{"id":1094,"date":"2024-04-07T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/ryan-king-geography-of-the-holy-lands-class-2-shechem-the-place-of-decision\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:46:28","slug":"ryan-king-geography-of-the-holy-lands-class-2-shechem-the-place-of-decision","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/ryan-king-geography-of-the-holy-lands-class-2-shechem-the-place-of-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan King – Geography of the Holy Lands – Class 2 – Shechem The Place Of Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 290.<\/p>\n

Slides from this class can be found \u2060HERE\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nNow ask for your attention to
\nour brother Ryan as he delivers <\/p>\n

2
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\nthe topic on Shechem, the place
\nof decision. <\/p>\n

3
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\nThanks.
\nThanks, brother Ed, and good <\/p>\n

4
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\nmorning, my dear brothers and
\nsisters and the. <\/p>\n

5
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\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nIn our. <\/p>\n

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\nStudy yesterday, we endeavoured.
\nTo just give you a nice. <\/p>\n

7
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\nLayout of the.
\nLand of Israel. <\/p>\n

8
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\nWith its various sections.
\nAnd we saw that the land of <\/p>\n

9
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\nIsrael.
\nIs divided up into a. <\/p>\n

10
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\nHump with two planes.
\nOn either side. <\/p>\n

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\nIt sort of follows a a hump like
\nshape across the breadth of its <\/p>\n

12
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\nterritory.
\nYou may have remembered that. <\/p>\n

13
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\nThere are three.
\nRanges of hills along this hump.<\/p>\n

14
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\nThere are the Galilee.
\nHills in the North. <\/p>\n

15
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\nThere are the.
\nSamaritan Hills in the center. <\/p>\n

16
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\nThat’s.
\nWhere we’ll be this morning at <\/p>\n

17
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\nShechem and the Judean hills in
\nthe South and on the other. <\/p>\n

18
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\nSide of these.
\nPlains. <\/p>\n

19
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\nThis is known as the Hill
\nCountry Jerusalem happens to be.<\/p>\n

20
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\nRight about here.
\nThis morning will be at. <\/p>\n

21
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\nShechem which is about.
\nHere along these. <\/p>\n

22
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\nHills.
\nThey range about 3. <\/p>\n

23
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\nTo 3 1\/2 thousand.
\nFeet high and. <\/p>\n

24
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\nThen when you go on either.
\nSide you drop. <\/p>\n

25
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\nDown to the.
\nFloor so on. <\/p>\n

26
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\nEither end of the hump there are
\ntwo famous plains. <\/p>\n

27
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\nThere is the Plain of Sharon
\nwhich is on the. <\/p>\n

28
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\nWestern side.
\nAnd then there is what’s known <\/p>\n

29
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\nas the Arabah, which is on the
\neastern. <\/p>\n

30
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\nSide, which is the term that the
\nscripture uses? <\/p>\n

31
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\nFor the.
\nDepression of the Jordan Valley <\/p>\n

32
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\nas it slopes down towards.
\nThe Dead Sea. <\/p>\n

33
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\nThe Dead Sea in certain.
\nParts of Scripture is called the<\/p>\n

34
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\nSea of the Arabah.
\nIt appears in the AV. <\/p>\n

35
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\nAs the sea of the.
\nPlain. <\/p>\n

36
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\nSo it’s very very easy to
\nremember you’ve got 3 ranges of <\/p>\n

37
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\nhills.
\nDown the center and then plains <\/p>\n

38
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\non either.
\nSide. <\/p>\n

39
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\nThis morning we want to look at
\na very famous. <\/p>\n

40
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\nPlace which is right.
\nIn the centre of the land at. <\/p>\n

41
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\nShechem Another.
\nFact that we pointed out <\/p>\n

42
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\nyesterday, brothers and sisters.
\nWas is that the? <\/p>\n

43
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\nLand reinforces the principles.
\nOf Scripture. <\/p>\n

44
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\nThat we know to be true.
\nIt serves as a confirmation, if <\/p>\n

45
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\nyou like, of what we know to be
\ntrue in the faith. <\/p>\n

46
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\nBoth our doctrinal principles.
\nAs well as our moral. <\/p>\n

47
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\nPrinciples are verified.
\nBy the land of Israel and one of<\/p>\n

48
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\nthe principles that we have to
\ncome to. <\/p>\n

49
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\nGrips with when we come to a
\nknowledge. <\/p>\n

50
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\nOf the truth.
\nIs this that every day is a <\/p>\n

51
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\nstruggle?
\nEvery day we have to make a. <\/p>\n

52
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\nChoice.
\nThe Lord Jesus Christ says. <\/p>\n

53
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\nThat if you’re going to follow
\nafter me, you must. <\/p>\n

54
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\nTake up your cross daily.
\nAnd it just so happens that <\/p>\n

55
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\nthere is a place in the Land of
\nIsrael that reminds us. <\/p>\n

56
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\nOf that very important
\nprinciple. <\/p>\n

57
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\nAnd this morning.
\nI’d like to. <\/p>\n

58
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\nTake you there the place.
\nIs known as. <\/p>\n

59
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\nShechem.
\nNow Shechem, just looking at <\/p>\n

60
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\nthat map, what do you notice?
\nAbout it straight away. <\/p>\n

61
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\nWell, it’s the physical center
\nof the land. <\/p>\n

62
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\nIt’s right in the very heart of
\nthe Hill Country, and it’s about<\/p>\n

63
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\nthe same distance to either end.
\nEither to the. <\/p>\n

64
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\nPlain of Sharon.
\nOr down to the Arabah. <\/p>\n

65
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\nIt’s right in the middle.
\nIt’s the. <\/p>\n

66
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\nPhysical centre of the land.
\nWhich thereby highlights. <\/p>\n

67
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\nIt’s important so it’s obvious.
\nThat if. <\/p>\n

68
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\nThere’s going to be anything
\nsignificant about this place. <\/p>\n

69
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\nIt must be very, very.
\nImportant because God put it. <\/p>\n

70
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\nRight in the centre.
\nNow I’d like to open our studies<\/p>\n

71
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\nin First Kings chapter 12.
\nVery, very quickly, we’re going <\/p>\n

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\nto see a principle established
\nwith Shechem that. <\/p>\n

73
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\nYou and I.
\nHave to make every day. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, in the truth, we’re
\nnever able to be content with <\/p>\n

75
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\nourselves.
\nEvery day has to be a. <\/p>\n

76
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\nStruggle, First Kings chapter.
\n12 We read something peculiar <\/p>\n

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\nwhat they did.
\nWith the new King Rehoboam now <\/p>\n

78
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\nwe’re told in first Kings
\nChapter 12 and Rehoboam went to.<\/p>\n

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\nShechem for all Israel.
\nWill come to Shechem to make him<\/p>\n

80
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\nking.
\nNow Rahabaum was going to be the<\/p>\n

81
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\nking over the Kingdom of Judah,
\nthe Kingdom of. <\/p>\n

82
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\nJudah, of course.
\nIts capital was Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

83
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\nAnd he was going to go back to
\nJerusalem and he was going to <\/p>\n

84
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\nsit on David.
\n‘S throne, but that wasn’t. <\/p>\n

85
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\nWhere they anointed him in order
\nthat they might make Rahabaum <\/p>\n

86
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\nking.
\nOver all Israel they took. <\/p>\n

87
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\nHim to Shechem now.
\nWhy would they take? <\/p>\n

88
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\nHim to Shechem when he’s going
\nto go down to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

89
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\nAnd sit on David’s.
\nThrone. <\/p>\n

90
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\nWell establishes.
\nHere once again a very. <\/p>\n

91
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\nImportant principle for which
\nShechem stands and we’d. <\/p>\n

92
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\nLike to look at that.
\nPrinciple right now. <\/p>\n

93
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\nThe first person to ever.
\nCome to this place. <\/p>\n

94
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\nQuite appropriately.
\nWas Abraham. <\/p>\n

95
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\nHe’s the.
\nFather of the faithful. <\/p>\n

96
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\nHe’s the one that we’re
\nsupposed. <\/p>\n

97
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\nTo follow, so he is the first.
\nThat comes to Shechem, and in <\/p>\n

98
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\nGenesis chapter 12, we see an
\nimportant principle set down <\/p>\n

99
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\nwhen Abraham comes to this
\nplace, and we’ll figure out. <\/p>\n

100
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\nFrom this why it was that they
\ntook rehoboam? <\/p>\n

101
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\nTo Shechem of all places.
\nTo be anointed king over. <\/p>\n

102
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\nIsrael, if we come back.
\nTo Genesis chapter. 12 the first<\/p>\n

103
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\nstop by.
\nAbraham in the land. <\/p>\n

104
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\nAnd he must.
\nHave come to many. <\/p>\n

105
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\nDifferent places as he went.
\nCame down from here in way up in<\/p>\n

106
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\nthe north and he was removed, as
\nStephen says in Acts Chapter 7 <\/p>\n

107
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\ninto the land Now there must
\nhave been many. <\/p>\n

108
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\nPlaces that he would have.
\nCome to as he came from from way<\/p>\n

109
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\nup here in Haran, down into the
\nland of Israel. <\/p>\n

110
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\nHe might have had many stops
\nalong that journey, but the <\/p>\n

111
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\nBible only points out one It was
\nAbraham’s. 1st. <\/p>\n

112
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\nStop.
\nWhen he entered the promised <\/p>\n

113
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\nland, he came to Shechem.
\nNow, as we’ve said before. <\/p>\n

114
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\nGood Bible study is based.
\nUpon good Bible. <\/p>\n

115
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\nReading very few.
\nOf us will ever become. <\/p>\n

116
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\nExperts at Greek or Hebrew?
\nBut we. <\/p>\n

117
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\nCan be good contextual students
\nof the Bible. <\/p>\n

118
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\nAnd we can be.
\nCareful readers and sometimes <\/p>\n

119
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\nthe.
\nBible says so much. <\/p>\n

120
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\nBy just reading it.
\nNotice how Genesis chapter 12 <\/p>\n

121
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\nand verse five reads.
\nIt says there in Genesis 12 <\/p>\n

122
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\nverse 5 and Abram.
\nTook Suraya his wife. <\/p>\n

123
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\nAnd Lot, his brother’s son, and
\nall their substance that they <\/p>\n

124
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\nhad gathered.
\nAnd the souls that they had <\/p>\n

125
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\ngotten in here, and they went
\nforth to go into the land of <\/p>\n

126
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\nCanaan and into the land of
\nCanaan they came. <\/p>\n

127
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\nSo you notice.
\nHow? <\/p>\n

128
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\nThe end of verse five is almost
\nredundant. <\/p>\n

129
\n00:07:24,880 –> 00:07:27,400
\nThey went to go into the land of
\nCanaan, OK? <\/p>\n

130
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\nI would expect that they.
\nWent into the land of Canaan <\/p>\n

131
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\nthen but.
\nThe rest of the verse. <\/p>\n

132
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\nSays and into the land of Canaan
\nthey came, and Abram passed <\/p>\n

133
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\nthrough the land unto the place.
\nOf Shechem, unto the oak. <\/p>\n

134
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\nOf Moray, and the Canaanite was
\nthen in the land. <\/p>\n

135
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\nWell, wouldn’t you expect?
\nThat if they went into the land <\/p>\n

136
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\nof Canaan.
\nVerse five that it’s logical <\/p>\n

137
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\nthat the people.
\nThat you would find would be <\/p>\n

138
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\nCanaanites.
\nYeah, I arrived. <\/p>\n

139
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\nHere on Friday night in the land
\nof Newfoundland. <\/p>\n

140
\n00:08:03,040 –> 00:08:06,520
\nI expected that when I got to
\nNewfoundland I would find <\/p>\n

141
\n00:08:06,880 –> 00:08:10,840
\nNewfies.
\nOf course, when he’s going into <\/p>\n

142
\n00:08:10,840 –> 00:08:14,360
\nthe land of Canaan, he’s going
\nto find Canaanites. <\/p>\n

143
\n00:08:14,360 –> 00:08:16,680
\nWhy is the record?
\nEmphasizing this. <\/p>\n

144
\n00:08:16,680 –> 00:08:18,960
\nWell, it says.
\nAt the end of verse 6 and the <\/p>\n

145
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\nCanaanite was then in the land.
\nAnd then verse 7 Yahweh appeared<\/p>\n

