Sam Bailey – Deborah and Barak – Class 2 – Barak – The Hesitant Commander

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Now, I’d like to invite your
close attention to Sam as he

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speaks on the second study.
Bairack, the hesitant commander.

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Thanks.
Well, thank you and good

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evening, brothers and sisters.
And Lord Jesus Christ and young

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people.
What a dinner.

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Now’s the challenge staying
awake.

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And hopefully we’ll be able to
do that as we look at the

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remarkable story of how Deborah
motivates and encourages

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Bairack.
So last class we saw the

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background to the story of of
Deborah and Bayrack.

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And in the times of the judges,
we see, we saw the times of the

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judges at a time where every man
did that which was right in his

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own eyes.
They weren’t using the law as

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their guide.
And as such, they drifted away

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from God and served idols
because they had known that that

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the law wasn’t giving them the
direction that they needed.

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And as a result of that, they
weren’t turning to the judges

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because there were no judges,
because there was a complete

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lack of leadership as a result
of the faithlessness and the

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parents generation who had
failed to pass on the passion of

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the truth to the next generation
and the generation there failed

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to personalize the truth for
themselves.

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And so.
They quickly left the truth.

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And therefore God sold them into
the hand of Jabin, king of

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Canaan, a man who should never
have been there because of they

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failed.
To.

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Capitalize on the destruction of
Jabin the 1st.

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A. 120 years before and now he
came back to with vengeance and

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sister in his army who was the
chief military strategist who

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had put.
Them under total and utter

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oppression, you know, and I
think it’s very.

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Easy, brother, sisters, for us
to say we’re just yapping about

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this over dinner, it’s very
easy.

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To say, you know, they’re under
complete depression for 20

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years, 20 years, a long time,
right?

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20 years is a long time.
You know, how hard was it over

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COVID?
For to go and get food from the

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supermarket.
Well, ours was for us anyway.

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We’re we’re, you know, putting
masks on and, you know, queuing

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up two metres apart and I was in
rigmarole.

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These guys had. 20 years of
oppression to walk the goat

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tracks to get food.
It was intense oppression.

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No food, no trade.
Too scared to travel all?

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Due to failed leadership of the
entire nation, which had

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completely failed.
And into that vacuum we saw at

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the very end Deborah, the
prophetess who was providing the

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sweetness of God’s Word in the
counsel of righteousness, and

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she stepped up to provide God’s
message and God’s judgments for.

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All Israel.
It says in Judges chapter 4 and

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verse 5 the children of Israel.
Came.

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Up to hear for judgment.
That’s a fascinating thing,

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isn’t it, on the sisters.
That Israel came to hear.

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For judgement.
Now I want you to stop, and I

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want you to.
Think about that for a second,

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because.
Who was Deborah?

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Well, Deborah is called the
prophetess.

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So Deborah is called Deborah, a
prophetess, and yet Israel was

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coming to her.
Because she.

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Judged Israel at that time.
Now that’s a little bit odd,

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because in.
Judges Chapter 2, what we

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realized when when they failed
and and when they had challenges

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that says that.
Actually in judges chapter. 2

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With us, whoever they went, the
hand of Yahweh was against them,

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nevertheless Yahweh.
Raised up judges, Judges chapter

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2 and verse 16.
And yet it doesn’t appear in

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this story.
That God had raised up Deborah

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to be the judge.
In fact, she wasn’t a judge.

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He’s called Deborah a
prophetess.

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Why is she a prophetess?
What’s going on in the story?

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You see, I think the answer to
that conundrum, brother and

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sisters, is that whilst.
God was with Deborah.

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As she was a prophetess.
She was not going to be the

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Saviour that God was going to
raise up to deliver Israel.

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No, in fact, there was another
man who God had called to be

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raised up to be the deliverer.
Of his people who wasn’t doing

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his job, you see.
That even adds more weight.

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Doesn’t it to what Deborah saw
the need of going amongst the

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ecclesial, going amongst the the
nation of Israel, because there

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was a.
Vacuum and a need.

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And so all Israel was coming to
you.

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She was judging Israel, but she
wasn’t the judge.

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No, no, Bayreq was the judge.
God had called him, but he was

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failing to stand up in his
responsibilities.

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Whilst God had already called
Bayreq due to a lack of courage

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and a lack of leadership, he’d
failed to respond to the call.

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And, you know, we’re going to
see how Deborah encourages.

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And empowers.
And inspires Bayreq to

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demonstrate this true
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So here we go, verse 6.
And so she sent and she called

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for Bayrak, the son of Abernoim
out of Kedish Naftali.

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Bayrak is his name.
He’s the commander, right?

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His name means lightning.
His father.

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His father was Abernoim.
He’s the father.

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Of pleasantness or my.
Father is delight.

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So he’s he’s a spiritual man who
was living in a very interesting

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place.
He’s from Kadish Naftali and and

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we’re given the extra detail
because there were many Kadishes

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in the land of.
Israel.

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It’s Kadish in.
Naftali and Kadish means well,

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the sanctuary.
In Naftali means wrestlings and

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perhaps.
The reason we’re given them

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detail was because.
Bayreq of the tribe of Naftali

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lived.
In the sanctuary, and it was

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more of a sanctuary than most
tell us.

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Remarkable about this city,
Kadesh Snaftali, as we’re going

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to see a man who was growing up
within the walls of a city that

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was more than just any normal
city, and he’s wrestling.

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With his responsibilities.
Do you know what Kadesh Snaftali

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was?
Brothers and sisters, we know

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from Joshua chapter 20 verse 7
and chapter 21 verse 27 that

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Kadesh Naftali was a city of
refuge, a Levitical city.

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Of.
Refuge.

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Where the priests lived.
Oh, that.

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Gives us a little bit more
insight into this man’s

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background and into his
experience that he should have

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or would have got.
See, he was a man who grew up

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within the walls.
Of a city of refuge, a sanctuary

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from the world where where it
was supposed to be full of

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Levites who were expounding the
word of God and the law, you

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see?
And yet, Bayrac here is

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wrestling with the
responsibilities of the calling

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that God called him to.
He was not showing the

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leadership qualities required of
him to lead God’s people to

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victory.
You see, we can grow.

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Up can’t we, brothers and
sisters, in ecclesias where the

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Word of God is expounded with
clarity and enthusiasm?

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But brothers and sisters and
young people, it has to go past

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our ears and touch our hearts
for us to actually change and

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mould and grow.
See.

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Bayrack’s wrestling with his
responsibilities.

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You see, he wasn’t coming to
seek judgement from Deborah.

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Either she has to send a request
to.

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Him look what it says verse 6,
she said and she called Barek

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the son of Abenom of Kadesh
Naftali and said to him.

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Hath not Yahweh Elohim of
Israel?

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Commanded saying although words.
Of fairly.

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Strong significance, aren’t
they?

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We’ll come back to that.
Hath not Yahweh Elohim of Israel

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commanded saying, Go and draw
towards Mount Table and take

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with the 10,000 men of the
children Naftali and the

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children of Zebulun question?
Haven’t.

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God commanded them, you know,
it’s in the, it’s in the perfect

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tense.
Hasn’t God already completely

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asked?
You to do a job he’s already

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commanded.
What’s she actually saying to

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Bayrek?
In.

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This message, brother sisters,
was a powerful, loaded message

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to Bayrek.
Think about it.

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What’s she actually saying to
Bayrek?

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Well, how did she know?
That God had already said

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something.
Well, she’s a prophetess, Beret.

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Pretty confident that God’s
already told you this.

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I’m a prophetess, beret.
I know God’s already spoken to

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you about your job.
Perhaps she was the one that

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even delivered it to him.
Don’t know.

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But she knew that God had
already.

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Asked him.
More than that, God has already

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already.
Asked you.

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I’m speaking on his behalf.
This is a.

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Reminder, Bairak.
And by the way.

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God’s request wasn’t a
suggestion.

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Hasn’t Yahweh Elohim of Israel
commanded?

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Oh, this is powerful.
God’s given you a Commission,

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Bairak.
Ignore that at your peril.

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And this is from the words of a
prophet or a prophetess.

