OMBS7 BibleStudy: The Deciding Witness/OMBS7/ 50 Fruits of Pride

Don't let Satan talk you into sinning in one area of your life just because you missed it in another. When you get off track with God, just confess it and get right back on.

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The Deciding Witness

In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

– Matthew 18:16

You've been there many times, standing in the valley of decision. Perched precariously between victory and defeat. On one side of you is the word of the world authored by Satan that says, for example, "You're not going to get healed." On the other side of you, the Word of God is saying, "My Word is yea and amen" and "By whose stripes, ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). Who will determine how it all turns out? You will. You're the establishing witness.

I remember a fellow once who wanted me to pray for him. I said, "Now the Word says you're healed." He interrupted me and said, "Yeah, I know it says that, but I've got this terrible pain here...."

I looked him in the eye and said again, "The Word says, 'By His stripes, you were healed.'"By His stripes, you were healed.'"

"I know it," he answered, "but I've got this terrible...."

I shook my head. "Listen, the Word says you're healed!"

He turned beet red. "I know it says that, but I've got this...."

Finally, he stopped and stared at me. He didn't realize it, but he'd allowed his physical symptoms to become his evidence. It was what he believed. No matter what the Word said, he believed the thing he could see and feel.

But when he got quiet, I said to him, "Look,

you're wanting me to agree with you and you're mad because I won't. But if I agree with you, you're going to die. Now if you'll agree with me and the Bible, we can get you healed."

Suddenly he saw it. His eyes lit up. "Oh, praise God! I see what you mean. I agree with the Word of God!"

I put my hands on his head and God healed him instantly.

You see, when he finally decided to get in agreement with God, he could have received in his bedroom or driving down the road or anywhere else. He could have received any time he decided to become the establishing witness.

You pray and establish your witness. That's your part. If you'll do it, God will back you—and when He backs you, everything else either has to get in line or get out of the way.

You're the deciding witness. What do you say?

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PRAYER - "Naomi's Prayer"

Death dealt devastating blows to Naomi and her daughters-in-law. Her husband and both sons were dead, and Naomi decided that survival depended on returning to Bethlehem. She called her poor daughters-in-law and prayed the blessings of God on them. Prayer is the gift for all occasions and all seasons of life.

Ruth 1:8,9 - "...Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Jehovah deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. Jehovah grant you that ye may find rest."

PRINCIPALS - "Trouble With Ephraim"

The Ephraimites had ego problems. They troubled Gideon, falsely claiming that he excluded them from war with Midian. Later, they troubled Jephthah, complaining that he did not invite them to war against the Ammonites. Jephthah HAD called them, but they were "no-shows"! Reality check: Ephraim never drove the Canaanites from their own territory, yet wanted superiority over all the tribes. Their ego antagonized Jephthah into civil war with them, and he won handily. "Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall," (Proverbs 16:18).

Judges 12:6 - "...there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand."

PRINCIPLES - "Rash Vows"

Jephthah vowed that if God gave him victory over the Ammonites, he would burn a sacrifice of whatever met him first when he returned home. Surely he was thinking about goats, lambs, or calves. But when he returned, his only DAUGHTER met him first! "...he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! ...thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back," (Judges 11:35). It is advisable never to make a vow.

Judges 11:39 - Jephthah "...did with her according to his vow which he had vowed."

PROPHECIES - "Samson"

The simple fact of Samson's birth was a fulfillment of prophecy. God declares the end from the beginning. Throughout history, God has sovereignly pre-ordained individuals to come on the scene for a specific time, a specific place and a specific reason. The angel told Manoah's wife she would bear a son who would begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines. As long as God's people cry for deliverance, God will continue to send deliverers.

Judges 13:24 - "And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him."