Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 297.
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I don’t think I can remember
reading a section of scripture
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I don’t think I can remember
reading a section of scripture
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that’s so small.
I mean the the the account of
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evil is from verse 12 to verse
30 with such extraordinary
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detail pointing to the work of
the Lord Jesus.
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Every word in this account
teaches us about the work of the
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Lord Jesus and we LL see in this
session now that we re going to
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focus particularly on the work
of the Lord Jesus in his first
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coming.
Now what does eglon mean?
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So this Moabite king is
strengthened by God and he he
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becomes the ruler over the
Israelites.
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What does eglon mean?
Well, if you look it up in
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strongs, you’ll see it’s the
word round.
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Right now, I’m already as a
primary school teacher feeling
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entertained by this, right, that
this guy, his name means round.
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And if you look it up further,
it says that the root of the
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word is the word calf.
Now, what do we know about in
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verse 17, the end of the verse,
it says Eglon was a you Listen,
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I know normally this is it’s
rude, but it’s the Bible, so
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you’re allowed to say it.
OK.
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Eglon was a very fat man.
If you say to my children, can
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you tell me something about
Eglon?
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They’ll say he was a fat.
Thank you, Steve.
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Yes, that’s excellent.
That’s really good.
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They’ll tell you even more.
They’ll tell you he was a very
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fat man, but he really was a fat
cow, right?
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Round calf Eglon is a fat cow
right?
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Now, let me give you a bit more
evidence for that because that’s
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not a lot, is it?
But do you know that Hebrew word
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of the this idea of the this fat
man?
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So I’ve put some some some notes
for you on the screen here.
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I know we can’t read them very
well, but just to help Eglon
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from this word from calf, same
as round, OK, He’s a very fat
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man.
And that word fat here, the last
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time it’s used in the Scriptures
is in Genesis 41.
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Just go to Genesis 41 and it’s
used repeatedly in Genesis 41.
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As soon as you get there, you’ll
know it because you remember
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Pharaoh’s dream and Pharaoh
dreamt about 7 thin cows, but he
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also dreamt about 7.
Come on, wake up.
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He dreamt about 7, right?
So you read in the record in
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Genesis 41, fat cow, fat cow,
fat cow, fat cow, fat cow.
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Then you come to Judges and you
read about a everyone’s got it.
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I love it.
Right?
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Brilliant.
Well done.
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Eglon is this fat cow and this
guy symbolises the flesh.
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I heard it said on a study that
someone gave me on on Judges.
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Here the eglon symbolises
horizontally what Goliath
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symbolises vertically, right?
So Goliath symbolises King sin.
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He’s this big tall guy.
And Eglon, well, he’s this big
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fat guy, right?
And he symbolises king sin.
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You notice Judges 3 verse 14,
the children of Israel served
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Eglon.
Now make a note in your margin.
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Next, the word serve the word
slave in the Hebrew.
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But you know, be that as it may,
Romans 616 and then will you
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turn there for me, please?
Romans 6/16 and Romans 6 we
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learn about a king that can rule
in US, and the king that if we
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let it can rule in our lives,
can reign in the life of Peter
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Owen, of anyone else.
Is king sin?
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So Romans 6 verse 12 Let not sin
therefore reign.
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Let it not be the king.
Don’t let king sin reign in you.
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What shall we say?
What then?
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Verse 15 shall we sin because
we’re not under the law, but
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under grace?
God forbid know you not that to
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whom you yield yourselves
servants to obey, they become
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the children of Israel in Judges
3 the servants don’t they to
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eglon to whom you yield yourself
servants to obey, whether of
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sin, to death, or of obedience
to righteousness.
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God be thanked that you were the
servants of sin, but you’ve
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obeyed from the heart.
Remember we saw the importance
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of the heart.
Psalm 81, Romans chapter one the
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importance of the heart in our
lives.
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If you get your heart right, if
you’ve obeyed from the heart
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that form of doctrine which was
delivered you, being then made
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free from sin, you became the
servants of righteousness.
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So in our lives we’ve got a
question to ask ourselves, who
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is going to reign in me, King
Sin or King righteousness, and
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to whom you yield yourselves
servants to obey?
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Well, that’s who.
That’s who you let be your king.
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So if you allow in your life
temptation to continually take
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over and to continually make
choices that you really know you
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should not make, in the end you
are making a choice.
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I am making a choice to serve
King Sin.
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So all of us have got to be
challenged by that.
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There is no point in coming on a
weekend like this and, you know,
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getting their pencils out,
scribbling away, you know, we’ve
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got some more head knowledge.
Great, Love that you saw that.
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Brilliant.
Met some people I know and, you
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know, met some new people.
Great.
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In the end, it doesn’t affect us
on Monday morning, on Tuesday
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morning or or or Wednesday
night, student night and we go,
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great, it’s student night,
brilliant.
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This is on and that’s on in the
city.
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You gotta on Wednesday night
think who am I going to obey?
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Do I go sing King sin or do I go
King righteousness?
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Do I get to Bible class or do I
go out my mates?
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Do you see that in the end, if
it doesn’t affect us, then we
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might as well be serving Eglon.
So the first point is they’re
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serving him.
They’ve been sold to him because
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that’s who they’ve chosen to
obey.
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OK, come back to Judges through
and you’ll see that Eglon, the
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king of Moab verse 12 comes
against Israel because he had
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done evil in the because they
had done rather evil in the
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sight of the Lord.
And he gathered unto him the
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children of Ammon and Amalek and
went and smote Israel and
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possessed the city of palm
trees.
