Amen.
Okay, we're in Judges chapter 11 this evening. You have to excuse me. I'm losing my voice. So if I crack I'm not going through puberty
There's just I'm losing my voice here. Go to chapter 10
If you would we're gonna come back to chapter 11 in just a bit this morning
I preached on the subject of Gideon or Jeru Baal who's a mighty man of valor and I want to continue this thought
On Sunday night with Jephthah who's also a mighty man of valor and the main theme here is that God will often use
unlikely candidates to accomplish great things for him.
We saw that with Gideon being used of God,
in spite of the fact that he wasn't necessarily someone
who we would deem to be a great leader.
He stepped out in faith, was used of God
to deliver the children of Israel
out of the hand of the oppressor.
Now of course, as we see with the common pattern
amongst Israel, is that once the leader comes,
It goes off the scene, they die,
they end up worshiping false gods.
God allows them to be oppressed
and then they cry out to God again.
Now, before we get into Jephthah,
look at chapter 10.
And let me just remind you regarding the specific judges
that came prior to Jeff that you have Othnil, you have Ehud,
you have Bayrack, and then you have Gideon.
Now with Gideon, after Gideon comes off the scene,
you have his son Abimelech, who ends up taking over,
and he essentially seizes power to become a judge,
not because he wants to help the people,
not because he wants to judge the people,
but because he's just power hungry.
And we don't have time to essentially elaborate on Abimelech, but he was a very wicked person
who ends up dying by the hand of a woman.
If you remember, they go into war and a woman drops a millstone on his head.
breaks his skull, and he goes to his armor barrier,
he's just like, thrust me through,
let someone should say that a woman killed me or whatever,
right?
And he ends up killing them, but we still to this day
know that it was a woman who killed him.
And so obviously that didn't work.
So a bimla goes off the scene,
and now we have some righteous judges that come to Israel.
Look at verse number one of chapter 10.
It says, And after Abimelector arose to defend Israel, Tola, the son of Pua, the son of Dodo,
a man of Issachar, and he dwelt in Shamir in Mount Ephraim, and he judged Israel twenty
and three years, and died and was buried in Shamir.
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
And he had 30 sons that wrote on 30 ass cults,
and they had 30 cities which are called
Havoth J here until this day,
which are in the land of Gilead.
Now, when you read the book of Judges,
you'll read stories about Judges,
they're very elaborate,
a lot of chapters dedicated to them,
and it highlights a lot of the exploits.
You kind of wonder when you come across
these particular stories of these Judges,
why is it that only a few verses
are dedicated to these Judges?
Why is that?
And you kind of wonder, you know, why isn't why aren't they as famous as Gideon or as Jephthah or as Samson?
And it could be for two reasons regarding
Tola and Jey here, and I don't think it's because it's necessarily
Negative or to slam on them. It could be that there were just really good judges
You see when you have a righteous leader, there's not gonna be a whole lot of conflict, right?
in the land and so they're obviously teaching the people, they're judging the people, the people
are behaving themselves right and so there's not necessarily a whole lot of room to do great exploits
since there's no enemies, there's no oppressive forces trying to take over Israel, Tola is doing a
great job and then when it comes to Jair we see that there is no conflict in his time during the
He has all these sons who are running all over these,
these, these 30 cities.
And so when your family is essentially ruling
over the entire land,
you're probably not going to have a whole lot
of conflict taking place,
especially if they're righteous individuals.
And so obviously we don't see a whole lot
of great exploits being done by them,
but that's not a slam on them.
It could be that there was just really good leaders.
They executed righteousness and justice,
and therefore not a whole lot of problems in their day.
Well, look at verse six.
This is after Jair dies and says in the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord
And serve Balaam now. What's the cycle that we talked about once a leader comes off the scene
Then they begin to worship false gods now. I want you to notice here that it's not just Balaam. They begin to worship
Look what it says, it says that they serve Balaam and Ashtaroth and the gods of Syria and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and
the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines and
forsook the Lord and served not him. Now this is a little excessive.
It's just like as soon as the guy passes off the scene they just become
Spiritual whores just essentially committing adultery with every single false god of the land
It's absolutely ridiculous how much they departed from the ways of the Lord now
Look at verse 7 it says in the anger the Lord was hot against Israel
And he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon and that year
They vexed and oppressed the children of Israel 18 years and all the children of Israel
That were on the other side of Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead now
What do we call this we call this poetic justice why because of the fact that these people are serving the gods of the Amorites?
And what's the result?
God says, okay, then I'm going to have the amorites come and take you over and you're
going to serve them.
They're going to oppress you.
And you know what the spiritual application is there?
Sometimes Christians want to get out of church, they want to get out of the will of God because
they just want to be liberated from all the rules.
They want to go drink, smoke, run with those that do, and they find freedom, liberty in
committing sins and not being under these restrictions, but what happens, they actually
become enslaved to their sin.
Oh man, coming to church and all these rules that we can't have any fun, we can't drink,
we can't smoke, we can't hang out with people who are doing those particular sins or whatever.
I think it's just too restrictive, it's too legalistic, but what ends up happening
is they end up getting involved in those things and then they become enslaved to those sins.
And they become shackled, they become enslaved,
they become the servants of sin.
And folks, this is what the Bible says,
let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies
that you should obey it in the luster of.
Neither yield you your members as instruments
of unrighteousness unto sin,
but yield yourselves unto God,
and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For we are now under the law,
but under grace the Bible says.
What is the Bible telling us?
It's telling us, you know,
you should have God rule over you,
have the Bible rule over you,
because if he doesn't,
then guess what, sin will rule over you.
You know what the benefits of having God rule over you are far greater than having your sin and your vices rule over you
Why because what fruit had he then in those things wherever you're now ashamed for the wages of sin is death, right?
and often people think that they find liberty in
Not being under the laws of God not being under their parents rules not be under the restrictions of the local New Testament Church
But then they realize that sin is pleasurable, but only for a season
And sin, when it is finished, it bringeth forth death, the Bible says.
Make no mistake about it, friends.
You know, sin is very deceitful.
It tastes great.
It looks great.
Yes, it's pleasurable, but only for a season afterwards, the Bible says,
thy mouth shall be filled with gravel.
In other words, the effects of just allowing yourself to get involved in sin is destructive
and you're going to regret it in the long term.
