1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,740 They wear people sit that they absorb the most of the teaching okay. I'm not picking on anybody or anything like that 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,740 but so if the if the pastor is the one doing the teaching and 3 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:13,700 This is the teaching tone 4 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:18,700 So it's about a 45 degree angle straight out on the right and on the left 5 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:23,020 Which means everybody in this little section over here is outside the teaching code and everybody's this little second here 6 00:00:23,020 --> 00:00:23,940 Thanks to the outside 7 00:00:23,940 --> 00:00:29,200 Come the brother Chris the teaching come goes right through your head. So half your head is in a teaching cone and half your head is out 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,800 All right, so that's the worldly concept of the teaching come you will hear more you will absorb more 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,540 You will remember more all that is true and that's actually 10 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:46,500 There's more to it than that okay, so in the words if you go to class, so this is what happened to me 11 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:48,500 I was going to 12 00:00:48,660 --> 00:00:50,660 right next Christian college 13 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:52,700 for my Bible college degree and 14 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:57,900 And when I went there when I started going there, I bet you know who told me to go there 15 00:00:58,940 --> 00:01:00,940 Who do you think was? 16 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:06,740 That's right. God told me to go there. I'm gonna real quick and just like 90 second 30 this story 17 00:01:06,740 --> 00:01:12,620 Okay, so I'm driving home and on the side of the road. I see a huge bulletin board for greatly Christian college 18 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:15,900 I've been praying about where I can go to school at and as I'm right 19 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:20,220 I said all this great Christian college right and I and I started thinking about praying on some board 20 00:01:20,220 --> 00:01:23,140 Am I supposed to do that and God told me just like 21 00:01:23,620 --> 00:01:29,700 Oddly urged me audibly that to look into that's where I want you to school at so I get home and Sherry says to me 22 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:33,100 I want to talk to you about something really excited really important. I'm like, okay 23 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:38,940 Well, I'm really excited before I was gonna tell her was gonna go to Bob. I was that right and and I said well you go ahead 24 00:01:38,940 --> 00:01:40,940 And she said so 25 00:01:40,940 --> 00:01:45,460 Today I found out that she got fried. She was working in the feedback right that's how I'm fishing manager 26 00:01:45,460 --> 00:01:49,500 I know as a restaurant manager restaurant manager in Lansing. She said today 27 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:54,660 I found out that our restaurant partners with great late Christian college 28 00:01:54,980 --> 00:01:59,860 And I think you should look into that to find out whether or not God wants you to go there 29 00:02:00,260 --> 00:02:06,040 And I said well, let me tell you what just happened to me. So that night I went out with my application in and I 30 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:12,780 Immediately the next day whatever I accepted into a pretty elite program for people who you had to be 30 years old and 31 00:02:13,220 --> 00:02:16,260 You had to be changing careers and calls like on the preach and teach 32 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:21,180 So and then they would talk to you and talk to your wife and figure out whether or not God was really calling you 33 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:21,900 It's a pretty big deal 34 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:23,900 So I was accepted right away in that program 35 00:02:24,060 --> 00:02:28,140 And I went sat down with the counselor and he said you don't look old enough to do this and I said well 36 00:02:28,140 --> 00:02:30,140 I am 31. Thank you very much 37 00:02:31,140 --> 00:02:33,140 And I get that a lot 38 00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:37,540 But anyway the point is this God called me to go to Bible Cards 39 00:02:37,540 --> 00:02:40,220 So now if God called me to go to Bible Cards, I'm gonna do this 40 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:42,660 Right. I'm gonna 41 00:02:42,660 --> 00:02:45,020 Supposed to do everything you do a different one for God 42 00:02:45,660 --> 00:02:50,220 But if you know what you're doing God called you to you gotta do that a little different 43 00:02:50,220 --> 00:02:57,940 I mean you got a really so in every class I sat in the front row right in the middle and from the professor 44 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:01,060 Because I've heard the world teaching of the teaching cone 45 00:03:01,980 --> 00:03:03,060 but 46 00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:05,060 That is a world we keep 47 00:03:05,060 --> 00:03:12,820 That's true on a psychological level on a social level and all of that is true that geographically in this room 48 00:03:12,980 --> 00:03:18,220 When I stand up here teach everybody that's between this line. I'm sorry training here just outside the line baby 49 00:03:18,340 --> 00:03:22,780 Okay, or over here to write about we're highly interested like that line if you're in that line 50 00:03:22,780 --> 00:03:26,420 You're going to absorb us if you're a person who struggles to learn you want to be in there 51 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:32,700 Your person can't remember week to week what was said you want to be in there that's psychosocial true. That's true 52 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:36,740 But guess what the Christian teaching cone is? 53 00:03:37,260 --> 00:03:44,700 It's not physical. Oh, it's not physical. It's spiritual. Okay, so really you need to come ready 54 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:48,460 You need to be so you should be praying you should be reading your Bible 55 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:53,540 You should be serving you should be given doing all those things and if you're doing all of those things 56 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:57,580 Then it's not really a geographical thing so much anymore 57 00:03:57,580 --> 00:04:03,540 It's spiritual so people could be outside of line if you did the work before you came today. You'll be perfectly fine outside the line 58 00:04:03,740 --> 00:04:05,740 Right, but if you didn't do the work 59 00:04:06,460 --> 00:04:13,060 As you I get in the line because when you're in there, you'll hear more you'll see more you'll remember more 60 00:04:13,060 --> 00:04:17,740 Okay, so sometimes like we have have a bunch of teenagers a kid over here and they're like what did he say? 61 00:04:17,740 --> 00:04:18,340 What was the line? 62 00:04:18,340 --> 00:04:22,600 What was the line whatever and and I might say and I'm just kind of warning you all they might not be here 63 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:27,700 So if you're a teenager you can warn this might happen right I might say get in the teaching cone move to the middle 64 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:29,940 Right, we're not gonna make a rule or anything 65 00:04:29,940 --> 00:04:32,540 We say move to the middle because you ask that's the third time you asked me 66 00:04:32,740 --> 00:04:36,420 What that was and I'm not saying I don't want that I do want you to ask 67 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:40,300 But I also realized if you're in here, you're gonna get more 68 00:04:40,940 --> 00:04:42,940 psychole psychologically socially 69 00:04:43,780 --> 00:04:46,340 analytically to that end I have an object lesson 70 00:04:46,940 --> 00:04:52,060 Somewhere I'm sorry for this. I didn't tell I didn't give anybody warning somewhere inside the teaching cone 71 00:04:52,060 --> 00:04:54,820 There's a five dollar Walmart gift card under somebody's chair 72 00:04:54,820 --> 00:05:00,620 So if you're sitting inside the teaching cone Chris you can check you're sitting inside the teaching cone check under your chair 73 00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:02,620 It's tucked up under your chair 74 00:05:03,580 --> 00:05:08,160 Looking everybody only and only the chair you're in it's in another chair. You can't have it 75 00:05:09,380 --> 00:05:11,220 Emily's you check under your chair 76 00:05:11,220 --> 00:05:15,380 Check better check good. I think it's you're pretty close. You're right in the right area 77 00:05:15,380 --> 00:05:17,380 It was randomly done 78 00:05:21,380 --> 00:05:23,380 Right in this area somewhere 79 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:35,100 Okay, give it to Emily that was randomly placed so that might happen again sometime 80 00:05:36,380 --> 00:05:38,900 Nothing negative is meant if you choose to sit outside 81 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:43,340 I'm not gonna pick on you or anything like that, but spiritually listen listen 82 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:47,860 spiritually you've got to prepare you got to come in at the case time to worship 83 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:53,500 It's time to learn time to grow and you might go like you know what my learning curve is not what somebody else 84 00:05:53,500 --> 00:06:00,060 I might not pick up as much as somebody else does. It's okay, right? You get what you get out of it and if you get 85 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:05,300 40% of what's being dealt from the pulpit from the inspirational moment or whatever hold on bud 86 00:06:05,540 --> 00:06:08,500 All right, if you get 40% you have grown a lot 87 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:13,860 Right and we have to give a lot