Male Dereliction (Part B)

I still see that I'm not crushed at the mercy of God.

These men and still said the heroes. What an encouragement. If you fail serving governmental or female. What an encouragement you have come up short. God still puts your name in this list with David Sam courage because of you going to do anything with the Lord you going to fail. This is cross reference radio with our pastor and teacher. Rick asked Rick is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Mechanicsville. Pastor Rick is currently teaching through the book of Judges, please stay with us after today's message to hear more information about cross reference radio, specifically how you can get a free copy of this teaching male dereliction is the title of Pastor Rick's message today he's teaching.

Judges chapter 4 got a saying this is not how I planned it this is not going to work for you or for them. This is going to be bad for both of you male and female for the families going to be bad. He says oh my people. Those who lead you, cause you to error and destroy the way of your paths.

That's profound for us living in an age where again emasculation of masculinity. Sounds like a redundancy, but is not is gone. While God again to give his people. A woman judge was to treat them like children they had behaved spiritually like children and they needed a mother. Men can be too hard on young boys and is good for boys to have a good mother, a buffer convoy. Why can't you do it.

We're expecting them to be member long before it's time. It is exactly where they were when it came to spiritual things in need of a mother not ready for meat, not ready for spiritual manhood. It is said here, the wife of lap and off. Deborah, a wife and a mother she responds to the cry of the children of Israel. She considered her role in life to be that of a mother and a wife. She considers her role as a judge and prophetess as an honor. But she retains I am a mother in Israel.

Judges chapter 5 verse seven in Deborah's song she writes village life ceased it ceased in Israel until I Deborah arose arose a mother in Israel see the rebuke. Therefore, the men why where were you.

Why is the wife having to go out and do it when you are supposed to be doing it fine if you won't do it. God will get someone else will.

That's true for male and female alike is true in ministry. It holds us to ministry find you want to quit. Go ahead. I'll just raise somebody else of God will say for a woman. There is no higher calling. There is no higher calling than being one of three things a mother or a wife or handmaiden of the Lord who you what Christian was I object. There's got to be something more for me that's not enough. You would unveil your folly in your ignorance and your lack of understanding. Were you to object, there is again not a more honorable role or to fulfill.

If I am any use as a man.

To this day are in my life. It is largely because of what my mother instilled in me. I'm not going to take the time to itemize the things I have. I have a Bible little pocket Bible at home and it says in the beginning as soon as you open it. My mother gave it to me in her writing turned to page so-and-so and you turn there is a scripture verse highlighted, and then variances turn to pay and it's just he keeps leading you to this the Lord Jesus Christ and the gospel and I consider it hate speech and an insult to the role of the wife of the mother of the handmaiden of the Lord to suggest that those positions are not dignified but there's more for her as a corporate ladder to top out at nevermind being a mother or a wife or handmaiden of the Lord and I pity the fool man who has a wife or mother treats the handmaidens of the Lord as though they were something less. Yes we all struggle with sin.

I'm not talking about that I'm talking about how we perceive what we how we think, as I started when the character is shaped. It is shaped by thought and action, not one without the other.

If you just think about it you don't do anything you Derek you your dereliction duty. If you if you act but you don't think your brute. They have told our women.

You can be like men in the telling.

Amen. You should be like women. These are devils. These are advocates of Satan's doctrine, God designed the role of a woman, and it is slandered by Satan and his advocates in the world is spiritually blind to this and we should expect that we don't hate them for which we full out stand against it and disagree. So again, the women, be they with or without husband be they with or without child. They are equally eligible for the nobility that God has granted the grants status of mobility to men when they do their duty and he grants the same status of mobility to women when they do there's an Satan is always trying to push them off that person will be something else. Don't miss out on life. Cut Your Own Rd., Isaiah chapter 54 verse five for your maker is your husband Yahweh of host is his name and your Redeemer is the holy one of Israel. He is called the God of the whole earth. See, God said that to Isaiah to say it to the nation and the nation was failing in God was rebuilding them and encouraging them saying you are my bride because it is a worthy calling and it comes to calling is initiated by the Lord and continues here in verse four she was judging Israel at the time. Again, the reason she was judging Israel overseeing the laws settling disputes is because the men weren't. This was an exception is not the ideal Mrs. Israel. This is not the church with the church to the men, failing women will will step up and that's the rebuke to the men a strong rebuke is no rebuke to the women not rebuke to the women to say you're the helpmate I need you in the executive position, not the command position is no rebuke, and there is a review when the man is told, why aren't you in the command position. Why are you in this support position is on our range that you're not the helpmate is still around. There's no better helpmate's under the circumstances and situations given to us in Scripture, and what we find coming from the word of God, the Bible does not preach that women are to spiritually lead the men and neither do I Abigail.

