{"id":1399,"date":"2025-11-23T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/375-steve-mcgeorge-exhortation-the-gibeonites-2-sam-21\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:35:17","slug":"375-steve-mcgeorge-exhortation-the-gibeonites-2-sam-21","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/375-steve-mcgeorge-exhortation-the-gibeonites-2-sam-21\/","title":{"rendered":"375: Steve McGeorge – Exhortation: The Gibeonites (2 Sam. 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is an exhortation given at the Tea Tree Gully Ecclesia on August 3, 2025, by Brother Steve McGeroge, titled “The Gibeonites.”<\/p>\n

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\nHello and welcome back.
\nThis is Brother Chris For this <\/p>\n

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\nweek.
\nWe’re listening to an excitation<\/p>\n

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\nthat was given in August of 2025
\nat the Tea Tree Gully Ecclesia <\/p>\n

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\nby Brother Steve Mcgeorge.
\nAnd the title of his excitation <\/p>\n

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\nis The Gibeonites.
\nNow this excitation is one of <\/p>\n

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\nthe Bible classes or studies
\nthat I personally really enjoy <\/p>\n

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\nas it explores the story of the
\nGibeonites and then follows the <\/p>\n

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\njourney of those people
\nthroughout Scripture. <\/p>\n

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\nNow we may know the initial
\nstory of the Gibbeonites, how <\/p>\n

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\nthey were deceptive to the
\nchildren of Israel and convince <\/p>\n

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\nthem to make a vow.
\nBut what happens next to the <\/p>\n

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\nstory is what kind of gets
\ninteresting and brother Steve <\/p>\n

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\ndoes a great job at looking at
\nthat. <\/p>\n

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\nGod uses what starts as human
\ndeception combined with mistakes<\/p>\n

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\nby the children of Israel in
\nturns it into the Gibbeonites <\/p>\n

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\nbeing the Nethanim and being
\nthis group of people who were <\/p>\n

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\nkey and continuing to serve and
\npreserve the children of Israel <\/p>\n

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\nin their time in Babylon until
\nthey return with Ezra and <\/p>\n

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\nNehemiah to establish Jerusalem
\nand start to try to rebuild the <\/p>\n

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\nTemple.
\nBrother Steve does a fantastic <\/p>\n

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\njob following the thread of the
\nstory of the Gibbonites from <\/p>\n

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\ntheir first introduction and all
\nthe way to the time of Ezra and <\/p>\n

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\nNehemiah, and I found it to be
\nreally interesting. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I hope that you are
\nencouraged and excited as you <\/p>\n

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\nlook at the story of the
\nGibbonites and the lessons that <\/p>\n

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\nyou can find from these people.
\nSo I will turn it over now to <\/p>\n

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\nour brother Steve Mcgeorge for
\nhis exhortation entitled The <\/p>\n

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\nGibby Nights.
\nOur readings today in Second <\/p>\n

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\nSamuel 21 is a most intriguing
\nchapter. <\/p>\n

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\nIt contains some some unique and
\non the surface, what seems to be<\/p>\n

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\nvery strange features indeed.
\nBut this chapter, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, is going to bring us to
\nthese emblems on the table this <\/p>\n

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\nmorning because everything in
\nthe first half of this chapter <\/p>\n

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\nup to verse 14 is leading us to
\nwhat God has done for us through<\/p>\n

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\nour Lord Jesus Christ.
\nYou see, we are the Gibeonites <\/p>\n

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\nin this story, or should I say,
\nwe need to make the Gibeonite <\/p>\n

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\nstory our story too.
\nBecause this story, brothers and<\/p>\n

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\nsisters, has everything to do
\nwith atonement from sin. <\/p>\n

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\nSin, our greatest enemy, our
\nmost formidable foe, but not <\/p>\n

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\nbecause we have the power to
\ndeliver ourselves in any way. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re we’re just humble
\nservants, simple workers like <\/p>\n

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\nthese Gibbon eyes, hewers of
\nwood and drawers of water. <\/p>\n

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\nNo power or authority to do
\nanything, but completely reliant<\/p>\n

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\non our Master, our King, the
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

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\nThe greater than David in this
\nstory, who we know performed the<\/p>\n

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\nwork of atonement for us, hence
\nwe’re here this morning to <\/p>\n

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\nremember that.
\nSo it’s very relevant to what <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re here this morning to do.
\nSo first one, we’re told that <\/p>\n

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\nthere was a famine in the land
\nand it had been there for three <\/p>\n

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\nyears in a row.
\nAnd maybe the first year you <\/p>\n

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\nmight think, well, OK, but then
\nthe second year you start to <\/p>\n

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\nquestion it.
\nBy the third year, something’s <\/p>\n

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\ngoing on and David makes
\nenquiries and he finds out that <\/p>\n

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\nit’s because of something Saul
\nhad done to the Gibeonites, a <\/p>\n

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\ngroup of people called the
\nGibeonites. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, who are the Gibbeonites?
\nWell, verse 2 gives a hint. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’ll see in verse 2.
\nNow the Gibeonites just partway <\/p>\n

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\nin were not of the children of
\nIsrael, but of the remnant of <\/p>\n

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\nthe Amorites, and the children
\nof Israel had sworn unto them. <\/p>\n

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\nSo they were not Israelites.
\nThey were not from the people of<\/p>\n

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\nIsrael.
\nThey were Amorite. <\/p>\n

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\nSo that’s the collective name of
\nof the Canaanites. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were the ones who were in
\nthe land before they came in to <\/p>\n

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\ndrive out the Canaanites.
\nBut they had at some point with <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael, made a covenant many
\nyears ago, and the covenant was <\/p>\n

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\nbinding and it still stood.
\nBut here Saul breaks this <\/p>\n

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\ncovenant.
\nSo I think it’s important for us<\/p>\n

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\nto go and find out what we know
\nabout this covenant because <\/p>\n

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\nSaul’s breaking it here in this
\nchapter. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he breaks it says in his
\nzeal at the end of verse 2 to <\/p>\n

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\nthe children of he thought he
\nwas doing something good. <\/p>\n

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\nActually, this misguided zeal.
\nHe thought he was doing <\/p>\n

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\nsomething to please the children
\nof Israel and Judah. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he had a complete
\nmisunderstanding of what <\/p>\n

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\ncovenants were all about.
\nSo what is this covenant and who<\/p>\n

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\nare these Gibeonites?
\nWell, we find this covenant, <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters recorded
\nback in Joshua Chapter 9. <\/p>\n

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\nSo let’s go back there and just
\ninvestigate a few things in in <\/p>\n

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\nJoshua Chapter 9, because I want
\nto show you how that what <\/p>\n

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\noccurred here is a is a
\nremarkable story about the <\/p>\n

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\nGibeonites, but it’s so relevant
\nto our story in second of Samuel<\/p>\n

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\nbecause we’re going to see a
\nmajor change take place, a <\/p>\n

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\nchange that is 180\u00b0 turn around.
\nSo Joshua Chapter 9, the early <\/p>\n

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\nstages of the conquest of the
\nland. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’ve taken Jericho and
\nthey’ve they’ve taken AI and of <\/p>\n

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\ncourse things aren’t looking
\ngood for for the Canaanites. <\/p>\n

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\nIt says in Chapter 9 and verse
\none. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it came to pass when all the
\nkings which were on this side, <\/p>\n

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\nJordan in the hills, in the
\nvalleys on the coast by the <\/p>\n

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\ngreat sea over against Lebanon,
\nthe Hittite, the Amorite, the <\/p>\n

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\nCanaanite, the Perizzite, the
\nHivite and the Jebusite. <\/p>\n

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\nSo notice there’s six mentioned
\nthere that collectively go up to<\/p>\n

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\nmake all of the Amorites.
\nThe iniquity of the Amorites was<\/p>\n

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\nnow full.
\nAbraham was told when the <\/p>\n

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\niniquity of the Amorites were
\nfull, that would be the time to <\/p>\n

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\ndrive them out.
\nAnd here they are. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re all mentioned here,
\nalthough one group is missing. <\/p>\n

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\nChapter 3, verse 10 mentions 7
\nof them. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Girgashites are missing.
\nMaybe that’s the area of of <\/p>\n

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\nJericho and AI.
\nWe don’t know. <\/p>\n

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\nBut now there’s down to six and
\nthey have a conference. <\/p>\n

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\nA conference was called because
\nbecause they’d heard in verse 3 <\/p>\n

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\nand when the inhabitants of
\nGibeon heard what Joshua had <\/p>\n

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\ndone unto Jericho and to AI,
\nthey did work widely. <\/p>\n

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\nSo the the men of Gibeon, but
\nall of them had heard of what <\/p>\n

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\nhad been done at the end of
\nverse one, they, the Six <\/p>\n

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\nNations, they heard thereof what
\nhad been done. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so a conference was called
\nand they gathered themselves <\/p>\n

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\ntogether in verse 2 to fight
\nwith Joshua and with Israel with<\/p>\n

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\n1 accord.
\nAnd it’s pretty risky because <\/p>\n

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\nremember, Jericho had been
\nstraightly shut up. <\/p>\n

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\nNo one was going out or coming
\nin. <\/p>\n

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\nThey dare not move around too
\nmuch because they were scared. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd yet desperate times call for
\ndesperate measures. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so they had this conference
\nand they come to an agreement. <\/p>\n

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\nThey came with 1 accord, you’ll
\nsee in the margin one mouth. <\/p>\n

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\nSo there’s this verbal agreement
\namongst them. <\/p>\n

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\nA pact, so to speak was made.
\nBut notice in verse three, there<\/p>\n

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\nwas one group who weren’t quite
\nas confident as as the others, <\/p>\n

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\nand they called the inhabitants
\nof Gibeon. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen the inhabitants of Gibeon
\nheard what Joshua had done onto <\/p>\n

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\nJericho and AI, they did work
\nwildly and went and made as if <\/p>\n

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\nthey had been ambassadors.
\nSo if you were to map out where <\/p>\n

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\nGibeon is in relation to Jericho
\nand AI, you’ll see that they are<\/p>\n

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\nnext in line.
\nAnd so they weren’t quite as <\/p>\n

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\nconfident as all the others
\nwho’d come to this this <\/p>\n

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\nconference.
\nAnd so they make their own plans<\/p>\n

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\nand they decide that they need
\nto do something different to the<\/p>\n

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\npack that was made back in verse
\n2. <\/p>\n

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\nNow notice down in verse 7 that
\nthey’re also called the Hivites.<\/p>\n

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\nThey’ve got two names.
\nThey’re called the Gibeonites in<\/p>\n

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\nverse 3 and down in verse 7.
\nAnd the men of Israel said unto <\/p>\n

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\nthe Hivites in verse 7, I just
\nwant you to tuck that away. <\/p>\n

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\nJust remember that the Hivites,
\nOK, they’ve got two names, <\/p>\n

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\nGibbonites and and Hivites.
\nIt says in verse 4, they did <\/p>\n

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\nwork wily.
\nThis word wily means trickery <\/p>\n

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\nand strategy.
\nSo, so they’re pretty crafty. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were making up a plan, and
\nthey decided that that was their<\/p>\n

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\nbest option because force didn’t
\nseem to be working, so they had <\/p>\n

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\nto use something else.
\nAnd they’d seen Joshua use a bit<\/p>\n

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\nof strategy to try and take the
\nmen of AI. <\/p>\n

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\nRemember the ambush?
\nThey drew them out, and then <\/p>\n

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\nother men of Joshua went behind
\nthe city and set it on fire. <\/p>\n

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\nSo there’s a bit of strategy
\nthere. <\/p>\n