more than the average person can get can pick up 88 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:19,060 Because some people can pick up more than other people right or some people might need something 89 00:06:19,060 --> 00:06:22,540 That's not contained in there until we get to that 91st percent percent 90 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:27,860 Right, we might not say the thing that you really need to hear you might only you don't get when we do it like this 91 00:06:27,860 --> 00:06:32,060 100% you don't just get the bottom 40% you get some here some here some here some here all the way 92 00:06:32,060 --> 00:06:38,540 You can turn sideways if you want and make it a pie shape if you want whatever you get some all over and that's the stuff 93 00:06:38,540 --> 00:06:43,420 That God really wants you to remember so come prepared come ready, and you'll be in the spiritual teaching tone 94 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:46,300 Yes, you have a question 95 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:53,380 Yep, there's a lot of Bible floating around because if somebody needs to borrow my way to read it they can 96 00:06:54,140 --> 00:06:57,220 Okay, when you go to classroom, there's something in the class. We're pretty doing 97 00:06:57,220 --> 00:07:01,740 All right, so we're gonna do one more song and then you're gonna go in there and there's finals in classroom so you can 98 00:07:01,740 --> 00:07:06,220 Reload your classroom. Okay. Yeah, so you don't get to take them home with you today. That's another day 99 00:07:06,220 --> 00:07:07,660 All right, you'll have one girl 100 00:07:07,660 --> 00:07:12,660 All right, so we're gonna pray together and then we have one song and then the kids are going to the classroom 101 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:14,900 And they're gonna have a lot of fun learning more about Jesus 102 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:23,500 And we will eat candy. I don't know about that. We'll eat candy. All right, calm down. We're gonna pray and when we go to the classroom 103 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:25,740 We're gonna listen to our leaders and be well behaved, right? 104 00:07:27,980 --> 00:07:30,980 Miss Sherry, my wife and brother Tommy. 105 00:07:31,660 --> 00:07:35,700 Okay, and that information is in the bulletin on Sundays if you're on Sunday 106 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:40,540 You can know who's teaching on Tuesday and all of our teaching parents are excellent. So let's pray 107 00:07:40,540 --> 00:07:48,060 Father in heaven, I do thank you so much that you lay it on our hearts to want to hear from you 108 00:07:48,260 --> 00:07:52,260 To learn everything we can from you. You know so much 109 00:07:52,260 --> 00:07:55,580 You know everything, you know all the future pulls in store 110 00:07:55,620 --> 00:08:00,460 You know what's going on in every state in the different states in every country in the world 111 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:03,020 You know every Christian that's aching right now 112 00:08:03,020 --> 00:08:08,940 You know the number of the hair in our head scripture says you put this time together so that we might be early for you 113 00:08:08,940 --> 00:08:12,060 That might desire to know me more. That's exactly what we want 114 00:08:12,060 --> 00:08:15,460 And then as we go around for you find you never far away in the first place 115 00:08:15,460 --> 00:08:20,140 You are always lingering near loving on us and wanting us to be in fellowship 116 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:23,580 Thank you for sending us on Jesus. Thank you for letting us be here 117 00:08:23,580 --> 00:08:28,420 Thank you for the chairs and the carpet and the lights and the instruments and the heart of this people 118 00:08:28,660 --> 00:08:33,380 To be together learning and growing in you if there is somebody in this place 119 00:08:33,380 --> 00:08:39,020 Young or old who is not truly given their life over you and said I'm living for God through Jesus 120 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:44,220 I pray that they will do that before they leave the building today that they will not put it off 121 00:08:44,220 --> 00:08:52,180 It is too important to delay and that they will live their entire lives thinking what does young look like today and doing exactly that 122 00:08:52,180 --> 00:09:03,700 I pray Lord that we'll be able to find it because you give it to us and we'll be ready to hear it 123 00:09:23,180 --> 00:09:27,860 This worksheet was one of the more challenging worksheets that I have made 124 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:36,100 Because I ran into something unexpected while I was doing it and hopefully I'll be able to help you see that 125 00:09:38,220 --> 00:09:40,220 By the time we're done 126 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:47,820 So we are still looking at parables we will be looking at parables for a while 127 00:09:47,820 --> 00:09:55,300 We're looking at a variety of different parables so that we we want to get fluent in the language of parables 128 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:58,100 We want to get used to this method of 129 00:09:58,860 --> 00:10:03,420 Communication that God uses for us to understand as you'll recall 130 00:10:03,740 --> 00:10:11,460 The parable serves a purpose it is to get to to elicit a response and a request from the hearer 131 00:10:11,460 --> 00:10:18,540 And so when we hear the actuals 132 00:10:20,780 --> 00:10:23,940 When we hear a parable we should go to God 133 00:10:24,620 --> 00:10:26,900 And so we're going to hear a parable another one 134 00:10:27,740 --> 00:10:32,220 Today from the Old Testament and it is used in a very kind of unique way 135 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:38,660 That even even more unique and it kind of caught me off guard a little bit as I was studying it in preparation for today 136 00:10:38,660 --> 00:10:42,860 So if you look right at the top of your page right above the first arm of that there 137 00:10:42,860 --> 00:10:49,860 That's a bramble that they're bramble bramble is like a low-lying foreign bush that kind of creeps along and grabs on to everything a bramble and 138 00:10:50,580 --> 00:10:52,980 Right at the top there. It should say judges 139 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:55,820 The references chapter 9 140 00:10:56,620 --> 00:11:03,740 Judges 9 beginning in verse 5 and we actually will go through verse 20. So it's 9 5 dash 20 141 00:11:03,740 --> 00:11:11,700 It's what you have at the top that was pretty much the easy part and then if you'll go right down across the brambles 142 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:14,500 You'll see it says parables six 143 00:11:15,980 --> 00:11:17,660 parables six and 144 00:11:17,660 --> 00:11:22,300 Then under that it says the fable of the trees fable of the trees 145 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:30,220 And so what we have is a person in this story and I'll clue you in as to who he was why he was the occasion of all 146 00:11:30,220 --> 00:11:32,220 We'll do all of that 147 00:11:32,220 --> 00:11:41,260 That was a telling the fable of the trees and it is a parable and the things in the parable kind of represent something 148 00:11:41,260 --> 00:11:44,740 So that people can learn what it is that he's trying to 149 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:52,420 Get them to learn they should theoretically respond and request more information, but you'll see they don't 150 00:11:52,940 --> 00:11:57,140 And that's interesting and it goes very poorly for them because of that 151 00:11:57,140 --> 00:12:03,340 And so that was really neat that I was able to kind of make that connection myself and hopefully I'll be able to help you see it 152 00:12:03,340 --> 00:12:08,660 Okay, so this is judges chapter 9 beginning in verse 5 and we'll be reading it 153 00:12:08,660 --> 00:12:14,340 You see it says read start I start reading there and we're working down the page and I'll clue you in 154 00:12:14,860 --> 00:12:19,620 And then we have some things off to the side and those things are about that thing 155 00:12:19,620 --> 00:12:23,780 so like it says location and then the arrow off the side is gonna talk about the location and 156 00:12:23,780 --> 00:12:28,460 Then it says spoken by and those blanks on the right are gonna talk about the person who spoke it 157 00:12:28,460 --> 00:12:33,300 And then the occasion is gonna be down and so on so we're just working down the page 158 00:12:33,540 --> 00:12:37,380 You very much sir. Okay, so here we go. This is 159 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:40,620 Judges chapter 9 verse 5 160 00:12:44,780 --> 00:12:46,780 Hold on one second 161 00:12:48,180 --> 00:12:50,180 Okay, there's four five right 162 00:12:50,460 --> 00:12:51,980 so 163 00:12:51,980 --> 00:12:55,420 Then he the he is a bimalek, okay 164 00:12:55,420 --> 00:12:57,980 So I'll go back and give you a little bit more about that in a minute 165 00:12:57,980 --> 00:13:04,220 But the he is then he a bimalek went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers 166 00:13:04,460 --> 00:13:07,980 The sons of Jerobal here's an interesting trivia question 167 00:13:07,980 --> 00:13:12,460 Does anybody know who Jerobal is by a name that everyone would recognize or most people would recognize? 168 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:16,540 Who had the alternate name Jerobal does anybody remember? 169 00:13:16,540 --> 00:13:20,860 Nope not Jeremiah. It's Gideon 170 00:13:21,980 --> 00:13:28,700 Gideon okay, and he got the name Jerobal early on because he was basically warring against the prophets of ball and the false teachings of 171 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:35,540 Ball, okay, and so this guy Gideon you remember Gideon Gideon's the guy with the 300 right? 