Sam Bailey – Deborah and Barak – Class 1 – Deborah – The Inspirational Prophetess

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So for those that have missed
the several announcements and

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newsletters that we’ve had over
the past few weeks, our Bible

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week this week is going to be on
Deborah the Inspirational

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Prophetess.
We’re and we’re very grateful to

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have Sam and the family here
with us.

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And for our first study, we’re
going to be looking at Judges 4

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versus 1 to 5.
I’d ask Matt to read that for us

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and if Sam can come up after
that, that’d be great.

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Thanks.
Judges chapter 4, verses 1:00 to

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5:00.
And the children of Israel again

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did evil in the sight of Yahweh,
when Ehud was dead, anyway sold

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them into the hand of Jabin,
king of Canaan, that reigned in

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Hazel, the captain of whose host
was Sisera, which dwelt in

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harsheth of the Gentiles.
And the children of Israel cried

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unto the Lord, for he had 900
Chariots of iron, and 20 years

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he mightily oppressed the
children of Israel.

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And Deborah, a prophetess, the
wife of Lapidos, she judged

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Israel at that time, and she
dwelt under the palm tree of

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Deborah, between Raymar and
Bethel and Mount Ephraim, and

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the children of Israel came up
to her for judgement.

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Well, good afternoon my dear
brothers and sisters in the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
And young people, as you’ve

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noticed in the accent, I am from
New Zealand, my wife is not.

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And for that she’s really
enjoying being back in her home

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country.
And we are so excited to be back

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here in Adelaide and to be able
to share the fellowship with you

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all, to acquaint ourselves with
old friends and to meet a bunch

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of new ones as we endeavour to
learn and grow together around

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God’s Word.
Over the course of.

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The week we want to uncover, I
suppose, some essential lessons

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and stories from the life of
some remarkable people that

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lived in the time of the judges.
In the time period of the

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judges.
It’s probably one of the most

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intriguing sections of the Bible
and and in the history of the

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nation of Israel.
It’s a time.

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That was characterized by just
countless battles and immense

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bloodshed and extreme violence.
You know it was a.

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Time we find the nation, though,
that they frequently lost sight

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of the God whom they served and
turned aside from practicing

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true worship under Joshua’s
guidance, and become steeped in

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idolatry and in corruption and
rapid moral decay.

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And what we find, brothers and
sisters, is we find that this is

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a state that they inherited
because of a lack.

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Of faithful leadership from the
appearance generation.

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It’s a state though, that they
accepted as the appearance

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failed to.
Utterly remove the nations from

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before them, as they received
their inheritance upon entering

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the promised.
Land.

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In the book of the Judges,
there’s a documented.

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Narrative isn’t it by the
sisters?

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Of a nation in whose history?
Depicted.

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Faithlessness.
Idolatry and corruption.

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And yet scattered through this.
Dark period of Israel’s times.

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The Scripture highlights for us
some remarkable characters who

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demonstrate incredible faith,
bravery and spiritual

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perception.
Whom God used.

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And God raised to inspire and to
encourage and to revitalize a

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remnant of His.
People.

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To continue to keep the promise
and his purpose alive.

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Throughout time do.
You know it’s those.

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Inspirational examples that we
want to explore with Deborah and

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Barrett and jail, and we wish to
gain some incredible insights

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from powerful lessons in
leadership.

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For us today.
And to gain.

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Encouragement from what?
They were able to achieve as we

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endeavour to cast.
Aside our enemies and the

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environment that we live in to
try and seize our inheritance

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and prepare for the Kingdom and
so.

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Over the course of our six
studies together, we’re going to

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have a look at six hey, 6
studies.

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Your old sixes.
Yes, 6 Right.

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So Deborah, we’re going to have
a look at tonight, the

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inspirational prophetess.
But before we look at Deborah,

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we want to have a look at the
background to her.

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Remarkable.
What makes her so remarkable?

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We want to have a look at the
background to her as a person

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and then in our second study
tonight, we’re going to have a

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look at Bayreq.
What?

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Was.
His.

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Challenge.
What was the problem?

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How?
Deborah motivates him to get him

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to take.
A role.

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That he was hesitantly not
fulfilling.

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And to uncover how she worked
with him so that we can learn

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lessons around helping each
other as well in our war.

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Then we’re going to have a look
in our exhort tomorrow at the

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the lovely story of jail and
we’re going to call they’ve

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called that the displaced wife
and we’ll see why as we get into

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the story.
And then we want to have a look

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in our fourth study during the
middle of the week on the tribes

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and Debra’s song, right what
Debra sings about what makes

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her.
And Bayreq.

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Sing their.
Hearts out about this, about

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what they did and what they
didn’t do and what were they

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were so encouraged and what were
they were so disgusted by when

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they looked at the nation at the
time.

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And then on our Thursday night,
I think it is, we want to have a

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look at the interesting insight
that Deborah sings about at the

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end of Judges Chapter 5 about.
Sisra’s mum, Sisra’s mother.

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What on earth?
Was Deborah talking about at the

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end of Judges Chapter 5 about a
woman who’s dwelling in a castle

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with her maidens and what was
what was actually going on in

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the story and what we find
brothers and sisters in that

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study is this, that actually the
destruction of Sisera?

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Was only but a prelude to the
main event.

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That actually, Sisar’s
destruction was actually just a

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catalyst for the nation to
respond and to seize their

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inheritance that they’d failed
to take.

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And that’s what Deborah and Bay
are going to sing about.

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And Sisar’s mum?
Well.

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Well, she was the queen of the
empire.

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And of course the type is
absolutely obvious with

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Armageddon and the subjugation
of Europe, with this woman who

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dominated a castle.
And then what we want to do in

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our final study, together with
the exhort on the following

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Sunday, is to have a look at
this expression.

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Leading captivity, Captive what?
What?

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Does Paul?
See in Deborah’s song and in

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David’s commentary that gets
pulled from Moses.

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That was so remarkable about
what?

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Christ accomplished.
And how he led.

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And what that demands of each
and every one of us in terms of

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our response and our leadership
and our ecclesias so.

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That’s the course.
Of the next 6 studies hopefully

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hopefully stay with us as we
endeavour to to go through this

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remarkable.
Story.

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OK, so Deborah and the story in
the context of her times to

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this.
Study.

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We want to spend some time.
To show that the issue of the

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nation.
At.

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This point in time was.
That of failed leadership.

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There weren’t people standing
up.

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To take the responsibility
amongst the nation to help them

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understand God’s purpose and
God’s.

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Ways.
Why was that?

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What happened?
How did they get to this point?

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Yet.
His remark wasn’t the nation was

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a come out of Egypt, they.
Seize their inheritance.

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God works amongst them, and then
only a very short period of time

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later they’ve totally lost the
plot.

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How and.
Why did that occur?

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Well, tonight we this afternoon
we want to actually have a look

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at how that occurred.
And so we.

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Find as Israel.
Leaves the.

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Wilderness and crosses.
Over the river Jordan Joshua

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assists the nation.
To take control.

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And after a series of military
campaigns, the nation who once

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occupied the land of Canaan were
subdued and the 12.

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Tribes received their allotted
inheritance in the land and the.

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Levites.
Well, they.

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Received their cities of refuge
and and the Tabernacle.

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Was established in Shiloh and we
know that that’s.

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All the story because.
In Joshua 18 don’t turn this up

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in verse one it says that the
land was.

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Subdued.
Before them, but come with me to

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Joshua chapter 21.
I want to show you that there’s

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some interesting expressions
that we can see start to unfold

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as we get into the story of this
story of judges.

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So Joshua 21, the land is
subdued before them, and Joshua

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sees in Joshua 2021 and verse 43
he sees.

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Right.
So thus, thus everyone in their

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suburbs were given to the
Levites this their inheritance.

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And it says in the summary of
Joshua 21.

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And of course, if you went
through back of Joshua 21, it’s

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the the allocation of the cities
of refuge and the inheritances

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of of of Levi.
But at the end of that.

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Chapter it says in verse 43,
Joshua 21 and.

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Yahweh gave unto Israel all the
land.

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Which he sweared to give.
Unto their fathers and.

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They possessed it and dwelt
therein, so they received.

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All of it.
It was the.

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Land notice that he swear unto
his your colouring and pencil

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their fathers right, and Yahweh
gave them rest all about

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according to all that he swear
unto.

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Their fathers, and there stood
not a man of all.

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Their enemies before them.
Yahweh delivered them all.

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Their enemies into their hand.
They failed not ought any good

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thing.
Which Yahweh had spoken unto the

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House of Israel.
All came to pass.

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Can you get the emphasis of
Joshua 21 that God promised that

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He would give unto their fathers
everything that He said, and

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exactly what He promised He
gave.

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And he gave unto their.
Fathers all.

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Came to pass, that Yahweh had
spoken unto the house.

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Of Israel.
All of it.

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Came to pass.
And so, brothers and sisters and

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young people.
Under Joshua’s leadership.

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And under their guidance, the
tribes took their inheritance.

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And whilst the work was started,
they remained yet work to be

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completed.
Whilst the land had been subdued

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before them, the nations amongst
them had not yet fully been

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eradicated.
They had to yet finish what

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Joshua had begun, and Joshua
knew that, and he knew the

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importance of that.
And he calls the nation.

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Together and Joshua chapter 23
come with me to Joshua chapter

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23 so.
They had begun.

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They had subdued the land all
the enemies had been given into.

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Their hand, everything God had
promised them, had happened, and

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Joshua knew that there was a
lesson still that they had to.

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Finish.
And so he calls the nation.

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Together at the end of his life,
to warn them and to exhort them

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and to encourage them to
complete the task.

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To remain faithful to their
obliteration of the enemies.

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And so in Joshua 23 and verse
one it says and it came to pass

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a.
Long time.

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After.
Yahweh had given rest unto

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Israel from all the enemies
roundabout, that Joshua waxed

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old and was stricken in age.
Joshua can no longer lead in

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front of them.
And Joshua calls the nation of

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Israel together and says to
them, calls for the elders

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notice.
And for the heads, and for their

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judges, and.
For their officers.

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Why does he do that rather than
sisters and young people?

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Because he’s wanting to inspire
the leaders amongst the nation

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to continue the work that he now
can’t do.

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He calls for the leadership
amongst the nation and he.

