1 00:00:01,533 --> 00:00:04,533 We're going to give the judges 17 and 18. 2 00:00:05,333 --> 00:00:08,433 But before we jump in. 3 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:12,433 Have you ever shared or thought. 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,666 I am trying to do it right 5 00:00:15,666 --> 00:00:16,666 here, almost with your hand. 6 00:00:16,666 --> 00:00:18,300 I'm trying to do it right. 7 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:19,666 Everyone here? Been there? 8 00:00:19,666 --> 00:00:22,666 It's usually when something's not right. 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,300 It's usually when we want to make sure that people 10 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:29,333 understand our intention, even if they don't agree with our action. 11 00:00:29,366 --> 00:00:30,533 I'm a I'm just. 12 00:00:30,533 --> 00:00:32,966 I'm just trying to do what's right. 13 00:00:32,966 --> 00:00:34,200 You've been there, haven't you? 14 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,200 You've had that feeling, that sentiment. 15 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:39,633 Here's the problem with that. 16 00:00:39,633 --> 00:00:42,633 Unless you have a standard by 17 00:00:42,633 --> 00:00:45,633 which right is judged, 18 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,533 you're going to do what's right according to what you think is right. 19 00:00:50,933 --> 00:00:53,000 Where you become the standard 20 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 of what's right. 21 00:00:56,266 --> 00:01:02,033 Unless we have a standard that judges what is right and what is not right. 22 00:01:03,266 --> 00:01:06,200 We're going to be the ultimate say of what is. 23 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,200 And that's why we say I'm trying to do what's right. 24 00:01:09,366 --> 00:01:11,500 As if there's no necessary standards. 25 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:15,600 Just like, as far as I'm concerned, I'm trying to do what's right. 26 00:01:16,766 --> 00:01:19,033 It's a dangerous place to live, 27 00:01:19,033 --> 00:01:21,600 and there's way. 28 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,500 To do right according to your own standard, 29 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:26,500 can be very wrong. 30 00:01:27,966 --> 00:01:29,000 Right? 31 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,300 Right. 32 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:33,000 But I'm just trying to do what's right. 33 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,866 Well, great 34 00:01:34,866 --> 00:01:37,700 sentiment doesn't make it right. 35 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:39,733 And unless there is a standard 36 00:01:39,733 --> 00:01:42,733 that says this is right and this is not right. 37 00:01:43,866 --> 00:01:46,866 We can be very wrong. 38 00:01:49,133 --> 00:01:52,133 Scripture gives us the standard. 39 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:54,666 And the point of the Bible is to say, 40 00:01:54,666 --> 00:01:57,666 here's the standard. 41 00:01:57,766 --> 00:02:02,233 So that it can reveal in us where we are not right. 42 00:02:03,633 --> 00:02:04,166 Not for 43 00:02:04,166 --> 00:02:07,533 condemnation, but for correcting and training. 44 00:02:08,866 --> 00:02:12,566 And so this morning in judges 17 and 18, 45 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,800 I just need to tell you upfront it might step on some toes 46 00:02:18,233 --> 00:02:21,200 because that's what it's supposed to do. 47 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,733 Second Timothy 316 says, All Scripture is God 48 00:02:24,733 --> 00:02:28,966 breathed, it's inspired, and it's useful for teaching, 49 00:02:29,733 --> 00:02:35,333 rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness that the person of God 50 00:02:35,333 --> 00:02:38,333 will be equipped for every good, whether that's what it does. 51 00:02:39,533 --> 00:02:41,400 In fact, I think I have that verse up here. 52 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,300 All Scripture is God breathed. 53 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:47,700 It's useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training and righteousness. 54 00:02:48,233 --> 00:02:51,233 And so when I teach Bible, this is what we 55 00:02:51,233 --> 00:02:54,533 what I try to do, because it's what the Bible does teach it. 56 00:02:55,633 --> 00:02:56,366 Let's see what. 57 00:02:56,366 --> 00:02:59,233 Let's understand what the Scripture says. 58 00:02:59,233 --> 00:03:03,733 And when we understand what the Scripture says, it will rebuke error. 59 00:03:04,933 --> 00:03:07,033 It will rebuke. 60 00:03:07,033 --> 00:03:08,833 That means it'll call out. 61 00:03:08,833 --> 00:03:10,200 I know you're trying to do what's right 62 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,200 in your own eyes, but it's in your own eyes. 63 00:03:13,433 --> 00:03:16,433 And that first it has to be rebuked 64 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,566 so that it can be corrected. 65 00:03:20,566 --> 00:03:23,800 You can't correct something that you don't admit needs correcting. 66 00:03:23,866 --> 00:03:26,866 That make sense? 67 00:03:26,933 --> 00:03:28,666 For so it can be corrected 68 00:03:28,666 --> 00:03:31,666 so that training can take place. 69 00:03:32,066 --> 00:03:34,300 So I can be trained 70 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:37,300 in righteousness and following God. 71 00:03:37,433 --> 00:03:39,766 But it has to start with teaching God's Word. 72 00:03:39,766 --> 00:03:42,900 So rebuke can happen not in a shameful, 73 00:03:43,266 --> 00:03:46,666 demeaning way, but just in the exposing of error. 74 00:03:46,933 --> 00:03:49,933 This is how we used to think, how we used to live. 75 00:03:50,733 --> 00:03:53,733 So I can be corrected. 76 00:03:54,333 --> 00:03:56,600 And trained and equipped and so. 77 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:01,666 17 and 18 this morning I need to let you know that chapter 17 through 21. 78 00:04:01,666 --> 00:04:05,000 The rest of this book is really an addendum 79 00:04:05,466 --> 00:04:08,600 to the book of judges. Like the 80 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,100 we can think of it 81 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:14,733 as, as, as it ending after Samson. 82 00:04:14,933 --> 00:04:15,933 And then there's some 83 00:04:15,933 --> 00:04:18,933 there's some other story, there's some other history that's given 84 00:04:18,933 --> 00:04:22,766 just to, to to give light to and to flesh out 85 00:04:22,866 --> 00:04:27,133 the degradation of God's people and how far they have fallen. 86 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:30,233 And we will certainly see 87 00:04:30,233 --> 00:04:33,233 that in these next chapters 88 00:04:33,833 --> 00:04:35,666 17 and eight. Chapter 1718. 89 00:04:35,666 --> 00:04:38,700 There's a few main characters you have to understand, you have to know, 90 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:42,466 and I'm going to introduce them to you will look at them in these two chapters. 91 00:04:42,466 --> 00:04:46,400 One of them is a man named Micah became Micah, 92 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,200 Nathan, and many Micah and his mom. 93 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:53,400 And there's a there's a person 94 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,400 known as a Levite. 95 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,033 And then there's the tribe of Dan. 96 00:04:58,033 --> 00:04:58,833 Those four, 97 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:00,500 Micah, his 98 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:03,500 mom, a Levite in the tribe of Dan. 99 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:08,433 I need to give you some, some, some foundation from which to understand this. 100 00:05:08,666 --> 00:05:14,166 Regarding the tribe of Dan, there were 12 tribes of Israel, 101 00:05:14,766 --> 00:05:18,600 and the 12 tribes came from the 12 sons of Jacob, 102 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,900 each tribe bearing the name of one of the sons. 103 00:05:23,966 --> 00:05:26,833 Dan was one of the sons of Jacob. 104 00:05:26,833 --> 00:05:30,466 Thereby the tribe was known as the Tribe of Dan, 105 00:05:30,466 --> 00:05:33,466 one of the 12. 106 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,600 In the Bible, and there's lists in both the Old Testament 107 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,700 and the New Testament of the tribes of Israel. 108 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,700 It lists different names, 109 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:46,766 and in some lists 110 00:05:46,766 --> 00:05:49,433 it's the 12 sons of Israel. 111 00:05:49,433 --> 00:05:52,266 They just simply list the genealogy. 112 00:05:52,266 --> 00:05:55,700 And that's the that's the 12 tribes in other lists. 113 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,566 The Bible tells us their land allotment in the Promised Land. 114 00:06:00,766 --> 00:06:03,800 And that's a different list than just the 12 sons. 115 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:07,700 And the reason why it's different is this. 116 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:11,866 Because when God was apportioning the land to the 12 tribes, 117 00:06:11,866 --> 00:06:18,300 one of the tribes of the tribe of Levi and the Levites were the priestly tribe. 