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Now the city of palm trees is
which city?
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Jericho right So the city of
palm trees.
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We believe that that here S this
Moabite king.
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You remember that the Moabite
territory is the territory that
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the Simianites got caught up
with before they crossed the
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Jordan.
So it’s in modern day Jordan,
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It’s just across the river, and
the first major city they came
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to when they crossed the river
was Jericho.
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But this guy has now gone in and
archaeologists have dug up what
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they believe could be the palace
of Eglon.
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So this guy comes in and he sets
himself up in Jericho to serve
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them, and he brings with him
Ammon and Amalek.
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Now wherever we read the
Amalekites in Scripture, leprosy
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in Scripture represents, the
Canaanites in Scripture
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represent, and the Amalekites in
Scripture represent sin.
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All right, so the Amalekites are
bad news.
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The fact that they’re here just
with you, come back to Exodus
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17.
Most of you know this really
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well, but just very quickly go
back to Exodus 17 to be reminded
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of how the Amalekites were
defeated when they came against
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the Israelites.
And you know this well, Exodus
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17 Moses said to Joshua, verse 9
choose out men and go out fight
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with Amalek.
Tomorrow I will stand on the top
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of the hill with the rod of God
in my hand.
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So Joshua did as Moses said to
him and fought with Amalek and
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Moses Erin and her went to the
top of the hill.
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And you remember, don’t you,
that Moses had to have his hands
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held up.
And Joshua S in the battle
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fighting Joshua S in the valley
fighting the battle.
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Joshua represents who who fights
our our battles in the valley.
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Moses with his arms outstretched
On one side he’s got Aaron, who
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is a on the other side, he’s got
her who is A and Moses is a
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prophet.
So you’ve got a priest, a
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prophet and a Prince and his
arms are outstretched.
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And we see that teaches us,
doesn’t it, of the work of the
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Lord Jesus.
And because of that work, the
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battle gets won.
When the arms go down, the
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battle can’t be won.
The arms have to be lifted up.
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That’s the symbol of Israel, of
prayer, that through prayer God
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will fight our battles.
But also clearly isn’t it
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teaching us of the work of the
Lord Jesus Christ put on the
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cross to deal with the problem
of the Amalekites with the
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problem of sin?
Now just come to Deuteronomy 25
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because this part of the record
in Exodus doesn’t tell us how
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sneaky and awful the Amalekites
were.
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Verse 17, Moses says to them in
this final speech he gives
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before he falls asleep, and he
doesn’t go into the land.
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Deuteronomy 25 verse 17 Remember
what Amalek did to you by the
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way, when you will come out
forth.
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When you came forth out of
Egypt, he met you by the way,
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and smote the hindmost of you,
even all that were feeble behind
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you.
When they were faint and weary,
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he feared not God.
Remember what Amalek did, says
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God.
And what the Amalekites did is
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they picked off those that were
at the back, at the hindmost,
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those that were feeble and weary
and young people, brothers and
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sisters.
Surely we’ve got to take this
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lesson on in our lives.
Two things we need to reflect on
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now.
Where are you in ecclesial life?
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Are you a bit weary at the
moment?
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I just shattered.
I I if you had my job, if you
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had my course, you’d understand.
I’m up to here.
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Do you realize what I’m planning
at the moment?
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To sort out?
Oh, I’ve got em.
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If we get weary, the Amalekites
can pick us off.
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Those who are feeble,
spiritually broken and feeble.
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Where are you if you allow
yourself to get too feeble,
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You’re not taking in the meat of
the word.
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You’re you’re not really, really
trying to draw on the Scriptures
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in your life.
You will get feeble.
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It’s inevitable.
It’s impossible not to.
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King sin.
The Amalekites will pick you
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off.
That’s reflection #1 where are
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you in the Ecclesia?
And the remedy?
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Yes, it’s getting to Bible
class.
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Yes, it’s getting to youth
gatherings.
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Yes, it’s making sure that we
attend the meeting, do our
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readings and prep.
It’s also working.
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Have you got a job in the
Ecclesia?
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I don’t mean like, you know, a
title.
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You know what I mean?
Excuse me.
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I I don’t mind doing a job, but
it does need to have a title.
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And I’d like to have it
announced every Sunday.
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What it is that the title of the
king cleaner is doing?
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Yeah.
I just mean, are you giving
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something?
Sometimes we’re really good,
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aren’t we, at taking.
Do you know what I mean?
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We’re we’re really good at, you
know, letting others do bits and
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pieces.
And yeah, we’re good at turning
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up.
Are we?
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Are we give us, are we prepared
to say sure, I’ll, I’ll help
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with that.
Every Sunday morning,
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announcements are given and
often help is asked for.
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And do you know what?
Nearly always, if you speak to a
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recording brother who gives
those announcements and say to
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them on the Sunday evening, does
anyone?
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No one.
We’re all terrible at offering
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to help.
If you offer to help and get
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working, your position
immediately changes in the camp.
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You immediately go from being at
the hindmost, at the back,
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feeble, weary, to moving to the
middle to be working.
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Get working in the ecclesia.
Find a reflection point here.
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Be mindful where your brothers
and sisters or where your
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friends are.
Because OK, you might be right
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in the heart of ecclesial life,
but if someone you know and love
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just like a dog on the outside,
you’ve got to get them in.
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By hook or by crook you’ve got
to get them in because they are
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so vulnerable at the back, being
weary, being feeble.