Abigail managed male servants. Nothing wrong with management that context is not the same as being spiritual leader or official unofficial spiritual leader. Interestingly enough, when we come to the New Testament. Deborah is not the one remembered from the story bark is in Hebrews 1132 inch quote later, Deborah would have approved of what I'm saying if she were sitting in the congregation you say amen I lived it. I had to go to that when there were no men coming up or calling out world where the men why wasn't her husband doing maybe was alive. There are no but it was not what it should have been and Deborah would say I don't care what the world thinks I know Yahweh says she's willing to find her issuer prophecy to validate her office that she genuinely was a prophet of God.

It will be fulfilled in this chapter world again does not like the idea of women being helpmate's and so we have this emasculation movement that we have to face me ask you, do you want your sons subject to that femininity is femininity is dead is gone really hard to find as it used to be is over some sort of a curse that you may say that's as you speak with this. It has been for the past 25 minutes, but I know I'm right. You know you can look at an advertisement we want to sell you something.

They had the man dressed up in a woman dressed up in a go back usually to the 40s and 50s in the imagery because they have captured something with that. I think that means something anywhere else. They back to this, as I mentioned, God wanted borrower to leave but he refused. So rather than just guarding barbaric. She uses the two together God or somebody uses different direct together masterful stroke of the Lord because though he was rebuking the men he was not looking to beat them down to the point where they could not get back up verse five, and she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

How many people would've already already have clicked me off.

If you're watching online, because I'm not preaching the world's message because I'm not letting this infectious disease from the world corrupt, the clear teachings of God under the guise of culture. Deborah is one of five women called a prophetess in the Old Testament listed in said to be a prophetess and again the prophetess is broader meaning to it than just one that is in the office of authority and foretells or predicts the future the prophetess or prophet has as much more of a meaning to it, but I'll just stay close to the four that are listed for five Deborah of course Miriam in Exodus 15, the sister of Moses. Hold on second Kings again second Kings will be a time where the men are not stepping up as they ought to be.

Isaiah's wife who was an excellent helpmate and then there's Noah Dyer, a false prophetess mentioned in Nehemiah chapter 6. So yes she is a prophetess Deborah and a judge in Israel but don't forget she saw herself as a mother of her people and the wayward Jews were her children and she welcomed them and she counseled them and she helped them in the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. It says here at the bottom of verse five. Again, not the ideal, but thank God for it. Thank God he could find Deborah verse six. Of course God knew this was going to happen before the world began.

He was on top of this verse six.

Then she sent and called for Bart, the son of a been a limb from Cadiz and Naphtali and said to him as not Yahweh God of Israel commanded go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor war take with you 10,000 men of the sons of Naphtali and the sons of Zebulun verse seven and against you. I will deploy Cicero, the commander of Jabez's army with his chariots and his multitude at the river kiss John and I will deliver him into your hand. This is the first to profound prophecies. The Deborah issues in this chapter, and this is a detailed prophecy.

She's giving numbers she's giving names, giving locations and she's giving the. The conclusion of these events borrowed.

His name means lightning but is not likely that his given name be Don we get from first Samuel 12 meaning son of judgment just a passing note this these Canaanites. Of course they hated the people of God and the God of the people, God was not disturbed by any of that would bar it was to lead the Israelites. The Army toward Mount Tabor war and then God would draw Cicero and his troops to the Tucson River and give bar at the victory through miracle will there be also sword fighting.

It would be a miracle to deal with those 900 chariots rain would be would God would weapon of choice will come to that verse eight and bar, etc. if you will go with me then I will go but if you will not go with me. I will not go you kidding me you kidding me you want me to steal your thunder. I'm telling you God says to go. He's got this. Why would you want me are you superstitious bar if I become a rabbit's foot for you wish your courage you have, you will certainly have combat, courage which is spiritual courage. You have you can be a amazing tackle, or running back in football strong brave, but a spiritual weakling at the same time I don't want to be too hard on bark, but I don't be too easy on my story tells itself.

To his credit, he did not go against his own fears. This bothered him and he will be. I'm not going we look at it. Years later, we say this is the lesson will be no other reason to have this here to humiliate bar holds bigger than that though that is in the story, but is not pretending to have faith that he does not have, but he misses a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show himself a champion in Israel. God said to the men I'm I want you to to get your act together and I'm going give you a chance and they choked on it. Deborah going with bar.

It was sort of like the policeman putting out the fire for the firefighters.

It's not the design that's not what we expect this missed opportunity to redeem male leadership not to display reluctance. That's what he did pretty pretty strong. I believe you I believe God is telling you this to me, but you have to come with me, verse, verse nine, I'm tempted to make Jehoshaphat there's no one here to laugh, and in the end of the Fay class might not work well, that's what we'll have a left machine.

Anyway, that's my break verse nine so she said I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, there will be no glory for you in the journey you are you are taking stop right there. See God. It she understood.

This is a chance for glory, no guts no glory bark you got this chance. Don't throw it away. Lad he throws it away.

