1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Good morning Elevation Church. If you're new 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: to Elevation, you're going man. Pastor Stephen look different. I 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: am not pastor to Stephen. My name is Robert Madou, 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: and I bring your greetings from the great country of Texas. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: Lived there in Dallas with my amazing wife Taylor and 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: our three kids, and pastor Church Social dallast And the 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: reason there was no introduction, I just came up because 14 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: I'm a part of the Elevation family. I hope you 15 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: know that that's the level that we all. You know, 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: those people that come up your houses going to fridge 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: and get something without asking, that's the level that we're on. 18 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: And I've had the privilege come to this church for 19 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: years now, and I never take for granted the opportunity 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: than I have to preach the word here. This house 21 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,839 Speaker 1: has blessed me and my family and our church immensely. 22 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: And so for me, today is not just about preaching 23 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: the word of God, but to me, it's also an 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: opportunity to give honor to your pastors. Twenty years of 25 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: faithful leadership, twenty years of preaching the word of God, 26 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: twenty years of standing at the gateway of Hell and 27 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: redirecting traffic to heaven. Ooh, twenty years. And I want 28 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: you to feel that twenty years because often when you 29 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: do things with excellence consistently, people take it for granted. 30 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: You just come in, You're like, oh, yeah, we passed 31 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 1: Stephen in another great way. At all time, don't ever 32 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: take for granted the gift that God has given you. 33 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: So I want us to pause right now and thank 34 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: God for Pastor Stephen, for Pastor Holly. Come on, y'all 35 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: can do better than that. Across every location in say 36 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: we love you, thank you for your faithfulness. You get 37 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: a blessing to my life. Where will we be without 38 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: this church? And so I'm honored to preach the word 39 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: of God to you today. And it's special today because 40 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: I came with my baby girl. I have three kids, 41 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: but my youngest Remy to the lane, who's seven years old, 42 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: said Dad. I've never gone with you on a trip 43 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: to ministry, and I want to go by myself, and 44 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: I want to go to elevation. So I said, ain't 45 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: say less. So shout out to my Rimming, to the 46 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: Lane who's here with me and my sisters here today, 47 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: So we're gonna have fun. Y'all ready for the words. 48 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: If y'all feel like hearing this like I feel like 49 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: preaching it, it's gonna be good. Go with me to 50 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: Judges chapter four today. Judges Chapter four, I want to 51 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: look at verses one through nine. I also want to 52 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: look at verses seventeen through twenty two. Judges Chapter four. 53 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: Start the verse number one, go to verse nine, and 54 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: then verses seventeen through twenty two. Once you found the 55 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: Book of Judges, say yeah, if you need some time 56 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: to find it, say Holy, I heard that. I ain't 57 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: gonna judge you give you some time. Judges chapter number four, 58 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: starting at verse number one, and it says again the 59 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 1: Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord now 60 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: that Ehud was dead. So the Lord sold them into 61 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: the hands of Jabin, King of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor, 62 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: cicer of the commander of his army was based in 63 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: Hareship Hagoyim. Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron, 64 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: and he had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, 65 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: they cried out to the Lord for help. Now Deborah, 66 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: a prophet the wife of a Lapidith, was leading Israel 67 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: at that time, and she held court under the Palm 68 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel and the hill country 69 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to 70 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: have their disputes decided. She sent for Barack, son of 71 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: a Benowim from Kadition Nastalai, and said to him, the 72 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: Lord God of Israel commands you. Go you he's already good. 73 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: I love when the first commandment from God is go, 74 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: because so often we get stuck in situations and stuck 75 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: in cycles, and oftentimes in the body of Christs. On 76 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: your mark gets it gets set. Some of y'all been 77 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: getting set for thirty years. So God often has to 78 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: come here and say what you're waiting for? Go? You know, 79 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: God will tell you to go. Two thirds of his 80 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: Name's go. Go. Take with you ten thousand men of 81 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: Nathdalai and Zebulin and lead them up to Mountain Tabor. 82 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: I will lead cicer of the commander of Jabin's army, 83 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: with his chariots and his truths, to the Kishan river, 84 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: and give him into your hands. Barak said to her, 85 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: if you go with me, I will go, and if 86 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: you don't go with me, I won't go. That's how 87 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: he sounds in my head. She said. In verse number nine, 88 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 1: certainly I will go with you, said Deborah, But because 89 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: of the course you are taking, the honor will not 90 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: be yours. For the Lord will deliver Cicera into the 91 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: hands of a woman. So Deborah went with Barack to Kadesh. 92 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: She let's jump to verse seventeen. Cisera meanwhile fled on 93 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: foot to the tent of Jail, the wife of Hebrew 94 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 1: the kid Night, because there was an alliance between Jabe 95 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: and King of Hazar and the family of Hebar the 96 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: kidknighte Jayl went out to meet Ciser and said to him, come, 97 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid. So he 98 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: entered her tent, and she covered him with the blanket. 99 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: I'm thirsty, he said, Please give me some water. She 100 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: opened up a skin of milk and gave them a drink. 