Look, folks, we have these people, they're like, oh man, the leader's gone, let's go
serve these gods.
Let's go serve the gods of Zidon, the Asteroids, Balaam, the gods of the Syrians, the gods
of the Amorites, and then God says, okay, if you want to serve them, I'm going to allow
them to rule over you then.
And they were oppressed for 18 years.
I promise you there's Christians outside of the walls of this church
who found liberty outside of the walls of this church.
And it's been years since they've come back to church.
It's been years since they got involved in serving God.
You know what? They are being oppressed by the sins that they commit,
by the people that they're around, and they end up becoming enslaved.
by their habits and by their sin.
Let's read on here.
It says, verse nine, over the children of Ammon
passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah
and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim
so that Israel was sore distressed.
And the children of Israel cried into the Lord.
Well, well, well, saying we have sinned against thee.
because we have forsaken our God also served Balaam and the Lord said into the children of Israel,
did not I deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites and from the children of Ammon
and from the Philistines, the Zidonians also, the Amalekites and the Ammanites did oppress you
and you cried unto me and I delivered you out of their hand and I want you to notice verse 13,
yet you have forsaken me and served other gods and listen to this,
Was I mean you're done you're through now? This is pretty scary if you think about it
Because you have people here. They're just like we screwed up. We made such a bad decision
We're sorry God and God's like you know I deliver you so many times, but you know what? I'm not doing it anymore
I'm through with you
You're done. I'm giving you over to this.
Now, here's the thing though, folks, is that
obviously we know the story here
and we're going to get into Jephthah.
And who's Jephthah? He's the deliverer
of the children of Israel from the
oppression of Eminem. So what does that show us?
It shows us that God ended up changing his mind.
He changed his mind.
Here's another way of saying it. God
repented
of what he would do unto Israel, right?
And this is a common theme throughout the Bible that God repents not of sin because he has no sin
Because repentance in the Bible not only means cannot only mean to turn from sin
But it also means to just change your mind regarding a course of action that you're gonna take and here
He says I'm not gonna deliver you anymore
And, you know, he ends up changing his mind
and allowing them to do so.
Now, let this be an encouragement to you and to me
that sometimes we feel like a situation
that our family's in or people that we know
or maybe even ourselves.
You know, it seems like a lost cause
and God has already made up his mind about it.
Hold on a second.
You may feel like God will not deliver you again,
but it's possible that he can change his mind.
It's possible that God can change the course of action.
It's possible that God can withdraw his hand of chastisement from your life.
It's possible that he cannot allow you to suffer the full extent of the consequences, right?
You know what that's called? God's mercy.
God's mercy is not getting what you do deserve, right?
And so he tells him this, and I want you to notice their reply when he says,
I'm not going to deliver you anymore.
Verse 14.
Go and cry unto the gods which you have chosen let them deliver you into the time in the time of your tribulation and the children of Israel
Set unto the Lord we have sinned
Do thou unto us?
Whatsoever seemeth good unto the deliver us only we pray thee this day. What does that call? It's called humility
Right, so he's just they're just like Lord. We've sinned. Whatever you see fit as the punishment
We're for it. Just please deliver us
And you know what, sometimes God is set on punishing us
for a particular action that we took, a particular sin.
And as long as we're just willing to just say,
you know what, whatever it is that I get, I deserve,
I just hope that you still bless me in the long term.
I hope that I can still be restored.
I pray that your hand will still be upon me.
You know, God looks kindly upon things like that.
It's called humility, my friends.
And one of the greatest reasons Christians
can't be blessed of God is because of pride.
Eregancy and pride and the unwillingness
to admit that they're wrong.
And look, folks, one of the greatest qualities
that you can learn in the Christian life
is the ability to admit that you're wrong.
You're not always right, I'm not always right.
You will not always be right.
And you know what, it's not worth trying to fight
and say, well, you know, I'm just gonna stick to my guns
and this is what I believe, but if you're wrong,
you're wrong though.
If you're wrong, you are wrong.
And look, no Christian will grow in their Christian faith
if they don't have the humility to admit that they're wrong.
It's just not gonna happen.
You have to be able to be rebuked.
You have to have the ability to be corrected.
You have to have the ability to have someone tell you,
hey, you know, I get that you're sincere,
but you're sincerely wrong in this area.
You need to change your course of action.
Oh, what do you know?
Okay, then go.
Just go and serve the cause of the Amorites then.
See how that works out for you.
Folks, the Bible says that God resisteth the proud
and give a grace unto the humble.
I don't know about you, but if I wanna be exalted by God,
if I wanna be blessed of God,
it requires, number one, to have the quality of humility,
to admit that I'm wrong, Lord, I've sinned,
whatever the consequences are,
just give me the grace to face it,
but I leave myself in your hands.
Just please deliver me at the end of the day.
He says in verse 16 and they put away the strange gods from among them and serve the Lord and his soul
Was grieved for the misery of Israel now
This is pretty good because this is showing us that the children of Israel are actually being sincere. Are they not?
Because God's like I'm not delivering you anymore go cry into your gods and what does Israel do?
We've sinned whatever happens to us will accept and God doesn't say I find I'll deliver you
No, what do they continue to do? They say, you know what? We're even gonna put away our strange gods
We're gonna serve the Lord even without the promise of being delivered
They're gonna keep serving God in spite of the fact that God did not say I'm gonna deliver you now
That says a lot does it not it's showing faith
Okay
Show me thy faith by thy works, right if they truly want to worship the Lord their God
Then do it by putting away your strange gods and serving God only and this is showing that Israel is
Serious about getting right with God
Okay, you know people are like, oh, I want to get right with God, but why aren't you in church?
Oh, I want to get right with God, then why are you still committing those particular sins?
Oh, I want to be blessed of God, then why don't you read your Bible?
You know, obviously we're saved by faith alone, but if we want to be blessed of God thereafter, it requires works, my friends.
You need to put in the work. God needs to see you do works in order for him to bless you. This has nothing to do with salvation.
Salvation is not of works that standing man should boast stop using James 2 as a text chapter on salvation has nothing to do with salvation
Works are necessary in order to be blessed of God, but it's also necessary to help others
And here we see that they not only confessed their sins,
they accepted the due punishment of their actions,
but they also repented of their sin
by putting away their false gods
and serving the God of the Bible
in spite of the fact that they were not promised
to be delivered.
