Pete Owen – What the Judges Teach us about the work of Jesus and His Comming – Class 1 – Every man to his inheritance

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This study came about because
I’ve done a bit of work over the

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last few years on trying to
piece together to the very best

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of our ability without, you
know, being overly stupid and

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thinking, oh, we’ve got it all
sorted.

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The, the, the, the bits around
what we believe is going to

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happen when the Lord Jesus
Christ returns to the earth.

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And so I sort of put some, a
fair bit of work into that.

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And then last year when we were
doing the readings of the family

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and reading Judges, I found
myself thinking there just seem

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to be so many connections in the
book of Judges pointing to the

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work of the Lord Jesus in in his
ministry on the earth 2000 years

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ago, but to his second coming.
Which I hope is going to be

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helpful for us in trying to
build a picture that helps us

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understand something of judges,
but something also of the time

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of the end.
So I think we’ve got our Bibles

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open.
We all have judges chapter one

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and the question is asked, let’s
just read together verse one

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again after the death of Joshua.
So just note that after the

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death of Joshua, it came to pass
that the children of Israel

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asked the Lord saying, who shall
go up for US against the

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Canaanites first?
Now that’s quite an interesting

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question that they they begin
with who’s going to go up first.

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And we would suggest that it
points to the fact that we’re

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about to enter a phase in the
history of Israel in which there

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are far too many faithless
individuals.

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Just chief of Archer and just
pop back to Deuteronomy.

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You, you might be able to see
the screen.

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We, we, we realise the screen
isn’t as clear as sometimes.

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We, we managed to get a screen,
but it’s the best we’ve got.

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If anyone wants any notes at the
end of the weekend, you can have

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all of these slides and you can
go through them in your time.

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OK, so you give me your e-mail
address and I’ll send them to

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you on, on Sunday, Sunday
evening.

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But for now, don’t worry if you
can see the slide, the slides,

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don’t worry.
We’ll we’ll just make it work

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together.
So come to Deuteronomy chapter

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31 and you remember that Moses
in his final speech to the

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children of Israel before he is
going to fall asleep, but he

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won’t enter into the promised
land gives them this assurance.

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He says to them verse two, I am
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I can no more go out and come
in.

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Also the Lord has said to me,
you will not go over this

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Jordan, the Lord thy God, he
will go before you.

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He will destroy the nations from
before you and you shall possess

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them and Joshua, he shall go
before you.

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Verse 8 the Lord he it is that
doth go before you.

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So when they’re asking the
question in Judges one verse one

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who shall go up against the
Canaanites first, The answer is

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the Lord, right?
And they should have known that.

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They should have known that.
So I will suggest and you know,

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listen, I know you guys are all
you know, I can see pencils

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scribbling away, but I’m I’ll
make suggestions to you as we

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go.
You don’t have to do it at all,

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but I can’t help myself.
So I’m going to make the

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suggestion anyway.
They can note in verse one of

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Josh, Deuteronomy 31, verse 3,
verse 8, because that is the

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answer to who will go first.
Now, I can see there’s a couple

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of guys looking a bit relaxed in
this room and that’s making

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stressing me out a bit, but
they’re looking a bit too

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chilled.
They haven’t got the pencils in

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their hands.
And I’m gonna have to, I think,

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probably apologise because I
have given these studies before

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now.
I thought it was pretty safe

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when I gave these studies the
other side of the world in

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Australia, but it so happens
that a group of four guys there

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were in the Bible school I was
speaking at, so they’re all

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looking really chilled and like,
yeah, whatever, I got these

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notes already.
I don’t worry.

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Don’t be put off by that group
of people, right?

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Don’t look at their faces for
obvious reasons, but don’t be

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put off by the fact that they
are looking far too chilled.

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All right, I’m sorry you guys,
I’m sorry.

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But hopefully you can help us
this weekend.

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So who will go first?
The answer is the Lord.

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Now let’s get back into that
verse one.

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So who will go up for us first
against the Canaanites to fight

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against them?
The Lord said so, although

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clearly the answer is the Lord,
the Lord answers, well, this is

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how it’s going to work.
Judah shall go up.

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Behold, I’ve delivered the land
into his hand.

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Now notice what happened.
Judah says to Simeon, Judges

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one, verse three to Simeon his
brother, come up with me into my

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light, that we may fight against
the Canaanites.

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And I likewise would go with
thee and thy light.

