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Oftentimes I think people are just looking for a sign of well this is what I should be doing because this happened and this happened which are good things so I'm just gonna take this path so this is showing me that this is the right path to take or like you know let's say you know I'm looking for a job right well I think this is the right job to take because when I walked in the door the Sun came out from a cloud and there was this big rainbow that like you know lit the way and and everything just looked perfect right and I know it sounds kind of silly and maybe this example is I'm just making it up but you know what I'm talking about thing about there's there's other times and I think a lot of people can be guilty of this from time to time just in general of starting to ascribe more reasons of just like well I think that you know God's trying to tell me something here through these different things when in reality you're probably just reading more into it when we see signs in the Bible there were signs in the Bible and we actually just had we're just dealing with Gideon asking for a sign from God that what he was speaking to that that he was really the one that was going to go and save Israel and everything else he wanted to confirm what he's already heard from the Lord but and I'll just read for you from judges chapter 6 we went over this a little bit on that Wednesday night but in judges 6 16 about says in the Lord said unto him surely I will be with thee and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man so this is God's word this is the word of the Lord unto Gideon he's telling him what he's going to do and the word of the Lord is what we should be basing all of our decisions on all you know all of our truth on how we live based on the word of the Lord not on some feeling not on some sign but see at this time in the Old Testament Gideon wants to try the spirits right we're commanded to try the spirits the Bible says in 1st John 4 1 beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world see that the job of a prophet is supposed to help guide and to help give you instruction and help make the word of the Lord plain and clear and to help you know the path and the will of the Lord but there are many false prophets out there they're going to deceive you and get you down the wrong path so it's our job to be able to try the spirits well when I look at Gideon I think that's literally what he's trying to do is to try this we're like God is it are you really talking is this really coming from you Lord do you want me well in order to prove this can you and that's why he follows up when the Lord tells him this that you were going to destroy the Midian Midianites he says and he said unto him if now I found grace in thy sight then show me a sign that thou talkest with me he's like I just want to know that this is you Lord and not some other false prophet that that was his way I believe of just wanting to confirm that this is the word of the Lord and it's actually a pretty unique instance when it comes to signs and someone actually asking for a sign because another thing that we have a tendency to want to do in general is ask God like when we have important decisions God can you show me a sign that I'm on the right path can you show me a sign that this is the right thing to do can you give me a sign we actually don't really find examples of that in Scripture of people just asking God to give us know to give them a sign to do this or to do that or to make their decision we don't see examples of that in Scripture this is probably the closest thing and is a pretty unique event in even in that capacity we do also have one other time in Scripture where Hezekiah is told that he's going to be healed and Hezekiah asks for a sign to confirm that he will be healed but again this is just another example of confirmation of what's already spoken by the Lord it's to confirm that this truly is going to happen based on what was already been told by God second Kings 28 says and Hezekiah said unto Isaiah what shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day and Isaiah said this sign shalt thou have of the Lord that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or back ten degrees and this is where he makes time basically go back you know ten degrees he's saying well it's a light thing to go forward ten degrees I want you to go back and it was a miracle that was performed and it was a sign and God did that sign