Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah's song, part 3.

Announcementsopening prayer:

Jdg 5:1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

Jdg 5:2 "That the leaders led in Israel, That the people volunteered, Bless the Lord!

Jdg 5:3 " Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers! I - to the Lord, I will sing, I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Jdg 5:4 "Lord, when You did go out from Seir, When You did march from the field of Edom, The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped, Even the clouds dripped water.

Jdg 5:5 "The mountains quaked at the presence of the Lord, This Sinai, at the presence of the Lord, the God of...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah's song, part 2.

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"For it [Christmas season] reminds us of a single event, unequalled since the creation: God sent His Son into the world. The mission was accomplished in a fashion no human mind could ever have devised. God, robed in flesh, stepped into time through the Person of His Son to offer a divine peace plan between Creator and created. This plan is so intensely personal it has to be experienced to be fully realized. In other words, it is divinely supernatural. It cannot be rationally explained but can be seen through the redemptive, life-altering revolution that reshapes the lives of those who have accepted God's gift of new life in Christ. This transaction transcends social and political restrictions and all barriers of language, location, race, and culture to imbue,...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah's song, part 1.

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Let's look at the right or wrong of Jael's execution of Sisera before we move on to Deborah's song.

Jdg 4:21 But Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.

More detail is given in Deborah's song.

Jdg 5:24 "Most blessed of women is Jael, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Most blessed is she of women in the tent.

Jdg 5:25 " He asked for water and she gave him milk; In a magnificent bowl she brought him...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 11: The death of Sisera.

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Isa 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen,

Because their speech and their actions are against the Lord,

To rebel against His glorious presence.

Isa 3:9 The expression of their faces bears witness against them.

And they display their sin like Sodom;

They do not even conceal it.

Woe to them!

For they have brought evil on themselves.

Isa 3:10 Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,

For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

Isa 3:11 Woe to the...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 10: Israel is the Lord's vineyard; Isa 5.

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Isa 5:1 Let me sing now for my well-beloved

A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.

My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

Isa 5:2 And He dug it all around, removed its stones [Canaanites],

And planted it with the choicest vine.

And He built a tower in the middle of it,

And hewed out a wine vat in it;

Then He expected it to produce good grapes,

But it produced only worthless ones.

Isa 5:3 "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 9: Israel is the Lord's vineyard; Isa 5.

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Leading up to the ninth century BC, after Israel had been in the land for about 550 years, the general trend of their nation had been one of idolatry mixed in with worship of Jehovah, which made for the true worship of no one. There was always some believers in Israel who loved the Lord and the same has been true for the church, but nationally, as a collective body, they were far more often than not, faithless and apostate, which in fact can describe the collective body of the church from very early on.

Israel held on to a false glory and that had to be overthrown so that true glory would be established. This could only be accomplished through judgment.

The basis of...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 8: The lure of the adultery power and wealth only leads to confusion.

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Unfortunately, for so much of their history, Israel is also a people in confusion due to their apostasy.

Given directly after the prophecy of Christ coming to break the yoke upon Israel:

Isa 9:8 The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

"message" - dabar = the messenger of the Lord which comes to either destroy or to heal. It runs through the entire earth swiftly. It has the power of life and death. It either brings healing or judgment. God sends it from heaven and it will not return to Him without accomplishing what He...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 7: Why God's opponents get confused.

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Sisera and his large and fortified Canaanite army are confounded or confused by the Lord, which led to all of them falling by the edge of the sword, which is a phrase that means that they were all killed at the hands of Israel (except for Sisera himself) and by all means of weapons.

For the last two nights we have looked into the confusion that always overtakes the souls of those who oppose God. God's enemies are always confident that their way will bring fulfillment, but when its failure is apparent and the foundation of their lives seems to crack, then confusion overtakes them.

The believer will find himself perplexed at times, not knowing...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 6: Why God's opponents get confused.

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Sisera had chosen his position with consummate skill. Marching in almost straight line upon the plain of Megiddo, his army was now posted at its entrance, resting upon the ancient Canaanitish town of Taanach. Behind, and at his left flank, were the mountains of. Manasseh, before him opened the basin of the valley, merging into the Jezreel Valley, watered by the Kishon. Into this plain must Barak's army descend "on foot," badly armed, without experienced officers, without cavalry or chariots-and here his own 900 war-chariots would operate to best advantage. It was not even like one of those battles in which the smaller numbers of one side has the advantage of terrain or surprise, on the...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 5: Why God's opponents get confused.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Jdg 4:8 Then Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."

Jdg 4:9 And she said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Barak will not kill Sisera, rather a woman will, but not Deborah.

Jdg 4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh, and ten thousand men went up with him; Deborah also went up with him....

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