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So Simeon went with me and we
asked the question, Why is it

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that Judah, it’s, it’s obvious
to us that Judah, we, we, we

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know, don’t we, The Judah, the
tribe of Judah, out of Judah

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comes the Lord Jesus Christ.
We get to revelation.

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We read of the lion of the tribe
of Judah.

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So we’re not surprised to see
Judah go first, as Joshua was in

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Deuteronomy 31, we were told
would go first.

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So Judah as the tithe of the
Lord Jesus Christ, he’s going to

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go first.
But he says, Simeon, you come

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with me.
Why does Judah say to Simeon,

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you should come with me?
Well, to answer that question,

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you’ve got to do a bit of
digging, keep a marker, but come

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back to numbers.
Numbers chapter one.

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We need to do some maths.
Now, I’m a primary school

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teacher, so I’m brilliant at
this sort of thing, right?

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But you’re going to have to sort
of, you know, really work on

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your maths this morning.
So numbers one and I, I want you

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to go to verse 23 and we read
that when the children of Israel

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went into the wilderness.
So numbers one is the beginning

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of their wilderness journey.
How many people are in the tribe

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of simians or or how many of
those numbered in the tribe of

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simians?
Someone call it out for me.

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59,300 Everyone got that.
So if we were rounding that up,

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be a primary school teacher,
what would you get to?

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Oh, come on, the nearest
thousand.

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Where am I going, 59,300 if
we’re rounding you up, I said,

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Harry, stop messing around.
60,000 Thank you, Phoebe.

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Right now, keep that in your
mind and come to chapter 26,

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right of numbers.
Because when we next see the

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numbering of the tribes of
Israel, you’re going to see that

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the tribe of Simeon is
decimated.

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So verse 14 of Numbers 26.
So someone called out to me, how

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many have we got in verse 14 of
Numbers 2620?

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Two 1200.
Now, JoJo, I know that you’re

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good at maths.
You and me are linked like that,

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right?
And we can both do the Rubik’s

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Cube in under 3 seconds, can’t
we?

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Yeah, I, I mainly don’t do it,
but I let JoJo do it.

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But we’re both really good at
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OK, so we got 60 odd thousand.
We dropped down to 22,000 as a

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fraction, right As a broad
fraction.

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How much of the tribes have been
tribes of Simi have been lost?

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How much have been lost?
Someone shout out again. 2/3

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yeah, to a joke.
I didn’t say how many were left.

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I said how many have got lost.
Right.

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He’s relying on you.
So 2/3 got lost.

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Now just remember that no, no,
the reason they got lost is

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actually back in chapter 25.
You think because in chapter 25,

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the Simianites were so foolish
in allowing the, the, the women,

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they got caught up with the, the
women of Baio Pure of Moab, the

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Midianite women there.
And as a result, playing into

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the camp and thousands, 10s of
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So the Triumph Simian was
decimated.

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Why is that interesting to us?
We’re thinking now we know why,

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Judah says to Simeon, you stick
with me.

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The Simeonites, when they went
into the land, they never had a

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border.
The tribe of Simeons sat in the

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middle of the tribe of Judah.
They couldn’t be trusted with

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having a border in the
wilderness.

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They camped on the South side of
the camp, and when the Moabites

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were excellent, they let the
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They weren’t allowed a border.
Judah says Judges one.

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You stick with me, Simeon.
We know that 2/3 or thereabouts

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were lost.
Come with me to Zechariah

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Chapter 13.
Zechariah 13.

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At the time of the end, when the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Lion of

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the tribe of Judah, returns to
the earth, there will have been

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a great and awful destruction in
the land.

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And we’re told in Zechariah 13
and verse eight, it shall come

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to pass that in all the Lamb,
says the Lord, two parts therein

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shall be cut off and die, but a
third will be left.

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So my suggestion to you is that
the Simeonites represent the

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whole of the House of Israel.
What does Simeon mean?

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I can’t hear you?
Thanks.

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Him.
Yeah.

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You.
You should, though.

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So, so, so the simulates.
It’s about hearing, isn’t it?

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Now, just keep reading the first
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I’ll bring the third part
through the fire.

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I’ll refine them as silver’s,
refined them.

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Try them as gold is tried.
They shall call on my name and I

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will hear them.
I will say it is my people.

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And they shall say Yahweh is my
God.

