1 00:00:06,966 --> 00:00:09,966 All right, judges chapter three. 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:10,966 Judges. 3 00:00:10,966 --> 00:00:13,600 Chapter three. Next. 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,100 If you have a Bible and brought one with you. 5 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:18,733 Go to judges chapter three. 6 00:00:18,733 --> 00:00:19,633 It's on our app. 7 00:00:19,633 --> 00:00:22,633 It'll be on the screens. 8 00:00:22,966 --> 00:00:25,466 as we get into this chapter. 9 00:00:25,466 --> 00:00:29,533 I want to remind us of this theological principle, 10 00:00:29,533 --> 00:00:33,533 this principle of interpreting that oftentimes what we see 11 00:00:33,533 --> 00:00:38,533 in the Old Testament in the physical world has correlation to our lives. 12 00:00:38,533 --> 00:00:41,500 New Testament lives, our lives in the spiritual world. 13 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,500 And so we're going to look at the history 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,600 of God's people going into the Promised Land. 15 00:00:48,266 --> 00:00:50,633 And then we're going to draw some conclusions 16 00:00:50,633 --> 00:00:54,000 and understand this, for it has to do with us spiritually 17 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:58,166 if and when and as we choose to follow 18 00:00:58,166 --> 00:01:01,166 Jesus, and be obedient to God. 19 00:01:01,266 --> 00:01:04,500 So, just keep that in mind as we go through this. 20 00:01:05,433 --> 00:01:06,866 The book of judges 21 00:01:07,866 --> 00:01:08,700 is about 22 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,833 individuals who are leading God's people. 23 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:13,966 The Bible calls them judges. 24 00:01:13,966 --> 00:01:16,966 Don't think of judges in the judicial sense. 25 00:01:17,233 --> 00:01:20,433 Think of it as a more often than not, 26 00:01:20,433 --> 00:01:23,433 a military leading sense. 27 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:25,466 Moses had brought God's 28 00:01:25,466 --> 00:01:28,466 people out of captivity in Egypt, 29 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:31,933 going across the desert right before they entered the Promised Land. 30 00:01:33,366 --> 00:01:36,100 Moses died on what we know as Mount Nebo. 31 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:39,600 I've been there as he's looking down over the Promised Land. 32 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,166 He wasn't allowed to go in. 33 00:01:41,166 --> 00:01:45,000 Joshua, his right hand man, took over for him 34 00:01:45,633 --> 00:01:48,633 and led the people into the Promised land. 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,400 300,000mi² of territory. 36 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,966 Huge. 37 00:01:53,966 --> 00:01:56,900 At its height, they only inhabited 38 00:01:56,900 --> 00:01:59,900 about 30,000mi², 39 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:03,666 so they've never really taken possession of everything God promised. 40 00:02:03,666 --> 00:02:05,500 That's coming. 41 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,400 But Joshua leads them into the Promised Land. 42 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,100 By faith, they receive the promise of God. 43 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:12,566 And then 44 00:02:12,566 --> 00:02:16,433 as Joshua died, God raised up these individual leaders. 45 00:02:16,433 --> 00:02:20,666 No king yet, but individual leaders to lead them in the small skirmishes 46 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,466 that still had to take place so that they could enjoy the promise of God. 47 00:02:26,433 --> 00:02:30,566 And so in chapter three, we start reading some of these first leaders 48 00:02:30,866 --> 00:02:34,466 that are leading God's people in these little minor skirmishes 49 00:02:34,466 --> 00:02:39,166 so that they can enjoy the full promise of what they've received by faith. 50 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,866 Now they have some responsibility. 51 00:02:41,866 --> 00:02:45,000 Again, keep in mind, but we see in the physical world 52 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 in the book of judges applies spiritually to us. 53 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 The gift of God, of salvation comes by faith, and faith alone. 54 00:02:51,933 --> 00:02:54,433 And once that is received by faith, 55 00:02:54,433 --> 00:02:57,700 there is work and responsibility on behalf of the believer. 56 00:02:59,566 --> 00:03:02,266 and so we're going to see that lived out in these lives. 57 00:03:02,266 --> 00:03:07,000 The book of judges, chapter three has three judges in it, or people we would 58 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,133 we would guess for judges Othniel, Ehud and Sham Gar 31 verses long. 59 00:03:13,133 --> 00:03:14,666 We're going to go through 30 of them. 60 00:03:14,666 --> 00:03:17,166 I'm going to save one verse for next week. 61 00:03:17,166 --> 00:03:19,233 Okay. On purpose. 62 00:03:19,233 --> 00:03:21,900 Okay. Next week's a one verse message. 63 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:24,900 I promise I will go as long as all the others. 64 00:03:26,933 --> 00:03:28,900 But starting with these two, 65 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:31,900 let's look at what the Bible says. 66 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:33,300 Judges three verse one. 67 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:36,800 These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites 68 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,800 who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan. 69 00:03:40,366 --> 00:03:40,933 He did this. 70 00:03:40,933 --> 00:03:45,000 God did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites 71 00:03:45,233 --> 00:03:48,900 who had not had previous battle experience. 72 00:03:49,833 --> 00:03:51,733 We have to understand something 73 00:03:53,533 --> 00:03:55,200 that though we live in 74 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,200 the world of flesh and blood. 75 00:03:59,633 --> 00:04:01,700 The impetus of our battle 76 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,700 that we face every day is not flesh and blood. 77 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:08,000 There's a spiritual battle going on, 78 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,600 and we have to realize that there is a spiritual battle. 79 00:04:12,166 --> 00:04:13,500 It is real. 80 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:16,500 It exists, and it's happening right now. 81 00:04:17,766 --> 00:04:21,366 Most of us are unaware of it because we live in the world of flesh and blood. 82 00:04:21,366 --> 00:04:24,666 But there is a very real world going on behind the scenes, 83 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:28,233 and the first thing we have to realize 84 00:04:28,233 --> 00:04:32,433 is that we are walking into and living in a land 85 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:36,500 that requires battle, 86 00:04:36,533 --> 00:04:39,533 requires war. 87 00:04:43,366 --> 00:04:46,600 In Ephesians chapter six, verse two, 88 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:52,366 Paul, the writer of Ephesians, says this for our struggle is not against flesh 89 00:04:52,366 --> 00:04:53,700 and blood, but against rulers, 90 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:57,300 against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, 91 00:04:57,300 --> 00:04:59,733 and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm. 92 00:04:59,733 --> 00:05:01,066 She said. There is a battle. 93 00:05:01,066 --> 00:05:05,000 We know as soon as we wake up, you just feel like 94 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,233 it's somedays you are more aware of it than others. 