Deborah [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright. No more of this delay and hesitation. No more of this fear. Ruling your life is time to rise up to you actually are faster going to another message of good news that will help you see your life for no hold. I'm Dino pretty excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series titled God used to and you may just be surprised, as presented, it written older church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Reich Minister as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860. More on that later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan writing were not a culture where byes going to church my revised thinking like a Christian we have this pluralistic culture and you feel the class without all the times in the book of Judges is relevant for us. These judges these warrior Redeemer saviors function over about a 300 year period during a time of file of how much rebellion amongst the people of God. So in other words, the book of Judges is a collection of historical stories and narratives about the ways that God raised deliverers who would save and undeserving people from the consequences of their sin and sound familiar.

His stories are how God would raise often unlikely saviors to redeem the people so that they would not ultimately suffer the full demise of their sin in that sense, it's the story of the gospel, Deborah is distinct from other judges and she's fascinating because several reasons.

First, why she's a woman and that Deborah was a prophetess, and she gets word from the Lord and people knew that she was intimate with God, and they knew that she had wisdom and discernment. I think she got words of knowledge and wisdom and encouraging prophecies and clarity and she counseled and people came in. She was a leader.

She was so she was the magistrate, she was the one who was leading at the time and she is she references herself is a mother of Israel. If we looked over into Judges chapter 5 you'll see that after the defeat of Sisera. Deborah begins to sing a song unto the Lord and love this at verse seven she says is she singing the villagers ceased.

In Israel they ceased to be until I arose I Deborah arose as a mother and Israel see was a spiritual mother mother is someone who nourishes and someone who might seem at one moment quiet but you try to interfere with her children and she becomes a she bear protecting her cups and seen some women who you might think were just quiet week, but you get them into motherhood and everything changes. It's amazing what happens when a woman becomes a mother and a mother's the one who holds the family in her heart as she wants did in her womb and and in this sense mother cannot rest if the children are not okay. Deborah was a mother in Israel.

We had our future in-laws with us for the weekend. How how fine and strange and odd.

I can't even believe that this is happening our sons get married in June and his fiancée and her parents stayed with us over the weekend we had a great time, like them, love them and enjoy them and that you see my wife when she's got people in the house. She is a mother, and she then sit down. She then stop every thing it is on her mind, as are the guests okay do they have what they need is everybody all right, that's who the mother is the mother seeks out the hurting child. She's a life giver, a protector comforter and a never assure and that's who Deborah was. She is also a prophetess. She got words from the Lord. And so what was different about Deborah was she did not rule out brute force like a Samson or Sonsini instead.

She led because of wisdom from God and revelations from God, and further what the stories about is if you get one word from heaven then it'll be stronger than the strongest army and she got word that it was time for Barack to summon 10,000 troops and to take on Sisera.

Even though Sisera had 900 chariots of iron and the reason you keep hear about the 900 chariots of iron is because I Israel didn't have any of this, iron equipment and they were slower coming along to the Iron Age and they didn't have the sophisticated weaponry. So think of it this way, those chariots were like modern-day tanks and smart missiles and they were going to go up against the chariots and the likelihood in the natural, being able to defeat them was very, very slim, but she got a word from the Lord that it was time and she spoke on that that word and what happened is that as we read in the song of Deborah would only learn this until later in the song of Deborah McGreal a bit more in chapter 5 verse 12, awake, awake, Deborah awake, awake, break out in song arise Barack lead away your captives. Oh son of Abba no one down March the remnant of the noble, the people of the Lord marched down for me against the mighty messages on singing kind of retelling the battle when she comes diverse in 19 the Kings came, they fought and fought the kings of Canaan at Tom Nock by the waters of Megiddo. They got no spoils of silver from heavens, the stars fall from their courses. They fought against Sisera. The torrent kiss shown as the river swept them away.

The ancient torrent. The torrent kiss shown March own my soul with my and what scholars recognize that she is describing here is that though it was the dry season, and evidently what happened was that as the battle was about to ensue.