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I will hear them.
That’s what the Simonites means.

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And I suggest that the Simonites
represent Israel, who 2/3 are

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wiped out and destroyed at the
time of the coming of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
But a third will go in.

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Why?
Because they will listen and

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hold on to the Lion of the tribe
of Judah.

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So let’s go back to Judges
chapter one and let me give you

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a couple of notes that you might
want to put in your margin next

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to verse three.
So you might have in your margin

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Numbers one.
Let me give you a reference.

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I’ll put it on the screen there.
Numbers one, verse 23 or Numbers

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26, verse 14 next to Simeon,
Numbers 123, Numbers 26, verse

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14.
You might also want Zechariah 13

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verses 8:00 and 9:00.
OK, so Simeon is going to stick

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with Judy.
They’re going to go into the

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land.
Now.

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We’re just trying to sort of
glean some lessons here from the

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beginning of the book of Judges.
And we noticed that it began and

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I asked you to note the phrase
in verse one after the death of

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Joshua after the death of Joshua
now Joshua.

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I could ask my kids and I think
they could tell you I LL ask

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Joshua Daisy at the back Joshua
is a type of who go on Jesus yes

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so after the death of Joshua.
We re being given something here

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as a clue and a type after the
death of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Now I want to note how important
this is that we’re going to see

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the something required of each
person after the death here of

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Joshua, but in type we’re
pointing to the work of the Lord

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Jesus Christ after the death of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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What is it that’s so important?
Just cast your mind back.

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Go back to Joshua 4 and you can
see in Joshua 24 the last words

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really of Joshua 24 and just
cast your eye down the chapter.

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You can sort of get to verse 26.
Verse 27 you see Joshua speaking

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to the people.
Verse 28.

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So Joshua let the people depart
every man to his inheritance.

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Now that phrase every man is
repeated is now repeated in

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Judges 2.
So just go to Judges 2 and verse

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6 where we read that when Joshua
had let the people go, the

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children of Israel went every
man to his inheritance.

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And then you see, look, verse 8,
verse 9, Joshua dies and they

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bury him.
So the final call of Joshua is

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to say every man to his
inheritance after the death of

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Joshua, every man deserves.
Now we’re trying to get this

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mindset.
What is this teaching us that

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may have some significance to
our own lives?

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Well, when we take the type of
Joshua being the Lord Jesus, the

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death of the Lord Jesus is
obviously it’s the most

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important event ever in the
history of the world because he

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dealt with the problem of sin.
Joshua took the children of

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Israel into the land of Israel.
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not all the Canaanites are gone.
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He beat them.
They were there in the land now,

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but he now says, and the record
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the book of Judges is saying
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So what does this mean?
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you and I’ll be interested in
your thoughts in the breaks that

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perhaps what this means is that
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Christ has dealt with the
Canaanites, but does that mean

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that in your life or or in my
life, in each of our lives

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individually that sin is no
longer a problem?

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We all know it’s not.
It’s still very much is a

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problem in our lives, isn’t it?
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I’d suggest to you is saying
each of us as individuals in our

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own homes as it were, has got to
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OK, so the death of Joshua, the
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is a it’s the most important
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He’s dealt with the problem of
sin for us, but you now as

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individuals, every man has got
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their lives.
We think of the words of the

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Lord Jesus.
You know you might want to make

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a note next to Judges 2 verse 6.
Every man to his inheritance.

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First of all make a note of
chapter one verse 28, chapter 24

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rather verse 28 of Joshua Joshua
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It S probably already in the
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If you VE got a margin circle it
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But another reference to
possibly put there is Matthew

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1624.
You remember the Lord Jesus

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says, if any man come after me,
let him deny himself and take up

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his cross and follow me.
That S the principle I would

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suggest of every man to his
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You VE got to work out your own
salvation with trembling and

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fear.
OK, so just turn a page.

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Come to the end of Judges
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specifically told that Joshua
yes, he dealt with the

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Canaanites, but look at this
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I also will not henceforth drive
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nations which Joshua left when
he died.

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Why, verse 22, That through them
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Now circle or highlight the
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Prove in verse 22 that they’re
there, that I might prove

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Israel.
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Therefore the Lord left those
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hastily, neither delivered them
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Now these are the nations which
the Lord let circle to prove

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Israel down to verse 4.
They were to prove Israel’s

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circle.
Well, I have some tea.

