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PRAYER - "Let Us Make Brick, Build A City, Make A Name"
Ehud Conquers Moab
Israel's second judge, Ehud, cleverly gained entrance to the palace of Eglon, king of Moab, by
delivering a gift. The king put everyone out of his chambers. Ehud then thrust him through with a dagger and slipped away unnoticed. Eighteen years of evil rule ended as God gave a remarkable deliverance by one man. But deliverance only began when Israel cried out to God for a deliverer. Next victory, be careful to acknowledge God, who heard your prayer.
Judges 3:30 - "So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years."
The Woman Gets Honor
Deborah was a godly judge and prophetess in Israel during a twenty-year oppression by the Canaanites. God commanded Deborah to send troops after Sisera, Canaan's army captain. She delivered the word of the Lord to Barak to lead an attack, but he would not go without her. Deborah showed herself a champion, but another woman, Jael, became the heroine who assassinated Sisera that day.
Judges 4:9 - "...I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman."
The Song Of Deborah
For twenty years, Canaanites oppressed Israel. Deborah and Barak took an army and miraculously discomfited Sisera, Canaan's captain, who came against them with 900 chariots of iron. Sisera fled to a nearby tent for rest. While he slept, an Israelite woman named Jael drove a nail through his head. By Deborah, Barak and Jael, God delivered Israel that day. The song of Deborah (Judges 5) declared the mighty works of God.
Judges 5:31 - "...let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might."
The Call Of Gideon
Once again, Israel did evil, and God allowed their enemies to oppress them. Once again, Israel cried out for deliverance. Once again, God sent a deliverer. This time it was Gideon. The angel said, "The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour." "Why then is all this befallen us?" Gideon asked. "Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?" Once again, prayer was the solution.
Judges 6:6 - "...Israel was treatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD."
PRAYER - "Oh LORD, Correct Me"
Jeremiah contemplated the gross vanities of the heathen, especially how they inexplicably made gods out of wood and silver and gold. He surmised that men were brutish [beastlike, carnal], and grievously foolish. He charged God's people, "Learn not the ways of the heathen." In frustration, he declared, "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Man is nothing without divine correction and judgment.
Jeremiah 10:24 - "O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing."
PRINCIPALS - "Liars"
God has a big problem with liars. Some people are so corrupted, they would tell a lie even when the truth is more convenient. What is a lie, but a perversion of reality, a cancerous mental condition, a spiritual tumor that begs to be excised? All liars will have their part in the lake of fire.
Jeremiah 9:3,5 - "They bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; ...they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies."
PRINCIPLES - "Do Not Trust A Deceiver"
I cannot understand why men engage in deception. The entire universe stands on truth. Nothing stands on deception. Everything built on deception falls. Society crumbles when men deceive one another. "Trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders." God hates deception. Stop the lies now. Stand up for truth.
Jeremiah 9:6 - "Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: ...Shall I not visit them for these things?"
PROPHECIES - "I Will Bring Evil They Shall Not Be Able To Escape"
Israel tragically ignored the enormous reality that their very existence came from the covenant God made with them in Egypt. In that covenant, God said, "If you will obey me, and keep my commandments, I will bring you into the land which floweth with milk and honey." But all those years later, they forgot where their prosperity came from and went whoring after other gods.
Jeremiah 11:11 - "Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them."
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