The Weapons Are In The House (Pastor Robert Madu)

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.680 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.560 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:21.840 Enjoy the message. Good morning Elevation Church. If you're new 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.840 to Elevation, you're going man. Pastor Stephen look different. I 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.080 am not pastor to Stephen. My name is Robert Madou, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.040 and I bring your greetings from the great country of Texas. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.960 Lived there in Dallas with my amazing wife Taylor and 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.800 our three kids, and pastor Church Social dallast And the 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.120 reason there was no introduction, I just came up because 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.400 I'm a part of the Elevation family. I hope you 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.519 know that that's the level that we all. You know, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.280 those people that come up your houses going to fridge 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.960 and get something without asking, that's the level that we're on. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.680 And I've had the privilege come to this church for 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.680 years now, and I never take for granted the opportunity 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.920 than I have to preach the word here. This house 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.839 has blessed me and my family and our church immensely. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.240 And so for me, today is not just about preaching 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.360 the word of God, but to me, it's also an 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:18.720 opportunity to give honor to your pastors. Twenty years of 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:24.280 faithful leadership, twenty years of preaching the word of God, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.880 twenty years of standing at the gateway of Hell and 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.759 redirecting traffic to heaven. Ooh, twenty years. And I want 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.560 you to feel that twenty years because often when you 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.240 do things with excellence consistently, people take it for granted. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.800 You just come in, You're like, oh, yeah, we passed 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.040 Stephen in another great way. At all time, don't ever 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.000 take for granted the gift that God has given you. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:49.680 So I want us to pause right now and thank 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.280 God for Pastor Stephen, for Pastor Holly. Come on, y'all 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.920 can do better than that. Across every location in say 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:01.680 we love you, thank you for your faithfulness. You get 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.080 a blessing to my life. Where will we be without 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.160 this church? And so I'm honored to preach the word 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.600 of God to you today. And it's special today because 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:13.200 I came with my baby girl. I have three kids, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.639 but my youngest Remy to the lane, who's seven years old, 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.799 said Dad. I've never gone with you on a trip 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.840 to ministry, and I want to go by myself, and 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.080 I want to go to elevation. So I said, ain't 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.040 say less. So shout out to my Rimming, to the 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.880 Lane who's here with me and my sisters here today, 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.440 So we're gonna have fun. Y'all ready for the words. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.440 If y'all feel like hearing this like I feel like 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.360 preaching it, it's gonna be good. Go with me to 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:42.000 Judges chapter four today. Judges Chapter four, I want to 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.880 look at verses one through nine. I also want to 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:51.280 look at verses seventeen through twenty two. Judges Chapter four. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.840 Start the verse number one, go to verse nine, and 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.120 then verses seventeen through twenty two. Once you found the 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.360 Book of Judges, say yeah, if you need some time 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.919 to find it, say Holy, I heard that. I ain't 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:13.120 gonna judge you give you some time. Judges chapter number four, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:19.680 starting at verse number one, and it says again the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.399 Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord now 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.720 that Ehud was dead. So the Lord sold them into 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.440 the hands of Jabin, King of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor, 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.800 cicer of the commander of his army was based in 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:38.400 Hareship Hagoyim. Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.520 and he had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.480 they cried out to the Lord for help. Now Deborah, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.360 a prophet the wife of a Lapidith, was leading Israel 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.040 at that time, and she held court under the Palm 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.920 of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel and the hill country 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.160 of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.880 have their disputes decided. She sent for Barack, son of 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.320 a Benowim from Kadition Nastalai, and said to him, the 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:12.880 Lord God of Israel commands you. Go you he's already good. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.800 I love when the first commandment from God is go, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.960 because so often we get stuck in situations and stuck 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.520 in cycles, and oftentimes in the body of Christs. On 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:31.120 your mark gets it gets set. Some of y'all been 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:35.599 getting set for thirty years. So God often has to 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.760 come here and say what you're waiting for? Go? You know, 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.520 God will tell you to go. Two thirds of his 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:50.039 Name's go. Go. Take with you ten thousand men of 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.120 Nathdalai and Zebulin and lead them up to Mountain Tabor. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.920 I will lead cicer of the commander of Jabin's army, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.440 with his chariots and his truths, to the Kishan river, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.120 and give him into your hands. Barak said to her, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.640 if you go with me, I will go, and if 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.280 you don't go with me, I won't go. That's how 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.800 he sounds in my head. She said. In verse number nine, 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.720 certainly I will go with you, said Deborah, But because 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.240 of the course you are taking, the honor will not 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.640 be yours. For the Lord will deliver Cicera into the 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:27.040 hands of a woman. So Deborah went with Barack to Kadesh. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.919 She let's jump to verse seventeen. Cisera meanwhile fled on 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.040 foot to the tent of Jail, the wife of Hebrew 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.280 the kid Night, because there was an alliance between Jabe 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.000 and King of Hazar and the family of Hebar the 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.279 kidknighte Jayl went out to meet Ciser and said to him, come, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.080 my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid. So he 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.880 entered her tent, and she covered him with the blanket. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.080 I'm thirsty, he said, Please give me some water. She 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.240 opened up a skin of milk and gave them a drink. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.400 And covered him up. Stand in the doorway of the tent. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.560 He told her, if someone comes by and ask you 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:01.599 is anyone there, say no but jail. Hebrew's wife picked 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:08.400 up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.200 to him. While he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:18.159 the peg through his temple into the crowd, and he died. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:25.440 I bet he did. Just then Barak came by in 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.360 pursuit of Cicera, and Jayl went out to meet him. Come, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.200 she said, I will show you the man you're looking for. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.520 So he went in with her, and there lay Cicera 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:40.080 with the tent peg through his temple dead. I bet 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:48.760 he was. That is in your Bible. I want to 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.560 preach today, not long, probably about three and a half hours, 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.520 using this as a title. Hear me today, this is 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.719 a word from God. The weapon are in the house. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.680 The weapons are in that I don't know what you 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.680 are facing. I don't know what opposition is coming against 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.640 you today, but God told me to tell somebody at 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:18.440 Elevation Church that the weapons who are in the house. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.600 Look at your neighbor one last time to say I 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.520 know this is for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Father, speak 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:33.440 to us today. Half your way, amen, the weapons are 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.440 in the house. I don't want to assume anything today. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.840 How many you say, by showing your hands that you 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.960 have never heard me preach before? Can I see your 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.840 hand if you've never heard me preach before? Oh lord, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.520 that's quite a few, y'all. I've been coming here a 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:52.680 long time. Way y'all been. I'm playing no to those 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.040 of you who liftened up your hands and you never 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.360 heard me preach before. You should know that. Most often 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.840 when I begin a sermon, almost ninety nine point nine 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.000 percent of the time, when I begin a sermon, I 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.520 always start with a story. I start with the story 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.440 that's usually personal. I start with the story that is funny, 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.480 that is engaging, filled with levity. And the reason I 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.880 do that is because embedded within that story is a 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.560 principle or a thesis that I'm ultimately going to connect 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.040 to a biblical passage that I'm expounding on. That's my flow. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.080 I start with a story. But I dare say that's 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.400 not gonna happen today. Today's going to be a little 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.680 bit different, because when you are preaching a text about 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:42.480 a woman, a housewife, a undercover assassin who takes a 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.040 tent peg and drives it through the cranium of the 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.640 commander of the Canaanite Army. There's really no cute story 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.640 you can tell to connect to that passage. Matter of fact, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.360 I want to praise God. I don't have a personal 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:02.240 story to connect to this text. By the way, Taylor, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:06.160 I love you. That's my wife. So the text like this, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.520 you just gotta get straight to the point, but intended. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:15.320 I I only have one point in this message today. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.680 I don't have three points. I just have one point. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.959 It's gonna bless you. No takers, You're gonna be blessed. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.400 You can write it down now. Only have one point 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:27.240 in this message today, and this is my one point. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.960 You don't get to choose who God will use, because 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.240 God will use whoever he wants. You don't get to 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:42.000 choose who God will use because God will use whoever 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.480 he wants. Ooh, that's not just a good point. I 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.480 think that would be a good t shirt. I think 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.560 that would be a good bumper sticker. If you're thinking 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.680 about getting a face tattoo, I have a suggestion you 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.120 should just put that right on your forehead. You don't 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.760 get to choose who God will use, because God will 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:02.400 use whoever he wants to use. What a wonderful thought 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.559 to consider that whenever God wants to do something in 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.800 the earth, whenever he has a purpose or a plan 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.360 that he wants to accomplish, he does not take a poll. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.280 He does not galvanize the committee, he does not take 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.360 a vote, because God will use whoever he wants to use, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.880 and you don't get to choose it. You don't get 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.040 to pick it. I'm thankful that God doesn't look at 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.520 your TikTok following or how many blue checks you got, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.560 and he doesn't look at how much money you have 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.880 in the bank. Whenever he wants to use you. You 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.320 don't get to choose who God will use, because God 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.880 will use whoever he wants who. There's an old school 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.240 song that some of y'all too young to remember it, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.800 and some of y'all are just old enough to think 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.800 that Britney Spears started this song, and that some of 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.720 y'all are old enough to know that when't Britney that 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.920 started the song. It was Bobby Brown that started the song. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.120 And I love this song because it has like a 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.400 twenty dollars sat word in it. And the song that 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.400 God can sing and the lyrics go, it's my parative. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.600 I can do what I want to do. God could 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.120 sing that song. It's my prerogative. I can use who 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.000 I want to use. That means that God is sovereign, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.240 He has authority without any accountability. That God reserves the 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.000 right to use whoever he wants to use, and he 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.520 will do it whether you like it or not. God 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.280 will use whoever he wants. You don't get to choose 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.040 who God will use, because God will use whoever he wants. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.640 If he wants to use somebody young, he'll use somebody young. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.000 If he wants to use somebody old, he will use 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.560 somebody old. If he wants to use an introvert, he 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.240 will use an introvert. If he wants to use an extrovert, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.719 he will use an extrovert. If he wants to use 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.280 somebody that matriculated from the upper extralon the most prestigious 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.440 theological seminary and consistently each charcuterie, he will use them. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.880 If he wants to use somebody from the streets that 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.880 doesn't even got a ged, don't know nothing about your coutery, 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.600 but knows a lot about Koolaid and Lunchable. He will 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.440 use them to If God wants to use somebody black, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.360 He'll use somebody black. If God wants to use somebody white, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.719 he will use somebody white. If God wants to use 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.400 somebody Asian, He'll use somebody Asian. If God wants to 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:15.000 use somebody Latino Vuenos Deans, he will use somebody Latino. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.240 You don't get to choose who God will use because 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:25.720 God will use whoever, who whoever he wants. He is sovereign, 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.080 He rules, and he raigns. You don't get to choose 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.720 who God will use because He'll use whoever he wants. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.640 I'm gonna stay right here oo. God reserves the right 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:41.040 to use people you don't like. I'm talking about the 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.800 person you can't stand. You know, God can use them 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.920 if he wants to. God, hear me, doesn't even have 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:54.400 to use a whole treat to one on that. He 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.240 doesn't even have to use who because all of creation 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:02.079 is incarcerated to the command call of God. He can 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.280 use wind, he can use waves. He'll use a whale, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:11.240 ass Jonah, he will use frogs. As Pharaoh, he will 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:16.360 use anything he needs to accomplish his purpose. In the earth. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.080 Hear me. I am so honored I get to preach 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.280 here today. I love that I get to preach the gospel. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.120 That's why I wake up with passion and energy to 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.040 do it. But I am fully cognizant and aware of 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.920 the fact that God don't need me to preach. Oh no, no, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.400 he can put a donkey up here, and a donkey 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.800 will preach the gospel. Matter of fact, let me help 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.480 some of you today. You know that God doesn't even 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.600 need you to praise him. He wants praise, but He 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.440 don't need you to praise him. And all your God 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.000 does not have an inferiority complex. If all of us 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.360 chose to zip our lips and fold our arms, the 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.200 rocks would try out and start giving God pray. Oh 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.839 I'm glad she came to elevation, but please don't think 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.439 you did God a favor today. The rocks would start 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.439 praising him if we refuse to praise him. Because God 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:06.000 can he use whoever he wants, however, he wants to 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.600 do whatever he wants in the earth. If he wants 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.240 to use a man to kill an enemy, he'll use 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.120 a man. But if he wants to use a woman, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.960 to defeat an enemy, he will use a woman who 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:25.040 which brings me to my text today this underpreach seldom 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:29.440 forgotten story of JL. It intrigues me, y'all. I have 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.560 been in church my whole life. I am a proud 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.280 Sunday School alumnus. Y'all went to vacation Bible school. I mean, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.040 come on, went to youth camp. And I cannot count 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.840 on one finger how many sermons I heard about sister 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:46.200 girl JL, who put a tenth pack through the head 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.440 of an enemy. Why are we not preaching more about JL. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.920 This is a big moment in the Bible, and nobody 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.040 talks about it. Well, I think I know why because 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.240 if you notice, especially in church, how we typecast and 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.720 relegates certain passages of Scripture to heroic deeds and bravery. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.680 It's like we type caster legs. Well, anytime you think 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.520 of valor or bravery, you already have a biblical image 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.920 in your mind of King David with the sling shot. Yeah, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:19.120 or you have Moses saying, let my people go, or 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.840 Sampson with the jawbone of a donkey, talking about with 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.200 the jawbone and a donkey, I killed a thousand men 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.200 with a jawbone, a donkey. I made donkeys of them. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.440 You know, he was dropping bars and fighting at the 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:33.480 same time. We have all these images of people, men, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.720 especially her, doing brave things. But today it is my 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.920 goal to change that image in your mind and add 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:47.840 Jail the tent, peg and a hammer talking about where 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:53.640 he at sister girl who was not an Israelite, sister 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.040 girl who was not trained in battle, She wasn't even 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.120 a part of the army, and yet God still used 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.240 her in the world. Would he use her? Because you 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.200 don't get to choose. God will use. God will use 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:13.000 whoever he wants. So let me put jl in context. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.200 Her story is found in Judges. Judges, y'all, is one 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.080 of the most depressing books in the Bible. No, I'm serious. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.840 If you knew the faith, un don't go to Judges, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.440 just to go to John Start sayre, because Judges will 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.640 depress you. Because all you see in Judges is the 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:37.360 sick cycle of sin over and over again, the sick 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.680 cycle of sin that the children of Israel got themselves into. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.320 If you don't need to read the Book of Judges, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.200 here's the Book of Judges. All of a sudden, the 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.160 Israelites would do evil in the eyes of the Lord. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.600 After they would do evil in the eyes of the Lord, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.840 God would then allow them to be taken captive by 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.440 an enemy. They would get in captivity and then they 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.440 would open up their mouth and say, God, We're sorry, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.040 we ain't gonna do it no more. South may I 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.560 ain't never going to do that again. And once they 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.840 would cry out to God, then God would raise up 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.280 a deliverer and that he would bring them out. That 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.040 is the story of judges. Over and over again. They 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.399 would do evil in the eyes of the Lord. God 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.720 would use an enemy to get their attention. He would 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.040 allow them to be in captivity. And when I started 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.280 looking at that, I say, God, that's messed up. Why 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.919 in the world would you allow them to be taken 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.440 captive by their enemies to bring repentance out of them. God, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.240 you shouldn't use an enemy to get your children's attention. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.920 That's bad parenting. Don't use an enemy to get their attention. 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.080 Then he reminded me of my point. You don't get 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.879 to choose who God will use, because God will use 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.480 whoever he wants. He will use an enemy to get 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.640 your attention. Some of you don't even know right now 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.800 that your enemy is doing more for your walk with 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.879 God than your friends are. Oh yeah, your enemy is 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.240 making you pray. Your enemy is making you fast. Your 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.680 haters are making you seek God. Oh, it's something about 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.600 a person that betrays you that will produce forgiveness, something 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.600 inside of you. Your enemy is provoking more out of 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.480 you than a friend ever could. You don't even know. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:15.440 God is using them to bring christ like character out 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.920 of your life. He used their enemies to get their attention, 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.879 and they would cry out to God for a deliverer, 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.159 and God would raise up a deliverer, and then they 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.119 would go right back into the same cycle. In our 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.520 text today, the deliverer that God chooses to raise up 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:37.360 is Deborah. Twelve judges he will raise up. Only one 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.600 of them is a woman. Her name is Deborah. God 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.280 raised up Deborah as a leader. I don't know, bad fan, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.639 I don't know if there should be a female leader. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.359 I don't know if I like that. Now, you should 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.560 have made them my own men, judges. You don't get 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:59.359 to choose. God was use because God washes wherever he wants. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.520 Raised up. Sister girl Deborah. Ooh, she deserves a sermon 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.479 all by herself. Deborah is the only person in the 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.960 Bible explicitly called a prophet and a judge. She is 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.840 a prophet and a judge. She is a prophet, which 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.880 means she declares what the Lord is saying and speaks truth. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.880 But she's also a judge, so she administers justice. That's 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.760 why bless me when I found out that her name 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:28.320 means be b, yes, B, because that's what a B 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.399 will do. A B will sting you with the truth, 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.199 and a bee will produce honey. That is sweet. And 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.520 I thought about her office that she sat in, that 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.800 she would speak the truth and sting you when she 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.120 needed to because she's a prophet, but she would administer justice, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.920 and justice is sweet to the people that receive it. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:49.360 Look at her being all she could be. I like Deborah, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:50.800 matter of fact, I want you to look at your 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.960 neighbor real quick and say, neighbor, B who God called 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.560 you to be? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, somebody needs to 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.239 take that word right there. You can't really seize the 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.400 moment like JL did until you get comfortable and being 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.320 who God created you to be. God, stop trying to 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:12.080 be somebody else and be who God created you to be. 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.480 You know why I'm relaxing up here today because i 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.600 know I'm not a Pastor Seavan. I know I'm not 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.160 a Don Charie. I know I'm not a Charles Metcalsh. 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.080 I know I'm not a Mike Tie. I'm the best 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.840 Robert Madou you have ever seen in your life. I've 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.800 got to be me, and somebody needs to be literated today. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.119 You have got to be you. Stop comparing yourself to 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.880 other people and step into the fullness of your call 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:40.760 and be who God created you to be. Shout out, Debrah, 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:48.760 hair done, Nail's done. Everything did prophet and judge, and 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.440 look at what Debra does. Sister b goes to Brother 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:57.679 Barack and sins to him, has not the Lord gone 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:04.720 before us? Let us go up and fight. Translation, Bruh, 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.359 what are you waiting for. Let's go defeat this army. 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.840 Understand Cicera and King Jabon and the Canaanites had been 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:16.760 oppressing them for twenty years. Twenty years of oppression, twenty 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.919 years of subjugation. They had been under this. And she 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.400 goes up to Barack and says, Barack, get the troops. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.639 Let's go fight, and Barack says something and get some 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.800 of my last nerves. Oh, I'm telling them, get a 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:42.359 drink of water. Barack says to her, if you go 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:47.639 with me, I'll go. But if you don't go, I 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.240 don't want to go. When I read that, I was living, 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:57.160 I said, Barack, do some pushups, bruh, get some creatine, 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.800 get some protein. What you talking about? What you mean? 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:01.639 If she don't go with you, you're not gonna go? 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.199 You should be. I'm already ready to fight. Oh, I 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.720 was so mad at Baraq. Why are you waiting on her? 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:11.960 And then they're funny how you judge other people's battle 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.320 when you're not the one that has to fight it. Oh, 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.000 I'm telling you I I judged Barak on the surface 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:21.080 and still started doing my due diligence and looked at 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.640 who he was about to fight. Oh, do you understand 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.920 that he was fighting against King Jabin and Cicera. Some 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:29.679 scholars say that they had an army of three hundred 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:34.440 thousand men. The Israelites only had ten thousand men. Y'all. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:39.080 They had iron chariots, nine hundred iron chariots they were 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:41.000 gonna have to face. So it's easy for me to 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.240 look at Barack and say, what's mine? With you. Why 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.399 are you scared go fight when he's the one that 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:47.600 was gonna have to face all of those chariots, Just 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:49.439 like it's easy for you to look at other people 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:51.280 that are going through a battle that you're not in 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.520 and say you should have had mar Fey, You should 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:55.760 pray more. Are you in my fight? You don't have 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:58.639 a clue what I'm facing. I actually want to shout 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:01.199 out Barack. He might have been reluctant to go, but 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:03.760 at least he went. At least he ended up going. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.840 Matter of fact, he probably took Deborah because he knew 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.119 I need more than push up for this fight. I 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:11.960 need a prophet. I need somebody that's gonna declare what 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.360 thus saith the Lord in this battle? Or that's why 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:17.040 you ought to thank God that you have a church 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:21.080 and have a pastor that preaches the word of God 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.160 every single Sunday faithfully. How many have gotten something that's 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:30.640 helped you on Monday get back in the fight. Look 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:34.760 at this straight up, said Deborah, I want you to 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:39.480 go with me. Maybe he wasn't scared, or maybe in 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.600 spite of being scared, he still took a step of faith. 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.760 I'm glad that you can be faithful and still have 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.080 some fear that you can take a step and even 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.760 if the step is shaky, God will honor it. How 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:59.120 do you know God honored it because of Hebrews. Ain't 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.880 it interesting that Baraka is actually mentioned in the Hebrews 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:06.800 Hall of Faith? And so he's still even though he 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:08.840 needed Debor to go with him, even though he might 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:12.280 have been a little reluctant, still says, all right, let's go, 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.200 let's go fight. And they get ready, and they rally 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:19.360 of the troops. Can you see them? Can you see them? 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:25.040 They've got ten thousand soldiers. They're perhaps facing an army 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:29.200 with three hundred thousand men iron chariots. That's like going 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:31.560 into a knife fight and somebody's got a military tank. 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:38.679 They're outnumbered. These aren't warriors. These were like farmers. They 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:44.440 out there with pickets, no militaristic training, and they feel 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.359 like some of you right now, and are facing something 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:50.280 so much bigger than you, facing something that you're saying, 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:53.400 I don't have the experience for this, And God, why 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:55.760 am the world would you even put me in this position? 0:24:55.840 --> 0:24:58.600 And your knees are knocking, and you're scary, and your 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:01.640 voice is shaken. Thank God, look at what they have 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.240 and look at what we have. And I love Deborah 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:07.639 because she reminded Barack of the one thing that he 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:09.959 had going for him. And I want to remind you 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:12.240 of the one thing you have going for you. Can 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:14.760 I show it to you? It's in Judges chapter four, 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:18.440 verse number fourteen. I love what Deborah says to him. 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:21.199 Let's look at it. Judges, chapter four, verse number fourteen. 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:23.560 Can you put that on the screen, she says to him. 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:27.560 Get ready, this is the day the Lord will give 0:25:27.600 --> 0:25:34.320 you victory over Sara. For the Lord is marching ahead 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:37.240 of you. I wish you could catch that in your 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:40.920 spirit today. The only thing they had going for them 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:44.600 was that the Lord was marching ahead of them. Is 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.240 there anybody in here that is wise enough to know 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:49.679 that the only thing that you got going for you 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:52.960 is that the Lord is marching ahead of you. And 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:55.520 as long as he's marching ahead of me, I got 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:59.000 everything that I need. I might not have the training, 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:01.680 I might not have experience, I might not have the 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:04.040 credits God, but I want to take a price break 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:07.000 and thank God that as long as he's going before me, 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:11.000 I am gonna get the victory because God before me, 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:16.040 it's all that I need. If God before you, who 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:22.760 can stand against you? Who Are you so obsessed with 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:26.800 what you don't have that you've forgotten what you do have? 