101 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: And covered him up. Stand in the doorway of the tent. 102 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: He told her, if someone comes by and ask you 103 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: is anyone there, say no but jail. Hebrew's wife picked 104 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly 105 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: to him. While he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove 106 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: the peg through his temple into the crowd, and he died. 107 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: I bet he did. Just then Barak came by in 108 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: pursuit of Cicera, and Jayl went out to meet him. Come, 109 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: she said, I will show you the man you're looking for. 110 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: So he went in with her, and there lay Cicera 111 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: with the tent peg through his temple dead. I bet 112 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: he was. That is in your Bible. I want to 113 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: preach today, not long, probably about three and a half hours, 114 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: using this as a title. Hear me today, this is 115 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: a word from God. The weapon are in the house. 116 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: The weapons are in that I don't know what you 117 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: are facing. I don't know what opposition is coming against 118 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: you today, but God told me to tell somebody at 119 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: Elevation Church that the weapons who are in the house. 120 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor one last time to say I 121 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: know this is for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Father, speak 122 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: to us today. Half your way, amen, the weapons are 123 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: in the house. I don't want to assume anything today. 124 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: How many you say, by showing your hands that you 125 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: have never heard me preach before? Can I see your 126 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: hand if you've never heard me preach before? Oh lord, 127 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: that's quite a few, y'all. I've been coming here a 128 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: long time. Way y'all been. I'm playing no to those 129 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: of you who liftened up your hands and you never 130 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: heard me preach before. You should know that. Most often 131 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: when I begin a sermon, almost ninety nine point nine 132 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: percent of the time, when I begin a sermon, I 133 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: always start with a story. I start with the story 134 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: that's usually personal. I start with the story that is funny, 135 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: that is engaging, filled with levity. And the reason I 136 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: do that is because embedded within that story is a 137 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: principle or a thesis that I'm ultimately going to connect 138 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: to a biblical passage that I'm expounding on. That's my flow. 139 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: I start with a story. But I dare say that's 140 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: not gonna happen today. Today's going to be a little 141 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: bit different, because when you are preaching a text about 142 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: a woman, a housewife, a undercover assassin who takes a 143 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: tent peg and drives it through the cranium of the 144 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: commander of the Canaanite Army. There's really no cute story 145 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: you can tell to connect to that passage. Matter of fact, 146 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: I want to praise God. I don't have a personal 147 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: story to connect to this text. By the way, Taylor, 148 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: I love you. That's my wife. So the text like this, 149 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: you just gotta get straight to the point, but intended. 150 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: I I only have one point in this message today. 151 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: I don't have three points. I just have one point. 152 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 1: It's gonna bless you. No takers, You're gonna be blessed. 153 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: You can write it down now. Only have one point 154 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: in this message today, and this is my one point. 155 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: You don't get to choose who God will use, because 156 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: God will use whoever he wants. You don't get to 157 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: choose who God will use because God will use whoever 158 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: he wants. Ooh, that's not just a good point. I 159 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: think that would be a good t shirt. I think 160 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: that would be a good bumper sticker. If you're thinking 161 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: about getting a face tattoo, I have a suggestion you 162 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: should just put that right on your forehead. You don't 163 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: get to choose who God will use, because God will 164 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: use whoever he wants to use. What a wonderful thought 165 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 1: to consider that whenever God wants to do something in 166 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: the earth, whenever he has a purpose or a plan 167 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: that he wants to accomplish, he does not take a poll. 168 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: He does not galvanize the committee, he does not take 169 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: a vote, because God will use whoever he wants to use, 170 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: and you don't get to choose it. You don't get 171 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: to pick it. I'm thankful that God doesn't look at 172 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: your TikTok following or how many blue checks you got, 173 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: and he doesn't look at how much money you have 174 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: in the bank. Whenever he wants to use you. You 175 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: don't get to choose who God will use, because God 176 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: will use whoever he wants who. There's an old school 177 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: song that some of y'all too young to remember it, 178 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: and some of y'all are just old enough to think 179 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: that Britney Spears started this song, and that some of 180 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: y'all are old enough to know that when't Britney that 181 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: started the song. It was Bobby Brown that started the song. 182 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: And I love this song because it has like a 183 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: twenty dollars sat word in it. And the song that 184 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: God can sing and the lyrics go, it's my parative. 185 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: I can do what I want to do. God could 186 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: sing that song. It's my prerogative. I can use who 187 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: I want to use. That means that God is sovereign, 188 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: He has authority without any accountability. That God reserves the 189 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: right to use whoever he wants to use, and he 190 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: will do it whether you like it or not. God 191 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: will use whoever he wants. You don't get to choose 192 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: who God will use, because God will use whoever he wants. 193 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: If he wants to use somebody young, he'll use somebody young. 