{"id":1485,"date":"2026-05-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/399-ben-hole-jephthah\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:50:52","slug":"399-ben-hole-jephthah","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/399-ben-hole-jephthah\/","title":{"rendered":"399: Ben Hole – Jephthah"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is from a Bible Class by Brother Ben Hole on the subject of Jephthah, which was given at the East Coventry Ecclesia in the UK in 2024.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to Good Christophian
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\nthis week’s talk.
\nHello and welcome back. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is Brother Chris for this
\nweek. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re listening to a Bible class
\nthat was given by Brother Ben <\/p>\n

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\nHole at the East Coventry
\nEcclesia in the UK in November <\/p>\n

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\nof 2024.
\nAnd the subject of this that <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Ben is looking at is the
\nstory of Jephta. <\/p>\n

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\nThis was sent in as a
\nrecommendation as a really <\/p>\n

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\ncomprehensive look at the idea
\nof the story of Jephta and the <\/p>\n

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\ndifferent symbolisms and lessons
\nand meaning behind everything <\/p>\n

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\nthat happened in that story and
\njudges. <\/p>\n

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\nNow it has surface level, the
\nstory of Jephta can almost seem <\/p>\n

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\nto be a bit of a weird one.
\nSometimes it can even be used as<\/p>\n

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\nan example of human sacrifice.
\nBut Brother Ben does a really <\/p>\n

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\ngreat job at looking at all the
\nnuance and all the symbolism and<\/p>\n

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\nall the lessons and the biblical
\nprinciples behind the story of <\/p>\n

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\nJephta.
\nI myself have also done studying<\/p>\n

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\non the story of Jephta.
\nI’ve done an expectation on it <\/p>\n

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\nand I found that Brother Ben hit
\ntopics and ideas that I’ve never<\/p>\n

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\nheard of before and to me is one
\nof the more comprehensive <\/p>\n

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\napproaches to this story that
\nI’ve heard in a really long <\/p>\n

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\ntime.
\nSo I found it to be a really <\/p>\n

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\nencouraging one, A fantastic
\nlisten. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Ben does a great job of
\nputting this all together. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I am really excited to be
\nable to share this with you and <\/p>\n

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\nhopefully you find it to be as
\nencouraging and also kind of eye<\/p>\n

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\nopening and all the different
\nlessons and things that we can <\/p>\n

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\nfind from the story of Jephta.
\nSo with that, I will turn it <\/p>\n

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\nover to our brother Ben Hole for
\nhis class on Jephta. <\/p>\n

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\nWe want to consider then the
\nrecord of this judge chapter. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s a few key questions that
\nwe want to answer as we go <\/p>\n

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\nthrough.
\nWhen we when we read through <\/p>\n

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\nthis, this record, it’s quite
\nunusual. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s quite unique in the way
\nthat it’s presented and it’s <\/p>\n

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\nquite unusual in the way it’s
\npresented because the elements <\/p>\n

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\nthat are focused on aren’t
\nnecessarily the elements that we<\/p>\n

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\nwould expect.
\nSo we, we’ve read the end of, of<\/p>\n

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\nJudges 10 because that
\nintroduces the, the, the scene, <\/p>\n

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\nI guess, of, of what’s about to
\nhappen. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd Judges 11 then deals with
\nthe life of Jephthah or the, <\/p>\n

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\nthe, the incident in which
\nJephthah intervenes. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so we’ll, we’ll go through
\nthat through the course of the <\/p>\n

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\nevening.
\nBut, but as the scene has been <\/p>\n

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\nset at the end of Judges Chapter
\n10, there is a big battle <\/p>\n

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\nbrewing.
\nThat’s what’s happening. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we, we have the Ammonites
\nincamped against the Israelites.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd then the, the, the people
\nare, are asking for a leader. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, how are we going to fight
\nthis battle? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so it looks like that the
\nbuilder is building us all up to<\/p>\n

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\nthis great battle.
\nAnd yet when we get to Judges <\/p>\n

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\nChapter 11, we’ve got 40 verses
\nthat detail what Jepfa does. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd, and two of those are about
\nthe battle. <\/p>\n

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\nThe rest are about Jepfa’s
\nbackground, his selection as the<\/p>\n

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\nleader by the elders of Gilead,
\nthe conversation in essence, <\/p>\n

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\nthat he has with the King of
\nHaman, and then his vow that he <\/p>\n

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\nmakes.
\nAnd so having set the scene that<\/p>\n

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\nthere’s this big battle about to
\ntake place, that’s not the focus<\/p>\n

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\nat all of what Jephthah is
\npresented doing in the record. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd So what we want to to
\nconsider this evening as well. <\/p>\n

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\nWhy is Jachter presented to us?
\nAnd we’ll consider this in a <\/p>\n

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\nsecond.
\nWhy is Jachter presented to us <\/p>\n

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\nas an outcast of the people?
\nWe want to consider Why is <\/p>\n

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\nJachter’s main focus on the
\ndialogue that he has with the <\/p>\n

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\nKing of Amman and rather than
\nthe battle? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then we want to consider,
\nwell, what’s this vow all about?<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the most controversial
\ncharacters for that very reason <\/p>\n

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\nthat that divides opinion and
\nhas done for many years. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat is the vow all about?
\nDid he sacrifice his daughter or<\/p>\n

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\nnot?
\nSo those are the, the, the <\/p>\n

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\nquestions that we want to answer
\nover the course of this evening <\/p>\n

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\njust to I guess set the scene a
\nlittle bit a little bit more. <\/p>\n

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\nSo so we’re chronologically
\nwe’re about 3\/4 the way through <\/p>\n

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\nthe book of judges now.
\nAnd in fact, this is one of the <\/p>\n

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\nonly judges that we are able to
\nput a specific time marker down.<\/p>\n

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\nWe’re given a specific time
\nmarker in Judges Chapter 11, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich we’re going to consider in
\na moment. <\/p>\n

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\nBut but this is about 3\/4 the
\nway through the book of Judges <\/p>\n

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\nchronologically.
\nAnd, and what’s happening now is<\/p>\n

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\nthe children of Israel go
\nthrough that cycle that they go <\/p>\n

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\nthrough so regularly through the
\nbook of Judges and they fall <\/p>\n

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\ninto sin, don’t they?
\nSo that’s where we started in <\/p>\n

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\nverse 6.
\nAnd there’s that long list of <\/p>\n

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\nthe gods that they begin to
\nserve. <\/p>\n

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\nThey live in Ashtaroth and the
\nSyrian gods and the Zeidonian <\/p>\n

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\ngods and the Moabite gods and,
\nand the the list continues. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s the gods of all the
\nnations around them that they <\/p>\n

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\nare worshipping now and this
\ntime that they are sold into the<\/p>\n

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\nhands of the Philistines first
\nand then of the Ammonites. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s the Ammonites who will
\ntake centre stage as Israel’s <\/p>\n

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\nopponents in this incident.
\nAnd so that there is 18 years of<\/p>\n

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\noppression on the other side,
\nJordan on the east side of <\/p>\n

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\nJordan.
\nBut the narrative really begins <\/p>\n

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\nwhen when the Ammonites then
\ncross the Jordan and begin to <\/p>\n

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\nattempt to take the land of
\nJudah and Benjamin and the House<\/p>\n

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\nof Efraim.
\nAnd that’s verse 9. <\/p>\n

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\nThe children of Amman passed
\nover Judah to to Benjamin and <\/p>\n

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\nEfraim and and the House of
\nIsrael was sore distressed. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we need to consider for a
\nmoment the the state of the <\/p>\n

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\npeople at this point.
\nThis is before there was a king <\/p>\n

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\nruling over them all.
\nThis is before they were a <\/p>\n

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\nunited people in that sense that
\nthey were a tribal people at <\/p>\n

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\nthis point.
\nSo they would have had localised<\/p>\n

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\nrulership, they would have had
\nruling families over over <\/p>\n

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\nparticular areas, they would
\nhave had regional and tribal <\/p>\n

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\nleadership in that sense.
\nAnd, and so, so these areas of <\/p>\n

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\nof Ephraim in particular is
\nwhere this is going to focus and<\/p>\n

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\nthe local leadership of that
\narea. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so the children of Israel in
\nthat area cried to God. <\/p>\n

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\nVerse 10, we have sinned against
\nthee. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s interesting that they
\ngive two confessions. <\/p>\n

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\nSo Judges 10, verse 10, we have
\nsinned against thee both because<\/p>\n

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\nwe are forsaken our God and also
\nsurvey them. <\/p>\n

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\nNow it’s important that that
\nthey make 2 confessions. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the reason it’s important
\nis, is because God’s response to<\/p>\n

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\nthem is unique, I think, to the
\nbook of Judges. <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s response to them on this
\noccasion is no, I will not come <\/p>\n

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\nto your aid.
\nAnd there’s a reason for that. <\/p>\n

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\nSo they cried to God, We have
\nsinned and now please help us. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd and God says in verse 11, I
\nhave done, I have delivered you <\/p>\n

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\nfrom the Egyptians, from the
\nAmorites, from the Ammonites and<\/p>\n

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\nthe Philistines and the
\nSidonians and the Malachias and <\/p>\n

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\nthe Mayonites.
\nI’ve delivered you from all of <\/p>\n

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\nthem and and what when you cried
\nunto me, and yet you have still <\/p>\n

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\nserved of the gods.
\nAnd so verse 13, I will deliver <\/p>\n

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\nyou no more.
\nAnd so God, I, I think here it <\/p>\n

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\nis, is this is a a unique or at
\nleast an unusual response in the<\/p>\n

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\nbook of Judges.
\nThey cry to him and he says, no,<\/p>\n

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\nI will not help.
\nAnd the reason is, but they <\/p>\n

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\nhadn’t repented of both of their
\nsins. <\/p>\n

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\nSo they made two confessions,
\ndidn’t they? <\/p>\n

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\nWe are forsaken by God and also
\nserve Balaam. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd, and they’d repented of the
\nfirst, they were now crying to <\/p>\n

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\nGod.
\nAnd so they, they had realised <\/p>\n

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\nthat they, they, they had
\nforsaken God and and yet they <\/p>\n

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\nwere still serving the other
\ngods. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s, it’s in verse 16 that they
\nput away the strange gods and <\/p>\n

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\nserve the Lord.
\nAnd at that point, then at the <\/p>\n

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\nend of verse 16, his soul was
\ngrieved for the misery of <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael.
\nAnd so, so it’s only when they <\/p>\n

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\nrepent of both of those
\nconfessions that God then <\/p>\n

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\nresponds to them.
\nAnd, and there’s, there’s a <\/p>\n

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\nlesson in there for us, isn’t
\nthere? <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s a lesson in there for
\nus. <\/p>\n

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\nCrying to God is absolutely the
\nright thing to do. <\/p>\n

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\nBut if we think we can cry to
\nGod but continue in our own <\/p>\n

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\nways, then God’s response is, is
\nus here. <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s response is, well, if you
\nthink you can serve the other <\/p>\n

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\ngods, then cry unto them.
\nThat’s what he says. <\/p>\n

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\nCry to the gods that you have
\nchosen. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:13,120 –> 00:09:16,960
\nAnd yet once they put those
\nstrange gods away, well, then, <\/p>\n

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\nthen God will respond.
\nAnd so the, the people of Israel<\/p>\n

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\nthen or, or, or certainly the
\npeople in this local area were, <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:24,960 –> 00:09:29,080
\nwere perhaps struggling with
\ntheir faith even more than they <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:29,080 –> 00:09:30,960
\nhad in previous times in the
\nbook of Judges. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:30,960 –> 00:09:33,160
\nThey were finding it harder to
\nput those gods away from them. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:33,320 –> 00:09:36,040
\nAnd, and yet they get to that
\npoint, they get to that point <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:36,360 –> 00:09:39,480
\nand they are gathered together
\nready to go and fight this <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:39,480 –> 00:09:41,400
\nbattle and they look at each
\nother. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:43,040 –> 00:09:46,280
\nWho’s going to lead us?
\nThey are sheep without a <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:46,280 –> 00:09:48,760
\nshepherd, aren’t they?
\nVerse 18 What man is he that <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:48,760 –> 00:09:50,720
\nwill begin to fight against the
\nchildren of Ammon? <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:50,920 –> 00:09:55,600
\nNone of them are there ready and
\nable to go and lead that farce. <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:55,600 –> 00:09:58,480
\nThey had no leader, they had no
\ncaptain. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:00,160 –> 00:10:04,600
\nAnd so they say, whoever it is,
\nwhoever will step forward, he’ll<\/p>\n

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\nbe the head over all the
\ninhabitants of Gilead. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:08,880 –> 00:10:11,360
\nAnd so the, the way the
\nnarrative builds this up or <\/p>\n

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\nwho’s going to be our leader,
\nyou expect it to, to follow in <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:14,960 –> 00:10:16,960
\nwith, with this great
\nintroduction to, to who their <\/p>\n

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\nleader is going to be.
\nAnd, and, and yet what we’ve <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:20,800 –> 00:10:26,440
\ngiven is an outcast that the
\nnarrative builds up to this <\/p>\n

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\npoint where there’s this, this
\nbattle about to take place and, <\/p>\n

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\nand the people of Israel are
\nwithout a leader and they are <\/p>\n

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\nfacing defeat and they are led
\nto consider the man that they <\/p>\n

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\nhad cast out.
\nAnd I think in that we can start<\/p>\n

