECOMING A NATION OF KINGS.
00:49:49.08\00:49:52.95
THE MONARCHY WAS
ESTABLISHED DURING THIS TIME.
00:49:52.95\00:49:55.76
BUT THERE WERE A
FEW REAL CHALLENGES.
00:49:55.76\00:49:58.69
EARLY ON, IN THE LIFE OF SAMUEL,
BECAUSE OF ELI, WHO WAS THE
00:49:58.69\00:50:01.80
PRIEST - IN THE BOOK PATRIARCHS
AND PROPHETS ON PAGE 575, WE
00:50:01.80\00:50:06.60
HAVE THIS QUOTE, SPEAKING OF
ELI, "BUT ALTHOUGH HE (ELI) HAD
00:50:06.60\00:50:10.81
BEEN APPOINTED TO GOVERN THE
PEOPLE, HE DID NOT RULE HIS OWN
00:50:10.81\00:50:13.88
HOUSEHOLD. ELI WAS
AN INDULGENT FATHER.
00:50:13.88\00:50:17.71
LOVING PEACE AND EASE, HE DID
NOT EXERCISE HIS AUTHORITY TO
00:50:17.71\00:50:20.62
CORRECT THE EVIL HABITS
AND PASSIONS OF HIS CHILDREN.
00:50:20.62\00:50:23.55
RATHER THAN CONTEND WITH THEM OR
PUNISH THEM, HE WOULD SUBMIT TO
00:50:23.55\00:50:26.76
THEIR WILL AND GIVE THEIR
OWN WAY. AS A RESULT, THERE WAS
00:50:26.76\00:50:31.43
GREAT APOSTASY." YOU
CAN READ ABOUT THE SONS OF
00:50:31.43\00:50:33.90
ELI AND THE WICKED
THINGS THAT THEY DID.
00:50:33.90\00:50:36.83
THIS FINALLY LED TO A BATTLE
WITH THE PHILISTINES WHEN THE
00:50:36.83\00:50:39.73
ARK OF THE COVENANT WAS ACTUALLY
TAKEN AWAY FROM ISRAEL AND THE
00:50:39.73\00:50:43.07
ARK WAS, FOR A PERIOD OF TIME,
OVER THERE IN THE LAND OF THE
00:50:43.07\00:50:46.34
PHILISTINES. "YET,
IN CONTRAST TO ELI'S
00:50:46.34\00:50:49.64
WICKED SONS, WE HAVE THE STORY
OF A SMALL BOY DRESSED AS A
00:50:49.64\00:50:53.58
PRIEST WHO, LIKE JESUS, SPEAKING
OF SAMUEL, GREW IN STATURE AND
00:50:53.58\00:50:57.45
FAVOR WITH BOTH
THE LORD AND WITH MAN."
00:50:57.45\00:51:00.76
SO SAMUEL WAS AN IMPORTANT
PERSON, DURING THAT TIME, TO
00:51:00.76\00:51:03.59
DIRECT ISRAEL'S ATTENTION BACK
TO THE TRUE GOD WHO WAS THE ONE
00:51:03.59\00:51:07.30
WHO COULD BRING GENUINE
DELIVERANCE FROM THEIR ENEMIES.
00:51:07.30\00:51:11.53
SO SAMUEL MARKED THIS
TRANSITIONAL POINT IN THE
00:51:11.53\00:51:13.90
HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
HE WAS THE LAST OF THE JUDGES
00:51:13.90\00:51:17.17
AND A KEY FIGURE IN THE
DEVELOPING GREAT CONTROVERSY.
00:51:17.17\00:51:21.71
HIS STABLE INFLUENCE GUIDED THE
PEOPLE DURING A CRITICAL TIME
00:51:21.71\00:51:25.65
OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY.
