Sam Bailey - Deborah and Barak - Class 3 - Exhortation - Jael - The Displaced Wife

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   Thank you, Brother Michael. So we then look forward to words of exhortation from our brother Sam to the title jail, the displaced wife, Brother Sam. Thanks, Brother Andrew, and good morning, my dear brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, Sister Sarah and myself, obviously. Bring the love and. Fraternal greetings of the brothers and sisters that meet at Christchurch North and we’re loving our time here and thank you for making us all feel so welcome.

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   So thank you. Well, so far in our story and maybe just to recap what what we intend to do this morning is spend some time. And have a look at the story of jail. Right, the wife of. Heba the Kenai, We’re going to have a look at the the rather gruesome story, I suppose, of the way in which she decides to nail Sisera to the floor. And in our considerations.

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   We want to appreciate, I suppose, as we get into that story of the work of our Lord Jesus Christ in how He accomplished His work in putting to death the and crushing the serpent’s head. So just a a recap as we get into the story, we’ve we’ve come to a realization and an understanding as both Bayrack and Deborah did, of the oppression of Jabin and Sisera and the fact that that had come as a result.

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   Of the people’s. Faithlessness and turning to idolatry and worship and that had. Come, as we saw in our first session, as a result of the parents. Failure. To transfer the truth and a failure. Of the children. To personalize the truth for themselves. And as a result, there was a complete leadership vacuum that now occurred across the nation as they failed to seize their inheritance and remove the Canaanites out of their land that they had been allotted to by inheritance. And as a result, we saw 20 years of oppression that was there to turn the nation’s heart back to God in seeking deliverance. And we saw into that leadership vacuum that Deborah, the mother of Israel, the nation’s prophetess, comes to give sweet honey counsel to those that sought judgement. And we saw.

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   Her carefully coach. Bayrack and inspire him to a. Role that he was hesitantly not fulfilling. The judge that God had raised up that. Wasn’t doing his. Job and yet. With careful coaching and support, she inspires him to take the lead, and in so doing, he inspires the rest of the nation to. Come and over overthrow Sisera and the enemy and the army and we watched his Bay rack and 10,000 men committed what would have been military suicide on foot running down charging off Mount Tabor with swords like toothpicks to a toothpicks to a gunfight with and wipe out sister and his entire army and we witnessed.

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   As Yahweh responded to that leadership and that faithfulness as He. Unleashed upon sister and his. Army as he. Opened the heavens and dropped and. Flooded the the Jezreel Valley, halting sisters advance right in their tracks, enabling Bayrek and his men to take them on hip and thigh, smoke them close, hand to hand combat until they wiped them out, chasing them all the way back, the heresies of the gentiles in the mud until there was not a man left. Or so they thought.

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   And so we pick. Up now the story. In. Judges Chapter 4 and. Verse. 16. And it says, But Bayrak pursued after the Chariots, and after the host unto hereseth of the Gentiles, and all the host of Sisera fell upon the. Edge of the sword and there was not a man left and as.

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   Bayrak picked through the destruction of the battlefield. He was looking for one man 1. Man was what he was. Interested in, but he was nowhere to be found. Because in the confusion of the battle. Scissor had lighted off his. Chariot and quietly and elusively had slipped away unnoticed as he speed away on.

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   Foot. And naturally, Bayrak assumed that Scissor would be amongst the Chariots and the host as they raced for heresy to the Gentiles. But he. Wasn’t. This was a military strategist, the man who put everything in a ray, and he activated Plan B. As he escaped. Out the side and running like the. Wind as fast as his legs could carry him.

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    He was running in the entirely different direction to the nation. All his men were running to Heresyth of the Gentiles, but no, not Sisera. Sisera was on his way to the entirely opposite direction, to Heber and Jails Tent, who lived in the plain of Zenaium. He was running to that place. Why? Why did Sisera? Think that that would be a good idea? Well, first reason is.

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    Well, it was the entirely. Opposite. Direction to everybody else. Right, first lesson. So he was running from where everyone else would, naturally. Assume he was going. But if we read the record. Carefully, verse 17 sees that he was running there because there was an agreement that he had and he was running to a specific location. Look what it sees in verse 17.

