1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 What a wonderful name it is, the name of Jesus Christ my King. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:19,000 What a wonderful name it is, let me come close to this. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:40,000 What a wonderful name it is, the name of Jesus. 4 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Death could not hold you, the will told before you, his son is the most awesome and great. 5 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Heaven's a-roaming, the waves of your glory, for you will raise to life again. 6 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:22,000 You have no problem, you have no evil, now and forever God you will wait. 7 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Yours is the kingdom, yours is the glory, yours is the name of the whole day. 8 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:49,000 What a powerful name it is, what a powerful name it is, the name of Jesus Christ my King. 9 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:56,000 What a powerful name it is, nothing can stand against. 10 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:10,000 What a powerful name it is, the name of Jesus. 11 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:23,000 You have no rival, you have no equal, now and forever God you will wait. 12 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Yours is the kingdom, yours is the glory, yours is the name of the whole day. 13 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:54,000 What a powerful name it is, what a powerful name it is, the name of Jesus Christ my King. 14 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Nothing can stand against, what a powerful name it is, the name of Jesus. 15 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:49,000 I figured somebody would notice that. 16 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:58,000 I should have my answer sheet. 17 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 I don't have a back cover there. 18 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Oh, here it is, I got it. 19 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:30,000 This worksheet was one of the more challenging worksheets that I have made because I ran into something unexpected while I was doing it. 20 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Hopefully I will be able to help you see that by the time we are done. 21 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 We are still looking at parables, we will be looking at parables for a while. 22 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:51,000 We are looking at a variety of different parables so that we want to get fluent in the language of parables. 23 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:58,000 We want to get used to this method of communication that God uses for us to understand. 24 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 As you will recall, the parable serves a purpose. 25 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:17,000 It is to elicit a response and a request from the hearer. 26 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 When we hear a parable, we should go to God. 27 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:29,000 We are going to hear a parable, another one, today from the Old Testament. 28 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 It is used in a unique way, even more unique. 29 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 It caught me off guard a little bit as I was studying it in preparation for today. 30 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,000 If you look right at the top of your page, right above the first arm of that there, that is a bramble. 31 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,000 A bramble is like a low-lying, foreign bush that creeps along and grabs onto everything. 32 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:55,000 At the top there, it should say, Judges, and the reference is chapter 9, Judges 9, beginning in verse 5. 33 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 We actually will go through verse 20. 34 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 It is 9, 5, dash 20. 35 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 That is what you have at the top. 36 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 That was pretty much the easy part. 37 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:14,000 If you go right down across the brambles, you will see it says, parables 6. 38 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Under that, it says, the fable of the trees. 39 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:26,000 What we have is a person in this story, and I will clue you in as to who he was, why he was, the occasion of it. 40 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 I will do all of that. 41 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,000 That was telling the fable of the trees, and it is a parable. 42 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:43,000 The things in the parable kind of represent something so that people can learn what it is that he is trying to get them to learn. 43 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:49,000 They should theoretically respond and request more information, but you will see they do not. 44 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 That is interesting, and it goes very poorly for them because of that. 45 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:59,000 It was really neat that I was able to make that connection myself, and hopefully I will be able to help you see it. 46 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 This is Judges chapter 9, beginning in verse 5. 47 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 We will be reading it. 48 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:11,000 You see it says, I start reading there, and we are working down the page, and I will clue you in. 49 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Then we have some things off to the side, and those things are about that thing. 50 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Like it says location, and then the arrow off to the side is going to talk about the location. 51 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Then it says spoken by, and those blanks on the right are going to talk about the person who spoke it. 52 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Then the occasion is going to be down, and so on. 53 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 We are just working down the page. 54 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Thank you very much, sir. 55 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Here we go. 56 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:40,000 This is Judges chapter 9, verse 5. 57 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Hold on one second. 58 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Okay, there is verse 5. 59 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Then he, the he, is Abimelech. 60 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 I will go back and give you a little bit more about that in a minute. 61 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Then he, Abimelech, went to his father's house at Ofra and killed his brothers, the sons of Jerobal. 62 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Here is an interesting trivia question. 63 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Does anybody know who Jerobal is by a name that everyone would recognize or most people would recognize? 64 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Who had the alternate name Jerobal? 65 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Does anybody remember? 66 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Nope, not Jeremiah. 67 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 It is Gideon. 68 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Gideon. 69 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:25,000 He got the name Jerobal early on because he was basically warring against the prophets of Baal and the false teachings of Baal. 70 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 This guy, Gideon, does anybody remember Gideon? 71 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Gideon is the guy with the 300. 72 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Gideon has a huge army. 73 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 God says you have too many people. 74 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 If you do it now, it is not big enough to win, but if you do it now, everybody will think you did it because you had a big army. 75 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 We are going to let all the men who are afraid go home. 76 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 They all went home. 77 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 We are going to have them all down to the water. 78 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 If they bend over to drink or if they keep looking around, that will determine whether they get to stay or not. 79 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 They got down to 300 men. 80 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Then those 300 men went in with the pitchers and the torches. 81 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 They scared the camp. 82 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 The camp got up and they all killed each other. 83 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 That is basically what happened. 84 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 God delivered them that day through the hands of Gideon. 85 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 That army was a Midianite army. 86 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 That is the background story. 87 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Gideon is an awesome dude. 88 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 He is a judge. 89 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 He is a judge for God. 90 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 He is a leader for God. 91 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Now, he has all these sons. 92 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Abimelek, who was his son, goes and kills all of his brothers, all the sons of Gideon. 93 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 You could put him there if you want. 94 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 70 men on one stone. 95 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Abimelek takes a bunch of Hierarchretans and kills his 70 brothers all on one stone. 96 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:43,000 That word there, it is not on your page, but that word where it says on one stone, it could be a sacrificial stone to the false god Baal. 97 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:50,000 He may have sacrificed all of his brothers to Baal at that time, but they do not know for sure if that word means that. 98 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 They just say on one stone. 99 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Jotham, the youngest son of Jerbaal, was left for he hid himself. 100 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,000 There was one youngest son that survives. 101 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 So he is a brother, kind of a half brother, right? 102 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:14,000 He is not saying mother, but a brother to Abimelek, who just killed all 70 of their other brothers. 103 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Verse 6 says, and all the men of Shechem and all Beth-Miloh assembled together. 104 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Now, the word Beth-Miloh is a weird word and they have a hard time translating it. 105 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,000 We do not really know for sure what it is referring to. 106 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:39,000 But it could have been a town, it could have been a clan, because it could mean the house of Miloh, right? 