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\nthat’s so small.
\nI mean the the the account of <\/p>\n
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\nevil is from verse 12 to verse
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\ndetail pointing to the work of
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\nEvery word in this account
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\nLord Jesus and we LL see in this
\nsession now that we re going to <\/p>\n
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\nfocus particularly on the work
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\ncoming.
\nNow what does eglon mean? <\/p>\n
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\nSo this Moabite king is
\nstrengthened by God and he he <\/p>\n
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\nbecomes the ruler over the
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\nWhat does eglon mean?
\nWell, if you look it up in <\/p>\n
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\nstrongs, you’ll see it’s the
\nword round. <\/p>\n
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\nRight now, I’m already as a
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\nentertained by this, right, that
\nthis guy, his name means round. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you look it up further,
\nit says that the root of the <\/p>\n
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\nword is the word calf.
\nNow, what do we know about in <\/p>\n
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\nverse 17, the end of the verse,
\nit says Eglon was a you Listen, <\/p>\n
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\nI know normally this is it’s
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\nyou’re allowed to say it.
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\nEglon was a very fat man.
\nIf you say to my children, can <\/p>\n
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\nyou tell me something about
\nEglon? <\/p>\n
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\nThey’ll say he was a fat.
\nThank you, Steve. <\/p>\n
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\nYes, that’s excellent.
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\nThey’ll tell you even more.
\nThey’ll tell you he was a very <\/p>\n
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\nfat man, but he really was a fat
\ncow, right? <\/p>\n
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\nRound calf Eglon is a fat cow
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nNow, let me give you a bit more
\nevidence for that because that’s<\/p>\n
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\nnot a lot, is it?
\nBut do you know that Hebrew word<\/p>\n
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\nof the this idea of the this fat
\nman? <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’ve put some some some notes
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\nI know we can’t read them very
\nwell, but just to help Eglon <\/p>\n
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\nfrom this word from calf, same
\nas round, OK, He’s a very fat <\/p>\n
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\nman.
\nAnd that word fat here, the last<\/p>\n
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\ntime it’s used in the Scriptures
\nis in Genesis 41. <\/p>\n
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\nJust go to Genesis 41 and it’s
\nused repeatedly in Genesis 41. <\/p>\n
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\nAs soon as you get there, you’ll
\nknow it because you remember <\/p>\n
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\nPharaoh’s dream and Pharaoh
\ndreamt about 7 thin cows, but he<\/p>\n
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\nalso dreamt about 7.
\nCome on, wake up. <\/p>\n
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\nHe dreamt about 7, right?
\nSo you read in the record in <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 41, fat cow, fat cow,
\nfat cow, fat cow, fat cow. <\/p>\n
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\nThen you come to Judges and you
\nread about a everyone’s got it. <\/p>\n
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\nI love it.
\nRight? <\/p>\n
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\nBrilliant.
\nWell done. <\/p>\n
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\nEglon is this fat cow and this
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\nI heard it said on a study that
\nsomeone gave me on on Judges. <\/p>\n
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\nHere the eglon symbolises
\nhorizontally what Goliath <\/p>\n
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\nsymbolises vertically, right?
\nSo Goliath symbolises King sin. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s this big tall guy.
\nAnd Eglon, well, he’s this big <\/p>\n
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\nfat guy, right?
\nAnd he symbolises king sin. <\/p>\n
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\nYou notice Judges 3 verse 14,
\nthe children of Israel served <\/p>\n
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\nEglon.
\nNow make a note in your margin. <\/p>\n
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\nNext, the word serve the word
\nslave in the Hebrew. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you know, be that as it may,
\nRomans 616 and then will you <\/p>\n
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\nturn there for me, please?
\nRomans 6\/16 and Romans 6 we <\/p>\n
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\nlearn about a king that can rule
\nin US, and the king that if we <\/p>\n
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\nlet it can rule in our lives,
\ncan reign in the life of Peter <\/p>\n
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\nOwen, of anyone else.
\nIs king sin? <\/p>\n
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\nSo Romans 6 verse 12 Let not sin
\ntherefore reign. <\/p>\n
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\nLet it not be the king.
\nDon’t let king sin reign in you.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat shall we say?
\nWhat then? <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 15 shall we sin because
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\nwhom you yield yourselves
\nservants to obey, they become <\/p>\n
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\neglon to whom you yield yourself
\nservants to obey, whether of <\/p>\n
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\nsin, to death, or of obedience
\nto righteousness. <\/p>\n
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\nGod be thanked that you were the
\nservants of sin, but you’ve <\/p>\n
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\nobeyed from the heart.
\nRemember we saw the importance <\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 81, Romans chapter one the<\/p>\n
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\nIf you get your heart right, if
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\ndelivered you, being then made <\/p>\n
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\nSo in our lives we’ve got a
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\nWell, that’s who.
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\nThere is no point in coming on a
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\nGreat, Love that you saw that. <\/p>\n
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\nMet some people I know and, you <\/p>\n
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\nIn the end, it doesn’t affect us
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\nmorning or or or Wednesday
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\ngreat, it’s student night,
\nbrilliant. <\/p>\n
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\nYou gotta on Wednesday night
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\nDo you see that in the end, if
\nit doesn’t affect us, then we <\/p>\n
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\nmight as well be serving Eglon.
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\nOK, come back to Judges through
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\nsight of the Lord.
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\nchildren of Ammon and Amalek and
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\nNow the city of palm trees is
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\nJericho right So the city of
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\nWe believe that that here S this
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\nYou remember that the Moabite
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\nBut this guy has now gone in and
\narchaeologists have dug up what <\/p>\n
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\nNow wherever we read the
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\nAll right, so the Amalekites are
\nbad news. <\/p>\n
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\nThe fact that they’re here just
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\n17 Moses said to Joshua, verse 9
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\nSo Joshua did as Moses said to
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\nfighting Joshua S in the valley
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\nour our battles in the valley. <\/p>\n
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\nMoses with his arms outstretched
\nOn one side he’s got Aaron, who <\/p>\n
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\nis a on the other side, he’s got
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\nSo you’ve got a priest, a <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we see that teaches us,
\ndoesn’t it, of the work of the <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus.
\nAnd because of that work, the <\/p>\n
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\nbattle gets won.
\nWhen the arms go down, the <\/p>\n
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\nbattle can’t be won.
\nThe arms have to be lifted up. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the symbol of Israel, of
\nprayer, that through prayer God <\/p>\n
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\nwill fight our battles.
\nBut also clearly isn’t it <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ put on the <\/p>\n
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\ncross to deal with the problem
\nof the Amalekites with the <\/p>\n
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\nproblem of sin?
