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All day kind of going over this,

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almost not looking forward and,

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to teaching it
just because this is one of those

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is just hard to wrap up
with a smile on your face.

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But so that we can keep things consistent

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because we've been doing judges on Sunday
morning again.

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That's why
it's got a little different feel for me.

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That's why I'm up here.

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That's why I got the mic.

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So we can record it and we can put it
on our on our, in our teaching library,

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as if it is part
of the Sunday morning service.

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And it fits within our little framework
of how we, how we publish stuff.

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And just to let you know

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on our app, I didn't start recording

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my Bible studies until about 2020.

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That was one of the good things
that came out of Covid for us.

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I started recording my Bible studies,
and since 2020,

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there are, 18 of the 66 books of the Bible
that we have, verse

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by verse, chapter by chapter on our,
you can access through our app.

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And so, we're going to pretty soon
have those all on a consolidated list

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so you can pick the book of the Bible
if you want to.

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If you want to study through that, it's
almost 25%

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of the Bible that we have verse
by verse, chapter by chapter.

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And if God allows me the grace
of living long enough and teaching long

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enough, it'll be fun to see how far we
can get through all 66. But,

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so anyway, I just
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But that's why this this format
is just a little bit different,

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because I want to keep it
the same in the same format as our Sunday

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morning stuff.

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So judges chapters 19, 20 and 21.

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If, if you

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if you follow the flow of judges,
it starts at a on a high note.

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It starts really at the end of Joshua's
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Who took over for the great liberator
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Moses pastor.

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But he was up on top of Mount Nebo,
looking out over the promised land.

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And God wouldn't
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because of some missteps.

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We'll just put it that way.

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And God said you'll get them to the end,
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Joshua,
my servant, after you will lead them in.

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So I've actually been to Mount Nebo,

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where Moses,

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passed and looking down,

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from that same mountain
on the promised land, just imagining

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both the glory, the joy, the sheer
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to lead God's people and the heartache
and not being able to make it in.

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So we come after this great man

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and and the baton pass to Joshua,
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the baton as a great leader of the nation,
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And then this, this, this process, over
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of them moving into the promised land
and God reaching up judges

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after judge after judge to
to to walk with his people,

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and the conquering of portions
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And that's the book of judges is after
this, this highlight of Joshua, this step

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by step process where God raises up
a judge to lead the people.

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And we just see this incredible spiritual

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degradation and slide downward

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till we get to the events of chapters
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And you think how 350 years,
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is, is just amazing to me,

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knowing from where we started, the theme
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And it's it's it's
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the last verse of the last chapter,
chapter 21, verse 25.

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And it says, in those days,
Israel had no king.

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Everyone did as you saw fit.

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That's the theme
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They're just doing as they saw fit.

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What were doing,
what was right in their own eyes.

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And that got him into trouble
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And then they were cry out for help
and God would raise up a judge

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and they would cry out in pain and despair
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And then God would step in and deliver,
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and then they would do what was right
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and pain and desecration
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And they would cry out to God
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because his merciful and gracious
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And it seemed as though God never got tired of that process, which just amazes me.

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God raised up a judge,
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with God's people
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Until Samson,
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He went, but he went it himself.

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He was a lone wolf leader.

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don't know if you picked up on that.

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Every leader,
Gideon, 300 men like like every leader.

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They worked with God's people

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because they understood that God would
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Samson thought God raised up me.

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And I will do it all.

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Samson was,

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It's he's an interesting study,

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but it's it starts with Samson, this

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this incredible slide that we'll see the
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We'll see it in these three chapters.

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But Samson had the anointing of
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But he was not anointed.

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So he wasn't godly.

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He had an anointing
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he was an anointed one.

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He loved to fight.

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He didn't know what to do
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He was not a man of peace.

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He always had to fight with somebody.

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He was a leader

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who could not work with others.

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He had problems with women.

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There was in Samson an awareness of God,

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but no personal holiness
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And if I look at Southampton
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if I look at Samson, he looks very much
like another one who just got elected.

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Does not like working
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has problems with women.

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And it has an awareness of God,

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but not a spiritual reality

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in Christ has an anointing on him.

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But I would not say he is the anointed of.

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And yet somehow Samson makes it

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into the Hall of Fame of faith.

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It's amazing to me.

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And so one of the things
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if I could never, ever, ever judge
a book by its cover right?

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Who knows what God's doing with those
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Who knows?

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Seven times in eight chapters.

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The book of judges
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seven times in eight chapters.

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They repent.

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They seek God's presence.

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They seek God's help and and

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and people stopped

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crying out to God
and they stopped repenting.

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That's when they stopped.

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He, as a leader, didn't

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humble himself before the Lord.

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He was a strong man

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who loved to fight.

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He was a great leader,

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but he never humbled himself
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Until the very end of his life.

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And it was a real strange heart prayer
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right before he died.

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from chapter 11 on do
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crying out to God in repentance

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and asking for his presence?

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we saw we saw that Micah and the Dan ites,

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and those are the ones who who ushered
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of Israel idolatry.

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And they suffered greatly
because we talked about that

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in our study
on, the previous Sunday, where they seem

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to be kind of written
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those who would be left in the world
to be God's testimony and witness,

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those are left out
who were not God's testimony witness

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who led the nation to idolatry.
And so God says, you know what?

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You don't
get to be a part of this seemingly.

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And then after the nights

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and idolatry, come chapters 19 and 21,

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20 and 21, and chapters
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most evil and vile days

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in the nation's history.

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And it seems to be.

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There's a subtle warning,
and we'll look at it.

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I'm gonna I want to
I want to flesh it out and

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and put it under the microscope
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But there seems to be this idea,
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real scary possibility that we can be.

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Some come so calloused

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to our own, in our own,
in our own sin that we stop seeking God.

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I'm repenting where God gives us over

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to the complete annihilation
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It's real interesting.

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You look all through the,
through the book of Judges.

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They cried

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out to God in return
the kind of repentance.

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I think it's judges

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three, nine, three, 15,

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four, three,
six six, six seven, 1010 and 1015.

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Those are the seven instances
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and no more.

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After chapter ten. So.

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Chapter 19, let's jump in to.

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In those days, Israel had no king.

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That they keep coming back
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Well, you know what? Let's just say,

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they're not really
they didn't have a king.

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They didn't have someone to tell them
what to do. They had someone leading.

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They had no one to follow.

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They had a king

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supposed to be God,

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ever present help in times of trouble.

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I'll never leave, never forsake you.

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I don't change Washington shadows.

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I'm always with you. They had a king.

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Was so interesting that

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rather than draw
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they want to defer to someone
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as a nation.

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They lost the ability to seek God,
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to rely on him.

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It's almost like an excuse.

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Well, in those days, Israel had okay

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care.

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Now a Levite who lived in a remote area
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took a concubine from Bethlehem and Judah,
but she was unfaithful to him.

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She left and went back to her
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After she had been there for months,
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and to persuade her to return.

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Excuse me.

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He had with him
his servant and two donkeys.

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She took him into her father's house,
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he gladly welcomed him. His father in law.

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The girl's father prevailed
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with them three days,
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So this is the start of this of of what's
going to get really, really, really bad.

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A Levite from the remote area in the hill
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the last Levite we saw with the deer night

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was from Bethlehem, which was
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This guy is actually
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starting off well, okay,
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He's doing is supposed to be
that he's he's who he's supposed to be

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and he has his concubine. Now,
let me explain.

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Really?

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Concubine is a concubine is his wife.

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But he wasn't able to pay the endowment
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And so it's not a legal wife yet.

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Until he pays the father for her.

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So it's a concubine.

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Okay, so he hasn't
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to legally be a legitimate wife.

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So she's called a concubine. Okay,

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so this is.

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There's nothing like this.

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Isn't one of those mistresses
or something like that.

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Like this is a legal thing.

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He just hasn't been able
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And so she's called a concubine.

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She was unfaithful to him.

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Okay, so we all know what that means.

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It's the guys. What?

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Sounds like she left her and went to her
father's house in Bethlehem and Judah.

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After she had been there for months,
her husband went to her

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to persuade her to return.

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So she's unfaithful.

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There's obviously bad juju
going on in their relationship.

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She leaves and goes home.

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And what does her father do?

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So she he lets her.

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Yeah. Come on, you messed up, sweetie.

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But come on, come to Papa.

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So again,

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you look
at that and you think that's wrong.

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Daddy, you're doing this wrong.

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They gotta work. They gotta sort this.

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This is a marriage thing.

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You don't just run away and we call her
you and protect you and all this stuff.

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Like you.

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You messed her up. You got to stay.

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You messed up.

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You gotta fix it.

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So he takes her, man.

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She's there. For how long?

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Four months.

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And her husband went to her
to persuade her to return.

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This is one of the,

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I think, one of the beautiful pictures
that we see in these three chapters.

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You have an unfaithful wife,
and the husband pursues her.

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Here's why.

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It's a beautiful picture,
because all through Scripture, God's

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people are called
the what the Bride of Christ.

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And we're going to see this

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all through Scripture that idolatry,

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chasing after other gods

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or going through
other things to get to God

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is in Scripture is talked
about as spiritual adultery.

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Okay.

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So all through the Old Testament.

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The Scripture talks

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about pursuing other gods

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as cheating on God.

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It's adultery in God's eyes.

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Spiritually,

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and he talks
all about his adulterous people

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who have served other gods,

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who has chased other gods.

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And if you go to Jeremiah chapter three,

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there's a real interesting passage
here, and God is talking about his people.

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Let me just read a few of these verses.

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If a man divorces his wife and she leaves
him and marries another man, should he?

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Should he return to her again?

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Would not the land be completely defiled?

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But you have lived as a prostitute
with many lovers.

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Would you now return to me the first Lord?

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He's talking to his people.

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You're saying you have prostituted
yourself with all these lovers?

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What he's saying is

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you have given your spiritual love
and allegiance to other gods.

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Another thing you.

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You've committed adultery against me.

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God says.

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Have you
seen what faithless Israel has done?

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She has gone up on every high heel

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and under every spreading tree,
and has committed adultery there.

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I thought that after she had done
all this, she would return to me,

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but she did not, and her unfaithful sister
Judah sought.

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I gave faithless
Israel her certificate of divorce

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and sent her away
because of all her adulteries.

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Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister
Judah had no fear.

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She also went out and committed adultery,
because Israel's immorality

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matter mattered. So little to her.

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She defiled the land.

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A committed adultery with stoning would.

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It's.

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It's this imagery that when we chase
after other things other than God,

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God sees it as spiritual

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adultery, immorality, fornication.

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Like it's he sees it.

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It's very, very serious in his eyes.

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And when it says that because Israel's
immorality mattered so little,

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she defiled the land and committed
adultery, restoring woods,

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because they carved these idols
out of stone and wood, and worship them,

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and use these little medallions
to go through, to try to get to God.

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He said, you just keep committing
until time and time and time

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and time and time again,

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and you don't even have any shame

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for your immorality.

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In spite of all this,
for unfaithful sister

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Judah did not return to me
with all her heart, but only in pretense.

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He she, he.

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If you were to just come back to me
with your whole heart, you act like you.

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You're mine
because you look like it religiously.

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But you're not mine.

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You look the part,

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but your heart is far from me.

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And he says this in verse 14, return
faithless people, declares the Lord,

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for I am your husband,
and I will choose you,

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and I will give you shepherds

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after my own heart, who will lead you
with knowledge and understanding.