95 00:05:08,233 --> 00:05:11,133 But you know, as we go through this world, it's like, whoa! 96 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,066 And it's not contained to the one we see. 97 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:21,733 What the Bible tells us is that there's a deeper, more real reality. 98 00:05:22,933 --> 00:05:25,633 And our primary struggle is not against flesh and blood, 99 00:05:25,633 --> 00:05:28,633 but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world, 100 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:30,333 the spiritual forces of evil. 101 00:05:30,333 --> 00:05:32,233 It's it just is. 102 00:05:32,233 --> 00:05:36,466 The interesting thing is, Paul, at the end of his life, he's been in ministry. 103 00:05:36,466 --> 00:05:38,333 He says this 104 00:05:38,333 --> 00:05:40,100 I have fought the good fight. 105 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:42,833 He won an Emmy. A guy, 106 00:05:42,833 --> 00:05:44,666 he wasn't in the military. 107 00:05:44,666 --> 00:05:48,333 And yet he says, I have fought the good fight. 108 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:51,066 There's a battle going on. 109 00:05:51,066 --> 00:05:54,066 So as I finish the race, I've kept the faith. 110 00:05:54,166 --> 00:05:56,866 So the apostle Paul puts it in terms of a battle as well. 111 00:05:56,866 --> 00:05:59,133 Whether you go to Old Testament, New Testament, the fact is 112 00:05:59,133 --> 00:06:03,900 we have to realize that there is a real battle, a real war going on, 113 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:07,900 and it starts before you ever see it. 114 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,300 It's a spiritual battle. 115 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:16,033 And so because the the real battle that, that we face is a spiritual battle, 116 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,200 we have to learn to fight spiritually. 117 00:06:20,366 --> 00:06:23,366 We have to learn to fight spiritually. 118 00:06:26,266 --> 00:06:28,666 Most don't learn this 119 00:06:28,666 --> 00:06:30,933 and don't learn how to fight spiritually. 120 00:06:30,933 --> 00:06:32,966 We go to self-help stuff. We go to influencers. 121 00:06:32,966 --> 00:06:34,200 We go to opinions. 122 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,866 We want to know what we have to do, 123 00:06:36,866 --> 00:06:38,733 but we have to realize that 124 00:06:38,733 --> 00:06:41,733 spiritual battles are not won physically. 125 00:06:42,533 --> 00:06:45,533 They're won spiritually. 126 00:06:46,066 --> 00:06:48,366 You and I are in a battle. 127 00:06:48,366 --> 00:06:52,166 It's deeper than what we see, and we're not going to win it 128 00:06:52,166 --> 00:06:55,166 by self-help books, influencers and opinions. 129 00:06:56,166 --> 00:06:58,633 It has to be fought and it will be won. 130 00:06:58,633 --> 00:07:01,066 Not physically, but spiritually. 131 00:07:03,566 --> 00:07:04,966 One of the things I know from this 132 00:07:04,966 --> 00:07:10,933 in like God left enemies in that land because he knew the only way 133 00:07:10,933 --> 00:07:14,100 for his people to grow up was to fight their battles. 134 00:07:16,433 --> 00:07:18,866 He knew the only way they're going to be able to enjoy 135 00:07:18,866 --> 00:07:22,466 the promises I've given them is if they learn to fight. 136 00:07:24,766 --> 00:07:27,133 Now their granddaddy and grandmama had fought 137 00:07:27,133 --> 00:07:29,366 and won, and their daddy and mama have fought and won. 138 00:07:29,366 --> 00:07:32,166 But they hadn't yet. 139 00:07:32,166 --> 00:07:35,800 And so they had to have their own battles that they had to fight. 140 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,200 You know what that means for you and me? 141 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,700 We need the battle. 142 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:46,700 You know what it means for your children. 143 00:07:47,633 --> 00:07:50,633 They need their own battles, 144 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,666 and they have to learn to fight their own battles. 145 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:58,066 Yeah, I say all the time the parents job 146 00:07:58,066 --> 00:08:01,233 is to prepare their child for the road, not to prepare the road 147 00:08:01,233 --> 00:08:04,233 for their child. 148 00:08:04,666 --> 00:08:08,033 And if our kids, if you are a parent or a grandparent 149 00:08:08,033 --> 00:08:11,633 and your kids are going to grow up and enjoy the promises of God, 150 00:08:11,833 --> 00:08:15,400 they have to learn to fight their own battles 151 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:18,900 with their own faith. 152 00:08:19,266 --> 00:08:20,600 You can't do it for them now. 153 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,733 You can train them. The Bible says, train up a child 154 00:08:22,733 --> 00:08:24,766 in the way they should go when they're old. 155 00:08:24,766 --> 00:08:26,066 They have to fight that battle. 156 00:08:26,066 --> 00:08:29,066 They won't depart from that because you've trained them. 157 00:08:30,466 --> 00:08:32,666 But if you remember what I said last week, more kids. 158 00:08:32,666 --> 00:08:35,533 Kids learn more by what there's caught than by what is taught. 159 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:40,533 So you'll train your kids to fight spiritually. 160 00:08:40,533 --> 00:08:43,533 If you. 161 00:08:53,533 --> 00:08:55,466 You're going to have battles 162 00:08:55,466 --> 00:08:57,966 and you need them. 163 00:08:57,966 --> 00:09:00,966 You just got to learn to fight them the right way. 164 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,200 You understand? 165 00:09:05,933 --> 00:09:08,933 Hey, we're two verses in y'all, right? 166 00:09:13,933 --> 00:09:15,533 Verse four, they were left. 167 00:09:15,533 --> 00:09:19,100 His enemies were left to test the Israelites, to see whether they would 168 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:22,733 obey the Lord's commands, which he had given their forefathers through Moses. 169 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 God leaves the enemies. 170 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,533 They're 171 00:09:26,533 --> 00:09:30,366 because they have to fight, and he left them there to see if they would. 172 00:09:30,366 --> 00:09:30,900 What? 173 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:33,900 Train hard? 174 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,400 No. The word starts with O and ends with B. 175 00:09:41,066 --> 00:09:41,733 Leave them there. 176 00:09:41,733 --> 00:09:44,733 You got to fight. 177 00:09:45,033 --> 00:09:47,733 But the way you win 178 00:09:47,733 --> 00:09:50,733 is through obedience. 179 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:53,400 He left them 180 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,433 there to test them, not to see if they could suck it up, 181 00:09:56,533 --> 00:10:00,366 not to see if they would be good, not to see how strong their backs were. 182 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:03,300 They left them there to see if they would obey. 183 00:10:06,033 --> 00:10:09,400 Because the battles that were in our spiritual battles 184 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,600 and must be fought spiritually. 185 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,300 We have to realize that victory is gained by obedience, 186 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:20,300 not might. 187 00:10:21,833 --> 00:10:23,833 Not by learning new habits. 188 00:10:23,833 --> 00:10:26,833 Not by practicing new behaviors, 189 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:30,700 by obedience. 