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Says to them, I’m old, I’m
stricken an age, and you have

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seen all that Yahweh your God
hath done unto you, all these

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nations because of you.
Yahweh, your God is he that hath

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fought for you.
You already know.

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Notice the past tense.
He’s already fought for you.

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You know that.
So he says, Behold, I have

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divided verse 4 unto you by lot
these nations that remain.

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To be an inheritance.
For all your tribes.

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From Jordan, with all the
nations that I have cut off,

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even unto the great.
Sea westward and.

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Yahweh, your God, He.
Shall he’s the future?

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He shall.
Expel them from before you.

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And drive.
Them from out of your sight, and

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ye.
Shall.

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Possess their land as Yahweh.
Your God hath promised you, but

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he says.
It.

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Requires something really
special.

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Be ye therefore verse 6 very
courageous to keep and to do.

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All that is written in the book
of the Law of Moses, that you

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turn not aside from the left to
the right, that you come not

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among these nations.
These that remain among you

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neither make mention of the name
of their gods, nor cause them to

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swear by you.
Neither serve nor bow yourselves

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unto them, but cleave unto
Yahweh.

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Your God is ye have done this
day for Yahweh.

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Hath driven out from among you
great nations and strong.

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But As for you, no man.
Shall be able to stand before

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you this day one man who should
chase 1000.

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For Yahweh your God, here it is.
That fighteth for you as He hath

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promised you.
Can you see the links from

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chapter 21 to chapter 23?
Take, he says, Here’s the

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exaltation.
Take good heed, therefore, unto

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yourselves.
That ye love.

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Yahweh your God, else if you do
in any wise, go back and cleave

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unto the.
Remnant of these nations, even

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those that remain among you, and
make marriages with them, and go

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on unto them, and they do, you
know, he says for a surety.

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That Yahweh your God will no
more drive out any of these

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nations from.
Before you.

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But they shall be sneers and
traps unto you, and scourges in

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your sight.
And thorns in your eyes, and

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until ye perish.
From off the good land which

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Yahweh hath given for you.
And so Joshua’s message was

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pretty simple.
Was the exhortation was it?

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Remove them or be removed.
Yourself.

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It’s simple.
You’ve got to finish the job

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we’ve started.
Else.

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You will be removed.
Watch out for.

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These nations and just in your
mind, just remember that verse

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13 know for a certainty that
Yahweh of God shall no more

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drive out any of these nations
from before you, but they shall

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be sneers.
And traps.

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Notice that.
We’ll see.

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That’s exactly what happens.
In Psalm 106 and so.

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They had to be very courageous.
And he warns them about the

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nations that remained amongst
them.

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They had.
To finish.

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The job and if you had the
colouring in pencil, colour it

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in.
Those that might remain among

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you all.
Right those that remain around

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you.
Habits twice verse.

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Seven and verse 12.
There was a remnant that.

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Still.
Needed to be eradicated from

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among them.
And So what happens?

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The leadership passes away those
that are.

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Strong die in the next
generation.

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Those are sisters have to stand
up and so we come now to Judges

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chapter 1.
And So what happens now is

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Joshua dies verse 1 of Judges
chapter 1 it says now.

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After the death of Joshua.
It came to pass that the

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children of Israel asked Yahweh,
saying, Who shall go up for US

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against the canalites first to
fight?

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Let’s let’s take Joshua’s
expression and Joshua’s words,

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and let’s finish the job.
And so they begin.

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And what happens when the
sisters and we won’t have time

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to spend in in Judges chapter 1,
but in the screen you’ll see.

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That they begin.
To.

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Eradicate the nations.
That were amongst.

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Them with gusto.
So Judah takes Simeon with him.

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After seeking Yahweh’s blessing
and they start out with

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incredible determination and so
in verses.

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Four to seven the Canaanites by
with Judah are destroyed and

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conquered in Jerusalem.
The Canaanites.

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Then in verses 8 to. 15 are
overcome and destroyed in

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Hebron.
The Canaanites are wiped out and

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destroyed in Hormar in verse 17.
The Canaanites are annihilated

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and destroyed in Philistia and
Gaza and Ashkelon and Ekron.

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They’re all gone, Judah shot off
to a flying start.

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Why?
We’ll come and have a look

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across the page.
Judges chapter 1 and verse 9.

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Why was it that they could do
this with so much?

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Ease verse 19 seats that Yahweh
was with Judah, and he drove out

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the inhabitants of the mountain,
he.

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Started off with a flying start
because Yahweh was with him, He

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sought Yahweh’s blessing and
they.

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Went for it.
But then the mission came to a

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grinding halt in the verse
season.

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Verse 19 But could not drive out
the inhabitants of the valley,

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because they had Chariots of
iron.

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You know they couldn’t drive
them out.

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They had Chariots of iron.
You see, Judah was absolutely

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enthusiastic about their work
and their inheritance.

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They commenced their battles
with eager zeal and passion,

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supported by their.
Brethren from Simeon.

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However, as soon as the work
started to.

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Encounter some obstacles and
challenge they came face to

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face.
With.

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Chariots of.
Iron.

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And all of a sudden, this is
their faith.

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And their trust in God was
tested.

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And it melted.
I think sometimes we can be

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very.
Easy to judge.

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Judah in this time.
You know, we can think, oh, come

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on, Why?
Why couldn’t they carry it off?

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You know, it’s not.
It’s not hard to think.

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How hard?
That might have been brothers

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and sisters.
They were fighting tanks.

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With toothpicks.
They had nothing in their hand.

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They were bringing a knife to a
gunfight.

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Here.
The Chariots, they had nothing.

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But they had Yahweh.
And Joshua and you could be

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easily forgiven for for for sort
of, you know, forgiving Judith

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for having some challenges.
But God was with them.

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And without God, they would have
been completely ill equipped to

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battle the Canaanites.
But Joshua had given them a

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warning.
Other sisters.

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A warning that they would face.
This.

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Challenge.
They would come face to faith,

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faced with Chariots.
Of iron.

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Have a look.
Just hold your hand here and

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Judges 1 and turned back to
Judges Joshua chapter. 17 He had

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warned them of this.
Joshua 17 verse 17 So this was

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this was Judah.
And the Sorry, this was the

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children of.
Joseph, he’d told, told them

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that they’d face these things.
They said, well, hey, look, you

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ever the children of Joseph,
said verse 13.

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Hey mate, we haven’t got a big
enough portion.

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You know, why have you given me
just one lot and one portion to

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inherit?
Saying I’m such a great people.

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Verse 14.
And Joshua said, well, if you’re

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a great people, you get up into
the wood and cut it down

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yourselves, knock them out.
The children said, well, the

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Hill’s not enough for us.
All the Canaanites dwell on the

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land of the valley.
They’ve got Chariots of iron.

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Verse 16.
All right, both they of whom are

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best Shan and.
Their towns of the Valley of

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Jezreel, they’ve got Chariots.
The Valley of Jezreel, Brothers

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and sisters, we’re going to come
across the Chariots of iron.

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In the Valley of Jezreel all
again.

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In the story of Deborah and
Bayrek.

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And Joseph says that’s going to
be too hard for me, mate.

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I’m taking this Hill Country.
Yeah, I could.

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Cut down some.
Forests.

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Sure I can.
But I can’t.

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Take that area.
And Josh, Josh Joshua turns

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around in verse 17 and says.
To the House of Joseph.

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Even to Ephraim and.
Manasseh says you thou.

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Art a great people.
You has.

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Great.
Power, thou shalt not just have

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one lot only, but the.
Mountain shall be thine, for it

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is the wood, and thou shalt cut
it down.

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And the outcomes of it shall be
for thine.

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For thou shalt.
Drive out the Canaanites, though

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they have iron Chariots and
though they be strong.

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You will do it, says Joshua.
Get on with it.

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And so Judah encounters Chariots
of iron and their their faith

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melts before he says, listen,
you’re going to face that issue

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and you need to be strong enough
to have courage that God is

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strong enough to help.
You.

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But you know, he’s the sad, sad.
Thing about judges chapter 1

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because judges 1 is now going to
depict.

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For us.
What?

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Happens when one person or one
tribe fails to finish the job.

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You see, it was.
Judah’s faithless leadership

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because of.
Chariots of iron that now set up

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a disastrous precedent.
For the other nations?

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Who failed to completely
eradicate their challenges in

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their inheritance.
Judah was first.

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But tribe after tribe after
tribe now failed to drive out.

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The inhabitants from the land
due to first verse 19, they

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could not utterly drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, but

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then Benjamin couldn’t either.
Verse 21 Neither did Benjamin

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Dr. out the Jebusites, neither
could Manasseh.

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Verse 28 Neither did he utterly
drive them out.

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Verse 29 Ephraim Neither did
Ephraim drive out the Canaanites

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verse. 39 of the.
Zebulun, drive out the

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inhabitants.
Verse 31 and Asher.

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Neither did Asher.
Drive out the inhabitants.

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And they just coloured the
pencil.

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And right across.
They could not utterly drive

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them out, did not utterly drive
them out, did not do it one

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after the other.
Judah Benjamin Manassa.

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Ephraim Zebulun, Asher, one
tribe.

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Cascades now amongst the nation.
What like mould brothers and

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sisters, that fear and cancer
now permeates the remaining

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tribes.
Verse 33 it says and NAFTA.

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Lie.
Neither did NAFTA lie.

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Drive out the inhabitants.
NAFTA lie.

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That’s Bayerat’s drive.
And so, like mold and cancer,

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the faithlessness of one tribe
began to spread and infected the

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remaining tribes and to
ultimately Israel compromised

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their divinely appointed.
Position and purpose.

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They lost their faith.
Lost their inheritance.

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So much so brother sisters, that
Psalm 106 verse 34 to 43 says we

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won’t read all of it, but here’s
a section.

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They did not utterly destroy the
nations concerning whom Yahweh.

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Had commanded them, but were
mingled among the heathen, and

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learned their works.
They served their idols, which

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were as Joshua 23 verse 13 said,
would be a snare unto them thus.

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Were they defiled?
With their own.

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Works.
And went.

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To whoring with their own
inventions, therefore, it says.

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The wrath of God kindled against
his people in so much the that

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he hoard his own inheritance.
He gave them into the hand of

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the heathen.
And then that hated.