\nNow just come to Deuteronomy 25 <\/p>\n
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\nbecause this part of the record
\nin Exodus doesn’t tell us how <\/p>\n
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\nsneaky and awful the Amalekites
\nwere. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 17, Moses says to them in
\nthis final speech he gives <\/p>\n
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\nbefore he falls asleep, and he
\ndoesn’t go into the land. <\/p>\n
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\nDeuteronomy 25 verse 17 Remember
\nwhat Amalek did to you by the <\/p>\n
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\nway, when you will come out
\nforth. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen you came forth out of
\nEgypt, he met you by the way, <\/p>\n
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\nand smote the hindmost of you,
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\nWhen they were faint and weary, <\/p>\n
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\nRemember what Amalek did, says <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what the Amalekites did is <\/p>\n
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\nthey picked off those that were
\nat the back, at the hindmost, <\/p>\n
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\nthose that were feeble and weary
\nand young people, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters.
\nSurely we’ve got to take this <\/p>\n
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\nlesson on in our lives.
\nTwo things we need to reflect on<\/p>\n
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\nnow.
\nWhere are you in ecclesial life?<\/p>\n
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\nAre you a bit weary at the
\nmoment? <\/p>\n
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\nI just shattered.
\nI I if you had my job, if you <\/p>\n
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\nhad my course, you’d understand.
\nI’m up to here. <\/p>\n
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\nverse 13, He laid his hands on
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\nThey’re bound by Eglon in type <\/p>\n
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\nBenjamite, a man left-handed.
\nNow, the Benjamites, what were <\/p>\n
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\nBeing left-handed? <\/p>\n
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\nfor being left-handed. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does Benjamin Benjamin <\/p>\n
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\nirony here that the Benjamites <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to see why this is <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s this Benjamite, but why <\/p>\n
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\nCan someone tell me what their <\/p>\n
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\nmyself.
\nHere Isaiah 41 and verse 10. <\/p>\n
335
\n00:24:50,000 –> 00:24:51,800
\nFear thou not, for I am with
\nyou. <\/p>\n
336
\n00:24:52,080 –> 00:24:54,320
\nBe not dismayed, for I am thy
\nGod. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:24:54,480 –> 00:24:57,120
\nI will strengthen thee.
\nYeah, I will help thee. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:24:57,280 –> 00:25:02,120
\nYeah, I will uphold thee with
\nthe right hand of my <\/p>\n
339
\n00:25:02,120 –> 00:25:05,840
\nrighteousness.
\nAnother good reference is I’ll <\/p>\n
340
\n00:25:05,880 –> 00:25:10,000
\njust give you now Exodus 15, the
\nseveral in Exodus 15 where the <\/p>\n
341
\n00:25:10,000 –> 00:25:13,960
\nchildren of Israel are saved by
\nGod’s right hand. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:25:14,520 –> 00:25:18,720
\nOK, so this is the point.
\nNow we’re going to see in the <\/p>\n
343
\n00:25:18,720 –> 00:25:21,160
\nlife of Ehud, yes, he’s going to
\nwork. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:25:22,120 –> 00:25:25,960
\nHe’s the type of the Lord Jesus
\nChrist, He’s the Saviour, but it<\/p>\n
345
\n00:25:25,960 –> 00:25:30,280
\nis by God’s right hand that we
\nare saved. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:25:30,560 –> 00:25:35,600
\nIt is not by the work of man.
\nAnd so his right hand has to be <\/p>\n
347
\n00:25:35,600 –> 00:25:39,200
\nshut up.
\nIt can’t be about God. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:25:40,160 –> 00:25:44,240
\nIt can’t be about man rather,
\napologies, it must be about God.<\/p>\n
349
\n00:25:44,240 –> 00:25:47,560
\nApologies.
\nOK, so come with me back to <\/p>\n
350
\n00:25:47,560 –> 00:25:52,960
\nJudges 3.
\nSo E Hood, the son of Gira, a <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:52,960 –> 00:25:59,040
\nBenjamite, a man left-handed, is
\ngoing to be the Saviour, and by <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:59,040 –> 00:26:03,760
\nhim the children of Israel sent
\na present. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:03,760 –> 00:26:10,760
\nNow the word present is the
\nHebrew word Minka, Minka here. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:26:11,480 –> 00:26:16,320
\nAnd that is the word used of the
\nmeal offering that, the meal <\/p>\n
355
\n00:26:16,320 –> 00:26:19,960
\noffering the authorised Version.
\nWe were doing it with the <\/p>\n
356
\n00:26:19,960 –> 00:26:21,440
\nchildren at the beginning of
\nthis week. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:26:21,480 –> 00:26:25,720
\nWe read Leviticus, won’t we?
\nAnd you remember that in the <\/p>\n
358
\n00:26:25,720 –> 00:26:28,880
\nauthorised version it says the
\nmeat offering, which as a child <\/p>\n
359
\n00:26:28,880 –> 00:26:34,360
\nconfused me for about 35 years
\nthinking why on earth does the <\/p>\n
360
\n00:26:34,360 –> 00:26:36,920
\noffering doesn’t have any meat
\nin it get called the meat <\/p>\n
361
\n00:26:36,920 –> 00:26:39,640
\noffering, right?
\nBut it’s the meal offering isn’t<\/p>\n
362
\n00:26:39,640 –> 00:26:41,520
\nit?
\nClearly, looking at the blank <\/p>\n
363
\n00:26:41,520 –> 00:26:44,160
\nfaces, it’s not quite such a
\nfunny joke as I thought it was. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:45,160 –> 00:26:47,440
\nNone of you were confused with
\nthe same problem, which is good.<\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:48,280 –> 00:26:52,920
\nSo this meal offering they
\nprepare is a present. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:52,920 –> 00:26:56,480
\nNow, let me just check if
\neveryone’s got this. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:56,560 –> 00:27:02,800
\nEglon is a Come on, Eglon is a
\nbig. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:27:04,480 –> 00:27:10,600
\nNow, if you needed to get a
\npresent together for a big fat <\/p>\n
369
\n00:27:10,600 –> 00:27:15,200
\ncow, what would a big fat cow
\nwant more than anything else? <\/p>\n
370
\n00:27:17,120 –> 00:27:18,640
\nFoods.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:27:19,520 –> 00:27:23,520
\nBig fat cows love food.
\nSo when they get the present <\/p>\n
372
\n00:27:23,520 –> 00:27:27,520
\ntogether, they’re like, what is
\nit? <\/p>\n
373
\n00:27:27,520 –> 00:27:29,520
\nThey have a team meeting, I have
\nno doubt, you know, And they <\/p>\n
374
\n00:27:29,520 –> 00:27:33,320
\nsay, what can we give Eglon, You
\nknow, what is it there that he’s<\/p>\n
375
\n00:27:33,320 –> 00:27:36,920
\ngoing to really like, you know,
\nshall we get, you know, shall we<\/p>\n
376
\n00:27:37,000 –> 00:27:38,440
\nget some money for him?
\nShall we? <\/p>\n
377
\n00:27:39,520 –> 00:27:41,280
\nAnd suddenly someone has a brain
\nwave. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:27:41,280 –> 00:27:44,880
\nNo, no, no, no, no, no.
