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 Dating the narratives of the book of Judges is a very difficult thing to do.

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 Most scholars don't agree on exactly when all of these narratives fit together in a chronological arrangement.

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 And the author doesn't really clue us in much to that.

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 But it is safe to at least assume that nearly two centuries, if not more, have passed between the time that the settlement of the land of Canaan began after the Joshua generation to this time of Abimelech and Shechem and this whole scene in chapter 9.

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 And I want you to think about that for just a moment, how quickly things can change, let alone change over the course of 200 years.

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 Our old nation is nearly 250 years old, 250 years almost, at least since the Revolutionary War.

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 And we would say our nation today looks very different than it looked 250 years ago.

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 The culture is very different.

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 The way we think about God is very different.

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 The way we live, the amount of people is very different.

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 Now, put yourselves now in Israel's shoes.

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 It's been probably a couple of hundred years now since the very beginning.

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 A couple of hundred years of degrading as far as their spiritual lives are concerned.

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 And the condition of Israel couldn't be more different at this point in chapter 9.

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 It is a far cry away from where we began the book of Judges.

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 In the beginning, the nation is unified.

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 They're united together.

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 The people were concerned to seek the Lord's will and counsel in the way that they were going to go about actually settling the land.

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 Remember all the leaders in the very first verse of the book.

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 They've gathered together to pray, to seek the Lord's direction.

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 That's what's happening in the beginning.

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 They flourished under the leadership of Judah.

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 Judah, the ones that God seemed to have been using, even prophesying, would be leading the nation moving forward.

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 And they were committed to worshiping and serving the Lord their God.

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 But the Israel of chapter 9 doesn't resemble the Israel of chapter 1 at all.

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 They're not unified as God's people.

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 They're acting actually independently of one another.

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 All of these stories that we're reading, all of these narratives, it's using the term for Israel, but it's not really referring to the nation as a whole.

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 It's these little pockets of conflict.

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 These pockets where people are just not united as a nation anymore.

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 Everybody's doing their own thing now.

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 They're acting independently of one another.

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 There's no concern for God's plans among the people.

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 Not a single mention of going to the tabernacle in Shiloh to seek the Lord's direction on what they should be doing.

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 They're not concerned about that anymore.

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 They've completely turned away from Yahweh to serve the Baals instead.

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 And rather than following Judah's leadership as a united nation, regional groups, as we see in chapter 9,

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 are now anointing kings of their own.

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 They're mimicking the pagan tribal groups that are around them.

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 And then finally, there's no more talk of settling the land.

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 Have you picked up on that?

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 The further we get into this book, the more distant the whole concept of a land of promise becomes.

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 Nobody's talking about it.

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 Nobody seems concerned about it.

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 The thought of a promised land flowing with milk and honey seems to be a distant dream that no one really cares about or believes in anymore.

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 They've mingled with the people of the land.

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 And God's people have been thoroughly Canaanized.

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 And on the surface, this narrative that follows Abimelech, it fills out a place in the book.

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 At least at first.

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 There are hints of this cycle of apostasy that characterizes the book.

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 But the story is missing some key components of that.

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 We find that the people have turned away from God, as we typically see stated.

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 But there's no outside enemy oppressing them in this story.

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 The enemy actually comes from the inside, not the outside.

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 There's no cry for help to God regarding their condition.

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 There's no deliverer chosen by God to save the people.

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 There's no period of rest that follows.

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 The wheels have essentially fallen off of even the cycle where Israel's apostasy seems nearly complete.

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 So what exactly is this section here for?

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 What's it meant to teach us?

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 The chapter is about what happens when we live as if God isn't there and as if his instructions do not matter.

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 What does it look like when God's people actually abandon God?

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 What is the nature of their lives?

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 What characterizes what happens to them?

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 What is the outflow of that?

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 And what we find in Judges is that when the people were faithful to Yahweh, they flourished.

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 They enjoyed intimate fellowship with God through the means of worship that he had ordained.

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 They received the blessings from his hand.

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 But they became more attracted to the bells.

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 They became more attracted to the life that was lived by those who worshiped Baal rather than God.

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 They forsook the Lord.

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 And while they might have enjoyed a season of pleasure during that time,

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 as Hebrews 11 tells us, there is indeed pleasure and sin for a season.

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 We get to chapter 9 and they're discovering very quickly, at least the people around Shechem,

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 that life under Baal is not as great as they had imagined.

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 That's what this chapter is about.

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 Instead of a life of blessing, they're surrounded by death and destruction.

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 And this passage is a warning for all who are being drawn away from God to pursue a life without him.

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 And the lesson is that true flourishing derives from faithfulness to God,

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 while the ways of this world will only bring about death.

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 That's the big picture.

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 Now, the details of the narrative are tied together by three specific texts

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 that help us understand and apply the story as a whole.

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 So what I want to do is I want to start by just working through, really just quickly,

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 just working through the whole story all the way through the end of chapter 9, okay?

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 Kind of like what we do with the scripture readings.

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 In fact, you'll be pleased to know that I actually wrote no manuscript for this part of the sermon,

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 so we won't be here for three hours just on this one part.

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 But I do want you to at least see a sketch of the outline of this story.

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 We need to understand what's happening.

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 And then once we do that, we're going to come back,

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 and we're going to look at three key texts that kind of tie it all together

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 and give us the purpose of our study for the day, okay?

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 So let's look at this structure.

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 The first thing that we find is in verses 1 through 6,

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 we find Abimelech's conspiracy.

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 And these are in the screen.

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 If you'd like to keep a note of them, you can.

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 This is Abimelech's conspiracy.

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 Let's read it again.

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 Now Abimelech, the son of Jerobel, went to Shechem, to his mother's relatives,

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 and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,

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 Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem,

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 which is better for you,

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 that all 70 of the sons of Jerobel rule over you?

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 Or that one rule over you?

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 Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

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 I mean, it's pretty clear to see what he's saying here, right?

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 We are introduced to Abimelech earlier in chapter 8 in verse 30.

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 Now Gideon had 70 sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives,

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 and his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son,

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 and he called his name Abimelech, okay?

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 So we're introduced to Abimelech there.

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 We find out that his mother was a concubine of Gideon's,

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 that she belonged to the people of Shechem,

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 and now not wanting to share any possible power or rule with his 70 brothers,

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 he goes to his mother's relatives in Shechem,

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 and he says, listen, do you want all of these guys ruling over you,

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 or do you just want one king?

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 And by the way, if you think it's good to have one king,

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 wouldn't one of your own people make a great king?

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 I am yours.

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 What an honor it would be for you Shechemites

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 if somebody from Shechem was the king and was the ruler who was ruling over us,

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 and that sounded pretty attractive to them.

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 Look at verse 3.

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 His mother's relatives spoke all the words on his behalf

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 in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem,

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 and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech,

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 for they said, he is our brother.

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 Isn't that such a foolish way to choose a ruler?

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 There's no talk of qualification.

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 There's no talk of competency.

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 It's just, he's one of us.

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 Sure, he can be king.

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 And then they were complicit in what he had plans to do.

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 They gave him 70 pieces of silver out of the house of their false god, Belbereth,

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 with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows who followed him.

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 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah,

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 and he killed all of his brothers.

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 Now, there's irony in that, isn't there?

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 He goes to his supposed relatives in Shechem,

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 and he says, I'm your brother.

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 Let me be your king, and I'll deal with my other brothers by killing them.

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 Okay, there's a bit of foreshadowing here, right?

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 Right?

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 Like, surely, somebody in Shechem thought,

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 if he's willing to murder the other brothers,

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 at what point is he going to turn on us as his brothers as well?

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 But they're not thinking like that, are they?

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 They're thinking so carnally at this moment.

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 He kills all of his brothers,

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 but Jotham, the youngest, was left, and he hid himself.

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 And then the leaders made Abimelech their king.

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 So, Abimelech's conspiracy.

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 Here's the next part of the outline.

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 Jotham's curse.

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 Jotham's curse.

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 In two parts to this, first we see the fable told.

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 Look at verse 7.

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 When it was told, Jotham,

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 he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim,

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 and he cried aloud and said to them,

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 Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem,

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 that God may listen to you.

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 And he tells this story.

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 The trees once went out to anoint a king over them,

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 and they said to the olive tree,

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 Reign over us.

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 But the olive tree said to them,

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 Shall I leave my abundance,

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 by which gods and men are honored,

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 and go hold sway over the trees?

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 So the tree said to the fig tree,

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 You come and reign over us.

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 But the fig tree said to them,

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 Shall I leave my sweetness,

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 and my good fruit,

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 and go hold sway over the trees?

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 So the tree said to the vine,

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 You come and reign over us.

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 But the vine said to them,

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 Shall I leave my wine,

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 that cheers God and men,

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 and go hold sway over the trees?

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 Then all the trees said to the bramble,

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 a bush,

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 You come and reign over us.

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 And the bramble said to the trees,

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 If in good faith you are anointing me king over you,

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 then come and take refuge in my shade.

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 An irony,

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 because a bramble has no shade.

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 But if not,

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 let fire come out from the bramble,

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 and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

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 So you can imagine,

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 Abimelech and the people of Shechem,

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 and of Beth Milo,

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 which is probably attached to Shechem in some way,

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 they're gathered over here at the Diviner's Oak,

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 and they are in the process of anointing Abimelech

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 as their king,

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 and then they hear this voice crying out

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 from a distance on Mount Gerizim,

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 and he tells this weird story about trees

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 that they're desperate to find the king,

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 and it becomes clear what this story is about.

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 The trees here are the people of Shechem.

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 They're trying to find a king,

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 and they're trying to find their king,

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 but none of the qualified people want to be their king.

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 And so what do they do?

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 They find the bramble.

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 The bramble represented by Abimelech.

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 Abimelech who has no shade.

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 A bramble who provides no fruit.

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 Thorns and thistles is what he is represented by here,

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 and that's who they make their king.

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 And he says,

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 if you do this in good faith,

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 great.

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 If you don't,

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 if you turn on me,

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 fire will come from the bramble,

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 and we'll destroy you.

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 This is an interesting story.

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 Now, we need to at least acknowledge

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 the problem here is not that they want a king.

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 That's actually a good thing.

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 It's actually a necessary thing in the themes of judges.

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 Dale Ralph Davis says,

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 the fable does not stress the worthlessness of kingship,

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 but the worthlessness of Abimelech.

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 The concern is not that the worthy candidates

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 depreciate the offer of kingship,

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 but that the bramble accepts it.

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 That's the emphasis here is on the bramble, right?

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 Okay, then we find the fable interpreted or explained.

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 Verse 16.

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 Jotham says,

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 Now, therefore,

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 if you acted in good faith and integrity

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 when you made Abimelech king,

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 and if you have dealt well with Jerobel and his house

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 and have done to him as his deeds deserved,

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 for my father fought for you and risked his life

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 and delivered you from the hand of Midian,

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 and you have risen up against my father's house this day

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 and have killed his son,

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 70 men on one stone,

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 and have made Abimelech the son of his female servant king

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 over the leaders of Shechem,

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 because he's your relative.

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 If you then have acted in good faith and integrity

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 with Jerobel and his house this day,

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 then rejoice in Abimelech and let him also rejoice in you.

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 But if not,

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 let fire come out from Abimelech

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 and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth Milo,

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 and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem

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 and from Beth Milo to devour Abimelech.

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 And then Jotham does what any good preacher does.

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 He ran away and fled and went to Beer

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 and lived there because of Abimelech, his brother.

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 Jotham drops the bomb,

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 and he hightails it out of there

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 so that they couldn't get to him.

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 I heard somebody say,

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 I think it was on a Bible Talk podcast,

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 they said sometimes ministry is like being the pilot

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 of a Delta aircraft.

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 Everybody's happy to get on the plane

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 and they get where they need to go

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 and everything's good.

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 And when they get off,

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 they're clapping for the pilot.

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 Thank you so much for such a wonderful flight.

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 He said sometimes it's actually more like a B-52 bomber.

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 You fly in and you drop the bomb

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 and then you just try to get back to your wife and kids

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 as fast as you can safely, right?

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 We see a little bit of that with Jotham here.

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 He proclaims his warning,

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 he makes his prophecy,

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 and he hightails it out there so that he can live.

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 All right, that moves us to the next big section,

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 God's judgment.

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 So three primary sections.

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 We've got Abimelech's conspiracy,

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 Jotham's curse,

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 and then God's judgment.

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 And this is where we see fire

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 come from all the people involved.

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 First, there's fire from Shechem.

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 Verse 25,

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 the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush

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 against Abimelech on the mountaintops

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 and they robbed all who passed by them

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 along that way

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 and it was told to Abimelech.

