1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:04,000 Good morning. It is a good day. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,000 The psalmist says I was glad when they said to me let's go 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,700 into the house of the Lord. Today's beautiful day to 4 00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:11,600 worship. It's the best thing we can be 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,400 doing to today and that's because if you had a good week 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,700 this week the hope of being here and looking up is it only gets 7 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:22,700 so much better? If you had a good week this is 8 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:25,300 nothing compared to the hope and the promises that are ahead. 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,300 If you had a rough week, if you had a bad week and put you down, 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,600 there's hope. There's Hope Beyond this day 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,200 that there's better days to come. 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,900 And there is hope Beyond this life. 13 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:38,200 There is so much better of a life to come. 14 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:41,100 So it is a good good day to be here. 15 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:45,000 This morning we're also rejoicing because we have a new 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,800 brother in Christ brother. Eric, Sanchez was baptized on 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,400 Thursday night. The Lord is still working. 18 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,400 The Lord is still saving souls and people are still soft to 19 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,700 hear the gospel taught and, and to have the fruits in their 20 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:01,400 hearts of that. So we are Joyce in this morning 21 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:04,800 is a wonderful day and we're going to study Hebrews chapter 22 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,300 11 together this morning. I am determined to get through 23 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:12,100 the rest of this chapter so we are going to finish up hopefully 24 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:17,900 versus right around verse 23. We left off with with Abraham 25 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:20,000 Isaac and Jacob. And now we're going to be 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,500 picking up with Joseph and let me get the exact verse for us. 27 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,100 In verse 22, Hebrews chapter 11. So if you want to turn with us, 28 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:32,900 there will be in this section of the chapter. 29 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:38,000 And I've kind of given us the theme for this section that 30 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,600 every responsibility and every hope is still in front of you. 31 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:47,200 Yes, if you are, if you are old, if you're a young, no matter. 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,100 If you feel like you were feeble or or or weak or strong, 33 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:55,700 everything is still in front of you and we're going to See that 34 00:01:55,700 --> 00:02:01,900 by faith and Hebrews chapter 11. Now As we've gone through this 35 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:04,600 section of Hebrews 11 talking about their Heroes of Faith. 36 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,600 Remember where we're trying to see are the Riders trying to 37 00:02:08,608 --> 00:02:12,300 help the Jews, see how they are not separate from their 38 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:13,900 forefathers that they looked up to. 39 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:17,100 It's not like now that they are under this new Christian age 40 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:19,400 that they can just leave behind all the examples of Faith. 41 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:24,200 No, it's not two separate things, it is a walk of faith 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,600 that was different in the Old Testament but now it has a has a 43 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,400 savior has Redeemer that they follow into the news. 44 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,500 He's connecting them. He's making a bridge for their 45 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:37,400 faith and as we've noticed, these people haven't been 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,200 perfect that a reference in Hebrews. 47 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:42,700 But the only thing that talks about is the good things. 48 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:44,500 Okay? Is that because it's trying to 49 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:46,800 make it seem like everyone who has ever served. 50 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,900 God Faithfully is just the perfect person. 51 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,600 Absolutely. Not that the Bible is full of 52 00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:56,700 good things. And then a lot of bad things 53 00:02:56,700 --> 00:02:59,300 about even, these people, we've talked about so far and the 54 00:02:59,308 --> 00:03:02,500 people were going to talk About. But the point is sometimes you 55 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:06,000 need to focus on the good to see that it can be done to see that 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,200 faith can be had in our lives. And that these things that we're 57 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,600 going to read about were real. And the things that we can do 58 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,400 today on real, the things that we read about then were 59 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,000 recognized by God and just like today, we can have a faith that 60 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,900 is recognized by God. And that these things that they 61 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:25,500 did are repeatable today in our own walks of Faith. 62 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:30,800 So let's get in to verse 22, Hebrews chapter 11, By faith 63 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:35,200 Joseph, when he was dying made mention of the departure of the 64 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,900 children of Israel and gave instructions concerning his 65 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:41,800 bones. So Joseph eventually they were 66 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,600 led into they wouldn't to Egypt, you know, it was for a time they 67 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,600 went into Egypt for Safety and Security from the famines in the 68 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,100 issues of the land. But pretty soon that wasn't what 69 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,900 they really needed anymore. They needed to go back to the 70 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:56,800 land of promise to the land of Canaan. 71 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:01,900 And so Joseph, when he was He was not able to get back to the 72 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:04,700 land of promise. You didn't get to go back to 73 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:08,900 himself but he told them God has a Promised Land waiting for you 74 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:11,000 and Kanan and he's gonna get you back there. 75 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,100 He made mention of that departure and gave instructions 76 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:20,200 concerning his bones. And Genesis 50:20 for where this 77 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,700 is talking about. It says Joseph is saying God 78 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:27,900 will surely visit you and bring you out of this land of which he 79 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:31,100 swore to Abraham Isaac and to Jacob. 80 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:35,700 And Joseph made the Israelites weren't oath and said, God will 81 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:40,300 surely come to your Aid and then you must carry my bones up from 82 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:45,200 this place and Joseph died, being 110 years old, he was 83 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,800 embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt. 84 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:52,000 So as we consider Joseph, you know, we consider his walk of 85 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,100 Faith. It's strange to me. 86 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,700 No, he would have been embalmed like the Egyptians we read 87 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:57,600 about. Maybe he's putting a 88 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,500 sarcophagus. One of those nice caskets. 89 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:03,300 They made the kids because he was a high up ruler, maybe he 90 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:06,800 got one of those and they carry that thing around for a long 91 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,800 time and you know, it's strange for me that the Bible points out 92 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,000 his faith in his dying days to look forward to see a time when 93 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:18,200 God's promises will be fulfilled, because I look at 94 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,200 this and I think Joseph is one of the most incredible Bible 95 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,100 characters to me. If you look at his walk of 96 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:29,800 Faith, he was beaten down a lot and he would make his way up 97 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,300 through faith. And then you get drop down 98 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:32,700 again. He make his way up. 99 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:34,900 And then you get, somebody would swipe his legs out from 100 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:37,600 underneath him. He had some 40 Years of 101 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,600 faithfulness as he worked to recover from his brothers. 