Let me ask you this.
If you knew that you would not get the end result
of serving what you think would be the reward
of serving God, would you still continue to serve God?
You know sometimes we come into the Christian life or we go into church is like well as long as I get this
I'll keep serving God as long as I get a spouse I'll keep serving God as long as I get this promotion
I'll keep serving God as long as this happens. I'll keep serving God
But here's the thing. Let me give you the formula to get things from God do it no matter what happens
Build in the conviction within your heart to serve God no matter what happens now look obviously God will bless if you serve God
The Bible tells us that
But sometimes people can become disillusioned with serving God because they don't get the answer to their prayers in their specific time slot.
immediately as they wanted to come and then they become disillusioned to get
out of church or something that's not right you know we need to have the
attitude of the Israelites here that says you know what whatever happens you
know we want to serve God we want to put away the strange gods and you know to
let the chips fall where they may that's basically what they're what they're
doing here it says in verse 17 then the children of Ammon were gathered together
and in Captain Gilead and the children of Israel assembled themselves together
And the people and the princes of Gilead said one to another what man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon?
He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead, so this is a lot of faith on Israel's part if you think about it
Because they know that God's gonna punish them
They know there's something the consequences of their actions, but they confess their sin
They accept the punishment of their actions. They put away the strange gods
They start worshiping God and then they say what all right, let's go fight. We'll see what happens
Right, let's get in the fight. We'll see what happens. What's the equivalent to that?
You know, I don't know what the end result is in my life, but I'm gonna go to church see what happens
I'm gonna go win souls to Christ see what happens. I'm gonna read my Bible. We'll see what happens
Right, that's faith
Regardless of the if you think the conclusion of the matter will change go serve God and we'll see what happens
No, I need to see like the end result though
I need to know what I'm gonna get rewarded with.
I need to know that God's gonna bless me in the latter end.
Go serve God and see what happens.
And you know what, Israel, good job.
You know, they get right with God
and they're just like, well,
Ammon's coming to fight.
We're not wusses, we're gonna go fight against them
and let's see who comes out to deliver us.
Enter in Jephthah, okay?
Look at chapter 11, verse one.
Now Jephthah the Gileonite was a mighty man of valor so you know we start off with with Jephthah and
It's just like he's a mighty. You know like Gideon. He's a mighty man of valor mighty
He's a man
And he's valorous bold right just like right on this is the guy oh
Wait the verse is not done yet, huh comma and he was the son of a harlot
And Gilead McGat-Jephtha.
So he's this really great guy, but he's a bastard child,
and his mom's a whore.
A harlot is a prostitute.
Not the best pedigree, right?
Little embarrassing there.
It's like, oh man, this guy is awesome.
Who's his parents?
She's working right over there on the corner over there.
She's the one who's working the nine to five as a prostitute.
Not necessarily the most, you know, it just kind of sucks actually, you know
But you know the Bible is putting this piece of information in the Bible for us to show us that God uses the unlikely candidates
right
He's going to use Jephthah and you know what God believes he's a mighty man of valor
He's just letting us know that he's a son of a harlot and God can use the base things of this world to confound the wise
To confound the mighty right he can use that which is despised and that which the world hates
He can use them to do great things for God as he's going to do with Jephthah here now
Let's read on here. It says in verse 2 and Gilead's wife bear him sons
And his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house, for thou art the son of a strange woman.
So, you know, Israel, you guys are dumb, you know, it's just like, you need help.
Aminah is taking you over.
God raises up Jephthah, and he's just like, well, he's not good enough.
Right?
He's the son of a harlot.
His mom's a whore.
His mom's a strange woman.
Now, what do we see here? We see some parallels between Jephthah and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why is that? Because we see here that his brethren thrust him out.
They rejected him.
Jephthah came into his own and his own received him not, right?
Now the reason they're rejecting him is because he's a son of a harlot
He you know, he's born a fornication and this is exactly what the Pharisees were accusing Jesus Christ of in John chapter 8
You know all that are the son, you know now that we know we be not born a fornication implying that he was and
You know if people think that I'm misinterpreting that verse and you need to read the Talmud that actually says that
Okay? Where the Talmud literally says that Mary committed adultery with the Roman soldier by the name of Pantera and that's where Jesus comes from.
Okay? So this is a lie that was perpetuated by the Jews even in Jesus' day.
So we see here that they're rejecting him and it's just like, bro, you got to take who you can get
You guys don't really have any leaders right now. And so you need to accept Jephtha
Yeah, you know, he can't necessarily control that his mother's a prostitute, but he's still a mighty man of valor
Look at verse three then Jephtha fled from his brethren
and dwelt in the land of Tab and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah and went out with them.
And it came to pass in the process of time that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
And it was so that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel,
the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tab
and they sent him to Jephthah, come and be our captain that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
And Jephthah sent him to the elders of Gilead, did not ye hate me?
and expel me out of my father's house?
And why are you come unto me now when you are in distress?
This kind of shows you that, you know,
when you're at the bottom of the barrel, no one wants you.
But when they're in distress and you're in success,
then people are like, you know,
they want to be your friend, okay?
And Jephthah's like, hey, I thought you guys hated me.
That's interesting.
Didn't you say my mom was a harlot?
Didn't you imply that I'm a bastard child?
And all of a sudden you want me to come help you
to fight against the enemies?
Says in verse eight,
in the elders of Gilead sent in to Jephthah,
therefore we turn again to thee now
that thou mayest go with us
and fight against the children of Ammon
and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead,
If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon,
and the Lord deliver them from before me,
shall I be your head?
The elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah,
The Lord be witness between us,
if we do not so according to thy word."
So what we see here is that the Israelites are very much desperate,
and specifically we're talking about Gilead,
because Gilead is what's being compassed about by the Amorites.
And we see here that they're desperate, they want Jephthah to help them.
Jephthah is available.
He makes himself available to help them.
But, you know, he's obviously saying, like, hey, if I go, then I'm going to rule over you.
Okay?
That's the deal here.
Look at verse 11.
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Agilead, and the people made him head and captain over them.
And Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in mis-pup.
Now, verses 12 through about 22-23 is very interesting.