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And it just amazes me that
that the perversity

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of immorality and spiritual adultery,
that God's

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people have a tendency
to perpetrate against him.

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And he says, I have every right

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to separate myself from you legally.

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I got every right.

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But if you just return.

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I've chosen you.

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I mean, the tenderness

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and the acceptance to continue chasing

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after the one who continues to walk away.

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And that's that's part

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of the redeeming part I see in the story
that this this Levite says, look, sweetie,

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I've still chosen you

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right?

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And so she goes.

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And Father Law, it said, hey,
just stay with here.

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Just relax a little bit.

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I'll just take some time off.

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Verse five.

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On the fourth day,
they got up early and prepared to leave,

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but the girl's father said to his son
in law,

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refresh yourself with something to eat,
then you can go.

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So to him sat down to eat, drink.

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Why don't you start eating and drinking?

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You just stay too long like it just.

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And so they do. Just stays too long.

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And the man got up to go.

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Father in law persuaded him.
So he stayed there that night.

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Verse eight, on the morning
of the fifth day, when he rose to go,

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that is his father in law,
the girl's father said, refresh yourself,

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wait till afternoon.

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So the two of them eat together,
and I guarantee you they drink together.

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Verse nine, when the man with his coffee
iron and a servant got up to

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leave his father in law, the girl's father
said, now, look, it's almost evening.

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Spend the night here.

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The day's nearly over.
Stay and enjoy yourself.

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Early tomorrow morning you can get up
and be on your way home. It's.

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You know, we got to be so careful when we
let people talk us into doing what we.

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And he knew he should be on the way.

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Days ago, he knew,

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and he, he lets his father talk him in
just a little bit longer.

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But they're going to hurt.

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Have a little more and one more drink.

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What's going to, you know.

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And so he ends up staying long
and he should stay

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and but unwilling verse ten,
unwilling to stay another night,

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the man and, left and went toward Jebus,
that is Jerusalem,

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with his two settle donkeys
and his concubine.

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I want you to know

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that he should have left in the morning
when it was light,

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and there were time to travel.

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And you wait and wait and wait.

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So in essence, it puts him in it, puts him
behind schedule, makes a stupid decision

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to head out in the evening time,
and it's going to get him into trouble.

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Listen, when he, you
know, it's time to go, it's time to go.

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Hey, when when you know you got to do it,
just do it.

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Don't put it off.

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He's procrastinating. He's
going to get in trouble because of it.

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Then when the man.

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Oh, no.

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Verse verse 11,
when they were near Jerusalem

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and the day was almost gone,
the servant said to his master, come,

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let's stop at this city of the Jebusites
and spend the night.

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His master replied, this is the leave
I is master, replied, no,

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we won't go into an alien city
whose people are not.

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Israelites will go on to give me a.

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So he says, we wouldn't be safe
in the city that isn't of our people.

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Let's go to city of our people.

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It's getting late.

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We don't want to be out too much longer,

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but we need to push on
and get to a city of at least our people,

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because at least
we should be able to trust our own people.

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Yeah.

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Come on, let's try to reach

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give me a or rama and spend the night
in one of those places.

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Verse 14.

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So they went on,
and the sun set as they neared Gibeah.

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And Benjamin, watch this.

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Verse 15.

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There they stop to spend the night.

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They went and sat in the city square,
but no one took them

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into his home for the night.

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Culturally,

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when a stranger entered a city
that wasn't theirs,

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they would enter the city and sit
at the city gate or the city square.

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Hospitality was was of preeminent

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importance
in ancient Middle East cultures,

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and so the expectation was for anybody
traveling,

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you go to the city square,
someone is going to invite you in.

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It's just what you do.

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Hey, it's not like our

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00:22:00,733 --> 00:22:01,433
our culture.

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Like we don't let anybody in our house,
even if we even know

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if you like you,
you're not welcome to come inside.

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00:22:05,566 --> 00:22:08,566
Like we'll stand on the front porch
when you can talk, and that's fine. But.

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But they're strangers.

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Aliens.

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And there's all kinds
of spiritual ramifications about that.

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God says you're aliens in this land.

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Remember what it's like to be an alien

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and be hospitable to people
and all the stuff.

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So they go to City Square.

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No one takes them in verse 16,
that evening, an old man

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from the hill country of Ephraim,
who was living in Libya,

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the men of the place for a bunch of mites
came in from his work in the fields.

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When he looked
and saw the traveler in the city square,

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the old man asked him,
where are you going?

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Where did you come from?

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I want you to notice that this man
is coming in from the fields.

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He was

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living in Gambia, but he wasn't a
give me a night,

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okay?

457
00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:51,233
This is real important.

458
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He was living in the area,
but he was a foreigner too.

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And he wasn't a given night.

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And he sees these people
who are not giving.

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00:22:59,333 --> 00:23:00,966
And it says where are you coming from?

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00:23:00,966 --> 00:23:03,600
Where are you going?
Because you don't belong here.

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He knows something about this area.

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The people of Libya were incredibly

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vile, nasty, evil people.

466
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,466
Hey, they were just they were horrible

467
00:23:20,566 --> 00:23:21,900
people.

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00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:23,766
This man knows it.

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He knows they don't belong.

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And he's not one of them.

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He's just walking amongst them.

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And so the Levite says we are on our way.

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This is verse 18 from Bethlehem in Judah
to a remote area in the hill country of

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Ephraim, where I live.

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I have been to

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Bethlehem in Judah, and now I'm
going to the house of the Lord.

477
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No one has taken me into his house.

478
00:23:43,133 --> 00:23:46,500
We are both strong fodder for our donkeys
and bread and wine for ourselves.

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Your servants, me, your maid servant,
and the young man with us.

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We don't need anything.

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Verse
20 says, you are welcome at my house.

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The old man said, let me supply
whatever you need.

483
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Only do not spend the night in the square.

484
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So he took him into his house
and feathers his donkeys.

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00:24:01,866 --> 00:24:04,900
After they washed their feet,
they had something to eat and drink.

486
00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,900
Now he knows what these people are like.

487
00:24:09,166 --> 00:24:10,533
So he invites these people.

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00:24:10,533 --> 00:24:13,533
And the Levite,
his concubine and his Levite servant.

489
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:14,200
Verse 22.

490
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,966
While they were enjoying themselves,
some of the wicked men of the city

491
00:24:16,966 --> 00:24:18,233
surrounded the house.

492
00:24:18,233 --> 00:24:21,466
Pounding on the door, they shouted
to the old man who owned the house,

493
00:24:21,866 --> 00:24:26,666
bring out the man who came to your house
so we can have sex with him.

494
00:24:28,533 --> 00:24:31,533
Hey, so we're talking about

495
00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:35,100
homosexual gang rape.

496
00:24:37,733 --> 00:24:39,100
It was so.

497
00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:42,900
The vileness
and the evilness of this was so well known

498
00:24:44,133 --> 00:24:47,200
and accepted the man inside the house.

499
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,200
Is it shocked that they would ask this?

500
00:24:51,066 --> 00:24:52,333
He knows it's wrong.

501
00:24:52,333 --> 00:24:55,200
He's not going to hand the guy over.

502
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:56,133
But he knew this.

503
00:24:56,133 --> 00:24:59,133
So the evil was so prevalent that

504
00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:03,600
this guy knew this couple
could not stay the night out in the square

505
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,600
because he knew something.

506
00:25:09,433 --> 00:25:10,400
There have been some

507
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,400
who suggested that God's anger
and we'll see it in a little bit.

508
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,566
But there's been some issues.

509
00:25:15,566 --> 00:25:19,800
The God's anger against
this act was against the act of rape,

510
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,800
not the act against homosexual sex.

511
00:25:24,366 --> 00:25:27,233
And that's not consistent with Scripture.

512
00:25:27,233 --> 00:25:30,300
Not that Scripture endorses rape,

513
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:34,800
but the issue is also
the homosexual homosexual act.

514
00:25:35,766 --> 00:25:38,400
That's why he destroyed destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah.

515
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,866
If it were just rape, he would destroy
every city where rape occurred.

516
00:25:41,866 --> 00:25:44,100
And he doesn't.

517
00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:45,800
So it is very much

518
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,000
this, this homosexual acts and lifestyle

519
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000
and perversion.

520
00:25:55,033 --> 00:25:56,500
The owner of the house went outside

521
00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:59,500
and said to them, no,
my friends, don't be so vile.

522
00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:02,333
Okay, good.

523
00:26:02,333 --> 00:26:05,333
At least you know this is a vile thing
they're asking.

524
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,700
Don't do this disgraceful thing.

525
00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:10,500
So, so, so far.

526
00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:13,500
Like, okay,
at least he's sticking up for this guy.

527
00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:16,833
But have you read this passage?

528
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:22,700
This is horrible.

529
00:26:22,733 --> 00:26:25,766
Look, here's
my virgin daughter and his concubine.

530
00:26:26,533 --> 00:26:29,933
I'll bring them out to you now,
and you can use them

531
00:26:29,933 --> 00:26:32,933
and do to them whatever you wish.

532
00:26:33,366 --> 00:26:35,933
But to this man,
don't do such a disgraceful thing.

533
00:26:45,333 --> 00:26:48,500
How. How evil

534
00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,500
does your heart have to be?

535
00:26:53,866 --> 00:26:56,866
To endorse.

536
00:26:57,566 --> 00:27:00,566
Gang rape.

537
00:27:01,666 --> 00:27:04,666
Against your own daughter.

538
00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:13,300
I, I don't have

539
00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:16,300
I don't have room in my mind.

540
00:27:16,633 --> 00:27:20,100
I don't have that cognitive ability

541
00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:26,100
to to to understand the reality of this.

542
00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:31,500
Imagine being this little girl.

543
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:37,400
Look at her father,

544
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,400
who's supposed to be the protector.

545
00:27:43,333 --> 00:27:44,733
Did you know that

546
00:27:44,733 --> 00:27:47,733
the destruction of sin knows no bounds?

547
00:27:54,266 --> 00:27:57,533
It evil is is is the

548
00:27:57,766 --> 00:28:00,766
the greatest example of progressivism.

549
00:28:01,666 --> 00:28:04,666
Progressivism knows no bounds.

550
00:28:04,666 --> 00:28:06,300
It just keeps getting worse and worse
and worse.

551
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,300
There's no limit.

552
00:28:10,266 --> 00:28:13,266
That's evil.

553
00:28:13,766 --> 00:28:16,633
There's no limit to the

554
00:28:16,633 --> 00:28:18,800
demonic

555
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,800
spirit that is at work.

556
00:28:23,433 --> 00:28:26,433
The satanic spirit that that work here.

557
00:28:26,766 --> 00:28:31,266
That's the only thing I can think of that
that Satan has so entered

558
00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:36,100
these people, this community, this home.

559
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:40,566
But the man would not listen to him.

560
00:28:40,566 --> 00:28:43,900
So the man took his concubine
and sent her outside to them,

561
00:28:44,266 --> 00:28:47,266
and they raped her
and abused her throughout the night.

562
00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:51,100
And at dawn they let her go.

563
00:28:53,366 --> 00:28:55,200
This is

564
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,866
this is the woman
that you're supposed to be.

565
00:28:56,866 --> 00:28:59,866
You saw her out.

566
00:29:00,366 --> 00:29:01,400
At your betrothed to.

567
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,200
And you're.

568
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,166
And you're just going to take on.

569
00:29:05,166 --> 00:29:08,166
Throw out of this mob and.