146
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\nunto Abram and said unto.
\nThy seed will I give this land. <\/p>\n

147
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\nBut it’s absolutely swarming
\nwith. <\/p>\n

148
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\nCanaanites.
\nSo what are you going to do? <\/p>\n

149
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\nAbram, are you going to believe
\nGod? <\/p>\n

150
\n00:08:40,120 –> 00:08:41,280
\nWho’s told you that?
\nHe will. <\/p>\n

151
\n00:08:41,280 –> 00:08:46,680
\nGive you this land as a
\npossession, or you can look <\/p>\n

152
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\naround you and see all the
\nCanaanites. <\/p>\n

153
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\nYou’re going to look around and
\nsee all the people in the world <\/p>\n

154
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\nand everything seemingly so
\npermanent. <\/p>\n

155
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\nAre you going to mingle?
\nYourselves with the Canaanites. <\/p>\n

156
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\nOr are you going to?
\nBelieve God and the promise. <\/p>\n

157
\n00:09:01,560 –> 00:09:04,440
\nThat he has made to you and he
\nmade. <\/p>\n

158
\n00:09:04,520 –> 00:09:08,080
\nThat particular choice.
\nAt Shechem, What did Abraham? <\/p>\n

159
\n00:09:08,080 –> 00:09:09,640
\nDecide.
\nWell, it says there. <\/p>\n

160
\n00:09:09,640 –> 00:09:13,240
\nAt the end of verse 7 and there
\nbuilded he an altar unto. <\/p>\n

161
\n00:09:13,240 –> 00:09:17,880
\nYahweh who appeared unto him.
\nHe had a choice. <\/p>\n

162
\n00:09:18,080 –> 00:09:20,320
\nHe could either.
\nSeparate from the Canaanites. <\/p>\n

163
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\nOr he could assimilate with the
\nCanaanites, and there Abram <\/p>\n

164
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\nmade.
\nThat decision to keep separate <\/p>\n

165
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\nhe.
\nBuilded an altar unto Yahweh. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:32,720 –> 00:09:36,640
\nAnd so enshrined in this.
\nPlace of Shechem is the. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:36,680 –> 00:09:42,480
\nPrinciple of decision.
\nGod created this place almost to<\/p>\n

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\n00:09:42,480 –> 00:09:45,360
\nteach.
\nThis important lesson and ever <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:45,360 –> 00:09:49,080
\nafter, whenever anybody came to
\nShechem in the record. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:49,080 –> 00:09:53,720
\nOf scripture we find that.
\nThey had an important decision <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:53,920 –> 00:09:57,800
\nto make.
\nEither to choose life or. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:58,160 –> 00:10:02,400
\nTo choose death.
\nAbraham comes here in Genesis. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:02,400 –> 00:10:05,160
\nChapter 12.
\nHe’s got a choice the. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:05,160 –> 00:10:09,280
\nCanaanite is then in the land.
\nDo we believe God or do we? <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:09,280 –> 00:10:14,360
\nMingle with the Canaanites in
\nGenesis chapter 30. 4 and 35 <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:14,360 –> 00:10:15,920
\nJacob.
\nAnd his family came here. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:16,400 –> 00:10:17,680
\nThey were coming back from
\nPaden. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:17,680 –> 00:10:21,120
\nAram after he had served.
\nAt his Uncle Laban’s. <\/p>\n

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\nHouse for 40 years.
\nAnd he said to his. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:25,240 –> 00:10:28,960
\nFamily at Shechem put away the
\nstrange gods. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:28,960 –> 00:10:31,680
\nThat are among you do it here
\nat. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:31,680 –> 00:10:33,480
\nShechem.
\nOf course they were. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:33,480 –> 00:10:37,080
\nComing back with some Lucky
\nCharms that they had gotten in <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:37,080 –> 00:10:40,120
\nthe land of Paden, Arim and
\nJacob said to his family. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:40,120 –> 00:10:41,360
\nWe’re going up to the House of
\nGod. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:41,360 –> 00:10:44,640
\nWe’re going up to Bethel.
\nPut him away, right? <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:44,640 –> 00:10:48,080
\nHere at Shechem, it was of
\ncourse at. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:48,080 –> 00:10:51,360
\nShechem where Dinah made her
\ndecision to go out and see the <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:51,360 –> 00:10:56,760
\ndaughters of the Lamb in Genesis
\nchapter. 37 Joseph went to keep <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:56,760 –> 00:10:59,680
\nhis father’s flock at Shechem,
\nthe record says. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:00,200 –> 00:11:02,360
\nAnd he goes to find his brothers
\nand and they’ve. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:02,360 –> 00:11:07,280
\nDisappeared they had gone to.
\nDothan a word which means two <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:07,280 –> 00:11:08,640
\nwells.
\nYou see, they wanted it both <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:08,640 –> 00:11:11,320
\nways that.
\nTook place. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:11,560 –> 00:11:15,440
\nIn Genesis chapter 37 at
\nShechem, he came to seek his. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:15,440 –> 00:11:17,720
\nBrethren.
\nAnd he didn’t find them. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:19,400 –> 00:11:23,200
\nWhen the children of Israel came
\ninto the land, Moses. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:23,200 –> 00:11:25,360
\nGave Joshua very clear
\ninstructions. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:25,360 –> 00:11:29,080
\nHe says the day you crossover.
\nInto the land. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:29,280 –> 00:11:30,760
\nYou take the.
\nPeople to Shechem. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:31,720 –> 00:11:34,200
\nAnd there you chant the
\nblessings and the cursings, and <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:34,200 –> 00:11:36,040
\nyou tell Israel that they’ve got
\nto make up. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:36,040 –> 00:11:40,240
\nTheir mind 6 tribes.
\nOn Evil 6 on Gerizim. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:41,800 –> 00:11:44,160
\nMake up your mind.
\nWho is it? <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:44,520 –> 00:11:46,800
\nThat you are going.
\nTo serve. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:50,320 –> 00:11:55,000
\nWe’re not done yet.
\nJoshua Chapter 24, when Joshua <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:55,000 –> 00:11:57,440
\nwas giving his famous farewell.
\nSpeech to the people. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:57,440 –> 00:11:59,280
\nHe took the people.
\nBack to Shechem. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:00,400 –> 00:12:04,120
\nAnd there, he said, Choose.
\nYou this day. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:05,120 –> 00:12:09,800
\nWhom ye will serve?
\nPut away. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:10,600 –> 00:12:12,640
\nThe strange.
\nGods that your father served. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:12,640 –> 00:12:13,800
\nOn the other.
\nSide of the flood. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:14,360 –> 00:12:16,320
\nChoose you.
\nThis day and he told them that. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:16,320 –> 00:12:25,120
\nHere at Shechem.
\nIn Judges Chapter 9, we’re going<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:25,120 –> 00:12:28,080
\nto read about a man named Jotham
\nwhose name means. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:28,080 –> 00:12:32,400
\nYahweh is upright.
\nThis Bramble king Abimelech had <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:32,400 –> 00:12:35,000
\nmade himself king after.
\nThe death of Gideon. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:35,800 –> 00:12:39,560
\nHe had slain the 69 sons of
\nGideon and proclaimed himself a <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:39,560 –> 00:12:43,880
\nking.
\nAnd Jotham escaped, and he ran <\/p>\n

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\nup on top of Mount Gerizim, and
\nhe gave the men of Shechem a <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:46,160 –> 00:12:47,760
\ncharge.
\nWho do you want? <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:48,640 –> 00:12:50,160
\nDo you want to follow?
\nIn the ways of my. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:50,160 –> 00:12:52,960
\nFather.
\nOr do you want this Bramble King<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:53,480 –> 00:12:55,560
\nAbimelech and in order to do
\nthat he? <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:55,560 –> 00:12:57,640
\nCalled out.
\nFrom the top of Mount Gerizim at<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:57,640 –> 00:13:01,880
\nShechem and the men of Shechem.
\nThere, had to make up. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:02,240 –> 00:13:06,680
\nTheir mind.
\nIs it any wonder then, why when <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:06,680 –> 00:13:10,840
\nRehoboam was crowned king?
\nThey took him to Shechem. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:12,320 –> 00:13:14,080
\nEven though he was going to go
\ndown to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:14,080 –> 00:13:17,280
\nAnd sit on David’s throne, they
\ntook him to that. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:17,280 –> 00:13:21,240
\nPlace to.
\nShechem that there he might. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:21,240 –> 00:13:25,800
\nBe made king.
\nThat was where Jesus. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:25,800 –> 00:13:29,880
\nMet the woman of Samaria.
\nAnd she said. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:29,880 –> 00:13:31,280
\nTo him, our father said.
\nIt was in that. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:31,280 –> 00:13:32,560
\nMountain that you ought to.
\nWorship. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:33,120 –> 00:13:36,120
\nWhat do you say?
\nAnd he said salvation. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:36,560 –> 00:13:39,960
\nIs of the Jews.
\nYou need to make. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:39,960 –> 00:13:42,600
\nUp your mind who it is that
\nyou’re going to. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:42,600 –> 00:13:45,720
\nWorship, whether it’s the
\nplethora of the gods of. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:45,720 –> 00:13:49,440
\nThe Samaritans or the One?
\nTrue God of Israel. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:50,000 –> 00:13:52,160
\nShe had to make up her mind in
\nthat place. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:52,160 –> 00:13:55,840
\nSo in both Old and New
\nTestaments we see that this <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:55,840 –> 00:13:58,560
\nprinciple is made.
\nVery, very clear at. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:58,560 –> 00:14:01,520
\nThis one little.
\nPlace right in the middle of the<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:01,520 –> 00:14:03,720
\nlane.
\nCalled Shechem and. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:04,160 –> 00:14:05,840
\nIt reminds us.
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:06,640 –> 00:14:10,000
\nThat each day we also.
\nHave to come to Shechem. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:11,200 –> 00:14:15,360
\nWe have to make up our.
\nMinds who it is that we are <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:15,360 –> 00:14:18,720
\ngoing to follow.
\nWhether we’re going to follow? <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:18,720 –> 00:14:22,440
\nOur own instincts.
\nThe gods that we served before <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:22,440 –> 00:14:26,480
\nwe were baptized or?
\nWhether we’re going to pitch <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:26,480 –> 00:14:27,920
\nour.
\nTent and build an altar. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:29,320 –> 00:14:31,440
\nUnto Yahweh as Abram.
\nDid and. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:31,880 –> 00:14:35,240
\nYou know you’ll find that in all
\nof these events. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:35,720 –> 00:14:38,680
\nThere are connections.
\nIt’s not just that they happened<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:38,680 –> 00:14:42,160
\nin the same place, but there are
\nword connections. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:42,320 –> 00:14:47,400
\nThere are thematic connections
\nbetween all of these events. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:47,600 –> 00:14:50,440
\nYou’ll find that Jacob.
\nIn Genesis chapter 35. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:51,080 –> 00:14:52,720
\nDraws on the incident of
\nGenesis. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:52,720 –> 00:14:56,560
\nChapter 12 You’ll find that.
\nJoshua and Joshua, 24. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:56,560 –> 00:15:00,320
\nQuotes from Jacob in Genesis
\nchapter 35. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:00,800 –> 00:15:05,040
\nWe’ll find that Abimelech in
\nJudges Chapter 9. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:05,040 –> 00:15:08,800
\nWhen he wanted to make himself
\nking, he went back to Genesis 12<\/p>\n

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\n00:15:08,960 –> 00:15:13,240
\nin order to give his New Kingdom
\nquote, UN quote some legitimacy.<\/p>\n

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\n00:15:14,160 –> 00:15:15,160
\nAnd so they’re.
\nAll. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:15,720 –> 00:15:18,520
\nConnected.
\nSo God took this one place in <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:18,520 –> 00:15:21,080
\nthe land.
\nRight in the very. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:21,080 –> 00:15:25,800
\nCenter and memorialized this
\nprinciple. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:26,280 –> 00:15:28,600
\nIt’s something that we all.
\nUnderstand but God. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:28,600 –> 00:15:30,120
\nGave us all of these.
\nEvents at. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:30,120 –> 00:15:34,680
\nShechem to remind us.
\nOf what we must do each and <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:34,680 –> 00:15:36,560
\nevery day.
\nLet’s just look. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:36,560 –> 00:15:40,120
\nAt some of the parallels.
\nThat we find in these incidents <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:40,480 –> 00:15:43,080
\ncome firstly to that one there
\nin the center in Joshua Chapter <\/p>\n