118 00:06:18,766 --> 00:06:22,433 And God said, as priests, you don't have land 119 00:06:22,433 --> 00:06:25,766 that is yours to inherit and pass on to your family members. 120 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:29,400 You will be taken care of by the people you minister to, 121 00:06:29,866 --> 00:06:32,766 and they are responsible to care for you and take care of you. 122 00:06:32,766 --> 00:06:36,300 Meet your needs and so you will have cities in their tribes 123 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,366 that will be your cities, but you won't have land for yourself. 124 00:06:40,466 --> 00:06:42,300 Does that make sense? 125 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:44,833 Joseph is another one of the sons of Jacob, 126 00:06:44,833 --> 00:06:49,233 and he isn't listed in the apportionment oftentimes. 127 00:06:49,233 --> 00:06:51,900 And, and, and, and some of these lists. 128 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:56,333 And instead of listing Joseph, Joseph had two sons, Ephraim and Manasa. 129 00:06:56,933 --> 00:07:01,400 And so sometimes in the list of the 12 tribes, Ephraim or Manasseh are listed. 130 00:07:01,533 --> 00:07:04,533 And it's a throwback to their father Joseph, 131 00:07:04,766 --> 00:07:07,466 who was one of the sons of Jacob 132 00:07:07,466 --> 00:07:10,433 I they're just list different lists for different purposes. 133 00:07:10,433 --> 00:07:12,766 That won't mean anything to you right now. 134 00:07:12,766 --> 00:07:16,000 It will mean something to you at the end of this message, I just setting this up. 135 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,633 Okay, we're setting the table before we start the feast, okay? 136 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:23,400 And we'll feast at the end. 137 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:24,933 And all these tribes stuff will start. 138 00:07:24,933 --> 00:07:26,200 It'll start making some sense, 139 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,200 but I just need to give you some basic understanding ahead of time. 140 00:07:29,766 --> 00:07:33,966 The key for the book of judges, and especially for chapter 17 141 00:07:33,966 --> 00:07:35,933 and for the rest of what we see, is this verse. 142 00:07:35,933 --> 00:07:38,000 In those days, there was no king in Israel. 143 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,466 Everyone did what was right. 144 00:07:41,533 --> 00:07:43,866 They just don't do what's right, 145 00:07:43,866 --> 00:07:46,200 right now. 146 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,933 The problem, the interesting with with that verse, there was a king in Israel. 147 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:53,966 It was God. 148 00:07:53,966 --> 00:07:55,533 He was to be their king. 149 00:07:55,533 --> 00:07:57,266 He was to be the one that they followed. 150 00:07:57,266 --> 00:08:00,366 And he gave all these rules and regulations on how to do it right. 151 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,866 But they didn't want that. 152 00:08:03,866 --> 00:08:08,100 It's almost as if, you know, I know we got God, 153 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:11,100 but good gracious, can we have somebody else? 154 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,200 Like if we just have the right ruler? 155 00:08:15,466 --> 00:08:18,466 Well, if we can just get the right person, the white House, we'll be okay, 156 00:08:19,533 --> 00:08:20,200 right? 157 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,200 Right. 158 00:08:24,833 --> 00:08:27,833 Well, now you know. 159 00:08:29,133 --> 00:08:30,933 Like, in the end, we think like, if, if, 160 00:08:30,933 --> 00:08:34,933 if we got the right person leaving us and God says, I'm the one. 161 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:38,466 They will have a king. 162 00:08:38,466 --> 00:08:41,466 And it would be just as screwed up as it is now. 163 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,366 Guess what? 164 00:08:44,366 --> 00:08:47,366 So do we. 165 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,066 And it's still going to be messed up, 166 00:08:49,066 --> 00:08:52,066 just in different ways. 167 00:08:54,733 --> 00:08:57,933 So everyone did not like and I appreciate the fact that they wanted 168 00:08:57,933 --> 00:09:00,933 to do what was right, because I feel like we want to do what's right. 169 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:02,600 Right, right. 170 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,866 We we really do. 171 00:09:04,866 --> 00:09:09,000 But the problem is when there isn't the standard that judges what's right, 172 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,400 you and I like them end up doing right 173 00:09:12,466 --> 00:09:15,766 in our own eyes, which can be 174 00:09:16,833 --> 00:09:19,633 very wrong. 175 00:09:19,633 --> 00:09:21,966 Two keys to understanding. 176 00:09:21,966 --> 00:09:25,800 They wanted to do what was right just in their own eyes. 177 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,600 Not in God's eyes. 178 00:09:29,633 --> 00:09:32,633 Very similar to us. 179 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,400 Second thing is, is 180 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,333 there a problem? Was an issue of compromise 181 00:09:38,966 --> 00:09:41,966 leading to greater and greater compromise? 182 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:44,900 It's the same thing with us. 183 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:47,000 Little compromises here, a little compromises there. 184 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,700 We don't think add up. And they do 185 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:52,700 at least a greater, greater compromise 186 00:09:52,766 --> 00:09:54,800 and great destruction. 187 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,800 And so chapter 17, 188 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:00,300 the first two verses of chapter 17 say this. 189 00:10:00,300 --> 00:10:03,000 Now a man named Micah 190 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 from the hill country of Ephraim said to his mother 191 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,566 the 1100 shekels of silver that were taken from you, 192 00:10:09,566 --> 00:10:12,566 and about which I heard you utter a curse. 193 00:10:12,733 --> 00:10:15,733 Yeah, I took it. 194 00:10:17,133 --> 00:10:18,700 And in response to this kid 195 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:21,700 stealing a year's worth of wages from his mother, 196 00:10:23,333 --> 00:10:25,200 which, by the way, parents, 197 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,200 would any of you be upset? 198 00:10:31,033 --> 00:10:33,600 Look what she says. 199 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,600 Oh, bless your heart, sweetie. 200 00:10:48,433 --> 00:10:51,433 Micah and his mom. 201 00:10:53,866 --> 00:10:55,466 He stole this money. 202 00:10:58,400 --> 00:10:59,533 And then, apparently, 203 00:10:59,533 --> 00:11:02,533 she uttered some curse, 204 00:11:02,533 --> 00:11:05,866 as if she has some type of special spiritual power 205 00:11:06,266 --> 00:11:10,233 that could curse somebody and make bad happen to him. 206 00:11:13,866 --> 00:11:15,666 And he wasn't scared 207 00:11:15,666 --> 00:11:18,666 or remorseful about stealing the money until 208 00:11:19,633 --> 00:11:22,633 he heard the curse. 209 00:11:23,566 --> 00:11:27,300 So spiritually ignorant are these two 210 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:30,333 that he believes 211 00:11:30,333 --> 00:11:33,666 he could live under the curse of an angry mother. 212 00:11:33,666 --> 00:11:36,066 So spiritually, 213 00:11:36,066 --> 00:11:37,700 he's superstitious. 214 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:39,533 She's superstitious. 215 00:11:39,533 --> 00:11:43,233 They have no bearing on what it is to follow God 216 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,600 and God's authority. 217 00:11:48,033 --> 00:11:51,433 And when he's confronted, and when he admits his error, 218 00:11:52,433 --> 00:11:54,500 instead of being a parent 219 00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:57,500 who disciplines and corrects, 220 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,866 instead of being a parent who says, here's the lines of what is right 221 00:12:02,866 --> 00:12:05,166 and wrong, and this is what our family will do 222 00:12:05,166 --> 00:12:08,100 and won't do, and there'll be consequences. What does she do? 223 00:12:11,266 --> 00:12:15,233 Oh, sweetie, I, I know your heart. 224 00:12:16,433 --> 00:12:19,433 I know you're a good boy. 225 00:12:19,566 --> 00:12:22,566 It's all right. 226 00:12:24,733 --> 00:12:26,700 I mean, 227 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:29,700 parents. 228 00:12:31,233 --> 00:12:34,133 How many times have we made excuses for our kids? 229 00:12:34,133 --> 00:12:36,733 No, you don't understand their heart. 