107 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,000 So they are not 100% sure. Beth is house in Hebrew. 108 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 And so it could be the house of Miloh or it could have been a town called that or whatever. 109 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 So they really do not know for sure. 110 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,000 But all the men of Shechem, that they do know, and Beth-Miloh, assembled together. 111 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 And they went and made Abimelek king. 112 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,000 They did this by the oak of the pillar which was in Shechem. 113 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 So Shechem was a big city. 114 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:11,000 And it was kind of between two, like at a key point where a valley comes through and all the merchants would come through. 115 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted his voice and called out. 116 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 So we will stop there for a second. 117 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 So the location is what? Mount Gerizim. 118 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Now Gerizim is spelled G-E-R-I-Z-I-M. 119 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 There are two I's. 120 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 It sounds like there is an A in there, but there is not. 121 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 It is G-E-R-I-Z-I-M. 122 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,000 So it looks like Gerizim. 123 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 So that is the location. 124 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 So now we are going to follow the arrow over for a second to the left. 125 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Follow your arrow over to the left. 126 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Big fat arrow there. 127 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 And the first word starts with an M and it is? 128 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 We are talking about the location. 129 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 M is what? 130 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Mountain. That is correct. 131 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,000 So Mount Gerizim was a mountain. 132 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And it was one of two. 133 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Does anybody know what the other one was? 134 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 It was one of two and the W is with. 135 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,000 And the other one starts with an E and it is Bible scholars? 136 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Anybody? No clue. 137 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Nope. Not Israel. 138 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 It is Ebal. E-B-A-L. 139 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:36,000 I will give you a little bit more in a second. 140 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 But right now just go with me as we get through the rest of these blanks. 141 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:46,000 So it is a mountain. 142 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 One of two with Ebal. 143 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 And then it is the M-O-B. 144 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I am going to take a stab at it. 145 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 If you don't know the history you might have trouble with this part. 146 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 How about if I fill in the history and then you will see if you get it. 147 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,000 So these two mountains, Gerizim and Ebal, sit side by side. 148 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 And there is a pass that runs between. 149 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 And when the Israelites came into the promised land, 150 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 since I started telling this story you will go, 151 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 oh I kind of vaguely think I remember this. 152 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 When the Israelites came to the promised land, 153 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 and I think it is Deuteronomy 27, 154 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Moses told them that once they went in there 155 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 they were supposed to form all the men up on both mountains. 156 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 One on one side of one mountain and one on the other. 157 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 And one side they were going to tell all the blessings 158 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 that God was going to give them as they went into the land. 159 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 And the other mountain was going to tell all the curses 160 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 that God was going to give if they didn't do it. 161 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Remember this whole story maybe? 162 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000 If not it is in the book of Joshua. 163 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 I highly recommend you read it. It is really good stuff. 164 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 So they got up there and they cried out the blessings 165 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 and they cried out the curses. 166 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 And Mount Gerizim then was the, now look at the blanks, 167 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Mount of Blessings. Exactly. 168 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 So Mount Gerizim was the Mount of Blessings. 169 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 So now realize that this story that we are reading 170 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 is taking place a little over a hundred years 171 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 after that story I just told you. 172 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 When Joshua had them all go up on the mountain. 173 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 They actually did it, right? 174 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Moses looked before that, you know almost 200 years really, 175 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 that they were told to do it. 176 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 But then only a little over a hundred years later 177 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 this event that we are studying today was taking place. 178 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 This parable is being told. 179 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 And so they were up on this mountain a little over 180 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,000 a hundred years ago pronouncing blessings. 181 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 And the Israelites stood here to SL. 182 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Anyone want to get a stab at it? 183 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 What do you think it could be? 184 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 They stood on the mountain, they followed the commands of Moses 185 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,000 and they stood there to do to SL. 186 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Is that a shout? 187 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 No, that's really cool. 188 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 So shout is right, so the S is shout. 189 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 It's not literature. 190 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 It was loud but that's not the right L. 191 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Loyalty, okay. 192 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Remember that they were given the blessings that they would get 193 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 by God when they went into the land. 194 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,000 The curses that they would get if they did not remain loyal to the Lord. 195 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 So the blessings were all about loyalty. 196 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 If you go back and read them you'll see they were like, 197 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 yes, we're for God and God's for us and these things are awesome. 198 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Things are going to happen. 199 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,000 It's going to be great. 200 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 The people over here are like, well, we're for God too 201 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 and these are the horrible things that are going to happen 202 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 if we don't follow God and we're for God too, right? 203 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,000 But Mount Gerizim was the mount of blessings 204 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,000 and the people stood on the mountain to shout their loyalty. 205 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,000 So this scene that we're studying there today, 206 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 if you follow the arrow down a little bit, 207 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 actually let's leave those blanks for a minute 208 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 because you'll get a better idea as we actually look at what happens 209 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 during the scene. 210 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 So you can leave those there. 211 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 We'll fill them in later. 212 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 It's going to be HD when the time comes. 213 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 So going back up to location, 214 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 we just talked about Mount Gerizim. 215 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 So if anybody asked you what Mount Gerizim was, 216 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 it's one of the two mountains. 217 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 It was the mount of blessings 218 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,000 and the Israelites stood on that mountain to shout their loyalty to God. 219 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Now he's standing there. 220 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Who's he? 221 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Help me. 222 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Jotham. 223 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Correct. 224 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Very good. 225 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Jotham. 226 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 He's standing there. 227 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Okay. 228 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 And so if you'll see spoken by, 229 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,000 charged with a J, Jotham. 230 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Okay. 231 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 And now follow over to the right. 232 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 We'll talk about Jotham for a minute. 