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You VE got to drive outside
their house, honk your horn and
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say I’m not stopping honking my
horn till you get in my car.
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We’re going to Bible class
together right when I grew up in
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South Devon there was a a family
and they just never went to
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anything except the Sunday
morning meeting.
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So my dad relentlessly poor
family rang up on a Thursday,
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which was our Bible class night,
said.
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I’m coming to pick you up.
I’m coming to pick you up.
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I’m coming to pick you up.
And then it became a habit of
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that brother and sister S life
and they suddenly got themselves
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in the middle of the camp and
loved being part of the ecclesia
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and what amazing brothers and
sisters they were.
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Sadly, that brother, much older
brother, he’s fallen asleep now.
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He’s fallen asleep in the hope
of Israel.
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Nothing to worry about.
He’s in the.
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Middle of the camp.
So practically think who’s weak,
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weary, vulnerable, but the high
most do something about it.
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Do something about it.
OK, We know we come back to
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Judges chapter 3.
The Amalekites were there.
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That’s the type of people they
were.
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Judges 3.
I’m going to, because of time,
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they’re going to move us past
this.
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I want you to notice that Eglon,
the king of Moab was the king
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over the children of Israel.
They had to serve him four verse
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4 18 years.
Now when I was studying this, I
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found myself thinking, you know,
what does this mean?
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You know, each word is
important. 18 years.
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Where do we?
Well, we do come across another
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period of 18 years in Scripture
in Luke 13.
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You come with me to Luke 13.
Keep a marker.
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But it’s interesting, isn’t it?
You know, we believe that the
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whole of Scripture is the
inspired word of God.
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So we find it fascinating that
there’s another part of
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Scripture where we read about a
period of 18 years and this 18
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years is the time a woman had a
spirit of infirmity.
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So Luke 13 and verse 10, Jesus
was teaching in one of the
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synagogues on the Sabbath.
And behold, there was a woman
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which had a spirit of infirmity.
18 years.
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So here’s our link, isn’t it?
Oh, that’s interesting. 18 years
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and this woman was bowed
together.
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Josh, there’s our word bowed
together.
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We’ll pick it up for everyone
else in a minute and could in no
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wise lift herself up.
So this woman is bowed down.
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She she’s, she’s got a smooth of
infirmity.
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She she’s physically disabled
because of this spirit of
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infirmity.
And how is it described in verse
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16 that the Lord Jesus says
ought not this woman being a
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daughter of Abraham whom Satan
hath bound Satan is king sin
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Satan has bound below these 18
years.
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This woman couldn T she be
loosed from this bond?
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And of course, they were furious
because of the fact He’d done it
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on the Sabbath day.
What the Lord Jesus Christ does,
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verse 13, He laid his hands on
her and immediately she was made
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straight and glorified God.
So the Lord Jesus Christ is able
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to deal with the problem of sin.
She’s bound by Satan and its
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consequences.
She’s totally bowed over.
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She’s bowed down.
She’s bowed down because the
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pressures of sin, she’s bound by
it.
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Do you see that?
And who is it that provides the
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remedy?
The Lord Jesus Christ, the
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Saviour, the judge.
So come back now to judges.
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And I want you to notice in
judges too, when we read about
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the cycle of the judges.
In verse 12, what do you read
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about the Israelites that’s
significant when we compare it
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to this woman.
They bow down to them.
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Thanks, Caleb.
They bowed themselves to them.
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Judges 2 and verse 12.
So do you see that?
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What is happening in their life?
They’re bound by Eglon in type
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Satan in type, King sin, they’re
bound by him and bowed under the
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pressure of him.
And Luke 18 tells us the
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solution for her problem for 18
years can only come in the
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Saviour of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
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And so when we come with that
information back to Judges 3,
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we’re not surprised to see that
when they’ve been bound by
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Eglon, the king of Maab, 18
years, the children of Israel,
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verse 15, cried unto the Lord.
The Lord raised them up a
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deliverer.
The word deliverer is the word
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Saviour.
He gives them the Saviour.
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And the Saviour is this man
Ehud, the son of Gira, a
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Benjamite, a man left-handed.
Now, the Benjamites, what were
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they famous for?
Being left-handed?
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Yeah, the Benjamites.
At the end of Judges, we read
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that the Benjamites were famous
for being left-handed.
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And we’re told, aren’t we, that
they could throw a stone from a
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sling within a hair’s breadth
with their left hand.
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They were so brilliant with
their left hand.
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But what do we read about E Hood
Eve of the son of Giram, a
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Benjamite.
What does Benjamin Benjamin
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mean?
Son of my right hand.
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What?
So we’re going to unpick this.
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So Ehud, isn’t there a bit of an
irony here that the Benjamites
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who are renowned for being
left-handed, their tried means
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son of the right hand?
We’re going to see why this is
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so significant shortly.
So he’s this Benjamite, but why
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is it so important?
Look at your margin next to the
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word left-handed.
Can someone tell me what their
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margin says?
What the Hebrew for left-handed,
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the margin tells us what does it
mean?
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God shout it out louder, Shut up
his right hand.
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So when it says a man
left-handed literally in the
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Hebrew, what it means is his,
his right hand is shut up.
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He can’t use his right hand.
So I, yes, you make a note of
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that.
His right hand is shut up.
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He’s the son of the right hand.
His own right hand, though, is
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shut up.
And of course, we’re going to
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see whose right hand ultimately
is going to give the victory in
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the life of Ehood.
Well, it’s going to be God.
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A really good reference to have
in your margin.
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Psalm 44 and verse three.