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 Then we're introduced in verses 26 to 29,

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 this outsider named Gaal or Gal,

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 the son of Ebed,

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 he moves into Shechem with his relatives

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 and in a night of drunken, false worship,

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 he lifts up his voice against Abimelech.

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 He rallies the people of Shechem to his side.

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 Everybody now wants to mutiny

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 against Abimelech as their king,

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 but Abimelech has an insider who informs them

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 and that's what we're told about

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 in verses 25 to 29,

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 fire from Shechem.

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 Then we get to verses 30 to 49,

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 just a large section here.

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 We see fire from Abimelech,

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 fire from Abimelech.

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 First against Gaal or Gal.

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 Notice verse 30,

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 when Zebel, the ruler of the city,

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 heard the words of Gaal, the son of Ebed,

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 his anger was kindled

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 and he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly saying,

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 behold, Gaal, the son of Ebed

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 and his relatives have come to Shechem

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 and they are stirring up the city against you.

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 Now therefore go by night,

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 you and the people who are with you

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 and set an ambush in the field.

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 Jump to verse 34.

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 So Abimelech and all the men

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 who were with him rose up by night.

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 They set an ambush against Shechem

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 and four companies.

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 Gaal, the son of Ebed,

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 went out and stood in the entrance

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 of the gate of the city

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 and Abimelech,

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 the people who were with him,

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 rose from the ambush.

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 And when Gaal saw the people,

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 he said to Zebel,

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 look, people are coming down

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 from the mountains.

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 And Zebel says,

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 ah, it's just a shadow.

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 Don't worry about it.

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 37, Gaal spoke again and said,

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 look, people are coming down

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 from the center of the land

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 and one company is coming

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 from the direction of the diviner's oak.

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 And then Zebel speaks up,

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 where is your mouth now?

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 You who said,

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 who is Abimelech,

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 that we should serve him.

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 Skip down to verse 40.

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 And Abimelech chased him

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 and he fled before him

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 and many fell wounded

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 up to the entrance of the gate.

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 So first,

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 there's fire from Shechem,

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 then there's fire from Abimelech

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 and it begins with this,

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 this kind of external figure

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 that has come in

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 and has created this stir

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 amongst the city,

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 turning the people against Abimelech.

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 But then the fire moves on

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 from against Gaal

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 to against Shechem itself.

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 Verse 42,

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 on the following day,

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 the people went out into the field.

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 Abimelech was told

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 and he took his people

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 and divided them

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 into three companies

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 and he set an ambush in the field

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 and he looked

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 and saw the people

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 coming out of the city.

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 So he rose against them

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 and he killed them.

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 Now the picture is changing now.

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 First, it's against this guy

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 who essentially

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 has opened up his big mouth

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 in a drunken stupor

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 and has incited war

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 with Abimelech.

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 But now,

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 on the next day,

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 Abimelech sits outside the city.

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 He just waits for the citizens

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 to come out

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 and do their work in the field

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 and as soon as they come out

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 to go about their business,

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 he kills them all.

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 He just absolutely

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 lays waste to the people.

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 A few of them were told

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 escape to a tower

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 in verse 46.

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 All the leaders

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 of the tower of Shechem

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 heard of it.

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 They entered the stronghold

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 of the house of Bareth

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 and basically,

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 Abimelech and his men,

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 they get a bunch of trees,

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 they lay them up

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 against the stronghold

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 of the tower

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 and if you skip down

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 to verse 49,

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 we see,

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 so every one of the people

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 cut down his bundle

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 following Abimelech,

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 put it against the stronghold.

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 They set the stronghold on fire

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 so that all the people

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 of the tower of Shechem

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 also died,

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 about a thousand men and women.

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 Abimelech kills them all.

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 He raises the city,

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 sows it with salt.

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 It doesn't get rebuilt

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 for a long time

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 in the Old Testament narrative.

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 Shechem now

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 has faced the wrath

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 of their king, Abimelech.

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 But what's going to happen

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 to Abimelech?

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 Well, there's a final point.

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 We see fire from this place

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 called Thebes,

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 which isn't mentioned

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 up to this point in the text,

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 but it's concluding for us

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 what happens to Abimelech.

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 Verse 50,

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 Then Abimelech went to Thebes

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 and encamped against Thebes

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 and captured it.

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 But there was a strong tower

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 within the city

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 and all the men and women

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 and all the leaders

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 of the city fled to it

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 and shut themselves in

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 and they went up

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 to the roof of the tower.

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 Abimelech came to the tower

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 and fought against it

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 and drew near to the door

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 to the tower

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 to burn it with fire.

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 And a certain woman

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 threw an upper millstone

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 on Abimelech's head

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 and crushed his skull.

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 Then he called quickly

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 to the young man

00:21:05.080 --> 00:21:06.020
 his armor bearer

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 and he said to him,

00:21:07.620 --> 00:21:08.440
 Draw your sword

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 and kill me

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 lest they say of me

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 a woman killed me.

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 And this young man

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 thrust him through

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 and he died.

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 It is quite funny, isn't it?

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 It's actually a foreshadow

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 I think of Saul.

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 So much of this story

00:21:23.560 --> 00:21:24.560
 points us to what

00:21:24.560 --> 00:21:25.480
 Israel's going to do

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 as a whole

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 when they want Saul

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 as their king.

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 He's not God's man.

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 He's Israel's man.

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 And his life ends

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 much the same way.

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 It's not at the hands

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 of a woman

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 but he is about to die

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 but he can't handle

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 the dishonor of that

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 so he asks for his armor bearer

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 to take his life for him.

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 We see some foreshadowing

00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:48.620
 but then perhaps

00:21:48.620 --> 00:21:49.819
 the most humorous part

00:21:49.819 --> 00:21:50.559
 is verse 55

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 also tragic.

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 When the men of Israel

00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:55.120
 saw that Abimelech was dead

00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:57.200
 everyone departed

00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:57.779
 to his home.

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 This wasn't about God.

00:22:01.860 --> 00:22:03.140
 It wasn't about Israel.

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 This wasn't about

00:22:04.360 --> 00:22:05.440
 what was good for the people.

00:22:06.059 --> 00:22:07.660
 This was a wicked man

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 who should have never

00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:09.819
 been in leadership

00:22:09.819 --> 00:22:11.000
 but somebody put him there.

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 And everybody knows it

00:22:13.140 --> 00:22:15.000
 and they're going along with it

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:16.180
 because they're afraid of him

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 and the second that they find

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 that he's dead

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 they just drop their weapons.

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 They say,

00:22:21.099 --> 00:22:22.140
 alright, we don't have to do this anymore

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 and they go home

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 and they live their lives.

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 Interesting, isn't it?

00:22:26.700 --> 00:22:28.019
 Alright, well that's the story, okay?

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 Let's look at three texts

00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:32.859
 that kind of tie all of this together

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 and help us understand

00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:35.240
 what this is really about, okay?

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 Number one,

00:22:37.059 --> 00:22:38.099
 God was forgotten.

00:22:38.099 --> 00:22:41.599
 God was forgotten.

00:22:42.779 --> 00:22:44.699
 Go back to chapter 8, would you?

00:22:45.679 --> 00:22:48.339
 And look with me at verses 33 to 35 again.

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 As soon as Gideon died,

00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:55.619
 the people of Israel turned again

00:22:55.619 --> 00:22:58.299
 and they whored after the Baals

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 and made Belbereth their God.

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 And the people of Israel

00:23:02.539 --> 00:23:05.579
 did not remember the Lord their God

00:23:05.579 --> 00:23:07.460
 who had delivered them

00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:08.859
 from the hand of all their enemies

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 on every side.

00:23:10.460 --> 00:23:13.039
 And they did not show steadfast love

00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:14.899
 to the family of Jerobel,

00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:16.179
 that is Gideon,

00:23:16.679 --> 00:23:18.779
 in return for all the good

00:23:18.779 --> 00:23:21.399
 that he had done to Israel.

00:23:22.679 --> 00:23:24.259
 This whole episode

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:26.179
 with Abimelech and Shechem

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 originates here.

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 We're told that Israel

00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:31.959
 once again

00:23:31.959 --> 00:23:33.919
 did not remember

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 the Lord their God

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 or all the times

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 that he had saved them

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 from their enemies.

00:23:40.539 --> 00:23:41.279
 That doesn't mean

00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:42.679
 that they literally

00:23:42.679 --> 00:23:44.539
 forgot who Yahweh was

00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:46.459
 or had some sort of amnesia

00:23:46.459 --> 00:23:47.819
 about the ways

00:23:47.819 --> 00:23:48.799
 he had delivered them.

00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:51.279
 It means that as a people,

00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:54.679
 they willfully rejected him

00:23:54.679 --> 00:23:57.039
 despite all that he had done.

00:23:58.339 --> 00:23:59.339
 They forgot him.

00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:01.839
 They rejected him.

00:24:01.919 --> 00:24:02.859
 They denied him.

00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:04.980
 They attempted to live their life

00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:06.539
 without him.

00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:09.799
 Says Del Ralph Davis.

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 It means that

00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:12.659
 what they knew of Yahweh

00:24:12.659 --> 00:24:16.099
 exercised no control over them.

00:24:16.419 --> 00:24:17.619
 It held no grip

00:24:17.619 --> 00:24:19.319
 on their loyalties.

00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:21.159
 They could answer

00:24:21.159 --> 00:24:22.539
 the catechism questions

00:24:22.539 --> 00:24:23.699
 about God,

00:24:23.699 --> 00:24:25.019
 but that knowledge

00:24:25.019 --> 00:24:25.919
 did not determine

00:24:25.919 --> 00:24:26.639
 their commitment

00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:28.280
 or keep them

00:24:28.280 --> 00:24:29.080
 from adopting

00:24:29.080 --> 00:24:31.440
 Belbareth as their God.

00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:33.580
 The nature

00:24:33.580 --> 00:24:35.280
 of their forgetfulness

00:24:35.280 --> 00:24:36.640
 is defined first

00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:37.560
 in this text

00:24:37.560 --> 00:24:38.820
 by their pursuit

00:24:38.820 --> 00:24:39.780
 of the Baals,

00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:42.200
 adopting Belbareth

00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:43.420
 as their official,

00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:45.180
 formal deity.

00:24:46.180 --> 00:24:47.220
 In the language

00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:48.320
 that the author uses

00:24:48.320 --> 00:24:49.420
 need not be missed.

00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:51.160
 He writes that

00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:51.640
 they hoard

00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:53.420
 after the Baals,

00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:55.860
 spiritually prostituting

00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:56.860
 themselves

00:24:56.860 --> 00:24:58.340
 to a false deity

00:24:58.340 --> 00:24:59.940
 in hopes that they might

00:24:59.940 --> 00:25:01.660
 receive some fortune,

00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:03.000
 some good

00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:05.000
 from that God

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:06.860
 in their dissatisfaction

00:25:07.620 --> 00:25:09.140
 with Yahweh.

00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:11.259
 The language,

00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:12.680
 it pictures God

00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:14.759
 as a loving husband

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:15.440
 whose spouse

00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:16.500
 has not forgotten

00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:17.519
 who he is,

00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:19.240
 but has willingly

00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:21.519
 chosen to find

00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:22.180
 life

00:25:22.180 --> 00:25:23.599
 and love

00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:25.519
 and security

00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:26.720
 in another man.

00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.119
 And that man

00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:30.920
 isn't even capable

00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:32.139
 of providing those things,

00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:32.980
 but it doesn't stop

00:25:32.980 --> 00:25:33.440
 his spouse

00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:34.299
 from leaving him,

00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:35.440
 from forgetting him

00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:36.160
 to pursue

00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:37.220
 this other person

00:25:37.220 --> 00:25:38.019
 and pursue

00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:38.980
 this other individual.

00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:41.180
 In other words,

00:25:41.259 --> 00:25:43.039
 despite his steadfast

00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:44.079
 love toward them,

00:25:44.619 --> 00:25:45.859
 Israel was determined

00:25:45.859 --> 00:25:46.979
 to live a life

00:25:46.979 --> 00:25:48.699
 away from

00:25:48.699 --> 00:25:49.779
 Yahweh

00:25:49.779 --> 00:25:51.339
 and his love

00:25:51.339 --> 00:25:53.240
 and his law.

00:25:55.719 --> 00:25:56.679
 But the text

00:25:56.679 --> 00:25:57.879
 also defines

00:25:57.879 --> 00:25:58.719
 their forgetfulness

00:25:58.719 --> 00:26:00.559
 by a lack

00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:01.319
 of love

00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:02.240
 and loyalty

00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:03.799
 to the family

00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:04.779
 of God's servant,

00:26:05.539 --> 00:26:05.939
 Gideon.