233 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Okay. 234 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 This is a little tricky, but if you're listening closely, 235 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 and I can read it again if nobody gets it, 236 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 YS. 237 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 The youngest son. 238 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,000 The youngest son. 239 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 That's good. 240 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Somebody was listening. 241 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Very good. 242 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 He's the youngest son. 243 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 That's tough detail to pick out if you weren't paying close attention. 244 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 And he was also the OS. 245 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Very good. 246 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Only survivor. 247 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,000 So he's the youngest son and the only survivor of the massacre. 248 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Because he hid. 249 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Because he hid. 250 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Yes, that's right. 251 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Which is what I would have done. 252 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 I think at that point, 253 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 if your 70 brothers aren't good enough to hold it, 254 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,000 you're the youngest, hold up to it, 255 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 and you're the youngest son, 256 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 I think hiding is about your only option 257 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 unless you've got a good course to run away. 258 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Okay. 259 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 And then, so he's standing up there. 260 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 This is a little trickier. 261 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 It's not really in what we read, 262 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 but you kind of see what's coming, right? 263 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 He stands up there on Mount Gerizim, 264 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:13,000 and his purpose, why is he doing it? 265 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 CS. 266 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Call. 267 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Nope. 268 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Okay, so let's go back into the text, 269 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 and you will get it. 270 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 All right, that's how far we've gotten so far. 271 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Okay. 272 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,000 So we're just going to go back for one second to 273 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,000 verse seven. 274 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 At the top, at the very top? 275 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Judges 9, 5, to 20, 276 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 and I'm reading in verse seven right now. 277 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 I'm sorry, yeah, 9, 5, to 20, 278 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 and I'm reading in verse seven. 279 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Now, when they told Jotham, 280 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. 281 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 So what did they tell him? 282 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,000 No, that's why he went there, 283 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 but what did they tell him? 284 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 The verse is right before. 285 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Right, they made, past tense actually, 286 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,000 a Bimelech king by the oak of the pillar, 287 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 which was in Shechem. 288 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Okay, so Jotham heard that they made a Bimelech king. 289 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 That's what he heard. 290 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Yep, absolutely. 291 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Okay, now listen, it says, 292 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 now when they told Jotham, 293 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, 294 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 and lifted his voice and called out. 295 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Thus he said to them, 296 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 we don't have to go very far, 297 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 listen to me, O men of Shechem, 298 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 that God may listen to you. 299 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Okay, so, okay, good enough. 300 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 You could put called out, 301 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 technically called out is two words. 302 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 I put confront Shechem. 303 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Okay, so he did this to confront Shechem. 304 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Notice he leaves out, 305 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,000 S-H-E-C-H-E-M, 306 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,000 like Shechem, S-H-E-C-H-E-M, 307 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 or Shechem. 308 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Okay, anyway, he leaves out that other group, 309 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 or city, or whatever it was, right, 310 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,000 the Beth-Millow, 311 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 which we don't really know for sure what it was. 312 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000 He leaves them out, 313 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 he calls out, O men of Shechem, right, 314 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 and he confronts them. 315 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Now if you follow the arrow down for one second, 316 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 you'll see that Shechem, 317 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 and we already talked about this a little bit, 318 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 so you might be able to fill it in, 319 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 is an MC. 320 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Shechem. 321 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 It's a major city. 322 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Shechem is a major city. 323 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 In fact, almost no trade was being done in that region 324 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,000 unless it went through Shechem. 325 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 So if you needed something that was not made in your hometown, 326 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,000 you couldn't get it unless it came through Shechem. 327 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Very powerful city, big, lots of people. 328 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:54,000 And it so happens that Abimelek was from Shechem. 329 00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Okay, and we'll get into that in a second here. 330 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 All right, so we're back in the middle. 331 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Let me recap. 332 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,000 So we have the location, Mount Gerizim, 333 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,000 spoken by Jotham, who was the youngest son, 334 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 the only survivor to confront Shechem, 335 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 which was a major city. 336 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Okay, and now we're on occasion. 337 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Occasion. 338 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,000 So we have the big capital A, which of course is Abimelek. 339 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Yep, so Abimelek. 340 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,000 And then we have the big capital S, which of course is Shechem. 341 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Right? 342 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 And we have a little a. 343 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 You could put accepts, anoints. 344 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 What's that? 345 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Yeah, anoints. 346 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 And then we have an IK. 347 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Anyone want to take a stab at that one? 348 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Okay, so King is correct. 349 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:05,000 What kind of King is this Abimelek? 350 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 He does turn out to be one, and that is correct. 351 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 He's not an idiot. 352 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 In fact, he was a master craftsman politician at this point, 353 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 but he's on the wrong side of the battle. 354 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 You always lose when you go against God, right? 355 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 So he's illegitimate. 356 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 He's illegitimate. 357 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 He does not actually have any claim to be King. 358 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:30,000 The only claim he has to be King is you will see it before we're done. 359 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Okay? 360 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 All right, so Abimelek, Shechem, anointed illegitimate King. 361 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,000 And now MGS. 362 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,000 I'm going to give you, the G is Gideon's. 363 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Gideon, apostrophe, S, Gideon, as in Gideon's possession. 364 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 So the M is what? 365 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 Massacred. 366 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Massacred, Gideon's, sons. 367 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Okay? 368 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 So Abimelek and Shechem go together. 369 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,000 They massacre his sons, and he becomes an illegitimate King. 370 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Okay? 371 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,000 So we're going to take that arrow, if you'll see where you wrote Abimelek right there, 372 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 take that arrow down to the left. 373 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,000 See the arrow down to the left, and it says, Judges 831. 