102 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,100 Abandoning it abandoning him and selling him into slavery. 103 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,700 He rose up the ranks and Egypt as a slave to second. 104 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,800 Command in the world's greatest nation. 105 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,100 Some Scholars, say that the Egypt at this time, would have 106 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:55,800 been the greatest nation in the world. 107 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:59,200 We have been a nation that had the most power and resources. 108 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:01,800 A lot of people came from everywhere during the famine. 109 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,300 And so they got the fruits of that, they took over a lot of 110 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:10,200 land and people he overcame Temptation by pharaohs wife, the 111 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,100 man himself. Pharaoh his wife came and tried 112 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:17,300 to seduce him but no he can't, he overcame that he literally 113 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:19,400 ran out. Building. 114 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:25,200 He overcame false accusations and unfairness this process of 115 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,300 being approached by the advances of pharaohs wife. 116 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,400 She ended up turning on him and falsely accusing him and he got 117 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,700 sent to prison all when he was doing the right thing and he he 118 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:41,600 had a prophecy and decision making during the famine. 119 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,100 So when he had been in prison for a while, he was called up to 120 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:48,700 make a pro to make an interpretation of the dreams. 121 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,800 If the Pharaoh is having and in this process, he proved his 122 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,900 faithfulness, his understanding, and his connection to God and in 123 00:06:57,907 --> 00:07:01,000 this and this new relationship he would provide advice. 124 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,400 That would lead the the Egyptians to their even greater 125 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,200 power. Under his guidance, they taxed 126 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,900 the people around them and so they became an even greater 127 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:14,400 Nation because of the wealth of the people who would send their 128 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,100 taxes to them. We that's a tax system we use 129 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:21,900 today is what Joseph and Eyes during that time, he sustained 130 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:26,700 his nation and his family. So during this famine, God, God 131 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:29,100 provided the prophecy to know that, hey, there's going to be a 132 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,700 time of Plenty. And then there's going to be a 133 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:33,600 time where there's a famine in the land. 134 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,100 And so he prepared his Nation for that time, he said, store 135 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:41,500 things up, make a provision for what's going to happen and it's 136 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:44,700 a, he was able to save his family that came in, to the land 137 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:47,800 of Egypt later on when he reconnected with them, he 138 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,300 overcame bitter. Ernest or his family members 139 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,200 that literally got rid of him. His brothers sold him into 140 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,700 slavery and when they came back and they were in need, he 141 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:00,500 welcomed them with open arms and he received them. 142 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,200 This is what I think of when I think of Joseph. 143 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,400 But that's not what the Bible pointed out. 144 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:15,200 The Bible said. By faith Joseph, when he was 145 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,400 dying, he made mention of the departure of the children of 146 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,400 Israel. He had Faith, he believed God's 147 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,000 promises. He knew they were true and he 148 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,200 believed that God was going to get them back. 149 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,900 It's a statement of faith. The statement of faith to know 150 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:34,299 is something though. It seems unlikely as going to 151 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:38,200 come to pass and God's will. And you know what his his 152 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,700 sarcophagus or whatever, his coffin was that was above 153 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,299 ground. Some 400 years before it got 154 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:47,600 After that promised land, that means that for 400 years, he was 155 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,200 a Silent Witness. So that when people would say, 156 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,500 why in the world would carry around this dead guy, shouldn't 157 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,600 he be buried by? Now, we're carrying around this 158 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,900 coffin with this dead, man. And he's really well preserved. 159 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:00,500 Its kind of freaky for 400 years. 160 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:01,700 People would have been able to see. 161 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,300 We still have hope this man. Showed hope that. 162 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:07,600 We are going to get back to a Promised Land. 163 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,700 We are going to get to a place that God has prepared for us. 164 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:14,900 It was a symbol of his faith in God's promises. 165 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:16,500 It didn't really matter where his bones were. 166 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:17,900 It wasn't like his bones are here. 167 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:19,600 He's going to heaven wasn't like that. 168 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,100 It was a symbol of Hope in the promises verse 23. 169 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:27,600 Next is Moses, it says by faith, Moses. 170 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 When he was born, was hidden three months by his parents. 171 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:33,400 So almost reads like, it's Moses has Faith. 172 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,900 It's not just parents. We were hardly read anything 173 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:40,700 about Moses parents but could have anything happened in Moses 174 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:43,300 life without them. He was hidden three. 175 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,400 I suppose parents because they saw, he was a beautiful child 176 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:49,600 and they were not afraid of the King's Command. 177 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,600 So, during this time, in order to try to manage the growth of 178 00:09:53,608 --> 00:09:56,500 the people, the Israelite people, the king ordered that 179 00:09:56,500 --> 00:10:00,200 all the young boys, be murdered and killed so that they would 180 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,800 not, you know, come up and take over the land. 181 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:07,400 But his parents had faith, and they hid him for three months 182 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:10,300 and then they delivered him in faith and do the river. 183 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:12,500 That's what the name. Moses means to be drawn out of 184 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:16,600 the water by faith. They hit him, they took care in 185 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,500 those dangerous. That was risky. 186 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:23,400 And then they sent him off in faith down the river where he 187 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,600 would eventually be picked up by none other than the daughter of 188 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,100 pharaoh amazing faith and sometimes we Overlook the 189 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:33,900 parents. And sometimes there's people in 190 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:36,000 the church. Sometimes, there's people in 191 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,400 your life who are overlooked because of the background roles 192 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,500 that they play. And setting up some great things 193 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,100 that happen because of their faithfulness, because of their 194 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:51,300 constants, and their willingness to take risks and to step out, 195 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,100 even when it might not be the primary role, The Upfront roll. 196 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,500 His parents are recognized for their faith. 197 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:04,800 And their role in his life. She could have seen a million 198 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,800 things that could go wrong with this, his mom and his, dad could 199 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,500 have seen all the danger that could have come to them. 200 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,200 But really the point was she saw no other option. 