Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base, and
Speaker 1: this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just
Speaker 1: for you to break it down a little more, to
Speaker 1: take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this
Speaker 1: overflow message. Let me know, let's go. Sometimes you can
Speaker 1: tell how significant your calling is by how much the
Speaker 1: enemy is intimidated by you, And you can tell how
Speaker 1: much he's intimidated by you by how much he's talking
Speaker 1: to you. God said, I've tried to talk to you
Speaker 1: through an angel that didn't work. But now I want
Speaker 1: you to go listen to your enemy. And Gideon goes
Speaker 1: down to the outpost verse eleven. I almost missed it again.
Speaker 1: This is the big verse, verse eleven. And you shall
Speaker 1: hear what they say, and afterwards your hand will be
Speaker 1: strengthened to go down against the camp. Did you catch
Speaker 1: that God didn't say your hand will be strengthened when
Speaker 1: you hear what God says about you. Because the angel's
Speaker 1: been telling Gideon you're a mighty warrior. The angel's been
Speaker 1: telling Gideon that God is with you. The angel has
Speaker 1: been saying God is going to deliver the people through you.
Speaker 1: Giddem doesn't believe any of it. He said, So if
Speaker 1: you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the enemy. Go
Speaker 1: down and listen to the enemy for a minute, and
Speaker 1: after you hear what your enemy is saying, your hand
Speaker 1: will be strengthened to go down against the camp. And
Speaker 1: then he went down with pure his servant to the
Speaker 1: outposts of the ur Men who are in the camp,
Speaker 1: and the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people
Speaker 1: of the east lay along the valley like locust in abundance. Ooh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of them. And they're camels were without number,
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of them, as the sand is
Speaker 1: on the seashore, in abundance. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Everybody say, there's a lot of them. Look, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons to be afraid. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons to fear. If you start listening to them, you
Speaker 1: go crazy. But watch when Gideon came verse thirteen, Behold,
Speaker 1: a man was telling a dream to his comrade, and
Speaker 1: he said, behold, I dreamed a dream, And behold a
Speaker 1: cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian ooh,
Speaker 1: barley bread, not very threatening, huh. And it came to
Speaker 1: the tent and struck it so that it fell and
Speaker 1: turned upside down, so that the tent lay flat. And
Speaker 1: his comrade answered, this is no other than the sword
Speaker 1: of Gideon, the son of joe Ash, a man of Israel.
Speaker 1: God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.
Speaker 1: You got Gideon's hand, which is trembling. He's afraid. You've
Speaker 1: got Midian's hand, which has them trapped, and you got
Speaker 1: God's hand, which is trustworthy. And God says, I am
Speaker 1: giving them into your hand. I don't know who this
Speaker 1: is for today, but God is saying, I want you
Speaker 1: to let go of what you think you need. I
Speaker 1: want you to let go of what you thought you were.
Speaker 1: I want you to let go of what you can't
Speaker 1: get over. I want you to let go of it.
Speaker 1: I want you to go down toward the next thing
Speaker 1: I've called you to do. And watch what Gideon gets
Speaker 1: encouraged eaters out. He's like, wait a minute, they're talking
Speaker 1: about me. I'm the barley. Yeah that's not very impressive. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's not what the barley is. It's what the barley does.
Speaker 1: And he goes from trembling to tumbling. God said, let's go.
Speaker 1: That's the table's go. Let's go, Let's go, Let's go.
Speaker 1: As soon as Gideon heard the telling, I'm in verse fifteen.
Speaker 1: As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream
Speaker 1: and its interpretation, he worshiped Ah, threw both of his
Speaker 1: hands up, and he returned to the camp of Israel
Speaker 1: and said, arise for the Lord. Watch his pastense has
Speaker 1: given the host of Midian into your hand. Whose hand
Speaker 1: the hands of the ones who took the trumpet, the
Speaker 1: hands of the ones who didn't turn back, the hands
Speaker 1: of the ones who were still trembling. My hand's trembling.
Speaker 1: But I got a trumpet. Oh, these trumpets are about
Speaker 1: to be significant, the trumpets that the rest of the
Speaker 1: nation left when they left. I got a trumpet, and
Speaker 1: I got a god I can trust. And watch this.
Speaker 1: He divided the three hundred men into three companies and
Speaker 1: put trumpets into the trembling hands of all of them,
Speaker 1: and empty jars with torches insight the jars. I got
Speaker 1: something in my hands. I got something in my hands.