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Remember Deuteronomy 18, verses
18 to 19?

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I will raise up a prophet among
their brethren.

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Like unto thee, this is God
talking to Moses.

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I will put my words in his
mouth.

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He shall speak unto them all
that I command him.

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And it shall come to pass.
Deuteronomy 18, verse 19.

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It shall come to pass that
whosoever will not hearken unto

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my words, which he shall speak
in my name.

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I will.
Require it of him.

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There’s pretty strong words if
you don’t listen to the prophet

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or the prophetess.
You’re.

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Going to lose your life?
And notice the title that she

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uses, Yahweh Elohim of Israel.
That title was the title of

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God’s memorial name.
It’s synonymous with the the

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covenants.
That he’d made to the

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forefathers of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.

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The title name of the.
Promises the covenant that

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demonstrate that he would never
forget those.

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God’s given you a Commission,
Barack.

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I ain’t going to let you go.
It’s not an option.

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What are you doing?
And the record wants to paint a

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picture.
Of a remarkable leader in

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Israel.
But it wasn’t Barack.

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It’s Deborah.
And look at how she.

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Approaches Bayrak to inspire him
to step up and to demonstrate

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his leadership responsibilities
and his role.

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Here’s some lessons for us.
Isn’t really sisters look at

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this.
What could she have done?

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Well, Deborah could.
Have option one.

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Taken control.
Herself.

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Wow.
Look, Bayrak.

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You can’t even Captain A1 man
kayak right?

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So you need to.
Actually, you’re just useless,

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mate.
Let me look.

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Stand aside.
Stand way.

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Just forget you’ve even been
asked this.

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Let me have a go.
Look, we can’t be waiting.

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You’re just.
You’re too slow.

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You’re not there.
Just leave it with me.

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I’ve got it.
I’ve got this covered, I’ll get

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this sorted out.
You’re just useless because she

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could have taken control, right?
Let’s get these 10,000 men.

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Let’s get this on the road.
Let’s get this inheritance,

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Sees.
Let’s get on with them.

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No, just doesn’t do that, you
see.

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And whilst it might have been
more efficient, it’d have been

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far less effective, you know?
Just wouldn’t work.

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Oh, she she could have.
She could have.

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Given him option #2 what’s
option number 20?

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Let me give you a piece of my
mind.

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She could have given him the
tongue bashing, you know.

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You’ve already been told once
before what’s wrong with your

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son?
I mean honestly, how many times

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does God have to tell you before
you get going?

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You’re incompetent, man.
Pull your socks up, have a

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concrete pill hard enough, get
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She could have given them a
piece of their mind, and it

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might have.
Made Deborah feel better.

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But any action from Bareack?
Would have been out of fear.

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She doesn’t do that either.
Look what she does instead,

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Deborah.
Recognises that God had already

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called bayrak and she realised
that bayrak was struggling with

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the enormity of the
responsibility and the.

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Task.
That had been.

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Called that God had called him
to.

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And so she coaches.
Him.

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And she?
Uses a simple formula that

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pretty much all parents use, or
ideally ideally use when working

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with their children.
And it’s the way God works with.

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At him even the garden look.
Look at what she does.

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She she calls Bayreq aside.
She sent and calls for Bayreq.

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See, she doesn’t have a.
Public conversation in front of

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everybody.
No, no, she.

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She calls them aside to have a
discussion in person, in

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private, First thing.
Second thing, she doesn’t tell

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him what to do, does she?
No, no, she.

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She asks a question.
She phrases a.

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Question to understand what the
issue is rather than making an

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incriminating statement.
You know God does that with Adam

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and Eve in the garden, doesn’t
he?

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What does he do in the garden?
We’re out there.

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What is it that thou has done?
You see, God uses a coaching

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model to try and help understand
He knew what had gone wrong, but

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He wants a confession and wants
acknowledgement so that they

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might understand what the issues
are to work through the problem.

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So see she she questions or
frames the issue as a question

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because she wants to understand
what the challenges are.

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That he’s facing.
And then Step 3, she reminds him

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of his responsibilities and the.
Plan as previously.

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Laid out, mate, God’s already
given you a responsibility and A

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and A and A and a thing.
You need, you need to get on

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with it.
And then she reassures and

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encourages him that God would be
with him.

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She reinsures him.
But didn’t God say that to go

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and do this and that, that verse
7 I will draw unto thee the

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river Kishon sister and the
captain of Javan’s army with his

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Chariots, and I will deliver him
into thine hand.

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Didn’t didn’t God give you the
message that he was going to

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deliver?
It was all.

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Going to be done like this is
all good.

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Don’t worry, God’s got to be
there to help.

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You see, she calls him aside in
private, asks a question,

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reminds him of his
responsibilities, reassures and

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encourages him that God would be
with him, and coaches him into

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action by carefully and gently
assisting him to be reassured of

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God’s purpose and the need for
barrack therefore to respond,

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knowing that God.
Would protect him and.

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In here, brothers and sisters,
lies some fantastic lessons for

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us when it comes to working with
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No surprises is there, you know.
Inspiring each other.

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Regardless of our circumstances,
requires careful and prayerful

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intervention and action when
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I think first thing we have to
start with is is to never assume

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anything even when you think you
might know the answer.

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Asking questions really helps.
You see shooting 1st and asking

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questions later.
Yeah, you don’t get too many

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answers from dead people, So.
So not assuming and asking

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questions is really important.
Seek first to understand before

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seeking to be understood is a
really good formula to think.

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Let’s try and think about that.
What are we?

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What are we?
Let’s walk, walk.

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In someone else’s shoes, let’s
try and understand what’s going

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on.
You see, people come from all

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sorts of backgrounds.
Nothing operates in a vacuum.

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We all have our own experiences.
We all have our own challenges

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and hang ups and problems that
we’re all working through or

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endeavoring to bury.
Nothing ever happens in alone or

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in isolation.
So seeking to understand the

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problems.
So that together.

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We can find the answers.
Has got to be the answer when it

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comes to challenges in a cleaver
life.

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You see, for Bayrek, those
sisters, he needed reassurance

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to have someone hold his hand.
That was it.

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I need someone to go with me.
It was an easy fix.

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Can you come with me?
Yeah, I’ll come.

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Cool.
Can we go now?

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Yep.
It was a.

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Simple fix.
Bayrek needed reassurance.

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That’s exactly what happened.
See.

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Often the solutions are quite
easy.

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Once the challenges are properly
understood, we can navigate

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together the way around them.
So never assume.

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Seek to understand before
seeking to be understood.

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Second lesson.
Try to be outcome.

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Orientated in our discussions,
no such words orientated.

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Oriented be outcome oriented.
You see, prior to any

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discussion, if we actually took
the time to think about what the

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outcome is that we’re actually
trying to achieve.

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That when we’re in the middle
of.

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Conversations we can keep coming
back to.

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What are we actually trying to
achieve with this person?

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What’s the outcome?
We need to do.

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You see, Deborah, Deborah wanted
Barrett to take the lead and to

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lead Israel.
So she was outcome oriented in

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her conversations.
If if you can think about how

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you can achieve the right
outcomes rather than how you can

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win an argument, imagine how
much more.

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Effective we would be.
If we continue to focus on.

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Outcomes.
We might actually change our

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approach when working with
others.

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You see for.
Bayrack.

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If Deborah had whipped him hard.
Bayrack.

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Might have gone, but he could
have chickened out at the end.

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So she carefully and
deliberately asked questions to

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solve and understand an issue.
With a very.

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Clear motive, the motivate to
motivate him and take the lead.

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That’s what we want you to do.
That’s how Christ.

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Works.
That’s how Christ.

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Worked with others.
Do you know it might answer

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perhaps some things that might
be looking on the surface?

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To be totally inconsistent, you
know, he works in John three

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with Nicodemus and gives him
quite a stern talking to about

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his responsibilities as being a
leader in Israel.

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You should know these things,
get on with it.

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And yet almost a few chapters
later and John 8 is the woman

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caught in the actor of adultery.
And he’s like soft.