00:51:25.65\00:51:28.08
SO IN THESE STORIES THAT WE
LOOKED AT DURING OUR LESSON FOR
00:51:28.08\00:51:31.32
THIS WEEK, WE CAN SEE HOW THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY WAS PLAYED OUT
00:51:31.32\00:51:34.79
IN A VERY REAL SCENARIO
WITH THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
00:51:34.79\00:51:38.93
ISRAEL WOULD ABANDON THEIR TRUE
WORSHIP OF GOD AND WOULD FOLLOW
00:51:38.93\00:51:42.96
AFTER THESE PAGAN
DEITIES THAT SURROUNDED THEM.
00:51:42.96\00:51:45.83
AS A RESULT, FAMINE WOULD COME
OR AN ARMY WOULD COME AND OCCUPY
00:51:45.83\00:51:50.17
THE LAND AND THEY
WOULD SUFFER AT THEIR HAND.
00:51:50.17\00:51:53.07
FINALLY, THEY WOULD REALIZE THE
CAUSE FOR ALL OF THESE TERRIBLE
00:51:53.07\00:51:56.64
THINGS WAS BECAUSE THEY HAD LEFT
GOD AND THEY TURNED AND THEY
00:51:56.64\00:51:59.25
CRIED OUT TO GOD AND GOD WOULD
RAISE UP A DELIVERER TO COME AND
00:51:59.25\00:52:02.55
GUIDE THEM. AND IT SEEMED THAT
WORKED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, BUT
00:52:02.55\00:52:05.69
THEN ISRAEL KEPT SLIPPING BACK
INTO THE OLD WAYS OF SEEKING TO
00:52:05.69\00:52:09.66
FOLLOW THESE PAGAN DEITIES.
NOW, COULD IT BE TODAY THAT WE
00:52:09.66\00:52:14.86
FOLLOW THE SAME COURSE
OF ISRAEL FROM TIME TO TIME?
00:52:14.86\00:52:19.37
I JUST THINK OF
OUR OWN PERSONAL LIVES.
00:52:19.37\00:52:21.77
ARE THERE TIMES IN OUR
LIFE WHERE WE HAVE NEGLECTED OUR
00:52:21.77\00:52:25.07
COMMITMENT AND OUR CONNECTION
WITH GOD, ONLY TO FIND OURSELVES
00:52:25.07\00:52:29.51
IN TROUBLE, CRYING OUT
TO GOD FOR DELIVERANCE?
00:52:29.51\00:52:33.11
GOD, IN HIS MERCY, COMES AND
DELIVERS US, BUT THEN IT SEEMS
00:52:33.11\00:52:36.79
LIKE THINGS GO BACK THE WAY THAT
THEY WERE AND, AGAIN, WE HAVE TO
00:52:36.79\00:52:41.29
EXPERIENCE THAT REVIVAL AND SAY,
'LORD, PLEASE DELIVER ME FROM MY
00:52:41.29\00:52:45.86
ENEMY' - WHICH, OF COURSE,
IS THE DEVIL - 'DELIVER ME FROM
00:52:45.86\00:52:48.40
SIN.' AND THAT EXPERIENCE THAT
ISRAEL HAD IS AN EXPERIENCE THAT
00:52:48.40\00:52:52.33
EACH OF US, I THINK, HAVE IN OUR
OWN EXPERIENCE, BUT GOD WANTS US
00:52:52.33\00:52:55.97
TO STAY CONSISTENT WITH HIM, NOT
TO HAVE THIS UP AND DOWN KIND OF
00:52:55.97\00:52:59.64
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE, BUT
HE WANTS US TO BE DEVOTED AND
00:52:59.64\00:53:02.84
FAITHFUL, TRUSTING IN HIM.
00:53:02.84\00:53:05.08
I THINK SAMUEL IS SET FORTH AS A
GREAT EXAMPLE FOR US CHRISTIANS
00:53:05.08\00:53:08.68
TO FOLLOW. FROM HIS
EARLY YEARS ALL THE WAY
00:53:08.68\00:53:11.42
TO HIS OLD YEARS, HE
WAS FAITHFUL TO HIS GOD.