\nDon’t bother with the money. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:46,360 –> 00:27:49,360
\nWhat about some horse?
\nNo, no, no, no, don’t bother. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:50,040 –> 00:27:55,600
\nWhat about?
\nNo, He just likes food. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:56,680 –> 00:28:00,840
\nSo they put together the most
\nphenomenal hamper, right? <\/p>\n
382
\n00:28:02,120 –> 00:28:05,280
\nAnd they bring their presents.
\nSo here’s the Meeker offering <\/p>\n
383
\n00:28:05,680 –> 00:28:13,280
\nand they bring it to Eglon.
\nSo come on, They bring verse 17,<\/p>\n
384
\n00:28:13,520 –> 00:28:18,560
\nthe present to Eglon.
\nNow, while they’re making the <\/p>\n
385
\n00:28:18,560 –> 00:28:22,720
\npresent, Ehud has been busier
\nstill. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:28:23,440 –> 00:28:25,760
\nWhat’s he been doing?
\nIn verse 16? <\/p>\n
387
\n00:28:27,160 –> 00:28:36,200
\nEhud made him a dagger which had
\ntwo edges of a cubic length, and<\/p>\n
388
\n00:28:36,200 –> 00:28:40,880
\nhe did good it under his raiment
\nupon his right thigh. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:28:41,680 –> 00:28:45,360
\nNow all of those points are of
\nmajor significance. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:28:45,720 –> 00:28:49,800
\nHe made a dagger, or some
\nversions will say sword. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:28:49,960 –> 00:28:52,480
\nElsewhere that word is
\ntranslated sword or knife. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:28:52,680 –> 00:28:56,600
\nHe makes this dagger.
\nThis sword, it’s got two edges. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:28:57,240 –> 00:29:01,640
\nIt’s the cubic length.
\nHe hides it under his garment on<\/p>\n
394
\n00:29:01,640 –> 00:29:08,080
\nhis right thigh.
\nNow we come across this word <\/p>\n
395
\n00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:14,680
\ndagger elsewhere in Scripture
\nand we come across it first in <\/p>\n
396
\n00:29:14,680 –> 00:29:17,120
\nJudges chapter 3.
\nWill you come to Judges 3? <\/p>\n
397
\n00:29:19,800 –> 00:29:24,120
\nJoshua 3, rather Joshua three,
\nyou’re in Judges 3, aren’t you? <\/p>\n
398
\n00:29:24,120 –> 00:29:27,560
\nSorry, Joshua three, I was
\nthinking, why is no one turning <\/p>\n
399
\n00:29:27,560 –> 00:29:32,600
\nthe pages?
\nJoshua chapter 3, the children <\/p>\n
400
\n00:29:32,600 –> 00:29:38,600
\nof Israel have crossed the
\nJordan and in Joshua chapter <\/p>\n
401
\n00:29:40,000 –> 00:29:44,240
\nfive, sorry guys, Joshua five,
\nwe’re in Judges 3. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:29:44,240 –> 00:29:48,400
\nWe want to go to Joshua five we
\ncome across this word verse two.<\/p>\n
403
\n00:29:48,400 –> 00:29:52,840
\nAt that time the Lord said to
\nJoshua, make thee sharp knife. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:29:52,840 –> 00:29:56,080
\nNow this is our word.
\nThis is the the dagger or the <\/p>\n
405
\n00:29:56,080 –> 00:29:58,000
\nsword.
\nIt’s the same Hebrew word make <\/p>\n
406
\n00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:01,920
\nsharp knives and circumcise
\nagain the children of Israel. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:30:02,160 –> 00:30:08,040
\nNow, where are they when they
\ncomplete the, the the act of <\/p>\n
408
\n00:30:08,040 –> 00:30:11,640
\ncircumcision against the males
\nin Israel? <\/p>\n
409
\n00:30:11,760 –> 00:30:13,520
\nWhere are they?
\nWhat’s the name of the place? <\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:15,280 –> 00:30:17,240
\nGilgal.
\nWhat does Gilgal mean? <\/p>\n
411
\n00:30:19,080 –> 00:30:20,680
\nThe rolling away.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:30:20,880 –> 00:30:24,600
\nSo I can see most of the boys
\nsort of, you know, their eyes <\/p>\n
413
\n00:30:24,600 –> 00:30:26,960
\ncrossing as they get a bit
\nsqueamish talking about this. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:30:27,160 –> 00:30:30,440
\nBut this is the awfulness of
\nwhat’s happening here. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:30:30,560 –> 00:30:35,480
\nAnd it would have been so, so
\npainful for these guys that were<\/p>\n
416
\n00:30:35,480 –> 00:30:39,200
\nbeing circumcised, but a
\nprinciple was being laid down. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:30:40,240 –> 00:30:43,840
\nAnd that is they’re about to go
\ninto the land under the hand of <\/p>\n
418
\n00:30:43,840 –> 00:30:45,520
\nJoshua.
\nLook, Chapter 6, they come to <\/p>\n
419
\n00:30:45,520 –> 00:30:48,560
\nJericho.
\nDon’t forget that this is where,<\/p>\n
420
\n00:30:48,560 –> 00:30:56,000
\nof course, Eglon is going to be
\ndefeated in Jericho at Gilgal, <\/p>\n
421
\n00:30:56,320 –> 00:31:06,960
\nthe principle was set.
\nThe flesh has to be cut off at <\/p>\n
422
\n00:31:06,960 –> 00:31:08,960
\nGilgal.
\nThe principle is set. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:31:09,280 –> 00:31:15,960
\nThe flesh has to be cut off.
\nNow come back to Judges 3. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:31:17,720 –> 00:31:25,200
\nCome back to Judges 3 and notice
\nthat E Hood and the men who were<\/p>\n
425
\n00:31:25,200 –> 00:31:30,680
\nwith him bearing the present.
\nThey go to Jericho, presumably <\/p>\n
426
\n00:31:30,680 –> 00:31:35,680
\nto Eglon’s palace.
\nBut then what happens verse 18, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:31:35,880 –> 00:31:37,760
\nwhen he made an end of what to
\noffer the present. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:31:37,760 –> 00:31:40,960
\nHe sent away the people that
\nbear the present, but he himself<\/p>\n
429
\n00:31:40,960 –> 00:31:44,840
\nturned back from the quarries
\nthat were by Gilgal. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:31:45,720 –> 00:31:52,440
\nSo he gets back to Gilgal and he
\nknows at Gilgal this is the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:31:52,440 –> 00:31:59,240
\nplace where he remembers the
\nflesh has to be cut off. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:02,840
\nSo in your margin next to
\nGilgal, and it makes suggestion <\/p>\n
433
\n00:32:02,840 –> 00:32:07,320
\nthat you put Joshua 5 verses
\n2:00 to 9:00, that’s where they <\/p>\n
434
\n00:32:07,320 –> 00:32:13,920
\nmade sharp knives that the flesh
\nmight be cut off. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:32:19,000 –> 00:32:26,000
\nBut he has got a sharp knife.
