1 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:04,100 Thank you. 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:04,866 Well again welcome. 3 00:00:04,866 --> 00:00:06,433 I appreciate you being here. 4 00:00:06,433 --> 00:00:08,100 Labor day weekend. 5 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:10,566 You guys, we're the faithful ones. 6 00:00:10,566 --> 00:00:13,866 We're the faithful ones that, So thank you very much. 7 00:00:14,433 --> 00:00:16,966 my son Wyatt is dove hunting in Colorado right now. 8 00:00:16,966 --> 00:00:19,233 I miss being out there. 9 00:00:19,233 --> 00:00:20,600 but I'd rather be here with you. 10 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,600 At least that's what I'm saying. 11 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:27,300 The series on judges are going through the book of judges. 12 00:00:27,366 --> 00:00:30,366 We're in chapter four today. 13 00:00:31,066 --> 00:00:32,700 so if you ever buy one, brought one with you. 14 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:35,733 If you turn to the Book of Judges chapter four, it will be on the screen behind me. 15 00:00:35,733 --> 00:00:36,866 It's also on our app. 16 00:00:36,866 --> 00:00:39,966 I encourage you to to download that and make use of that app. 17 00:00:41,433 --> 00:00:44,433 But let me just set judges for, 18 00:00:45,033 --> 00:00:48,733 with acknowledging the times of the judges 19 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:51,933 and then judges 21 verse 25. 20 00:00:51,933 --> 00:00:54,933 It gives us this one statement 21 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:58,633 about the overarching culture, 22 00:00:58,633 --> 00:01:03,366 the overarching theme of the times with God's people. 23 00:01:04,233 --> 00:01:06,666 And in judges 2125 24 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:08,033 I said 25 00:01:08,033 --> 00:01:11,033 everyone did what was right in his own eyes. 26 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,366 The unstated statement is 27 00:01:15,366 --> 00:01:18,366 no one did what was right in the eyes of God. 28 00:01:19,966 --> 00:01:22,966 They all did what was right in their own eyes. 29 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:25,866 Though God's people, 30 00:01:25,866 --> 00:01:28,766 there were a nation that was living in open rebellion 31 00:01:28,766 --> 00:01:32,133 to God, open rebellion to God's Word, 32 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,333 open rebellion to God's ways, open rebellion 33 00:01:36,333 --> 00:01:39,333 to God's standards. 34 00:01:39,433 --> 00:01:41,600 Though God would say this, 35 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,600 they did what was right in their own eyes. 36 00:01:45,266 --> 00:01:49,200 They probably were saying things like this. 37 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,800 Just be true to yourself. 38 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,800 Just live your truth. 39 00:01:55,233 --> 00:01:57,933 You just do. You. 40 00:01:57,933 --> 00:02:00,933 Love is love. 41 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,200 It was right in their own eyes. 42 00:02:04,633 --> 00:02:06,266 Go ahead and live with somebody before you're married. 43 00:02:06,266 --> 00:02:08,300 It's okay. 44 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:11,300 Figure out how it works. 45 00:02:11,633 --> 00:02:12,900 It was right in their own eyes. 46 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,500 Though that's the statement of them in their time. 47 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:22,500 It could also be the statement of. 48 00:02:24,066 --> 00:02:27,066 Us in ours. 49 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:28,533 There's one teacher 50 00:02:28,533 --> 00:02:31,800 that was reading about the book of judges, 51 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,800 and he says this of that time. 52 00:02:35,066 --> 00:02:38,066 Just see how this lands 53 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:40,800 of the Hebrews, 54 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,566 the Israelites of that time in the Book of Judges is what he says. 55 00:02:43,566 --> 00:02:47,400 It was a time of anarchy, a threat to their national security, 56 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:51,166 cultural decline, 57 00:02:51,166 --> 00:02:53,800 unsecure and open borders, 58 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,800 rampant sex and pornography, 59 00:02:56,866 --> 00:02:59,900 drunkenness, weak leaders, debt, 60 00:03:00,433 --> 00:03:04,100 governmental corruption, and a woke progressive past. 61 00:03:04,166 --> 00:03:07,166 A church. 62 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,200 That was said of their times. 63 00:03:13,033 --> 00:03:16,033 It's this time. 64 00:03:17,066 --> 00:03:17,666 What we see 65 00:03:17,666 --> 00:03:20,666 in the book of judges is this continual cycle 66 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:23,433 that we see in the pages of judges, 67 00:03:23,433 --> 00:03:27,066 but if we're honest with ourselves, we'll see in our own lives. 68 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:31,300 And that cycle looks like this, 69 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,566 where God steps in because of his mercy 70 00:03:33,566 --> 00:03:38,700 and his grace, and he delivers his people out of bondage 71 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:42,200 and slavery and difficulty and despair and pain. 72 00:03:44,366 --> 00:03:45,833 And when they live 73 00:03:45,833 --> 00:03:50,000 in that favor of God, having been delivered from those things 74 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 that were oppressing them and hurting them, 75 00:03:53,333 --> 00:03:56,333 it lulls them into a sense of 76 00:03:56,833 --> 00:03:59,833 doing what is right in my own eyes, 77 00:03:59,933 --> 00:04:02,100 and disobedience, 78 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:04,366 where God's Word and God's ways are not necessarily 79 00:04:04,366 --> 00:04:07,600 the priority anymore, because there's not an urgent need. 80 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,600 And in disobedience, 81 00:04:11,733 --> 00:04:14,733 it eventually leads to ultimate defeat, 82 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,266 and they are once again defeated by enemies 83 00:04:20,266 --> 00:04:22,933 subjected to their enemies 84 00:04:22,933 --> 00:04:25,933 living in pain and difficulty, 85 00:04:26,033 --> 00:04:29,033 and eventually, in that defeat, 86 00:04:29,866 --> 00:04:32,866 experience great despair. 87 00:04:33,366 --> 00:04:36,566 So much so that they're in so much despair and so much pain 88 00:04:36,666 --> 00:04:40,633 that they cry out to God in repentance and God in his mercy, his grace, 89 00:04:40,766 --> 00:04:43,566 not because they deserve it, but because God is a merciful and gracious. 90 00:04:43,566 --> 00:04:44,800 God delivers them. 91 00:04:45,866 --> 00:04:47,233 And then that deliverance, there's great 92 00:04:47,233 --> 00:04:50,233 thankfulness and gratitude, and they serve God. 93 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,166 And then that graciousness continues and blessing continues, 94 00:04:54,166 --> 00:04:58,066 and it lulls them into a sense of apathy and lethargy, 95 00:04:58,833 --> 00:05:02,733 where God's ways and commands are not necessarily the highest priority, 96 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,566 and they slip into doing things that are right in their own eyes 97 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,200 and disobedience. 98 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:11,300 And disobedience, 99 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:14,300 left unchecked, without repentance, 100 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,100 leads to defeat and defeat again to despair and despair. 101 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:21,200 The pain is so bad now I realize I do need God, 102 00:05:21,833 --> 00:05:24,833 and I cry out to him because God is merciful and gracious. 103 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:28,100 He delivers. 104 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:32,066 And in that deliverance there's great rejoicing and joy and gladness, 105 00:05:32,066 --> 00:05:37,433 and it lulls us into a sense of apathy and lethargy. 106 00:05:37,433 --> 00:05:41,666 And rather than God's words continuing to be in God's ways, continuing 107 00:05:41,666 --> 00:05:42,800 to be the priority, 108 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:46,966 we do what's right in our own eyes. 109 00:05:46,966 --> 00:05:49,966 You see the cycle. 110 00:05:53,833 --> 00:05:56,833 And if not for repentance, 111 00:05:57,733 --> 00:05:59,633 and if not for in repentance, 112 00:05:59,633 --> 00:06:02,633 relying on God's mercy and grace, 113 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:05,833 doom is always the result 114 00:06:05,833 --> 00:06:08,700 for them and for us. 115 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:10,100 One of the things I love about 116 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:14,400 my God is what it says in Second Timothy if we are faithless, he remains. 117 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,133 What faithful, for he cannot disown himself. 118 00:06:18,133 --> 00:06:21,266 However, we must understand that God's faithfulness 119 00:06:21,433 --> 00:06:24,433 in rescue and deliverance 120 00:06:25,033 --> 00:06:28,033 is a result of our repentance. 121 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,400 And where there is no repentance, 122 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:35,500 there's continued defeat and despair. 