Pound for Pound with Mike Kai

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
And so, basically, during this time of what we're going
through as a nation, we felt like it would be
very appropriate to go through the Book of Judges in
the Bible tells us that in the very beginning all
the things that God was doing. You have to understand
that the period of the Judges was characterized by this
phrase and this scripture that in those days Israel had

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no king and everyone did what seemed right in their
own eyes.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
That was the period of Judges.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
In the Book of Judges, written by Samuel the Prophet,
it comes up about four different times in those days
Israel had no king, and everyone did what seemed right
in their own eyes. Do my truth, you do your truth.
I live my life, You live your life. Don't be
so judging. God be the judge you know I'm talking about.
So in this series we're calling it He's so judge,

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He's so judge. And the reason why we're calling it
he's so judge is because God is the ultimate judge.

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And because He is the ultimate judge.

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We have to remember this and we have to live
according to his statutes and according to his commands. During
the Bible times or during the Old Testament times. From Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
and Deuteronomy, these first five books of the Bible were
called the Torah or the Pentituke. If you know this,
you of course you know this. Genesis has the creation account.
Then from Genesis you have Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Abraham.

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God sets the Abrahamic covenant with him that calls Israel
eventually his.

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Own special nation. That this is who God.

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Loves so much, and he picked out of all the
nations of the earth, he picks Israel to be his
one treasure.

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Out of Israel will come.

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The Messiah, his son, Jesus Christ. And then we will
move on to Exodus, where the people were in bondage
in slavery in Egypt. And then from there he sets
them free. And now they wander in the desert for
forty years because of their disobedience, and the ten spies
that brought back the evil report, and the two spies
that brought back the good report, that's Caleb and Joshua.
So the levitical law numbers Deuteronomy. Everything goes on here,

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and then we transition to the Book of Joshua because
Moses dies. And when Moses dies, now Joshua is the
new military leader. Now the Israel still doesn't have a king.
They didn't need a king because Yahweh was their king.
God was the king. He said, I want to be
your king. That's called a theocracy. A theocracy is the
rule and reign of God on earth. So now Joshua

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goes into the Promised Land with the new generation because
the old generation died off because of their disobedience to
the Lord and they eventually die. Now Joshua takes the
next generation, the offspring of the first generation that entered
into the Promised Land, and then they begin to conquer.
Then they begin to fight. And that's why God kept
telling them be strong in Charreze, just be strong and courageous.

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Why would he tell him this because he knew that
they didn't fight before, and this time they're gonna fight
like they've never fought before.

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Somebody say amen.

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So now from the Book of Joshua, we go to
the Book of Judges, and Joshua's time was conquering, was
taking land, was fighting the enemy, pushing back, was defeating.
And then the Book of Judges is the period actually
where where they began to turn their back on God.

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Now, the word judges is not what we see.

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Today, not a Senate hearing with dumb questions, those kinds
of things, not being grilled. God didn't do that. He
didn't go like, let me put you through some hearings
right now. And you know, the hearings are necessary, but
it's been ridiculous for the last two But what he's
telling them is here, I'm gonna just pick who you are,
and then you are going to be. You're gonna have
My power on you. There will be military leadership on

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your life, even though you never led in that fashion before.
And this is when the Holy Spirit really makes an
appearance like never before other than through creation, where the
spirit of God will come on a person. See right
now today, you and I have the Holy Spirit because
when you give your life to Jesus, the Holy Spirit
comes inside of you. So if you're born again believer,

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he lives in you. Somebody say amen, So he lives
in you. But back then he didn't live in everybody,
because not until Acts chapter two, several couple of thousands
a year later, is when God sends the Holy Spirit,
and in Acts chapter one, verse eight. In Acts chapter two,
the Holy Spirit begins to move. And this is the
very first evidence of the Holy Spirit moving. But he

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didn't fall on everybody, didn't in dwell in everybody. He
just came upon a person as God needed him to do.
And who did he come upon. He came upon three
different judges, And the Bible tells us in Deuteronomy chapter six,
because he had different blessings for the people who follow God.
And in Deuteronomy chapter six, verse one, it says this
God is telling through Moses to.