Because, you know, now Jephthah is in control, now he's the ruler, now he's kind of like their military general here.
And he sends someone to go essentially, you know, have this discourse with the enemy.
And he wants to know, like, why are you fighting against us?
It's very important here.
He's like, why are you encamping us about why are you trying to oppress us?
Look what it says in verse 12, Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon.
saying what has thou to do with me that thou art come against me to fight in my land and
The king of the children of Ammon answered into the messengers of Jephthah because Israel took away my land
When they came up out of Egypt from Arnaud even into JBock unto Jordan now therefore restore those lands again peaceably
Now this is a bunch of baloney
They're lying. They're misconstruing history
You see, what's really happening here?
What's really happening is that Ammon is hoping
that Jephthah is ignorant of biblical history.
Because they're saying, like, why are you campus about?
He's like, well, you guys stole our land.
This land belongs to us.
You know, Abraham promised that Genesis chapter 12,
this belongs to us.
You should be blessing us.
These Palestinians have taken over.
Iran has weapons of mass destruction.
And therefore restore those lands again peaceably and look this is all lies
Okay, now luckily Jephthah is a new independent fundamental Baptist
And knows what the biblical history is
You know if Ammon was talking to like an old IFB guy or some of these mainstream Christians
They would they put on the yarmulke. They throw up the star of rim fan. They get the shofar
They bless Israel and send all kinds of money and pray at the wailing wall
And, you know, a kiss rear end, Israeli rear end,
and, you know, misconstruing twists,
all kinds of biblical scriptures regarding Israel
and say, oh, my bad, yeah, let's just give them the land
because God promised it to them.
We took it away unjustly, you know.
And here's the thing, is that Ammon is being like Netanyahu,
you know, he's just gaslighting all these believers
at the thinking that we should support Ammon.
And obviously I'm trying to give a modern-day application to this portion of scripture, right?
But this is basically what we're seeing. The difference is, you know, Amin, Israel of today, the modern state of Israel is basically like the Ammonites.
And they are like the Ammonites, because they do worship false gods, okay?
And so, you know, this guy is trying to gaslight Jephthah.
Look at verse 14 Jeff the sent messengers again into the king of the children of Israel or excuse me the children of Ammon and
Said and Tim. Let's say a Jeb the Israel took not away the land of Moab nor the land of the children of Ammon
But when Israel came up from Egypt and walked through the wilderness into the Red Sea and came to Kadesh
Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom saying let me I pray the past through thy land, but the king of Edom
Would not harken there to any like manner. They sent unto the king of Moab, but he would not consent an
Israel bode and Catech
Then they went along through the wilderness and could pass the land of Edom and the land of Moab and came by the east side of the
Land of Moab and pitched on the other side of Arnon and came not within the border of Moab
For Arnon was the border of Moab and Israel sent messengers into Sion king of the Amorites the king of Heshpon and Israel said unto him
Let us pass we pray thee through thy land into my place
So what's the real story?
The real story is that when the children of Israel left Egypt,
all they wanted was safe passage through Ammon
so they can get to their homeland.
The land that was promised to them.
They weren't trying to take over Ammon.
They weren't trying to, you know, conquer them.
They just want to pass through.
Verse 20,
So what's the real what's the real news the real history is that the Ammonites actually chose to war against Israel
Not because Israel is trying to take over Ammon, but because they wanted to save passage and Sihon just wanted to fight
That's what it was
Oh, yeah, we need to back up Israel because they're God's people they just want to fight
It's all they want to do
They're misconstruing history
To try to gaslight mainstream Christians into believing that they are the
Protagonist of the story, but they're not
That long belongs no, it doesn't you've been excommunicated from the land
This loud was given to us 3,000 years ago, bro. You started in 1948. What are you talking about?
That's when you started and guess what you're a pseudo-Israel
Of 1948 it's not the Israel of the Bible you don't look like talk like act like the Israelites of the Old Testament
And in fact it seems as though you reject the Old Testament
You are a phony you're a fraud
Israel the modern state of Israel is not a real it. They're not real Israelites according to the Bible the promises don't apply to them
And in fact to use Genesis 12 as a justification to bomb Iran is absolutely ridiculous
That's just it's a stretch. It's such a stretch. It's a tear is what it is
We should aid Israel and fight it against that. Why what's the biblical justification? Genesis 12?
Well, I miss the part in Genesis 12 that says bomb those who bombed the
Where where where does he say that?
Yeah, but don't you think the weapons of mass destruction? No, and even if they did is there any biblical
Justification to do such a thing even if someone has weapons of mass destruction. No one the Bible doesn't say that
Well, brother, we just really got to look at this from up from a what dispensational perspective
Sion the Amonites lied now here's what's funny about this story, okay?
that a lot of people don't take into consideration is
that Amon is
Talking about something
that happened three hundred years ago.
Three hundred years from when this is happening.
Because later on in the story we see,
it's like, why didn't you do this three hundred years ago?
If we really stole your land,
if the Israelites really stole the land of Ammon,
why haven't you taken care of this long before?
I'll tell you why, because you're hoping
that mainstream Christians forget about
what the Bible says.
And they're banking on Jephthah, not knowing the biblical history of Israel and how they came across the Ammonites
and hoping that he would forget.
But he's saying, look, you've had 300 years to take over the land, all of a sudden you want to do it now?
It's nonsense.
And look, Israel, the modern state of Israel, has had 2,000 years to get right with God.
Right?
They've had 2,000 years approximately to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And look, don't give me this 1948 as a fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
It's absolutely absurd, it's stupid, it's ridiculous, it's retardation is what it is.
Oh, it's a fulfillment of a Bible prophecy, God was promising the land to them.
No, no, no, he didn't actually, no.
He promised the land to save Israelites who are already in heaven, who are awaiting the millennial reign.
That's who it's promised for.
But we see here that they're trying to gaslight them into doing this look at verse 21 of the Lord God of Israel
Delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel and they smote them
So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites the inhabitants of the country
So, you know, they're fighting against Israel the Amonites are because they feel threatened by them because you know Israel has weapons of mass destruction
Right the Israelites of here, you know, they have all these all they want is to save passage through their land so they can get to the promised land
And so it's like, oh, we're going to war with you.
Right?
Oh, yeah.
You know, you kept messing with me,
so I'm just going to destroy you now, right?
