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 Well, it's good to see all of you this morning.

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 Glad you're here.

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 And of course, it is the Word of God that we bring every morning through the Scriptures.

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 That's where our hope is.

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 That's where life comes from.

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 That's what nourishes our soul.

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 That's what strengthens us for tomorrow.

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 That's what gives us a sense of direction and purpose in life.

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 And it's the Word of God that we come to again today.

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 The Word of God that's accessible.

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 The Word of God that is life and breath for us.

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 And I trust that you are those who immerse yourself consistently in the faithful Word of God.

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 I'm reminded of the psalmist who says in Psalm 1 that he meditates day and night on the Word of God.

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 And it's that Word of God that's like a tree that's planted by rivers of water.

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 It gives his own soul.

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 It gives his own life nourishment and fruitfulness.

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 And so it's the Word of God that we anchor our trust in today.

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 Well, I trust that all of you have been able to look at from the Maranatha Minute kind of the new process for nominating deacons or spiritual leaders that are here at our church at Maranatha.

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 We have sought to kind of blend two principles.

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 One from 1 Timothy chapter 3 that talks about spiritual leaders.

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 And that those who pursue spiritual leaders are those who desire this position.

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 God has worked in their life.

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 And there's this sense in which that they feel like God is calling them to this.

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 It's something that they desire to do.

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 A leadership position that they want to bless the church with by their service to the Lord.

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 The second is from Acts chapter 6.

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 Speaking about deacons in particular.

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 And Peter says,

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 Men who have integrity.

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 Men who demonstrate a commitment to loving and serving and trusting the Lord.

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 And so we've thought, how do we bring that process to our church so that we encourage that kind of thing?

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 And so we're asking each of you from the congregation to identify men from within the congregation who have those qualities.

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 Men of good repute.

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 Men who are serving Jesus.

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 Men who have a reputation of love for families and commitment to the scriptures.

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 And that you will engage the men that God brings to your attention.

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 And that God will stir their hearts to want to actively pursue, desire the pursuit of this kind of leadership.

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 Because as you can imagine, leadership, especially in the context of the church, is becoming increasingly harder.

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 And the opposition that we face as leaders is challenging.

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 And so we want the men who engage this process to do it willingly.

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 As Peter will say from 1 Peter chapter 5.

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 Not out of compulsion.

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 Because God wants to draw up men from our congregation to lead in that way.

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 Of course you know this.

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 But I want to draw it out to your attention once more.

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 That God has graciously given us so many gifted leaders.

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 What a joy.

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 What a blessing it is to serve alongside men who love the Lord.

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 Men who have devoted their attention, their life.

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 Who have exemplified for the long haul commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And we have 12 men who serve as deacons, spiritual leaders in this church.

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 And man, we should celebrate that.

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 Matter of fact, can I just encourage you?

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 Can we just applaud?

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 Just thank you to the men who serve this body.

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 Just this past week.

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 And of course, we can't touch on all the stories.

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 And so I just, the ones I know.

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 Just this past week, because of some of the rain damage that has happened.

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 There was a lady in our church.

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 Her tree, parts of her tree fell down.

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 And it was three of our deacons that engaged that process.

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 And spent lots of days this past week trying to help that lady.

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 And trying to address this problem.

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 And that's the kind of, those are the kind of men we have serving in our body.

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 And it's a joy.

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 Another deacon, and I think probably others were also involved in this as well.

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 Well, we have something called the Maranatha Movers.

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 And so several of our people are moving to different places within the city.

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 And another one of our deacons or two helped to kind of coordinate this Maranatha Movers.

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 And that happens consistently throughout the year.

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 And we just praise the Lord again for the faithful leaders that God has put over our church.

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 That exemplify service to the Lord.

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 Lord Jesus himself in Mark 10, 45, we find he came not to be served.

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 But to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.

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 And we have deacons who exemplify that kind of spirit.

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 They are a blessing to me.

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 And I trust they're a blessing to you as well.

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 And I hope that you are encouraging them actively.

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 I hope you're actively praying for them.

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 I hope you're actively supporting them.

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 And God has blessed us with that.

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 We also have a couple of deacons in their families.

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 Several that are serving in our children's ministry.

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 Both in the nursery but also in children's ministry.

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 And they coordinate this so that our families can enjoy the blessing of faithful individuals.

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 Who are building into your children and my children.

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 And so I'm grateful for them as well.

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 Spiritual leaders, God has placed over this fellowship.

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 And the chance for us to be part of that process through the nominating.

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 And recognizing faithful men who may or may not currently be serving in that capacity.

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 And calling them out and encouraging them to step up.

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 We do have at least four younger men.

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 We call them deacon elects.

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 These are men who are qualified as deacons.

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 But are young enough that we want to help put them alongside other kind of seasoned veterans as it were.

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 And so that we can walk along the process with them.

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 And we call them deacon elects.

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 And they serve alongside the deacons for a year.

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 And every year they have their session expires.

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 And they do it again.

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 And so you're going to recognize those kinds of men as well.

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 Younger men who are serving.

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 And who have the fitness to serve the Lord in that capacity.

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 Well we are continuing our study in the book of Judges.

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 I would encourage if you would please to open your Bibles to Judges chapter 10.

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 If you're using the Pew Bibles it's on page 210.

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 Judges chapter 10.

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 As we get started I want to show this graphic to you.

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 You have it on your outlines.

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 But just to have it in front of us.

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 So you can kind of see what's going on.

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 This is kind of the book of Judges in summary.

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 Kind of in a snapshot as it were.

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 This is what's happening.

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 And I'm kind of a visual guy.

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 So being able to see these kinds of things up front.

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 You kind of can experience and get a sense of it.

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 What the words are communicating just by looking at this graphic.

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 And you can see right at the center.

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 We talked about last time in the book of Judges.

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 This leader Gideon and his son Abimelech.

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 It's the only father-son duo in the book of Judges.

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 That kind of stand as kind of this watershed moment.

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 Of how things begin to really take a turn for the worse.

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 In the lives or in the history of the Judges themselves.

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 Judges chapter 2 verse 19 becomes the trajectory.

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 It becomes kind of the summary phrase that helps us understand.

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 What's taking place as we follow this timeline through.

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 Judges chapter 2 verse 19 says.

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 But whenever the judge died.

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 They turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers.

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 Going after other gods.

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 Serving them and bowing down to them.

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 They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

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 That's the summary of what we're reading here in the book of Judges.

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 That's what we have come to expect.

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 That's what we are seeing play out in front of us.

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 That kind of becomes kind of the template by which we are meant to interpret the details that are coming.

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 That follow in this book.

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 That generation after generation after generation.

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 They continue to turn further and further away from the Lord.

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 And that's what we're going to see again in Judges chapter 10, 11 and 12.