570
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:10,633
I mean, if I don't know how much you want

571
00:29:10,633 --> 00:29:13,633
to put yourself in this story.

572
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,700
But how do you stay inside?

573
00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:19,700
And here.

574
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
The mob and her screams.

575
00:29:26,333 --> 00:29:29,333
And not do it.

576
00:29:33,666 --> 00:29:36,666
And at what point does.

577
00:29:38,566 --> 00:29:39,833
Does she keep fighting?

578
00:29:39,833 --> 00:29:42,833
And it's just the whole thing.

579
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:52,966
The abuser.

580
00:29:52,966 --> 00:29:54,466
Thursday
night and at dawn. They let her go.

581
00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:57,500
At daybreak, the woman went

582
00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:00,533
back to the house with her master,
where the master was saying.

583
00:30:00,533 --> 00:30:03,533
Fell down at the door
and lay there until daylight.

584
00:30:03,866 --> 00:30:06,966
When her master got up in the morning
and opened the door of the house,

585
00:30:06,966 --> 00:30:08,400
he stepped out to continue.

586
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,066
On his way there lay his concubine, fallen
in the doorway of the house,

587
00:30:12,166 --> 00:30:15,166
with her hands on the threshold.

588
00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:17,366
He said to her,

589
00:30:17,366 --> 00:30:20,366
get up, let's go.

590
00:30:21,533 --> 00:30:24,533
But there was no answer.

591
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:26,066
The man put her on his donkey

592
00:30:26,066 --> 00:30:29,066
and set France out for home.

593
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:29,500
There's.

594
00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:31,900
There's

595
00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:32,933
there's no empathy.

596
00:30:32,933 --> 00:30:34,800
There's no.

597
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,633
There's no sad. There's no grief.

598
00:30:36,633 --> 00:30:38,166
There's no compassion.

599
00:30:38,166 --> 00:30:43,233
There's no I mean, can you know
what has happened to this guy's heart?

600
00:30:45,266 --> 00:30:48,600
The Levite, for goodness
sake, the tribe of Levi, the priest

601
00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:51,200
says, get up.

602
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,200
Let's go.

603
00:30:56,233 --> 00:30:59,033
There was no answer because she was dead.

604
00:30:59,033 --> 00:31:02,333
When he reached home,
he took a knife and cut up his concubine

605
00:31:02,333 --> 00:31:05,466
limb by limb into 12 parts, and sent them

606
00:31:05,466 --> 00:31:08,466
into all the areas of Israel.

607
00:31:09,733 --> 00:31:10,933
How did this chapter begin?

608
00:31:10,933 --> 00:31:13,933
With what words?

609
00:31:14,866 --> 00:31:15,900
There's no king in Israel.

610
00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:20,333
So what he's doing here, as grotesque
as this is,

611
00:31:21,766 --> 00:31:23,366
there's no authority

612
00:31:23,366 --> 00:31:26,366
to appeal to for justice.

613
00:31:27,066 --> 00:31:29,700
There's no agency

614
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:30,100
to say.

615
00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,100
You have to level some justice
against these people.

616
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,900
And the only way in his, in his

617
00:31:38,133 --> 00:31:40,700
whatever mind

618
00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:43,266
is to cut her up in 12 pieces.

619
00:31:43,266 --> 00:31:46,066
And some have adjusted suggested different

620
00:31:46,066 --> 00:31:49,866
whether it was cut at the ankles,
at the knees, at the hips.

621
00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:53,100
So they're six at the wrist, seven eight

622
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,100
at the shoulders, 910 to the head, 11, 12.

623
00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:59,066
So they suggested many different ways

624
00:31:59,066 --> 00:32:02,466
of how they how they cut this body,
how he cut this body up.

625
00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:07,000
And to send these bodies
to a representative of the 12 tribes.

626
00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:10,200
That's what he's doing and saying.

627
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,400
Since we have no king, there's no agency
to turn these guys into this.

628
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,200
Look, this is

629
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,200
we as a people have got to do something.

630
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,333
And everyone who saw such a thing
has never been seen or done

631
00:32:26,333 --> 00:32:29,433
now, since the day the Israelites
came out of up, out of Egypt.

632
00:32:29,633 --> 00:32:30,366
Think about it.

633
00:32:30,366 --> 00:32:31,066
Consider it.

634
00:32:31,066 --> 00:32:34,066
Tell us what to do.

635
00:32:34,566 --> 00:32:36,100
I mean, you read that chapter in

636
00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:39,100
Where's the Redemption in that chapter?

637
00:32:42,266 --> 00:32:44,300
I mean, other than a veiled

638
00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:47,300
pursuit of a husband to a wayward wife,

639
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,333
but even that doesn't hold up
because he throws her out to a mob

640
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,733
to be brutalized and then finds her
dead, like, get up, let's go.

641
00:32:54,733 --> 00:32:56,100
Oh, no. Okay, fine.

642
00:32:58,700 --> 00:32:59,100
They're just.

643
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:02,700
It's just you look at the, At what?

644
00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:04,900
Evil like sin results.

645
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,800
You think? What are.

646
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,033
If there's ever a time, say,

647
00:33:09,033 --> 00:33:12,033
God, where are you?

648
00:33:12,133 --> 00:33:15,133
Right.

649
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:17,733
Chapter 20.

650
00:33:17,733 --> 00:33:20,733
Then all the Israelites,
from Dan to Beersheba,

651
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,033
and from the land of Gilead, came out

652
00:33:23,033 --> 00:33:26,033
as one man in a symbol
before the Lord in Mizpah.

653
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,133
The leaders of all the people,
the tribes of Israel, took their places

654
00:33:29,133 --> 00:33:33,066
in the assembly of the people of God,
400,000 soldiers armed with swords.

655
00:33:33,166 --> 00:33:37,133
So at least they mobilized at least like,
okay,

656
00:33:38,166 --> 00:33:41,166
this is this is too far.

657
00:33:42,533 --> 00:33:45,533
The binge my
that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.

658
00:33:45,566 --> 00:33:48,700
Then the Israelites said,
tell us how this awful thing happened.

659
00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:52,600
So the Levite, the husband of the murdered
woman, said, look what he says.

660
00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:56,600
I and my concubine came to give you
in Benjamin to spend the night.

661
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,166
During the night
the man of Gibeah came near

662
00:33:59,166 --> 00:34:01,700
me and surrounded the house,
and tended to kill me.

663
00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:03,666
They raped my concubine and she died.

664
00:34:03,666 --> 00:34:05,833
Okay, why don't you tell the whole story?

665
00:34:09,433 --> 00:34:10,166
I mean, think about how

666
00:34:10,166 --> 00:34:13,166
much he leaves out right?

667
00:34:16,033 --> 00:34:18,666
He'd eat.

668
00:34:18,666 --> 00:34:20,833
He knows that
he can't come clean about himself

669
00:34:20,833 --> 00:34:23,833
because they would probably kill him to.

670
00:34:25,366 --> 00:34:28,466
I took my concubine, cut her into pieces
in one piece to each region.

671
00:34:28,466 --> 00:34:29,300
Israel's inheritance.

672
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:32,200
Because they into this loot,
interest rates will act in Israel.

673
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:32,766
Verse seven.

674
00:34:32,766 --> 00:34:35,766
Now all you Israelites
speak up and give your verdict.

675
00:34:38,866 --> 00:34:41,866
He wants justice somehow.

676
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:43,566
He wants, he want.

677
00:34:43,566 --> 00:34:47,666
He wants the hammer of
of of righteous justice to fall.

678
00:34:47,666 --> 00:34:48,833
Somehow.

679
00:34:48,833 --> 00:34:51,200
He doesn't know what to do.
He knows how guilty he is.

680
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,200
And he's asking the people,
somebody do something, please.

681
00:34:56,466 --> 00:34:59,466
What has nobody done yet?

682
00:35:01,966 --> 00:35:04,966
For how they even mentioned God's name.

683
00:35:09,266 --> 00:35:11,866
But how bad does it have to get

684
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:13,800
for people to

685
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,566
say, maybe
there's a spiritual thing at work?

686
00:35:17,566 --> 00:35:20,933
And what we're seeing
are the results of of the evilness.

687
00:35:22,933 --> 00:35:25,466
Of the evil one.

688
00:35:25,466 --> 00:35:29,566
Let's cry out to God, because this is
so far beyond what is normal.

689
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,633
This is so far beyond
what should ever be accepted.

690
00:35:35,533 --> 00:35:37,166
This is not this should not be

691
00:35:37,166 --> 00:35:40,166
a normal part of humanity.

692
00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:43,233
It's so interesting when the slide,

693
00:35:43,233 --> 00:35:47,200
when the slide,
the downward slide is slow and methodical.

694
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,800
How used to it we get right?

695
00:35:55,066 --> 00:35:58,066
There are so many things
in our own culture

696
00:35:58,366 --> 00:36:00,766
that has been such a slow,

697
00:36:00,766 --> 00:36:03,966
methodical downward slide

698
00:36:04,266 --> 00:36:08,466
that evil and degradation
has become normalized.

699
00:36:08,466 --> 00:36:11,466
What's it going to take?

700
00:36:16,533 --> 00:36:17,300
When you think back

701
00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:20,300
a generation ago, two generations ago,

702
00:36:21,466 --> 00:36:24,900
and what is normalized now,
if that generation looked at that

703
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:28,733
and thought was going to be normal,
they say, no, no, that's that cannot be

704
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:33,300
right.

705
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,100
But this is what happens

706
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:42,333
when when evil is not
when sin is not called out,

707
00:36:42,433 --> 00:36:45,433
it's not corrected
when the Word of God isn't present.

708
00:36:47,733 --> 00:36:49,066
I mean,

709
00:36:49,066 --> 00:36:51,066
so finally it's gotten so bad,
they're like, okay,

710
00:36:51,066 --> 00:36:54,066
we got to do something.

711
00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:57,866
Verse eight, all the people rose is one
man saying, none of us will go home.

712
00:36:57,866 --> 00:37:00,166
No, no,
not one of us returned to his house.

713
00:37:00,166 --> 00:37:02,500
But now this is what we will do to give.

714
00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:05,800
You will go up against it
as the law directs.

715
00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:09,200
Verse ten will take ten men
of every hundred from all the tribes

716
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,200
of Israel, 100 from a from a thousand,

717
00:37:12,233 --> 00:37:15,233
and a thousand from 10,000
to get provisions for the army.

718
00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:18,666
Then when the army arrives and give you
and Benjamin, they can give them

719
00:37:18,666 --> 00:37:21,666
what they deserve
for all this vileness done in Israel.

720
00:37:21,766 --> 00:37:26,066
So all the men of Israel got together
and unite as one man against the city.

721
00:37:26,266 --> 00:37:30,000
And so these 1211 tribes of the 12,
they're leaving Benjamin out.

722
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,600
The 11 tribes are getting together
and amassing this army

723
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,466
to go up against the people of Gibeah,

724
00:37:34,466 --> 00:37:38,100
because that's where this horrific thing
took place in the tribe of Benjamin.

725
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:42,366
And the 11 tribes are getting together
against the tribe of Benjamin.

726
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:45,866
Verse 12.

727
00:37:45,866 --> 00:37:49,200
The tribes of Israel sentiment
throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,

728
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,666
what about this awful crime
that was committed among you?

729
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,233
Now surrender those wicked men of Gibeah,
so that we may put them to death

730
00:37:57,233 --> 00:37:58,766
and purge the evil from Israel.