123 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,100 Though God is faithful 124 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,100 when we are not, he is faithful to respond 125 00:06:44,166 --> 00:06:46,400 in our repentance. 126 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,200 When we turn to him, 127 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,900 when we cry out to him 128 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:56,300 and confess sin and repent and make his ways, our ways. 129 00:06:57,866 --> 00:07:00,733 When we do that, God raises up a deliverer. 130 00:07:00,733 --> 00:07:04,133 And that's what we see in the book of judges over and over and over again. 131 00:07:04,166 --> 00:07:07,166 Other Luke delivers that God raises up in the book of judges 132 00:07:08,566 --> 00:07:10,833 are weird. 133 00:07:10,833 --> 00:07:13,966 Often times we would say that they're very much 134 00:07:13,966 --> 00:07:16,966 ill suited for spiritual leadership. 135 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,500 many of them are violent and liars, 136 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:27,266 and some are womanizers and not those that you would say, 137 00:07:27,266 --> 00:07:30,266 you know, they are worthy of leadership at all. 138 00:07:31,566 --> 00:07:34,066 But I appreciate that about God, because it reminds me 139 00:07:34,066 --> 00:07:37,066 that God oftentimes can work through failure, 140 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,966 because of his grace. 141 00:07:40,966 --> 00:07:43,966 And I'm very thankful for that. 142 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:48,000 Daniel 1132, though, reminds us of 143 00:07:49,366 --> 00:07:53,000 people who are strong in the Lord and what they do. 144 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 And it says the people who know their God 145 00:07:56,266 --> 00:08:00,100 shall stand firm and take action is talking in reference 146 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:03,100 to in that day of the enemies of God coming in 147 00:08:03,633 --> 00:08:07,400 and destroying God's ways and destroying God's people and destroying God's temple. 148 00:08:08,433 --> 00:08:10,933 And through the prophet Daniel, it says, the people who know 149 00:08:10,933 --> 00:08:14,233 their God will stand against that evil force, 150 00:08:14,233 --> 00:08:17,833 against that prevailing culture of destruction 151 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,900 and evil, and they will stand firm and they will take action. 152 00:08:22,066 --> 00:08:23,966 And this is the very thing that happened. 153 00:08:23,966 --> 00:08:27,000 Shout the book of judges through those God raises up. 154 00:08:29,233 --> 00:08:30,400 And I would suggest to you 155 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,400 that these days are no different. 156 00:08:33,833 --> 00:08:36,433 These days are no different. 157 00:08:36,433 --> 00:08:38,100 And judges for us about this very thing. 158 00:08:38,100 --> 00:08:42,100 Judges for is about another judge that raises up after oatmeal that we read 159 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:42,833 about after 160 00:08:42,833 --> 00:08:46,266 he had that we read about after Shem, GA, that we read about through chapter three. 161 00:08:46,433 --> 00:08:49,766 We read in chapter four of Another Mighty Judge, 162 00:08:49,766 --> 00:08:52,766 and her name is Deborah. 163 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,266 Incredible woman, 164 00:08:55,533 --> 00:08:58,533 incredible strong, godly woman. 165 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,766 She has multiple roles in God's economy. 166 00:09:01,766 --> 00:09:03,166 One of them is as a prophet. This. 167 00:09:03,166 --> 00:09:07,166 One of them is as a military strategist, and one of them is as a worship leader. 168 00:09:08,733 --> 00:09:11,000 Brilliant woman. 169 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And I want to introduce you to her story. 170 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:15,766 Judges four verses one and two. 171 00:09:15,766 --> 00:09:17,333 Again, the Israelites, you know, you 172 00:09:17,333 --> 00:09:20,200 we could subset our name for the Israelites right here. 173 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,200 Again, Carl did evil in the eyes of the Lord. 174 00:09:24,433 --> 00:09:27,433 You put your own name there. 175 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:30,900 Now that he had was dead, now that the leader was dead 176 00:09:31,333 --> 00:09:35,233 left here sort of saying, left to their own devices, left to their own 177 00:09:35,233 --> 00:09:40,466 decisions, left to their own discretion, they did what was right in their own eyes, 178 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:43,233 but not right in the eyes of God. 179 00:09:43,233 --> 00:09:44,100 That's what I'm saying. 180 00:09:46,033 --> 00:09:49,433 And often times in our lives, left to our own choices, left 181 00:09:49,433 --> 00:09:50,566 to our own decisions, 182 00:09:50,566 --> 00:09:54,333 without someone continually saying, thus says the Lord, left to our 183 00:09:54,333 --> 00:09:58,766 own decisions, we will revert to that which is right in our own eyes. 184 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,100 Yeah. 185 00:10:02,266 --> 00:10:03,833 So the Lord sold them 186 00:10:03,833 --> 00:10:07,033 into the hands of Jamie, the king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. 187 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,200 They're going to be sold into captivity. 188 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,233 Can be sold again into defeat. 189 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:19,033 At whose discretion and whose decision? God. 190 00:10:20,866 --> 00:10:24,033 God's going to allow them and send them into times of peril. 191 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:29,533 Sisera, the commander of Jordan's army, was based in Harris. 192 00:10:29,566 --> 00:10:32,100 Jeff head going now, I don't know if I said that right, but I've learned. 193 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:34,733 If I say it fast enough, certainly enough, you'll believe it was right. 194 00:10:37,333 --> 00:10:38,100 So two people 195 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:40,966 remember off the bat, this guy's sister, who's the commander of the army, 196 00:10:40,966 --> 00:10:44,500 and Jabin, who's the king of the Canaanites of this territory, 197 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,800 that they're in. 198 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,800 And because the people were doing what was right in their own eyes, 199 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:53,133 not honoring or having a priority of God in His Word, 200 00:10:53,133 --> 00:10:56,233 in his ways, God says, you're not seeking me anymore. 201 00:10:56,300 --> 00:10:59,366 You're refusing to turn to me rather than honoring me. 202 00:10:59,366 --> 00:11:02,400 You're doing what is right in your own rights, which is not right in my eyes. 203 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,666 And so I'm going to give you into the hands of enemies. 204 00:11:04,666 --> 00:11:05,900 We're going to defeat you. 205 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:08,333 So you will be forced to bend your knee to me. 206 00:11:08,333 --> 00:11:11,333 Do you see that? 207 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,200 Judges three. 208 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,066 They've been rescued by Ehud and by Sham Gar. 209 00:11:16,066 --> 00:11:20,900 Those people were dead, and now they had no one to keep them focused on God's word. 210 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,133 They had no one there to lead them 211 00:11:25,566 --> 00:11:27,600 in the assault against the 212 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,600 evil that was encroaching upon their land and their people. 213 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,400 Jesus said, he called your decease, 214 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,400 says my disciples, you will be the salt of the earth. 215 00:11:36,466 --> 00:11:39,600 In ancient times, salt was a preserving agent. 216 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,600 It slowed the rate of decay. 217 00:11:43,733 --> 00:11:46,733 And this is what God's people are called to be today, 218 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:50,500 to slow the rate of decay. 219 00:11:54,166 --> 00:11:55,166 It's interesting 220 00:11:55,166 --> 00:11:58,433 that there was no one in their culture to slow 221 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 the current of evil that was overtaking them, 222 00:12:04,133 --> 00:12:08,600 and because there was no one there to to slow the decay of the culture 223 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,533 that was encroaching and taking over them, God sold them into defeat. 224 00:12:15,633 --> 00:12:18,633 So that they would come back to him and realize 225 00:12:19,333 --> 00:12:22,333 how bad things have gotten. 226 00:12:25,866 --> 00:12:28,100 God was behind the peril of his people 227 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,066 so that they would been their knee 228 00:12:32,066 --> 00:12:35,066 in repentance and allegiance to him. 229 00:12:36,233 --> 00:12:38,266 So these two men, Jabin the the 230 00:12:38,266 --> 00:12:42,866 the king of the Canaanite, this territory where they were in, and Sisera, his 231 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:45,766 military commander, want you remember those two names? 