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The next generation.

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He says this, says, these are the commands, the decrees,
and the regulations.

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Can I get more? Monitor? Where do you go? Monitor? Please? Monitor?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Saying just a little bit more monitor, because I'm losing
my voice already. Deuteronomy six, verse one says this, these
are the commands and decrees perfect and regulations that the
Lord your God commanded me to teach you, and you
must obey them. In the land that you were about
to enter and occupy. So this is before they get
into the promised land. Then he says, and you and
your children, and your grandchildren, and your children, and and.

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Moving right along, and must fear the Lord your God
as long as you live.

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And if everybody say, if, if you obey all his
decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life. So
you see the blessings for following God. The rest of
Deuteronomy has the curses for following God. If you turn
your back on God, then he says, if then you
will have a long life.

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Then verse three says, listen close to Israel, and be careful, toll.

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Then all will go well with you, and you will
have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey,
just as the Lord, the god of your ancestor, has
promised you.

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And then he says in verse four, listen, now this
is called the shamah. S h e m A. Do
I have a white pen? I do? It's called the shamah.
The Shemah.

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Is the most important thing that the Israelites would recite,
and they recited a lot.

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But here it is.

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He says, listen, o Israel, the Lord is our God,
the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your
God with all your heart, all your soul, and all
your strength. This is the greatest commandment that Jesus talked about.
This is the greatest commandment. Love the Lord your God
with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind,
and all your strength.

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And then verse five and then and you must commit.

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Yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands, not not half heartedly, not halphazardly, wholeheartedly.
Your whole heart's got to be into this. And he says,
I wanted you to throw your whole heart into this.
And I want you to a wholeheartedly to these commands
that I'm giving you today, and repeat them again and
again to your children. Talk about them when you are
at home, when you're on the road, when you're going

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to bed, and when you're getting up. In other words,
talk about it constantly to your kids. Tell them how
good God is? You see we got that car? How
good is God?

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Right?

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You see I got that promotion. God is good. Come on,
can we thank the Lord? And then then you pray
with your kids. You bless the food. See we have
food on the table. You see God provides. That's when
you can remind your children all the time. Then he
says in verse eight, then tie them to your hands,
wear them on your foreheads as reminders, write them on
the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Literally
put them everywhere that you can. Put them everywhere that

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you can. You know, whenever Lisa and I, if we
do something, we build something at the house, or we
add something. If there's a place where I can write
scripture on the inside, I'm writing it down because I
want to remind me of the promises of God.

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Even though I can't see it, he's w hurking, even
though it's been painted, He's w hurking. So when I
build a headboard, somebody you know this.

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I build a headboard, or the beautiful headboard, you know,
the kind of with the little buttons in it and
all the fake leather. But nobody needs to know. It's
just me and Lisa, right and all that stuff, and
in the back of the and in the back of
the headboard. Before I finished it, I turned it around
and I wrote all the scriptures over it. I put
Lisa's face. This is Lisa right here, this is where
she sleeps. I made a little smiley face. This is Mike,
this is where he sleeps. I put no kid zone

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in between us. There's no kids in between us.

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And I wrote all Song of Solomon things, Oh.

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The Lord is good, blessed is the marriage ben.

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I wrote all that stuff in the back.

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Write it wherever you can, write it wherever you can.
If you're gonna break down the wall, put up some
new drywall. Write it on the inside before you close
it up. Why because he says, remind you of the
promises and the goodness of God in the name of Jesus, somebody.

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Say, man. So they were supposed to pass it.