190 00:10:35,766 --> 00:10:36,600 Verses five and six. 191 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,366 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, ammonites, parasites, 192 00:10:40,366 --> 00:10:44,333 live bites, Jebusites, termites, and cellulite. The. 193 00:10:47,433 --> 00:10:50,433 They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters 194 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,600 to their sons, and served their gods. 195 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:58,300 So they've been given this land. 196 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,466 They've been told to subdue it. 197 00:11:01,466 --> 00:11:02,900 They've entered the land by faith. 198 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:04,900 Now they have responsibility. And all of a sudden 199 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:08,400 what we see is the people that should be living in freedom 200 00:11:09,466 --> 00:11:12,766 are living amongst the people that they should have victory over. 201 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:15,766 I never think physically and spiritually. 202 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,200 More often than not, we who 203 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,900 should be living in the freedom that God has given us in Christ, 204 00:11:24,566 --> 00:11:27,133 end up living amongst the enemies 205 00:11:27,133 --> 00:11:30,133 of that freedom. Sin. 206 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:36,066 And they are so like the culture that they're in, 207 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,100 they're given their children to be married 208 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,400 to that culture. 209 00:11:46,333 --> 00:11:49,000 The Bible says in Second Corinthians, we're given this. 210 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Do not be yoked together. 211 00:11:52,566 --> 00:11:55,566 Some translations say unequally. 212 00:11:59,033 --> 00:11:59,633 What right, 213 00:11:59,633 --> 00:12:02,633 the Bible says, does the kingdom of light in the kingdom of darkness have together? 214 00:12:04,333 --> 00:12:05,233 What right do they have to be? 215 00:12:05,233 --> 00:12:06,900 They don't. 216 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,900 Don't be unequally yoked. 217 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:11,866 A Christ follower and a non Christ 218 00:12:11,866 --> 00:12:14,866 follower is a recipe for disaster. 219 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,033 I tell you, when people all the time evangelistic dating doesn't work, 220 00:12:18,033 --> 00:12:21,033 don't try it. 221 00:12:24,133 --> 00:12:26,166 But but the culture that we're in 222 00:12:27,533 --> 00:12:28,300 says love is love. 223 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:30,066 Don't worry about it. 224 00:12:30,066 --> 00:12:32,666 I'm sorry. Treat you good. It's all fine. 225 00:12:32,666 --> 00:12:33,333 They believe this. 226 00:12:33,333 --> 00:12:34,566 I believe this one. Get along with. 227 00:12:34,566 --> 00:12:36,833 Figure it out. No, you won't. 228 00:12:36,833 --> 00:12:39,833 No, you won't. 229 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:42,900 Not. And stay obedient. 230 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,400 There are some people who are Jewish who have not ever learned 231 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,433 to live with themselves and in their relationship with Christ, 232 00:12:49,500 --> 00:12:52,500 that they will give themselves to anybody who 233 00:12:53,466 --> 00:12:56,466 is willing to take them. 234 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:02,000 If you're not married yet, be very careful. 235 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:02,900 Listen to my words. 236 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:05,900 Heed my instruction. 237 00:13:10,966 --> 00:13:14,500 Accepting substitutes in exchange for the sacred is sacrilege. 238 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:17,500 We have to understand this. 239 00:13:17,633 --> 00:13:19,200 Accepting substitutes for 240 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,200 the sacred is sacrilege. 241 00:13:24,033 --> 00:13:27,700 The sacred is is a is a Christ, a man of Christ, following 242 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:31,500 a woman that creates a sacred bond that God created called marriage. 243 00:13:33,433 --> 00:13:35,400 And we accept substitutes one 244 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,400 for the other or unequally 245 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:42,300 a sacrilege. 246 00:13:43,466 --> 00:13:44,733 So playing around with the enemies 247 00:13:44,733 --> 00:13:47,733 that are going to conquer us. 248 00:13:52,133 --> 00:13:55,100 And so, so our our the point of it 249 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:58,100 is this to be in the culture, but not like the culture. 250 00:13:59,366 --> 00:14:01,433 I'm not talking about being a hermit, and I'm not talking about 251 00:14:01,433 --> 00:14:04,433 being some weird person that nobody wants to be around. 252 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:08,766 Let's talk about being in the culture, but not like the cultures that make sense 253 00:14:08,766 --> 00:14:09,066 and sound. 254 00:14:09,066 --> 00:14:12,066 I'm saying yes. 255 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:15,900 I tell my football boys 256 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:18,900 this all the time in in, 257 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 I just had this talk with them last Thursday. 258 00:14:22,133 --> 00:14:23,033 So think about it. 259 00:14:23,033 --> 00:14:27,266 Think about the difference between I got this from, from John Gordon. 260 00:14:27,266 --> 00:14:30,366 Think about the difference between a carrot and egg and a coffee bean. 261 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:32,366 Think of a carrot. 262 00:14:32,366 --> 00:14:37,366 You put a carrot in a in a in a pot of boiling water for a long time. 263 00:14:37,366 --> 00:14:40,366 What happens? That carrot. 264 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:42,900 Soft and mushy and worth nothing. 265 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:45,266 Right. 266 00:14:45,266 --> 00:14:46,200 So take an egg. 267 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,866 Put it in that same pot of boiling water for a long time. 268 00:14:48,866 --> 00:14:51,600 What happens? That egg. 269 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:52,966 It doesn't just get hard. 270 00:14:52,966 --> 00:14:53,833 It cracks. 271 00:14:53,833 --> 00:14:54,533 It crumbles. 272 00:14:54,533 --> 00:14:57,533 It's just worth nothing. 273 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:00,066 Stinks. 274 00:15:00,066 --> 00:15:02,700 Take the coffee bean, put it in hot water for a long time. 275 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:05,700 What happens to that water? 276 00:15:06,966 --> 00:15:09,733 Becomes coffee, 277 00:15:09,733 --> 00:15:11,500 I tell, I tell my football, boys. 278 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:12,066 It's all the time. 279 00:15:12,066 --> 00:15:15,066 So listen, every day 280 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,200 you're going to be put in hot water 281 00:15:18,333 --> 00:15:22,133 and you're going to have the choice to become a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean. 282 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:25,500 Two of those, the 283 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:28,500 environment changes them into something that's worthless. 284 00:15:28,933 --> 00:15:32,166 Some limp wristed, little worse. 285 00:15:32,166 --> 00:15:33,900 Nothing. 286 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:37,033 Or some nasty old crusty broken person. 287 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Only one of them is going to change its environment, 288 00:15:41,466 --> 00:15:42,166 right? 289 00:15:42,166 --> 00:15:44,966 Right, right. 290 00:15:44,966 --> 00:15:47,100 I get coffee beans, I put them in a little plastic bag, 291 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:50,100 and I give it to every one of my football players and coaches 292 00:15:50,466 --> 00:15:51,466 at the beginning of the season. 