201 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,900 She was going to preserve her lying. 202 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:20,000 She was going to preserve this child Moses. 203 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:26,400 How many of us? See our work as Christians, see 204 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:31,600 our faith, and the need for our faith and continual effort, and 205 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,000 service and risk. As something that there's no 206 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,800 other option, but to take that risk as Christians, we have to 207 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,500 understand that there's a world and there are people around us 208 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:44,600 who are dying and lost. And there is an example that we 209 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,000 need to say that they may not see anywhere else, and if we 210 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,600 don't take that risk, if we don't step out of our comfort 211 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,800 zones, and hold on, to our faith, and to grow in our faith, 212 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:01,500 there is great risk with that. There is no other option, but to 213 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:07,400 serve God in this life. We can't see mediocrity in our 214 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:12,000 faith, as an option laziness in our faith as an option Comfort 215 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,300 zones. As an option, she saw there was 216 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,400 only one option to save this child through faith. 217 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,300 And we only have one option in our faith and that's to serve 218 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:36,000 God and step out in faith. Verse 24 by faith, Moses, when 219 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,500 he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's 220 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:42,100 daughter. So, when he got old enough, he 221 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:46,200 made his own decision and he would not be one of them. 222 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:50,100 It says that he chose rather to suffer Affliction with the 223 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:53,700 people of God, than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin 224 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:56,600 esteeming. The reproach of Christ greater 225 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,800 riches than the treasures in Egypt for, he looked to the 226 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,200 reward, so he made it. Decision. 227 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,100 We all have a point in our lives, where we become old 228 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:09,800 enough, where we become aware enough, where it's on us to make 229 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,300 a choice, what are we going to do? 230 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,400 And he chose to suffer Affliction with the people of 231 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:20,000 God, to take the risks that he needed to take and in doing. 232 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,800 So it says that he took on the reproaches of Christ like when 233 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,900 the world Christ wasn't born for a long time after this, how does 234 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:28,300 this have anything to do with Christ? 235 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,500 They weren't there together. It's a pattern. 236 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:35,700 It's an example of faith and doing this, that he went beyond 237 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:38,900 what he could have felt comfortable in the passing 238 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:43,100 Pleasures. The Comforts of sin because he 239 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:47,600 saw that the reproach of Christ was better riches than the 240 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,900 treasures in Egypt for you. Look to the reward, that's the 241 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:54,900 theme of faith. You overcome one desire, you 242 00:13:54,900 --> 00:14:00,400 overcome one desire to stay the same to never change and 243 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,800 exchange for something. You believe is greater and have 244 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,500 the faith to see something greater beyond your present. 245 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:11,600 Circumstance is the example of Moses and later on of Jesus who 246 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:17,000 who suffered for us. Because he looked to the reward. 247 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,000 And by the way, when it says it's going to tell us this again 248 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,300 in chapter 12 but Jesus saw us is that reward. 249 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,900 Do we see Jesus as that reward? That's greater than that's 250 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:33,900 greater and worthy enough to be waited on and worked and have 251 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:38,700 faith in indefinitely verse 27 by faith. 252 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:42,500 He speaking still have Moses, forsook Egypt, not fearing the 253 00:14:42,508 --> 00:14:47,500 Wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 254 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,200 He saw God Through The Eyes of faith and he endured that 255 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,200 enabled him to overcome. This situation is in the Sin and 256 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,500 the snares that were around him. What would happen if we could 257 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,700 really see God in our lives? Because sometimes we say, if God 258 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:07,900 could see us in this situation it's got was in this room with 259 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:11,300 us. But the reality is he is God is 260 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:15,700 here, God does. See us Jesus is there but do we 261 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:19,600 see him? It says that Moses did see him. 262 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:25,600 Who was invisible? He took these big leaps of 263 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,300 Faith, okay? He went out and he forsook 264 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:30,300 Egypt. He had to pull off that really 265 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:33,900 difficult, Band-Aid of leaving, may be the richest area ever, 266 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:37,000 and he was sitting there in his cushy seat in the palace. 267 00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:41,100 He took that big step, but he also followed the Little Steps 268 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:44,900 in verse 28 By Faith. He kept the Passover and the 269 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:48,900 sprinkling of blood lest, he who destroyed the firstborn should 270 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:52,400 touch them. So when Moses was leading them 271 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,900 out of the land, Egypt God sent those plagues to to beat down 272 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:01,500 the Egyptians and pharaoh and part of that involved the 273 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:04,900 Passover God said, I'm going to kill the firstborn of every 274 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,700 family who doesn't have the blood of the Lamb on the 275 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:10,600 doorpost. And so this is called this is 276 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,500 the institution of the Passover because if they put the blood of 277 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:17,200 the of the Lamb on the doorpost, a symbol of Jesus's blood later. 278 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:20,400 Then the death angel, that was going to kill. 279 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,400 All the firstborn that Death Angel would pass over and by 280 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,300 faith, he kept that, that required an attention to detail, 281 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:32,700 a focus on God's commands lest Hugh destroyed, the firstborn 282 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:35,400 should touch them. So he took the big leaps and he 283 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,600 took the small steps. Of Faith. 284 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:43,400 Once they got out by faith, they passed through the Red Sea. 285 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:46,200 Now, they here's referencing the nation of Israel. 286 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,600 So here is kind of Shifting to God's people as a whole. 287 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,400 It was leaving Egypt by faith. They passed through the Red Sea 288 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,300 as by dry land, whereas, the Egyptians attempting to do so, 289 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:00,600 were drowned. So as the, the children of 290 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,800 Israel made it across that took a lot of faith, you read that, 291 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,900 the heart of the Red Sea is something like it's over. 292 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,000 Feet deep. So you had these 5,000 foot 293 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,300 walls of water on either side and they just had the faith to 294 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:17,400 walk through there. We read a lot of bad things 295 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,900 about these people but this Hall of faith is recognizing the good 296 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:24,500 things that they did. He's recognizing that they had 297 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:28,400 moments of Faith. These are repeatable you're like 298 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:29,700 what? That wasn't that big of a deal. 299 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:32,600 They just walk through. That's the whole point of the 300 00:17:32,608 --> 00:17:35,000 book of Hebrews. That's the whole point of the 301 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,400 New Testament. It's in faith. 