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\nto see a type of, of what’s
\ngoing on here, can’t we? <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:50,880 –> 00:10:54,160
\nA type of what will happen in
\nthe future when the children of <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:54,160 –> 00:11:00,040
\nIsrael are are gathered against
\na great invader who is coming <\/p>\n

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\nagainst their people and they
\nlook at each other and they have<\/p>\n

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\nno leader and they have no way
\nout. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:06,880 –> 00:11:12,040
\nAnd they will be led to consider
\nthe one whom they cast out as <\/p>\n

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\ntheir head.
\nAnd so how then are we <\/p>\n

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\nintroduced to Jachter?
\nThis was one of our questions, <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:16,040 –> 00:11:18,040
\nwasn’t it?
\nWhy are we introduced to Jachter<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:18,040 –> 00:11:21,240
\nas an outcast?
\nAnd, and having built up to this<\/p>\n

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\npoint where we we have this
\nrepentance and we have this <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:23,760 –> 00:11:25,040
\nbattle that’s about to take
\nplace. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:25,040 –> 00:11:27,960
\nWe then we then take a little
\npause as we head into Judges <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:27,960 –> 00:11:31,720
\nChapter 11 and the narrative
\ntakes a little break and we have<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:31,720 –> 00:11:35,360
\nsort of verses 1 to 3 is is in
\nparenthesis really and and takes<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:35,360 –> 00:11:38,560
\nus back in time to give us
\nJephthah’s background. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:39,400 –> 00:11:41,440
\nSo Judges 11 and the first 3
\nverses. <\/p>\n

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\nNow Jephthah, the Gileadite was
\na mighty man of valor. <\/p>\n

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\nHe was the son of an harlot,
\nGilead. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:47,480 –> 00:11:51,280
\nWe got Jephthah.
\nSo, so Gilead was his father. <\/p>\n

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\nHe was a Gileadite.
\nThey are in the area of Gilead. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:54,320 –> 00:11:58,040
\nAnd so we would suggest then
\nthat this is likely to have been<\/p>\n

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\nthe the ruling family, the chief
\nfamily of this local area, the <\/p>\n

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\nGileadites.
\nBut as two Gilead’s wife bare <\/p>\n

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\nhim sons, and his wife’s sons
\ngrew up, and they thrust out <\/p>\n

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\nJephthah and said, You shall not
\ninherit in our father’s house, <\/p>\n

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\nfor you are the son of a strange
\nwoman. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:16,240 –> 00:12:19,520
\nThen Jephthah fled from his
\nbrethren and dwelt in the land <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:19,520 –> 00:12:23,640
\nof and there were gathered vain
\nmen to Jephthah and went out <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:23,640 –> 00:12:25,880
\nwith him.
\nAnd so the narrative presents <\/p>\n

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\nthis man as the Saviour of the
\npeople, the son of an harlot <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:30,680 –> 00:12:33,680
\ncast out with vain men gathered
\nto him. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:34,600 –> 00:12:38,960
\nThis is the man on whom the
\nhopes of the nation would raise.<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:39,960 –> 00:12:41,880
\nSo why is he presented in this
\nway? <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:42,520 –> 00:12:46,160
\nWhy are we given this detail of
\nJephthah’s background? <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:46,160 –> 00:12:48,400
\nWhy not go straight into the
\nfact that he was selected? <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:48,400 –> 00:12:52,240
\nWhy are we given this context?
\nWell, I think we are LED in this<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:52,240 –> 00:12:56,960
\ncontext to see a number of types
\nagain. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:57,560 –> 00:13:02,240
\nOh, and and echoes as to who
\nJephthah is, who his family are,<\/p>\n

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\n00:13:02,400 –> 00:13:06,000
\nand who they represent from from
\nother areas of Scripture. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:06,160 –> 00:13:10,320
\nLet’s pick up first of all, that
\nthe fact that in verse 2, they <\/p>\n

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\nthrust out Jephthah because he
\nwas the son of a strange woman. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:18,120 –> 00:13:21,840
\nNow, now let’s consider an echo
\nhere. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:22,000 –> 00:13:27,680
\nWho was thrust out because they
\nwere the son of a strange woman.<\/p>\n

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\n00:13:28,800 –> 00:13:32,720
\nIf we come back to Genesis
\nchapter 21, I think we are led <\/p>\n

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\nto consider the comparison
\nbetween Ishmael and Isaac. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:37,960 –> 00:13:39,640
\nSo come back to Genesis chapter
\n21. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:41,880 –> 00:13:48,000
\nWe have the same word for thrust
\nout brought up again here in <\/p>\n

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\nGenesis 21 and verse 10.
\nAnd the context is the same as <\/p>\n

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\nwell.
\nImportantly, it’s not just the <\/p>\n

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\nsame word.
\nIt’s the same word in the same <\/p>\n

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\ncontext.
\nAnd so in in Genesis 21 and and <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:02,080 –> 00:14:09,000
\nwe we we know the narrative
\nIshmael had been born of Abraham<\/p>\n

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\nand Hagar, and yet the seed of
\npromise then had been born and <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:12,400 –> 00:14:15,720
\nIsaac had been born.
\nAnd yet the persecution begins, <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:15,720 –> 00:14:18,920
\ndoesn’t it?
\nIn verse 9 of Genesis 21, Sarah <\/p>\n

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\nsaw the son of Hagar the
\nEgyptian, which he had born unto<\/p>\n

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\nAbraham mocking.
\nAnd when that’s quoted in the <\/p>\n

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\nNew Testament, we know that that
\nis the beginning of the <\/p>\n

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\npersecution of Ishmael to Isaac.
\nAnd so Sarah says to Abraham, <\/p>\n

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\ncast out.
\nAnd that’s our same word for <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:35,720 –> 00:14:38,680
\nthrust, cast out this bondwoman
\nand her son. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:38,920 –> 00:14:43,320
\nFor the son of this bondwoman
\nshall not be heir with my son, <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:43,320 –> 00:14:46,640
\neven with Isaac.
\nAnd we can see the echo in the <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:46,640 –> 00:14:48,960
\nwords of Jephthah’s half
\nbrothers, can’t we? <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:49,280 –> 00:14:52,440
\nThey thrust out Jephthah.
\nThou shalt not inherit in our <\/p>\n

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\nfather’s house, for thou art the
\nson of a strange woman. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:56,120 –> 00:14:58,720
\nSo perhaps they, they knew their
\nBible. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:59,840 –> 00:15:03,880
\nPerhaps they thought that they
\nwere the seed of Isaac and that <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:03,880 –> 00:15:05,520
\nJephthah was the seed of
\nIshmael. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:06,320 –> 00:15:09,840
\nThrust out this woman and her
\nson. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:10,480 –> 00:15:13,800
\nFor she shall not be.
\nHe shall not be heir with my <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:13,800 –> 00:15:17,040
\nson, even with Isaac.
\nAnd Sarah’s words are confirmed <\/p>\n

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\nby God, aren’t they?
\nAs as prophetic words and and <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:21,320 –> 00:15:29,600
\nconfirmed as true and righteous?
\nAnd so we have this comparison, <\/p>\n

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\nI think presented, and we could
\nconsider the context a little <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:33,520 –> 00:15:36,640
\nwider as well that it fits.
\nAnd I think we’re presented with<\/p>\n

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\nthis idea that the Gilead’s sons
\nthought that they were, that the<\/p>\n

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\nseed of Isaac, they were the
\npromised seed, if you like, and <\/p>\n

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\nthat there was the opposite,
\nthat he was the seed of Ishmael.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd yet they, they had got the
\npoint wrong, that they had got <\/p>\n

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\nthe point wrong that that the
\ncalling was not of birth, but <\/p>\n

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\nwas of faith.
\nAnd that was the point that they<\/p>\n

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\nhad missed.
\nAnd so when we consider then <\/p>\n

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\nagain, this idea of someone
\nbeing cast out because they are <\/p>\n

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\naccused of being that the son of
\na strange woman, the whole <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:12,200 –> 00:16:15,600
\nnarrative of Ishmael and Isaac
\nis also picked up of Christ, <\/p>\n

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\nisn’t it?
\nIt’s the accusation of the <\/p>\n

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\nPharisees to to Christ.
\nSo you can drop Genesis 21. <\/p>\n

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\nNow come over to to John chapter
\n8. <\/p>\n

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\nExactly the same accusation is
\nlevelled against Christ in <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:29,480 –> 00:16:32,480
\nChrist to in fact uses it as a
\nteaching opportunity to teach <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:32,480 –> 00:16:35,800
\nthe lesson that the Pharisees
\nwere in fact the spiritual seed <\/p>\n

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\nof Ishmael, not the seed of
\neyes. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:37,960 –> 00:16:39,600
\nHe says yes, you are the
\nchildren of Abraham. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:39,600 –> 00:16:41,680
\nThat’s the whole point of what
\nJohn chapter 8 is all about. <\/p>\n

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\nYou are the children of Abraham,
\nYes, but you’re of Ishmael’s <\/p>\n

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\nlife spiritually, not of Isaac’s
\nlife. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd this, I think is the lesson
\nthat we’re being given in Judges<\/p>\n

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\nChapter 11.
\nSo John chapter 8, I said to go <\/p>\n

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\nto the whole narrative that’s
\ngoing on here is that the <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:58,960 –> 00:17:01,920
\nPharisees and the leaders of the
\npeople keep making this point <\/p>\n

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\nthat we are Abraham’s seed and
\nsort of subtext that’s not <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:07,119 –> 00:17:09,720
\nreally there.
\nAnd who are you is sort of the <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:09,839 –> 00:17:12,119
\nthe challenge that they’re
\nlevelling to Christ. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:13,160 –> 00:17:20,359
\nAnd they, they raise the tone of
\nthat challenge when they say in <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:20,359 –> 00:17:24,880
\nverse 41, let’s let’s go back to
\nthe context, verse 39. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:25,040 –> 00:17:28,040
\nThey’re making a point again for
\nthe 19th time, it seems in this <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:28,040 –> 00:17:29,760
\nchapter.
\nThey answered and said unto <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:29,840 –> 00:17:33,760
\nJesus, Abraham is our father.
\nJesus said if you were Abraham’s<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:33,760 –> 00:17:36,680
\nchildren, you would do the works
\nof Abraham, but you seek to kill<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:36,680 –> 00:17:39,760
\nme.
\nWho’s told you the truth which <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:39,760 –> 00:17:42,000
\nI’ve heard of God and this
\ndidn’t you know this did not <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:42,000 –> 00:17:45,600
\nAbraham ye do the deeds of your
\nfather and there we talk to him <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:45,600 –> 00:17:48,320
\nis we be not born of
\nfornication. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:48,840 –> 00:17:51,960
\nThat is the accusation that they
\nlevelled against Christ that he <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:51,960 –> 00:17:58,200
\nwas the son of a strange woman,
\nthat he was born of fornication.<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:59,000 –> 00:18:02,840
\nIt’s a challenge that they level
\nagainst him a couple of times. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:03,520 –> 00:18:06,920
\nAnd so Jesus uses the teaching
\nof Ishmael and Isaac and we <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:06,920 –> 00:18:08,840
\nwon’t go through all that now,
\nbut you can see it all the way <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:08,840 –> 00:18:13,080
\nthrough John chapter 8, verse 35
\nin particular is is where Christ<\/p>\n

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\n00:18:13,080 –> 00:18:16,240
\nis referencing Ishmael and Isaac
\nand he uses that same passage to<\/p>\n

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\n00:18:16,240 –> 00:18:18,440
\nto prove the point that they
\nwere of the seed of Ishmael and <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:18,440 –> 00:18:20,720
\nnot the seed of Isaac.
\nAnd so that’s I think is what’s <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:20,720 –> 00:18:23,880
\ngoing on with Jephthah here.
\nWe’re introduced to him in this <\/p>\n

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\nway as an outcast, the Sullivan
\nHarlan, the son of a strange <\/p>\n

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\nwoman, because he is counting
\nhis lineage in a spiritual <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:33,560 –> 00:18:38,120
\nsense, not a natural sense, and
\nyet his half brothers have <\/p>\n

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\nfailed to see that.
\nAnd so he flees to the land of <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:40,640 –> 00:18:41,960
\nTobe.
\nWhat does that mean? <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:41,960 –> 00:18:48,120
\nIt means good, quite simply.
\nAnd so here we have the good <\/p>\n

313
\n00:18:48,120 –> 00:18:55,320
\nseed gathered together, rejected
\nby the people of the world. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:57,880 –> 00:18:59,520
\nYeah, the question is still
\nthere, that they were gathered <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:59,520 –> 00:19:02,000
\nunto him, vain men.
\nSo we’re back in Judges Chapter <\/p>\n

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\n11 now.
\nAnd and in in verse three, they <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:04,320 –> 00:19:06,920
\nwere gathered vain men to
\nJephthah and went out with him. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:06,920 –> 00:19:09,640
\nAnd that sounds contrary to
\neverything we’ve just said, <\/p>\n

319
\n00:19:09,640 –> 00:19:13,440
\ndoesn’t it, that that they were
\nempty men. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:13,440 –> 00:19:15,520
\nWell, well, I don’t think that’s
\nthe case. <\/p>\n

321
\n00:19:15,720 –> 00:19:18,520
\nI think that it’s a misleading
\ntranslation to some degree. <\/p>\n

322
\n00:19:18,760 –> 00:19:22,120
\nSo if we actually flick over to
\nthe end of this narrative, which<\/p>\n

323
\n00:19:22,120 –> 00:19:29,400
\nis in chapter 12, and look at
\nverse 4, we’re given more detail<\/p>\n

324
\n00:19:29,400 –> 00:19:33,440
\nabout these men.
\nSo we’re jumping completely out <\/p>\n