00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:08.219
 Don't miss

00:26:08.219 --> 00:26:09.059
 the author's use

00:26:09.059 --> 00:26:09.559
 of the name

00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:11.019
 Jerobel here.

00:26:12.459 --> 00:26:13.179
 Look again

00:26:13.179 --> 00:26:13.939
 at verse 34

00:26:13.940 --> 00:26:14.320
 and they,

00:26:15.100 --> 00:26:15.960
 or verse 35,

00:26:16.059 --> 00:26:16.759
 and they did not

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:18.039
 show steadfast love

00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:18.720
 to the family

00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:19.660
 of Jerobel.

00:26:20.900 --> 00:26:21.340
 Now remember,

00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:22.400
 that name,

00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:22.900
 it's supposed

00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:24.080
 to reflect Gideon

00:26:24.080 --> 00:26:25.360
 as God's agent

00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:27.220
 for fighting

00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:28.759
 against the worship

00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:29.519
 of Baal.

00:26:30.940 --> 00:26:32.019
 The oppression

00:26:32.019 --> 00:26:32.799
 from Midian

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:33.960
 that we've been studying

00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:35.120
 for so many weeks now,

00:26:35.340 --> 00:26:36.620
 it was God's judgment

00:26:36.620 --> 00:26:38.620
 against Israel's idolatry

00:26:38.620 --> 00:26:40.279
 and Gideon

00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:41.920
 was used

00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:42.620
 to bring about

00:26:42.620 --> 00:26:43.740
 their salvation

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:46.019
 and this name

00:26:46.019 --> 00:26:47.200
 was to remind them

00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:48.019
 of all that God

00:26:48.019 --> 00:26:48.420
 had done

00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:48.900
 in fighting

00:26:48.900 --> 00:26:49.880
 against Baal

00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:51.220
 and the Baal worship

00:26:51.220 --> 00:26:52.800
 to show his steadfast love

00:26:52.800 --> 00:26:53.440
 for his people.

00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:54.740
 So when we read

00:26:54.740 --> 00:26:55.300
 the term

00:26:55.300 --> 00:26:56.200
 Jerobel

00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:57.380
 as a proper name

00:26:57.380 --> 00:26:58.019
 for Gideon

00:26:58.019 --> 00:26:59.640
 in the book of Judges,

00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:00.779
 it's always there

00:27:00.779 --> 00:27:02.019
 for a very specific reason.

00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:03.360
 It's not there by chance.

00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:05.000
 It should bring

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:05.560
 our thoughts

00:27:05.560 --> 00:27:06.200
 to the issue

00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:07.500
 of our worship.

00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:11.000
 Now the treatment

00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.980
 of Jerobel's family,

00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:14.460
 particularly

00:27:14.460 --> 00:27:16.000
 the 70 sons,

00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:18.140
 is the product

00:27:18.140 --> 00:27:18.640
 then

00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.700
 of forsaking

00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:21.900
 God.

00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:23.140
 It's the evidence

00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:23.500
 of it.

00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:25.059
 The root problem

00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:26.059
 is that they've forgotten

00:27:26.059 --> 00:27:26.539
 God.

00:27:26.940 --> 00:27:27.839
 The fruit

00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:28.779
 of that problem

00:27:28.779 --> 00:27:30.019
 is that they are

00:27:30.019 --> 00:27:30.880
 no longer showing

00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:31.880
 steadfast love

00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:32.440
 and loyalty

00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:33.720
 to God's servant

00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:34.640
 whom he used

00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:35.339
 to deliver them.

00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:36.400
 They've completely

00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:37.400
 forgotten God

00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:38.340
 and they couldn't

00:27:38.340 --> 00:27:39.080
 care less

00:27:39.080 --> 00:27:41.080
 about being loyal

00:27:41.080 --> 00:27:41.700
 and loving

00:27:41.700 --> 00:27:42.400
 toward Gideon

00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:43.180
 and his family.

00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:45.019
 Therefore,

00:27:45.860 --> 00:27:46.600
 when God

00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:48.080
 returns the evil

00:27:48.080 --> 00:27:49.080
 of Abimelech

00:27:49.080 --> 00:27:49.620
 and Shechem

00:27:49.620 --> 00:27:50.540
 against them,

00:27:51.540 --> 00:27:53.660
 it is ultimately

00:27:53.660 --> 00:27:54.420
 about them

00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:55.400
 not remembering

00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:56.700
 the Lord their God.

00:27:58.180 --> 00:27:58.900
 Now,

00:27:59.420 --> 00:28:00.980
 the bottom line here

00:28:00.980 --> 00:28:02.920
 is that Israel

00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:03.780
 did not want

00:28:03.780 --> 00:28:04.460
 to live

00:28:04.460 --> 00:28:05.180
 in worship

00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:05.920
 and obedience

00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:06.700
 to the Lord.

00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:08.740
 they wanted

00:28:08.740 --> 00:28:09.180
 Baal

00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:10.860
 and they wanted

00:28:10.860 --> 00:28:11.600
 Baalism

00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:12.640
 more.

00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:15.200
 And their

00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:15.880
 whoring after

00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:16.420
 the Baals

00:28:16.420 --> 00:28:17.000
 caused them

00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:17.460
 to deal

00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:18.820
 treacherously

00:28:18.820 --> 00:28:20.680
 with Gideon's

00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:21.140
 sons,

00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:22.820
 which led

00:28:22.820 --> 00:28:23.180
 to their

00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:23.860
 judgment

00:28:23.860 --> 00:28:25.340
 and death

00:28:25.340 --> 00:28:26.960
 rather than life.

00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:28.960
 God

00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:29.880
 So this story

00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:31.100
 simply displays

00:28:31.100 --> 00:28:32.279
 the consequences

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:34.240
 of forgetting

00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:34.840
 God.

00:28:35.900 --> 00:28:37.079
 What does it

00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:37.880
 look like

00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:38.740
 when God's

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:39.640
 people forget

00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:40.019
 him

00:28:40.019 --> 00:28:41.259
 and forsake

00:28:41.259 --> 00:28:41.620
 him

00:28:41.620 --> 00:28:42.680
 and determine

00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:43.120
 that they're

00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:43.660
 going to live

00:28:43.660 --> 00:28:44.140
 a life

00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:45.039
 apart from

00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:45.440
 him?

00:28:46.120 --> 00:28:46.940
 This is what

00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:47.740
 it looks like.

00:28:48.840 --> 00:28:49.640
 Number two,

00:28:50.460 --> 00:28:51.100
 God was in

00:28:51.100 --> 00:28:51.559
 control.

00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:53.059
 God was

00:28:53.059 --> 00:28:53.480
 forgotten.

00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:55.160
 God was

00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:55.819
 in control.

00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:56.660
 Flip to

00:28:56.660 --> 00:28:57.360
 chapter 9

00:28:57.360 --> 00:28:58.319
 and look

00:28:58.319 --> 00:28:58.640
 with me

00:28:58.640 --> 00:28:59.059
 at verses

00:28:59.059 --> 00:28:59.839
 23 and

00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:00.440
 24.

00:29:02.220 --> 00:29:03.460
 God sent

00:29:03.460 --> 00:29:04.200
 an evil

00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:04.720
 spirit

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.579
 between

00:29:05.579 --> 00:29:06.400
 Abimelech

00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:07.200
 and the

00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:07.620
 leaders of

00:29:07.620 --> 00:29:08.000
 Shechem

00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:09.200
 and the

00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:09.620
 leaders of

00:29:09.620 --> 00:29:09.940
 Shechem

00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:10.220
 dealt

00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:11.559
 treacherously

00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:12.440
 with Abimelech

00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:13.460
 that the

00:29:13.460 --> 00:29:14.220
 violence done

00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:14.559
 to the

00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:15.279
 70 sons

00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:16.000
 of Jerobel

00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:16.680
 might come

00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:17.740
 and their

00:29:17.740 --> 00:29:18.299
 blood be

00:29:18.299 --> 00:29:18.700
 laid on

00:29:18.700 --> 00:29:19.259
 Abimelech

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:19.700
 their brother

00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:20.180
 who killed

00:29:20.180 --> 00:29:20.440
 them

00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:21.160
 and on

00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:21.420
 the men

00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:21.900
 of Shechem

00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:22.940
 who strengthened

00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:23.500
 his hands

00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:24.100
 to kill

00:29:24.100 --> 00:29:24.620
 his brothers.

00:29:24.759 --> 00:29:25.019
 But look

00:29:25.019 --> 00:29:25.380
 again at

00:29:25.380 --> 00:29:26.000
 verse 23

00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:26.259
 at the

00:29:26.259 --> 00:29:26.779
 very beginning.

00:29:27.460 --> 00:29:27.980
 God

00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:29.080
 sent

00:29:29.080 --> 00:29:30.039
 an evil

00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:30.500
 spirit

00:29:30.500 --> 00:29:31.840
 between

00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:32.700
 Abimelech

00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:33.059
 and the

00:29:33.059 --> 00:29:33.380
 leaders.

00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:34.840
 Now aside

00:29:34.840 --> 00:29:35.279
 from the

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:35.980
 opening statement

00:29:35.980 --> 00:29:36.620
 of Jotham's

00:29:36.620 --> 00:29:36.920
 curse,

00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:38.120
 God is not

00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:38.759
 mentioned at

00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:39.420
 all in this

00:29:39.420 --> 00:29:39.759
 narrative

00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:41.120
 until we

00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:41.519
 get here.

00:29:42.740 --> 00:29:43.519
 We find

00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:44.180
 he's forgotten

00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:44.640
 at the end

00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:45.360
 of chapter 8

00:29:45.360 --> 00:29:46.600
 but suddenly

00:29:46.600 --> 00:29:47.100
 comes back

00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:47.620
 to the surface

00:29:47.620 --> 00:29:47.880
 here.

00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:48.539
 And what is

00:29:48.539 --> 00:29:48.900
 it that it's

00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:49.500
 telling us?

00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:50.180
 Oh God

00:29:50.180 --> 00:29:50.619
 is still

00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:50.880
 there.

00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:52.140
 Oh God

00:29:52.140 --> 00:29:52.640
 is actually

00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:53.140
 in control

00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:53.460
 of this

00:29:53.460 --> 00:29:53.880
 whole thing.

00:29:55.019 --> 00:29:55.819
 He's still

00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:56.380
 acting.

00:29:57.279 --> 00:29:58.000
 He's still

00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:58.539
 seeing.

00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:00.220
 He's still

00:30:00.220 --> 00:30:00.839
 being God

00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:01.180
 here.

00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:04.359
 Forgetting

00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:04.759
 God

00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:05.680
 always

00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:06.799
 involves

00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:07.599
 self

00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:08.460
 deception.

00:30:09.059 --> 00:30:09.660
 Always.

00:30:11.259 --> 00:30:12.220
 We think

00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:12.740
 that if we

00:30:12.740 --> 00:30:13.500
 insist

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:14.859
 God doesn't

00:30:14.859 --> 00:30:15.400
 exist

00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:16.019
 or choose

00:30:16.019 --> 00:30:16.720
 to adopt

00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:18.039
 a different

00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:18.539
 God as

00:30:18.539 --> 00:30:19.119
 our own

00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:20.119
 that we

00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:20.339
 can

00:30:20.339 --> 00:30:21.059
 effectively

00:30:21.059 --> 00:30:21.919
 remove

00:30:21.919 --> 00:30:22.379
 God's

00:30:22.379 --> 00:30:22.839
 power

00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:23.519
 and authority

00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:23.819
 in our

00:30:23.819 --> 00:30:24.239
 lives.

00:30:24.699 --> 00:30:25.119
 That's

00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:25.359
 self

00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:25.819
 deception.

00:30:26.639 --> 00:30:27.479
 We deceive

00:30:27.479 --> 00:30:28.059
 ourselves

00:30:28.059 --> 00:30:28.639
 into thinking

00:30:28.639 --> 00:30:29.139
 that God

00:30:29.139 --> 00:30:29.619
 needs our

00:30:29.619 --> 00:30:30.139
 permission

00:30:30.139 --> 00:30:31.539
 to judge

00:30:31.539 --> 00:30:32.239
 or to

00:30:32.239 --> 00:30:32.779
 act

00:30:32.779 --> 00:30:33.639
 but in

00:30:33.639 --> 00:30:34.259
 reality

00:30:34.259 --> 00:30:35.839
 God

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:36.799
 is God

00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:37.919
 whether we

00:30:37.919 --> 00:30:38.500
 acknowledge

00:30:38.500 --> 00:30:38.919
 him

00:30:38.919 --> 00:30:39.939
 or not.