293 00:15:51,466 --> 00:15:54,466 Remember, be a coffee bean. 294 00:15:55,066 --> 00:15:56,700 That's what it means to be in the culture, 295 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:59,700 but not like it. 296 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:02,766 And I think one of the problems 297 00:16:02,766 --> 00:16:05,400 with the church 298 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,866 and the quote unquote Christians 299 00:16:07,866 --> 00:16:10,866 is that when we get in the hot water of the culture, 300 00:16:11,733 --> 00:16:14,733 we turn into carrots and eggs, 301 00:16:15,133 --> 00:16:17,100 either so mushy and limp wristed we're worth 302 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:20,866 nothing or so crusty and broken we stink. 303 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:25,600 Rather than being coffee beans, that changes the cultures. 304 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:26,100 That makes sense. 305 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:29,100 You understand, I'm saying. Yeah. 306 00:16:29,366 --> 00:16:31,733 And this was their problem. 307 00:16:31,733 --> 00:16:34,000 They were in the culture and just liking giving their kids away. 308 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,900 Yeah, go ahead and make a good living. They're nice person. 309 00:16:36,900 --> 00:16:39,900 Why not? 310 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,500 So look at living for seven and eight. 311 00:16:50,833 --> 00:16:52,500 Then the Israelites did evil in Isaiah. 312 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:53,700 The Israelites did evil and 313 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:57,000 and Lord, they forgot the Lord their God and serve the bills. 314 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,100 And Asher is the anger the Lord burned against Israel, 315 00:17:00,366 --> 00:17:03,766 so he sold them into the hands of Kushan rich. 316 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:08,433 The same the king of Aram, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years. 317 00:17:09,366 --> 00:17:11,566 And so they reject what God says. 318 00:17:11,566 --> 00:17:16,766 You said, we're going to do our own thing, and they're giving into the giving into 319 00:17:17,666 --> 00:17:20,266 into bondage. For how long? 320 00:17:20,266 --> 00:17:22,666 For eight years. Eight years. 321 00:17:24,100 --> 00:17:24,833 Look at verse nine. 322 00:17:24,833 --> 00:17:29,233 But when they cried out to the Lord, he raised up for them a deliver us now. 323 00:17:29,866 --> 00:17:33,333 Son of Caleb, Caleb's younger brother, who saved them. 324 00:17:33,733 --> 00:17:36,233 And so they're in they're in bondage. 325 00:17:36,233 --> 00:17:38,666 They're in bond for, for, for eight years. 326 00:17:38,666 --> 00:17:42,833 And after eight years they decide to cry out and in essence, repent. 327 00:17:42,966 --> 00:17:44,600 God. I'm sorry. 328 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,300 We'll we'll do it your way. 329 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:48,033 Just help. 330 00:17:48,033 --> 00:17:51,033 Took him eight years. 331 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,400 Why so long? 332 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,200 Why so long? 333 00:17:59,833 --> 00:18:02,833 I don't know, why do you and I wait so long? 334 00:18:03,966 --> 00:18:06,900 Right. 335 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:08,500 And the moment they turn back. 336 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:09,333 The moment they said. God. 337 00:18:09,333 --> 00:18:10,200 I'm sorry. 338 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,200 God, son, I was. Wait. 339 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,600 And they raised up this guy off. Now. 340 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:16,466 Now off them. 341 00:18:16,466 --> 00:18:21,466 We don't know exactly if he says the the son of King has Caleb's younger brother. 342 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:24,533 We don't really know exactly who he was, but we do know this. 343 00:18:24,533 --> 00:18:27,066 That he was a relative of Caleb, who was Caleb. 344 00:18:27,066 --> 00:18:28,133 Caleb. 345 00:18:28,133 --> 00:18:31,566 When Moses was preparing the people to go into the Promised Land, 346 00:18:31,566 --> 00:18:34,066 there were 12 tribes, and he told each of the tribe 347 00:18:34,066 --> 00:18:37,700 to get one guy there representing him to go spy out the land. 348 00:18:38,100 --> 00:18:40,433 So 12 of them went to spy it out. 349 00:18:40,433 --> 00:18:45,766 The 12 came back and two of them said, oh no, we got this is going to be good. 350 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,700 And the other ten were like, no, we can't do it. 351 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:51,433 The two said, yeah, we can do it. 352 00:18:51,433 --> 00:18:54,600 Were Joshua and Caleb okay? 353 00:18:55,133 --> 00:18:58,666 So he was one of the he was one of the two men of faith, 354 00:18:59,433 --> 00:19:02,433 of strength, of trust, of obedience. 355 00:19:02,466 --> 00:19:05,466 This is one of his young relatives, 356 00:19:05,733 --> 00:19:09,233 the first judge, the first one to deliver God's people. 357 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,000 He's this is him. 358 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Here's what I know. 359 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,100 No one needs to stay in bondage. 360 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:18,900 That's one thing I know. 361 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:21,900 But the other thing I know is this be spiritually great. 362 00:19:24,466 --> 00:19:25,900 There are younger ones 363 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:28,900 who are following what they see in you. 364 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,600 This this guy O'Neill watched 365 00:19:34,466 --> 00:19:38,200 his older relative, Caleb, fight. 366 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,200 Watched him be obedient, watched him be faithful. 367 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,500 So then it was when it was O'Neill's time to fight 368 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,633 and to be obedient and faithful. 369 00:19:48,633 --> 00:19:50,900 All he did was, I know what I'll do. 370 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:52,666 I'll do what I saw Caleb do. 371 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:56,533 The instruction to you 372 00:19:56,533 --> 00:19:59,666 and me is be spiritually great. 373 00:20:01,733 --> 00:20:03,733 Because there are younger ones who are watching 374 00:20:03,733 --> 00:20:06,733 what we do. 375 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:10,166 Remember how kids learn more by 376 00:20:10,166 --> 00:20:13,166 what is caught than by what is taught. 377 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:16,700 If you have young ones in your shadow, 378 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:21,166 the charge from God to you is to be spiritually great, 379 00:20:22,666 --> 00:20:25,700 because they will have to fight their own battles. 380 00:20:27,433 --> 00:20:30,133 And if they don't see you fighting from your knees, 381 00:20:30,133 --> 00:20:33,300 if they don't see you fighting faithfully, if they don't see you fighting 382 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,200 by being obedient and submissive to God. 383 00:20:42,866 --> 00:20:43,933 The thing I love about this 384 00:20:43,933 --> 00:20:46,933 passage is no one has to stay in bondage that long. 385 00:20:46,966 --> 00:20:50,266 Yes, we will stay in bondage as long as we choose to stay in bondage 386 00:20:50,833 --> 00:20:52,900 for them was eight years till they cried out, 387 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:55,900 and the moment they cried out, God said, thank you. 388 00:20:56,100 --> 00:20:57,133 Here's your deliverance. 