374 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Judges 831 says, 375 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 this is talking about Gideon. 376 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 We'll go back up as far as 29 just so you get the run up to it. 377 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Then Jeroboel, the son of Joash, went and lived in his own house. 378 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Now Gideon had 70 sons who were his direct descendants, 379 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 for he had many wives, now 31. 380 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 And his concubine, who was in Shechem, also bore him a son, 381 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,000 and he named him Abimelek. 382 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Okay? 383 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,000 It is not Shechem, son of... 384 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 So tell me what a concubine is, compared to a wife. 385 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 What's the difference? 386 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Not married. 387 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Not married, typically, and what? 388 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,000 Kind of, yeah. 389 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Typically they were of lower station, a slave woman. 390 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Okay? 391 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 So she was a slave woman. 392 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Abimelek was the son of a slave woman. 393 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Now it was a slave woman who became intimate with Gideon, 394 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000 and so she is the mother of Abimelek. 395 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Okay? 396 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Then we're going to go down, the arrow down, 397 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:38,000 and it says, and this is Judges 8.23 now that I'm reading. 398 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Judges 8.23, it says, 22 says, 399 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, 400 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Rule over us both you and your son, also your son's son, 401 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian. 402 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 But Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, 403 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,000 nor shall my son rule over you. 404 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 The Lord shall rule over you. 405 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000 So Gideon, the G is Gideon, what? 406 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Refused. 407 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 He refused to rule. 408 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 He would not be king. 409 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 He said, I will not be your king. 410 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 He refused. 411 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Yep, Gideon refused or refuses. 412 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:23,000 But, and this is where it gets kind of soap opera sloppy, okay? 413 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 But, I'm just going to fill in the blanks, 414 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000 and I'm going to read it to you here. 415 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:35,000 He named son, and you know what the capital A is, 416 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Abimelek, but do you know what the translation is? 417 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:46,000 You can look at the letters on the bottom line, M-F-I-K, M-F-I-K. 418 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Exactly. 419 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,000 The word Abimelek means my father is king. 420 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Interesting, isn't it? 421 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000 So if you had a slave woman, if you were Gideon, 422 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 you had a slave woman who lived in another city away from you, 423 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 and you had a son with her, why would you name him Abimelek, 424 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,000 especially if you're not king? 425 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Why do you think you would do that? 426 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Maybe, although I don't think that was Gideon's purpose, 427 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000 because Gideon told them that he would not rule over them, 428 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 and he even says, nor will my son. 429 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 He said that, Gideon said, nor will my son. 430 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Isn't Gideon Christian? 431 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 This is way before Christ. 432 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Gideon is a God follower for sure. 433 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Say it again. 434 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 There you go. 435 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 She was a slave woman. 436 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,000 She had nothing. 437 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 She had a son that belonged to Gideon. 438 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000 He did not move her and her son to come live with him. 439 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000 You follow? 440 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 He left them in Shechem. 441 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 What did they have going for them? 442 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Not a whole lot. 443 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,000 He probably sent them some money, right? 444 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000 So they were taken care of, but what was their social status? 445 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Very low. 446 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 But if you name your son Abimelech, you elevate his social status. 447 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 He gave him a gift. 448 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Right? 449 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Remember the old, you may or may not remember, 450 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 this old song by Johnny Cash? 451 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 A Boy Named Sue, right? 452 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 And the whole song is about a name, 453 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 my dad named me Sue, and I never met him, 454 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,000 and I grew up hating him and fighting and all this trouble, 455 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000 and in the end he runs into him in a bar, 456 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,000 and they knife fight each other, and they come up, 457 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 and they finally come to peace over it. 458 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 He said, I had to name you Sue, because I had to make you tough. 459 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Right? 460 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Because I knew you were going to be there without me. 461 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000 I had to make you tough. 462 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000 And at the end of the song, Johnny Cash says, 463 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:35,000 and if I ever have a boy, I'm going to name him Bill or George or John or Paul, 464 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 anything but Sue. 465 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,000 So the whole point of naming him my father as king 466 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 was to give him something, because he couldn't give him his father. 467 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Does that make sense? 468 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000 He couldn't give him his dad. 469 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000 He couldn't go there and let him check him, 470 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 and he wasn't going to bring him to live with him. 471 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:57,000 So that being said, this problem that we're having in this story 472 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,000 starts a little bit with Gideon having a concubine and so many wives. 473 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 How many kings do you think it has been throughout Israel's history? 474 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Gideon was not a king, he was a judge, 475 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 but how many kings had too many wives and got into trouble? 476 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Many. 477 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 All of them. 478 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000 All of them, all the kings. 479 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 They all had too many wives and all got into trouble. 480 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000 As far as we know, we don't know for sure that that was some of the trouble for some of them, 481 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,000 but we know that most of them had multiple wives and it always didn't work out well. 482 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 And so that was not the... 483 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 And you know, by the way, that is not the way God set it up. 484 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,000 One man, one woman for a life is the way God set it up. 485 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,000 So God hates divorce, not getting on that topic, 486 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,000 but it literally says that, God hates divorce. 487 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,000 That is not what God prefers, but there is a reality of it 488 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000 because of hardness of heart, betrayal, things like that. 489 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000 There's a reality of divorce. 490 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,000 So God does not hate divorcees, right, who are divorced, 491 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000 but he hates that divorce even exists. 492 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:56,000 That being said, Gideon had a concubine, had a son, 493 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000 and gave him the name, My Father is King. 494 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,000 And it did indeed elevate his position in Shechem, didn't it? 495 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Because now he's able to rally all the people in Shechem around him. 496 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,000 And then what did they use that power for? 497 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 They went and killed Gideon's 70 other sons. 498 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,000 That is terrible, that is tragic, okay? 499 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000 All right, so that being said then, we've gotten all the way to the bottom, 500 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 except for my little note there. 