325
\n00:19:33,440 –> 00:19:35,680
\nof chronology here.
\nBut after the battle, the men of<\/p>\n

326
\n00:19:35,720 –> 00:19:38,840
\nEphraim get a bit upset because
\nthey say, well, we weren’t <\/p>\n

327
\n00:19:38,840 –> 00:19:43,240
\ninvited to fight with you.
\nAnd Jeff says, well, actually I <\/p>\n

328
\n00:19:43,240 –> 00:19:45,280
\ndid invite you, but you didn’t
\nhelp. <\/p>\n

329
\n00:19:47,520 –> 00:19:52,040
\nAnd so I went with the men that
\nwere with me and God delivered <\/p>\n

330
\n00:19:52,040 –> 00:19:54,040
\nthe people into my hand.
\nAnd that’s, that’s Judges 12 <\/p>\n

331
\n00:19:54,040 –> 00:19:57,400
\nverses one to three, paraphrased
\nprobably quite awfully, but <\/p>\n

332
\n00:19:58,000 –> 00:19:59,360
\nthat’s effectively what’s going
\non. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:19:59,880 –> 00:20:02,560
\nAnd Jephthah says to the men of
\nEphraim, this is the, the local <\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:02,560 –> 00:20:05,040
\nregion they were in.
\nIn verse 4, Jephthah gathered <\/p>\n

335
\n00:20:05,040 –> 00:20:07,440
\ntogether all the men of Gilead
\nand fought with Ephraim. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:20:07,800 –> 00:20:11,520
\nAnd the men of Gilead smoked
\nEphraim because they said ye <\/p>\n

337
\n00:20:11,520 –> 00:20:13,960
\nGileadites are fugitives of
\nEphraim. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:20:15,280 –> 00:20:18,120
\nSo the men who were with
\nJephthah, the Gileadite, were <\/p>\n

339
\n00:20:18,120 –> 00:20:21,760
\nfugitives of Ephraim.
\nThey were fugitives among the <\/p>\n

340
\n00:20:21,880 –> 00:20:23,520
\nEphraimites and among them and
\nAssites. <\/p>\n

341
\n00:20:24,040 –> 00:20:26,800
\nAnd so the vain men that were
\ngathered unto Jephthah are the <\/p>\n

342
\n00:20:26,800 –> 00:20:28,360
\nsame men that are being spoken
\nof here. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:20:28,360 –> 00:20:33,520
\nThey’re the fugitives.
\nNow, what I think we’re being <\/p>\n

344
\n00:20:33,520 –> 00:20:36,480
\npresented with is, is an evil
\nnation that was serving the gods<\/p>\n

345
\n00:20:36,480 –> 00:20:41,520
\naround them who have cast out
\nthe men that disagreed with them<\/p>\n

346
\n00:20:41,840 –> 00:20:45,080
\nand they have fled to a place
\nwhich means good. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:20:45,560 –> 00:20:48,920
\nWe, we can see the point that
\nwe’re being led to see here, <\/p>\n

348
\n00:20:48,920 –> 00:20:53,080
\nhopefully by by the spirit, is
\nthat the men that fled from the <\/p>\n

349
\n00:20:53,080 –> 00:20:56,400
\nevil people were good people.
\nAnd and that I think is, you <\/p>\n

350
\n00:20:56,400 –> 00:20:58,760
\nknow, an oversimplification.
\nGood and evil is, is not how we <\/p>\n

351
\n00:20:58,760 –> 00:21:01,080
\nshould talk about it.
\nBut that’s an oversimplification<\/p>\n

352
\n00:21:01,080 –> 00:21:03,760
\nof what’s going on here, that
\nthe men that are are gathered <\/p>\n

353
\n00:21:03,800 –> 00:21:06,280
\nout of the Ephraimites.
\nThe men who were cast out, who <\/p>\n

354
\n00:21:06,280 –> 00:21:08,920
\nwere, who were fugitives, are
\nthe ones who disagree with the <\/p>\n

355
\n00:21:09,200 –> 00:21:10,960
\nevil practices that are going
\non. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:21:11,760 –> 00:21:14,800
\nAnd so they flee to this place
\nthat means good. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:21:15,960 –> 00:21:19,960
\nAnd so the vain men are not vain
\nin the eyes of God. <\/p>\n

358
\n00:21:19,960 –> 00:21:22,280
\nThey’re vain in the eyes of the
\nEphraimites. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:21:22,840 –> 00:21:26,800
\nThese were the outcasts from the
\nungodly tribe. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:21:27,960 –> 00:21:30,200
\nAnd so let’s think about our
\nechoes again. <\/p>\n

361
\n00:21:30,880 –> 00:21:40,800
\nWe have a man on the run from
\nthe the the leading family of <\/p>\n

362
\n00:21:40,800 –> 00:21:43,560
\nthe area, a man on the run from
\nthe leading family of the area <\/p>\n

363
\n00:21:43,720 –> 00:21:48,080
\nwho gathers the outcasts of the
\nnation around him and they go to<\/p>\n

364
\n00:21:48,080 –> 00:21:49,560
\nbattle together.
\nWho’s that? <\/p>\n

365
\n00:21:50,640 –> 00:21:54,720
\nThat’s David, isn’t it?
\nDavid who when he was on the run<\/p>\n

366
\n00:21:54,720 –> 00:21:59,720
\nfrom Seoul, the ruling power of
\nthe time gathered the men <\/p>\n

367
\n00:21:59,720 –> 00:22:03,640
\ntogether around him
\n400600200400600AS as the numbers<\/p>\n

368
\n00:22:03,640 –> 00:22:07,040
\ngrew that were around him and
\nthey became his spiritual <\/p>\n

369
\n00:22:07,040 –> 00:22:10,120
\nchildren, didn’t they?
\nThat he would teach the word to <\/p>\n

370
\n00:22:11,200 –> 00:22:15,720
\nand that would go with him,
\nbecome his mighty man in battle.<\/p>\n

371
\n00:22:16,440 –> 00:22:18,640
\nAnd so Jephther, in these 3
\nshort verses where we’re <\/p>\n

372
\n00:22:18,640 –> 00:22:22,040
\nintroduced to him, is presented
\nas a type of Isaac, as a type of<\/p>\n

373
\n00:22:22,040 –> 00:22:28,240
\nDavid, as a type of Christ, the
\nspiritual seed that the king, <\/p>\n

374
\n00:22:28,560 –> 00:22:32,000
\nthe Conqueror.
\nThat’s how Jephther is presented<\/p>\n

375
\n00:22:32,000 –> 00:22:34,600
\nto us.
\nSo it’s not just Jephther the <\/p>\n

376
\n00:22:34,600 –> 00:22:38,160
\noutcast.
\nIt’s Jephther the type of Isaac,<\/p>\n

377
\n00:22:38,440 –> 00:22:44,640
\nof David, of Christ.
\nAnd so chapter then is chosen <\/p>\n

378
\n00:22:44,760 –> 00:22:46,400
\nover the course of the next few
\nverses. <\/p>\n

379
\n00:22:46,400 –> 00:22:49,440
\nAnd now again we we come back to
\nthis point that God’s dealings <\/p>\n

380
\n00:22:49,560 –> 00:22:51,760
\nin this situation are unique in
\nthe book of Judges. <\/p>\n

381
\n00:22:51,960 –> 00:22:55,480
\nNormally God appoints a judge, a
\nsaviour for the people. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:22:55,600 –> 00:23:01,120
\nThat’s not the case here.
\nThe people appoints Jackson and <\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:01,120 –> 00:23:05,160
\nGod.
\nGod’s Spirit comes on him <\/p>\n

384
\n00:23:05,320 –> 00:23:08,800
\nactually much later on.
\nInitially it’s the people’s <\/p>\n

385
\n00:23:08,800 –> 00:23:12,320
\nselection.
\nAnd so the people verses, right,<\/p>\n

386
\n00:23:12,360 –> 00:23:15,120
\nit’s sort of from verse 4 down
\nto verse 11 that this all takes <\/p>\n

387
\n00:23:15,120 –> 00:23:18,640
\nplace when this war is taking
\nplace. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:23:19,320 –> 00:23:22,600
\nThe children of Amman, sorry,
\nthe elders of Gilead went to <\/p>\n

389
\n00:23:22,600 –> 00:23:25,640
\nfetch Jackfur in verse 5 out of
\nthe land of Tobes to ask him to <\/p>\n

390
\n00:23:25,640 –> 00:23:28,520
\ncome and be their captain that
\nthey will could fight with the <\/p>\n

391
\n00:23:28,520 –> 00:23:31,040
\nchildren of Amman.
\nNow they said in verse 1, he was<\/p>\n

392
\n00:23:31,040 –> 00:23:33,840
\na mighty man of Allah.
\nHe must have been because they <\/p>\n

393
\n00:23:33,840 –> 00:23:37,760
\nwent to their outcasts, the one
\nwho they booted out to save <\/p>\n

394
\n00:23:37,760 –> 00:23:40,320
\nthem.
\nSo they must have known that he <\/p>\n

395
\n00:23:40,320 –> 00:23:45,280
\nwas pretty good at what he did
\nin order to, to, to go and fetch<\/p>\n

396
\n00:23:45,280 –> 00:23:49,640
\nhim out of this place.
\nSo he’s given them 22 roles. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:23:49,640 –> 00:23:52,200
\nHe’s given the role of captain
\nand he’s given the role of head.<\/p>\n

398
\n00:23:53,000 –> 00:23:54,320
\nWhy?
\nWhy are we given 2 roles? <\/p>\n

399
\n00:23:54,320 –> 00:23:57,720
\nWell, I think there’s a reason
\nfor that. <\/p>\n

400
\n00:23:58,440 –> 00:24:02,640
\nHe is sent to be their captain
\nof war, but he’s also sent to be<\/p>\n

401
\n00:24:02,640 –> 00:24:05,880
\ntheir spiritual head.
\nSo these are the two things. <\/p>\n

402
\n00:24:05,880 –> 00:24:12,880
\nSo it’s in verse 8, the elders
\nof Gilead said to Jeff that <\/p>\n

403
\n00:24:13,040 –> 00:24:15,920
\ntherefore we turn again to thee
\nnow that thou mayest go with us <\/p>\n

404
\n00:24:15,920 –> 00:24:20,120
\nand fight against the children
\nof Amman and be our head over <\/p>\n

405
\n00:24:20,120 –> 00:24:22,280
\nall the inhabitants of Gilead.
\nThere’s two roles there. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:24:22,360 –> 00:24:24,920
\nThere’s there’s our leader in
\nbattle, our captain to go and <\/p>\n

407
\n00:24:24,920 –> 00:24:27,360
\nwin this battle for us.
\nAnd there’s the role of being <\/p>\n

408
\n00:24:27,360 –> 00:24:30,280
\nour head over all the
\ninhabitants of Gilead to to rule<\/p>\n

409
\n00:24:30,280 –> 00:24:33,680
\nthis people, this local tribal
\npeople. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:24:35,320 –> 00:24:39,160
\nAnd Jeff would would take that
\non as a spiritual role, whether <\/p>\n

411
\n00:24:39,160 –> 00:24:42,360
\nthey meant that or not.
\nThat is how he would take it on.<\/p>\n

412
\n00:24:43,720 –> 00:24:48,320
\nAnd so Jeff responds, he says,
\nyes, verse 9, if you bring me <\/p>\n

413
\n00:24:48,320 –> 00:24:51,120
\nhome to to fight against the
\nchildren of Amman and the Lord <\/p>\n

414
\n00:24:51,120 –> 00:24:53,840
\ndeliver them before me.
\nShall I be your head and the <\/p>\n

415
\n00:24:53,840 –> 00:24:56,680
\nelders of Gideon say the Lord be
\nwitness between us if we do not <\/p>\n

416
\n00:24:56,680 –> 00:24:59,840
\nso according to that word.
\nAnd so Jeff who introduces God <\/p>\n

417
\n00:24:59,840 –> 00:25:02,480
\ninto the conversation.
\nThey haven’t thought to do so. <\/p>\n

418
\n00:25:04,080 –> 00:25:06,520
\nJephther introduces God into the
\nconversation and says, well, <\/p>\n

419
\n00:25:06,520 –> 00:25:12,360
\nactually, if I go to war,
\nthere’ll be God that wins the <\/p>\n

420
\n00:25:12,360 –> 00:25:16,600
\nfight, not me.
\nAnd they say yes. <\/p>\n

421
\n00:25:18,320 –> 00:25:20,640
\nAnd we’re we’re that point is
\nrepeated for us again in verse <\/p>\n

422
\n00:25:20,640 –> 00:25:23,280
\n11 at the end of the verse that
\nJephthah uttered all his words <\/p>\n

423
\n00:25:23,280 –> 00:25:27,600
\nbefore the Lord in Mizpah.
\nAnd it’s, it’s a theme that runs<\/p>\n

424
\n00:25:27,600 –> 00:25:30,560
\nthrough this chapter that that
\neverything Jephthah does is <\/p>\n

425
\n00:25:30,560 –> 00:25:33,920
\nbefore the Lord or, or to God or
\nGod is witness to everything <\/p>\n

426
\n00:25:33,920 –> 00:25:36,400
\nthat he is doing.
\nAnd so he is the one that <\/p>\n

427
\n00:25:36,400 –> 00:25:40,440
\nintroduces this spiritual aspect
\nin into this role that he is <\/p>\n