Now, the only difference between this story
and what we've got going on today
is we don't have an America in this particular story,
this third party that gets involved.
OK?
But he's like we're going to war with you and God's like, okay, you're gonna go to war with my people
Then I'm gonna allow my people to take you over and then we're gonna possess your lamp because of it
So he's punishing the ammonites because of it now make no mistake about it. The ammonites are wicked
They're evil people and so obviously God sought to destroy them because of their wickedness for sure
But let me just say this, you know, if we're to apply this to today, you know, like the Palestinians
The Muslim the Muslim war they're wicked too
And look, the Palestinians are not Isaac.
Both Palestinians and Jews are both Ishmael,
according to biblical standards if they don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And don't give me this Orthodox nonsense either.
I don't care if they're Orthodox or not saved.
Let me just draw a really thick line and just say,
Catholics and Orthodox not saved.
Catholics and Orthodox still Ishmael.
You're not saved if you're if you're a Roman Catholic or if you are an Eastern Orthodox
Member, you are not a Christian you are not saved because Christianity means that you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
exclusively for salvation
That's what that means
Now I get it. You know you have Orthodox people in Israel today who are being persecuted by Jews
And, you know, I'm not for orthodox, but obviously they're being
disrespected and railed against and spat upon
because any semblance of Christianity is just hated within Israel.
So, you know, obviously that's the case. The point that I'm making here
is the fact that, you know, the Palestinians, in my opinion,
should live in Israel. Why not? Not because I favor Muslims.
Not because I favor Palestinians, but because I favor the judgment of God upon
That's why and you know what if it wasn't the Palestinians let Indians live there. I don't care
Anybody other than
Israel should live in Israel
And he anyone other than Jews should live in Israel Americans should live in Israel take it over
Why because of the fact that they don't belong there according to the biblical prophecies according to the biblical standard
Because they hate the Lord Jesus Christ and they were expelled from that they forced themselves back into the land
They're like Saul I forced myself
That's what they did and
So, you know, we see and you know what this is gonna continue on
You know now it's gonna continue on and you know what there they'll get their messiah
Who's gonna be an anti-christ who's gonna be a Jew?
And by the I don't know how anybody can argue against that other than the dipsticks
The dipsticks obviously believe that it's like he's gonna be, you know, the Imam and the Muslims or whatever. No, he's a Jew, bro
Antichrist, okay
And you know, they're gonna get it
But you know, there's gonna be the days of vengeance upon
Israel for their blasphemy and fighting against the Lord Jesus Christ
And you know the only time I'm promoting and I'm for and I'm gonna make my pilgrimage to Israel is in the millennial rain
Because there's nothing they're worth seeing right now
Absolutely nothing, there's just dirt and godless people who hate the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's all there is.
It's going to be beautiful once the Son of God comes to take it over.
And at that point, you know, we're going to take a church activity trip to
Israel to go see the Lord Jesus Christ and learn from Him.
And there's not going to be any shofars, any yarmulkes, any Roman fortresses.
No wailing walls the only thing the Israel is going to see is weeping and wailing a nation of teeth. Amen
And look stop saying oh, this is anti-semitic you everything's just anti-semitic to you isn't it?
You quote the Bible anti-semitic Jesus is king anti-semitic. Oh
You call out Jews anti-semitic
It's nonsense
It's it's it's such a liberal thing to do
Or it's just like, oh, you know, you love white people,
you're racist.
Oh, you hate Pepsi?
Or you like Coke, you must hate Pepsi?
Which actually, that is kind of true.
But they try to polarize people and say,
oh man, you say anything biblical,
if you quote John A-44, if you say Jesus killed the Jews,
no, sorry, the Jews killed Jesus,
that's at the end, sorry.
If you say the Jews killed Jesus,
All of a sudden you're anti-Semitic that's anti-Semitic. Well, I thought Semitic wouldn't that include Muslims of the world as well
What they seem I don't hate them. I'm not even saying anything against them. It's funny how you're coupling yourselves with them
Anyways, I
Just want you to see that Jeff the new his history
And you know why so many Christians are for what took place just a couple days ago and I ran the bombing because they don't know any Bible
And I'm going to tell you the cringiest thing that I see on Instagram right now is Christians applauding being happy over people being murdered
And you know what? I don't care if it's a false religion getting murdered. You know America has no business getting involved in that
and you know what Christians have no business using the Bible to justify that
You know you and your boomer graphics of Israel with the line behind you as you're saying well
We just got to support Israel or whatever and this is great. Don't mess with Israel and all this stuff
Folks, it's nonsense should have stopped help the ungodly and love them to hate the Lord
Therefore wrath is upon the from before the Lord the Bible says you know what what why why is this happening today?
I'll tell you why this is the effects. This is the ripple effect of dispensational theology
that is infiltrated churches.
Dispensationalism is dangerous, my friends.
It's caused people to become so hardened
towards the rest of the world
that anybody who's against Israel is just like,
oh, these people deserve to go,
they deserve to die, they deserve to be nuked.
It's all dispensational nonces
that is infiltrated churches, political ideologies,
in order to promote Zionism.
They're twisting scriptures
and they're causing people
to be cold towards other individuals.
There's innocent people dying.
Look, let me just say this no Christian should be pro-war either
No, Christian should be poor who why would we be happy about innocent people just dying?
Absolutely nonsensical my friends. Oh
You must be against God. Yeah, I'm against the God of this world for sure
Yeah, I'm against Molok and Rem fan
I'm against the God of the Jews and of the Israelites because they don't worship the Lord Jesus Christ
They're the synagogue of Satan
Ye are of your father the devil and then look if you don't believe me that the Israelites of today the modern state of Israel
Warships of false God and you're calling Jesus a liar because he specifically said ye are of your father the devil
The lust of your father will you do making a distinction between the father of the Jews and the father of Christians?
Jesus Christ made that distinction
Oh, yeah, but you know the synagogue you're calling the synagogue of Satan. I'm repeating what Jesus said
Yeah, but aren't you guys like, you know, isn't this a synagogue? Hell, no
The church my boy
The church it looks synagogue means gathering, but there's a specific reason why God didn't call it a synagogue of believers
Because it's been tainted that term has been tainted and associated with Judaism
Which is the religion the spirit of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ?