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\n24, You know the Tabernacle
\nduring the time of Joshua and. <\/p>\n

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\nJudges was at Shiloh Shiloh.
\nIs maybe about 20 miles South of<\/p>\n

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\nShechem.
\nSince that was where the. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:03,600 –> 00:16:05,080
\nTabernacle was you would think
\nthat. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:05,080 –> 00:16:07,000
\nJoshua would have.
\nGathered all the people together<\/p>\n

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\nto Shiloh but Joshua chapter. 24
\nAnd verse one tells us and. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:14,040 –> 00:16:17,840
\nJoshua gathered all the tribes.
\nOf Israel to Shechem. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:20,400 –> 00:16:22,280
\nAnd called.
\nFor the elders of Israel. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:23,160 –> 00:16:25,760
\nAnd for their heads and for
\ntheir judges. <\/p>\n

284
\n00:16:25,760 –> 00:16:29,520
\nAnd for their officers, and they
\npresented themselves before. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:29,520 –> 00:16:32,960
\nGod, Joshua said.
\nUnto all the people thus saith <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:32,960 –> 00:16:35,320
\nYahweh elohim of.
\nIsrael, your father’s dwelt on <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:35,320 –> 00:16:36,000
\nthe other.
\nSide of the. <\/p>\n

288
\n00:16:36,000 –> 00:16:39,440
\nFlood in old time, even Terah,
\nthe father of Abraham. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:39,880 –> 00:16:42,840
\nThe Father of Nahor and they.
\nServed other gods. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:42,840 –> 00:16:46,000
\nSo he takes them back.
\nHere to the initial call of <\/p>\n

291
\n00:16:46,000 –> 00:16:48,800
\nAbraham in Genesis chapter. 12
\nAnd where was the 1st place that<\/p>\n

292
\n00:16:48,800 –> 00:16:50,520
\nAbram?
\nCame to in Genesis. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:50,520 –> 00:16:55,200
\nChapter 12 it was.
\nShechem, look down at verse 14. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:56,560 –> 00:16:59,120
\nHe now gives.
\nThem a charge having recounted. <\/p>\n

295
\n00:16:59,120 –> 00:17:04,000
\nSome of their history to them in
\nverses 2 to 14 verse 14 says now<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:04,000 –> 00:17:06,880
\ntherefore fear.
\nYahweh and serve. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:06,880 –> 00:17:12,119
\nHim in sincerity and in.
\nTruth and put away. <\/p>\n

298
\n00:17:13,200 –> 00:17:16,079
\nThe gods which your father
\nserved on the other. <\/p>\n

299
\n00:17:16,079 –> 00:17:18,880
\nSide of the flood in.
\nEgypt and serve. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:18,920 –> 00:17:21,480
\nYe Yahweh, it’s very.
\nSimilar to the choice that. <\/p>\n

301
\n00:17:21,480 –> 00:17:23,720
\nAbraham had to make in Genesis
\nchapter 12. <\/p>\n

302
\n00:17:23,720 –> 00:17:26,960
\nIsn’t it either the Canaanite?
\nOr Yahweh. <\/p>\n

303
\n00:17:27,800 –> 00:17:31,040
\nAnd if it seemed evil unto.
\nYou to serve Yahweh choose you <\/p>\n

304
\n00:17:31,120 –> 00:17:33,400
\nthis day.
\nWhom ye? <\/p>\n

305
\n00:17:33,480 –> 00:17:35,360
\nWill serve, and he said that
\nhere, Shechem. <\/p>\n

306
\n00:17:36,480 –> 00:17:37,920
\nBecause Shechem’s all about
\nhaving to make a. <\/p>\n

307
\n00:17:37,920 –> 00:17:40,560
\nChoice.
\nWhether the gods which your <\/p>\n

308
\n00:17:40,560 –> 00:17:42,280
\nfather served.
\nWere on the other side of the. <\/p>\n

309
\n00:17:42,280 –> 00:17:44,400
\nFlood.
\nWell the gods of the Amorites, <\/p>\n

310
\n00:17:44,400 –> 00:17:48,160
\nin whose land ye dwell, but As
\nfor me and my house? <\/p>\n

311
\n00:17:48,440 –> 00:17:52,240
\nWe will serve Yahweh, so we told
\nthe people. <\/p>\n

312
\n00:17:52,240 –> 00:17:53,840
\nThere in verse 14 to.
\nServe. <\/p>\n

313
\n00:17:53,880 –> 00:18:00,240
\nGod in sincerity and in.
\nTruth now those two. <\/p>\n

314
\n00:18:00,240 –> 00:18:02,960
\nWords.
\nVery often come up. <\/p>\n

315
\n00:18:03,800 –> 00:18:08,920
\nIn the History of Shechem.
\nServe him in sincerity the the <\/p>\n

316
\n00:18:08,920 –> 00:18:10,120
\nword actually means to be
\nwithout. <\/p>\n

317
\n00:18:10,120 –> 00:18:13,080
\nWax.
\nTo be completely crystal clear. <\/p>\n

318
\n00:18:13,720 –> 00:18:16,200
\nAnd in truth, the word means to
\nbe straight. <\/p>\n

319
\n00:18:16,200 –> 00:18:18,600
\nUp and down it’s where?
\nYou’ve got to make a. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:18,600 –> 00:18:19,840
\nFirm.
\nChoice. <\/p>\n

321
\n00:18:20,200 –> 00:18:22,840
\nWhat you want to do now, just
\ncome. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:22,840 –> 00:18:26,360
\nOver a few pages.
\nTo judges Chapter 9, let’s come <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:26,360 –> 00:18:29,120
\nto the next event that took.
\nPlace there at Shechem. <\/p>\n

324
\n00:18:31,280 –> 00:18:42,400
\nGideon has died, and one of his.
\nSons, Abimelech now makes <\/p>\n

325
\n00:18:42,400 –> 00:18:45,720
\nhimself a king.
\nYou know, we want to to learn in<\/p>\n

326
\n00:18:45,720 –> 00:18:48,480
\nSunday school and and we teach
\nour our Sunday school students. <\/p>\n

327
\n00:18:48,480 –> 00:18:50,880
\nThat Saul.
\nWas the first king of Israel. <\/p>\n

328
\n00:18:51,480 –> 00:18:53,040
\nAnd of course.
\nHe was. <\/p>\n

329
\n00:18:53,040 –> 00:18:55,920
\nHe was the 1st.
\nDivinely appointed king of <\/p>\n

330
\n00:18:55,920 –> 00:18:57,200
\nIsrael.
\nBut you know there was a king in<\/p>\n

331
\n00:18:57,200 –> 00:18:58,840
\nthe land of.
\nIsrael long before Saul. <\/p>\n

332
\n00:19:00,040 –> 00:19:02,640
\nHe was an impostor, a self
\nappointed king. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:19:02,640 –> 00:19:05,560
\nHis name was Abimelech in the
\nThe Cycle. <\/p>\n

334
\n00:19:05,560 –> 00:19:07,800
\nOf the judges he.
\nHappens to be the 6th. <\/p>\n

335
\n00:19:08,840 –> 00:19:10,720
\nJudge.
\nBecause he. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:19:10,720 –> 00:19:15,040
\nRepresents the man of Sid, and
\nhe stands up and he proclaims <\/p>\n

337
\n00:19:15,040 –> 00:19:18,600
\nhimself a king, and he says in
\nverse two of Judges Chapter 9, <\/p>\n

338
\n00:19:18,600 –> 00:19:22,080
\nSpeak, I pray you in the ears of
\nall the men of Shechem, whether <\/p>\n

339
\n00:19:22,080 –> 00:19:23,600
\nit’s better for.
\nYou other than all the. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:19:23,600 –> 00:19:28,200
\nSons of Jeroboel, which are 70.
\nReign over you or that one <\/p>\n

341
\n00:19:28,360 –> 00:19:29,160
\nreign.
\nOver. <\/p>\n

342
\n00:19:29,160 –> 00:19:32,440
\nYou remember that also?
\nThat I am your bone and your <\/p>\n

343
\n00:19:32,600 –> 00:19:34,080
\nflesh.
\nYou know, do we really need? <\/p>\n

344
\n00:19:34,080 –> 00:19:35,840
\n70 people to to lead us.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n

345
\n00:19:35,840 –> 00:19:39,240
\nCan’t we just have one?
\nSo he stands up and he makes <\/p>\n

346
\n00:19:39,240 –> 00:19:43,320
\nhimself a king, and in order to
\ngive some sort of legitimacy to <\/p>\n

347
\n00:19:43,320 –> 00:19:47,680
\nthis new quote UN quote Kingdom
\nthat Abimelech was establishing.<\/p>\n

348
\n00:19:48,200 –> 00:19:51,240
\nLook where he goes.
\nVerse 6. <\/p>\n

349
\n00:19:52,240 –> 00:19:56,240
\nAnd all the men of Shechem
\ngathered together, and all the. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:19:56,240 –> 00:20:00,080
\nHouse of Milo.
\nAnd went and made Abimelech king<\/p>\n

351
\n00:20:00,480 –> 00:20:06,000
\nby the plain of the pillar.
\nThat was in Shechem. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:20:06,000 –> 00:20:09,600
\nNow if you have a margin.
\nFor that phrase by the. <\/p>\n

353
\n00:20:09,600 –> 00:20:11,440
\nPlane.
\nOf the. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:20:11,440 –> 00:20:12,840
\nPillar.
\nYou’ll see that the. <\/p>\n

355
\n00:20:12,840 –> 00:20:20,640
\nMargin has. #5 or by the?
\nOak of the pillar. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:20:21,000 –> 00:20:23,000
\nSo he was made king.
\nBy the. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:20:23,240 –> 00:20:27,680
\nOak of the pillar.
\nNow where have we read in <\/p>\n

358
\n00:20:27,680 –> 00:20:30,680
\nscripture?
\nAbout an oak at Shechem. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:20:32,520 –> 00:20:34,360
\nWell, it.
\nWas back in Genesis chapter. 12 <\/p>\n

360
\n00:20:35,080 –> 00:20:36,720
\nand verse. 6 Where it says
\nAbram. <\/p>\n

361
\n00:20:36,720 –> 00:20:40,720
\nPassed through the land unto the
\nplace of Shechem unto the. <\/p>\n

362
\n00:20:42,120 –> 00:20:46,400
\nOak of Moray, the Word.
\nPlain as it is in the AV. <\/p>\n

363
\n00:20:46,400 –> 00:20:48,800
\nReally should be rendered as
\noak. <\/p>\n

364
\n00:20:49,320 –> 00:20:52,960
\nSo it was likely that.
\nSame oak that Abimelech now <\/p>\n

365
\n00:20:52,960 –> 00:20:57,560
\ncomes and he makes himself king
\nover the land he wanted to give.<\/p>\n

366
\n00:20:57,560 –> 00:20:59,840
\nSome sort of legitimacy to his
\nKingdom, so he. <\/p>\n

367
\n00:20:59,840 –> 00:21:02,120
\nGoes back to the very place
\nwhere Abraham. <\/p>\n

368
\n00:21:04,040 –> 00:21:07,880
\nWas first called and 1st brought
\nthat he might say. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:21:08,000 –> 00:21:11,800
\nNow I am king.
\nWell, the men of Shechem have to<\/p>\n

370
\n00:21:11,800 –> 00:21:14,920
\nmake up their mind.
\nWho is it are you going to <\/p>\n

371
\n00:21:14,920 –> 00:21:16,600
\nserve?
\nIs it this new Bramble King of <\/p>\n

372
\n00:21:16,600 –> 00:21:18,720
\nEmelec?
\nOr is it? <\/p>\n

373
\n00:21:18,720 –> 00:21:20,320
\nGoing to be Yahweh, who our
\nfather. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:21:20,320 –> 00:21:23,720
\nGideon stood with Gideon said.
\nI’m not going to rule over. <\/p>\n

375
\n00:21:23,720 –> 00:21:27,360
\nYou, Yahweh, shall rule over
\nyou. <\/p>\n

376
\n00:21:28,000 –> 00:21:33,400
\nAnd so when Jotham who’s the one
\nson left, the other 69 are dead.<\/p>\n