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Thanks, son.
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These nations were left to prove
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And that principle is what
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Jesus Christ or the Lord God at
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Yes, he could have dealt with
the problem of sin, which he

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did, and at that point sin could
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But he didn’t do that.
He’s dealt with the problem of

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sin, but we’ve got to have
faith.

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Now I didn’t point out to you,
but in Zechariah 13 when we read

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of the 3rd that were refined,
how are they described as what

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metal is refined?
Gold it was and silver gold it

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was and silver.
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Gold one Peter one verse seven
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Good Daisy tried faith, good
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So gold is tried faith.
That’s the refining process

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that’s got to take place to
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So all of us still mess up.
All of us this last week have

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had things in our lives.
We thought, why have I made such

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a mess of that?
Why did I say that to that

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person?
Why did I speak in that manner?

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Why did I go there?
There’s not a person in this

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room that hasn’t struggled with
the problem of sin in your life

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this week.
All of us have.

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But that problem is there to
prove us, to test us.

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The Canaanite is still in our
life, but God wants people, us

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to be refined as gold is trying
the fire.

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He wants to know, are you
faithful?

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He doesn’t need to see, have you
got it all sorted?

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He knows you can’t get it all
sorted.

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He wants to know, are you
faithful to believe His word

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from beginning to end?
Are you faithful to trust in it?

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That’s what He wants to see in
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And that’s why the Canaanites
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Look verse 23, chapter 20,
chapter 2, The Lord left those

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nations in order to prove us.
Now look in verse chapter 3,

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verse one and two.
These the nations which the Lord

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left to prove Israel by them,
even as many of Israel as have

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not known all the wars of
Canaan, only that the

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generations of the children of
Israel might know to teach them

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war.
So that the nations were left.

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The problem was left to teach
them war.

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That’s such a great phrase in
Scripture that we might be

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taught war.
Now, obviously as boys, I can

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see a lot of alpha males in this
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Any phrase in Scripture that
says to teach war, we just

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immediately feel thrilled,
right?

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Brilliant.
Scripturally, I am allowed to be

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taught war, right?
But obviously this war is

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against the problem of sin,
isn’t it in our lives?

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A really good reference.
I’ll turn there if you like.

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You make a note or by all means
turn there.

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First Timothy one and verse 18
next to teach them war, First

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Timothy one verse 18 when the
apostle Paul wrote to Timothy,

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obviously he’s writing under
inspiration.

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I think we’re all comfortable
and know that well.

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And we read in verse 18 that the
apostle Paul says to Timothy

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one, Timothy one.
This charge I commit to thee,

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son Timothy, according to the
prophecies which went before me,

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that thou by them mightest war,
a good warfare.

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Holding what?
Anyone there?

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Verse 19 Holding what faith,
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You’ve got to hold to war the
good warfare.

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You’ve got to #1 hold faith that
you describe.

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Sadly, those who fell away,
those who didn’t have the faith

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to believe and trust in the
prophecies.

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Verse 18 which went before young
people brothers and sisters, we

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VE got to war a good warfare.
The charge that the apostle Paul

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gave to Timothy as his son in
the faith is the charge given to

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each one of us.
War, the warfare, holding faith.

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OK come back with me.
We VE sort of hopefully built a

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bit of a picture around the
beginning of the children of

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Israel and the principles being
set out for us going as they re

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in the land and and the age of
the judges is about to begin.

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And brother Josh read for us the
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One where we read in verse four
that Judah went up and the Lord

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delivered the Canaanites and the
Perizzite into their hand, and

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they slew of them in Bezek
10,000 men.

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And they found Adonai Bezek in
Bezek and they fought against

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him and they slew the Canaanites
and the Perizzites.

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But Anani Bezek fled and they
pursued after him and caught him

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and cut off his thumbs and his
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It’s pretty brutal, isn’t it?
You know, we read that.

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We think, man, we’re about to
read, you know, wall of warfare,

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you know, cut off the thumbs and
the great toes it, you know, it

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is brutal, isn’t it?
But first of all, we noticed

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that that’s exactly what Adonai
Bizek had done verse 7 to 70

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other kings who were like
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So he understands himself at the
end of verse 7 as I have done,

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so God hath requited me.
And they brought him to

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Jerusalem and he died there.
But we asked the question, well,

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why is it that this, you know,
brutality was allowed to be done

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by Judah and company in
destroying Adonai Bizek before

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he died?
Well, I’m going to make a

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suggestion to you that you need
to go back to Leviticus chapter

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14.
So keep a marker, but come back

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to Leviticus 14.
Don’t forget that we’re sort of

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trying to work in a lens about
what the judges are teaching us

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about the work of the Lord Jesus
and about the time of the end

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Judges 14 we read of the law of
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Now the Canaanite represents in
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Leprosy represents in Scripture
sin.