302 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,500 It's in faith. It's the weight that they did, 303 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:44,900 what they did. They had their moments verse 30 304 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,600 by faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after they were 305 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,000 encircled for seven days. So we're kind of getting 306 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,100 snapshots of the Old Testament as we go through and when the 307 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:59,500 children of Israel went through to take on the promised land, 308 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,000 they had the land of Jericho to take on Jericho was a walled 309 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,800 City. And if you're a nation of 310 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,100 Nomads, people walking around with tents and animals, all over 311 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:12,600 the place, taking on a nation that has giant walls as a pretty 312 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:13,900 daunting task. Okay? 313 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,500 So the way that they did that is God took matters into his into 314 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:20,300 his own hands. He said, I want you to March 315 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:23,900 around the city seven times and on the seventh time you're going 316 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:25,700 to shout. You're going to yell and the 317 00:18:25,708 --> 00:18:28,700 walls that City you're going to fall down and that's exactly 318 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:32,100 what happened. It's hard to picture that, but 319 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:34,700 they had to have the faith to just keep walking around the 320 00:18:34,708 --> 00:18:37,600 city day after day for seven days. 321 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,600 And once they did that for the seventh time, they yelled they 322 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,300 shouted. But it took an obedient patience 323 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:49,400 and anticipating faith. To follow through with God's 324 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:54,100 command in this regard. Now to make this all happen 325 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:56,600 though, they had to have this spy, they had to have these 326 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,000 spies that went in and communicated with the member of 327 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,300 the city. Whose name was Rahab. 328 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,600 Now, Rahab was a prostitute Rahab was a harlot. 329 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:07,900 So as we read through this whole Faith, there's another person 330 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,300 who is not a good individual overall, but you know what? 331 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,900 She didn't have perfect Faith. She didn't have complete faith. 332 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:20,700 And she sure didn't have everything all together, but she 333 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:25,800 had a commendable Faith by God. She took her Leap of Faith. 334 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,700 By faith Rahab, the Harlot did not perish with those who did 335 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:33,000 not believe when she had received the spies with peace 336 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:38,600 and Joshua chapter 2 verse 11. She says he is the God in heaven 337 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,800 above, and on the earth beneath. She had that Faith to get her 338 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,000 started to recognize who she was dealing with this step out in 339 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,800 faith. She had a commendable faith. 340 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,900 And I think one of the themes of our meeting, we just have had is 341 00:19:55,900 --> 00:20:00,700 this concept of not extreme or awesome ability? 342 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,200 But availability to do God's will. 343 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,700 God proves throughout the Bible, he doesn't need the person who 344 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:11,300 has everything together, he doesn't need the person who has 345 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:15,600 these great accolades and these great reputation. 346 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,700 He needs people who are not especially able but, especially 347 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:24,100 available to him and his, selecting his service and his 348 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:27,300 plans. Are you available to God? 349 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,300 Am I available to God with our young, with our old? 350 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:37,600 My available to God, verse 32 were moving through. 351 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,700 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell 352 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:46,000 of Gideon and Barack and Samson. And jeptha also, David, and 353 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,900 Samuel in the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms 354 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,800 were to righteousness. Obtained promises stopped, the 355 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:58,000 mouths of lions, quenched, the violence of fire escaped, the 356 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,500 edge of the sword out of weakness were made. 357 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:04,300 Strong became Valiant battle term, the flight Armies of the 358 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:08,400 aliens women received their dead raised to life again. 359 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,500 So we had a list of people that we're not going to take too much 360 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:14,200 to dive into because I think we've kind of slow down the 361 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,600 author's momentum enough as it is. 362 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:19,500 We're going to cover one more and that's Gideon but let's 363 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:23,700 remember the theme is connecting them to people of Faith before 364 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:26,800 them. So he says, I'll have time to 365 00:21:26,808 --> 00:21:28,700 even talk about all these other people. 366 00:21:30,300 --> 00:21:33,500 The last one we're going to talk about is getting it now. 367 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:37,000 As a summary of Gideon's good things, he boldly destroyed 368 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000 idols and he mightily used mightily used by God to defeat a 369 00:21:42,008 --> 00:21:44,700 much larger Army of the midianites, okay? 370 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:47,400 So the Bible's talking about the good things, this is the good 371 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:52,100 things but to help us understand a little bit about Gideon more 372 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:56,300 because he's kind of a, we might not know a whole lot about him. 373 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:59,800 Let's dive in for a minute, in Judges chapter 6, through 8. 374 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:04,500 About this man Gideon. It says in verse 1 of chapter 6, 375 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,000 then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. 376 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,900 Okay. So this is going to set up the 377 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:12,600 rest of the the plot that's going to happen. 378 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,300 God's people did not follow his commands. 379 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:19,800 So the Lord delivered them into the land of Midian for into the 380 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,400 hand of Midian for seven years and the Hand of Midian prevailed 381 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,000 against Israel because of the midianites, the children of 382 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,200 Israel made for themselves dens. Caves and strongholds, which are 383 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,800 in the mountains. Not exactly a picture of awesome 384 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,800 faith. Not exactly a picture of 385 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,800 strength, right? So, it was whenever Israel had 386 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,300 sown, you know, they had got their crops together. 387 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:48,200 Midianites would come up. Also, amalekites in the people 388 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:53,000 of the East will come up against them, then they would camp and 389 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,500 Camp against them and destroy the produce of the earth, as far 390 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,900 as Gaza and leave, no sustenance for his. 391 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,700 Rayul neither sheep nor ox or donkey. 392 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:06,200 Okay. So these people were getting 393 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,400 bullied. Now, the funny thing is, the 394 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,600 midianites were relatives of the Israelites, but because of all 395 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,300 the divisions and the family's got bigger and separated. 