230 00:12:36,733 --> 00:12:39,600 They're a good boy. 231 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,200 They're a good girl. 232 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,200 I mean, they might be misunderstood. And, 233 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,400 like, things aren't fair for them, but they're not. 234 00:12:48,533 --> 00:12:51,533 They're not bad. 235 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:53,766 I tell parents all the time. 236 00:12:53,766 --> 00:12:57,133 Looks at you, discipline your kid with love or the world 237 00:12:57,133 --> 00:13:00,133 of discipline them without love, 238 00:13:00,166 --> 00:13:02,566 right. 239 00:13:02,566 --> 00:13:03,966 And what we see here 240 00:13:03,966 --> 00:13:07,233 is these beginning little slips of compromise. 241 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:09,533 Skin knows what's right and wrong. 242 00:13:09,533 --> 00:13:12,533 You knows you shouldn't be stealing from his mom, yet he does. 243 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,300 She knows what's right and wrong. 244 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:18,300 She every helicopter and bulldozer parent knows 245 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:22,500 this is stupid 246 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:24,000 little thing and it just 247 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,833 it starts to grow and grow and grow. 248 00:13:26,833 --> 00:13:29,833 Spiritual superstition. 249 00:13:30,366 --> 00:13:31,700 Leads to great compromise. 250 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:33,700 Watch what happens 251 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:36,500 when he return the 1100 shekels of silver to his mother. 252 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:39,866 She said, I solemnly consecrate my silver to the Lord. 253 00:13:39,866 --> 00:13:42,100 Okay. Wait, wait. 254 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:45,666 You're going to call down curses as if you have some type of spiritual 255 00:13:45,666 --> 00:13:49,766 for you to to utter curses that has any type of power. 256 00:13:50,433 --> 00:13:53,400 And then you're going to say, what I have is consecrated to God. 257 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,200 Watch what she says. 258 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,300 I saw him, he consecrated my silver to the Lord 259 00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:00,666 for my son to make an image overlaid with silver. 260 00:14:01,633 --> 00:14:03,533 I'll give it back to you. 261 00:14:03,533 --> 00:14:07,233 So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took 200 shekels of silver 262 00:14:07,366 --> 00:14:10,700 and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make an idol, 263 00:14:12,033 --> 00:14:15,033 and it was put in Micah's house. 264 00:14:15,166 --> 00:14:16,666 This this compromise 265 00:14:16,666 --> 00:14:19,733 and slide little bit leads to more, leads to more, leads to more. 266 00:14:19,833 --> 00:14:22,866 So not only does she not parent well, 267 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,000 she doesn't lead spiritually. 268 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Well, she says, honey, 269 00:14:30,133 --> 00:14:33,100 you're a sweet boy. 270 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:35,266 I'm going to take what you stole, 271 00:14:35,266 --> 00:14:38,266 and I'm going to have someone make an idol, 272 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,633 and then you're going to take that idol and put it 273 00:14:40,633 --> 00:14:43,633 in your house. 274 00:14:44,733 --> 00:14:47,733 The problem with that, 275 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,733 she's invoking the name of God to make an idol, 276 00:14:52,633 --> 00:14:55,733 to worship something other than God. 277 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:02,800 She apparently had forgotten God's command in Exodus 20. 278 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,533 You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven 279 00:15:07,533 --> 00:15:10,533 above, on earth, below, or in the waters below. 280 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,433 You shall not bow down to them or worship them. 281 00:15:13,433 --> 00:15:16,500 For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. 282 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:23,900 But God doesn't play. 283 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,300 This little compromise leads to greater 284 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:30,300 compromise, leads to greater compromise. 285 00:15:32,633 --> 00:15:33,466 After all, 286 00:15:33,466 --> 00:15:36,466 all she's doing is what is right 287 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:40,900 in her own eyes. 288 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:44,433 I don't think she would say, 289 00:15:44,433 --> 00:15:47,333 yeah, I'm really bad. 290 00:15:47,333 --> 00:15:50,466 I don't think she would say, I am completely turning my back on God. 291 00:15:50,566 --> 00:15:52,300 She wouldn't say that. 292 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:55,800 All she would say is, look, I'm just figuring to stuff. 293 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,800 I'm just trying to do what is right. 294 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:03,900 Verse five and six. 295 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:06,900 Now this man Micah had a shrine. 296 00:16:08,233 --> 00:16:09,633 And he made an effort 297 00:16:09,633 --> 00:16:13,400 and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest. 298 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,433 In those days, Israel had no king, and everyone did as he saw fit. 299 00:16:18,833 --> 00:16:21,233 So here's this guy, Micah, 300 00:16:21,233 --> 00:16:24,233 who has a shrine in his house 301 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,700 that he uses as his connection point to God, 302 00:16:29,366 --> 00:16:30,633 and he makes an effort. 303 00:16:30,633 --> 00:16:33,633 An ephod was the breastplate for the priest, 304 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:37,366 that God had given very clear instructions for the high priest 305 00:16:37,366 --> 00:16:40,700 to wear in representing the people before God, 306 00:16:41,966 --> 00:16:44,966 he makes one for himself 307 00:16:45,533 --> 00:16:48,900 and sets his son up to be his quote unquote priest. 308 00:16:50,366 --> 00:16:53,233 Not only that, he makes the Hebrew word his terrifying 309 00:16:53,233 --> 00:16:56,233 little household got little family gods 310 00:16:57,566 --> 00:16:59,966 to help protect him, he thinks, 311 00:16:59,966 --> 00:17:02,800 and that he uses as avenues through 312 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,800 which to go to get to God. 313 00:17:06,866 --> 00:17:09,800 It's called idolatry. 314 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:14,233 Anything we use as an instrument in worship 315 00:17:14,233 --> 00:17:17,966 to go through to get to God is idolatry. 316 00:17:19,100 --> 00:17:22,333 Jesus said, I am the way, I am the truth. 317 00:17:22,333 --> 00:17:23,166 I am a life. 318 00:17:23,166 --> 00:17:26,200 No one goes to the father except through me. 319 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,400 So the way is a person of Jesus, and every Christ 320 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,400 follower has direct access to the father through the son. 321 00:17:34,066 --> 00:17:37,233 We don't need medallions, we don't need statues, 322 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,400 we don't need any trinket 323 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:42,966 through which we go to get to God. 324 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:47,833 And using any medallion, trinket or patron 325 00:17:47,833 --> 00:17:51,133 saint to go through them to get to God 326 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:54,300 is idolatry. 327 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:58,500 And this is what they're practicing. 328 00:18:01,833 --> 00:18:05,000 Now we would say, 329 00:18:05,966 --> 00:18:08,966 what's wrong with the little. 330 00:18:10,266 --> 00:18:12,500 Medallion? 331 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,700 What? 332 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:16,933 What's wrong with the little? 333 00:18:16,933 --> 00:18:18,266 You call it superstition. 334 00:18:18,266 --> 00:18:21,266 I call it, you know, my faith background. But 335 00:18:22,066 --> 00:18:25,066 what's wrong? 336 00:18:26,266 --> 00:18:28,800 It seems like that should be all right 337 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,800 in our own eyes. 338 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,400 Right. 339 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:40,933 Remember 340 00:18:40,933 --> 00:18:43,933 that this is what the Bible supposed to do. 341 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Teach, rebuke so we can correct. 342 00:18:47,433 --> 00:18:50,433 Be trained. 343 00:18:51,633 --> 00:18:53,600 If you go on and you read, I just want you 344 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,266 to see the slight of compromise throughout this, these two chapters. 