00:53:11.42\00:53:13.89
AND WHENEVER HE FACED OPPOSITION
OR TRIALS OR DIFFICULTIES, THE
00:53:13.89\00:53:17.66
FIRST THING HE DID WAS
TO TURN TO GOD IN PRAYER.
00:53:17.66\00:53:20.96
WHEN THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL CAME,
WHEN THEY WANTED A KING, THE
00:53:20.96\00:53:23.73
FIRST THING SAMUEL DID
WAS HE PRAYED TO THE LORD.
00:53:23.73\00:53:26.40
HE TALKED TO THE LORD ABOUT
THE PROBLEM - 'WHAT DO I DO?'
00:53:26.40\00:53:28.67
WE NEED TO HAVE THAT
SAME ATTITUDE OF PRAYER - THAT
00:53:28.67\00:53:31.71
WHATEVER THE CIRCUMSTANCE
MIGHT BE THAT WE FACE, OUR FIRST
00:53:31.71\00:53:34.74
INSTINCT IS TO TURN TO GOD IN
PRAYER AND SAY, 'LORD, WHAT DO
00:53:34.74\00:53:37.41
YOU WANT ME TO DO? HOW
CAN I BE FAITHFUL TO YOU AND
00:53:37.41\00:53:40.85
FOLLOW THE LEADING THAT YOU HAVE
GIVEN?' NOW ON FRIDAY, AT THE
00:53:40.85\00:53:44.65
END OF OUR LESSON,
THERE'S JUST A QUICK SUMMARY.
00:53:44.65\00:53:46.76
IT SAYS "WE ARE EITHER
THE LORD'S, DOING SOMETHING
00:53:46.76\00:53:50.03
MEANINGFUL AND OF PURPOSE
FOR HIM, OR WE, IN THE END, ARE
00:53:50.03\00:53:56.36
WORTHLESS." TWO CHOICES.
00:53:56.36\00:53:58.73
AND, OF COURSE, THAT MAKES
SENSE, CONSIDERING THAT OUR
00:53:58.73\00:54:01.54
WHOLE EXISTENCE AND PURPOSE
IN LIFE COMES ONLY FROM HIM.
00:54:01.54\00:54:05.94
SO ALL OF US
FACE A SIMILAR CHOICE.
00:54:05.94\00:54:08.88
WE'RE ALL PART OF THIS GREAT
CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE FORCES
00:54:08.88\00:54:11.21
OF GOOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL.
AND EVERY ONE OF US, IN OUR OWN
00:54:11.21\00:54:15.38
LIVES, EVERY DAY, WE
MAKE A CHOICE: WHOSE SIDE
00:54:15.38\00:54:18.25
ARE WE GOING TO BE ON?
ARE WE GOING TO BE ON THE SIDE
00:54:18.25\00:54:20.79
OF GOD OR ARE WE GOING TO
BE ON THE SIDE OF THE ENEMY?
00:54:20.79\00:54:23.83
HOW DO WE RESPOND AND REACT WHEN
WE FACE TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES
00:54:23.83\00:54:27.13
IN OUR LIFE? DO WE
REALIZE THAT THIS IS AN
00:54:27.13\00:54:30.13
OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SEEK THE
LORD FOR DELIVERANCE, OR DO WE
00:54:30.13\00:54:34.57
TRY TO BATTLE THESE THINGS
ON OUR OWN? THE LESSON THAT WE
00:54:34.57\00:54:38.07
LEARN FROM JUDGES IS GOD'S
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>>SO WHAT IS THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD?
00:55:32.89\00:55:35.36
NATURALLY YOU'D SAY THE
SUN, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
00:55:35.36\00:55:37.90
BRIGHTEST MAN-MADE
LIGHT IN THE WORLD.
00:55:37.90\00:55:40.37
IT'S THE LIGHT THAT
SHINES OUT OF THE ROOF OF THAT
00:55:40.37\00:55:42.60
PYRAMID-SHAPED HOTEL IN
LAS VEGAS CALLED THE LUXOR.