428
\n00:25:40,440 –> 00:25:43,960
\ndoing.
\nAnd and so when he is then <\/p>\n

429
\n00:25:43,960 –> 00:25:48,120
\nappointed to be this king, not
\nthis king, this captain and his <\/p>\n

430
\n00:25:48,120 –> 00:25:51,680
\nhead you, you would think, you
\nknow, role number one is go and <\/p>\n

431
\n00:25:51,680 –> 00:25:58,880
\nwin this battle, but it’s not.
\nRole number one is from verse 12<\/p>\n

432
\n00:25:59,520 –> 00:26:03,640
\ndown to verse 28.
\nThe biggest section of this <\/p>\n

433
\n00:26:03,640 –> 00:26:09,040
\nwhole narrative is to go to
\ndialogue with the King of Amber <\/p>\n

434
\n00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:12,760
\nand to correct his error.
\nWe’ll go through what the error <\/p>\n

435
\n00:26:12,760 –> 00:26:14,520
\nis in a minute.
\nBut why? <\/p>\n

436
\n00:26:14,560 –> 00:26:16,480
\nWhy is it presented in this way?
\nThis was another about <\/p>\n

437
\n00:26:16,480 –> 00:26:17,480
\nquestions, wasn’t it?
\nWhat? <\/p>\n

438
\n00:26:17,480 –> 00:26:20,040
\nWhy is the fact that this
\nshouldn’t be about battle? <\/p>\n

439
\n00:26:20,040 –> 00:26:22,920
\nWhy is the battle barely a focus
\nat all in the whole narrative? <\/p>\n

440
\n00:26:23,400 –> 00:26:26,400
\nI think the point is this so, so
\nthe people came looking for a <\/p>\n

441
\n00:26:26,400 –> 00:26:30,800
\nleader in war, for a military
\nleader to win the battle for <\/p>\n

442
\n00:26:30,800 –> 00:26:32,040
\nthem.
\nThat’s what they wanted. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:26:32,680 –> 00:26:35,000
\nAnd Jephthah comes in and he
\nsays, you’ve missed the point. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:26:35,440 –> 00:26:38,120
\nWhat you need is a spiritual
\nleader. <\/p>\n

445
\n00:26:39,680 –> 00:26:41,120
\nWe’ll deal with the battle
\nafterwards. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:26:41,120 –> 00:26:42,760
\nThat’s, that’s well, not even
\nus. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:26:42,760 –> 00:26:44,520
\nGod will deal with the battle
\nfor us. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:26:44,640 –> 00:26:47,120
\nBut what you need is a spiritual
\nleader. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:26:48,160 –> 00:26:51,560
\nAnd the point is this, I think
\nthat, that, that any, any battle<\/p>\n

450
\n00:26:51,640 –> 00:26:55,840
\nis first a battle in the mind.
\nAny battle is first a battle <\/p>\n

451
\n00:26:55,840 –> 00:26:58,680
\nbetween God’s word and, and
\nman’s word. <\/p>\n

452
\n00:27:00,160 –> 00:27:02,880
\nThe actual working of that in,
\nin a, in a military sense, So <\/p>\n

453
\n00:27:02,880 –> 00:27:04,480
\nthat that’s God will deal with
\nthat. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:27:04,520 –> 00:27:08,000
\nThat’s fine, but but the battle
\nis first a battle of, of the <\/p>\n

455
\n00:27:08,000 –> 00:27:10,520
\nmind.
\nAnd again, there’s, there’s, <\/p>\n

456
\n00:27:10,520 –> 00:27:13,600
\nthere’s lessons in there for us,
\naren’t there for us to consider <\/p>\n

457
\n00:27:13,760 –> 00:27:16,680
\nthat, that the, the challenges
\nand, and the battles that that <\/p>\n

458
\n00:27:16,680 –> 00:27:19,760
\nwe face in, in day-to-day life
\nare, are first of all, a battle <\/p>\n

459
\n00:27:19,760 –> 00:27:23,000
\nfor our mind.
\nAre we focusing more so on the <\/p>\n

460
\n00:27:23,000 –> 00:27:26,440
\nactual practical day-to-day of,
\nof what we’re doing, or are we <\/p>\n

461
\n00:27:26,440 –> 00:27:30,080
\nfocusing first on the spiritual
\nside of, of serving God in <\/p>\n

462
\n00:27:30,080 –> 00:27:33,240
\nwhatever we’re doing?
\nIf if we do that bit, God will <\/p>\n

463
\n00:27:33,240 –> 00:27:36,480
\ntake care of the rest.
\nNow that’s Jeff’s point to the <\/p>\n

464
\n00:27:36,480 –> 00:27:40,520
\npeople here, they, they come and
\nsay, can you come and fight the <\/p>\n

465
\n00:27:40,520 –> 00:27:44,080
\nbattle with Amman for us?
\nAnd God says, well, if God wins <\/p>\n

466
\n00:27:44,080 –> 00:27:46,800
\nthat battle for us, will you let
\nme spiritually lead you? <\/p>\n

467
\n00:27:48,080 –> 00:27:52,840
\nAnd they say, yes, you’ve got
\nthe focus in the right place. <\/p>\n

468
\n00:27:52,880 –> 00:27:56,040
\nServe God and God will take care
\nof the Reds. <\/p>\n

469
\n00:27:57,080 –> 00:27:58,840
\nAnd So what is this dialogue all
\nabout? <\/p>\n

470
\n00:27:58,840 –> 00:28:03,640
\nThen from verse 12 down to verse
\n28, verse 12 sends messengers to<\/p>\n

471
\n00:28:03,640 –> 00:28:06,040
\nthe the king of the children of
\nAmman and says, well, why aren’t<\/p>\n

472
\n00:28:06,040 –> 00:28:09,600
\nyou coming to fight?
\nAnd the response from the king <\/p>\n

473
\n00:28:09,600 –> 00:28:15,600
\nof Amman is because that’s so.
\nThis is verse 13 because Israel <\/p>\n

474
\n00:28:15,600 –> 00:28:19,600
\ntook away my land when they came
\nup out of Egypt from Arnhem, <\/p>\n

475
\n00:28:19,840 –> 00:28:24,480
\neven unto Java and unto Jordan.
\nNow therefore restore those <\/p>\n

476
\n00:28:24,480 –> 00:28:28,400
\nlands again peaceably.
\nSo the so the claim of the king <\/p>\n

477
\n00:28:28,400 –> 00:28:31,960
\nof the children of Amman is is
\nthis the the claim is but these <\/p>\n

478
\n00:28:31,960 –> 00:28:35,520
\nare our lands from on and unto
\nJabba and even unto Jordan. <\/p>\n

479
\n00:28:35,680 –> 00:28:38,720
\nThis is the land of the children
\nof Amman and and Israel will <\/p>\n

480
\n00:28:38,720 –> 00:28:41,440
\ntook it off us when you came up
\nout of Egypt. <\/p>\n

481
\n00:28:43,920 –> 00:28:49,800
\nOK, what we want to consider is
\nwhat was he right? <\/p>\n

482
\n00:28:50,920 –> 00:28:55,240
\nDoes he have a point?
\nRejector’s response makes 4 <\/p>\n

483
\n00:28:55,240 –> 00:28:57,720
\npoints, and we’ll deal with each
\nof those four. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:28:58,640 –> 00:29:01,720
\nDid he have a point?
\nAnd let’s remind ourselves <\/p>\n

485
\n00:29:01,720 –> 00:29:03,640
\nagain, that’s what this is all
\nabout. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:29:03,920 –> 00:29:07,080
\nThis is about truth and error.
\nIt’s not about a battle between <\/p>\n

487
\n00:29:07,080 –> 00:29:08,520
\narmies.
\nThat’s not the focus. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:29:08,680 –> 00:29:10,840
\nThe battle is truth and error.
\nThere’s someone in the world <\/p>\n

489
\n00:29:11,000 –> 00:29:15,720
\ntrying to create error, and
\nJetta’s response is to correct <\/p>\n

490
\n00:29:15,720 –> 00:29:18,400
\nthat error from the law, from
\nGod’s Word. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:29:18,400 –> 00:29:23,160
\nLet me show you how.
\nSo King of Almond says baseland <\/p>\n

492
\n00:29:23,160 –> 00:29:25,560
\nis ours.
\nWhat’s the truth of it? <\/p>\n

493
\n00:29:25,800 –> 00:29:29,240
\nCome back to numbers 21.
\nObviously keep something in <\/p>\n

494
\n00:29:29,240 –> 00:29:33,200
\njudges 11.
\nLet’s just check the truth of <\/p>\n

495
\n00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:34,880
\nwhat the King of the Children of
\nAlan says. <\/p>\n

496
\n00:29:35,200 –> 00:29:38,840
\nSo we’re in numbers Chapter 21.
\nWe’re on the wilderness journey.<\/p>\n

497
\n00:29:41,320 –> 00:29:45,360
\nWe’re given a list of places
\nthat they have been to and from.<\/p>\n

498
\n00:29:47,000 –> 00:29:50,560
\nThey encompass the land of Edom.
\nEarly on in Numbers 21, they’ve <\/p>\n

499
\n00:29:50,560 –> 00:29:55,680
\nhad the incident of the serpents
\nthat the fiery serpent set up on<\/p>\n

500
\n00:29:55,680 –> 00:29:59,000
\na pole and everything that’s
\nhappened with that. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:29:59,600 –> 00:30:02,800
\nThey move on and they’re coming
\ntowards the land of Moab in <\/p>\n

502
\n00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:07,000
\nverse 11, the wilderness which
\nis before Moab, and they keep <\/p>\n

503
\n00:30:07,000 –> 00:30:09,440
\nmoving in verse 13.
\nFrom thence they’re removed and <\/p>\n

504
\n00:30:09,440 –> 00:30:11,200
\npitched on the other side of
\nArnhem, Right? <\/p>\n

505
\n00:30:11,200 –> 00:30:12,880
\nOK, here we are.
\nThis is where we’re starting to <\/p>\n

506
\n00:30:12,880 –> 00:30:16,240
\nget to the truth of the matter.
\nThe king of the children of <\/p>\n

507
\n00:30:16,240 –> 00:30:20,760
\nAmman said they took my land
\nfrom Arnon, even unto Jabok. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:30:20,760 –> 00:30:24,280
\nI haven’t got a map, but we’ll
\njust look at the place names for<\/p>\n

509
\n00:30:24,280 –> 00:30:26,320
\nthem because there’s enough to
\nprove the point. <\/p>\n

510
\n00:30:28,240 –> 00:30:33,200
\nVerse 13 of Numbers 21 says from
\nthence they removed and pitched <\/p>\n

511
\n00:30:33,200 –> 00:30:35,080
\non the other side of Arnon,
\nwhich is in the wilderness that <\/p>\n

512
\n00:30:35,080 –> 00:30:36,800
\ncometh out of the coast of the
\nAmarans. <\/p>\n

513
\n00:30:37,480 –> 00:30:43,920
\nFor Arnon is the border of Moab
\nbetween Moab and the Amarans. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:30:44,600 –> 00:30:48,120
\nOK, so Arnon has nothing to do
\nwith the land of the Ammonites. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:30:48,240 –> 00:30:53,120
\nIt’s between Moab and the
\nAmarans, between the Moabites <\/p>\n

516
\n00:30:53,120 –> 00:30:54,680
\nand the Amarites.
\nSo nothing to do with the <\/p>\n

517
\n00:30:54,680 –> 00:30:58,080
\nchildren of Amman.
\nOK, so that’s, that’s that’s the<\/p>\n

518
\n00:30:58,080 –> 00:31:00,480
\nstart point.
\nIf, if we’re if we’re not quite <\/p>\n

519
\n00:31:00,480 –> 00:31:04,800
\nsure about it, then verse 21
\nIsrael sent messengers unto <\/p>\n

520
\n00:31:04,800 –> 00:31:07,640
\nSaipon, king of the Amorite,
\nsaying, let me pass through thy <\/p>\n

521
\n00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:09,920
\nland.
\nYou know we’re not going to take<\/p>\n

522
\n00:31:09,920 –> 00:31:15,280
\nanything.
\nBut verse 23 Saihan said no, and<\/p>\n

523
\n00:31:15,280 –> 00:31:20,360
\nthey come out to a battle.
\nVerse 24, Israel smote him, <\/p>\n

524
\n00:31:20,640 –> 00:31:25,000
\nSaihan, king of the Amorites,
\nthey smote him with the edge of <\/p>\n

525
\n00:31:25,000 –> 00:31:31,040
\nthe sword and possessed his land
\nfrom Arnon unto Javak, whose <\/p>\n

526
\n00:31:31,040 –> 00:31:33,200
\nland?
\nSaihan, the king of the <\/p>\n

527
\n00:31:33,200 –> 00:31:37,120
\nAmorites, and, and just in case
\nwe’ve missed the point so far, <\/p>\n

528
\n00:31:37,240 –> 00:31:39,960
\nit says even unto the children
\nof Amman. <\/p>\n

529
\n00:31:40,160 –> 00:31:42,000
\nSo the children of Amman are
\nbeyond that point. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:31:44,120 –> 00:31:46,160
\nFor the border of the children
\nof Amman was strong. <\/p>\n

531
\n00:31:46,160 –> 00:31:48,120
\nWe couldn’t get as far as the
\nAmmonites. <\/p>\n

532
\n00:31:48,120 –> 00:31:50,720
\nSo we took the land of the Amor
\nright from ARN and even unto <\/p>\n

533
\n00:31:50,720 –> 00:31:52,360
\nJabba.
\nAnd so when the king of the <\/p>\n