172 00:13:35,540 --> 00:13:39,020 So Gideon has a huge army guys that you got too many people if you do it now 173 00:13:39,380 --> 00:13:40,620 It's not big enough to win 174 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:43,300 But if you do it now everybody'll think you did it because you had a big army so 175 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:46,260 We're gonna let all the men who are afraid to go home 176 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:49,700 They all bunch of them went home and now we're all gonna have them all down to the water 177 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,820 If they bend over to drink or if they keep looking around then that'll determine whether you get to stare 178 00:13:53,820 --> 00:13:58,300 I got down to 300 men and then those 300 men went in with the pitchers and the torches 179 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:02,700 Right and they scared the camp and the camp got up and they all killed each other 180 00:14:03,060 --> 00:14:08,380 Basically is what happened and God delivered them that day through the hands of Gideon that army was a Midianite army 181 00:14:08,380 --> 00:14:12,460 So that's the background story for Gideon's an awesome dude, right? He's a judge. He's a judge for God 182 00:14:12,460 --> 00:14:14,260 He's a leader for God, okay? 183 00:14:14,260 --> 00:14:20,780 And now he's got all these sons and a bimalek who was his son the bimalek was his son 184 00:14:21,620 --> 00:14:26,420 Goes and kills all of his brothers all the sons of Gideon you could put him there if you want 185 00:14:26,980 --> 00:14:30,940 70 men on one stone so a bimalek 186 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:37,420 Takes a bunch of higher cretins basically and kills his 70 brothers all on one stone 187 00:14:37,420 --> 00:14:42,780 All right now there that word there is not on your page but that word there where it says on one stone 188 00:14:42,780 --> 00:14:47,040 It could be a sacrificial stone to the to the false God ball 189 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:52,220 And so what he may have sacrificed all of his brothers to ball at that time 190 00:14:52,260 --> 00:14:56,620 But they don't know for sure if that word means that so they just say on a stone on one stone 191 00:14:57,860 --> 00:15:03,860 But Jotham the youngest son of Jerbal was left for he hid himself 192 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:08,940 So there was one youngest son that survives so he is a brother 193 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:16,580 Kind of a half brother right because not same mother but a brother to a bimalek who just killed all 70 of their other brothers 194 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:18,860 in verse 195 00:15:18,860 --> 00:15:23,540 6 says and all the men of Shechem and all Beth Milo 196 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:29,660 Assembled together now the word Beth Milo is a weird word and they have a hard time translating it 197 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:31,660 We don't really know for sure what it's referring to 198 00:15:31,660 --> 00:15:33,660 but 199 00:15:34,740 --> 00:15:41,180 It could have been a town it could have been a clan could because it could mean the house of Milo 200 00:15:41,980 --> 00:15:45,220 Right, so they're not 100% Beth is house in 201 00:15:46,060 --> 00:15:50,240 Hebrew and so it could be the house of Milo or it could have been a town called that or whatever 202 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:56,020 So they really don't know for sure, but all the men of Shechem that they do know and and Beth Milo assembled together 203 00:15:56,020 --> 00:15:59,520 And they went and made a bimalek king 204 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,040 I 205 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,680 Did this by the oak of the pillar which was in Shechem? 206 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,440 so Shechem was a big city and 207 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:14,880 It was kind of between two or like a key point where a valley comes through and like all the merchants would come through 208 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:16,500 Okay 209 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:24,160 Now when they told Jotham he went and stood on the top of Mount Garazim and lifted his voice and called out 210 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:29,660 Okay, so I'm gonna stop there for a second. So the location is what? 211 00:16:29,660 --> 00:16:33,420 Mount Garazim, okay now Garazim is spelled G-E-R-I-Z-I-M 212 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:42,040 There's two I's it sounds like there's an A in there, but there's not it's G-E-R-I-Z-I-M 213 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,720 So it looks like Garazim 214 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,960 Okay, so that's the location 215 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:54,520 So now we're gonna follow the arrow over for a second to the left follow your arrow over to the left big fat arrow there and 216 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,800 The first word starts with an M and it is 217 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,780 We're talking about the location M is what? 218 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,640 Mountain that's correct. So 219 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,800 Mount Garazim 220 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:10,880 Was a mountain 221 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,640 Okay, and it was one of two 222 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:21,560 Does anybody know what the other one was it was one or two and it's the W is with and the other one starts with an E 223 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,560 And it is Bible scholars 224 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,800 Anybody no clue 225 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,800 Nope, that is real 226 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,000 Okay, it's Ybal E-B-A-L 227 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:35,440 Okay 228 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,240 I'll give you a little bit more in a second 229 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:44,820 But right now just go with me as we get through the rest of these blanks. Okay, so it's a mountain one of two with Ybal 230 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,020 And then it is the M-O-B 231 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,720 I'm gonna take a stab at it. If you don't know the history you might have trouble with this part 232 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,440 How about if I fill in the history and then you'll see if you get it, okay? 233 00:17:54,440 --> 00:18:00,160 So these two mountains Garazim and Ybal sit side by side and there's a pass that runs in between 234 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:05,040 Okay, and when the Israelites came into the promise line since I start telling the story 235 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:11,160 Oh, I kind of vaguely think I remember this when the Israelites came to the promise land and I think it's Deuteronomy 27 236 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,560 Moses told them that once they went in there 237 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:19,560 They were supposed to form all the men up on both mountains one on one side at one mountain and one on the other and 238 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:25,220 One side they were going to tell all the blessings that God was going to give them as they went into the land and the other 239 00:18:25,220 --> 00:18:28,960 Mountain was going to tell all the curses that God was going to give if they didn't do it 240 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,720 I remember this whole story. Maybe maybe not if not it's in the book Joshua highly recommend you read 241 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:39,040 It's really good stuff. Okay, so they got up there and they cried out the blessings and they cried out the curses and 242 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:45,520 Mount Garazim then was the now look at the blanks Mount of blessings exactly 243 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,360 So Mount Garazim was the mount of blessings 244 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:52,840 So now realize that this is this story that we're reading is taking place a little over a hundred years 245 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,720 After that story. I just told you 246 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:01,520 When Joshua had them all go up on the mountain they actually did it right Moses look before that 247 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,960 You know almost 200 years really that they were told to do it 248 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,200 But then only a little over a hundred years later this 249 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,520 What event that we're studying today was taking place this parable is being told 250 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,400 Okay, and so they were up on this mountain a little over a hundred years ago 251 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:19,960 pronouncing blessings and 252 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,840 the Israelites stood here to 253 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,880 SL and we stab at it. I think it could be they stood on the mountain 254 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,360 They did follow the commands of Moses and they stood there to do to SL 255 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:41,640 Not that's really close a shout is right. So the S is shout. It's not literature. It was loud, but that's not the right L 256 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:43,840 loyalty 257 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,640 Okay, remember that they were given the blessings that they would get by God when they went into the land 258 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,640 They would the curses that they would get if they did not remain loyal to the Lord 259 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,360 So the blessings were all about loyalty there if you go back and read them 260 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:01,720 You'll see they were like yes, we're for God and God's for us and these things are awesome things are gonna happen 261 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,080 It's gonna be great the people over here are like well 262 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,520 We're for God too and these are the horrible things that are gonna happen if we don't follow God and we're for God too, right? 