389 00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:11,233 Look at verse 11. 390 00:21:11,233 --> 00:21:13,566 So the, well, let me go to ten. 391 00:21:13,566 --> 00:21:16,166 The spirit of the Lord came upon him. Those kneel. 392 00:21:16,166 --> 00:21:19,600 So they became Israel's judge and went to war and battle. 393 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:20,466 Fight. 394 00:21:20,466 --> 00:21:21,466 The Lord gave him 395 00:21:21,466 --> 00:21:24,566 the king of Aram into his hands and oath who overpowered him. 396 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:25,566 Verse 11. 397 00:21:25,566 --> 00:21:30,033 So the land had peace for 40 years, until of Neil some of King has died. 398 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:33,566 How long were they in bondage? 399 00:21:33,566 --> 00:21:35,733 Eight years. They cried out to God. 400 00:21:35,733 --> 00:21:37,800 God delivered him because he's got a mercy and grace. 401 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,500 And they had peace. For how many years? 402 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:41,733 For 40 years. 403 00:21:41,733 --> 00:21:42,800 Here's what you got. 404 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,766 You gotta get this. 405 00:21:45,766 --> 00:21:48,700 God's deliverance last longer than the last. 406 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:51,700 Longer than the bondage. 407 00:21:51,866 --> 00:21:55,733 God's deliverance always last longer than bondage. 408 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,500 Why would they wait eight years? 409 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:01,833 I don't know why do you and I wait so long? 410 00:22:01,833 --> 00:22:04,100 Because the fact is that when God delivers, 411 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:06,066 it lasts longer than the bondage. 412 00:22:06,066 --> 00:22:09,066 So why wait? 413 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,166 Verse 12. 414 00:22:16,166 --> 00:22:19,133 Once again, there's why I said evil eyes of the Lord. 415 00:22:19,133 --> 00:22:22,033 This is the cycle. 416 00:22:22,033 --> 00:22:23,400 God, I'm a fall of you. 417 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:24,900 I'm a flirt around with sin. 418 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:26,433 I'm gonna get stuck in it. 419 00:22:26,433 --> 00:22:27,766 I'm going to be remorseful about. 420 00:22:27,766 --> 00:22:30,366 I'm a crafty. You're going to deliver, and I'm going to love you and serve you. 421 00:22:30,366 --> 00:22:33,066 And then I'm going to flirt with sin, and I'm going to get used to it, 422 00:22:33,066 --> 00:22:35,866 and it's going to have victory over me, and then I'm going to feel bad about it. 423 00:22:35,866 --> 00:22:38,333 I'm a out to you, and you're going to live it over and over and over. 424 00:22:40,333 --> 00:22:40,866 So, so what they 425 00:22:40,866 --> 00:22:44,766 did, they did evil and the Lord, because they did this evil. 426 00:22:44,766 --> 00:22:48,166 The Lord gave Eglon, King of Moab, power over Israel, 427 00:22:48,966 --> 00:22:51,300 getting the Amorites and Amalekites to join him. 428 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:55,733 Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the city of palms. 429 00:22:55,733 --> 00:22:56,733 That's Jericho. 430 00:22:56,733 --> 00:23:00,033 And the Israelites were subject to Eglon king himself for how many years? 431 00:23:03,866 --> 00:23:06,700 18. How long was the first one? 432 00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:09,700 How long is this one? 433 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,100 This is what happens. 434 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:15,500 Watch. 435 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:16,900 When we return to the Senate. 436 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,900 We've been delivered from the bondage last longer than before. 437 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,200 When God says, okay, I'm gonna get you out, you cried out to me. 438 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,766 You repent. You. I'm gonna get your. 439 00:23:28,766 --> 00:23:29,700 And they're like, Thanks God. 440 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:31,533 I'm gonna go back like a dog to its vomit. 441 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:33,933 That bondage 442 00:23:33,933 --> 00:23:36,933 last longer than it did the first time. 443 00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:39,700 And though God is faithful because he's 444 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:42,833 got a mercy and grace to deliver us, we go back to it. 445 00:23:42,833 --> 00:23:43,800 It lasts longer. 446 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,900 And all of a sudden we see in ourselves this pattern, this thing 447 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:51,733 is that victory over me year after year after year after year. 448 00:23:51,733 --> 00:23:53,600 And I'm getting deeper and deeper and deeper. 449 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,600 Yeah. 450 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:11,000 And again, verse 15, this I cried out to the Lord, 451 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:14,300 and he gave them a deliverer, because that's what God does. 452 00:24:15,733 --> 00:24:17,266 Ehud, a left 453 00:24:17,266 --> 00:24:20,266 handed man, the son of Gary the Bingham, might. 454 00:24:20,666 --> 00:24:24,100 The Israelites sent Israelites sent him with tribute to eg. 455 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:26,300 One king of Moab. 456 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:28,400 So they cry out to God. 457 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,866 They've been subject for 18 years, or called to God, and God 458 00:24:30,866 --> 00:24:34,633 gives them another deliver another judge named Ehud. 459 00:24:34,633 --> 00:24:36,533 And what's what's the Bible? Tell us about Ehud 460 00:24:38,466 --> 00:24:39,733 that it's those two things. 461 00:24:39,733 --> 00:24:41,700 He's what left handed. 462 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:44,900 And he's from the tribe of Benjamin. 463 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:46,766 Here's here's here's why this is important. 464 00:24:46,766 --> 00:24:49,300 Look, God doesn't waste words. 465 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:52,233 God didn't say stuff just to hear himself thought. 466 00:24:52,233 --> 00:24:54,000 So. Everything here is for a purpose. 467 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,933 And I want you understand this. 468 00:24:55,933 --> 00:24:58,933 Usually in this culture, being left handed was bad. 469 00:24:59,533 --> 00:25:00,766 How many of you are left handed? 470 00:25:00,766 --> 00:25:03,300 Any of you okay in that culture? 471 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:05,166 Okay. You. 472 00:25:05,166 --> 00:25:07,266 There's something wrong with you. 473 00:25:07,266 --> 00:25:09,300 You're discredited. 474 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:10,600 Okay. 475 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,100 Now, my grandma, my dad tells me my grandma was left handed. 476 00:25:14,366 --> 00:25:17,166 And in school they would take a ruler and whack her on the knuckles 477 00:25:17,166 --> 00:25:20,266 every time she used her left hand, because they had to train her to be normal, 478 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:23,100 right handed. 479 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:26,566 So? So the Bible tells us he's left handed and it's for reason. 