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 This morning as we come to chapter 10.

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 The main thing that we need to keep in front of ourselves is that God appointed, initially appointed deliverers.

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 But now they have become self-appointed saviors.

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 God originally appointed deliverers.

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 And now these deliverers have become self-appointed saviors.

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 We see that.

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 And I trust you'll be able to kind of pick this out now from the text as I read it through the first five verses.

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 Here it is.

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 Chapter 10, verse 1.

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 It says,

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 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola, the son of Pua, son of Dodo, a man of Iskar.

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 And he lived in Shemir in the hill country of Ephraim.

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 And he judged Israel 23 years.

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 Then he died and was buried at Shemir.

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 After him arose Jer, the Gileadite, who judged Israel 22 years.

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 He had 30 sons who rode on 30 donkeys.

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 They had 30 cities called Havat Jer to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

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 And Jer died and was buried in Chemon.

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 Immediately, you should notice this cycle that's taking place.

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 We'll come back to this slide so you can kind of see this visually as it's working out in front of us.

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 We should see that this progression of the people, this downward progression of the people,

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 is kind of prompted by two other things that are taking place simultaneously.

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 You see on the top left over there that Othniel, who was the first judge, was the one who was appointed by God.

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 We find that he was a God-appointed judge or God-appointed savior for the people.

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 Ehud was also appointed by God.

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 Deborah, as a prophetess, speaks on behalf of God, giving the word of God to Barak,

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 who is also appointed by God to save and deliver the people of Israel.

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 And then you come to Gideon.

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 Another prophet precedes Gideon.

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 An angel of the Lord appears to Gideon.

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 He empowers Gideon.

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 He gives a direct word to Gideon.

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 He provides the instructions on how Gideon is supposed to enjoy the benefits of God's provision for him.

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 And he goes out and he, on behalf of the Lord, is able to push back and oppose

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 and deliver the people of Israel from the hand of the Midianites.

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 And then you get to Abimelech, this self-selected leader,

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 who then appoints himself through the help of the lords of Shechem to make himself king.

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 And from here on out, what we're going to find in the book of Judges,

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 instead of God-appointing judges, what do you notice there in verse 1 of chapter 10?

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 Go ahead and look at it.

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 What does it say?

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 What are the words that you find right there on the page?

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 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel,

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 Tola.

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 What is missing here?

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 What do you see that's not present in this verse?

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 Well, what you see that is not present is that Tola has decided that he is going to do

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 what God has not selected him to do.

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 He is now a self-appointed leader over Israel.

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 He has risen himself to save Israel.

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 Verse 3, same thing happens.

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 After him, Jer the Gileadite.

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 You move back to, this is kind of the book ends of this section.

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 In chapter 12, we find much of the same thing.

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 Chapter 12, verse 8.

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 This is kind of the end of this section that surrounds the story of Jephthah,

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 who says,

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 It says,

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 You see the same kind of pattern.

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 These self-styled, self-selected leaders who are deciding to rise up and to exert some measure of authority

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 in the land of Israel to act as deliverers.

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 And that's the pattern we begin to see in the book of Judges.

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 It moves from God-appointed judges that we find in Otniel and then in Ehud,

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 to now selected judges that happen through the prophetic ministry of the prophets through Deborah

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 and through this prophet we find in Judges chapter 6.

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 And now it completely turns in the remaining chapters to now these leaders deciding that they're going to be God's gift to the nation.

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 This is a pattern.

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 A pattern of those who decide that they're going to be the Savior, as it were,

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 independent of God's work in their life to raise them up.

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 We begin to see another pattern begin to emerge.

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 The pattern of conflict that begins very far outside of Israel.

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 And then as we continue to move along the timeline, the history of Israel,

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 that conflict turns inward.

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 So now there's a conflict that's happening between Israel and themselves

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 till you finally get to the very end in Judges chapter 17 to 21

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 where there's no more deliverer.

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 There's no more judge.

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 There's no more outward oppressor.

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 And all the oppression, all the conflict is internal.

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 And Israel is struggling against itself.

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 That's what we're left with when we come to Judges chapter 17 to 21.

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 And you find the trend that the more and more people decide to become the leader that God hasn't appointed,

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 their hearts begin to turn more and more away from God.

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 And so their leadership of becoming a rescuer, of becoming a deliverer,

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 what they believe is right for Israel,

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 they're doing what is right in their own eyes,

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 now becomes internal.

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 Becomes a struggle against themselves.

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 Because Canaan has got into Israel.

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 Rather than the people of Israel driving the Canaanites out,

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 driving the nations out from the promised land,

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 Canaan has gotten into the hearts of the very nation,

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 of the very people,

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 of the very ones who were set apart as God,

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 from God to be a kingdom, a priest, a holy nation.

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 The nations have gotten in.

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 And this chart helps us to track this conflict

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 that has moved from the outside,

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 from Mesopotamia that was 700 miles away.

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 And then Ehud, which was that second deliverer,

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 and he's opposing forces from the Moabites,

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 who were neighbors to Israel.

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 And then you have Barak, who's opposing and delivering Israel,

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 from the Canaanites, who lived within the country.

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 And then Gideon, who's pushing back against the Midianites.

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 And the Midianites, guess what?

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 They were sons of Abraham.

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 That's where they came from.

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 And you remember that Moses married Jethro.

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 He was the priest in Midian.

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 There's family relationships.

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 It's moved inward.

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 And now Gideon, instead of only opposing the Midianites from the outside,

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 Gideon will now turn the page,

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 and he will attack his own people,

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 the men of Succoth, the men of Penuel.

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 This deliverer has gotten a little cocky.

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 This deliverer has gotten a big head.

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 He's begun to assume a role that he was never entrusted with.

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 And because he is doing what's right in his own eyes,

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 we find that he turns the fight inward.

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 You see, it's easy for us, though, to look at Israel and to say,

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 what has happened to these people?

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 What is their problem?

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 Why can't they understand the significance of their actions?

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 But then as we hold the mirror up to ourselves,

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 I have found myself saying this,

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 and maybe you have found yourself saying this too,

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 is that we often become the Savior

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 instead of allowing God to be the Savior.

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 How many times have you confronted a problem in your life,

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 whether it's a problem at work,

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 or a problem in your family,

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 or a crisis that's taking place,

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 something that's out of control,

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 and you have usurped and decided

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 that you're going to step in,

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 that you're going to set your plans,

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 that your agenda is going to now be the prominent thing,

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 and the last thought on your mind

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 is to turn the issue over to the Lord,

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 to entrust the situation to Him.

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 Instead, and I'll just speak for myself,

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 how easy it is to take the bull by the horns,

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 to pull myself up by my own bootstraps,

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 to understand and decide what the problem is,

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 and to work it through to fix the situation,

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 and to become the Savior that everyone, of course, needs.