232 00:12:45,766 --> 00:12:48,133 We're going to come back to him 233 00:12:48,133 --> 00:12:51,133 in verse three. 234 00:12:52,433 --> 00:12:55,100 That he's talking about judges in verse three, 235 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:58,400 he's talking about the sister, the leader of the of the army, 236 00:12:58,866 --> 00:13:02,733 because he had 900 chariots fitted with iron, iron chariots 237 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:07,566 and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for 20 years. 238 00:13:08,666 --> 00:13:11,666 They cried out to the Lord for help those for him, 239 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:15,633 because the enemy had weapons 240 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,800 stronger than their iron chariots, 241 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,766 and because they had lived under defeat for 20 years. 242 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:27,333 That's what it took for them to cry out to God in repentance for help. 243 00:13:27,466 --> 00:13:28,700 What does it take you? 244 00:13:32,833 --> 00:13:35,833 Was it didn't take for us 245 00:13:35,966 --> 00:13:39,966 to realize that what we are facing, the difficulty in our lives, 246 00:13:40,166 --> 00:13:43,666 are so much stronger we can't handle it. 247 00:13:44,366 --> 00:13:47,800 We can't be the enemies in our lives on our own. 248 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:48,633 Some of us, 249 00:13:48,633 --> 00:13:53,733 some of you have tried for year after year after year, and you're still a slave 250 00:13:53,733 --> 00:13:57,733 to the same hurts, habits, and hangups that have defeated you for years. 251 00:13:57,833 --> 00:14:01,666 What's it going to take for you to realize the enemy is stronger than you are, 252 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:04,100 and you've lived with him for so long? 253 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:07,100 What's it going to take for you to cry out to God? 254 00:14:14,733 --> 00:14:17,466 The historian Jesus tells us this that though 255 00:14:17,466 --> 00:14:22,866 Jesus four mentions 900 chariots, the totality of James army under 256 00:14:22,866 --> 00:14:27,700 the command of Sisera was 300,000 infantry men, 257 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,633 10,000 cavalry, and 3000 chariots. 258 00:14:34,366 --> 00:14:37,366 They didn't need all of that to keep the Hebrew, 259 00:14:37,366 --> 00:14:39,000 the Israelites under subjection. 260 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,600 All he needed was 900 of them. 261 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,566 But the army, the army behind 262 00:14:43,566 --> 00:14:46,566 the 900, was vast and powerful. 263 00:14:48,533 --> 00:14:50,100 And the fact that they were chariots 264 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,366 of iron in these days, biblical days. 265 00:14:53,433 --> 00:14:56,266 Think of a chariot as a tank. 266 00:14:56,266 --> 00:14:59,266 And the Canaanites have moved into the Iron Age. 267 00:14:59,966 --> 00:15:02,966 The Israelites are still living in the Bronze Age. 268 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,666 And so what you had was an army full of tanks 269 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:10,833 fighting against peasants with rocks and ox goads, 270 00:15:11,866 --> 00:15:14,633 sticks. 271 00:15:14,633 --> 00:15:15,933 Completely outnumbered. 272 00:15:15,933 --> 00:15:17,233 Completely overwhelmed. 273 00:15:17,233 --> 00:15:20,133 Completely incapable of their own rescue. 274 00:15:20,133 --> 00:15:23,133 Is anybody hearing what I'm saying? Yes. 275 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:28,300 Now, always remember, 276 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:31,633 though, the enemy is so far beyond you. 277 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:34,633 When we. 278 00:15:34,633 --> 00:15:38,900 When God's people repent and come back to him, 279 00:15:39,733 --> 00:15:42,333 no matter the weapon formed against you. 280 00:15:42,333 --> 00:15:46,000 I tell Isaiah tells us that no weapon formed against you will prevail 281 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,033 when there is repentance and coming back to God. 282 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,300 I want you to remember this, though, 283 00:15:57,300 --> 00:16:00,300 that it was because the odds were against them 284 00:16:01,433 --> 00:16:04,433 that was orchestrated by God. 285 00:16:04,866 --> 00:16:07,866 That was their impetus to cry out to him. 286 00:16:09,433 --> 00:16:11,133 Here's what we have to remember that 287 00:16:11,133 --> 00:16:14,133 when we cry out to God, God starts to move on our behalf. 288 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,800 It's not that he was unwilling to the first 20 years, 289 00:16:19,866 --> 00:16:22,866 but they hadn't cried out to God, to repentance. 290 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:25,633 And when we do that, God starts 291 00:16:25,633 --> 00:16:28,700 moving on our behalf, oftentimes in ways that are unseen by us. 292 00:16:28,766 --> 00:16:31,766 We'll see that in the story. 293 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:33,033 Second Corinthians 12 294 00:16:33,033 --> 00:16:36,033 remind us that in our weakness, 295 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:39,700 God's strength is perfected. 296 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,033 And so the weaker you are, the more you admit 297 00:16:43,033 --> 00:16:46,100 how incapable you are, the better position we are in. 298 00:16:46,166 --> 00:16:46,766 You are in. 299 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,700 Because our commanding officer 300 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:53,700 is greater than their commanding officer. 301 00:16:57,033 --> 00:16:58,666 And I want him moving on my behalf. 302 00:16:58,666 --> 00:17:01,666 Don't you? 303 00:17:03,333 --> 00:17:04,766 And so God moves 304 00:17:04,766 --> 00:17:07,766 finally to raise up a leader. 305 00:17:07,966 --> 00:17:09,800 Deborah, 306 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,700 a prophetess, 307 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:15,100 the wife of Lepidus, was judging Israel at that time. 308 00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:17,400 She used to sit under the palm of Deborah 309 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,633 between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim. 310 00:17:21,166 --> 00:17:23,866 And the people of Israel came up to her 311 00:17:23,866 --> 00:17:26,866 for judgment, for guidance, for counsel. 312 00:17:27,566 --> 00:17:30,200 Incredible woman. 313 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,233 She raised the God, raised up Deborah, 314 00:17:32,233 --> 00:17:35,233 who the Bible says she is a what? 315 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,100 The prophet is a prophet. 316 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:41,100 A prophetess does two things. 317 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,833 They hear, they listen and they communicate. 318 00:17:43,833 --> 00:17:46,833 They listen to what God says, and they communicate what God says. 319 00:17:47,366 --> 00:17:51,600 They listen for God's Word, and then they tell God's Word. 320 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,300 And that's what a prophet is. 321 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:55,000 What a prophet. 322 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,966 So, Deborah, his role was to hear from God 323 00:17:57,966 --> 00:18:00,300 and then communicate what God was saying. 324 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:02,700 And people would come to her. What do we do? 325 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:04,100 What's the direction? 326 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:06,933 And she would hear from God, and she would tell them exactly what God. 327 00:18:06,933 --> 00:18:09,666 She would explain God's Word to them. 328 00:18:09,666 --> 00:18:11,033 And it's so in her, she said. 329 00:18:11,033 --> 00:18:14,033 So apparently she had a palm tree that was hers. 330 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 The palm of Deb Deb's palm, 331 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,266 and people would come to her because they knew that God 332 00:18:21,266 --> 00:18:24,266 had his hand on her life as a prophetess. 333 00:18:25,166 --> 00:18:27,900 There are eight prophecies in the Bible, four 334 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:30,900 in the Old Testament, and for the New Testament. 335 00:18:31,766 --> 00:18:33,900 And she ruled, and she reigned 336 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:36,900 as a prophet is not as a king man. 337 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:37,433 There's only one. 338 00:18:37,433 --> 00:18:39,333 I don't know if you know this, you Bible students, 339 00:18:39,333 --> 00:18:42,700 but there was only one queen in all of Israel. 340 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,366 That was a woman. It was Jezebel's daughter, 341 00:18:46,433 --> 00:18:47,966 and her goal in 342 00:18:47,966 --> 00:18:51,966 and reigning as the only woman king was to kill all the men. 343 00:18:51,966 --> 00:18:54,966 She was demonic and possessed. 344 00:18:55,933 --> 00:18:59,133 So God doesn't ask Deborah to be a king. 345 00:18:59,133 --> 00:19:02,133 He asked her to be a prophetess. 