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:32.840 Are you so blinded by your own insecurities and inadequacies 0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:35.639 that you're forgotten that the only thing you need is 0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:40.280 that God has gone before you? Deborah says, come on, Barack, 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:42.480 I don't care about the little iron tanks. I don't 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:44.760 care how many people they got. As long as God 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:48.720 is going before us, we're gonna get this victory. And 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:52.000 so they start marching out. Oh look at him, haha, 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:58.000 iron chariots, perhaps three hundred thousand facing ten thousand. Can't 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:01.480 you see him? Going on? Lord, I hope you really 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:05.879 did go before us, because we need you right about now. 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:07.639 Have you studied the Bible? Here just blows my mind 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:11.040 about the Bible is that God's militaristic strategy never makes sense. 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:15.720 Have you noticed this? It is the most ridiculous militaristic strategy. 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.480 If you are studying the militaristic strategy of God, you 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:22.359 will be confused because it looks stupid. Oh, it looks stupid, 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:27.000 jo Bible. I mean, come on, he's downsizing armies before 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:29.520 the fight, talking about you got too many people? Get it? 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:33.199 It's like, Hi, you got too many people? What you're 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:35.920 talking about? God? Cut the army down, cut him down? 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:38.560 Why I don't like the way they drink water? Are 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:44.359 you serious? He doing stuff like send the worship team 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:48.480 out first? God, we ain't making an album. We fighting 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:52.439 a battle. What you here? My favorite walk around the 0:27:52.480 --> 0:27:57.719 wall and then yell what It looks so crazy, It 0:27:57.720 --> 0:27:59.960 looks like it makes no sense, but when it worked, 0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:03.200 it just proves that God whit before you. And I'm 0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:05.960 trying to help somebody that's in a season right now. Well, 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:09.240 you look so crazy. It doesn't make sense. But you 0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:12.200 didn't know that God has gone before you. And when 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:14.359 you get the victory, he's the only one that can 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:16.240 get the credit. And you can say it was not 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:19.359 my mind, it was not my power. It's by his 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:25.240 spirit that I won. So they go out and they're 0:28:25.280 --> 0:28:28.200 starting the mountain ten of Tabors and they go down 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:32.080 into the valley of Kishan, and I need you to 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:35.640 see something, Oh that's powerful that happens in the valley 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:39.080 while they're fighting. They're facing iron chariots, they're in the 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:42.200 valley fighting, and something happens in the valley that you 0:28:42.200 --> 0:28:45.479 don't even get unless you read Judge chapter five and 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:48.040 you hear Deborah song. And I need everybody at every 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:53.680 location to help me, help you experience what happened while 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:56.640 they're fighting in the valley. They're fighting in the valley 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:01.480 ten thousand for several hundred thousand, They're like, God, what 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:04.920 we gonna do? They got iron chariots. But all of 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:07.200 a sudden, in the middle of the fight, something happens, 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:09.360 And I want to show you. Can you help me 0:29:09.360 --> 0:29:13.040 across every location? Now I need anticipation in this moment 0:29:13.160 --> 0:29:15.880 right now, this is critical. I want everybody hold up 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:18.440 this finger, just one finger like this. Yeah, every location 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:22.680 and hold up his hands like this in the valley 0:29:22.720 --> 0:29:25.320 fighting and watch what happens. I want you to do that. 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:33.480 Yeah, a little bit harder, Yeah, across every location. 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:38.480 I see you come a little bit harder. All of 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:49.080 a sudden, has the fighting. It starts to rain. Come on, 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:55.560 follow me, and that's the fighting. It starts raining harder 0:29:57.600 --> 0:30:01.600 and harder. You know, if I don't talk it before 0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:08.560 you know it, it is a torrential downpour. What good 0:30:08.600 --> 0:30:12.040 is an iron chariot when it's stuck in the mud, 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.680 because you serve a God that knows how to make 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:20.080 your rain. And so when the rain came down, it 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:24.719 proved that their God couldn't use anything. I need somebody 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:27.280 to give God some praise, like you know, he's the 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:31.160 only one that knows how to make it take it 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:39.440 rain boom, God, how are you gonna use rain in 0:30:39.520 --> 0:30:45.000 the battle, because you don't get to choose for God. 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:52.000 Of use God for user whatever he wants. How them 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:56.560 iron chariots working in that rain the mud got them stuck. 0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:59.120 They had to get out in hand to hand come back, 0:30:59.320 --> 0:31:02.040 and they defeat every last one of them because of 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:05.280 a God that went before them. Now I understand why 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:09.640 the Bible says some trust in cheriots, some trust in horses, 0:31:09.960 --> 0:31:16.080 but we trust in the name who of the Lord. 0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:18.520 I don't know what you trusted in, but I'm gonna 0:31:18.520 --> 0:31:21.760 trust in the name that is the Alpha and the Omega, 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:25.120 the first and the last, the beginning and the Inn. 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:30.360 I trust in God, my Savior, the one who will 0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:38.880 never fail. What's is because God made it rain, the 0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:42.200 chariots get stuck in the mind and they defeat every 0:31:42.280 --> 0:31:48.880 last one of them except but Cicera, the commander. He 0:31:48.960 --> 0:31:50.720 saw all his homeboys dead, and he says, okay, you 0:31:50.720 --> 0:31:51.840 got no one to hold him in the fold in 0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:59.160 my mountain, and he runs away, and he runs towards 0:32:00.240 --> 0:32:06.400 the tent of Jl. You know Jl is married. Her 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:11.680 husband's name is Hebre. Yeah, Hebre, Hebrew is an interesting character, 0:32:12.600 --> 0:32:14.720 very interesting matter of fact. I just want to say this, 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:16.640 and not a sermon about dating and relationships, but if 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:26.680 you're dating somebody and their name is Hebre, run because uh, Hebre, 0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:33.479 his name means ally companion, and that's exactly what he was. 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:39.080 He was a companion to the Canaanites and a companion 0:32:39.680 --> 0:32:44.600 to the Israelites. Hebra represents the person that is friends 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:49.680 with the world and friends with Christ. Hebre represents the 0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:52.840 person that wants to profess Christ on Sunday, but live 0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:56.840 however they want on Monday through Saturday, one foot then 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:01.000 one foot out. So he makes an allean's with the 0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:04.960 enemy because he is comfortable with the enemy. Run away 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:09.560 from people that are comfortable with sin and comfortable with 0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:16.920 the enemy, and so no wonder. Siserah, the commander of 0:33:16.920 --> 0:33:20.880 the army, felt comfortable running to the tent of Hebert 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.520 because it's all Hebrew's my boy, He's on my side. 