534
\n00:31:52,360 –> 00:31:54,920
\nchildren of Amman says this is
\nour land, it was never their <\/p>\n

535
\n00:31:54,920 –> 00:31:56,960
\nland.
\nWell, certainly it wasn’t when <\/p>\n

536
\n00:31:56,960 –> 00:32:03,240
\nthe children of Israel took it.
\nThat’s point #1 which Jephthah <\/p>\n

537
\n00:32:03,240 –> 00:32:09,040
\nmakes in Judges 11, verse 18 at
\nthe end of the at the end of the<\/p>\n

538
\n00:32:09,040 –> 00:32:12,800
\nverse, Arne was the border of
\nMOA and he’s referencing back to<\/p>\n

539
\n00:32:12,800 –> 00:32:15,600
\nNumbers 21.
\nSo what’s, what’s Jephthah done <\/p>\n

540
\n00:32:15,600 –> 00:32:17,040
\nhere?
\nAnd here is the example again <\/p>\n

541
\n00:32:17,040 –> 00:32:19,240
\nfor us.
\nJephthah has taken what what <\/p>\n

542
\n00:32:19,240 –> 00:32:21,520
\nhe’s been told and he’s gone.
\nWell, what does the word of God <\/p>\n

543
\n00:32:21,520 –> 00:32:23,440
\nsay?
\nWhat does the Bible tell me? <\/p>\n

544
\n00:32:23,880 –> 00:32:31,800
\nAnd, and, and there’s the
\nexample for us, right point #2 <\/p>\n

545
\n00:32:33,000 –> 00:32:35,000
\nhow about page of my note turned
\nit upside down. <\/p>\n

546
\n00:32:35,000 –> 00:32:41,400
\nBut it did point #2 that Jeff
\nmakes is that actually the <\/p>\n

547
\n00:32:41,400 –> 00:32:43,920
\nIsraelites yesterday, they sort
\nof took it by force in the end, <\/p>\n

548
\n00:32:43,920 –> 00:32:45,920
\nbut they tried the peaceful
\napproach first. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:32:46,400 –> 00:32:50,320
\nSo this is the point that
\nJacqueline makes in verse 17. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:32:51,120 –> 00:32:55,040
\nSo we’re back in Judges 11 now
\nand we can, I think stay in <\/p>\n

551
\n00:32:55,040 –> 00:32:57,800
\nJudges 11.
\nSo back to Judges 11 and we’re <\/p>\n

552
\n00:32:57,800 –> 00:33:02,960
\nin verse well, 16 really to
\ncontext when Israel came up from<\/p>\n

553
\n00:33:02,960 –> 00:33:05,400
\nEgypt and walked through the
\nwilderness and and this is the <\/p>\n

554
\n00:33:05,400 –> 00:33:08,880
\nthe numbers 21 reference again,
\nthis is what he’s talking about.<\/p>\n

555
\n00:33:09,280 –> 00:33:12,160
\nVerse 17, Israel sent messengers
\nto the king of Edom saying, can <\/p>\n

556
\n00:33:12,160 –> 00:33:13,960
\nwe pass through the land?
\nAnd they said no. <\/p>\n

557
\n00:33:14,360 –> 00:33:17,120
\nAnd he sent the same and to the
\nking of Moab and they said no. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:33:17,800 –> 00:33:22,360
\nAnd then verse 18, they came
\ninto one and, and, and verse 19,<\/p>\n

559
\n00:33:22,360 –> 00:33:24,520
\nthey sent to the Amorites.
\nAnd he said no as well. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:33:24,720 –> 00:33:27,960
\nAnd so, you know, we tried to
\npeaceably pass through to our <\/p>\n

561
\n00:33:27,960 –> 00:33:30,000
\nland, but we couldn’t.
\nSo we had to fight our way <\/p>\n

562
\n00:33:30,000 –> 00:33:31,880
\nthrough because no one would let
\nus through. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:33:33,240 –> 00:33:35,280
\nAnd so that’s, that’s point #2
\nthat that Jackson makes. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:33:35,280 –> 00:33:36,720
\nWell, it was never your land in
\nthe 1st place. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:33:37,840 –> 00:33:39,800
\nHe says, well, the Israelites
\ntried the peaceful approach. <\/p>\n

566
\n00:33:39,800 –> 00:33:42,080
\nYou know which, which I’m trying
\nagain now I’m trying to make <\/p>\n

567
\n00:33:42,080 –> 00:33:45,560
\npeace here, but but you know, we
\nhad to fight our way through <\/p>\n

568
\n00:33:45,560 –> 00:33:50,480
\nbecause Noah does 3 and then
\nverse 21 he says, well, and the <\/p>\n

569
\n00:33:50,480 –> 00:33:53,680
\nLord God of Israel delivered
\nSihan and all his people into <\/p>\n

570
\n00:33:53,680 –> 00:33:55,320
\nthe hand of Israel and smote
\nthem. <\/p>\n

571
\n00:33:55,480 –> 00:33:57,800
\nHe says it wasn’t the
\nIsraelites, it was God. <\/p>\n

572
\n00:33:58,640 –> 00:34:04,040
\nGod gave us the land.
\nSo Israel possessed all the land<\/p>\n

573
\n00:34:04,040 –> 00:34:06,440
\nof the Amorites, the inhabitants
\nof that country, and they <\/p>\n

574
\n00:34:06,440 –> 00:34:08,679
\npossessed all the coast of the
\nAmorites from ARN and even unto <\/p>\n

575
\n00:34:08,679 –> 00:34:10,040
\nJavik.
\nThere you go makes the point <\/p>\n

576
\n00:34:10,040 –> 00:34:11,520
\nagain.
\nIt was the Amorite land, not the<\/p>\n

577
\n00:34:11,520 –> 00:34:16,800
\nAmmonites banned and so on.
\nAnd then the the 4th point that <\/p>\n

578
\n00:34:16,800 –> 00:34:19,040
\nhe makes, and this is where
\nwe’re given this time market <\/p>\n

579
\n00:34:19,239 –> 00:34:26,080
\nthat the 4th point that he makes
\nis verse 24. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:34:27,480 –> 00:34:29,920
\nSorry, verse 25.
\nAre you better than Balak? <\/p>\n

581
\n00:34:30,520 –> 00:34:34,600
\nDid he ever try and get it back?
\nVerse 26 while Israel to art in <\/p>\n

582
\n00:34:34,600 –> 00:34:37,199
\nHeshball and her towns and Roma
\nand her towns and and all the <\/p>\n

583
\n00:34:37,199 –> 00:34:41,320
\ncities that are that are part of
\nthis territory for 300 years. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:34:41,679 –> 00:34:43,280
\nWhy didn’t you recover them in
\nthat time? <\/p>\n

585
\n00:34:44,600 –> 00:34:47,760
\nAnd that’s our time, Mark.
\nIt’s just 300 years after the <\/p>\n

586
\n00:34:47,760 –> 00:34:51,000
\nChildren of Israel came into
\nthis part of the land. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:34:51,199 –> 00:34:55,360
\nBut anyway, 400 years, 300 years
\nsince they came into the land. <\/p>\n

588
\n00:34:57,120 –> 00:34:59,080
\nIt’s been 300 years since that
\nhappened. <\/p>\n

589
\n00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:02,440
\nWhy is this suddenly a problem?
\nThe mobilise never tried to get <\/p>\n

590
\n00:35:02,440 –> 00:35:05,160
\ntheir land back, the Amorites
\ndidn’t. <\/p>\n

591
\n00:35:06,120 –> 00:35:07,400
\nWhy are you dealing with this
\nnow? <\/p>\n

592
\n00:35:08,360 –> 00:35:11,120
\nAnd so the, the, the, the king
\nof the children of Amman sort of<\/p>\n

593
\n00:35:11,120 –> 00:35:12,720
\nsaid, well, you know, it’s our
\nland in the 1st place. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:35:12,720 –> 00:35:14,480
\nSo if you wouldn’t mind just
\nstepping aside, we’ll, we’ll <\/p>\n

595
\n00:35:14,480 –> 00:35:15,760
\ncome back and take it.
\nThank you very much. <\/p>\n

596
\n00:35:15,760 –> 00:35:18,160
\nAnd chapter says, well, 04
\npoints, you’re wrong. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:35:18,960 –> 00:35:20,400
\nWasn’t your land in the 1st
\nplace? <\/p>\n

598
\n00:35:21,320 –> 00:35:24,120
\nGod gave it to us.
\nWe tried to be peaceful. <\/p>\n

599
\n00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:28,120
\nAnd it’s been 300 years.
\nSo it’s sort of our land now. <\/p>\n

600
\n00:35:30,000 –> 00:35:34,320
\nAnd, and what’s interesting is
\nthat once chapter has had all of<\/p>\n

601
\n00:35:34,320 –> 00:35:38,440
\nthat dialogue, you know, he’s,
\nhe’s been given a message that <\/p>\n

602
\n00:35:38,440 –> 00:35:41,840
\nsays, you know, this is what you
\nshould do and he’s gone. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:35:42,040 –> 00:35:45,120
\nWhat does the Bible say?
\nAnd actually, no, you’re wrong. <\/p>\n

604
\n00:35:45,520 –> 00:35:46,840
\nI’m going to follow what God
\nsays. <\/p>\n

605
\n00:35:46,960 –> 00:35:52,200
\nAt that point, God confirms
\nJephthah as the Saviour. <\/p>\n

606
\n00:35:52,360 –> 00:35:55,560
\nVerse 29.
\nThen the Spirit of the Lord came<\/p>\n

607
\n00:35:55,560 –> 00:35:57,760
\nupon Jephthah.
\nUntil that point, God had not <\/p>\n

608
\n00:35:57,760 –> 00:36:00,640
\nchosen Jephthah.
\nHe clearly had appointed him in <\/p>\n

609
\n00:36:00,640 –> 00:36:05,640
\nhis purpose, but the people had
\nchosen him and, and once he has <\/p>\n

610
\n00:36:05,640 –> 00:36:09,240
\nproven his spiritual leadership,
\nthen God says what? <\/p>\n

611
\n00:36:09,240 –> 00:36:11,080
\nNow I’m going to give you my
\nspirit so you can go win that <\/p>\n

612
\n00:36:11,080 –> 00:36:12,880
\nbattle that everyone’s so
\nworried about. <\/p>\n

613
\n00:36:13,480 –> 00:36:15,680
\nAnd you can see the order.
\nAnd that’s, that’s why I think, <\/p>\n

614
\n00:36:15,680 –> 00:36:18,680
\nyou know, one of our questions
\nwas what, what, why is it <\/p>\n

615
\n00:36:18,680 –> 00:36:21,040
\npresented in this way?
\nWhy have you only got 2 verses <\/p>\n

616
\n00:36:21,040 –> 00:36:23,480
\nfor the battle?
\nThe point is this, God is saying<\/p>\n

617
\n00:36:23,600 –> 00:36:27,320
\nyou need to turn to me first.
\nWe’ll deal with the battle, <\/p>\n

618
\n00:36:27,320 –> 00:36:29,160
\nthat’s fine.
\nBut you need to turn to me. <\/p>\n

619
\n00:36:29,160 –> 00:36:32,800
\nYou need a spiritual leader to
\nturn you back, to turn the heart<\/p>\n

620
\n00:36:32,800 –> 00:36:37,440
\nof the people back to God.
\nAnd that’s the role that Jephta <\/p>\n

621
\n00:36:37,440 –> 00:36:39,880
\nplayed.
\nThe people went looking for a <\/p>\n

622
\n00:36:39,880 –> 00:36:43,040
\nmilitary leader and they found a
\nspiritual leader because that’s <\/p>\n

623
\n00:36:43,040 –> 00:36:45,440
\nwhat God was showing them that
\nthey needed. <\/p>\n

624
\n00:36:48,440 –> 00:36:52,640
\nAnd so we come to the final
\nsection, which is all about the <\/p>\n

625
\n00:36:52,640 –> 00:36:55,120
\nvow.
\nWe’ve got 10 or 15 minutes <\/p>\n

626
\n00:36:55,120 –> 00:37:00,320
\nthere.
\nWhat is going on with this vow? <\/p>\n

627
\n00:37:01,920 –> 00:37:08,080
\nSome people claim that this is a
\nrash vow that Jack the makes <\/p>\n

628
\n00:37:08,080 –> 00:37:15,760
\nthat he rushed into it.
\nSome people claim that he he <\/p>\n

629
\n00:37:15,760 –> 00:37:20,960
\noffered his daughter as a as a
\nas a sacrifice to God. <\/p>\n

630
\n00:37:21,320 –> 00:37:24,440
\nWhat is actually going on here?
\nWell, let’s let’s establish a <\/p>\n

631
\n00:37:24,440 –> 00:37:27,840
\nfew principles.
\nFirst that we need to frame this<\/p>\n

632
\n00:37:27,840 –> 00:37:31,800
\nwithin Hebrews 11 verse 32 tells
\nus that chapter is amongst the <\/p>\n

633
\n00:37:31,800 –> 00:37:35,720
\nlist of the faithful.
\nSo, so that’s that’s a first <\/p>\n

634
\n00:37:35,720 –> 00:37:39,840
\npoint that we can found
\nourselves on when we’ve seen it <\/p>\n

635
\n00:37:39,840 –> 00:37:42,160
\nalready.
\nBut Hebrews 11 verse 32 confirms<\/p>\n

636
\n00:37:42,160 –> 00:37:44,200
\nthat he is amongst the faithful
\nwaiting for the king. <\/p>\n