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    Howbeit, Sisera fled away on his feet. To the tent of jail, the wife of Heba the Kenai. He was running to a specific location. He wasn’t running to catch up with Heba, he was running to catch up into the tent of jail, the wife of Heba the Kenai. Why would Sisua run here? Well.

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    Interestingly enough. There is a. Custom in Israel with respect to the woman. So women in Israel had their own tent for their own things, something we try to avoid nowadays. Well, everything’s hers anyway, right? So so. He’s on his way to his to to Heber’s tent. We know, look, look at history. We don’t have time to turn there, but you know, Isaac brought Rebecca to his mother’s Sara’s to his mother Sara’s tent, right? Genesis 24.

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    And we know always in the story when we look at Genesis 18 and the Song of Solomon, that they had their. Own tent. Only men that were allowed in that tent. Was the father. Or the husband. Of that woman and therefore if you were searching. For a man. You certainly wouldn’t go looking for them in a woman.

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    ‘S tent that was totally off. Off record off no out of bounds, but what we also. Know is what it sees in verse 17 is it sees. There was more than just the fact. That there was a tent that he could go to that and people. Wouldn’t look for him. There was a peace accord. Between Jabin, king of Canaan and the. House.

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    Of. Heba the Kenite. And we’ve now introduced in the story to two people who are integral to the story, Heba the Kenite. And. Jail the wife. Of. Heba, the count. Isn’t it an interesting expression? Jail the wife of Heba the Kenai. It’s the title that gets given of her all the time. Jail the wife of Heba the Kenai.

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    You think, wow, there’s something important about this man, Heba the Kenai. We’re given his origin. We’re given his name. Why? The records that pains to remind us who he was and where he came from. And the title that gets given him to distinguish him from every other Heba that might exist. He’s called Heba.

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    The Kenite and the question. We have to ask ourselves is well what? What do we know? About Heba the Kenite, the answer to that brother and sisters, is actually quite a lot. So Heba, his name means a community, comes from the root. Word meaning a house in common. The idea of fellowship. So the Kenites were a community. Of people who had.

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    Fellowship in their in their environment, with themselves. And what we notice. About this man, when we go back to Judges chapter 4 verse 11 is that. This man had severed himself. From. The Kenites, verse 11 and Judges 4. And he’d gone instead, taking, picking up his tent and relocating it up into the north, into the into the plain or the oaks of Zenaeum. This man had separated himself from his family, from his own community, from those he had fellowship. With from the rest of the Kennite families to seek fellowship with another.

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    Community was that a bad? Move. Should he have done? It. What do we know? Why had? Heber moved. Brothers and sisters. Well, firstly, perhaps it’s helpful if we spend some time to look at the history and the origins of the Kenites. And this is a study in its own right. We want to spend 5 minutes to summarise the family of the Kenites because we actually know quite a bit about the Kenites.

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    So who were? The Kenites. Well, first of all, we know that Hobeb. Who was the? Son of. Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law. In Numbers chapter 10, verse 29 had a lot to do with Moses. Hobeb was the. Father of the Kenites, Jethro was the was the the leader of the family, but Hobeb was his son.

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    But what we know is, is that Moses had originally sought refuge in Jethro’s house in Exodus chapter 2 when he fled Egypt and he ran into Midian. And there we know he tended for Jethro’s flocks in Horeb for 40 years. And Moses then marries 1 of Jethro’s daughters in Exodus chapter 2. And Moses leaves Zipporah and his two sons in Jethro’s key when he goes.

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    Back to. Egypt. And then meets up with the family when they go back to Mount Sinai in Exodus chapter 18 and so. What we know about the. Kingites is where there are nomadic family that lived. In Midian in the. Desert. And what we know about Jethro. Was is that Jethro? Embraced the hope of Israel, he rejoiced in their deliverance from from Egypt and.

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    Offered. Burnt offerings and sacrifices with the nation of Israel in Exodus chapter 18 and verses 9 to 12. And actually, Jethro offers enormous amount of support to Moses in the wilderness to help. Him with the. Administration of the nation to try and alleviate Moses pressure of all the. Workload that he had to do. Because he watched Moses as he tried to manage the nation’s affairs and their needs.

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    In Exodus chapter 18 and gives sound advice to Moses. But Moses turned to Hobeb, death Row’s son, who was journeying with them from Mount Sinai, and says to him or come with. Me now to Numbers chapter 10. I want to show you what happens in the story to the Kenites. Numbers chapter 10, he’s Moses having a conversation with with Jethro, with Hobe.