345 00:18:57,566 --> 00:18:59,700 I didn't put it on the screen, but let me let me just read this. 346 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:02,700 Verses seven and eight. 347 00:19:03,066 --> 00:19:03,966 The young Levite 348 00:19:03,966 --> 00:19:07,033 from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within 349 00:19:07,433 --> 00:19:12,066 the clan of Judah, left that town in search of some other place to stay. 350 00:19:12,066 --> 00:19:14,766 On his way he came to make his house in the hill country. 351 00:19:14,766 --> 00:19:15,933 From this this is. 352 00:19:15,933 --> 00:19:17,866 It just gets worse and worse and worse because, you know, 353 00:19:17,866 --> 00:19:20,400 there's a Levite from the town of Bethlehem. 354 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:21,666 Here's what you got to know. 355 00:19:21,666 --> 00:19:25,700 A Levite was from the tribe of Levi, which were to be the priests. 356 00:19:26,233 --> 00:19:28,633 That was the Levitical tribe. 357 00:19:28,633 --> 00:19:30,366 They were the priests. 358 00:19:30,366 --> 00:19:34,366 And I told you earlier they weren't given territory to inherit. 359 00:19:34,366 --> 00:19:37,200 They were given cities in which to live. 360 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,433 Bethlehem was not one of their cities. 361 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:43,366 And so you have this man who is called by God 362 00:19:43,366 --> 00:19:47,566 to be a Levite and a priest living outside of the will of God. 363 00:19:47,566 --> 00:19:50,433 He should have been in Bethlehem. 364 00:19:50,433 --> 00:19:52,066 You see that? 365 00:19:52,066 --> 00:19:54,333 He says, the Bible says, a Levite from Bethlehem. 366 00:19:54,333 --> 00:19:56,800 He should never been there. 367 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,400 He had his place as God called him to live. 368 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,666 And he rejected that and was going out on his own. 369 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,033 He the Bible says it was 370 00:20:06,033 --> 00:20:09,000 he was in search of some place to stay. 371 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,333 He didn't want to be where God had placed him. 372 00:20:11,333 --> 00:20:13,833 He didn't want to do what God had asked him to do. 373 00:20:13,833 --> 00:20:16,866 He didn't want the parameters around his life that God has said. 374 00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:22,133 And so he's going out searching for a better place, a better, a better thing. 375 00:20:23,233 --> 00:20:25,366 He's compromised 376 00:20:25,366 --> 00:20:28,433 the call and the will and the way of God 377 00:20:29,266 --> 00:20:31,900 for greener pastures. 378 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:34,900 He's looking for a job. 379 00:20:39,133 --> 00:20:41,666 Verses nine through 13, 380 00:20:41,666 --> 00:20:43,933 Micah asked him, where are you from? 381 00:20:43,933 --> 00:20:45,900 I believe from Bethlehem and Judah. 382 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:47,533 Right there. 383 00:20:47,533 --> 00:20:49,800 Micah should have said, boy, you're 384 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,800 in the wrong neighborhood. 385 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,800 One you shouldn't be from Bethlehem. 386 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,166 Two, you need to go back to where God has called you to be. 387 00:21:00,766 --> 00:21:03,766 But Micah is a man of compromise, 388 00:21:03,966 --> 00:21:06,966 and he doesn't mind other men of compromise. 389 00:21:09,866 --> 00:21:11,866 He said, I'm looking for a place to stay. 390 00:21:11,866 --> 00:21:16,200 Then Micah said to him, Will live with me in my father and be my father and priest. 391 00:21:16,433 --> 00:21:19,433 What? 392 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:25,500 I'll give you ten shekels of silver a year, your clothes and your food. 393 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,366 So the Levite agreed to live with him, 394 00:21:27,366 --> 00:21:29,966 and the young man became like one of his sons to him. 395 00:21:29,966 --> 00:21:34,366 Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest 396 00:21:34,566 --> 00:21:35,700 and lived in his house. 397 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:41,900 Micah 398 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:44,533 thinks I'm just going to circumvent 399 00:21:44,533 --> 00:21:47,533 everything the way God said to do it. 400 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:51,300 This seems more right to me 401 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:54,700 to set this guy up as my priest 402 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:55,466 again. 403 00:21:55,466 --> 00:21:58,233 I don't think Micah would wake up that day and say, you know what? 404 00:21:58,233 --> 00:22:00,000 I just I think I'm just going to. 405 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,000 I think I'm just going to reject God. 406 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:04,500 I think he's just saying, you know what? 407 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:07,500 Just this just seems right. 408 00:22:08,433 --> 00:22:11,433 And so he did what was right in his. 409 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,800 One compromise after another. 410 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:19,666 And I don't even think Micah realizes where this is headed. 411 00:22:19,666 --> 00:22:22,666 He doesn't realize the compounding interest 412 00:22:22,933 --> 00:22:25,933 associated with compromise. 413 00:22:27,033 --> 00:22:30,033 It's a such a dangerous place for us to be. 414 00:22:30,966 --> 00:22:33,266 The moment we take 415 00:22:33,266 --> 00:22:36,833 what God has said and add anything to it, 416 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,400 the moment we subtract anything from the moment 417 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,400 we set up God and 418 00:22:45,033 --> 00:22:48,033 God and. 419 00:22:50,166 --> 00:22:53,166 We're on really dangerous ground. 420 00:22:54,533 --> 00:22:56,666 God says, this is who I am. 421 00:22:56,666 --> 00:22:58,733 This is how I will be worshiped. 422 00:22:58,733 --> 00:23:01,366 This is the priority I will have in your life. 423 00:23:01,366 --> 00:23:04,400 And the moment we say, well, God is it is you. 424 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:05,333 Certainly. 425 00:23:05,333 --> 00:23:08,266 And it's 426 00:23:08,266 --> 00:23:09,666 Isaiah 42 eight. 427 00:23:09,666 --> 00:23:11,300 We got to know this verse. 428 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:13,200 I am the Lord. That is my name. 429 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,433 I will not yield my glory to another on my praise to idols. 430 00:23:18,466 --> 00:23:21,333 Micah. 431 00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:24,333 You don't messed up. 432 00:23:24,466 --> 00:23:27,400 God will not share his priority 433 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,400 with any of your idols, trinkets, medallions, or priests. 434 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,800 Him and him alone. 435 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:40,233 So that's the end of chapter 17. 436 00:23:40,233 --> 00:23:42,100 So watch chapter 18. 437 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:42,766 This is. 438 00:23:42,766 --> 00:23:46,566 This is the ever increasing degradation and death of compromise. 439 00:23:47,866 --> 00:23:50,066 Watch how bad this thing gets. 440 00:23:50,066 --> 00:23:53,233 I want you to watch the the deepening ramifications 441 00:23:53,666 --> 00:23:58,500 that begin with a guy and his mom. 442 00:23:58,633 --> 00:24:02,000 Just personal compromise and watch how this compromise just spreads. 443 00:24:04,533 --> 00:24:06,333 Verses chapter 18, verse one and two. 444 00:24:06,333 --> 00:24:07,800 In those days, Israel had no king. 445 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,800 I feel like the writer just wants to keep reminding us 446 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,400 that listen, listen, listen, it wouldn't be so bad. 447 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,800 Yeah, it would. 448 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:21,633 And in those days, the tribe of the Knights 449 00:24:21,633 --> 00:24:24,233 was seeking a place of their own where they might settle 450 00:24:24,233 --> 00:24:27,600 because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 451 00:24:29,066 --> 00:24:31,300 So the five of their leading men 452 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:34,900 from Zorah and steal to spy out the land. 453 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:37,233 And it's for these men representing all the Dan. 454 00:24:37,233 --> 00:24:39,000 They told him, hey, go check out the land. 455 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,266 The Bible 456 00:24:42,266 --> 00:24:46,066 says that they hadn't yet received the land of their inheritance. 457 00:24:46,066 --> 00:24:48,166 Yes, they had. 458 00:24:48,166 --> 00:24:51,233 They just didn't like the allotment God had given them. 459 00:24:52,966 --> 00:24:55,200 They already had their allotment. 