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Because he was outcome oriented
in the oriented in the way you

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work with people.
You see Cross would work with

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all the individuals to achieve
the best outcome for everyone

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without compromising the truth.
You see, what Deborah was able

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to achieve by coaching Bayrack
was such that she could help him

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understand his responsibilities,
to show him the need for his

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leadership so that.
He would encourage and that he

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might motivate all the other
people of Naftali and Zebulun so

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that God’s purpose might be
fulfilled, so that Israel’s

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enemies might be destroyed.
She knew what the.

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Gump was that was needed and so
she worked carefully.

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You know, there’s also lessons
for Deborah’s and Bay racks.

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We are always sometimes giving
and other times receiving

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advice.
There’s lessons for taking and

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receiving advice.
You see, if you’re going to do a

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Deborah delivery, delivery, we
have to show leadership without

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needing to be out the front.
You see Deborah’s really happy

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to be behind the scenes and
working in private.

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You see true leaders truly seek
to inspire others to achieve

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greater outcomes and reach their
full potential without any claim

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of glory or self fulfilment.
You see, for Deborah’s it was

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about sacrifice.
And helping others.

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Achieve.
Greater potential.

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And so when we work with others,
if we’re going to be the one

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giving advice, let’s put the
person first that we’re working

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with so that they might
understand how they can become

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better in their walk and the
truth, and that might achieve

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their full potential as God and
Christ work in their lives to

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achieve the outcome of His
purpose.

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And if we’re receiving?
Advice.

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If we’re getting Bay racks, you
see true leaders will listen to

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feedback from anyone, any.
Source.

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Doesn’t matter who it is.
And they listen without bias.

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And it often comes from their
children, from their peers, from

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their spouse, and from elderly
people.

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We’ve got to learn to be Bay
racks and listen to advice

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because, well, they’re always
looking to continuously improve,

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to develop personally.
You see, we have to receive

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advice with an open heart, an
open mind.

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You know, brothers and sisters,
imagine what would happen in

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ecclesial life if we took or
received advice that way.

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Imagine what would be advice if
both sides delivered and

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received advice this way.
See, Deborah was a fantastic

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example of a woman, a
prophetess, who whilst not

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seeking for glory or pre
eminence, provided true

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leadership by seeking to
motivate the one that Yahweh

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Elohim of Israel had called.
She sought to inspire.

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Him to the task.
Do you know what I’m so doing?

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She inspired a nation that
followed him.

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See it was in this leadership
vacuum and with this role, we

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can now begin to appreciate the
title that Deborah gave herself.

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What was she called?
Deborah calls herself in Judges

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chapter 5 and verse 7.
She says that leadership had

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ceased.
As we’ve already seen, chief or

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rulers had ceased until that I,
Deborah arose a mother in

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Israel.
You see, Deborah?

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Saw herself as the nourisher,
the supporter of Israel, the one

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that showed care, the one that
would sacrifice.

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He hasn’t let the role that
mothers play.

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To provide for the needs of
their families, so she put.

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All of them first.
Beyond herself, she looked after

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them as a maternal mother
seeking the welfare of her

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children.
This was her leadership style,

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brothers and sisters.
And look at how powerful it was.

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So now we come back to asking
the question.

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Well, why did God call Bayrak in
the 1st place?

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Well, Bayrak.
Was of the tribe of Naftali

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Kadish Naftali, right?
Who’s of the area of Naftali?

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He’d obviously respected by his
tribe, but lack on this occasion

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the faith and the courage to
call together his tribe to

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fight.
Sister and son, there’s 900

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Chariots of iron.
For goodness sake, it’s a

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nightmare and it’s he’s going to
be sent to call the children.

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Of Naftali and the children of
Benjamin and 10,000 men.

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Why?
Why was it going to be Zebulon

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and Naphthali?
Well, you see, these tribes were

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the neighbouring tribes.
Associated.

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In that northern area that bore
the brunt.

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Of Sicer’s campaigns, in fact,
most.

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Of the surrounding tribes were
going to assist in the battle on

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that occasion, Ephraim,
Benjamin, Manasseh and Ithaca

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are going to be all around the
area of that that respond to the

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song and respond to the request.
To fight Sisar and his army and

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Jabin, king of came and.
Nicole, by the way, went

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nationwide to fight, but mainly.
The tribes that were affected

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most came, so God had called him
because he was a leader,

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supposed.
To be a leader.

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And yet he was struggling with
the enormity of the

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responsibility of the task.
How often does that happen in

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ecclesial life?
Brothers and sisters, theeps, we

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struggle with the you may see
that in Timothy.

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What was Timothy grappling with?
With Paul, Paul’s telling him.

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He’s the man with responsibility
and he’s struggling.

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With the with the work that he
needs to accomplish, Here’s

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Barek the same.
Here’s Gideon the same in the

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next next chapter on, it’s going
to have the same challenges, but

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I want you to see the battle
that was being set up and the

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comparison that God was trying
to make.

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Verse 6 God says, Deborah says
to him, look, God’s already told

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00:25:20,240 –> 00:25:23,680
you, go see, get a coloured
pencil and link these words

442
00:25:23,680 –> 00:25:26,040
right.
Go draw.

443
00:25:26,040 –> 00:25:30,080
Towards Mount Table and take
with the 10,000 men, and I will

444
00:25:30,440 –> 00:25:35,560
draw unto thee into the river
Kishan Scissor and his and his

445
00:25:35,560 –> 00:25:39,000
army right so.
You go and draw 10,000 men and

446
00:25:39,000 –> 00:25:42,040
I’ll draw Scissor and all his.
Men and we’ll have a challenge.

447
00:25:42,240 –> 00:25:45,200
We’ll set up a challenge and
I’ll be with you and we’ll kill

448
00:25:45,200 –> 00:25:49,720
him.
On the surface, it might appear

449
00:25:49,720 –> 00:25:53,600
a good strategy.
To get up to take 10,000 men and

450
00:25:53,600 –> 00:25:54,920
get.
To the top of the hill and this

451
00:25:54,920 –> 00:25:56,000
guy’s got.
Chariots.

452
00:25:56,440 –> 00:25:59,080
It might appear to be a good
strategy because you can always

453
00:25:59,240 –> 00:26:02,560
come down the hill to fight.
It’s usually a position of

454
00:26:02,560 –> 00:26:05,560
authority, but not when you’re
fighting Chariots.

455
00:26:06,280 –> 00:26:11,760
Now it’s remarkable about what
God asked him to do militarily.

456
00:26:12,560 –> 00:26:16,200
It was ludicrous.
Mount Table.

457
00:26:16,200 –> 00:26:17,440
What do we know about main
table?

458
00:26:17,440 –> 00:26:22,240
Here’s a view from Mount Table.
I’m mean there myself, so I rely

459
00:26:22,240 –> 00:26:25,680
on Google.
That’s that’s Mount Table.

460
00:26:26,080 –> 00:26:28,520
And you can see all over the
Jezreel Valley.

461
00:26:28,520 –> 00:26:31,120
It sits 400 meters high.
Are those at us that like feet,

462
00:26:31,120 –> 00:26:34,720
1200 feet.
And it’s a hill that really is

463
00:26:34,720 –> 00:26:37,960
just a cone shaped hill that
rises up at the end of an

464
00:26:37,960 –> 00:26:40,520
incredibly fertile Jezreel
valley.

465
00:26:41,200 –> 00:26:44,320
It it was one of the most
outstanding landmarks in in the

466
00:26:44,320 –> 00:26:46,600
part of Israel because it holds
a commanding.

467
00:26:46,600 –> 00:26:50,560
View all the way.
Down the valley and all the way

468
00:26:50,560 –> 00:26:53,800
out towards the Mediterranean
and all down the other side of

469
00:26:53,800 –> 00:26:57,400
the Sea of Galilee.
You can almost see 365° around

470
00:26:57,520 –> 00:27:02,000
from this mountain, but however
majestic the view.

471
00:27:02,720 –> 00:27:04,600
It was a.
Ludicrous position to be in from

472
00:27:04,600 –> 00:27:06,640
a military perspective.
Why?