00:30:41.539 --> 00:30:42.319
 And Abimelech

00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:42.879
 and the leaders

00:30:42.879 --> 00:30:43.399
 of Shechem

00:30:43.399 --> 00:30:43.859
 they were

00:30:43.859 --> 00:30:44.500
 behaving

00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.439
 as if

00:30:45.439 --> 00:30:46.000
 Yahweh

00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:46.439
 and his

00:30:46.439 --> 00:30:46.859
 law

00:30:46.859 --> 00:30:47.919
 no longer

00:30:47.919 --> 00:30:48.399
 had any

00:30:48.399 --> 00:30:48.779
 authority

00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:49.299
 over them.

00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:50.000
 It's as if

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:50.419
 the people

00:30:50.419 --> 00:30:50.799
 of Israel

00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:51.339
 were so

00:30:51.339 --> 00:30:51.779
 foolish

00:30:51.779 --> 00:30:52.179
 as to

00:30:52.179 --> 00:30:52.339
 say

00:30:52.339 --> 00:30:52.619
 you know

00:30:52.619 --> 00:30:52.899
 what

00:30:52.899 --> 00:30:53.699
 now

00:30:53.699 --> 00:30:54.399
 we're

00:30:54.399 --> 00:30:54.579
 going to

00:30:54.579 --> 00:30:54.799
 make

00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:55.579
 Belbereth

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:55.779
 our

00:30:55.779 --> 00:30:56.159
 God

00:30:56.159 --> 00:30:56.879
 which means

00:30:56.879 --> 00:30:57.639
 that authority

00:30:57.639 --> 00:30:58.319
 over us

00:30:58.319 --> 00:30:58.879
 transfers

00:30:58.879 --> 00:30:59.819
 now from

00:30:59.819 --> 00:31:00.419
 Yahweh

00:31:00.419 --> 00:31:01.639
 to Belbereth

00:31:01.639 --> 00:31:02.299
 so Yahweh

00:31:02.299 --> 00:31:02.819
 can't touch

00:31:02.819 --> 00:31:03.159
 us anymore

00:31:03.159 --> 00:31:03.479
 it doesn't

00:31:03.479 --> 00:31:03.959
 matter what

00:31:03.959 --> 00:31:04.459
 he says

00:31:04.459 --> 00:31:05.000
 it doesn't

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:05.339
 matter what

00:31:05.339 --> 00:31:05.759
 he thinks

00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.839
 we're serving

00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:07.579
 Belbereth

00:31:07.579 --> 00:31:07.899
 now

00:31:07.899 --> 00:31:08.399
 and so

00:31:08.399 --> 00:31:08.699
 they do

00:31:08.699 --> 00:31:09.119
 the things

00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:09.399
 that are

00:31:09.399 --> 00:31:09.839
 characterized

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:11.019
 by false

00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:11.479
 worship

00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:12.799
 but just

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:13.319
 because you

00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:13.980
 choose another

00:31:13.980 --> 00:31:14.480
 God

00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:15.500
 doesn't make

00:31:15.500 --> 00:31:15.960
 God

00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:16.680
 any less

00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:17.160
 God

00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:18.279
 he doesn't

00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:18.680
 need your

00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:19.099
 permission

00:31:19.099 --> 00:31:19.620
 to act

00:31:19.620 --> 00:31:19.860
 in your

00:31:19.860 --> 00:31:20.299
 life

00:31:20.299 --> 00:31:21.140
 he doesn't

00:31:21.140 --> 00:31:21.519
 need your

00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:21.940
 permission

00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:22.940
 to be an

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:23.339
 authority

00:31:23.339 --> 00:31:23.660
 in your

00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:24.099
 life

00:31:24.099 --> 00:31:24.740
 or to

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:25.259
 judge

00:31:25.259 --> 00:31:25.759
 your

00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:26.339
 life

00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:27.920
 and God

00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:28.460
 shows

00:31:28.460 --> 00:31:28.860
 in verse

00:31:28.860 --> 00:31:29.339
 23

00:31:29.339 --> 00:31:29.819
 that he

00:31:29.819 --> 00:31:30.559
 was sovereign

00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:31.000
 over the

00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:31.620
 events of

00:31:31.620 --> 00:31:32.220
 Abimelech

00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:32.860
 and Shechem's

00:31:32.860 --> 00:31:33.339
 lives

00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:34.480
 even though

00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:34.920
 they did

00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:35.160
 not

00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:35.799
 acknowledge

00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:36.019
 him

00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:36.319
 as their

00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:36.740
 God

00:31:36.740 --> 00:31:38.620
 and he

00:31:38.620 --> 00:31:39.700
 sovereignly

00:31:39.700 --> 00:31:40.380
 allowed

00:31:40.380 --> 00:31:41.259
 their sin

00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:43.059
 to devour

00:31:43.059 --> 00:31:44.640
 their alliance

00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:47.339
 as a form

00:31:47.339 --> 00:31:47.980
 of judgment

00:31:47.980 --> 00:31:49.079
 against them

00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:50.099
 and as a

00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:50.480
 form of

00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:51.140
 justice

00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:52.240
 for Gideon's

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:52.599
 sons

00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:53.799
 God

00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:54.519
 turned their

00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:55.240
 wickedness

00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:56.400
 against them

00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:57.099
 and he

00:31:57.099 --> 00:31:57.500
 sent an

00:31:57.500 --> 00:31:58.559
 evil spirit

00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.319
 between them

00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:01.920
 and I think

00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:02.660
 there's echoes

00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:03.240
 of this

00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:03.900
 in Romans

00:32:03.900 --> 00:32:04.900
 chapter 1

00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:05.920
 where Paul

00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:06.559
 writes that

00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:07.539
 sometimes

00:32:07.539 --> 00:32:08.700
 God

00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:09.400
 gives us

00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:10.140
 over

00:32:10.140 --> 00:32:11.060
 to the

00:32:11.060 --> 00:32:11.420
 full

00:32:11.420 --> 00:32:11.940
 out

00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:12.460
 working

00:32:12.460 --> 00:32:13.720
 of sin

00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:15.340
 Romans

00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:15.960
 chapter 1

00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:16.720
 verse 24

00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.480
 therefore

00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:18.340
 Paul writes

00:32:18.340 --> 00:32:19.520
 God gave

00:32:19.520 --> 00:32:20.259
 them up

00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:21.340
 in the

00:32:21.340 --> 00:32:21.820
 lust of

00:32:21.820 --> 00:32:22.460
 their hearts

00:32:22.460 --> 00:32:23.680
 to impurity

00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:25.220
 verse 26

00:32:25.220 --> 00:32:26.160
 for this

00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:26.620
 reason

00:32:26.620 --> 00:32:27.460
 God gave

00:32:27.460 --> 00:32:28.160
 them up

00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:29.060
 to

00:32:29.060 --> 00:32:29.880
 dishonorable

00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:30.600
 passions

00:32:30.600 --> 00:32:31.840
 verse 28

00:32:31.840 --> 00:32:32.640
 since they

00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:33.220
 did not

00:32:33.220 --> 00:32:33.680
 see fit

00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.240
 to acknowledge

00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:34.640
 God

00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:35.580
 aka

00:32:35.580 --> 00:32:36.840
 since they

00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:37.320
 forgot

00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:38.000
 God

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:39.399
 God

00:32:39.399 --> 00:32:40.319
 gave them

00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:40.759
 up

00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:42.200
 to a

00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:42.819
 debased

00:32:42.819 --> 00:32:43.460
 mind

00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:44.279
 to do

00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:45.000
 what ought

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:45.659
 not to

00:32:45.659 --> 00:32:46.019
 be

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:46.939
 done

00:32:46.939 --> 00:32:49.079
 when God

00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:49.960
 gives someone

00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:50.519
 up in their

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:50.960
 sin

00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.019
 he removes

00:32:52.019 --> 00:32:53.339
 all divine

00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:54.220
 restraint

00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:56.359
 allowing a

00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:57.539
 person's sin

00:32:57.539 --> 00:32:58.619
 to run

00:32:58.619 --> 00:32:59.139
 its full

00:32:59.139 --> 00:32:59.659
 course

00:32:59.659 --> 00:33:01.899
 and in the

00:33:01.899 --> 00:33:02.460
 case of

00:33:02.460 --> 00:33:03.159
 Abimelech

00:33:03.159 --> 00:33:03.740
 and the leaders

00:33:03.740 --> 00:33:04.339
 of Shechem

00:33:04.339 --> 00:33:05.459
 God

00:33:05.459 --> 00:33:06.419
 sovereignly

00:33:06.419 --> 00:33:06.980
 gave them

00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:07.599
 over

00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:08.559
 to their

00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:09.419
 wickedness

00:33:09.419 --> 00:33:10.279
 so that

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:10.899
 their sin

00:33:10.899 --> 00:33:11.319
 ran its

00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:12.179
 full course

00:33:12.179 --> 00:33:13.500
 resulting

00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:14.299
 in their

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:15.379
 destruction

00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:18.579
 their

00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:19.459
 treachery

00:33:19.459 --> 00:33:19.720
 toward

00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:20.319
 Gideon's

00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:20.579
 sons

00:33:20.579 --> 00:33:21.099
 eventually

00:33:21.099 --> 00:33:21.679
 turned

00:33:21.679 --> 00:33:22.159
 them

00:33:22.159 --> 00:33:22.459
 against

00:33:22.459 --> 00:33:22.720
 one

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:23.099
 another

00:33:23.099 --> 00:33:24.259
 and in

00:33:24.259 --> 00:33:24.759
 the end

00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.159
 they all

00:33:26.159 --> 00:33:26.859
 died

00:33:26.859 --> 00:33:29.179
 there is

00:33:29.179 --> 00:33:29.720
 no good

00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:29.959
 ending

00:33:29.959 --> 00:33:30.399
 to this

00:33:30.399 --> 00:33:30.740
 story

00:33:30.740 --> 00:33:31.500
 for Abimelech

00:33:31.500 --> 00:33:31.980
 or the people

00:33:31.980 --> 00:33:32.459
 in Shechem

00:33:32.459 --> 00:33:33.299
 there is

00:33:33.299 --> 00:33:33.740
 no happy

00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:33.980
 ending

00:33:33.980 --> 00:33:34.279
 here

00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:34.899
 it is

00:33:34.899 --> 00:33:35.440
 all

00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:36.299
 death

00:33:36.299 --> 00:33:38.220
 why

00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:40.339
 because

00:33:40.339 --> 00:33:40.819
 God

00:33:40.819 --> 00:33:41.399
 gave them

00:33:41.399 --> 00:33:41.740
 up

00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:43.220
 to their

00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:43.680
 sin

00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:45.680
 they

00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:46.220
 deceived

00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:46.799
 themselves

00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:47.480
 into thinking

00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:47.819
 that a

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:48.379
 life apart

00:33:48.379 --> 00:33:48.799
 from God

00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:49.079
 would be

00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:49.399
 better

00:33:49.399 --> 00:33:51.720
 but they

00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:52.119