460 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,133 They already had their blessing from God. 461 00:24:58,133 --> 00:25:00,833 They just didn't like what God had given them. 462 00:25:00,833 --> 00:25:03,833 They wanted to look at what God had given somebody else. 463 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,866 See, what God had given them was the land. 464 00:25:09,866 --> 00:25:13,166 That kind of border was the Philistine the first thing to take over these five, 465 00:25:13,333 --> 00:25:14,900 these five cities? 466 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:16,833 It bordered the Philistine land. 467 00:25:16,833 --> 00:25:20,700 And for them to take full possession of the of the land they had given them 468 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:23,700 means they had to do some hard work. 469 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:27,900 God had called them to that, though. 470 00:25:28,266 --> 00:25:29,700 But following God 471 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:32,800 and being where God placed them was too difficult for them. 472 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,366 It was too arduous for them. 473 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:37,766 They didn't want to trust God fully for his deliverance 474 00:25:37,766 --> 00:25:40,766 of that which God could have done. 475 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:44,000 The judge who just got done studying his name was what? 476 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:47,966 Start the ends with amps. 477 00:25:47,966 --> 00:25:48,066 Amazon. 478 00:25:48,066 --> 00:25:51,166 The starts was Samson. 479 00:25:51,733 --> 00:25:54,333 Samson was a day night. 480 00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:58,633 He was from the tribe of Dan that lived right next to the Philistines. 481 00:25:58,633 --> 00:26:03,300 God was taking care of the Philistines if the damage just trusted him to do it, 482 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:05,833 it was too hard for them. 483 00:26:05,833 --> 00:26:08,233 So they said, let's go look for somewhere else. 484 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:13,166 When we don't embrace where God has placed us and what he is 485 00:26:13,233 --> 00:26:16,833 right now, you may be in a tough spot, but I am your God, 486 00:26:17,733 --> 00:26:20,233 and I will take care of you, 487 00:26:20,233 --> 00:26:23,233 and I will conquer every foe. 488 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,433 I will throw down every game. 489 00:26:25,433 --> 00:26:27,666 Just trust me. 490 00:26:27,666 --> 00:26:30,666 It may be hard, but it won't be too hard 491 00:26:30,766 --> 00:26:34,566 if we don't trust him in that and go looking for greener pastures. 492 00:26:34,666 --> 00:26:36,400 That's called compromise 493 00:26:37,833 --> 00:26:38,833 or compromise in our 494 00:26:38,833 --> 00:26:42,366 faith, or compromise in our trust, or compromise our obedience. 495 00:26:42,933 --> 00:26:46,066 And it will always go bad. 496 00:26:47,466 --> 00:26:50,466 They had a place they didn't like. It. 497 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:55,033 When they were near 498 00:26:55,033 --> 00:26:57,866 Micah's house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. 499 00:26:57,866 --> 00:26:59,566 See, they. 500 00:26:59,566 --> 00:27:02,766 So they turned in there and asked him, what brought you here? 501 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,433 What are you doing in this place? Why are you here? 502 00:27:05,433 --> 00:27:08,433 They knew he should be there. 503 00:27:08,466 --> 00:27:10,533 They recognize his accent. 504 00:27:10,533 --> 00:27:13,200 A Levite, 505 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,200 they know he's in the wrong spot. 506 00:27:16,533 --> 00:27:17,600 Isn't compromised. 507 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,600 So easy to spot in somebody else, but not ourselves. 508 00:27:24,766 --> 00:27:26,233 Right. 509 00:27:26,233 --> 00:27:29,233 It's easier to call out in somebody else. 510 00:27:30,066 --> 00:27:33,733 He told him I done for him and said, hey, he's hired me and I'm a priest. 511 00:27:33,933 --> 00:27:35,566 And then he said to him, 512 00:27:35,566 --> 00:27:38,433 okay, since you're a priest, inquire of God to learn 513 00:27:38,433 --> 00:27:40,633 whether our journey will be successful. But 514 00:27:42,433 --> 00:27:44,900 it you're not. 515 00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:47,333 Where are you supposed to be? You're not doing what you're supposed to do now. 516 00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:50,333 You're going to ask for God's blessing over your disobedience. 517 00:27:52,366 --> 00:27:55,600 And so this idiot, the priest answered, go in peace. 518 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,633 You know your journey has the Lord's approval. 519 00:27:58,633 --> 00:28:01,633 What do you. 520 00:28:03,266 --> 00:28:05,666 What's this guy thinking? 521 00:28:05,666 --> 00:28:06,533 This. 522 00:28:06,533 --> 00:28:08,900 He's a priest. 523 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:10,333 Sometimes people 524 00:28:10,333 --> 00:28:13,333 just want to hear their pastor say what they want to hear. 525 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,033 Make them feel good. 526 00:28:15,033 --> 00:28:17,833 Right? 527 00:28:17,833 --> 00:28:20,833 And sometimes pastors just want to see what their people want to hear, 528 00:28:21,766 --> 00:28:24,766 to make them happy. 529 00:28:24,833 --> 00:28:26,366 But that's not the role of a pastor. 530 00:28:26,366 --> 00:28:29,366 That's not the role Scripture. 531 00:28:32,266 --> 00:28:33,300 And he says, y'all go ahead. 532 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:34,500 The Lord's approved of your journey. 533 00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:36,600 You didn't even ask God. 534 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,966 You didn't even. You did. Why? 535 00:28:38,966 --> 00:28:40,900 Because you. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. 536 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:44,066 We don't ask God for God's opinion, because we don't want to know it. 537 00:28:48,966 --> 00:28:51,866 Because we're fearful he might rebuke us 538 00:28:51,866 --> 00:28:54,866 and correct us. 539 00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:01,400 Look at verse seven and follow him. 540 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600 I didn't put it up there. There's too much for you to put up on there. 541 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,833 So I couldn't type all this stuff. 542 00:29:05,833 --> 00:29:08,833 I expect you bring your Bibles and follow along. 543 00:29:09,066 --> 00:29:10,500 Verse seven, chapter 18. 544 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:13,066 So the five men left and came to lay. 545 00:29:13,066 --> 00:29:16,066 They saw that the people there were living in safety, 546 00:29:16,866 --> 00:29:18,700 unsuspecting and secure. 547 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:21,700 And since their land looked, lacked nothing, 548 00:29:22,233 --> 00:29:24,900 they and they were prosperous, 549 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:26,600 they lived a long way from the. 550 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,566 And who could protect them? They had no relationship with anybody. 551 00:29:28,566 --> 00:29:32,933 So the they go to these people in less than they think. 552 00:29:32,933 --> 00:29:34,500 This land is fantastic. 553 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,233 These guys have no allies. 554 00:29:36,233 --> 00:29:37,366 They're unsuspecting. 555 00:29:37,366 --> 00:29:40,166 They'll never see us coming after them. 556 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:42,300 So they say, 557 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:45,300 come on, verse nine, let's attack them 558 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:45,800 and we'll see. 559 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,233 Because we've seen that the land is very good. 560 00:29:47,233 --> 00:29:49,966 Don't hesitate to go there and take it over. 561 00:29:49,966 --> 00:29:53,166 And when you get there, you'll find an unsuspecting people 562 00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:56,166 and a spacious land that God has put into your hands. 563 00:29:56,166 --> 00:29:59,166 A land that lacks nothing whatsoever. 564 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,700 They went to the hill country of Ephraim 565 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:06,566 and came to Micah's house. 566 00:30:06,566 --> 00:30:09,433 They're terrible people. 567 00:30:09,433 --> 00:30:12,633 They're acting as if God is being gracious and good to them. 568 00:30:12,633 --> 00:30:15,633 All the while they're living in disobedience. 569 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:20,366 They've compromised God's place in for them in this world. 570 00:30:20,366 --> 00:30:23,733 They've compromised their obedience to God, and it's leading them down 571 00:30:23,733 --> 00:30:26,733 this dark path of destruction and abuse. 