473
00:27:08,320 –> 00:27:16,480
Well, have a think about this.
Sisera and his army had never

474
00:27:16,480 –> 00:27:20,520
really been able to capture or
get individual people together

475
00:27:20,520 –> 00:27:22,560
because they were running
through the goat.

476
00:27:22,560 –> 00:27:29,000
Tracks in the Backcountry and so
when Beirut comes and pulls

477
00:27:29,000 –> 00:27:33,800
together 10,000 men in one
place.

478
00:27:34,440 –> 00:27:36,720
You can imagine how excited
Sisera was.

479
00:27:39,480 –> 00:27:43,600
So Bayreq was to gather 10,000
men and to stick them up on the

480
00:27:43,600 –> 00:27:48,240
top of a mountain, totally
isolated, easily totally

481
00:27:48,240 –> 00:27:52,760
surrounded, fully exposed and
vulnerable to siege and.

482
00:27:52,760 –> 00:27:57,120
Cut off could easily be cut off.
From all possible help.

483
00:27:58,200 –> 00:27:59,960
That’s how ludicrous that
decision was.

484
00:28:00,400 –> 00:28:03,080
Sister goes, you little beauty,
let’s have a go.

485
00:28:04,200 –> 00:28:06,200
So why is he told to get up
there?

486
00:28:07,200 –> 00:28:09,000
Why’d he get up at the top of
Mount Table?

487
00:28:09,000 –> 00:28:15,920
Well, the answer was obvious.
God wanted Bayrak to learn to

488
00:28:15,920 –> 00:28:18,440
trust him.
He was going to put him into a

489
00:28:18,440 –> 00:28:23,400
position of military challenge
that without God.

490
00:28:23,520 –> 00:28:27,440
He was gone.
And more.

491
00:28:27,440 –> 00:28:29,240
Than that, brothers and sisters,
is that.

492
00:28:29,240 –> 00:28:35,320
From this vantage point, God was
going to show and to treat

493
00:28:35,320 –> 00:28:38,560
Bairak and Deborah and to all
his men.

494
00:28:38,880 –> 00:28:43,040
The grandest military
manoeuvring ever witnessed by

495
00:28:43,040 –> 00:28:48,160
man 10,000 men were going to
stand on top of a hill to see

496
00:28:48,160 –> 00:28:53,480
one of the largest parades.
Of might, and then to see them

497
00:28:54,360 –> 00:28:57,160
utterly destroyed.
From here, Bairak was going to

498
00:28:57,160 –> 00:29:00,480
witness every chariot.
Every horseman, every foot

499
00:29:00,480 –> 00:29:03,720
soldier that Sisera could, must
a parade which would stretch

500
00:29:03,880 –> 00:29:07,920
across the entire Jezreel.
Valley as he marches to meet

501
00:29:08,040 –> 00:29:14,520
Bayrak and that he would learn
that God would defeat them.

502
00:29:19,790 –> 00:29:22,430
Bayrak’s a little bit hesitant
as you’d expect.

503
00:29:22,430 –> 00:29:26,310
He’s the hesitant commander
verse 8 he’s he’s Deborah.

504
00:29:26,310 –> 00:29:30,760
So Bayrak sees unto her, OK.
If.

505
00:29:30,880 –> 00:29:34,880
Thou will go with me, then I
will go.

506
00:29:35,440 –> 00:29:40,200
But if thou will not go with me,
then I will not go.

507
00:29:40,760 –> 00:29:42,360
You see you colour in that
expression.

508
00:29:42,360 –> 00:29:45,280
Go with me, with me I surely I
will go with thee.

509
00:29:46,040 –> 00:29:48,880
And so he went verse 9 with
Bayrack to Kate.

510
00:29:48,880 –> 00:29:52,160
She went with Bayrack to Kadish
and Deborah says verse 10 went

511
00:29:52,160 –> 00:29:54,480
up with him.
See, they were going to have to

512
00:29:54,480 –> 00:30:00,040
work together.
She wanted.

513
00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:04,360
Deb Deborah’s presence as God’s
representative to be with him,

514
00:30:04,600 –> 00:30:06,960
it wasn’t going to be good
enough as far as he was

515
00:30:06,960 –> 00:30:09,440
concerned, that God would.
Deliver Cicera into.

516
00:30:09,440 –> 00:30:12,600
His hand he needed the
reassurance and the association

517
00:30:12,600 –> 00:30:14,080
of having God with.
Him.

518
00:30:16,840 –> 00:30:21,280
But by requesting Deborah to go
with him, he was revealing his

519
00:30:21,280 –> 00:30:23,840
trust deficiency, wasn’t he?
Brothers and sisters.

520
00:30:24,520 –> 00:30:27,960
His request for Deborah to go?
With him was going to come with

521
00:30:27,960 –> 00:30:31,920
a trade off.
Because you don’t quite.

522
00:30:32,120 –> 00:30:37,600
Trust me, says Deborah verse.
Oh God, Deborah says verse 9.

523
00:30:38,200 –> 00:30:40,120
She said surely I will go with
thee.

524
00:30:40,760 –> 00:30:43,880
Notwithstanding the journey.
That thou takest.

525
00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:47,600
Well, it won’t be for your.
Honour, you’re not going to

526
00:30:47,600 –> 00:30:54,280
claim this victory, for Yahweh
shall sell Sisera into the hand

527
00:30:54,920 –> 00:30:57,840
of a woman.
The journey’s not going to mean

528
00:30:57,840 –> 00:31:00,440
for your honor gonna he’s going
to sell sister into the hand of

529
00:31:00,440 –> 00:31:05,040
a woman.
You see, before Yahweh was going

530
00:31:05,040 –> 00:31:07,640
to deliver him into.
Thine hand says verse 7.

531
00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:10,360
I’ll deliver into thine hand.
Says God.

532
00:31:10,360 –> 00:31:15,760
But because you have this trust
efficiency, well the trade off

533
00:31:15,760 –> 00:31:18,080
is going to be you don’t get the
glory of this battle.

534
00:31:18,680 –> 00:31:22,280
He’s going to now sell it into
the hand of a woman.

535
00:31:22,280 –> 00:31:24,240
You see Link those two thoughts
and ideas.

536
00:31:24,400 –> 00:31:26,480
I’ll deliver him to thine hand.
Nope, you’ve got trust

537
00:31:26,480 –> 00:31:28,400
efficiency.
He’s going to be sold into the

538
00:31:28,400 –> 00:31:35,480
hand of a woman.
You see, whilst Bayrack believed

539
00:31:35,480 –> 00:31:41,640
that God would be with Deborah,
he failed to understand that God

540
00:31:41,640 –> 00:31:47,000
was already with him.
And for that God would show

541
00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:50,280
Barack that although he would
have 10,000 men.

542
00:31:52,000 –> 00:31:56,360
God would ultimately destroy
Sisera with the one person that

543
00:31:56,360 –> 00:32:01,320
he didn’t have, a woman, and God
would be with her.

544
00:32:02,640 –> 00:32:05,560
God would work with her.
He could work with anyone.

545
00:32:05,720 –> 00:32:09,080
But because you don’t trust me,
that’s going to be my proof.

546
00:32:09,520 –> 00:32:11,960
My proof is that I will work
with anyone, says God.

547
00:32:11,960 –> 00:32:13,720
It’s going to be sold into the
hand of a woman.

548
00:32:14,480 –> 00:32:17,520
Question Who do you think
Bairack thought that woman might

549
00:32:17,520 –> 00:32:21,080
be?
The answer to this is I thought.

550
00:32:21,080 –> 00:32:22,200
He thought it would be Deborah
it.

551
00:32:23,720 –> 00:32:27,160
Wasn’t going to be that way.
10,000 men on the hill and a

552
00:32:27,160 –> 00:32:29,520
woman installed into the hand.
Deborah and he thought.

553
00:32:29,720 –> 00:32:31,760
That the victory.
Was going to come from Deborah

554
00:32:31,760 –> 00:32:35,080
and you know it’s going to come
from the one place he’d least

555
00:32:35,080 –> 00:32:39,280
expect, and it was going.
To be a journey, a journey.