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Them ruled over them.
Their enemies also oppressed

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them.
And they were brought in under

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under subjection, under their
hand.

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And Psalm 106.
Describes for us the.

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Problem of the Time of the
judges.

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Because they fell amongst the
nation and intermingled.

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He gave it season to the hand of
the heathen, and to them that

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hated them that.
They ruled over them.

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Their enemies also oppressed
them.

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And they were brought in
subjection under their hand.

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Faithless.
Leadership brothers and sisters

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and young people.
In the tribes and a lack of

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trust.
In.

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00:25:21,360 –> 00:25:26,000
Yahweh’s protective.
Hand cost Israel.

446
00:25:26,880 –> 00:25:34,200
Their inheritance, but the.
Question we have to ask is why?

447
00:25:34,800 –> 00:25:38,520
Why?
Did their faith fail?

448
00:25:39,160 –> 00:25:45,320
What caused the tribes faith in
God to waver so much?

449
00:25:47,560 –> 00:25:52,000
Well, Judges 2 tells us exactly.
What happened?

450
00:25:52,840 –> 00:25:54,800
Come with me to Judges chapter 2
and verse 6.

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00:25:55,760 –> 00:25:58,320
Here’s the summary.
Of why?

452
00:25:58,440 –> 00:26:04,200
Their faith failed, so Joshua 2,
verse 6.

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00:26:04,200 –> 00:26:07,320
Sees.
And when Joshua had let the

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00:26:07,320 –> 00:26:11,000
people go.
The children Israel went every

455
00:26:11,000 –> 00:26:13,760
man.
Unto his inheritance, to possess

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00:26:13,760 –> 00:26:19,840
the land and the people served
Yahweh all the days of Joshua,

457
00:26:20,320 –> 00:26:22,800
and all the days of the
leadership, the elders that

458
00:26:22,800 –> 00:26:26,760
outlived Joshua, who had seen
all the great.

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00:26:26,760 –> 00:26:29,360
Works of Yahweh that he did for
Israel.

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00:26:31,680 –> 00:26:33,840
So they served them while they
were there.

461
00:26:35,080 –> 00:26:37,880
But then Joshua the son of Nun
and the servant of Yahweh, died,

462
00:26:37,880 –> 00:26:41,240
being 110 years old, and they
buried him in the board of his

463
00:26:41,240 –> 00:26:43,840
inheritance, and Timothy Eries
in the mount of Ephraim on the

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00:26:43,840 –> 00:26:47,960
north side of the hill.
Gage and also verse then says

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00:26:48,200 –> 00:26:52,160
that generation were gathered
unto their fathers.

466
00:26:52,720 –> 00:26:55,280
So everyone that surrounded
Joshua that had seen them, and

467
00:26:55,280 –> 00:26:57,440
all the elders and the leaders
that were there at that time

468
00:26:57,560 –> 00:27:01,400
that had seen the great works
that Yahweh did passed off.

469
00:27:03,120 –> 00:27:09,640
And now, says verse 10, there
arose another generation after

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00:27:09,640 –> 00:27:12,600
them which knew not.
Yahweh.

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00:27:12,960 –> 00:27:15,880
Nor yet the.
Works that he had done for

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00:27:15,880 –> 00:27:19,800
Israel.
The children of Israel did.

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00:27:19,800 –> 00:27:21,520
Evil in the sight of Yahweh.
They served Balaam.

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00:27:21,520 –> 00:27:24,000
They forsook.
Yahweh Elohim of.

475
00:27:24,000 –> 00:27:27,960
His the expression.
Their fathers which?

476
00:27:27,960 –> 00:27:29,880
Brought them up out of the land
of Egypt and followed.

477
00:27:30,080 –> 00:27:31,760
The other gods, the gods of the
people.

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00:27:31,760 –> 00:27:33,800
That were round about.
Them and bowed themselves unto

479
00:27:33,800 –> 00:27:35,640
them, provoke Yahweh to anger,
and they forsook.

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00:27:35,760 –> 00:27:40,680
Yahweh and served Balon.
Astrov and the anger of Yahweh.

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00:27:40,680 –> 00:27:43,200
Was hot against Israel, he.
Delivered them into the hand of

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00:27:43,200 –> 00:27:47,000
the spoilers that spoiled them,
and he sold them into the hands

483
00:27:47,000 –> 00:27:49,480
of the enemies.
Round about them.

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00:27:50,080 –> 00:27:54,640
So that they could no longer, so
they could not any longer stand

485
00:27:55,160 –> 00:27:59,000
before their enemies, other
sisters and young people.

486
00:27:59,000 –> 00:28:06,200
What was the problem?
What caused their faith to fail?

487
00:28:07,200 –> 00:28:09,360
The answer is the record in
Judges Chapter 2.

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00:28:09,360 –> 00:28:14,360
Was that the parents failed to
transfer.

489
00:28:15,080 –> 00:28:20,920
And to inspire the next
generation and failed to pass on

490
00:28:20,920 –> 00:28:25,040
the mantle of leadership and
responsibility to their children

491
00:28:25,640 –> 00:28:27,600
who haven’t witnessed the.
Power of God and.

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00:28:27,600 –> 00:28:30,840
Conquering the land they failed
to demonstrate in their next

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00:28:30,840 –> 00:28:34,040
generation.
The same fervency and zeal that

494
00:28:34,040 –> 00:28:38,360
they themselves had.
And So what happened, brothers

495
00:28:38,360 –> 00:28:42,920
and sisters, was that they
forsook Yahweh Elohim of their.

496
00:28:42,920 –> 00:28:46,000
Fathers.
And serve Bail and Astroph.

497
00:28:46,720 –> 00:28:50,000
You see the problem is.
That the parents failed to

498
00:28:50,000 –> 00:28:53,920
transfer the truth.
But just as.

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00:28:54,040 –> 00:28:59,600
Devastating the children.
Didn’t stand up and grab it with

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00:28:59,600 –> 00:29:02,680
both hands.
To personalize the truth for

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00:29:02,680 –> 00:29:06,880
themselves.
Oh, brothers and sisters and

502
00:29:06,880 –> 00:29:11,400
young people, here is an
enormous lesson for all of us.

503
00:29:12,040 –> 00:29:18,160
When it comes to leadership and
the truth, see, there’s a lesson

504
00:29:18,160 –> 00:29:22,480
1st and.
Foremost to parents, to leaders,

505
00:29:22,600 –> 00:29:25,960
to elders.
Those that have position of

506
00:29:25,960 –> 00:29:30,640
responsibility, you see many,
many of those have grown up.

507
00:29:31,040 –> 00:29:33,040
They’ve been in the truth for
quite some time.

508
00:29:34,480 –> 00:29:38,120
They’ve experienced life,
they’ve experienced the trials.

509
00:29:38,800 –> 00:29:43,800
You’ve seen the hand of God
working in your life, mother,

510
00:29:43,800 –> 00:29:48,280
sisters.
It’s imperative now that we

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00:29:48,280 –> 00:29:53,600
invest in the future with the
next generation because they

512
00:29:53,600 –> 00:29:55,840
have to play a leadership role.
When we’re gone.

513
00:29:58,040 –> 00:30:02,040
We must play a leadership role
in ensuring our lifelong passion

514
00:30:02,320 –> 00:30:07,280
and zeal in the truth that we’re
built up over so much time.

515
00:30:08,520 –> 00:30:11,720
That we’ve appreciated.
God’s hand working with us and

516
00:30:11,800 –> 00:30:16,480
our challenges and our trials.
We’ve got to hand that in all

517
00:30:16,880 –> 00:30:19,320
responsibility.
To the next.

518
00:30:19,320 –> 00:30:23,680
Generation, we’ve got to allow
them room to grow.

519
00:30:24,440 –> 00:30:27,880
To develop in the truth,
realizing that they are just

520
00:30:27,880 –> 00:30:31,200
starting out on the same journey
that we’ve already embarked on

521
00:30:31,200 –> 00:30:35,400
many years before.
And we’ve got to let them grow,

522
00:30:35,800 –> 00:30:38,200
make mistakes.
And develop.

523
00:30:40,760 –> 00:30:42,200
It’s a process, brothers and
sisters.

524
00:30:42,200 –> 00:30:49,240
It’s a journey that takes time
and patience and diligence and.

525
00:30:49,240 –> 00:30:52,160
Trust.
That as much as God has worked

526
00:30:52,160 –> 00:30:55,280
in our lives.
He’s going to work in these.

527
00:30:59,680 –> 00:31:01,520
And we’ve got to.
Cherish that next generation.

528
00:31:01,520 –> 00:31:03,360
We’ve got to encourage that next
generation.

529
00:31:04,040 –> 00:31:09,280
To grow the same zeal, the same
passion, and the same energy in

530
00:31:09,280 –> 00:31:14,400
service, in the truth, if
they’re ever, ever going to have

531
00:31:14,400 –> 00:31:16,920
the ability to hold on to that
and pass.

532
00:31:16,920 –> 00:31:22,200
That to the next generation and
I think sometimes it’s very.

533
00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:30,400
Easy to be upset, build
resentment, be impatient, become

534
00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:34,200
bitter that people who haven’t
got the same tenacity or the

535
00:31:34,200 –> 00:31:36,800
same.
Fervor that we had at their age.

536
00:31:38,320 –> 00:31:40,640
We’ve got to grow there.
It’s our responsibility.

537
00:31:42,440 –> 00:31:44,680
We’ve got to guide it gently,
we’ve got to encourage it

538
00:31:44,680 –> 00:31:51,640
fervently and above all else.
Make room for them to grow, to

539
00:31:51,640 –> 00:31:55,240
grow into the role.
Of leadership so that they too

540
00:31:55,240 –> 00:31:59,000
can personalize the truth in the
same way as we did.

541
00:32:01,800 –> 00:32:03,360
You see, brothers and sisters,
this role.

542
00:32:04,400 –> 00:32:07,360
Is an optional.
It’s imperative.

543
00:32:08,320 –> 00:32:12,680
It’s our responsibility, it’s
our duty in the truth to ensure

544
00:32:12,680 –> 00:32:17,240
the truth remains alive and to.
Trust that God will protect it.

545
00:32:17,440 –> 00:32:19,480
And then?
To grow.

546
00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:23,680
And to develop it’s our
responsibility to pass the

547
00:32:23,680 –> 00:32:24,720
mental of.
That.