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On to their children and the children's children, but something happened.
Either the priests and the tribal leaders were unsuccessful and
passing on their faith because they didn't talk about him enough,
or they were teeth and the kids shook it off.
Said I don't want this. I don't want the god
of my mom and my dad. I want the neighboring
gods of the neighboring nations. Look at the shiny new

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gods that we get multiple gods. Blow on the lamp,
rub it a few times. The genie comes out. I
love these new gods of the Canaanites. And Yahweh was jealous,
he said, yahways, ad jealous God. He always says you
got to give ten percent. Yahways says he's only there's
only one God. But these new nations here, they got
pretty girls and they deal different from our Jewish girls.

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They're different our Jewish girls. They're beautiful, don't get me wrong.
But these Canaanite girls, they're very seductive. Oh my God,
look at them. Look at what they're wearing.

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I love it. You know, all of this stuff.

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And honestly, they began to turn their back on God
and go after the Canaanites and the Amorites, the Hebzites
that have you know, all of that, and the mosquito
bites and the electrolytes and all of this. They went
after all the heights, and God became angry and he
was burning with jealousy and heart, and his heart was broken.

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So they turn their.

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Back on And then we have to understand that even
in our nation, we look a lot like the Israel.

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Israelites during this time.

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The godly foundation of the Torah, do you know that
a lot of America was founded on those principles. Be
careful what you listen to be careful what you watch,
because they're gonna try and chip away the godly foundation
of America.

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And God shed his grace on.

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The Do we still want God's hand on our country, Absolutely,
but we cannot keep doing the things that we've been doing.
The injustice, the taking of babies' lives, even up until
the ninth month, all of that. We cannot do that
as a nation. And that's exactly what they began to do.
They began to turn to asheropoles. They began to turn

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to the gods of bail and as a matter of fact,
the fertility gods and the agricultural gods. And God is like,
I bring fertility, I bring you babies. I will cause
it to I'm the one that meets all of your needs.

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But they began to turn their back on him.

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And when we look at the cycle of destruction in
the Book of Judges, and you will see this multiple times,
that's why God will raise up a judge. The judge
is not about the gavel, and it's not about the robe.
The judge is about God's hand on this man or
this woman. Don't don't is This is not Judge Walpner.
This is not judge judy. It's not that type of judge.
This is the word judge really is about a deliverer.

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And that's why he's sol judging everybody. That's why he
is so judgy, because he's raising up a deliverer and.

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The ultimate deliver was Jesus Christ.

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But back then he would use a man who the
power of God would come upon that man, or the
power of God will come upon that woman.

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And this is how he worked. That's why God is
so judging.

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Somebody say, amen, So here's the cycle of destruction.

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Is what it's called. Is the first is you start
off with.

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Disobedience and I already went through that, and how they
followed other gods and they turned their back on God.
And when God sees that, then this is what happens.
God begins to institute some discipline. Why because the Bible
says that he disciplines those that he loves. If you're
under the discipline of God right now, not because he
hates you, because he loves you, because he loves you.

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You know, if we let our kids just do whatever
they want to do and we.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Don't discipline them, they're gonna it's gonna come back to
haunt us when they get older, it's gonna hurt them
in the long run. We have to bring constraints to
their life in love, in discipline.

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So God disciplines those that he loves.

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And whenever he would discipline them, it would always be
a neighboring nation. He would use a neighboring nation, and
then he would use pestilence, a pandemic.

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Then he would use drought, then he would use.

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Famine because he's trying to get your attention.

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And when God brings discipline into your.

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Life, it's because he's trying to get your attention to
turn to him because he loves you. And then when
he gets your attention, then if he hasn't got your attention,
he's gonna put you in detention and then you're gonna
be in despair. And that despair is when you finally
call out to God and God sends a deliverer. And

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the deliverer was a judge. The first two judges. The
first one his name was Athniel. Athnil was the grandson,
the nephew. Excuse me of Caleb. You remember Caleb Joshua
and Caleb Joshua and Caleb I love Joshua but I
love Caleb Moore because Caleb's name sounds cool. There's a
lot of Joshuas in this world. Praise God for the

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Joshua's right. But if you ever have a son, may
I suggest the name Caleb to you. I don't have sons,
I have spiritual sons. I finally got my first male dog.