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 But whenever we do this,

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 whether God gives us success by His grace or not,

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 whatever successes God allows us to enjoy,

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 the credit, the glory goes to us, doesn't it?

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 Rather than glory going to God.

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 Since we're talking about the book of Judges,

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 and since I've mentioned the significance of Judges

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 helping us recognize the importance of the family,

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 that God had given specific instructions

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 to the family in Deuteronomy,

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 that fathers were to pass on the law to their children

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 and their children's children,

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 we recognize that the Judges were kind of set in place

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 to kind of model what that was supposed to look like.

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 These family heads,

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 they were providing proximate leadership among the people.

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 But now these proximate leaders,

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 instead of directing attention to the Lord,

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 they're directing attention to themselves.

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 They've become their own self-prescribed deliverer,

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 their own self-described Savior.

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 And that's so often our problem.

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 Paul Tripp will put it this way.

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 He says we become glory robbers.

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 Whenever we direct people's attention away from the Lord,

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 and we direct that attention onto ourself,

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 and whether we're doing that intentionally or unintentionally,

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 whenever we take credit for the success that God gives,

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 we're drawing attention to us,

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 not drawing attention to the Lord.

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 Whenever we can pat ourselves on the back and say,

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 hey, look at my family.

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 Look how great I did as a dad.

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 Whenever we think we can do that

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 without giving credit to the grace of the Lord Jesus,

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 we become glory robbers.

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 Whenever we have a ministry,

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 whenever we have an effective evangelistic kind of exchange,

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 where somebody comes to faith in the Lord Jesus,

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 or whenever we have a great opportunity to succeed in the office,

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 but that attention is directed to us,

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 and our skill,

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 and our abilities,

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 and the way we could just pull it off,

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 and we don't allow God to enjoy,

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 and to be described as the one who gives that to us by His grace,

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 we become glory robbers.

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 1 Peter chapter 4 puts it this way.

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 In verses 10 and 11,

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 he says,

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 As each has received a gift,

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 use it to serve one another,

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 as good stewards of God's varied grace.

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 Whoever speaks as one who speaks the oracles of God,

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 whoever serves as one who serves by the strength that God supplies,

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 in order that in everything,

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 God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.

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 To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.

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 Amen.

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 That's why we exist.

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 We exist to draw attention to the wonder of our God.

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 Every service,

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 every way that you serve your family,

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 and the benefits,

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 and the way that God helps you to raise up your children

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 in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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 All the successes that you have at work,

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 all the successes that you might have in sharing the gospel,

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 all the successes that you might have in various ministries,

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 whatever that success,

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 praise the Lord,

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 direct attention to Him,

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 and let Him receive the glory.

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 Don't become a glory robber.

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 That becomes the prevailing problem in Israel.

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 The tipping point has happened.

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 The people have raised themselves up.

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 They have asserted for themselves,

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 We will be the Savior.

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 When the Savior has always been present,

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 they just needed to trust Him.

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 Next we see in verses 6 to 16,

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 you see the people have confused godly sorrow

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 with worldly sorrow.

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 They've confused godly sorrow with worldly sorrow.

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 Look at this in verse 16.

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 It says,

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 The people of Israel,

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 this is verse 6,

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 again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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 And they served the Baals and the Ashtra,

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 the gods of Syria,

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 the gods of Sidon,

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 the gods of Moab,

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 the gods of the Ammonites,

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 the gods of the Philistines,

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 and they forsook the Lord,

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 and they did not serve Him.

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 This is now the seventh and final time

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 the apostasy of the nation of Israel

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 will be described.

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 The seventh and final time

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 is meant to demonstrate the fullness

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 of the way in which the people of Israel

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 have rejected God,

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 the totality of their rejection against the Lord.

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 That's what this is meant to show us.

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 And the totality is final.

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 By this point,

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 this pattern has become tragically familiar.

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 If you have the notes in front of you,

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 you can see kind of there in the,

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 along this point,

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 the six other places in the book of Judges

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 where this is referenced.

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 Judges chapter 2, 11 to 13.

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 Judges chapter 3.

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 Judges chapter 3, verse 12,

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 and 4, verse 1.

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 Judges chapter 6.

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 Judges chapter 8.

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 And now, Judges chapter 10.

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 And what you find is this progression

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 that's taking place.

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 It started out with two deities,

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 the Baals and the Astra.

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 This was the distraction.

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 This was the idolatry that was taking place.

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 It begins small,

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 if you want to say it that way.

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 It was embedded in culture, okay?

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 But the Baals and the Astra

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 were the things that were tripping them up.

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 But now,

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 the nations have totally perverted the people.

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 So that,

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 now the writer of the book of Judges

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 wants us to understand

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 how complete and thorough

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 this pollution, corruption had become.

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 Now seven different deities

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 have infiltrated the nation.

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 This is meant to show us,

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 again,

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 the seriousness of their depravity.

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 But then we come to chapter 10,

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 verse 10.

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 And I think it's really easy

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 for us to think,

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 hey,

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 here's the bright spot.

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 Here's the,

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 here's the,

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 the turn,

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 the confession that's taking place.

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 Hey,

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 look at this.

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 This is great.

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 And we see this

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 and we think,

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 okay,

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 a revival has happened.

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 Confession has taken place.

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 Look at,

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 look at verse 10.

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 And the people cried,

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 of Israel cried out

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 to the Lord saying,

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 hey,

00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:39.599
 we have sinned against you

00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:41.459
 because we have forsaken our God

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 and have served the Baals.

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 And the Lord said

00:26:44.679 --> 00:26:45.740
 to the people of Israel,

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 did I not save you

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 from the Egyptians,

00:26:48.699 --> 00:26:49.699
 from the Amorites,

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 from the Ammonites,

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 from the Philistines,

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 the Sidonians,

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 the Amalekites,

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 and the Monites

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 oppressed you?

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 You cried out to me

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 and I saved you

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 out of their hand.

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 Yet,

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 you have forsaken me

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 and served other gods.

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 Therefore,

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 I will save you

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 no more.

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 Wow.

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 Let that sink in

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 a little bit.

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 I will save you

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 no more?

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 They've confessed

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 their sin.

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 They've come clean

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 about their idolatry.

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 They've acknowledged

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 the problem.

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 And God says,

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 I will save you

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 no more?

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 What in the world

00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:35.639
 is going on?

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 It's the same thing

00:27:37.899 --> 00:27:38.459
 that goes on

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 every time.

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 We give lip service

00:27:40.619 --> 00:27:41.799
 to confession,

00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:43.279
 but nothing actually

00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:44.139
 changes in our heart.

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 We acknowledge our sin

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 and a lot of times,

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 and what Paul will draw out

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 in 2 Corinthians 7,

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 is this difference

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 between godly sorrow

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 and worldly sorrow,

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 and the difference

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 is pretty stark.