548
00:32:24,720 –> 00:32:29,440
Responsibility to the next
generation and the truth depends

549
00:32:29,440 –> 00:32:35,360
on brothers and sisters ’cause
if we don’t do it, it’s pretty

550
00:32:35,360 –> 00:32:41,120
obvious what happens.
So enough about the

551
00:32:41,120 –> 00:32:43,720
responsibility of parents and
elders amongst ecclesia.

552
00:32:43,720 –> 00:32:46,600
What’s the responsibility for
young people and for those that

553
00:32:46,600 –> 00:32:50,960
are growing up on the truth?
Well, so I’ll put myself in this

554
00:32:50,960 –> 00:32:53,520
bracket as well.
You know, it’s our

555
00:32:53,520 –> 00:32:57,800
responsibility as as younger
people in the ecclesia, as we

556
00:32:57,800 –> 00:33:01,520
try to grow, to look to the
wisdom.

557
00:33:02,400 –> 00:33:04,040
And the experience?
Of those that have gone.

558
00:33:04,040 –> 00:33:06,800
Before us.
To understand what they’ve

559
00:33:06,800 –> 00:33:08,720
achieved and why they’ve
achieved them and how.

560
00:33:08,720 –> 00:33:11,920
God’s worked in their life to
realise that they’ve worn.

561
00:33:12,120 –> 00:33:16,480
The heat and burden of the day.
And have learnt so many life

562
00:33:16,480 –> 00:33:17,920
lessons that God has taught
them.

563
00:33:19,280 –> 00:33:22,440
That we might learn from them.
Many have walked.

564
00:33:22,440 –> 00:33:25,960
Most of their life in the truth,
and they bear the scars and the

565
00:33:25,960 –> 00:33:31,280
experience of trials.
Both won and lost, but those

566
00:33:31,280 –> 00:33:33,600
that have worked with others.
Through the issues.

567
00:33:33,600 –> 00:33:36,960
Of life have built up a deep
appreciation of the love and.

568
00:33:36,960 –> 00:33:40,320
Power.
And patience and Providence of

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00:33:40,320 –> 00:33:43,720
God.
In their own lives, it’s our

570
00:33:43,720 –> 00:33:47,120
responsibility and our duty as.
Those growing up.

571
00:33:47,200 –> 00:33:50,120
In the truth to respect,
therefore, the thoughts and

572
00:33:50,120 –> 00:33:51,720
experiences of those that have
gone.

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00:33:51,720 –> 00:33:57,040
Before, but more importantly, or
just as important?

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00:33:57,440 –> 00:34:00,640
It is our.
Responsibility to step up, to

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00:34:00,640 –> 00:34:03,200
not shirk that responsibility.
To take on.

576
00:34:03,320 –> 00:34:05,400
The role and.
Responsibility of trying to help

577
00:34:05,400 –> 00:34:07,560
and to grow and to serve
because.

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00:34:07,560 –> 00:34:10,920
They won’t be there forever.
Oh, they brothers.

579
00:34:10,920 –> 00:34:13,440
Sisters.
As we know.

580
00:34:15,159 –> 00:34:20,360
And it won’t be long and.
It’ll be our turn to transfer

581
00:34:20,360 –> 00:34:22,880
that truth to our children.
As we grow.

582
00:34:23,440 –> 00:34:26,960
So that they carry on the truth
if Christ remains away.

583
00:34:27,560 –> 00:34:31,440
Therefore, as young people, it
is our responsibility to

584
00:34:31,440 –> 00:34:33,080
personalize the.
Truth early.

585
00:34:33,480 –> 00:34:38,600
But in in doing so, listen and
to seek advice from those who

586
00:34:38,600 –> 00:34:40,120
have witnessed the.
Power.

587
00:34:40,400 –> 00:34:44,480
And the mercy of God in their
own lives and to take on the

588
00:34:44,480 –> 00:34:47,840
mantle of responsibility and to
step up and serve wherever we

589
00:34:47,840 –> 00:34:50,440
can.
And thus brothers and sisters

590
00:34:50,440 –> 00:34:52,159
by.
Leaning in.

591
00:34:52,159 –> 00:34:57,520
Together and by God’s grace, the
truth will.

592
00:34:57,520 –> 00:34:59,920
Pass from generation to
generation.

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00:35:00,840 –> 00:35:03,760
Because God will bring about His
purpose.

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00:35:06,680 –> 00:35:08,600
So there’s great lessons, isn’t
it, brothers, sisters, if we’re

595
00:35:08,600 –> 00:35:13,320
going to maintain our faith
together, we have to learn to

596
00:35:13,320 –> 00:35:17,560
work together.
But unfortunately, brothers,

597
00:35:17,560 –> 00:35:20,640
sisters, this didn’t happen in
this generation.

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00:35:21,600 –> 00:35:23,680
We don’t have time to look at it
tonight, but if you go to the

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00:35:23,680 –> 00:35:26,640
appendices of the judges, what
we see in the appendices is

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00:35:26,640 –> 00:35:29,680
exactly the problem of what
happens if it’s not passed.

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00:35:29,680 –> 00:35:32,160
Properly from generation to
generation.

602
00:35:32,640 –> 00:35:35,560
Don’t have time to look at it,
but you know, chapters 17 to 18

603
00:35:35,560 –> 00:35:37,520
of the appendices of the judges
that fits in.

604
00:35:37,520 –> 00:35:39,520
Right.
At the section in Judges Chapter

605
00:35:39,520 –> 00:35:44,840
2 demonstrates 4 Haas firstly,
the idolatry that occurred in

606
00:35:44,840 –> 00:35:48,480
the tribe of Dan when one man
stole from his mother and mummy

607
00:35:48,480 –> 00:35:49,800
mummy says.
Oh, you’re a good boy for

608
00:35:49,800 –> 00:35:51,400
returning.
Part of it and then builds an

609
00:35:51,400 –> 00:35:52,200
idol out of it.
So.

610
00:35:52,520 –> 00:35:54,800
It’s disgraceful.
And then and the idolatry in the

611
00:35:54,800 –> 00:35:59,720
tribe of Dan was created from
the grandson of Moses.

612
00:36:00,680 –> 00:36:02,440
And you know what that ended up
doing by the?

613
00:36:02,440 –> 00:36:05,480
Sisters was corrupting.
All the doctrine of the troops

614
00:36:07,160 –> 00:36:11,040
and then in chapter. 19 to 21,
we see the story of of the of

615
00:36:11,040 –> 00:36:15,080
the the Levite, who has a
concubine who’s abused by the

616
00:36:15,120 –> 00:36:18,600
men of the men of Benjamin and
cut up in pieces and sent around

617
00:36:18,840 –> 00:36:21,920
the the tribe of the entire 12
tribes and the and the.

618
00:36:21,920 –> 00:36:25,600
Story of this in chapters 19 to
21 is the immorality in the

619
00:36:25,600 –> 00:36:28,360
tribe of Benjamin was caused
because of the grandson of Aaron

620
00:36:28,360 –> 00:36:31,760
and.
This demonstrates a problem with

621
00:36:31,760 –> 00:36:37,560
the corruption of practice.
In these two stories encapsulate

622
00:36:37,560 –> 00:36:40,920
the challenge of the time of
failed.

623
00:36:40,920 –> 00:36:44,680
Leadership and transferring the
truth from generation to

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00:36:44,680 –> 00:36:46,840
generation, and how quickly.
That can happen.

625
00:36:50,520 –> 00:36:54,120
The appendices we know begin and
end with a catch phrase that

626
00:36:54,120 –> 00:36:58,200
summarize the time of the nation
of Israel.

627
00:36:59,640 –> 00:37:03,440
Judges 17 verse 6 and Judges 21
verse 25.

628
00:37:03,440 –> 00:37:07,240
The encapsulation of that.
Those appendices says that in

629
00:37:07,240 –> 00:37:10,720
those days there was no king in.
Israel.

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00:37:10,720 –> 00:37:12,040
But every man did that which
was.

631
00:37:12,040 –> 00:37:15,080
Right in his own eyes.
Do you know?

632
00:37:15,080 –> 00:37:18,400
Sometimes we can mistake the
thinking of this expression

633
00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:20,800
meaning that they just did
whatever they wanted.

634
00:37:21,400 –> 00:37:23,360
But I don’t.
Think that that’s quite true.

635
00:37:24,840 –> 00:37:26,880
I think it’s slightly worse.
Than that.

636
00:37:28,120 –> 00:37:30,920
You see, I don’t think
necessarily it means that they

637
00:37:30,920 –> 00:37:33,560
did whatever they.
Wanted do you know what the word

638
00:37:33,560 –> 00:37:35,240
from right?
When it says every man did that

639
00:37:35,240 –> 00:37:38,200
which was right in his own eyes
is the word used in Jeremy

640
00:37:38,200 –> 00:37:42,280
chapter 12 and verse 8.
You see Jeremy 12 and verse 8

641
00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:44,880
says don’t bother turning it up,
I’ll do it for you.

642
00:37:45,840 –> 00:37:51,000
Jeremy 12 verse 8 says listen.
Moses says, listen, I don’t want

643
00:37:51,000 –> 00:37:54,960
you to do after the things which
he do here this day, every man.

644
00:37:54,960 –> 00:37:57,360
Doing what was.
Right in his own eyes.

645
00:37:57,720 –> 00:37:59,760
For you’re not yet coming to the
rest of the land of your

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00:37:59,760 –> 00:38:01,320
inheritance.
But when you go over, I want you

647
00:38:01,320 –> 00:38:03,800
to do all these things in the
place that God chooses.

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00:38:04,040 –> 00:38:06,320
The word for right is the word
for straight it’s the word.

649
00:38:06,320 –> 00:38:10,480
For judgement, righteousness,
and what they were doing was

650
00:38:10,480 –> 00:38:15,400
they were trying to work out the
truth, but not using the law as

651
00:38:15,400 –> 00:38:18,440
their guide.
Joshua had said that don’t you

652
00:38:18,440 –> 00:38:20,640
turn from the right hand to the
left.

653
00:38:20,760 –> 00:38:23,240
You make sure you do exactly
what Moses.

654
00:38:23,240 –> 00:38:26,680
Said we saw that and in Joshua
21 when he said.

655
00:38:26,680 –> 00:38:28,840
Listen, you need to keep
straight and true.