\nHe’s been making, well, the <\/p>\n
436
\n00:32:26,000 –> 00:32:32,280
\nsharpest dagger he can make told
\nin verse 16 that he was made, he<\/p>\n
437
\n00:32:32,280 –> 00:32:34,880
\nmade him this dagger.
\nHe was involved. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:32:34,880 –> 00:32:39,120
\nHe was, he was engaged in it.
\nAnd this dagger, this sword <\/p>\n
439
\n00:32:39,120 –> 00:32:43,200
\nwhich has two edges speaks to
\nus, you know, Harry spoke about <\/p>\n
440
\n00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:48,640
\nit in his prayer, speaks to us
\nof what the sword with two edges<\/p>\n
441
\n00:32:48,640 –> 00:32:53,080
\nspeaks to us of the word of God.
\nSo here’s some references. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:32:53,480 –> 00:33:00,520
\nSo in your margin next to two
\nedges in verse 16, we make these<\/p>\n
443
\n00:33:00,520 –> 00:33:03,840
\nreferences, Hebrews 4 and verse
\n12. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:33:03,840 –> 00:33:08,200
\nI’ll read it to you.
\nThe Word of God is quick and <\/p>\n
445
\n00:33:08,200 –> 00:33:15,840
\npowerful and sharper than any
\ntwo edged sword, piercing even <\/p>\n
446
\n00:33:15,840 –> 00:33:19,280
\nthe dividing asunder of soul and
\nspirit, the joints and marrow. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:33:19,520 –> 00:33:24,240
\nIt’s a discerner of the thoughts
\nand the intents of the heart. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:26,800
\nThat’s what our Bill Harry
\nalluded to in his prayer, <\/p>\n
449
\n00:33:28,040 –> 00:33:32,640
\npicking up on the two edged
\nsword, speaking to us of the <\/p>\n
450
\n00:33:32,640 –> 00:33:34,680
\nword of God.
\nDid he? <\/p>\n
451
\n00:33:34,680 –> 00:33:36,120
\nHe would just go and find a
\ndagger? <\/p>\n
452
\n00:33:36,240 –> 00:33:40,680
\nNo, he made it.
\nHe connected with that dagger. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:33:41,560 –> 00:33:48,080
\nSo our challenge, make sure that
\nwe spend our time sharpening the<\/p>\n
454
\n00:33:48,080 –> 00:33:52,600
\nblade, sharpening the dagger,
\nPut time into Bible study, <\/p>\n
455
\n00:33:52,600 –> 00:33:56,360
\nsharpening the dagger, open the
\nword of God in your life. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:33:56,560 –> 00:34:01,040
\nSharpen your dagger.
\nThat’s what he was doing and <\/p>\n
457
\n00:34:01,040 –> 00:34:06,520
\nthat’s why he was spiritually
\nprepared to deal with King’s <\/p>\n
458
\n00:34:06,520 –> 00:34:11,320
\nsin.
\nNow we believe that these events<\/p>\n
459
\n00:34:11,320 –> 00:34:14,320
\nare also teaching us about the
\ntime of the end. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:34:15,679 –> 00:34:19,760
\nCome with me to Revelation,
\nRevelation chapter one, first <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:24,080 –> 00:34:29,440
\nRevelation 1.
\nAnd in Revelation one we have a <\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:29,440 –> 00:34:32,280
\npicture of the Lord Jesus Christ
\nand the Saints. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:34:32,280 –> 00:34:34,000
\nAnd the picture is a symbolic
\npicture. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:34:34,000 –> 00:34:36,800
\nWe call it the multitudinous
\nChrist, or we call it the <\/p>\n
465
\n00:34:36,800 –> 00:34:40,280
\nrainbowed Angel, or we call it
\nthe one man. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:34:40,520 –> 00:34:42,560
\nIt’s all the same thing.
\nIt’s the picture of the Lord <\/p>\n
467
\n00:34:42,560 –> 00:34:44,480
\nJesus Christ married to the
\nSaints. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:34:44,639 –> 00:34:47,679
\nAnd in the Book of Revelation,
\nthe books of sign and symbol, <\/p>\n
469
\n00:34:47,800 –> 00:34:52,600
\nwe’re given signs and symbols
\nfor us to see the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:56,239
\ncharacteristics of, in this
\ncase, the Lord Jesus Christ and <\/p>\n
471
\n00:34:56,239 –> 00:34:58,320
\nthe Saints.
\nAnd what do we notice in verse <\/p>\n
472
\n00:34:58,320 –> 00:35:04,080
\n16 of Revelation One that out of
\nhis mouth, Revelation One verse <\/p>\n
473
\n00:35:04,080 –> 00:35:07,480
\n16.
\nSo out of the mouth of the Lord <\/p>\n
474
\n00:35:07,480 –> 00:35:10,800
\nJesus Christ and the Saints,
\nwhen we come to deal with the <\/p>\n
475
\n00:35:10,800 –> 00:35:13,720
\nproblem of sin in the earth, in
\nthe Kingdom age, out of His <\/p>\n
476
\n00:35:13,720 –> 00:35:22,040
\nmouth went a sharp 2 edged sword
\nand His countenance was the sun <\/p>\n
477
\n00:35:22,040 –> 00:35:25,720
\nshining in His strength.
\nCome to that later on this <\/p>\n
478
\n00:35:25,720 –> 00:35:27,960
\nevening.
\nJust remember His countenance <\/p>\n
479
\n00:35:27,960 –> 00:35:30,600
\nwas the sun shining in his
\nstrength, but out of His mouth <\/p>\n
480
\n00:35:30,640 –> 00:35:33,520
\ngoes of two edged sword.
\nWhat do we do? <\/p>\n
481
\n00:35:33,800 –> 00:35:38,680
\nWell, we go out and literally
\ndeal with the problem of sin in <\/p>\n
482
\n00:35:38,680 –> 00:35:40,920
\nthe world.
\nGo to chapter 19 of Revelation <\/p>\n
483
\n00:35:42,400 –> 00:35:45,840
\nwhere we see the same picture of
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ and the <\/p>\n
484
\n00:35:45,840 –> 00:35:54,160
\nSaints, and His name we’re told
\nin verse 13 is called the Word <\/p>\n
485
\n00:35:54,160 –> 00:35:56,720
\nof God.
\nWhat was it that was strapped to<\/p>\n
486
\n00:35:56,720 –> 00:36:00,880
\nhis thigh?
\nThe two edged sword, the word of<\/p>\n
487
\n00:36:00,880 –> 00:36:02,440
\nGod.