731
00:37:58,766 --> 00:38:02,366
So the 11 tribes together
gather this massive army, and they go to

732
00:38:02,366 --> 00:38:06,600
the tribe of Benjamin and say,
give us the people in Gambia who did this.

733
00:38:06,933 --> 00:38:09,500
They're going to be put to death.

734
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:12,133
You would think the people of Benjamin
would say, yeah,

735
00:38:12,133 --> 00:38:15,133
no, we get it.

736
00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:19,233
But the Benjamin will not listen
to their fellow Israelites.

737
00:38:19,233 --> 00:38:22,233
Verse 14, from their own,
from their towns, they came together.

738
00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:25,200
I give you the fight
against the Israelites at once.

739
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,633
The Benjamin is mobilize
26,000 swordsmen from their towns,

740
00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:32,566
in addition to 700 chosen men
from those living in Gibeah.

741
00:38:32,866 --> 00:38:37,200
Among all these soldiers,
there were 700 chosen men

742
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,366
who were left handed, each of whom could
sling a stone out of here and not miss.

743
00:38:41,366 --> 00:38:43,366
These were the elite fighters.

744
00:38:43,366 --> 00:38:44,966
These were the Seal team six.

745
00:38:44,966 --> 00:38:46,366
These were the Delta forces.

746
00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:49,933
Anybody remember about the judge
who was the left handed judge?

747
00:38:50,866 --> 00:38:51,466
Ehud.

748
00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:57,300
Benjamin.

749
00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:00,300
The elite of the elite.

750
00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:02,700
They amassed together to say,

751
00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:06,733
okay, now the Civil War is
what's brewing here, Benjamin,

752
00:39:06,733 --> 00:39:09,733
against the 11 tribes.

753
00:39:10,833 --> 00:39:11,433
For 17,

754
00:39:11,433 --> 00:39:14,533
Israel, apart from Benjamin,
mustered 400,000 swordsmen.

755
00:39:14,533 --> 00:39:15,366
All of them fight him.

756
00:39:15,366 --> 00:39:19,333
And the Israelites went up to Bethel
and inquired of God, notice that?

757
00:39:19,333 --> 00:39:21,600
Inquired of God. Look at what they said.

758
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,633
They said, who of us shall go first
to fight against the Benjamin?

759
00:39:24,866 --> 00:39:26,666
The Lord replied, Judah shall go for.

760
00:39:26,666 --> 00:39:29,666
And so it looks like they're seeking
God right?

761
00:39:30,066 --> 00:39:32,533
What did they say?

762
00:39:32,533 --> 00:39:34,200
What was their question?

763
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,833
Who should go?

764
00:39:35,833 --> 00:39:39,600
God says,
go ahead, send you to watch what happens

765
00:39:40,733 --> 00:39:43,900
the next morning, the Israelites
got up and pitched a camp near give you.

766
00:39:43,933 --> 00:39:45,933
The men of Israel went out to fight
the Benjamin

767
00:39:45,933 --> 00:39:47,600
and took up battle positions against them.

768
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,033
I give you the Benjamin came out of
give me and cut down

769
00:39:51,033 --> 00:39:54,166
22,000 Israelites
on the battlefield that day.

770
00:39:55,466 --> 00:39:56,866
But the men of Israel encourage one

771
00:39:56,866 --> 00:40:00,600
another, and again took up their positions
where they had stationed themselves.

772
00:40:00,633 --> 00:40:06,033
The first day the Israelites went up
and wept before the Lord until evening.

773
00:40:06,566 --> 00:40:07,666
And they inquired of the Lord.

774
00:40:07,666 --> 00:40:11,533
They said, shall we go up again
to battle against the giants?

775
00:40:11,533 --> 00:40:12,266
Our brothers?

776
00:40:12,266 --> 00:40:15,266
So God, who should go first?

777
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,600
He says, go ahead, send Judah.

778
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
They go out and they get slaughtered.

779
00:40:22,433 --> 00:40:25,433
Why would God let that happen?

780
00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,700
And ask if you want.

781
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:31,800
Yeah.

782
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,466
Charlotte, what do they say?

783
00:40:34,466 --> 00:40:37,133
They said, we know what to do.

784
00:40:37,133 --> 00:40:38,100
We know what's best.

785
00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:39,900
We're not even going to talk
to God about it.

786
00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:42,833
Who do you want to go first?

787
00:40:42,833 --> 00:40:44,100
God sent you to go ahead.

788
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:46,733
See how it goes. They get slaughtered.

789
00:40:48,766 --> 00:40:49,600
So the image shows up.

790
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,833
But verse 23,
the Israelites went up again.

791
00:40:51,833 --> 00:40:54,666
And what?

792
00:40:54,666 --> 00:40:57,666
What they do.

793
00:40:57,666 --> 00:41:00,666
They wept before the Lord until evening.

794
00:41:01,433 --> 00:41:04,433
And they ask God what they ask him.

795
00:41:06,166 --> 00:41:09,166
Should we do this? God?

796
00:41:10,566 --> 00:41:13,566
Right.

797
00:41:13,566 --> 00:41:16,566
Shall we do this again?

798
00:41:18,533 --> 00:41:20,133
Sometimes.

799
00:41:20,133 --> 00:41:21,700
I'm not saying this is the reason.

800
00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:24,000
Please don't read into what I'm saying.

801
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
But sometimes.

802
00:41:27,166 --> 00:41:29,233
It takes extreme

803
00:41:29,233 --> 00:41:32,233
personal pain and loss.

804
00:41:34,133 --> 00:41:37,866
To to drive us

805
00:41:37,866 --> 00:41:40,866
to weep before God

806
00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:44,700
and to stay in his presence.

807
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,400
That's what they're doing.

808
00:41:49,833 --> 00:41:52,833
Look at what's happened.

809
00:41:52,833 --> 00:41:55,833
This poor woman.

810
00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:59,700
Their countrymen at slaughtered,

811
00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:02,900
their families being destroyed.

812
00:42:04,133 --> 00:42:06,533
Until they wept

813
00:42:06,533 --> 00:42:09,600
and repented and sought God's presence.

814
00:42:10,933 --> 00:42:13,066
No longer is it the prideful, arrogant.

815
00:42:13,066 --> 00:42:15,633
Oh, I'm gonna take this in a matter of my
own hands. God, you're going to help me.

816
00:42:17,700 --> 00:42:20,633
Now it's Lord.

817
00:42:20,633 --> 00:42:23,633
We don't know what to do,

818
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,800
and we don't have the answer.

819
00:42:27,033 --> 00:42:30,033
And we're going to be here
in your presence.

820
00:42:32,166 --> 00:42:35,166
Until you give us direction.

821
00:42:35,266 --> 00:42:36,800
I mean, how many times have

822
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,800
has something happened in our world,
and we know what we're going to do?

823
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,800
We're just going to
we're just going to take this is just.

824
00:42:45,066 --> 00:42:45,733
Rather than saying,

825
00:42:45,733 --> 00:42:48,733
Lord, I have to admit to you,
I don't know.

826
00:42:48,933 --> 00:42:50,400
This is a road I've never had.

827
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,500
I've never walked yet,

828
00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:55,500
and I don't know what to do.

829
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,700
Is there something here
that you desire from me?

830
00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:01,033
Is there something you want me to is.

831
00:43:01,033 --> 00:43:04,033
Or what do you want?

832
00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:07,100
Should I even.

833
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:10,700
The Lord answers. Go.

834
00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:12,266
Go up against them.

835
00:43:12,266 --> 00:43:14,266
The Israelites drew near to Benjamin
the second day.

836
00:43:14,266 --> 00:43:17,266
This time
when the Benjamin came out from Gibeah

837
00:43:17,633 --> 00:43:21,033
to Posen, they cut down another 18,000
Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

838
00:43:21,033 --> 00:43:22,033
Then the Israelites,

839
00:43:22,033 --> 00:43:25,500
all the people went to Bethel,
and they sat weeping before the Lord.

840
00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:26,433
They fasted.

841
00:43:26,433 --> 00:43:29,433
They had uniforms in burnt offerings
and fellowship offerings to the Lord.

842
00:43:29,533 --> 00:43:32,166
And the Israelites
inquired of the Lord in those days,

843
00:43:32,166 --> 00:43:36,433
the ark of the covenant of God
was there with Phineas the son of lions,

844
00:43:36,433 --> 00:43:40,066
or the son of Aaron, ministering
before they asked, shall we go up again

845
00:43:40,666 --> 00:43:42,766
to battle with Benjamin?
Our brothers are not.

846
00:43:42,766 --> 00:43:45,400
The Lord responded, go for tomorrow
I will give them into your hands.

847
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:50,633
Sometimes God lets us get completely
and utterly destroyed.

848
00:43:52,966 --> 00:43:55,966
Completely and utterly destroyed

849
00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:59,100
so that we have nothing left.

850
00:44:00,333 --> 00:44:01,466
They go to Bethel,

851
00:44:01,466 --> 00:44:04,466
which is the house of God,

852
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:09,566
and instead of just being sorrowful
and asking, should we go now?

853
00:44:09,733 --> 00:44:11,566
They fast.

854
00:44:11,566 --> 00:44:13,733
They offer burnt offerings, fellowship.

855
00:44:13,733 --> 00:44:16,733
But what it is, is they start worshiping.

856
00:44:17,633 --> 00:44:20,100
So first all they said was, God,
will you help us?

857
00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:22,033
Who goes first?

858
00:44:22,033 --> 00:44:25,000
And they got absolutely defeated
and in great pain.

859
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,933
They said, Lord, should we do this?

860
00:44:27,933 --> 00:44:30,700
They're still did
you know, they're still just seeking

861
00:44:30,700 --> 00:44:34,100
God's hand, not simply his presence.

862
00:44:34,933 --> 00:44:37,933
They get wiped out again this third time.

863
00:44:37,933 --> 00:44:41,400
Now they're seeking communion with him,

864
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:45,266
offering worship.

865
00:44:45,266 --> 00:44:48,533
God, it's not enough for us just to know
your hand is going to be with us.

866
00:44:48,700 --> 00:44:53,366
We need to take a step back here,
and we just need to worship you

867
00:44:54,966 --> 00:44:57,966
and honor you.

868
00:44:58,266 --> 00:45:01,266
We've been so driven by

869
00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:05,733
our sense of justice
and what has to happen.

870
00:45:07,533 --> 00:45:10,533
What we need is just simply to

871
00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:13,833
to rest in your presence right now.

872
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,066
I mean, I get it
when horrible things happen

873
00:45:20,066 --> 00:45:22,833
or horrible news comes, we want to know,
well, what's the next step? What do we do?

874
00:45:22,833 --> 00:45:24,866
What do we do?

875
00:45:24,866 --> 00:45:26,300
And sometimes say, God, you got to help.

876
00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:29,300
You got to step in. You got to intervene.

877
00:45:29,533 --> 00:45:32,533
And sometimes God says, listen,

878
00:45:32,833 --> 00:45:36,266
right now
I don't need to do anything. You.

879
00:45:39,133 --> 00:45:42,133
Need to come to me.

880
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,400
And worship me.

881
00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:48,133
Nothing changed for these people yet,
right?

882
00:45:48,133 --> 00:45:51,133
There's nothing's been avenged.

883
00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:54,333
And God

884
00:45:54,333 --> 00:45:57,333
says, listen,
you just come to me in worship.

885
00:45:58,266 --> 00:46:00,833
Worship is going to be your
primary weapon right now.