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Hallelujah.

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You know I'm talking about I have all female dogs
all this time. I got my wife, my three daughters.
They're beautiful. And I finally got me a male and
he is and he's a male after with my own heart. Anyway,
moving right along, and so now what we have here
is where was I We got Joshua, we got Caleb.

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You know, Caleb was the Ride or Die. He was
a shot gun. You know I'm talking about I call shotgun.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
And yeah, of course you call shotgun because you the
only two left from the previous generation.

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You always get shot gun. And then you had Joshua
and you had Caleb.

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You know, you gotta remember, man, but before there was
a if you had a Pippin, you gotta If you
got a Jordan, you gotta remember you gotta have a Pippin.
If you got a Batman. You know you gotta have
a Robin. You know, if you got a Mike, you know,
you gotta have a Lisa. You know I'm talking about
I'm not saying that Lisa anyway, Moving right along, but
here's what I'm talking about. Caleb, his nephew, off Neil,
and then after off Neil, you had Shamgar.

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And then in verse one of.

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Judges chapter three, I want to read it to you
read it with me, please.

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It says, now, this is very very important.

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It says, these are the nations that the Lord left
in the land to test those Israelites.

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He left nations in the land.

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To test the Israelites who would not experience the wars
in Canaan.

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You have to remember they were nomadic people. Move.

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Pillar of cloud moves this way, they moved that way.
That's the presence of God. Pillar of fire by night.

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This way.

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Pack it up, pack it up, break down that easy
corners tent. Everybody, Try not to make so much noise.
Those poles are really really loud.

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Paint. You get pick up that toll flu block so.

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When the wind blows, you know what I'm talking about,
put it on that. Come on, let's go and then
the pillar of cloud would stop, and they say, Okay,
we're gonna break camp.

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This is where we're gonna have camp, and we're gonna
set up our camp again.

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Pillar cloud during the daytime, and a few days later,
a few weeks later, moves again.

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Oh, here we go again. Everybody, just like clockwork.

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Pick up that tent, get your your your daughter.

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And your sons to help you out. And he would move.

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But now they're conquering cities because now the promised land.
God has fulfilled their promises. And now they are in
the land. So God leaves the nation there. There's another
nation there, there's another tribe there, in order to test
them because they had no experience of war. And then
he says the verse two, and he did this to
teach warfare two generations of Israelites who had no experience

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in battle. And these are the nations, the nations the
Philistines who would always be their arch enemy, those living
under the five Philistine rulers, all the Canaanites, the Sedonians,
the Hivites living in the mountains of Lebanon to the north,
and man baal Herman to lehomathle Bohamath. In verse four
these people were left to test the Israelites to see

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whether they would obey the commands the Lord had given
to their ancestors through Moses. God was testing his own
children to see if they could handle the trials, the tribulation,
the temptation, to see if they could handle everything that
was coming to them.

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This young nation, this new generation.

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It's really easy that when your parents fight for and
your grandparents fought, and it's.

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Real easy because if they set the.

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Pavement for you, created the pathway for you to become entitled, ungrateful,
even soft, and even rebellious. And this is that generationduring
that time, they expected a lot of things. They didn't
remember all the miracles. They didn't remember that the grandparents

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or their great grandparents marched seven times around Jericho, one
time every day. They walked around it for six days,
and on the seventh day they went around seven different
times around the mouth around that city of Jericho. They
didn't experience the manna that was coming down from heaven
in the morning and they wake up and they got
all this mana all over the ground, and by faith,

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God provided the quail in the afternoon and.

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They got to eat. They didn't see the fire pillar.