556
00:32:39,280 –> 00:32:41,280
This is a.
Journey of realization and

557
00:32:41,280 –> 00:32:43,680
discovery.
The journey won’t be.

558
00:32:43,680 –> 00:32:45,480
That their take us won’t be for
your honour, it was a.

559
00:32:45,480 –> 00:32:50,040
Journey of him to learn a path
of discovery and realization

560
00:32:50,280 –> 00:32:53,120
that God would be with him.
What started his bare act

561
00:32:53,120 –> 00:32:57,480
needing reassurance was going to
culminate an incredible faith as

562
00:32:57,480 –> 00:33:00,880
he leads his men to victory.
It was going to be a journey of.

563
00:33:01,000 –> 00:33:05,040
Faith.
But it starts with a question.

564
00:33:06,480 –> 00:33:11,600
Will you come with me?
And she does, and so they go.

565
00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:15,880
Verse 10 sees.
So Deborah Rosen went with

566
00:33:15,880 –> 00:33:19,160
Bayritt to Kadish, and Bayrat
called Zebulun and Nathali to

567
00:33:19,160 –> 00:33:23,440
Kadish and he went up with 10.
1000 men at his feet.

568
00:33:23,480 –> 00:33:25,080
And.
Deborah went with him.

569
00:33:25,160 –> 00:33:28,040
You see, it was going to be a
community that would go.

570
00:33:28,720 –> 00:33:31,720
With them as a remarkable, isn’t
it?

571
00:33:32,000 –> 00:33:35,320
He’s a leader who stands up.
And because Deborah’s at his

572
00:33:35,320 –> 00:33:40,360
side. 10,000 men join.
Forces to go up Kadish, go up

573
00:33:40,360 –> 00:33:45,640
Mount Table and so they go up
with him and they’re on foot.

574
00:33:45,640 –> 00:33:48,040
We know that 5 verse 15 says
that they were.

575
00:33:48,040 –> 00:33:52,360
All on foot.
And so verse 11 and 12.

576
00:33:52,360 –> 00:33:53,240
Hebrew.
The Kenite.

577
00:33:53,480 –> 00:33:55,880
Which was of the children of
Hobab, the father-in-law of

578
00:33:55,880 –> 00:33:58,600
Moses, which had severed himself
from the Kenites, pitched his

579
00:33:58,600 –> 00:34:01,120
tent in the plain of Zineam and
and which was in Kedish.

580
00:34:01,120 –> 00:34:04,080
We’ll leave that verse and we’ll
come back to that in our ex or

581
00:34:05,080 –> 00:34:07,600
tomorrow.
They showed that Sisera.

582
00:34:07,880 –> 00:34:11,000
They showed Sisera that Barek,
the son of Abenon was gone up to

583
00:34:11,000 –> 00:34:14,480
Mount Table.
And Sisera gathered together all

584
00:34:14,480 –> 00:34:17,120
his Chariots, even 900 Chariots
of iron and all the people that

585
00:34:17,120 –> 00:34:20,679
were with him.
So he Sisera’s sitting at home

586
00:34:21,440 –> 00:34:23,520
and he gets the news.
A knock on the door.

587
00:34:24,199 –> 00:34:26,840
Bayrex gone up in Mount Table
10,000 men.

588
00:34:26,840 –> 00:34:29,360
You can imagine it.
Bayrex sitting on the couch,

589
00:34:29,360 –> 00:34:32,560
feet up, newspaper right, coffee
in his hand, reading what?

590
00:34:32,800 –> 00:34:35,520
Reading current events and.
All of a sudden, the news.

591
00:34:35,520 –> 00:34:37,320
Turns up Bayrex gathered an
army.

592
00:34:37,320 –> 00:34:40,000
They’ve gone on that table and
you can imagine sister slamming.

593
00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:43,120
The paper down bam you little
beauty and he just grabs

594
00:34:43,120 –> 00:34:46,360
whatever he can find and muster.
You gotta be joking.

595
00:34:46,360 –> 00:34:50,120
What a nut case Let’s go.
And so these sisters is off the

596
00:34:50,120 –> 00:34:52,360
couch quick as a wink.
Now’s our chance.

597
00:34:52,480 –> 00:34:54,719
We can wipe them out once and
for all.

598
00:34:54,719 –> 00:34:56,360
This is the.
This is the golden.

599
00:34:56,360 –> 00:34:57,840
Moment.
Thank you.

600
00:34:58,200 –> 00:35:00,200
Let’s go.
And the people have been

601
00:35:00,200 –> 00:35:03,480
avoiding all the public places.
There’s 10. 1001 spot Here he

602
00:35:03,480 –> 00:35:05,280
goes.
Barracks just committed

603
00:35:05,320 –> 00:35:09,680
strategic military suicide.
Massive military mistake and

604
00:35:09,680 –> 00:35:12,720
sister gathers everyone he can
find all.

605
00:35:12,720 –> 00:35:17,000
Hands on deck, Lord, it says.
So sister, it says verse 13

606
00:35:17,000 –> 00:35:18,720
gathers together and here’s your
key.

607
00:35:18,720 –> 00:35:24,200
Expression all his Chariots,
even 900 Chariots of iron, and

608
00:35:24,480 –> 00:35:27,240
all the people that were with
him.

609
00:35:27,360 –> 00:35:29,840
These your these your contrast,
right?

610
00:35:29,840 –> 00:35:32,440
All the people that were with
him, his bayrack and all the

611
00:35:32,440 –> 00:35:36,720
people that were with.
Him and they go from heresy of

612
00:35:36,720 –> 00:35:39,480
the Gentiles unto the river
Kishon.

613
00:35:39,720 –> 00:35:41,840
That’s how long the the command
was.

614
00:35:41,840 –> 00:35:45,080
He gathers everyone he can,
everyone on deck.

615
00:35:46,800 –> 00:35:50,600
It’s going to be a showdown.
The showdown was going to happen

616
00:35:50,600 –> 00:35:54,240
on this occasion.
Bairat calls an afterline.

617
00:35:54,240 –> 00:35:57,800
Zebulun Sisera gathers together.
It’s the same word in the in the

618
00:35:57,800 –> 00:36:00,680
Hebrew that.
The calling of the men and the

619
00:36:00,680 –> 00:36:04,000
gathering together his army.
They Marshall 10,000 and Sisera

620
00:36:04,000 –> 00:36:07,760
gathers everyone he can.
The ultimate showdown.

621
00:36:07,760 –> 00:36:11,280
It was a.
All in bet the winner takes all

622
00:36:11,760 –> 00:36:14,480
all his Chariots all the people
with him do.

623
00:36:15,160 –> 00:36:19,080
You know it’s suggested.
That that from from historians

624
00:36:19,120 –> 00:36:21,640
that write about this time, that
sister would have had if he had

625
00:36:21,640 –> 00:36:25,560
900 Chariots of iron, he
probably would have had 300,000

626
00:36:25,560 –> 00:36:31,800
footmen and 10,000 horsemen, 900
Chariots of iron, 300,000

627
00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:33,880
footmen and 10,000.
You think?

628
00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:36,360
This about this and sight is on
top of Mount Table brothers and

629
00:36:36,360 –> 00:36:41,120
sisters watching this parade.
And Deborah and Bayrak.

630
00:36:41,120 –> 00:36:43,400
And the men of Naftali and
Zebulun are going to witness the

631
00:36:43,400 –> 00:36:46,440
one of the world’s greatest
military parades of all time as

632
00:36:46,440 –> 00:36:49,680
Sister and all his army marched
down the Jezreel Valley to the

633
00:36:49,680 –> 00:36:54,120
river Kishon.
Sisera, meaning battle reign.

634
00:36:54,120 –> 00:36:57,120
Here he is, living up to his
name, arrayed beautifully as he

635
00:36:57,120 –> 00:37:00,760
marches down the valley, his
eyes transfixed on Mount Table,

636
00:37:01,040 –> 00:37:04,600
his brilliatory military brain
working overtime as he hatches a

637
00:37:04,600 –> 00:37:08,560
plan to get rid of these pesky
Israelites out of his territory

638
00:37:08,560 –> 00:37:12,640
for once and for all.
And as Sisera and his men

639
00:37:13,000 –> 00:37:15,240
reached the river Kishan, look
at what Deborah sees.