396 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:19,900 Now, the midianites are just bullying, the Israelites, and it 397 00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:24,900 made their life real rough. And it all started with them not 398 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:28,400 following God's commands, Okay? So that's a kind of a important 399 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:33,900 key caveat and they were hiding So, Israel was greatly 400 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:36,700 impoverished because of the midianites wiped out their 401 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:40,300 economy and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. 402 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,500 And it came to pass when the children of Israel cried out to 403 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:46,500 the Lord, because of the midianites that the Lord sent a 404 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:49,000 prophet to the children of Israel who said to them. 405 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,500 Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I brought you up from 406 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:54,900 Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage. 407 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,400 I got you out of this before and I delivered you out of the hand 408 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,200 of the Egyptians and I heard the hand of all who oppressed you 409 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,800 And drove them out before you and gave you their land. 410 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,200 So, they finally got to the promised land and back in verse 411 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,300 1, they stopped following God's commands. 412 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,400 And also, I say to you, I am the Lord, your God, do not fear the 413 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,400 gods of the amorites and there's and in whose land you dwell, but 414 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,500 you have not obeyed my voice, okay? 415 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:27,100 So the big picture of this is, these people are crying out to 416 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:29,600 God, like, you know, gobbler suffering and all this. 417 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,900 So God sent the prophet to clarify why they're suffering, 418 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,200 okay? We don't always suffer because 419 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,500 of some raw. But oftentimes, we suffer the 420 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:42,800 result of sin and the result Things in our life that are 421 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:47,300 causing problems, okay? That is the case of these people 422 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,700 and the prophet came to show them. 423 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:51,900 You guys aren't just suffering because I'm not good. 424 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:55,600 God, because I'm not taking care of you, you're suffering because 425 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,600 you have not obeyed my voice. You know, sometimes I think we 426 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,100 need to look out for ourselves. We are complaining to God. 427 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,400 When we are looking to God, you know, why am I going through 428 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,900 this? Are we taking responsibility for 429 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:09,700 our own actions that get us in the situations that we're 430 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:13,800 worried about? Now we're stressed about. 431 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,300 So God wants to clarify, you know, the reason why you're in 432 00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:22,100 this position, right? So he goes on to say, now the 433 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:26,200 angel of the Lord of you a few verses later came and sat under 434 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,500 the terebinth tree which was in ofra. 435 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,900 So God's told this broad message to the people, now he's going to 436 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:35,400 a specific person in a specific place. 437 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:40,200 So this place were belonged to joash buys right while his son 438 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,300 Gideon, threshed wheat in the winepress in order to hide it 439 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:46,300 from the midianites. Okay, so we're getting a 440 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:50,400 snapshot, we're zooming in on this greater microcosm of Asus 441 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,400 Stomach problem and Israel. They're beat down their low. 442 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,900 They are being trampled by the midianites and here as you zoom 443 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:03,100 in. Here's this guy Gideon. 444 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,100 He's a threshing as we, in a wine press. 445 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,200 Now, a wine press, look, something like this. 446 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,600 It is a low place where you go to press the grapes to get the 447 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,300 juice to collect in a low place. This man is in the epitome of a 448 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:23,900 low spot. It's a symbol it's not just 449 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:26,000 where he's at physically. It's where he's at in their 450 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,400 society where he's at his own life, it seems. 451 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,900 So he's thrashing wheat in here and if you know, understand what 452 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,300 about how they would first thresh wheat, you're like, why 453 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:37,800 in the world is he doing? Because when that, what they 454 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,000 would normally do is, to take care of the wheat to make the 455 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,500 wheat edible? They would take the Harvest of 456 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:45,000 wheat that they cut the stalks off of. 457 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,900 Maybe they cleaned it up a little bit, but you still had 458 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:50,600 run the seed pods. You had this chap, it was like 459 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,000 the dead, the dead shells around, and things like that. 460 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,500 So they take their big pile on top of a mountain where it was 461 00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:59,500 the most windy. You take it up on. 462 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:01,700 Movement. When you stick your fish, your 463 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,200 Pitchfork in there, you throw it up in the air and the wind would 464 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,200 blow off the chaff the extra the dead stuff, the husks. 465 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:13,700 And down the heavier stuff, the pods the seeds that you could 466 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:16,300 eat would fall. So they thresh the wheat, threw 467 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:17,900 up in the air, and the good stuff would fall. 468 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:23,000 The bad stuff would blow away. So God comes to this man, whose 469 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,500 threshing wheat and hidden place at the bottom of a wine press. 470 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,000 He's hidden, he's hiding, he's scared and he is in a low place. 471 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,300 When he normally should not be down in a spot like that 472 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:39,300 threshing, the wheat and the angel of the Lord appeared to 473 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:41,500 him and said, the Lord is with you. 474 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:46,900 You mighty man of Valor He's basically talking to a guy who's 475 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:48,300 in the lowest of the low in a place. 476 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:50,600 That's hello. And who's gonna say I'm the 477 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:56,500 lowest of the low of the low and God says to him, You mighty man 478 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:00,400 of Valor, God is with you. Do you realize that this is a 479 00:28:00,408 --> 00:28:04,400 message that God sees the best in you, when you and others 480 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,000 around? You do not see the best in. 481 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,500 You do not see the potential in, you do not see the ability to 482 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:14,100 serve God, and to fulfill his plans and to be doing great 483 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:19,600 works for him. God picks him up and talks to 484 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,200 him this in this low place and identifies the strength that he 485 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,000 sees in him. God does not see you the way you 486 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,600 see yourself the way others, see others? 487 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:33,100 See you. The Lord is with you, mighty man 488 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:36,500 of Valor. Okay, so after this, it doesn't 489 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:40,200 look good. Still getting basically says, I 490 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,400 am the lowest man in the lowest tribe of Manasseh. 491 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,800 So, I'm the youngest, I'm just a lower, and lower and lower. 492 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,100 And our country is being oppressed and more lower, and 493 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:51,600 lower, and lower. And he starts out by question. 