346 00:19:03,166 --> 00:19:04,333 Roles in God's 347 00:19:04,333 --> 00:19:07,333 economy are very distinct and sassy, 348 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,866 so she served as a prophet to hear from God and to speak. 349 00:19:09,866 --> 00:19:13,966 Now, let me just say this as I'm talking about this issue, that some people 350 00:19:13,966 --> 00:19:17,800 with good hearts but misinformed understanding have used 351 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,133 Deborah as the reason that they say women should be senior pastors. 352 00:19:22,133 --> 00:19:24,033 That's not what this is about at all. 353 00:19:24,033 --> 00:19:27,500 If we go back and apply biblical times to our times, 354 00:19:28,566 --> 00:19:31,566 biblical local church was called a synagogue, 355 00:19:32,100 --> 00:19:37,800 and those who led synagogues were priests, and nowhere in all of the Bible does 356 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,066 God ever ask a woman to fill the role as a priest, 357 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,100 the leader of the local church, though he does call 358 00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:48,266 women to be this is leaders 359 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:50,066 who speak 360 00:19:50,066 --> 00:19:53,066 God's word, who understand what God is and speak it. 361 00:19:53,133 --> 00:19:55,333 But it's not the role of a pastor. 362 00:19:55,333 --> 00:19:57,100 Do you understand this? 363 00:19:57,100 --> 00:19:59,933 We we have here this thing. 364 00:19:59,933 --> 00:20:03,733 A lot of people try to make cases for things that aren't in the Bible 365 00:20:03,733 --> 00:20:07,866 because they're doing things that are right in their own eyes. 366 00:20:11,733 --> 00:20:14,100 So we have to be careful. 367 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:15,833 She's a prophetess. 368 00:20:15,833 --> 00:20:16,866 She's an incredible leader. 369 00:20:16,866 --> 00:20:19,700 She's a military strategist, as we'll see. She is a worship leader. 370 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:22,266 So see, she's a speaker of God's Word that we'll see. 371 00:20:22,266 --> 00:20:25,266 She's incredible. Woman. Incredible woman. 372 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,600 If she were running for president, I would vote for her. 373 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,000 She sent and summoned Barak, 374 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:45,266 the son of Behnam, from Kadesh Naphtali, and said to him, has not the Lord see? 375 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:46,200 She's heard from God. 376 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,833 She's saying, Hasn't God already said this? 377 00:20:49,833 --> 00:20:52,833 Hasn't the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you? 378 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:57,233 Go gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 379 00:20:57,233 --> 00:21:00,733 from the people of Naphtali in the people of Zebulon, and I will. 380 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:05,666 This word says, I will draw Sisera, the commander of the enemy army. 381 00:21:05,766 --> 00:21:09,633 I will draw Sisera, the general of Japan's army, to meet you by the river. 382 00:21:09,633 --> 00:21:10,133 Keshawn. 383 00:21:10,133 --> 00:21:13,700 Remember that with his chariots of fire, and remember that and his troops. 384 00:21:13,866 --> 00:21:15,766 And I will give them in your hand. 385 00:21:15,766 --> 00:21:19,233 She says, don't you remember what God has already said? 386 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:23,133 She's living that role of prophetess. 387 00:21:23,133 --> 00:21:24,800 God has already said this. 388 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,800 He's already commanded that. 389 00:21:29,466 --> 00:21:30,466 And she says, take 390 00:21:30,466 --> 00:21:33,566 these men 10,000 and go up to Mount Tabor. 391 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,100 She's a military. 392 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,066 She is part of the military strategy for defeating the enemy. 393 00:21:38,066 --> 00:21:40,266 She tells them to go up to Mount Tabor. 394 00:21:40,266 --> 00:21:41,966 Tabor isn't some huge mountain. 395 00:21:41,966 --> 00:21:45,800 It's more of a hill about 1300 feet in elevation. 396 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,133 It's not huge. 397 00:21:47,133 --> 00:21:52,300 But why would she tell as strategy for the commander Barak, who, 398 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:56,000 interestingly enough, a weak, ineffectual government official named Barak? 399 00:21:56,266 --> 00:21:57,466 Why would she? 400 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,266 Why would 401 00:22:03,266 --> 00:22:06,266 you get that later? 402 00:22:06,266 --> 00:22:09,966 Why? Why would she tell him to take those troops up to Mount Tabor? 403 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:13,500 I regret it's higher ground. 404 00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:17,266 What does the enemy have? 405 00:22:17,266 --> 00:22:19,033 Iron chariots pulled by horses. 406 00:22:19,033 --> 00:22:22,033 It's ineffectual going uphill. 407 00:22:22,666 --> 00:22:25,133 So she's saying strategically in this moment. 408 00:22:25,133 --> 00:22:27,733 Take him in up there. They'll be safe. 409 00:22:27,733 --> 00:22:29,533 There's more to the strategy that's coming. 410 00:22:29,533 --> 00:22:34,800 But for now, strategically go muster your forces, get your act together. 411 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,433 You haven't done what God tells you to do with. 412 00:22:37,433 --> 00:22:39,133 Just muster them up here. 413 00:22:39,133 --> 00:22:40,033 You'll be safe there. 414 00:22:40,033 --> 00:22:43,033 So when she tells them brilliant, 415 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:44,900 later, 416 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:47,900 they'll come down the mountain for a surprise attack. 417 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:51,333 Brilliant strategy, but watch what happens, 418 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:53,566 she says. Don't you remember? 419 00:22:53,566 --> 00:22:57,400 God said, I won't lower Sisera to the river. 420 00:22:59,333 --> 00:22:59,666 Here's. 421 00:22:59,666 --> 00:23:02,200 Here's what I want you to know. 422 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,200 When we cry out to God, God orchestrates our rescue. 423 00:23:06,133 --> 00:23:08,366 This she is the mouthpiece. 424 00:23:08,366 --> 00:23:11,133 But God is the orchestrator. 425 00:23:11,133 --> 00:23:13,000 God tells her, tell 426 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Barak to take the men up to day and wait. 427 00:23:16,266 --> 00:23:20,900 In due season, I will draw Sisera out to where the remember? 428 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:23,900 To where? To the river. 429 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,600 Just remember that 430 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,100 when we cry out to God, 431 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:31,100 God starts orchestrating our rescue. 432 00:23:31,133 --> 00:23:35,200 God could have done this at any point, but he waited until they cried out to God. 433 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,200 He raised up and delivered to set wheels in motion. 434 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,900 Watch Barak's response. 435 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:49,300 He said to her, 436 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:52,300 well, oh, 437 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,900 you go with me. I'll go. 438 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:59,333 But if you if you have them, if you don't go, I don't I don't want to go. 439 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,200 See anybody, see the flocks. 440 00:24:08,133 --> 00:24:13,600 If God says go. Go! 441 00:24:14,966 --> 00:24:17,966 But what if Trump was with you? 442 00:24:18,166 --> 00:24:20,966 Just go. 443 00:24:20,966 --> 00:24:23,933 If God says do, do. 444 00:24:23,933 --> 00:24:26,933 But what if you have to do all on your own 445 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:30,300 to do? 446 00:24:33,133 --> 00:24:35,066 This, 447 00:24:35,066 --> 00:24:37,466 this to me, 448 00:24:37,466 --> 00:24:40,466 is a sign of a very weak man. 449 00:24:41,066 --> 00:24:44,200 And the sad thing about it is that this week 450 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,200 man was the strongest of all the other weak men. 451 00:24:52,933 --> 00:24:54,500 There's something broken 452 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:58,533 in the soul of a man who doesn't stand up and say. 453 00:24:58,533 --> 00:25:03,466 I will stand between the forces of evil and those who cannot stand 454 00:25:03,466 --> 00:25:06,466 before them. 455 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:09,366 There's 456 00:25:09,366 --> 00:25:12,366 something broken in the soul of a man 457 00:25:12,933 --> 00:25:15,000 that says. I will be the tip of the spear. 458 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 For those who cannot be. 459 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,433 Men, husbands. 460 00:25:22,433 --> 00:25:24,566 Fathers, grandpas. Do you hear me? 461 00:25:33,166 --> 00:25:36,166 There's something broken in this man. 462 00:25:37,533 --> 00:25:40,533 Was it wrong for Deborah to go with him? No. 463 00:25:40,833 --> 00:25:41,733 Not necessarily. 