886
00:46:03,533 --> 00:46:06,533
Worship is going to be your weapon.

887
00:46:07,166 --> 00:46:08,366
And so now the Lord responds.

888
00:46:08,366 --> 00:46:09,866
Verse 28, go for tomorrow.

889
00:46:09,866 --> 00:46:12,866
I will give them into your hands.

890
00:46:12,966 --> 00:46:14,733
Then this will set an ambush around you.

891
00:46:14,733 --> 00:46:16,700
They went up against the bench of my house
on the third day,

892
00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:19,100
and took up positions against you,
as they had done before.

893
00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:19,800
The mites.

894
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:23,066
Verse 31 came out to meet them,
and were drawn away from the city.

895
00:46:23,066 --> 00:46:26,066
They began to flee casualties
on the Israelites as before,

896
00:46:26,466 --> 00:46:30,233
so that about 30 men
fell in the open field and on the roads,

897
00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:33,300
the one leading to Bethel
and the other two Gibeah, while

898
00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:36,300
the Benjamin two were saying,
we're defeating them as before.

899
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,033
The Israelites were saying, let us retreat
and draw them away from the city

900
00:46:40,033 --> 00:46:41,400
to the roads.

901
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:42,500
All the men of Israel

902
00:46:42,500 --> 00:46:46,033
moved from their places
and took up positions, and they all Tamar

903
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:50,266
and the Israelite ambush charged
out of its place on the west of you.

904
00:46:50,433 --> 00:46:54,600
Then 10,000 of Israel's finest men
made a frontal attack on give you a.

905
00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:58,166
The fighting was so heavy that the

906
00:46:58,166 --> 00:47:01,100
you might not realize
how near disaster was.

907
00:47:01,100 --> 00:47:03,866
The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel,

908
00:47:03,866 --> 00:47:07,200
and on that day
the Israelites struck down 25,100.

909
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:07,900
Benjamin's,

910
00:47:08,966 --> 00:47:10,633
all armed with swords.

911
00:47:10,633 --> 00:47:13,133
Then the judgment saw
that they were beaten.

912
00:47:13,133 --> 00:47:16,033
Now the men of Israel had given way

913
00:47:16,033 --> 00:47:19,200
before Benjamin because they relied
on the ambush they had sitting there.

914
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:20,033
Gibeah.

915
00:47:20,033 --> 00:47:23,833
The men who had been in
ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah,

916
00:47:24,333 --> 00:47:27,133
spread out,
and put the whole city to the sword.

917
00:47:27,133 --> 00:47:29,766
So Israel's fighting the Benjamin.

918
00:47:29,766 --> 00:47:31,966
It's drawing them away from the city.

919
00:47:31,966 --> 00:47:34,733
This secret

920
00:47:34,733 --> 00:47:39,200
seal Team Six force moves into Gibeah,
because the army is drawn

921
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,900
away from Euboea and puts the whole city
of Libya to the sword.

922
00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:45,900
Start slaughtering everybody,

923
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,700
the men of Israel, verse
38, had arranged with the ambush,

924
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,700
so that they would send up
a great cloud of smoke

925
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:54,433
from the city.

926
00:47:54,433 --> 00:47:57,300
And then the men of Israel
would turn in the battle.

927
00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:00,900
The Benjamin had begun to flee the
casualties on the men of Israel about 30,

928
00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:03,033
and they said, were defeating them
as in the first battle.

929
00:48:03,033 --> 00:48:04,066
Verse 40.

930
00:48:04,066 --> 00:48:07,366
But when the column of smoke began
to rise from the city, the Benjamin turned

931
00:48:07,366 --> 00:48:10,366
and saw the smoke of the whole city
going up into the sky.

932
00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:12,100
Verse 41.

933
00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:14,900
Then the men of Israel turned on them,
and the men of Benjamin

934
00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:17,900
were terrified, because they realized
that disaster now come upon them.

935
00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:21,533
So they fled before the Israelites
in the direction of the desert.

936
00:48:21,533 --> 00:48:23,766
But they could not escape the battle.

937
00:48:23,766 --> 00:48:27,433
And the men of Israel who came out
of the towns, cut them down there.

938
00:48:27,433 --> 00:48:29,366
They surrounded the Benjamin, chased them,

939
00:48:29,366 --> 00:48:32,366
and steadily overran them in the vicinity
of Gibeah on the east.

940
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,000
18,000 Benjamin spell
all of them valiant fighters,

941
00:48:36,333 --> 00:48:39,300
as they turned and fled toward
the desert of the rock of Ramon,

942
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,366
the Israelites
cut down 5000 men along the road.

943
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:47,600
They kept pressing after the Benjamin
as far as get them, and struck down 2000

944
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:52,966
more on that day, 25,000 Benjamin
swordsmen fell, all of them

945
00:48:52,966 --> 00:48:56,800
valiant fighters, but 600 men turned
and fled into the desert

946
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,300
to the Rock of Ramon,
where they stayed for four months.

947
00:49:01,466 --> 00:49:01,866
This is

948
00:49:01,866 --> 00:49:04,866
one of their tribe, one of the 12 tribes.

949
00:49:05,033 --> 00:49:07,700
It's a very small tribe,

950
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:10,866
and it's absolutely annihilated
in the Civil War.

951
00:49:12,833 --> 00:49:13,900
The men of Israel went back.

952
00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:16,166
Verse 48

953
00:49:16,166 --> 00:49:18,866
to Benjamin
and put all the towns to the sword,

954
00:49:18,866 --> 00:49:20,433
including the animals and everything else.

955
00:49:20,433 --> 00:49:22,633
They found all the towns they came across.

956
00:49:22,633 --> 00:49:25,500
They set on fire complete annihilate

957
00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:28,500
portion of this tribe.

958
00:49:28,766 --> 00:49:31,766
Nearly complete annihilation.

959
00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:33,900
Other than seeking

960
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:36,900
God so that they don't get destroyed
in battle.

961
00:49:36,966 --> 00:49:39,966
Has anybody

962
00:49:40,033 --> 00:49:41,533
turned to God? Repented.

963
00:49:41,533 --> 00:49:44,400
What are we doing wrong, father?
How do we make this right where we are?

964
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,400
As if there's anybody turn to God at all.

965
00:49:47,633 --> 00:49:49,566
Nobody.

966
00:49:49,566 --> 00:49:51,566
This is all just self-will.

967
00:49:51,566 --> 00:49:54,566
Determined revenge.

968
00:49:56,266 --> 00:49:59,266
Nobody's thinking.

969
00:50:01,133 --> 00:50:01,933
Chapter 21.

970
00:50:01,933 --> 00:50:04,300
The men of Israel
had taken an oath at Mishal.

971
00:50:04,300 --> 00:50:07,600
Not one of us will give his daughter
in marriage to a Benjamin.

972
00:50:08,566 --> 00:50:11,566
So 12 tribes of Israel.

973
00:50:13,033 --> 00:50:16,033
If if they cut Benjamin off,

974
00:50:16,933 --> 00:50:20,100
they've killed
most of the most of the men.

975
00:50:20,633 --> 00:50:23,633
Right.

976
00:50:25,333 --> 00:50:26,733
There's

977
00:50:26,733 --> 00:50:29,100
this tribe is going to

978
00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:32,100
is going to basically die out.

979
00:50:33,066 --> 00:50:34,433
There saying we won't allow

980
00:50:34,433 --> 00:50:37,433
any weddings to take place

981
00:50:37,733 --> 00:50:40,733
with anybody from any other tribe.

982
00:50:41,066 --> 00:50:43,133
The people went to Bethel where they said
before

983
00:50:43,133 --> 00:50:47,066
God until evening,
raising their voices and weeping bitterly.

984
00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:49,766
Look at what they say,

985
00:50:49,766 --> 00:50:52,333
oh, Lord, the God of Israel!

986
00:50:52,333 --> 00:50:55,333
Why has this happened to Israel?

987
00:50:57,733 --> 00:50:59,800
Have you ever been in the wrong and blamed

988
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,800
God like it's his fault for what happens?

989
00:51:04,666 --> 00:51:06,600
How dare they say, why has this happened?

990
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,600
Look at what you've done,
what you allowed.

991
00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:15,300
Someone said this, and I try to.

992
00:51:15,300 --> 00:51:16,500
I tried to reiterate this.

993
00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:18,300
You know, when I'm coaching with guys.

994
00:51:18,300 --> 00:51:20,066
And I was just talking
to staff about it today.

995
00:51:22,266 --> 00:51:24,933
That culture is created

996
00:51:24,933 --> 00:51:27,600
not just by
what is demanded, but it's also created

997
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,600
by what is allowed.

998
00:51:31,366 --> 00:51:33,400
And so if you're proactive and thoughtful

999
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:37,300
and purposeful, you can
you can set culture by what you by.

1000
00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:40,300
You're exposed to what
you know by what you demand.

1001
00:51:41,833 --> 00:51:42,866
But if you're not careful,

1002
00:51:42,866 --> 00:51:45,866
your set culture by what you allow

1003
00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:48,900
and what have they allowed?

1004
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,033
A complete negligence
as far as the pursuit of God is concerned,

1005
00:51:53,100 --> 00:51:54,933
a complete

1006
00:51:54,933 --> 00:51:58,200
vacuum of seeking the Lord and God's Word.

1007
00:51:59,633 --> 00:52:02,633
Why did this happen?

1008
00:52:03,300 --> 00:52:05,800
Because the culture you create,
you allowed.

1009
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,333
That's what happened.

1010
00:52:07,333 --> 00:52:10,333
I don't blame God for it.

1011
00:52:13,766 --> 00:52:15,566
And they say, why should one
try to be missing from Israel?

1012
00:52:15,566 --> 00:52:17,933
Day early the next day,
the people built an altar in prison,

1013
00:52:17,933 --> 00:52:19,400
or burnt offerings
or fellowship offerings.

1014
00:52:20,700 --> 00:52:21,200
Do you notice

1015
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,266
how they're kind of going
through the religious practices?

1016
00:52:24,266 --> 00:52:27,766
But their hearts aren't
really attached to God at all?

1017
00:52:29,833 --> 00:52:32,833
This is the danger of religion

1018
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,000
because religion makes us think
because of what I'm doing,

1019
00:52:37,633 --> 00:52:40,633
I'm close to God.

1020
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:44,166
It's what Jesus says,
you know, you worship me,

1021
00:52:44,166 --> 00:52:47,166
but your hearts are far from me.

1022
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:48,833
Like it's a warning to us.

1023
00:52:48,833 --> 00:52:51,933
Let's not go through the practice

1024
00:52:53,733 --> 00:52:56,733
and miss the person of Christ.

1025
00:52:58,033 --> 00:53:01,633
So they're doing all the things,
but they're so far

1026
00:53:01,633 --> 00:53:03,833
from the heart of the father.

1027
00:53:03,833 --> 00:53:05,033
The Israelites asked.

1028
00:53:05,033 --> 00:53:07,133
Verse five,

1029
00:53:07,133 --> 00:53:10,766
who from all the tribes of Israel
has failed to assemble before the Lord?

1030
00:53:10,766 --> 00:53:14,100
For they had taken the solemn oath
that anyone who failed to assemble

1031
00:53:14,100 --> 00:53:16,900
before the Lord at Mizpah
should certainly be put to death.

1032
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,733
Now the
Israelites grieved for their brothers.

1033
00:53:20,733 --> 00:53:22,533
The Benjamin's.