 ultimately

00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:52.720
 proved that

00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.200
 it's actually

00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:53.940
 far

00:33:53.940 --> 00:33:55.339
 far

00:33:55.339 --> 00:33:55.899
 worse

00:33:55.899 --> 00:33:59.480
 when it

00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:00.019
 comes to

00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:00.480
 living a

00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:01.039
 life that

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:01.660
 forgets

00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:02.079
 God

00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:02.699
 God

00:34:02.699 --> 00:34:04.379
 the worst

00:34:04.379 --> 00:34:04.879
 thing

00:34:04.879 --> 00:34:05.960
 that can

00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:06.339
 happen

00:34:06.339 --> 00:34:06.960
 to us

00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:08.340
 is for

00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:09.199
 God to

00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:09.500
 give us

00:34:09.500 --> 00:34:09.860
 what we

00:34:09.860 --> 00:34:10.319
 want

00:34:10.319 --> 00:34:13.380
 the worst

00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:13.840
 thing

00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:15.599
 that can

00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:16.039
 happen to

00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:16.380
 you

00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:18.099
 if you

00:34:18.099 --> 00:34:18.500
 are being

00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:19.099
 drawn

00:34:19.099 --> 00:34:20.460
 to a life

00:34:20.460 --> 00:34:21.159
 of forgetting

00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:21.719
 God

00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:23.239
 and abandoning

00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:23.659
 God

00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:24.840
 and his law

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:26.019
 and his will

00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:27.440
 the worst

00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:27.920
 thing for

00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:28.239
 you

00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:29.519
 is for

00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:29.920
 God

00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:31.460
 to say

00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:32.259
 okay

00:34:32.259 --> 00:34:35.880
 for him to

00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:36.400
 throw up his

00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:37.079
 hands so to

00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:37.480
 speak

00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:38.519
 and say

00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:38.880
 fine

00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:40.679
 if sin is

00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:40.960
 what you

00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:41.320
 want

00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:43.179
 sin is what

00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:43.460
 you can

00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:43.800
 have

00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:46.199
 and if you're

00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:46.940
 trying to live

00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:47.860
 a life apart

00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:48.599
 from God

00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:49.079
 and his

00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:49.539
 ways

00:34:49.539 --> 00:34:51.579
 you need

00:34:51.579 --> 00:34:52.460
 to understand

00:34:52.460 --> 00:34:54.739
 that there

00:34:54.739 --> 00:34:55.179
 may very

00:34:55.179 --> 00:34:55.639
 well come

00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:56.059
 a day

00:34:56.059 --> 00:34:57.360
 when he

00:34:57.360 --> 00:34:58.099
 lets you

00:34:58.099 --> 00:35:00.159
 when he

00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:00.820
 lets you

00:35:00.820 --> 00:35:04.360
 that sense

00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:05.119
 of conviction

00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:06.539
 the pleas

00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:07.179
 of the Holy

00:35:07.179 --> 00:35:07.659
 Spirit

00:35:07.659 --> 00:35:08.000
 that you

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:08.880
 feel now

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:09.139
 in your

00:35:09.139 --> 00:35:09.460
 life

00:35:09.460 --> 00:35:10.420
 that feeling

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:10.980
 of guilt

00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:11.639
 and shame

00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:12.079
 for your

00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:12.460
 sin

00:35:12.460 --> 00:35:13.559
 that's gonna

00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:14.239
 go away

00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:16.379
 and all

00:35:16.379 --> 00:35:16.699
 that will

00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:17.319
 be left

00:35:17.319 --> 00:35:18.479
 is an

00:35:18.479 --> 00:35:19.179
 evil spirit

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:20.219
 that runs

00:35:20.219 --> 00:35:20.839
 its course

00:35:20.839 --> 00:35:22.279
 and destroys

00:35:22.279 --> 00:35:22.819
 your life

00:35:22.819 --> 00:35:26.339
 God is

00:35:26.339 --> 00:35:26.799
 sovereign

00:35:26.799 --> 00:35:27.259
 whether you

00:35:27.259 --> 00:35:27.759
 believe he

00:35:27.759 --> 00:35:28.379
 is or not

00:35:28.379 --> 00:35:29.979
 and his

00:35:29.979 --> 00:35:30.439
 sovereignty

00:35:30.439 --> 00:35:31.579
 will eventually

00:35:31.579 --> 00:35:32.819
 be expressed

00:35:32.819 --> 00:35:34.619
 in judgment

00:35:34.619 --> 00:35:36.279
 if you

00:35:36.279 --> 00:35:36.799
 continue

00:35:36.799 --> 00:35:38.119
 to forget

00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:38.459
 him

00:35:38.459 --> 00:35:40.919
 so God's

00:35:40.919 --> 00:35:41.359
 forgotten

00:35:41.359 --> 00:35:42.599
 but then we

00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:43.079
 find God's

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:43.899
 actually still

00:35:43.900 --> 00:35:44.460
 in control

00:35:44.460 --> 00:35:44.840
 but he's

00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:45.340
 in control

00:35:45.340 --> 00:35:45.780
 at least

00:35:45.780 --> 00:35:46.160
 at this

00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:46.440
 point

00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:47.139
 in judgment

00:35:47.139 --> 00:35:48.619
 number

00:35:48.619 --> 00:35:48.960
 three

00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:50.579
 God

00:35:50.579 --> 00:35:50.920
 was the

00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:51.220
 final

00:35:51.220 --> 00:35:51.760
 judge

00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:53.420
 God

00:35:53.420 --> 00:35:53.740
 was the

00:35:53.740 --> 00:35:54.000
 final

00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:54.440
 judge

00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:55.680
 verse

00:35:55.680 --> 00:35:56.300
 56

00:35:56.300 --> 00:35:57.059
 and 57

00:35:57.059 --> 00:35:59.720
 thus

00:35:59.720 --> 00:36:00.099
 God

00:36:00.099 --> 00:36:00.599
 returned

00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:01.240
 the evil

00:36:01.240 --> 00:36:02.240
 of Abimelech

00:36:02.240 --> 00:36:03.200
 which he

00:36:03.200 --> 00:36:03.539
 committed

00:36:03.539 --> 00:36:04.160
 against his

00:36:04.160 --> 00:36:04.559
 father

00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:05.200
 and killing

00:36:05.200 --> 00:36:06.300
 his 70

00:36:06.300 --> 00:36:06.720
 brothers

00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:08.200
 and God

00:36:08.200 --> 00:36:08.800
 also made

00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:09.320
 all the

00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:09.880
 evil of the

00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:10.160
 men of

00:36:10.160 --> 00:36:10.480
 Shechem

00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:11.019
 return on

00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:11.539
 their heads

00:36:11.539 --> 00:36:12.860
 and upon

00:36:12.860 --> 00:36:13.320
 them came

00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:13.780
 the curse

00:36:13.780 --> 00:36:14.420
 of Jotham

00:36:14.420 --> 00:36:15.660
 the son

00:36:15.660 --> 00:36:16.100
 of Jerob

00:36:16.100 --> 00:36:16.400
 Baal

00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.660
 so after

00:36:18.660 --> 00:36:19.100
 verse

00:36:19.100 --> 00:36:20.360
 23

00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.560
 God

00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:22.780
 isn't

00:36:22.780 --> 00:36:23.040
 mentioned

00:36:23.040 --> 00:36:23.440
 again

00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:24.200
 until the

00:36:24.200 --> 00:36:24.580
 story's

00:36:24.580 --> 00:36:24.860
 over

00:36:24.860 --> 00:36:26.080
 and then

00:36:26.080 --> 00:36:26.540
 we find

00:36:26.540 --> 00:36:26.900
 that

00:36:26.900 --> 00:36:28.040
 God

00:36:28.040 --> 00:36:28.440
 is given

00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:28.920
 the credit

00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:29.300
 by the

00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:29.519
 author

00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:30.000
 for everything

00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:30.600
 that happened

00:36:30.600 --> 00:36:32.800
 reminding us

00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:33.340
 that God

00:36:33.340 --> 00:36:33.660
 is the

00:36:33.660 --> 00:36:34.240
 final judge

00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:34.500
 here

00:36:34.500 --> 00:36:36.440
 now there's

00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:37.000
 not much

00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:37.519
 more to say

00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:37.840
 here than

00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:38.080
 what I've

00:36:38.080 --> 00:36:38.620
 already said

00:36:38.620 --> 00:36:39.180
 but we

00:36:39.180 --> 00:36:39.820
 should at least

00:36:39.820 --> 00:36:40.400
 acknowledge

00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:40.940
 how the

00:36:40.940 --> 00:36:41.180
 text

00:36:41.180 --> 00:36:41.960
 concludes

00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:43.559
 by emphasizing

00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:44.160
 God's

00:36:44.160 --> 00:36:44.600
 place

00:36:44.600 --> 00:36:45.660
 as the

00:36:45.660 --> 00:36:45.980
 final

00:36:45.980 --> 00:36:46.420
 judge

00:36:46.420 --> 00:36:48.019
 the

00:36:48.019 --> 00:36:48.340
 woman

00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:48.700
 in

00:36:48.700 --> 00:36:49.080
 Thebes

00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:50.059
 was an

00:36:50.059 --> 00:36:50.559
 instrument

00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:51.100
 of God's

00:36:51.100 --> 00:36:51.400
 judgment

00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.080
 but God

00:36:53.080 --> 00:36:53.480
 was the

00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:53.940
 judge

00:36:53.940 --> 00:36:55.120
 he was the

00:36:55.120 --> 00:36:55.680
 one working

00:36:55.680 --> 00:36:56.300
 and acting

00:36:56.300 --> 00:36:57.640
 and bringing

00:36:57.640 --> 00:36:58.180
 all of this

00:36:58.180 --> 00:36:58.640
 together

00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:00.840
 he is the

00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:01.539
 one that must

00:37:01.539 --> 00:37:02.180
 be credited

00:37:02.180 --> 00:37:03.180
 with Abimelech's

00:37:03.180 --> 00:37:03.559
 fall

00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:05.080
 which is a

00:37:05.080 --> 00:37:06.039
 working out

00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:06.860
 of holy

00:37:06.860 --> 00:37:07.699
 justice

00:37:07.699 --> 00:37:09.019
 for Gideon's

00:37:09.019 --> 00:37:09.400
 sons

00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:11.380
 it's also

00:37:11.380 --> 00:37:12.360
 a working out

00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:13.400
 of salvation

00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:15.119
 for those

00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:16.099
 like Jotham

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:17.239
 and the

00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:17.800
 people of

00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:18.279
 Thebes

00:37:18.279 --> 00:37:19.539
 who were

00:37:19.539 --> 00:37:20.360
 subject to

00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:21.019
 the oppression

00:37:21.019 --> 00:37:21.659
 brought on

00:37:21.659 --> 00:37:22.239
 by wicked

00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:22.699
 rulers

00:37:22.699 --> 00:37:23.619
 like Abimelech

00:37:23.619 --> 00:37:25.679
 so we find

00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:26.219
 here what we

00:37:26.219 --> 00:37:27.079
 find so often

00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:27.659
 in the scriptures