194 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: If he wants to use somebody old, he will use 195 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: somebody old. If he wants to use an introvert, he 196 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: will use an introvert. If he wants to use an extrovert, 197 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: he will use an extrovert. If he wants to use 198 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: somebody that matriculated from the upper extralon the most prestigious 199 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: theological seminary and consistently each charcuterie, he will use them. 200 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: If he wants to use somebody from the streets that 201 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: doesn't even got a ged, don't know nothing about your coutery, 202 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: but knows a lot about Koolaid and Lunchable. He will 203 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: use them to If God wants to use somebody black, 204 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: He'll use somebody black. If God wants to use somebody white, 205 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,719 Speaker 1: he will use somebody white. If God wants to use 206 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: somebody Asian, He'll use somebody Asian. If God wants to 207 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: use somebody Latino Vuenos Deans, he will use somebody Latino. 208 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: You don't get to choose who God will use because 209 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: God will use whoever, who whoever he wants. He is sovereign, 210 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: He rules, and he raigns. You don't get to choose 211 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: who God will use because He'll use whoever he wants. 212 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay right here oo. God reserves the right 213 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: to use people you don't like. I'm talking about the 214 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: person you can't stand. You know, God can use them 215 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: if he wants to. God, hear me, doesn't even have 216 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: to use a whole treat to one on that. He 217 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: doesn't even have to use who because all of creation 218 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: is incarcerated to the command call of God. He can 219 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: use wind, he can use waves. He'll use a whale, 220 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: ass Jonah, he will use frogs. As Pharaoh, he will 221 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: use anything he needs to accomplish his purpose. In the earth. 222 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: Hear me. I am so honored I get to preach 223 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: here today. I love that I get to preach the gospel. 224 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: That's why I wake up with passion and energy to 225 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: do it. But I am fully cognizant and aware of 226 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: the fact that God don't need me to preach. Oh no, no, 227 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: he can put a donkey up here, and a donkey 228 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: will preach the gospel. Matter of fact, let me help 229 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: some of you today. You know that God doesn't even 230 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: need you to praise him. He wants praise, but He 231 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: don't need you to praise him. And all your God 232 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: does not have an inferiority complex. If all of us 233 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: chose to zip our lips and fold our arms, the 234 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: rocks would try out and start giving God pray. Oh 235 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,839 Speaker 1: I'm glad she came to elevation, but please don't think 236 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: you did God a favor today. The rocks would start 237 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 1: praising him if we refuse to praise him. Because God 238 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: can he use whoever he wants, however, he wants to 239 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: do whatever he wants in the earth. If he wants 240 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: to use a man to kill an enemy, he'll use 241 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: a man. But if he wants to use a woman, 242 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: to defeat an enemy, he will use a woman who 243 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: which brings me to my text today this underpreach seldom 244 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: forgotten story of JL. It intrigues me, y'all. I have 245 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: been in church my whole life. I am a proud 246 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: Sunday School alumnus. Y'all went to vacation Bible school. I mean, 247 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: come on, went to youth camp. And I cannot count 248 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: on one finger how many sermons I heard about sister 249 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: girl JL, who put a tenth pack through the head 250 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: of an enemy. Why are we not preaching more about JL. 251 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: This is a big moment in the Bible, and nobody 252 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: talks about it. Well, I think I know why because 253 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: if you notice, especially in church, how we typecast and 254 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: relegates certain passages of Scripture to heroic deeds and bravery. 255 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: It's like we type caster legs. Well, anytime you think 256 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: of valor or bravery, you already have a biblical image 257 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: in your mind of King David with the sling shot. Yeah, 258 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: or you have Moses saying, let my people go, or 259 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: Sampson with the jawbone of a donkey, talking about with 260 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: the jawbone and a donkey, I killed a thousand men 261 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: with a jawbone, a donkey. I made donkeys of them. 262 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: You know, he was dropping bars and fighting at the 263 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: same time. We have all these images of people, men, 264 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: especially her, doing brave things. But today it is my 265 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: goal to change that image in your mind and add 266 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: Jail the tent, peg and a hammer talking about where 267 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: he at sister girl who was not an Israelite, sister 268 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: girl who was not trained in battle, She wasn't even 269 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: a part of the army, and yet God still used 270 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: her in the world. Would he use her? Because you 271 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: don't get to choose. God will use. God will use 272 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: whoever he wants. So let me put jl in context. 273 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: Her story is found in Judges. Judges, y'all, is one 274 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: of the most depressing books in the Bible. No, I'm serious. 275 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: If you knew the faith, un don't go to Judges, 276 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: just to go to John Start sayre, because Judges will 277 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: depress you. Because all you see in Judges is the 278 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: sick cycle of sin over and over again, the sick 279 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: cycle of sin that the children of Israel got themselves into. 280 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: If you don't need to read the Book of Judges, 281 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: here's the Book of Judges. All of a sudden, the 282 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: Israelites would do evil in the eyes of the Lord. 283 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: After they would do evil in the eyes of the Lord, 284 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: God would then allow them to be taken captive by 285 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: an enemy. They would get in captivity and then they 286 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: would open up their mouth and say, God, We're sorry, 287 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,040 Speaker 1: we ain't gonna do it no more. South may I 288 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: ain't never going to do that again. And once they 289 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: would cry out to God, then God would raise up 290 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: a deliverer and that he would bring them out. That 291 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: is the story of judges. Over and over again. They 292 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: would do evil in the eyes of the Lord. God 293 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: would use an enemy to get their attention. He would 294 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: allow them to be in captivity. And when I started 295 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: looking at that, I say, God, that's messed up. Why 296 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: in the world would you allow them to be taken 297 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: captive by their enemies to bring repentance out of them. God, 298 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: you shouldn't use an enemy to get your children's attention. 