1034
00:53:22,533 --> 00:53:24,500
Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.

1035
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:27,500
They said, how can we provide
wise for those who are left,

1036
00:53:27,500 --> 00:53:30,466
since we have taken an oath, to the Lord

1037
00:53:30,466 --> 00:53:33,633
to not give any of our daughters
a, in marriage.

1038
00:53:33,633 --> 00:53:35,466
And so they're like, this is so bad.

1039
00:53:35,466 --> 00:53:37,500
One of the tribes is going to die away.

1040
00:53:37,500 --> 00:53:41,900
And there's a few, you know, men
that that weren't necessarily guilty.

1041
00:53:41,900 --> 00:53:42,900
And they're still in Benjamin,

1042
00:53:42,900 --> 00:53:44,466
but we've already promised before

1043
00:53:44,466 --> 00:53:46,666
God that we're not going
to give our daughters to marry them.

1044
00:53:46,666 --> 00:53:49,000
And so that tribe is going to die off.
What do we do?

1045
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,000
Like we've already made this oath
before God and

1046
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:55,633
we can't give our daughters to this tribe,
so this tribe can continue.

1047
00:53:55,633 --> 00:53:56,533
It was so vile.

1048
00:53:56,533 --> 00:53:58,100
We put them to death. And.

1049
00:53:58,100 --> 00:53:59,700
But why would God allow that to happen?

1050
00:53:59,700 --> 00:54:01,500
But we really don't have an answer. And.

1051
00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:04,833
And I'm not gonna let my
my daughter go marry one of these guys.

1052
00:54:04,833 --> 00:54:06,800
You know what I'm saying?
Like this. This whole, like,

1053
00:54:08,533 --> 00:54:11,000
what do we do?

1054
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,233
And then they asked

1055
00:54:13,233 --> 00:54:16,633
which of the tribes to fear which of
the tribes of Israel fell to some of them?

1056
00:54:16,633 --> 00:54:16,966
For the Lord?

1057
00:54:16,966 --> 00:54:19,900
It is for
they discover that no one from Jacob's

1058
00:54:19,900 --> 00:54:22,900
Juliet had come to the camp
for the assembly.

1059
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,000
For when they counted the people,
they found that none of the people

1060
00:54:26,300 --> 00:54:26,933
were there.

1061
00:54:26,933 --> 00:54:28,200
And so what they said was,

1062
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,400
we're going to get everybody together
to inquire of God, what do we do?

1063
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,633
And any tribe or and said, don't show up,
we're going to put them to death.

1064
00:54:34,633 --> 00:54:38,833
And so when they do their little
investigation, what tribe didn't show up?

1065
00:54:39,133 --> 00:54:42,133
The people from Jabez, Gilead

1066
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:45,300
and Benjamin didn't show up.

1067
00:54:46,066 --> 00:54:48,466
Gilead
was the place where this woman was raped.

1068
00:54:50,733 --> 00:54:53,733
Nobody from that community showed up.

1069
00:54:58,900 --> 00:55:00,833
And so they got a problem
because now they've said,

1070
00:55:00,833 --> 00:55:03,833
anybody don't show
up, we're got put them death.

1071
00:55:05,533 --> 00:55:06,533
So the assembly sent

1072
00:55:06,533 --> 00:55:10,800
12,000 fighting men with instructions
to go to the Iliad and put to the sword

1073
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,800
those living there,
including the women and children.

1074
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:16,400
This is what you are to do.

1075
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,900
They said kill every male
and every woman who was not a virgin.

1076
00:55:20,633 --> 00:55:24,000
They found among the people
living in Gilead 400 young women

1077
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,566
who had never slept with a man.

1078
00:55:25,566 --> 00:55:29,233
And they took them to the camp
at Shiloh in Canon.

1079
00:55:29,666 --> 00:55:32,900
So they had destroyed the
the army of Benjamin.

1080
00:55:34,033 --> 00:55:37,033
Now they're destroying the people
of Gibeah.

1081
00:55:37,766 --> 00:55:40,633
Okay, so so the tribe of Benjamin

1082
00:55:40,633 --> 00:55:43,833
and the people are being
absolutely annihilated and destroyed.

1083
00:55:44,733 --> 00:55:46,466
They find in Gibeah,

1084
00:55:48,100 --> 00:55:51,300
400 young women who were virgins.

1085
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,566
So they left them alive.

1086
00:55:53,566 --> 00:55:56,066
So they got 400 women.

1087
00:55:56,066 --> 00:55:59,066
They really have no other

1088
00:55:59,466 --> 00:56:02,100
men there to

1089
00:56:02,100 --> 00:56:05,100
marry these four gals.

1090
00:56:05,900 --> 00:56:08,900
Because they said, kill every male.

1091
00:56:09,666 --> 00:56:12,000
In the whole assembly, verse 13, send

1092
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,000
an offer of peace of the Benjamin
to the rock of Ramon.

1093
00:56:15,233 --> 00:56:19,133
So the Benjamin returned at that time,
and were given the women a Jewish Julian,

1094
00:56:19,133 --> 00:56:20,500
who had been spared.

1095
00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:21,966
But there were not enough for all of them.

1096
00:56:21,966 --> 00:56:26,466
So the all the other 11 tribes say
this is going on for him.

1097
00:56:26,466 --> 00:56:29,466
Let's make a treaty
with the tribe of Benjamin.

1098
00:56:29,900 --> 00:56:31,433
Let's not fight anymore.

1099
00:56:31,433 --> 00:56:33,766
So they all agree to these peace terms.

1100
00:56:33,766 --> 00:56:36,466
So Benjamin is like they're okay
with their brothers now

1101
00:56:36,466 --> 00:56:40,733
and these other tribes,
and they say, so these, these,

1102
00:56:42,466 --> 00:56:45,200
these 400 women,

1103
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,366
like, go ahead so your tribe can continue,

1104
00:56:48,566 --> 00:56:51,566
but there's not enough,

1105
00:56:52,766 --> 00:56:53,800
there's not enough women

1106
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,800
for the Benjamin men that are left.

1107
00:56:57,700 --> 00:57:00,233
And so without the women

1108
00:57:00,233 --> 00:57:03,233
man thing going on,
they're not going to have enough babies

1109
00:57:03,233 --> 00:57:05,200
over the years
to be able to keep the tribe going.

1110
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:06,700
So they're still men.

1111
00:57:06,700 --> 00:57:09,500
They're without wives.

1112
00:57:09,500 --> 00:57:12,300
The people grieve for Benjamin
because the Lord had made a gap

1113
00:57:12,300 --> 00:57:13,300
in the tribes of Israel.

1114
00:57:13,300 --> 00:57:17,666
And the elders of the assembly said,
with the women of Benjamin destroyed,

1115
00:57:17,966 --> 00:57:20,800
how shall we provide
wives for the men who are left?

1116
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,800
The Benjamin survivors must have heirs,

1117
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,266
so that the tribe of Israel
will not be wiped out.

1118
00:57:27,266 --> 00:57:31,766
We can't give them our daughters as wives,
since we Israelites have taken the oath.

1119
00:57:31,766 --> 00:57:34,333
Curse.
Be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.

1120
00:57:34,333 --> 00:57:36,933
So they got these guys
in Benjamin tribe, Benjamin.

1121
00:57:38,333 --> 00:57:39,300
They don't have enough women

1122
00:57:39,300 --> 00:57:43,200
from the city of Gibeah
for these men to have wives.

1123
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:44,566
So they're not going to have kids,

1124
00:57:44,566 --> 00:57:46,666
and they're going to lose
one of the tribes of Israel.

1125
00:57:46,666 --> 00:57:48,033
Like, what do we do?

1126
00:57:48,033 --> 00:57:51,033
We already made a promise to God
that we're going to let our wives go.

1127
00:57:51,033 --> 00:57:53,866
They're like,
our kids are going to intermarry.

1128
00:57:53,866 --> 00:57:56,866
What do we do?

1129
00:57:58,466 --> 00:58:01,233
It's people.

1130
00:58:01,233 --> 00:58:02,733
But look,

1131
00:58:02,733 --> 00:58:06,100
there's an annual festival to the Lord
at Shiloh, the north, to the north

1132
00:58:06,100 --> 00:58:09,666
of Bethel, and east of the road
that goes from Bethel

1133
00:58:09,666 --> 00:58:12,666
to check them and the south to Lebanon.

1134
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:18,766
So they instructed the Benjamin, saying,
go and hide in the vineyards and watch.

1135
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:22,766
When the girls of Shiloh
come out to join in the dancing

1136
00:58:22,933 --> 00:58:25,766
and rush from the
then rush from the vineyards.

1137
00:58:25,766 --> 00:58:29,400
And each of you sees a wife
from the girls of Shiloh

1138
00:58:29,433 --> 00:58:30,833
and go to the land of Benjamin.

1139
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,200
These things are terrible.

1140
00:58:39,300 --> 00:58:40,966
Like they look like they're like, okay,

1141
00:58:40,966 --> 00:58:43,966
so we can't give you our daughters,

1142
00:58:44,133 --> 00:58:47,133
but we're going to send them out
to this festival

1143
00:58:47,766 --> 00:58:50,766
and they're going to be there all alone.

1144
00:58:50,833 --> 00:58:53,566
And so you hide in the bushes,

1145
00:58:53,566 --> 00:58:57,933
and if you see one you like when they're
dancing, just run out and grab.

1146
00:58:59,100 --> 00:59:02,100
And then you take them back to Benjamin.

1147
00:59:02,300 --> 00:59:04,166
And that way

1148
00:59:04,166 --> 00:59:09,000
we won't be guilty of breaking our oath
because we didn't give her to you.

1149
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,000
You took her.

1150
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,533
Okay, now there are some commentators

1151
00:59:13,533 --> 00:59:16,533
who will say that these women

1152
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,100
were ones who wanted to be taken

1153
00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:24,133
and wanted to go,
and so they kind of set the stage.

1154
00:59:24,133 --> 00:59:27,066
If we don't know that, that's
I think that's a really gentle way

1155
00:59:28,033 --> 00:59:29,633
of reading, but it's a

1156
00:59:29,633 --> 00:59:32,633
pretty horrific scene.

1157
00:59:36,900 --> 00:59:39,066
So that is what the Benjamin did.

1158
00:59:39,066 --> 00:59:42,166
While the girls were dancing,
each man caught one and carried her off

1159
00:59:42,166 --> 00:59:43,000
to be his wife.

1160
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,400
It just reminds me of the old caveman
cartoon where,

1161
00:59:49,066 --> 00:59:51,533
you know, Carol,

1162
00:59:51,533 --> 00:59:53,800
it's horrible.

1163
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,000
Then they return to their inheritance
and rebuild the towns and settle in them.

1164
00:59:58,466 --> 01:00:01,466
At that time, the Israelites left
that place and went home to their tribes

1165
01:00:01,466 --> 01:00:04,466
and clans east to his own inheritance.

1166
01:00:05,633 --> 01:00:08,633
And how did I how does the whole book end?

1167
01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:11,400
Okay.

1168
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,866
And no King.

1169
01:00:13,866 --> 01:00:16,866
And so what does this

1170
01:00:17,033 --> 01:00:19,866
particular agreement all through the book

1171
01:00:19,866 --> 01:00:22,866
defeat, repent, cry for help, deliverance.

1172
01:00:24,300 --> 01:00:27,300
And then chapters 19 and 20.