501 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000 So you're going to go back up, so you're back up under occasion, 502 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,000 a Bimilech, Shechem, an illegitimate king, anointed an illegitimate king, 503 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000 massacred Gideon's sons, Bram... 504 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Okay, and then you got to be there, but you haven't heard the parable yet. 505 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 All of that, and you've not heard the parable yet. 506 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 So now we're going to get to the parable, okay? 507 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,000 So here we go. 508 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,000 So he stands up, and he's going to tell the fable of the trees. 509 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000 I've got to get back on the right page. 510 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:59,000 And we are in chapter 9 of the Book of Judges, and we are in... 511 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,000 I'll begin in 8. 512 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,000 This is the actual parable. 513 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them. 514 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:15,000 And they said to the olive tree, Reign over us. 515 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,000 But the olive tree said to them, Shall I leave my fatness, 516 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:25,000 with which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees? 517 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000 Okay, so if you'll look straight down on your page, 518 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,000 right in the middle of the bottom, you see that thing that looks like a twisted... 519 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:37,000 has a twisted trunk and goes up into a kind of very oddly shaped tree head? 520 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000 That is an olive tree. 521 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,000 And so the blank says olive tree, and right after there's a little blank, 522 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000 and what did the olive tree say? 523 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 It's simpler than that. 524 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000 No. 525 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000 He said no. 526 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,000 The olive tree said no. 527 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 I will not be your king. 528 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,000 All right, continuing on. 529 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Then the trees said to the fig tree, You come reign over us. 530 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,000 But the fig tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, 531 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 and go to wave over the trees? 532 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Okay, if you'll look in the upper right hand side, 533 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 you'll see a tree that has a straight shoot and that has like a branch off. 534 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,000 You can see the branches. 535 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 You can see kind of round things hanging there. 536 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000 By the way, figs don't look anything like you think they look. 537 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,000 By the way, they look almost more like oblong pomegranates is what figs look like, 538 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 unless you've seen them before. 539 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Okay, and then it's... 540 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 So that is a fig tree. F-T is fig tree. 541 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000 And there is a blank there at its roots. 542 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,000 And the fig tree said no. 543 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Okay, so he's telling them their first choice for king... 544 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 the tree's first choice for a king over them would decline. 545 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000 Their second choice for a king over them declined. 546 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Now we're in verse 12. 547 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,000 Then the trees said to the vine, You come reign over us. 548 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,000 But the vine said to them, Shall I leave my new wine, 549 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000 which cheers God and men, and go to wave over the trees? 550 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Okay, and if you'll look down on the bottom right, 551 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,000 you'll see in the bottom right corner, you'll see a grape vine. 552 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,000 And the word in the blank is vine. 553 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,000 And the vine said no. 554 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000 All right, so they tried... 555 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Now they tried three times to get a king. 556 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,000 If somebody tries three times to get a king, what does that say about them? 557 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,000 Not getting a king. 558 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Yeah, probably not, but they want a king. 559 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 They really want a king. 560 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000 They didn't settle for the one big one that they thought would be perfect. 561 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000 That one wouldn't do it. 562 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000 They went on to a second one. 563 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000 They didn't settle for the second one. 564 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000 The second one wouldn't do it. 565 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000 They'd go for the third one. 566 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000 The third one has now said no. 567 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Finally, all the trees said to the bramble... 568 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,000 That's your bramble that goes all across the page up top. 569 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:01,000 We've got thorny, useless, good for making fires basically. 570 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,000 Finally, all the trees said to the bramble, you come reign over us. 571 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000 In 15 it says, and the bramble said to the trees, 572 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000 if in truth you are anointing me as king over you... 573 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000 You know, you really mean this. 574 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,000 If this is for real, come and take refuge in my shade. 575 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,000 Now it's a comical thing, isn't it? 576 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Because how much shade do you get from a bramble? 577 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000 None. 578 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,000 Brambles don't give shade. 579 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,000 The thickest they ever get is like that thick and they're hard, right? 580 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,000 And the sun just goes right past them. 581 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,000 And even if they overlap and overlap and overlap, 582 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 you still don't get any shade from it. 583 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000 They'd have to really grow densely. 584 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000 And they don't because they're always spreading out. 585 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,000 So that's the joke. 586 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,000 He says, come and take refuge in my shade. 587 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000 But if not, in other words, if you're not really anointing me as king, 588 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,000 if this is some kind of dirty joke, right? 589 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,000 May fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon, 590 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000 which were like the kings of trees. 591 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,000 They were the great trees of Lebanon, right? 592 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000 That everybody desired for wood. 593 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000 And so he's saying like, destroy the whole kingdom of trees. 594 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000 If I cannot be king, if you're not really earnest in asking me to be king, 595 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000 then let the whole kingdom of trees be destroyed. 596 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000 See that? 597 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 Okay. 598 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,000 16. 599 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Now therefore, so now he's going to give them a little bit. 600 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000 So by what should they have done at this point? 601 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Response, request. 602 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000 There is no response. 603 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000 There is no request. 604 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Okay. 605 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:33,000 Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and in integrity in making Abimelek king, 606 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,000 which of course we already know they did not, right? 607 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:43,000 And it, and if you have dealt with Jerobal and his house and have dealt with him as he deserved, 608 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000 which they did not, right? 609 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000 So we already know those two checks are definitely not the case. 610 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000 And then he goes on to explain kind of parenthetically, he says, 611 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:58,000 for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian. 612 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,000 But you have risen against my father's house today and have killed his sons, 613 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:10,000 70 men on one stone and have made Abimelek the son of his maid servant, 614 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000 king over the men of Shechem because he is your relative, which is true. 615 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000 He was, he came from Shechem. 616 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000 So he had a lot of cousins there and all that kind of thing. 