656
00:38:29,360 –> 00:38:31,640
Don’t do what’s?
Right in your own eyes.

657
00:38:31,640 –> 00:38:33,120
Don’t try and work out what you
think.

658
00:38:33,120 –> 00:38:34,240
‘S right, and we know that when
we.

659
00:38:34,240 –> 00:38:37,840
Look at the story of the Levite.
He says, oh, oh, I think the man

660
00:38:37,840 –> 00:38:39,560
says, oh, yes, that’s right.
We need a priest.

661
00:38:39,560 –> 00:38:41,000
All right, you’re of Levite.
Great.

662
00:38:41,040 –> 00:38:42,080
Bang.
He was.

663
00:38:42,240 –> 00:38:45,640
He was trying to do the truth.
But not all Levites were

664
00:38:45,640 –> 00:38:47,200
priests.
Only the sons of Aaron were

665
00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:49,920
priests.
So he was trying to do sort of

666
00:38:49,920 –> 00:38:52,840
what he thought he was right,
but not wasn’t complete

667
00:38:52,840 –> 00:38:55,400
abandonment.
It distorted the truth and.

668
00:38:55,400 –> 00:38:59,640
Corrupted its practice.
You see, they were doing what

669
00:38:59,640 –> 00:39:01,840
was right but failed to use the
law.

670
00:39:01,840 –> 00:39:04,000
As their guidance, so they
apostasized.

671
00:39:04,280 –> 00:39:07,120
From the truth and it’s
interesting, brothers and

672
00:39:07,120 –> 00:39:09,920
sisters.
Who were they supposed to turn

673
00:39:09,920 –> 00:39:15,200
to to understand what was right?
Who are they to turn to?

674
00:39:15,640 –> 00:39:18,600
Judges 16 says sorry,
Deuteronomy 16 says.

675
00:39:18,600 –> 00:39:24,720
That he would appoint for them.
Judges so every man shall give

676
00:39:24,720 –> 00:39:28,240
as he is able judges 16 verse 18
says that he.

677
00:39:28,240 –> 00:39:30,160
Will put judges.
And.

678
00:39:30,160 –> 00:39:33,080
Officers they were supposed to
make in all.

679
00:39:33,080 –> 00:39:36,720
Thy gates, which Yahweh thy God
hath given thee throughout thy

680
00:39:36,720 –> 00:39:39,480
tribes.
And they shall judge the people

681
00:39:39,760 –> 00:39:42,840
with just judgement.
They were going to help them

682
00:39:42,840 –> 00:39:44,880
understand the law.
The Levites weren’t able to be

683
00:39:44,880 –> 00:39:48,360
in every city.
And so God appointed judges for

684
00:39:48,360 –> 00:39:50,800
them, or actually not God.
Moses says.

685
00:39:50,880 –> 00:39:52,600
I want you to appoint judges in
every city.

686
00:39:53,160 –> 00:39:55,920
Make sure it’s done.
There was no king to lead them.

687
00:39:56,160 –> 00:39:59,480
They had to appoint judges in
every city throughout all thy

688
00:39:59,480 –> 00:40:02,200
gates to not to give just
judgment.

689
00:40:03,160 –> 00:40:06,200
Thou shalt not rest judgement,
thou shall not be respected

690
00:40:06,200 –> 00:40:09,760
persons, neither take a gift or
be, you know, dodgy.

691
00:40:09,920 –> 00:40:12,440
Thou shall alter together be
just, thou shalt follow.

692
00:40:12,440 –> 00:40:14,960
And that thou must live and
inherit the land which they God

693
00:40:14,960 –> 00:40:18,480
giveth thee.
That’s Jeremy 16 verses 17 to

694
00:40:18,560 –> 00:40:21,320
20.
And so, with no king to lead

695
00:40:21,320 –> 00:40:24,520
them, they were supposed to turn
to the judges.

696
00:40:25,080 –> 00:40:27,720
But brothers and sisters, when
we get.

697
00:40:27,720 –> 00:40:31,280
To the time of Deborah and
Bayrak, we get to the time of

698
00:40:31,280 –> 00:40:34,440
Ehood.
Where were the judges?

699
00:40:36,320 –> 00:40:40,120
They were supposed to be in
every city, but they weren’t

700
00:40:40,120 –> 00:40:43,240
there.
They weren’t there.

701
00:40:44,080 –> 00:40:47,640
So with no king to lead them and
the failure of the judges to

702
00:40:47,640 –> 00:40:49,720
speak.
The law, Well, it was natural

703
00:40:49,720 –> 00:40:52,680
that the dilution of the truth
began until here.

704
00:40:52,680 –> 00:40:58,320
They stood once more, no leader,
no knowledge, no hope, doing

705
00:40:58,320 –> 00:41:00,680
that which they thought was
right in their ion eyes.

706
00:41:00,680 –> 00:41:07,040
And rapidly losing everything.
So in Joshua chapter 2 it says

707
00:41:08,280 –> 00:41:10,560
that God.
Raised them up.

708
00:41:11,440 –> 00:41:15,280
Judges, verse 16, nevertheless.
Yahweh raised.

709
00:41:15,320 –> 00:41:19,480
UP judges which delivered them.
Out of the hand of those that

710
00:41:19,480 –> 00:41:21,200
spoiled them.
Joshua 2, verse 16.

711
00:41:21,880 –> 00:41:23,880
And yet they would not hearken
unto the judge.

712
00:41:24,520 –> 00:41:26,800
But they went to whoring after
their own gods, and bowed

713
00:41:26,800 –> 00:41:30,360
themselves unto them, and they
were quickly turned out of the.

714
00:41:30,360 –> 00:41:34,640
Way you see, God raised up
judges.

715
00:41:34,640 –> 00:41:38,080
Judges were supposed to judge
the people in all spiritual

716
00:41:38,080 –> 00:41:42,240
matters, and God raised up
judges both to respond.

717
00:41:42,240 –> 00:41:45,240
To the idolatry and to lead the
people in their responsibility

718
00:41:45,240 –> 00:41:50,120
to overcome their enemies.
And so the first judge that God

719
00:41:50,120 –> 00:41:52,720
raises is Ehud.
We have no time to look at the

720
00:41:52,720 –> 00:41:55,080
story.
Fascinating story for the man

721
00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:58,520
who’s who was this amazing with
his left hand straight with a

722
00:41:58,520 –> 00:42:03,560
lagger under the fat guts of of.
Eglon and disappears and he dies

723
00:42:03,560 –> 00:42:06,200
and the nation has this
incredible piece.

724
00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:08,960
Of of time from Ehud’s
leadership who?

725
00:42:09,200 –> 00:42:11,480
Snuck in and and absolutely
wiped.

726
00:42:11,480 –> 00:42:13,800
Out the problem for them and.
Showed them what it meant to

727
00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:18,360
lead into how to overcome.
And so they had 80 years.

728
00:42:19,080 –> 00:42:23,360
Of.
Peace under his reign and one

729
00:42:23,360 –> 00:42:26,800
after the other, God raised up
judge after judge after judge.

730
00:42:28,280 –> 00:42:31,120
But as with leaders, if people
don’t follow.

731
00:42:33,160 –> 00:42:35,640
Things fall back, and so we pick
up the story.

732
00:42:35,640 –> 00:42:39,240
Now, brothers and.
Sisters in Judges Chapter 4.

733
00:42:40,120 –> 00:42:44,400
So here we are without without
leadership amongst the nation.

734
00:42:44,440 –> 00:42:49,280
A vacuum created.
Because Ehud’s now dead, and

735
00:42:49,280 –> 00:42:51,640
once more without that solid
leadership.

736
00:42:52,400 –> 00:42:55,800
A void.
Opens up once more and thus once

737
00:42:55,800 –> 00:43:01,000
again the children of Israel
fall into apostasy because he is

738
00:43:01,000 –> 00:43:02,480
gone.
And we pick up the story now in

739
00:43:02,480 –> 00:43:05,600
Judges chapter 4 and verse one.
Hopefully you can see how this

740
00:43:05,880 –> 00:43:07,560
all builds to the story.
Of how?

741
00:43:07,560 –> 00:43:10,360
Amazing it.
Is for this particular prophet

742
00:43:10,360 –> 00:43:13,760
tears to turn up amongst the
nation.

743
00:43:15,880 –> 00:43:20,200
And so it says, Judges 4 and
verse one, that the children of

744
00:43:20,200 –> 00:43:25,520
Israel did again evil in the
sight of Yahweh when Ehud was

745
00:43:25,520 –> 00:43:31,880
dead, and Yahweh sold them into
the hand of Jabin, king of

746
00:43:31,880 –> 00:43:34,520
Canaan.
You see, Ehud had.

747
00:43:34,520 –> 00:43:38,440
Provided a secure environment
through God’s assistance, both

748
00:43:38,440 –> 00:43:40,160
military and spiritual
leadership.

749
00:43:40,160 –> 00:43:42,080
The people.
Ought to have leveraged this

750
00:43:42,080 –> 00:43:45,320
time 80 years he gave them to
consolidate their inheritance,

751
00:43:45,320 –> 00:43:47,760
but they.
Well, they failed to capitalise

752
00:43:47,760 –> 00:43:52,000
on the opportunity and failing
to realise that the 80 years

753
00:43:52,000 –> 00:43:54,080
that they received was actually.
A gift of God.

754
00:43:55,480 –> 00:43:57,440
They apostasized and used it to
their own end.

755
00:43:58,440 –> 00:44:02,120
They missed it through
complacency and mistaken self

756
00:44:02,120 –> 00:44:04,800
assurance.
They thought God was.

757
00:44:04,800 –> 00:44:08,120
With them but not.
Because he moved, they moved

758
00:44:08,120 –> 00:44:11,840
into apostasy and so once again
they do evil in the sight of

759
00:44:11,840 –> 00:44:15,080
Yahweh.
You know Judges chapter 5

760
00:44:15,080 –> 00:44:18,400
Deborah sings in her song.
They choose new gods.

761
00:44:18,400 –> 00:44:22,240
Judges 5 verse 8 they chose.
New Gods and what happened?

762
00:44:22,520 –> 00:44:25,440
Other sisters there was war.
In.

763
00:44:25,880 –> 00:44:29,880
The Gates There was war in the.
Gates.