572 00:30:30,066 --> 00:30:30,733 See, most times 573 00:30:30,733 --> 00:30:34,666 we don't realize the increasing nature of compromise. 574 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:38,866 And compromise leads to greater 575 00:30:38,866 --> 00:30:41,866 compromise, leads to greater compromise, 576 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,266 which leads to abuse and destruction. 577 00:30:44,266 --> 00:30:47,266 Every time. 578 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 These five men who spied out the land. 579 00:30:59,233 --> 00:31:00,233 They come to make this house. 580 00:31:00,233 --> 00:31:02,100 And they turned into to his house. 581 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:04,566 This is verse 15. 582 00:31:04,566 --> 00:31:07,200 And the young Levite is there at Micah's place. 583 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,000 He greets them. 584 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,333 The five men who had spied out the land went inside 585 00:31:10,333 --> 00:31:12,133 and took the carved image of the ephod. 586 00:31:12,133 --> 00:31:14,766 The other household gods and the cast idol. 587 00:31:14,766 --> 00:31:17,800 While the priest and the 600 armed men stood at the entrance. 588 00:31:18,166 --> 00:31:22,000 When these men went into Micah's house and took the carved image 589 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,166 the evening in the other household gods, and they cast out all. 590 00:31:25,166 --> 00:31:28,166 The priest said to them, what are you doing? 591 00:31:29,166 --> 00:31:30,333 Like I can't, 592 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:32,966 you shouldn't be here. 593 00:31:32,966 --> 00:31:34,033 You're stealing. 594 00:31:34,033 --> 00:31:36,300 Micah's got. Let me just tell you this. 595 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:39,300 If your God can be stolen, he's not a very good God. 596 00:31:41,166 --> 00:31:44,166 You're saying that? 597 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:46,533 And they answered him. 598 00:31:46,533 --> 00:31:48,900 Shut up. 599 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:51,466 I think, I think the literal translation is 600 00:31:51,466 --> 00:31:55,166 they put the put your hand over your mouth, like, just shut up. 601 00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:59,233 My Bible says, be quiet, don't say a word. 602 00:31:59,233 --> 00:32:01,033 Come with us and be our father and priest. 603 00:32:01,033 --> 00:32:04,000 Isn't it better you to serve a tribe and a clan in Israel 604 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000 as a priest, rather than just one man's household? 605 00:32:07,933 --> 00:32:09,833 Here's what they're saying. 606 00:32:09,833 --> 00:32:12,533 You got a real little congregation. 607 00:32:12,533 --> 00:32:13,666 Why don't you come with us? 608 00:32:13,666 --> 00:32:16,233 You have a big old church. 609 00:32:16,233 --> 00:32:16,866 That's why. 610 00:32:16,866 --> 00:32:19,700 That's what they're saying. 611 00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:21,366 Like, just 612 00:32:21,366 --> 00:32:23,200 compromise a little bit more. 613 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,533 Because you'll have more if you do. 614 00:32:26,366 --> 00:32:29,366 And this wonderful Levite priest, 615 00:32:29,666 --> 00:32:34,566 the Bible says the priest was glad. Why? 616 00:32:36,433 --> 00:32:39,433 Because he wants a bigger paycheck. 617 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,900 He wants a bigger congregation. 618 00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:45,900 He wants more notoriety, a greater following, 619 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,800 wants to build his brand. 620 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,066 You stand, compromise after compromise. 621 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,600 Everyone from all of them. 622 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,066 Verses 22 through 29. 623 00:33:06,066 --> 00:33:08,000 Watch what happens to these people. 624 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,400 When they had gone some distance from Micah's house, the men who lived near 625 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,933 Micah were called together and overtook the dentist. 626 00:33:13,933 --> 00:33:16,400 So Mike was like, hey, these guys stole some stuff and let's go get them. 627 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,233 So they go in the fight against the dentists. 628 00:33:19,233 --> 00:33:22,133 As they shouted after them, the dentist turned and said to Micah, 629 00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:25,466 what's the matter with you that you called him in the fight against us? 630 00:33:25,833 --> 00:33:30,166 He replied, you took the gods I made and my priest and went away again. 631 00:33:30,866 --> 00:33:34,133 If your God has to be defended, he's not a very big God. 632 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Did you know I never try to defend God? 633 00:33:39,433 --> 00:33:41,066 That's not my job. 634 00:33:41,066 --> 00:33:43,133 God can defend himself. 635 00:33:43,133 --> 00:33:46,033 He doesn't need my assistance. 636 00:33:46,033 --> 00:33:48,766 All I have to do is say, here's God. 637 00:33:48,766 --> 00:33:50,733 I'll explain it to you. 638 00:33:50,733 --> 00:33:53,733 I'll let God handle how he wants to handle you. 639 00:33:54,833 --> 00:33:57,833 If you have to defend your God, 640 00:33:58,166 --> 00:33:59,166 he's not a very big guy. 641 00:33:59,166 --> 00:34:01,233 If your God can be stolen and taken away from. 642 00:34:01,233 --> 00:34:04,233 He's not a very big god. 643 00:34:09,866 --> 00:34:12,600 Verse 27. 644 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,133 Then they took what Micah had made and his priest, 645 00:34:15,133 --> 00:34:18,666 and went to lash against a peaceful and unsuspecting people. 646 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,200 They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city. 647 00:34:22,866 --> 00:34:25,800 The dentists rebuilt the city and settled there. 648 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,800 Verse 29, they named it their. 649 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,400 So they have compromised so much 650 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,600 that they left where God had placed them. 651 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,333 They rejected what God had given them. 652 00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:41,600 They went and stole it from somebody else and renamed 653 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,333 that place Dan, as if that was God's plan for them. 654 00:34:48,133 --> 00:34:48,833 And in the 655 00:34:48,833 --> 00:34:52,566 meantime, they destroyed person after person after person. 656 00:34:52,566 --> 00:34:55,566 That's what compromised us. 657 00:34:58,766 --> 00:35:01,766 That was all set up to get us to this point. 658 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:07,233 That gets us to this point in verses 30 and 31. 659 00:35:07,233 --> 00:35:10,233 And this is what I want you to pay attention to. 660 00:35:12,966 --> 00:35:15,033 There the DeKnight set up for themselves, 661 00:35:15,033 --> 00:35:19,900 the idol and Jonathan, son of Gershom, the son of Moses. 662 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:22,733 So this is right in the lineage of Moses. 663 00:35:22,733 --> 00:35:25,733 Look how far this family's fallen. 664 00:35:26,066 --> 00:35:27,600 And his sons were priests 665 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,200 for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land. 666 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,366 They continue to use the idol. 667 00:35:34,366 --> 00:35:36,266 Micah had made all the time. 668 00:35:36,266 --> 00:35:38,833 The house of God was in Shiloh. 669 00:35:38,833 --> 00:35:42,600 All that I've said before is meant to get us to this point right here. 670 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:45,000 I want you to know 671 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,466 that they set up the idols that Micah had had, 672 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,900 and you were stripped them and use them to try to get to God. 673 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:58,366 The Bible says all the time while the house of God was in Shiloh. 674 00:35:58,366 --> 00:36:02,466 What that's telling us is they were supposed to worship at Shiloh. 675 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:04,800 That's not very far from where they were, 676 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,866 but it was too much for them to do it God's way. 677 00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:11,833 God's time and God's pace. 678 00:36:11,833 --> 00:36:15,800 And so they circumvented God's commands, compromise, 679 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:18,900 and did it their own way. 680 00:36:21,733 --> 00:36:24,166 Compromise after compromise. 681 00:36:24,166 --> 00:36:27,366 Such a conference led them as a tribe 682 00:36:28,133 --> 00:36:32,133 to compromise the sole worship of God alone. 