Speaker 1: I got something in my heart. I gotta get that.
Speaker 1: Got a skill, I got a weapon, I got an instrument.
Speaker 1: I got an instrument. God said, I'm gonna put it
Speaker 1: in your hands. I'm gonna put something in your hands
Speaker 1: in this season I watch. It's not gonna make sense.
Speaker 1: A trumpet versus an army, or even a torch against
Speaker 1: an army doesn't make sense. But it doesn't need to
Speaker 1: make sense. What it needs to do in your hands
Speaker 1: is be surrendered and submitted to God, so you can
Speaker 1: go forward in the strength that you have. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is annoying. I can't wait to preach this Sunday. He
Speaker 1: put a trumpet in their trembling hands. He put a
Speaker 1: torch in the other hand. He said, I need you
Speaker 1: to have something in your hands that you can use. Now,
Speaker 1: what has God put in your hands? And what have
Speaker 1: you put in his hands? You can put it in
Speaker 1: his hands. The battle belongs to the Lord. You could
Speaker 1: put it in his hands. It is not by might,
Speaker 1: it is not by power. He is speaking today, He
Speaker 1: is strengthening today. That's why the enemy has been fighting you.
Speaker 1: He's tried to keep you in his grip. But we
Speaker 1: came to break the grip of the enemy, just like
Speaker 1: Gideon did. God said, I'm breaking the grip of the
Speaker 1: enemy over your life. Today. I'm breaking the grip of addiction.
Speaker 1: I'm breaking the grip of depression. It can't hold you anymore.
Speaker 1: Put it in his hands. And when you put it
Speaker 1: in his hands, he puts it in your hands. I
Speaker 1: got my trumpet, I got my torch. What's the torch.
Speaker 1: That's the light of the word that God has spoken.
Speaker 1: What's the trumpet. That's the sound of your praise, That's
Speaker 1: the sound of His word that you speak out, My God,
Speaker 1: this will preach. He divided the three hundred men who
Speaker 1: he had left into three companies and put trumpets in
Speaker 1: the hands of all of them. Not the thirty two thousand, No,
Speaker 1: the three hundred that will go forward. God is looking
Speaker 1: for three hundred today. Who will say, I'll take the trumpet,
Speaker 1: and I will go toward what God has called me
Speaker 1: to do. And i will take the torch, and i
Speaker 1: will march toward what God has called me to be.
Speaker 1: And I'll do it shaking, and I'll do it unsure,
Speaker 1: and I'll do it in faith, and I'll do it
Speaker 1: step by step. And He gave him a trumpet and
Speaker 1: an empty jar. So there's something that goes into both
Speaker 1: of those. Right. The breath goes in the trumpet and
Speaker 1: inside the jar. Is going to go the light to
Speaker 1: turn the empty jar into the torch. WHOOA God's gonna
Speaker 1: put something in you that's going to transform it from
Speaker 1: a silly instrument to an instrument a victory. And he
Speaker 1: said to them Verse seventeen, look at me, and do likewise.
Speaker 1: When I come to the outskirts of the camp, Do
Speaker 1: as I do. When I blow the trumpet, When I
Speaker 1: take what's in my hand and breathe into it, I
Speaker 1: and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets. Also.
Speaker 1: When I do it, you do it. And on every
Speaker 1: side of the camp. I want you to blow those trumpets,
Speaker 1: and I want you to shout for the Lord and
Speaker 1: for Gideon. So Gideon and the hundred men who were
Speaker 1: with them, he takes a third of a small army,
Speaker 1: a third of three hundred. That's all you need. You
Speaker 1: don't need what you think you need. You just need
Speaker 1: to give him the instrument. Here's what I want to do.
Speaker 1: At this point in the sermon. Gideon took the three hundred,
Speaker 1: came to the outskirts, give me the middle watch. When
Speaker 1: they had just set the watches like two in the morning,
Speaker 1: and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that
Speaker 1: were in their hands. They used what they had. Then
Speaker 1: the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars.
Speaker 1: Blow the trumpet, break the jar. They held in their
Speaker 1: left hands the torches, and in their right hands the
Speaker 1: trumpets to blow, And they cried out a sword for
Speaker 1: the Lord, and for get in. They held in their
Speaker 1: left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpet.
Speaker 1: What do you have in your hand right now? And
Speaker 1: whose hand are you in? Why are you so stressed
Speaker 1: and scared of an enemy that is so intimidated by you?