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 It has a lot of

00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:01.539
 the same similarities

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 because the individuals,

00:28:04.299 --> 00:28:06.220
 they recognize

00:28:06.220 --> 00:28:07.799
 how difficult

00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:08.839
 their sin is.

00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:09.799
 They come clean

00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:10.460
 about their sin.

00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:11.779
 They feel very bad

00:28:11.779 --> 00:28:12.759
 about their sin.

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 Sometimes,

00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:15.200
 they're really emotional.

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 They say the right words.

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 But worldly sorrow

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 is to remove consequences.

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 Worldly sorrow

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:25.859
 is to move past

00:28:25.859 --> 00:28:26.700
 the pain.

00:28:28.139 --> 00:28:28.839
 Worldly sorrow

00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:30.339
 is just to acknowledge

00:28:30.339 --> 00:28:31.619
 these things to God

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 so we can get on

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 with our life.

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 Whereas,

00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:36.059
 godly sorrow

00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:36.859
 is the kind of sorrow

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 that says,

00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:37.480
 God,

00:28:37.980 --> 00:28:39.579
 this has affected you.

00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:41.339
 Against you

00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:42.039
 and you only

00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:43.220
 have I sinned

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:44.319
 and done

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 what is evil

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:45.659
 in your sight,

00:28:45.740 --> 00:28:46.139
 O Lord.

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 Please forgive me.

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 I acknowledge this

00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:50.539
 and I will do

00:28:50.539 --> 00:28:51.680
 whatever it takes

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 to orient my life

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 in a way

00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:54.660
 that pleases you.

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 There is this true

00:28:56.140 --> 00:28:57.220
 repentance

00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:58.560
 that takes place

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 and not just

00:28:59.500 --> 00:29:00.240
 a confession

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:01.519
 or acknowledgement

00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:02.259
 of sin

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 but there is a

00:29:03.060 --> 00:29:04.180
 true turning

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 of heart and life.

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 This consistent

00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:07.500
 trajectory

00:29:07.500 --> 00:29:08.580
 of life

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 that points

00:29:09.360 --> 00:29:10.900
 itself to God.

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 That's what

00:29:11.539 --> 00:29:12.440
 repentance is.

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 It's different.

00:29:15.500 --> 00:29:16.400
 It's willing to

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 accept

00:29:17.620 --> 00:29:18.519
 the consequences.

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 It's the kind

00:29:20.360 --> 00:29:20.860
 of repentance

00:29:20.860 --> 00:29:21.600
 that's willing

00:29:21.600 --> 00:29:23.039
 to do

00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:24.560
 what's necessary

00:29:24.560 --> 00:29:25.480
 in order to

00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:26.779
 restore what's

00:29:26.779 --> 00:29:27.500
 been lost

00:29:27.500 --> 00:29:28.820
 and to mend

00:29:28.820 --> 00:29:29.519
 and to heal

00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:30.580
 the hurt

00:29:30.580 --> 00:29:31.740
 that's been imposed.

00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:32.980
 And of course,

00:29:33.140 --> 00:29:33.920
 we can't do

00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:34.560
 all of that

00:29:34.560 --> 00:29:35.140
 personally

00:29:35.140 --> 00:29:36.480
 but we entrust

00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.220
 that to the Lord

00:29:37.220 --> 00:29:39.380
 and we allow Him

00:29:39.380 --> 00:29:40.620
 to work in our life

00:29:40.620 --> 00:29:42.960
 and the Lord

00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:44.340
 knows the hearts

00:29:44.340 --> 00:29:45.980
 of these rascals

00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:47.120
 here in the nation

00:29:47.120 --> 00:29:47.580
 of Israel

00:29:47.580 --> 00:29:49.019
 in Judges chapter 10.

00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:51.220
 He knows the truth

00:29:51.220 --> 00:29:52.620
 behind the story.

00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:54.060
 Behind the words,

00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:55.960
 God knows the heart.

00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:58.539
 It's the same

00:29:58.539 --> 00:29:59.360
 of what we find

00:29:59.360 --> 00:30:00.400
 in John chapter 2.

00:30:01.320 --> 00:30:02.240
 John chapter 2

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:03.420
 verses 23 and 24

00:30:03.420 --> 00:30:05.600
 when Jesus is addressing

00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:06.779
 the people

00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:07.580
 in the first century

00:30:07.580 --> 00:30:08.039
 He says,

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:08.980
 Now when He was

00:30:08.980 --> 00:30:09.539
 in Jerusalem

00:30:09.539 --> 00:30:10.600
 at the Passover feast

00:30:10.600 --> 00:30:11.900
 many believed

00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:12.640
 in His name

00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:13.420
 when they saw

00:30:13.420 --> 00:30:13.940
 the signs

00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:14.539
 that He was doing.

00:30:14.860 --> 00:30:15.240
 Hey!

00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:16.519
 Spectacular!

00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:17.960
 They believe in Him!

00:30:20.940 --> 00:30:22.180
 But then it goes on.

00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:23.700
 But Jesus

00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:25.339
 on His part

00:30:25.339 --> 00:30:26.920
 did not entrust

00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:27.799
 Himself to them

00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:29.139
 because He knew

00:30:29.139 --> 00:30:30.660
 all people.

00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:32.839
 Did you catch that?

00:30:33.980 --> 00:30:34.859
 Jesus knew

00:30:34.859 --> 00:30:36.759
 what was truly

00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:37.160
 going on

00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:37.680
 in their life.

00:30:38.460 --> 00:30:39.180
 He knew that

00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:41.619
 they received

00:30:41.619 --> 00:30:43.539
 the spectacle

00:30:43.539 --> 00:30:44.599
 of His miracles.

00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:45.619
 They trusted

00:30:45.619 --> 00:30:46.779
 that He was the one

00:30:46.779 --> 00:30:48.059
 who could do this

00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:48.959
 but they did not

00:30:48.959 --> 00:30:50.000
 believe the man.

00:30:50.239 --> 00:30:50.659
 They believed

00:30:50.659 --> 00:30:51.779
 the miracle worker

00:30:51.779 --> 00:30:52.719
 but they would not

00:30:52.719 --> 00:30:53.639
 believe the man

00:30:53.639 --> 00:30:55.079
 that He was

00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:55.899
 the Son of God

00:30:55.899 --> 00:30:56.859
 and that believing

00:30:56.859 --> 00:30:57.339
 that He was

00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:58.079
 the Son of God

00:30:58.079 --> 00:30:59.439
 it required

00:30:59.439 --> 00:31:01.059
 a posture

00:31:01.059 --> 00:31:02.279
 of worship

00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:03.899
 that He is the Lord

00:31:03.899 --> 00:31:04.879
 that He is the one

00:31:04.879 --> 00:31:06.019
 who calls the shots.