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:30.000 But here's what made me shout. Hebrew wasn't home, Jail was. 0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:34.960 And here comes Cicarah, who has been oppressing the people 0:33:35.000 --> 0:33:38.600 of God for twenty years. He's on the run. He 0:33:38.720 --> 0:33:42.800 gets to Jail's tent, and Jail watch how she gets. 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:47.800 She says, hello, my lord, my lord, come on in. 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:56.000 Don't be afraid. Do you see how cunning and brilliant 0:33:56.120 --> 0:34:00.560 Jail is. She's not calling him lord as savior, She's 0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:03.480 calling them lord because she understands the way to speak 0:34:03.480 --> 0:34:07.480 to a man is to respect. Again, I'm not in 0:34:07.480 --> 0:34:12.319 the relationship series, but men don't respond well to disrespect. 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:17.560 That's why Ephesians fives. Paul admonishes men to love their 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:21.920 wives and women to respect their husbands. Men love them 0:34:21.920 --> 0:34:23.680 like Christ love the church, because that's hard for us 0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:27.880 to do. Women respect your husbands because that's hard for 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:30.479 us to do, especially when they act in the fool. 0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:34.719 But hell, she's smart. She says, my lord, my lord. 0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:36.719 She respects him. She does not come out of the 0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:41.799 ten saying ha ha, you about to die today, our sister, 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:44.120 Or where you're at now? Where your little cherry is 0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:49.279 now where your army? Now I'm about to kill you. 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:53.800 Well know what? Sis? The girl is smart, she says. Uh, 0:34:53.840 --> 0:35:00.399 She says, my lord, don't be afraid. Calms him. Come 0:35:00.400 --> 0:35:03.600 on in the tent. Look at your neighbor, say the 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:07.760 weapons are in the house. Yeah, y'all can play. She 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:10.000 gets them in the tent, and I want you to 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:12.280 see what she does. Play real soft, make it sound respirtual. 0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:17.640 I can see her once she gets him safe enough 0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:20.960 in the room. I don't know if she has any kids, 0:35:23.200 --> 0:35:24.919 but I feel like she went to her diaper bag. 0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:29.160 Look at your neighbors, say, work with in your bag. 0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:33.959 See your weapons are always at your disposal. You're trying 0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:36.600 to look outside of you, but God will always put 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:40.680 what you need within your reach. Work your bag. She 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:45.560 gets them in and she says, come on in, Come 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:48.319 on in. Can you see this big dude walking in? 0:35:49.120 --> 0:35:53.239 Probably built like she killed on Neil. She says, come 0:35:53.280 --> 0:35:57.040 on in, And the first thing she does is she 0:35:57.280 --> 0:36:01.120 covers him. She covers him, gets some real comfortable, he said, 0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:06.480 you bit, you tired fighting to love you get some 0:36:06.560 --> 0:36:10.399 real comfortable. And then once you get some comfortable, he says, 0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:15.879 oh could I get some water, real thirsty. She does 0:36:15.960 --> 0:36:24.279 not bring water. I am convinced she had water. You 0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:28.160 just drink it all. She said, Oh you want some water. 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:31.600 Oh I bit you tired from fighting? Oh I got 0:36:32.040 --> 0:36:37.680 let me, let me, let me help you real quick. 0:36:37.760 --> 0:36:40.919 I know you asked for water, but I'm not gonna 0:36:40.920 --> 0:36:43.680 give you what you asked for because I have a plan. 0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:50.239 She brings him milk. You do know milk has a 0:36:50.280 --> 0:36:56.440 property in amino acid that actually makes you. She's strategic 0:36:56.440 --> 0:36:58.920 and what she's about to do. This is your season 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:04.680 to be strategic, and what's been fighting. You cannot play 0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:07.960 with the enemy. She she says, Yo, dear, you go this. 0:37:08.560 --> 0:37:12.640 There's some milk, baby Huie and gives him. Gives him 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:18.200 some milk, and once he is fast asleep, she realizes, 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:24.600 this is my moment. This is my moment. I have 0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:32.879 no of the opportunity than now. I gotta use what's 0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:38.359 in my bag. Can you see this woman got him 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:44.160 in her tent. He is a warrior, fast asleep, and 0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:46.600 she doesn't have time to go to military school. She 0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:48.600 don't have time to go on a seven day fast. 0:37:48.840 --> 0:37:51.200 She'll have time to read the book of Leviticus. She 0:37:51.320 --> 0:37:54.480 just knows that he has been oppressing people at hurting 0:37:54.520 --> 0:37:58.000 people for years, and this is my only opportunity to 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:00.719 take him out. I don't know who this is, but 0:38:00.760 --> 0:38:03.600 please don't let the comedy mitigate what God is trying 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:06.040 to speak to you. There are things in your life 0:38:06.200 --> 0:38:09.040 that God has a signed you to kill. He's assigned 0:38:09.120 --> 0:38:12.320 you to destroy that addiction in your family. He's designed 0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:16.000 you to break those generational curses in your family. It's 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:19.040 on you. This is your moment. She say, I am 0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:22.040 tired of the enemy, oh breasting me. I am tired 0:38:22.080 --> 0:38:25.160 of the enemy beat me down with depression. I'm tired 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:29.080 of the anxiety. It's time for me to take you out. 0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:36.799 Can you see her? Can you see her moving with 0:38:36.960 --> 0:38:42.680 stealth and with strength? Can you see her walking towards him? 0:38:42.719 --> 0:38:46.440 You understand this is a moment that she has to seize. 0:38:46.480 --> 0:38:53.120 If she misses and he wakes up, it's over. She's 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:58.280 only God this one opportunity. Can you see her? Palms 0:38:58.280 --> 0:39:03.640 are sweating, weak, arms are Heavy's vomit on a sweater already, 0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:06.640 mom spaghetti. She's nervous, but on the surface she looks 0:39:06.640 --> 0:39:08.880 calm and ready to drop bombs. But she keeps on 0:39:08.920 --> 0:39:12.279 forgetting when she wrote that, no, no, myself reels are 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:15.160 offended by that. Don't get offended because you don't get 0:39:15.160 --> 0:39:20.600 to choose who God will use. God it use whoever 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:26.359 he wants. And he goes up to her, goes up 0:39:26.400 --> 0:39:29.520 to him, ass he's sleeping. And I started thinking to. 0:39:29.440 --> 0:39:34.000 Myself, where in the world did she get such accuracy 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:38.279 of aim, Where in the world did she get the 0:39:38.440 --> 0:39:42.239 calmness and the steadiness of hand to hit it in 0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:46.399 one shot. If she misses this shot and is all over, 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:49.000 where did she get this from? 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:53.120 And then I found something out about jl who. I 0:39:53.160 --> 0:39:57.239 found out that she is a Kennite, and Kennite were 0:39:57.280 --> 0:40:02.000 nomadic in nature who they didn't have houses. They had 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:05.359 tents that they would set up and tear down, set 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:08.640 up and tear down, set up and tear down, set 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:12.480 up and tear down every single week and month, setting up, 0:40:12.760 --> 0:40:16.160 tearing down, setting up. And guess whose responsibility it was 0:40:16.400 --> 0:40:18.600 to set up the ten and tear down the ten. 