Speaker 1: Blow your trumpet, break your jar. I want to use
Speaker 1: the jar the torch to represent the light of what
Speaker 1: you know. Go in what you know. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't have that figured out yet. Don't need to go
Speaker 1: in what you no what you know is enough for now,
Speaker 1: and more will be revealed later. Break your jar, use
Speaker 1: your torch, and blow your trumpet. Make a sound of
Speaker 1: God's word, Make a sound of praise. I'm looking for
Speaker 1: three hundred people right now who will make a sound.
Speaker 1: Look at this. They blew the trumpets and broke the jar.
Speaker 1: Isn't that beautiful? Verse twenty. You've got the instruments of victory.
Speaker 1: You are the instrument of victory. You're in God's hand.
Speaker 1: Held in their left hands of torches, right hands a trumpet,
Speaker 1: and they cried out, a sword for the Lord, get him.
Speaker 1: What I couldn't figure out is where was the sword?
Speaker 1: Tell about the sword? All I got is a trumpet
Speaker 1: and a torch. You feel like that I don't have
Speaker 1: the weapons that I need. Well, I think that's going
Speaker 1: to surprise you. Where the sword was. Verse twenty one
Speaker 1: says every man stood in his place around the camp,
Speaker 1: and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.
Speaker 1: This is the enemy army, they start running. Gideon got
Speaker 1: this military genius and a supernatural backing, and those two
Speaker 1: together are very powerful. He's like, we're gonna confuse the enemy.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make him think we're bigger than we are.
Speaker 1: And I want you to blow your trumpet. Let everything
Speaker 1: that has breath praise the Lord. And I want you
Speaker 1: to break your jar. I want you to begin to
Speaker 1: make the sound of victory. I want you to begin
Speaker 1: to walk by faith, not by sight. Take a step
Speaker 1: of faith, the sound of praise and the step of faith,
Speaker 1: the step of faith. I'm calling that the torch and
Speaker 1: the sound of victory. Now, if I get time, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come back and do more with this. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the torch, the step of faith, the light.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking about an empty jar. We have
Speaker 1: this treasure in earthen vessels. But remember, when you give
Speaker 1: your instrument, your mind to the enemy, he plays, you
Speaker 1: don't let him play. You take your instrument, break your jar,
Speaker 1: use your light, step of faith, torch the light that
Speaker 1: you have, and the sound of praise the trumpet. And
Speaker 1: when you do, when you take a step of faith
Speaker 1: and make a sound of praise, when you move forward
Speaker 1: in that, look what God does the Lord set Verse
Speaker 1: twenty two, Ooh is annoying when they blew the three
Speaker 1: hundred trumpets. The Lord set every man's sword against his
Speaker 1: comrade and against the army, and the army fled. The
Speaker 1: instrument of victory that God used to kill the enemy
Speaker 1: was the one that the enemy was holding. Gideon didn't
Speaker 1: stab him to death with the trumpet. He didn't beat
Speaker 1: him to death with a jar, broke the Jews slaves
Speaker 1: in their throats. No, he blew the trumpet the sound
Speaker 1: of praise. He broke the jar, break the jar, take
Speaker 1: the step of faith, blow the trumpet, make the sound
Speaker 1: of praise, and what will God do? God will take
Speaker 1: care of your enemy. Why because get in and the Israelite.
Speaker 1: We're in Midian's hand. God's hand is greater than all.
Speaker 1: And that's where I want to end this sermon. Give
Speaker 1: it to him. You are his instrument. He has called
Speaker 1: you for great things. He wants to use you to
Speaker 1: speak and to be and to change so many things.
Speaker 1: I hope you can feel that. I know you've been
Speaker 1: in a wine press, but you have weapons, you have instruments.
Speaker 1: You are an instrument in God's hand. And maybe right
Speaker 1: here we sing do it again. I don't know something,
Speaker 1: just to put our lives in God's hands hands. Whose
Speaker 1: hands are you in today? You're not in Midian's hands.
Speaker 1: Whose hands are you in? What's in your hand? You
Speaker 1: got what it takes to win. But God has been
Speaker 1: putting you through a season where he didn't want you
Speaker 1: to think it was your hand, so he lets some
Speaker 1: things leave. Be open handed about that. Let go. We
Speaker 1: need to just let go today. Let go go down
Speaker 1: to the camp, make a move towards the thing that
Speaker 1: God is calling you to do. And then let's go.
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