Lord brought this huge rain and the kiss shown River's swelling and overflowing its banks and what it did was it made all the low lands really soggy and muddy in the iron chariots came and were just stuck and mired in the mud and so chariots were rendered useless and the people then were able to fight them. She had a word from the Lord about all that say the Lord knows these things and I remember the story of a position that years ago back when telegraph Morse code will be in uses primary communication and I was a telegraph operator position. It was open and number a minute come in and work on it seek to interview for the job. About a dozen.

I'm sitting out in a crowded waiting room and one man came in, kind of late and then about three minutes after sitting there. That man jumped up, went into the office and a few moments later came out and the boss said everybody can go home. The job been filled by this young man and they also what is going on quantity get the job we did a good chance interview is a well all well will now you're talking said in a message being tapped out a Morse code that was saying whoever comes in the office first. After hearing this message will receive the job is just who is tuned in to the message and whole armies can fall somebody gets one word from the Lord. The name Deborah means be like a honeybee and some of the old ancient fathers of the early church. They they like to think of Deborah like a honeybee associated with honey and the honeycomb because they're reminded of the psalmist who says that the word of the Lord is sweeter than honey sweeter than honey, and it might be a stretch associated in that way, but she is associated with the word of the Lord and then was also unique about Deborah. I just love this about Deborah, is this whole chat will take time to read all of chapter 5 or read a little of it there were she's just saying she saying the villager season is really ceased until I arose I Deborah and she is she's able to not only sing a song of celebration to the Lord, but she celebrates that God has used her only just say I just so wish that I had understood this much earlier and my life.

What pride is what humility is and what they are not, and let's just say that pride is when you think that all these good things in your life have been generated by you and you have no acknowledgment of what God has done. But there is a way and which as Christians we can fall into this false humility in which we can't even celebrate that God has made us fearfully and wonderfully, and given us gifts and uses us in such wonderful, wonderful wife, and Deborah did have that problem that it my wife is is is just funding the house with her because she's she feel so good about herself and and she is sought is applied to law schools and is getting accepted to prestigious schools and every time he emails and Sarah got accepted so and so I got a scholarship so as to see homeschooled at all the way through dry. As I was to get the email see this is what she text architectural text back to the site. I did it big to fail. They got I got into such a such a thing as I got into another one. It will I okay we get ready to edit is okay to celebrate like Deborah and realized that she is a mother in Israel, and God used her in this wonderful way.

She's a she's a wonderful person. One of the things it's remarkable about Deborah sets her apart from all the other judges. There's nothing negative that is ever spoken. Deborah is not a negative word – is a human being and is gotta be something wrong with her but you just can't cannot Karen ravish you is gotta be something wrong you just don't know what it is you can't find anything you find a challenge right will have more teaching moment from today's important series you've heard about it with you.

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But it only if you go with me. What is so fascinating about this though, is that when you get to Hebrews 11 and you read this famous list of the heroes of the faith you'll come to verse 32 of Hebrews 11 where we read and what more shall I say for time would fail me to tell of Gideon Iraq Sampson just thought of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith. Conquered kingdoms enforce justice, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions quench the power of fire escape the edge of the sword were made strong out of weakness became mighty in war and put foreign armies to flight. Do you see that Barack is listed here amongst Sampson and David and Samuel and the prophets been a lot of discussion as to why Deborah is not listed, rather than Barack but the fact of the matter is this is what faith is. He got a word from the Lord, and he acted on it. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God and whether Iraq was afraid or not. In the end didn't matter because what faith is, is acting on a word of the Lord and so is listed in Hebrews 11 is one of the great people of faith, so where do you find yourself in a story like this a lot. I don't really identify with with with Deborah.

She's to just to wonderful and flawless, but I could identify with Iraq who couldn't. We got a battle to fight and it seems ominous and bigger than who you are, but at some point, you get a word from God reassurance that in the midst of a pluralistic and pagan society when you don't have faith or courage, but you get into the word of God and something happens and is quickened on the inside of you. There is a reason that Barack wanted Deborah to go with him.