637
\n00:37:46,800 –> 00:37:49,120
\nWe also know that God accepted
\nthe vow. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:37:50,000 –> 00:37:54,520
\nSo the vow was, God delivers us.
\nWell, I should actually read <\/p>\n

639
\n00:37:54,520 –> 00:37:56,120
\nwhat the vows before I go
\nthrough all this, shouldn’t I? <\/p>\n

640
\n00:37:56,120 –> 00:38:00,560
\nSo first verse 30 and 31, Jeptha
\nvowed A vow unto the Lord, and <\/p>\n

641
\n00:38:00,560 –> 00:38:04,720
\nsaid, If thou shalt without fail
\ndeliver the children of Ammon <\/p>\n

642
\n00:38:04,720 –> 00:38:09,800
\ninto mine hands, then it shall
\nbe that whatsoever cometh forth <\/p>\n

643
\n00:38:09,800 –> 00:38:13,320
\nof the doors of my house to meet
\nme when I return in peace from <\/p>\n

644
\n00:38:13,320 –> 00:38:17,680
\nthe children of Ammon, shall
\nsurely be the Lords, and I will <\/p>\n

645
\n00:38:17,680 –> 00:38:20,560
\noffer it up for a burnt
\noffering. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:38:20,880 –> 00:38:23,000
\nThat’s the vow.
\nThe way he says is, you know, <\/p>\n

647
\n00:38:23,000 –> 00:38:25,600
\nwhatever walks out the doors of
\nmy house after we come back from<\/p>\n

648
\n00:38:25,600 –> 00:38:31,400
\nvictory, that will be God’s.
\nThat’s the battle. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:34,160
\nSo back to our sort of
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n

650
\n00:38:34,160 –> 00:38:36,600
\nJeff was faithful.
\nHebrews 11 verse 32 confirms <\/p>\n

651
\n00:38:36,600 –> 00:38:42,560
\nthat God accepted the vow.
\nSo the vow was if, if God goes <\/p>\n

652
\n00:38:42,560 –> 00:38:44,280
\nand wins this battle for us,
\nthen I’ll do this. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:38:44,320 –> 00:38:47,600
\nAnd God went and won the battle.
\nSo God accepted the vow because <\/p>\n

654
\n00:38:47,600 –> 00:38:52,200
\nhe honoured his side of the,
\nthe, the, the, the covenant, <\/p>\n

655
\n00:38:52,200 –> 00:38:56,040
\nalmost so.
\nSo God accepted the vow. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:38:56,440 –> 00:39:00,000
\nAnd we know that human sacrifice
\nis an abomination to God. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:39:00,600 –> 00:39:02,520
\nViticus 8 verse 21 is one
\nexample. <\/p>\n

658
\n00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:05,680
\nJeremiah 32 verse 25 is another.
\nWe don’t need to turn to those <\/p>\n

659
\n00:39:05,800 –> 00:39:07,960
\nhuman sacrifice an absolute
\nabomination to God. <\/p>\n

660
\n00:39:08,800 –> 00:39:13,360
\nSo if that was the vow, it would
\nnot have been accepted by God. <\/p>\n

661
\n00:39:15,400 –> 00:39:18,880
\nIt was in fact, the practice of
\nthe Ammonites, who worshipped <\/p>\n

662
\n00:39:18,880 –> 00:39:22,560
\nMolech to sacrifice their
\nchildren to that God. <\/p>\n

663
\n00:39:23,320 –> 00:39:26,920
\nIt was one of their practices.
\nAnd so he was jepsta, leading <\/p>\n

664
\n00:39:26,920 –> 00:39:28,880
\nGod’s people against the
\nAmmonites. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:39:28,880 –> 00:39:32,520
\nDo we really think that he was
\ngoing to go and do exactly what <\/p>\n

666
\n00:39:32,600 –> 00:39:36,560
\nthe Ammonites did to worship
\ntheir false God, to try and get <\/p>\n

667
\n00:39:37,360 –> 00:39:39,120
\nIsrael’s God to be on their
\nside? <\/p>\n

668
\n00:39:39,120 –> 00:39:41,440
\nAbsolutely not.
\nHe would not have followed the <\/p>\n

669
\n00:39:41,440 –> 00:39:45,360
\npractice of the Ammonites
\nJephthah, we’ve already noted <\/p>\n

670
\n00:39:45,360 –> 00:39:49,280
\nquotes Numbers and Deuteronomy
\nrepeatedly in his dialogue with <\/p>\n

671
\n00:39:49,280 –> 00:39:52,640
\nthe the king of the children of
\nIreland. <\/p>\n

672
\n00:39:52,640 –> 00:39:56,040
\nSo he knew the law.
\nHe he clearly had some access to<\/p>\n

673
\n00:39:56,040 –> 00:39:57,360
\nit.
\nHe knew the law, he knew <\/p>\n

674
\n00:39:57,360 –> 00:40:01,240
\nNumbers, he knew Deuteronomy, he
\nknew the law and we’ve already <\/p>\n

675
\n00:40:01,240 –> 00:40:03,480
\nsaid it’s a focus in in Judges
\nChapter 11 that he did <\/p>\n

676
\n00:40:03,480 –> 00:40:07,480
\neverything before the Lord.
\nSo those are our principles that<\/p>\n

677
\n00:40:07,480 –> 00:40:11,000
\nyou.
\nHe he clearly did not offer his <\/p>\n

678
\n00:40:11,000 –> 00:40:13,360
\ndaughter as a human sacrifice to
\nGod. <\/p>\n

679
\n00:40:13,360 –> 00:40:17,800
\nThat does not fit in any part of
\nthe context of what is going on <\/p>\n

680
\n00:40:17,800 –> 00:40:19,280
\nhere.
\nGod would not accept it. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:40:19,400 –> 00:40:20,880
\nHe wouldn’t have even tried to
\noffer it. <\/p>\n

682
\n00:40:21,520 –> 00:40:23,840
\nIt would not have been
\nconsidered the the action of a <\/p>\n

683
\n00:40:23,840 –> 00:40:26,120
\nfaithful man.
\nIt would not have been <\/p>\n

684
\n00:40:26,280 –> 00:40:30,560
\nacceptable under the law.
\nLet’s deal with another part of <\/p>\n

685
\n00:40:30,560 –> 00:40:32,840
\nthe the challenge as well.
\nSo, so the claim sometimes is <\/p>\n

686
\n00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:35,600
\nmade that this was a rash vow.
\nWe didn’t really know what he <\/p>\n

687
\n00:40:35,600 –> 00:40:37,480
\nwas saying.
\nBut once he’d vowed it, he had <\/p>\n

688
\n00:40:37,480 –> 00:40:40,200
\nto follow through.
\nYou know, the, the, the, the, <\/p>\n

689
\n00:40:40,320 –> 00:40:42,440
\nthe claim is, you know, it was
\nabout to go into battle. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:40:42,440 –> 00:40:43,920
\nHe just didn’t really think it
\nthrough. <\/p>\n

691
\n00:40:44,120 –> 00:40:46,360
\nThat’s that’s again, not the
\ncase at all. <\/p>\n

692
\n00:40:46,800 –> 00:40:53,080
\nSo Jeptha makes this vow and
\nthen verse 32, he passes over <\/p>\n

693
\n00:40:53,200 –> 00:40:55,200
\nunto the children of Ammon to
\nfight against them. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:40:55,200 –> 00:40:58,080
\nSo, so the the infant being that
\nthis is while he is still in the<\/p>\n

695
\n00:40:58,080 –> 00:41:01,520
\ncamp of Israel, I remember what
\nJechter’s role was he he wasn’t <\/p>\n

696
\n00:41:01,520 –> 00:41:04,200
\nthe military leader first, he
\nwas a spiritual leader 1st. <\/p>\n

697
\n00:41:05,040 –> 00:41:08,480
\nAnd so he was in this camp
\nmaking this vow before all of <\/p>\n

698
\n00:41:08,480 –> 00:41:11,840
\nthe people as an example to
\nthem. <\/p>\n

699
\n00:41:12,480 –> 00:41:15,240
\nThis wasn’t a rash vow.
\nThis was thought through. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:41:15,440 –> 00:41:19,560
\nThis was him making himself an
\nexample before them. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:41:20,800 –> 00:41:29,280
\nHis vow is that if God delivers
\nus, then he can take whatever he<\/p>\n

702
\n00:41:29,280 –> 00:41:33,480
\nwants out of my life and it will
\nbe his for his servants. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:41:33,560 –> 00:41:36,920
\nAnd that’s the example that he
\nwas setting to the people. <\/p>\n

704
\n00:41:37,520 –> 00:41:44,200
\nHe says whatever God wants in my
\nlife, I will give to God. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:41:44,200 –> 00:41:48,680
\nAnd there again, we can see the
\nexample for us. <\/p>\n

706
\n00:41:49,800 –> 00:41:54,600
\nWhatever God wants from us, are
\nwe willing to give it? <\/p>\n

707
\n00:41:55,600 –> 00:41:58,520
\nSo what then is going on here?
\nWell, there’s a couple of things<\/p>\n

708
\n00:41:58,520 –> 00:42:00,720
\ngoing on.
\nThe translation doesn’t help us.<\/p>\n

709
\n00:42:00,840 –> 00:42:03,600
\nSo again, some people try and
\nsort of get, get or get around <\/p>\n

710
\n00:42:03,600 –> 00:42:07,640
\nthis by saying that, you know,
\nwhatsoever cometh forth at the <\/p>\n

711
\n00:42:07,640 –> 00:42:09,640
\ndoors of my house, whether you
\nmight have thought it was, you <\/p>\n

712
\n00:42:09,640 –> 00:42:12,400
\nknow, the family dog or, or one
\nof the, the sheep from the <\/p>\n

713
\n00:42:12,400 –> 00:42:14,600
\ngarden that that was going to
\nwalk out. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:42:14,800 –> 00:42:18,280
\nThat’s the, the word means who.
\nSo whosoever cometh forth out of<\/p>\n

715
\n00:42:18,280 –> 00:42:19,920
\nthe doors of my house, that
\nthat’s what the word means. <\/p>\n

716
\n00:42:20,800 –> 00:42:23,480
\nSo, so that’s not not, that’s
\nnot the explanation. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:42:24,160 –> 00:42:26,880
\nWhat I think is going on here is
\nthat this was the vow of a <\/p>\n

718
\n00:42:26,920 –> 00:42:29,560
\nperson.
\nThis was a vow of dedication of <\/p>\n

719
\n00:42:29,640 –> 00:42:33,480
\na person.
\nSo it’s it’s a viticus 27, which<\/p>\n

720
\n00:42:33,480 –> 00:42:38,360
\ndetails some of this vowel in
\nviticus 27. <\/p>\n

721
\n00:42:38,360 –> 00:42:42,760
\nAnd we have the the estimation
\nof a person being made and it’s <\/p>\n

722
\n00:42:43,320 –> 00:42:45,760
\nwe’ll only sort of pick out the
\nthe one verse. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:42:46,040 –> 00:42:48,360
\nWe’re not going to go through
\nthe detail of what what the law <\/p>\n

724
\n00:42:48,360 –> 00:42:52,680
\nwas on this, but in Leviticus 27
\nverse two, he says speak the <\/p>\n

725
\n00:42:52,680 –> 00:42:55,280
\nLord spake unto motives, saying
\nspeak to the children of Israel <\/p>\n

726
\n00:42:55,280 –> 00:42:58,160
\nand saying to them when a man
\nshall make a singular vow, the <\/p>\n

727
\n00:42:58,160 –> 00:43:00,240
\nperson shall be for the Lord by
\ntheir estimation. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:43:00,240 –> 00:43:03,640
\nAnd instead of the point is when
\nwhen a person is dedicated to <\/p>\n

729
\n00:43:03,640 –> 00:43:06,800
\nthe service of God and there was
\na series of estimations for what<\/p>\n

730
\n00:43:06,920 –> 00:43:08,640
\nhad to be paid to to sort of
\nredeem them. <\/p>\n

731
\n00:43:08,920 –> 00:43:13,880
\nSo this is what’s going on here.
\nJephthur is saying whoever comes<\/p>\n

732
\n00:43:13,880 –> 00:43:17,960
\nout first of the doors of my
\nhouse will be given in service <\/p>\n

733
\n00:43:18,080 –> 00:43:22,600
\nto the Tabernacle to God and and
\nthen the the rest of the law <\/p>\n

734
\n00:43:22,600 –> 00:43:26,520
\nwould have applied.
\nNow the, the, the only word that<\/p>\n

735
\n00:43:26,520 –> 00:43:29,680
\nmakes that difficult is a word
\nthat’s not there in the <\/p>\n

736
\n00:43:29,680 –> 00:43:32,760
\noriginal.
\nSo the only word that makes it <\/p>\n

737
\n00:43:32,760 –> 00:43:35,240
\ndifficult is when he says and I
\nwill offer it up for a burnt <\/p>\n

738
\n00:43:35,240 –> 00:43:37,160
\noffering to eat isn’t isn’t
\nthat. <\/p>\n

739
\n00:43:37,440 –> 00:43:40,000
\nAnd I will offer a burnt
\noffering. <\/p>\n

740
\n00:43:41,640 –> 00:43:43,080
\nAnd that’s how the original
\nread. <\/p>\n

741
\n00:43:43,080 –> 00:43:47,360
\nSo, so we we should read this
\nverse as whosoever cometh forth <\/p>\n

742
\n00:43:47,360 –> 00:43:49,800
\nat the doors of my house to meet
\nme when I return in peace from <\/p>\n