764
00:44:29,960 –> 00:44:31,680
Where was the judge supposed to
be?

765
00:44:31,680 –> 00:44:34,080
Brothers and sisters?
The judge was supposed to be

766
00:44:34,080 –> 00:44:37,680
sitting in the gate providing
just judgement.

767
00:44:39,160 –> 00:44:42,080
But because they’d forsaken the
judge, because they’d forsaken

768
00:44:42,080 –> 00:44:43,840
God, because they had
apostasize.

769
00:44:43,840 –> 00:44:45,960
Instead of a judge giving
righteous laws.

770
00:44:46,880 –> 00:44:54,520
They now have war and so it sees
God sold them into the hand of

771
00:44:54,520 –> 00:44:56,600
Jabin, king of Canaan.
There’s a, there’s.

772
00:44:56,640 –> 00:45:00,400
Irony in that brother, sisters.
Human nature doesn’t change, and

773
00:45:00,400 –> 00:45:03,480
neither does God’s punishment.
He traded them.

774
00:45:04,200 –> 00:45:08,160
To a group of traitors.
There’s irony in that, brother,

775
00:45:08,160 –> 00:45:09,720
sisters.
He trades them.

776
00:45:09,720 –> 00:45:12,280
He sells them to a group of
traders.

777
00:45:13,240 –> 00:45:15,760
And the Canaanites.
The Canaanites means the

778
00:45:15,760 –> 00:45:17,920
lowland.
They come from the root word

779
00:45:17,920 –> 00:45:21,240
meant to bend the knee.
Right.

780
00:45:21,280 –> 00:45:23,640
And or to humiliate?
Do you know who they were?

781
00:45:23,640 –> 00:45:26,360
They were a trading.
Nation of merchants who would.

782
00:45:26,360 –> 00:45:32,440
Sell their soul to get a deal.
And their leader Jabin.

783
00:45:33,080 –> 00:45:35,880
His name means whom God
observes.

784
00:45:36,160 –> 00:45:39,800
Whom God observes, really, Of
course, because God put him

785
00:45:39,800 –> 00:45:42,400
there.
His name comes from the root

786
00:45:42,400 –> 00:45:46,080
word meaning understanding or
intelligence.

787
00:45:46,800 –> 00:45:50,800
That’s Jabin, whom God observes
from the root word of

788
00:45:50,920 –> 00:45:56,880
understanding and intelligence.
You see, this one was the CEO of

789
00:45:56,880 –> 00:46:01,800
a merchant trading nation who
was the entire representation of

790
00:46:01,800 –> 00:46:05,680
the wisdom.
Of the world in all its conceit

791
00:46:05,680 –> 00:46:09,960
and all its glory.
He’s the CEO, the wisdom of the

792
00:46:09,960 –> 00:46:13,360
world, intelligence and God put
him in this place and you know

793
00:46:13,360 –> 00:46:15,120
he.
Gripped that nation of Israel

794
00:46:15,560 –> 00:46:19,400
and grabbed them and poured them
under, sold them into his hand

795
00:46:19,400 –> 00:46:23,760
and crushed them.
And he’s reigning in.

796
00:46:23,760 –> 00:46:27,120
Hazel just means a castle, and
he’s got this.

797
00:46:27,120 –> 00:46:30,800
Dominant castle over the entire
region with iron.

798
00:46:30,800 –> 00:46:33,920
Tentacles and he’s.
Crushing them.

799
00:46:35,000 –> 00:46:37,920
And he rules over the.
Vast area from the land of the

800
00:46:37,920 –> 00:46:41,760
north of Galilee right down
through the Jezreel.

801
00:46:41,760 –> 00:46:44,280
Valley and.
How?

802
00:46:44,280 –> 00:46:48,040
Did he dominate these people?
Well, it says that he had

803
00:46:48,040 –> 00:46:50,960
Sisera.
And 900 Chariots of iron.

804
00:46:52,600 –> 00:46:54,560
You know, it’s very easy,
brother and sisters, to read

805
00:46:54,560 –> 00:46:56,760
through the story and to read
that.

806
00:46:56,760 –> 00:46:59,560
There was a.
Hand of Jabin, king of Canaan,

807
00:46:59,960 –> 00:47:03,120
who reigned in Hazel, Brothers
and sisters.

808
00:47:03,760 –> 00:47:06,760
If we had done our readings, we
would.

809
00:47:06,760 –> 00:47:10,320
Know.
That this had already.

810
00:47:10,320 –> 00:47:15,000
Happened not long.
Ago, have a look in your margin

811
00:47:15,880 –> 00:47:19,400
against H on my in the Y margin
Bible, Joshua.

812
00:47:19,400 –> 00:47:23,480
Chapter. 11 Yahweh sells.
Them at the hand of Jabin, king

813
00:47:23,480 –> 00:47:24,760
of Canaan.
Hang on a minute.

814
00:47:25,440 –> 00:47:28,800
Joshua, 11, had already told us
about a king by the name of

815
00:47:28,800 –> 00:47:32,480
Jabin who had lived in a castle
called Hazel once before.

816
00:47:33,680 –> 00:47:35,160
Come back for me to Joshua
Chapter 11.

817
00:47:36,640 –> 00:47:38,200
You see this?
This is a repeat.

818
00:47:39,240 –> 00:47:42,320
Why is it a repeat?
Joshua 11.

819
00:47:42,320 –> 00:47:46,000
Says.
And verse one came to pass.

820
00:47:46,400 –> 00:47:49,560
When?
Jabin, king of Hazel, had heard

821
00:47:49,560 –> 00:47:51,880
these things.
He sent Joba, king of Mudron and

822
00:47:51,880 –> 00:47:55,000
the king of Shimyon and the king
of Ashfaa to the kings.

823
00:47:55,200 –> 00:47:57,520
That were on the.
Mountains and to go up against.

824
00:47:57,520 –> 00:48:00,440
Them and they were verse 4 says
that they they were all their

825
00:48:00,440 –> 00:48:03,200
hosts.
Were were were much people even

826
00:48:03,200 –> 00:48:06,680
as the sandwiches upon the sea
shore and multitude with horses

827
00:48:06,880 –> 00:48:10,760
and Chariots.
Many we’ve seen this man before,

828
00:48:10,920 –> 00:48:15,000
Jabin, who’s reigning in Hazel
with all these Chariots and

829
00:48:15,000 –> 00:48:20,880
horses and Joshua in a
previously previous military

830
00:48:20,880 –> 00:48:27,760
campaign had taken Jabin the
first out in the first battles

831
00:48:28,000 –> 00:48:33,880
and crusades in the land.
You see, the kings of Canaan

832
00:48:33,880 –> 00:48:36,880
joined forces, this sand of the
seashore for multitude, and they

833
00:48:36,880 –> 00:48:39,920
had horses and turrets and
Joshua wipes them out in.

834
00:48:39,920 –> 00:48:43,560
Verse eight look what it says.
And so verse 7 So Joshua came,

835
00:48:43,560 –> 00:48:45,480
and all the people of war with
them against them by the.

836
00:48:45,480 –> 00:48:47,640
Waters of Miriam.
Suddenly and they.

837
00:48:47,640 –> 00:48:50,440
Fell on them and Yahweh.
Delivered them into the hand of

838
00:48:50,440 –> 00:48:53,400
Israel, who smoked.
Them chased them unto great

839
00:48:53,400 –> 00:48:55,680
Zeidon, now brothers and.
Sisters, we start to find out

840
00:48:55,680 –> 00:48:57,240
why.
Bayrak and his men.

841
00:48:57,440 –> 00:48:58,600
Don’t just fight.
Sisera.

842
00:48:58,600 –> 00:49:01,880
They chase Sisera out.
Because that’s what Joshua.

843
00:49:01,880 –> 00:49:05,840
Had done.
And they come in the valley of

844
00:49:05,840 –> 00:49:08,040
Mizpah and.
They smoked them until there was

845
00:49:08,040 –> 00:49:10,960
left none.
Remaining, just remember that

846
00:49:10,960 –> 00:49:12,840
expression.
We’re going to see that in our

847
00:49:12,840 –> 00:49:16,080
second study.
And Joshua did unto them as

848
00:49:16,080 –> 00:49:18,040
Yahweh Badam, and he hoffed
their horses and burned.

849
00:49:18,040 –> 00:49:20,600
Their Chariots with fire.
And Joshua at that time turned

850
00:49:20,600 –> 00:49:23,960
back and took Hazel and.
Smoked the king thereof with the

851
00:49:23,960 –> 00:49:26,000
sword.
For Hazel, before time was the

852
00:49:26,000 –> 00:49:29,240
head of all those kingdoms, and
they smote all the souls that

853
00:49:29,240 –> 00:49:31,400
were in with the edge of the
sword, utterly destroying them.

854
00:49:31,400 –> 00:49:34,000
They’re not, was not left.
Anything to breathe.

855
00:49:34,560 –> 00:49:37,000
And he burnt.
Hazel with fire, and all the

856
00:49:37,000 –> 00:49:39,760
cities of those kings and all
the kings of them did Joshua

857
00:49:39,760 –> 00:49:42,080
take and smote them with the
edge of the sword, and he

858
00:49:42,120 –> 00:49:46,240
utterly destroyed them as Moses
the servant of Yahweh commanded.

859
00:49:48,640 –> 00:49:55,000
So here’s the question if Joshua
done that in Joshua Chapter 11,

860
00:49:55,480 –> 00:49:59,320
what on earth is Jabin now
living again in a resurrected

861
00:49:59,320 –> 00:50:02,040
castle?
Only moments later in history?

862
00:50:04,480 –> 00:50:07,040
Here’s a new king calling
himself Jabin, living in a

863
00:50:07,040 –> 00:50:10,120
recently refurbished city that
had been once taken by the

864
00:50:10,120 –> 00:50:12,080
children of Israel.
What had they failed to?

865
00:50:12,080 –> 00:50:17,360
Do by the sisters and the answer
was because of Naftalise

866
00:50:17,360 –> 00:50:20,320
faithlessness, Bayrek’s tribe by
the sisters.

867
00:50:20,920 –> 00:50:25,200
They failed to capitalise on
that conquest and lost it.

868
00:50:26,680 –> 00:50:30,000
And now?
They were paying.

869
00:50:30,280 –> 00:50:33,600
For it, you see, because now
another.