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OK, we re all comes with that,
aren’t we?

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The the problem of sin is what’s
being dealt with and for leprosy

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to be dealt with, the problem of
sin under the law.

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Let’s go to Leviticus 14, verse
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The priest shall take the lamb
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log of oil, and the priest shall
wave them for a wave offering

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before the Lord.
He shall kill the lamb of the

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trespass offering.
And the priest shall take some

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of the blood of the trespass
offering and put it on the tip

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of the right ear of him that
should be cleansed, and upon the

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thumb of his right hand and upon
the great toe of his right foot.

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So the person that would be
cleansed from the problem of

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leprosy.
Leprosy represents sin.

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Yeah.
Has to have the blood of the

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sacrifice put on their ear,
their elope, but also their

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thumb and their big toe.
And I be Zek for everything he

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had done, who’s obviously the
most disgraceful, awful human

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being.
He was not going to be able to

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be forgiven.
Now God will forgive.

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Anyone he knows will repent.
But Adonai Bizik represents who?

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He’s the king of the Canaanites.
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He will not be in the Kingdom.
Yes, he realised in Judges one,

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God has requited me.
He knew it was a just

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punishment.
He was not sorry for his

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actions.
He’s the king of the Canaanites.

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Just go to the end of Zechariah
14, the last verse of Zechariah

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14.
What do we read?

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And this is a Kingdom picture in
Zechariah 14, who will not be in

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the Kingdom?
There’s only one group of people

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we’re told will not be in the
Kingdom.

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Go on, shout it out for me.
The Canaanite, Adonai Bizik is

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the king of the Canaanite.
And so that’s why I believe that

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that punishment to him, yes, it
was just an eye for an eye, a

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tooth for a tooth.
Well, a thumb for a thumb and a

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great toe for a great toe,
right?

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But actually it’s teaching a
more important principle.

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The Canaanite, the king of the
Canaanites, the problem of sin

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will not be allowed to be in the
Kingdom.

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Let’s go back to Judges and I
want us to move to chapter 3,

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please, where we read in verse
seven that the children of

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Israel did evil in the sight of
the Lord and forget the Lord

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their God and serve Balaam and
the Groves.

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Therefore, the anger of the Lord
was hot against them, and He

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sold him to the hand of Cushion
Risha fame.

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King of Mesopotamia and the
children of Israel served

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cushion Risha fame for eight
years.

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Now what we see in verse seven
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Most of you will know that cycle
very well.

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Just look at verse seven again.
The children of itself did evil

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in the sight of the Lord, and
they forgot the Lord their God

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and served Bailim and the
Groves.

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Well, this is exactly what we’re
told.

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Just go back to chapter 2 and
verse 11.

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The children of Israel did even
inside the Lord, they served

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Baalum.
They forsook the Lord God of

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their fathers, which brought
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They followed other gods, the
gods of the people that were

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round about them.
They bowed themselves to them

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and they provoked the Lord to
anger.

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They forsook the Lord and they
served Baal and Ashtroth and the

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anger of the Lord was hot
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Note that phrase verse 14.
The anger of the Lord was hot

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against Israel.
Look in verse 20, chapter 2,

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verse 20.
How does it?

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What does it say?
Thanks Phoebe for joining.

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In Shame on the rest of you, the
anger of the Lord has taught

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against himself.
Verse eight of chapter 3, what

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we just read it.
The anger of the Lord has taught

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against itself.
Do you see this recurring phrase

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now this phrase, we just see it
here at the beginning of Judges.

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But actually it’s exactly what
happens all the way through the

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book of Judges because what do
they do?

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They forsake the Lord their God
and they turn to other gods that

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Balaam and Ashtaroth.
And So what does God do?

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Verse 14 of chapter two, He
delivers them into the hand of

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spoilers that spoiled them.
He sold them into the hands of

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their enemies roundabout so they
could no, not any longer stand

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before their enemies.
So they get sold into the hand

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of their enemies.
And then what happens later on

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verse 18 of chapter 2, that once
they VE cried to God, he saves

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them by raising up a judge and
that is the cycle of the judges.