743
\n00:43:49,800 –> 00:43:52,720
\nthe children of Ammon shall
\nsurely be the Lords, and I will <\/p>\n

744
\n00:43:52,720 –> 00:43:56,040
\nOfferUp a burnt offering.
\nAnd that was part of the process<\/p>\n

745
\n00:43:56,080 –> 00:44:01,040
\nof offering someone in service
\nto the Tabernacle. <\/p>\n

746
\n00:44:01,040 –> 00:44:03,160
\nThat was the burnt offering was
\noffered at the same time. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:44:03,160 –> 00:44:06,520
\nAnd you know, the burnt offering
\nwe know was typical of complete <\/p>\n

748
\n00:44:06,520 –> 00:44:08,720
\ndedication.
\nSo it makes sense in in the <\/p>\n

749
\n00:44:08,720 –> 00:44:11,000
\ncontext of what was going on
\nwith that value. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:44:11,480 –> 00:44:13,520
\nAnd so there are two things that
\nJeff is saying. <\/p>\n

751
\n00:44:13,520 –> 00:44:16,880
\nHe says whoever comes first out
\nof my house, whichever human <\/p>\n

752
\n00:44:16,880 –> 00:44:19,960
\nfirst exits my house will be
\ngiven to the Tabernacle in <\/p>\n

753
\n00:44:19,960 –> 00:44:22,760
\nservice to God.
\nAnd as part of that process, I <\/p>\n

754
\n00:44:22,760 –> 00:44:26,840
\nwill offer a burnt offering as a
\nsymbolic demonstration of the <\/p>\n

755
\n00:44:26,840 –> 00:44:31,160
\nfact that that person will be
\ngiven in complete dedication. <\/p>\n

756
\n00:44:33,440 –> 00:44:36,400
\nNow, let’s just check ourselves,
\nyou know, does that make sense? <\/p>\n

757
\n00:44:36,400 –> 00:44:39,200
\nDoes that fit?
\nLet’s just check this one thing.<\/p>\n

758
\n00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:44,960
\nWell, what we need to look at is
\nSamuel, because this is exactly <\/p>\n

759
\n00:44:44,960 –> 00:44:47,840
\nwhat happens with Samuel.
\nAnd we can see it as as a <\/p>\n

760
\n00:44:47,840 –> 00:44:50,320
\ndemonstration.
\nSo one Samuel chapter one, we <\/p>\n

761
\n00:44:50,320 –> 00:44:52,840
\nhave an example of how this
\nvowel plays out. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:44:54,520 –> 00:44:59,760
\nSo in one sign in chapter 1,
\nSamuel was of course promised by<\/p>\n

763
\n00:44:59,760 –> 00:45:04,960
\nHannah to be given, you know, if
\nif I have a child, I will give <\/p>\n

764
\n00:45:04,960 –> 00:45:06,560
\nthat child to God.
\nThat was her prayer. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:45:07,120 –> 00:45:17,040
\nAnd she completes that file.
\nAnd so she says in verse 20, she<\/p>\n

766
\n00:45:17,040 –> 00:45:19,800
\nbear a son called his name
\nSamuel because I’ve asked him at<\/p>\n

767
\n00:45:19,800 –> 00:45:21,600
\nthe Lord.
\nAnd then they went up to the <\/p>\n

768
\n00:45:21,600 –> 00:45:25,000
\nLord to offer the yearly
\nsacrifice and his vow. <\/p>\n

769
\n00:45:25,560 –> 00:45:31,720
\nBut this when verse 24, there’s
\nanother time when Hannah goes <\/p>\n

770
\n00:45:31,720 –> 00:45:36,400
\nup, this time with the child, to
\noffer the child in service to <\/p>\n

771
\n00:45:36,400 –> 00:45:38,080
\nGod.
\nAnd verse 24, when she had <\/p>\n

772
\n00:45:38,080 –> 00:45:41,640
\nweaned Samuel, she took him up
\nwith her with three bullocks, <\/p>\n

773
\n00:45:41,920 –> 00:45:44,600
\nand 1 he for a flower, a flower
\nand a bottle of wine, and <\/p>\n

774
\n00:45:44,600 –> 00:45:46,200
\nbrought him to the House of the
\nLord in Shiloh. <\/p>\n

775
\n00:45:46,200 –> 00:45:49,200
\nAnd the child was young and they
\nslew a bullet and brought the <\/p>\n

776
\n00:45:49,200 –> 00:45:51,280
\nchild to Eli.
\nSo what have we got going on <\/p>\n

777
\n00:45:51,280 –> 00:45:53,120
\nhere?
\nWe’ve got the saying of a book <\/p>\n

778
\n00:45:53,120 –> 00:45:55,400
\nat the same time as Samuel is
\ngiven in service to the <\/p>\n

779
\n00:45:55,400 –> 00:45:57,440
\nTabernacle.
\nWe’ve got the offering alongside<\/p>\n

780
\n00:45:57,440 –> 00:46:00,200
\nthe giving of the person.
\nAnd it’s exactly the same that’s<\/p>\n

781
\n00:46:00,200 –> 00:46:04,720
\ngoing on in Jabfa in in Judges
\nChapter 11 in Jabfa’s life. <\/p>\n

782
\n00:46:07,240 –> 00:46:10,880
\nSo that I think is just another.
\nWe’ll come back to why Samuel is<\/p>\n

783
\n00:46:10,880 –> 00:46:13,840
\nthe other example in a moment.
\nSo. <\/p>\n

784
\n00:46:13,840 –> 00:46:21,760
\nSo why then did Jabfa mourn so
\nmuch that one of the reasons <\/p>\n

785
\n00:46:21,760 –> 00:46:25,320
\nthat some people struggle with
\nthis is that Jeff the mourns as <\/p>\n

786
\n00:46:25,320 –> 00:46:29,120
\nif his child is going to die.
\nThat’s how it reads verse 35. <\/p>\n

787
\n00:46:29,360 –> 00:46:31,240
\nAnd last, my daughter, that has
\nbrought me very low. <\/p>\n

788
\n00:46:31,240 –> 00:46:33,360
\nAnd now one of them that
\ntroubled me for I’ve opened my <\/p>\n

789
\n00:46:33,360 –> 00:46:35,000
\nmouth to the Lord and I cannot
\ngo back. <\/p>\n

790
\n00:46:36,000 –> 00:46:39,440
\nI remember that, that Jack, this
\nhouse were the, the ruling House<\/p>\n

791
\n00:46:39,440 –> 00:46:41,200
\nof the, of the, the local
\npeople. <\/p>\n

792
\n00:46:41,520 –> 00:46:44,040
\nAnd, and so they would probably
\nhave had a household full of <\/p>\n

793
\n00:46:44,040 –> 00:46:45,920
\nservants and all sorts of people
\nthere. <\/p>\n

794
\n00:46:46,200 –> 00:46:48,400
\nAnd so he wouldn’t have known
\nthat it was going to be his only<\/p>\n

795
\n00:46:48,400 –> 00:46:50,320
\ndaughter that worked walked
\nfirst at the house. <\/p>\n

796
\n00:46:50,320 –> 00:46:51,560
\nIt was probably going to be a
\nservant. <\/p>\n

797
\n00:46:51,560 –> 00:46:53,680
\nIt was probably going to be
\nanyone else. <\/p>\n

798
\n00:46:54,440 –> 00:46:56,560
\nAnd then it’s his daughter that
\nwalks out. <\/p>\n

799
\n00:46:58,440 –> 00:47:00,360
\nAnd that’s what causes him to
\nmourn. <\/p>\n

800
\n00:47:01,840 –> 00:47:04,200
\nBut remember what we said was
\nwas the point of Jephthah making<\/p>\n

801
\n00:47:04,200 –> 00:47:06,480
\nthis vow in the 1st place.
\nThis wasn’t just Jephthah. <\/p>\n

802
\n00:47:06,480 –> 00:47:10,320
\nHe didn’t do this for no reason.
\nHe was stood in front of the <\/p>\n

803
\n00:47:10,320 –> 00:47:12,120
\npeople.
\nAnd he stands in front of the <\/p>\n

804
\n00:47:12,120 –> 00:47:14,200
\npeople and says Eve, God wins
\nthis battle for us. <\/p>\n

805
\n00:47:14,200 –> 00:47:19,800
\nGod can take anything from my
\nlife and it will be his for his <\/p>\n

806
\n00:47:19,800 –> 00:47:22,720
\nservice.
\nAnd God says I want my daughter.<\/p>\n

807
\n00:47:24,360 –> 00:47:27,520
\nAnd so it is his daughter that
\nwalks out first. <\/p>\n

808
\n00:47:27,520 –> 00:47:32,760
\nAnd that’s what he wants for
\nhe’s still going to in, in, in <\/p>\n

809
\n00:47:33,040 –> 00:47:34,880
\nin a real sense, lose his
\ndaughter. <\/p>\n

810
\n00:47:34,880 –> 00:47:37,040
\nShe’s going to go to serve in
\nthe tablet. <\/p>\n

811
\n00:47:41,160 –> 00:47:44,160
\nSo what what is going on here?
\nWhat? <\/p>\n

812
\n00:47:44,360 –> 00:47:45,920
\nWhy are we giving this
\nnarrative? <\/p>\n

813
\n00:47:47,320 –> 00:47:50,200
\nWhat?
\nWhy does God take his only <\/p>\n

814
\n00:47:50,200 –> 00:47:53,160
\ndaughter?
\nWhat’s the point? <\/p>\n

815
\n00:47:53,320 –> 00:47:56,840
\nWhat are we being shown?
\nAnd again, it’s, it’s another of<\/p>\n

816
\n00:47:56,840 –> 00:47:59,080
\nthese examples of this narrative
\nbeing unusual. <\/p>\n

817
\n00:47:59,280 –> 00:48:01,000
\nYou know, there’s no focus on
\nthe battle, but there’s all this<\/p>\n

818
\n00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:02,680
\nfocus on the dialogue.
\nAnd then there’s all this focus <\/p>\n

819
\n00:48:02,680 –> 00:48:05,280
\non the vow before and after.
\nAnd it’s all about Jephthah’s <\/p>\n

820
\n00:48:05,280 –> 00:48:09,800
\nspiritual leadership.
\nBut there’s more to it here then<\/p>\n

821
\n00:48:09,800 –> 00:48:12,040
\nas well.
\nWhy did God need Jephthah’s <\/p>\n

822
\n00:48:12,040 –> 00:48:15,480
\ndaughter?
\nIt seems unusually cruel in in a<\/p>\n

823
\n00:48:15,480 –> 00:48:18,480
\nsense, doesn’t it, that Jephthah
\nhas done this great act of <\/p>\n

824
\n00:48:18,480 –> 00:48:21,880
\nsaving, not saving the people,
\nGod save the people, but a bit <\/p>\n

825
\n00:48:21,880 –> 00:48:25,120
\nof turning the people back to
\nGod and leading them in this <\/p>\n

826
\n00:48:25,120 –> 00:48:27,440
\nspiritual way.
\nAnd God says, well, I’m going to<\/p>\n

827
\n00:48:27,440 –> 00:48:30,960
\ntake your daughter then.
\nIt doesn’t feel right in a <\/p>\n

828
\n00:48:30,960 –> 00:48:35,400
\nsense, does it?
\nWell, God doesn’t do anything <\/p>\n

829
\n00:48:35,400 –> 00:48:38,600
\nfor no reason.
\nIf anyone’s starting to feel <\/p>\n

830
\n00:48:38,600 –> 00:48:40,280
\nlike they’re dropping off, it’s
\ntime to wake up again because <\/p>\n

831
\n00:48:40,280 –> 00:48:43,520
\nwe’re going to do some maths,
\nwhich is probably the last thing<\/p>\n

832
\n00:48:43,520 –> 00:48:45,920
\nanyone wants to do on a cold on
\nWednesday night. <\/p>\n

833
\n00:48:45,920 –> 00:48:50,000
\nBut time for some maths and I
\nreally, really should have put <\/p>\n

834
\n00:48:50,000 –> 00:48:52,000
\nthis on the slide, but I
\nhaven’t, so I’m really sorry. <\/p>\n

835
\n00:48:52,200 –> 00:48:54,480
\nI have drawn on the back of one
\nof these pieces of paper. <\/p>\n

836
\n00:48:54,480 –> 00:48:56,480
\nIf anyone wants to take a photo
\nof that afterwards, it might <\/p>\n

837
\n00:48:56,480 –> 00:48:58,480
\nhave.
\nI’m going to do a timeline. <\/p>\n

838
\n00:48:58,880 –> 00:49:00,720
\nSo we, we were given a time
\nmark. <\/p>\n

839
\n00:49:00,720 –> 00:49:02,640
\nWhy are we given a time mark?
\nWell, I think we’re about to <\/p>\n

840
\n00:49:02,640 –> 00:49:06,760
\nfind out.
\nSo this was 300 years since they<\/p>\n

841
\n00:49:06,760 –> 00:49:09,640
\nentered the land, right?
\nThat’s what Jechter said in <\/p>\n

842
\n00:49:09,640 –> 00:49:12,960
\nJudges 11, verse 26.
\nWe’ve been here 300 years, 300 <\/p>\n

843
\n00:49:12,960 –> 00:49:14,720
\nyears since they entered the
\nland. <\/p>\n

844
\n00:49:17,360 –> 00:49:21,840
\nBear with me.
\nThe temple was commenced. <\/p>\n

845
\n00:49:22,240 –> 00:49:26,320
\nThe building of the temple in
\nSolomon’s day was commenced 480 <\/p>\n