870
00:50:33,600 –> 00:50:36,080
King.
Had arisen and.

871
00:50:36,080 –> 00:50:39,720
Taken back the city of Hazel and
had taken on the title of his

872
00:50:39,720 –> 00:50:44,640
predecessor from 120 years
before that and now had expanded

873
00:50:44,640 –> 00:50:49,320
his empire even further.
And he didn’t just now.

874
00:50:49,320 –> 00:50:50,440
Want.
The city of.

875
00:50:50,440 –> 00:50:51,880
Hazel.
He didn’t just take back the

876
00:50:51,880 –> 00:50:53,440
city of Hazel.
He was.

877
00:50:53,440 –> 00:50:56,560
Now not just the King of Hazel
Brazen.

878
00:50:56,560 –> 00:51:01,600
Sisters, we come now to Joshua
chapter 4, and he’s the king of

879
00:51:01,600 –> 00:51:05,440
Canaan, brother.
Sisters, he’s taken all the

880
00:51:05,480 –> 00:51:08,720
territory and boy.
Oh boy, is he going to make.

881
00:51:08,720 –> 00:51:13,640
Israel pay for their crimes.
Naftullah is now going to be

882
00:51:13,640 –> 00:51:15,520
oppressed.
They are going to be his

883
00:51:15,520 –> 00:51:18,000
servants and he mightily
oppresses.

884
00:51:18,000 –> 00:51:21,080
Them says judges chapter 4 he
mightily.

885
00:51:21,080 –> 00:51:24,040
Oppresses them.
You see lesson in that, brother,

886
00:51:24,040 –> 00:51:27,640
sisters.
If we don’t take away, if we

887
00:51:27,640 –> 00:51:30,480
don’t destroy the.
Things that take away from God

888
00:51:31,240 –> 00:51:33,040
and that lead us out of the
truth.

889
00:51:33,280 –> 00:51:35,360
If we don’t.
Utterly remove things like that.

890
00:51:36,400 –> 00:51:38,600
They’re going to come back and
bite us and not just bite us.

891
00:51:38,600 –> 00:51:41,600
They’re going to come back with
so much more force because

892
00:51:41,600 –> 00:51:44,800
they’re feeling oppressed.
They’re going to come back with.

893
00:51:44,800 –> 00:51:47,640
Double pressure.
We can’t just.

894
00:51:47,640 –> 00:51:50,240
Temporarily remove from.
View like a Band-Aid we’ve got

895
00:51:50,240 –> 00:51:52,560
to utterly cut off.
Things while we can.

896
00:51:53,840 –> 00:51:57,400
So that we can take our
inheritance.

897
00:51:58,760 –> 00:52:02,200
And so the oppression of Jabin’s
military campaigns were managed

898
00:52:02,200 –> 00:52:05,800
now by a man called Sisera, the
captain of his host.

899
00:52:06,160 –> 00:52:11,200
His name means.
Array battle array Sisera’s name

900
00:52:11,200 –> 00:52:13,320
means a battle array and by
name.

901
00:52:13,760 –> 00:52:15,800
Sisera.
Was also by character.

902
00:52:15,800 –> 00:52:21,800
You see, this man was a military
genius, a military strategist, a

903
00:52:21,800 –> 00:52:26,720
warrior who marshalled army all
over the Jezreel Valley.

904
00:52:27,760 –> 00:52:31,760
He led and he marshalled the
entire army from a city called.

905
00:52:31,840 –> 00:52:35,120
Harisheth of the Gentiles, and
that’s remarkable.

906
00:52:35,120 –> 00:52:38,040
About the city, the Hebrew word
for.

907
00:52:38,280 –> 00:52:41,000
Harisheth.
Means a city of mechanical

908
00:52:41,000 –> 00:52:42,640
workers just.
Tuck that.

909
00:52:42,640 –> 00:52:44,320
Away in your brain.
We’re going to come across that

910
00:52:44,320 –> 00:52:46,600
in our third study tomorrow.
A.

911
00:52:46,600 –> 00:52:49,560
City of mechanical workers means
a root word for.

912
00:52:49,560 –> 00:52:52,440
Carving and cutting.
It was a city of artifices and

913
00:52:52,440 –> 00:52:55,120
workmen, beaters of metal.
These were the city of the

914
00:52:55,120 –> 00:52:57,040
grease monkeys.
And the panel beaters, right

915
00:52:57,720 –> 00:53:00,720
there were apprentices.
They had them up all over the

916
00:53:00,720 –> 00:53:03,960
place, trying to have taken them
from all around the surrounding

917
00:53:03,960 –> 00:53:05,520
tribes.
It’s Harris Sheath of the

918
00:53:05,520 –> 00:53:08,400
Gentiles.
They had gone and handpicked the

919
00:53:08,400 –> 00:53:14,920
best people for this job.
And under that oppression?

920
00:53:16,120 –> 00:53:18,320
It sees verse 3, the children of
Israel.

921
00:53:18,320 –> 00:53:23,720
Cried unto Yahweh, for he had
900 Chariots of iron and 20.

922
00:53:23,720 –> 00:53:26,040
Years.
He mightily oppressed.

923
00:53:26,400 –> 00:53:29,160
The children of Israel. 900
Chariots.

924
00:53:29,160 –> 00:53:32,040
Of iron, you see, these little
metal objects by the sisters

925
00:53:32,040 –> 00:53:35,520
stood as a testimony of witness
for their faithlessness.

926
00:53:36,800 –> 00:53:40,040
Their nightmare had returned,
their faithlessness of their

927
00:53:40,040 –> 00:53:43,920
grandparents failure and their
parents now comes back in

928
00:53:43,920 –> 00:53:44,960
vengeance.
To haunt them.

929
00:53:44,960 –> 00:53:49,160
And for 20 years, it says he
mightily oppressed.

930
00:53:49,160 –> 00:53:51,400
Them.
You know the word mightily.

931
00:53:51,400 –> 00:53:54,040
He’s only used two other times
in the Old Testament, and it’s a

932
00:53:54,040 –> 00:53:57,520
word that is used of entire
dominant strength.

933
00:53:57,520 –> 00:54:00,000
And force.
And the word oppression.

934
00:54:00,000 –> 00:54:01,200
Is used only.
Really.

935
00:54:01,200 –> 00:54:04,080
To describe Israel’s oppression
from the Egyptian bondage and

936
00:54:04,080 –> 00:54:07,480
slavery.
Mightily upon it was the worst

937
00:54:07,480 –> 00:54:09,960
oppression Israel had ever
faced.

938
00:54:10,120 –> 00:54:11,960
It was worse than worse than
Egypt.

939
00:54:12,120 –> 00:54:15,920
It was worse than Eglon.
And it lasted for 20 years.

940
00:54:16,360 –> 00:54:18,480
Brothers and sisters.
That’s what happens when we

941
00:54:18,480 –> 00:54:21,360
don’t utterly remove things that
cause us problems.

942
00:54:21,760 –> 00:54:23,480
How bad was it, brothers and
sisters?

943
00:54:23,640 –> 00:54:25,280
How bad was that?
Oppression.

944
00:54:25,280 –> 00:54:28,160
Well, it says.
Judges chapter 5 and verse six.

945
00:54:28,800 –> 00:54:33,400
It was so bad in the days of
Shamgar, in the days of NF, in

946
00:54:33,400 –> 00:54:37,800
the days of jail, the highways
were unoccupied and the

947
00:54:37,800 –> 00:54:40,120
travellers walked through
byways.

948
00:54:40,120 –> 00:54:41,560
That’s.
How bad that oppression?

949
00:54:41,560 –> 00:54:47,600
Was judges 5 versus 6.
It was so bad that they were

950
00:54:47,600 –> 00:54:52,080
scared to travel between cities
and if they had to.

951
00:54:52,680 –> 00:54:56,560
They’d use the goat tracks from
the Backcountry just in case it.

952
00:54:59,440 –> 00:55:05,040
Was worse than COVID.
It was tough and you know what

953
00:55:05,680 –> 00:55:09,120
it sees when it sees that the
that the highways were.

954
00:55:09,120 –> 00:55:14,120
Unoccupied and the travellers
walked through the byways, and

955
00:55:14,120 –> 00:55:16,600
the inhabitants of the villagers
ceased.

956
00:55:16,720 –> 00:55:21,440
They ceased in Israel.
Means to come to an end the main

957
00:55:21,440 –> 00:55:24,240
arteries for food.
Were closed.

958
00:55:25,360 –> 00:55:30,080
The main way of getting things
around the country was gone.

959
00:55:31,880 –> 00:55:34,760
Anyone wanting getting around to
travel had to travel through the

960
00:55:34,760 –> 00:55:36,520
gnarly goat tracks of the bank
country.

961
00:55:36,520 –> 00:55:40,720
No one moved around first with
scarce trade was not existent.

962
00:55:40,880 –> 00:55:45,600
The noose of Sisera and Jabin
grew tighter and tighter as the

963
00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:49,960
mighty oppression of sank Israel
into complete and utter.

964
00:55:50,320 –> 00:55:55,480
Depression.
And it’s into the scene of.

965
00:55:55,520 –> 00:56:00,200
Utter misery and oppression and
depression were introduced to

966
00:56:00,240 –> 00:56:04,680
one.
That gave comfort, Deborah, it

967
00:56:04,680 –> 00:56:09,800
sees.
Was a prophetess the wife of

968
00:56:09,800 –> 00:56:12,400
Lapidoth?
She judged Israel at that time.

969
00:56:12,680 –> 00:56:15,200
And she dwelt.
Under the palm tree of Deborah,

970
00:56:15,520 –> 00:56:19,360
between Raymar and Bethel in
Mount Ephraim.

971
00:56:20,240 –> 00:56:24,320
Deborah.
Her name means a bee, and really

972
00:56:24,320 –> 00:56:27,600
it’s a reference to its
systematic incense instincts and

973
00:56:27,600 –> 00:56:28,680
processes.
I’ve had a bit to do.

974
00:56:28,680 –> 00:56:31,680
With bees in my time, happy to
talk about them and remarkable.

975
00:56:32,360 –> 00:56:33,840
The thing about a bee is.
They are.

976
00:56:33,840 –> 00:56:36,800
Really.
Organized so the idea.