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    Numbers chapter 10 and verse 29. So here they go, verse 28. They went on their journeyings. Numbers 10, verse 28, the journeyings of the children of Israel according to the armies when they set forward. So they’re on their way. As. In the wilderness. And Moses turns to. Hobab, the son of Ragu or Jethro Raguel the Midianite Moses, father-in-law.

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    So this is death row, but this is his son Hobab, and he says to. Hobab, look, we are journeying under the place of which Yahweh said. I will give it you. So we want you to come, come there with us and we will do the good. Come out of the land of of the wilderness of Midian, and come and come and join us. He says And we all do thee good, for Yahweh has spoken good. Concerning Israel and Hobart on that occasion. Said to him in verse. 30I will not go, but I will depart. To my own land and to my kindred. And Moses pleads with him, Leave us not. I pray thee for as much.

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    As thou knowest how we are to. Encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of. Eyes. You can be Watchmen for us to look out for us, and it shall be if, if you go with us, yeah, it shall be that what goodness Yahweh shall do unto. Us the same will we do unto.

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    Thee Moses pleads for them to be the eyes. For them. Tuck that away, by the way. He wanted them to be the eyes for the nation of Israel, to be watchful. To help them. We’re going to find that those eyes sell.

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    Bairak and his men out. And So what we find about the Kenites? They were. Nomads in the desert. They knew the desert. Like the back of their. Hands and we know from numbers 10 is is that Hobart initially refuses to go with the nation of Israel. However, what we do know, brothers and sisters, is, is that.

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    Subsequently, he reconsiders because we find the Kenites in Judges Chapter 1. Come with me now to Judges Chapter 1. Here they come. Because. Hobeb must have reconsidered he he was torn. He wanted to be with his family in his own land. However, we find in Judges chapter one, they must have changed their view, because in Judges chapter one, in the story of the subjugation of the inheritance of Judah, it says in verse 16 of Judges chapter 1, it says and the children of the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, went. Up out of the city of Palm.

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    Trees. With. The children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which life to the South. Of Arad and they. Went. And. Dwelt among the people you see. Initially Hobeb must have refused, but subsequently the family reconsiders and the kites come on the journeyings with the children of Israel and receive an inheritance allotment amongst the tribe of Judah.

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    Whilst they still. Maintain their independence as their own community. In the. Wilderness. And so they relocate into the wilderness in the South. Of Ararat. But it says they. Fellowshipped. It says with the children of Judah and So what we can. Summarize out of the story is that they were a God. Fearing. People.

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    They wanted to be there. They wanted to have close ties now with the nation of Israel to receive the ongoing blessings of the fellowship that was promised to them. In the land. Of promise, and we know. That they were to be the eyes, the watchman for the nation of Israel. Just remarkable. Brothers and sisters, when you trace this family through history. They were an incredible.

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    Faithful. Family. And we know the following. Things about this family of the kenites and. 260 years. After. Their establishment and in the area of Judah, and during the time of Bairak, after that and the time of Saul, first of Samuel chapter 15 says. That the. Kenites were faithful to Israel and they were speared destruction. Because of the tight.

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    Relationship that they had with the nation of Israel. During the time of Seoul. And 290 years later, in the time of David, in the first Chronicles chapter 2, this family became known as the Recabites, those that were known for being the scribes amongst the nation, the faithful Bible students that maintained an understanding of the law of Moses. And 450.

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    Years after this point, roses and sisters. In the time of Jehu in Second of Kings chapter 10 and verse 15. The Rakabites were known for the keeping. Of the law, and particularly for standing against apostasy. And maintaining a Pilgrim. Status amongst the nations that were there. And 740 years later, this. Faithful family in the time of. Jehoiah King and Jeremiah chapter 35 are. Still there, remaining separate from apostate Judah, who was gone.

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    Astray and they were, the Recobites were still following the law, maintaining a steadfastness for the truth, showing the nation themselves far more faithful than the tribe they first had fellowship. With this was a remarkable family. Other sisters that stood. The test of time. Who? Learnt the lesson of transferring the truth from generation to generation. That’s the story of the Reckabites. That’s the story of the Kenites.

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    Now other sisters come back to the story of Judges Chapter 4. Now let’s think about the decision that Heber makes to sever himself from that community.