464 00:25:41,733 --> 00:25:44,733 There's nothing in the text that says it was wrong for her to go. 465 00:25:46,833 --> 00:25:49,833 But Barak was wrong for saying he wouldn't go if she didn't 466 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:53,466 do understand the difference. 467 00:25:53,466 --> 00:25:56,766 What he should have said was, I'm going. 468 00:25:56,766 --> 00:25:58,600 You're welcome to come along. 469 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,000 I would love to have you with me, but I'm going regardless, 470 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,200 because I will stand before the hordes of evil. 471 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,200 And you, dear woman. 472 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,166 Well, certainly I'll go with you, said Deborah. 473 00:26:17,166 --> 00:26:20,600 But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be 474 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,600 yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera in the hands of a woman. 475 00:26:23,633 --> 00:26:26,466 So Deborah went with brought to Kadesh. 476 00:26:26,466 --> 00:26:30,133 There Barak summoned Zebulun, and Naftali, and 10,000 men 477 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:32,400 went up under his command. 478 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,000 Deborah also went with them. 479 00:26:35,566 --> 00:26:36,033 Deborah. 480 00:26:36,033 --> 00:26:38,000 Sure. I'll go. 481 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,900 But you're not going to be credited with the victory. 482 00:26:39,900 --> 00:26:42,333 A woman is going to be. 483 00:26:42,333 --> 00:26:46,900 Listen, if God wants to use you, if God wants to use me and we don't jump 484 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:50,466 in, God will still do what he does, but he'll leave us out here. 485 00:26:51,733 --> 00:26:53,933 And that should be the greatest FOMO 486 00:26:53,933 --> 00:26:56,933 of your life. 487 00:27:00,033 --> 00:27:03,366 That you get left out of God's blessing. 488 00:27:05,566 --> 00:27:07,900 Because you don't go. 489 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:11,400 When we step into serving, 490 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:15,300 it will be the best adventure of our lives. 491 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:17,566 Please understand this, my friends. 492 00:27:17,566 --> 00:27:18,900 Saying yes to God lead 493 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:22,600 you into the best, into your best life and your finest hours. 494 00:27:23,666 --> 00:27:26,600 It always does, 495 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,900 but we seek our best life and our finest hours in 496 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:33,566 what is right in our own eyes, not in what is right in the eyes of God. 497 00:27:33,866 --> 00:27:37,766 And because of that, we languish and our defeated and in despair, saying 498 00:27:37,766 --> 00:27:41,300 yes to God leads us into our best 499 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:44,333 life and our finest hours. 500 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:48,700 We do what is right in his eyes. 501 00:27:51,733 --> 00:27:53,700 I'm going to introduce you to some more people here now. 502 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:55,433 Heber the Keenan, not the key. 503 00:27:55,433 --> 00:27:58,433 Night had separated from the night 504 00:27:58,733 --> 00:28:01,300 and then tells us the key nights of whole Bab. 505 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:03,533 The father in law of Moses. 506 00:28:03,533 --> 00:28:05,300 He had pitched his tent in the sky. 507 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:09,333 He pitched his tent as far away as the oak of Zion. 508 00:28:09,366 --> 00:28:11,266 And name which is near Kadesh. 509 00:28:11,266 --> 00:28:13,500 Now here's all this meat. 510 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:16,900 The key nights were descendants of Moses, his father in law. 511 00:28:16,933 --> 00:28:20,566 Moses was the guy that led the people of of God out of Egypt. 512 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:23,500 He married this gal and his. 513 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:26,500 This is his wife's dad. 514 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:29,800 That is the father of these key nights. 515 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,400 Heber was one of them. So? 516 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,400 So Heber was part of God's people. 517 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,433 But he didn't want to live with God's people. 518 00:28:37,433 --> 00:28:38,866 So he pitched his tent. 519 00:28:38,866 --> 00:28:43,333 That means he lived away from them near the Canaanites. 520 00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:46,666 King Jabin and the commander Sisera. 521 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,066 Do you see that? 522 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,300 So he's 523 00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:53,300 he he's a man who has his foot in both worlds. 524 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:57,300 God's world and the culture's world. 525 00:28:59,466 --> 00:29:01,066 He's aligned himself with both. 526 00:29:01,066 --> 00:29:02,466 And that's 527 00:29:02,466 --> 00:29:05,266 it's always dangerous. 528 00:29:05,266 --> 00:29:07,266 Never trust a man or a 529 00:29:07,266 --> 00:29:10,266 man's got a foot in both worlds. 530 00:29:11,233 --> 00:29:13,300 When they told Sisera that Barak, 531 00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:16,300 the son of Benham, had gone up mount Tabor 532 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,300 since he was summoned from, Harris 533 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:21,833 had going to the Kishan River, 534 00:29:21,833 --> 00:29:24,900 all his men and his 900 shirts fitted with iron. 535 00:29:25,866 --> 00:29:28,033 Then Deborah said In Barak go, 536 00:29:28,033 --> 00:29:30,900 this is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands. 537 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:33,366 Has not the Lord gone ahead of you? 538 00:29:33,366 --> 00:29:36,966 So Barak went down Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him. 539 00:29:36,966 --> 00:29:41,833 Now, sister was told, the men were up on Mount Tabor, who told him? 540 00:29:44,533 --> 00:29:47,533 Heber, that guy who had his foot in both worlds, 541 00:29:47,733 --> 00:29:50,300 a dual allegiance. 542 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:52,500 That's why I said you never trust someone with their foot. 543 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,500 In both world, both kingdoms, they're untrustworthy. 544 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,733 So you out. 545 00:29:59,733 --> 00:30:02,733 And so sister is told the men are up there. 546 00:30:02,933 --> 00:30:05,933 He draws his men together at the river. 547 00:30:06,833 --> 00:30:11,033 And Deborah prophesies again, just simply tells Barak what God has already said. 548 00:30:11,233 --> 00:30:14,400 Hasn't he said that he will go with you? 549 00:30:14,633 --> 00:30:17,633 He's ahead of you. Go. 550 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:21,566 And so she says, 551 00:30:21,566 --> 00:30:25,800 come down from Mount Tabor into the valley and fight. 552 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:26,966 Okay? Now listen. Listen, man. 553 00:30:26,966 --> 00:30:29,966 Remember, they're up at Mount Tabor because the enemy has what? 554 00:30:30,766 --> 00:30:34,100 Chariots and church can't fight uphill, right? 555 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,500 And so now she says, now take your seats there. 556 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,600 Come down into the valley. 557 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,500 Where do chariots work best 558 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,733 in the valley? 559 00:30:44,733 --> 00:30:46,800 And so now she's saying, okay, here's the strategy. 560 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,800 Now leave your safety and come down 561 00:30:50,166 --> 00:30:53,166 into a place of peril. 562 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:57,266 At this point, I am certain that some of them are thinking, 563 00:30:57,266 --> 00:31:00,600 this is why you don't put a woman in charge of the army. 564 00:31:02,333 --> 00:31:05,333 This is bad strategy, right? 565 00:31:06,133 --> 00:31:07,966 But it was brilliant 566 00:31:07,966 --> 00:31:11,066 because this woman knew the heart of God. 567 00:31:11,066 --> 00:31:15,200 This woman knew God said this woman had faith in what God would do, 568 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,533 and called God's people 569 00:31:18,533 --> 00:31:22,500 out of what felt safe into what felt perilous. 570 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:24,066 Here's what we have to understand. 571 00:31:24,066 --> 00:31:26,833 There are moments when obedience leads us away 572 00:31:26,833 --> 00:31:29,833 from what feels safe. 573 00:31:33,466 --> 00:31:36,833 When following God, it feels like it doesn't make sense. 574 00:31:36,833 --> 00:31:38,400 It feels like it's backwards. 575 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,966 It feels like it ain't going to work. 576 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:43,200 There are moments when 577 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,366 obedience feels like it leads us away from safety. 