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\nSo maybe that’s the method that
\nwe can use. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd they decided to meet cunning
\nwith cunning. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:58,160 –> 00:10:01,560
\nWho’s someone else that was
\ncrafty and wily? <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:02,560 –> 00:10:05,640
\nI think you’ve got an echo there
\nof the serpent in the Garden of <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:05,640 –> 00:10:08,000
\nEden.
\nIt was more subtle than any <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:08,000 –> 00:10:10,600
\nother creature in the garden.
\nAnd the word subtle means <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:10,600 –> 00:10:12,600
\ncrafty.
\nIt’s not exactly the same word, <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:12,600 –> 00:10:15,920
\nbut it’s the same idea.
\nAnd I think it’s important, <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:15,920 –> 00:10:18,680
\nbrothers and sisters, to
\nunderstand that in this story, <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:18,680 –> 00:10:23,520
\nin Joshua 9, the Gibeanites are
\nactually a representation of <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:23,520 –> 00:10:25,520
\nsin.
\nThey are the serpent in this <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:25,520 –> 00:10:27,080
\nstory.
\nThey’re the ones that are going <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:27,080 –> 00:10:30,440
\nto use the strategy and try and
\nscheme and try and win over <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:30,840 –> 00:10:35,000
\nJoshua and, and the elders of,
\nof Israel. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:36,800 –> 00:10:41,600
\nIt becomes a story about how sin
\ndeceives and can catch us out. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:41,600 –> 00:10:45,000
\nAnd that’s what’s going to
\nhappen to Joshua here in this <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:45,000 –> 00:10:46,680
\nstory.
\nAnd, and the men of Israel, <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:46,680 –> 00:10:48,440
\nthey’re going to be caught out
\nby sin. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:50,520 –> 00:10:54,720
\nSin is exceedingly deceptive,
\nbrothers and sisters, it tries <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:54,720 –> 00:10:58,880
\nto create stories to get into
\nyour life at every possible <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:59,160 –> 00:11:01,960
\nmoment because it’s desperate to
\nsurvive. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:02,440 –> 00:11:05,320
\nAnd the Gibeonites here are
\nclearly desperate to survive. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:06,400 –> 00:11:08,280
\nAnd so they come and concoct
\nthis story. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:08,280 –> 00:11:13,040
\nAnd, and you’ll see in verse
\nfour that they, we get mentioned<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:13,040 –> 00:11:14,680
\nthere of the things that they
\ncarried. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:15,600 –> 00:11:18,520
\nThey took old sacks upon their
\nasses, wine bottles old and rent<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:18,520 –> 00:11:20,920
\nand bound up.
\nAnd then in verse 5, the things <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:20,920 –> 00:11:24,880
\nthat they wore, all their
\nclothes, their shoes clouted <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:24,880 –> 00:11:28,240
\nupon their feet, clouted.
\nThe word means patched. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:28,400 –> 00:11:31,120
\nThey had all these clothing to
\nmake it look like it was old and<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:31,120 –> 00:11:35,760
\npatched and clouted and old
\ngarments upon them, and all <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:35,760 –> 00:11:38,920
\ntheir bread of their provisions
\nwas dry and mouldy. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:40,600 –> 00:11:44,360
\nSo they went to Joshua in verse
\n6 unto the camp at Gilgo, and <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:44,360 –> 00:11:47,400
\nsaid unto him, and to the men of
\nIsrael, We become from a far <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:47,400 –> 00:11:50,200
\ncountry now, therefore make year
\nlead with us. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:50,440 –> 00:11:53,000
\nSo these Gibbonites had done
\ntheir homework, hadn’t they? <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:54,240 –> 00:11:58,760
\nThey’re done and researched out.
\nAnd however, they knew, they <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:58,760 –> 00:12:03,280
\nknew Deuteronomy chapter 20,
\nverse 10 to 18, They understood <\/p>\n

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\nprinciples that got it outlined
\nthrough Moses in the book of <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:06,560 –> 00:12:09,080
\nDeuteronomy.
\nAnd they were well prepared <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:10,440 –> 00:12:13,800
\nbecause in January 20, we won’t
\nturn there for the sake of time.<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:13,920 –> 00:12:16,360
\nThis morning, brothers and
\nsisters, it was clearly <\/p>\n

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\ninstructed to the men and
\nchildren of Israel that the <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:20,120 –> 00:12:25,920
\nnations within Canaan were to be
\nutterly wiped out. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:26,960 –> 00:12:31,080
\nBut any nation that was afar off
\nwho came and wanted to make a <\/p>\n

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\nleague, and they were peaceable,
\nthey could make a league, they <\/p>\n

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\ncould make a covenant.
\nWell, of course, these <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:38,320 –> 00:12:40,040
\nGibeonites were as close as
\ncould be. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:40,040 –> 00:12:42,360
\nThey were the next ones in in in
\ntow. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:42,960 –> 00:12:47,160
\nAnd so they had to try and make
\na speech. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:47,440 –> 00:12:50,520
\nThey had to make a story that
\nthat demonstrated that they were<\/p>\n

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\nactually nowhere near this
\nplace. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:52,040 –> 00:12:55,360
\nThey were as far away as can be.
\nBut they had just heard about <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:55,360 –> 00:12:58,800
\nthis wonderful God and the
\npeople of Israel, that they <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:58,800 –> 00:13:03,280
\nwanted to come and make a
\nleague, make a covenant, that <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:03,280 –> 00:13:06,840
\nthat was their only hope of
\nsalvation, their only hope of <\/p>\n

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\nbeing saved.
\nMake ye a league with us. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:11,320 –> 00:13:14,400
\nNow in verse 7, the men of
\nIsrael show a bit of suspicion <\/p>\n

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\nat first, don’t they?
\nThey sort of say, hang on a <\/p>\n

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\nminute, maybe you do dwell among
\nus. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:18,480 –> 00:13:20,080
\nPeradventure you do dwell among
\nus. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:20,080 –> 00:13:21,320
\nHow shall we make a league with
\nyou? <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:21,360 –> 00:13:23,400
\nMaybe you are close by.
\nHow do we know? <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:24,120 –> 00:13:28,680
\nLike we can see all your stuff,
\nbut how do we actually know? <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:30,360 –> 00:13:33,480
\nWell, in verse eight, look at
\nthe strategy. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:33,520 –> 00:13:35,920
\nIt builds, doesn’t it?
\nThe story builds. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:35,920 –> 00:13:39,320
\nThey said unto Joshua, we are
\nthy servants. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:40,440 –> 00:13:46,320
\nNow this was a faint sense of
\nhumility, wasn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:47,320 –> 00:13:49,080
\nAnd and they used it as a
\ntactic. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:50,440 –> 00:13:53,440
\nYou know, we’re we’re so used to
\npeople putting us down and <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:53,440 –> 00:13:56,960
\ntelling us off.
\nAll right, that when someone <\/p>\n

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\ncome and says, oh, you know
\nwhat, you’re pretty good. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:58,720 –> 00:14:00,160
\nWe’re the servants in this
\nstory. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’re the ones that are good,
\nthat that we get caught off <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:03,160 –> 00:14:04,920
\nguard.
\nWe, it disarms us. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:05,320 –> 00:14:08,120
\nIt’s a very nice feeling.
\nAnd so that’s what they’re doing<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:08,120 –> 00:14:10,320
\nhere.
\nThey’re disarming the men of <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael with this feigned
\nhumility. <\/p>\n

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\nJoshua’s not totally convinced.
\nHave a look at verse 8. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:17,240 –> 00:14:20,320
\nJoshua said unto them, Who are
\nyou and where do you come from? <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:20,600 –> 00:14:24,880
\nHe pushes a little bit more.
\nAll right, well in verse 9 to <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:24,880 –> 00:14:28,400
\nverse 13, brothers and sisters.
\nNow the Gibeonites go into all <\/p>\n

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\nthe small details.
\nThey’re so well prepared. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:31,680 –> 00:14:34,400
\nThey give explanations for every
\npart of their story. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:35,000 –> 00:14:37,040
\nThey repeat that they’re from a
\ndistant country. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:37,440 –> 00:14:39,200
\nThey repeat that they are
\nservants. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:39,560 –> 00:14:42,960
\nThey explain their motive for
\ntravelling so far. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:43,800 –> 00:14:47,440
\nThey talk about the name of
\nYahweh, their God and his fame. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:48,120 –> 00:14:51,440
\nThey talk about the fame of God.
\nThat was that goes all the way <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:51,440 –> 00:14:55,520
\nback to the time when they left
\nEgypt in verse 9. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:55,680 –> 00:14:58,240
\nWe have heard of the fame of him
\nand all that he did in Egypt, <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:58,480 –> 00:15:01,560
\nbut we’ve also heard more
\nrecently of what he did to the 2<\/p>\n

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\n00:15:01,560 –> 00:15:03,320
\nkings of the Amorite in verse
\n10. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:03,320 –> 00:15:08,480
\nCyhon and Ogg notice they don’t
\nmention what Joshua had done to <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:08,480 –> 00:15:11,720
\nJericho and AI either that that
\nwould be a little bit handing <\/p>\n

249
\n00:15:11,720 –> 00:15:14,280
\nyour putting your cards on the
\ntable too much. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:14,480 –> 00:15:18,240
\nThey leave that bit out.
\nAnd so verse 11, they say, <\/p>\n

251
\n00:15:18,240 –> 00:15:21,160
\nwherefore our elders and all the
\ninhabitants of our country spake<\/p>\n

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\nto us, saying, take vittles with
\nyou for the journey. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:23,880 –> 00:15:26,640
\nGo meet them and say we are your
\nservants, therefore make a <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:26,640 –> 00:15:29,560
\nleague with us.
\nAnd so we took this new bread <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:29,560 –> 00:15:33,080
\nout of the oven in verse 12, so
\nhot, but now it’s dry and moldy <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:33,080 –> 00:15:35,920
\nbecause the journey was so far.
\nWe took these bottles of wine <\/p>\n

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\nwhich were new.
\nBehold, they be rent. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:38,320 –> 00:15:42,240
\nVerse 13 And these are our
\ngarments, our shoes, by reason <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:42,240 –> 00:15:45,680
\nof the very long journey.
\nAnd of course the children of <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:45,680 –> 00:15:48,200
\nIsrael had gone all through the
\nwilderness for 40 years and <\/p>\n

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\ntheir clothes had never rented
\nor needed patches and they had <\/p>\n

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\nfood on that journey all the
\nway. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:55,480 –> 00:15:57,880
\nSo they would have known that it
\nwas a credible thing. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:57,880 –> 00:16:00,280
\nGod had provided for them in a
\nremarkable way. <\/p>\n

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\nBut if you didn’t have God on
\nyour side, then things would get<\/p>\n

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\npretty mouldy even after a few
\ndays, let alone the length of <\/p>\n

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\nthis journey, the very long
\njourney. <\/p>\n

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\nIt says at the end of verse 13.
\nSo you’ll notice that verse 6 <\/p>\n

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\nthey say we’ve come from a far
\ncountry, verse 9 from a very far<\/p>\n

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\ncountry, Verse 13, it’s a very
\nlong journey. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:21,800 –> 00:16:26,080
\nSo they put this story together
\nand they explain everything. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is Sin, brothers and
\nsisters scheming, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nSin tries, brothers and sisters,
\nto find a way into your life at <\/p>\n

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\nevery moment because it’s
\ndesperate to survive. <\/p>\n

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\nSo never, never give up on
\nendeavouring to uncover Sin’s <\/p>\n

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\nschemes.
\nThat’s what Joshua didn’t do. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:54,320 –> 00:16:58,520
\nIn this story, Sin builds the
\nmost elaborate reasons to enter <\/p>\n

