Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Names of God: YHVH, part 1.

Names of God.

This is a great and lifelong doctrine. This is not a doctrine you take a course on or get a PHD in. This is a lifelong pursuit. I am starting this because of Satan's false god Baal. Satan gave a name to a shadow, a vapor, and while our study in Judges has us involved very often in the idolatry of Israel, I want to look into God's name and the reality of the Trinity.

Pentecost signified the end of the age of Israel for a time, in fact for a summer (the intercalation), and the beginning of the church age.

Deu 16:9 "You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

Deu 16:10 Then you shall...

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Title: Judges 9. Abimelech, part 5: The conflict at Shechem.

Conflict of Shechem

Jdg 9:22 Now Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.

Jdg 9:23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

Jdg 9:24 in order that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Jdg 9:25 And the men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who might pass by them along the road; and it was told to...

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Title: Judges 9. Abimelech, part 4: The conflict at Shechem.

Conflict of Shechem

Jdg 9:22 Now Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.

Jdg 9:23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

Jdg 9:24 in order that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Jdg 9:25 And the men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who might pass by them along the road; and it was told to...

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Title: Judges 9. Abimelech, part 3: Jotham interprets his parable and the conflict at Shechem.

Jdg 9:14 "Finally all the trees said to the bramble, 'You come, reign over us!'

Jdg 9:15 "And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.'

Abimelech can offer no comfort or security to Shechem, but, as worthless as he is, he can destroy them, and he does.

The briar, which has nothing but thorns upon it, and does not even cast sufficient shadow for anyone to lie down in its shadow and protect himself from the burning heat of the sun, is an admirable simile for a worthless man, who can do nothing...

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Title: Judges 9. Abimelech, part 2: Jotham's parable of the trees.

What we have seen so far is that Abimelech, Gideon's bastard son, concocted a means of attaining power by going to his mother's relatives, Canaanites in Shechem, and using fear to motivate them to back his election to king of the city state of Shechem, a Canaanite city. He convinced them that Gideon's sons would rule them and with their power they would force the Shechemites to change their pagan ways in the cult of Baal. Once he got them to fear this possibility, Abimelech then offered his services as king. He posed the question, "Wouldn't it be better for one of your own to rule you and wouldn't it be better for one to rule you than seventy." They bought it and took the...

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Title: Communion Sunday. Our remembrance of Christ.

The Jews were given many rituals in the Mosaic Law that were designed to make them never forget the many benefits they received from God.

Every Levitical offering was a picture of God's deliverance from slavery. Their first given ritual, the Passover, derives its name from the fact that the angel of death passed over any house that had the blood of the lamb spread on its doorpost with a hyssop brush. They had the Sabbath so that they could rest and remember that with a mighty arm, Jehovah had delivered them from the bondage of Egypt and into the land of promise, flowing with milk and honey.

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Title: Judges 9. Abimelech, part 1: Convincing others that you're something you're not.

Abimelech

Abimelech sees his opportunity. He desires power, but the most prominent family in Israel, Gideon's, is made up of seventy sons. Gideon had rejected the offer from the people that his sons be a dynasty, and there is no indication that any of these sons sought for a title or throne. Yet still, who in Israel would willingly put Abimelech above them as a king. Although Abimelech is the son of Gideon, he is half Jewish, half Canaanite, the son of a concubine.

His mother is from Shechem, and Shechem has not been conquered by the Jews. It remains in Canaanite hands as a city-state. He concocts a plan to make himself king of...

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Title: Judges 8. Gideon, part 47: Conclusion; lessons learned from Gideon's history.

Jdg 8:33 Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.

Baal-berith - "the Covenant Baal". Baal becomes to them the covenant god. This may imply that several cities united in a league to worship Baal in a central shrine, which would have been at Shechem.

After the death of Gideon the center of activity moves from Ophrah to Shechem where the temple of Baal-berith resides.

We might remember that Shechem was the place that all of Israel went with Joshua to hear the Law of God and shout amen to every curse uttered.

This is...

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Title: Judges 8. Gideon, part 46: Remembering the Giver so that prosperity does not corrupt.

Both the people and Gideon self-justified the altering of God's Law so as to fulfill personal desire. Gideon was not a king nor a priest and the people failed to see their need for Jehovah alone, which God made so very clear in Gideon's victory.

The depth of man's depravity should give all of us pause and inner reflection. That depravity lurks within each of us.

Though our depravity has been crucified with Christ and rendered powerless, we can fool ourselves into thinking that its power remains and pursue its course.

Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase?

Rom 6:2 May it never be! How...

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Title: Judges 8. Gideon, part 45: Gideon seeks a calling that God didn't give him.

Jdg 8:22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you and your son, also your son's son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian."

God did foresee that Israel would request an earthly king and that they would be given one, but that is not fulfilled in Gideon.

Deu 17:14-15

"When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,' you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses,..."

This would be fulfilled in Samuel's time and the first king would be...

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