00:31:06.019 --> 00:31:07.259
 It was this

00:31:07.259 --> 00:31:08.099
 superficial

00:31:08.099 --> 00:31:09.759
 kind of faith

00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:11.440
 that had no depth

00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:11.839
 in it

00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:13.619
 to change a life.

00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:17.559
 It's what we find

00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:18.759
 in Matthew chapter 15

00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:20.000
 verses 8 and 9.

00:31:21.339 --> 00:31:21.859
 This people

00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:22.359
 honors me

00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:23.000
 with their lips

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:24.740
 but their heart

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:26.319
 is far from me.

00:31:27.420 --> 00:31:28.079
 In vain

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:29.519
 do they worship me

00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:31.660
 teaching as doctrines

00:31:31.660 --> 00:31:32.240
 the commandments

00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:33.720
 of men.

00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:35.799
 that is

00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:36.740
 a horrifying

00:31:36.740 --> 00:31:38.100
 reality

00:31:38.100 --> 00:31:39.860
 and it's the very

00:31:39.860 --> 00:31:40.660
 thing that's happening

00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:41.960
 here in Judges chapter 10.

00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:43.759
 The people

00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:44.200
 that were

00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:45.259
 worshiping Him

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:46.640
 with their lips

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.299
 but their heart

00:31:47.299 --> 00:31:48.039
 was actually

00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:48.960
 very,

00:31:49.140 --> 00:31:50.200
 very distant

00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:51.299
 and that is probably

00:31:51.299 --> 00:31:52.579
 the most dangerous

00:31:52.579 --> 00:31:53.380
 place to be.

00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:56.539
 We come to church

00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:57.440
 on a Sunday morning.

00:31:58.299 --> 00:31:59.440
 We sing songs

00:31:59.440 --> 00:31:59.860
 that are

00:31:59.860 --> 00:32:01.160
 saturated

00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:02.039
 in the scriptures.

00:32:02.339 --> 00:32:03.259
 We talk

00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:04.119
 about the Lord

00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:04.579
 Jesus

00:32:04.579 --> 00:32:05.480
 in our

00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:06.279
 conversations

00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.240
 before and

00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:09.200
 after the service

00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:10.079
 but nothing

00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:11.240
 has actually

00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:12.059
 changed

00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:13.000
 in our life.

00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:15.319
 We feel

00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:15.879
 safe

00:32:15.879 --> 00:32:16.539
 because we're

00:32:16.539 --> 00:32:16.960
 actually

00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:18.220
 in a place

00:32:18.220 --> 00:32:18.799
 of worship.

00:32:19.180 --> 00:32:19.740
 We're among

00:32:19.740 --> 00:32:20.740
 God's people

00:32:20.740 --> 00:32:21.940
 but it perhaps

00:32:21.940 --> 00:32:22.940
 is the most

00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:23.700
 dangerous

00:32:23.700 --> 00:32:24.559
 place

00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:25.839
 for superficial

00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:27.359
 people to be.

00:32:28.980 --> 00:32:30.059
 So what do we do?

00:32:30.059 --> 00:32:32.379
 well,

00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:33.119
 you say,

00:32:33.179 --> 00:32:33.319
 Lord,

00:32:33.379 --> 00:32:34.259
 I've got blind spots.

00:32:36.019 --> 00:32:36.799
 I need you

00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:37.200
 to examine

00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:37.779
 my life.

00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:39.379
 I need you

00:32:39.379 --> 00:32:40.139
 to shine

00:32:40.139 --> 00:32:40.740
 the spotlight

00:32:40.740 --> 00:32:41.460
 on me.

00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.619
 I can't see

00:32:43.619 --> 00:32:44.500
 what I can't see.

00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:45.299
 I need you

00:32:45.299 --> 00:32:46.039
 to expose

00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:47.960
 the deep realities

00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:48.759
 of my life.

00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:50.559
 I don't want

00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:51.259
 to just be

00:32:51.259 --> 00:32:51.659
 comfortable

00:32:51.659 --> 00:32:52.419
 where I am.

00:32:52.659 --> 00:32:53.539
 I want to be

00:32:53.539 --> 00:32:54.460
 moving in the

00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:54.960
 direction of

00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:55.559
 Jesus Christ.

00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:57.599
 I want

00:32:57.599 --> 00:32:58.859
 his life

00:32:58.859 --> 00:32:59.559
 to be the

00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:00.000
 trajectory

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:00.839
 of my life.

00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:02.000
 I don't want

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:02.759
 to just come

00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:03.299
 to church

00:33:03.299 --> 00:33:03.980
 to be comfortable.

00:33:04.159 --> 00:33:04.440
 I want

00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:05.220
 to come

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:06.339
 here

00:33:06.339 --> 00:33:07.319
 to worship,

00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:08.379
 to serve,

00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:09.940
 and to change.

00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:11.700
 And I want

00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:12.339
 to be part

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:13.099
 of the change

00:33:13.099 --> 00:33:13.799
 in others.

00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:15.339
 Not just to show

00:33:15.339 --> 00:33:16.240
 up as a consumer

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:16.700
 but I want

00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:17.519
 to be one

00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:17.839
 of those

00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:18.480
 individuals

00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:19.960
 that is offering

00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:21.279
 and supporting

00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:22.059
 and encouraging

00:33:22.059 --> 00:33:24.460
 and teaching

00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:25.640
 and admonishing

00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:27.640
 the rest

00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:28.980
 of the congregation

00:33:28.980 --> 00:33:30.039
 to do what

00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:30.940
 Hebrews says

00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:31.640
 to stir one

00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:32.740
 another up

00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:33.180
 to love

00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:33.759
 and good deeds.

00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:34.180
 Lord,

00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:34.960
 I want

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:35.920
 my participation

00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:37.480
 when I come

00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:38.079
 to be with

00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:38.579
 your people

00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:39.700
 to be fully

00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:40.000
 in,

00:33:40.059 --> 00:33:40.660
 to be fully

00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:41.360
 engaged.

00:33:43.100 --> 00:33:43.620
 I don't want

00:33:43.620 --> 00:33:44.000
 to just be

00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:44.660
 a pretender.

00:33:45.860 --> 00:33:46.220
 I want to be

00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:47.019
 somebody who's

00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:48.340
 fully in.

00:33:50.900 --> 00:33:51.660
 We find

00:33:51.660 --> 00:33:53.720
 as we move

00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:54.480
 on to Judges

00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:55.220
 chapter 11.

00:33:55.539 --> 00:33:56.160
 And by the way,

00:33:56.299 --> 00:33:56.900
 we're done.

00:33:57.600 --> 00:33:57.740
 Okay?