640
00:37:15,680 –> 00:37:23,160
Verse 14.
Get up, for this is the day in

641
00:37:23,160 –> 00:37:27,080
which Yahweh hath delivered
Sisera into thine hand.

642
00:37:27,760 –> 00:37:32,040
Is not Yahweh gone out?
Before thee.

643
00:37:33,440 –> 00:37:35,320
See, this is the day which
Yahweh hath delivered into

644
00:37:35,320 –> 00:37:37,920
Sisera, into thine hand.
Yahweh hath.

645
00:37:38,480 –> 00:37:40,400
Delivered him into your hand and
the word.

646
00:37:40,400 –> 00:37:43,160
Is in the past tense.
He’s already given him.

647
00:37:44,920 –> 00:37:48,880
Look what she says.
God has already given him into

648
00:37:48,880 –> 00:37:52,080
the hand.
Has not Yahweh gone out before

649
00:37:52,080 –> 00:37:55,360
thee?
What did she mean by that?

650
00:37:55,640 –> 00:37:59,720
Those and sisters hasn’t.
Yahweh already gone out before

651
00:37:59,720 –> 00:38:04,280
thee.
Well here’s what Jeremy 9 verse

652
00:38:04,280 –> 00:38:09,200
3 says.
Well have have a look Jeremy 9

653
00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:09,840
verse three.
Turn it up.

654
00:38:11,040 –> 00:38:13,200
Here’s here’s what.
Here’s what God.

655
00:38:13,400 –> 00:38:16,080
Said well, Moses said about what
God would do.

656
00:38:16,080 –> 00:38:20,800
Jeremy 9, verse 3.
Look what it says here O Israel

657
00:38:20,800 –> 00:38:23,480
verse one.
They are to Passover Jordan

658
00:38:24,120 –> 00:38:26,560
this.
Day to go and possess nations

659
00:38:26,560 –> 00:38:29,520
greater and mighty than thyself,
cities greater and fenced up to

660
00:38:29,520 –> 00:38:32,480
heaven Are people great and
tall, the children of the

661
00:38:32,480 –> 00:38:36,400
Anakim, whom thou knowest, and
and of whom their hesitudes say,

662
00:38:36,600 –> 00:38:38,160
Who can stand before the
children?

663
00:38:38,160 –> 00:38:41,040
Of Enoch understand their force
is Moses that.

664
00:38:41,040 –> 00:38:45,800
Yahweh the God is he which goer
goeth over before.

665
00:38:45,800 –> 00:38:49,440
Thee as a.
Consuming fire he shall, destroy

666
00:38:49,440 –> 00:38:52,640
them he shall.
Bring them down before thy face.

667
00:38:52,800 –> 00:38:57,040
Show shall their dry leave them
out and destroy them quickly.

668
00:38:57,320 –> 00:39:02,720
As Yahweh hath said unto them.
What does she mean?

669
00:39:03,040 –> 00:39:06,120
Brothers and sisters.
Hasn’t already gone out before

670
00:39:06,120 –> 00:39:07,160
that.
You see, I think brothers and

671
00:39:07,160 –> 00:39:10,680
sisters is what Deborah was
saying was well as Moses had

672
00:39:10,680 –> 00:39:13,440
instructed that when they were
about to pass over to the

673
00:39:13,440 –> 00:39:16,280
promised land, they would
realise that Yahweh would go and

674
00:39:16,280 –> 00:39:17,920
destroy them.
And they already had.

675
00:39:18,400 –> 00:39:22,240
God had already destroyed them,
therefore so shall they drive

676
00:39:22,240 –> 00:39:24,880
them out now.
He already has done that.

677
00:39:24,960 –> 00:39:27,720
Today’s the day.
You’ve got the opportunity.

678
00:39:27,960 –> 00:39:32,920
To finish the job, you can go
and do this.

679
00:39:33,280 –> 00:39:36,000
This is the this is the
opportunity that your parents

680
00:39:36,000 –> 00:39:38,400
generation failed to capitalize
on.

681
00:39:38,960 –> 00:39:42,120
That’s the job God had already
taken with Joshua and the

682
00:39:42,120 –> 00:39:45,200
military campaigns.
Now you can finish it because

683
00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:49,520
they didn’t, says Deborah.
Get going.

684
00:39:53,080 –> 00:39:55,120
You see, this was their
opportunity to finish the job

685
00:39:55,760 –> 00:39:57,560
that their parents had failed to
do.

686
00:39:57,800 –> 00:40:00,040
Get going, she says.
Yahweh’s.

687
00:40:00,120 –> 00:40:03,600
Already gone out before thee,
this is now your chance to

688
00:40:03,600 –> 00:40:06,200
finish.
So perhaps that’s what she

689
00:40:06,240 –> 00:40:08,960
meant.
And there’s another way in which

690
00:40:08,960 –> 00:40:12,080
I think she meant.
You see, because Yahweh had

691
00:40:12,080 –> 00:40:18,680
physically gone out before them,
He was going to God was going to

692
00:40:18,680 –> 00:40:22,880
witness and show Barek exactly
what was going to come up and

693
00:40:22,880 –> 00:40:28,200
destroy them, you see, because
as Sissar and his men rolled

694
00:40:28,200 –> 00:40:33,720
down that valley, they wouldn’t
see what was coming up behind

695
00:40:33,720 –> 00:40:36,800
them because.
Behind them.

696
00:40:37,800 –> 00:40:40,160
They, Barrack and his men could
witness a.

697
00:40:40,160 –> 00:40:45,480
Huge storm brewing.
So that the dust cloud of

698
00:40:45,480 –> 00:40:48,760
Sister’s army paled into
insignificance as the Bank of

699
00:40:48,760 –> 00:40:51,280
storm clouds.
Raced up the hill.

700
00:40:51,280 –> 00:40:55,160
Country of Judah.
And as Barrack and his men

701
00:40:55,160 –> 00:40:57,760
charged down from Mount Table,
the storm.

702
00:40:57,760 –> 00:41:01,160
That was coming up behind sister
and his men, knocked them off

703
00:41:01,160 –> 00:41:04,400
their feet and exploded with
terrifying force.

704
00:41:04,840 –> 00:41:08,320
Look what it says.
So Deborah sees.

705
00:41:08,320 –> 00:41:11,160
So Bayritt went.
Down from the mount table and

706
00:41:11,160 –> 00:41:14,480
10,000 men after him and Yahweh
discomforted Sisera.

707
00:41:14,960 –> 00:41:17,680
And all his Chariots well.
What was happening behind him?

708
00:41:17,680 –> 00:41:19,120
What was the discomfort?
Well.

709
00:41:19,520 –> 00:41:24,200
Turn over the page of Judges
chapter 5 and look at verse 20.

710
00:41:28,720 –> 00:41:31,680
So the kings came and fought.
Verse 19 then fought the kings

711
00:41:31,680 –> 00:41:34,400
of Canaan in Tanak by the waters
of Megiddo.

712
00:41:34,400 –> 00:41:38,200
They took no gain of money.
They fought from heaven.

713
00:41:38,440 –> 00:41:42,640
The stars in their courses
fought against Sisera, and the

714
00:41:42,640 –> 00:41:47,640
river of Kishon swept them away.
The ancient river Kishon, Oh my

715
00:41:47,640 –> 00:41:49,520
soul, she says.
There has.

716
00:41:49,520 –> 00:41:53,440
Trodden down strength.
And what happened on that day?

717
00:41:53,440 –> 00:41:58,400
Was that the rain and the hail
fell in torrential proportions,

718
00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:01,520
with the force of the wind
blowing horizontally into the

719
00:42:01,520 –> 00:42:05,400
approaching army like lightning
bolts, completely destroying

720
00:42:05,400 –> 00:42:08,640
them and blinding them.
The sky was filled with flashes

721
00:42:08,640 –> 00:42:11,160
of fork lightning, bolting
across the heavens with

722
00:42:11,160 –> 00:42:15,240
thunderous explosions as God
revealed His presence, a piece

723
00:42:15,240 –> 00:42:17,120
of His Majesty.
We know that.