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\nyour life.
\nHe wants to disarm you, so you <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:01,840 –> 00:17:06,319
\nneed to be extra vigilant.
\nIt’s extremely desperate to <\/p>\n

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\nsurvive and it’s ultimate aim is
\nto make a covenant with you, to <\/p>\n

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\nbe at peace with you, a covenant
\nof peace. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause then the fight’s over.
\nSin has survived, sin has won. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, verse 14, it says, and the
\nmen, and that’s the men of <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael, the elders of Israel
\ntook of their vittles, took the <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:31,640 –> 00:17:36,760
\nGibeonite’s vittles, all that
\nfood and drink and ask not <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:36,760 –> 00:17:41,480
\ncounsel at the mouth of Yahweh.
\nNow you’ll see in the margin for<\/p>\n

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\nthe phrase and the men took of
\ntheir vittles, they received the<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:45,880 –> 00:17:50,000
\nmen by reason of their vittles.
\nIn other words, they said <\/p>\n

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\nthere’s the evidence.
\nThat’s enough. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:51,720 –> 00:17:56,600
\nWe’ve seen enough evidence the
\nmulti bread and the and the rent<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:56,640 –> 00:18:00,240
\nwine and the patch clothing that
\nthat’s the evidence we need. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:00,600 –> 00:18:05,200
\nAnd and they sat down and had a
\nfellowship meal with them on the<\/p>\n

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\n00:18:05,200 –> 00:18:11,200
\nbasis of what they’d seen.
\nAnd Joshua verse 15 made peace <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:11,200 –> 00:18:15,480
\nwith them and made a lead with
\nthem and let them live. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:15,880 –> 00:18:18,280
\nAnd the congregate, the Prince
\nof the congregate, swear unto <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:18,280 –> 00:18:23,600
\nthem four times in that verse.
\nSins One, they’ve made this <\/p>\n

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\ncovenant.
\nIt’s incredible, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, what sin was able to do
\nin this story. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd, and this is the Gibeonites
\nbeing representative here of <\/p>\n

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\nsin.
\nWell, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

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\nthat’s not how to overcome sin,
\nis it? <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:47,480 –> 00:18:55,760
\nWe know that that word took of
\ntheir vittles. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:55,960 –> 00:18:59,360
\nThe idea there of, of, of
\nvittles, the Hebrew word means <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:59,360 –> 00:19:03,760
\nthat which is core, that which
\nis haunted food provision. <\/p>\n

305
\n00:19:05,360 –> 00:19:09,920
\nSo Joshua and the men of Israel
\naccepted them on the basis of <\/p>\n

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\nwhat they had seen and heard
\nthese gibeonites tell them. <\/p>\n

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\nThey accepted them on the basis
\nof this fellowship meal. <\/p>\n

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\nOK, it’s a bit mouldy, all
\nright. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd you know, if, if we’d had
\nthis bread prepared a few days <\/p>\n

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\nago and left on the table and we
\ncame, it would be a bit crusty, <\/p>\n

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\nwouldn’t it?
\nAnd the wine might have had some<\/p>\n

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\nflies try and fly around it in
\nthat in that time. <\/p>\n

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\nBut they, they accepted their
\nfood as a premise to make a <\/p>\n

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\ncovenant.
\nAnd, and they might have <\/p>\n

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\nthought, you know, when we were
\nin the wilderness, the Moabites <\/p>\n

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\ncame, OK, and the Ammonites came
\nand they never met us with bread<\/p>\n

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\nor water.
\nNot once did they bring us bread<\/p>\n

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\nor water.
\nAnd yet here they are bringing <\/p>\n

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\nthe best they could.
\nAnd so they were won over. <\/p>\n

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\nThey accept the Gibbonites on
\nthe basis of what they heard and<\/p>\n

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\nand what they saw.
\nPaul says, brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:11,280 –> 00:20:13,480
\nin First Corinthians chapter 10,
\nwhich is quite pertinent for <\/p>\n

323
\n00:20:13,480 –> 00:20:16,840
\nwhat we’re doing this morning,
\nthat you cannot fellowship the <\/p>\n

324
\n00:20:16,840 –> 00:20:20,120
\ntable of the Lord and the table
\nof devils. <\/p>\n

325
\n00:20:20,240 –> 00:20:23,200
\nYou can’t do it.
\nAnd yet here they are. <\/p>\n

326
\n00:20:23,200 –> 00:20:25,640
\nJoshua and the men of Israel are
\ndoing that. <\/p>\n

327
\n00:20:30,320 –> 00:20:36,040
\nThis word make a league in verse
\n15 is actually the Greek, the <\/p>\n

328
\n00:20:36,040 –> 00:20:39,800
\nHebrew word beareth.
\nIt is the word for covenant. <\/p>\n

329
\n00:20:40,360 –> 00:20:45,640
\nIt’s the word to cut a covenant,
\na binding covenant that’s made <\/p>\n

330
\n00:20:45,840 –> 00:20:48,960
\nit cannot be revoked.
\nIt cannot be destroyed. <\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:50,920 –> 00:20:53,520
\nAnd so sins one brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:54,120 –> 00:20:57,000
\nAnd it says in verse 16.
\nAnd it came to pass at the end <\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:57,000 –> 00:21:00,480
\nof three days, after they had
\nmade a league with them, that <\/p>\n

334
\n00:21:00,480 –> 00:21:02,120
\nthey heard that they were their
\nneighbors. <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:02,360 –> 00:21:05,680
\nThey March up three days later
\nand they come face to face with <\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:05,680 –> 00:21:08,920
\nall those ambassadors that
\nthey’d just spoken to, with <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:08,920 –> 00:21:11,120
\nthese smug smiles on their
\nfaces. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:12,360 –> 00:21:16,840
\nThree days later it was revealed
\nthat deception was revealed and <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:16,840 –> 00:21:24,200
\nit was seen that sin had won.
\nWe don’t meet here this morning,<\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:24,200 –> 00:21:27,800
\nbrothers and sisters, on the
\nbasis of victory over sin like <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:27,800 –> 00:21:30,840
\nthat, that that’s not a victory
\nover sin at all. <\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:32,200 –> 00:21:36,120
\nSin won on that occasion.
\nWe meet this morning, brothers <\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:36,120 –> 00:21:40,240
\nand sisters, to remember our
\nLord Jesus Christ who was never <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:40,240 –> 00:21:43,800
\ndeceived by sin, never disarmed.
\nHe knew what was in man. <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:45,960 –> 00:21:49,120
\nHe will not judge.
\nIsaiah 11 says after the sight <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:49,120 –> 00:21:51,960
\nof his eyes or the hearing of
\nhis ears. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:53,000 –> 00:21:57,440
\nHe’s very different to Joshua in
\nthis story and in the case of <\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:57,440 –> 00:21:59,400
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.
\nWhat we’re remembering this <\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:59,400 –> 00:22:02,320
\nmorning, brothers and sisters,
\nis that after three days with <\/p>\n

350
\n00:22:02,320 –> 00:22:05,080
\nhim, it was revealed that sin
\nhad lost. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:22:06,200 –> 00:22:08,640
\nIt looked like sin had won.
\nChrist was on the cross. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:22:08,640 –> 00:22:11,560
\nHe was buried in a tomb.
\nBut after three days it was <\/p>\n

353
\n00:22:11,560 –> 00:22:15,400
\nquite evident that the
\nresurrection took place and sin <\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:15,400 –> 00:22:18,560
\nhad actually lost.
\nAnd we meet here this morning to<\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:18,560 –> 00:22:23,680
\nmeet him on the basis of his
\nvittles, his bread and wine, not<\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:23,680 –> 00:22:29,960
\nthe Gideonite’s bread and wine.
\nHis bread and wine are non <\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:30,000 –> 00:22:34,880
\ncorrupting brothers and sisters.
\nThey don’t corrupt and <\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:34,880 –> 00:22:39,000
\nfellowship with him is on the
\nbasis of a binding covenant, the<\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:39,080 –> 00:22:42,160
\nAbrahamic covenant.
\nIt’s quite a different story <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:42,160 –> 00:22:44,200
\nwhat we’re remembering this
\nmorning, but our Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:44,200 –> 00:22:47,560
\nChrist to what Joshua and the
\nelders did back here in Joshua <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:47,560 –> 00:22:51,120
\nChapter 9.
\nIn fact, here in Joshua Chapter <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:51,120 –> 00:22:57,360
\n9, brothers and sisters, it’s
\nreally a repeat of Genesis 3. <\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:57,720 –> 00:23:01,640
\nWe’ve already hinted at that
\nwith the idea of the Gibeonites <\/p>\n

365
\n00:23:01,640 –> 00:23:09,800
\nworking wily, didn’t we?
\nBut in Genesis 3, the serpent <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:09,960 –> 00:23:15,160
\nclearly told lies.
\nEve was beguiled, and the <\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:15,160 –> 00:23:18,640
\nserpent was cursed.
\nWell, we’ve just seen how the <\/p>\n

368
\n00:23:18,640 –> 00:23:22,800
\nGibeonites told lies.
\nThe Israelites were beguiled. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:23,480 –> 00:23:27,560
\nAnd now if you come across to
\nverse 18 down to verse 20, we <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:27,560 –> 00:23:32,960
\nfind that the Gibeonites are
\ncursed and the children of <\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:32,960 –> 00:23:35,320
\nIsrael smote them not because
\nthe Princess of the congregation<\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:35,320 –> 00:23:38,320
\nis sworn unto them by Yahweh,
\nGod of Israel. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:38,760 –> 00:23:41,120
\nAnd all the congregation
\nmurmured against the Princess. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:44,080 –> 00:23:46,200
\nWe can’t kill them.
\nWe made a binding covenant. <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:46,200 –> 00:23:52,320
\nWe cannot touch them and the
\nchildren of Israel were really <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:52,320 –> 00:23:56,600
\nupset by that and they sort of
\ncame to their elders. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:57,160 –> 00:24:00,440
\nThey were rankled by this and
\nthey said, well, isn’t this the <\/p>\n

378
\n00:24:00,440 –> 00:24:02,240
\ncase for extenuating
\ncircumstances? <\/p>\n

379
\n00:24:02,240 –> 00:24:04,640
\nI mean, it wasn’t a covenant
\nmade on the right premises in <\/p>\n

380
\n00:24:04,640 –> 00:24:06,640
\nthe 1st place.
\nSurely it’s not a true covenant.<\/p>\n

381
\n00:24:06,920 –> 00:24:08,880
\nWell, no, it was.
\nIt was made in Yahweh’s name. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:24:11,240 –> 00:24:13,480
\nIs, is this one of those
\noccasions where where we can <\/p>\n

383
\n00:24:13,480 –> 00:24:16,440
\nbreak the Constitution to keep
\nthe constitution, so to speak? <\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:18,880 –> 00:24:21,720
\nAnd the children of Israel came
\nto their Princess, but the <\/p>\n

385
\n00:24:21,720 –> 00:24:24,160
\nPrincess says no in verse 19.
\nWe can’t. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:24:24,320 –> 00:24:27,200
\nWe have sworn unto them by
\nYahweh, God of Israel. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:24:27,200 –> 00:24:29,320
\nNow, therefore we may not touch
\nthem. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:29,400 –> 00:24:33,280
\nAnd you need to remember that we
\nmay not touch them because <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:33,280 –> 00:24:36,360
\nthat’s exactly what Saul does in
\nSecond Samuel 21. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:36,800 –> 00:24:41,160
\nBut this is what we’ll do.
\nWe will let them live because of<\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:41,160 –> 00:24:42,840
\nthe oath which we swear, swear
\nunto them. <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:44,480 –> 00:24:47,440
\nAnd verse 21, we’ll let them be
\nhewers of wood and drawers of <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:47,440 –> 00:24:52,240
\nwater unto all the congregation.
\nSo they put a curse on them. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:52,600 –> 00:24:54,160
\nThey’re going to become our
\nservants. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:54,160 –> 00:24:56,040
\nThey’re going to get all our
\nwater and all our wood. <\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:58,520 –> 00:25:08,200
\nWell, in verse 23, Joshua
\nchanges it slightly and, and, <\/p>\n