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    See Heba Heba and it’s a great. Translation, by the way, had. Severed. Himself from this faithful. Family, this man. Had cut his ties from the rest of the Kenites living in the Negev desert in the South. And where had he gone? The answer is he had gone to re establish himself and his family in the northern parts of Israel, in the oaks of Zanayim. Zanayim was on the border of the inheritance of Naftali, about four kilometres South of Kadesh.

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    Naftali and about 12 KS from Mount Table. They had totally left the Negev and were living in the North. Now the question we have to ask ourselves. Is. Why? Why had this man moved? Why had he changed? His alliances and his allegiances. Was it for better climate, it was nicer weather or was it a better? Environment for him.

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    Or did he have a falling out with his family? We’re not told brothers and sisters, except for. This. One can’t miss. The Bible echo can you with another man that moved for another reason and for economic decisions. You see, I believe, brothers and sisters, we are given. This very pattern. To try and help us understand why he severed himself as exactly the same word in the Hebrew of Genesis chapter 13 and verse 11, where Lot severs himself from the faithful family of Abraham.

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    And both of these men go and re pitch their tents toward a plain. And both make peace with the new. Surrounding families Lot had separated himself for Abraham we know for an. Ease of lifestyle it was. Just like the water of. Egypt, you could kick it with your foot and the water would come. It was amazing.

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    Green everywhere, the fertile pastures. It was remarkable he moved for economic prosperity to the rich. Soils of the Plain of Sodom. That’s why Lot. Moved It was an economic decision for. Lot a better lifestyle and it was no different. Brothers and sisters, I believe for Heber. Do you know why? Brothers and sisters, I suggest that I suggest Heber moved. For employment and here’s the proof. Do you know what the word?

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    Kennite means in the Hebrew it’s the word, for Smith the word. For a metal. Worker the word. That’s used to describe an artificer of metal now. What we know therefore is, is that the Kimites. Were a group of nomadic metal workers. Now here’s the question, where do you think the employment opportunities were in Israel at this current point in time for metal workers? What we know.

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    Brothers and sisters is judges. Five verse 8 sees. That they chose new gods. There was war in the gates. Was there a shield or a? Spear seen amongst the 40,000 in Israel. There was not much work needed for fitted interners amongst the nation of Israel at this current point in time was there no no where the employment lay.

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    Was with the guy that. Owned 900 Chariots of Iron. I believe Hebrew had relocated up north for a more prosperous life, more money, better career prospects. And note those and sisters. No Fear of attack. Why? Because verse 17 says for some reason. There was a. Peace accord between Jabin, who was the king of the entire Canaanites, and the family of Hebrew, the Kenai.

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    Now here’s the question on what. Basis. Did little old Hebrew the Kenite have a peace agreement with Jabin, the mighty king of Canaan, who’d subdued most of all the northern tribes of Razran and was on a. First name basis along with his wife. With Sisera, the captain of the army, you see Hebrew’s household. Had a protection.

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    Policy An insurance policy of peace. Now Hebrew didn’t have any more power. He didn’t have a. Huge army, didn’t have any more money, but he had skills. He was a metal worker a mechanical skills. And by the way, businesses. That might explain why jail was so easy to get us her hands on a workman’s hammer. You see, this peace agreement was made on the basis of trade. A mutual economic benefit?

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    Quite possibly. Heber was the chief mechanic of Sisera’s army, based in Harishev. Harishev, the city of mechanics. You see so. Here this Kenite, who ought to have been the eyes, Israel’s eyes, to protect them, had severed himself, brothers and sisters from his brethren and switched allegiances. Verse 12 says they showed. That Sisera had, that they showed to Sisera that Bayrek had, the son of Abenoam had gone up into Mount Table, they sold them out.

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    He would’ve been watching Bayrek, and he’d, as he’d called for assistance, witnessed him amassing his supporters as he ascended Mount Table. Instead of watching out for Israel, he sold them out. See Hebrew relocated for better economic lifestyle. He’d make a decision on the basis. Of. Better career prospects and employment. And in so doing, he’d relocated. His wife.

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    And his entire. Family and sibled himself from the fellowship of the faithful Kenites brothers and sisters is a fantastic lesson. For us in this isn’t there.