617 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Verse 19, if then you have dealt in truth and integrity with Jerobal, 618 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:32,000 remember that's Gideon, and his house this day, rejoice in Abimelek and let him also rejoice in you. 619 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:39,000 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelek and consume the men of Shechem and Bethmillo 620 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:46,000 and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from Bethmillo and consume Abimelek. 621 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Then Jotham escaped and fled and went to Beir and remained there because of Abimelek his brother. 622 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,000 Okay, so now we're on the right hand side. 623 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Under Massacre Gideon's sons, we have BDNGS. Anyone take a stab at it? 624 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Bramble does not give shade. 625 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000 That's right. Brambles do not give shade. 626 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:14,000 So one of the primary takeaways is their fourth choice for king is not going to give them any rest. 627 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000 It's not going to give them any protection, any provision. 628 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:22,000 They really, if this story holds true, if the parable holds true, they've really blown it. 629 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Rather what they've actually done is RAG. 630 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000 What do you think? 631 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:35,000 In choosing a king, after Gideon told them, I will not be your king, my sons will not be your king, 632 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:40,000 rather God will be your king, what they've actually done is rebelled against God. 633 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000 So what they've actually done is rebelled against God. 634 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 And they may think that this Bramble, which is Abimelek, can provide them some kind of protection, 635 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,000 but actually he cannot. 636 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,000 And then it says CA, which is just chose Abimelek. 637 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000 So they rebelled against God, they chose Abimelek. 638 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:04,000 And then here is the lesson of the parable for them that they probably didn't get. 639 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:15,000 And it is, say it again, RAG, rebelled against God, then chose Abimelek. 640 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Okay. 641 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000 And I'll give you the first F is false. 642 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,000 And the K is kings, false kings. 643 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,000 The A is and, FF. 644 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,000 It's poetic, kind of, sort of. 645 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 Say it again. 646 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000 False followers. 647 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,000 That's right. 648 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,000 False kings and false followers, CEO. 649 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Remember the parable. 650 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000 Nope. 651 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,000 What do they do? 652 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000 Consume each other. 653 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:56,000 So the lesson of the parable is false kings and false followers consume each other. 654 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000 So what you go after that's not God, it will chew you up in the long run. 655 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 You'll probably chew it up too. 656 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,000 That's the way it works. 657 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:08,000 False kings and false followers consume each other. 658 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000 Now it's interesting because we have a reference there. 659 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000 And I'll give you the results. 660 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000 And watch this. 661 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000 9, 23 to 26. 662 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,000 Then God sent an evil spirit. 663 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Who sent the evil spirit? 664 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000 God did. 665 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:29,000 God sent an evil spirit between Abimelek and the men of Shechem. 666 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:34,000 And the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelek. 667 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000 In order that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jeroboam might come. 668 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,000 And their blood might be laid on Abimelek, their brother who killed them. 669 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:49,000 And on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. 670 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,000 And the men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains. 671 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:00,000 And they robbed all who might pass by them along the road and it was told to Abimelek. 672 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Now all the sons of Ebed came with his relatives and crossed over into Shechem. 673 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000 And the men of Shechem put their trust in him. 674 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:16,000 So God sent an evil spirit between Abimelek and Shechem. 675 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000 And now Shechem is betraying him. 676 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000 And they've actually chosen another. 677 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 I don't know if you've ever heard this or not. 678 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,000 But if there's a married man for example and he cheats on his wife with a woman. 679 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,000 And then she manages to talk him into leaving his wife for her. 680 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000 Then they get married. 681 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000 And then what happens? 682 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000 He cheats again. 683 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000 He cheats again. 684 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000 Right? 685 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,000 That's the way it works. 686 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000 And so what Shechem did was they went on and they chose another king. 687 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000 They already know they can do that. 688 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,000 They have the authority. 689 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,000 They're a big city. 690 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,000 Lots of money. 691 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,000 Lots of manpower. 692 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,000 They already know they can choose a king. 693 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,000 So when they start to think, well gosh, we don't want to be lumped in with Abimelek. 694 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,000 Which happened why? 695 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 Because God sent an evil spirit. 696 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000 They rebelled against God. 697 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000 He sent an evil spirit. 698 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 Now they say, well we don't want to be lumped in with him. 699 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:14,000 So they choose another man, Gal, to stand up against Abimelek. 700 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000 And then if you go 953, I'm not reading the whole story. 701 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:25,000 I've got a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelek's head, crushing his skull. 702 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000 So they were sieging the city of Thebes. 703 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000 And he got too close. 704 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000 And all that was left was the tower. 705 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000 And they were going to tear the tower down, burn it like he did with Shechem. 706 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,000 And she threw a stone down, possibly a millstone, and crushed his head. 707 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,000 And now he's dying. 708 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,000 And he says, I can't die to a woman. 709 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,000 And he has his sword bearer kill him. 710 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000 And then in verse 57 it says, 711 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:54,000 Also God returned all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their own heads. 712 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:59,000 And the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerobal, came upon them. 713 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000 Yes ma'am. 714 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,000 What was the one over to the left by Judges 8-31? 715 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000 By Judges 8-31, son of a slave woman? 716 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000 No. 717 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000 To the left of that? 718 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,000 We have to do that yet? 719 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,000 No. 720 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000 Okay, that's the only thing we have left to fill out. 721 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000 So you didn't miss it. 722 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000 You're with me. 723 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000 Okay? 724 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:22,000 So the point is, the parable comes true. 725 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000 It becomes a curse against the people who heard it. 726 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,000 And what was their failing? 727 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000 Now they already sinned, right? 728 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:37,000 But the parable becomes a curse when they fail to respond. 729 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000 Yep. 730 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000 So at that moment in time, if they had repented, 731 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,000 I mean think about Nineveh. 732 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000 Think about others who received a letter of destruction. 