00:55:42.60\00:55:46.68
THERE IN THE CAP OF THAT HOTEL,
THERE'S A ROOM THAT CONTAINS 39
00:55:46.68\00:55:50.78
WASHING-MACHINE-SIZED XENON
BULBS AND EACH OF THOSE BULBS
00:55:50.78\00:55:55.02
REQUIRES ABOUT 7,000 WATTS.
ALTOGETHER THEY PRODUCE ABOUT 40
00:55:55.02\00:55:59.89
BILLION CANDLE POWER OF LIGHT.
CAN YOU IMAGINE GETTING THAT
00:55:59.89\00:56:03.89
ELECTRIC BILL AT THE
LUXOR HOTEL EVERY MONTH?
00:56:03.89\00:56:06.70
THAT LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT
THAT PLANES CAN SEE IT 250 MILES
00:56:06.70\00:56:11.10
AWAY. THEY'RE
SHOOTING LIGHT TEN MILES
00:56:11.10\00:56:14.00
UP INTO SPACE, MEANING THAT
IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE FLOATING BY,
00:56:14.00\00:56:17.04
YOU COULD READ A
NEWSPAPER UP THERE.
00:56:17.04\00:56:19.47
AND, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED,
THAT BRIGHT LIGHT HAS BECOME THE
00:56:19.47\00:56:22.64
WORLD'S BEST BUG ATTRACTOR,
BRINGING IN MOTHS AND BATS AND
00:56:22.64\00:56:26.45
OWLS, CREATING ITS OWN ECOSYSTEM
THERE AT NIGHT ABOVE THE HOTEL.
00:56:26.45\00:56:30.82
BUT THE SAD THING ABOUT THE
BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE WORLD IS,
00:56:30.82\00:56:33.59
ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NIGHT AIR IS
CLEAR - WITHOUT ANY PARTICLES -
00:56:33.59\00:56:36.83
THE LIGHT DOESN'T HIT
ANYTHING AND IT'S INVISIBLE.
00:56:36.83\00:56:40.76
IT SHOOTS UP INTO EMPTY SPACE.
THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN THE
00:56:40.76\00:56:44.47
WORLD ILLUMINATES NOTHING.
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:56:44.47\00:56:48.14
THAT THERE'S ANOTHER
GREAT WASTED LIGHT, AND THAT'S
00:56:48.14\00:56:50.94
THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
IT SAYS, IN PSALM 119, VERSE
00:56:50.94\00:56:54.48
105, "THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY
FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH."
00:56:54.48\00:56:59.85
AND YET, SO MANY PEOPLE
ARE WALKING IN DARKNESS.
00:56:59.85\00:57:02.55
FURTHERMORE, JESUS SAID IF YOU
DO HAVE THAT LIGHT, MAKE SURE
00:57:02.55\00:57:05.92
YOU DON'T PUT IT UNDER A
BUSHEL, BUT YOU LET IT SHINE AND
00:57:05.92\00:57:08.49
ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
00:57:08.49\00:57:12.43
5, SET YOUR LIGHT UP ON A HILL,
LIKE A CITY, SO THAT ALL MIGHT
00:57:12.43\00:57:15.60
SEE IT. LIGHT ONLY
BENEFITS OTHERS WHEN
00:57:15.60\00:57:18.60
IT REFLECTS OFF OF SOMETHING.
GOD WANTS OUR LIGHTS TO
00:57:18.60\00:57:22.50
ILLUMINATE THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
SO ARE YOU GLOWING FOR GOD?
00:57:22.50\00:57:26.84
REMEMBER, JESUS
SAID, 'LET THERE BE LIGHT.'
00:57:26.84\00:57:29.64
(MUSIC)
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:42.42\00:57:46.33
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:46.33\00:57:49.36
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:49.36\00:57:53.07
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:53.07\00:57:55.50
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:55.50\00:57:58.21
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
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