263 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:14,880 But Mount Garzim was the mount of blessings and the people stood on the mountain to shout their loyalty 264 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,760 So this scene that we're studying there today 265 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,440 If you follow the arrow down a little bit 266 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:25,160 Actually, let's leave those blanks for a minute because you'll get a better idea as we actually look at what happens during the scene 267 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,600 So you can leave those there. We'll fill them in later. Okay, it's gonna be H 268 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,520 HD when the time comes but okay, so going back up to location 269 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,280 We just talked about Mount Garazim 270 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,920 So if anybody asked what Mount Garazim was it's one of the two mountains 271 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:44,440 It was the mount of blessings and the Israelites stood on that mountain to shout their loyalty to God now 272 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:52,040 He's standing there. Who's he help me? Correct. Very good Jotham. He Jotham is one standing there 273 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,720 Okay, and so if you'll see spoken by charge of the J Jotham, okay? 274 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,280 And I follow over to write we talk about Jotham for a minute 275 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,000 And this is a little tricky, but if you're listening closely, I can read it again if nobody gets it 276 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,800 Why s the youngest son? That's good. Somebody was listening very good. He's the youngest son 277 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:15,600 That's tough detail to pick out if you weren't paying close attention and he was also the OS very good only survivor 278 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:21,080 So he's the youngest son and the only survivor of the massacre because he hid yes, that's right 279 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:26,120 Which is what I would have done. I think at that point if your 70 brothers aren't good enough to hold it 280 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:28,040 You're the youngest hold up to it. You're the youngest son 281 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,680 I think hiding is about your only option unless you've got a good course to run away 282 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,560 Okay, and then so he's standing up there. This is a little trickier 283 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,120 It's not really in what we read but it's kind of you kind of see what's coming, right? 284 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,880 He stands up there in Mount Garazim and his purpose. Why is he doing it? Cs? 285 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:49,640 Okay, so let's go back into the text and you will get it. All right, that's how far we've gotten so far, okay? 286 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,080 So we're just gonna go back for one second to you verse 287 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:58,600 Seven at the top the very top judges nine five to twenty and I'm reading in verse seven right now 288 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:03,440 I'm sorry fuck yeah nine five to twenty and I'm reading in verse seven now when they told Jotham 289 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,840 He went and stood on the top of Mount Garazim. So what did they tell him now? 290 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,520 Be why he that's why he went there, but what did they tell him the verses right before right? 291 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,920 They made past tense actually abimilek king by the oak of the pillar which was in Shechem 292 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:21,520 Okay, so so Jotham heard that they made abimilek king. That's what he heard. Okay now listen 293 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:27,680 It says now when they told Jotham he went and stood on the top of Mount Garazim and lifted his voice and called out thus 294 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,680 He said to them we don't have to go very far 295 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:36,360 Listen to me. Oh men of Shechem that God may listen to you. Okay, so okay good enough 296 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:40,140 You could put called out technically called out his two words. I put confront Shechem 297 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,880 Okay, so he did this to confront Shechem 298 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,680 Notice he leaves out s H E C H E M or okay 299 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:54,480 Anyway, he leaves out that other group or city or whatever it was right the Beth Milo, which we don't really know for sure 300 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:59,880 What it was he leaves them out. He calls out. Oh men of Shechem right and he confronts them now 301 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:04,160 If you follow the arrow down for one second, you'll see that Shechem and we already talked about this a little bit 302 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:09,920 So you might be filled in is an emcee. What's Shechem? It's a major city. Shechem is a major city in fact 303 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,240 Almost no trade was being done in that region unless it went through Shechem 304 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:21,760 So if you needed something that was not made in your hometown, you couldn't get it unless it came through 305 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,360 Shechem 306 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:30,240 Very powerful city big lots of people and it so happens that a bimilek was from Shechem 307 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,160 Okay, and we'll get into that in a second here 308 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,400 So we're back in the middle. Let me let me recap 309 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,400 So we have the location Mount Garazim 310 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:45,760 Spoken by Jopham who was the youngest son the only survivor to confront Shechem, which was a major city and now we're on 311 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,240 occasion occasion so we have the big capital a which of course is a 312 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:55,040 Bimilek. Yep. It's a bimilek and then we have the big capital S which of course is 313 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,920 Shechem right and we have a little a you can put accepts 314 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:01,880 Anoints what's that? 315 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:07,840 Yeah, anoints and then we have an IK and we're gonna take a stab at that one. Okay, so King is correct 316 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:13,600 What kind of King is this a bimilek? He does turn out to be one and that is correct. He's not an idiot 317 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:19,720 In fact, he was a master craftsman politician at this point, but he's on the wrong side of the battle 318 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,800 You always lose when you go against God, right? So 319 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,560 He's illegitimate 320 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,120 He's illegitimate. He does not actually have any claim to be king 321 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:33,040 The only claim he has to be king is you will see it before we're done. Okay 322 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:39,240 All right, so a bimilek Shechem anointed an illegitimate King and now 323 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,640 MGS 324 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,200 I'm gonna give you the G is Gideon's 325 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,640 Gideon apostrophe s Gideon as in Gideon's possession. So the M is what? 326 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:56,880 Massacred Christ on Mount yep massacred Gideon's sons 327 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:03,520 Okay, so they the bimilek and Shechem go together they massacre his sons and he becomes an illegitimate King 328 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,360 So we're gonna take that arrow if you see where you wrote a bimilek right there 329 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,400 Take that arrow down to the left the arrow down to the left and it says judges 831 330 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,440 Judges 831 says 331 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,400 This talking about Gideon will go back up as far as 29 just so you get the run up to it 332 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,960 Then Jerobo the son of Joash went and lived in his own house now Gideon had 70 sons 333 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:34,600 Who were his direct descendants where he had many wives now 31 and his concubine who was in Shechem? 334 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:40,840 Also bore him a son and he named him a bimilek is not Shechem son of 335 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,960 So does anybody tell me what a concubine is compared to a wife? What's the difference? 