377
\n00:21:34,200 –> 00:21:36,160
\nJotham.
\nWhose name means. <\/p>\n

378
\n00:21:36,160 –> 00:21:38,400
\nYahweh is upright He.
\nStands up in verse 7. <\/p>\n

379
\n00:21:39,080 –> 00:21:40,920
\nAnd he goes.
\nTo the top of Gerizim. <\/p>\n

380
\n00:21:42,040 –> 00:21:44,120
\nAnd lifted up his voice and.
\nCried and said hearken. <\/p>\n

381
\n00:21:44,120 –> 00:21:49,640
\nUnto me ye men of Shechem, that
\nGod may hearken unto you. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:21:50,760 –> 00:21:54,240
\nVerse 17 My father fought for
\nyou, and hazarded his life, and <\/p>\n

383
\n00:21:54,240 –> 00:21:56,480
\ndelivered you out of the hand of
\nMidian. <\/p>\n

384
\n00:21:57,240 –> 00:22:00,040
\nVerse 18 And you are risen up
\nagainst my father’s house. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:22:00,040 –> 00:22:00,280
\nThis.
\nDay. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:22:00,280 –> 00:22:01,800
\nSee Abimelech.
\nWas rebelling against? <\/p>\n

387
\n00:22:01,800 –> 00:22:05,240
\nThe House of Gideon.
\nAnd have slain his sons 3 score <\/p>\n

388
\n00:22:05,240 –> 00:22:08,760
\nand 10 persons upon one stone,
\nand have made Abimelech the son <\/p>\n

389
\n00:22:08,760 –> 00:22:11,200
\nof his maidservant king over the
\nmen of Shechem. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:22:11,920 –> 00:22:16,360
\nBecause he is your brother.
\nIf then where do these words <\/p>\n

391
\n00:22:16,360 –> 00:22:19,440
\ncome from?
\nIf, then ye have done. <\/p>\n

392
\n00:22:19,600 –> 00:22:23,160
\nTruly.
\nAnd sincerely. <\/p>\n

393
\n00:22:23,160 –> 00:22:25,160
\nWith Jeroboel and with his.
\nHouse this day. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:22:25,400 –> 00:22:27,000
\nThen rejoice, she with
\nAbimelech, if that’s who you <\/p>\n

395
\n00:22:27,000 –> 00:22:28,520
\nwant.
\nTo serve, serve. <\/p>\n

396
\n00:22:28,520 –> 00:22:32,680
\nHim But if not verse 20 let fire
\ncome out from Abimelech, and <\/p>\n

397
\n00:22:32,680 –> 00:22:36,560
\ndevour the men of Shechem and
\nJotham ran away in verse 21, and<\/p>\n

398
\n00:22:36,560 –> 00:22:38,920
\nhe flees.
\nSo he left the men of Shechem <\/p>\n

399
\n00:22:38,920 –> 00:22:42,040
\nbefore he went away.
\nWith that choice, do you want <\/p>\n

400
\n00:22:42,040 –> 00:22:43,800
\nto?
\nServe this Bramble King <\/p>\n

401
\n00:22:43,800 –> 00:22:47,880
\nAbimelech.
\nOr do you want to serve God in <\/p>\n

402
\n00:22:47,880 –> 00:22:51,440
\nsincerity and in truth?
\nAnd he was quoting. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:22:51,680 –> 00:22:55,640
\nFrom Joshua’s speech.
\nIn Joshua chapter 24. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:22:55,960 –> 00:22:59,240
\nSo not only is there the
\nprinciple of choice here at <\/p>\n

405
\n00:22:59,240 –> 00:23:00,640
\nShechem, but.
\nYou’ve also got to do. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:23:00,640 –> 00:23:05,800
\nIt in sincerity and in truth.
\nNot in malice or in wickedness, <\/p>\n

407
\n00:23:05,800 –> 00:23:09,960
\nbut in sincerity and in truth,
\nand as we’ll see in a moment <\/p>\n

408
\n00:23:09,960 –> 00:23:11,280
\nthere.
\nAre consequences to that <\/p>\n

409
\n00:23:11,280 –> 00:23:16,080
\ndecision as there are
\nconsequences to all of the <\/p>\n

410
\n00:23:16,080 –> 00:23:18,080
\ndecisions.
\nThat we make and we need to. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:23:18,080 –> 00:23:21,840
\nTake those in mind when we make.
\nThe decisions that. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:23:21,840 –> 00:23:24,480
\nWe do, John.
\nChapter 4. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:23:25,520 –> 00:23:27,040
\nYou know the Lord.
\nJesus Christ said. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:23:27,880 –> 00:23:32,920
\nWith all of this history.
\nIn mind I must needs go through <\/p>\n

415
\n00:23:33,640 –> 00:23:36,400
\nSamaria you know that wasn’t the
\nnormal. <\/p>\n

416
\n00:23:36,400 –> 00:23:39,840
\nRoute that you would take.
\nTo go back home to Galilee. <\/p>\n

417
\n00:23:41,280 –> 00:23:45,480
\nYou would go over.
\nTo Parea, to the land across and<\/p>\n

418
\n00:23:45,480 –> 00:23:47,680
\nthen go up the eastern side of
\nthe Jordan. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:23:47,680 –> 00:23:50,920
\nBut he said.
\nI must needs go through. <\/p>\n

420
\n00:23:50,920 –> 00:23:54,280
\nSamaria, I’ve got to go.
\nThrough Shechem. <\/p>\n

421
\n00:23:55,360 –> 00:24:00,200
\nJohn chapter 4 and verse.
\nThree, he left Judea. <\/p>\n

422
\n00:24:01,000 –> 00:24:05,800
\nAnd departed again into Galilee,
\nand he must needs. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:24:05,840 –> 00:24:09,760
\nGo through Samaria.
\nThen cometh he to a city of <\/p>\n

424
\n00:24:09,760 –> 00:24:12,240
\nSamaria, which.
\nIs called Cycar. <\/p>\n

425
\n00:24:12,240 –> 00:24:14,920
\nBut that should be rendered
\nShechem and we know that. <\/p>\n

426
\n00:24:14,920 –> 00:24:18,080
\nIt’s shechem because it says.
\nIt’s near to the parcel of <\/p>\n

427
\n00:24:18,080 –> 00:24:19,720
\nground.
\nThat Jacob. <\/p>\n

428
\n00:24:19,720 –> 00:24:22,280
\nGave to his son Joseph, and of
\ncourse the the. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:24:22,280 –> 00:24:24,440
\nParcel of ground that Jacob.
\nBought where? <\/p>\n

430
\n00:24:24,520 –> 00:24:26,640
\nJoseph.
\nWas buried according to Genesis.<\/p>\n

431
\n00:24:26,640 –> 00:24:28,400
\nChapter 33 was up there at
\nShechem. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:24:29,920 –> 00:24:33,680
\nNow Jacob’s.
\nWell, was there Jesus? <\/p>\n

433
\n00:24:33,680 –> 00:24:36,200
\nTherefore being wearied with his
\njourney. <\/p>\n

434
\n00:24:36,360 –> 00:24:39,440
\nSat thus.
\nOn that well, look. <\/p>\n

435
\n00:24:39,440 –> 00:24:42,120
\nLook at how that’s put.
\nHe sat thus. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:24:42,960 –> 00:24:44,160
\nOn that well knowing.
\nThat this. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:24:44,160 –> 00:24:46,200
\nPlace was saturated with
\nhistory. <\/p>\n

438
\n00:24:47,040 –> 00:24:52,400
\nHe comes there and he sits down
\nand he contemplates. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:24:53,520 –> 00:24:56,720
\nThe history of that place.
\nKnowing all that we’ve said this<\/p>\n

440
\n00:24:56,720 –> 00:25:00,680
\nmorning, and a whole lot more.
\nAnd then a woman comes out to <\/p>\n

441
\n00:25:00,680 –> 00:25:06,800
\nhim, a woman of Samaria.
\nWhose life? <\/p>\n

442
\n00:25:08,560 –> 00:25:12,320
\nWas an absolute mess.
\nAnd he starts. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:25:12,320 –> 00:25:14,400
\nSpeaking to her about water,
\nafter all, he’s. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:25:14,400 –> 00:25:16,920
\nSitting upon Jacob’s well, and
\nhe’s going. <\/p>\n

445
\n00:25:16,920 –> 00:25:20,520
\nTo put before.
\nHer the choice that she. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:25:20,520 –> 00:25:24,040
\nHas to make, he says in verse
\n13. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:25:25,440 –> 00:25:27,240
\nWhosoever.
\nDrinketh of this water shall. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:25:27,240 –> 00:25:31,120
\nThirst again but.
\nWhosoever drinketh of the water.<\/p>\n

449
\n00:25:31,120 –> 00:25:32,480
\nThat I shall give him shall
\nnever. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:25:32,480 –> 00:25:35,680
\nThirst but the water?
\nThat I shall give him shall be <\/p>\n

451
\n00:25:35,680 –> 00:25:37,280
\nin him a well of.
\nWater. <\/p>\n

452
\n00:25:37,280 –> 00:25:42,680
\nSpringing up into everlasting
\nlife, the woman said unto him. <\/p>\n

453
\n00:25:42,680 –> 00:25:44,800
\nSir.
\nGive me. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:25:44,800 –> 00:25:46,800
\nThis water that I thirst.
\nNot. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:25:47,080 –> 00:25:48,160
\nNeither come hit her to.
\nDraw. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:25:48,200 –> 00:25:50,000
\nYou see, she wants the water.
\nOf life. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:25:52,640 –> 00:25:54,000
\nSo that she won’t thirst.
\nAgain. <\/p>\n

458
\n00:25:54,000 –> 00:25:57,880
\nAnd that she won’t have to keep
\ncoming back here and drawing <\/p>\n

459
\n00:25:57,880 –> 00:25:59,480
\nwater.
\nSee, she she’s trying to come to<\/p>\n

460
\n00:25:59,480 –> 00:26:01,360
\ngrips with just what the Lord is
\nsaying here. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:26:01,360 –> 00:26:03,920
\nWhat is he talking about?
\nThe water that I shall. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:26:03,920 –> 00:26:08,960
\nGive if you drink it.
\nYou will never thirst again. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:26:09,280 –> 00:26:11,000
\nWhat does he mean by?
\nThat so, she says. <\/p>\n

464
\n00:26:11,000 –> 00:26:15,120
\nI I want the water.
\nBut we don’t. <\/p>\n

465
\n00:26:15,120 –> 00:26:19,200
\nGet something for nothing.
\nIn the truth, everything comes. <\/p>\n

466
\n00:26:19,440 –> 00:26:24,360
\nWith a price.
\nEverything comes with probation <\/p>\n

467
\n00:26:24,360 –> 00:26:27,040
\nand testing, so Jesus gives her
\na test. <\/p>\n

468
\n00:26:27,040 –> 00:26:30,040
\nAnd he says.
\nGo get your husband. <\/p>\n

469
\n00:26:34,000 –> 00:26:36,680
\nMy husband.
\nYes, go get your husband. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:26:36,800 –> 00:26:38,800
\nFor 16 and and and come hit.
\nHer. <\/p>\n

471
\n00:26:39,200 –> 00:26:40,200
\nSo what’s?
\nShe going to do? <\/p>\n

472
\n00:26:42,280 –> 00:26:44,720
\nShe’s got quite a checkered
\nhistory. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:26:46,760 –> 00:26:49,000
\nWell, she decided to tell the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n

474
\n00:26:51,320 –> 00:26:56,120
\nVerse 17, The woman answered and
\nsaid, I have no husband. <\/p>\n

475
\n00:26:58,240 –> 00:27:00,000
\nJesus said unto her, Thou.
\nHast well, said I. <\/p>\n

476
\n00:27:00,000 –> 00:27:02,960
\nHave no husband for.
\nThou hast had five husbands. <\/p>\n

477
\n00:27:02,960 –> 00:27:05,200
\nAnd he whom thou now hastest
\nnot. <\/p>\n

478
\n00:27:05,480 –> 00:27:08,640
\nThy husband, in that thou
\nsaidest. <\/p>\n

479
\n00:27:08,640 –> 00:27:11,640
\nNow notice this.
\nWord truly. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:27:14,520 –> 00:27:20,600
\nIn.
\nThat sense thou truly she had a <\/p>\n