733 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000 God's going to destroy you. 734 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000 They could have repented, turned back to God, and said, 735 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000 okay, no wait, we don't want to anoint a Vimalic king. 736 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,000 We don't want to do this. 737 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000 We shouldn't have done that. 738 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000 They could have made sacrifices. 739 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000 They could have been just for the rest of their lives, 740 00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,000 hoping that God would forgive them. 741 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000 They could have done anything. 742 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000 But did they respond? No. 743 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,000 Did they make a request? No. 744 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,000 They didn't do anything. 745 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,000 In fact, they continued for a little while until God sent an evil spirit amongst them. 746 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,000 And then they sought out to kill a Vimalic. 747 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,000 So they just kept being the same evil people that they were all the way through the entire story, 748 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000 searching for a king. 749 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000 All right. 750 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:27,000 So that brings us back over to this scene where Jotham is giving that parable. 751 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,000 The occasion is what a Vimalic and Shechem have done, 752 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,000 massacring Gideon's sons, naming him. 753 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000 He tells the parable, brambles do not give shade, rebellion against God. 754 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000 They keep searching for a king. 755 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000 So what do you think the HD is? 756 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000 What is this scene teaching? 757 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000 What is God's point? 758 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:52,000 What have they done? 759 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000 I guess gave you the first word. 760 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,000 I apologize. 761 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Have. 762 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000 They have what? 763 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000 D what? 764 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Kind of. 765 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:05,000 But this is the process by which they get to death in this case. 766 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000 They have denied God. 767 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000 That's what they've done. 768 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000 They disobeyed, they denied. 769 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000 They've walked away from the king who is the Lord. 770 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000 And they're choosing a king for themselves. 771 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,000 All right. 772 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Now, if you look all the way down in the bottom left hand corner, 773 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000 there's kind of a lesson to take away. 774 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,000 Right. 775 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:29,000 It says everything we do is provision for one kingdom or another. 776 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,000 You ever hear that old story? 777 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,000 It's kind of a parable basically. 778 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,000 It says that inside every person there are two wolves or two wolves struggling. 779 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000 Which one basically is which one are you going to feed? 780 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,000 Right. 781 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000 Well, everything we do is provision for one kingdom or another. 782 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,000 Are you going to be a blessing to God's kingdom or are you going to be a blessing to the enemy kingdom? 783 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,000 Right. 784 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000 So if everything we do is perfect provision for one kingdom or another, 785 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:56,000 then we must not devalue our impact. 786 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,000 You can't forget. 787 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,000 So you go have sex with a concubine and make a baby. 788 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:06,000 Don't name him, my father is king when his father is not king. 789 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,000 Wait. 790 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000 Don't go have sex with a concubine and make a baby. 791 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,000 Wait. 792 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,000 Don't take 20 wives. 793 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000 Right. 794 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:18,000 So he was he started out this guy was afraid to work on behalf of God. 795 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,000 And then he saw God. 796 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000 He finally said, OK, God, it's really you. 797 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,000 I'll really do what you say. 798 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,000 And then he embraced God so fully in the war and following him like that. 799 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,000 He was doing everything on the battle side that he was supposed to do. 800 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,000 And meanwhile, his house was kind of a mess. 801 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,000 Right. 802 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000 So out here he's doing great. 803 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:41,000 But he forgot that what goes on here still fuels one kingdom or another. 804 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,000 So all this while he's saving God's people, he's defeating the Midianites, he's bringing it home. 805 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,000 Right. 806 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:52,000 He did everything that that they needed done and even refused to become king, refused to name somebody king. 807 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,000 He refused to do that. 808 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,000 That was all the right thing. 809 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,000 But the whole time he was doing that, his house was a mess. 810 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000 And that was pouring into the kingdom of the enemy. 811 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:07,000 So much so that they chose a Bimalak king and murdered his 70 other sons to do it. 812 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:16,000 Be aware that the choices that you're making on a daily basis, you are like, well, that doesn't seem to affect anything. 813 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,000 That's not bothering anybody. 814 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,000 That's not making any real impact or difference. 815 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000 Your choices are making an impact. 816 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,000 You're feeding one kingdom or another. 817 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,000 Every time you don't pick up your Bible feeds the wrong kingdom. 818 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,000 Every time you don't pray when you think you should feeds the wrong kingdom. 819 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:40,000 Every time you eat too much sweets and you go, oh, I think I had enough and you keep going anyway feeds the wrong kingdom. 820 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,000 Every time you are snippy to somebody, say something nasty feeds the wrong kingdom. 821 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000 And you say, well, I made it through that. 822 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,000 No apparent negative effect. 823 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,000 Nothing really bad happened. 824 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,000 If you're feeding the wrong kingdom, ultimately it will come out. 825 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,000 All things that are hidden will eventually reveal. 826 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,000 And I don't just mean when it comes in front of Jesus and he'll reveal. 827 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:14,000 But in this case, Kydian's 70 sons, all because he had to have one more pretty girl, one more son, 828 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:19,000 and then couldn't bring him to live with them, couldn't govern him, couldn't teach him, grow him upright. 829 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:24,000 So he had to give him a name like, my father is king. 830 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:30,000 And maybe, maybe, Gideon meant God when he gave him that name. 831 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,000 Maybe he meant my father meaning God the Father is king and will always be king. 832 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,000 But that's not how Abimelek used it. 833 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,000 That's not how the people of Shechem used it. 834 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,000 And so you just be careful. 835 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:43,000 Sometimes you think you're feeding one kingdom and actually you're feeding the other. 836 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:48,000 That's what happens, for example, when you take a young Christian or a non-Christian and tell them to stop sinning. 837 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,000 Instead of telling them to draw close to Christ. 838 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,000 You pick somebody's sin, I say, that's a sin. 839 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,000 You've got to stop. You've got to stop. You've got to stop. 840 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,000 And they're not ready to stop. 841 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000 That's really hard for them. 842 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,000 That really puts them in a difficult situation. 843 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,000 So they really wanted a king. 844 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:10,000 And as you know, they eventually get one and it doesn't go very well for quite a while. 845 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:16,000 And then they do get King David, who will get the promise to be in the line of Jesus and be on the throne forever. 846 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,000 So praise God for that. Gideon's not there. 847 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,000 God not in there. He's not in the line. 848 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000 He doesn't make it through, unfortunately. 