336 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,480 Not married typically and what? 337 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:55,160 Kind of yeah, typically they were of lower station a slave woman 338 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,780 Okay, so she was a slave woman a 339 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,440 Bimilek was the son of a slave woman now as a slave woman who became 340 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:11,600 Intimate with Gideon and so she is the mother of a bimilek. Okay, then we're gonna go down the arrow down and it says 341 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:16,200 And this is judge. This is judges 823 now that I'm reading judge 823 342 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:22,560 It says 22 says then the men of Israel said to Gideon rule over us both you and your son 343 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,640 Also your son's son or you have delivered us from the hand of Midian, but Gideon said to them 344 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:34,520 I will not rule over you nor shall my son rule over you the Lord shall rule over you 345 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,120 So Gideon the G is Gideon what? 346 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:45,960 Refused he refused to rule he would not be king. He said I will not be your king. He refused 347 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,800 Yep Gideon refused or refuses 348 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,820 but and this is where it gets the kind of soap opera sloppy, okay 349 00:26:54,820 --> 00:26:59,400 But I'm just gonna fill in the blank. So go with me here. He named 350 00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:05,580 Son and you know what the capital A is a Bimilek, but do you know what the translation is? 351 00:27:05,580 --> 00:27:10,260 You can look at the letters on the bottom line M F I K M F I K 352 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:13,060 Exactly 353 00:27:13,060 --> 00:27:17,820 The word of Bimilek means my father is king interesting, isn't it? 354 00:27:17,980 --> 00:27:23,260 So if you had a slave one if you were Gideon you had a slave woman who lived in another city away from you 355 00:27:23,260 --> 00:27:27,940 And you had a son with her. Why would you name him a Bimilek? Especially if you're not king 356 00:27:27,940 --> 00:27:30,980 Why do you think you would do that as a slave woman? She had nothing 357 00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:36,940 She had a son that belonged to Gideon that they he did not move her and her son to come live with him 358 00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:41,060 You follow he left them and check them. What do they have going for them? Not a whole lot 359 00:27:41,060 --> 00:27:42,580 He probably sent them some money, right? 360 00:27:42,580 --> 00:27:46,400 So they were taken care of but what was their social status very low 361 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:52,120 But if you name your son a Bimilek you elevate his social status. He gave him a gift, right? 362 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:56,740 Remember the old I may or may not remember this old song by Johnny Cash boy named Sue, right? 363 00:27:56,740 --> 00:28:01,020 And the whole song is about a name my dad named me Sue and I never met him 364 00:28:01,020 --> 00:28:06,220 And I was I grew up hating him and fighting and in all this trouble and in the end he runs into a bar 365 00:28:06,220 --> 00:28:09,740 There's a knife they they knife fight each other and they come up and they 366 00:28:10,220 --> 00:28:12,180 They finally come to peace over it 367 00:28:12,180 --> 00:28:15,460 He said I had to name you Sue because I had to make you tough, right? 368 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:17,100 Because I knew you were gonna be there without me 369 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:21,100 I had to make you tough and at the end of the song Johnny Cash says and if I ever have a boy 370 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:26,300 I'm gonna name him Bill or George or John or Paul anything but Sue, right? 371 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:31,140 So the whole point of naming him my father as king was to give him something 372 00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:34,940 Because he couldn't give him his father. That makes sense. He couldn't give him his dad 373 00:28:34,940 --> 00:28:37,500 He wasn't gonna go there let me check him and he wasn't gonna bring him to live with him 374 00:28:37,660 --> 00:28:41,580 So that being said this problem that we're having in this story 375 00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:46,940 Starts a little bit with Gideon having a concubine and so many wives 376 00:28:46,940 --> 00:28:51,820 How many kings do you think it has been throughout Israel's history and he Gideon was not a king? 377 00:28:51,820 --> 00:28:54,860 He was a judge, but how many kings had too many wives and got into trouble? 378 00:28:54,860 --> 00:28:58,940 All of them, right? They all of them all the kings they all had too many wives 379 00:28:58,940 --> 00:29:00,540 They all got in trouble as far as I mean 380 00:29:00,540 --> 00:29:03,020 We don't know for sure that that was some of the trouble for some of them 381 00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:06,780 But we know that they most of them had multiple wives and it always didn't work out well 382 00:29:06,780 --> 00:29:11,380 And so that was not the and you know by the way that is not the way God set it up 383 00:29:11,380 --> 00:29:14,060 One man one woman for life is the way God set it up 384 00:29:14,060 --> 00:29:19,900 So there God hates divorce not getting on that topic, but it literally says that God hates divorce 385 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,060 Right, that is not what God prefers 386 00:29:22,060 --> 00:29:26,620 But we do it what there is a reality of it because the hardness a hard betrayal things like that 387 00:29:26,620 --> 00:29:30,060 There's a reality of divorce. So God does not hate divorcees 388 00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:34,220 Right if you were divorced, but he hates that divorce even exists 389 00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:40,780 That being said Gideon had a concubine had a son and gave him the name my father is king 390 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:45,100 King and it did indeed elevate his position in Shechem didn't it 391 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:49,900 Because now he's able to rally all the people in Shechem around him 392 00:29:49,980 --> 00:29:56,940 And then what did they use that power for they went and killed Gideon's 70 other sons. That is terrible 393 00:29:57,020 --> 00:29:58,540 That is tragic 394 00:29:58,540 --> 00:30:03,580 Okay, all right. So that being said then we've gotten all the way to the bottom except for my little note there 395 00:30:03,660 --> 00:30:08,060 So you're going to go back up. So you're back up under occasion a bimilek Shechem 396 00:30:08,060 --> 00:30:12,620 A illegitimate king anointed an illegitimate king massacred Gideon's sons 397 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:19,180 Bram, okay, and then we're you got to be there, but you haven't heard the parable yet all of that and you've not heard the 398 00:30:19,180 --> 00:30:22,140 Parable yet. So now we're gonna hear the parable. Okay, so here we go 399 00:30:22,220 --> 00:30:28,060 So he stands up and he's going to tell the fable of the trees and we are in chapter nine of the book of judges 400 00:30:28,780 --> 00:30:31,900 And we are in however again in eight 401 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:39,740 And this is the actual parable once the trees went forth to anointed king over them and they said to the olive tree 402 00:30:40,060 --> 00:30:47,580 Rain over us, but the olive trees said to them shall I leave my fatness with which God and men are honored 403 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:53,740 And go to wave over the trees. Okay, so and if you'll look straight down on your page right in the middle of the bottom 404 00:30:53,740 --> 00:30:55,740 You see that thing that looks like a twisted 405 00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:57,740 Has a twisted 406 00:30:57,740 --> 00:31:03,100 Trunk and goes up into a kind of very oddly shaped tree head that is an olive tree 407 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:08,540 Okay, and so the blank says olive tree and right after there's a little blank and what did the olive tree say? 408 00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:12,700 It's simpler than that. No, no 409 00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:17,260 He said no the olive tree said no, I will not be your king. Okay. All right 410 00:31:17,580 --> 00:31:22,620 Continuing on then the trees said to the fig tree you come rain over us 411 00:31:22,620 --> 00:31:30,140 But the fig tree said to them shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go to wave over the trees 412 00:31:30,460 --> 00:31:33,180 Okay, if you're looking the upper right hand side 413 00:31:33,180 --> 00:31:36,860 You'll see a tree that has a straight shoot and then it has a like a branch off 414 00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:41,900 You can see the branches and you can see kind of round things hanging by the way figs don't look anything like you think they look 415 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:46,700 By the way, they look almost more like oblong pomegranates is what figs look like unless you've seen them before 416 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,340 Okay, and then 417 00:31:49,340 --> 00:31:52,620 It's so that is a fig tree f t is fig tree 418 00:31:53,180 --> 00:31:57,500 And there is a blank there at its roots and the fig tree said no 419 00:31:58,060 --> 00:32:05,980 Okay, so he's telling them their first choice for king the trees first choice for a king over them would decline 420 