Nonetheless, she says, for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman, and Deborah arose and went with Bharat to Cadiz fine. Although, because the people on the mother, the people got a win if that's what it takes to blow it and by the way, Sisera is really bad guy. A woman's going to take amount bark not you that's again not an insult but it's a male-dominated society. The roles are clearly defined, it clear and if you if you move to the left or right of them so was the violation of the clear assignment so she rebukes him. That's what this is. She doesn't in a crushing she less than events can do that for her because they will forever that will be in back of his mind. He was told that the victory over Cicero would be given he would not share in the, the fullness of it that God wanted him to. That scares me. God has a plan for your life or yeah well I don't know whether this all the time.

Not all not the details not but I want every much of it is I don't want to be negligent. I think I think Deborah was alert to dig a little disturbed by this Hebrews chapter 11 where I mention it will remember Baraga not ours is in some and what more shall I say, for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Baraga and Samson and Jeff the also of David and Samuel and the prophets, so it says what time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Baraga every man's man would stop there. In his thinking and reading that verse and say I don't want to be like Samson.

I don't want to be like bark of of those names listed those two men I I don't want to be like but but if I fail, for whatever reasons I still see that I'm not crushed at the mercy of God took these men and still said the heroes of faith.

What an encouragement. If you failed serving governmental or female. What an encouragement of you have come up short. God still puts your name in this list with David and Samuel courage because of you going to do anything with the Lord you going to fail.

Baraga would have assumed that Deborah was talking about herself when she said the victory will go to a woman. Those are the exact words were destroyed and read it again. She said the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman now that the thought we would get well that's Deborah she's going to get the credit that is not how it's going to play out catching us all by surprise when we get down to verses 18 to 22. Oswald Chambers has something to say about how God fashions us I think is pretty insightfully says we are not quite prepared for the blows, which must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the vision we have seen what we are not what God wants us to be were not willing to have the vision battered into shape and use an and use by God. The battering's always come in commonplace ways and through commonplace people in this going to come through Giles. She's commonplace person. Verse 10 and borrower called Zebulon and Naphtali to Cadiz and he went out with 10,000 men under his command, and Deborah went up with him.

There's another zinger for the men for the women you got everything yeah call Deborah but that's not the stories about is not a competition we get sucked into that you will make a marriage struggle compete with each other you it's it's you you that's that's friction rubbing against each other of the wrong way opposite directions. Not so much of yourselves but opposite of God. God did not say that Adam you need a competitor barricade list 10,000 men from his own tribe and and Zebulun. That's significant.

That means he had some poll question God was doing this we never can count God out, but that's not going to work if he has no one to work with, and that's why people cry out for Savior for deliver. In Israel they were doing. And of course in judges all the time later, the other tribes will join in.

Benjamin and Eve from Manasseh East Issachar, they will knock the numbers up to 40,004 tribes will refuse to show up again.

The men being negligent failing Ruben dad Asher and Manasseh, Manasseh, West will go to battle Manasseh East will not least on the Jordan side of the side of the Jordan. They will not show up and Deborah will rebuke them when she writes her chapter 5 we get to chapter 5 she doesn't forget that she puts it into Sonia is going into writing into history. Verse 11.

Now Hebrew, the Canaanite, the son of of Heber, the Kenite of the children of whole bad the father-in-law of Moses separated himself from the Canaanites of the Kenite's that is and pitched his tent near the terebinth tree of his AI is NAM which is beside Cadiz.

Yet these names.

They break the flow. I mean the mines going to get decent games like speed bumps all over the place speedbump that Indian village well man. I don't know what the flag is a way when is a wreck, don't shoot at anyway that's for the doesn't mean while this is a big part of the story. Actually, this Heber you know if you just casually read.

Use it wisely put his name in their well it is his wife that ultimately brings down Sisera woman whom Deborah prophesied would get the victory over Cicero but these are the Kenite's they go back to the days of Moses with his father-in-law and they they they stayed with the Jews and the Jews traveled to the wilderness. The Kenite's are right there with them, but Heber decide you know I don't like my clan anymore. I'm going to leave them any packs of his clan and he moves away and he lines up with the enemies of God's people, which in this case is of Jaden with Cicero's general and that's how they get into the story. He has an alliance of friendship. There, that should not be is on the wrong team with Israel was doing to God by abandoning God and going gravitating idols and so did Heber. The Kenite move thanks for tuning in to cross reference radio for this study in the book of Judges cross reference radio is the teaching ministry pastor Rick Gaston of Calvary Chapel in Mechanicsville, Virginia. If you'd like more information about this ministry, we invite you to visit our website cross reference radio.com you will find additional teachings from Pastor Rick available there, and we encourage you to subscribe to our podcast by doing so you will be notified of each new edition of cross reference radio. You can search for cross reference radio on your favorite podcast that work just follow the links and cross reference radio.com that's all the time we have for today. Join us next time to continue learning more from the book of Judges right here cross reference rate