And we give you two or three
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references, but this is an
excellent 1.
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Psalm 44 and verse three.
They GAT not the land in
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possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save
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them, but thy right hand, and
thine arm, and the light of thy
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countenance, because thou hast a
favour unto them.
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Thou art my King, O God, whose
servants are you?
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Are you going to serve King sin
or king righteousness?
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If you make God your king, Psalm
44, verse four, then by his
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right hand He will save us.
So I told you, I’ll give you a
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couple of references.
You’ve got Psalm 44 and verse
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three.
Another good one, Isaiah 41.
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Let me just read to you Isaiah
41 if I can find it for me
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myself.
Here Isaiah 41 and verse 10.
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Fear thou not, for I am with
you.
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Be not dismayed, for I am thy
God.
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I will strengthen thee.
Yeah, I will help thee.
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Yeah, I will uphold thee with
the right hand of my
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righteousness.
Another good reference is I’ll
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just give you now Exodus 15, the
several in Exodus 15 where the
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children of Israel are saved by
God’s right hand.
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OK, so this is the point.
Now we’re going to see in the
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life of Ehud, yes, he’s going to
work.
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He’s the type of the Lord Jesus
Christ, He’s the Saviour, but it
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is by God’s right hand that we
are saved.
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It is not by the work of man.
And so his right hand has to be
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shut up.
It can’t be about God.
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It can’t be about man rather,
apologies, it must be about God.
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Apologies.
OK, so come with me back to
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Judges 3.
So E Hood, the son of Gira, a
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Benjamite, a man left-handed, is
going to be the Saviour, and by
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him the children of Israel sent
a present.
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Now the word present is the
Hebrew word Minka, Minka here.
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And that is the word used of the
meal offering that, the meal
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offering the authorised Version.
We were doing it with the
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children at the beginning of
this week.
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We read Leviticus, won’t we?
And you remember that in the
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authorised version it says the
meat offering, which as a child
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confused me for about 35 years
thinking why on earth does the
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offering doesn’t have any meat
in it get called the meat
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offering, right?
But it’s the meal offering isn’t
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it?
Clearly, looking at the blank
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faces, it’s not quite such a
funny joke as I thought it was.
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None of you were confused with
the same problem, which is good.
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So this meal offering they
prepare is a present.
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Now, let me just check if
everyone’s got this.
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Eglon is a Come on, Eglon is a
big.
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Now, if you needed to get a
present together for a big fat
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cow, what would a big fat cow
want more than anything else?
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Foods.
Yeah.
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Big fat cows love food.
So when they get the present
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together, they’re like, what is
it?
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They have a team meeting, I have
no doubt, you know, And they
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say, what can we give Eglon, You
know, what is it there that he’s
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going to really like, you know,
shall we get, you know, shall we
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get some money for him?
Shall we?
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And suddenly someone has a brain
wave.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
Don’t bother with the money.
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What about some horse?
No, no, no, no, don’t bother.
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What about?
No, He just likes food.
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So they put together the most
phenomenal hamper, right?
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And they bring their presents.
So here’s the Meeker offering
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and they bring it to Eglon.
So come on, They bring verse 17,
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the present to Eglon.
Now, while they’re making the
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present, Ehud has been busier
still.
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What’s he been doing?
In verse 16?
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Ehud made him a dagger which had
two edges of a cubic length, and
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he did good it under his raiment
upon his right thigh.
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Now all of those points are of
major significance.
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He made a dagger, or some
versions will say sword.
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Elsewhere that word is
translated sword or knife.
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He makes this dagger.
This sword, it’s got two edges.
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It’s the cubic length.
He hides it under his garment on
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his right thigh.
Now we come across this word
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dagger elsewhere in Scripture
and we come across it first in
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Judges chapter 3.
Will you come to Judges 3?
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Joshua 3, rather Joshua three,
you’re in Judges 3, aren’t you?
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Sorry, Joshua three, I was
thinking, why is no one turning
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the pages?
Joshua chapter 3, the children
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of Israel have crossed the
Jordan and in Joshua chapter
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five, sorry guys, Joshua five,
we’re in Judges 3.
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We want to go to Joshua five we
come across this word verse two.
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At that time the Lord said to
Joshua, make thee sharp knife.
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Now this is our word.
This is the the dagger or the
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sword.
It’s the same Hebrew word make
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sharp knives and circumcise
again the children of Israel.
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Now, where are they when they
complete the, the the act of
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circumcision against the males
in Israel?
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Where are they?
What’s the name of the place?
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Gilgal.
What does Gilgal mean?
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The rolling away.
Yeah.
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So I can see most of the boys
sort of, you know, their eyes
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crossing as they get a bit
squeamish talking about this.
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But this is the awfulness of
what’s happening here.
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And it would have been so, so
painful for these guys that were
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being circumcised, but a
principle was being laid down.
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And that is they’re about to go
into the land under the hand of
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Joshua.
Look, Chapter 6, they come to
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Jericho.
Don’t forget that this is where,
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of course, Eglon is going to be
defeated in Jericho at Gilgal,
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the principle was set.
The flesh has to be cut off at
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Gilgal.
The principle is set.
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The flesh has to be cut off.
Now come back to Judges 3.
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Come back to Judges 3 and notice
that E Hood and the men who were
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with him bearing the present.
They go to Jericho, presumably
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to Eglon’s palace.
But then what happens verse 18,
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when he made an end of what to
offer the present.
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He sent away the people that
bear the present, but he himself
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turned back from the quarries
that were by Gilgal.