578 00:31:46,366 --> 00:31:49,366 Here's a question can you follow God in fear? 579 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,666 Most of our prayers are God. 580 00:31:55,666 --> 00:31:59,733 Give me courage and God says, I want you to be obedient. 581 00:32:00,866 --> 00:32:02,033 In your obedience. 582 00:32:02,033 --> 00:32:05,033 You will find courage. 583 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:15,300 Listen. 584 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:17,966 Because every battle is God's. 585 00:32:17,966 --> 00:32:20,966 Victory is a result of obedience, not strategy. 586 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,000 Don't miss this 587 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,333 strategically. 588 00:32:28,333 --> 00:32:30,733 Not a great strategy to come down from the mountain 589 00:32:30,733 --> 00:32:34,000 and face iron chariots with rocks and sticks in a valley 590 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:37,400 where they are like a blitzkrieg, fast and powerful. 591 00:32:39,166 --> 00:32:41,200 But Deborah wasn't concerned primarily 592 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,200 with strategies, concerned primarily with obedience. 593 00:32:45,733 --> 00:32:48,000 And for every one of us, 594 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,900 every battle of God's people is God's. 595 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:53,466 And so my victory, your victory is not the result 596 00:32:53,466 --> 00:32:55,566 of your strategy doing what is right in your own eyes. 597 00:32:55,566 --> 00:32:57,166 It's a result of your obedience. 598 00:32:59,833 --> 00:33:02,833 Do you see this? 599 00:33:05,666 --> 00:33:08,433 God loves studying the Bible. 600 00:33:08,433 --> 00:33:10,833 It's so good. 601 00:33:10,833 --> 00:33:13,833 Yeah, yeah, 602 00:33:13,933 --> 00:33:16,933 it's so good. 603 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:19,733 At Barak's advance, the Lord routed 604 00:33:19,733 --> 00:33:23,033 Sisera and all his chariots and the army by the sword. 605 00:33:23,033 --> 00:33:26,033 And sister got down from his chariot and fled on foot. 606 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:31,166 Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harry's going. 607 00:33:31,333 --> 00:33:35,200 And all Sisera, troops fell by the sword. 608 00:33:35,233 --> 00:33:38,233 Not a man was left. 609 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,600 Did you notice how that passage started 610 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,833 at Barak's advance? 611 00:33:44,833 --> 00:33:46,766 He's being obedient. 612 00:33:46,766 --> 00:33:49,766 The Lord routed. 613 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,666 Here's what we have to understand. 614 00:33:52,666 --> 00:33:55,966 Obedience invites God into the battles you face. 615 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:01,100 When Barak was obedient, the Lord routed. 616 00:34:01,966 --> 00:34:05,166 The Lord didn't take care of the enemy until there was obedience in place. 617 00:34:05,166 --> 00:34:07,600 You understand that? 618 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,266 So yours are my own. 619 00:34:09,266 --> 00:34:11,300 Obedience invites God into our battles 620 00:34:12,466 --> 00:34:13,433 we can't forget. 621 00:34:13,433 --> 00:34:15,300 But watch what happened. This is so. 622 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:16,633 This is so like. 623 00:34:16,633 --> 00:34:20,100 Sisera, meanwhile fled on foot to the tent of jail. 624 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,933 The wife of Heber, the guy who had his foot in both camps. 625 00:34:22,933 --> 00:34:24,600 Why? Because he went to her camp. 626 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,033 Because he figures her friends. 627 00:34:27,033 --> 00:34:28,366 Okay. 628 00:34:28,366 --> 00:34:30,500 because there was an alliance between Jacob and the King. 629 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:32,233 His are in the family of Heber the Canaanite. 630 00:34:32,233 --> 00:34:34,866 So the sister flees on foot. 631 00:34:34,866 --> 00:34:37,966 Now, why do you leave your tank 632 00:34:37,966 --> 00:34:40,966 and run away on foot? 633 00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:44,833 Why would you do that 634 00:34:44,833 --> 00:34:45,566 tank? 635 00:34:45,566 --> 00:34:48,433 If anybody who knows anything about military, 636 00:34:48,433 --> 00:34:53,600 a tank is only effective if it has treads that work, right? 637 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,433 Otherwise it's dead in the water. 638 00:34:55,433 --> 00:34:58,433 You understand? 639 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:00,600 When my dad was in Vietnam, 640 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,866 he was in charge of a group of tanks called the On Toes. 641 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:05,800 Six big 642 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,800 guns on each side with a 50 caliber on top. 643 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:10,666 And it was an anti-tank tank. 644 00:35:10,666 --> 00:35:14,000 And then the brilliance of military strategy 645 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000 of the Marine Corps in the Vietnam War. 646 00:35:17,633 --> 00:35:22,400 They helicoptered my dad and his group of tanks into, hot zone. 647 00:35:23,233 --> 00:35:26,466 But before they did, they took off all the armament on the tread, 648 00:35:26,933 --> 00:35:30,600 and they put a plywood thing on the top to make it look like a bulldozer, 649 00:35:31,233 --> 00:35:34,966 thinking that if the Vietnamese, the Vietcong, saw a bulldozer 650 00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:37,966 being dropped in by a military helicopter, they would think it was doing 651 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:41,300 agricultural work and wouldn't fire upon them. 652 00:35:41,666 --> 00:35:44,666 My dad was dropped into this thing, and then the 653 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:48,300 all the armaments of the tank were helicoptered in 654 00:35:48,733 --> 00:35:52,266 and in a hot zone being fired upon, they had to put the tank together. 655 00:35:54,566 --> 00:35:56,733 It was ridiculous. 656 00:35:56,733 --> 00:36:00,200 What they told me is that a tank that can't move 657 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,200 and has no weapons is a sitting target. 658 00:36:05,266 --> 00:36:08,066 So Sisera gets out of his tank 659 00:36:08,066 --> 00:36:11,066 and runs. Why? 660 00:36:11,333 --> 00:36:15,200 What would make a chariot immobile? 661 00:36:15,766 --> 00:36:17,266 It's an iron chariot. 662 00:36:17,266 --> 00:36:18,866 Where did they draw? 663 00:36:18,866 --> 00:36:21,866 Where did God draw them into? By a what? 664 00:36:22,066 --> 00:36:22,766 By a river? 665 00:36:22,766 --> 00:36:25,433 Now what does this is what's going on? 666 00:36:25,433 --> 00:36:28,033 We don't know this from this, or we know this from 667 00:36:28,033 --> 00:36:31,500 the song that Deborah will write about this account. 668 00:36:31,666 --> 00:36:36,133 Chapter five is a worship song about chapter four. 669 00:36:36,433 --> 00:36:40,566 And in chapter five, what we realize, and this is brilliant, 670 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:44,333 what we realize is that God, this is what God was orchestrating 671 00:36:44,833 --> 00:36:47,200 when you this is what she writes in chapter five, 672 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,466 when you, Lord, went out from sea hour, when you marched from the land of Edam, 673 00:36:51,466 --> 00:36:53,033 the earth shook the heavens. 674 00:36:53,033 --> 00:36:57,466 What the heavens poured in the clouds, what poured down water? 675 00:36:57,466 --> 00:37:01,500 She's writing about this battle, the river Keshawn, which is where 676 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:05,200 God drew this only to swept them away. 677 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,400 The age old river. 678 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,300 The river Keshawn. Brilliant. 679 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:13,000 They came down for the place that they thought was safe, into a place of peril, 680 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:17,233 because God was orchestrating a rainstorm to overflow the river 681 00:37:17,233 --> 00:37:19,200 and to make the ground muddy, thus 682 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,100 making ineffective the chariots and the tanks that were against them. 683 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,833 So the army had to flee on foot, so the army of God could overtake 684 00:37:26,833 --> 00:37:27,933 him and kill him. Brilliant. 685 00:37:30,066 --> 00:37:31,566 Okay, 686 00:37:31,566 --> 00:37:34,400 so Sisera runs away 687 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,500 on foot and he runs into a tent. 688 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,633 Listen, God, seek 689 00:37:41,633 --> 00:37:45,000 first the kingdom of God, and everything else will take care of itself. 690 00:37:45,566 --> 00:37:48,400 Okay? 691 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,400 His ways have got to be priority. 692 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,500 He'll take care of the church. 693 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:54,366 He'll take care of the. 694 00:37:54,366 --> 00:37:55,600 He'll take care of everything. 695 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,966 But his ways have got to be a priority. 