724
00:42:17,520 –> 00:42:21,280
Look what it sees in verse 4 of
Judges chapter 5.

725
00:42:23,400 –> 00:42:28,200
Yahweh when their wintest out of
seer, when their marchest out of

726
00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:32,640
the field of Edom, The earth
trembled, the heavens dropped,

727
00:42:33,120 –> 00:42:35,280
the clouds also dropped with
water.

728
00:42:35,280 –> 00:42:38,520
It looked so much that the
mountains melted from before

729
00:42:38,520 –> 00:42:43,000
Yahweh, even that Sinai from
before Yahweh.

730
00:42:43,240 –> 00:42:48,640
Elohim of Israel, you see.
If they’d been alive at the time

731
00:42:48,640 –> 00:42:53,360
of Mount Sinai in Exodus chapter
19, it would have all felt

732
00:42:53,360 –> 00:42:56,920
familiar, says Deborah.
It would totally be deja vu if

733
00:42:57,360 –> 00:43:03,480
you see the earth would tremble.
It was made like to like waves.

734
00:43:03,680 –> 00:43:07,440
The word trans trans translated
as the word to shake or shook.

735
00:43:07,640 –> 00:43:10,720
It was, it was like an
earthquake, but it was moving

736
00:43:10,720 –> 00:43:14,120
like waves, right?
It was this water moments and

737
00:43:14,120 –> 00:43:17,360
the heavens just dropped.
The Thunder and lightning would

738
00:43:17,360 –> 00:43:19,440
descend.
The clouds would just drop and

739
00:43:19,440 –> 00:43:22,160
melt water to the point where it
looked like the mountains were

740
00:43:22,160 –> 00:43:26,520
just melting, overflowing the
rain just bursting from the from

741
00:43:26,520 –> 00:43:33,320
the hilltops.
You see, and just like in Exodus

742
00:43:33,320 –> 00:43:36,240
chapter 19.
And verse 16 when the.

743
00:43:36,440 –> 00:43:43,280
Israelites were terrified.
And Moses says in Hebrews 12

744
00:43:43,280 –> 00:43:45,880
verse 2, I.
Exceedingly feared and quaked

745
00:43:45,880 –> 00:43:49,720
his knees not.
Together for For fear, so was

746
00:43:49,720 –> 00:43:53,040
the Battle of Epic.
Proportions, as Yahweh unleashed

747
00:43:53,360 –> 00:43:58,560
upon Sister and his men a
torrent of His water and His

748
00:43:58,560 –> 00:44:02,360
Majesty, as the heavens exploded
in their face.

749
00:44:03,440 –> 00:44:07,280
And so it was that as Barek and
Hissmen tore down Mount Table,

750
00:44:07,680 –> 00:44:10,480
Yahweh unleashed His rage upon
Sisera.

751
00:44:10,480 –> 00:44:11,320
And you know what it says?
Look.

752
00:44:11,480 –> 00:44:17,760
What it says, verse 15, Yahweh
discomforted him and all his

753
00:44:17,760 –> 00:44:19,960
Chariots.
So that’s a fascinating word to

754
00:44:19,960 –> 00:44:22,080
use.
Brothers and sisters, young

755
00:44:22,080 –> 00:44:28,200
people, he discomforted him.
Do you know a word means to put

756
00:44:28,880 –> 00:44:35,680
into commotion?
To put into total disarray.

757
00:44:37,200 –> 00:44:39,400
What did Sisera mean?
Brothers and sisters, young

758
00:44:39,400 –> 00:44:42,800
people.
Sisera meant battle like array.

759
00:44:43,880 –> 00:44:47,120
This is the man who was the
military strategist, who put

760
00:44:47,120 –> 00:44:49,920
everything in order.
And God just totally undoes him,

761
00:44:51,920 –> 00:44:55,600
puts him into discomforts, him
put into complete disarray.

762
00:44:55,600 –> 00:44:58,840
And Sisera?
He’s totally outclassed.

763
00:45:00,360 –> 00:45:05,120
So how did this happen?
Well, I’ll just read an excerpt

764
00:45:05,120 –> 00:45:08,240
that I wrote because I I like to
just sort of get descriptive and

765
00:45:08,240 –> 00:45:10,760
to to sort of paint the picture.
If you hadn’t worked that out,

766
00:45:11,440 –> 00:45:14,040
sorry about that.
It’s the Greek.

767
00:45:15,840 –> 00:45:19,320
Here’s here’s piercing together
Judges Chapter 4 and Judges

768
00:45:19,320 –> 00:45:21,200
Chapter 5 and I just.
Want you to just?

769
00:45:21,200 –> 00:45:23,560
Close your eyes for a minute, or
just just maybe stare at the

770
00:45:23,560 –> 00:45:26,360
screen in the picture and just
think about this as you get the

771
00:45:26,360 –> 00:45:30,640
story.
So the storm system as it

772
00:45:30,640 –> 00:45:32,840
approached Mount Table just
burst open.

773
00:45:32,840 –> 00:45:37,720
Torrential rain cascades down
rapidly, turning the entire area

774
00:45:37,720 –> 00:45:39,280
into a complete mud.
Bath.

775
00:45:39,640 –> 00:45:41,680
As Cicero, and as Chariots, and
as horsemen.

776
00:45:41,680 –> 00:45:46,320
March forward the cloudburst,
accompanied by hail driven by

777
00:45:46,320 –> 00:45:49,360
the windscreen, straight through
the advancing hordes.

778
00:45:49,560 –> 00:45:53,080
Forcing them to slow.
Meanwhile, the water cascades

779
00:45:53,080 –> 00:45:54,800
off the hill continues to
stream.

780
00:45:54,800 –> 00:45:57,640
Down the mountains and into the
valleys, which then begin to

781
00:45:57,640 –> 00:46:00,400
flow together and flood the
plain and Cicero and.

782
00:46:00,480 –> 00:46:05,040
As Chariots sink into the rich.
Fertile soils of Jezreel unable

783
00:46:05,040 –> 00:46:09,640
to move forward anymore.
The lightning, Thunder and the

784
00:46:09,640 –> 00:46:13,000
earthquakes completely spooked
the horses, causing them to rear

785
00:46:13,000 –> 00:46:13,680
up.
And bolt.

786
00:46:13,680 –> 00:46:15,480
In their terror and in their
madness.

787
00:46:15,480 –> 00:46:18,160
They thrashed about, slipping
out of their harness and

788
00:46:18,160 –> 00:46:20,400
tangling themselves into such a
mess.

789
00:46:20,520 –> 00:46:23,080
Halters, bridles, saddles
everywhere.

790
00:46:23,280 –> 00:46:25,680
And panic.
They trample soldiers, footmen

791
00:46:25,680 –> 00:46:29,120
themselves, breaking bones and
killing them, men and

792
00:46:29,120 –> 00:46:32,400
themselves.
And now sister and his army

793
00:46:32,640 –> 00:46:36,400
stands still.
What was a moving motion now

794
00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:40,120
stood still.
And it’s at that moment Bayreck

795
00:46:40,120 –> 00:46:42,280
and his men hit.
Them hit them with full force

796
00:46:42,600 –> 00:46:47,440
and the battle is hand to hand
combat and it’s every man for

797
00:46:47,440 –> 00:46:50,240
himself.
This whole battle now is on.

798
00:46:50,240 –> 00:46:52,640
Foot.
And still the floodwater came as

799
00:46:52,640 –> 00:46:56,680
Sisters men turned to flee.
The mud slows their retreat, and

800
00:46:56,680 –> 00:46:59,800
Bayreck and his men hard on
their heels, gave chase.

801
00:47:00,800 –> 00:47:04,200
And so in verse 16 it says that
Sister and his men fled for

802
00:47:04,200 –> 00:47:06,520
home.
Bairat pursues after the

803
00:47:06,520 –> 00:47:10,200
Chariots and after the host
under Harisheth of the Gentiles.

804
00:47:10,480 –> 00:47:15,080
And all the host of Sister A
fell upon the edge of the sword.