494 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,400 God, why are we in this situation? 495 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,800 Okay. God's already told them you're 496 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,900 in this situation because you have not obeyed the Lord, so 497 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:03,300 questions. God, then he puts out excuses 498 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,600 and then, you know, and these excuses that he has, maybe these 499 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,700 were something that he was internally circulating, maybe 500 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:12,800 it's something that is society was circulating. 501 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:15,500 Maybe it's something that his family was circulating or 502 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:18,300 telling him. We can have lies. 503 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:23,100 We can have self-imposed lies that we tell ourselves. 504 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:27,300 Other people tell us that make us have a perspective that is - 505 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:33,100 that is Discouraging. And often sometimes it can come 506 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:36,200 from our own family members as the midianites, where their 507 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:43,500 family who is beating them down. He came up with excuses and 508 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:45,700 these were problems that he needed to work out. 509 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,500 And so he starts by responding to God by, okay, I'm going to 510 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:51,900 ask you for a sign. So when I wake up, I'm gonna put 511 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:55,400 this wall on the ground and I won't, there be do all around it 512 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:58,000 and but the wool is dry so they don't know that you're really 513 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,900 with me. Okay, God does that then he 514 00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:01,500 says, okay now I want the opposite to happen. 515 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,800 I want the world to be wet but the ground around it be dry. 516 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,800 When I wake up in the morning God does it again. 517 00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:10,200 He's asking for signs to prove that God is really with him, 518 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,500 when God just God told him. I'm with you, but his faith is 519 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:16,300 weak enough to where he doesn't just occur. 520 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,700 Have to and follow in service to God. 521 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,300 Okay, so we eventually takes Goddard his word, he goes, and 522 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,800 he is told to take down an idol and his father's house and he 523 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,000 does, he goes in tears down her Idol and then the saga 524 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,800 continues, that's the beginning of Gideon's, good things he 525 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,800 takes down the idol. Then and chat in verse 19 of 526 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,200 chapter 7. God calls him to go up against 527 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,200 into to deliver them from the midianites, they're going to go 528 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:46,500 after him. Now, they're going to fight back 529 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:51,500 and remember, in Old Testament, studies, biblical Warfare was 530 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:53,600 because this was a Theocratic Nation. 531 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,900 Meaning, they were governed by a religious organization. 532 00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:58,800 It was their government. It was the religion. 533 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,800 It was altogether today. We are a king, a spiritual 534 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,900 Kingdom. We don't fight people. 535 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:05,200 We don't attack people physically. 536 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,500 Okay, so keep that in Verse 19. So Gideon and the hundred men. 537 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,500 So I need to explain how they got here. 538 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,900 This is the situation with a going up against the midianites. 539 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,900 God said, get your people together, he gets 30,000 540 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:25,100 together, okay? So Gideon's got this Army. 541 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:28,400 The ready to go. God basically says, that's too 542 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,500 many people because God's trying to prove that it's his work. 543 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,400 That's going to deliver them and not just the strength of their 544 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,500 army. So, he says anyone who's afraid 545 00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:39,200 tell them to go home? So 10,000 people leave and go 546 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,700 home from the Army, the original army, then he says, you're going 547 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:47,300 to go up to Water and whoever kneels down and drinks out of 548 00:31:47,308 --> 00:31:50,300 the water by just sucking straight out of the water. 549 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:52,700 You're going to use them. The people who would kneel down 550 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,600 and get a handful of water and drink it. 551 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:55,800 You're going to send those people home. 552 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,300 Okay? So God is just trying to trim 553 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:01,800 down this Army until they have 300 people to fight the 554 00:32:01,808 --> 00:32:04,500 midianites. And it says that those people 555 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:06,600 were like locusts, they were just everywhere. 556 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,400 It was a massive Army, they're going to fight with 300 people. 557 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,400 That 300 men. Why? 558 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,500 Because God wants to show them that by faith. 559 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,400 They're going to win this battle by faith and not their own 560 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,500 victories of Might they're going to overcome these people. 561 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,300 So Gideon in the hundred men who are with Him, came to Outpost of 562 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:31,300 the camp at the at the beginning of the middle watch, just as 563 00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:34,600 they had posted the watch and they blew the trumpets and broke 564 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,100 the pictures that were in their hands. 565 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,800 Then the three companies, blew the trumpets and broke the 566 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,700 pictures, they held the Torches in there. 567 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:43,700 Tens and the trumpets in the right hands for blowing and they 568 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:46,300 cried the sword of the Lord and of Gideon. 569 00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:50,000 And every man stood in this place all around the camp and 570 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,900 the whole Army ran and cried out and fled. 571 00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:55,500 So, what's happening? The the midianites Army is, is 572 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:58,900 in this kind of basin Gideon takes, looks like a hundred men 573 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:02,800 here. 100 men there. 100 been here and they just yell blow 574 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,900 trumpets, smash their pictures and the median are the 575 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:10,200 midianites Army. Loses it, they lose their minds. 576 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,400 They Ran and cried out and fled, and the night, when the 300 blew 577 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,600 the trumpets, the Lord set, Every Man's sword against His 578 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,000 companion, throughout the whole camp, and the Army fled to Beth, 579 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:26,100 Acacia towards are raw, as far as the border of Abel Noah by 580 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:29,000 Tabitha. So, they started getting 581 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,500 confused. God sent to confusion among them 582 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,300 to where God's people didn't have to do anything, they all 583 00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:36,900 start turning and killing each other. 584 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,600 Then they pursue them as they started to flee. 585 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,800 The point of this, God Is the Victor. 