696 00:37:57,966 --> 00:38:01,600 God always frustrates whatever we place in priority over him. 697 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,800 Always. 698 00:38:06,166 --> 00:38:07,666 He always frustrates that 699 00:38:07,666 --> 00:38:10,666 which we place in the priority over him. 700 00:38:11,433 --> 00:38:13,433 Let me just be real honest with you real quick, 701 00:38:13,433 --> 00:38:15,000 as if I haven't been up to this point. 702 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,400 Let me. 703 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,000 I feel so stupid. 704 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,500 I say stuff like that. Like, 705 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,500 listen, this is why tithing works. 706 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:28,200 And this is why when we don't tithe. 707 00:38:30,566 --> 00:38:31,833 We never have enough money. 708 00:38:31,833 --> 00:38:33,566 At the end of the month, we're always in debt. 709 00:38:33,566 --> 00:38:36,566 We're a slave to credit. 710 00:38:37,966 --> 00:38:39,766 Because when we put things as priority 711 00:38:39,766 --> 00:38:42,766 over God's ways, he frustrates it. 712 00:38:46,633 --> 00:38:47,166 This is why 713 00:38:47,166 --> 00:38:50,300 serving one word exhausted and tired work. 714 00:38:52,766 --> 00:38:55,833 And this is why, when we don't serve, it seems like we're too busy. 715 00:38:55,833 --> 00:38:58,833 We're too exhausted, were too stressed 716 00:38:59,933 --> 00:39:02,466 because when we put things ahead of God's ways, 717 00:39:02,466 --> 00:39:05,466 he frustrates it. 718 00:39:05,866 --> 00:39:08,866 Seek him first in his kingdom. 719 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:12,000 Be obedient. 720 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000 He'll take care of everything else. 721 00:39:15,866 --> 00:39:18,000 Jael went out to meet Sisera. 722 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,400 Jael, the wife of this of Heber, the guy who had to sit in both camps 723 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,066 and said, come, my Lord, come right into her tent. 724 00:39:25,066 --> 00:39:26,466 Don't be afraid. 725 00:39:26,466 --> 00:39:29,866 So he entered her tent and she covered him with a blanket. 726 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:32,566 I'm thirsty, he said. 727 00:39:32,566 --> 00:39:34,500 What for? She's been fighting and running. 728 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:35,900 Please give me some water. 729 00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:36,966 She opened the skin. 730 00:39:36,966 --> 00:39:40,466 A milk skin, a milk and gave him a drink and covered him up. 731 00:39:40,466 --> 00:39:41,900 Now listen. 732 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:45,266 You and I both know you're hot and tried to working outside. 733 00:39:45,566 --> 00:39:48,000 You want a big old glass of water? 734 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,166 None of us asked. 735 00:39:49,166 --> 00:39:52,166 Can I have some warm milk, please? 736 00:39:53,233 --> 00:39:55,800 And she gives him a skim. 737 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:56,833 Now here's what we have to say. 738 00:39:56,833 --> 00:39:58,433 This was not refrigerated. 739 00:39:58,433 --> 00:40:01,500 Obviously it wasn't pasteurized. 740 00:40:02,333 --> 00:40:05,800 It wasn't the watery non milk called nonfat. 741 00:40:07,466 --> 00:40:09,533 This was goat's milk 742 00:40:09,533 --> 00:40:13,100 that was warm, that was turned and curdled. 743 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,233 And in that culture it was almost like warm cottage cheese, yogurt, 744 00:40:18,566 --> 00:40:20,600 unflavored. 745 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,666 And she gives him this big skin and he just downs it. 746 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:27,700 Now, what we know from this time is it was full of tryptophan 747 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,633 that regulates melatonin and serotonin. 748 00:40:30,633 --> 00:40:34,566 And what we know from Thanksgiving time is that makes us sleepy. 749 00:40:35,433 --> 00:40:37,200 He's exhausted. 750 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,733 He's scared to death. He's on the run. 751 00:40:39,733 --> 00:40:43,033 He drinks this nasty milk curd yogurt, 752 00:40:44,133 --> 00:40:46,400 tryptophan, 753 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,400 and he falls asleep and she covers him up. 754 00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:54,133 This is a great story. 755 00:40:54,133 --> 00:40:57,266 You stand in the doorway of the tent. 756 00:40:57,266 --> 00:40:59,866 He told her, if someone comes in and ask you, is anybody here? 757 00:40:59,866 --> 00:41:00,600 Say no. 758 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:05,300 But JL, Hebrews wife picked up a tent peg and a hammer 759 00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:09,100 and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. 760 00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:11,900 Now listen. 761 00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:12,600 Women 762 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,600 in this culture were the ones who were responsible 763 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,133 for packing up the tent, 764 00:41:18,133 --> 00:41:21,033 packing the animals, getting to where they were going, 765 00:41:21,033 --> 00:41:25,166 unpacking the tent, setting the tent up, setting the campsite up there. 766 00:41:25,166 --> 00:41:26,166 Response for the animals. 767 00:41:26,166 --> 00:41:28,266 The men sat around and drank coffee. 768 00:41:28,266 --> 00:41:31,266 It was a beautiful time. 769 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:36,300 We need to get back to Bible days. 770 00:41:37,966 --> 00:41:40,600 But because she was familiar 771 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,266 with hammers and tent pegs, 772 00:41:43,266 --> 00:41:46,800 she drove the peg through his temple into the ground. 773 00:41:50,833 --> 00:41:53,833 She's awesome. 774 00:41:54,133 --> 00:41:55,500 Come on in. 775 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:57,333 Let me take care of you. 776 00:41:57,333 --> 00:41:59,366 You think it's a safe place? 777 00:41:59,366 --> 00:42:03,133 Have some who could defend you. 778 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,533 Let me cover you with a blanket. Don't worry. 779 00:42:05,533 --> 00:42:08,533 I got you going. 780 00:42:09,366 --> 00:42:10,566 And I don't know why. 781 00:42:10,566 --> 00:42:14,766 The writer decided they had to add those three words and he died. Duh. 782 00:42:16,966 --> 00:42:20,366 I guarantee you, someone in the church says he was right. 783 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,800 It was like, well, we don't know if he really died or not. 784 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:23,633 Maybe he did it. 785 00:42:23,633 --> 00:42:26,633 Maybe he's still there. Some somebody. 786 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,033 And so they put it in there. 787 00:42:28,033 --> 00:42:31,033 No, no, he died. 788 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:34,466 Jael didn't 789 00:42:34,466 --> 00:42:37,466 agree with the duel alliance of her husband, 790 00:42:37,566 --> 00:42:40,566 and she did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. 791 00:42:41,466 --> 00:42:44,466 Incredible women, 792 00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:47,500 incredible women. 793 00:42:50,833 --> 00:42:51,833 Ladies, do you hear me? 794 00:42:53,966 --> 00:42:55,200 Let me just make another side note. 795 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,833 I know a Jeff is back there going. 796 00:42:56,833 --> 00:42:57,966 You did this in the first service 797 00:42:57,966 --> 00:43:00,500 and we had to start late and the live stream was messed up. 798 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:04,266 And I'm sorry, you know, Jeff, you know, this is the way it goes. 799 00:43:04,266 --> 00:43:05,066 I appreciate you. 800 00:43:05,066 --> 00:43:08,066 Thank you for your patience. 801 00:43:08,133 --> 00:43:11,133 When we're first introduced to Deborah, having known all of this, 802 00:43:11,933 --> 00:43:14,933 it says that she is the wife of her husband. 803 00:43:16,233 --> 00:43:20,766 I just love the fact that though she is a leader, she's the strong one. 804 00:43:20,766 --> 00:43:22,466 She's the mouthpiece of God. 805 00:43:22,466 --> 00:43:25,533 She's the prophetess, she's a military strategist. 806 00:43:25,566 --> 00:43:29,366 She's a worship leader and writer composer. 807 00:43:30,466 --> 00:43:33,833 She still is the wife of her husband. 808 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,466 She's a beautiful picture 809 00:43:38,466 --> 00:43:41,400 of incredible strength and leadership 810 00:43:42,566 --> 00:43:44,800 type a, 811 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,800 and yet submissive at the same time. 812 00:43:47,900 --> 00:43:50,900 It's just a beautiful picture of Proverbs 31. 813 00:43:53,933 --> 00:43:57,066 And God highlights who he is and what he does for these two ladies. 814 00:43:57,066 --> 00:44:00,666 Ladies, please don't ever lose sight of judges for men. 815 00:44:00,700 --> 00:44:03,700 Don't ever lose sight of judges for. 816 00:44:04,866 --> 00:44:07,866 Now think back to verse nine. 817 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:11,366 Deb says, certainly I'll go with you, but because of the course you've taken, 818 00:44:11,366 --> 00:44:12,366 the honor will not be yours. 