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So he gets back to Gilgal and he
knows at Gilgal this is the
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place where he remembers the
flesh has to be cut off.
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So in your margin next to
Gilgal, and it makes suggestion
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that you put Joshua 5 verses
2:00 to 9:00, that’s where they
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made sharp knives that the flesh
might be cut off.
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But he has got a sharp knife.
He’s been making, well, the
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sharpest dagger he can make told
in verse 16 that he was made, he
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made him this dagger.
He was involved.
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He was, he was engaged in it.
And this dagger, this sword
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00:32:39,120 –> 00:32:43,200
which has two edges speaks to
us, you know, Harry spoke about
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00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:48,640
it in his prayer, speaks to us
of what the sword with two edges
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speaks to us of the word of God.
So here’s some references.
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So in your margin next to two
edges in verse 16, we make these
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references, Hebrews 4 and verse
12.
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I’ll read it to you.
The Word of God is quick and
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powerful and sharper than any
two edged sword, piercing even
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00:33:15,840 –> 00:33:19,280
the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, the joints and marrow.
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00:33:19,520 –> 00:33:24,240
It’s a discerner of the thoughts
and the intents of the heart.
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00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:26,800
That’s what our Bill Harry
alluded to in his prayer,
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00:33:28,040 –> 00:33:32,640
picking up on the two edged
sword, speaking to us of the
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word of God.
Did he?
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He would just go and find a
dagger?
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No, he made it.
He connected with that dagger.
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00:33:41,560 –> 00:33:48,080
So our challenge, make sure that
we spend our time sharpening the
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blade, sharpening the dagger,
Put time into Bible study,
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00:33:52,600 –> 00:33:56,360
sharpening the dagger, open the
word of God in your life.
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Sharpen your dagger.
That’s what he was doing and
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that’s why he was spiritually
prepared to deal with King’s
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sin.
Now we believe that these events
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are also teaching us about the
time of the end.
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Come with me to Revelation,
Revelation chapter one, first
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Revelation 1.
And in Revelation one we have a
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picture of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the Saints.
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00:34:32,280 –> 00:34:34,000
And the picture is a symbolic
picture.
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We call it the multitudinous
Christ, or we call it the
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rainbowed Angel, or we call it
the one man.
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It’s all the same thing.
It’s the picture of the Lord
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Jesus Christ married to the
Saints.
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And in the Book of Revelation,
the books of sign and symbol,
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we’re given signs and symbols
for us to see the
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characteristics of, in this
case, the Lord Jesus Christ and
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the Saints.
And what do we notice in verse
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16 of Revelation One that out of
his mouth, Revelation One verse
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16.
So out of the mouth of the Lord
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Jesus Christ and the Saints,
when we come to deal with the
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problem of sin in the earth, in
the Kingdom age, out of His
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00:35:13,720 –> 00:35:22,040
mouth went a sharp 2 edged sword
and His countenance was the sun
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00:35:22,040 –> 00:35:25,720
shining in His strength.
Come to that later on this
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evening.
Just remember His countenance
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was the sun shining in his
strength, but out of His mouth
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goes of two edged sword.
What do we do?
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Well, we go out and literally
deal with the problem of sin in
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the world.
Go to chapter 19 of Revelation
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where we see the same picture of
the Lord Jesus Christ and the
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Saints, and His name we’re told
in verse 13 is called the Word
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of God.
What was it that was strapped to
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his thigh?
The two edged sword, the word of
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God.
So no wonder.
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Look verse 15, out of his mouth
goes the sharp sword.
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So what is it that’s going to
destroy sin in the world?
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The sharp sword coming out of
his mouth is the word of God.
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00:36:18,880 –> 00:36:21,240
That’s what’s going to destroy
the nations.
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00:36:23,920 –> 00:36:28,320
Just keep reading verse 15 out
of his mouth goes a sharp sword,
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that with it he should smite the
nations.
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He shall rule them with a rod of
iron.
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He treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty
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God, and he hath on his vesture
and on his thigh a name written
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00:36:46,200 –> 00:36:52,440
King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Where does Ehud put the dagger?
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00:36:53,680 –> 00:37:02,840
He puts it on his thigh, King of
Kings and Lord of Lords.
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00:37:03,760 –> 00:37:07,800
Isn’t it amazing what Ehud is
pointing towards?
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Now come back to Judges and back
to Judges Chapter 3.
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Let’s carry on in our story.
They get to Gilgal and Ehud says
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to the men who are with him.
You guys go on, you, you go
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00:37:24,760 –> 00:37:30,240
back.
I have got now to go to see
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Eglon by myself.
Look, verse 18, Judges 3.
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When he’d made an end to offer
the present, he sent away the
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00:37:38,320 –> 00:37:44,400
people that bear the present,
but he himself turned back.
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00:37:44,800 –> 00:37:52,560
He himself turned back because
like the Lord Jesus Christ in
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00:37:52,560 –> 00:37:58,200
his first coming, he has got to
do it alone.
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00:38:00,400 –> 00:38:05,560
The Lord Jesus couldn’t take his
disciples with him to the cross.
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00:38:06,000 –> 00:38:08,240
They were caught up with the
problem of sin.
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They were bound by Satan, by
Eglon, by sin.
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00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:20,400
He needs to go on his own to
release them from that burden to
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00:38:20,400 –> 00:38:27,200
deal with the problem of sin.
So he sends them away, but he
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00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:30,440
himself goes back.