683 00:36:34,533 --> 00:36:35,500 To compromise 684 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:38,500 that and to fall into idolatry. 685 00:36:39,533 --> 00:36:42,533 God and. 686 00:36:42,866 --> 00:36:45,866 The ultimate consequences of this. 687 00:36:47,433 --> 00:36:48,800 Are profound. 688 00:36:50,566 --> 00:36:50,900 And I 689 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:54,100 started this message by telling you about the 12 tribes of Israel. 690 00:36:54,266 --> 00:36:59,200 And we can't understand the dire consequences and nature of compromise 691 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,266 and idolatry without understanding where this led and to understand 692 00:37:03,266 --> 00:37:06,266 where they said, we have to understand the 12 tribes of Israel. 693 00:37:06,666 --> 00:37:09,233 So, like I said in the beginning, the 12 tribes 694 00:37:09,233 --> 00:37:12,233 named after the 12 sons of Jacob, 695 00:37:12,233 --> 00:37:14,733 chronologically, 696 00:37:14,733 --> 00:37:17,666 here they are. 697 00:37:17,666 --> 00:37:19,500 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, 698 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,500 Judah, Ishaq, Zebulun, Dan, 699 00:37:22,566 --> 00:37:26,033 Naftali, Gad, Asher, Joseph, and Benjamin. 700 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,133 Those are the 12 son, Jacob. 701 00:37:28,133 --> 00:37:31,133 Those are the 12 tribes of Israel. 702 00:37:31,133 --> 00:37:34,133 Sometimes they're listed like that in the Bible. 703 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,200 Other times are listed differently. 704 00:37:38,466 --> 00:37:40,000 For instance, 705 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,566 when the Bible tells us about their tribal 706 00:37:42,566 --> 00:37:45,966 allotment of land, this is the list of the 12 tribes. 707 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,566 Reuben, Simeon, Ephraim, Judah, 708 00:37:50,033 --> 00:37:54,066 Zebulun, Dan, Naftali, Gad, Asher, Manassa, and Benjamin. 709 00:37:54,733 --> 00:37:58,400 There are two names that are different from the 12 sons. 710 00:37:59,933 --> 00:38:00,200 Those 711 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,200 names are underlined Ephraim and Manasseh. 712 00:38:03,266 --> 00:38:06,266 There are two names that are taken out. 713 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:09,333 One is Levi because they don't have 714 00:38:09,333 --> 00:38:12,333 a tribal allotment of land. 715 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,100 They have cities in the other tribes. 716 00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:18,100 And the other one is Joseph, who's taken out. 717 00:38:18,666 --> 00:38:22,166 And in their place is Ephraim and Manasseh. 718 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,600 Those were the two sons of Joseph. 719 00:38:25,766 --> 00:38:28,766 So there's still 12 tribes. 720 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,200 Joseph is listed through his sons, 721 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:36,933 and his two sons are given there in place of Levi and Joseph. 722 00:38:36,933 --> 00:38:37,800 Does that make sense? You follow me. 723 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,333 So far there's still 12 tribes. 724 00:38:39,333 --> 00:38:43,133 They're just listed differently now 725 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,266 this all comes to a head 726 00:38:46,266 --> 00:38:49,266 when you get to revelation chapter seven. 727 00:38:50,433 --> 00:38:53,400 And in revelation chapter seven, 728 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,200 the Holy Spirit, through John the Apostle, lists for us 729 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,933 the 12 tribes of Israel, who are, who are, who are listed for 730 00:39:01,933 --> 00:39:08,133 and given to the world as testimonies and witness to the true God. 731 00:39:09,366 --> 00:39:12,766 After the six seals have been opened in the interlude 732 00:39:12,766 --> 00:39:15,766 between the sixth and the seventh seal, which is a whole another study 733 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:19,133 done, a whole study on the Book of Revelation. 734 00:39:19,133 --> 00:39:20,500 It's all in our media stuff. 735 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,500 If you want to go through chapter by chapter, verse by verse, 736 00:39:23,933 --> 00:39:27,300 but in the in the end, the 12 tribes are listed 737 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:31,400 there, who are left as a testimony of the witness of the worship of the true 738 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:32,400 God to the world. 739 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,400 These are the tribes that are listed 740 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,366 Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, 741 00:39:39,833 --> 00:39:42,966 Simeon, Levi, Iscariot, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. 742 00:39:44,466 --> 00:39:47,466 Different list. 743 00:39:48,366 --> 00:39:51,366 What do you notice about it? 744 00:39:52,466 --> 00:39:55,100 This is so interesting to me. 745 00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:58,100 Monalisa is listed, which is one of Joseph's sons 746 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:00,733 and usually when that happens, Joseph isn't listed. 747 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,066 But Manasseh and Joseph are listed here, 748 00:40:05,066 --> 00:40:08,133 which means Joseph's other son Ephraim isn't listed. 749 00:40:09,166 --> 00:40:12,100 As well as the tribe of Dan. 750 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:15,666 So for some reason, the Holy Spirit, God himself 751 00:40:15,866 --> 00:40:21,100 has written out of the record of the tribes of those who will represent 752 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:24,566 him and be a witness to him, to the world written out of the record. 753 00:40:24,566 --> 00:40:27,566 Ephraim and Dan, why? 754 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,600 Let me suggest this. 755 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:37,200 God is not going 756 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,266 to give the privilege of the testimony to his preeminence 757 00:40:41,266 --> 00:40:44,733 and sovereignty to the world, to those who have rejected 758 00:40:44,733 --> 00:40:47,733 him, and idolatry. 759 00:40:48,566 --> 00:40:49,933 It was through Dan 760 00:40:49,933 --> 00:40:54,166 that idolatry infected the nation of Israel. 761 00:40:55,333 --> 00:40:56,400 They set up these islands. 762 00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,300 They were the first tribe to idol worship in the Promised Land. 763 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:03,533 They set up these idols and led the nation 764 00:41:04,833 --> 00:41:05,933 to worship. 765 00:41:05,933 --> 00:41:10,200 Idolatry and idolatry in the Old Testament is the sin 766 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,533 that God is the most severely punishes, the most severely. 767 00:41:17,766 --> 00:41:20,666 To understand. 768 00:41:20,666 --> 00:41:23,100 This little compromise 769 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:26,100 led to being written out. 770 00:41:27,833 --> 00:41:30,833 In the last days. 771 00:41:30,933 --> 00:41:33,933 But Ephraim is also not included. Why? 772 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,366 I don't know if you caught this when I was reading it. 773 00:41:37,366 --> 00:41:39,466 I bet you missed it. 774 00:41:39,466 --> 00:41:42,766 Micah was in the hill country of Ephraim 775 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,400 is enough for my. 776 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,800 Through his compromise 777 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,666 that infected the tribe of Dan. 778 00:41:52,666 --> 00:41:55,666 LED the nation of Israel into idolatry, 779 00:41:56,133 --> 00:41:59,133 compromising the worship of God alone. 780 00:42:02,166 --> 00:42:04,666 And he, too, is written out 781 00:42:04,666 --> 00:42:07,666 of the biblical record. 782 00:42:12,566 --> 00:42:15,566 Please don't forget this. 783 00:42:15,966 --> 00:42:18,966 Compromise is costly. 784 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,200 And oftentimes, 785 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,200 you don't know how costly until the bill comes. Do. 786 00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:30,400 I do not know 787 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,866 what God may write out of my life 788 00:42:34,066 --> 00:42:37,066 if I live and compromise. 789 00:42:38,433 --> 00:42:42,266 And I am fearful of living and compromise 790 00:42:43,333 --> 00:42:46,333 because I'm fearful of God's response. 791 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,400 And I know that it's not very kosher 792 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,000 to say that I am afraid of God. 793 00:42:58,333 --> 00:43:01,333 I don't think that's a bad thing 794 00:43:02,066 --> 00:43:05,066 to live in fear of God. 795 00:43:06,333 --> 00:43:07,100 Why would I say that? 796 00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:10,100 Because the Bible says that 797 00:43:10,133 --> 00:43:11,433 the fear of the Lord is 798 00:43:11,433 --> 00:43:14,433 the beginning of wisdom. 