299 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: That's bad parenting. Don't use an enemy to get their attention. 300 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: Then he reminded me of my point. You don't get 301 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: to choose who God will use, because God will use 302 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: whoever he wants. He will use an enemy to get 303 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: your attention. Some of you don't even know right now 304 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: that your enemy is doing more for your walk with 305 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: God than your friends are. Oh yeah, your enemy is 306 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: making you pray. Your enemy is making you fast. Your 307 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: haters are making you seek God. Oh, it's something about 308 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: a person that betrays you that will produce forgiveness, something 309 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: inside of you. Your enemy is provoking more out of 310 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: you than a friend ever could. You don't even know. 311 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: God is using them to bring christ like character out 312 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: of your life. He used their enemies to get their attention, 313 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: and they would cry out to God for a deliverer, 314 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: and God would raise up a deliverer, and then they 315 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: would go right back into the same cycle. In our 316 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: text today, the deliverer that God chooses to raise up 317 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:37,360 Speaker 1: is Deborah. Twelve judges he will raise up. Only one 318 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: of them is a woman. Her name is Deborah. God 319 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: raised up Deborah as a leader. I don't know, bad fan, 320 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: I don't know if there should be a female leader. 321 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: I don't know if I like that. Now, you should 322 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: have made them my own men, judges. You don't get 323 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: to choose. God was use because God washes wherever he wants. 324 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: Raised up. Sister girl Deborah. Ooh, she deserves a sermon 325 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: all by herself. Deborah is the only person in the 326 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: Bible explicitly called a prophet and a judge. She is 327 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: a prophet and a judge. She is a prophet, which 328 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 1: means she declares what the Lord is saying and speaks truth. 329 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 1: But she's also a judge, so she administers justice. That's 330 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: why bless me when I found out that her name 331 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: means be b, yes, B, because that's what a B 332 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: will do. A B will sting you with the truth, 333 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: and a bee will produce honey. That is sweet. And 334 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: I thought about her office that she sat in, that 335 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: she would speak the truth and sting you when she 336 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: needed to because she's a prophet, but she would administer justice, 337 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: and justice is sweet to the people that receive it. 338 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: Look at her being all she could be. I like Deborah, 339 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: matter of fact, I want you to look at your 340 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: neighbor real quick and say, neighbor, B who God called 341 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: you to be? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, somebody needs to 342 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,239 Speaker 1: take that word right there. You can't really seize the 343 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 1: moment like JL did until you get comfortable and being 344 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: who God created you to be. God, stop trying to 345 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: be somebody else and be who God created you to be. 346 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: You know why I'm relaxing up here today because i 347 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: know I'm not a Pastor Seavan. I know I'm not 348 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 1: a Don Charie. I know I'm not a Charles Metcalsh. 349 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: I know I'm not a Mike Tie. I'm the best 350 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: Robert Madou you have ever seen in your life. I've 351 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: got to be me, and somebody needs to be literated today. 352 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: You have got to be you. Stop comparing yourself to 353 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: other people and step into the fullness of your call 354 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: and be who God created you to be. Shout out, Debrah, 355 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: hair done, Nail's done. Everything did prophet and judge, and 356 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: look at what Debra does. Sister b goes to Brother 357 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: Barack and sins to him, has not the Lord gone 358 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: before us? Let us go up and fight. Translation, Bruh, 359 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: what are you waiting for. Let's go defeat this army. 360 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: Understand Cicera and King Jabon and the Canaanites had been 361 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: oppressing them for twenty years. Twenty years of oppression, twenty 362 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 1: years of subjugation. They had been under this. And she 363 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: goes up to Barack and says, Barack, get the troops. 364 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 1: Let's go fight, and Barack says something and get some 365 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: of my last nerves. Oh, I'm telling them, get a 366 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: drink of water. Barack says to her, if you go 367 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: with me, I'll go. But if you don't go, I 368 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: don't want to go. When I read that, I was living, 369 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: I said, Barack, do some pushups, bruh, get some creatine, 370 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: get some protein. What you talking about? What you mean? 371 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 1: If she don't go with you, you're not gonna go? 372 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: You should be. I'm already ready to fight. Oh, I 373 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: was so mad at Baraq. Why are you waiting on her? 374 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: And then they're funny how you judge other people's battle 375 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: when you're not the one that has to fight it. Oh, 376 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: I'm telling you I I judged Barak on the surface 377 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: and still started doing my due diligence and looked at 378 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 1: who he was about to fight. Oh, do you understand 379 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: that he was fighting against King Jabin and Cicera. Some 380 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: scholars say that they had an army of three hundred 381 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: thousand men. The Israelites only had ten thousand men. Y'all. 382 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: They had iron chariots, nine hundred iron chariots they were 383 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: gonna have to face. So it's easy for me to 384 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: look at Barack and say, what's mine? With you. Why 385 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: are you scared go fight when he's the one that 386 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: was gonna have to face all of those chariots, Just 387 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 1: like it's easy for you to look at other people 388 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: that are going through a battle that you're not in 389 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: and say you should have had mar Fey, You should 390 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: pray more. Are you in my fight? You don't have 391 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: a clue what I'm facing. I actually want to shout 392 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,199 Speaker 1: out Barack. He might have been reluctant to go, but 393 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: at least he went. At least he ended up going. 