481
\n00:27:20,600 –> 00:27:23,640
\nchoice.
\nShe could either tell the truth <\/p>\n

482
\n00:27:26,720 –> 00:27:27,920
\nor she could.
\nSpin a lie. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:27:29,360 –> 00:27:32,320
\nShe decided to tell the.
\nTruth, I have no. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:27:32,320 –> 00:27:36,720
\nHusband, he said.
\nYou’ve said truly. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:27:37,560 –> 00:27:40,200
\nAnd of course, the great.
\nIssue of the day was where is <\/p>\n

486
\n00:27:40,200 –> 00:27:44,600
\nthe true place of worship?
\nIs it in Samaria here, or is it <\/p>\n

487
\n00:27:44,600 –> 00:27:48,120
\nin Jerusalem?
\nHe says to in verse 22. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:27:48,760 –> 00:27:51,400
\nWoman, ye worship.
\nYe know not what we know, what <\/p>\n

489
\n00:27:51,400 –> 00:27:54,440
\nwe worship.
\nFor salvation is out of. <\/p>\n

490
\n00:27:55,120 –> 00:27:58,240
\nThe Jews.
\nNot that it’s restricted. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:27:58,680 –> 00:28:00,240
\nOnly to.
\nJews, but that it’s only <\/p>\n

492
\n00:28:00,240 –> 00:28:02,520
\navailable to Gentiles through
\nthe Jewish. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:28:02,520 –> 00:28:06,000
\nChannel and you need to come to.
\nGrips with that. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:28:06,000 –> 00:28:08,960
\nSalvation is out.
\nOf the Jews. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:28:09,280 –> 00:28:11,280
\nBut the hour?
\nCometh and now is when the <\/p>\n

496
\n00:28:11,640 –> 00:28:15,480
\nnotice this true.
\nWorshippers shall worship the <\/p>\n

497
\n00:28:15,480 –> 00:28:17,840
\nFather.
\nIn spirit and in. <\/p>\n

498
\n00:28:17,840 –> 00:28:21,840
\nTruth, Joshua and Jotham.
\nSaid in sincerity and in. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:28:22,240 –> 00:28:24,800
\nTruth.
\nFor the father seeketh such. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:28:25,400 –> 00:28:30,280
\nTo worship him God is spirit and
\nthey that worship. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:28:30,280 –> 00:28:32,880
\nHim.
\nMust do so in spirit. <\/p>\n

502
\n00:28:33,280 –> 00:28:36,360
\nAnd in truth, and they had.
\nTo he said that. <\/p>\n

503
\n00:28:37,520 –> 00:28:41,840
\nShe had to make up her mind.
\nHere at Shechem in this place. <\/p>\n

504
\n00:28:42,120 –> 00:28:46,640
\nServe him in sincerity and in.
\nTruth. <\/p>\n

505
\n00:28:47,240 –> 00:28:48,640
\nSo it should.
\nCome as no surprise. <\/p>\n

506
\n00:28:48,640 –> 00:28:53,240
\nTo you, brothers and sisters,
\nthat the word Shechem literally.<\/p>\n

507
\n00:28:53,240 –> 00:28:57,320
\nMeans burden bearer.
\nIf you were to. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:28:57,760 –> 00:28:59,640
\nSort of.
\nBoil it down to its actual <\/p>\n

509
\n00:28:59,640 –> 00:29:01,400
\nHebrew.
\nIt means between the shoulders. <\/p>\n

510
\n00:29:01,400 –> 00:29:04,000
\nAnd if you look at Shechem here.
\nYou see it looks like 2 <\/p>\n

511
\n00:29:04,000 –> 00:29:05,480
\nshoulders there’s.
\nEvil. <\/p>\n

512
\n00:29:06,120 –> 00:29:08,920
\nThere’s Gerizim, There’s Shechem
\nin the middle. <\/p>\n

513
\n00:29:09,000 –> 00:29:12,960
\nIt looks like 2 shoulders.
\nWhere you’ve got to make. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:29:12,960 –> 00:29:14,680
\nUp your mind, you’ve got to.
\nBare. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:29:14,840 –> 00:29:17,520
\nResponsibility.
\nLife is not about. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:29:17,520 –> 00:29:19,360
\nAvoiding.
\nOur responsibilities life is <\/p>\n

517
\n00:29:19,360 –> 00:29:22,240
\nabout.
\nAccepting our responsibilities <\/p>\n

518
\n00:29:22,520 –> 00:29:24,360
\nand Shechem reminds.
\nUs. <\/p>\n

519
\n00:29:24,720 –> 00:29:27,720
\nOf that the word.
\nIs only used a handful of times <\/p>\n

520
\n00:29:28,040 –> 00:29:29,320
\nin Scripture.
\nIt’s first use of. <\/p>\n

521
\n00:29:29,320 –> 00:29:31,800
\nShem and Japheth, who Who put a
\ngarment? <\/p>\n

522
\n00:29:31,800 –> 00:29:36,080
\nUpon their shoulder and covered.
\nThe the nakedness. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:29:36,480 –> 00:29:39,480
\nOf their father.
\nAnd it’s a word that. <\/p>\n

524
\n00:29:39,480 –> 00:29:40,840
\nSpeaks.
\nBrothers and sisters about <\/p>\n

525
\n00:29:40,840 –> 00:29:46,720
\naccepting.
\nResponsibility about saying yes.<\/p>\n

526
\n00:29:47,520 –> 00:29:54,200
\nHere am I send me.
\nThe way might be difficult, but <\/p>\n

527
\n00:29:54,200 –> 00:29:57,280
\nI’m going to accept my
\nresponsibilities. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:29:57,400 –> 00:30:00,400
\nThat’s the principle of Shechem,
\nand perhaps its most famous <\/p>\n

529
\n00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:03,440
\noccurrence.
\nIs in Isaiah Chapter 9 in a <\/p>\n

530
\n00:30:03,440 –> 00:30:04,800
\npassage that I think we all
\nknow. <\/p>\n

531
\n00:30:05,240 –> 00:30:10,520
\nIsaiah Chapter 9 speaking about
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ and his <\/p>\n

532
\n00:30:10,520 –> 00:30:13,720
\nKingdom.
\nWhere he will faithfully accept <\/p>\n

533
\n00:30:13,720 –> 00:30:15,640
\nthe responsibilities that his
\nfather. <\/p>\n

534
\n00:30:16,080 –> 00:30:19,720
\nHas committed into his hand.
\nAnd the word that Isaiah. <\/p>\n

535
\n00:30:19,720 –> 00:30:22,400
\nChooses here the spirit through
\nIsaiah. <\/p>\n

536
\n00:30:22,400 –> 00:30:28,480
\nChooses, fittingly, is Shechem.
\nFirstly, he’s going to have to. <\/p>\n

537
\n00:30:28,480 –> 00:30:33,120
\nDeal as we know.
\nWith the Assyrian, the Russian. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:30:33,920 –> 00:30:36,160
\nIsaiah Chapter 9 and verse.
\nFour for thou hast. <\/p>\n

539
\n00:30:36,160 –> 00:30:40,120
\nBroken the yoke of his burden
\nand the staff of. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:30:40,120 –> 00:30:43,040
\nHis Shechem.
\nThe word shoulder there in verse<\/p>\n

541
\n00:30:43,040 –> 00:30:45,640
\nfour is Shechem.
\nThe rod of his oppressor. <\/p>\n

542
\n00:30:45,640 –> 00:30:50,200
\nAs in the day of Midian.
\nVerse 6 For unto us a child is. <\/p>\n

543
\n00:30:50,200 –> 00:30:55,840
\nBorn, and unto us a son is
\ngiven, and the government, the <\/p>\n

544
\n00:30:55,840 –> 00:30:58,800
\ngovernment of the Kingdom, age.
\nWill be upon. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:30:58,800 –> 00:31:04,840
\nHis shechem, his shoulder, He
\nwill faithfully bear the <\/p>\n

546
\n00:31:04,840 –> 00:31:08,280
\nresponsibilities of the.
\nKingdom of the Millennial age. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:31:08,680 –> 00:31:10,640
\nHe will be the.
\nFather of. <\/p>\n

548
\n00:31:10,680 –> 00:31:12,160
\nThe millennial age as the
\nphrase. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:31:12,360 –> 00:31:15,440
\nEverlasting Father.
\nThere means the father of. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:31:15,560 –> 00:31:18,080
\nThe age.
\nAnd the Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:31:18,080 –> 00:31:23,800
\nWill deal faithfully he will.
\nBear on his shechem the <\/p>\n

552
\n00:31:23,800 –> 00:31:26,480
\nresponsibilities that his
\nfather. <\/p>\n

553
\n00:31:27,480 –> 00:31:30,640
\nHas given to him until the end
\nof the thousand years when he <\/p>\n

554
\n00:31:30,640 –> 00:31:33,720
\nwill hand.
\nThat back over to the Father. <\/p>\n

555
\n00:31:34,520 –> 00:31:37,560
\nThat the Father might be all and
\nin all. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:31:38,840 –> 00:31:40,360
\nSo I think.
\nWe see that principle, brothers <\/p>\n

557
\n00:31:40,360 –> 00:31:41,880
\nand sisters.
\nVery clearly before us, we. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:44,080
\nHave to make up our minds who it
\nis. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:31:44,080 –> 00:31:49,360
\nThat we’re going to.
\nServe the land reinforces. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:31:49,840 –> 00:31:52,040
\nAll of the principles.
\nOf our daily lives. <\/p>\n

561
\n00:31:53,840 –> 00:31:55,160
\nWhenever I’m in.
\nDifficulty. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:58,000
\nYou can almost.
\nThink about a place in the land <\/p>\n

563
\n00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:02,760
\nthat reminds you of the decision
\nthat you have to make, or the <\/p>\n

564
\n00:32:02,760 –> 00:32:06,160
\nposition that you’re in.
\nGod has given us the land to <\/p>\n

565
\n00:32:06,160 –> 00:32:07,600
\nremind.
\nUs of our. <\/p>\n

566
\n00:32:07,600 –> 00:32:10,520
\nLessons now with every choice as
\nwe know. <\/p>\n

567
\n00:32:11,440 –> 00:32:15,880
\nThere are consequences we don’t.
\nJust make decisions and then <\/p>\n

568
\n00:32:15,880 –> 00:32:20,360
\nnothing happens.
\nGod is going to judge us based <\/p>\n

569
\n00:32:20,360 –> 00:32:23,840
\nupon the decisions that we make.
\nWell, in order that. <\/p>\n

570
\n00:32:23,840 –> 00:32:26,600
\nWe might be reminded.
\nOf that, there are two mountains<\/p>\n

571
\n00:32:27,000 –> 00:32:32,400
\nat Shechem, you’ll see.
\nHere this is Mount Ebal and this<\/p>\n

572
\n00:32:32,400 –> 00:32:38,920
\nis Mount Gerizim and Mount Evil.
\nIs the hill of cursing. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:32:40,200 –> 00:32:43,360
\nMount Gerizim here.
\nIs the hill of. <\/p>\n

574
\n00:32:43,360 –> 00:32:45,880
\nBlessing, you know in Genesis
\nchapter. 12 When Abraham comes <\/p>\n

575
\n00:32:45,880 –> 00:32:49,480
\nto Shechem, he comes.
\nTo Shechem right after he’s told<\/p>\n

576
\n00:32:50,600 –> 00:32:54,200
\nI will bless.
\nThem that bless thee, and curse <\/p>\n

577
\n00:32:54,200 –> 00:32:56,120
\nhim that curseth thee.
\nAnd there we find those two <\/p>\n

578
\n00:32:56,120 –> 00:32:57,400
\nmountains.
\nSo the. <\/p>\n

579
\n00:32:58,560 –> 00:33:01,320
\nIsraelites, when they came into
\nthe land, put 6 tribes on evil, <\/p>\n

580
\n00:33:01,680 –> 00:33:03,640
\n6 on Gerizim, and in the middle
\nthey. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:33:04,880 –> 00:33:07,280
\nWere able to hear each other and
\necho the. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:33:07,520 –> 00:33:10,720
\nBlessings and the Cursings.
\nOf the law. <\/p>\n

583
\n00:33:11,200 –> 00:33:16,120
\nLet’s look.
\nAt Mount Evil, appropriately <\/p>\n