586 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,500 He uses people who are available to him, people who will stand up 587 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:51,400 and do what he says, and follow them in faith because they won 588 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:56,300 this battle, they won this fight and it wasn't even them doing 589 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:57,600 it. The Lord did it. 590 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:08,100 The power is with the Lord. And they captured Two Princes of 591 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:11,400 the midianites or of and Zeeb they killed or about the rock of 592 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,900 Horeb and Z. They killed at the winepress of 593 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:16,100 Zeeb. How how fitting this is to go 594 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:21,699 full circle that they God found Gideon in this low place and a 595 00:34:21,699 --> 00:34:24,600 wine press. And he helps them defeat the 596 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,900 midianites at a wine press. When all is done, always taking 597 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:32,400 care of God, brought it full circle, Back in Hebrews chapter 598 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,000 11. So we know who Gideon is, we 599 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,600 know what he did. And what more shall I say? 600 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,100 For time, would fail me to talk about all these people who 601 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:43,600 subdued kingdoms obtained promises, who out of weakness 602 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,400 were made strong. That's Gideon, who became 603 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,100 Valiant battle who turned to flight the armies of the aliens 604 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:54,100 Gideon. Goes on to say, others were 605 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:57,800 tortured, not accepting Deliverance, not accepting to be 606 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,200 freed from the problems that they were in dealing with 607 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:04,200 because Faith required them to stand in to hold on. 608 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:06,700 That. They might obtain a better. 609 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:10,500 Resurrection still others had trial of mockings and 610 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,600 scourgings. Yes, of chains and imprisonment. 611 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,100 They were stoned. They were sawn. 612 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:20,000 And two were tempted, were slain with the sword. 613 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,300 If you read about some of the things early, Christians went, 614 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:26,900 It's awful, it's terrible. They were tempted were slain 615 00:35:26,900 --> 00:35:28,400 with the sword. They wandered about in 616 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,700 sheepskins and goatskins being destitute Afflicted and 617 00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:35,800 tormented of whom the world was not worthy. 618 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:40,400 They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of 619 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,900 the Earth. And all these having obtained. 620 00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:49,600 A good testimony through faith did not receive the promise God, 621 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,200 having provided something better for us. 622 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:54,500 That they should not be made. Perfect. 623 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:59,400 Apart from us, this is finishing up the chapter You know you say 624 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,900 you know, how did they not receive the promise? 625 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:03,000 So many of them made it to the promised land? 626 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:06,300 We learned early in Hebrews that they look for a better? 627 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:09,200 That is a Heavenly country. They weren't there yet, they had 628 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,000 not achieved it. That's something that's being 629 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,300 prepared is for us. It's for all of us to go 630 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:18,800 together. It may have seemed to these Jews 631 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,900 that the writer is talking to, like, the Glory Days were behind 632 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:23,900 them. Like Gods, great works. 633 00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:27,000 And God's great faith, that they understood were comfortable with 634 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:32,700 and had Then that's behind them. But know what he's trying to 635 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:36,600 tell him is that these days like all the others in the history of 636 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,800 God's people require Faith to fight a spiritual battle. 637 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,200 They didn't look at their walk of Faith, like it was worth 638 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,900 their time. Almost, it's like me and go 639 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:47,900 back, you know, this isn't what we thought. 640 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:51,400 But just like, Gideon needed Faith to step out. 641 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,500 They needed Faith to step out, and hold, and grow, and there's 642 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,500 Christianity. And the same is true today. 643 00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:00,400 The Glory Days are not behind us. 644 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:06,200 The best days of your faith. The faith of the church are not 645 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,100 behind us. It's going to take Faith to 646 00:37:10,100 --> 00:37:13,300 fight this spiritual battle. The challenges of this 647 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:16,700 generation may be different than the last America. 648 00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,300 Might not be a storehouse of biblical knowledge, am I not 649 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:24,100 look that good but we cannot dwell on only the problems of 650 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:27,900 Our Generation but seek to provide the solution that Christ 651 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:32,000 offers to this generation to the world that we live in to our 652 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,200 church and the people who are here And it's going to like the 653 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,900 Hebrews, it's going to require faith on our behalf. 654 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,900 It's gonna require faith on behalf of the people who are, 655 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:44,700 who are going to reach with the gospel. 656 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,700 It's going to take Faith, just like these Hebrews needed to 657 00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:53,400 step out and to follow him. And it helped me understand how 658 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,200 I see this incorrectly when I thought about this question. 659 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,400 Does it feel like we can just never attain to biblical 660 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,800 achievements of faithfulness or a faith? 661 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:10,600 I have a subconscious bias that these people people raised from 662 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,200 the dead. People walk through an ocean. 663 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,900 People walk through on dry land, on a seat. 664 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:20,000 Moses, led a children out of bondage and you're telling me I 665 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000 can do something. That is Repeatable commendable 666 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:31,300 by God. Just because God has chosen to 667 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:34,800 work differently in this dispensation of time or Christ 668 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,400 has come. We don't have Miracles today. 669 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:41,100 No God has God provides I believe for us but he doesn't 670 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:43,800 heal people like that from a raising from the dead. 671 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:47,800 So just because God has chosen a different way to work through us 672 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,100 do we really think that it's any less and this generation and 673 00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:55,000 your life that God can't do great works of Faith through you 674 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,400 and your situation if you're young Gideon I had excuses. 675 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:00,700 Do you feel like you're too young? 676 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,000 You feel like you're too old. Do you feel like you're too 677 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,900 mediocre to in between? Do you feel like you're in a 678 00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:09,400 world? That's not just not fit for it 679 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:14,500 anymore? The point of this section of 680 00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:18,800 Hebrews is to show them that all of this is still in front of 681 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,900 them in Christ. In Christ, we can have a walk of 682 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:25,500 faith. That is mirroring the faith of 683 00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,200 people who have gone before us who have done incredible Works. 684 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,600 God's just choosing to do it in a different way. 685 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,300 Don't look down. Don't despise the challenges 686 00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:36,000 that are in front of you like snow. 687 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,400 It's not worth it. It's not worth it. 688 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,700 It's hard. It's not going to be fruitful. 689 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:45,400 God is always work through his people and shame on me. 690 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:50,000 When I think that my work of faith is any less than Moses 691 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,800 leading the children about his out of Israel. 