394 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: Matter of fact, he probably took Deborah because he knew 395 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: I need more than push up for this fight. I 396 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: need a prophet. I need somebody that's gonna declare what 397 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,360 Speaker 1: thus saith the Lord in this battle? Or that's why 398 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: you ought to thank God that you have a church 399 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: and have a pastor that preaches the word of God 400 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 1: every single Sunday faithfully. How many have gotten something that's 401 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: helped you on Monday get back in the fight. Look 402 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: at this straight up, said Deborah, I want you to 403 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: go with me. Maybe he wasn't scared, or maybe in 404 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: spite of being scared, he still took a step of faith. 405 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm glad that you can be faithful and still have 406 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: some fear that you can take a step and even 407 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: if the step is shaky, God will honor it. How 408 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 1: do you know God honored it because of Hebrews. Ain't 409 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: it interesting that Baraka is actually mentioned in the Hebrews 410 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: Hall of Faith? And so he's still even though he 411 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: needed Debor to go with him, even though he might 412 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: have been a little reluctant, still says, all right, let's go, 413 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: let's go fight. And they get ready, and they rally 414 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 1: of the troops. Can you see them? Can you see them? 415 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: They've got ten thousand soldiers. They're perhaps facing an army 416 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: with three hundred thousand men iron chariots. That's like going 417 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: into a knife fight and somebody's got a military tank. 418 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 1: They're outnumbered. These aren't warriors. These were like farmers. They 419 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: out there with pickets, no militaristic training, and they feel 420 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: like some of you right now, and are facing something 421 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: so much bigger than you, facing something that you're saying, 422 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: I don't have the experience for this, And God, why 423 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: am the world would you even put me in this position? 424 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: And your knees are knocking, and you're scary, and your 425 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: voice is shaken. Thank God, look at what they have 426 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: and look at what we have. And I love Deborah 427 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 1: because she reminded Barack of the one thing that he 428 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,959 Speaker 1: had going for him. And I want to remind you 429 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: of the one thing you have going for you. Can 430 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: I show it to you? It's in Judges chapter four, 431 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 1: verse number fourteen. I love what Deborah says to him. 432 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,199 Speaker 1: Let's look at it. Judges, chapter four, verse number fourteen. 433 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: Can you put that on the screen, she says to him. 434 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: Get ready, this is the day the Lord will give 435 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: you victory over Sara. For the Lord is marching ahead 436 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: of you. I wish you could catch that in your 437 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: spirit today. The only thing they had going for them 438 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: was that the Lord was marching ahead of them. Is 439 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: there anybody in here that is wise enough to know 440 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: that the only thing that you got going for you 441 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: is that the Lord is marching ahead of you. And 442 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: as long as he's marching ahead of me, I got 443 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: everything that I need. I might not have the training, 444 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: I might not have experience, I might not have the 445 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: credits God, but I want to take a price break 446 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: and thank God that as long as he's going before me, 447 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: I am gonna get the victory because God before me, 448 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: it's all that I need. If God before you, who 449 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: can stand against you? Who Are you so obsessed with 450 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: what you don't have that you've forgotten what you do have? 451 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: Are you so blinded by your own insecurities and inadequacies 452 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: that you're forgotten that the only thing you need is 453 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: that God has gone before you? Deborah says, come on, Barack, 454 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: I don't care about the little iron tanks. I don't 455 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: care how many people they got. As long as God 456 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: is going before us, we're gonna get this victory. And 457 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: so they start marching out. Oh look at him, haha, 458 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: iron chariots, perhaps three hundred thousand facing ten thousand. Can't 459 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: you see him? Going on? Lord, I hope you really 460 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: did go before us, because we need you right about now. 461 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 1: Have you studied the Bible? Here just blows my mind 462 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: about the Bible is that God's militaristic strategy never makes sense. 463 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: Have you noticed this? It is the most ridiculous militaristic strategy. 464 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: If you are studying the militaristic strategy of God, you 465 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: will be confused because it looks stupid. Oh, it looks stupid, 466 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: jo Bible. I mean, come on, he's downsizing armies before 467 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: the fight, talking about you got too many people? Get it? 468 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 1: It's like, Hi, you got too many people? What you're 469 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: talking about? God? Cut the army down, cut him down? 470 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: Why I don't like the way they drink water? Are 471 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 1: you serious? He doing stuff like send the worship team 472 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: out first? God, we ain't making an album. We fighting 473 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 1: a battle. What you here? My favorite walk around the 474 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:57,719 Speaker 1: wall and then yell what It looks so crazy, It 475 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: looks like it makes no sense, but when it worked, 476 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: it just proves that God whit before you. And I'm 477 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: trying to help somebody that's in a season right now. Well, 478 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: you look so crazy. It doesn't make sense. But you 479 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: didn't know that God has