799 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,100 You know, the only reason you and I will live wisely 800 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:22,233 before the Lord is because we fear Him 801 00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:25,700 and His judgment of our sin. 802 00:43:26,633 --> 00:43:29,633 And when I live with the holy fear 803 00:43:30,233 --> 00:43:33,233 of a loving and a just God, 804 00:43:34,166 --> 00:43:36,966 I will live wisely and flee 805 00:43:36,966 --> 00:43:39,966 sin and compromise. 806 00:43:43,833 --> 00:43:44,466 There's been 807 00:43:44,466 --> 00:43:48,333 and I understand, and I'm part of it, this push towards God's mercy and grace. 808 00:43:48,333 --> 00:43:49,766 Without it, I'm damned. 809 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:52,666 That's part of my tattoo. 810 00:43:52,666 --> 00:43:54,166 On my arm is mercy and grace. 811 00:43:54,166 --> 00:43:56,266 Like I have God's mercy and grace, and I need it. 812 00:43:56,266 --> 00:43:57,966 And so do you. 813 00:43:57,966 --> 00:43:59,900 And he doesn't remember our sins when we repent. 814 00:43:59,900 --> 00:44:02,700 He washed away our transgressions when we repent. 815 00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:05,266 But without repentance, 816 00:44:05,266 --> 00:44:08,266 he's greatly to be feared. 817 00:44:09,666 --> 00:44:10,966 And I think that the pendulum 818 00:44:10,966 --> 00:44:12,966 has swung so far over in the mercy and grace 819 00:44:12,966 --> 00:44:14,766 we kind of think God winks at our sin and compromise. 820 00:44:14,766 --> 00:44:17,766 He doesn't. 821 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,200 And it will get very costly 822 00:44:21,433 --> 00:44:24,433 unless there's repentance. 823 00:44:26,266 --> 00:44:27,333 So wisdom says, 824 00:44:27,333 --> 00:44:30,333 because of the fear of the Lord, repent. 825 00:44:31,833 --> 00:44:34,833 Turn from compromise. 826 00:44:34,966 --> 00:44:37,966 Make it Christ and Christ alone. 827 00:44:40,966 --> 00:44:43,966 Be right with the father through the son. 828 00:44:47,933 --> 00:44:50,933 To understand. 829 00:44:51,966 --> 00:44:52,900 Onto your perfect father. 830 00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:56,400 Thank you. Thank you that you love us. 831 00:44:57,966 --> 00:45:00,966 And thank you that you don't leave us. 832 00:45:02,933 --> 00:45:05,933 To our own devices. 833 00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:09,700 I think that you have made the way for us 834 00:45:11,066 --> 00:45:14,066 to repent. 835 00:45:14,666 --> 00:45:16,500 That you speak to us, 836 00:45:16,500 --> 00:45:19,800 rebuke and correction so that we can be trained in righteousness, 837 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:24,700 and that our way to righteousness is not just simply through our own self 838 00:45:24,700 --> 00:45:28,400 effort and behavior, but through your son and the work that Jesus 839 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,400 did on the cross. 840 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,000 So would you hear our hearts this morning? 841 00:45:37,633 --> 00:45:40,633 Father, there are some in this place 842 00:45:40,633 --> 00:45:43,633 who are coming to you 843 00:45:43,866 --> 00:45:46,866 in confession of sin and repentance, 844 00:45:47,933 --> 00:45:51,166 knowing full well of our compromise. 845 00:45:55,733 --> 00:45:56,733 God, we don't want you 846 00:45:56,733 --> 00:45:59,733 to write anything out of our life. 847 00:46:00,533 --> 00:46:01,833 And we want all that 848 00:46:01,833 --> 00:46:04,833 your grace would allow us. 849 00:46:05,733 --> 00:46:10,500 And so we say, father, forgive me. 850 00:46:13,833 --> 00:46:16,933 Friends, I implore you in the name of Jesus to take this step of faith 851 00:46:16,933 --> 00:46:19,933 right now in your own heart, before your God. 852 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:23,033 Jesus, thank you 853 00:46:23,033 --> 00:46:26,033 that you died on the cross so I can be forgiven, 854 00:46:26,966 --> 00:46:29,066 that I can have a right relationship with the father. 855 00:46:29,066 --> 00:46:32,000 And I accept you. Jesus, 856 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,500 in my life, 857 00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:37,500 you and you alone. 858 00:46:40,433 --> 00:46:42,666 I admit 859 00:46:42,666 --> 00:46:45,666 compromise in my life. 860 00:46:48,900 --> 00:46:51,566 You've rebuked me. 861 00:46:51,566 --> 00:46:53,700 You've corrected me. 862 00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:56,233 I accept that, 863 00:46:56,233 --> 00:46:58,466 train me 864 00:46:58,466 --> 00:47:01,466 in righteousness. Now. 865 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,100 In my failure. 866 00:47:05,100 --> 00:47:07,733 Forgive in my weakness. 867 00:47:07,733 --> 00:47:10,400 Give strength in my fear. 868 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,400 Give faith. 869 00:47:15,266 --> 00:47:18,266 Today, once again, I am yours. 870 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:23,200 Father, as your people 871 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,966 who are called by your name, 872 00:47:25,966 --> 00:47:28,966 humble themselves and pray and repent. 873 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,833 Bring him. 874 00:47:32,833 --> 00:47:34,166 And in our repentance, 875 00:47:34,166 --> 00:47:37,166 and give us every thing 876 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,200 that your grace will allow. 877 00:47:43,266 --> 00:47:46,300 Give back everything, as the Bible says, that the locust have destroyed 878 00:47:46,300 --> 00:47:47,766 everything that we've sold, everything 879 00:47:47,766 --> 00:47:50,766 that we've given up, everything that we've destroyed 880 00:47:51,533 --> 00:47:52,333 in repentance. 881 00:47:52,333 --> 00:47:55,800 What you recreated and give it back. 882 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,233 That your loving kindness and goodness 883 00:48:00,233 --> 00:48:03,233 would lead us to even more repentance. 884 00:48:04,833 --> 00:48:07,266 You're a good God 885 00:48:07,266 --> 00:48:10,066 and we love you, 886 00:48:10,066 --> 00:48:13,266 and may we live for an audience of one Christ in Christ alone. 887 00:48:13,266 --> 00:48:15,700 No turning back, 888 00:48:15,700 --> 00:48:18,466 no turning back. 889 00:48:18,466 --> 00:48:19,166 In your name I pray. 890 00:48:19,166 --> 00:48:20,966 Amen. 891 00:48:20,966 --> 00:48:23,400 Listen. 892 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,866 Next week we're getting close to the end. 893 00:48:24,866 --> 00:48:26,700 The judges. 894 00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:27,500 Next week. 895 00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:31,100 One of the most brutal accounts in all of Scripture. 896 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,333 It is horrific. 897 00:48:34,333 --> 00:48:37,200 And so read it ahead of time. 898 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,200 I guarantee you it will be disturbing 899 00:48:40,833 --> 00:48:43,666 and we'll unpack it and see what God's truth says through it. 900 00:48:45,066 --> 00:48:46,533 But right now, I asked 901 00:48:46,533 --> 00:48:49,766 Jeff if we could sing this song, and so we're going to do it. 902 00:48:49,766 --> 00:48:52,766 And it is a throwback. 903 00:48:54,633 --> 00:48:55,400 There was a time 904 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,400 in this nation, in this last great awakening, 905 00:48:58,733 --> 00:49:01,733 this revival times in the 70s and 80s. 906 00:49:03,833 --> 00:49:06,833 When I got to experience the tail end of that awakening 907 00:49:07,566 --> 00:49:10,566 and this incredible move, the Holy Spirit, and there's a song 908 00:49:12,033 --> 00:49:15,066 and part of the that was popular time and part of those, 909 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,400 the words are, 910 00:49:20,433 --> 00:49:22,133 I will follow and no turning back. 911 00:49:22,133 --> 00:49:25,133 Although none go with me, no turning back. 912 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,300 The cross before me. The world behind me. 913 00:49:27,300 --> 00:49:29,400 No turning back, 914 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,400 no turning back. 915 00:49:32,500 --> 00:49:34,166 That can be sung 916 00:49:34,166 --> 00:49:37,166 by a life who says no more compromise, 917 00:49:38,233 --> 00:49:39,500 right? 918 00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:42,200 I'm not turning back. 919 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:43,133 Though none go with me. 920 00:49:44,466 --> 00:49:46,800 I'm not turning back 921 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,300 the crosses before me. 922 00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:50,466 No. Turn back 923 00:49:50,466 --> 00:49:53,133 I'm gonna leave the world behind me. 924 00:49:53,133 --> 00:49:56,033 No turning back. 925 00:49:56,033 --> 00:49:58,800 No more compromise. 926 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,800 No turning back. 927 00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:02,433 Listening.