00:33:58.079 --> 00:33:59.360
 This is just,

00:33:59.440 --> 00:33:59.940
 I'm going to

00:33:59.940 --> 00:34:00.579
 footnote

00:34:00.579 --> 00:34:01.420
 and we're going

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:02.160
 to pick this

00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:03.000
 up next week.

00:34:03.100 --> 00:34:03.259
 Okay?

00:34:03.339 --> 00:34:03.819
 Because we have,

00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:04.759
 this is now

00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:05.680
 at the heart

00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.360
 of what we need

00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:07.860
 to talk about.

00:34:07.900 --> 00:34:08.860
 I want to rush

00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:09.340
 through this

00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:10.000
 because this is

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:10.400
 probably some

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:10.800
 of the most

00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.780
 important material

00:34:12.780 --> 00:34:13.139
 we're going

00:34:13.139 --> 00:34:13.740
 to get to

00:34:13.740 --> 00:34:14.360
 in the book

00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:14.920
 of Judges

00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.820
 because this

00:34:15.820 --> 00:34:16.240
 is where

00:34:16.240 --> 00:34:16.860
 everything

00:34:16.860 --> 00:34:18.000
 begins to

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:18.840
 become very

00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:20.059
 confusing for us

00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:21.240
 because Jephthah,

00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:22.840
 his speech

00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:23.700
 in Judges

00:34:23.700 --> 00:34:24.500
 chapter 11,

00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.200
 we're going

00:34:25.200 --> 00:34:26.039
 to encounter

00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:27.000
 the name

00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:27.860
 Yahweh,

00:34:28.120 --> 00:34:28.860
 the Lord.

00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:29.500
 And every time

00:34:29.500 --> 00:34:30.059
 you're reading

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:30.500
 through the

00:34:30.500 --> 00:34:31.280
 scriptures and

00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:31.620
 you see

00:34:31.620 --> 00:34:32.440
 capital L,

00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:33.500
 capital O,

00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:34.460
 capital R,

00:34:34.600 --> 00:34:35.220
 capital D,

00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:36.500
 that's the name

00:34:36.500 --> 00:34:37.260
 Yahweh,

00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:38.260
 that's the covenant

00:34:38.260 --> 00:34:39.039
 keeping God.

00:34:39.220 --> 00:34:40.200
 Every time you

00:34:40.200 --> 00:34:41.100
 see that,

00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:42.480
 you think,

00:34:43.120 --> 00:34:44.079
 God's involved.

00:34:46.160 --> 00:34:46.600
 Jephthah is

00:34:46.600 --> 00:34:47.200
 going to use,

00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:47.720
 he's going to

00:34:47.720 --> 00:34:48.880
 invoke the name

00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:49.740
 of Yahweh,

00:34:49.739 --> 00:34:51.019
 I think some

00:34:51.019 --> 00:34:52.659
 15 times

00:34:52.659 --> 00:34:53.559
 throughout this

00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:53.939
 chapter,

00:34:54.139 --> 00:34:54.819
 but let me tell

00:34:54.819 --> 00:34:54.939
 you,

00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:55.859
 he is not

00:34:55.859 --> 00:34:57.399
 talking about

00:34:57.399 --> 00:34:58.839
 the Lord

00:34:58.839 --> 00:35:02.799
 in the economy

00:35:02.799 --> 00:35:04.379
 of God

00:35:04.379 --> 00:35:04.819
 himself.

00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:06.659
 His concept

00:35:06.659 --> 00:35:07.679
 about the Lord,

00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:07.979
 and I'm going

00:35:07.979 --> 00:35:08.419
 to show this

00:35:08.419 --> 00:35:09.219
 to you more

00:35:09.219 --> 00:35:09.599
 next week,

00:35:09.699 --> 00:35:10.819
 is so polluted,

00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:12.359
 it's so immersed

00:35:12.359 --> 00:35:13.219
 in culture,

00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:14.379
 it's been so

00:35:14.379 --> 00:35:15.679
 corrupted that he

00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:17.079
 has no idea

00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:18.119
 what he's talking

00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:18.399
 about.

00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.000
 He's talking

00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:20.700
 about the Lord,

00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:21.360
 but it doesn't

00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:22.820
 mean the Lord

00:35:22.820 --> 00:35:25.000
 God himself,

00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:25.579
 the covenant

00:35:25.579 --> 00:35:26.440
 keeping God,

00:35:26.860 --> 00:35:28.700
 and when the

00:35:28.700 --> 00:35:29.079
 Spirit of the

00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:29.800
 Lord comes upon

00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:30.099
 him,

00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:32.180
 we have come

00:35:32.180 --> 00:35:33.440
 to take that

00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:34.519
 to mean that

00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:35.460
 when the Spirit

00:35:35.460 --> 00:35:36.400
 of God is there,

00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:37.840
 then he's validating

00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:38.940
 the ministry or

00:35:38.940 --> 00:35:39.720
 the work of that

00:35:39.720 --> 00:35:40.200
 individual.

00:35:40.460 --> 00:35:41.079
 Well, that is not

00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:42.440
 the case here in

00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:43.980
 Judges chapter 11

00:35:43.980 --> 00:35:44.900
 and ongoing.

00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:47.500
 the Spirit

00:35:47.500 --> 00:35:47.700
 of the Lord

00:35:47.700 --> 00:35:48.619
 comes on the

00:35:48.619 --> 00:35:50.340
 man in spite

00:35:50.340 --> 00:35:51.340
 of the man

00:35:51.340 --> 00:35:53.360
 because the

00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:54.059
 Spirit of God

00:35:54.059 --> 00:35:54.740
 is keeping

00:35:54.740 --> 00:35:56.200
 true to his

00:35:56.200 --> 00:35:57.119
 covenant-keeping

00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:57.700
 nature,

00:35:58.539 --> 00:35:59.220
 his covenant

00:35:59.220 --> 00:35:59.900
 to Abraham,

00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:00.579
 Isaac,

00:36:00.680 --> 00:36:01.180
 and Jacob,

00:36:01.700 --> 00:36:02.320
 and the

00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:03.280
 instruments that

00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:04.099
 he's using

00:36:04.099 --> 00:36:06.400
 are just there

00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:07.420
 to show the

00:36:07.420 --> 00:36:08.079
 faithfulness and

00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:08.619
 mercy of our

00:36:08.619 --> 00:36:08.940
 God.

00:36:09.720 --> 00:36:10.300
 We'll see that

00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:10.480
 more.

00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:11.719
 We have

00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:12.260
 come to

00:36:12.260 --> 00:36:14.059
 know from

00:36:14.059 --> 00:36:14.719
 the New Testament

00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:15.519
 ministry of the

00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:16.019
 Holy Spirit

00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:16.699
 that when the

00:36:16.699 --> 00:36:17.480
 Holy Spirit

00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:18.920
 comes within

00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:19.599
 an individual,

00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:20.539
 he changes

00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:20.960
 them.

