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*GIDEON SERMON*
 
 
*THE WHOLE STORY:  JUDGES 6:1 TO 7:25 TO 8:35*
 
THE STORY OF GIDEON HAS ALWAYS TOUCHED A CORD IN MY HEART.
I GUESS THE REASON IS BECAUSE GIDEON WAS JUST AN ORDINARY GUY THAT WAS TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION.
FOR SEVEN YEARS, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL HAD ABANDONED THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS IN FAVOR OF WORSHIPING THE FALSE  god’s OF BAAL AND ASHERAH.
AND FOR THE SAME SEVEN YEARS, GOD HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET THEIR ATTENTION BY ALLOWING THE MIDIANITES TO COME AND DEVASTATE THE  ISRAELITE COUNTRYSIDE.
/WHY OH WHY DO PEOPLE TURN AWAY FROM GOD SO EASILY?/
I REMEMBER WHEN PRAYER WAS BANNED FROM THE SCHOOLS BACK IN THE EARLY 1960s.
THAT WAS ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO, AND OUR "CHRISTIAN" NATION HAS BEEN SLIDING DOWN THAT SINFUL SLOPE EVER SINCE.
PRE-MARITAL SEX SKY ROCKETED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY ALONG WITH TEENAGE PREGNANCIES.
ALL THIS LEAD TO SINGLE PARENTS AND MILLIONS OF BABIES BEING ABORTED.
HOMOSEXUALITY IS RAMPANT AND MILITANT.
THEY'RE DEMANDING THE SAME STATUS AS MARRIED COUPLES.
MY FRIENDS, HOMOSEXUALITY IS THE REASON GOD DESTROYED SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
AND IT'S GOING TO CAUSE OUR DOWNFALL TOO.
WE DON'T WORSHIP "IDOLS" IN AMERICA, BUT WE BOW AT THE ALTAR OF SEX AND WE BOW AT THE ALTAR OF OUR OWN SELFISH DESIRES.
WE WANT WHAT WE WANT AND WE WANT IT NOW.
IT TOOK SEVEN YEARS OF MIDIANITE DEVASTATION BEFORE THE ISRAELITES WERE IMPOVERISHED ENOUGH TO BEGIN TO CALL OUT TO GOD FOR HELP.
/HOW IMPOVERISHED MUST WE BECOME BEFORE WE TURN BACK TO GOD?/
 
HMMM, SEVEN YEARS OF MIDIANITE DEVASTATION,
SEVEN YEARS OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
I WONDER IF THERE IS SOME CONNECTION?
 
ONCE THE ISRAELITES HAD REACHED ROCK BOTTOM, THEY BEGAN TO CALL ON GOD TO HELP THEM.
THE FIRST THING GOD DID WAS SEND A PROPHET TO PREACH TO THEM.
HERE'S WHAT THE PROPHET SAID: *“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
9 I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors.
I drove them from before you and gave you their land.
10 I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’
But you have not listened to me.” *
 
HOW CAN WE EXPECT GOD TO LISTEN TO OUR PRAYERS
IF WE PROVE BY OUR ACTIONS
THAT WE AREN’T LISTENING TO HIM?
 
AFTER GOD SENT THEM THIS PROPHET,
HE SENT HIS ANGEL, TO A YOUNG MAN NAMED GIDEON.
I IDENTIFY WITH GIDEON.
HE DIDN’T THINK HE WAS MUCH.
TRUTH IS, HE WASN’T MUCH.
HE HAD NEVER LED AN ARMY.
WE DON’T KNOW IF HE HAD EVER LED ANYTHING.
AND YET, GOD MUST HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IN HIM.
THIS PART OF THE STORY MAKES ME THINK OF THE TIME WHEN GOD SENT HIS PROPHET SAMUEL TO ANOINT ONE OF JESSEE’S SONS AS THE NEXT KING OF ISRAEL.
GOD CHOSE DAVID BECAUSE DAVID WAS SOMEONE WHO WOULD DO GODS WILL.
UNLIKE SAUL WHO WAS THE KING AT THAT TIME.
GOD KNOWS WHO WILL BE OBEDIENT.
AND OBEDIENCE IS WHAT GOD WANTS FROM HIS PEOPLE.
RADICAL OBEDIENCE.
AN OBEDIENCE THAT PUTS GOD FIRST AND YOUR SELF LAST.
THE ANGEL OF GOD CAME AND SAT DOWN UNDER THE
OAK TREE THAT BELONGED TO GIDEON’S FATHER, JOASH.
*I.
**GIDEON THE SCARED RABBIT.*
THERE WAS A WINEPRESS THERE THAT GIDEON WAS USING IT TO HIDE FROM THE MIDIANITES IN, WHILE HE THRESHED THE LITTLE BIT OF WHEAT THAT HE COULD SNEAK INTO IT.
 