Now some good references I think
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00:38:30,720 –> 00:38:36,000
I put I put on the screen here
Isaiah 63 and verse 3 where we
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00:38:36,000 –> 00:38:41,120
read the Lord Jesus says I VE
trodden the wine press alone of
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00:38:41,120 –> 00:38:43,680
the people was none with me.
I’m on my own.
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For I would tread them in my
anger and travelled in my fury,
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00:38:47,000 –> 00:38:49,520
and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments and I
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00:38:49,520 –> 00:38:53,840
would stain all my raiment.
Jesus had to do it alone.
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00:38:53,960 –> 00:39:00,400
He was the only one without sin.
Keep a marker but come to John
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00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:07,560
60 so you remember that when we
come to John 16, we we, we’re in
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00:39:07,560 –> 00:39:14,240
the last week of the life of the
Lord Jesus Christ and we see
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00:39:15,120 –> 00:39:19,800
that he’s going to have to tread
the wine press alone.
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00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:23,000
He’s going to have to go to the
cross alone.
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00:39:24,800 –> 00:39:32,000
John 16 we read at the end of
the chapter, verse 32.
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Behold, the hour comes.
Yeah, he is.
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00:39:35,000 –> 00:39:39,360
Now come that you shall be
scattered, every man to his own,
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00:39:39,760 –> 00:39:42,880
and shall leave me alone.
Now look at this.
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00:39:42,880 –> 00:39:49,080
Isn’t this so lovely?
Yet I’m not alone because the
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Father is with me.
These things I’ve spoken to you,
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00:39:53,160 –> 00:39:56,200
that in me you might have peace
in the world.
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00:39:56,200 –> 00:40:00,400
You’ve got tribulation.
Be of good cheer, I have
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overcome the world.
ISN T it so lovely that the Lord
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00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:10,920
Jesus Christ says to his
disciples, I VE got to go on my
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00:40:10,920 –> 00:40:15,200
own now, I VE got to go to tread
the wine press alone.
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00:40:16,520 –> 00:40:19,200
And as their hearts were
breaking, as they started to
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00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:23,160
realise the magnitude of what
was about to happen to their
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00:40:23,160 –> 00:40:27,320
Lord, to this man that they had
walked with for some years.
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They’d seen him never do
anything wrong.
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They knew the brutality of what
was going to happen to him.
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00:40:37,880 –> 00:40:41,240
He says to them, I’ve got to go
alone.
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00:40:41,320 –> 00:40:46,560
Yet I’m not alone because the
father is with me.
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00:40:48,280 –> 00:40:51,840
And I’m sure that Eihood had
just the same mindset.
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Come back to Judges.
He had to go alone.
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Yet he knew he was not alone.
He had the Father with him.
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00:41:05,160 –> 00:41:09,640
So we read he himself turned
back.
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00:41:10,320 –> 00:41:15,960
Now that phrase is such a
significant phrase in the work
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00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:18,040
of the Lord Jesus.
You re in Judges 3.
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But I do want you to go back to
the New Testament.
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00:41:20,280 –> 00:41:23,280
I want you to go to Hebrews.
I’m going to repeat this phrase
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00:41:23,280 –> 00:41:28,960
to you.
He himself, He himself, some of
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00:41:28,960 –> 00:41:36,520
you will be finishing this.
He himself likewise took part in
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00:41:36,520 –> 00:41:43,480
the same Hebrews chapter 2 and
this chapter speaks to us of the
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00:41:43,480 –> 00:41:48,320
work of the Lord Jesus in the
atonement in how He was going to
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00:41:48,880 –> 00:41:52,200
through how God was going to
deal with the problem of sin
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00:41:52,440 –> 00:41:57,840
through the Lord Jesus Christ.
So Hebrews chapter 2 we read in
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verse 14 for as much then as the
children are partakers of flesh
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00:42:04,320 –> 00:42:07,040
and blood.
So in other words, all of us, we
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are partakers of flesh and
blood.
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00:42:09,920 –> 00:42:18,000
He also himself, he himself
likewise took part of the same
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that through death He might
destroy him that have the power
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00:42:23,240 –> 00:42:26,160
of death.
That is the devil.
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So the Lord Jesus Christ had to
be made like us.
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Keep a marker there just to keep
it in your mind.
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On the way back, stop at Romans,
Romans 8, Romans 8.
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00:42:44,960 –> 00:42:48,360
These are such important
passages for our understanding
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00:42:48,360 –> 00:42:52,200
of the how the Lord Jesus Christ
dealt with the problem of sin
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that God made him.
Yes, He was the Son of God, but
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00:42:57,400 –> 00:43:02,240
He was also the Son of man.
He himself likewise took part of
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00:43:02,240 –> 00:43:08,720
the same of flesh and blood that
he might destroy sin.
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00:43:10,520 –> 00:43:15,960
So Romans 8, verse 3, what the
law could not do in that it was
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weak through the flesh.
God sending His own Son in the
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00:43:20,320 –> 00:43:26,440
likeness of sinful flesh,
condemned sin in the flesh.
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So you bring that now back to
Judges 3.
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This is Ehud.
He is the character now, He’s
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the Saviour.
His work is pointing to the work
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00:43:37,760 –> 00:43:40,160
of the Lord Jesus.
What do we read verse 19?
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He Himself has got to go alone.
So I’m going to make a
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00:43:45,920 –> 00:43:48,720
suggestion to you in verse 19
next to He Himself.
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Make a note.
Hebrews 214 or Romans 8, verse
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3.
Hebrews 214, Romans 8, verse
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three.