397
\n00:25:08,200 –> 00:25:10,920
\nand here, brothers and sisters,
\nthere’s going to be a remarkable<\/p>\n

398
\n00:25:10,920 –> 00:25:13,080
\nthing that happens because of
\nthis change. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:25:14,520 –> 00:25:17,760
\nNow therefore ye are cursed.
\nSo there’s the curse on the <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:17,760 –> 00:25:21,040
\nGibeonites, and there shall none
\nof you be freed from being <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:21,040 –> 00:25:25,440
\nbondsman and from being hearers
\nof wood and drawers of water for<\/p>\n

402
\n00:25:25,440 –> 00:25:29,080
\nthe House of my God.
\nSo here were the children of <\/p>\n

403
\n00:25:29,080 –> 00:25:31,160
\nIsrael thinking, oh, we’re going
\nto have personal servants that <\/p>\n

404
\n00:25:31,160 –> 00:25:33,200
\nare going to bring our water and
\nbring our wood and come to our <\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:33,200 –> 00:25:36,960
\ndoor and, you know, have it
\nready for us every morning. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:37,360 –> 00:25:41,000
\nAnd Joshua changes it.
\nYes, they’ll still do that, but <\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:41,000 –> 00:25:44,800
\nthey’re also going to be hills
\nof wood and drawers of water for<\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:44,800 –> 00:25:47,880
\nthe House of my God.
\nThey’re going to come right up <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:47,880 –> 00:25:50,920
\nclose to the Tabernacle.
\nThey’re going to rub shoulder to<\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:50,920 –> 00:25:54,280
\nshoulder with the Levites.
\nThey’re going to be integrated <\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:54,400 –> 00:26:00,040
\ninto Tabernacle service.
\nYou know what happens, brothers <\/p>\n

412
\n00:26:00,040 –> 00:26:04,080
\nand sisters, is that actually
\nhas a major effect on these <\/p>\n

413
\n00:26:04,080 –> 00:26:13,080
\nGibeonites because if you think
\nabout Genesis 3, it says we, we <\/p>\n

414
\n00:26:13,080 –> 00:26:16,720
\nsaid the serpent told lies, Eve
\nwas beguiled, and so the serpent<\/p>\n

415
\n00:26:16,720 –> 00:26:20,200
\nwas cursed.
\nBut we also know that Adam and <\/p>\n

416
\n00:26:20,200 –> 00:26:22,480
\nEve ended up being cursed as
\nwell, don’t we? <\/p>\n

417
\n00:26:26,200 –> 00:26:29,320
\nWell, if that’s going to be a
\nfull reenactment here in Joshua <\/p>\n

418
\n00:26:29,320 –> 00:26:33,440
\nChapter 9, where the Gibeonites
\ntold lies, the Israelites were <\/p>\n

419
\n00:26:33,440 –> 00:26:37,200
\nbeguiled and the Gibeonites were
\ncursed, The full enactment of <\/p>\n

420
\n00:26:37,200 –> 00:26:39,600
\nGenesis 3 would have been that
\nthe whole of Israel would have <\/p>\n

421
\n00:26:39,600 –> 00:26:41,840
\nend up being cursed as well
\nbecause the Gibeonites would <\/p>\n

422
\n00:26:41,840 –> 00:26:43,960
\nhave rubbed off onto the
\nIsraelites. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:44,360 –> 00:26:47,480
\nAnd that was the reason in in
\nJanuary 20 why you were to kill <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:47,800 –> 00:26:51,480
\nall the inhabitants of the land
\nin in case their lifestyle <\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:51,480 –> 00:26:54,760
\nrubbed off unto you.
\nAnd there was a very great <\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:54,760 –> 00:26:58,320
\nthreat of that happening.
\nSo what Joshua does is he brings<\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:58,320 –> 00:27:01,280
\nthem right up close to the
\nteachers of the nation, to the <\/p>\n

428
\n00:27:01,280 –> 00:27:06,680
\nLevites in order to try and see
\nif the Levites lifestyle could <\/p>\n

429
\n00:27:06,680 –> 00:27:10,400
\nrub off onto the Gibbeanites
\nrather than the Gibbeanites <\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:10,400 –> 00:27:13,000
\nlifestyle rub off onto the
\nLevites. <\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:13,920 –> 00:27:17,000
\nAnd it worked, It was amazing,
\nit worked. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:27:17,960 –> 00:27:21,800
\nNow remember I told you to keep
\nthe word Hivites in your mind. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:27:22,360 –> 00:27:25,400
\nI’ve just mentioned Levites and
\nhere are these Gibbeanites or <\/p>\n

434
\n00:27:25,400 –> 00:27:27,440
\nHivites.
\nThey’re working shoulder to <\/p>\n

435
\n00:27:27,440 –> 00:27:29,640
\nshoulder right alongside each
\nother. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:27:30,400 –> 00:27:32,840
\nDo you know the first time where
\nLevites and Hivites came <\/p>\n

437
\n00:27:32,840 –> 00:27:35,920
\ntogether, brothers and sisters?
\nIt’s remarkable. <\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:36,560 –> 00:27:38,640
\nCome back to Genesis 34.
\nWe’re not going to spend any <\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:38,640 –> 00:27:40,880
\ntime in Genesis 34.
\nI just want you to show you <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:40,880 –> 00:27:44,800
\nthis.
\nGenesis 34 is the first story in<\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:48,440
\nthe Bible that has anything to
\ndo with Levi and anything to do <\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:48,440 –> 00:27:52,640
\nwith Hivites doing stuff.
\nObviously, Levi’s been mentioned<\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:52,640 –> 00:27:54,520
\nbefore and the Hivites were
\nmentioned. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:54,880 –> 00:27:58,880
\nHivite was the son of Canaan,
\nthe son of Ham, the son of Noah,<\/p>\n

445
\n00:27:59,360 –> 00:28:02,360
\nand Levi was the son of Leah
\nfrom Jacob. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:28:03,080 –> 00:28:05,480
\nBut here’s the first time
\nthey’re actually engaged in a <\/p>\n

447
\n00:28:05,480 –> 00:28:08,960
\nstory and they’re on opposite
\nsides. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:28:09,080 –> 00:28:13,440
\nThey hate each other.
\nYou’ll see that verse one says. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:28:13,440 –> 00:28:16,400
\nAnd Dinah, the daughter of Leah,
\nwhich she bear unto Jacob, went <\/p>\n

450
\n00:28:16,400 –> 00:28:17,800
\nout to see the daughters of the
\nland. <\/p>\n

451
\n00:28:17,960 –> 00:28:23,680
\nAnd when Shechem the son of
\nHamor the Hivite, Prince of the <\/p>\n

452
\n00:28:23,680 –> 00:28:26,600
\ncountry.
\nSo here’s the Hivites, and we <\/p>\n

453
\n00:28:26,600 –> 00:28:34,720
\nknow what happens in this story.
\nCome over to verse 25. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:28:35,960 –> 00:28:39,400
\nAnd it came to pass on the third
\nday when they were saw that two <\/p>\n

455
\n00:28:39,400 –> 00:28:44,280
\nof the sons of Jacob,
\nparticularly Simeon and Levi, <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:44,280 –> 00:28:47,960
\nDinah’s brethren, took each man
\na sword and came upon the city <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:47,960 –> 00:28:52,040
\nand slew all the males.
\nSo they didn’t have a very good <\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:52,040 –> 00:28:54,240
\nstart, did they?
\nThe Levites and the Hivites, <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:54,240 –> 00:28:56,920
\nthey were on opposite sides.
\nThey hated each other. <\/p>\n

460
\n00:28:58,520 –> 00:29:01,320
\nHaymore and Shechem thought that
\nthey liked each other, but found<\/p>\n

461
\n00:29:01,320 –> 00:29:05,920
\nout that Simeon and Levi had no
\nplans of binding together and <\/p>\n

462
\n00:29:05,920 –> 00:29:08,560
\nmaking a covenant.
\nThey put them to the sword. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:29:09,640 –> 00:29:13,680
\nWell, now brothers and sisters,
\nthese Levites who’ve now changed<\/p>\n

464
\n00:29:14,040 –> 00:29:17,080
\nLevi’s family change and they’re
\nnow the teachers of the nation <\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:18,800 –> 00:29:22,240
\nand the Gibeonites, brothers and
\nsisters come together and they <\/p>\n

466
\n00:29:22,240 –> 00:29:26,040
\nrub shoulder to shoulder and the
\neffect is amazing. <\/p>\n

467
\n00:29:27,160 –> 00:29:29,880
\nCome over to second Samuel now
\nand 21 now. <\/p>\n

468
\n00:29:29,880 –> 00:29:35,360
\nNow you can see why it was such
\na big thing, why God brought <\/p>\n

469
\n00:29:35,360 –> 00:29:40,520
\nthis famine.
\nBecause Saul has touched the <\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:40,520 –> 00:29:47,080
\nGibbonites, he’s killed the
\nGibbonites, and these Gibbonites<\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:50,680
\nwere seen as as second class
\ncitizens. <\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:56,520 –> 00:30:00,080
\nAnd, and this, this famine is
\nclearly a punishment from Yahweh<\/p>\n

473
\n00:30:00,240 –> 00:30:03,040
\nbecause of what Saul is doing.
\nHe’s breaking the covenant. <\/p>\n

474
\n00:30:05,520 –> 00:30:09,880
\nAnd, and such was the sin in the
\neyes of Yahweh that the entire <\/p>\n

475
\n00:30:09,880 –> 00:30:11,440
\nnation is being held
\naccountable. <\/p>\n

476
\n00:30:12,160 –> 00:30:14,840
\nEveryone is under this curse,
\nunder this punishment. <\/p>\n

477
\n00:30:15,120 –> 00:30:18,240
\nIt was a national sin.
\nAnd so according to Deuteronomy <\/p>\n

478
\n00:30:18,240 –> 00:30:21,720
\n11, he had shut up heaven,
\nclosed the windows of heaven. <\/p>\n

479
\n00:30:23,880 –> 00:30:26,440
\nNow, why did Saul think he could
\nget away with this? <\/p>\n

480
\n00:30:27,160 –> 00:30:29,520
\nWell, we don’t really know.
\nMaybe he thought the covenant <\/p>\n

481
\n00:30:29,520 –> 00:30:31,200
\nwas so old it was no longer
\nbinding. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:30:31,920 –> 00:30:35,680
\nYou know, you know, Saul, Saul,
\nthe one who didn’t kill all the <\/p>\n

483
\n00:30:35,720 –> 00:30:40,040
\nAmalekites God had commanded him
\nto do that, suddenly doesn’t <\/p>\n

484
\n00:30:40,720 –> 00:30:43,040
\ngoes and kills the Gibeonites,
\nwhich which always said you <\/p>\n

485
\n00:30:43,040 –> 00:30:45,400
\ncan’t do.
\nSo Saul was always getting it <\/p>\n

486
\n00:30:45,400 –> 00:30:51,520
\nwrong.
\nSaul never got it right, and <\/p>\n

487
\n00:30:51,520 –> 00:30:54,600
\nthis misguided zeal, may, you
\nknow, maybe he’s a little bit <\/p>\n

488
\n00:30:54,600 –> 00:30:58,000
\nlike Simeon and Levi here, this
\nmisguided zeal, maybe he’s <\/p>\n