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They didn't see all of that, but what they didn't see,
So because they didn't see it and experience it, it
was easy for them to say, this is not what
I want. Well, then enter your cycle of destruction. Doesn't
this look like our lives before coming to Christ. It

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is my life before Jesus. This is what my life
looked before Jesus. And this can still look like your
life even with Jesus if you're not following Jesus the
way that we should be following Jesus. Now more than
ever before, we really need to be following the Lord
because if we follow the Lord in his commands, I'm
telling you right now, we're living in that era. We're

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living in the end times, and Jesus could come back
in any moment. But when you think about this and
you realize everything that God was doing. It goes on
to say in verse twelve that once again the Israelites
did evil in the Lord's side. Everybody say, once again,
once again they turned their back on God. Once again,
they participated, once again, they intermarried with the other faiths.

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They did once again they began to be seduced by
the culture. Once again, they lowered their standard to the
point of this, of the point of evil. Once again,
the Israelites did evil in the Lord's sight, and the
Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel because
of their evil. So he hands them over to a
king Egglon and listened the Ammonites and the Amalakites's allies,

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and then he went out and defeated Israel, taking possession
of Jericho, the city that was of palms.

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And the Israelites served Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

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So they took Jericho, the place where the parents and
grandparents had great faith. And Jericho was destroyed because God
destroyed it. The walls came down, and that wasn't supposed
to rebuild. And because of their disobedience to God, King
Eglon takes Jericho. Then it says this, and there were
the servants from verse fourteen for eighteen years under Moab.

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You know the three nation coalition. They're all their cousins,
they're their cousins. They're the offspring of Lot and his family.
That's all their cousins and their cousins come together and
they fight out of jealousy.

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They fight.

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They want what everything that Israel has. They want Israel's land.
The covenant blessing to Israel listened to. This was land
and people. The land and the people was the covenant
blessing God made with Abraham promise to Isaac ensured to Jacob,
gave him twelve sons. The twelve sons that he had

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now became the twelve tribes of Israel. The twelve tribes
are the twelve sons of Israel. And their families multiplied
so much so forth for four hundred years that they
were over two million strong by the time they came.

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That's a lot of babies everybody.

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By the time that they came out of Islam Egypt
into the Promised Land and wandered for forty years in
the desert, two million, three million, four million. They didn't
count women and children back then. They had so many people.
They became a strong and powerful nation. God says, I
will fulfill the covenant promises to you. So now I'm
going to give you land, the land of Canaan. The
land of Canaan is currently where Israel is today. And

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he gave that to them. And as a result of that,
God gives you land. God gives you people. Now it
says this, but the people of Israel cried out to
the Lord for help, and the Lord raised up a
rescuer or a deliverer, or a job to save them.
And his name was a Hood. A hood, a hood
is on fire. Never mind, moving right along. A Hood

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was the son of Ghera. He was the son of Ghera,
a left handed man. He was left handed of the
tribe of Benjamin. Interesting because Benjamin literally being son of
my right hand, and Benjamin was the youngest son out
of all the twelve sons that Jacob had and the
tribe of Benjamin, so Benjamin had his own family and

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his own tribe.

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Of course, he already died.

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And it goes on to say that Ehud was a
left handed man from the tribe of Benjamin, son of
my right hand, and you got a left handed man.
And the Israelite sent a Hood to deliver their tribute
money to King Eglon of Moab. Tribute money was important.
Tribute money was when a king conquered you. That's how
you paid the king. You paid the king through taxes
and tribute. And you would use silver and you would
use gold. And you can imagine how heavy that must

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have been in order to bring it, so you never
went by yourself.

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And it says, this a hood. So they brought to
Israelite sent a.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Hout deliver the tribute money to King Egglon of moeb
And so a hood made a double edged dagger that
was about a foot long, a foot long, five dollar
five dollar foot long. Not anymore now it's more like
ten dollars ten dollar inflation, ten dollar less meat. Right anyway,

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Then you go on and it says, this just wanted
to make you laugh. Okay, thank you very much, thank
you for letting me do that. Then it says, then
then he brought the tribute in verse eight deliver see
I lose my place when I joke around. Then it says,
and he strapped it to his right thigh, keeping it
hidden under his clothing. And he brought the tribute money
to Egglon, who was very fat. And then verse eighteen,

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and after delivering the payment. You know why this is
important because not everybody had a knife. Not everybody had
a knife, and not everybody had a double edged knife
that was a foot long. Not everybody had one. Because
back then, if you went to war, you have to
understand they took their plowshare, they beat it and now
it became a sword. They would take their home, they

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would take their rake, they would beat it, they would
heat it, beat it again.