584
\n00:33:16,120 –> 00:33:17,320
\nevil.
\nMeans. <\/p>\n

585
\n00:33:17,840 –> 00:33:20,560
\nTo be bald.
\nSo if we make the wrong <\/p>\n

586
\n00:33:20,560 –> 00:33:23,760
\ndecisions in our lives.
\nIf we don’t produce fruit. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:33:24,560 –> 00:33:26,960
\nWe’re like this mountain here.
\nEvil. <\/p>\n

588
\n00:33:27,280 –> 00:33:31,400
\nMeans to be bald, and you can
\nsee that most of it. <\/p>\n

589
\n00:33:32,760 –> 00:33:36,160
\nIs dry and airy.
\nWhen you go there. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:33:36,160 –> 00:33:39,800
\nToday it looks exactly the.
\nSame as it would have in the <\/p>\n

591
\n00:33:39,800 –> 00:33:41,320
\ndays when Joshua.
\nTook the tribes. <\/p>\n

592
\n00:33:41,320 –> 00:33:45,200
\nThere No.
\nLife, No. <\/p>\n

593
\n00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:48,120
\nVegetation.
\nIt’s the Hill of. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:33:48,120 –> 00:33:50,920
\nCursing.
\nWe can either have a. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:33:50,920 –> 00:33:54,600
\nBlessing or a curse?
\nYou know when. <\/p>\n

596
\n00:33:54,880 –> 00:33:57,960
\nJoshua.
\nFollowing the instructions of <\/p>\n

597
\n00:33:57,960 –> 00:33:59,320
\nMoses.
\nTook the tribes there, he put <\/p>\n

598
\n00:33:59,320 –> 00:34:02,520
\nthe altar.
\nHere on Gerizim. <\/p>\n

599
\n00:34:02,760 –> 00:34:04,160
\nI mean, I’m sorry on evil, not
\non. <\/p>\n

600
\n00:34:04,160 –> 00:34:07,040
\nGerizim because he knew the
\nchoice that the people would <\/p>\n

601
\n00:34:07,040 –> 00:34:09,199
\nmake.
\nYou know, Moses said after my <\/p>\n

602
\n00:34:09,199 –> 00:34:10,000
\ndeparting.
\nI know. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:34:10,000 –> 00:34:11,199
\nThat you’ll corrupt yourselves.
\nAnd so he. <\/p>\n

604
\n00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:14,520
\nPut the altar here on the hill
\nof cursing. <\/p>\n

605
\n00:34:15,679 –> 00:34:18,760
\nKnowing, of course.
\nProphetically, What choice The <\/p>\n

606
\n00:34:18,760 –> 00:34:20,040
\npeople?
\nWould. <\/p>\n

607
\n00:34:20,120 –> 00:34:24,400
\nMake and evil.
\nIs. <\/p>\n

608
\n00:34:24,760 –> 00:34:27,600
\nTaller, Slightly taller, maybe?
\nA few 100 feet. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:34:27,600 –> 00:34:33,800
\nTaller than Gerizim?
\nBecause as we know, many are <\/p>\n

610
\n00:34:33,800 –> 00:34:37,280
\ncalled.
\nFew are chosen more choose. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:34:37,280 –> 00:34:41,600
\nCursing.
\nThan blessing many there be. <\/p>\n

612
\n00:34:41,600 –> 00:34:44,920
\nThat go the Broadway of
\ndestruction few that there be. <\/p>\n

613
\n00:34:44,920 –> 00:34:48,040
\nThat find the narrow.
\nWay to life so evil. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:34:48,360 –> 00:34:56,360
\nIs higher than Gerizim.
\nNow I wanted to show you <\/p>\n

615
\n00:34:56,360 –> 00:34:58,240
\nsomething interesting about
\nmount able. <\/p>\n

616
\n00:35:00,080 –> 00:35:01,720
\nHere is a map and.
\nAs you can see. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:35:01,720 –> 00:35:07,360
\nHere we’ve got Mount Able.
\nWe find Mount Gerizim, Nablus, <\/p>\n

618
\n00:35:07,360 –> 00:35:11,440
\nwhich is the modern name.
\nFor Shechem is right. <\/p>\n

619
\n00:35:11,440 –> 00:35:15,480
\nHere in the middle, Nablus was
\nmeant to be the the equivalent <\/p>\n

620
\n00:35:15,480 –> 00:35:20,360
\nof Naples in Italy now.
\nBecause the Arabs can’t say. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:35:20,360 –> 00:35:23,160
\nPennsylvania.
\nThey can only say Bah. <\/p>\n

622
\n00:35:23,920 –> 00:35:26,760
\nNablus.
\nThe Naples became Nablus. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:35:26,760 –> 00:35:30,920
\nIt’s a it’s an Arab town today.
\nNow you’ll notice that just not <\/p>\n

624
\n00:35:30,920 –> 00:35:33,680
\nfar from Shechem.
\nIs this place called? <\/p>\n

625
\n00:35:33,680 –> 00:35:38,480
\nSamaria So you can be here in
\nSamaria and look right down. <\/p>\n

626
\n00:35:38,840 –> 00:35:43,400
\nThe Valley to.
\nThe town of Shechem, now Samaria<\/p>\n

627
\n00:35:43,400 –> 00:35:47,360
\nas we know, became the northern,
\nthe capital of the northern <\/p>\n

628
\n00:35:47,520 –> 00:35:50,440
\nKingdom of Israel.
\nAnd it was. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:35:50,440 –> 00:35:54,800
\nWhere?
\nA very famous king lived. <\/p>\n

630
\n00:35:55,240 –> 00:35:57,720
\nI’d like you to come to 1st
\nKings, chapter 22 and just show <\/p>\n

631
\n00:35:57,720 –> 00:36:00,840
\nyou something about the the
\ntopography of the land which was<\/p>\n

632
\n00:36:00,840 –> 00:36:04,320
\nalmost as an indictment to this
\nevil king. <\/p>\n

633
\n00:36:04,320 –> 00:36:07,840
\nHis name was Ahab here in
\nSamaria. <\/p>\n

634
\n00:36:07,840 –> 00:36:10,960
\nOf course, Ahab had many.
\nOf these palaces he. <\/p>\n

635
\n00:36:10,960 –> 00:36:14,080
\nHad one up here in.
\nJezreel by Naboth. <\/p>\n

636
\n00:36:14,800 –> 00:36:19,960
\nAnd he had one here in Samaria.
\nAmos refers to them in his. <\/p>\n

637
\n00:36:19,960 –> 00:36:21,920
\nProphecy as the Winter House and
\nthe summer. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:36:21,920 –> 00:36:27,800
\nHouse when first Kings chapter
\n22 and verse 39 we’re. <\/p>\n

639
\n00:36:27,800 –> 00:36:30,240
\nTold about this palace that Ahab
\nbuilt. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:36:31,920 –> 00:36:33,600
\nNow the rest.
\nOf the acts of Ahab. <\/p>\n

641
\n00:36:33,600 –> 00:36:38,840
\nAnd all that he did, and the
\nivory house which he made. <\/p>\n

642
\n00:36:39,760 –> 00:36:41,680
\nAnd all the.
\nCities that he built. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:36:41,680 –> 00:36:44,560
\nAre they not written in the book
\nof the Chronicles of the Kings <\/p>\n

644
\n00:36:45,200 –> 00:36:47,400
\nof Israel?
\nNow the interesting thing about <\/p>\n

645
\n00:36:47,400 –> 00:36:49,040
\nthat palace.
\nIs is that they’ve actually. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:36:49,040 –> 00:36:55,280
\nFound it the one in.
\nSamaria Ahab’s ivory. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:36:55,280 –> 00:36:58,800
\nPalace.
\nThey’ve actually discovered this<\/p>\n

648
\n00:36:58,800 –> 00:37:00,880
\nis the walls of Ahab’s palace.
\nIn Samaria. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:37:02,040 –> 00:37:04,160
\nThat is Ahab’s palace
\narchaeologists have. <\/p>\n

650
\n00:37:04,160 –> 00:37:08,080
\nProven that beyond all dispute
\nand you know when you stand <\/p>\n

651
\n00:37:08,080 –> 00:37:10,080
\nhere.
\nAt Ahab’s palace in. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:37:10,080 –> 00:37:13,560
\nSamaria and you look down that
\nvalley as we just did on our <\/p>\n

653
\n00:37:13,560 –> 00:37:16,480
\nmap.
\nYou look down towards Shechem. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:37:18,280 –> 00:37:20,680
\nAnd you look for the two
\nmountains Ebel and Gerazy. <\/p>\n

655
\n00:37:21,560 –> 00:37:24,720
\nGuess which mountain is?
\nGlaring right at Ahab’s. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:37:24,720 –> 00:37:27,400
\nPalace.
\nIt’s Mount Ebel. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:37:28,960 –> 00:37:33,400
\nGuess which mountain you cannot?
\nSee from Ahab’s palace. <\/p>\n

658
\n00:37:34,320 –> 00:37:36,640
\nYou can’t see gerazy.
\nThe Hill of. <\/p>\n

659
\n00:37:37,520 –> 00:37:40,720
\nCursing is just glaring right at
\nhim looking. <\/p>\n

660
\n00:37:40,720 –> 00:37:43,880
\nRight at him as an.
\nIndictment to that evil king who<\/p>\n

661
\n00:37:44,520 –> 00:37:48,000
\nwho brought in all of this ivory
\nfrom Africa, and had. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:37:48,000 –> 00:37:50,400
\nTaxed the people heavily so.
\nThat he, he and his. <\/p>\n

663
\n00:37:50,400 –> 00:37:54,920
\nWife could live lavishly.
\nWhen you look down the valley <\/p>\n

664
\n00:37:54,920 –> 00:37:56,920
\nfrom Ahab.
\n‘S palace you can see evil. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:37:57,960 –> 00:38:01,000
\nBut you can’t see Gersey, almost
\nas an indictment to that. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:08,800
\nKing was the land, staring right
\nat him, so we can have cursing. <\/p>\n

667
\n00:38:09,960 –> 00:38:12,440
\nWe all know that sin.
\nBrings suffering. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:38:13,400 –> 00:38:16,680
\nIf we serve the flesh.
\nIt will only make us miserable <\/p>\n

669
\n00:38:16,680 –> 00:38:18,560
\nin the end.
\nOur. <\/p>\n

670
\n00:38:18,560 –> 00:38:23,720
\nLives will be a mess.
\nWe’ll be tormented or we can <\/p>\n

671
\n00:38:23,720 –> 00:38:28,080
\nhave peace, and that comes
\nthrough Gersey and the word <\/p>\n

672
\n00:38:28,080 –> 00:38:30,840
\nGersey means.
\nTo be separate. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:38:31,880 –> 00:38:35,560
\nIt’s used of, sort of.
\nOf hedging off something, of <\/p>\n

674
\n00:38:35,560 –> 00:38:38,200
\nseparating one thing from
\nanother, which is. <\/p>\n

675
\n00:38:38,400 –> 00:38:43,280
\nReally the choice that.
\nAbram had to make separate or <\/p>\n

676
\n00:38:43,280 –> 00:38:45,800
\nassimilate.
\nIt’s the choice that Jacob. <\/p>\n

677
\n00:38:45,800 –> 00:38:48,520
\nGave his family.
\nPut away the strange gods. <\/p>\n

678
\n00:38:48,520 –> 00:38:50,560
\nAnd.
\nYou can go through all of the <\/p>\n

679
\n00:38:50,560 –> 00:38:52,640
\nevents at Shechem and you’ll see
\nthat it’s. <\/p>\n

680
\n00:38:52,640 –> 00:38:55,400
\nBlessing that comes through
\nseparation. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:38:55,520 –> 00:39:00,320
\nIt’s greener than Mount Evil.
\nThis is actually a. <\/p>\n

682
\n00:39:00,560 –> 00:39:04,760
\nA drawing of Gerizim.
\nIf you go there today, there’s <\/p>\n

683
\n00:39:04,760 –> 00:39:07,840
\nmore greenery on Gerizim than
\nthere is on evil. <\/p>\n

684
\n00:39:07,840 –> 00:39:09,840
\nIt’s very easy to.
\nDetect evil because it’s just. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:39:09,960 –> 00:39:12,800
\nBald as can be.
\nBut Gerizim? <\/p>\n