480 00:25:26,566 --> 00:25:29,233 Now, the reason could be this. Let me share this with you 481 00:25:30,333 --> 00:25:33,333 from First Chronicles chapter 12, verse two. 482 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:36,700 It's talking about these warriors that went to fight with David. 483 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,566 They joined him, but they were armed with bows and were able 484 00:25:40,566 --> 00:25:43,900 to shoot arrows and to sling stones right handed or left handed. 485 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,366 They're a kinsman of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin. 486 00:25:46,366 --> 00:25:51,533 So apparently Benjamin had these dudes in it that were bad news. 487 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,800 They're like the Navy Seals of that time. 488 00:25:56,166 --> 00:26:01,000 They were equally well, bow and arrow and a sling with right and left hand. 489 00:26:01,033 --> 00:26:03,766 They were. They were dudes. 490 00:26:03,766 --> 00:26:06,666 And so it could be that what we learn about this guy, 491 00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:09,733 guy Ehud, is that he's like Delta team stat. 492 00:26:09,766 --> 00:26:11,633 He's like Seal team six status. 493 00:26:11,633 --> 00:26:14,633 Like he is special ops guy. 494 00:26:15,333 --> 00:26:16,933 Because in that culture, 495 00:26:18,533 --> 00:26:20,800 the Warriors were right handed. 496 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,800 Because left handed was there's something wrong with them in that culture. 497 00:26:23,966 --> 00:26:26,966 And so to be a warrior, a right hand, a warrior, 498 00:26:26,966 --> 00:26:30,900 my sword is on my left thigh and I draw it across my body. 499 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,200 And so when anybody would go to face the king, their bodyguards, 500 00:26:35,233 --> 00:26:37,600 the Secret Service would pat down their left side, 501 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,600 because ain't nobody who's a warrior, who's left handed. 502 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,633 So they would pat down the right side. 503 00:26:43,633 --> 00:26:46,633 And this how he had got in 504 00:26:46,633 --> 00:26:49,466 because he they pat this down, 505 00:26:49,466 --> 00:26:51,500 then realize 506 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:53,966 perhaps that he's special forces. 507 00:26:53,966 --> 00:26:57,000 So don't even check the side that that's one possibility. 508 00:26:57,300 --> 00:27:00,200 But here's what I think is going down. 509 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,033 When the Bible says he was left handed, the Hebrew indicates 510 00:27:05,033 --> 00:27:08,033 that he was only able to use his left hand, 511 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:11,700 which means what's wrong with his right? 512 00:27:13,033 --> 00:27:14,333 Deformed. 513 00:27:14,333 --> 00:27:15,900 Injured. 514 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:16,833 Court cut off. 515 00:27:16,833 --> 00:27:19,333 There's something wrong with his right hand. 516 00:27:19,333 --> 00:27:22,333 He's only able to use his left hand. 517 00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,800 And because he's only able to use his left hand, 518 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,800 he doesn't appear to be any threat. 519 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:30,433 So they don't even bother checking. 520 00:27:30,433 --> 00:27:31,800 Here's what I know about you. 521 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,366 And here's what I know about me. 522 00:27:34,366 --> 00:27:36,533 He had appeared to be a guy 523 00:27:36,533 --> 00:27:41,233 who had deficiencies, who had weakness, who everybody else cast aside 524 00:27:41,233 --> 00:27:44,233 because he wasn't quite up to snuff. 525 00:27:45,466 --> 00:27:46,733 Ehud had made 526 00:27:46,733 --> 00:27:49,733 a double edged sword about a cubit long, 527 00:27:49,833 --> 00:27:53,000 which was strapped to his right thigh under his clothing. 528 00:27:54,433 --> 00:27:55,533 Okay. 529 00:27:55,533 --> 00:27:59,200 He presented the tribute to King Eglon, King of Moab, who was a. 530 00:28:01,733 --> 00:28:05,933 Very emphasized, very fat man. 531 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:10,966 After Ian had presented the tribute he sent on their way 532 00:28:10,966 --> 00:28:12,266 those who had carried it. 533 00:28:12,266 --> 00:28:15,700 But on reaching the stone images at Gilgal, he made. 534 00:28:15,733 --> 00:28:19,400 He himself went back to the king and said, hey, King, 535 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,966 I have a secret message for you. 536 00:28:21,966 --> 00:28:25,166 The king said to his attendants, leave us, and they all left. 537 00:28:25,233 --> 00:28:28,466 He had then approached him while he was sitting alone 538 00:28:28,466 --> 00:28:32,600 in the upper room of his palace, and said, I have a message from God for you. 539 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,800 As the king rose from his see, he had reached with his left hand 540 00:28:37,766 --> 00:28:39,866 to his right thigh, 541 00:28:39,866 --> 00:28:42,300 drew the sword from his right thigh, 542 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:45,300 and plunged it into the king's belly. 543 00:28:46,366 --> 00:28:49,433 Even the handle sank in after the blade. 544 00:28:51,733 --> 00:28:54,733 and his bowels discharged. 545 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,666 Ehud did not pull the sword out, left it in 546 00:28:58,666 --> 00:29:01,666 there, took the hair, pulled the hand out, 547 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:05,500 and the fat closed in over the sword. 548 00:29:06,033 --> 00:29:08,866 Then Ehud went out to the porch, shut the doors 549 00:29:08,866 --> 00:29:11,866 of the upper room behind him, and locked him. 550 00:29:12,866 --> 00:29:15,866 Listen. 551 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,700 What appeared to be a deficit? 552 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,866 Any hedge life was an asset 553 00:29:25,866 --> 00:29:28,700 in God's plan. 554 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:30,533 He could only use his left hand. 555 00:29:30,533 --> 00:29:32,800 He appeared to have a deficit. 556 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,166 It doesn't work. 557 00:29:34,166 --> 00:29:35,633 It's not good enough. 558 00:29:35,633 --> 00:29:38,066 I'm broke in. 559 00:29:38,066 --> 00:29:41,500 I have something in my past that has deformed my present 560 00:29:41,633 --> 00:29:43,366 and determine my future. 561 00:29:43,366 --> 00:29:45,200 There's a deficit in my life. 562 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:50,633 If any of you ever felt that way, God says your deficit in my plan 563 00:29:50,733 --> 00:29:53,733 becomes my asset. 564 00:29:54,233 --> 00:29:55,000 Do you understand? 565 00:29:57,433 --> 00:29:58,800 All you have to do is say, God, 566 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,800 this is my brokenness and it's all yours. 567 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:05,900 And God says, thank you that I can use 568 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000 my right. 569 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:12,166 God makes your deficit an asset when you serve him. 570 00:30:12,166 --> 00:30:16,333 Now when the Bible says that his bowels discharged 571 00:30:16,866 --> 00:30:19,866 again, God doesn't waste words. 572 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,300 What was shoved into fat eglon 573 00:30:25,666 --> 00:30:26,300 the sword? 574 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:28,800 Think spiritually. 575 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,000 The sword in the Old Testament is a sword. 