00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:22.360
 He transforms

00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:22.820
 them.

00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:23.320
 We see that

00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:24.000
 in Titus

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:24.659
 chapter 3

00:36:24.659 --> 00:36:25.780
 verse 5.

00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:26.679
 It talks about

00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:27.380
 that we were

00:36:27.380 --> 00:36:28.559
 washed, we were

00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:29.579
 regenerated,

00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:31.519
 we're cleansed,

00:36:31.740 --> 00:36:32.539
 not by works

00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:33.280
 of righteousness

00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:34.119
 which you have

00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:34.460
 done, but

00:36:34.460 --> 00:36:34.920
 according to

00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:35.579
 his mercy

00:36:35.579 --> 00:36:36.619
 he saved us

00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:37.740
 by the washing

00:36:37.740 --> 00:36:38.980
 of regeneration,

00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:40.260
 by the renewing

00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:40.620
 of the Holy

00:36:40.620 --> 00:36:41.020
 Spirit.

00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:41.780
 That's the

00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:42.320
 work in the

00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:42.880
 New Testament

00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:44.440
 that we often

00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:45.700
 carry over

00:36:45.700 --> 00:36:46.760
 into the Old

00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:47.280
 Testament and

00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:48.280
 assume that

00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:49.040
 when the Spirit

00:36:49.040 --> 00:36:49.560
 of God is

00:36:49.560 --> 00:36:50.200
 present, then

00:36:50.200 --> 00:36:51.660
 the man who

00:36:51.660 --> 00:36:52.360
 is being used

00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:52.920
 by the Spirit

00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:53.460
 is also

00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:54.700
 validated, his

00:36:54.700 --> 00:36:55.460
 ministry is

00:36:55.460 --> 00:36:56.400
 confirmed, and

00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:57.060
 that is not

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 what's happening.

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:01.040
 And that

00:37:01.040 --> 00:37:02.400
 perhaps is

00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:03.960
 also very

00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:04.300
 scary.

00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:08.020
 There's a lot

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 of things that

00:37:08.560 --> 00:37:09.640
 God graciously

00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:11.199
 allows us

00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:12.759
 to do that

00:37:12.759 --> 00:37:13.259
 really have

00:37:13.259 --> 00:37:13.819
 nothing to

00:37:13.819 --> 00:37:14.900
 do with

00:37:14.900 --> 00:37:15.339
 God's work

00:37:15.339 --> 00:37:15.559
 in our

00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:15.879
 life.

00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:17.559
 And we're

00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:17.719
 going to

00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:19.059
 see, we're

00:37:19.059 --> 00:37:19.159
 going to

00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:19.539
 see from

00:37:19.539 --> 00:37:20.099
 the life of

00:37:20.099 --> 00:37:20.639
 Jephthah how

00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:21.819
 he barters

00:37:21.819 --> 00:37:22.460
 with God, how

00:37:22.460 --> 00:37:23.379
 he negotiates

00:37:23.379 --> 00:37:23.879
 with God.

00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:25.359
 And it's the

00:37:25.359 --> 00:37:25.920
 same kind of

00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:26.659
 thing we find

00:37:26.659 --> 00:37:27.460
 ourselves doing

00:37:27.460 --> 00:37:29.639
 periodically when

00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:30.400
 we say, God

00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:30.900
 if you just

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:31.859
 fix this

00:37:31.859 --> 00:37:33.199
 crisis, you

00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:34.019
 fix this

00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:35.279
 problem, then

00:37:35.279 --> 00:37:35.900
 I'm going to

00:37:35.900 --> 00:37:37.299
 give my whole

00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:38.060
 life to you.

00:37:39.680 --> 00:37:39.980
 I'm going to

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:40.539
 go back to

00:37:40.539 --> 00:37:41.519
 church, I'm

00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:43.240
 going to send

00:37:43.240 --> 00:37:43.760
 this money,

00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:44.720
 whatever it

00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:45.720
 is, and it's

00:37:45.720 --> 00:37:46.620
 the same kind

00:37:46.620 --> 00:37:47.600
 of thing that

00:37:47.600 --> 00:37:48.100
 happens in

00:37:48.100 --> 00:37:48.680
 Jephthah's heart

00:37:48.680 --> 00:37:49.380
 and life.

00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:50.820
 It's this

00:37:50.820 --> 00:37:51.740
 negotiation that

00:37:51.740 --> 00:37:52.360
 takes place

00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.260
 where God is a

00:37:55.260 --> 00:37:55.580
 part of the

00:37:55.580 --> 00:37:57.700
 equation, but

00:37:57.700 --> 00:37:58.400
 I'm at the

00:37:58.400 --> 00:37:59.460
 center rather

00:37:59.460 --> 00:37:59.940
 than God being

00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:00.460
 at the center.

00:38:01.700 --> 00:38:02.200
 We're going to

00:38:02.200 --> 00:38:02.640
 talk about that

00:38:02.640 --> 00:38:03.780
 more next week.

00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:05.380
 But the

00:38:05.380 --> 00:38:07.000
 beauty, the

00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:07.440
 beauty of what

00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:07.980
 we're about to

00:38:07.980 --> 00:38:08.760
 celebrate here, the

00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:09.180
 beauty of what

00:38:09.180 --> 00:38:10.200
 we're going to

00:38:10.200 --> 00:38:11.360
 remember is

00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:12.220
 communion, the

00:38:12.220 --> 00:38:14.000
 work of the

00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:14.440
 Lord Jesus

00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:15.960
 Christ to

00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:17.660
 change all of

00:38:17.660 --> 00:38:18.340
 that for us.

00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:20.860
 All of that

00:38:20.860 --> 00:38:22.620
 polluted motives,

00:38:22.900 --> 00:38:23.560
 all of those

00:38:23.560 --> 00:38:26.060
 obscured desires,

00:38:26.380 --> 00:38:27.140
 all of those

00:38:27.140 --> 00:38:27.940
 things that

00:38:27.940 --> 00:38:29.440
 flood in and

00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.019
 want to turn

00:38:31.019 --> 00:38:32.420
 us upside down

00:38:32.420 --> 00:38:33.220
 can be corrected

00:38:33.219 --> 00:38:34.519
 and changed

00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:36.139
 and cleansed

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:36.739
 by the Lord

00:38:36.739 --> 00:38:37.219
 himself.

00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:39.739
 We find in

00:38:39.739 --> 00:38:41.959
 1 John 1.9,

00:38:42.019 --> 00:38:42.500
 if we confess

00:38:42.500 --> 00:38:44.039
 our sin, he is

00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:44.939
 faithful and just

00:38:44.939 --> 00:38:45.579
 to forgive our

00:38:45.579 --> 00:38:46.539
 sin and to

00:38:46.539 --> 00:38:47.819
 cleanse us from

00:38:47.819 --> 00:38:49.779
 all unrighteousness.