692 00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:56,600 Shame on me when I don't see my work as valuable as raising 693 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,100 people from the dead because that's what saving Souls isn't 694 00:39:59,100 --> 00:40:01,600 it? Pete, bringing people from Death 695 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,000 to life through the power of Christ. 696 00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:09,800 Don't look down on what's in front of you, or what's around 697 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,600 you. Because the Hebrews had the same 698 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,000 issue and they needed Faith to overcome for themselves and for 699 00:40:16,008 --> 00:40:20,000 the people that they would bring to Christ all these having 700 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000 obtained, a good testimony through faith. 701 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:26,100 They did not receive the promise God having provided something 702 00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:28,800 better for us. That they should not be made a 703 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,500 part. May be made perfect. 704 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:33,400 Apart from us. They did not run the last lap of 705 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,100 Faith. They did not even require the 706 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:40,200 reward of their faith. We are still in this today. 707 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:46,500 Ephesians 4:1 says therefore the prisoner of the Lord I beseech 708 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:49,300 you to walk worthy of the calling which with with which 709 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:51,900 you were called with all lowliness and gentleness with 710 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:55,600 long-suffering bearing with one another in love endeavoring to 711 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,400 keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of Peace. 712 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,500 There is one body and one Spirit just as you were called in one, 713 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:05,800 hope of your calling one Lord, One Faith, one baptism, one God 714 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:10,800 and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you 715 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,000 all this heavenly this Lying is a Heavenly calling from God, but 716 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,400 a Heavenly calling never comes without a response to it. 717 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,200 These acts of faith. As we read in Hebrews chapter 718 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,500 11, you could say in one sense that they were great. 719 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:29,400 But in another sense, they've been somewhat simple and 720 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:34,200 day-to-day action Abel offered his sacrifice people made 721 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,300 sacrifices for years, but it said by faith. 722 00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:38,100 He did it. He knock. 723 00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:41,600 It says he pleased. God, Noah built a vote. 724 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,100 He worked a blue collar job for a long time. 725 00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:46,000 Trying to keep his small family safe. 726 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,200 It was in a, it was a pretty extravagant thing when we read 727 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,100 about it. But that's what he did every 728 00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:55,400 day. He worked a blue collar job with 729 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,500 faith for a long time. Trying to keep his little family 730 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:01,800 safe. Abraham set out on a nomadic 731 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,100 lifestyle. A lot of people were Nomads at 732 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:07,900 the time. But he walked in faith and he 733 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:11,000 did all these things in faith. Sarah. 734 00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:13,400 Yes, she was old but she had a baby. 735 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:16,200 It's not necessarily an uncommon thing. 736 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,900 God can take our normal works and make them fruitful for his 737 00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:23,600 kingdom. First, Colossians 3:23, whatever 738 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,500 you do. Workout it wholeheartedly. 739 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:29,800 This is I think this is the NIV you work at it. 740 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,900 Wholeheartedly as though you are doing it for the Lord and not 741 00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:35,200 merely for people. Don't let the value of your 742 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,200 work. Diminish, it's hard to do. 743 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:41,900 It's hard to keep your Your Mind Set On The Lord's service. 744 00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:45,000 When people around you might not necessarily make, you feel like 745 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,800 it's worth your time. It's like you're serving the 746 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,900 lord, whether it's at your job, whether it's in the church, 747 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:52,900 whatever it is. I can't stop. 748 00:42:52,900 --> 00:42:55,100 I have to give you a couple verses the beginning of Hebrews 749 00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:57,900 12 and then we'll be finished. Because this is this flow of 750 00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:00,700 thought? Therefore because of all this, 751 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:02,900 since we are surrounded by so great. 752 00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:06,700 A cloud of witnesses. Let us lay aside every weight 753 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:09,900 and the sin, which so easily ensnares us and let us run with 754 00:43:09,900 --> 00:43:15,300 endurance, the race that is set before us endurance. 755 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,900 Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. 756 00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:21,300 Who for the joy that was set before him. 757 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:24,700 Joy that was set before him is the Salvation of our souls. 758 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:29,400 God created us to be in his world and we decided to not be a 759 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,000 part of his kingdom. We decided to rebel and sin but 760 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,200 Jesus knew that the joy of God the joy of our savior would be 761 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,100 and saving us. And for that joy, that was set 762 00:43:39,100 --> 00:43:41,800 before him. He endured the cross, he 763 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,400 despised the shame. Now that we're despised, it 764 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,400 doesn't mean necessarily hated it. 765 00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:50,300 It's like an Timothy when he says, don't let people despise 766 00:43:50,300 --> 00:43:52,800 your youth, it means don't let people look down on it. 767 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,000 Don't let people look at it. Like it's not worth anything. 768 00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:59,300 He says, Jesus despised the shame, meaning he looked at it, 769 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:03,100 like it wasn't anything, he went through, it was difficult, but 770 00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:05,100 Jesus looked at it. Like it was nothing compared to 771 00:44:05,107 --> 00:44:08,000 the joy of our Salvation that was set before him. 772 00:44:09,100 --> 00:44:13,000 He despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of 773 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:18,700 the Throne of God. For consider him who endured 774 00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:23,200 such hostility from Sinners against himself, lest you become 775 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,300 weary and discouraged in your souls. 776 00:44:25,500 --> 00:44:29,200 You have not yet resisted to Bloodshed, we have a walk of 777 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:34,700 faith for not being. We're not being sawn into, we 778 00:44:34,700 --> 00:44:38,500 got this striving against sin and you have forgotten the 779 00:44:38,508 --> 00:44:41,500 exhortation, which speaks to you as Sons. 780 00:44:41,500 --> 00:44:43,400 Okay. I can't keep on, we're going to 781 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,300 close their let's look to Christ the Author and finisher of our 782 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:49,700 faith and light of all the examples of Faith. 783 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,300 This is still in front of us. This can still be done today. 784 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:56,900 We can still serve God Faithfully with what God has put 785 00:44:56,900 --> 00:45:01,900 in front of us to do today. We thank you for listening to 786 00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:06,700 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 787 00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:10,300 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 788 00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:13,500 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 789 00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:19,000 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at True 790 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,500 Church of Christ Bakersfield.com. 791 00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:27,300 Our service times are on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 792 00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:31,800 Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Please make plans to join us. 793 00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:34,500 We would love for you to be our honored guest.