576 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 The sword in the New Testament is the word of God. 577 00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:37,866 The Word of God is shoved in and left in. 578 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,500 And what comes out? 579 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,200 King James Version says dirt. 580 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,266 English standard verse says dumb understands fiercely. 581 00:30:50,266 --> 00:30:54,266 The Word of God goes in and stays in, and the dumb comes out. 582 00:30:55,566 --> 00:30:57,400 The Word of God goes in the life 583 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,400 and stays there, and the dung comes out. 584 00:31:00,666 --> 00:31:01,666 Didn't stand. 585 00:31:01,666 --> 00:31:07,033 The Word of God goes in, the dung comes out, the word goes in, the dung comes out. 586 00:31:07,133 --> 00:31:09,200 The word goes in the dumb. 587 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,266 Is this making sense to you? Yes. 588 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:16,266 One of the reasons why we 589 00:31:16,266 --> 00:31:19,400 are so focused on our junior high school, and now we have journals 590 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,400 for the little kids do in their journaling because it gets them in the word 591 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:24,466 every day. 592 00:31:24,466 --> 00:31:25,000 And the more 593 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,133 they're in the word and journaling, the more dung comes out of the life. 594 00:31:29,433 --> 00:31:32,066 So makes sense. 595 00:31:32,066 --> 00:31:34,500 What's the you know, how much dung people 596 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,500 look at every single day? 597 00:31:42,866 --> 00:31:44,933 Now, thank God it's not as adults, it's just kids. 598 00:31:44,933 --> 00:31:47,933 Right? 599 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,500 And when we put that much dung in our lives, 600 00:31:52,933 --> 00:31:54,566 that dung isn't coming out 601 00:31:54,566 --> 00:31:57,566 just because we put that down. 602 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,233 It's only when the word goes in 603 00:32:01,233 --> 00:32:04,233 and stays in 604 00:32:04,233 --> 00:32:07,233 that the dung comes out. 605 00:32:07,566 --> 00:32:10,566 You follow so. 606 00:32:18,766 --> 00:32:21,266 Just so you'll get it. 607 00:32:21,266 --> 00:32:22,500 There it is in writing. 608 00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:27,266 Now the dunk. 609 00:32:27,266 --> 00:32:30,266 The sword has just gone in. 610 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:34,500 Will you let the dung come out? 611 00:32:40,966 --> 00:32:42,866 I tell my football boys this too. 612 00:32:42,866 --> 00:32:45,500 I said, listen. 613 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:48,166 If your screen time is more than your prep 614 00:32:48,166 --> 00:32:51,166 time, don't complain about your game time. 615 00:32:53,366 --> 00:32:56,133 It makes sense. Yes, 616 00:32:56,133 --> 00:32:58,500 spiritual is the same for us. 617 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:01,866 If our screen time exceeds our prep time. 618 00:33:07,133 --> 00:33:08,166 Don't complain about the fact 619 00:33:08,166 --> 00:33:11,166 you're always be. 620 00:33:13,633 --> 00:33:15,300 Kind of do one more thing. 621 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:18,300 Yeah. 622 00:33:19,166 --> 00:33:22,166 So he had leaves. 623 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,500 And the king's attendants are waiting and waiting and waiting. 624 00:33:26,333 --> 00:33:29,333 And then when someone's been in the bathroom too long, 625 00:33:29,766 --> 00:33:31,733 that's what they think's going on. 626 00:33:31,733 --> 00:33:34,566 He sent his private chamber, 627 00:33:34,566 --> 00:33:36,633 I think. Man, he been in there a long time. 628 00:33:36,633 --> 00:33:38,466 I hope everything's okay. 629 00:33:38,466 --> 00:33:41,333 And so they go check on him, they find he's dead. 630 00:33:43,033 --> 00:33:46,033 And then he says this, verse 28. 631 00:33:47,233 --> 00:33:50,533 He tells the guys with them, he knows there's a battle to fight. 632 00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:52,466 He says, follow me. 633 00:33:52,466 --> 00:33:54,766 For the Lord has given Moab your enemy into your hands. 634 00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:58,466 So they followed him down and taken possession of the fords of the Jordan 635 00:33:59,166 --> 00:34:01,366 that led to Moab. They followed. 636 00:34:01,366 --> 00:34:04,400 They allowed no one to cross over at that time. 637 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,833 Verse 29, they struck down about 10,000 Moabites, all vigorous and strong. 638 00:34:07,966 --> 00:34:10,266 Not a man escaped, 639 00:34:10,266 --> 00:34:12,366 he said, listen, 640 00:34:12,366 --> 00:34:13,500 there's a battle to fight. 641 00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:16,466 Follow me. 642 00:34:16,466 --> 00:34:19,466 You know what that tells me? 643 00:34:19,733 --> 00:34:21,900 It tells me this 644 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:24,866 leaders lead. 645 00:34:24,866 --> 00:34:27,700 Leaders say follow me. 646 00:34:27,700 --> 00:34:30,700 Leaders don't command you go and I'll sit. 647 00:34:32,466 --> 00:34:32,866 Leader. 648 00:34:32,866 --> 00:34:34,500 Say follow. 649 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:36,600 It's what Joshua told the people before you. 650 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,333 As for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. 651 00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:39,966 I know what you're going to do. You choose. You're going, sir. 652 00:34:39,966 --> 00:34:41,466 But as for me and my house, 653 00:34:41,466 --> 00:34:43,766 they're going to follow me, and we're going to serve the Lord. 654 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:45,633 It's what 655 00:34:45,633 --> 00:34:48,633 Caleb did is why open the could then follow? 656 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:51,900 Because he led 657 00:34:51,900 --> 00:34:54,400 leaders lead 658 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,400 leaders are the tip of the spear. 659 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,266 And so, husbands and fathers, pay attention. 660 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:06,866 You are in the God ordained position to lead 661 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:13,733 with humility and service and love and gentleness and mercy and grace. 662 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,800 But you lead. 663 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:21,333 It's not. 664 00:35:21,333 --> 00:35:23,933 Michael's job is not my job to lead your kids. 665 00:35:23,933 --> 00:35:26,933 It's your job. 666 00:35:30,866 --> 00:35:33,866 Lead. 667 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,866 Take the word and put it in. 668 00:35:37,866 --> 00:35:39,700 And take the word and put it in. 669 00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:41,600 And take the word and put it in. 670 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,766 And take the word and put it in so that all that junk 671 00:35:44,766 --> 00:35:47,766 starts to flesh out of your life 672 00:35:47,966 --> 00:35:50,966 and lead. 673 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,166 Very last verse I'm going to cover today, verse 30. 674 00:35:56,166 --> 00:36:00,100 That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and then land had peace. 675 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:00,833 For how many years? 676 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,400 Don't miss it. 677 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,366 The first time 678 00:36:07,366 --> 00:36:10,366 they walked away from God and were in bondage, how long? 679 00:36:10,966 --> 00:36:12,000 Eight years. 680 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,600 They cried, repented, and God delivered him, and the peace lasted. 