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    You see leaders. Should factor in all. The costs, you see, employment is needed. We know brothers and sisters to eat. We have to maintain ourselves in this. Life It’s important to do our best in whatever we do. Remember First of Timothy chapter 6 tells us very clearly that the pursuit or the love of money is the root.

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    Of all evil. Everything in life. Comes at a cost, doesn’t. It there are always opportunity costs, the next best. Alternative and we have trade-offs. And that benefit is a challenge if it’s going to destroy our family. You know if we change. Jobs, we have to ask the question, what is it going to cost me?

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    If I take that promotion, how much more travel might there be? With respect for employment, generally, in my experience, more money comes with more responsibility, which usually means more stress and less time. That’s why Timothy says godliness with contentment is great game. Contentment is the key. We’ve got to be so careful about our economic pursuits because it’s so easy to lose sight of what we’re actually here for and be caught up with Why the keys of this life. We’ve got to.

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    Factor in the opportunity costs and every decision that we make and for lot, well, he lost everything. He lost his family, he lost his wife, he lost his happiness. He lost everything. He went from a better economic lifestyle and prosperity. He ended up as a hermit in a. Cave he didn’t factor in the opportunity cost and neither did he be brothers sisters because Jail wasn’t too happy about this decision back in the story. We know that because what sees verse 17? Sisera.

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    Sisera had dropped off his distinctive chariot and in the confusion, was running for his life. In the opposite direction as fast as he could. His ultimate destination, no doubt. Was most likely Hazor mummy’s place to. Find shelter and protection. Sisera’s mother lived up in the. Castle on Hazel. He was sitting here in jails tent until the the the. Challenge of the.

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    Battle blew over till the heat dissipated, that he might find shelter and protection and then sneak up to Hazel and so heading for familiar ground. With people, he thought. Were allies he strike out strikes out for heber’s campsite but. Particularly jails tent but if sister was seeking sympathy and safety, he put the.

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    Wrong woman with the wrong tent on the wrong day. There’s nothing soft about this lady. So he runs. To jail tent Who was jail? Well, this woman. Had lived her life growing up as a nomad in the desert in tents. The the Kenites were a Hardy people. Her name means a mountain goat.

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    These people lived in goat skin tents. She’s going to serve Cicera goat’s milk from a goat skin bottle and cover him with a goat skin blanket. She was the. Ultimate goat, And for Israel, she’s the greatest of all time. On this day. You see for. Everything she was, she was rugged and rough she was. Used to the harsh.

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    Elements in the living conditions of the blowing sands in the desert, the shifting of the wind. Her nomadic existence was all about enduring hardships and isolation. You know what’s remarkable is that Heber and jail. Stand together as antithesis of each other and what they stood for. If Heber lived on the plain, she was a mountain goat.

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    If Heber wanted to make peace with the enemy, she was used to fighting for an existence. Heber was seeking for economic prosperity. She was used to hardships. And whilst he wanted a fellowship in coffees in the villages. She wanted isolation. In the desert, Mum was a city slicker and the other was a nomad. Brothers and sisters.

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    What a family. And whereas Heber had made decisions for a better lifestyle, for more money and improved living, Jail wanted the opposite. She wanted her nomadic existence. She wanted to be in isolation, without the complications of what this new life had brought. And whilst Heber had severed himself, brothers and sisters from his brethren in pursuit of a better way of life, Jail obviously had not agreed.

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    However, in submission she gone and whilst utterly. Repulsed by the treacherous peace accord, she. Obeyed. And bided her time trying to encourage her husband. By her way of life, as Peter calls it. To help her husband to return and the time came for that opportunity. In verse 18 it sees as Sisyrus speed past jail went out to meet. Cicera.

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    In the Hebrew it means to go out with intent. This was a deliberate action, brothers and sisters. She recognized Cicera from a distance and worried that he might run straight past, she decides to interact with him before any of the servants did. And so she comes out and she says to him, Turn in my Lord, turn in to me.

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    Fear not. Turn in my Lord Adon my. Ruler, she says. Term of respect come in here quick quick. Come in across the door. And carefully and deliberately, she encourages him to find sanctuary in her team. This. Was her opportunity you use this pitch of the. Scene. Can’t you? I mean I. It’s probably not too good to pitch, but anyway, think about it.