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The people.
Well, they forget God, they turn

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to Baalim and Astroth, they turn
to the gods of the Canaanites

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and the like.
Then God says.

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OK, well, if that’s what you
want, that’s what you’re gonna

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have.
And he sells them to the to be

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under one of the awful kings of
that time.

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And their life is miserable.
And then after many years they

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LL cry to God and say oh we VE
sinned, we realise we VE

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completely messed up, we re so
sorry.

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And God says OK, and he sends a
judge or a saviour for them.

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And for a few.
Years it S great under that

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judge.
Then that judge dies and they

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soon forget God and the cycle
goes on and the so the whole of

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the book of the Judge is like a
Corkscrew all the way through

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the book of that cycle.
And when you reflect on it, too

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often it’s the cycle of our own
lives, isn’t?

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It so we’ve got to.
Try to make sure that we we’re

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sort of not on that roller
coaster that Corkscrew that’s

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just permanently just going
round on a loop we’ve.

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Got to try to avoid.
That in our lives, I want you to

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note this phrase.
Verse eight of judges three.

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He sold them.
Now in your margin, you’ve

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probably got next to He sold
them, Chapter 2, verse 14, if

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you haven’t put it there, we
just read it.

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He sold them.
We’ll see the significance of

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this.
Now and.

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And throughout our studies, he
sold them.

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Come first to Isaiah. 50 And
I’ll just take you into the New

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Testament shortly, but come to
Isaiah 50.

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Keep your marker in Isaiah 50.
With many years after the book

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of Judges, the prophet Isaiah is
speaking to Israel and the

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nation as we know at the time of
Isaiah.

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So many of them have.
Been wicked so we read towards

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the end of verse one, behold.
So Isaiah 50 towards the end of

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verse one, behold, for your
iniquities have you sold

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yourselves, and for your
transgressions is your mother

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put away?
So yes, it’s God who allows it

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to happen.
God, it says in judges sells

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them, but really they’ve sold
themselves.

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Do you see?
Look, God says.

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OK, if that’s what you want,
that’s what you can have.

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But it’s because they’ve sold
themselves to sin.

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Now come to Psalm 81.
Please just try and build this

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idea and we go to Romans.
So Psalm 81.

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Verse 10 I am the.
Lord, thy God, which brought

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thee out the land of Egypt, open
thy mouth wide.

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I will fill it, but my people
would not hearken to my voice.

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Israel would.
None of me.

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So I gave them up.
To their own.

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Hearts, lusts, and they walked
in their own counsels.

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Oh, that my people had hearkened
to me, and Israel had walked in

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my ways.
I would have subdued their

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enemies and turned my hand
against their adversaries.

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But they didn’t.
They would not hearken to my

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voice, verse 11.
Israel would none of me, verse

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12.
So I gave them up.

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To their own.
Heart’s lusts.

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This is the principle of Judges
3, verse eight.

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God sold them.
He gave them up to their own

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heart’s lusts.
Now I’m going to make a

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suggestion to you in verse 12.
There you might want to put

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Judges 3 verse 8.
Another really helpful reference

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put there is Romans 124 to 26.
Romans 124 to 26.

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Some of you may have it there
already.

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It’s actually already in my
margin, so I was just able to

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circle it.
Romans 124 to 26.

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He gave them up.
It says, isn’t it in the Psalm

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To their own hearts lust.
Will you come to Romans 1 before

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we go back to Judges?
Come with me to Romans 1.

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So verse 20.
Four, we read or we will read

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now, verse 24, wherefore God
also gave them up.

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To uncleanness through the.
Lust of their own hearts that is

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Psalm 81 and verse 12.
He gave them up to their own

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hearts lust.
Why?

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Because they changed verse 25,
the truth of God into a lie.

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They worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator.

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It’s an age-old problem.
How much are we prepared?

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To put our faith in the Creator.
Not the creature, young people,

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it’s.
One of the major challenges of

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our age.
How much are you prepared to

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hold the faith in believing in
the Creator, not the creature?

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The very fact you’re here says
an awful lot about you.

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Verse 26 of.
Romans one for this ’cause God

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gave them up.
Verse 28.