gone before you. And when 480 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: you get the victory, he's the only one that can 481 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: get the credit. And you can say it was not 482 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 1: my mind, it was not my power. It's by his 483 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: spirit that I won. So they go out and they're 484 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: starting the mountain ten of Tabors and they go down 485 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: into the valley of Kishan, and I need you to 486 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: see something, Oh that's powerful that happens in the valley 487 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: while they're fighting. They're facing iron chariots, they're in the 488 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: valley fighting, and something happens in the valley that you 489 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,479 Speaker 1: don't even get unless you read Judge chapter five and 490 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: you hear Deborah song. And I need everybody at every 491 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: location to help me, help you experience what happened while 492 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: they're fighting in the valley. They're fighting in the valley 493 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: ten thousand for several hundred thousand, They're like, God, what 494 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: we gonna do? They got iron chariots. But all of 495 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: a sudden, in the middle of the fight, something happens, 496 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: And I want to show you. Can you help me 497 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: across every location? Now I need anticipation in this moment 498 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: right now, this is critical. I want everybody hold up 499 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: this finger, just one finger like this. Yeah, every location 500 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: and hold up his hands like this in the valley 501 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: fighting and watch what happens. I want you to do that. 502 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit harder, Yeah, across every location. 503 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 1: I see you come a little bit harder. All of 504 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: a sudden, has the fighting. It starts to rain. Come on, 505 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: follow me, and that's the fighting. It starts raining harder 506 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: and harder. You know, if I don't talk it before 507 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: you know it, it is a torrential downpour. What good 508 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: is an iron chariot when it's stuck in the mud, 509 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: because you serve a God that knows how to make 510 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: your rain. And so when the rain came down, it 511 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 1: proved that their God couldn't use anything. I need somebody 512 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: to give God some praise, like you know, he's the 513 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: only one that knows how to make it take it 514 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: rain boom, God, how are you gonna use rain in 515 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: the battle, because you don't get to choose for God. 516 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: Of use God for user whatever he wants. How them 517 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: iron chariots working in that rain the mud got them stuck. 518 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: They had to get out in hand to hand come back, 519 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: and they defeat every last one of them because of 520 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: a God that went before them. Now I understand why 521 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: the Bible says some trust in cheriots, some trust in horses, 522 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: but we trust in the name who of the Lord. 523 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what you trusted in, but I'm gonna 524 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: trust in the name that is the Alpha and the Omega, 525 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: the first and the last, the beginning and the Inn. 526 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: I trust in God, my Savior, the one who will 527 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: never fail. What's is because God made it rain, the 528 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: chariots get stuck in the mind and they defeat every 529 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: last one of them except but Cicera, the commander. He 530 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: saw all his homeboys dead, and he says, okay, you 531 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: got no one to hold him in the fold in 532 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: my mountain, and he runs away, and he runs towards 533 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: the tent of Jl. You know Jl is married. Her 534 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: husband's name is Hebre. Yeah, Hebre, Hebrew is an interesting character, 535 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: very interesting matter of fact. I just want to say this, 536 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: and not a sermon about dating and relationships, but if 537 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: you're dating somebody and their name is Hebre, run because uh, Hebre, 538 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:33,479 Speaker 1: his name means ally companion, and that's exactly what he was. 539 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: He was a companion to the Canaanites and a companion 540 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: to the Israelites. Hebra represents the person that is friends 541 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: with the world and friends with Christ. Hebre represents the 542 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: person that wants to profess Christ on Sunday, but live 543 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: however they want on Monday through Saturday, one foot then 544 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: one foot out. So he makes an allean's with the 545 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: enemy because he is comfortable with the enemy. Run away 546 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: from people that are comfortable with sin and comfortable with 547 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: the enemy, and so no wonder. Siserah, the commander of 548 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: the army, felt comfortable running to the tent of Hebert 549 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: because it's all Hebrew's my boy, He's on my side. 550 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: But here's what made me shout. Hebrew wasn't home, Jail was. 551 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 1: And here comes Cicarah, who has been oppressing the people 552 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: of God for twenty years. He's on the run. He 553 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: gets to Jail's tent, and Jail watch how she gets. 554 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: She says, hello, my lord, my lord, come on in. 555 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: Don't be afraid. Do you see how cunning and brilliant 556 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: Jail is. She's not calling him lord as savior, She's 557 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: calling them lord because she understands the way to speak 558 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: to a man is to respect. Again, I'm not in 559 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 1: the relationship series, but men don't respond well to disrespect. 560 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: That's why Ephesians fives. Paul admonishes men to love their 561 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: wives and women to respect their husbands. Men love them 562 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: like Christ love the church, because that's hard for us 563 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,880 Speaker 1: to do. Women respect your husbands because that's hard for 564 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,479 Speaker 1: us to do, especially when they act in the fool. 565 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: But hell, she's smart. She says, my lord, my lord. 566 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: She respects him. She does not come out of the 567 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: ten saying ha ha, you about to die today, our sister, 568 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: Or where you're at now? Where your little cherry is 569 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 1: now where your army? Now I'm about to kill you. 570 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,800 Speaker 1: Well know what? Sis? The girl is smart, she says. Uh, 571 00:34:53,840 --> 00:35:00,399 Speaker 1: She says, my lord, don't be afraid. Calms him. Come 572 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: on in the tent. Look at your neighbor, say the 573 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,760 Speaker 1: weapons are in the house. Yeah, y'all can play. She 574 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: gets them in the tent, and I want you to 575 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,280 Speaker 1: see what she does. Play real soft, make it sound respirtual. 