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    Sister’s just run his. Skin off. Right. Blood stained, covered in mud, fatigued, sweaty, scared stiff. Probably the first time he’s ever experienced a defeat like this ever in his life. He’s petrified. And here was a. Woman he knew, whose allegiance, he thought were clearly lined with his This was the family that had given him the tip.

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    Off in the 1st. Place we’ll find safety. Here and here she was offering him shelter and safety in her tent Why? Not I’ll lie low. Until the heat blows over, I’ll recover. Strength. And then I’ll shoot for Hazel. And so he turns aside, and as he does so, she covers him with a mantle, a blanket, you see, she covers them with only ever.

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    Really floods in the desereal. Valley in winter, so he can probably assume it’s probably. Cold. He’s probably shivering uncontrollably for the shock as the. Adrenaline’s going to leave his system. And she covers him, not just to warm him, but to conceal him. And a mantle was a thick blanket. Any guesses? What that might have been made? Of.

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    In this tent by the. Sisters. Most blankets for these people were goat skin and coarse. Goat’s hair. And as he laid down. Sisera realized that he was absolutely parched.

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    And and he turns round to her and look at the language of respect. This is the rule. This is the Sisera who ran the entire army for for JB, king of Canaan. Look at the words he uses to her. Oh, she, he says. Give. Me, I pray thee, a little water. It’s the language of respect, He thought.

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    He totally found safety here. Can I please have a drink of water? She says no, no, I can’t give you water, but I can certainly give you cream. Not, not anything but the best for you water. Surely not. How about something a little bit more substantial? Now guess what type of milk nomadic tribes drink Other. Sisters and it’s not care, it’s goat’s milk. And she opens a new bottle.

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    She gives him a new bottle of milk. It’s made of goat skin, as the Gibeonites did in Joshua Chapter 9. Milk specifically for the occasion. She gives him to drink. And then she covers him again. Only the best for my Lord. Sisters in jails territory and in her control. He was totally out of his depth and he had no idea.

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    I’m given more. Detail of what he gives. Her in chapter 5 and verse 20. Five, have a look over the page. Deborah’s song. He asked verse 25 of Judges 5. He asked water and she gave. Him milk. She brought forth butter in a lordy dish. Butters is the word for curdled milk. It was like it was like yogurt. This wasn’t just plain.

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    Old milk. It was the. Best. She could give for her Lord and a. Lordy dish, the dish of mighty. Nobles is what it means. A lordy dish. She pulled out the best. China for this particular man. She wanted Sisera to. Feel that he was an honoured guest, a respected man of honour in her house, and that he was in good cans and good company. And in so doing, she lulls.

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    Him into a false sense of security. But if it were he Sisera has. One more. Request. Look what she says. Verse 20 come back over the page. Judges 4, verse 20 stand, he says, in the door of the. Tent. And if any man, if it shall be that, if any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? Say no.

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    So sister are now having his fears removed, his adrenaline. Subsiding. The milk, quickly working as a natural sedative on his heavily fatigued body, falls fast asleep and utter exhausted when jail steps forward. To seize her moment, she. Sees the opportunity to strike.

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    Brothers and sisters read carefully. What it says in verse 21 and you can’t. Miss the import? Of the record. Can you then? Jail Heber’s wife. Why are we giving the extra detail again? We already. Know she’s Heber’s wife now. This, this decision and this action had something about his decision that he’d made. Oh, she wasn’t happy with his decision. She’s known as he was wife.

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    And she goes and takes notice, a hammer in her hand and a tent peg. Why brothers and sisters? Why does she use? A tent peg and a hammer. Well, just look. At why she doesn’t this was a. Crime by the Sisters of Passion. This was a. Brutal murder. A premeditated murder on her part. She knew what she was going to use to destroy this man. She’d planned this moment in her head, had no idea when it was coming, and she saw the opportunity. She takes a tent peg and a workman’s hammer. The two things that represented her nomadic existence and the toll of her husband’s employment. The two things of her.

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    Frustration, brothers and sisters, this was poetic. Retribution, the tent pig, a symbol of her Canite nomadic existence. You grab a colouring in pencil and you colour in how many times it says the word tent through chapter 4. They had pitched his tent, says verse 11, in the plain of Zenaium. Howbee. She fled on his feet.