846
\n00:49:26,320 –> 00:49:31,240
\nyears after they left Egypt.
\nThat’s one king one verse 6. <\/p>\n

847
\n00:49:32,280 –> 00:49:37,240
\nThe temple was commenced 480
\nyears after they left Egypt. 40 <\/p>\n

848
\n00:49:37,240 –> 00:49:41,920
\nyears of world was wondering.
\nSo the temple was commenced 440 <\/p>\n

849
\n00:49:41,920 –> 00:49:44,080
\nyears after they entered the
\nland. <\/p>\n

850
\n00:49:44,080 –> 00:49:50,240
\nOK, hopefully with me so far.
\nAnd Jephthah takes place 300 <\/p>\n

851
\n00:49:50,240 –> 00:49:51,320
\nyears after they entered the
\nland. <\/p>\n

852
\n00:49:51,600 –> 00:49:55,600
\nOK, So 140 years between
\nJephthah and Solomon starting <\/p>\n

853
\n00:49:55,600 –> 00:49:59,920
\nthe temple.
\nSolomon started the temple in <\/p>\n

854
\n00:49:59,920 –> 00:50:03,520
\nthe fourth year of his reign.
\nBefore that, David had reigned <\/p>\n

855
\n00:50:03,520 –> 00:50:07,640
\nfor 40 years and before that,
\nSam, Saul had reigned for 40 <\/p>\n

856
\n00:50:07,640 –> 00:50:11,200
\nyears.
\nThat’s 84 years. <\/p>\n

857
\n00:50:12,400 –> 00:50:19,560
\nAnd therefore Samuel anointed
\nSaul 356 years after they <\/p>\n

858
\n00:50:19,560 –> 00:50:23,400
\nentered the land.
\nI’ll repeat that. <\/p>\n

859
\n00:50:23,880 –> 00:50:27,560
\nSo they entered the land 300
\nyears later. <\/p>\n

860
\n00:50:27,560 –> 00:50:31,960
\nJetta happens 440 years after
\nthat point. <\/p>\n

861
\n00:50:32,360 –> 00:50:34,520
\nThey start the temple.
\nIf you work back four years, <\/p>\n

862
\n00:50:34,520 –> 00:50:38,280
\n4040, you’re at 356 years after
\nthey entered the land. <\/p>\n

863
\n00:50:38,440 –> 00:50:44,960
\nSo Samuel announced Saul as king
\n56 years after this incident <\/p>\n

864
\n00:50:46,160 –> 00:50:48,920
\nthat we know for absolutely
\ndefinite from from the tie <\/p>\n

865
\n00:50:48,920 –> 00:50:55,440
\nmarkers that we’ve given 56
\nyears between Judges 11 and <\/p>\n

866
\n00:50:55,440 –> 00:51:00,360
\nSamuel anointing Saul.
\nNow we’re told in one Samuel 8 <\/p>\n

867
\n00:51:00,360 –> 00:51:05,480
\nverse one that Samuel was
\nalready old when he anointed <\/p>\n

868
\n00:51:05,480 –> 00:51:08,440
\nSaul.
\nNow this is where we’re not <\/p>\n

869
\n00:51:08,440 –> 00:51:12,720
\nfixed.
\nOld is a loose turn and I always<\/p>\n

870
\n00:51:12,720 –> 00:51:14,960
\nwhenever I give this, I have to
\nlook steadfastly at the back <\/p>\n

871
\n00:51:14,960 –> 00:51:18,400
\nwall when I suggest an age that
\nmight be old and and not make <\/p>\n

872
\n00:51:18,400 –> 00:51:24,200
\neye contact with anyone.
\nBut if we said 60 years old, <\/p>\n

873
\n00:51:25,520 –> 00:51:30,600
\nsorry for anyone in the room.
\nIf we said 60 years is the age <\/p>\n

874
\n00:51:30,600 –> 00:51:33,600
\nthat Samuel was when he anointed
\nSaul. <\/p>\n

875
\n00:51:33,680 –> 00:51:38,960
\nAnd it’s a big if, and I accept
\nthat this is conjecture, but if <\/p>\n

876
\n00:51:38,960 –> 00:51:43,120
\nSamuel was 60 years old when he
\nanointed Saul, which is a <\/p>\n

877
\n00:51:43,120 –> 00:51:48,040
\nreasonable assumption, and he
\nwas given to the temple, the <\/p>\n

878
\n00:51:48,040 –> 00:51:53,000
\nTabernacle, sorry, when he was
\nweaned 234 years old, then <\/p>\n

879
\n00:51:53,000 –> 00:51:57,720
\nSamuel was given to the
\nTabernacle at exactly the time <\/p>\n

880
\n00:51:58,480 –> 00:52:04,840
\nof Judges chapter, 1156 years
\nperhaps before he anointed Saul.<\/p>\n

881
\n00:52:07,600 –> 00:52:11,640
\nI can go through all the dates
\nagain after, but it works if, <\/p>\n

882
\n00:52:12,080 –> 00:52:13,520
\nyou know, there’s some
\nconjecture in there. <\/p>\n

883
\n00:52:14,120 –> 00:52:16,920
\nBut it’s a reasonable suggestion
\nthat Samuel was given to the <\/p>\n

884
\n00:52:16,920 –> 00:52:22,920
\nTabernacle at exactly this time.
\nAnd so in a family in Ephraim, <\/p>\n

885
\n00:52:23,880 –> 00:52:29,240
\nthere is a father who leads the
\npeople back to God and says, if <\/p>\n

886
\n00:52:29,240 –> 00:52:33,360
\nGod needs anything from my life,
\nGod can have it. <\/p>\n

887
\n00:52:33,360 –> 00:52:41,160
\nAnd God says what I need is a
\nmother figure for Samuel in the <\/p>\n

888
\n00:52:41,160 –> 00:52:45,920
\nTabernacle because this Samuel
\nis going to grow up amongst A <\/p>\n

889
\n00:52:45,920 –> 00:52:49,000
\ncorrupt priesthood.
\nHe’s he’s going to grow up with <\/p>\n

890
\n00:52:49,000 –> 00:52:52,920
\nHoffman and Finneans under the,
\nthe weak leadership of Eli. <\/p>\n

891
\n00:52:53,960 –> 00:52:56,640
\nAnd I need a strong spiritual
\nfigure to bring Samuel up <\/p>\n

892
\n00:52:56,640 –> 00:52:58,440
\nbecause he’s going to annoy
\nDavid. <\/p>\n

893
\n00:52:59,040 –> 00:53:02,520
\nHe’s going to be the the the
\nstrength of the people under the<\/p>\n

894
\n00:53:02,520 –> 00:53:05,960
\nleadership of Saul when he went
\na bit bonkers. <\/p>\n

895
\n00:53:08,560 –> 00:53:11,160
\nAnd so God says I need Jeff’s
\ndaughter. <\/p>\n

896
\n00:53:14,440 –> 00:53:18,640
\nWe don’t know, but it fits.
\nIt fits the time. <\/p>\n

897
\n00:53:18,640 –> 00:53:24,600
\nAnd what a lovely picture that
\nis of God’s mercy of, of God <\/p>\n

898
\n00:53:24,600 –> 00:53:29,360
\nworking in the life of a
\nspiritual man who, who would not<\/p>\n

899
\n00:53:29,360 –> 00:53:34,800
\nhave known the use for which God
\nneeded his daughter, but he was <\/p>\n

900
\n00:53:34,800 –> 00:53:39,160
\nwilling in faith to say, if God
\nneeds anything from my life, God<\/p>\n

901
\n00:53:39,160 –> 00:53:42,240
\ncan have it.
\nAnd what a wonderful example <\/p>\n

902
\n00:53:42,240 –> 00:53:46,600
\nthat is of God’s hand at work
\nwith the faithful that the, that<\/p>\n

903
\n00:53:46,600 –> 00:53:49,680
\nthe bringing together of, of
\nJephthah’s daughter and Samuel <\/p>\n

904
\n00:53:50,160 –> 00:53:54,640
\nin this incident was what
\nenabled Samuel to grow up to do <\/p>\n

905
\n00:53:54,640 –> 00:53:59,080
\nthe great things that he did, to
\nmentor David in the way that he <\/p>\n

906
\n00:53:59,080 –> 00:54:01,840
\ndid, and then David to do all
\nthe great things that he did. <\/p>\n

907
\n00:54:05,040 –> 00:54:08,280
\nWhat a wonderful idea it is.
\nAnd, and I repeat, we can’t <\/p>\n

908
\n00:54:08,280 –> 00:54:10,280
\nprove it.
\nWe don’t know that the timings <\/p>\n

909
\n00:54:10,280 –> 00:54:16,400
\nwork, but they think, and it
\nwould explain why we are given <\/p>\n

910
\n00:54:16,520 –> 00:54:20,760
\nthis incident, why it is
\nprovided in this way. <\/p>\n

911
\n00:54:21,040 –> 00:54:24,400
\nAnd it would explain why Samuel
\nis the other example of one who <\/p>\n

912
\n00:54:24,400 –> 00:54:26,920
\nwas given as a child to the
\nTabernacle. <\/p>\n

913
\n00:54:27,720 –> 00:54:30,880
\nWe have a pairing of these two
\nindividuals, don’t we, That they<\/p>\n

914
\n00:54:30,880 –> 00:54:36,080
\nwere both given by a parent
\nalong with an offering in <\/p>\n

915
\n00:54:36,080 –> 00:54:39,080
\nunusual circumstances to the
\nTabernacle at a time when the <\/p>\n

916
\n00:54:39,080 –> 00:54:46,200
\nTabernacle was growing din.
\nAnd so we had a few questions at<\/p>\n

917
\n00:54:46,200 –> 00:54:49,640
\nthe start, didn’t we, that we
\nwanted to consider about why <\/p>\n

918
\n00:54:49,640 –> 00:54:52,280
\nJetBlue was presented in this
\nway, About why the narrative <\/p>\n

919
\n00:54:52,280 –> 00:54:54,840
\ndoesn’t focus on the battle, but
\nfocuses on everything else that <\/p>\n

920
\n00:54:54,840 –> 00:54:58,240
\nhappens around it.
\nAnd there I think we have an <\/p>\n

921
\n00:54:58,240 –> 00:55:02,360
\nanswer and a number of lessons
\nalong the way, don’t we, that <\/p>\n

922
\n00:55:02,360 –> 00:55:05,160
\nJephthah was not there to to
\nsimply be a military leader. <\/p>\n

923
\n00:55:05,160 –> 00:55:08,480
\nJephthah was, was there to lead
\nthem back to the word that that <\/p>\n

924
\n00:55:08,480 –> 00:55:10,640
\nany battle begins first in the
\nmind. <\/p>\n

925
\n00:55:11,240 –> 00:55:13,200
\nAnd he won that battle.
\nAnd so everything else would <\/p>\n

926
\n00:55:13,200 –> 00:55:18,320
\nfollow with God’s hand.
\nWe, we, we have seen that that <\/p>\n

927
\n00:55:20,200 –> 00:55:25,120
\nJephthah was presented as an
\noutcast that the people might <\/p>\n

928
\n00:55:25,120 –> 00:55:31,080
\nlearn to turn to the spiritual
\nseed, the principle of not being<\/p>\n

929
\n00:55:31,080 –> 00:55:34,880
\na respecter of persons.
\nAnd we can see there that the, <\/p>\n

930
\n00:55:35,080 –> 00:55:38,560
\nthe hope of the future, can’t
\nwe, that the, the one who the <\/p>\n

931
\n00:55:38,560 –> 00:55:43,800
\nJews condemned as an outcast
\nwill come back to save them that<\/p>\n

932
\n00:55:43,800 –> 00:55:46,720
\ntheir hour of greatest need.
\nYou know, and we have seen the <\/p>\n

933
\n00:55:46,720 –> 00:55:52,760
\nhand of God at work that that we
\ndon’t know God’s plan for all of<\/p>\n

934
\n00:55:52,760 –> 00:55:57,120
\nthe things that happen in our
\nlives, But just maybe the things<\/p>\n

935
\n00:55:57,120 –> 00:56:01,360
\nthat happened to us aren’t about
\nus at all, but about someone <\/p>\n

936
\n00:56:01,360 –> 00:56:04,600
\nelse, somewhere else that is
\ngoing to benefit from the things<\/p>\n

937
\n00:56:04,600 –> 00:56:09,400
\nthat are happening in our lives.
\nAnd so hopefully we can take <\/p>\n

938
\n00:56:09,880 –> 00:56:15,040
\nthat wonderful example of, of
\nJeptha with us and, and be <\/p>\n

939
\n00:56:15,040 –> 00:56:20,200
\nreminded of, of that, that need
\nto turn back to the word, to <\/p>\n

940
\n00:56:20,200 –> 00:56:22,640
\nknow the word that we can
\ncounter the challenges of the <\/p>\n

941
\n00:56:22,640 –> 00:56:26,400
\nworld and that we can trust that
\nGod has a plan, that God is <\/p>\n

942
\n00:56:26,400 –> 00:56:29,200
\noutworking his plan, even if we
\ncan’t see how and why. <\/p>\n

943
\n00:56:29,840 –> 00:56:33,880
\nAnd that we can trust that that
\nplan will bring us, by God’s <\/p>\n

944
\n00:56:33,880 –> 00:56:36,880
\ngrace, to that glorious day of
\nHis Kingdom. <\/p>\n

945
\n00:56:51,080 –> 00:56:53,160
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\n00:56:53,160 –> 00:56:55,760
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\n00:57:45,880 –> 00:57:46,120
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