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And now it became a pipe.

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And that's how they did because they were really people
who are agricultural people.

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They were farmers. And then it says this, and then
verse eighteen.

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After the delivery payment, and hood started home with those
who would helped carry the tribute.

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And when a hood reached the stone idols Neil Gilgal.

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He turned back. He came to Egglown and said, I
have a secret message for you.

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And so the king.

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Commanded discerpans be quiet, and he sent them all out
of the room. Can you imagine all the protocols he
had to go through it he goes through the first. OK,
can take a temperature, put it by your temple, Wraw,
you make me nervous when you put it by my temple.
Just put it right here. I can feel it before
you even touch me. Does anybody get phantom temperatures already?
You feel like you got it a phantom temperature taken.

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Every once in a while, you just see that stuff.
You feel like you if you your forehead tingle, you
just see one of those is it just me?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
All right? It's a phantom temperature taker.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
He enter that protocol, he had to go through another
protocol in order to get to the king, and all
the while with his knife strapped to his leg that
he fashioned on purpose.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
For this thing. Here, just go down to seven eleven,
you guys get extra daggers.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I don't need a dagger foot long hiding on my
right eye, just wondering with a strap, no methodically thought
this through hand of God is on him.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
This is what he's going to do. He's gonna help
deliver Israel.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
And when he gets there, the king commands his service
be quiet, and he sent them all out of the room.
Big mistake Verse twenty and and who'd walked over to Egglon,
who was sitting alone in the cool upstairs room, And
and who had said, I have a message from God
for you, King. And King Eglon rose from his seat
as a king would do when you have a message,

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thinking he might be a prophet, and would said I
have a message for you, and he'd reach with his
left hand, and here's the message. No anyway, so he said,
who'd reach when his come on? You gotta use your imagination.
And who reached his left hand, pulled out the dagger
strapped to his right thigh, and plunged it into the keek.
Can you imagine one motion right here, strapped right here,

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he strapped. He's like, watch over here, watch my right
hand grabs that.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Right into his stomach.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Use your imagination, and he would reach with his left hand,
pulled the dagger strapped to his right eye, plunged it
into the king's belly. The dagger went so deep, hey, hey,
that the handle disappeared beneath the king's fat Can I
get my head? Can't I get my knife back? It's
so I can't get my knife back. So he hood
did not pull out the dagger, and the king's bowels empty.

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That's the period of the judges. Everybody that's the bible.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Bible got a lot of blood in it. And then a.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Hood closed and locked the doors of the room and
escaped down the latrie. He went down the bathroom, and
after Hood was gone, the king's servant returned and found
the doors to the upstairs room locked. They thought he
might be using the latrine in the room, so they
waited because he might have done that often.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
But when the king didn't come out.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
After a long delay, they became concerned, got a key,
and then they opened the doors.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
They found their master dead on the floor.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
And while the servants were waiting, a Hood escape passing
the stone Idols. On his way to Sarah. He went
through Gilgal, so he passed those idols where he was earlier. Now,
when he arrived in the hill country of Ephraim, north
of Israel, a Hood sounded a call to arms.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
So he probably took a sho far and he blew
that horn.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Recall ouh, I don't think so, but anyway, he just
called everybody to arms. And then when he arrived at
the hill country, he had said in verse twenty says
follow me, he said, for the Lord has.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Given you victory over Moab, your enemy.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
And so they followed him, and the Israelites took control
of the shallow crossings of the Jordan River across from Moa,
preventing anyone from crossing. And then they attacked the Moabites
and killed ten thousand and the strongest and most able
bodied warriors, and not one of them escaped. So Moab
was conquered by Israel that day. And pastor Frank, you
can come up and there was peace in the land
for eighty years, for eighty years. This is a major