00:37:27.659 --> 00:37:29.300
 that God

00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:30.380
 is glorified

00:37:30.380 --> 00:37:32.440
 in salvation

00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:34.019
 through judgment

00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:36.420
 he judges

00:37:36.420 --> 00:37:37.159
 Abimelech

00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:37.840
 and Shechem

00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:38.539
 for their

00:37:38.539 --> 00:37:39.039
 sins

00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:40.300
 and he does

00:37:40.300 --> 00:37:41.519
 so in order

00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:41.960
 to bring

00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:42.679
 salvation

00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:44.099
 to Jotham

00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:44.900
 and the people

00:37:44.900 --> 00:37:45.460
 of Thebes

00:37:45.460 --> 00:37:46.079
 and anyone

00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:46.780
 else who was

00:37:46.780 --> 00:37:47.420
 underneath his

00:37:47.420 --> 00:37:48.280
 oppressive rule

00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:50.360
 and he is

00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:51.219
 glorified in

00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:52.000
 both things

00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.519
 as the final

00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:55.019
 judge

00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:55.619
 God is

00:37:55.619 --> 00:37:56.139
 ultimately

00:37:56.139 --> 00:37:57.119
 glorified by

00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:58.400
 both salvation

00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:00.039
 and by

00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:00.519
 judgment

00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.420
 but could

00:38:04.420 --> 00:38:04.780
 this have

00:38:04.780 --> 00:38:05.219
 played out

00:38:05.219 --> 00:38:05.619
 differently

00:38:05.619 --> 00:38:06.079
 that's the

00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:06.380
 question

00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:06.800
 that I want

00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:07.059
 us to

00:38:07.059 --> 00:38:07.340
 conclude

00:38:07.340 --> 00:38:07.699
 with

00:38:07.699 --> 00:38:09.679
 could any

00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:09.940
 of this

00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:10.420
 been different

00:38:10.420 --> 00:38:11.219
 for Abimelech

00:38:11.219 --> 00:38:11.500
 and the

00:38:11.500 --> 00:38:11.920
 leaders of

00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:12.259
 Shechem

00:38:12.259 --> 00:38:13.320
 even better

00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:15.639
 for those

00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:16.599
 who are

00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:17.059
 here this

00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:17.300
 morning

00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:18.139
 that may

00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:18.980
 be currently

00:38:18.980 --> 00:38:19.880
 living apart

00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:20.500
 from God

00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:22.280
 is it

00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:22.780
 possible

00:38:22.780 --> 00:38:23.500
 for your

00:38:23.500 --> 00:38:23.960
 end

00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:24.539
 to be

00:38:24.539 --> 00:38:24.920
 different

00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:25.420
 from those

00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:25.659
 in the

00:38:25.659 --> 00:38:26.000
 text

00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.900
 well I

00:38:28.900 --> 00:38:29.119
 think we

00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:29.460
 have to go

00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:30.159
 to Jotham's

00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:30.699
 curse once

00:38:30.699 --> 00:38:31.119
 again to

00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:31.480
 find that

00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:31.820
 answer

00:38:31.820 --> 00:38:33.059
 look with

00:38:33.059 --> 00:38:33.320
 me at

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:34.099
 verse 7

00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:36.380
 when it

00:38:36.380 --> 00:38:36.820
 was told

00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:37.500
 to Jotham

00:38:37.500 --> 00:38:38.920
 he went

00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:39.480
 and stood

00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:39.940
 on top

00:38:39.940 --> 00:38:40.300
 of Mount

00:38:40.300 --> 00:38:40.920
 Gerizim

00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:41.500
 and listened

00:38:41.500 --> 00:38:41.860
 to what

00:38:41.860 --> 00:38:42.219
 he cried

00:38:42.219 --> 00:38:42.639
 aloud

00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:44.519
 listen to

00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:45.019
 me you

00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:45.480
 leaders

00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:46.260
 of Shechem

00:38:46.260 --> 00:38:47.239
 why

00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:49.579
 that God

00:38:49.579 --> 00:38:50.300
 may listen

00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:51.860
 to you

00:38:51.860 --> 00:38:54.159
 now we

00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:54.420
 know how

00:38:54.420 --> 00:38:54.780
 the story

00:38:54.780 --> 00:38:55.139
 ends

00:38:55.139 --> 00:38:55.539
 we know

00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:55.980
 what God

00:38:55.980 --> 00:38:56.440
 was doing

00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:56.900
 we know

00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:57.279
 what the

00:38:57.279 --> 00:38:57.639
 judgment

00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:58.219
 ultimately

00:38:58.219 --> 00:38:58.719
 ends up

00:38:58.719 --> 00:38:58.940
 being

00:38:58.940 --> 00:38:59.259
 but at

00:38:59.259 --> 00:38:59.619
 this

00:38:59.619 --> 00:39:00.000
 point

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:00.420
 as

00:39:00.420 --> 00:39:01.000
 Jotham

00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:01.379
 cries

00:39:01.379 --> 00:39:01.719
 this

00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:02.199
 out

00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:03.599
 the

00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:04.079
 door

00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:04.379
 of

00:39:04.379 --> 00:39:04.879
 repentance

00:39:04.879 --> 00:39:06.679
 is open

00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.299
 Jotham's

00:39:09.299 --> 00:39:09.739
 curse

00:39:09.739 --> 00:39:10.119
 was a

00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:10.599
 prophetic

00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:11.819
 warning

00:39:11.819 --> 00:39:12.960
 against

00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:13.659
 Abimelech

00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:14.319
 and Shechem

00:39:14.319 --> 00:39:15.839
 that God

00:39:15.839 --> 00:39:16.779
 fully fulfilled

00:39:16.779 --> 00:39:18.199
 but

00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:19.980
 we know

00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:21.259
 that Yahweh

00:39:21.259 --> 00:39:22.259
 is a God

00:39:22.259 --> 00:39:23.000
 who does

00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:23.980
 not delight

00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:24.559
 himself

00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:25.219
 in the death

00:39:25.219 --> 00:39:25.460
 of the

00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:25.659
 wicked

00:39:25.659 --> 00:39:26.940
 who delights

00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:27.360
 himself

00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:27.960
 rather

00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:28.980
 in giving

00:39:28.980 --> 00:39:29.799
 mercy

00:39:29.799 --> 00:39:31.360
 Ezekiel

00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:32.460
 chapter 33

00:39:32.460 --> 00:39:33.219
 and verse 11

00:39:33.219 --> 00:39:34.139
 God says

00:39:34.139 --> 00:39:35.579
 say this to them

00:39:35.579 --> 00:39:36.500
 as I live

00:39:36.500 --> 00:39:37.279
 declares the

00:39:37.279 --> 00:39:37.920
 Lord God

00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:39.579
 I have no

00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:40.239
 pleasure

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:41.460
 in the death

00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:41.960
 of the wicked

00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:43.360
 but

00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:44.039
 that the

00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:44.400
 wicked

00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.239
 turn

00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:46.759
 from his

00:39:46.759 --> 00:39:47.059
 way

00:39:47.059 --> 00:39:47.799
 and live

00:39:47.799 --> 00:39:49.059
 turn back

00:39:49.059 --> 00:39:49.599
 this is the

00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:50.799
 plea of God

00:39:50.799 --> 00:39:51.900
 turn back

00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:52.900
 turn back

00:39:52.900 --> 00:39:53.320
 from your

00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:54.059
 evil ways

00:39:54.059 --> 00:39:54.920
 why will

00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:55.700
 you die

00:39:55.700 --> 00:39:56.300
 O house

00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:56.900
 of Israel

00:39:56.900 --> 00:39:57.920
 can you

00:39:57.920 --> 00:39:58.599
 imagine that

00:39:58.599 --> 00:39:59.260
 same verse

00:39:59.260 --> 00:39:59.880
 from Ezekiel

00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:00.660
 being proclaimed

00:40:00.660 --> 00:40:02.160
 to Abimelech

00:40:02.160 --> 00:40:03.360
 and to the

00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:03.900
 leaders of

00:40:03.900 --> 00:40:04.280
 Shechem

00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:05.000
 by Jotham

00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:06.300
 turn back

00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:07.900
 turn back

00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:08.660
 why would

00:40:08.660 --> 00:40:09.360
 you die

00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:11.200
 turn back

00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:12.980
 and then we

00:40:12.980 --> 00:40:13.700
 go to Micah

00:40:13.700 --> 00:40:14.539
 chapter 7

00:40:14.539 --> 00:40:15.180
 and verse 18

00:40:15.180 --> 00:40:16.119
 where Micah

00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:16.920
 says who is a

00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:17.820
 God like you

00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:19.300
 pardoning iniquity

00:40:19.300 --> 00:40:20.180
 and passing

00:40:20.180 --> 00:40:21.440
 over transgression

00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:22.160
 for the remnant

00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:22.900
 of his inheritance