And don't think you know oh man, but you're saying like synagogues are bad. Yeah, they're all bad. Absolutely
They're all dens of iniquity
And you know what we need to normalize
You know normalize talking like this and and not being ashamed of saying what the Bible actually says don't worry
God's not gonna strike you dead
Bunch of superstitious dispensational dipsticks out there. Oh, I'd be afraid to talk like that. Yeah, I know you are your little pussy footer
That's why you obviously don't believe the Bible
Because you're superstitious
Folks I've been preaching against Israel for years and you know what God has done to me. He's just blessed me
He's blessed me
I've not been cursed. You know why cuz I bless the Lord Jesus Christ
I'm blessed with faithful Abraham. That's why cuz I actually know what the Bible says
Well, where am I on my notes here
Gillian
Lies about in okay
All right, let's move
All right, let's look here verse 23
So now the Lord God of Israel had dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel should have stopped possess it
Now like what he says here will not that possess that which Kimosh I got to give it thee to possess
So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us then then will we possess what is he saying?
He's like, why don't you ask your false God to like help you to get some land?
You know hey Israel, why do you need the United States of America to help you?
to get the land if if God is with you if
God's blessing you if God's hand is on you. Why do you need us?
Why do you need us?
You know, how about K-Mosh your go? Why don't you get K-Mosh and Molok ram fan? You're got to help you out
Why do you need the aid of other nations to help you to accomplish what you want? I?
Keep bringing it back to what's going on today because this is what's going on today
And the Bible is relevant my friends
to today
He says in verse 25,
And now, are thou anything better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab?
Did he ever strive against Israel?
Or did he ever fight against them?
While Israel dwelt in Heshban, in her towns, in Eroir, in her towns,
and in all the cities that be along by the coast of Arnon 300 years,
why, therefore, did you not recover them within that time?
So, you know, he's kind of being a little disrespectful here.
And he's like, you know, are you better than Balak?
Because, you know, Balak...
Was not able to like conquer us right if you know the story of Balaq Balaq
Hired Balaam the son of bozor to curse Israel right and he wasn't able to because God was with them
And he's like are you anything better than Balaq and he says they're like hey this has been happening for 300 years
Why didn't you recover the the land during that time?
Okay, why are you wasting your time now to do this and obviously what the Ammonites are doing is that they're trying to create this narrative
That Israel is the enemy
So they can have justification to take it over and go to war with them
You understand what I'm saying basically what's happening today. The difference is Israel is the one who's doing that
and
So applaud Jephthah Amen, the man knows the stuff
Even though he's a son of a harlot
He's the unlikely candidate to be used by God in our eyes and other people's eyes. This man knows his stuff
He knows his history. He's not gonna allow himself to be persuaded and gaslit by Amon
He knows what the Bible says. He knows what the history is. You know what?
We need Christians today to know what Genesis chapter 12 says
Don't be a Ted Cruz
Look ever since I was in Sunday school class
You had an idiot for a Sunday school teacher
You know, I've always just known and then and then Tucker is just like, where's that?
There's a I mean somewhere in the Bible to pull out your phone
Bro, you're literally saying you're quoting this as your text verse to justify
Supporting Israel against Iran going to war against Iran and you don't know where the verse is
Now obviously called Tucker causing party. They didn't know where it was that he just sales in Genesis
But at least he was in the ballpark of where it was
But folks, you know, this is this is common people are like, oh bless those that bless thee and just ask them
Where is that?
They won't be able to point it out to you because all they're doing is parroting what other people say then hit them with Galatians 3 16 and smoke them
Just murk them with Galatians 3 16
And then uses verse 28 and then use Romans 2 28 to 29 and then use Galatians chapter 4
And then you use Hebrews chapter 8 and then just for good measure throw in Revelation 2 9 and Revelation 3 9
Jephthah knew exactly what he was talking about
Ammon was banking on him being ignorant of the history. He was an ignorant of it look at verse 27
Wherefore, I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me.
The Lord, the judge, be judged this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
I'll be at the king of the children of Ammon, harken not unto the words of Jephthah, which he sent him.
Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, Ammonasi, and passed over Mispah of Gilead.
And from Mispah of Gilead, he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
And here is where Jephthah goes wrong.
He was doing really well up until this point, but as a sermon, as I said in the sermon, God uses imperfect people, here's the imperfection of Jephthah.
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, if thou shalt, without fail, deliver the children of Ammon into my hands, then it shall be that whatsoever comeeth forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offer.
You say, Pastor, what's the problem with that?
What's the issue? Well, here's the issue. Number one, you know, you shouldn't make any just vows period
Okay, any oaths before the Lord and if you do make an oath and you do make a vow you got to keep it now
I will say this, you know, the Bible says in Psalm 15
I believe it's in verse number four that God blesses the man who makes an oath even to his own hurt
What does that mean sometimes people make vows and oaths and and you know they make it and sometimes it was a stupid oath
It was a stupid vow, but they kept their vow they kept their oath
Why even though it would hurt them because they know how valuable an oath is
It hurt them in the long run, but they're not going to back out of it because they understand how valuable and oath is right
But let me just say this Jephthah did not have to make this vow
Why because God was already going to deliver Ammon into his hand
The victory was already his, he was already going to deliver them, he was going to give them success.
It was absolutely nonsensical to make this vow and it was so specific because in his mind he's like well if you deliver me
then anything that comes to my tent and he's thinking what? Animals.
He's thinking a goat, a lamb, a bullock, some sort of animal.
He's like I'll offer it before the Lord.
Now we're not going to read it because for the sake of time but what ends up coming through his 10 doors, his daughter.
Comes through his doors, and you know what he has to do yet. He had he has to sacrifice his daughter
That was the oath that he made and you know what?
We don't know exactly why he's labeled as a man of faith in the book of Hebrew chapter 11
This could be possibly why
Because in spite of the fact that he made a bad oath, you know, he basically kept that oath
He decided to obey the Lord no matter what and what this shows us don't make foolish oaths or vows that you cannot keep
And don't say before the angel of the Lord, you know, it was of haste or you know, I didn't really mean it and look folks
This is why we don't have altercalls
Aside from the fact that they're not biblical. They're not in the New Testament
Altercalls are often the major culprit causing God's people to make vows and oaths that they do not keep
And you know what? Let me just say this in the generation in which we live people just don't take vows serious anymore
So how do you know we're looking at the divorce rates?