It wasn't because she was going to fight. She never does fight she never left the sword, but instead she is the representative of the revelation of God.

I think Barack is something like Moses when he said to the Lord. If your presence does not go with us to not send me he does not want to go without the meditation upon the word of the Lord and sometimes all you need are just the promises of God is not just his word and his promises, but it's God himself that goes a saying I don't just want to go on this word I want the one who brought the word to come and go with me. You have the infilling of the Holy Spirit you have believers the mind of Christ you have not just a prophetess that walks along with you. You have Christ. Ephesians says you have become the dwelling place of God himself, the Creator of the ends of the earth who knows all mysteries whose knowledge is unlimited and whose power is unfathomable and that God lives inside of you. This is how you move foreign.

The battle belongs to the Lord.

So the rains come, the chariots are mired in the mud and Barack defeats the armies of Sisera and Cicero's destroyed at the hands of another woman, just as Deborah had prophesied, and in the midst of all of this I hear the word of the Lord to a beautiful word that comes in verse 14 of Judges chapter 4, she has called Deborah has called Barack up. She has prophesied to him. She has instructed him as she has promised to go with him and then it verse 14 and Deborah said to Barack, for this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand is not the Lord go out before you hunting is a word for us is a word for somebody here for somebody under the sound of my voice. It's the word of the Lord in today is the day to say to say this is on the one hand to say wake up. She's the mother of Israel and she's like one who wakes up a child in the morning. They know wake up and elegant movement wake up.

His family when they wake up something in front of you.

Very important. There's a way in which God's present to wake up your inmost being wake up and when God says up, there's power in the command let him speak to your spirit that slumbers Their experience that before was like I just saw something inside of me was just sleep it happens to me sometimes like I'll come and I feel like I'm just I'm under that heaviness is like is like I'm sleepy on the inside and then I get a group of people with me to start praying would come and we start singing unto the Lord, and something inside of me wakes up and felt that wake up wake up to the goodness of God wake up to the plans of God make arise shine your light is come, but it is also to say rise rise up Barack to who you are, no more of this delay and hesitation. No more of this fear. Ruling your life is time to rise up to who you actually are there had somehow your life is just spoken to you like that is to be so so simple. I was I'm transferring contents of a safe deposit box to a new location and I have pulled out all the stuff too much stuff in there and stuff it that's what wise this evening here in the stuff that my wife it stopped in there and I think, and I pulled out one a minute was what we call the blue book at the University North Carolina. It was an exam I took, and in the anode been saved but it was from Prof. my freshman year, who had written on the cover of the blue book Alan, why are you so quiet in class a by the can write an exam like this on to speak up more.

We need to hear what you have to say shy kid from broken family didn't feel like even belonged in that class is told by Prof. rise up, wake up rise up as they move up to new place. You have a destiny, and so it was that Barack got up follow the word of the Lord. Deborah went with them in the headship of evil was crushed and chapter 4 adds this line and there were 40 years of peace, Deborah, and judge of Israel, a mother of Israel prophetess in the land who in the end points us to the true deliverer and Savior Jesus himself, who again today smiles at you for the battle is the Lord and that's the gospel is a word the earpiece that jumps out part of today's teaching on Deborah from the teaching God used who and Alan is back here in the studio. In a moment with additional insight on this for your life in a final word. Glad you heard about it with you.

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We are happy to send this to you as I banks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor at Gatwick Alan somebody listening right now. Maybe that word pieces really jumped out to dinner. This is there prayer there. Hope maybe today something is changed and it's it's something they want to claim they say yeah I'm claiming the peace that is promised right but think you hear en route to that piece you hear a word from the Lord. That is the word that Deborah brought to Barrick up things need something in your spirit to wake up, rise up, to move up.

It is sometimes and you hear a word from the Lord like that you hear down in your heart.

It empowers you, and I think that's that's it is like there is a way in which God is calling you and you might have. Fear that you can't do it, but the word of the Lord goes with you and in and facing perhaps the difficulty you need to face.

There's going to be peace. Amazing piece.

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