\nSo no wonder. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:36:02,440 –> 00:36:07,760
\nLook verse 15, out of his mouth
\ngoes the sharp sword. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:36:08,240 –> 00:36:12,680
\nSo what is it that’s going to
\ndestroy sin in the world? <\/p>\n
490
\n00:36:12,960 –> 00:36:18,240
\nThe sharp sword coming out of
\nhis mouth is the word of God. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:36:18,880 –> 00:36:21,240
\nThat’s what’s going to destroy
\nthe nations. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:36:23,920 –> 00:36:28,320
\nJust keep reading verse 15 out
\nof his mouth goes a sharp sword,<\/p>\n
493
\n00:36:28,560 –> 00:36:30,440
\nthat with it he should smite the
\nnations. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:36:30,600 –> 00:36:32,480
\nHe shall rule them with a rod of
\niron. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:36:32,800 –> 00:36:36,320
\nHe treadeth the winepress of the
\nfierceness and wrath of Almighty<\/p>\n
496
\n00:36:36,320 –> 00:36:45,040
\nGod, and he hath on his vesture
\nand on his thigh a name written <\/p>\n
497
\n00:36:46,200 –> 00:36:52,440
\nKing of Kings and Lord of Lords.
\nWhere does Ehud put the dagger? <\/p>\n
498
\n00:36:53,680 –> 00:37:02,840
\nHe puts it on his thigh, King of
\nKings and Lord of Lords. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:37:03,760 –> 00:37:07,800
\nIsn’t it amazing what Ehud is
\npointing towards? <\/p>\n
500
\n00:37:07,960 –> 00:37:13,080
\nNow come back to Judges and back
\nto Judges Chapter 3. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:19,520
\nLet’s carry on in our story.
\nThey get to Gilgal and Ehud says<\/p>\n
502
\n00:37:19,520 –> 00:37:24,760
\nto the men who are with him.
\nYou guys go on, you, you go <\/p>\n
503
\n00:37:24,760 –> 00:37:30,240
\nback.
\nI have got now to go to see <\/p>\n
504
\n00:37:30,240 –> 00:37:34,560
\nEglon by myself.
\nLook, verse 18, Judges 3. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:37:34,960 –> 00:37:38,320
\nWhen he’d made an end to offer
\nthe present, he sent away the <\/p>\n
506
\n00:37:38,320 –> 00:37:44,400
\npeople that bear the present,
\nbut he himself turned back. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:37:44,800 –> 00:37:52,560
\nHe himself turned back because
\nlike the Lord Jesus Christ in <\/p>\n
508
\n00:37:52,560 –> 00:37:58,200
\nhis first coming, he has got to
\ndo it alone. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:38:00,400 –> 00:38:05,560
\nThe Lord Jesus couldn’t take his
\ndisciples with him to the cross.<\/p>\n
510
\n00:38:06,000 –> 00:38:08,240
\nThey were caught up with the
\nproblem of sin. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:38:08,240 –> 00:38:12,080
\nThey were bound by Satan, by
\nEglon, by sin. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:20,400
\nHe needs to go on his own to
\nrelease them from that burden to<\/p>\n
513
\n00:38:20,400 –> 00:38:27,200
\ndeal with the problem of sin.
\nSo he sends them away, but he <\/p>\n
514
\n00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:30,440
\nhimself goes back.
\nNow some good references I think<\/p>\n
515
\n00:38:30,720 –> 00:38:36,000
\nI put I put on the screen here
\nIsaiah 63 and verse 3 where we <\/p>\n
516
\n00:38:36,000 –> 00:38:41,120
\nread the Lord Jesus says I VE
\ntrodden the wine press alone of <\/p>\n
517
\n00:38:41,120 –> 00:38:43,680
\nthe people was none with me.
\nI’m on my own. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:38:44,360 –> 00:38:47,000
\nFor I would tread them in my
\nanger and travelled in my fury, <\/p>\n
519
\n00:38:47,000 –> 00:38:49,520
\nand their blood shall be
\nsprinkled upon my garments and I<\/p>\n
520
\n00:38:49,520 –> 00:38:53,840
\nwould stain all my raiment.
\nJesus had to do it alone. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:38:53,960 –> 00:39:00,400
\nHe was the only one without sin.
\nKeep a marker but come to John <\/p>\n
522
\n00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:07,560
\n60 so you remember that when we
\ncome to John 16, we we, we’re in<\/p>\n
523
\n00:39:07,560 –> 00:39:14,240
\nthe last week of the life of the
\nLord Jesus Christ and we see <\/p>\n
524
\n00:39:15,120 –> 00:39:19,800
\nthat he’s going to have to tread
\nthe wine press alone. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:23,000
\nHe’s going to have to go to the
\ncross alone. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:39:24,800 –> 00:39:32,000
\nJohn 16 we read at the end of
\nthe chapter, verse 32. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:39:32,560 –> 00:39:35,000
\nBehold, the hour comes.
\nYeah, he is. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:39:35,000 –> 00:39:39,360
\nNow come that you shall be
\nscattered, every man to his own,<\/p>\n
529
\n00:39:39,760 –> 00:39:42,880
\nand shall leave me alone.
\nNow look at this. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:39:42,880 –> 00:39:49,080
\nIsn’t this so lovely?
\nYet I’m not alone because the <\/p>\n
531
\n00:39:49,080 –> 00:39:53,000
\nFather is with me.
\nThese things I’ve spoken to you,<\/p>\n
532
\n00:39:53,160 –> 00:39:56,200
\nthat in me you might have peace
\nin the world. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:39:56,200 –> 00:40:00,400
\nYou’ve got tribulation.
\nBe of good cheer, I have <\/p>\n
534
\n00:40:00,440 –> 00:40:05,400
\novercome the world.
\nISN T it so lovely that the Lord<\/p>\n
535
\n00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:10,920
\nJesus Christ says to his
\ndisciples, I VE got to go on my <\/p>\n
536
\n00:40:10,920 –> 00:40:15,200
\nown now, I VE got to go to tread
\nthe wine press alone. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:40:16,520 –> 00:40:19,200
\nAnd as their hearts were
\nbreaking, as they started to <\/p>\n
538
\n00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:23,160
\nrealise the magnitude of what
\nwas about to happen to their <\/p>\n
539
\n00:40:23,160 –> 00:40:27,320
\nLord, to this man that they had
\nwalked with for some years. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:40:27,720 –> 00:40:31,280
\nThey’d seen him never do
\nanything wrong. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:40:32,880 –> 00:40:36,240
\nThey knew the brutality of what
\nwas going to happen to him. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:40:37,880 –> 00:40:41,240
\nHe says to them, I’ve got to go
\nalone. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:40:41,320 –> 00:40:46,560
\nYet I’m not alone because the
\nfather is with me. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:40:48,280 –> 00:40:51,840
\nAnd I’m sure that Eihood had
\njust the same mindset. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:40:51,840 –> 00:40:55,720
\nCome back to Judges.
\nHe had to go alone. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:40:55,720 –> 00:41:03,480
\nYet he knew he was not alone.