When we get married, it's till death do us part,
and that's an oath.
That's a vow we make.
For better, for worse.
Oh, I don't like you anymore, just kidding.
God's leading me to find someone else.
Doesn't work that way, for better, for worse.
And sickness and in health till death, death do us part.
And look, my mother-in-law, you know,
we differ on a lot of things.
But you know, I admire the heck out of her
Because her husband has essentially been impaired and just handicapped for the last over maybe 12 13 years or so
She's had to take care of them and like the husband that she once knew isn't necessarily there
He a percentage of him is
But you know what she's faithfully been by his side this whole time
Why because in sickness and in health
The 30 years that she was married to him that was that was the health now. She's in the sickness part
Where they don't have like a normal relationship, but you know what? She's loyal to him
She's faithful to him why because she made an oath before God she made a vow before the Lord
And you know what that's why we don't believe in divorce
We don't believe in separating from your spouse.
Why?
Because you made a vow, you made an oath,
and you know what?
You need to esteem the value of a vow.
You need to esteem the value of an oath and recognize
you may be on a mountain top today,
but tomorrow you might be in a valley.
Don't let the D word come out of your mouth,
and I'm not talking about damn, either.
I'm talking about divorce.
I'm talking about.
Couples need to remove that from their vocabulary
immediately, cut it out of your dictionary.
It's not an option.
The only D word when it comes to marriage is death.
Not divorce, death.
And this is not, you know, obviously,
I'm not telling you to commit murder or something like that.
Point that I'm making is a vow is important to the Lord.
Okay, and you know you may think to yourself what's easy to keep my vows with my wife
You know I'm with my husband. We have a great marriage. Yeah, but there might be a time when it's not that great
It's gonna come a time when it's gonna get real hard
And you know what you got to remove from your mind that there's a possibility of divorce it should not exist and
At the end of the day, you know when it gets that hard you need to realize
I made a vow before God and I need to keep this vow until I die
You know God will reward you for that
Oh, it's easy for you to say no, it's not easy for me to say absolutely not you think I like telling you that stuff
No, I don't
Now obviously I have a great marriage
But you know the Bible is true no matter what who's no matter who's saying it. It's still true
Okay, and you know what I know divorce people that would say what I say. It's still true
It still has that impact the point that I'm making here is you know
We need to be like Jephthah in these other areas, but not in this area making a vow
And you know if you do make a vow be like Jephthah and actually keep it
To your hurt, okay, so unfortunately his daughter ends up, you know, God
Delivers him from Ammon. He they destroy Ammon, but you know his daughter came in singing
She just celebrated a little too soon came through the tent doors and he had he ended up having to sacrifice
Look at chapter 12 real quick
Let me just go over this point
It says the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together and went northward and sent it to Jephthah
Wherefore passes thou over to fight against the children of Ammon and did not call us to go with thee
We will burn thine house upon thee with fire
Now, let me just say that Ephraim is freaking annoying
These guys are just wooses they're wimps. I'm not a fan of them
Okay, and let me explain why
These guys only show up when the fight is already over
Right
It's like you know, you know
If we have an activity or something like that and we have food after the activity and people only show up to the food
Okay
Ephraim does not want to put in the work.
And then they have the audacity to get on Jephthah and Gideon
for not inviting them to the fight.
OK, now look a couple of chapters back here.
Let me give you an example of this.
Go to chapter 8.
Now, we were in chapter 8 earlier this morning
when we were highlighting the fact that Gideon and his men
were faint yet pursuing, right?
Well, look at says look what it says in verse one and the men of Ephraim said unto him why has thou served us thus?
That thou call call us us not when thou wentest to fight with the Medianites and they did chide with him sharply
So I why don't you call us to come fight because you guys suck. That's why that's what I would have told them
Now herein is the difference between Gideon and Jephthah because Gideon is more of like a politician
He's like what are we in comparison to you guys and he kind of like he gives them a soft answer and it turns away wrath, right?
He's just like hey you guys are awesome like what are we in comparison to you and they're like alright?
Yeah, we're pretty good. You know we are that great. You know alright, we'll leave you alone or whatever
But they're annoying okay, whereas Jephthah go back to chapter 12
He says in verse 2 and Jephthah said unto them I am my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon
And when I called you you delivered me not out of their hands and when I saw that you delivered me
Not I put my life in my hands and passed over against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered me into
Delivered them into my hands. Wherefore then are you come unto me to this this day to fight against me
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. So he's just like oh you have a problem
Okay, we're gonna fight against you too then
Okay. Now, I don't have time to go into the history of Ephraim.
Obviously, Ephraim is basically an offshoot from Joseph.
Joseph, you have Ephraim in Manasseh,
and Ephraim just has a history of just being a weak tribe.
They're the ones that basically when when everyone was receiving their plot in the book of Joshua
They came up to Joshua and they're just like hey you haven't given us our land and he's like get you up to the wood country and get it
He's like yeah, but they have chariots of iron though. He's like you're stronger than them go get it
They're just constantly making excuses.
They're very weak.
They're winers.
They're murmurs.
They're just, you know, I just don't like them, OK?
As you can clearly see here.
And then, you know, once they're success,
they come over and complain about not being invited
to the fight.
It's like, dude, we didn't invite you
because you guys are weak, you know?
And if you want some, come get some.
That's what Jeff is saying.
He's like, oh, OK, you got a problem?
All right, then I'm going to do to you what I did to Amon.
And rightfully so, Ephraim, you guys are dumb.
And you know what, Ephraim is a liability to Israel,
not an asset.
Let me say this, don't be an Ephraimite in our church.
Don't be the ones that, you know,
thank God for the successes that our church sees.
Enjoy the successes, but join in on the fight as well.
You know, you're gonna be blessed in this church
for the salvation that other people get,
but hey, why don't you bring some salvation as yourself?
Why don't you get some people saved too?
You know you rejoice and what we see here at First Works Baptist Church and on the mission field and here in southern, California
Why don't you join us?
Don't be a little e-free of my oh
How come you didn't invite me to the mega marathon or how can we invite me to the mission field you could have come you could
Why didn't you come you know why just go?