686
\n00:39:13,200 –> 00:39:15,800
\nIs a little bit more lush, a
\nlittle bit more. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:21,000
\nVegetation on it.
\nIt’s the hill of blessing. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:39:22,320 –> 00:39:24,000
\nAnd we’ll have a little.
\nBit to say about the Hill of. <\/p>\n

689
\n00:39:24,000 –> 00:39:28,200
\nBlessing here in a moment Jotham
\nwent to. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:39:28,200 –> 00:39:32,800
\nThe top of Gerizy, not.
\nEvil to invite the men of <\/p>\n

691
\n00:39:32,800 –> 00:39:37,560
\nShechem to share in blessing.
\nYou know he didn’t call out <\/p>\n

692
\n00:39:37,560 –> 00:39:39,960
\nfrom.
\nEvil he called out from. <\/p>\n

693
\n00:39:39,960 –> 00:39:41,560
\nGerizim because he wanted the
\nmen of. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:39:41,560 –> 00:39:44,360
\nShechem to separate.
\nThemselves from that Bramble <\/p>\n

695
\n00:39:44,360 –> 00:39:50,200
\nking that they might not be
\nconsumed and it’s shorter than <\/p>\n

696
\n00:39:50,200 –> 00:39:53,920
\nevil.
\nBecause fewer people choose <\/p>\n

697
\n00:39:53,920 –> 00:39:55,040
\nlife.
\nMore people. <\/p>\n

698
\n00:39:55,040 –> 00:39:58,040
\nChoose cursing than blessing.
\nAnd so this hill. <\/p>\n

699
\n00:39:58,840 –> 00:40:01,840
\nIs just a little bit shorter,
\nalthough it’s right next. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:40:01,840 –> 00:40:04,480
\nTo it, it’s a.
\nLittle bit shorter. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:40:06,080 –> 00:40:08,120
\nSo we have.
\nThe consequences of our <\/p>\n

702
\n00:40:08,120 –> 00:40:11,160
\ndecisions, we can either have
\nblessing or we can have. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:40:11,240 –> 00:40:13,800
\nCursing now, of course we would.
\nAll say to ourselves, we. <\/p>\n

704
\n00:40:13,800 –> 00:40:16,440
\nDon’t want to be cursed.
\nWe all want life. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:40:17,080 –> 00:40:18,720
\nWe all want to be in God’s
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n

706
\n00:40:18,720 –> 00:40:23,000
\nWe all want to.
\nReceive blessing well, Shechem <\/p>\n

707
\n00:40:23,080 –> 00:40:28,000
\nreminds us of something else.
\nThat helps us to choose life. <\/p>\n

708
\n00:40:28,560 –> 00:40:32,280
\nThat helps us to choose.
\nBlessing and not cursing. <\/p>\n

709
\n00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:35,680
\nIf you come back to.
\nDeuteronomy, Chapter 27 and the <\/p>\n

710
\n00:40:35,680 –> 00:40:38,840
\nreading that we had, we’re given
\nthe list of. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:40:38,840 –> 00:40:47,240
\nTribes.
\nThat were to be on mount Gerizim<\/p>\n

712
\n00:40:47,240 –> 00:40:51,240
\nthe six tribes on Gerizim and.
\nThe six tribes that were to be. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:57,480
\nUpon Mount Evil verse 12.
\nOf Deuteronomy, chapter 27. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:02,440
\nThese shall.
\nStand upon Mount Gerizim to. <\/p>\n

715
\n00:41:02,440 –> 00:41:05,720
\nBless the people.
\nWhen they are come over Jordan, <\/p>\n

716
\n00:41:06,800 –> 00:41:11,360
\nSimeon and Levi.
\nJudah, Issachar, Joseph and <\/p>\n

717
\n00:41:11,360 –> 00:41:14,200
\nBenjamin.
\nAnd these shall stand upon <\/p>\n

718
\n00:41:14,200 –> 00:41:15,440
\nmount.
\nEvil to curse. <\/p>\n

719
\n00:41:16,280 –> 00:41:22,840
\nReuben and Gad and Asher and
\nZebulun, Dan and Naftalai. <\/p>\n

720
\n00:41:23,800 –> 00:41:25,680
\nNow, have you ever wondered?
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n

721
\n00:41:25,680 –> 00:41:29,120
\nWhy certain tribes are?
\nOn the hill of. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:41:29,120 –> 00:41:32,600
\nBlessing and certain tribes are
\non the hill of. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:41:32,600 –> 00:41:33,800
\nCursing.
\nI mean why were? <\/p>\n

724
\n00:41:34,320 –> 00:41:37,040
\nThose tribes picked.
\nIn verse 13 to be. <\/p>\n

725
\n00:41:37,040 –> 00:41:40,160
\nOn the hill of cursing.
\nAnd why was it that, you know, <\/p>\n

726
\n00:41:40,160 –> 00:41:44,240
\nSimeon, that had such a?
\nRotten history why is? <\/p>\n

727
\n00:41:44,240 –> 00:41:45,920
\nSimeon on the hill of.
\nBlessing. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:41:47,400 –> 00:41:51,360
\nI mean a few pages over in
\nDeuteronomy chapter 33 when the <\/p>\n

729
\n00:41:51,360 –> 00:41:53,360
\nblessings are.
\nGiven upon the tribes. <\/p>\n

730
\n00:41:53,480 –> 00:41:58,400
\nSimeon’s not even mentioned.
\nWhy is it that Simeon? <\/p>\n

731
\n00:41:59,200 –> 00:42:01,280
\nIs placed in verse 12.
\nWith those tribes. <\/p>\n

732
\n00:42:01,280 –> 00:42:02,400
\nThat are on the hill of
\nblessing? <\/p>\n

733
\n00:42:03,400 –> 00:42:04,600
\nWell, I think.
\nThat there’s there’s an <\/p>\n

734
\n00:42:04,600 –> 00:42:07,760
\nimportant.
\nPrinciple here in these. <\/p>\n

735
\n00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:11,680
\nTribes I’d like to do a little.
\nExercise now if I got. <\/p>\n

736
\n00:42:11,680 –> 00:42:13,800
\nTo have a volunteer pass out
\nsome maps. <\/p>\n

737
\n00:42:14,960 –> 00:42:16,520
\nWhat we’re going to do is just
\ngoing to. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:42:16,760 –> 00:42:20,240
\nHave a look at these tribes.
\nAnd see if we can find. <\/p>\n

739
\n00:42:20,240 –> 00:42:21,960
\nWhy certain tribes?
\nAre on the hill of. <\/p>\n

740
\n00:42:21,960 –> 00:42:24,120
\nBlessing and certain tribes are
\non the. <\/p>\n

741
\n00:42:24,520 –> 00:42:28,200
\nHill of Cursing If everyone
\ncould just take a Map and. <\/p>\n

742
\n00:42:28,840 –> 00:42:30,960
\nIf you had a coloured.
\nPencil if you have a coloured <\/p>\n

743
\n00:42:30,960 –> 00:42:32,760
\npencil or a marker or something
\nlike. <\/p>\n

744
\n00:42:32,760 –> 00:42:35,440
\nThat.
\nWe’ll just do a little exercise <\/p>\n

745
\n00:42:36,760 –> 00:43:01,120
\nwith these traps.
\nMost of you will recognize that <\/p>\n

746
\n00:43:01,120 –> 00:43:03,040
\nthis is a map.
\nOf the 12 tribes. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:43:03,680 –> 00:43:05,520
\nIn the land in their.
\nVarious portions. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:43:33,110 –> 00:43:38,400
\nThanks for doing that.
\nNow let’s just note. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:43:39,200 –> 00:43:47,360
\nBrothers and Sisters verse 13.
\nLet’s note the tribes. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:43:48,080 –> 00:43:54,200
\nThat are on the hill.
\nOf cursing the first. <\/p>\n

751
\n00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:56,640
\nTribe on the hill of Cursing is
\nReuben. <\/p>\n

752
\n00:43:57,640 –> 00:44:00,760
\nNow where was Reuben located?
\nWe know they were one of the <\/p>\n

753
\n00:44:00,760 –> 00:44:03,840
\ntribes that were on the other.
\nSide of the Jordan Reuben is <\/p>\n

754
\n00:44:03,840 –> 00:44:07,280
\nlocated right here.
\nSo with a. <\/p>\n

755
\n00:44:07,280 –> 00:44:11,480
\nColoring in pencil or any sort
\nof marker, just Mark Reuben. <\/p>\n

756
\n00:44:19,050 –> 00:44:22,130
\nThe next tribe is Gad.
\nNow GAD is just north of. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:44:22,130 –> 00:44:24,090
\nReuben.
\nAlso on the other side. <\/p>\n

758
\n00:44:24,090 –> 00:44:41,920
\nOf the Jordan, Mark Gad.
\nNext tribe is Asher. <\/p>\n

759
\n00:44:41,920 –> 00:44:44,320
\nNow Asher is on the
\nNorthwestern. <\/p>\n

760
\n00:44:44,320 –> 00:44:50,480
\nSide Long Mount Carmel.
\nAll the way up to tyre right <\/p>\n

761
\n00:44:50,480 –> 00:44:53,200
\nhere.
\nThe far north is Asher. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:44:53,200 –> 00:45:03,620
\nColor in Asher.
\nThe next tribe is Zebulun, so <\/p>\n

763
\n00:45:03,620 –> 00:45:05,620
\nZebulun.
\nNext to Asher. <\/p>\n

764
\n00:45:06,700 –> 00:45:19,800
\nRight here color in Zebulun.
\nDan is next. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:45:19,800 –> 00:45:21,720
\nNow Dan is an interesting tribe
\nbecause remember their <\/p>\n

766
\n00:45:21,720 –> 00:45:25,280
\ninheritance initially was down
\nhere in the northern. <\/p>\n

767
\n00:45:25,280 –> 00:45:29,920
\nPart of the Shephilah, right
\nwhere Joppa is, but what did the<\/p>\n

768
\n00:45:29,920 –> 00:45:32,280
\ntribe?
\nOf Dan end up doing well, they <\/p>\n

769
\n00:45:32,280 –> 00:45:35,400
\nabandoned the inheritance.
\nThat God had. <\/p>\n

770
\n00:45:35,400 –> 00:45:37,600
\nGiven them and they went all the
\nway up here in the north. <\/p>\n

771
\n00:45:38,480 –> 00:45:40,560
\nTo laish to a people that were
\nweak. <\/p>\n

772
\n00:45:40,880 –> 00:45:43,480
\nAnd easy to fight and.
\nOvercome the tribe. <\/p>\n

773
\n00:45:43,480 –> 00:45:46,560
\nOf the Danites abandoned this
\narea here and they ended up. <\/p>\n

774
\n00:45:47,160 –> 00:45:49,120
\nAll the way.
\nUp here so this little. <\/p>\n

775
\n00:45:51,520 –> 00:45:56,360
\nPart up here which the.
\nMap I believe actually <\/p>\n

776
\n00:45:56,760 –> 00:45:58,520
\nhighlights.
\nHis Dan color in that little <\/p>\n

777
\n00:45:58,520 –> 00:46:00,400
\narea.
\nUp there, you’ll recall that. <\/p>\n

778
\n00:46:00,400 –> 00:46:02,400
\nThat’s the great conflict.
\nOf Samson’s life. <\/p>\n

779
\n00:46:03,160 –> 00:46:05,280
\nHis tribe of the Danites.
\nHad failed. <\/p>\n

780
\n00:46:05,280 –> 00:46:09,160
\nTo take their inheritance down
\nhere, and they went way up in <\/p>\n

781
\n00:46:09,160 –> 00:46:10,560
\nthe north of the land where the
\npickings were. <\/p>\n

782
\n00:46:10,560 –> 00:46:14,160
\nEasy the coloring Dan, right?
\nThere at the very, very top. <\/p>\n

783
\n00:46:17,360 –> 00:46:20,520
\nAnd then?
\nLastly, the tribe of. <\/p>\n

784
\n00:46:20,520 –> 00:46:24,120
\nNaphtalai Naphtalai is right
\nnext to Dan. <\/p>\n

785
\n00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:28,680
\nHere in the very, very north, in
\nthe Galilee hills. <\/p>\n

786
\n00:46:31,440 –> 00:46:33,080
\nAll right.
\nNow look at your map. <\/p>\n

787
\n00:46:34,560 –> 00:46:36,080
\nWhere are the?
\nTribes that are on the. <\/p>\n