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    Verse 17 to the tent of jail. The wife of Hebrew, the Canite. She turned into the tent. He turned into the tent. Verse 18. Stand in the door of the tent. Verse 20. She took a nail of the tent. Says verse 21. You colour that in, you can’t miss it. Chapter 5, verse 24 as well, right? Blessed out there of all woman in the tent. Says Deborah.

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    Judges 5, verse 24. So she picked the tent peg. Because it represented. Her nomadic existence. Where she. Lived and the. Frustration of relocation and she took the workman’s. Hammer, a symbol of her husband’s employment. That’s the word. That gets used chapter 5, verse 20. 6A. Workman’s Hammer it says in verse 26 this wasn’t to bash and 10 pegs, this was a.

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    Metal Metalworking Hammer a work a hammer used for foundry work with meta this is. Heber’s tools. You see, Jail chose to use these tools. And implements to exact her fury and her revenge and her frustration on Sisera in retribution for the pain. The torment and everything that this system had brought upon her and her family for Hebrews severance from her Kennite family and her relocation away from the ones that she loved and had fellowship. With In the Hope of Israel.

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    It had taken a huge. Toll on her and she picks those two things to exact her premeditated revenge and know what she does verse 21 sees that she tipped toes into the bedroom and she. Smoked the nail into his temples and fastened it into the ground. You know, when we reconcile. Judges 5. What we see in the story is what actually happens was so fast and full.

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    Of fury and an activity like you wouldn’t believe right and it was a frenzied moment because what actually happened was she didn’t just come out and balance the tent peg. This is not just a normal little tent peg that we have. This was a a huge whopping great big wooden tent peg. So what happens in the story? In Judges chapter 5, when we reconcile it is is that firstly it says.

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    So verse 26 she put. Her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman’s hammer. This is Judges 5, verse 26. And with the. Hammer she smote. Sisera, She smote his head when she had pierced. And stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead and in the.

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    Hebrew by the sisters. This is how it describes it. She first hit him over the head. With a hammer. And and she hit him over the hammer with the purpose of to smite in pieces, to smite through. And then she smote him again to dash him in pieces and to Pierce him and bore him through. That’s really what it means in the Hebrew to smite with a hammer, to smite in pieces, to smite or to dash in pieces, and to Pierce him to bore through.

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    So I think what we can reconcile in the story. Is that she first hit him over the head with a hammer. And as she did so, he. Reared up and in panic moments she hit him again and again, knocking him down. Then she grabbed the tent peg, bounced it on his head, and drove it to his temples, repeatedly hitting him in a frenzied attack until she was absolutely, 100% convinced that he was gone because while his head was crushed, only then did she stop hitting him. This was a.

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    Frenzied attack and there. Lying at her feet. Lay the man. Who she hated. Cicera, in his own blood, pinned to the floor. This. Was. Retribution of poetic form. Jail reenacted out brothers and. Sisters. Think about this jail reenacted out what the deceitful agreement and a better lifestyle had done to her. You see she.

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    Felt pinned. She felt trapped. She felt crushed. She reenacts out what that peace accord had done to. Her and her family. You see, whilst Jabin and Caesar’s peace accord and employment proposition had offered Heber the freedom and the opportunity to do what he wanted to achieve what he needed, it had fastened and caused jail to be pinned in a place she never. Wanted to be in the first place.

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    In interaction she fulfills the prophecy of Deborah, doesn’t she? Yahweh sees step 4IN verse 9 Deborah sees Yahweh self Sisera. Into the hand of a woman. And it sees in Judges chapter 4 and in verse 21 she takes the hammer in her hand and destroys him.

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    And she thrust them through the. Temples Why are we given the? Detail of that. Why the temples? Why the detail? Well, firstly and excuse. Probably the grossness of. This, but it was the easiest place to penetrate. It’s the fattest, the flattest part of the head. It’s right in the middle. When you’re sleeping on the side, it’s the softest and thinnest. Part of the head, there’s no bone to contend with and so. She firstly used the easiest place. To drive it through but.

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    The temples have a biblical significance. It’s only used twice. Outside of this scenario in the Song of Solomon. Chapter. Four and verse 3 and chapter 6 and verse 7 the only two other times and it’s on both of those occasions it’s likened to a piece of pomegranate. It’s read on the outside and white inside. Can understand why the like the likeness. Works.