1173
01:00:27,966 --> 01:00:29,733
They truly,

1174
01:00:29,733 --> 01:00:32,700
though at different times
they got a different ways.

1175
01:00:34,733 --> 01:00:37,733
They never repented.

1176
01:00:38,300 --> 01:00:41,300
They never humble themselves.

1177
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,200
They eventually wanted God's help,

1178
01:00:46,566 --> 01:00:49,066
but they didn't want to surrender.

1179
01:00:49,066 --> 01:00:51,600
They wanted God's hand,

1180
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,600
but they were very far from God's heart.

1181
01:01:01,433 --> 01:01:05,100
And these three chapters highlight.

1182
01:01:08,933 --> 01:01:13,000
I think the results and ramifications of

1183
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,600
when we do what is right in our own eyes.

1184
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:25,600
Usually what is right in my eyes,

1185
01:01:27,266 --> 01:01:29,533
left to myself,

1186
01:01:29,533 --> 01:01:32,533
is not what is right in God's eyes.

1187
01:01:34,633 --> 01:01:39,266
And unless I am on a very short leash

1188
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,600
with my God.

1189
01:01:43,666 --> 01:01:46,666
I will wander very far away.

1190
01:01:48,433 --> 01:01:50,700
And we have to be very careful

1191
01:01:50,700 --> 01:01:53,700
to stay.

1192
01:01:54,466 --> 01:01:56,733
In that attitude

1193
01:01:56,733 --> 01:01:59,733
of submission and repentance.

1194
01:02:00,866 --> 01:02:03,000
Because, like I said, sin is one of those

1195
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,000
progressive things that knows no bounds.

1196
01:02:06,833 --> 01:02:09,133
And I guarantee you

1197
01:02:09,133 --> 01:02:12,633
that none of these people in this account
would have ever thought

1198
01:02:12,633 --> 01:02:13,566
it could get that bad.

1199
01:02:17,766 --> 01:02:20,766
Just like we think.

1200
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,800
But sin, left unchecked

1201
01:02:25,500 --> 01:02:28,500
gets that bad.

1202
01:02:29,100 --> 01:02:32,100
And sin left unchecked

1203
01:02:32,700 --> 01:02:35,700
doesn't just destroy me.

1204
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,000
But through me.

1205
01:02:41,033 --> 01:02:43,133
Right?

1206
01:02:43,133 --> 01:02:46,133
Destroying others.

1207
01:02:47,866 --> 01:02:50,866
You and I have a king.

1208
01:02:51,333 --> 01:02:54,333
And his name is Jesus.

1209
01:02:57,900 --> 01:03:02,400
And we must stay in a very short leash.

1210
01:03:05,700 --> 01:03:08,700
Of submission and repentance

1211
01:03:09,266 --> 01:03:12,266
and humility.

1212
01:03:12,866 --> 01:03:14,266
And seeking God's presence

1213
01:03:14,266 --> 01:03:17,266
before we seek his hand.

1214
01:03:18,066 --> 01:03:19,100
And seeking his heart.

1215
01:03:19,100 --> 01:03:22,100
Before we seek his help.

1216
01:03:23,500 --> 01:03:25,300
Because if we seek his hand and his help,

1217
01:03:25,300 --> 01:03:28,300
but not his his heart, and just be.

1218
01:03:30,433 --> 01:03:31,933
We'll ask God to do

1219
01:03:31,933 --> 01:03:34,933
what is right in our eyes.

1220
01:03:39,833 --> 01:03:42,066
And God is under no obligation

1221
01:03:42,066 --> 01:03:45,066
to do what is right in our eyes.

1222
01:03:45,300 --> 01:03:48,300
Right?

1223
01:03:49,766 --> 01:03:52,766
And sometimes
when we're in those positions of sin.

1224
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,800
Where are you now?

1225
01:03:56,866 --> 01:03:58,400
How could he get this bad?

1226
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,400
God says, listen.

1227
01:04:04,266 --> 01:04:07,266
Your job right now

1228
01:04:07,666 --> 01:04:10,666
is to come close to me and worship.

1229
01:04:12,300 --> 01:04:15,300
That's.

1230
01:04:16,233 --> 01:04:17,833
That's
the only thing I want from you right now

1231
01:04:17,833 --> 01:04:20,833
is you just worship me.

1232
01:04:24,666 --> 01:04:25,433
The Book of Judges

1233
01:04:25,433 --> 01:04:28,433
really doesn't have a happy ending.

1234
01:04:30,833 --> 01:04:33,833
And it doesn't end on a high note.

1235
01:04:35,700 --> 01:04:38,700
I think it ends with a warning.

1236
01:04:40,466 --> 01:04:42,633
With a warning about

1237
01:04:42,633 --> 01:04:45,233
the pervasiveness of sin
and how bad it can get left

1238
01:04:45,233 --> 01:04:48,233
unchecked.

1239
01:04:48,300 --> 01:04:51,533
And to not lose sight that we have a 18

1240
01:04:53,366 --> 01:04:56,366
and his name is Jesus.

1241
01:04:57,666 --> 01:05:00,033
And our responsibility,

1242
01:05:00,033 --> 01:05:03,333
our opportunity is to seek his heart.

1243
01:05:05,666 --> 01:05:08,666
Not try to direct his hand.

1244
01:05:09,500 --> 01:05:10,100
Does that make sense?

1245
01:05:10,100 --> 01:05:10,500
You understand?

1246
01:05:10,500 --> 01:05:13,500
I'm saying.

1247
01:05:13,966 --> 01:05:16,966
Most of us want to direct his hand.

1248
01:05:17,466 --> 01:05:18,666
God do this.

1249
01:05:18,666 --> 01:05:21,533
Step in. Intervene.

1250
01:05:21,533 --> 01:05:24,200
Make right.

1251
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,700
And I think God would
say, my hands are my hands.

1252
01:05:29,300 --> 01:05:32,300
Your heart needs to be mine now.

1253
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:34,800
Rory, do me a favor.

1254
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,766
Back in that bucket
on that little thing, right.

1255
01:05:37,766 --> 01:05:40,766
There are communion cups
where you make sure everybody gets one.

1256
01:05:43,466 --> 01:05:44,800
I wasn't necessarily
planning on doing this,

1257
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:46,066
but I just have a thought right now.

1258
01:05:46,066 --> 01:05:49,366
Just pass those out,
maybe give some to John

1259
01:05:49,366 --> 01:05:52,366
and pass them around over here
or something.

1260
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:57,600
I wish judges ended on a high note.

1261
01:05:58,900 --> 01:06:01,800
I wish it, I wish it ended with

1262
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:05,600
God gave this judge and led everybody
and they repented and and,

1263
01:06:05,766 --> 01:06:10,500
you know, they had a party and everybody
got baptized and went to church.

1264
01:06:10,500 --> 01:06:13,200
You know, I don't know,

1265
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,433
they finally got a coffee shop
and a fountain,

1266
01:06:15,433 --> 01:06:18,433
and everybody was happy.

1267
01:06:20,166 --> 01:06:21,500
I wish it ended like that.

1268
01:06:23,700 --> 01:06:24,766
But I think rather it

1269
01:06:24,766 --> 01:06:29,633
ends with this very somber, sober,

1270
01:06:31,033 --> 01:06:34,033
worn veil, almost a veiled warning.

1271
01:06:36,733 --> 01:06:41,366
Don't let us not allow ourselves.

1272
01:06:43,700 --> 01:06:46,566
To have this.

1273
01:06:46,566 --> 01:06:49,166
Can I have one?

1274
01:06:49,166 --> 01:06:49,800
Oh. Thank you.

1275
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:49,933
Good.

1276
01:06:49,933 --> 01:06:52,933
Toss.

1277
01:06:54,666 --> 01:06:57,666
Let's not allow ourselves,

1278
01:06:58,500 --> 01:07:01,366
to let our sin go unchecked

1279
01:07:01,366 --> 01:07:03,466
and think that we have any right

1280
01:07:03,466 --> 01:07:06,466
to try to direct God's hand.

1281
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,600
All we have is the opportunity to worship.

1282
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:14,300
And there are times

1283
01:07:14,300 --> 01:07:17,400
when everything within us
would love to direct his hand.

1284
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:20,400
I get it, I understand I'm there.

1285
01:07:21,566 --> 01:07:23,400
But there are times

1286
01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:26,733
when our greatest weapon

1287
01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:30,500
is just a heart of worship.

1288
01:07:36,666 --> 01:07:39,666
And one of the.

1289
01:07:40,633 --> 01:07:42,200
Biblically instituted

1290
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,200
acts of worship is communion.

1291
01:07:48,300 --> 01:07:51,300
Worship is expressing love to God.

1292
01:07:52,966 --> 01:07:55,966
Worship is giving thanks to God.

1293
01:07:58,100 --> 01:08:02,700
And above all else
that God has done, he's given us his son.

1294
01:08:08,133 --> 01:08:09,566
And I don't know

1295
01:08:09,566 --> 01:08:13,533
of a greater thing to worship God for

1296
01:08:13,566 --> 01:08:16,566
than the giving of His Son.

1297
01:08:18,233 --> 01:08:19,500
I don't know if the thing

1298
01:08:19,500 --> 01:08:22,500
that that's that's worth

1299
01:08:22,766 --> 01:08:25,800
is, is more worthy to give
thanks for than his son.

1300
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,800
And and what Jesus did on the cross.

1301
01:08:32,933 --> 01:08:34,066
I think it was it was C.S.

1302
01:08:34,066 --> 01:08:36,933
Lewis.
I shared that quote a couple of weeks ago.

1303
01:08:36,933 --> 01:08:39,933
That or maybe it was just as Sunday,

1304
01:08:40,900 --> 01:08:43,466
and he basically said

1305
01:08:43,466 --> 01:08:45,633
that,

1306
01:08:45,633 --> 01:08:47,200
when things are good,

1307
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,766
thank God, because they're good

1308
01:08:49,766 --> 01:08:52,766
and when they're bad, thank God.

1309
01:08:55,366 --> 01:08:57,533
Because

1310
01:08:57,533 --> 01:09:00,700
basically he said, thank God because,

1311
01:09:01,733 --> 01:09:04,566
he's going to make it right

1312
01:09:04,566 --> 01:09:07,566
and let the bad draw you there to heaven.

1313
01:09:09,766 --> 01:09:12,300
When he does make it right,

1314
01:09:12,300 --> 01:09:14,100
let it remind you
that this is not our home,

1315
01:09:15,366 --> 01:09:17,933
that we're made for a better country

1316
01:09:17,933 --> 01:09:20,933
and a better land.

1317
01:09:22,066 --> 01:09:24,366
And it may get very, very, very bad here.

1318
01:09:24,366 --> 01:09:25,633
It will get very, very bad.

1319
01:09:25,633 --> 01:09:28,900
And we will experience the pain of sin.

1320
01:09:31,866 --> 01:09:34,533
But through Christ,
because we are made for a better country

1321
01:09:34,533 --> 01:09:37,533
and a better land, that's our real home.

1322
01:09:40,333 --> 01:09:43,533
And and that's worth giving thanks over.

1323
01:09:47,700 --> 01:09:50,700
And so what I would like us to do
is just remember Jesus and

1324
01:09:50,766 --> 01:09:53,766
and for a moment.

1325
01:09:55,166 --> 01:10:00,400
Not that we neglect or ignore
those things.

1326
01:10:00,533 --> 01:10:04,266
Very real things going on in our lives

1327
01:10:04,866 --> 01:10:07,800
that are painful
and difficult and scary and

1328
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,900
and not that we minimize any of that.