977
00:56:37,200 –> 00:56:39,800
Of to be.
Systematic and its instinct and

978
00:56:39,800 –> 00:56:43,640
its processes means that she was
ability to arrange things.

979
00:56:43,640 –> 00:56:47,000
That’s what the root word means
to arrange, and it refers to in

980
00:56:47,000 –> 00:56:50,280
this termic her voice.
She was, obviously.

981
00:56:50,280 –> 00:56:52,880
Capable of putting things
together in a way that made

982
00:56:52,880 –> 00:56:55,800
sense.
She could arrange.

983
00:56:55,800 –> 00:56:58,840
Words of counsel Deborah was a
bee.

984
00:56:59,320 –> 00:57:01,920
And one could refer to all her
diligence as a worker as she

985
00:57:01,920 –> 00:57:03,600
was.
But the record?

986
00:57:03,600 –> 00:57:07,080
Wants us to realize that
although she was diligent, it

987
00:57:07,080 –> 00:57:11,600
was the order and arrangement of
her counsel and advice that she

988
00:57:11,600 –> 00:57:14,920
was recognized, for she was a
prophetess.

989
00:57:16,160 –> 00:57:18,000
Just remarkable when you look,
we don’t have any time to look

990
00:57:18,000 –> 00:57:19,120
at it.
Psalm 19.

991
00:57:19,360 –> 00:57:24,160
Psalm 119.
The sweet Council of Wisdom is

992
00:57:24,160 –> 00:57:26,640
going to reward like honey.
You ever look at those

993
00:57:26,640 –> 00:57:28,240
expression?
Honey is sweetness.

994
00:57:28,560 –> 00:57:32,520
Psalm 19 verse 9 and 10, and
Psalm 119 verse 103 and this

995
00:57:32,520 –> 00:57:34,880
woman.
Was able to provide food that

996
00:57:34,880 –> 00:57:38,760
was so delicious.
That the nation came day after

997
00:57:38,760 –> 00:57:40,880
day.
Because in a spiritual

998
00:57:40,880 –> 00:57:43,680
wasteland.
And in a vacuum of leadership.

999
00:57:44,920 –> 00:57:48,920
In the time of the judges, her
refreshing counsel of her

1000
00:57:48,920 –> 00:57:54,680
judgement would have come as
relief to the people that sought

1001
00:57:54,680 –> 00:57:56,440
counsel from.
Her.

1002
00:57:56,440 –> 00:57:58,680
She’s the prophetess.
Do you know?

1003
00:57:59,560 –> 00:58:01,760
What is the What is the work of
a prophetess?

1004
00:58:01,760 –> 00:58:04,240
Well, Deuteronomy 18 says that
the work of a prophet.

1005
00:58:04,440 –> 00:58:08,000
Was to expound God’s mind and to
expounds God.

1006
00:58:08,000 –> 00:58:10,600
God’s message.
She had been moved.

1007
00:58:10,760 –> 00:58:13,480
By Yahweh’s words.
And had prophesied of their

1008
00:58:13,480 –> 00:58:15,360
oppression.
And God’s judgements at the hand

1009
00:58:15,360 –> 00:58:18,520
of Jabin due to their idolatry.
And this therefore, brothers and

1010
00:58:18,520 –> 00:58:20,680
sisters, I believe.
Earned her a reputation.

1011
00:58:20,680 –> 00:58:25,360
Among them as speaking God’s
mind and God’s message and.

1012
00:58:25,440 –> 00:58:28,440
All.
Israel, it says, came to.

1013
00:58:28,440 –> 00:58:33,000
Her for judgement.
Do you know that’s remarkable,

1014
00:58:33,000 –> 00:58:35,000
brothers and sisters.
Because judges were supposed to

1015
00:58:35,000 –> 00:58:36,120
be.
Appointed in every.

1016
00:58:36,120 –> 00:58:40,120
City in every city.
There was supposed to be a judge

1017
00:58:40,120 –> 00:58:43,840
Deuteronomy 16, and yet here.
All.

1018
00:58:43,840 –> 00:58:49,480
Israel were coming up the goat.
Tracks to receive advice from

1019
00:58:49,480 –> 00:58:53,640
this remarkable woman.
Where were all the other judges?

1020
00:58:53,640 –> 00:58:54,880
Brothers and sisters and young
people.

1021
00:58:55,960 –> 00:58:59,760
Leadership had failed the
inhabitants, it says.

1022
00:59:00,160 –> 00:59:02,440
Judges chapter 5 and verse.
Seven says.

1023
00:59:02,840 –> 00:59:05,560
That the inhabitants of the
villages.

1024
00:59:05,920 –> 00:59:10,480
Cease the words really mean.
The leaders or the chief rulers

1025
00:59:10,960 –> 00:59:14,520
disappeared.
Leadership completely gone.

1026
00:59:15,160 –> 00:59:18,120
The place where the judges
should have been, there was war

1027
00:59:18,120 –> 00:59:22,320
happening at them.
Leadership was gone.

1028
00:59:22,320 –> 00:59:24,040
It’s better.
Translates that the idea of the

1029
00:59:24,040 –> 00:59:25,320
inhabitants.
Of the villages, it’s The

1030
00:59:25,360 –> 00:59:27,880
Chieftains or the rulers were
gone, leadership was

1031
00:59:27,880 –> 00:59:30,160
disappeared.
As a result.

1032
00:59:30,160 –> 00:59:33,120
Of failed leadership, idolatry
had entered the land.

1033
00:59:33,840 –> 00:59:38,200
And thus God punished them.
And because of this mighty.

1034
00:59:38,200 –> 00:59:41,640
Oppression all Israel had to
scurry in dart.

1035
00:59:41,640 –> 00:59:46,640
From Bush to Bush, down the
byways and the goat tracks to

1036
00:59:46,640 –> 00:59:50,320
seek the council from this
remarkable woman and she dwells

1037
00:59:50,320 –> 00:59:53,240
under the palm tree of Deborah.
We have don’t have any time to

1038
00:59:53,240 –> 00:59:54,920
look at it but.
The palm tree is symbol of

1039
00:59:54,920 –> 00:59:59,440
righteousness, and she dwells
between Rhema and Bethel.

1040
00:59:59,440 –> 01:00:01,160
The high place.
And the.

1041
01:00:01,160 –> 01:00:04,200
House of God, they knew where
she was.

1042
01:00:04,360 –> 01:00:07,840
They knew what she stood for.
And therefore she was capable.

1043
01:00:07,840 –> 01:00:10,080
Of giving.
Advice the palm tree the.

1044
01:00:10,080 –> 01:00:17,240
Upright, righteous palm tree.
And Deborah came at a time of

1045
01:00:17,240 –> 01:00:23,960
immense leadership vacuum and
stood up and took on the

1046
01:00:23,960 –> 01:00:28,360
responsibility of serving her
brothers and sisters.

1047
01:00:31,280 –> 01:00:33,520
You know, that’s a lesson for us
out of this study, brothers and

1048
01:00:33,520 –> 01:00:35,760
sisters, if we haven’t already
got a few lessons.

1049
01:00:36,760 –> 01:00:41,640
You see, leadership is, is
service, not a position.

1050
01:00:43,680 –> 01:00:49,000
You see, when times are tough,
when the way is difficult, when

1051
01:00:49,000 –> 01:00:53,800
we see people under stress,
trial and anguish, whose

1052
01:00:53,800 –> 01:00:57,600
responsibility is it to provide
the support and to serve?

1053
01:00:58,280 –> 01:01:01,200
The answer is it’s every single
each one of us.

1054
01:01:02,040 –> 01:01:07,760
That needs to see the need and
step up and serve.

1055
01:01:09,280 –> 01:01:12,520
You see, not everyone is going
to be leaders like Bayrack who

1056
01:01:12,520 –> 01:01:14,880
are going to lead from the
front, charging off into battle

1057
01:01:14,880 –> 01:01:16,560
and leading.
The way not everyone can do

1058
01:01:16,560 –> 01:01:21,560
that, brothers and sisters.
But everyone can show Deborah

1059
01:01:21,560 –> 01:01:27,800
like leadership to care, to show
love, to offer support, to offer

1060
01:01:27,800 –> 01:01:30,840
counsel in times of trial and
hardship.

1061
01:01:30,880 –> 01:01:35,000
And particularly in those times
leadership is needed.

1062
01:01:35,240 –> 01:01:39,760
Leadership is not a position.
Leadership is seeing a need and

1063
01:01:39,760 –> 01:01:42,640
serve.
We’ve each got to step up and

1064
01:01:42,640 –> 01:01:46,400
show that we care.
We can’t just wait and expect.

1065
01:01:46,400 –> 01:01:49,120
Others you know here my scene to
him is not the spirit of the

1066
01:01:49,120 –> 01:01:52,440
Bible, is it?
We’ve got to step up and show

1067
01:01:52,440 –> 01:01:53,920
care.
We’re not wait for others to

1068
01:01:53,920 –> 01:01:55,480
stand up with.
Care and love.

1069
01:01:55,480 –> 01:01:58,600
For one another, is there a
requirement and a commandment of

1070
01:01:58,600 –> 01:02:02,000
our Lord who demonstrated
leadership by service to those

1071
01:02:02,000 –> 01:02:03,680
He loved?
We’ve got to do the same.

1072
01:02:04,280 –> 01:02:08,600
True leadership is all about the
inspiration of others by the

1073
01:02:08,600 –> 01:02:12,320
power of positive example
through service.

1074
01:02:13,040 –> 01:02:14,360
True leadership is like that,
isn’t it?

1075
01:02:14,360 –> 01:02:17,720
Run the sisters.
It’s about the inspiration of

1076
01:02:17,760 –> 01:02:23,000
others by the power of positive
example through what we do.

1077
01:02:24,240 –> 01:02:27,240
And we’re going to see and
witness in our next study just

1078
01:02:27,240 –> 01:02:30,600
how Deborah was so brilliant at
that and how she was able to

1079
01:02:30,600 –> 01:02:38,680
carefully and thoughtfully and
lovingly but sternly empowers

1080
01:02:38,680 –> 01:02:43,200
Bayrack, the hesitant commander,
to lead.

1081
01:02:44,720 –> 01:02:46,520
And who, then, will inspire?
Others.

1082
01:02:47,600 –> 01:02:53,480
To lead himself and to serve and
overcome be represses.