00:40:22.900 --> 00:40:24.320
 he does not

00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:25.180
 retain his anger

00:40:25.180 --> 00:40:25.600
 forever

00:40:25.600 --> 00:40:26.380
 Micah says

00:40:26.380 --> 00:40:27.420
 because he

00:40:27.420 --> 00:40:28.220
 delights

00:40:28.220 --> 00:40:30.060
 in steadfast

00:40:30.060 --> 00:40:31.320
 love

00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:32.360
 he delights

00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:32.780
 in

00:40:32.780 --> 00:40:33.940
 mercy

00:40:33.940 --> 00:40:36.340
 if they

00:40:36.340 --> 00:40:37.120
 had only

00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:37.840
 turned

00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:38.519
 at the

00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:38.900
 warning

00:40:38.900 --> 00:40:40.300
 and repented

00:40:40.300 --> 00:40:41.160
 of their

00:40:41.160 --> 00:40:41.800
 sin

00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:42.900
 there's no

00:40:42.900 --> 00:40:43.940
 reason for us

00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:44.580
 to doubt

00:40:44.580 --> 00:40:45.460
 that God

00:40:45.460 --> 00:40:45.960
 would have been

00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:46.500
 merciful

00:40:46.500 --> 00:40:48.380
 because he

00:40:48.380 --> 00:40:48.840
 is a God

00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:49.719
 of mercy

00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:51.360
 and we

00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:52.320
 believe that

00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:53.159
 ultimately

00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:54.599
 because of

00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:55.059
 the work

00:40:55.059 --> 00:40:55.820
 of Christ

00:40:55.820 --> 00:40:56.480
 on the

00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:57.119
 cross

00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.340
 God

00:40:59.340 --> 00:41:00.159
 proves

00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:01.219
 his steadfast

00:41:01.219 --> 00:41:01.699
 love

00:41:01.699 --> 00:41:02.820
 toward us

00:41:02.820 --> 00:41:03.820
 in that

00:41:03.820 --> 00:41:04.480
 while we

00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:05.179
 were sinners

00:41:05.179 --> 00:41:06.119
 who were

00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:06.840
 trying to

00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:07.679
 forget him

00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:08.579
 who were

00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:09.139
 trying to

00:41:09.139 --> 00:41:09.960
 leave him

00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:11.280
 Christ

00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:11.960
 died

00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:12.860
 for us

00:41:12.860 --> 00:41:13.219
 that's

00:41:13.219 --> 00:41:13.920
 Romans 5

00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:14.280
 8

00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.000
 he took

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:16.680
 the wrath

00:41:16.680 --> 00:41:17.200
 of God

00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:17.500
 in our

00:41:17.500 --> 00:41:18.120
 place

00:41:18.120 --> 00:41:18.960
 so that

00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:19.380
 we can

00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:19.820
 receive

00:41:19.820 --> 00:41:20.440
 forgiveness

00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.000
 for every

00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:22.540
 sin

00:41:22.540 --> 00:41:23.940
 and be

00:41:23.940 --> 00:41:24.720
 eternally

00:41:24.720 --> 00:41:25.800
 reconciled

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:26.620
 to our

00:41:26.620 --> 00:41:27.540
 creator

00:41:27.540 --> 00:41:28.500
 against which

00:41:28.500 --> 00:41:29.080
 we have

00:41:29.080 --> 00:41:30.500
 sinned

00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:31.500
 and this

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:32.120
 salvation

00:41:32.120 --> 00:41:32.640
 is not

00:41:32.640 --> 00:41:33.019
 something

00:41:33.019 --> 00:41:33.380
 that we

00:41:33.380 --> 00:41:34.040
 can earn

00:41:34.040 --> 00:41:34.740
 simply by

00:41:34.740 --> 00:41:35.740
 doing better

00:41:35.740 --> 00:41:36.260
 with our

00:41:36.260 --> 00:41:36.700
 lives

00:41:36.700 --> 00:41:37.340
 this could

00:41:37.340 --> 00:41:37.740
 not be

00:41:37.740 --> 00:41:38.040
 earned

00:41:38.040 --> 00:41:38.780
 by Abimelech

00:41:38.780 --> 00:41:39.120
 for him

00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:39.700
 just stopping

00:41:39.700 --> 00:41:40.160
 for a moment

00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:40.580
 just to say

00:41:40.580 --> 00:41:40.860
 you know

00:41:40.860 --> 00:41:41.160
 what

00:41:41.160 --> 00:41:41.880
 maybe I'll

00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:42.240
 go about

00:41:42.240 --> 00:41:42.560
 this a

00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:42.780
 different

00:41:42.780 --> 00:41:43.140
 way

00:41:43.140 --> 00:41:43.620
 it doesn't

00:41:43.620 --> 00:41:44.060
 work

00:41:44.059 --> 00:41:45.400
 no

00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:46.360
 it is

00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:47.099
 received

00:41:47.099 --> 00:41:48.079
 by faith

00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:49.059
 in who

00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:49.480
 Jesus

00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:50.059
 is

00:41:50.059 --> 00:41:50.840
 and what

00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:51.219
 Jesus

00:41:51.219 --> 00:41:51.820
 did

00:41:51.820 --> 00:41:52.759
 and what

00:41:52.759 --> 00:41:53.119
 Jesus

00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:53.619
 said

00:41:53.619 --> 00:41:55.900
 if Abimelech

00:41:55.900 --> 00:41:56.219
 and the

00:41:56.219 --> 00:41:56.840
 Shechemites

00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:57.420
 had turned

00:41:57.420 --> 00:41:57.820
 from their

00:41:57.820 --> 00:41:58.340
 sin back

00:41:58.340 --> 00:41:58.799
 to God

00:41:58.799 --> 00:41:59.480
 upon hearing

00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:00.039
 Jotham's

00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:00.460
 warning

00:42:00.460 --> 00:42:01.699
 their end

00:42:01.699 --> 00:42:02.259
 would not

00:42:02.259 --> 00:42:02.679
 have been

00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:03.259
 destruction

00:42:03.259 --> 00:42:04.820
 and we

00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:05.340
 too

00:42:05.340 --> 00:42:06.860
 can turn

00:42:06.860 --> 00:42:07.539
 from sin

00:42:07.539 --> 00:42:08.259
 back to

00:42:08.259 --> 00:42:08.719
 God

00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:09.420
 through

00:42:09.420 --> 00:42:09.920
 faith

00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:10.380
 in Jesus

00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:11.000
 Christ

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:12.840
 and perhaps

00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:13.960
 this sermon

00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:15.460
 is your

00:42:15.460 --> 00:42:16.000
 version

00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:17.460
 of Jotham's

00:42:17.460 --> 00:42:17.940
 curse

00:42:17.940 --> 00:42:21.920
 it's a

00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:22.420
 prophetic

00:42:22.420 --> 00:42:23.000
 warning

00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:23.680
 for you

00:42:23.680 --> 00:42:26.420
 that the

00:42:26.420 --> 00:42:26.960
 doorway

00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:27.880
 for repentance

00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:28.519
 is still

00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:29.220
 open

00:42:29.220 --> 00:42:31.760
 but if you

00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:32.260
 continue

00:42:32.260 --> 00:42:32.820
 forgetting

00:42:32.820 --> 00:42:33.340
 God

00:42:33.340 --> 00:42:35.160
 your sin

00:42:35.160 --> 00:42:36.220
 will bring

00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:37.079
 your death

00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.039
 your eternal

00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:40.260
 death

00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:42.720
 but if you

00:42:42.720 --> 00:42:43.260
 will repent

00:42:43.260 --> 00:42:44.280
 and believe

00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:45.560
 as Jesus

00:42:45.560 --> 00:42:46.240
 said in

00:42:46.240 --> 00:42:46.920
 John 8

00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:48.320
 if you

00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:49.200
 will believe

00:42:49.200 --> 00:42:49.760
 and hear

00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:50.620
 his words

00:42:50.620 --> 00:42:52.360
 God

00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:52.920
 will give

00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:53.420
 you

00:42:53.420 --> 00:42:54.500
 eternal

00:42:54.500 --> 00:42:55.100
 life

00:42:55.100 --> 00:42:56.880
 eternal

00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:57.380
 life

00:42:57.380 --> 00:43:00.360
 we could

00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:01.180
 simplify this

00:43:01.180 --> 00:43:01.880
 whole section

00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:02.420
 by saying

00:43:02.420 --> 00:43:02.940
 there's two

00:43:02.940 --> 00:43:03.420
 ways to

00:43:03.420 --> 00:43:03.740
 live

00:43:03.740 --> 00:43:05.160
 you can

00:43:05.160 --> 00:43:05.720
 live for

00:43:05.720 --> 00:43:06.100
 God

00:43:06.100 --> 00:43:07.340
 and live

00:43:07.340 --> 00:43:08.120
 a life

00:43:08.120 --> 00:43:08.420
 that is

00:43:08.420 --> 00:43:08.880
 blessed

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:09.680
 and flourishes

00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:10.260
 in eternity

00:43:10.260 --> 00:43:11.820
 or you

00:43:11.820 --> 00:43:12.220
 can live

00:43:12.220 --> 00:43:12.980
 for yourself

00:43:12.980 --> 00:43:14.340
 and you'll

00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:14.820
 die

00:43:14.820 --> 00:43:15.660
 you'll be

00:43:15.660 --> 00:43:16.200
 destroyed

00:43:16.200 --> 00:43:17.039
 and you'll

00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:17.700
 spend eternity

00:43:17.700 --> 00:43:18.140
 in hell

00:43:18.140 --> 00:43:18.840
 it really

00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:19.340
 is that

00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:19.720
 simple

00:43:19.720 --> 00:43:24.059
 like Israel

00:43:24.059 --> 00:43:24.660
 we often

00:43:24.660 --> 00:43:25.840
 think of

00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:26.640
 God's word

00:43:26.640 --> 00:43:27.680
 and God's

00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:28.180
 ways

00:43:28.180 --> 00:43:29.240
 as a

00:43:29.240 --> 00:43:29.860
 restriction

00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:30.360
 on our

00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:30.820
 freedoms

00:43:30.820 --> 00:43:33.599
 as a

00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:33.940
 burden

00:43:33.940 --> 00:43:34.640
 to who

00:43:34.640 --> 00:43:35.099
 we want

00:43:35.099 --> 00:43:35.660
 to be

00:43:35.660 --> 00:43:37.059
 and how

00:43:37.059 --> 00:43:37.440
 we want

00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:37.780
 to live

00:43:37.780 --> 00:43:38.400
 our lives

00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:40.720
 and

00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:41.400
 indwelling

00:43:41.400 --> 00:43:41.960
 sin

00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:42.800
 it magnifies

00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:43.260
 this

00:43:43.260 --> 00:43:45.220
 indwelling

00:43:45.220 --> 00:43:45.700
 sin

00:43:45.700 --> 00:43:45.980
 that's

00:43:45.980 --> 00:43:46.320
 in us

00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:47.220
 it magnifies

00:43:47.220 --> 00:43:48.260
 the attractiveness

00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:49.260
 of a life

00:43:49.260 --> 00:43:50.460
 apart from

00:43:50.460 --> 00:43:50.840
 God

00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:51.840
 it leads

00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:52.180
 us to

00:43:52.180 --> 00:43:52.480
 view the

00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:52.720
 Lord

00:43:52.720 --> 00:43:53.059
 as an

00:43:53.059 --> 00:43:53.820
 oppressor

00:43:53.820 --> 00:43:55.300
 someone

00:43:55.300 --> 00:43:56.000
 standing in

00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:56.420
 the way

00:43:56.420 --> 00:43:56.740
 of our

00:43:56.740 --> 00:43:57.160
 happiness

00:43:57.160 --> 00:43:58.340
 and true

00:43:58.340 --> 00:43:58.820
 fulfillment

00:43:58.820 --> 00:44:02.180
 we think

00:44:02.180 --> 00:44:02.519
 that a

00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:02.820
 life

00:44:02.820 --> 00:44:03.340
 outside

00:44:03.340 --> 00:44:03.980
 of God's

00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:04.340
 word

00:44:04.340 --> 00:44:05.039
 and will

00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:05.940
 will be

00:44:05.940 --> 00:44:06.460
 ultimately

00:44:06.460 --> 00:44:07.280
 freeing

00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:08.260
 that it

00:44:08.260 --> 00:44:08.940
 will allow

00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:09.280
 us to

00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:09.720
 be who

00:44:09.720 --> 00:44:10.280
 we truly

00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:10.699
 are

00:44:10.699 --> 00:44:13.139
 and I

00:44:13.139 --> 00:44:13.519
 don't mean

00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:13.940
 any of that

00:44:13.940 --> 00:44:14.579
 sarcastically

00:44:14.579 --> 00:44:15.059
 I mean

00:44:15.059 --> 00:44:15.639
 that as

00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:16.820
 that is

00:44:16.820 --> 00:44:17.920
 the reality

00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:18.480
 of how we

00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:18.980
 think as

00:44:18.980 --> 00:44:19.360
 people

00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:20.260
 that is

00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:21.320
 the mantra

00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:21.720
 of our

00:44:21.720 --> 00:44:22.099
 culture

00:44:22.099 --> 00:44:22.559
 at this

00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:22.880
 point

00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:23.599
 and it

00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:24.019
 probably

00:44:24.019 --> 00:44:24.460
 exists

00:44:24.460 --> 00:44:24.820
 in some

00:44:24.820 --> 00:44:25.280
 of us

00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:27.380
 that God

00:44:27.380 --> 00:44:27.659
 is a

00:44:27.659 --> 00:44:28.159
 problem

00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:28.720
 he's

00:44:28.720 --> 00:44:28.940
 an

00:44:28.940 --> 00:44:29.579
 oppressor

00:44:29.579 --> 00:44:29.840
 he's

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.000
 an

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:30.960
 egomaniac

00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:31.400
 that's

00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:32.059
 standing in

00:44:32.059 --> 00:44:32.360
 the way

00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:32.639
 of me

00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:33.119
 being who

00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:33.279
 I

00:44:33.279 --> 00:44:33.579
 really

00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:34.039
 am

00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:37.159
 the

00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:37.679
 problem

00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:38.079
 though

00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:40.039
 is that

00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:40.559
 who you

00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:40.960
 really

00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:41.440
 are

00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:43.279
 is a

00:44:43.279 --> 00:44:43.559
 sinner

00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:45.380
 whose

00:44:45.380 --> 00:44:45.920
 sin

00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:47.039
 is

00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:47.519
 eventually

00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:48.119
 going to

00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:48.559
 destroy

00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:48.940
 you

00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:52.179
 that's

00:44:52.179 --> 00:44:52.480
 offensive

00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:52.960
 to us

00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:53.139
 though

00:44:53.139 --> 00:44:53.659
 we don't

00:44:53.659 --> 00:44:53.940
 like to

00:44:53.940 --> 00:44:54.199
 think of

00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:54.440
 it that

00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:54.639
 way

00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:55.339
 we say

00:44:55.339 --> 00:44:55.679
 no

00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:56.480
 this is

00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:57.199
 happiness

00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:57.759
 this is

00:44:57.759 --> 00:44:58.219
 fulfillment

00:44:58.219 --> 00:44:58.699
 this is

00:44:58.699 --> 00:44:59.219
 true

00:44:59.219 --> 00:44:59.539
 life

00:44:59.539 --> 00:44:59.920
 this is

00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:00.259
 true

00:45:00.259 --> 00:45:00.759
 love

00:45:00.759 --> 00:45:01.319
 so on

00:45:01.319 --> 00:45:02.059
 and so

00:45:02.059 --> 00:45:02.359
 forth

00:45:02.359 --> 00:45:02.639
 as the

00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:03.039
 arguments

00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:03.320
 go

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:03.719
 but the

00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:04.119
 reality

00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:04.559
 is

00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:05.079
 who

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:05.360
 you

00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:05.759
 really

00:45:05.759 --> 00:45:06.300
 are

00:45:06.300 --> 00:45:08.300
 is a

00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:08.539
 sinner

00:45:08.539 --> 00:45:10.539
 and that

00:45:10.539 --> 00:45:11.039
 sin is

00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:11.259
 going to