489
\n00:30:58,000 –> 00:31:00,000
\ntrying to finish what Joshua had
\nstarted. <\/p>\n

490
\n00:31:00,160 –> 00:31:02,600
\nHe got so far through Joshua and
\nthought, ah, I’ve got to get rid<\/p>\n

491
\n00:31:02,600 –> 00:31:06,080
\nof the gibbonites in the same
\nway that he tried to get rid of <\/p>\n

492
\n00:31:06,080 –> 00:31:09,640
\nall the sorcerers and all the
\nwitches, etcetera, all those of <\/p>\n

493
\n00:31:09,640 –> 00:31:12,280
\nthe land, all the Canaanites.
\nMaybe that’s what he was <\/p>\n

494
\n00:31:12,280 –> 00:31:16,960
\nthinking.
\nRemember he had all the priests <\/p>\n

495
\n00:31:17,320 –> 00:31:25,040
\nkilled at Nob and it seems that
\nfrom then he moved the <\/p>\n

496
\n00:31:25,040 –> 00:31:28,760
\nTabernacle from Nob and he moved
\nit to Gibeon where the <\/p>\n

497
\n00:31:28,800 –> 00:31:31,440
\nGibeonites are.
\nSo to make a pathway to clear <\/p>\n

498
\n00:31:31,440 –> 00:31:34,000
\nthe pathway to let the
\nTabernacle go there, maybe he <\/p>\n

499
\n00:31:34,000 –> 00:31:35,800
\ncleared out the Gibeonites on
\nthat occasion. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:31:36,600 –> 00:31:38,880
\nHe, he purged them to clear the
\nway. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:31:41,280 –> 00:31:45,120
\nHe, he was sole of Gibeah.
\nHe, he was in that location. <\/p>\n

502
\n00:31:45,120 –> 00:31:47,320
\nMaybe he just got rid of them
\nbecause they were too close for <\/p>\n

503
\n00:31:47,320 –> 00:31:55,720
\nhis liking, we don’t know.
\nBut as I read by 1 commentator, <\/p>\n

504
\n00:31:57,320 –> 00:32:01,360
\nhe was a psychotic, paranoid,
\nself-serving narcissist. <\/p>\n

505
\n00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:03,920
\nWas so you could never.
\nHe was unpredictable, you didn’t<\/p>\n

506
\n00:32:03,920 –> 00:32:06,680
\nknow what he was thinking.
\nIt doesn’t matter the reason. <\/p>\n

507
\n00:32:06,720 –> 00:32:10,560
\nThe fact is a covenant had been
\nbroken and that covenant had <\/p>\n

508
\n00:32:10,560 –> 00:32:15,400
\nbeen sworn in Yahweh’s name.
\nAnd for Yahweh the passage of <\/p>\n

509
\n00:32:15,400 –> 00:32:19,040
\ntime does not weaken a covenant.
\nHe’s a covenant keeper. <\/p>\n

510
\n00:32:21,320 –> 00:32:25,760
\nSo So what happens?
\nWell these Gibeonites are <\/p>\n

511
\n00:32:25,760 –> 00:32:28,360
\nmentioned by Yahweh in verse
\none. <\/p>\n

512
\n00:32:28,600 –> 00:32:33,400
\nIt’s because of what Saul and
\nhis the, the idea of bloody <\/p>\n

513
\n00:32:33,400 –> 00:32:38,880
\nhouse is actually blood guilt.
\nOK, It’s it, it actually should <\/p>\n

514
\n00:32:38,880 –> 00:32:42,960
\nbe for the House of blood guilt,
\nSaul and his house. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:46,920
\nThere was a guilt because of the
\nblood that was shed hanging on <\/p>\n

516
\n00:32:46,920 –> 00:32:50,320
\nthe House of Saul.
\nAnd how do you remove that <\/p>\n

517
\n00:32:50,320 –> 00:32:52,960
\nguilt?
\nHow do you remove that to make <\/p>\n

518
\n00:32:52,960 –> 00:32:54,320
\natonement?
\nWell, well, that’s what’s going <\/p>\n

519
\n00:32:54,320 –> 00:32:58,280
\nto come out in this story.
\nAnd so Yahweh says it’s because <\/p>\n

520
\n00:32:58,280 –> 00:33:01,280
\nSaul slew the Gibbyonites.
\nAnd so the king gets the <\/p>\n

521
\n00:33:01,280 –> 00:33:05,320
\nGibbyonites in verse 2, and he
\nsays to them in verse 3, What <\/p>\n

522
\n00:33:05,320 –> 00:33:08,240
\nshall I do for you and where?
\nWhere shall I make the <\/p>\n

523
\n00:33:08,240 –> 00:33:11,720
\natonement?
\nRemove this guilt, that ye may <\/p>\n

524
\n00:33:11,720 –> 00:33:22,000
\nbless the inheritance of Yahweh.
\nNow, I want you to notice that <\/p>\n

525
\n00:33:22,400 –> 00:33:27,120
\nthe Gibeonites in verse 4 come
\nup with a solution. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:33:28,160 –> 00:33:31,000
\nRemember, they’d done their
\nhomework back in Joshua and I. <\/p>\n

527
\n00:33:31,000 –> 00:33:34,680
\nThey knew all the insurance and
\nouts of how to win over Joshua. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:33:34,680 –> 00:33:37,200
\nThey’d done their research, OK,
\nand they presented this <\/p>\n

529
\n00:33:37,200 –> 00:33:40,280
\nconcocted story.
\nWell, here, brothers and <\/p>\n

530
\n00:33:40,280 –> 00:33:44,040
\nsisters, they’ve also done their
\nresearch, but it’s in a <\/p>\n

531
\n00:33:44,040 –> 00:33:48,480
\ncompletely different vein.
\nThey’ve done their research <\/p>\n

532
\n00:33:48,480 –> 00:33:54,960
\nabout how atonement works.
\nAnd it’s quite remarkable, <\/p>\n

533
\n00:33:54,960 –> 00:33:59,480
\nbrothers and sisters, because in
\nthis story I’m going to suggest <\/p>\n

534
\n00:33:59,480 –> 00:34:04,560
\nthey no longer represent sin.
\nIn this story, the Gideonites <\/p>\n

535
\n00:34:04,560 –> 00:34:10,760
\nrepresent those who understand
\nthe basis by which sin is atoned<\/p>\n

536
\n00:34:10,760 –> 00:34:14,159
\nfor.
\nThey understood and recognised <\/p>\n

537
\n00:34:14,159 –> 00:34:17,880
\nwhat sin was.
\nThey understood atonement. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:34:18,760 –> 00:34:22,199
\nThey are the ones who share in
\nthe victory over sin. <\/p>\n

539
\n00:34:22,199 –> 00:34:25,719
\nIn this story, they don’t
\nrepresent sin. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:34:26,040 –> 00:34:27,800
\nIn this story, who represents
\nsin in this? <\/p>\n

541
\n00:34:27,880 –> 00:34:32,840
\nIt’s Saul.
\nKing Saul is king sin in this <\/p>\n

542
\n00:34:32,840 –> 00:34:36,880
\nstory.
\nIf you were to go down to verse <\/p>\n

543
\n00:34:36,880 –> 00:34:39,600
\n5, we’ll go back to verse four
\nin a moment. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:34:40,920 –> 00:34:46,960
\nAnd they answered the king, the
\nman that consumed us and that <\/p>\n

545
\n00:34:46,960 –> 00:34:51,760
\ndevised against us, that schemed
\nagainst us to remove us, to <\/p>\n

546
\n00:34:51,760 –> 00:34:55,679
\ndestroy us.
\nThat man is the one that’s <\/p>\n

547
\n00:34:55,679 –> 00:34:58,400
\ncaused all this guilt.
\nAnd that’s what sin does, <\/p>\n

548
\n00:34:58,400 –> 00:35:00,800
\ndoesn’t it?
\nIt seeks to consume us, brothers<\/p>\n

549
\n00:35:00,800 –> 00:35:03,520
\nand sisters.
\nIt seeks to find out a way to <\/p>\n

550
\n00:35:03,520 –> 00:35:07,840
\ndestroy us.
\nAnd Saul did exactly that with <\/p>\n

551
\n00:35:07,840 –> 00:35:10,760
\nthe Gibbonites.
\nThe Gibbonites by this stage of <\/p>\n

552
\n00:35:10,760 –> 00:35:14,880
\nthe story, brothers and sisters,
\nare faithful men and women who <\/p>\n

553
\n00:35:14,880 –> 00:35:18,000
\nwork diligently in the
\nTabernacle service. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:35:19,160 –> 00:35:21,520
\nThey’d rubbed up shoulder to
\nshoulder of the Levites. <\/p>\n

555
\n00:35:21,680 –> 00:35:23,320
\nThey loved and worshipped
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:35:23,480 –> 00:35:28,000
\nThey’d come to known him and
\nthey loved his representative in<\/p>\n

557
\n00:35:28,000 –> 00:35:31,880
\nDavid, King David.
\nAnd they understood all the <\/p>\n

558
\n00:35:31,880 –> 00:35:35,200
\nprinciples of sacrifice, all the
\nprinciples of atonement. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:35:35,200 –> 00:35:37,920
\nThey saw it every day.
\nThey saw the animals come up, <\/p>\n

560
\n00:35:38,280 –> 00:35:39,760
\nthe offerer would bring that
\nanimal. <\/p>\n

561
\n00:35:40,160 –> 00:35:44,320
\nAnd they saw how the Levites
\ntaught all the the the offers, <\/p>\n

562
\n00:35:44,480 –> 00:35:46,720
\nthe lessons behind each of those
\nofferings. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:35:47,960 –> 00:35:49,720
\nAnd they were listening to that
\nevery day. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:35:50,800 –> 00:35:54,320
\nAnd it made its mark.
\nAnd they were changed, men and <\/p>\n

565
\n00:35:54,320 –> 00:35:56,400
\nwomen from the story of Joshua,
\nChapter 9. <\/p>\n

566
\n00:35:58,200 –> 00:36:01,400
\nAnd so note what they asked for
\nin verse four. <\/p>\n

567
\n00:36:02,880 –> 00:36:07,480
\nAnd the Gibbey Nights said unto
\nDavid, we will have no silver <\/p>\n

568
\n00:36:07,640 –> 00:36:10,520
\nnor gold of soul.
\nIt’s not about money, all right.<\/p>\n

569
\n00:36:10,560 –> 00:36:16,080
\nIn those days, you could pay off
\nblood guiltiness through money. <\/p>\n

570
\n00:36:16,240 –> 00:36:18,440
\nBut it’s not about money.
\nThe principles of the atonement <\/p>\n

571
\n00:36:18,440 –> 00:36:20,720
\ncannot be worked out using
\nmoney. <\/p>\n

572
\n00:36:21,520 –> 00:36:24,160
\nAll right.
\nYou can’t bribe your way. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:36:24,480 –> 00:36:28,840
\nYou can’t pay your penance in
\nmonetary terms. <\/p>\n

574
\n00:36:30,720 –> 00:36:38,160
\nNo, it’s not about money.
\nWe will have no money, nor of of<\/p>\n

575
\n00:36:38,160 –> 00:36:41,800
\nsalt, nor of his house.
\nNeither for us shalt thou kill <\/p>\n

576
\n00:36:41,840 –> 00:36:48,600
\nany man in Israel.
\nNow the margin, I think makes it<\/p>\n

577
\n00:36:49,000 –> 00:36:51,560
\neasier to understand.
\nI think this is how it should <\/p>\n