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upset everyone. This is not common. The Israelights, Oh, you
gotta be careful for those Israelites. No, they were probably shorter, outmanned.
They probably couldn't get get When they called football team,
they probably couldn't get more than twenty.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Only twenty showed up. And then they gotta go to
a Lais stadium.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
They come White Louis High School playing Saint Louis, right,
and they're gonna play Saint Louis and they beat Saint Louis.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's a major upset everybody. Saint Louis got sixty eighty.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Players, some of them never even play, but they look
good in their uniform. You know, I'm talking about kind
of like I wasn't in my junior year at school.
And now all of a sudden they totally beat them,
and they absolutely defeat them. Let me give you four
mindsets that we've got to have to overcome a destructive cycle.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Of our lives. First one is this number one.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I will not allow my short term memory to cause
me long term consequences. I will not allow my short
term memory to cause me long term consequences. The short
term memory is about how good God has been. The
short term memory is the price that was paid. Well,
I forgot how good this country is. God shed his

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grace on the I forgot that out of all of
the states in America, this is the most amazing and
beautiful one. I forgot that over two hundred years ago.
The missionaries came this year. Two hundred years ago.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
They came. Prophesied that God would come in a black
box by the priests.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Have I have a to come hehameha. God is coming
in a black box. The black box was the word
of God. We forget. You forgot or maybe it wasn't taught.
So if it's not taught, it can't be caught. And
that's why we've got to teach it to our kids.
Remind them, opportunities and sons and daughters. If your moms

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and dads tell you this is God. God is good,
don't forget the Lord, don't forget to tie, don't forget
to give.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
You got this.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
You got this ten dollars, give one dollar, come on
so tenth. Oh listen, so it will go well with
you and you will live a long life. Participate with
your parents We're not self made, We're God made. Don't
allow your short term memory to cause you long term consequences.
Number two, I want not just ask God to save me,

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but I'm gonna ask him to raise me. Because he
rose up to the occasion, he said, here am I
send me God Like Isaiah, he was available then. When
culture everybody was going this way, he was going that way.
When everybody was swimming downstream, he was going upstream.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
When the culture was say act like this, he said,
I'm not gonna participate in that.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
He was different and as a result of his difference
in his left handedness, because he was.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Different, the son of the right hand.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
When you think about this, Joseph. His older brother was Joseph.
His mother was Rachel. Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin.
Benjamin is the youngest. He's the son of my right hand.
He's the last son of all of Jacob's twelve sons,
He's the last one.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
His older brother was Joseph.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
His mother Rachel had two of them, Joseph, the Great,
Joseph in the Old Testament, the great King, the great,
number two of all of Egypt, going from slavery, going
from the pit, now going to the palace, but now Benjamin,
Benjamin becoming Benjamin has sometimes forgotten Benjamin sometimes is an afterthought.

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And maybe your difference, your left handedness of your life.
Maybe you might might not be left handed, but whatever,
I will use my awkwardness to outwit my enemy.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
And your left handedness makes you different.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
And maybe sometimes you feel like my left handedness or
my awkwardness.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Make you unavailable.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
But if you're willing to bend, and you're willing to
allow God to work with you in that awkwardness moment,
God can still use you. Sometimes people feel, especially young people,
younger ones, I feel like I don't fit.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
I feel like I don't fit.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
You can be in your fifties like me, and I
walk into rooms and I feel like I feel a
little it feels a little awkward.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
It's not damn, it's me. It's me.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Can I remind you sometimes it's not them, it's you.
And they might not mold in shape to work it
out for you. But when you realize your uniqueness and
how God made you, your personality, your gifts, your talents,

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we're not all the same, We're all different. And when
you embrace that difference, and it's not necessarily an awkwardness.
Sometimes it can just be that things are complicated, and
things get complicated. Last night, and when I was preaching this,
I was thinking about this to myself. I was going, wow,
I felt the same point. When I was growing up

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in the church, I felt a little bit. I felt different.
I was on staff, I felt different. Pastor Ralph was
my pastor, great, but he was a disciplinarian, uh more
than I am.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
And a disciplinarian.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
It's kind of like see this coco nuts, right, they're beautiful,
They're like shiny beautiful. But you know, in order to
get a coco nut starts off looking like this. Then
when you get down to the kernel it looks like that.