1329
01:10:09,900 --> 01:10:13,600
But for a moment,
let's just take all of that

1330
01:10:14,700 --> 01:10:17,700
and just set it aside.

1331
01:10:18,033 --> 01:10:20,633
But let's just take all of that,
say, Lord, I'm not even going to

1332
01:10:20,633 --> 01:10:22,000
I'm not even thinking
about that right now.

1333
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:25,800
As bad

1334
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,466
you go through chapter 19
as, let's just take all that bad stuff

1335
01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:33,300
and let's just set it aside for a moment.

1336
01:10:34,333 --> 01:10:35,766
And I just want to center

1337
01:10:35,766 --> 01:10:38,766
down on you and your son.

1338
01:10:39,233 --> 01:10:42,233
I just want my attention to be there

1339
01:10:43,033 --> 01:10:45,300
and and let's just take a moment

1340
01:10:45,300 --> 01:10:48,300
and put our attention there.

1341
01:10:49,066 --> 01:10:50,566
And so do me this favor.

1342
01:10:50,566 --> 01:10:51,600
I wasn't sure I.

1343
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:53,500
I don't know how we're going
to go through this communion time,

1344
01:10:53,500 --> 01:10:55,100
but let me just try this. Let's try this.

1345
01:10:55,100 --> 01:10:58,100
I just want you to close your eyes
for a moment.

1346
01:11:01,466 --> 01:11:04,200
And I want you to just

1347
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,033
to think through to to to visualize,

1348
01:11:07,033 --> 01:11:10,033
to repeat in your mind.

1349
01:11:11,633 --> 01:11:13,200
All that God has done,

1350
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:17,433
all that Jesus has done,
all that he has absorbed, all that.

1351
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,400
All that he is.

1352
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,600
The sacrifice that was paid.

1353
01:11:28,533 --> 01:11:31,533
His incredible love for you.

1354
01:11:40,566 --> 01:11:43,566
Just sit in the remembrance.

1355
01:11:45,433 --> 01:11:48,433
Of Jesus's life.

1356
01:11:49,333 --> 01:11:52,333
When he went through on the cross.

1357
01:11:53,900 --> 01:11:56,900
For you.

1358
01:12:02,733 --> 01:12:03,466
Thank him.

1359
01:12:03,466 --> 01:12:08,366
That because of his life,
you can have life.

1360
01:12:17,966 --> 01:12:20,966
And just remember him

1361
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:24,400
and thank him for him.

1362
01:12:39,700 --> 01:12:42,700
Let your mind go to the place

1363
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:45,733
that remembers

1364
01:12:45,733 --> 01:12:47,933
what you we have gained because of his

1365
01:12:47,933 --> 01:12:50,933
blood.

1366
01:12:53,300 --> 01:12:56,300
Forgiveness of all sin.

1367
01:12:59,700 --> 01:13:01,100
That though we're guilty,

1368
01:13:01,100 --> 01:13:04,100
we've been acquitted.

1369
01:13:09,866 --> 01:13:12,000
That God has taken

1370
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:15,000
your sin and put on his son.

1371
01:13:16,766 --> 01:13:18,600
And taken his son's righteousness.

1372
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,600
And put it on you.

1373
01:13:28,166 --> 01:13:30,666
And that because he is

1374
01:13:30,666 --> 01:13:33,666
the God who has died and raised.

1375
01:13:37,333 --> 01:13:40,333
You can have confidence
that he will never leave us

1376
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:44,200
nor forsake us.

1377
01:13:49,033 --> 01:13:50,466
He will never forsake you.

1378
01:13:58,866 --> 01:14:01,866
Jesus, we remember you.

1379
01:14:04,700 --> 01:14:08,366
You didn't have to humble yourself
and come to earth

1380
01:14:08,900 --> 01:14:11,900
and take on human form.

1381
01:14:12,933 --> 01:14:15,933
But because of me, you did.

1382
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:19,200
Because of us, you did.

1383
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,866
You didn't have to be obedient unto death,
but because of me.

1384
01:14:23,866 --> 01:14:24,733
Because of us.

1385
01:14:24,733 --> 01:14:27,733
You were.

1386
01:14:29,766 --> 01:14:30,800
By your life.

1387
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:33,800
You've given us life.

1388
01:14:34,466 --> 01:14:35,533
And by your blood.

1389
01:14:35,533 --> 01:14:38,533
You've given us relationship with you.

1390
01:14:40,633 --> 01:14:43,433
And we remember you.

1391
01:14:43,433 --> 01:14:46,433
We thank you.

1392
01:14:49,066 --> 01:14:52,066
Now stay in this moment
for just a moment longer.

1393
01:14:52,666 --> 01:14:55,766
And as you remember Christ, his death,

1394
01:14:55,766 --> 01:14:58,766
his blood, his resurrection.

1395
01:14:59,700 --> 01:15:01,033
Whatever there is

1396
01:15:01,033 --> 01:15:04,033
that need to be repented of.

1397
01:15:05,866 --> 01:15:08,866
Stay on a very short leash.

1398
01:15:10,333 --> 01:15:13,333
And repent.

1399
01:15:22,500 --> 01:15:24,866
Feel sorrow for your sin.

1400
01:15:24,866 --> 01:15:25,766
For your doubt.

1401
01:15:25,766 --> 01:15:28,766
For your anger.

1402
01:15:35,633 --> 01:15:38,633
And utter those words in your soul.

1403
01:15:38,666 --> 01:15:40,766
For this God who loves you.

1404
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:45,400
Father, I repent.

1405
01:15:45,433 --> 01:15:48,433
You are enough.

1406
01:15:53,533 --> 01:15:56,533
And I am fully yours.

1407
01:16:08,066 --> 01:16:08,533
Jesus.

1408
01:16:08,533 --> 01:16:11,433
As we take the bread and the cup,
we remember you.

1409
01:16:11,433 --> 01:16:14,433
And we thank you.

1410
01:16:14,966 --> 01:16:17,966
You are good.

1411
01:16:18,366 --> 01:16:21,366
And you are ours.

1412
01:16:21,666 --> 01:16:24,666
And we repent.

1413
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:29,000
I thank you that you'll never leave us.

1414
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:32,000
I think that you never forsake us.

1415
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,766
And I thank you that you redeem

1416
01:16:37,766 --> 01:16:40,066
even those things
that we look at right now

1417
01:16:40,066 --> 01:16:43,066
as unredeemable.

1418
01:16:45,966 --> 01:16:47,700
Do that as we remember you.

1419
01:16:47,700 --> 01:16:48,600
In your name, I pray. Amen.

1420
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:51,600
I want you to take the bread.

1421
01:16:54,500 --> 01:16:57,500
And remember Jesus's words.

1422
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,333
This is my body

1423
01:17:00,333 --> 01:17:03,066
that I'm giving for you.

1424
01:17:03,066 --> 01:17:06,900
Every time you take this,
I want you to remember me.

1425
01:17:06,900 --> 01:17:09,533
And what I've done.

1426
01:17:09,533 --> 01:17:12,533
And take the bread and remember him.

1427
01:17:22,733 --> 01:17:25,733
And the cup.

1428
01:17:25,933 --> 01:17:27,000
And remember his words.

1429
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:30,000
This cup is the new covenant of my blood.

1430
01:17:30,166 --> 01:17:31,433
Shed for you.

1431
01:17:31,433 --> 01:17:33,600
For the forgiveness of your sin.

1432
01:17:35,666 --> 01:17:38,666
Every time you drink this,

1433
01:17:39,266 --> 01:17:42,266
do it and remember me.

1434
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:46,200
Take the cup.

1435
01:17:53,533 --> 01:17:55,400
From Jesus.

1436
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:57,666
Thank you.

1437
01:17:57,666 --> 01:17:58,666
Thank you for your life.

1438
01:17:58,666 --> 01:18:01,666
Thank you that you've given your life
to us and for us.

1439
01:18:02,500 --> 01:18:06,300
And, father, as we wrap up, judges,
I guess that it my prayers real simple.

1440
01:18:06,666 --> 01:18:09,900
Redeem that which in our eyes

1441
01:18:09,900 --> 01:18:12,900
looks unredeemable.

1442
01:18:13,133 --> 01:18:16,133
Buy it back.

1443
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:21,000
Create goodness out of it somehow.

1444
01:18:24,633 --> 01:18:26,766
Give back what's been stolen.

1445
01:18:26,766 --> 01:18:29,766
Give back what's been sacrificed.

1446
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:33,600
Redeem.

1447
01:18:35,466 --> 01:18:38,733
That which has been degraded
and destroyed.

1448
01:18:40,633 --> 01:18:41,966
We have no answers.

1449
01:18:41,966 --> 01:18:44,233
We don't know what to do.
Most of the time.

1450
01:18:44,233 --> 01:18:47,233
And so we just want to draw close to you.

1451
01:18:48,866 --> 01:18:51,700
Because we know that you are the Redeemer

1452
01:18:51,700 --> 01:18:54,700
and our Redeemer.

1453
01:18:57,400 --> 01:18:58,400
You are asking.

1454
01:18:58,400 --> 01:18:59,266
We will never.

1455
01:18:59,266 --> 01:19:01,600
We could never utter those words.

1456
01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:03,133
We have no king because you are yet.

1457
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:08,000
And we just want to be close to you.

1458
01:19:08,633 --> 01:19:10,966
So we honor you as our King.

1459
01:19:10,966 --> 01:19:13,300
We remember you as our Savior.

1460
01:19:13,300 --> 01:19:16,300
And we thank you
that you are the one who redeems.

1461
01:19:16,833 --> 01:19:18,400
And we pray these things in your name,
Jesus.

1462
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:21,400
Amen.

1463
01:19:21,500 --> 01:19:21,900
Thank you

1464
01:19:21,900 --> 01:19:24,900
for letting me meander
through three chapters of judges.

1465
01:19:25,866 --> 01:19:29,633
That, that, and parts of Lamentations
are some of the most horrific

1466
01:19:30,366 --> 01:19:33,633
chapters of Scripture to study
and try to do it

1467
01:19:33,633 --> 01:19:36,633
in a.

1468
01:19:36,833 --> 01:19:38,400
Encouraging way.

1469
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:41,866
So thank you, for
going through this with us.

1470
01:19:43,033 --> 01:19:45,600
And I do want to invite you.

1471
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,100
We're taking the next Wednesday off

1472
01:19:48,100 --> 01:19:50,600
because it's right before Thanksgiving.

1473
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:52,866
The Wednesday after that,
we're about halfway through the just over

1474
01:19:52,866 --> 01:19:55,200
halfway through the book of Genesis,
and we're

1475
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:59,366
get to the real meat of some stuff
in the in the life of Joseph and stuff.

1476
01:19:59,366 --> 01:20:00,633
It's going to be really, really.

1477
01:20:00,633 --> 01:20:03,866
And so you're all invited
back in two weeks to Bible study.

1478
01:20:05,500 --> 01:20:07,700
You think I plan this to do this?

1479
01:20:07,700 --> 01:20:10,400
You know,
so we get you here on Wednesday night.

1480
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:11,733
Come on. Take.

1481
01:20:11,733 --> 01:20:14,400
But, But I'm telling you, those of you
who couldn't

1482
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:16,333
run was invited to our Wednesday
about setting.

1483
01:20:16,333 --> 01:20:19,500
It's a good time to gather in it. Yeah.