You know go and join yourself to the fight don't come after the fight
It's done and start complaining because we didn't invite you or something like that
You know come to the prayer meeting. Amen
Come to the Sony meeting come to the prayer meeting come Sunday night come Thursday
Come to hear the word of God being preached. Join yourself to the fight. Don't be an Ephraim. I might
It's not in my notes not in my notes spirit of the Lord is upon me
Look at verse four then Jep the gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim and the men of Gilead
Smote Ephraim because they said he Gilead died so fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the monastics. Oh
There's another reason I don't like them. So aside from the fact that they're just losers. They can't fight, you know
They're also like agitators
Because what is he saying? He's like, oh you guys are you Gilead eyes are just fugitives of
Manassee because what is he referring to because Gilead is not necessarily a tribe
The Gileadettes are an offshoot of Manassee, okay?
They're an offshoot.
So what does he say?
Oh, you guys are just fugitives of Manassee.
He's just mocking them.
Oh, you guys aren't even that important.
You guys don't even have a tribe.
You guys just come from us.
So he's just mocking them, right?
And he says there in verse five in the Gileadites took the passage of Jordan before the Ephraimites
And it was so that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said let me go over that the men of Gilea sent him
Art thou an Ephraimite and he said nay. So what's going on here? So I was like, okay
We see what you guys are doing. So they essentially created this valley
Where the Ephraimites because the Ephraimites and the Gileadites look alike, right?
You know, it's like you're like are they Mexican or are they Guatemalan? Yes, you know, it's just like
Is that an Asian person or yes, this is just all look the same, okay, right?
Maybe racist
Folks people have called me Mexican all my life. I just embrace it now
Are you Mexican?
Sounds good look like one speak Spanish. Sure. I don't care, you know
And look, look, people complain about that.
It's just like, oh, man, you shouldn't do that.
Folks, my mom and my parents and my uncles,
every Asian is a chino.
How about that?
Or is Glenn, my mom's like, you know who I love?
I love that chino at the church.
She goes, I love that.
I'm like, mom, he's Japanese.
She's like, yeah, the chino guy.
I'm like, I know what you're talking about.
I'm sure he don't care.
If he does, he won't care anymore.
Who cares?
The point that I'm making here is just like the Ephraimites and the Gileadites they all
look alike.
So if they're trying to find passageway, it's easy for them to just lie and say that they're
Gileadites and just let them through, but remember they're talking all kinds of crap.
So the Gileadites, we're not going to let them pass.
You know what I mean? Oh, here's another example, you know that these Middle Easterners they all look the same to me
What's up Adam, you know to be like
Put a turbine on that guy and he just looks like everyone else
Facts
So, you know, they're just like we can't let them pass so so they have a way to filter the manna the manna sites
Look what it says here
So they go there and they're like, hey, you know art thou an Ephraimite and if they said nay, they're like, no, we're not
Then said they and Tim say now shibboleth
and he said
Sibboleth
For he could not frame to pronounce it right
Then they took him and slew him at the passage of Jordan and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites 40 and 2000
So it's just like, here's a good way to figure out
if we're dealing with an Ephraimite or a Gileadite.
Say shibbolet, shibbolet.
And they couldn't pronounce the sh for whatever reason, you know?
And I guess that's a good way to determine
if they're Korean or Chinese, right?
That's how we know that Adam is not from Iraq, right?
That's how we know that certain people are not from you know, that's how you know that I'm not Mexican
Oh, I guess it doesn't even matter. That's a that's a hard one
You know, this is how we know the certain people that look alike if they're different based upon how they talk
Right
They can't pronounce certain words
And whoever came up with nothing you said what does shibbolett mean? There's no definition to it
It's just like a verbal, don't get offended at him.
I was just messing around man.
He's getting up and walking out and like get out,
get out of here you snowflake.
And I was just kidding.
You know, they're trying to figure out and it's just like a it's just a word that would use to try to figure out is this person
Korean are they Japanese are they Chinese are they Arab and because they couldn't frame to pronounce it
They knew like okay, this person's the enemy. He's gonna get slain now. What's the principle that we can learn there?
Well, what we can learn from that is
You know, you think about Christianity, right?
I'm a Christian
I'm saved just like you or really what do you have to do to be saved repent of your sins? Oh
You can't say Shibboleth
You know, oh, like I'm a Christian. Oh, yeah, so what do you believe about Jesus? Oh, he's the brother of Satan
Oh slam you said Sibboleth. Oh
I'm a Christian, you know, I'm a Christian just like you. I believe. Oh, what do you believe about Mary? Oh, she's the mother of God slam
Sibboleth
Right because of the fact that just because they look like a Christian doesn't necessarily mean that they're a Christian
Give them the verbal test say Shibboleth and if they say Sibboleth
Then guess what they're not really a Christian now, are they?
You know by thy words that shall be condemned and by thy words that shall be justified out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak it
So they're able to determine and this is why I look folks especially in Christianity
That's what the Bible talks about in Matthew chapter 7. You good at him?
Cry his eyes out, you know, that's what the Bible says that there's wolves and what in sheep's clothing
Because it's warning us to be where a false prophets because they look like believers
But then when you ask him about salvation, what do they say Lord Lord?
Have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name I've cast out devils and in thy name
I've done many wonderful works up wrong answer. It's not sibilet. It's shibboleth
So there's a great test here to determine who was of the Gileadites, and so I'm way
Beyond my time here. It's what happens when I have these notes here
So, you know, what's what's the sermon here Jephthah is a great man of God who has a lot of faith
And you know what? He may be an unlikely candidate to this world
But you know what God gets more glory because of that and he's a righteous man and listen to me
Even when he made the mistake of making the vow he kept his vow
To his own hurt and that says a lot about the character of Jephthah
Because it hurt him it took away his daughter
But in spite of a he fulfilled his vow anyways because he understood that he made a vow before the Lord God filled up
You know he he took care of his end of the bargain Jephthah says I'm gonna keep my end of the bargain too
Praise God, let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word. Thank you for Jephtha
Help us to be mighty men of valor Lord and help us to realize that no matter what happened happened before us
Maybe the the people that the families we come from
Because of our ancestors or religious background cultural background those don't have to be hindrances
To us serving you and doing great things for you. I pray God that you bless this as we go on our way
Bless the fellowship to follow in Jesus name. Amen