576 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: I can see her once she gets him safe enough 577 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaker 1: in the room. I don't know if she has any kids, 578 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,919 Speaker 1: but I feel like she went to her diaper bag. 579 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: Look at your neighbors, say, work with in your bag. 580 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,959 Speaker 1: See your weapons are always at your disposal. You're trying 581 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 1: to look outside of you, but God will always put 582 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 1: what you need within your reach. Work your bag. She 583 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: gets them in and she says, come on in, Come 584 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,319 Speaker 1: on in. Can you see this big dude walking in? 585 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: Probably built like she killed on Neil. She says, come 586 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: on in, And the first thing she does is she 587 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: covers him. She covers him, gets some real comfortable, he said, 588 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: you bit, you tired fighting to love you get some 589 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,399 Speaker 1: real comfortable. And then once you get some comfortable, he says, 590 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:15,879 Speaker 1: oh could I get some water, real thirsty. She does 591 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 1: not bring water. I am convinced she had water. You 592 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: just drink it all. She said, Oh you want some water. 593 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: Oh I bit you tired from fighting? Oh I got 594 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 1: let me, let me, let me help you real quick. 595 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,919 Speaker 1: I know you asked for water, but I'm not gonna 596 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: give you what you asked for because I have a plan. 597 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 1: She brings him milk. You do know milk has a 598 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 1: property in amino acid that actually makes you. She's strategic 599 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 1: and what she's about to do. This is your season 600 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 1: to be strategic, and what's been fighting. You cannot play 601 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,960 Speaker 1: with the enemy. She she says, Yo, dear, you go this. 602 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: There's some milk, baby Huie and gives him. Gives him 603 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: some milk, and once he is fast asleep, she realizes, 604 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 1: this is my moment. This is my moment. I have 605 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:32,879 Speaker 1: no of the opportunity than now. I gotta use what's 606 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:38,359 Speaker 1: in my bag. Can you see this woman got him 607 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: in her tent. He is a warrior, fast asleep, and 608 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,600 Speaker 1: she doesn't have time to go to military school. She 609 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 1: don't have time to go on a seven day fast. 610 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: She'll have time to read the book of Leviticus. She 611 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 1: just knows that he has been oppressing people at hurting 612 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 1: people for years, and this is my only opportunity to 613 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 1: take him out. I don't know who this is, but 614 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: please don't let the comedy mitigate what God is trying 615 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: to speak to you. There are things in your life 616 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,040 Speaker 1: that God has a signed you to kill. He's assigned 617 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,320 Speaker 1: you to destroy that addiction in your family. He's designed 618 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,000 Speaker 1: you to break those generational curses in your family. It's 619 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 1: on you. This is your moment. She say, I am 620 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: tired of the enemy, oh breasting me. I am tired 621 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,160 Speaker 1: of the enemy beat me down with depression. I'm tired 622 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 1: of the anxiety. It's time for me to take you out. 623 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:36,799 Speaker 1: Can you see her? Can you see her moving with 624 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: stealth and with strength? Can you see her walking towards him? 625 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 1: You understand this is a moment that she has to seize. 626 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: If she misses and he wakes up, it's over. She's 627 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,280 Speaker 1: only God this one opportunity. Can you see her? Palms 628 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: are sweating, weak, arms are Heavy's vomit on a sweater already, 629 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,640 Speaker 1: mom spaghetti. She's nervous, but on the surface she looks 630 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,880 Speaker 1: calm and ready to drop bombs. But she keeps on 631 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,279 Speaker 1: forgetting when she wrote that, no, no, myself reels are 632 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,160 Speaker 1: offended by that. Don't get offended because you don't get 633 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 1: to choose who God will use. God it use whoever 634 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:26,359 Speaker 1: he wants. And he goes up to her, goes up 635 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: to him, ass he's sleeping. And I started thinking to. 636 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 3: Myself, where in the world did she get such accuracy 637 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:38,279 Speaker 3: of aim, Where in the world did she get the 638 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 3: calmness and the steadiness of hand to hit it in 639 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,399 Speaker 3: one shot. If she misses this shot and is all over, 640 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 3: where did she get this from? 641 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 1: And then I found something out about jl who. I 642 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 1: found out that she is a Kennite, and Kennite were 643 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 1: nomadic in nature who they didn't have houses. They had 644 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,359 Speaker 1: tents that they would set up and tear down, set 645 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 1: up and tear down, set up and tear down, set 646 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,480 Speaker 1: up and tear down every single week and month, setting up, 647 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 1: tearing down, setting up. And guess whose responsibility it was 648 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 1: to set up the ten and tear down the ten. 649 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: It was the responsibility of the women to set up 650 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 1: the ten and tear down the tent. Chay Out didn't 651 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 1: know all those years are setting up that tent and 652 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,919 Speaker 1: tearing it down. What's practice for this one shot to 653 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: take the enemy out? Oh? Who am I preaching to you? 654 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,080 Speaker 1: Don't even realize the season you're in right now. It's 655 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 1: just practice for you to take out the enemy. That 656 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,239 Speaker 1: thing that looks like it's medium, that doesn't matter. God 657 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,680 Speaker 1: is using it to give you practice to take out 658 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:58,120 Speaker 1: the enemy in a one shot. Oohmids standing. Everybody that 659 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 1: can stand to your seat. Every single day, every single moment, 660 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 1: she set up that tent and tore it down. It 661 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,279 Speaker 1: was practice for her shot. What am I saying to you? 662 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,880 Speaker 1: There are things you're doing right now. You don't even realize. 