805
00:47:15,080 –> 00:47:19,480
There was not a man left.
They fled for Harisheth of the

806
00:47:19,480 –> 00:47:22,160
Gentiles.
Thompson’s Land in the book.

807
00:47:22,160 –> 00:47:26,400
Sees this that as they
scattered, fleeing for home.

808
00:47:26,560 –> 00:47:30,880
They raced back down the Jezreel
Valley, following the river and

809
00:47:30,880 –> 00:47:35,320
on their right hand, your right
hand, was the swollen river and

810
00:47:35,320 –> 00:47:39,160
Kishon in the Marches of Thora.
They had no alternative but to

811
00:47:39,160 –> 00:47:42,240
make for a narrow pass which
would take them by the river.

812
00:47:42,480 –> 00:47:47,160
Under Harisheth, the Space River
becomes more and more narrow

813
00:47:47,400 –> 00:47:50,880
until within the pass there’s
only a few rods wide, only 20

814
00:47:50,880 –> 00:47:53,800
meters wide.
And the horses.

815
00:47:53,800 –> 00:47:57,640
And whatever was left of them
and the remaining men all mixed

816
00:47:57,640 –> 00:48:00,440
in this horrible confusion,
jostling and treading one

817
00:48:00,440 –> 00:48:02,680
another down as they raced for
Hereseth.

818
00:48:02,680 –> 00:48:06,160
The river, obviously deeper and
swifter than anywhere before,

819
00:48:06,160 –> 00:48:09,480
runs zigzagging from side to
side of the Vale, just up until

820
00:48:09,480 –> 00:48:12,200
it reaches the Castle of
Hereseth, where it dashes.

821
00:48:12,200 –> 00:48:14,880
Itself up against the
perpendicular base of Carmel and

822
00:48:15,040 –> 00:48:18,800
around the corner, and there was
absolutely now no longer any

823
00:48:18,800 –> 00:48:23,520
possibility of avoiding it.
Rank upon rank of flying host

824
00:48:23,520 –> 00:48:28,160
plunged madly into the river,
causing those behind it crashing

825
00:48:28,160 –> 00:48:30,840
deeper and deeper into the
tenacious mud on the banks of

826
00:48:30,840 –> 00:48:35,120
that river, and there they stuck
fast, overwhelmed, and are

827
00:48:35,120 –> 00:48:39,840
swept.
Away by their thousands, Deborah

828
00:48:39,840 –> 00:48:42,720
sings the river Kishon.
She says, Oh, that River Kishon

829
00:48:42,920 –> 00:48:45,800
swept them.
Away the river Kishon, Oh my

830
00:48:45,800 –> 00:48:48,840
soul there has trodden.
Down strength.

831
00:48:50,520 –> 00:48:56,720
There’s five, verse 21, you see,
that’s how God would go with

832
00:48:56,720 –> 00:49:02,320
them and so complete was the
devastation and the destruction.

833
00:49:02,960 –> 00:49:09,000
Verse 16 says that there was not
a man left.

834
00:49:09,000 –> 00:49:12,400
And you cannot miss the parallel
to Joshua 11, Kenya.

835
00:49:13,480 –> 00:49:16,760
That’s what Joshua had done with
Jabin, King of cana #1.

836
00:49:17,480 –> 00:49:20,760
And here on this battle, they
took out Sisera and all his men,

837
00:49:20,760 –> 00:49:26,080
and there was not a man left.
Not until one man beat his

838
00:49:26,080 –> 00:49:29,440
entire harmony.
Sorry, army, everything he had,

839
00:49:29,640 –> 00:49:32,080
Chariots, horses, everything
wiped out.

840
00:49:33,600 –> 00:49:35,720
Judges 11 verse 8 put that on
your margin.

841
00:49:35,920 –> 00:49:37,920
They smoked them until they’re
left.

842
00:49:37,920 –> 00:49:41,560
None remaining.
Do you know that was the

843
00:49:41,560 –> 00:49:42,760
promise?
That was the what was.

844
00:49:42,760 –> 00:49:46,320
Required of them Deuteronomy
chapter 20.

845
00:49:46,320 –> 00:49:49,520
Says.
That but of the cities of these

846
00:49:49,520 –> 00:49:52,320
people, which Yahweh your God
doth give thee for an

847
00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:56,600
inheritance, Thou shalt save
alive nothing that breatheth,

848
00:49:56,840 –> 00:50:02,040
but thou shalt utterly.
Destroy them and so they finish

849
00:50:02,040 –> 00:50:06,680
and fulfil exactly what Moses
had asked on this occasion.

850
00:50:08,240 –> 00:50:11,960
They took the opportunity,
brothers and sisters, to finish

851
00:50:12,520 –> 00:50:15,080
the job.
But Iraq?

852
00:50:15,080 –> 00:50:17,360
And his men knew that the only
reason.

853
00:50:17,920 –> 00:50:21,840
They were having to fight them
now was because the appearance

854
00:50:22,360 –> 00:50:26,240
had not and so they wanted to
complete the mission the

855
00:50:26,240 –> 00:50:30,240
appearance had failed so many
years before.

856
00:50:30,240 –> 00:50:34,520
Joe brothers and sisters asked.
The lesson from tonight, isn’t

857
00:50:34,520 –> 00:50:37,760
it?
You see, true leadership is

858
00:50:37,760 –> 00:50:40,760
outcome oriented.
And more than that, it has both

859
00:50:40,760 –> 00:50:44,040
the vision and the.
Tenacity to see.

860
00:50:44,040 –> 00:50:45,240
Things through to the.
End.

861
00:50:46,000 –> 00:50:48,280
See, we have to become completer
finishers.

862
00:50:48,320 –> 00:50:50,880
In the truth.
Leadership is not demonstrated

863
00:50:50,880 –> 00:50:55,320
by starting something in
earnest, but finishing it is.

864
00:50:55,320 –> 00:50:59,360
Well, you see, it requires us to
follow through with the

865
00:50:59,360 –> 00:51:02,640
discipline and the tenacity on
resolutions that we make.

866
00:51:03,000 –> 00:51:05,520
Long after the.
Spirit in which we made those

867
00:51:05,520 –> 00:51:08,680
resolutions has passed.
That’s true leadership, isn’t

868
00:51:08,680 –> 00:51:10,440
it?
A completer finisher.

869
00:51:10,680 –> 00:51:14,720
It’s easy to give up.
But to do that and to finish, we

870
00:51:14,720 –> 00:51:15,840
have to look at.
Why?

871
00:51:15,840 –> 00:51:20,040
We decided we needed to do
things and finish the jobs we

872
00:51:20,040 –> 00:51:22,000
begin.
It’s too easy to give up.

873
00:51:23,200 –> 00:51:25,640
We’ve got.
To not only win each battle.

874
00:51:26,840 –> 00:51:31,080
But ultimately we’ve got to keep
our focus and attention in order

875
00:51:31,680 –> 00:51:36,640
to win the war.
We’re brothers and sisters and

876
00:51:36,640 –> 00:51:39,440
young people whilst it.
Says.

877
00:51:40,360 –> 00:51:46,480
That there was not a man left,
or that there was only unto 1.

878
00:51:47,840 –> 00:51:52,680
Not everything was destroyed.
One person had positioned

879
00:51:52,680 –> 00:51:56,360
themselves for a rapid retreat
just in case things went wrong.

880
00:51:57,080 –> 00:51:59,440
Since it was a.
Brilliant military strategist

881
00:52:00,560 –> 00:52:03,760
always had Plan B, the escape
plan.

882
00:52:05,640 –> 00:52:07,840
But brothers and sisters and
young people, God had prepared

883
00:52:07,840 –> 00:52:11,360
something extra special for
Sisera and his.

884
00:52:11,360 –> 00:52:14,160
His destiny waited as he exited
stagely.

885
00:52:14,160 –> 00:52:16,480
Do you know why brothers and
sisters?

886
00:52:17,480 –> 00:52:20,040
Well, God had pegged him for
destruction, and he got

887
00:52:20,040 –> 00:52:20,840
completely nailed.