WHEN THE ANGEL OF GOD CALLED HIM A MIGHTY WARRIOR, HE MUST HAVE THOUGHT “YEAH, RIGHT”  A MIGHTY WARRIOR HIDING IN A WINEPRESS, TRYING TO SNEAK ENOUGH GRAINS OF WHEAT TO STAY ALIVE.
ACTUALLY WHAT THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SAID TO HIM WAS, *“THE LORD IS WITH YOU, MIGHT WARRIOR.”*
GIDEON REPLIED WITH:
“IF THE LORD IS WITH US THEN WHY HAS ALL THIS HAPPENED TO US? 
WHERE ARE ALL HIS WONDERS THAT OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US ABOUT?
IT LOOKS MORE LIKE THE LORD HAS ABANDONED US TO BE DESTROYED BY THESE MIDIANITES.”
AND ACTUALLY FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS,
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT GOD HAD DONE.
BUT SOME OF THE ISRAELITES HAD CRIED OUT TO GOD
AND NOW GOD HAD COME TO SAVE THEM.
*I.
**GIDEON THE CALLED.*
IN VERSE 14 WE READ THAT;
THE LORD TURNED TO HIM AND SAID
*“GO IN THE STRENGTH YOU HAVE AND SAVE ISRAEL OUT OF MIDIAN’S HAND.
AM I NOT SENDING YOU?”*
 
WHAT STRENGTH DID GIDEON HAVE?
 
HIS OWN STRENGTH WAS MINIMAL AT BEST.
BUT GOD WAS SENDING HIM TO DO GOD'S WORK
USING GOD'S STRENGTH,
NOT GIDEON'S STRENGTH.
GIDEON WASN’T USED TO SAVING ISRAEL OR ANY OTHER NATION FOR THAT MATTER.
ALL HE COULD SEE IN HIMSELF WAS THAT HIS CLAN WAS THE WEAKEST CLAN IN MANASSEH AND THAT HE WAS THE WEAKEST ONE IN HIS FAMILY.
HE PRETTY MUCH SAID;
ARE YOU SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING GOD?
 
/I’M CONVINCED THAT GOD REALLY LIKES TO TAKE THE WEAKEST MOST UNLIKELY PERSON AND JUST DO ALL KINDS OF MIRACULUS THINGS THROUGH THEM./
I THINK HE DOES THIS SO THAT WE CAN SEE THAT IT IS GOD HIMSELF DOING IT
AND NOT A PERSON'S  OWN NATURAL ABILITIES DOING IT.
 
*/I AM SO PRAYING THAT GOD WILL TAKE THIS LITTLE CHURCH, /*
*/LED BY SOME UNLIKELY FACTORY RAT /*
*/AND DO HUGE AMAZING MIRACULOUS ACTS OF REVIVAL AND SALVATION /*
*/BEYOND ANYTHING WE CAN THINK OR EVEN IMAGINE./*
GOD SAID TO GIDEON *“AM I NOT SENDING YOU?”*
GOD ALSO SAID “*I WILL BE WITH YOU, AND YOU WILL STRIKE DOWN ALL THE MIDIANITES TOGETHER.”*
GOD HAD PICKED HIM OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING IN ISRAEL.
GIDEON WAS CALLED BY GOD
TO DO A JOB THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE.
*/GOD HAS A JOB FOR EACH ONE OF US TO DO TOO./*
 
THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE AND I'M PRAYING THAT GOD WILL SEND WORKERS INTO THIS HARVEST FIELD.
GIDEON WAS A CAUTIOUS KIND OF GUY, HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE HE WAS HEARING FROM GOD AND SO HE ASKED GOD FOR SEVERAL CONFIRMATIONS.
THE FIRST THING HE ASKED FOR WAS A SIGN.  SO HE ASKED THE ANGEL OF THE LORD TO WAIT THERE
AND THEN HE RAN TO PREPARE AN OFFERING OF BREAD AND MEAT AND BROTH, TO SET BEFORE THE LORD.
WHEN HE BROUGHT THE OFFERING TO THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, HE WAS TOLD TO PUT THE MEAT AND BREAD ON THE ROCK, AND THEN POUR THE BROTH OUT OVER THEM.
THEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD TOUCHED THE OFFERING WITH THE TIP OF HIS STAFF AND THE OFFERING WAS CONSUMED IN FIRE FROM THE ROCK.
THEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD DISAPPEARED
 
GIDEON WAS SO SHOOK THAT HE WAS SURE HE WAS GOING TO DIE,
BECAUSE HE HAD SEEN THE LORD FACE TO FACE.
BUT THE LORD SPOKE TO HIM AND TOLD HIM NOT TO BE AFRAID, HE WASN’T GOING TO DIE.
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