Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 4.

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Jdg 4:6 Now she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, "Behold, the Lord, the God of Israel, has commanded, 'Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun.

Jdg 4:7 'And I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his many troops to the river Kishon; and I will give him into your hand.'"

Barak must first summon the army and then God will deliver Sisera. This is God's sovereignty in action without eliminating human responsibility.

Jdg 4:8 Then Barak...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 3.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Jdg 4:6 Now she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, "Behold, the Lord, the God of Israel, has commanded, 'Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun.

There are two possible locations for Kedesh-nathtali, one in Upper Galilee near Hazor (Katz-or: the enemies capital) and the other in lower Galilee near Mt. Tabor, where Israel's army will gather.

The early church believed that Mount Tabor was the mount of our Lord's transfiguration.

Jdg 4:7 'And I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander of...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Deborah, and Barak, part 2.

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Jdg 4:1 Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died.

Jdg 4:2 And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

"There's nothing worse than insecurity. So many people live in fear because they are uncertain about what comes next and their standing before God, if they even believe in God. On the flip side, there's nothing better than being absolutely sure that the most powerful Being in the universe adores you as His own child. This is precisely the confidence the Holy Spirit offers us." [Francis...

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Title: Judges 4-5. Shamgar, Deborah, and Barak.

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3. The oppression of the Philistines and the deliverance by Shamgar.

Jdg 3:31 And after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.

Shamgar - a Hurrian (Horite of Edom) name though a Jew. Anath is a Canaanite goddess. The names show the Canaanite influence upon Israel.

Although so little is mentioned of his life, Shamgar's name and his mother's name tell us a lot about the state of Canaanization of Israel. When you start naming your children after Canaanite fashion then you have to be fully enmeshed in their culture and ways. To name you daughter after a...

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Title: Judges 3:12-30 - Ehud.

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Darker and darker are the clouds which gather around Israel, and stranger and more unexpected is the deliver­ance wrought for them. It had begun with Othniel truly a "lion of God." But after the "lion of God" came one left-handed and deceitful, then the son of an idolater, and then an outlaw of low birth, as if it were ever to descend lower and lower, till the last stage is reached in the Nazarite, Samson, who, as Nazarite, is the typical representative of Israel's calling and strength, and, as Samson, of Israel's weakness and spiritual adultery. Deborah is a flower of faith in the midst of them all who was given the gift of prophecy and who didn't question God's...

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Title: Judges 3:7-11: Othniel and the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament.

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Jdg 3:7 And the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

Jdg 3:8 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

Jdg 3:9 And when the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

Jdg 3:10 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and...

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Title: Judges 3:7-11: Othniel and the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Jdg 3:7 And the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

We remember God's conviction of Israel given years later through the prophet Ezekiel while they were in captivity in Babylon in that she played the harlot to other gods and committed adultery against her Husband, but she was not even like other harlots in that she paid money to commit harlotry rather than receiving it.

Jdg 3:8 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the sons of...

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Title: Judges 3:1-6: God left nations in the land to test Israel.

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Jdg 3:1 Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan;

Jdg 3:2 only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it formerly).

Israel was to fight against the false ideals of the enemy as well as physically fight them on the battlefield.

In the wars of Canaan under Joshua, therefore, Israel had experienced and learned, that the power to conquer its foes did not consist in the multitude and bravery of its own fighting men, but solely in the might of its God, which it could...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: Tests reveal true desire. The need of opposition.

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We have already noted that God promised that He would drive out the Canaanites slowly so that the land would remain cultivated, but vs 21 is not that.

Exo 23:29 I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate, and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

Exo 23:30 I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.

The determination not to exterminate the Canaanite sin in one single year, was a different thing from the purpose of God to suspend their gradual extermination...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: Tests reveal true desire. The way of God is to follow His commands by faith.

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The Mosaic law as well as the commands for the NT believer reveal that God cannot fellowship with a standard of unrighteousness, which is what any plan that man creates will be. God cannot and does not arbitrarily choose who He will fellowship with, nor who He will spend eternity with. God has a standard of righteousness and it must be fulfilled in any creature if he is going to be in heaven with God or if he is going to fellowship with God in time. No man can make or create or determine anything of perfect righteousness.

Sin is confessed or acknowledged and the results of sin, which is more sin, is halted, and the believer recovers his fellowship with God without...

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