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Even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge,

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God gave them over to a
reprobate mind to do those

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things which are not convenient
in the end, God says.

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I will give you.
What the desire of your heart

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is.
So come back to judges.

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Three.
And as you turn back there, ask

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yourself, there’s no point
looking at this, isn’t it?

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If we don’t sort of try to
spiritually challenge ourselves

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this weekend, ask yourself what
is the number one desire of your

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heart if.
It is.

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To be in the Kingdom.
You will be.

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In the Kingdom, you will be
there because you’ve got the

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faith to hold on to the truth.
You’re going to mess up on the

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way.
Don’t worry about that.

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But if the number.
One desire of your heart is to

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be in the Kingdom.
God will get you there, but if.

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As a desire.
It’s a bit further down the

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list.
I, I, I, I, I do really, really

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want the Kingdom, but I got a
lot on my plate at the moment.

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You know, if you could see what
I’ve got on at the moment in

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terms of college work right now,
you would realise that it’s

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actually pretty reasonable for
me not to be at Bible class or

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the lecture or, or or
occasionally actually missing on

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a Sunday morning.
You would.

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You would realise that because
I’ve got a lot on my plate.

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If, if you had my job at the
moment, trust me, you would see

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that actually the pressure I’m
under, you would.

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Accept.
That, you know, yeah.

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For Pete, he’s got a lot on, you
know, it’s OK.

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It’s just not the number.
One desire of my life.

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If it is, it’s manifesting.
Out your actions, you make the

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effort, you get there.
You seek first the Kingdom of

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God, knowing everything else
will get sorted out anyway.

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What is your heart’s?
Desire.

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Back in Judges chapter 3, he
sold them to the.

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Hand of Kush and Richa Thain.
Kush and Richa Thain make a

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note.
Double wickedness.

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That’s what that name means.
Double wickedness.

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And they’re descended from the
the the people of Ham.

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You.
Might remember that Kush was the

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brother of Canaan.
So from Ham came Kush also.

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He had four sons, Kush, Canaan
and the likes of Nimrod.

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And we suggest that the, the,
the, the people of Kush, the,

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the, the, that idea of Nimrod,
we won’t go there, but time’s

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moving way too quickly.
You can go there in a break back

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to Genesis chapter 10 to see
those lines clearly set out for

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us.
But from that system comes

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Babylon and all that Babylon
represents.

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You think Genesis 10 leads to
Genesis 11 and the Tower of

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Babel?
The system of.

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Babylon cushion Rishathane, king
of Mesopotamia.

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Of course, we know, don’t we,
that Babylon was in the region

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of Mesopotamia.
So there’s this Babylonian king,

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as it were, who the people are
sold to.

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It’s a type, isn’t it?
Right at the beginning of their

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time in Israel, where do they
end up being sold to?

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Who’s the last lot they get sold
to?

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At the end of the Old Testament,
they’re sold to the Babylonians.

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They were shown right at.
The beginning if you don’t have

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faith and trust in me, you’ll
get given to the Babylonians.

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This is what happens here in
Judges chapter 3.

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And I just want to make a note
of Revelation 18 next to this

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idea of double wickedness.
We won’t turn there.

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Time’s gone.
When the Babylonian.

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System is judged.
So here’s the reference for you.

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Revelation 18, verses 5 and six.
We’re told her sins reached to

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heaven just like the Tower of
Babel did.

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Her sins reached to heaven.
God has remembered her

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iniquities.
Reward her even as she’s

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rewarded with you, and double
unto her.

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Double according to her works.
What are her works?

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Her works are double wickedness.
So when that system is judged at

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the time of the end Book of
Revelation shows us she will be

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judged double because her works
were double wickedness.

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Now just nearly the final slide,
this slide we LL have one more,

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but just as a quickie verse 9,
when the children of Israel

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cried to the Lord, the Lord
raised up a deliverer.

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Has anyone a different word for
the word deliverer?

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Verse 9 the.
Lord raised up a deliverer.

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Judges 3 verse nine.
Anyone got anything different?

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Saviour.
Thank you, Saviour.

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That obviously is a key
principle because each of the

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judges, yes, they’re a
deliverer, they are a saviour.

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They point to the work of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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So this Saviour is Offniel, the
son of Kinas, Caleb’s younger

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brother.
Now Offniel.