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:22.080 It was the responsibility of the women to set up 0:40:22.120 --> 0:40:25.000 the ten and tear down the tent. Chay Out didn't 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.560 know all those years are setting up that tent and 0:40:28.640 --> 0:40:32.919 tearing it down. What's practice for this one shot to 0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:37.080 take the enemy out? Oh? Who am I preaching to you? 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:40.080 Don't even realize the season you're in right now. It's 0:40:40.200 --> 0:40:43.640 just practice for you to take out the enemy. That 0:40:43.680 --> 0:40:47.239 thing that looks like it's medium, that doesn't matter. God 0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:50.680 is using it to give you practice to take out 0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:58.120 the enemy in a one shot. Oohmids standing. Everybody that 0:40:58.200 --> 0:41:04.440 can stand to your seat. Every single day, every single moment, 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:07.600 she set up that tent and tore it down. It 0:41:07.800 --> 0:41:13.279 was practice for her shot. What am I saying to you? 0:41:14.160 --> 0:41:17.880 There are things you're doing right now. You don't even realize. 0:41:18.080 --> 0:41:22.480 It's practice for the moment that God is gonna call 0:41:22.520 --> 0:41:27.240 you to step in too and take out the enemy 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:35.200 with one shot. It's practice. Every moment of power is 0:41:35.280 --> 0:41:41.920 preceded by countless hours of practice. She put the tent 0:41:42.000 --> 0:41:46.359 peg through his head, killed him dead, just like some 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:49.600 of you are called to kill things in your family. 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:54.560 Sister is a picture of sin. Sin cannot be played with. 0:41:55.760 --> 0:41:59.879 You have to destroy it. She took the enemy out. 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.960 Then Barak came back, thought he was gonna get the victory. 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:07.120 She comes out because you know you crazy. God can 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:10.080 use Gracey and you kill somebody and then come out 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:13.120 calmly and say, come real quick, let me show you 0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:23.160 who you're looking for. He's dead. Look at JL. What 0:42:23.200 --> 0:42:26.600 does she really point to? Why is this story in 0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:30.360 the Bible. It's in the Bible because God's letting us 0:42:30.400 --> 0:42:34.279 know that he can use anybody, he can use you. 0:42:35.719 --> 0:42:40.400 It's also in the Bible because JAYL, it's just the 0:42:40.440 --> 0:42:45.799 foreshadowing of our savior. Think about it. She had to 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:48.920 kind of lie and say, oh, come on in and 0:42:48.920 --> 0:42:51.960 make him feel safe. She had to kind of use it. 0:42:52.000 --> 0:42:56.279 The seat still got the job done. She tricked him 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:58.680 to get in kill him. Here's what I love about 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:02.160 our perfect Savior. He was the perfect spotless lamb with 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:06.720 no deceit and allowed nails to go through his body 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:12.360 to defeat Sin. Forever. He is a much better jail. 0:43:14.719 --> 0:43:17.040 Defeated Sin on the cross and rose from the grave 0:43:17.080 --> 0:43:19.879 at all power, and then came back and said, look 0:43:21.120 --> 0:43:24.160 look at the nail prints in my hands. I did 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:27.880 this for you. How could you not respond to this wonderful, 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:32.840 beautiful savior who died not just to save you, but 0:43:32.920 --> 0:43:38.600 also wants to use you. Are you disqualifying yourself? Not 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:43.319 knowing that He's already gone before you. You don't get 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:46.440 to choose who God will use. God will use whoever 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:49.640 he wants. And I love it because every weapon that 0:43:49.760 --> 0:43:55.759 she used was already in the house. You didn't know 0:43:55.800 --> 0:43:57.239 all that was back there, but it was there the 0:43:57.280 --> 0:44:01.799 whole time, because the weapons are always in the house. 0:44:01.840 --> 0:44:03.960 Can I tell you over this house, the weapons are 0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:07.759 already in this house. God wants the user to do 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:10.200 things that eyes have not seen and ears have not heard. 0:44:10.600 --> 0:44:12.320 Neither had that entered into the heart and mend the 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:14.880 things God would do in this city and around the 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:18.040 world if he could just get vessels that are available 0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:23.440 and open. I'm gonna ask every head to be bowed, 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:28.560 ours to be closed. Father, Thank you for your word. Father, 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:34.000 Thank you that you defeated the enemy. God. When those 0:44:34.080 --> 0:44:37.080 nails went through your hands and through your feet, you 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:40.560 put a tin peg through the head of Fadan. You 0:44:40.680 --> 0:44:43.960 destroyed him. You defeated sin and death. So we don't 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:47.120 have to be afraid anymore. We can put our faith 0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:52.560 in you. Thank you for being a much better jail God. 0:44:52.600 --> 0:44:56.160 I thank you that you can use every single person. God. 0:44:56.160 --> 0:45:01.279 I pray for the person who's disqualifying themselves God, you 0:45:01.320 --> 0:45:05.160 can use whoever you want, whenever you want, however you 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:08.160 want to use them. Heads about ours are closed today. 0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:12.560 If you've never surrendered your life to Jesus, I would 0:45:12.600 --> 0:45:16.319 love to give you that opportunity today. You don't have 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:18.840 to get your record together and get your record clean, 0:45:19.520 --> 0:45:21.960 because it's not about what you do. It is about 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:25.839 what has already been done through Jesus. So it heads 0:45:25.880 --> 0:45:31.120 about in ours closed today. Across every location Epham. You say, hey, 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:32.840 Pastor Robert, I need to put my faith in this 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:37.560 savior who can use anybody, including me, but I need 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:39.560 to surrender my life to him. That's you. Would you 0:45:39.600 --> 0:45:41.359 just lift up your hand high enough and long enough 0:45:41.400 --> 0:45:44.319 to where I can see it. Yeah, thank you, thank you, 0:45:44.400 --> 0:45:48.879 Yeah yeah yeah, thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord. I'm 0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:50.759 just going to lead you in this prayer. I'm going 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:51.920 to give you the words of what you say it 0:45:51.920 --> 0:45:54.759 from your heart. Would you say this, say, Jesus, I 0:45:54.840 --> 0:46:01.000 need you. I cannot do life without you. Jesus. I 0:46:01.000 --> 0:46:05.600 believe that you are the son of God. Jesus. I 0:46:05.680 --> 0:46:07.840 believe that you live. 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:11.840 The life that I was supposed to live, and you 0:46:11.960 --> 0:46:16.359 died the death that I was supposed to die took 0:46:16.400 --> 0:46:18.640 my place, so. 0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:23.960 I'm responding to that. Forgive me of my sin, make 0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:28.560 me brand new, And from this moment forward, I'm walking 0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:34.120 with you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, Amen, somebody give 0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:37.239 God some praise today. Oh, come on, you can do 0:46:37.320 --> 0:46:39.360 better than that. Give God from praise. If you know 0:46:39.480 --> 0:46:44.160 the weapons are in the house. No, bless your elevation. 0:46:46.040 --> 0:46:48.600 Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 0:46:48.600 --> 0:46:51.600 you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 0:46:51.640 --> 0:46:54.560 you that this ministry is possible. 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