663 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,480 Speaker 1: It's practice for the moment that God is gonna call 664 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:27,240 Speaker 1: you to step in too and take out the enemy 665 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 1: with one shot. It's practice. Every moment of power is 666 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:41,920 Speaker 1: preceded by countless hours of practice. She put the tent 667 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,359 Speaker 1: peg through his head, killed him dead, just like some 668 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,600 Speaker 1: of you are called to kill things in your family. 669 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,560 Speaker 1: Sister is a picture of sin. Sin cannot be played with. 670 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,879 Speaker 1: You have to destroy it. She took the enemy out. 671 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,960 Speaker 1: Then Barak came back, thought he was gonna get the victory. 672 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,120 Speaker 1: She comes out because you know you crazy. God can 673 00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 1: use Gracey and you kill somebody and then come out 674 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: calmly and say, come real quick, let me show you 675 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:23,160 Speaker 1: who you're looking for. He's dead. Look at JL. What 676 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: does she really point to? Why is this story in 677 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,360 Speaker 1: the Bible. It's in the Bible because God's letting us 678 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:34,279 Speaker 1: know that he can use anybody, he can use you. 679 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:40,400 Speaker 1: It's also in the Bible because JAYL, it's just the 680 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:45,799 Speaker 1: foreshadowing of our savior. Think about it. She had to 681 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,920 Speaker 1: kind of lie and say, oh, come on in and 682 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,960 Speaker 1: make him feel safe. She had to kind of use it. 683 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,279 Speaker 1: The seat still got the job done. She tricked him 684 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,680 Speaker 1: to get in kill him. Here's what I love about 685 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: our perfect Savior. He was the perfect spotless lamb with 686 00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:06,720 Speaker 1: no deceit and allowed nails to go through his body 687 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:12,360 Speaker 1: to defeat Sin. Forever. He is a much better jail. 688 00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,040 Speaker 1: Defeated Sin on the cross and rose from the grave 689 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,879 Speaker 1: at all power, and then came back and said, look 690 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 1: look at the nail prints in my hands. I did 691 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,880 Speaker 1: this for you. How could you not respond to this wonderful, 692 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,840 Speaker 1: beautiful savior who died not just to save you, but 693 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:38,600 Speaker 1: also wants to use you. Are you disqualifying yourself? Not 694 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:43,319 Speaker 1: knowing that He's already gone before you. You don't get 695 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,440 Speaker 1: to choose who God will use. God will use whoever 696 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,640 Speaker 1: he wants. And I love it because every weapon that 697 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:55,759 Speaker 1: she used was already in the house. You didn't know 698 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,239 Speaker 1: all that was back there, but it was there the 699 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:01,799 Speaker 1: whole time, because the weapons are always in the house. 700 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,960 Speaker 1: Can I tell you over this house, the weapons are 701 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,759 Speaker 1: already in this house. God wants the user to do 702 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: things that eyes have not seen and ears have not heard. 703 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,320 Speaker 1: Neither had that entered into the heart and mend the 704 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,880 Speaker 1: things God would do in this city and around the 705 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,040 Speaker 1: world if he could just get vessels that are available 706 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 1: and open. I'm gonna ask every head to be bowed, 707 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:28,560 Speaker 1: ours to be closed. Father, Thank you for your word. Father, 708 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:34,000 Speaker 1: Thank you that you defeated the enemy. God. When those 709 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,080 Speaker 1: nails went through your hands and through your feet, you 710 00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 1: put a tin peg through the head of Fadan. You 711 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,960 Speaker 1: destroyed him. You defeated sin and death. So we don't 712 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,120 Speaker 1: have to be afraid anymore. We can put our faith 713 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:52,560 Speaker 1: in you. Thank you for being a much better jail God. 714 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,160 Speaker 1: I thank you that you can use every single person. God. 715 00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:01,279 Speaker 1: I pray for the person who's disqualifying themselves God, you 716 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 1: can use whoever you want, whenever you want, however you 717 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,160 Speaker 1: want to use them. Heads about ours are closed today. 718 00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,560 Speaker 1: If you've never surrendered your life to Jesus, I would 719 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:16,319 Speaker 1: love to give you that opportunity today. You don't have 720 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,840 Speaker 1: to get your record together and get your record clean, 721 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,960 Speaker 1: because it's not about what you do. It is about 722 00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,839 Speaker 1: what has already been done through Jesus. So it heads 723 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:31,120 Speaker 1: about in ours closed today. Across every location Epham. You say, hey, 724 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,840 Speaker 1: Pastor Robert, I need to put my faith in this 725 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:37,560 Speaker 1: savior who can use anybody, including me, but I need 726 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,560 Speaker 1: to surrender my life to him. That's you. Would you 727 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,359 Speaker 1: just lift up your hand high enough and long enough 728 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,319 Speaker 1: to where I can see it. Yeah, thank you, thank you, 729 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,879 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord. I'm 730 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,759 Speaker 1: just going to lead you in this prayer. I'm going 731 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:51,920 Speaker 1: to give you the words of what you say it 732 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,759 Speaker 1: from your heart. Would you say this, say, Jesus, I 733 00:45:54,840 --> 00:46:01,000 Speaker 1: need you. I cannot do life without you. Jesus. I 734 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,600 Speaker 1: believe that you are the son of God. Jesus. I 735 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,840 Speaker 1: believe that you live. 736 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,840 Speaker 4: The life that I was supposed to live, and you 737 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:16,359 Speaker 4: died the death that I was supposed to die took 738 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,640 Speaker 4: my place, so. 739 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:23,960 Speaker 1: I'm responding to that. Forgive me of my sin, make 740 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:28,560 Speaker 1: me brand new, And from this moment forward, I'm walking 741 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:34,120 Speaker 1: with you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, Amen, somebody give 742 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,239 Speaker 1: God some praise today. Oh, come on, you can do 743 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,360 Speaker 1: better than that. Give God from praise. If you know 744 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:44,160 Speaker 1: the weapons are in the house. No, bless your elevation. 745 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,600 Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 746 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,600 Speaker 2: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 747 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,560 Speaker 2: you that this ministry is possible. 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