00:32:06,220 --> 00:32:09,660 Their second choice for a king over them decline now. We're in verse 12 421 00:32:10,380 --> 00:32:13,740 Then the trees said to the vine you come rain over us 422 00:32:13,740 --> 00:32:20,300 But the vine said to them shall I leave my new wine which cheers God and men and go to wave over the trees 423 00:32:20,540 --> 00:32:24,380 Okay, and if you look down on the bottom right, you'll see in the bottom right corner 424 00:32:24,460 --> 00:32:28,140 You'll see a grape vine and the word in the blank is vine 425 00:32:28,620 --> 00:32:30,620 and the and the vine said 426 00:32:31,020 --> 00:32:32,060 No 427 00:32:32,060 --> 00:32:37,500 All right, so they tried now they tried three times to get a king if somebody tries three times to get a king 428 00:32:37,660 --> 00:32:40,940 What does that say about them? Yeah, probably not but they want a king 429 00:32:40,940 --> 00:32:43,420 All right, they are at the point where they really want a king 430 00:32:44,140 --> 00:32:46,860 They didn't settle for the one big one that they thought would be perfect 431 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:49,020 That one wouldn't do it and went on to a second one 432 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:51,740 They didn't settle for the second one because that'll the second one wouldn't do it 433 00:32:51,820 --> 00:32:57,420 They go for the third one the third one is now said no finally all the trees said to the bramble 434 00:32:57,740 --> 00:33:02,140 That's your bramble that goes all across the page up top. So just we got thorny useless 435 00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:06,380 Good for making fires basically 436 00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:13,420 Finally all the trees said to the bramble you come rain over us and 15 it says and the bramble said to the trees 437 00:33:13,660 --> 00:33:17,580 If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, you know, do you really mean this? 438 00:33:18,220 --> 00:33:20,220 If this is for real 439 00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:25,820 Come and take refuge in my shade now. It's a comical thing. Isn't it because how much shade do you get from a bramble? 440 00:33:27,180 --> 00:33:30,940 None brambles don't give shade the the thickest they ever get is like 441 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:35,100 Like that thick and they're hard right and the sun just goes right past them 442 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:39,020 And even if they overlap and overlap and overlap you still don't get any shade from it 443 00:33:39,340 --> 00:33:43,340 I'd have to really grow densely and they don't because they're always spreading out. So that's the joke 444 00:33:43,580 --> 00:33:45,580 He says come and take refuge in my shade 445 00:33:46,380 --> 00:33:52,300 But if not in other words, if you're not really anointing me as king if this is some kind of dirty joke, right 446 00:33:53,020 --> 00:33:59,580 May fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of lebanon which were like the kings of trees 447 00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:03,580 They were the great trees of lebanon right that everybody desired for wood 448 00:34:03,580 --> 00:34:08,940 And so he's saying like destroy the whole kingdom of trees if I cannot be king 449 00:34:08,940 --> 00:34:14,540 If you're not really earnest and asking me to be king then let the whole kingdom of trees be destroyed 450 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:17,900 See that okay 451 00:34:18,700 --> 00:34:24,860 16 now therefore so now he's going to give them a little bit. So by what should they have done at this point? 452 00:34:26,460 --> 00:34:27,820 Response 453 00:34:27,820 --> 00:34:30,540 Request there is no response. There is no request 454 00:34:30,540 --> 00:34:37,340 Okay, now therefore if you have dealt in truth and in integrity in making abimilek king 455 00:34:38,220 --> 00:34:40,380 Which of course we already know they did not right? 456 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:43,100 and it 457 00:34:43,980 --> 00:34:48,940 And if you have dealt with jerobal and his house and have dealt with him as he deserved 458 00:34:49,980 --> 00:34:52,940 Which they did not right. So we already know his two checks are 459 00:34:53,420 --> 00:34:57,980 Definitely not the case and then he goes on to explain kind of parenthetically says for my father 460 00:34:57,980 --> 00:35:03,100 fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of midian 461 00:35:03,740 --> 00:35:08,220 But you have risen against my father's house today and have killed his sons 462 00:35:09,020 --> 00:35:15,260 70 men on one stone and have made abimilek the son of his maid servant 463 00:35:15,820 --> 00:35:21,340 King over the men of shekham shekham because he is your relative which is true. He was 464 00:35:22,140 --> 00:35:25,260 He came from shekham. So he had a lot of cousins there and all that kind of thing 465 00:35:25,260 --> 00:35:32,780 First 19, if then you have dealt in truth and integrity with jerobal remember that skidion and his house this day 466 00:35:33,340 --> 00:35:37,420 Rejoice in abimilek and let him also rejoice in you 467 00:35:38,460 --> 00:35:44,940 But if not let fire come out from abimilek and consume the men of shekham and beth millow 468 00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:50,940 And let fire come out from the men of shekham and from beth millow and consume abimilek 469 00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:58,780 Then jotham escaped and fled and went to bethir and remained there because of abimilek his brother 470 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:01,100 Okay, so now we're on the right hand side 471 00:36:01,740 --> 00:36:03,260 under 472 00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:08,060 Massacre gidian sons we have bdngs and we take a stab at it 473 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:17,180 That's right brambles do not give shade so one of the primary takeaways is their fourth choice for king 474 00:36:17,180 --> 00:36:22,780 Is not going to give them any rest. It's not going to give them any protection any provision 475 00:36:22,780 --> 00:36:31,020 They really if if this story holds true if the parable holds true. They've really blown it rather what they've actually done is our ag 476 00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:35,020 What do you think? 477 00:36:35,020 --> 00:36:37,020 in choosing a king 478 00:36:37,180 --> 00:36:43,020 After gidian told her I will not be your king my sons will not be your king rather god will be your king what they've actually done is 479 00:36:43,020 --> 00:36:48,780 Revealed against god so what they've actually done is rebelled against god and they may think that this 480 00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:53,180 Bramble which is abimilek can provide them some kind of protection, but actually he cannot 481 00:36:53,820 --> 00:36:57,660 Okay, and then it says ca which is just chose abimilek 482 00:36:59,580 --> 00:37:01,980 So they rebelled against god they chose abimilek 483 00:37:02,620 --> 00:37:04,620 And then here is the lesson 484 00:37:04,940 --> 00:37:08,940 Of the parable for them that they probably didn't get okay 485 00:37:09,820 --> 00:37:11,820 and it is 486 00:37:11,820 --> 00:37:13,820 Say it again 487 00:37:14,140 --> 00:37:18,860 Our ag rebelled against god then chose abimilek 488 00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:23,180 Okay 489 00:37:23,580 --> 00:37:25,580 And I'll give you the first f is false 490 00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:29,020 And the k is 491 00:37:29,020 --> 00:37:33,420 Kings false kings the a is and ff 492 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:38,900 It's poetic kind of sort of say it again 493 00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:40,900 False followers 494 00:37:41,140 --> 00:37:43,140 False followers, that's right 495 00:37:43,940 --> 00:37:45,940 False kings and false followers 496 00:37:46,980 --> 00:37:48,980 CEO remember the parable 497 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:52,420 Nope 498 00:37:52,420 --> 00:37:54,420 What do they do consume each other? 499 00:37:55,220 --> 00:37:59,860 And so the lesson of the parable is false kings and false followers consume each other 500 00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:07,060 So what you go after that's not god it will chew you up in the long run you'll probably chew it up too 501 00:38:07,060 --> 00:38:12,580 That's the way it works false kings and false followers consume each other 502 00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:15,860 Now it's interesting because we have a reference there 503 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:19,060 And I'll give you the results and watch this 504 00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:22,660 9 23 to 26 505 00:38:24,020 --> 00:38:26,020 Then god sent an evil spirit 506 00:38:26,980 --> 00:38:29,060 Who sent the evil spirit god did 507 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:34,260 God sent an evil spirit between abimilek and the men of shechem 508 00:38:34,260 --> 00:38:37,940 And the men of shechem dealt treacherously with abimilek 509 00:38:39,860 --> 00:38:43,540 In order that the violence done to the 70 sons of jairabal might come 510 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:49,540 And their blood might be laid on abimilek their brother who killed them and on the men of shechem who straightened 511 00:38:50,180 --> 00:38:52,180 strengthened his hands to kill his brothers 512 00:38:55,060 --> 00:38:59,540 And the men of shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains 513 00:38:59,540 --> 00:39:04,740 And they robbed all who might pass by them along the road and it was told to abimilek 514 00:39:05,460 --> 00:39:11,860 Now gael the son of ebed came with his relatives and crossed over into shechem and the men of shechem put their trust in him 515 00:39:12,740 --> 00:39:14,900 so god sent an evil spirit between 516 00:39:18,580 --> 00:39:24,500 Job between abimilek there we go between abimilek and shechem and then now shechem is betraying him 517 00:39:25,060 --> 00:39:27,060 And they've actually chosen another 518 00:39:27,060 --> 00:39:33,780 I've never heard this or not, but if you're there's a married man for example, and he cheats on his wife with a woman 519 00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:38,100 And then she manages to talk him in to leave in his wife for her 520 00:39:39,060 --> 00:39:41,060 Then they get married and then what happens? 