819 00:44:12,366 --> 00:44:14,233 But the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. 820 00:44:14,233 --> 00:44:17,233 She wasn't talking about herself. 821 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,700 She was a prophetess. 822 00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:22,566 She said, a woman going to get the glory. 823 00:44:22,566 --> 00:44:24,366 And down through the history in the ages, 824 00:44:24,366 --> 00:44:27,366 the Bible tells the story for every generation 825 00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:30,500 of a woman who was the mouthpiece and leader of God's people, 826 00:44:31,166 --> 00:44:34,166 who called people to account and men to account, 827 00:44:34,866 --> 00:44:38,800 and a woman through whom God used to deliver his people. 828 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,300 It's a beautiful scene. 829 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:43,233 And so let me just finish with this. 830 00:44:43,233 --> 00:44:45,000 I have three lessons in three sense in the arts. 831 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,266 Real simple. 832 00:44:46,266 --> 00:44:49,266 The lessons are this God's Word always comes true, 833 00:44:50,033 --> 00:44:52,466 always 834 00:44:52,466 --> 00:44:55,466 and always comes true. 835 00:44:56,466 --> 00:44:58,633 Though it may not look right in your own eyes 836 00:44:58,633 --> 00:45:01,633 because of the culture we're growing up in, this is truth 837 00:45:02,566 --> 00:45:05,200 and it always comes true. 838 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,166 It says this always accomplishes the purpose for which God set it out 839 00:45:08,166 --> 00:45:10,700 to perform. 840 00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,800 And God always responds when we cry out to him and repent. 841 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,600 Always 842 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,033 to what he does. 843 00:45:18,033 --> 00:45:21,600 Now that repentance or his response, rather 844 00:45:22,666 --> 00:45:25,466 usually comes in unexpected ways, 845 00:45:25,466 --> 00:45:27,866 he's got a great way of orchestrating things behind the scenes 846 00:45:27,866 --> 00:45:31,700 that we don't see that forces us 847 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,233 to prove our faithfulness in obedience. 848 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,800 But he does respond. 849 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,400 So the questions are this 850 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,633 what have I put as a priority above God? 851 00:45:44,966 --> 00:45:47,966 That God may be frustrating. 852 00:45:49,833 --> 00:45:52,200 See, God's strategy is right here. 853 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,200 This is his strategy. 854 00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:58,500 Too often we have our own strategy. 855 00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:00,566 This God says this is 856 00:46:00,566 --> 00:46:03,566 what's right in my eyes. 857 00:46:03,700 --> 00:46:05,666 And when we do what is right in our eyes 858 00:46:05,666 --> 00:46:09,000 rather than God's eyes, he will frustrated. 859 00:46:10,333 --> 00:46:13,200 And so the question for me, the question for you is what has I put? 860 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,200 Have I put as a priority above God's strategy 861 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,200 that he may be frustrated? 862 00:46:21,933 --> 00:46:22,533 The same question 863 00:46:22,533 --> 00:46:25,800 is this in light of that, what do I need to repent of? 864 00:46:29,066 --> 00:46:30,600 What do I need to come 865 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,600 before God and say, look, God, I'm sorry, 866 00:46:33,666 --> 00:46:37,700 I know I've been living according to what's right in my eyes, but not yours. 867 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,000 And I need to confess that. 868 00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:44,000 And then live 869 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,000 with the expectation that God will respond somehow 870 00:46:47,633 --> 00:46:50,633 and be open to how he surprises you with it, 871 00:46:51,666 --> 00:46:54,666 because he will. 872 00:46:56,366 --> 00:46:59,100 Once you prove me, father, thank you. 873 00:46:59,100 --> 00:46:59,900 Thank you for this day. 874 00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:01,633 Thank you for judges for thank you for Deborah. 875 00:47:01,633 --> 00:47:04,200 Thank you for jail. 876 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,600 Thank you for these incredible women in their day, 877 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:12,533 and some even in ours, who are listening to your voice, who are here in your word, 878 00:47:12,700 --> 00:47:15,700 who are leading so well. 879 00:47:16,566 --> 00:47:18,900 Thank you. 880 00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:20,266 Thank you for what it teaches us. 881 00:47:20,266 --> 00:47:23,266 Thank you for what it tells us. 882 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,000 Thank you that you hear the prayers of your people right now. 883 00:47:28,100 --> 00:47:30,933 Friends, I would encourage you in this moment, just between you and God. 884 00:47:30,933 --> 00:47:31,900 Is there something 885 00:47:32,866 --> 00:47:35,700 that you have trusted, 886 00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:36,266 done right? 887 00:47:36,266 --> 00:47:39,266 What is in your own eyes and not in God's? 888 00:47:40,233 --> 00:47:43,233 What can you identify in your life that you know 889 00:47:44,333 --> 00:47:46,400 has been frustrating and stuck 890 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,400 because God is frustrating? It? 891 00:47:50,566 --> 00:47:51,933 Because you've put things 892 00:47:51,933 --> 00:47:54,933 above his priority, above his strategy, his word. 893 00:47:59,066 --> 00:47:59,600 Confess. 894 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,800 That just means a good professor just means to agree with him about it. 895 00:48:03,766 --> 00:48:06,300 Don't wait 20 years like they did 896 00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:09,300 to cry out to him. 897 00:48:09,666 --> 00:48:12,666 And in humility and submission, 898 00:48:13,466 --> 00:48:15,300 say God, I'm sorry. 899 00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:16,700 Thank you for your forgiveness. 900 00:48:16,700 --> 00:48:19,700 I repent. 901 00:48:20,566 --> 00:48:23,066 And I choose this day for you to be my priority. 902 00:48:23,066 --> 00:48:26,100 Your ways to be my priority, your strategy to become 903 00:48:26,100 --> 00:48:29,100 mine. 904 00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:32,100 And repent. 905 00:48:33,966 --> 00:48:37,533 And allow him to respond in deliverance 906 00:48:37,700 --> 00:48:41,300 in some way that will blow your mind that you don't see yet. 907 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000 And expect that. 908 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,733 Father, I thank you that this is who you are, and this is what you do. 909 00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:51,900 Hear us, see us, 910 00:48:52,066 --> 00:48:55,066 those of us who are coming to you in repentance, 911 00:48:55,733 --> 00:48:57,733 and those of us who are coming to you in repentance. 912 00:48:57,733 --> 00:49:01,033 Give us all that your grace will allow us and move mightily on our behalf. 913 00:49:01,033 --> 00:49:04,033 Even if you call us out of the mountain and the plane before a river, 914 00:49:04,266 --> 00:49:07,033 we know that. 915 00:49:07,033 --> 00:49:08,533 We know that your deliverance 916 00:49:08,533 --> 00:49:11,533 is very close at hand. 917 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,400 We count on that, rely on that, and we know that that is true 918 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,400 because you are who you are. 919 00:49:18,733 --> 00:49:22,133 I pray these things in your name, Jesus, Amen. 920 00:49:23,566 --> 00:49:25,166 Listen, 921 00:49:25,166 --> 00:49:26,800 go home and read chapter five. 922 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,466 It's the kind of poetic song. Of what? 923 00:49:29,466 --> 00:49:31,000 Of what we read in chapter four. 924 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:35,400 It's, it's it's a beautiful worship song about a guy getting his head 925 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,900 nailed to the ground with a tent. Peg, it's. 926 00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:39,033 We should write a song about that. 927 00:49:39,033 --> 00:49:41,433 Jeff, I remember VeggieTales. 928 00:49:41,433 --> 00:49:42,266 I don't remember 929 00:49:42,266 --> 00:49:46,066 vegetable being about the tent peg, but that would be a great cartoon that would. 930 00:49:49,033 --> 00:49:52,066 Body foot in the flood with Noah's Ark and dig through temples. 931 00:49:52,066 --> 00:49:55,066 And what a great. 932 00:49:55,333 --> 00:49:58,066 Cartoons for children. 933 00:49:58,066 --> 00:50:00,033 Read chapter five 934 00:50:00,033 --> 00:50:01,900 and then read chapter six, because we're going to start 935 00:50:01,900 --> 00:50:05,066 a three week through the next few chapters. 936 00:50:05,066 --> 00:50:07,600 In looking at a man named Gideon, 937 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,600 one of my favorite and all the Bible, it's awesome. 938 00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:13,500 Okay, you got it. 939 00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:14,333 Let's sing a little bit.