\nHe had the Father with him. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:41:05,160 –> 00:41:09,640
\nSo we read he himself turned
\nback. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:41:10,320 –> 00:41:15,960
\nNow that phrase is such a
\nsignificant phrase in the work <\/p>\n
549
\n00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:18,040
\nof the Lord Jesus.
\nYou re in Judges 3. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:41:18,360 –> 00:41:20,280
\nBut I do want you to go back to
\nthe New Testament. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:41:20,280 –> 00:41:23,280
\nI want you to go to Hebrews.
\nI’m going to repeat this phrase <\/p>\n
552
\n00:41:23,280 –> 00:41:28,960
\nto you.
\nHe himself, He himself, some of <\/p>\n
553
\n00:41:28,960 –> 00:41:36,520
\nyou will be finishing this.
\nHe himself likewise took part in<\/p>\n
554
\n00:41:36,520 –> 00:41:43,480
\nthe same Hebrews chapter 2 and
\nthis chapter speaks to us of the<\/p>\n
555
\n00:41:43,480 –> 00:41:48,320
\nwork of the Lord Jesus in the
\natonement in how He was going to<\/p>\n
556
\n00:41:48,880 –> 00:41:52,200
\nthrough how God was going to
\ndeal with the problem of sin <\/p>\n
557
\n00:41:52,440 –> 00:41:57,840
\nthrough the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nSo Hebrews chapter 2 we read in <\/p>\n
558
\n00:41:57,840 –> 00:42:04,320
\nverse 14 for as much then as the
\nchildren are partakers of flesh <\/p>\n
559
\n00:42:04,320 –> 00:42:07,040
\nand blood.
\nSo in other words, all of us, we<\/p>\n
560
\n00:42:07,040 –> 00:42:08,680
\nare partakers of flesh and
\nblood. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:42:09,920 –> 00:42:18,000
\nHe also himself, he himself
\nlikewise took part of the same <\/p>\n
562
\n00:42:18,360 –> 00:42:23,240
\nthat through death He might
\ndestroy him that have the power <\/p>\n
563
\n00:42:23,240 –> 00:42:26,160
\nof death.
\nThat is the devil. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:42:26,560 –> 00:42:31,800
\nSo the Lord Jesus Christ had to
\nbe made like us. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:42:34,520 –> 00:42:36,760
\nKeep a marker there just to keep
\nit in your mind. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:42:37,160 –> 00:42:44,920
\nOn the way back, stop at Romans,
\nRomans 8, Romans 8. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:42:44,960 –> 00:42:48,360
\nThese are such important
\npassages for our understanding <\/p>\n
568
\n00:42:48,360 –> 00:42:52,200
\nof the how the Lord Jesus Christ
\ndealt with the problem of sin <\/p>\n
569
\n00:42:53,560 –> 00:42:57,400
\nthat God made him.
\nYes, He was the Son of God, but <\/p>\n
570
\n00:42:57,400 –> 00:43:02,240
\nHe was also the Son of man.
\nHe himself likewise took part of<\/p>\n
571
\n00:43:02,240 –> 00:43:08,720
\nthe same of flesh and blood that
\nhe might destroy sin. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:43:10,520 –> 00:43:15,960
\nSo Romans 8, verse 3, what the
\nlaw could not do in that it was <\/p>\n
573
\n00:43:15,960 –> 00:43:20,320
\nweak through the flesh.
\nGod sending His own Son in the <\/p>\n
574
\n00:43:20,320 –> 00:43:26,440
\nlikeness of sinful flesh,
\ncondemned sin in the flesh. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:43:26,920 –> 00:43:29,280
\nSo you bring that now back to
\nJudges 3. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:43:31,440 –> 00:43:35,000
\nThis is Ehud.
\nHe is the character now, He’s <\/p>\n
577
\n00:43:35,000 –> 00:43:37,760
\nthe Saviour.
\nHis work is pointing to the work<\/p>\n
578
\n00:43:37,760 –> 00:43:40,160
\nof the Lord Jesus.
\nWhat do we read verse 19? <\/p>\n
579
\n00:43:40,680 –> 00:43:45,920
\nHe Himself has got to go alone.
\nSo I’m going to make a <\/p>\n
580
\n00:43:45,920 –> 00:43:48,720
\nsuggestion to you in verse 19
\nnext to He Himself. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:43:48,760 –> 00:43:54,520
\nMake a note.
\nHebrews 214 or Romans 8, verse <\/p>\n
582
\n00:43:54,520 –> 00:44:00,280
\n3.
\nHebrews 214, Romans 8, verse <\/p>\n
583
\n00:44:00,280 –> 00:44:02,800
\nthree.
\nNow this quote that I put on the<\/p>\n
584
\n00:44:02,800 –> 00:44:08,360
\nscreen here I think is so
\nhelpful in our understanding of <\/p>\n
585
\n00:44:08,360 –> 00:44:10,480
\nthe work of the Lord Jesus, the
\natonement. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:44:10,760 –> 00:44:14,600
\nIt was written by our brother
\nJohn Carter back in 1958, so <\/p>\n
587
\n00:44:14,600 –> 00:44:20,440
\nbefore most of us were born.
\nBut just just read that to <\/p>\n
588
\n00:44:20,440 –> 00:44:22,200
\nyourself and I’ll read it to you
\nshortly. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:44:38,650 –> 00:44:42,490
\nJesus shared our nature.
\nHebrews 214. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:44:42,770 –> 00:44:49,010
\nHe himself likewise took part in
\nthe same, that he might deal <\/p>\n
591
\n00:44:49,010 –> 00:44:53,560
\nwith the problem of sin.
\nRomans 8, verse 3 God, sending <\/p>\n
592
\n00:44:53,560 –> 00:45:01,320
\nHis own Son in the likeness of
\nsinful flesh, condemned sin in <\/p>\n
593
\n00:45:01,320 –> 00:45:05,120
\nthe flesh.
\nWhat does Brother Carter write? <\/p>\n
594
\n00:45:05,480 –> 00:45:08,280
\nHe shared our nature.
\nHebrews 214. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:45:08,280 –> 00:45:14,320
\nRomans 8 Three That in the very
\narena we’re sin ruled. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:45:14,600 –> 00:45:19,040
\nWe’re sin ruling in our bodies
\nwe’re bound, aren’t we? <\/p>\n
597
\n00:45:19,160 –> 00:45:22,720
\nWe’re all bowed down to the
\nproblem of Sin. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:45:24,480 –> 00:45:27,960
\nIts claim could be contested and
\noverthrown. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:45:29,080 –> 00:45:36,720
\nSo where has Ehud got to go to
\ndefeat Eglon and all the Eglon <\/p>\n
600
\n00:45:36,720 –> 00:45:41,400
\nas king Sin represents?
\nCan he get Eglon to come to him?<\/p>\n
601
\n00:45:41,720 –> 00:45:45,280
\nNo.