578
\n00:36:51,560 –> 00:36:54,880
\nbe.
\nYou’ll see against the the <\/p>\n

579
\n00:36:54,880 –> 00:36:59,160
\nnumber six, it is not silver nor
\ngold that we have to do with <\/p>\n

580
\n00:36:59,160 –> 00:37:00,880
\nSeoul or his house.
\nWe don’t want his money. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:37:01,840 –> 00:37:04,400
\nNeither pertain it to us to
\nkill. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:37:04,400 –> 00:37:08,160
\nIt’s, it’s not our authority or
\npower to kill anyone over this, <\/p>\n

583
\n00:37:08,920 –> 00:37:11,960
\nbut that’s what is needed.
\nA death is needed. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:37:12,080 –> 00:37:17,080
\nWe, we, we see that in verse
\nverse 5 or, or verse 6-7, men be<\/p>\n

585
\n00:37:17,080 –> 00:37:20,040
\nkilled of the House of Seoul.
\nSo, so death’s involved. <\/p>\n

586
\n00:37:20,800 –> 00:37:22,960
\nSo it’s not saying it’s not for
\nus to kill any man. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:37:22,960 –> 00:37:26,960
\nWhat it’s saying is that it’s
\nnot within our power to do that.<\/p>\n

588
\n00:37:26,960 –> 00:37:29,040
\nWe don’t have the authority.
\nWe’re just giving eyes. <\/p>\n

589
\n00:37:29,040 –> 00:37:32,040
\nWe’re just humble servants.
\nWe don’t have that authority in <\/p>\n

590
\n00:37:32,040 –> 00:37:39,480
\npower.
\nSo David says, well, what will I<\/p>\n

591
\n00:37:39,480 –> 00:37:42,720
\ndo for you?
\nYou tell me what to do and I <\/p>\n

592
\n00:37:42,720 –> 00:37:45,800
\nwill do that.
\nI have the authority, I have the<\/p>\n

593
\n00:37:45,800 –> 00:37:48,640
\npower to do that.
\nAnd the Gibeonites understood <\/p>\n

594
\n00:37:48,640 –> 00:37:49,600
\nthis.
\nWe don’t. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:37:49,840 –> 00:37:58,920
\nYou do Now on the on the surface
\nthat that might seem that <\/p>\n

596
\n00:37:58,920 –> 00:38:05,320
\nthey’ve got this bloodthirsty
\nrevenge, but but clearly David <\/p>\n

597
\n00:38:05,480 –> 00:38:09,200
\nisn’t of that ilk at all, is he,
\nBrothers and sisters, we know <\/p>\n

598
\n00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:11,280
\nthat.
\nRemember when men came to him <\/p>\n

599
\n00:38:11,320 –> 00:38:13,680
\nand said, oh look, I killed
\nSaul. <\/p>\n

600
\n00:38:15,600 –> 00:38:18,640
\nWhat did David do to the man
\nthat took revenge on Saul? <\/p>\n

601
\n00:38:19,320 –> 00:38:23,160
\nThrust him through or, or or the
\nones who killed Ishbosheth. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:38:24,920 –> 00:38:27,320
\nWe’ve killed Ishbosheth look
\nfavourably to us. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:38:27,600 –> 00:38:30,240
\nNo, you’ve, you’ve touched
\nYahweh’s anointed You’ve you’ve <\/p>\n

604
\n00:38:30,680 –> 00:38:32,800
\nput your hand in in a, in a
\nplace it shouldn’t be. <\/p>\n

605
\n00:38:32,800 –> 00:38:35,960
\nHe killed those perpetrators.
\nDavid would have no time for <\/p>\n

606
\n00:38:35,960 –> 00:38:39,760
\njust bloodthirsty revenge.
\nAnd he can see that the <\/p>\n

607
\n00:38:39,760 –> 00:38:43,200
\nGibeonites knew the law.
\nJust come back to Numbers 35 <\/p>\n

608
\n00:38:43,200 –> 00:38:45,600
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nSo the points that they make in <\/p>\n

609
\n00:38:45,600 –> 00:38:48,760
\nverse 4 come out of Numbers 35.
\nThey’ve done their homework. <\/p>\n

610
\n00:38:48,760 –> 00:38:50,240
\nThey understand these
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:38:51,960 –> 00:38:56,640
\nBack here in Numbers 35, we are
\ntold what happens when when <\/p>\n

612
\n00:38:56,640 –> 00:39:08,120
\nsomeone is murdered, verse 16.
\nAnd if he smites him with an <\/p>\n

613
\n00:39:08,120 –> 00:39:11,000
\ninstrument of iron so that he
\ndie, he is a murderer. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:39:11,160 –> 00:39:13,280
\nThe murderer shall surely be put
\nto death. <\/p>\n

615
\n00:39:13,280 –> 00:39:15,520
\nAnd Saul has murdered the
\nGibbonites. <\/p>\n

616
\n00:39:15,800 –> 00:39:18,840
\nHe’s broken a a covenant as
\nwell, and he’s murdered these <\/p>\n

617
\n00:39:18,840 –> 00:39:21,720
\nGibbonites.
\nWell, how do you deal with that?<\/p>\n

618
\n00:39:22,880 –> 00:39:28,280
\nWe’ll come down to verse 19.
\nThe revenger of blood himself <\/p>\n

619
\n00:39:28,880 –> 00:39:30,960
\nshall slay the murderer when he
\nmeteth him. <\/p>\n

620
\n00:39:30,960 –> 00:39:36,680
\nHe shall slay him.
\nBut if he thrust him of hatred <\/p>\n

621
\n00:39:36,680 –> 00:39:39,320
\nor hurled him by lying of
\nweight, that he’d die, or in <\/p>\n

622
\n00:39:39,320 –> 00:39:41,160
\nenmity smite him with his hand,
\nthat he’d die. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:39:41,400 –> 00:39:43,480
\nHe that smote him shall surely
\nbe put to death. <\/p>\n

624
\n00:39:43,480 –> 00:39:45,960
\nSo you can’t do it for revenge,
\nOK? <\/p>\n

625
\n00:39:46,480 –> 00:39:49,560
\nFor he, for personal revenge,
\nfor he is a murderer. <\/p>\n

626
\n00:39:50,000 –> 00:39:53,040
\nThe revenger of blood shall slay
\nthe murderer when he meteth him,<\/p>\n

627
\n00:39:54,120 –> 00:39:57,080
\nbut if he thrust him suddenly
\nwithout enmity, or have cast <\/p>\n

628
\n00:39:57,080 –> 00:39:59,600
\nupon him anything without lying
\nof weight, or with any stone, <\/p>\n

629
\n00:39:59,600 –> 00:40:02,320
\netcetera, etcetera, then there’s
\ngot to be a judgement made. <\/p>\n

630
\n00:40:03,840 –> 00:40:07,680
\nCome down to verse 31.
\nThere’s lots of conditions put <\/p>\n

631
\n00:40:07,680 –> 00:40:12,960
\nhere, but look at this one here.
\nMoreover, you shall take no <\/p>\n

632
\n00:40:13,000 –> 00:40:17,880
\nsatisfaction for the life of a
\nmurderer which is guilty of <\/p>\n

633
\n00:40:17,880 –> 00:40:20,720
\ndeath, but he shall be surely
\nput to death. <\/p>\n

634
\n00:40:21,160 –> 00:40:23,880
\nAnd you shall take no
\nsatisfaction for him that is <\/p>\n

635
\n00:40:23,880 –> 00:40:26,400
\nfled to the city of his refuge,
\nthat he should come again to <\/p>\n

636
\n00:40:26,400 –> 00:40:28,600
\ndwell in the land until the
\ndeath of the priest. <\/p>\n

637
\n00:40:29,280 –> 00:40:30,880
\nSo there was to be no
\nsatisfaction. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:40:30,880 –> 00:40:35,200
\nIn other words, no money taken,
\nno monetary reward. <\/p>\n

639
\n00:40:35,520 –> 00:40:38,320
\nYou, you can’t do that.
\nAnd that’s what the Gibeonites <\/p>\n

640
\n00:40:38,320 –> 00:40:40,040
\nsay.
\nWe, we don’t want any money <\/p>\n

641
\n00:40:40,320 –> 00:40:42,640
\ninvolved in this.
\nThere’s no personal satisfaction<\/p>\n

642
\n00:40:42,880 –> 00:40:45,680
\nin monetary terms.
\nAnd in verse 33. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:40:45,680 –> 00:40:49,240
\nSo you shall not pollute the
\nland wherein you wherein you <\/p>\n

644
\n00:40:49,240 –> 00:40:52,080
\nare.
\nFor blood it defileth the land. <\/p>\n

645
\n00:40:52,480 –> 00:40:54,680
\nAnd the land cannot be cleansed
\nof the blood that he shed <\/p>\n

646
\n00:40:54,680 –> 00:40:57,280
\ntherein, but by the blood of him
\nthat shed it. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:40:59,080 –> 00:41:03,640
\nThe land cannot be cleansed but
\nby the blood of him that shed <\/p>\n

648
\n00:41:03,640 –> 00:41:04,840
\nit.
\nAnd who shed it? <\/p>\n

649
\n00:41:05,080 –> 00:41:08,920
\nIt was Saul and his sons.
\nThey were the ones that shed it.<\/p>\n

650
\n00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:11,960
\nSo they are the ones that must
\nbe put to death. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:41:18,400 –> 00:41:20,680
\nNow what do I say?
\nSaul and his sons? <\/p>\n

652
\n00:41:21,520 –> 00:41:24,720
\nWell, look at verse 6.
\nCome back to Second Samuel 21. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:41:26,120 –> 00:41:27,360
\nThe Gibby Knights have done
\ntheir homework. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:41:27,360 –> 00:41:29,560
\nThey tell Saul they understand.
\nNumbers 35. <\/p>\n

655
\n00:41:29,560 –> 00:41:31,560
\nThis is how it has to happen.
\nIt’s not for us to do it. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:41:31,560 –> 00:41:34,960
\nYou have to do it.
\nAnd so David says, what is it <\/p>\n

657
\n00:41:35,240 –> 00:41:41,320
\nthat I have to do?
\nVerse 6, Let seven men of his <\/p>\n

658
\n00:41:41,320 –> 00:41:46,320
\nsons be delivered unto us, seven
\nmen of his son, so seven sons of<\/p>\n

659
\n00:41:46,320 –> 00:41:48,080
\nSaul.
\nSaul of course is already dead, <\/p>\n

660
\n00:41:48,080 –> 00:41:51,280
\nso they can’t use Saul, but
\nseven sons. <\/p>\n

661
\n00:41:53,760 –> 00:41:57,600
\nSaul did the killing.
\nWell this is clearly telling us <\/p>\n

662
\n00:41:57,600 –> 00:42:00,480
\nbrothers and sisters that Saul’s
\nsons were involved. <\/p>\n

663
\n00:42:01,880 –> 00:42:04,880
\nDeuteronomy 24, which the
\nGibeonites would have known, it <\/p>\n

664
\n00:42:04,880 –> 00:42:07,640
\nsays in verse 16, the fathers
\nshall not be put to death for <\/p>\n

665
\n00:42:07,640 –> 00:42:10,160
\nthe children’s sin, and the
\nchildren would not be put to <\/p>\n

666
\n00:42:10,160 –> 00:42:12,880
\ndeath for the fathers sin.
\nSo clearly these sons were <\/p>\n

667
\n00:42:12,880 –> 00:42:16,280
\ninvolved.
\nSaul had made them officers and <\/p>\n

668
\n00:42:16,280 –> 00:42:19,880
\njudges in his, in his army and
\nsuch like. <\/p>\n

669
\n00:42:20,040 –> 00:42:22,760
\nAnd, and clearly they were the
\nexecutioners as well. <\/p>\n