681 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,633 How long? 40 and then they got stupid, 682 00:36:21,466 --> 00:36:22,500 just like we do. 683 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:24,366 And they went back. And they're in bondage. 684 00:36:24,366 --> 00:36:27,300 Not for eight years this time. For how many? 18. 685 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:28,666 And then they cried out to God, 686 00:36:28,666 --> 00:36:31,666 and God gave him peace and rest and deliverance for how many years? 687 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:34,900 Oh, don't mess it. 688 00:36:35,866 --> 00:36:38,033 It might be your 17th time 689 00:36:38,033 --> 00:36:41,833 around that circle, and that bondage has been a long time. 690 00:36:41,833 --> 00:36:45,366 But God's truth and principles, that's when we repent. 691 00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:48,500 The deliverance last longer. 692 00:36:48,633 --> 00:36:51,633 Some of you been in bondage for eight years. 693 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:53,533 Your 40 years is coming. 694 00:36:53,533 --> 00:36:55,500 Some of you been at 18 years. 695 00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:57,000 You're 80 years is coming. 696 00:36:58,566 --> 00:37:01,566 If you repent. 697 00:37:02,966 --> 00:37:07,466 Deliverance always last longer than bondage, 698 00:37:07,466 --> 00:37:10,466 so repent sooner. 699 00:37:11,866 --> 00:37:14,866 Deliverance is waiting. 700 00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:17,700 Your stand. 701 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:18,333 What good news? 702 00:37:18,333 --> 00:37:21,333 This is? 703 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:32,100 Repent sooner. 704 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:35,700 Deliverance is waiting. 705 00:37:38,266 --> 00:37:41,266 Father, thank you for your word. 706 00:37:42,966 --> 00:37:45,900 You're such a good God. 707 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,600 I thank you that your word 708 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,600 shows us truth that liberates and delivers. 709 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:57,333 It's a word that's sharp, 710 00:37:57,333 --> 00:38:00,333 like a two edged sword. 711 00:38:03,033 --> 00:38:04,666 And I thank you that it is not. 712 00:38:04,666 --> 00:38:09,233 Not to our shame, not to our destruction, but to our liberation 713 00:38:09,233 --> 00:38:12,233 and deliverance. 714 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,200 Some some of some of us here 715 00:38:18,966 --> 00:38:21,966 have been in bondage for a long time. 716 00:38:23,866 --> 00:38:27,066 And filled our lives with a lot of crap. 717 00:38:31,233 --> 00:38:34,233 There is a way to deliverance. 718 00:38:35,033 --> 00:38:38,033 And I want to invite you into it right now. 719 00:38:40,633 --> 00:38:43,633 In humility. 720 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:44,866 And submission 721 00:38:44,866 --> 00:38:48,966 to God, I invite you to have a conversation with him. 722 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:54,500 Say, God, I repent. 723 00:38:55,766 --> 00:38:56,666 Not perfect. 724 00:38:56,666 --> 00:38:59,666 I'm going to try to be. 725 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,400 One I'm going to turn the other way. 726 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,600 Towards you 727 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,600 and not away from you. 728 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:13,900 Tell him forgive me of my sin. 729 00:39:15,433 --> 00:39:17,400 Thank you that you've done that already. 730 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:18,200 In Jesus. 731 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,200 I accept it. 732 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:26,900 And I am turning around. 733 00:39:27,833 --> 00:39:30,833 Towards you and repentance. 734 00:39:38,066 --> 00:39:41,066 Give me deliverance. 735 00:39:45,366 --> 00:39:48,366 Father, we have put your word in. 736 00:39:50,766 --> 00:39:52,800 Thank you that it accomplishes 737 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,800 what you set it out to do. 738 00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:00,900 Let it thrust from us. 739 00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:04,700 The dung and the dirt 740 00:40:04,833 --> 00:40:07,833 in our lives, in our heart. 741 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,666 So that we can live 742 00:40:12,666 --> 00:40:15,666 in the enjoyment of your promises. 743 00:40:18,366 --> 00:40:19,800 Everything about your word 744 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,800 tells us you love us. 745 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,700 Help us to love you more. 746 00:40:26,933 --> 00:40:27,700 In your name I pray. 747 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,700 Amen. 748 00:40:30,966 --> 00:40:32,900 Listen, I don't know. 749 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,366 I know some of you. Know all of you, 750 00:40:35,866 --> 00:40:40,200 but this right here is so fun 751 00:40:41,633 --> 00:40:44,600 to read and to understand what God's saying to us. 752 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,600 It's so good. 753 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,466 I want you to fall in love with him. 754 00:40:50,466 --> 00:40:51,900 And I want you to fall in love with his word. 755 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:54,833 Like. 756 00:40:54,833 --> 00:40:57,833 Like kind of find wonder in it. 757 00:40:58,800 --> 00:40:59,600 It's so good. 758 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:00,933 So here's what I'm going to I'm 759 00:41:00,933 --> 00:41:04,200 going to ask that this week you read judges three again 760 00:41:04,933 --> 00:41:07,933 and let this stuff kind of keep speaking to you. 761 00:41:08,266 --> 00:41:10,066 And then finish with verse 31. 762 00:41:10,066 --> 00:41:11,933 That's one verse we're going to go over. 763 00:41:11,933 --> 00:41:14,833 It's about Shem gar 764 00:41:14,833 --> 00:41:15,833 the barbarian. 765 00:41:15,833 --> 00:41:18,833 It just sounds like an Arnold Schwarzenegger character, you know, like 766 00:41:18,833 --> 00:41:20,700 it just 767 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:23,000 he's an he's an interesting guy. 768 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,133 We don't know a lot about him. We know some stuff. 769 00:41:26,833 --> 00:41:27,900 and you're going to want to know about it. 770 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:28,400 You're going to want to. 771 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,700 I want to introduce you to him next week. 772 00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:32,233 You're going to want to know this guy. 773 00:41:32,233 --> 00:41:34,500 So read judges three and just see what the Holy Spirit prompts. 774 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:36,500 And we'll talk about it next week. Are we good? 775 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:38,433 Yes. Yeah. 776 00:41:38,433 --> 00:41:40,033 Listen, here's the thing. 777 00:41:40,033 --> 00:41:45,100 There's people in your life whose lives will be radically transformed 778 00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:48,100 with this truth. 779 00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:51,900 And the only reason you're still breathing and God put you in 780 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:54,900 their life is so you could tell them and invite them. 781 00:41:56,166 --> 00:41:58,500 To understand that. 782 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:00,033 So two jobs, 783 00:42:00,033 --> 00:42:03,033 three judges three and invite some people. 784 00:42:03,933 --> 00:42:06,366 They need this truth 785 00:42:06,366 --> 00:42:06,900 just like we.