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Wednesday Night Service May 23, 2007
Corporate Prayer
Don’t for get about Potluck Sunday after service and the picnic Monday at 2 at Kanakanak Beach, if it is raining, it will be postponed and we will have it the next Saturday or when we can.
*/GIDEON THE CONQUEROR/*
*Judges 7*
Last week we learned how God called Gideon a farmer from Manasseh to become the deliverer of His people.
We saw how Gideon asked God for signs: The Lord called Gideon a “Courageous Warrior”
The Lord consumed Gideon’s sacrifice with fire from
a rock.
Gideon tore down the altar to Baal and the Asherah pole.
God changed Gideon’s father Joash’s heart.
Gideon than asked for 2 more signs: He asked God to make a fleece wet,
but the ground around it would be dry.
He than asked God to make the fleece dry and the
ground around it wet.
God in His never ending patience preformed these
signs for Gideon.
In */Judges 7/* God makes Gideon a */“Conqueror”/*
*/Hebrews 11,/* tells us that because Moses was a man of faith,
He was able to “see the invisible,
choose the eternal,
and do the impossible.”
What was true for Moses can be true for God’s people today.
But men and women of faith seem to be in short supply.
*/ /*
*/I John 5:4 says, “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world.
And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.”/*
Christians are either overcome because of our unbelief or over comers because of our faith.
Faith doesn’t depend on how we feel,
what we see,
or what may happen.
We have the Word of God.
The exciting account of Gideon’s victory over the Midianites is really a story of faith in action.
It reveals to us 3 important principles about faith.
If we are to be over comers, and not be overcome,
we need to understand and apply these principles.
*/1.
God tests our faith (verses 7:1-8) /*
A faith that can’t be tested can’t be trusted.
God tests our faith for a couple of reasons:
1. to show us whether our faith is real or counterfeit.
2. to strengthen our faith for the tasks He’s set before us.
God has often put us through the valley of testing before allowing us to reach the mountain top of victory.
Charles Spurgeon said, “when he said that the promises of God shine brightest in the
furnace of affliction and it is in claming those promises that we gain the victory.”
*/The first sifting, look at verses/* */7:1-3 (read)/*
God tested Gideon’s faith by sifting his army of 32,000 volunteers until only 300 men
were left.
If Gideon’s faith had been the size of his army, then his faith would have been very
weak by the time God was through with them.
Less than 1 percent of the original 32,000 followed Gideon into battle.
God told Gideon why He was decreasing the size of the army:
He didn’t want the soldiers to boast that they had won the victory over the Midianites.
Victories won because of faith bring glory to God because nobody can explain how
they happened.
Dr.
Bob Cook said, /“If you can explain what’s going on in your ministry, then /
/ God didn’t do it.”/
*/II Chronicles 26:15-16 says, “In Jerusalem he made engines of war invented by /*
*/ skillful men to be on the towers and on the corners for the purpose of shooting /*
*/ arrows and great stones.
Hence his fame spread afar, for he was marvelously /*
*/ helped until he was strong.
But when he became strong, his heart was so proud /*
*/that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, for he entered /*
*/the temple of the Lord to but incense on the altar of incense.”/*
People who live by faith know their own weakness more and more as they depend on God’s strength.
*/II Corinthians 12:10 says, “Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with /*
*/ insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for /*
*/ when I am weak, then I am strong.”/*
In telling the fearful soldiers to return home,
Gideon was simply obeying the law Moses originally gave in
*/Deuteronomy 20:8, “Then the officers shall speak further to the people and /*
*/say, ‘Who is the man that is afraid and fainthearted?
Let him depart and /*
*/return to his house, so that he might not make his brothers’ hearts melt like /*
*/his heart.”/*
The fearful and trembling man God cannot use.
Pride after the battle robs God of glory,
and fear during the battle robs God’s soldiers of courage and power.
Fear and faith can’t live together very long in the same heart.
Either fear will conquer faith and we’ll quit,
or faith will conquer fear and we will triumph.
The */2nd sifting (verses 4-8) read/*
God put Gideon’s surviving 10,000 men through a second test by asking them all to take a
drink down at the river.
We never know when God is testing us in some ordinary way of life.
*/I Samuel 14:6 says/* */“Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, /*
*/ ‘Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; /*
*/ perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to say /*
*/ by many of by few.”’/*
Moses assured the Jews in Deuteronomy 32:30 that, “How could one chase a thousand and two put
ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock has sold them, and the
Lord had given them up?”
The rock they were standing on was God’s promise.
All Gideon needed was 27 soldiers to defeat the whole Midianite army of 135,000 men, but God gave him 300.
The Midianites knew who Gideon was, and no doubt they were watching what he was doing.
God graciously gave Gideon one more promise of victory: read verse 7
By claiming this promise and obeying the Lord’s directions,
Gideon defeated the enemy and brought peace to the land for 40 years.
2.
*/God encourages our faith (Judges 7:9-15a)/*
The Lord wanted Gideon and his 300 men to attack the camp of Midian that night,
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