521 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:44,740 He cheats again, right? 522 00:39:44,740 --> 00:39:46,020 That's the way it works 523 00:39:46,020 --> 00:39:50,740 And so what what shechem did was they went on and they chose another king 524 00:39:50,740 --> 00:39:56,420 They already know they can do that they have the authority there a big city lots of money lots of manpower 525 00:39:56,420 --> 00:39:58,580 Right, they already know they can choose a king 526 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:02,180 So when they start to think well gosh, we don't want to be lumped in with abimilek 527 00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:05,620 Which happened why because god sent an evil spirit 528 00:40:06,580 --> 00:40:10,340 Right, they've rebelled against god. He sent an evil spirit now 529 00:40:10,580 --> 00:40:15,780 They say well, we don't want to be lumped in with him. So they choose another man gael to stand up against 530 00:40:18,260 --> 00:40:21,300 Abimilek, okay, and then if you go 953 531 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:22,740 I'm not reading the whole story 532 00:40:22,740 --> 00:40:27,860 I've got a certain woman through an upper millstone on abimilek's head crushing his skull 533 00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:32,340 So they were sieging the city of the bez 534 00:40:32,980 --> 00:40:35,780 And he got too close and all that was left was the tower 535 00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:39,140 And they were going to tear the tower down burn it like he did with shechem 536 00:40:39,540 --> 00:40:43,300 And she threw a stone down possibly a millstone and crushed his head 537 00:40:44,020 --> 00:40:46,020 And now he's dying 538 00:40:46,580 --> 00:40:49,060 And he says I don't I can't die to a woman 539 00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:51,780 And he has his sword bearer killing 540 00:40:52,740 --> 00:40:59,380 And then in verse 57 it says also god returned all the wickedness of the men of shechem on their own heads 541 00:41:00,020 --> 00:41:04,900 And the curse of jotham the son of jeribal came upon them. Yes, ma'am 542 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:12,660 I judge the aetheryms son of a slave woman 543 00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:18,100 Oh to the left of that we have to do that yet. Okay. That's the only thing we have left to fill out 544 00:41:18,980 --> 00:41:22,740 So you didn't miss it. You're with me. Okay, so the point is 545 00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:26,420 The parable 546 00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:27,540 Comes true 547 00:41:27,540 --> 00:41:32,580 It becomes a curse against the people who heard it and what was their failing now they already sinned 548 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:37,140 Right, but the the parable becomes a curse when they 549 00:41:38,180 --> 00:41:40,180 fail to 550 00:41:40,180 --> 00:41:42,580 Respond 551 00:41:42,660 --> 00:41:48,180 Yep, so at that moment time if they had repented let me think about men of that think about others who received a 552 00:41:48,980 --> 00:41:53,620 Letter of destruction god's going to destroy you right they could have repented turn back to god and said, okay 553 00:41:53,620 --> 00:41:58,020 No, wait, we don't want to anoint king a bimalic king, right? We don't want to do this 554 00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:00,900 Well, we shouldn't have done that right they could have made sacrifices 555 00:42:00,980 --> 00:42:03,620 They could have done all it could have been just for the rest of their lives 556 00:42:03,620 --> 00:42:06,100 But we're hoping that god would forgive them they could have done anything 557 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:10,100 But what did they respond? No, did they make a request? No, they didn't do anything 558 00:42:10,580 --> 00:42:15,940 In fact, they continued for a little while until god sent an evil spirit amongst them and then they sought out to kill 559 00:42:16,660 --> 00:42:18,660 a bimalic 560 00:42:18,660 --> 00:42:23,700 So they just kept being the same evil people that they were all the way through the entire story searching for a king 561 00:42:24,580 --> 00:42:27,620 All right, so that bring that brings us back over to 562 00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:32,180 This scene where jotham is giving that parable 563 00:42:32,180 --> 00:42:35,380 Right the occasion is what a bimalic and shechem have done 564 00:42:35,940 --> 00:42:40,420 Masked her and getting his sons naming him. He tells the parable brambles did not give shade 565 00:42:40,660 --> 00:42:48,180 Rebellion against god they keep searching for a king. So what do you think the hd is? What is this scene teaching? 566 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:50,900 What is god's point? 567 00:42:51,620 --> 00:42:53,620 What have they done? 568 00:42:56,660 --> 00:42:58,900 I guess gave you the first word. I apologize have 569 00:42:59,780 --> 00:43:01,780 They have what? 570 00:43:01,780 --> 00:43:03,780 Do you what? 571 00:43:04,820 --> 00:43:09,300 Kind of but this is the process by which they get to death in this case 572 00:43:10,740 --> 00:43:12,740 They have denied god 573 00:43:13,460 --> 00:43:18,500 That's what they've done. They disobeyed they denied nobody. They've walked away from the king 574 00:43:18,980 --> 00:43:21,940 Who is the lord and they're choosing a king for themselves? 575 00:43:22,260 --> 00:43:25,220 All right, now if you look all the way down in the bottom left hand corner 576 00:43:25,540 --> 00:43:27,620 There's a kind of a lesson to take away 577 00:43:27,620 --> 00:43:33,380 Right it says everything we do is provision for one kingdom or another 578 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:38,100 You ever hear that old pair that old story? It's kind of a parable basically it says that inside every person 579 00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:42,500 There are two wolves or two two wolves struggling which one it basically is which one are you going to feed? 580 00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:46,980 Right well everything we do is provision for one kingdom or another 581 00:43:47,380 --> 00:43:50,980 Are you going to be a blessing to god's kingdom? Are you going to be a blessing to the enemy kingdom? 582 00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:55,940 Right, so if everything we do is prevent provision for one kingdom or another 583 00:43:55,940 --> 00:43:58,420 Then we must not devalue 584 00:43:59,540 --> 00:44:00,660 our 585 00:44:00,660 --> 00:44:01,860 impact 586 00:44:01,860 --> 00:44:07,380 You can't forget so you go have sex with a concubine and make a baby don't name him 587 00:44:08,740 --> 00:44:11,220 My father is king when his father is not king 588 00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:14,500 Wait, don't go have sex with a concubine and make a baby 589 00:44:15,140 --> 00:44:17,380 Wait, don't take 20 wives, right? 590 00:44:17,620 --> 00:44:22,340 So he was he started out this guy who was afraid to work on behalf of god 591 00:44:22,340 --> 00:44:26,340 On behalf of god and then he saw god. He finally said okay god. It's really you 592 00:44:26,340 --> 00:44:30,820 I'll really do what you say and then he embraced god so fully in the war 593 00:44:31,220 --> 00:44:33,460 And following him like that that he was doing everything 594 00:44:34,100 --> 00:44:39,060 On the battle side that he was supposed to do and meanwhile his house was kind of a mess 595 00:44:39,940 --> 00:44:43,860 Right so out here. He's doing great, but he forgot that what goes on here 596 00:44:44,740 --> 00:44:49,940 Still fuels one kingdom or another so all this while he's saving god's people. He's defeating the midianites 597 00:44:49,940 --> 00:44:55,220 He's bringing it home, right? He did everything that that they needed done and even refused to become king 598 00:44:56,100 --> 00:44:59,700 Refused to name somebody king. He refused to do that. That was all the right thing 599 00:45:00,020 --> 00:45:02,580 But the whole time he was doing that his house was a mess 600 00:45:03,540 --> 00:45:08,260 And that was pouring into the kingdom of the enemy so much so that they 601 00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:12,500 Chose a bimalek king and murdered his 70 other sons to do it 602 00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:18,660 Be aware that the choices that you're making on a daily basis you are like well that doesn't seem to affect anything 603 00:45:19,140 --> 00:45:23,140 That's not bothering anybody. That's not making any real impact or difference 604 00:45:23,620 --> 00:45:28,660 Your choices are making an impact. You're feeding one kingdom or another 605 00:45:28,980 --> 00:45:32,500 Every time you don't pick up your bible feeds the wrong kingdom 606 00:45:32,740 --> 00:45:36,180 Every time you don't pray when you think you should feeds the wrong kingdom 607 00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:40,100 Every time you eat too much sweets and you go, oh, I think I had enough 608 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:46,500 And you keep going anyway feeds the wrong kingdom. Every time you are snippy to somebody say something nasty feeds the wrong kingdom 609 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:50,100 And you say well, I made it through that no apparent negative effect 610 00:45:50,980 --> 00:45:52,980 Nothing really bad happened 611 00:45:53,140 --> 00:45:55,140 But if you're feeding the wrong kingdom 612 00:45:55,380 --> 00:46:01,220 Ultimately it will come out right all things that are hidden will eventually reveal and I don't just mean 613 00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:05,940 When it comes in front of Jesus and he'll reveal right but in this case 614 00:46:05,940 --> 00:46:09,140 Kidian's 70 sons 615 00:46:09,940 --> 00:46:11,940 all because he had to have one more 616 00:46:12,580 --> 00:46:14,580 pretty girl 617 00:46:15,060 --> 00:46:20,660 One more son and then couldn't bring him to live with him couldn't govern him couldn't teach him grow him upright 618 00:46:21,300 --> 00:46:23,300 So he had to give him a name like 619 00:46:24,580 --> 00:46:26,580 My father is king 620 00:46:26,580 --> 00:46:29,300 And maybe maybe Gideon meant God 621 00:46:31,060 --> 00:46:33,060 When he gave him that name maybe he was a king 622 00:46:33,060 --> 00:46:39,460 When he gave him that name maybe he meant my father meaning God the father is king and will always be king 623 00:46:40,260 --> 00:46:41,780 But that's not how a bimalek used it 624 00:46:41,780 --> 00:46:44,660 And it's not how the people of shechem used it and so you just be careful 625 00:46:44,740 --> 00:46:47,620 Sometimes you think you're feeding one kingdom and actually you're feeding the other 626 00:46:48,260 --> 00:46:53,060 Right, that's what happens. For example, when you take a young christian or a non christian and tell them to stop sinning 627 00:46:54,420 --> 00:46:57,700 Instead of telling them to draw close to Christ you pick somebody's sin. I say that's a sin 628 00:46:57,700 --> 00:47:00,260 You've got to stop you've got to stop you guys out and they're not ready to stop 629 00:47:00,260 --> 00:47:05,460 That's really hard for them that really puts them in a difficult situation 630 00:47:07,140 --> 00:47:08,660 So 631 00:47:08,660 --> 00:47:12,980 they really wanted a king and as you know, they eventually get one and 632 00:47:13,860 --> 00:47:20,500 It doesn't go very well for quite a while and then they do get king david who will get the promise to be in the line of Jesus 633 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:22,500 And be on the throne forever. So praise god for that 634 00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:28,500 Gideon's not there got it not in there. He's not in the line. He doesn't make it through unfortunately 635 00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:31,700 All right questions are concerns 636 00:47:33,620 --> 00:47:36,980 We got it. All right, we're gonna go fast on this here 637 00:47:38,020 --> 00:47:39,060 so 638 00:47:39,060 --> 00:47:41,140 All right, so we're gonna do a little differently today 639 00:47:43,540 --> 00:47:45,140 Starting out 640 00:47:45,140 --> 00:47:46,980 teenagers only 641 00:47:46,980 --> 00:47:48,980 I'm going to 642 00:47:49,220 --> 00:47:51,220 I'm going to 643 00:47:51,460 --> 00:47:55,620 Give you the question and then if you know the answer you raise your hand 644 00:47:55,620 --> 00:48:03,060 If the person I call on gets the answer correct then every teenager that has their hand raised will get candy 645 00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:05,860 Got it or something 646 00:48:05,860 --> 00:48:07,380 Because I might throw chips 647 00:48:07,380 --> 00:48:11,060 Depends on the hands there are but if the person I call on gets it wrong 648 00:48:11,860 --> 00:48:13,860 Nobody gets candy 649 00:48:14,180 --> 00:48:17,300 Okay, you got it. So don't raise your hand if you don't know the answer 650 00:48:17,540 --> 00:48:22,660 But if you do know the answer definitely raise your hand because it's the only way to get candy. So you'll get here. All right. So here we go 651 00:48:22,660 --> 00:48:27,780 Ah, ah, see if we got it. See we do candy first. All right 652 00:48:37,540 --> 00:48:39,780 A benelux mother was a 653 00:48:39,780 --> 00:48:51,620 I see one two three four five Natalie. What's the answer? That's correct. Okay, here we go 654 00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:03,780 Okay, pretty good pretty good pretty good. I was like I said that was kind of an easy one. Okay 655 00:49:04,340 --> 00:49:08,340 All right. So this one is on the page, but you have to pay close attention 656 00:49:08,340 --> 00:49:13,060 Uh, Jotham was standing on Mount Gerazine. The other mountain next door was called 657 00:49:14,180 --> 00:49:16,180 See one hand 658 00:49:16,580 --> 00:49:18,580 One two three four 659 00:49:18,820 --> 00:49:22,020 Okay, give it to me. That is correct. Good job 660 00:49:27,780 --> 00:49:29,780 Please okay 661 00:49:29,780 --> 00:49:37,060 All right, do you want more this way? Let's see 662 00:49:40,020 --> 00:49:42,020 Okay name 663 00:49:43,860 --> 00:49:45,860 In 30 seconds or less 664 00:49:46,180 --> 00:49:50,500 All four types of trees who might have been came I see one hand 665 00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:55,060 two three four five Hannah go 666 00:49:55,060 --> 00:49:57,060 Go 667 00:49:58,340 --> 00:50:02,100 One you're going you got 25 seconds left. See you 668 00:50:03,140 --> 00:50:05,140 Yep 669 00:50:13,780 --> 00:50:19,540 Everybody anybody had a hand up that I didn't get okay. All right. Here we go 670 00:50:19,540 --> 00:50:24,340 This is for the pup one person 671 00:50:26,260 --> 00:50:30,660 You for this question only you may shout it out 672 00:50:32,100 --> 00:50:36,500 First person to shout it out gets it if you don't catch it you have to throw it back. Okay 673 00:50:38,260 --> 00:50:41,540 Only teenagers please. All right. Here we go 674 00:50:41,540 --> 00:50:49,060 Jotham Jotham was the youngest son and also 675 00:50:49,860 --> 00:50:53,060 He's rocking one more pup today one more pup. Here we go 676 00:50:55,780 --> 00:50:59,220 Oh, this is an interesting one page. I hope you paid close attention 677 00:51:02,100 --> 00:51:04,340 Gideon had this number of sons 678 00:51:06,340 --> 00:51:08,340 Still waiting 679 00:51:08,340 --> 00:51:11,460 Still waiting still waiting 680 00:51:13,780 --> 00:51:15,780 You did not get it correct 681 00:51:17,620 --> 00:51:19,620 That is not correct 682 00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:25,140 Now you're guessing. Okay. We're gonna it's 72. Are you killed 70 sons Jotham survived? 683 00:51:25,620 --> 00:51:27,620 Obimalak makes 72 684 00:51:28,980 --> 00:51:30,820 You were guessing 685 00:51:30,820 --> 00:51:36,020 I told you you were guessing it was over gotta have the answer. You can't be just like like they were up here like 686 00:51:36,020 --> 00:51:38,180 It's chapter one two three four five six seven eight nine time 687 00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:41,700 Now to be faster than that 688 00:51:41,780 --> 00:51:47,460 Yeah, it was 72. I didn't say actually I said 70 and then there's Jotham and I've been like oh no, he said 71. Yeah, he said 689 00:51:48,260 --> 00:51:50,260 Okay 690 00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:52,900 Trying to find another tough one here 691 00:51:56,260 --> 00:51:58,260 O'darn 692 00:51:58,260 --> 00:52:00,260 Okay 693 00:52:00,260 --> 00:52:02,260 Okay 694 00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:10,900 Uh the problem with the final king chosen in the parable of the trees is what? 695 00:52:11,860 --> 00:52:13,860 It is not in pride shape 696 00:52:14,580 --> 00:52:16,580 Okay 697 00:52:16,820 --> 00:52:20,180 Is that okay? All right. We got three cans of chips and then we're going to eat fruit 698 00:52:22,100 --> 00:52:23,860 What? 699 00:52:23,860 --> 00:52:25,860 Yeah, brown is sticky 700 00:52:25,860 --> 00:52:31,460 I guess if you drop the chips you must give them back. I'm throwing pretty well today. So 701 00:52:33,060 --> 00:52:35,060 Well, then don't drop it 702 00:52:36,340 --> 00:52:38,340 All right 703 00:52:42,980 --> 00:52:45,860 This is the period of time between 704 00:52:47,460 --> 00:52:50,420 Mount Garazim mount of blessings and this parable 705 00:52:50,420 --> 00:52:52,420 100 years 706 00:52:54,580 --> 00:52:59,380 Go ahead 100 years is actually incorrect. You're on the right track 707 00:53:02,100 --> 00:53:04,100 Go ahead 708 00:53:04,660 --> 00:53:07,540 Nice try Jason was over 100 years 709 00:53:08,340 --> 00:53:12,260 Greater than sign not equal than sign equal sign. All right 710 00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:17,700 I guess chips can be for anybody so adults are on the table if you want to win chips 711 00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:19,700 You got competition now 712 00:53:21,220 --> 00:53:24,340 This is what false kings and false followers do to each other 713 00:53:33,060 --> 00:53:35,060 Okay last one for today 714 00:53:35,060 --> 00:53:47,380 Okay, what did Gideon say you can paraphrase when they asked him to be king 715 00:53:52,420 --> 00:53:54,980 No, and also not my son, but you're not that yet 716 00:53:57,860 --> 00:54:03,220 Okay, that's it. He said no, I will not be king my son will not be king. God is the only king 717 00:54:03,220 --> 00:54:07,780 All right, let's pray together. I did bring fruit because we are fighting off this cold season 718 00:54:07,780 --> 00:54:10,340 So we've got a couple different times of fruit whatever in there 719 00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:15,860 And all food stays in the cafeteria including water. All right, let's pray 720 00:54:16,420 --> 00:54:18,580 God and Evan, thank you for letting us do this. I 721 00:54:19,380 --> 00:54:23,620 For me, I was blessed. I was blessed to see that you've been working such a powerful way 722 00:54:24,420 --> 00:54:27,780 And it came to people who live so long ago. I just can't fathom 723 00:54:27,860 --> 00:54:32,500 I feel it I really do but it baffles my mind that in just over 100 years 724 00:54:32,500 --> 00:54:36,980 They he did so much. I mean that means like the walls of Jericho fell 725 00:54:37,780 --> 00:54:42,020 And probably just over 100 years later. They chose a false king 726 00:54:44,020 --> 00:54:46,740 Unbelievable and yet completely 727 00:54:47,060 --> 00:54:52,020 I pray we will not be like that and we'll be busy feeding the right king and making the choices and we won't say 728 00:54:52,340 --> 00:54:57,700 Oh, this one doesn't really matter because the truth is it could be the one that really matters and they all matter 729 00:54:57,700 --> 00:55:05,540 We matter as I said not this week, but last week in the sermon you care about us and you care about this moment 730 00:55:06,100 --> 00:55:10,820 When you put us in this moment together, you have expectations. I pray that we will live 731 00:55:11,540 --> 00:55:13,540 by faith in Christ 732 00:55:13,700 --> 00:55:14,740 strong 733 00:55:14,740 --> 00:55:28,740 Persevere overcome and feed the right kingdom. I pray it all in Jesus name. Amen