00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:52.359
 There is a

00:38:52.359 --> 00:38:53.459
 reset that's

00:38:53.459 --> 00:38:53.939
 available.

00:38:54.439 --> 00:38:55.299
 It's available

00:38:55.299 --> 00:38:55.919
 through Christ.

00:38:57.099 --> 00:38:59.099
 So, if you

00:38:59.099 --> 00:38:59.859
 feel like a

00:38:59.859 --> 00:39:01.119
 failure, like I

00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:03.319
 often do, you

00:39:03.319 --> 00:39:04.339
 feel like I

00:39:04.339 --> 00:39:04.679
 wish you could

00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:05.319
 go back and

00:39:05.319 --> 00:39:06.380
 fix all the

00:39:06.380 --> 00:39:07.119
 brokenness that

00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:07.579
 I've created,

00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:09.400
 you say, if I

00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:10.480
 just made better

00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.880
 decisions in my

00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:13.139
 life, things

00:39:13.139 --> 00:39:13.679
 would be better

00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:14.039
 now.

00:39:16.259 --> 00:39:17.339
 The Lord Jesus,

00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:19.099
 by his grace,

00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:20.719
 can change that.

00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:22.480
 He won't

00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:23.239
 necessarily change

00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:25.019
 the past, but

00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:25.480
 he's going to

00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:26.359
 change the

00:39:26.359 --> 00:39:26.719
 person.

00:39:27.579 --> 00:39:27.819
 He's going to

00:39:27.819 --> 00:39:28.279
 change you.

00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:29.580
 He's going to

00:39:29.580 --> 00:39:30.820
 help you be

00:39:30.820 --> 00:39:31.519
 changed from the

00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:31.940
 inside out.

00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:32.420
 There's this

00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:33.860
 transformation that

00:39:33.860 --> 00:39:36.460
 those who place

00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:37.320
 their faith in the

00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:38.940
 Lord Jesus get to

00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:39.600
 anticipate.

00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:40.800
 Transformation,

00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:42.000
 being changed from

00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:43.019
 one degree of

00:39:43.019 --> 00:39:43.820
 glory to the

00:39:43.820 --> 00:39:44.019
 other.

00:39:44.220 --> 00:39:44.920
 That's what 2

00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:45.760
 Corinthians 4

00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:46.320
 talks about.

00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:47.980
 And that's

00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:49.019
 what's offered to

00:39:49.019 --> 00:39:51.380
 us through the

00:39:51.380 --> 00:39:52.540
 death and

00:39:52.540 --> 00:39:53.480
 resurrection of our

00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:53.920
 Lord Jesus.

00:39:54.019 --> 00:39:54.500
 That's what we

00:39:54.500 --> 00:39:55.360
 celebrate this

00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:55.560
 morning.

00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:56.080
 Let me pray.

00:39:56.720 --> 00:39:57.140
 I'll ask the

00:39:57.140 --> 00:39:57.680
 deacons to come

00:39:57.680 --> 00:39:58.040
 forward.

00:39:58.280 --> 00:39:58.980
 And we'll

00:39:58.980 --> 00:39:59.360
 remember the

00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:00.600
 Lord Jesus in

00:40:00.600 --> 00:40:00.980
 our time of

00:40:00.980 --> 00:40:01.280
 communion.

00:40:02.420 --> 00:40:03.380
 Lord, thank you

00:40:03.380 --> 00:40:04.180
 for sending your

00:40:04.180 --> 00:40:04.920
 son, Jesus.

00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:07.200
 Thank you that he

00:40:07.200 --> 00:40:07.860
 lived the perfect

00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:08.500
 life that we

00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:09.160
 could never

00:40:09.160 --> 00:40:10.260
 live.

00:40:12.040 --> 00:40:13.980
 Lord, as we

00:40:13.980 --> 00:40:14.760
 take this honest

00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:16.120
 look at ourselves,

00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.960
 we recognize that

00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:19.600
 there are areas

00:40:19.600 --> 00:40:20.440
 that are out of

00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:20.840
 step.

00:40:22.540 --> 00:40:23.460
 And so, we

00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:24.980
 pray that by

00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:25.820
 your grace, you

00:40:25.820 --> 00:40:26.880
 would expose us,

00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:28.400
 that you would

00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.059
 draw attention to

00:40:30.059 --> 00:40:30.760
 those things that

00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:33.660
 are not godly,

00:40:34.660 --> 00:40:36.200
 and that by your

00:40:36.200 --> 00:40:38.079
 spirit and by your

00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:39.500
 power, you would

00:40:39.500 --> 00:40:40.860
 help us to walk

00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:42.800
 like Christ, to

00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:44.240
 walk worthy of the

00:40:44.240 --> 00:40:44.599
 gospel.

00:40:46.300 --> 00:40:47.260
 Thank you for

00:40:47.260 --> 00:40:48.579
 sending your son so

00:40:48.579 --> 00:40:49.180
 that we could

00:40:49.180 --> 00:40:51.059
 anticipate a life

00:40:51.059 --> 00:40:52.240
 with God that

00:40:52.240 --> 00:40:53.440
 begins the moment

00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:54.180
 of faith.

00:40:54.179 --> 00:40:56.899
 as we remember

00:40:56.899 --> 00:40:57.699
 this this morning,

00:40:57.879 --> 00:40:58.579
 this do in

00:40:58.579 --> 00:40:59.519
 remembrance of me,

00:40:59.899 --> 00:41:00.500
 as we remember

00:41:00.500 --> 00:41:01.319
 your work this

00:41:01.319 --> 00:41:02.039
 morning, I pray,

00:41:02.659 --> 00:41:03.339
 that it would

00:41:03.339 --> 00:41:05.980
 move us along

00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:06.659
 this path of

00:41:06.659 --> 00:41:08.039
 repentance, of

00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:08.799
 real change,

00:41:08.940 --> 00:41:09.699
 heart change,

00:41:09.839 --> 00:41:10.699
 life change,

00:41:11.919 --> 00:41:13.219
 that those who

00:41:13.219 --> 00:41:14.419
 look at us will

00:41:14.419 --> 00:41:15.940
 see not us, but

00:41:15.940 --> 00:41:16.419
 they'll see our

00:41:16.419 --> 00:41:17.819
 Lord Jesus, and

00:41:17.819 --> 00:41:18.359
 they'll give glory

00:41:18.359 --> 00:41:18.699
 to him.

00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:19.679
 We pray in your

00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:19.879
 name.

00:41:20.099 --> 00:41:20.299
 Amen.

00:41:24.179 --> 00:41:25.179
 Amen.

00:41:25.179 --> 00:41:26.179
 Amen.

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