788
\n00:46:36,080 –> 00:46:42,160
\nHill of Cursing They’re.
\nAll on the perimeter, They’re <\/p>\n

789
\n00:46:42,160 –> 00:46:44,960
\nall on the outside or they’re on
\nthe. <\/p>\n

790
\n00:46:45,000 –> 00:46:50,480
\nOther side of the Jordan where
\nare the tribes? <\/p>\n

791
\n00:46:50,640 –> 00:46:52,880
\nThat are on the hill.
\nOf blessing they’re. <\/p>\n

792
\n00:46:52,880 –> 00:46:57,840
\nRight in the very center you
\nknow Simeon really belongs to. <\/p>\n

793
\n00:46:57,840 –> 00:47:01,120
\nJudah, Because they were.
\nPut inside the tribe of. <\/p>\n

794
\n00:47:01,440 –> 00:47:04,840
\nJudah as punishment.
\nDivide them in Jacob, scatter <\/p>\n

795
\n00:47:04,840 –> 00:47:07,080
\nthem in Israel.
\nSo Simeon, even though it had a.<\/p>\n

796
\n00:47:07,080 –> 00:47:09,200
\nVery checkered past.
\nIs on the hill of. <\/p>\n

797
\n00:47:09,200 –> 00:47:11,880
\nBlessing, of course, because it.
\nBelongs to Judah, which is right<\/p>\n

798
\n00:47:12,240 –> 00:47:13,800
\nin.
\nThe very heart. <\/p>\n

799
\n00:47:14,800 –> 00:47:18,240
\nOf the land, so if you.
\nLook at the tribes, the borders <\/p>\n

800
\n00:47:18,240 –> 00:47:19,800
\nof the.
\nTribes on the hill of Blessing <\/p>\n

801
\n00:47:19,840 –> 00:47:23,400
\nGerizim their borders.
\nAll converge around the center <\/p>\n

802
\n00:47:24,920 –> 00:47:28,840
\naround Shechem.
\nWhere are the tribes that are on<\/p>\n

803
\n00:47:28,840 –> 00:47:29,800
\nthe hill?
\nOf cursing. <\/p>\n

804
\n00:47:30,400 –> 00:47:33,280
\nThey’re all on the perimeter, on
\nthe. <\/p>\n

805
\n00:47:33,280 –> 00:47:37,480
\nOutskirts now, Shechem is all.
\nAbout choosing life. <\/p>\n

806
\n00:47:39,280 –> 00:47:42,880
\nAnd the best way that.
\nWe can find blessing in our <\/p>\n

807
\n00:47:42,880 –> 00:47:46,560
\nlives.
\nIs to be active at the. <\/p>\n

808
\n00:47:46,560 –> 00:47:50,640
\nCenter of our ecclesias with.
\nGod as the basis of our lives. <\/p>\n

809
\n00:47:52,280 –> 00:47:54,880
\nThat’s the principle.
\nOf why these tribes, I believe. <\/p>\n

810
\n00:47:55,120 –> 00:47:57,640
\nAre on the hill of.
\nBlessing and why other tribes? <\/p>\n

811
\n00:47:57,640 –> 00:48:00,360
\nAre on the hill of.
\nCursing because geographically, <\/p>\n

812
\n00:48:00,360 –> 00:48:02,960
\nthey teach us a lesson.
\nThe tribes. <\/p>\n

813
\n00:48:02,960 –> 00:48:05,080
\nThat are on the hill.
\nOf cursing are all on the <\/p>\n

814
\n00:48:05,080 –> 00:48:07,800
\noutskirts.
\nThey’re all on the perimeter. <\/p>\n

815
\n00:48:08,320 –> 00:48:09,520
\nThe.
\nTribes that are on the hill. <\/p>\n

816
\n00:48:09,520 –> 00:48:17,880
\nOf blessing are right in the
\nmiddle and so the best way. <\/p>\n

817
\n00:48:18,480 –> 00:48:23,960
\nTo choose life is to be active.
\nAt the center of our. <\/p>\n

818
\n00:48:23,960 –> 00:48:27,520
\nEcclesias when the ecclesia.
\nNeeds a job done. <\/p>\n

819
\n00:48:29,360 –> 00:48:31,160
\nYou don’t say well, I’ve got to
\nwalk the dog. <\/p>\n

820
\n00:48:32,160 –> 00:48:34,240
\nI’m not.
\nQualified you put your. <\/p>\n

821
\n00:48:34,240 –> 00:48:40,160
\nHand up and you say.
\nI will do it active at the heart<\/p>\n

822
\n00:48:40,160 –> 00:48:40,760
\nof the.
\nEcclesion. <\/p>\n

823
\n00:48:40,760 –> 00:48:42,560
\nWe have these.
\nTwo references up here. <\/p>\n

824
\n00:48:43,800 –> 00:48:45,600
\nWhich for lack of time, we won’t
\nlook at, but numbers. <\/p>\n

825
\n00:48:45,600 –> 00:48:48,440
\nChapter 11, verse one and
\nDeuteronomy. <\/p>\n

826
\n00:48:48,440 –> 00:48:53,480
\nChapter 25 verses 17 to 19.
\nWhere were the complainers in <\/p>\n

827
\n00:48:53,480 –> 00:48:56,280
\nthe Camp of Israel?
\nIn Numbers, Chapter 11. <\/p>\n

828
\n00:48:57,120 –> 00:48:59,840
\nAnd Tabarab, Well, it says they.
\nWere in the. <\/p>\n

829
\n00:49:00,000 –> 00:49:03,200
\nOutside parts of the.
\nCamp in the uttermost parts of <\/p>\n

830
\n00:49:03,200 –> 00:49:05,520
\nthe camp, that was where
\ncomplaining originated. <\/p>\n

831
\n00:49:06,920 –> 00:49:09,120
\nAnd it’s very often where.
\nComplaining in the Ecclesia <\/p>\n

832
\n00:49:09,440 –> 00:49:14,680
\noriginates from the fringes.
\nDeuteronomy chapter 25 is <\/p>\n

833
\n00:49:14,680 –> 00:49:17,120
\nspeaking about Amalek.
\nAnd who did Amalek? <\/p>\n

834
\n00:49:17,120 –> 00:49:19,320
\nAttack.
\nIt was those that were. <\/p>\n

835
\n00:49:19,320 –> 00:49:22,600
\nOn.
\nThe outside, the stragglers at <\/p>\n

836
\n00:49:22,600 –> 00:49:25,360
\nthe back.
\nThey didn’t go after Aaron and. <\/p>\n

837
\n00:49:25,360 –> 00:49:27,280
\nHer and Moses and the.
\nPeople at the front, the <\/p>\n

838
\n00:49:27,280 –> 00:49:30,440
\nfighting men, they didn’t go
\nafter those that were active in <\/p>\n

839
\n00:49:30,440 –> 00:49:35,560
\nthe center, they went after the
\nweaklings and the tribes that <\/p>\n

840
\n00:49:35,560 –> 00:49:38,360
\nare on the outside.
\nAre the tribes. <\/p>\n

841
\n00:49:38,360 –> 00:49:40,880
\nThat are on the.
\nHill of Cursing the tribes. <\/p>\n

842
\n00:49:41,200 –> 00:49:45,680
\nThat are on the inside.
\nAre on the hill of blessing. <\/p>\n

843
\n00:49:45,680 –> 00:49:47,520
\nSo where are you in in the
\nEcclesia? <\/p>\n

844
\n00:49:49,960 –> 00:49:54,720
\nOutside just show up.
\nOn Sunday morning And then don’t<\/p>\n

845
\n00:49:54,720 –> 00:49:56,560
\nsee your brothers and sisters
\nagain for another week. <\/p>\n

846
\n00:49:58,120 –> 00:50:00,920
\nOr are we active?
\nAt the heart of our. <\/p>\n

847
\n00:50:00,920 –> 00:50:03,280
\nEcclesias shouldn’t come as any
\nsurprise. <\/p>\n

848
\n00:50:03,280 –> 00:50:07,040
\nYou know that Shechem?
\nWas a city of refuge. <\/p>\n

849
\n00:50:09,480 –> 00:50:11,840
\nBecause Refuge is.
\nFound only to those. <\/p>\n

850
\n00:50:13,200 –> 00:50:15,280
\nThat choose life.
\nAnd there are. <\/p>\n

851
\n00:50:15,520 –> 00:50:20,040
\nSteadfast, unmovable, and always
\nabounding in the work of. <\/p>\n

852
\n00:50:20,040 –> 00:50:22,360
\nTheir God.
\nI’d like to close brothers and <\/p>\n

853
\n00:50:22,360 –> 00:50:23,920
\nsisters.
\nWith some words from Zephaniah <\/p>\n

854
\n00:50:23,920 –> 00:50:34,080
\nchapter 3, Shechem has some
\nwonderful things to teach us. <\/p>\n

855
\n00:50:34,400 –> 00:50:37,240
\nWe have to choose life.
\nWe have to accept. <\/p>\n

856
\n00:50:37,240 –> 00:50:39,480
\nOur responsibilities and you
\nknow, one day. <\/p>\n

857
\n00:50:40,080 –> 00:50:42,560
\nAll the world.
\nWill come to. <\/p>\n

858
\n00:50:42,560 –> 00:50:44,960
\nAppreciate the importance.
\nAnd the significance of this <\/p>\n

859
\n00:50:44,960 –> 00:50:48,360
\nterm and this place.
\nAnd the history of these things <\/p>\n

860
\n00:50:48,360 –> 00:50:52,160
\nthat we revel in now.
\nThis is the last occurrence of <\/p>\n

861
\n00:50:52,160 –> 00:50:53,840
\nthe word.
\nShechem in our Old Testament <\/p>\n

862
\n00:50:55,440 –> 00:51:02,800
\nit’s in Zephaniah, chapter 3.
\nA very unique verses we know in <\/p>\n

863
\n00:51:02,800 –> 00:51:05,640
\nthe Hebrew language.
\nZephaniah chapter. <\/p>\n

864
\n00:51:05,640 –> 00:51:08,440
\nThree and verse 9.
\nFor then, Speaking of the <\/p>\n

865
\n00:51:08,440 –> 00:51:12,080
\nKingdom age, I will turn to the
\npeople A. <\/p>\n

866
\n00:51:12,080 –> 00:51:16,200
\nPure language.
\nThey’ll all know the truth. <\/p>\n

867
\n00:51:17,280 –> 00:51:19,640
\nThat they may all call upon the
\nname of. <\/p>\n

868
\n00:51:19,640 –> 00:51:25,080
\nYahweh, Remember Abraham.
\nHe pitched his. <\/p>\n

869
\n00:51:25,080 –> 00:51:26,640
\nTent, And he called upon the
\nname of. <\/p>\n

870
\n00:51:26,640 –> 00:51:28,240
\nYahweh.
\nHe built an altar. <\/p>\n

871
\n00:51:28,960 –> 00:51:32,560
\nTo serve him with one consent,
\nnow the word consent. <\/p>\n

872
\n00:51:32,560 –> 00:51:35,480
\nThere.
\nAs the margin indicates. <\/p>\n

873
\n00:51:35,480 –> 00:51:40,080
\nIs the word shoulder or shechem
\nall the? <\/p>\n

874
\n00:51:40,160 –> 00:51:45,440
\nEarth will one day call upon the
\nname of Yahweh and serve him <\/p>\n

875
\n00:51:45,440 –> 00:51:48,800
\nwith one.
\nShechem, They will accept. <\/p>\n

876
\n00:51:48,800 –> 00:51:50,880
\nTheir responsibilities.
\nWhich the Lord Jesus? <\/p>\n

877
\n00:51:50,880 –> 00:51:54,800
\nChrist and the Saints will put
\nupon them, and they will learn <\/p>\n

878
\n00:51:54,800 –> 00:51:56,400
\nthe.
\nImportance of the. <\/p>\n

879
\n00:51:56,400 –> 00:51:59,760
\nPlace that we have considered.
\nThis morning, brothers and <\/p>\n

880
\n00:51:59,760 –> 00:52:02,640
\nsisters.
\nLet us choose life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Ryan King – Geography of the Holy Lands – Class 2 – Shechem The Place Of Decision<\/a><\/blockquote>