00:45:11.259 --> 00:45:11.619
 destroy

00:45:11.619 --> 00:45:12.500
 you

00:45:12.500 --> 00:45:14.900
 Satan

00:45:14.900 --> 00:45:15.519
 deceives

00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:15.920
 us into

00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:16.320
 thinking

00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:16.679
 that a

00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:16.920
 life

00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:17.219
 apart

00:45:17.219 --> 00:45:17.440
 from

00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:17.779
 God

00:45:17.779 --> 00:45:18.460
 is

00:45:18.460 --> 00:45:18.900
 freedom

00:45:18.900 --> 00:45:20.440
 it's

00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:20.719
 actually

00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:21.440
 bondage

00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:23.420
 he

00:45:23.420 --> 00:45:24.059
 tells us

00:45:24.059 --> 00:45:24.440
 that it's

00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:24.800
 life

00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:25.259
 giving

00:45:25.259 --> 00:45:26.679
 but in

00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:27.179
 reality

00:45:27.179 --> 00:45:27.519
 it's

00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:27.900
 death

00:45:27.900 --> 00:45:31.500
 God's

00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:31.820
 commands

00:45:31.820 --> 00:45:32.199
 are not

00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:32.619
 for our

00:45:32.619 --> 00:45:33.099
 harm

00:45:33.099 --> 00:45:35.119
 they're

00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:35.519
 for our

00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:36.099
 good

00:45:36.099 --> 00:45:40.239
 like a

00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:42.119
 parent

00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:42.659
 who can

00:45:42.659 --> 00:45:43.179
 see

00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:43.679
 and

00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:44.319
 understand

00:45:44.319 --> 00:45:45.519
 what will

00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:46.000
 ultimately

00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:46.400
 harm

00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:46.599
 their

00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:47.099
 kids

00:45:47.099 --> 00:45:48.980
 God's

00:45:48.980 --> 00:45:49.440
 law

00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:50.699
 is a

00:45:50.699 --> 00:45:50.940
 rule

00:45:50.940 --> 00:45:51.199
 of

00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:52.079
 love

00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.339
 it's a

00:45:54.339 --> 00:45:54.519
 rule

00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:55.059
 of love

00:45:55.059 --> 00:45:55.559
 love

00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:57.980
 if you

00:45:57.980 --> 00:45:58.219
 watch

00:45:58.219 --> 00:45:58.679
 Bluey

00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:01.579
 there was

00:46:01.579 --> 00:46:02.000
 an episode

00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:02.619
 recently

00:46:02.619 --> 00:46:03.039
 where

00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:04.299
 Bluey

00:46:04.299 --> 00:46:04.460
 and

00:46:04.460 --> 00:46:04.860
 Bingo

00:46:04.860 --> 00:46:06.340
 they didn't

00:46:06.340 --> 00:46:06.759
 appreciate

00:46:06.759 --> 00:46:07.239
 that their

00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:07.719
 dad was

00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:08.199
 being so

00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:08.699
 bossy

00:46:08.699 --> 00:46:09.099
 in their

00:46:09.099 --> 00:46:09.420
 life

00:46:09.420 --> 00:46:12.320
 but by

00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:12.779
 the end

00:46:12.779 --> 00:46:13.480
 they realized

00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:13.940
 that wait

00:46:13.940 --> 00:46:14.320
 a minute

00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:15.860
 dad's

00:46:15.860 --> 00:46:16.279
 commands

00:46:16.279 --> 00:46:16.840
 are actually

00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:17.340
 for our

00:46:17.340 --> 00:46:17.719
 good

00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:19.679
 they're not

00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:20.199
 always easy

00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:20.579
 to hear

00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:21.099
 because a

00:46:21.099 --> 00:46:21.320
 lot of

00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:21.699
 times they

00:46:21.699 --> 00:46:22.119
 go against

00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:22.599
 what we

00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:22.980
 want to

00:46:22.980 --> 00:46:23.199
 do

00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:23.839
 but they're

00:46:23.839 --> 00:46:24.059
 actually

00:46:24.059 --> 00:46:24.440
 for our

00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:24.819
 good

00:46:24.819 --> 00:46:25.359
 right

00:46:25.359 --> 00:46:27.679
 like a

00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:27.859
 loving

00:46:27.859 --> 00:46:28.179
 parent

00:46:28.179 --> 00:46:28.440
 God

00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:28.819
 gives us

00:46:28.819 --> 00:46:29.299
 his law

00:46:29.299 --> 00:46:30.000
 for our

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:30.339
 good

00:46:30.339 --> 00:46:31.539
 he knows

00:46:31.539 --> 00:46:31.920
 what will

00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:32.359
 harm us

00:46:32.359 --> 00:46:33.199
 he knows

00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:33.839
 that he

00:46:33.839 --> 00:46:34.339
 is what

00:46:34.339 --> 00:46:34.839
 is best

00:46:34.839 --> 00:46:35.880
 for us

00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:38.119
 and he

00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:38.720
 pursues

00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:39.160
 us

00:46:39.160 --> 00:46:41.700
 he pursues

00:46:41.700 --> 00:46:42.079
 us

00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:42.780
 out of

00:46:42.780 --> 00:46:43.400
 love

00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:45.140
 so that

00:46:45.140 --> 00:46:45.700
 in turning

00:46:45.700 --> 00:46:46.420
 to him

00:46:46.420 --> 00:46:47.539
 we will

00:46:47.539 --> 00:46:48.140
 know what

00:46:48.140 --> 00:46:48.740
 it truly

00:46:48.740 --> 00:46:49.440
 means

00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:50.599
 to live

00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:51.619
 and to

00:46:51.619 --> 00:46:52.240
 flourish

00:46:52.240 --> 00:46:53.700
 and I

00:46:53.700 --> 00:46:53.960
 think that's

00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:54.440
 the best

00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:54.900
 part of

00:46:54.900 --> 00:46:55.099
 it

00:46:55.099 --> 00:46:56.960
 I can

00:46:56.960 --> 00:46:57.360
 understand

00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:57.619
 that as

00:46:57.619 --> 00:46:58.200
 a father

00:46:58.200 --> 00:47:01.320
 that no

00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:01.720
 matter how

00:47:01.720 --> 00:47:02.280
 many times

00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:02.780
 my girls

00:47:02.780 --> 00:47:03.599
 push against

00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:04.360
 or as

00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:04.619
 they get

00:47:04.619 --> 00:47:05.039
 older

00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:05.679
 if they

00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:06.139
 run

00:47:06.139 --> 00:47:06.900
 I

00:47:06.900 --> 00:47:07.300
 understand

00:47:07.300 --> 00:47:07.840
 the desire

00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:08.599
 to pursue

00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:09.099
 them for

00:47:09.099 --> 00:47:09.779
 their good

00:47:09.779 --> 00:47:11.119
 is that not

00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:11.400
 how the

00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:11.679
 scripture

00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:12.360
 pictures

00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:13.000
 the Lord

00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:13.500
 in his

00:47:13.500 --> 00:47:14.000
 relationship

00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:14.679
 to us

00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:15.679
 we try

00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:16.099
 to forget

00:47:16.099 --> 00:47:16.219
 him

00:47:16.219 --> 00:47:16.599
 we try

00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:16.860
 to live

00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:17.179
 without

00:47:17.179 --> 00:47:17.320
 him

00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:17.519
 what

00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:17.639
 does

00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:17.719
 he

00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:17.840
 do

00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:17.980
 he

00:47:17.980 --> 00:47:18.659
 pursues

00:47:18.659 --> 00:47:18.920
 us

00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:19.099
 he

00:47:19.099 --> 00:47:19.739
 gives

00:47:19.739 --> 00:47:19.920
 us

00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:20.079
 his

00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:20.519
 word

00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:20.820
 he

00:47:20.820 --> 00:47:22.039
 convicts

00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:22.219
 us

00:47:22.219 --> 00:47:22.400
 with

00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:22.579
 his

00:47:22.579 --> 00:47:22.960
 spirit

00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:23.279
 he

00:47:23.279 --> 00:47:23.759
 gives

00:47:23.759 --> 00:47:23.900
 us

00:47:23.900 --> 00:47:24.059
 a

00:47:24.059 --> 00:47:24.340
 faithful

00:47:24.340 --> 00:47:24.759
 church

00:47:24.759 --> 00:47:24.880
 who

00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:25.000
 will

00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:25.219
 hold

00:47:25.219 --> 00:47:25.340
 us

00:47:25.340 --> 00:47:25.759
 accountable

00:47:25.759 --> 00:47:25.940
 he

00:47:25.940 --> 00:47:27.159
 pursues

00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:27.179
!

00:47:27.179 --> 00:47:27.420
 us

00:47:27.420 --> 00:47:27.679
 out

00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:27.800
 of

00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:28.000
 his

00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:29.119
 love

00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:30.079
 for

00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:30.679
 us

00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:30.699
!

00:47:30.699 --> 00:47:33.000
 true

00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:33.440
 life

00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:33.820
 doesn't

00:47:33.820 --> 00:47:34.159
 come

00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:34.679
 from

00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:35.259
 outside

00:47:35.259 --> 00:47:35.420
 of

00:47:35.420 --> 00:47:35.559
 his

00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:35.819
 will

00:47:35.819 --> 00:47:36.739
 it

00:47:36.739 --> 00:47:37.099
 comes

00:47:37.099 --> 00:47:37.420
 in

00:47:37.420 --> 00:47:38.139
 submission

00:47:38.139 --> 00:47:39.239
 to

00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:39.460
 his

00:47:39.460 --> 00:47:39.819
 will

00:47:39.819 --> 00:47:41.059
 a

00:47:41.059 --> 00:47:41.399
 lesson

00:47:41.399 --> 00:47:41.679
 that

00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:42.039
 Israel

00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:42.379
 just

00:47:42.379 --> 00:47:42.659
 couldn't

00:47:42.659 --> 00:47:42.899
 seem

00:47:42.899 --> 00:47:43.139
 to

00:47:43.139 --> 00:47:43.539
 learn

00:47:43.539 --> 00:47:43.819
 in

00:47:43.819 --> 00:47:43.940
 the

00:47:43.940 --> 00:47:44.079
 book

00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:44.219
 of

00:47:44.219 --> 00:47:44.699
 Judges

00:47:44.699 --> 00:47:46.279
 and

00:47:46.279 --> 00:47:46.619
 unless

00:47:46.619 --> 00:47:46.859
 we

00:47:46.859 --> 00:47:47.059
 have

00:47:47.059 --> 00:47:47.399
 eyes

00:47:47.399 --> 00:47:47.579
 to

00:47:47.579 --> 00:47:47.940
 see

00:47:47.940 --> 00:47:48.759
 and

00:47:48.759 --> 00:47:49.119
 ears

00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:49.359
 to

00:47:49.359 --> 00:47:49.559
 hear

00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:49.759
 the

00:47:49.759 --> 00:47:49.940
 word

00:47:49.940 --> 00:47:50.079
 of

00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:50.500
 truth

00:47:50.500 --> 00:47:52.019
 we

00:47:52.019 --> 00:47:52.179
 will

00:47:52.179 --> 00:47:52.379
 never

00:47:52.379 --> 00:47:52.679
 learn

00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:52.819
 it

00:47:52.819 --> 00:47:53.239
 either

00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:55.920
 a

00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:56.319
 life

00:47:56.319 --> 00:47:58.079
 and

00:47:58.079 --> 00:47:58.539
 worship

00:47:58.539 --> 00:47:58.980
 and

00:47:58.980 --> 00:47:59.359
 obedience

00:47:59.359 --> 00:47:59.699
 to

00:47:59.699 --> 00:48:00.019
 God

00:48:00.019 --> 00:48:01.259
 is

00:48:01.259 --> 00:48:01.460
 the

00:48:01.460 --> 00:48:01.699
 only

00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:02.019
 life

00:48:02.019 --> 00:48:02.299
 that's

00:48:02.299 --> 00:48:02.659
 worth

00:48:02.659 --> 00:48:02.940
 it

00:48:02.940 --> 00:48:04.500
 it

00:48:04.500 --> 00:48:04.740
 doesn't

00:48:04.740 --> 00:48:04.900
 mean

00:48:04.900 --> 00:48:05.119
 it's

00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:05.440
 easy

00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:06.980
 but

00:48:06.980 --> 00:48:07.260
 man

00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:07.420
 is

00:48:07.420 --> 00:48:07.559
 it

00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:07.840
 worth

00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:08.059
 it

00:48:08.059 --> 00:48:10.300
 and

00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:10.519
 if

00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:10.880
 you're

00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:11.000
 at

00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:11.119
 a

00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:11.300
 point

00:48:11.300 --> 00:48:11.400
 in

00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:11.500
 your

00:48:11.500 --> 00:48:11.900
 life

00:48:11.900 --> 00:48:12.220
 where

00:48:12.220 --> 00:48:12.880
 you

00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:13.119
 really

00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:13.320
 are

00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:13.619
 trying

00:48:13.619 --> 00:48:13.820
 to

00:48:13.820 --> 00:48:14.619
 fight

00:48:14.619 --> 00:48:15.360
 this

00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.000
 tendency

00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:19.380
 to

00:48:19.380 --> 00:48:20.019
 move

00:48:20.019 --> 00:48:20.440
 away

00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:20.720
 from

00:48:20.720 --> 00:48:20.960
 him

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.000
 please

00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:23.760
 don't

00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:26.159
 please

00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:26.720
 don't

00:48:26.720 --> 00:48:28.679
 it

00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:29.119
 won't

00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:29.420
 work

00:48:29.420 --> 00:48:29.659
 out

00:48:29.659 --> 00:48:29.820
 the

00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:29.940
 way

00:48:29.940 --> 00:48:30.079
 you

00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:30.300
 think

00:48:30.300 --> 00:48:30.420
 it

00:48:30.420 --> 00:48:30.559
 will

00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:30.860
 work

00:48:30.860 --> 00:48:31.159
 out

00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:32.779
 it

00:48:32.779 --> 00:48:33.119
 won't

00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:33.319
 be

00:48:33.319 --> 00:48:33.759
 fulfilling

00:48:33.759 --> 00:48:34.019
 like

00:48:34.019 --> 00:48:34.159
 you

00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:34.339
 think

00:48:34.339 --> 00:48:34.440
 it

00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:34.539
 will

00:48:34.539 --> 00:48:34.719
 be

00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:35.099
 fulfilling

00:48:35.099 --> 00:48:37.579
 just

00:48:37.579 --> 00:48:38.119
 turn

00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:39.759
 and

00:48:39.759 --> 00:48:40.179
 trust

00:48:40.179 --> 00:48:40.460
 him

00:48:40.460 --> 00:48:41.779
 and

00:48:41.779 --> 00:48:42.199
 believe

00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:42.539
 him

00:48:42.539 --> 00:48:43.920
 and

00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:44.099
 you'll

00:48:44.099 --> 00:48:44.500
 find

00:48:44.500 --> 00:48:44.719
 that

00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:45.000
 his

00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:45.239
 way

00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:45.519
 is

00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:45.699
 the

00:48:45.699 --> 00:48:45.980
 best

00:48:45.980 --> 00:48:46.299
 way

00:48:46.299 --> 00:48:47.379
 and

00:48:47.379 --> 00:48:47.539
 it's

00:48:47.539 --> 00:48:47.699
 the

00:48:47.699 --> 00:48:48.079
 fruitful

00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:48.539
 way

00:48:48.539 --> 00:48:49.779
 it's

00:48:49.779 --> 00:48:49.960
 the

00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:50.339
 saving

00:48:50.339 --> 00:48:50.679
 way

00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:51.940
 and

00:48:51.940 --> 00:48:52.679
!

00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:53.679
 and

00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:53.679


00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:54.019
 go

00:48:54.019 --> 00:48:54.679
 to

00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:54.679


00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:54.679


00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:55.219
 to

00:48:55.219 --> 00:48:55.219


00:48:55.219 --> 00:48:55.679
!

00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:55.679


00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:55.679


00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:55.679


00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:56.179
!

00:48:56.179 --> 00:48:56.179


00:48:56.179 --> 00:48:56.679
!