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If you look it up.
There are two definitions, and

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it seems to be impossible,
certainly for someone like me

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who doesn’t speak Hebrew, to
work out exactly which of these

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definitions it is.
Some will tell you Offniel means

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God is my strength.
Some will say it means Lion of

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God.
Either way, the lion show

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strength, doesn’t it?
The Lion of the tribe of off

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nearly from the tribe of Judah.
That was the tribe that Caleb

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was put into to the tribe of
Judah.

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So the Lion of the tribe of
Judah is going to be sent to

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deal with.
Cushion Rishathane.

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Double wickedness.
It points, doesn’t it, to the

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work of the Lord Jesus, the one
who’s going to come and deal

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with the Babylonian system and
save Israel.

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The Spirit of the Lord came upon
him.

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He judged Israel and went out to
war.

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And the Lord delivered Kush and
Rishathem, king of Mesopotamia,

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into his hand, and his hand
prevailed against Kush and

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Rishathem, and the land have
rest 40 years.

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Now that time period is of major
significance, I want to note

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this.
We’re not going.

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To look into it just.
Yet we will do shortly.

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Just flip the page Judges 5.
Go to the end of Judges 5.

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How long did the land have rest
for?

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Someone.
Shouted out for me 40 years.

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Judges 8.
Go to the end verse 28.

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I appreciate that you could say
come on Pete, you can just tell

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us.
It S so obvious.

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Verse 28 the end of the verse
The Hebrew S just the same go on

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Harry sorry 40 years.
Thank you.

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The country was in quietness.
Some other versions will say the

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land had rest.
It S the same Hebrew.

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The land had rest 40 years.
That 40 year period is of major

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significance.
Now, any of you that S have

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given that any thought before,
come and have a chat with me.

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We will tease it out in our
studies, God willing, later on

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today, but I’m going to stop us
there.

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I just want us to take some
THMS.

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00:45:55,120 –> 00:45:58,280
What are THMS?
Take her message.

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00:45:58,280 –> 00:46:03,480
What are?
Take her message so #1 in your

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life you’ve got to get refined
as gold is refined.

656
00:46:11,360 –> 00:46:14,520
God does not ask of you to get
it sorted.

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00:46:15,000 –> 00:46:19,760
He asks you to have faith.
But he has got it sorted for us.

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00:46:21,560 –> 00:46:24,840
Have faith and.
If we do that.

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Then we will be given the
blessing of those Simonites that

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held on to the Lion of the tribe
of Judah.

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00:46:32,280 –> 00:46:36,320
Hold on, we live in the last
days, we re sure of it.

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Hold on to the.
Lion of the Tribe of Judah, be

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careful what you wish for.
God will give you the desire of

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your heart.
My mum used to say to John and I

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when we were younger and perhaps
just a little bit more naughty,

666
00:46:53,680 –> 00:46:55,080
not much more, but a little bit
more.

667
00:46:56,120 –> 00:47:00,720
She used to say to us, you know,
listen, be careful what you wish

668
00:47:00,720 –> 00:47:03,160
for, God will give you in the
end.

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What if your heart and your head
is always focused on, frankly,

670
00:47:09,200 –> 00:47:11,680
the wrong things?
Well, that’s what you’ll get,

671
00:47:13,000 –> 00:47:16,000
but the end thereof is the
grave.

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00:47:17,720 –> 00:47:20,800
Be careful what you wish.
For God will give you your

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00:47:20,800 –> 00:47:24,280
heart’s desire.
Work out your own.

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Salvation with trembling and
fear every man to his

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00:47:28,080 –> 00:47:31,200
inheritance.
All of us have got.

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To war the warfare, yes, we do
it as a collective, we support

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and we help each other.
But in the end, salvation is an

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individual matter.
You can’t save someone else and

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00:47:42,360 –> 00:47:45,880
they can’t save you.
You have got to make.

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Sure that in your life?
You get your faith.

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00:47:49,920 –> 00:47:55,600
Right.
And make sure that you keep on

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warring the warfare.
That warring the warfare isn’t

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00:47:59,400 –> 00:48:03,440
simply about dealing with the
problem of sin in the world and

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telling everyone else what we
think that they’re doing wrong.

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In fact, above.
All it’s about conquering it to

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the best of our ability.
In US.

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It’s been conquered by the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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00:48:16,680 –> 00:48:21,400
If you have faith in that and
war the warfare, you will share

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00:48:21,560 –> 00:48:22,360
that victory.