\nIn the very arena where Sin <\/p>\n
602
\n00:45:45,280 –> 00:45:49,080
\nruled.
\nHe’s got to go to Eglon’s <\/p>\n
603
\n00:45:49,480 –> 00:45:51,360
\npalace.
\nDo you see? <\/p>\n
604
\n00:45:52,320 –> 00:45:55,640
\nBecause this is where Eglon
\nrules from. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:45:56,080 –> 00:45:59,480
\nOK, Our time is moving, but
\nwe’ve got 5 minutes. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:45:59,480 –> 00:46:00,440
\nAre we OK?
\n5 minutes. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:46:00,440 –> 00:46:01,600
\nYeah.
\nThumbs up, everyone. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:46:01,600 –> 00:46:03,280
\nAll right, 5 minutes.
\nAre we OK? <\/p>\n
609
\n00:46:03,760 –> 00:46:06,280
\nTalk.
\nOK, Judges three. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:46:07,080 –> 00:46:10,160
\nHe himself turned again, verse
\n19 from the quarries that were <\/p>\n
611
\n00:46:10,160 –> 00:46:15,640
\nby Gilgal and said, I have a
\nsecret errand for you. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:46:16,000 –> 00:46:21,440
\nOK, who said Keep silent?
\nAnd all that stood by him went <\/p>\n
613
\n00:46:21,440 –> 00:46:25,520
\nout from him, and Ehud came to
\nhim. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:46:26,800 –> 00:46:29,240
\nHe himself likewise took part in
\nthe Senate. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:46:29,720 –> 00:46:33,520
\nHe goes to the very arena where
\nsin rules. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:46:34,040 –> 00:46:40,240
\nEhud came to him and he was
\nsitting in a summer parlour, <\/p>\n
617
\n00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:47,080
\nwhich he had for himself alone,
\nand he arose out of his seat. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:46:47,760 –> 00:46:52,640
\nNow let’s just pick up some of
\nthese words, the word errand and<\/p>\n
619
\n00:46:52,640 –> 00:46:56,840
\nthe word message.
\nSo in verse 19 I’ve got a secret<\/p>\n
620
\n00:46:57,240 –> 00:47:00,640
\nerrand.
\nThat’s the same Hebrew word as <\/p>\n
621
\n00:47:00,640 –> 00:47:05,200
\nthe word message in verse 20.
\nSo maybe circle them and connect<\/p>\n
622
\n00:47:05,200 –> 00:47:07,440
\nthem together.
\nErrand and message, the same <\/p>\n
623
\n00:47:07,440 –> 00:47:09,600
\nword.
\nNow actually it’s a very, very <\/p>\n
624
\n00:47:09,600 –> 00:47:12,360
\nwell used Hebrew word.
\nI’ll probably say it wrong. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:47:12,760 –> 00:47:17,120
\nIt’s something like the word
\ndobar, and ordinarily <\/p>\n
626
\n00:47:17,120 –> 00:47:19,520
\ntranslated, it’s translated
\nhundreds of times to the <\/p>\n
627
\n00:47:19,520 –> 00:47:23,920
\nScriptures.
\nIt’s the word word. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:47:25,920 –> 00:47:33,120
\nIt’s the word word.
\nNow, what has Ehud got hiding on<\/p>\n
629
\n00:47:33,120 –> 00:47:38,160
\nhis right thigh?
\nHe’s got a dagger, A2 edged <\/p>\n
630
\n00:47:38,160 –> 00:47:42,920
\nsword, which speaks to us of the
\nword of God. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:47:43,320 –> 00:47:50,960
\nSo he’s not lying.
\nHe says I’ve got a secret word <\/p>\n
632
\n00:47:51,960 –> 00:47:59,880
\nfor you, a word from God, a
\nmessage from God for you. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:48:01,120 –> 00:48:05,320
\nSo no wonder Eglon is so
\nchuffed, isn’t he, that he gets <\/p>\n
634
\n00:48:05,320 –> 00:48:08,320
\nup having all this word from me,
\nfrom God. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:48:08,320 –> 00:48:12,560
\nAnd of course we know, don’t we,
\nthat even then puts forth his <\/p>\n
636
\n00:48:12,560 –> 00:48:15,200
\nleft hand.
\nWhy does it have to be man’s <\/p>\n
637
\n00:48:15,200 –> 00:48:17,760
\nleft hand who’s winning the
\nvictory? <\/p>\n
638
\n00:48:17,760 –> 00:48:23,640
\nIt’s God’s right hand, so he
\nputs forth his left hand. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:48:24,920 –> 00:48:29,840
\nMan is going to need to be a
\nbase in the atonement, and God <\/p>\n
640
\n00:48:29,840 –> 00:48:35,000
\nis going to need to be exalted.
\nSo as man is a base, he puts <\/p>\n
641
\n00:48:35,000 –> 00:48:40,360
\nforth his left hand.
\nSo God’s right hand is going to <\/p>\n
642
\n00:48:40,360 –> 00:48:44,000
\nbe exalted.
\nHe’s the one that’s going to <\/p>\n
643
\n00:48:44,000 –> 00:48:48,880
\ngive the victory, and he puts
\nthat dagger. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:48:49,520 –> 00:48:54,360
\nVerse 21, he took the dagger
\nfrom his right thigh and thrust <\/p>\n
645
\n00:48:54,360 –> 00:48:57,520
\nit into his belly.
\nAnd the hearth also went in <\/p>\n
646
\n00:48:57,520 –> 00:49:00,400
\nafter the blade, and the fat
\nclosed upon the blade, so he <\/p>\n
647
\n00:49:00,400 –> 00:49:04,120
\ncould not draw the dagger out of
\nhis belly, and the dirt came <\/p>\n
648
\n00:49:04,120 –> 00:49:08,440
\nout.
\nHe himself likewise took part of<\/p>\n
649
\n00:49:08,440 –> 00:49:11,600
\nthe same in the likeness of
\nsinful flesh. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:49:11,920 –> 00:49:17,520
\nHe’s connected to Eglon.
\nHe can’t get his sword out. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:49:19,280 –> 00:49:21,360
\nHe spent all those days
\nsharpening his sword. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:49:21,520 –> 00:49:24,320
\nIt’s stuck.
\nHe can’t get it out. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:49:26,000 –> 00:49:31,720
\nIt’s been used to defeat King
\nSin right through his belly. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:49:32,280 –> 00:49:38,400
\nAnd the dirt came out.
\nFinal reference Philippians <\/p>\n
655
\n00:49:38,400 –> 00:49:40,280
\nchapter 3.
\nKeep a marker, come to <\/p>\n
656
\n00:49:40,280 –> 00:49:45,560
\nPhilippians chapter 3.