670
\n00:42:24,400 –> 00:42:29,200
\nAnd so these Gibeonites asked
\nfor seven of those sons. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:42:29,200 –> 00:42:30,920
\nAnd you say 7.
\nWell, that that seems quite a <\/p>\n

672
\n00:42:30,920 –> 00:42:36,480
\nlot, 7, The number 7 comes up,
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:42:37,280 –> 00:42:41,960
\nThe Gibeonites asked for seven.
\nWhy 7? <\/p>\n

674
\n00:42:43,040 –> 00:42:46,640
\nSeven brothers and sisters,
\nquite clearly is the covenant <\/p>\n

675
\n00:42:46,640 –> 00:42:51,440
\nnumber, the number of the
\nAbrahamic covenant, and that’s <\/p>\n

676
\n00:42:51,440 –> 00:42:55,200
\nwhat’s being implored here.
\nThe Abrahamic covenant. <\/p>\n

677
\n00:42:55,400 –> 00:42:58,920
\nThere’s an additional feature
\nthat tells us that it is the <\/p>\n

678
\n00:42:58,920 –> 00:43:02,360
\nAbrahamic covenant.
\nWe’re not going to talk about <\/p>\n

679
\n00:43:02,360 –> 00:43:06,560
\nRispar in verse 10, but there’s
\nsomething that she does that <\/p>\n

680
\n00:43:06,560 –> 00:43:10,600
\ntakes your mind straight back to
\nGenesis 15 and the Abrahamic <\/p>\n

681
\n00:43:10,600 –> 00:43:13,560
\ncovenant.
\nNotice what she does in verse <\/p>\n

682
\n00:43:13,560 –> 00:43:16,040
\n10.
\nAfter these seven sons are <\/p>\n

683
\n00:43:16,040 –> 00:43:20,160
\nkilled, they’re hung.
\nIt says in verse 10, Rizpa, the <\/p>\n

684
\n00:43:20,160 –> 00:43:23,280
\ndaughter of Aya, took sackcloth
\nand spread it for her upon the <\/p>\n

685
\n00:43:23,280 –> 00:43:26,360
\nrock from the beginning of
\nharvest until water dropped upon<\/p>\n

686
\n00:43:26,600 –> 00:43:29,680
\nthem out of heaven, and suffered
\nneither the birds of the air to <\/p>\n

687
\n00:43:29,680 –> 00:43:32,240
\nrest on them by day nor the
\nbeasts of the fields by night. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:43:32,360 –> 00:43:37,040
\nShe kept the wild animals away.
\nThat’s exactly what Abraham does<\/p>\n

689
\n00:43:37,040 –> 00:43:42,200
\nback in Genesis 15 when making
\nthat covenant. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:43:43,440 –> 00:43:47,040
\nAnd seven times between Genesis
\n12 and 22, seven times God makes<\/p>\n

691
\n00:43:47,040 –> 00:43:50,800
\na covenant with Abraham. 7 is
\nthe covenant number. <\/p>\n

692
\n00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:55,720
\nAtonement can only be ratified
\non the basis of the Abrahamic <\/p>\n

693
\n00:43:55,720 –> 00:44:01,600
\ncovenant.
\nBrothers and sisters, you’ll <\/p>\n

694
\n00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:05,560
\nalso notice at the end of verse
\n9 that it says that it was done <\/p>\n

695
\n00:44:05,560 –> 00:44:07,680
\nin the beginning of barley
\nharvest. <\/p>\n

696
\n00:44:07,920 –> 00:44:11,240
\nThat’s Passover time.
\nThat’s an appropriate time. <\/p>\n

697
\n00:44:11,560 –> 00:44:15,800
\nPassover, you got the number
\nseven, you got the keeping of <\/p>\n

698
\n00:44:15,800 –> 00:44:20,280
\nthe birds and the beasts away.
\nYou got Passover time and then <\/p>\n

699
\n00:44:20,280 –> 00:44:26,440
\nyou’ve got hanging, these men
\nhanging, hanging. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:44:26,600 –> 00:44:28,800
\nWhether it was on the cross or
\nwhether it was hanging off a <\/p>\n

701
\n00:44:28,800 –> 00:44:31,400
\npiece of wood, we, we don’t
\nparticularly know, but they were<\/p>\n

702
\n00:44:31,400 –> 00:44:37,000
\nhung, hanging on a piece of
\nwood. 4 things telling you that <\/p>\n

703
\n00:44:37,000 –> 00:44:41,840
\nthis is the Abrahamic covenant.
\nThe Gibeonites understood the <\/p>\n

704
\n00:44:41,840 –> 00:44:49,280
\nprinciples of atonement and
\nthese seven were were were taken<\/p>\n

705
\n00:44:49,600 –> 00:44:54,640
\nand in verse 9 they were hanged
\nbefore Yahweh right in front of <\/p>\n

706
\n00:44:54,640 –> 00:45:01,320
\nYahweh.
\nIt was done as a declaration of <\/p>\n

707
\n00:45:01,400 –> 00:45:04,240
\nwhat has to happen to atone for
\nsin. <\/p>\n

708
\n00:45:07,680 –> 00:45:09,480
\nAnd that’s what we’ve come to
\nremember this morning, brothers <\/p>\n

709
\n00:45:09,480 –> 00:45:16,040
\nand sisters.
\nWe’ve come to remember the one <\/p>\n

710
\n00:45:16,720 –> 00:45:21,960
\nwho on Golgotha was hung on a
\ncross to ratify the Abrahamic <\/p>\n

711
\n00:45:21,960 –> 00:45:26,920
\ncovenant that was made to
\nAbraham all those years ago. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:45:26,960 –> 00:45:32,080
\nBut God saw that as binding.
\nIt doesn’t change. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:45:32,080 –> 00:45:34,760
\nOur first two hymns talk about
\nGod never changing. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:45:35,200 –> 00:45:39,160
\nGreat is thy faithfulness, thou
\nwho never changes. <\/p>\n

715
\n00:45:39,560 –> 00:45:43,200
\nGod has a covenant, brothers and
\nsisters, that we can be a part <\/p>\n

716
\n00:45:43,200 –> 00:45:46,400
\nof.
\nI think it’s the most <\/p>\n

717
\n00:45:46,480 –> 00:45:52,080
\nincredible, wonderful story,
\nthis story of the Gibeonites and<\/p>\n

718
\n00:45:52,080 –> 00:45:55,560
\nhow they changed.
\nIt’s never too late to change, <\/p>\n

719
\n00:45:55,560 –> 00:45:59,720
\nis it?
\nI just want to finish, Brothers <\/p>\n

720
\n00:45:59,720 –> 00:46:05,400
\nand Sisters, by just showing you
\nwhere these Gibeonites end up, <\/p>\n

721
\n00:46:06,480 –> 00:46:10,760
\njust just to show you that they
\nstayed faithful for hundreds of <\/p>\n

722
\n00:46:10,760 –> 00:46:14,680
\nyears.
\nYou come across to Ezra chapter <\/p>\n

723
\n00:46:14,680 –> 00:46:17,560
\n8, but we’ll leave the story in
\nSecond Samuel 21. <\/p>\n

724
\n00:46:17,560 –> 00:46:20,840
\nI think we’ve got enough to know
\nwhat the Gibby Nights were about<\/p>\n

725
\n00:46:20,840 –> 00:46:23,560
\nin that story and how faithful
\nthey were and how they <\/p>\n

726
\n00:46:23,560 –> 00:46:26,520
\nunderstood the principles of
\natonement and how they <\/p>\n

727
\n00:46:26,520 –> 00:46:30,960
\ntransformed from being sin
\nschemers to being the ones who <\/p>\n

728
\n00:46:31,000 –> 00:46:36,840
\nunderstood how to overcome sin.
\nAnd so many years pass by <\/p>\n

729
\n00:46:36,840 –> 00:46:40,960
\nbrothers and sisters, and they
\ngo into captivity and they come <\/p>\n

730
\n00:46:40,960 –> 00:46:43,160
\nback.
\nThey come back under the rubber <\/p>\n

731
\n00:46:43,160 –> 00:46:45,760
\nball, first of all, and then
\nthey’re going to come back under<\/p>\n

732
\n00:46:45,840 –> 00:46:49,640
\nEzra.
\nBut Ezra has a problem in Ezra <\/p>\n

733
\n00:46:49,640 –> 00:46:55,280
\nchapter 8 because he gets in
\nverse 15 of Ezra chapter 8 to a <\/p>\n

734
\n00:46:55,280 –> 00:47:00,760
\nplace called Ahava.
\nAnd it says in verse 15 I gather<\/p>\n

735
\n00:47:00,760 –> 00:47:03,240
\nthem together to the river that
\nrunneth to a harbor and their <\/p>\n

736
\n00:47:03,240 –> 00:47:07,400
\nabode wee intense 3 days.
\nAnd I viewed the people and I <\/p>\n

737
\n00:47:07,400 –> 00:47:10,520
\nfound none of the sons of Levi.
\nRemember those Levites, the <\/p>\n

738
\n00:47:10,520 –> 00:47:14,000
\nteachers of the nation, the ones
\nwho were instrumental in making <\/p>\n

739
\n00:47:14,000 –> 00:47:17,160
\nsure people understood what
\ntemple service was all about. <\/p>\n

740
\n00:47:17,160 –> 00:47:20,680
\nHere’s Ezra coming back to a
\ntemple that’s just been built. <\/p>\n

741
\n00:47:21,280 –> 00:47:24,280
\nI need Levites.
\nIt won’t work unless I have <\/p>\n

742
\n00:47:24,280 –> 00:47:26,920
\nLevites with me.
\nWe have to stop. <\/p>\n

743
\n00:47:27,280 –> 00:47:30,360
\nWe need some Levites.
\nHow does he find these Levites? <\/p>\n

744
\n00:47:30,360 –> 00:47:33,280
\nBrothers and sisters?
\nWho’s the man that he chooses to<\/p>\n

745
\n00:47:33,280 –> 00:47:35,480
\nfind out?
\nLevites who would understand <\/p>\n

746
\n00:47:35,480 –> 00:47:37,280
\nthis principle more than anyone
\nelse. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:47:38,360 –> 00:47:43,280
\nWe’ll have a look at verse 16.
\nIt says that I sent for Eliezer,<\/p>\n

748
\n00:47:43,360 –> 00:47:45,640
\nfor Ariel, for Shamaya, for El
\nNathan. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:47:45,640 –> 00:47:48,880
\nThere’s seven men here, 7 very
\nimportant men. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:47:49,520 –> 00:47:51,200
\nOK, They’re men of
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n

751
\n00:47:51,200 –> 00:47:53,240
\nAt the end of verse 16, These
\nseven men. <\/p>\n

752
\n00:47:53,960 –> 00:47:56,800
\nAnd he sent them to one
\nparticular man. <\/p>\n

753
\n00:47:56,960 –> 00:48:00,040
\nI need you to go and see this
\nman, and ask him to find <\/p>\n

754
\n00:48:00,040 –> 00:48:01,680
\nLevites.
\nWho was this man? <\/p>\n

755
\n00:48:02,280 –> 00:48:08,760
\nVerse 17 And I sent them with
\ncommandment unto Ito the chief, <\/p>\n

756
\n00:48:08,880 –> 00:48:11,360
\nat the palace, at the Place Casa
\nfire. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:48:11,800 –> 00:48:14,720
\nAnd I told them what they should
\nsay unto Ito. <\/p>\n

758
\n00:48:14,720 –> 00:48:20,120
\nSo this is this man Ito, and to
\nhis brethren the Nethanim. <\/p>\n