Now this quote that I put on the
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00:44:02,800 –> 00:44:08,360
screen here I think is so
helpful in our understanding of
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the work of the Lord Jesus, the
atonement.
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00:44:10,760 –> 00:44:14,600
It was written by our brother
John Carter back in 1958, so
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before most of us were born.
But just just read that to
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00:44:20,440 –> 00:44:22,200
yourself and I’ll read it to you
shortly.
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Jesus shared our nature.
Hebrews 214.
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He himself likewise took part in
the same, that he might deal
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00:44:49,010 –> 00:44:53,560
with the problem of sin.
Romans 8, verse 3 God, sending
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His own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, condemned sin in
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the flesh.
What does Brother Carter write?
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He shared our nature.
Hebrews 214.
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Romans 8 Three That in the very
arena we’re sin ruled.
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00:45:14,600 –> 00:45:19,040
We’re sin ruling in our bodies
we’re bound, aren’t we?
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We’re all bowed down to the
problem of Sin.
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Its claim could be contested and
overthrown.
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00:45:29,080 –> 00:45:36,720
So where has Ehud got to go to
defeat Eglon and all the Eglon
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as king Sin represents?
Can he get Eglon to come to him?
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No.
In the very arena where Sin
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00:45:45,280 –> 00:45:49,080
ruled.
He’s got to go to Eglon’s
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00:45:49,480 –> 00:45:51,360
palace.
Do you see?
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00:45:52,320 –> 00:45:55,640
Because this is where Eglon
rules from.
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OK, Our time is moving, but
we’ve got 5 minutes.
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Are we OK?
5 minutes.
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00:46:00,440 –> 00:46:01,600
Yeah.
Thumbs up, everyone.
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00:46:01,600 –> 00:46:03,280
All right, 5 minutes.
Are we OK?
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00:46:03,760 –> 00:46:06,280
Talk.
OK, Judges three.
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He himself turned again, verse
19 from the quarries that were
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00:46:10,160 –> 00:46:15,640
by Gilgal and said, I have a
secret errand for you.
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OK, who said Keep silent?
And all that stood by him went
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00:46:21,440 –> 00:46:25,520
out from him, and Ehud came to
him.
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00:46:26,800 –> 00:46:29,240
He himself likewise took part in
the Senate.
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00:46:29,720 –> 00:46:33,520
He goes to the very arena where
sin rules.
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00:46:34,040 –> 00:46:40,240
Ehud came to him and he was
sitting in a summer parlour,
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00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:47,080
which he had for himself alone,
and he arose out of his seat.
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00:46:47,760 –> 00:46:52,640
Now let’s just pick up some of
these words, the word errand and
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00:46:52,640 –> 00:46:56,840
the word message.
So in verse 19 I’ve got a secret
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errand.
That’s the same Hebrew word as
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00:47:00,640 –> 00:47:05,200
the word message in verse 20.
So maybe circle them and connect
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00:47:05,200 –> 00:47:07,440
them together.
Errand and message, the same
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00:47:07,440 –> 00:47:09,600
word.
Now actually it’s a very, very
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00:47:09,600 –> 00:47:12,360
well used Hebrew word.
I’ll probably say it wrong.
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00:47:12,760 –> 00:47:17,120
It’s something like the word
dobar, and ordinarily
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00:47:17,120 –> 00:47:19,520
translated, it’s translated
hundreds of times to the
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00:47:19,520 –> 00:47:23,920
Scriptures.
It’s the word word.
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00:47:25,920 –> 00:47:33,120
It’s the word word.
Now, what has Ehud got hiding on
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his right thigh?
He’s got a dagger, A2 edged
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00:47:38,160 –> 00:47:42,920
sword, which speaks to us of the
word of God.
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So he’s not lying.
He says I’ve got a secret word
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00:47:51,960 –> 00:47:59,880
for you, a word from God, a
message from God for you.
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00:48:01,120 –> 00:48:05,320
So no wonder Eglon is so
chuffed, isn’t he, that he gets
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00:48:05,320 –> 00:48:08,320
up having all this word from me,
from God.
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00:48:08,320 –> 00:48:12,560
And of course we know, don’t we,
that even then puts forth his
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00:48:12,560 –> 00:48:15,200
left hand.
Why does it have to be man’s
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00:48:15,200 –> 00:48:17,760
left hand who’s winning the
victory?
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00:48:17,760 –> 00:48:23,640
It’s God’s right hand, so he
puts forth his left hand.
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00:48:24,920 –> 00:48:29,840
Man is going to need to be a
base in the atonement, and God
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00:48:29,840 –> 00:48:35,000
is going to need to be exalted.
So as man is a base, he puts
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forth his left hand.
So God’s right hand is going to
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be exalted.
He’s the one that’s going to
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give the victory, and he puts
that dagger.
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00:48:49,520 –> 00:48:54,360
Verse 21, he took the dagger
from his right thigh and thrust
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it into his belly.
And the hearth also went in
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after the blade, and the fat
closed upon the blade, so he
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could not draw the dagger out of
his belly, and the dirt came
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00:49:04,120 –> 00:49:08,440
out.
He himself likewise took part of
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00:49:08,440 –> 00:49:11,600
the same in the likeness of
sinful flesh.
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00:49:11,920 –> 00:49:17,520
He’s connected to Eglon.
He can’t get his sword out.
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00:49:19,280 –> 00:49:21,360
He spent all those days
sharpening his sword.
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00:49:21,520 –> 00:49:24,320
It’s stuck.