\nKeep your marker because you <\/p>\n
657
\n00:49:45,560 –> 00:49:48,400
\nneed to make a note, but come to
\nPhilippians 3. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:49:55,270 –> 00:49:58,670
\nNow I want to thank our brother
\nJake actually for this because I<\/p>\n
659
\n00:49:58,670 –> 00:50:01,910
\nwas struggling how to put this
\nslide together and my brother <\/p>\n
660
\n00:50:01,910 –> 00:50:03,910
\nJake Jeffries said he he would
\nhelp me. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:50:04,190 –> 00:50:05,870
\nSo I’m I’m really grateful to
\nhim for that. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:50:07,110 –> 00:50:10,880
\nSo Philippians chapter 3, thank
\nyou Jake, thankful for your <\/p>\n
663
\n00:50:10,880 –> 00:50:13,680
\nhelp.
\nPhilippians 3, here we are. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:50:14,800 –> 00:50:20,000
\nThere’s a lot of links in
\nPhilippians 3 to Ehud now. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:50:20,120 –> 00:50:23,760
\nWe haven’t got time to do it
\nnow, but you cast your eye in <\/p>\n
666
\n00:50:23,760 –> 00:50:27,520
\nthe breakthrough Philippians 3
\nto see if you can find more <\/p>\n
667
\n00:50:27,520 –> 00:50:29,320
\nconnections that I’m about to
\ngive you to Ehud. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:50:29,440 –> 00:50:31,720
\nThere are lots Philippians 3
\nthough. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:50:31,720 –> 00:50:37,320
\nI want you to go in at verse 90,
\nwhere we read of the wicked, of <\/p>\n
670
\n00:50:37,320 –> 00:50:43,520
\nthe likes of Eglon, whose end is
\ndestruction, Whose God is their <\/p>\n
671
\n00:50:44,280 –> 00:50:46,400
\nbelly?
\nThat’s Eglon, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
672
\n00:50:47,200 –> 00:50:48,640
\nThey brought the present of food
\nfor him. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:50:48,960 –> 00:50:52,280
\nHe was the fat cow, His God was
\nhis belly. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:50:54,120 –> 00:50:58,640
\nWhose glory is in their shame.
\nWho mind earthly things. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:50:58,960 –> 00:51:03,440
\nFor our citizenship is in
\nheaven, whence also we look for <\/p>\n
676
\n00:51:03,440 –> 00:51:04,960
\nthe Saviour.
\nWhat was he Hood? <\/p>\n
677
\n00:51:05,080 –> 00:51:10,680
\nHe was the Saviour, the Lord
\nJesus Christ, who shall change <\/p>\n
678
\n00:51:10,680 –> 00:51:13,720
\nour viability.
\nListen, the point is this. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:51:14,400 –> 00:51:17,200
\nYou and I are no different to
\nEdgar. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:51:19,800 –> 00:51:27,640
\nIf we allow ourselves to serve
\nKing’s sin, if we allow our <\/p>\n
681
\n00:51:27,640 –> 00:51:33,160
\nlives to be ruled, to be reigned
\nover by King’s sin, our end is <\/p>\n
682
\n00:51:33,160 –> 00:51:37,360
\ndestruction.
\nOur God is our belly, that S who<\/p>\n
683
\n00:51:37,360 –> 00:51:40,440
\nwe serve.
\nYou VE got to make sure that you<\/p>\n
684
\n00:51:40,520 –> 00:51:47,640
\nserve King righteousness in your
\nlife and He will change our vile<\/p>\n
685
\n00:51:47,640 –> 00:51:54,320
\nbody that may be confessioned
\nunto His glorious body according<\/p>\n
686
\n00:51:54,320 –> 00:51:59,640
\nto the working whereby He S able
\neven to subdue all things to <\/p>\n
687
\n00:51:59,640 –> 00:52:02,240
\nHimself.
\nI did ask you to keep Marker and<\/p>\n
688
\n00:52:02,240 –> 00:52:03,920
\nJudges 3.
\nI did tell you this was the last<\/p>\n
689
\n00:52:03,920 –> 00:52:07,200
\nreference.
\nIt is, but just look at Judges 3<\/p>\n
690
\n00:52:07,200 –> 00:52:11,080
\nverse 30.
\nWhat does Ehud do? <\/p>\n
691
\n00:52:11,560 –> 00:52:16,120
\nLast verse about Ehud Moab was
\nsubdued. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:52:17,080 –> 00:52:19,640
\nPhilippians 3.
\nWhat does the Lord Jesus do? <\/p>\n
693
\n00:52:19,800 –> 00:52:25,200
\nHe’s able even to subdue all
\nthings unto himself. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:52:26,160 –> 00:52:36,040
\nSo THS well, first one that’s of
\nsignificance to our study. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:52:36,040 –> 00:52:40,200
\nNow serve king righteousness,
\nserve king righteousness. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:52:40,400 –> 00:52:46,360
\nMake that the priority of your
\nlife and think of it as a binary<\/p>\n
697
\n00:52:46,360 –> 00:52:50,120
\nchoice where there’s two
\noptions. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:52:50,400 –> 00:52:53,800
\nOne is King’s sin, one is king
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:52:54,080 –> 00:52:58,360
\nNext time you’re in a position
\nwhere you’re thinking, what is <\/p>\n
700
\n00:52:58,360 –> 00:53:02,640
\nthe right thing to do here?
\nOr rather, what shall I do here?<\/p>\n
701
\n00:53:04,280 –> 00:53:10,080
\nTry to get your mind to get down
\nthe lane of King righteousness. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:53:10,760 –> 00:53:20,360
\nRather than allow ourselves to
\nfall to King’s sin #2 rely on <\/p>\n
703
\n00:53:20,360 –> 00:53:26,280
\nGod’s right hand in your life.
\nThe whole point is our right <\/p>\n
704
\n00:53:26,280 –> 00:53:30,560
\nhand has got to be shut up.
\nWe can’t do it alone. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:53:30,800 –> 00:53:34,240
\nThe Lord Jesus was sent to do it
\nalone for us. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:53:34,840 –> 00:53:39,360
\nIf you believe in that victory
\nand trust in it and trust in <\/p>\n
707
\n00:53:39,360 –> 00:53:43,240
\nGod’s right hand, then you will
\nbe looked after. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:53:43,280 –> 00:53:45,280
\nYou will be brought into the
\nland. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:53:45,280 –> 00:53:51,480
\nAnd while we wait for that time,
\nsharpen your sword, young <\/p>\n
710
\n00:53:51,480 –> 00:53:55,760
\npeople, sharpen your sword.
\nBrothers and sisters, sharpen <\/p>\n
711
\n00:53:55,760 –> 00:54:00,760
\nyour sword.
\nThis word He’s able to why make <\/p>\n
712
\n00:54:00,760 –> 00:54:06,760
\nus wise and give us salvation?
\nWhat fools are we if we don’t <\/p>\n
713
\n00:54:06,760 –> 00:54:10,400
\nopen it on a daily basis to
\nsharpen our swords?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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