759
\n00:48:21,000 –> 00:48:23,800
\nNow I haven’t mentioned it up
\nuntil now, but the Gibeonites <\/p>\n

760
\n00:48:23,800 –> 00:48:29,400
\nhad two names.
\nThe Gibeonites were also called <\/p>\n

761
\n00:48:29,680 –> 00:48:34,720
\nthe Nethanim and back in Joshua
\nChapter 9, the word nethanim is <\/p>\n

762
\n00:48:34,720 –> 00:48:37,920
\nused at the end of that chapter
\nbecause the word nethanim means <\/p>\n

763
\n00:48:37,920 –> 00:48:41,480
\nto give comes from Nathan Natan
\nto give. <\/p>\n

764
\n00:48:41,480 –> 00:48:45,160
\nSo nethanim is the given ones
\nand they were given to the House<\/p>\n

765
\n00:48:45,160 –> 00:48:47,040
\nof God.
\nDo you know what? <\/p>\n

766
\n00:48:47,040 –> 00:48:51,960
\nThey stayed faithful all through
\nIsrael’s history, even in <\/p>\n

767
\n00:48:51,960 –> 00:48:54,880
\ncaptivity.
\nGo and speak to Ito the <\/p>\n

768
\n00:48:54,920 –> 00:48:57,240
\nGibeonite.
\nHe’ll know what to do. <\/p>\n

769
\n00:48:57,240 –> 00:49:02,440
\nHe’ll find you some Levites.
\nDo you know brothers and <\/p>\n

770
\n00:49:02,440 –> 00:49:04,320
\nsisters, Ito does find
\nGibeonites. <\/p>\n

771
\n00:49:04,320 –> 00:49:07,480
\nHe does Levites.
\nI should say he does. <\/p>\n

772
\n00:49:07,480 –> 00:49:11,000
\nHe finds 38.
\nYou’ll see at the end of verse <\/p>\n

773
\n00:49:11,040 –> 00:49:18,000
\n18, he finds 18 Levites from the
\nfamily of Mali. <\/p>\n

774
\n00:49:18,840 –> 00:49:24,080
\nAnd then in verse 19 he finds 20
\nmore Levites from the family of <\/p>\n

775
\n00:49:24,160 –> 00:49:27,560
\nof of Mararai from the family,
\nthe Levitical family of Mararai.<\/p>\n

776
\n00:49:30,560 –> 00:49:34,520
\nBut you know that in addition to
\nthose 38 Levites, brothers and <\/p>\n

777
\n00:49:34,520 –> 00:49:39,280
\nsisters, it says in verse 20
\nalso of the Nethanim, the <\/p>\n

778
\n00:49:39,360 –> 00:49:42,600
\nGibeonites, whom David and the
\nPrincess had appointed for the <\/p>\n

779
\n00:49:42,600 –> 00:49:48,720
\nservice of the Levites.
\nHe also found 220 gibbonites <\/p>\n

780
\n00:49:48,880 –> 00:49:51,440
\nNethanim.
\nThat’s remarkable. <\/p>\n

781
\n00:49:51,920 –> 00:49:56,160
\nThe Gibeonites ended up being
\nmore faithful than the Levites, <\/p>\n

782
\n00:49:56,800 –> 00:50:01,680
\nand more came back of the
\nNethanim than what came back of <\/p>\n

783
\n00:50:01,680 –> 00:50:04,040
\nthe Levites.
\nIsn’t that just remarkable, <\/p>\n

784
\n00:50:04,080 –> 00:50:11,000
\nbrothers and sisters?
\nHow that story so so so so <\/p>\n

785
\n00:50:11,000 –> 00:50:14,680
\ndisastrous back in Genesis 34
\nhas this wonderful turn around <\/p>\n

786
\n00:50:15,120 –> 00:50:18,240
\nso that by the time of the end
\nof the story we find these <\/p>\n

787
\n00:50:18,240 –> 00:50:22,360
\nfaithful nethanim going back to
\nhelp in temple service. <\/p>\n

788
\n00:50:23,920 –> 00:50:26,680
\nBut of course we now brothers
\nand sisters, come to remember <\/p>\n

789
\n00:50:27,080 –> 00:50:36,520
\nour Lord Jesus Christ.
\nWe’re told in Mark’s Gospel that<\/p>\n

790
\n00:50:37,320 –> 00:50:40,400
\nthe disciples were told to
\nprepare an upper room. <\/p>\n

791
\n00:50:40,400 –> 00:50:43,200
\nThey were told that they would
\nknow where to go because they <\/p>\n

792
\n00:50:43,240 –> 00:50:47,360
\nwould find a man bearing a
\npitcher of water. <\/p>\n

793
\n00:50:47,360 –> 00:50:49,560
\nThat’s quite a remarkable thing.
\nNormally the women did that. <\/p>\n

794
\n00:50:49,560 –> 00:50:52,240
\nSo this man must have been one
\nof these. <\/p>\n

795
\n00:50:52,240 –> 00:50:54,960
\nNathanim, you wouldn’t find men
\ncarrying a pitcher of water <\/p>\n

796
\n00:50:55,000 –> 00:50:58,960
\nnecessarily unless he was a
\ndescendant of these gibeonite. <\/p>\n

797
\n00:50:58,960 –> 00:51:01,840
\nShe was of wood and drawers of
\nwater, remember? <\/p>\n

798
\n00:51:03,440 –> 00:51:06,680
\nBut the important thing to note
\nis that what did Christ do with <\/p>\n

799
\n00:51:06,680 –> 00:51:11,680
\nthat water?
\nHe drew it out and washed the <\/p>\n

800
\n00:51:11,680 –> 00:51:15,960
\ndisciples feet.
\nThe Lord Jesus Christ is acting <\/p>\n

801
\n00:51:16,000 –> 00:51:19,160
\nas a Gideon.
\nHe’s acting as the nethanim. <\/p>\n

802
\n00:51:19,400 –> 00:51:22,880
\nHe drew out that water and
\nwashed the disciples feet. <\/p>\n

803
\n00:51:23,600 –> 00:51:27,400
\nAnd then just a few hours later
\nhe was going to carry a lump of <\/p>\n

804
\n00:51:27,400 –> 00:51:31,200
\nwood.
\nHe was going to carry his cross,<\/p>\n

805
\n00:51:31,200 –> 00:51:35,960
\nthis large piece of wood, to put
\nit in the ground to be hung on <\/p>\n

806
\n00:51:35,960 –> 00:51:40,360
\nthat, so that by his blood
\nsacrifice, brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n

807
\n00:51:40,720 –> 00:51:43,920
\nwe all could share in the
\natonement for sin. <\/p>\n

808
\n00:51:45,120 –> 00:51:50,280
\nHis offering can only affect us
\nif we accept him, if we accept <\/p>\n

809
\n00:51:50,280 –> 00:51:52,520
\nhim as the one who can make
\natonement. <\/p>\n

810
\n00:51:52,840 –> 00:51:55,160
\nThe greater than David, we can’t
\ndo anything, can we? <\/p>\n

811
\n00:51:55,160 –> 00:51:59,320
\nBrothers and sisters?
\nHere’s the nephanim seen in the <\/p>\n

812
\n00:51:59,320 –> 00:52:02,960
\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nAnd brothers and sisters, we <\/p>\n

813
\n00:52:02,960 –> 00:52:06,360
\ncan’t be Levites.
\nLiterally, we are not of the <\/p>\n

814
\n00:52:06,360 –> 00:52:11,320
\nfamily of the Levites, but we
\ncan be spiritual Levites and <\/p>\n

815
\n00:52:11,320 –> 00:52:13,440
\nfollow in the footsteps of the
\nGibbon. <\/p>\n

816
\n00:52:13,440 –> 00:52:16,320
\nThey were the spiritual Levites
\nfrom the Gentiles, Brothers and <\/p>\n

817
\n00:52:16,320 –> 00:52:18,840
\nsisters.
\nAnd our greatest example, the <\/p>\n

818
\n00:52:18,840 –> 00:52:22,040
\nLord Jesus Christ, the greatest
\nnethanim, is the one that we <\/p>\n

819
\n00:52:22,040 –> 00:52:25,640
\nshould leave this place desiring
\nto follow, because He’s the one <\/p>\n

820
\n00:52:25,960 –> 00:52:31,320
\nthat can help us overcome sin.
\nHello, this is brother Chris <\/p>\n

821
\n00:52:31,320 –> 00:52:33,800
\nagain.
\nBefore we finish, I wanted to <\/p>\n

822
\n00:52:33,800 –> 00:52:36,040
\nclarify something that was
\nmentioned near the end of <\/p>\n

823
\n00:52:36,040 –> 00:52:39,880
\nbrother Steve’s talk regarding
\nJoshua Chapter 9 verse 27 that <\/p>\n

824
\n00:52:39,880 –> 00:52:42,120
\nhe mentioned when he was looking
\nat Ezra. <\/p>\n

825
\n00:52:43,120 –> 00:52:45,280
\nBut Steve had asked that we
\nclarify in there. <\/p>\n

826
\n00:52:45,280 –> 00:52:49,120
\nHe mentions the idea that the
\nword nothing him is mentioned in<\/p>\n

827
\n00:52:49,120 –> 00:52:51,760
\nJoshua Chapter 9 verse 27, and
\nyou might have caught it if you <\/p>\n

828
\n00:52:51,760 –> 00:52:54,080
\nwere following along with the
\nclass. <\/p>\n

829
\n00:52:54,440 –> 00:52:58,320
\nBut if not, the idea behind it
\nis the word in Joshua Chapter 9 <\/p>\n

830
\n00:52:58,320 –> 00:53:02,040
\nverse 27 where it talks about he
\nmade them or gave them. <\/p>\n

831
\n00:53:02,280 –> 00:53:05,400
\nThat’s the same Hebrew word as
\nnethadim if you’re looking at <\/p>\n

832
\n00:53:05,400 –> 00:53:08,320
\nthe King James Version.
\nSo the key point in the idea <\/p>\n

833
\n00:53:08,320 –> 00:53:11,760
\nbehind the Nethadim still stands
\nand becomes an interesting <\/p>\n

834
\n00:53:11,880 –> 00:53:15,440
\nlittle idea that the casual
\nphrase used to mention as the <\/p>\n

835
\n00:53:15,440 –> 00:53:18,000
\nGibeonites were being that they
\nwere given to the Levites <\/p>\n

836
\n00:53:18,000 –> 00:53:20,880
\ninstead turned into the name
\nthat they were actually given <\/p>\n

837
\n00:53:20,880 –> 00:53:23,960
\nand what they were referred to
\nas and was shaping their <\/p>\n

838
\n00:53:23,960 –> 00:53:26,520
\nidentity.
\nSo I just wanted to make that <\/p>\n

839
\n00:53:26,680 –> 00:53:28,320
\npoint.
\nBrother Steve had asked when I <\/p>\n

840
\n00:53:28,320 –> 00:53:30,720
\nasked his permission to share
\nthis class that we highlight <\/p>\n

841
\n00:53:30,720 –> 00:53:33,240
\nthat just because it was some
\nfeedback that he got when he <\/p>\n

842
\n00:53:33,240 –> 00:53:36,200
\ngave this expectation live and
\nit helped to clarify some <\/p>\n

843
\n00:53:36,200 –> 00:53:38,640
\nthings, what he was referring to
\nwhen he talked about Joshua <\/p>\n

844
\n00:53:38,640 –> 00:53:42,080
\nChapter 9, verse 27.
\nSo with that, I’ll turn it back <\/p>\n

845
\n00:53:42,080 –> 00:53:44,520
\nover to myself for our usual
\nclosing. <\/p>\n

846
\n00:53:59,080 –> 00:54:01,200
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864
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865
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