He can’t get it out.
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00:49:26,000 –> 00:49:31,720
It’s been used to defeat King
Sin right through his belly.
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00:49:32,280 –> 00:49:38,400
And the dirt came out.
Final reference Philippians
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chapter 3.
Keep a marker, come to
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Philippians chapter 3.
Keep your marker because you
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00:49:45,560 –> 00:49:48,400
need to make a note, but come to
Philippians 3.
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Now I want to thank our brother
Jake actually for this because I
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00:49:58,670 –> 00:50:01,910
was struggling how to put this
slide together and my brother
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00:50:01,910 –> 00:50:03,910
Jake Jeffries said he he would
help me.
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00:50:04,190 –> 00:50:05,870
So I’m I’m really grateful to
him for that.
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00:50:07,110 –> 00:50:10,880
So Philippians chapter 3, thank
you Jake, thankful for your
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00:50:10,880 –> 00:50:13,680
help.
Philippians 3, here we are.
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There’s a lot of links in
Philippians 3 to Ehud now.
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00:50:20,120 –> 00:50:23,760
We haven’t got time to do it
now, but you cast your eye in
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the breakthrough Philippians 3
to see if you can find more
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00:50:27,520 –> 00:50:29,320
connections that I’m about to
give you to Ehud.
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00:50:29,440 –> 00:50:31,720
There are lots Philippians 3
though.
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00:50:31,720 –> 00:50:37,320
I want you to go in at verse 90,
where we read of the wicked, of
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00:50:37,320 –> 00:50:43,520
the likes of Eglon, whose end is
destruction, Whose God is their
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00:50:44,280 –> 00:50:46,400
belly?
That’s Eglon, isn’t it?
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00:50:47,200 –> 00:50:48,640
They brought the present of food
for him.
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00:50:48,960 –> 00:50:52,280
He was the fat cow, His God was
his belly.
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Whose glory is in their shame.
Who mind earthly things.
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For our citizenship is in
heaven, whence also we look for
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00:51:03,440 –> 00:51:04,960
the Saviour.
What was he Hood?
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He was the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who shall change
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00:51:10,680 –> 00:51:13,720
our viability.
Listen, the point is this.
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You and I are no different to
Edgar.
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If we allow ourselves to serve
King’s sin, if we allow our
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00:51:27,640 –> 00:51:33,160
lives to be ruled, to be reigned
over by King’s sin, our end is
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00:51:33,160 –> 00:51:37,360
destruction.
Our God is our belly, that S who
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00:51:37,360 –> 00:51:40,440
we serve.
You VE got to make sure that you
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00:51:40,520 –> 00:51:47,640
serve King righteousness in your
life and He will change our vile
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00:51:47,640 –> 00:51:54,320
body that may be confessioned
unto His glorious body according
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00:51:54,320 –> 00:51:59,640
to the working whereby He S able
even to subdue all things to
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00:51:59,640 –> 00:52:02,240
Himself.
I did ask you to keep Marker and
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00:52:02,240 –> 00:52:03,920
Judges 3.
I did tell you this was the last
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00:52:03,920 –> 00:52:07,200
reference.
It is, but just look at Judges 3
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00:52:07,200 –> 00:52:11,080
verse 30.
What does Ehud do?
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00:52:11,560 –> 00:52:16,120
Last verse about Ehud Moab was
subdued.
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00:52:17,080 –> 00:52:19,640
Philippians 3.
What does the Lord Jesus do?
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00:52:19,800 –> 00:52:25,200
He’s able even to subdue all
things unto himself.
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00:52:26,160 –> 00:52:36,040
So THS well, first one that’s of
significance to our study.
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00:52:36,040 –> 00:52:40,200
Now serve king righteousness,
serve king righteousness.
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00:52:40,400 –> 00:52:46,360
Make that the priority of your
life and think of it as a binary
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00:52:46,360 –> 00:52:50,120
choice where there’s two
options.
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00:52:50,400 –> 00:52:53,800
One is King’s sin, one is king
righteousness.
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00:52:54,080 –> 00:52:58,360
Next time you’re in a position
where you’re thinking, what is
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00:52:58,360 –> 00:53:02,640
the right thing to do here?
Or rather, what shall I do here?
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00:53:04,280 –> 00:53:10,080
Try to get your mind to get down
the lane of King righteousness.
702
00:53:10,760 –> 00:53:20,360
Rather than allow ourselves to
fall to King’s sin #2 rely on
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00:53:20,360 –> 00:53:26,280
God’s right hand in your life.
The whole point is our right
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00:53:26,280 –> 00:53:30,560
hand has got to be shut up.
We can’t do it alone.
705
00:53:30,800 –> 00:53:34,240
The Lord Jesus was sent to do it
alone for us.
706
00:53:34,840 –> 00:53:39,360
If you believe in that victory
and trust in it and trust in
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00:53:39,360 –> 00:53:43,240
God’s right hand, then you will
be looked after.
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00:53:43,280 –> 00:53:45,280
You will be brought into the
land.
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00:53:45,280 –> 00:53:51,480
And while we wait for that time,
sharpen your sword, young
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00:53:51,480 –> 00:53:55,760
people, sharpen your sword.
Brothers and sisters, sharpen
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00:53:55,760 –> 00:54:00,760
your sword.
This word He’s able to why make
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00:54:00,760 –> 00:54:06,760
us wise and give us salvation?
What fools are we if we don’t
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00:54:06,760 –> 00:54:10,400
open it on a daily basis to
sharpen our swords?
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