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But if you want something like this, it's gonna take
something like that.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
There filing away the.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Rough edges of your life, and God begins.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
This takes a long time. Did this in Summer Fun?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Last time I business was Summer Fun nineteen seventy nevermind, Wow,
this thing, then you sand it, then you polish it.
The great thing about this, you know what's on the inside.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
It is oil.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
If I may draw a parallel to the Holy Spirit,
they use the oil from this nut, not just for Okay,
that's the best kind with it. You don't want to
just saying it's rich, but there's oil in it. And

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sometimes you've heard it said. And I wrote this down
late last night talking the lease about my sermon.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Again, you heard.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
People say, go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated. Yeah,
it's good, But I got one better, because that's a
mantra today. Go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated.
Take your gifts somewhere else. Go where you're celebrated and

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appreciate it. Now where you tolerated, Go where you understood. Right,
I got one better than that.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Go where you're called. Go where you're called.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Because if you're called, you can handle the file. If
you're called, you can handle the precision. Cut Because at Gilgall.
Coming to me now, at Guilgall, that's when they cut
away at the flesh. The circumcision took place at Gilgall

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for the first time, I never thought about that. Just
came to me right now. Who thank you, Holy Spirit.
That's what I'm talking about. That God began to cut
away at the flesh. And when he cut away at
the flesh at Guilgall, that's where circumcision first took place.
It's with precision that he cuts you. He cuts you
with precision because of the discipline, because.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
He loves you. Don't go where you're appreciated. Don't go
where you're tolerated. Go where you are called.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Because that's when God begins to do great work in
your life.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
And the name of Jesus, say amen.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Because it is in that place where your dreams are
coming true. It is in that place where God is
filing away the rough edges. It is in that place
that you pay the price. It is in that place
that you are coached. It is in that place where
you overcome your fears. It is in that place you
realize your deficiencies. It is in that place that you
realize just how far you need to go before you

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get to the place where you need to be.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
It is in that place where you are called. It
is in that place where you are filed.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
And it is in that place where God begins to do.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
His greatest work in your life. I could see that
back then.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
It probably says the Israelites were probably the young Israelites
were like, we're out of here. I was almost there,
I was almost there, and I bet you. There are
people that timetimes and I'm almost there sometimes and I
remember there's Ralph and he's a disciplinarian, and there's another
great ministry, the equal, but I'm different on the other side.

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And I was looking over and they were there. I
felt like they were chumming the water I'm talking about.
I felt that there was pallu in the water and
they were chumming the water for me. And I'm glad
I didn't go because if I had taken it, I
know Romans eight twenty eight would have happened.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
God, it would have worked out all things. But I
don't think you would look like this, be like this,
feel like this.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
I don't think we would be here honestly, because I
will use my inability. I will use my awkwardness, I
would use my left handedness, I will use my difference
to do the best that I can to try to fit.
Because it's not them, maybe it's you, Maybe it's me.

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God raises up a deliver, delivers a nation eighty years,
eighty years of blessing, eighty years of prosperity, eighty years
of goodness because of a man who stood up and
said I will do things differently.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
I will call in the name of the Lord, my God.
I will be available to him.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Because the last thing is he never never forgot who
brought him the victory. He says, the Lord has given
you victory over Moab.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
The Lord has given you victory over your enemies.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
The Lord is the one that's going to bring you
victory over your over your enemies. The Lord is the
one that's going to empower you to defeat and overcome
the giants and the Moabites and all of the the
things that are coming against you in your life. In
the name of Jesus, and everybody said amen.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
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