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    But inside a. Pomegranate brother sisters is a. Thing. Full of seeds. Just like the brain. It’s red on the outside, white on the inside of full of seeds. And jail. Well, jail attempted. Not only to destroy Sisera, but she wanted to destroy the thinking of Sisera. She wanted to destroy the seed of Cicera’s serpent. She wanted to destroy everything about Cicera, his actions, his motives, his mentality, that it might no longer capture or might no longer dominate anyone else ever again. And she punched a teed peg through both temples that his brain might never escape.

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    And she killed him in two stages, knocked him out first with a hammer and pegged him into the ground. Very similar when we go through the story of Daniel chapter 2 the. Smiting of the image on the feet and the crushing of it to powder the story of David when he knocks him out with a stone and the cutting off of his head.

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    There was, if we’re ever. Going to overcome. The enemy in ourselves it requires. Us to be totally. And utterly committed. To destroy often requires 2 stages to. Actually get it done and she’s smote him on the head and then. Crushed his skull. Meanwhile, brothers and sisters. On the battlefield. Bairack realises that Sister has escaped and finding evidence of Sister’s subtle retreat, he sets off in foot. Verse 22.

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    You can just you have to picture the scene and the record gives us a little bit of, you know, whenever. You see keywords like this verse 22, and behold, as Bairack pursues right whenever you see that it’s the Bible. Shouting at us. Behold, he says, as Bayrak pursues. Outcomes the corner of the tent flat. Door comes in.

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    Oh. Boy, you want to see this? Side. You see, here comes a. Woman. Who goes? Out to meet now, Bayrak. And as jail steps away from. Sisera’s lifeless body. And probably headless. Also, she hears Bayrak’s noisy pursuit. As she had with Sisera. And goes out to meet him. He’s gonna link those. Jail went out to meet Sisera.

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    Jail now goes out to meet Bayrak. A picture of the scene Bearat comes around the corner and emerging from the tent stood a woman, the hammer probably still dangling from her hand, covered head to toe with blood and brain. Tissue. Her hair wild, her eyes bloodshot but humble. In her. Victory, and look what she says.

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     Come, and I will show thee the man whom you seek. First, there’d have been the shot for Bayreq seeing jail in this state. The second shot was seeing Sisera and the murder scene, other sisters. Sisera lay down dead. As he goes into the tent, he sees the nail bang through his head. There was no. Doubt.

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     What had happened in that tent there was no doubt. Who’d killed him and Deborah’s woods? Words would have rung straight through his mind as he witnessed the scene from verse 9. That Yahweh. Shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Exactly as Debra had prophesied, and thus God subdued on that day Jabin, king of Canaan, before all the children of Israel.

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     Bairak knew that it was. God. Who had fought for him? God who delivered the entire host and God who? Had worked with jail to slay Sisera. And it all. Fell into place for Bairak. This is the day that Yahweh hath described. Is not Yahweh gone out before thee? And this galvanized Bairak now to lead the entire rest of the army and all those that they could muster to take on the rest of Jabin and all.

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     Of his hosts. To take back the territory. That they once had lost. Brothers and sisters, that gruesome story is absolutely captured. For us. In the battle that our Lord accomplished for each and every one of us. See, Because in the story, brothers and sisters, in the crushing of this seed of the serpent, we can’t but help to see the type of our Lord Jesus Christ in the accomplishment of the destruction of sin. Come with me, do.

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     Hebrews chapter. 2 You see, our Lord took on in himself. This thinking of the soup. And crushed him. Hebrews. Chapter 2 and verse 14 says.

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     Or as much then, as the children of are partakers of flesh and blood, He. Also himself likewise. Took part of the same that. Through death he might destroy him that had the power of death. Which is the Diabolos? And note what it says now and deliver them. Who through fear of death with all their lifetime.

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     Subject now to bondage. For verily he took not himself the nature of angels, but took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself.

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     Hath suffered being tended. He is able to succor them that are tended. And you see in jails time by the. Sisters, she delivers. The nation of Israel from the one. That had captivated them, that had oppressed them. And our Lord Jesus. Christ, in his putting to death of the flesh, delivered all of those who through fear of death have been all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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     And so, brothers and sisters, as we consider his sacrifice and we consider what He achieved for each and every one of us, let us not see the clinical aspects of Christ’s sacrifice, but the murder scene that took place, that we might have life and have it more abundantly.