849 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,000 All right. Questions or concerns? 850 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000 We've got it. All right. 851 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,000 We're going to go fast on this here. 852 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,000 All right. So we're going to do it a little differently today. 853 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,000 Starting out teenagers only. 854 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:47,000 I'm going to give you the question. 855 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,000 And then if you know the answer, you raise your hand. 856 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:58,000 If the person I call on gets the answer correct, then every teenager that has their hand raised will get candy. 857 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,000 Got it? Or something. 858 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,000 Because I might throw chips. 859 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,000 Depends on how many hands there are. 860 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,000 But if the person I call on gets it wrong, nobody gets candy. 861 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,000 Okay. You got it? 862 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,000 So don't raise your hand if you don't know the answer. 863 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,000 But if you do know the answer, definitely raise your hand because that's the only way to get candy. 864 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,000 So you'll get candy. All right. So here we go. 865 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,000 See if we can see. We'll do candy first. 866 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:32,000 All right. 867 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:36,000 A Benelux mother was a? 868 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,000 See one, two, three, four, five. Natalie, what's the answer? 869 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:44,000 That's correct. Okay. Here we go. 870 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:55,000 Your hand up. 871 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,000 Okay. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. 872 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000 I guess that was kind of an easy one. Okay. 873 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,000 All right. So this one is on the page, but you have to pay close attention. 874 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,000 The last time Gotham was standing on Mount Gerizine, the other mountain next door was called? 875 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:14,000 See one hand. One, two, three, four. 876 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:22,000 Okay. Give it to me. That is correct. Good job. 877 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:27,000 Pass that back, please. Okay. 878 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:34,000 We'll do one more this way. Let's see. 879 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:40,000 Okay. Name in 30 seconds or less. 880 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,000 All four types of trees who might have been cane. 881 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:53,000 See one hand, two, three, four, five. Hannah, go. 882 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,000 Keep going. You got 25 seconds left. 883 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:08,000 Yep. Correct. 884 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:13,000 Did I get everybody? Anybody had a hand up that I didn't get? Okay. 885 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,000 All right. Here we go. 886 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:21,000 This is for the pup. One person. 887 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:26,000 For this question only, you may shout it out. 888 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,000 First person to shout it out gets it. If you don't catch it, you have to throw it back. 889 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:34,000 Okay. Only teenagers, please. 890 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,000 All right. Here we go. 891 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,000 Gotham was the youngest son and also? 892 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,000 We only survived. 893 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:50,000 He's rocking. One more pup today. One more pup. Here we go. 894 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:56,000 This is an interesting one. I hope you paid close attention. 895 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:00,000 Gideon had this number of sons. 896 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,000 Still waiting. 897 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:08,000 Still waiting. 898 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,000 He did not get it correct. 899 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,000 That is not correct. 900 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,000 Now you're guessing. Okay. We're going to hit 72. 901 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,000 He killed 70 sons. Gotham survived. 902 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,000 I'll make 72. 903 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,000 You were guessing. I told you you were guessing. It was over. 904 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,000 You have to have the answer. 905 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,000 They were up here like, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 906 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,000 Got to be faster than that. 907 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,000 72. I didn't say. Actually, I said 70 and then there's Gotham. 908 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,000 He said 71. 909 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,000 Trying to find another tough one here. 910 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,000 Oh darn. 911 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:57,000 Okay. 912 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,000 Okay. 913 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:06,000 The problem with the final king chosen in the Parable of the Trees is what? 914 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,000 It does not provide shade. 915 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,000 Okay. 916 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,000 We've got three cans of chips and then we're going to eat fruit. 917 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,000 What? 918 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,000 Yeah, brown is sticky. 919 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,000 If you drop the chips, you must give them back. 920 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,000 I'm throwing pretty well today. 921 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,000 Well, then don't drop it. 922 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:37,000 All right. 923 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,000 This is the period of time between 924 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,000 Mount Gerizy, Mount of Blessings, and this parable. 925 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,000 100 years. 926 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,000 Go ahead, Jason. 927 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:55,000 100 years is actually incorrect. You're on the right track. 928 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,000 Don't take answers from me. 929 00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,000 Go ahead, Erin. 930 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:03,000 Nice try, Jason. It was over 100 years. 931 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,000 Greater than sign, not equal than sign. 932 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,000 All right. 933 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,000 I guess chips can be for anybody. 934 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,000 Adults are on the table if you want to win chips. 935 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,000 You've got competition now. 936 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:28,000 This is what false kings and false followers do to each other. 937 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:37,000 Okay, last one for today. 938 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:42,000 What did Gideon say, you can paraphrase, when they asked him to be king? 939 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,000 No. 940 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,000 He said no. That's correct. 941 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,000 No, and also not my son, but you're not done yet. 942 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,000 King. 943 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,000 Okay, that's it. 944 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,000 He said no, I will not be king. My son will not be king. 945 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,000 God is the only king. 946 00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,000 All right, let's pray together. 947 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,000 I did bring fruit because we are fighting off this cold season, 948 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,000 so we've got a couple different kinds of fruit, whatever, in there. 949 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:09,000 And all food stays in the cafeteria, includes water. 950 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,000 All right, let's pray. 951 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,000 God in heaven, thank you for letting us do this. 952 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:18,000 For me, I was blessed to see that you've been at work in such a powerful way 953 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,000 in a kingdom of people who lived so long ago. 954 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,000 I just can't fathom. I feel it. I really do. 955 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:29,000 But it baffles my mind that in just over 100 years, they did so much. 956 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,000 I mean, that means the walls of Jericho fell. 957 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:38,000 And probably just over 100 years later, they chose a false king. 958 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,000 Unbelievable, and yet completely believable. 959 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:45,000 I pray we will not be like that, and we'll be busy feeding the right kingdom, 960 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,000 making the choices, and we won't say, 961 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,000 this one doesn't really matter because the truth is it could be the one that really matters, 962 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,000 and they all matter. 963 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:57,000 We matter, as I said, not this week, but last week in the sermon. 964 00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,000 You care about us, and you care about this moment. 965 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,000 When you put us in this moment together, you have expectations. 966 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:12,000 I pray that we will live by faith in Christ, strong, persevere, overcome, and feed the right kingdom. 967 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:31,000 We pray it all in Jesus' name. Amen.