Calling All Leaders, Both Male and Female, Part 2

Today on Summit life with Jeannie Greer more than one way in God's eyes to be wicked.

Wickedness can come from what you do but wickedness could just as easily come from what you fail to see when Jesus called his disciples he didn't say watch me intensely. Jesus called disciples.

He said follow me this reason some of you need to stop listening and watching them start following them at night.

I'm your host Molly but admits in the Old Testament book of Judges we find needing story about two people named Deborah and Barak careful examination of their lives offers a powerful lesson on leadership today. Pastor JD invites us to follow along as he teaches from the book of Judges, chapters 4 and five.

He shares five key points that will apply to both men and women in leadership today. If you have missed any of the messages in this teaching series so far working like to get your copy of honest questions quick answers visit us@jeanniegreer.com or by calling 866-335-5220.

But for now let's get back to her teaching that we began yesterday. Pastor Jane look at the story of Deborah and Barack, Deborah and Barack Judges 41 story begins again. The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Now that left-handed Ehud was dead. Number left-handed Ehud was a southpaw Savior. We looked at a couple weeks ago that delivered Israel well as long as he was alive for 80 years of people follow God when he died. They wandered back into their ways and so the Lord sold them into the hands of Jacob and the king of Canaan, who reigned in a sore sister, the commander of David's army had 900 chariots fitted with iron.

Now Israel cried to the Lord for help verse for now. Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lapidus was leaving Israel at that time she held court under the palm of Deborah creatively named in the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided, so she sent for Barack and said to him, Lord God of Israel commands you go and take with you 10,000 men, I will lead Sisera into your hands. Barack said to her, if you go with me. I'll go but if you don't go with me. I will go so Deborah responds, you gotta read in this very deep sigh. Certainly I will go with you, but because of the course you are taking the honor will not be yours for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman. Now he were the key night had separated from the Kenai to pitch to set up by the Okun's Amin which is America – that 2M to be delicate out of nowhere right were talking about Deborah Moroccan them in a battle now all the sudden we learn about his cunning Hebrew can't get along with the other key night and Zoe takes his trailer with his wife and he moves out to the desert but it's not a random detail at all as I will show you so meanwhile back at the palace. Verse 12 Deborah directs Barack in the Army down to a region of the base of Mount sobor the River basin, which is another important detail all show you in a moment.

Verse 14 then Deborah said to Barack go this is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands is not the Lord God ahead of you and the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and flat on foot to find out in chapter 5 that the reason Sisera had to flee on foot was a sudden rainstorm and come in the river flooded so Sisera's 900 chariots of iron got stuck. So Sisera is now running on foot and with his 900 chariots and bind them and he comes verse 17 of the chin of John L wife of Heber, the Kenai remember them. Gile went out to be Sisera arrives at him, Lord, and right and don't be afraid, so he entered her tenancy covered him with a blanket. I'm thirsty.

He said please give me some water. She did give him water. She opened up a skin of milk and she gave him a drink and covered them up the dress off to sleep. Verse 21, then Gile Heber's wife pick up a tent peg and a hammer went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep drove the peg to his temple into the ground and he died. I know some of you save my seems really silent. Stories like this in Judges of I understand I come back to that for the M but here's the question what piercing truths can we learn from Deborah Barack and Gile. Five of them okay for some of the longest number one God gives to women the same spiritual gifts. He gives the man the others are in the next chapter. Chapter 5 is Deborah write a song and in that song are four important lessons for both men and women number two when the leaders we the people praise the Lord. That's the first thing she says chapter 5, verse one. Deborah says when the princes and Israel take the lead.

When the people willingly offer themselves.

Praise the Lord, my heart is with willing volunteers among the people. Then in verse 13 she begins to list out the various tribes of Israel, and she talked about which ones join the fight which ones did not. Now you can apply this to both men and women but specifically she talked about the man because Prince as princes, not friends of the princes is male.

She saying when the leaders lead when the princes leave and the people praise the Lord to let me direct this point specifically for the men we have a lot of men hanging back by the ships that ought to be out in the fight is when the princes lead that we praise the Lord. Deborah says men God has given you a crucial role to play.

That cannot be replicated by anybody else, and if your family is gonna praise the Lord is going to be because you stepped forward to lead every sociological study of its type done points to the fact of the leadership of the father is the greatest determining factor in how the kids turn out. I'm reading a book right now given to me by a friend. The book is written by Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician who works with teenage girls in the book is called strong father strong daughters until she told a story about a girl named Leah sat in her office one afternoon, very sullen exuding. She says all the symptoms of depression after some questioning, the girl revealed the doctor Meeker that the sign of a family friend had date raped her. As Dr. Meeker continued to question her.

Lee revealed that she had told her dad about it in his response was well boys will be boys. We can shrug it off. Then he and Leah's words went golfing.

Dr. Meeker says the assault was devastating to Leah but the blow that really seemed a broader down was the fact that her father didn't care for and defend her. She says a sexual assault is possibly the most traumatic event a broken experience.

Now consider that many psychologists and psychiatrists say that your response to your daughters assault, especially dad if you are the first one that she comes to is among the most important factors in shaping your daughter's future emotional health. After the event. She continues when a child is humiliated or harmed her natural instinct is to get back of the offender to fight to defend yourself, but she's physically weaker than her attacker. Now she sees you in her eyes.

Dad your big your tough your smart her gut tells her he can help.

He's the answer.

My dad will make things right because he loves me will stand up for me before you even learn what is happened.

She has imagined your heroic response. If you do what your instinct tells you to do if you get angry and you take action. She will feel love she will feel defended, she will feel a sense of justice, she will move closer to a sense of closure over the incident at Leah's dad responded the right way. She said that he acted as a man, rather than shrugging his shoulders and weakness. I submit the miter preventively is depression reviewed and prevented. He might've at least help mitigate the depth of it. Dr. Meeker talks about how in our culture. Masculinity has been disparaged by feminist or been distorted by rap artist true masculinity she said is the moral exercise of authority. You were made a man for a reason. You were made a man to be strong, a loving husband and father to listen to your instincts and do what's right.

Be a hero. That's what Deborah says in the princes leave the people praise the Lord. There are plenty of guys in the world.

Too many guys too many dudes. We need men to men, I will tell you. Deborah maybe is a good way to say it time for you to Deborah up and be a man. Which leads me to number three God curses spectators Deborah list out the people who sat on the sidelines. She comes to a crescendo in verse 23 personal rose said the angel of the Lord curse its people bitterly because they did not come to help the Lord to help the Lord against the mighty doesn't say that the people of Monroe's did anything bad to say all they hung back and smoke dope and club prostitutes in red and everybody stents just as he did nothing sitting on the sidelines not only robs you of reward. It put you under a curse you active in the kingdom of God. Your time you leverage your talents to be of use in the kingdom of God about your treasures in your resources. How much of your resources. How many are engaged in the expanse of God's kingdom you want to know the difference between a budget that God blesses him one that God does not has a lot to do and how much of what God is given. He was engaged in the expanse of God's kingdom. Do not tell yourself that you're okay as long as you're not committing crimes.

And as long as you are somewhat regular at a church attendance sheet is more than one way in God's eyes to be wicked. Wickedness can come from what you do but wickedness can just as easily come from what you fail to do this. Even Jesus called his disciples he didn't say watch me intensely and say listen to me. When Jesus called disciples. He said follow me, which means that some of you need to stop listening and watching them start following you need to act on that this weekend so I know where to start. What I do what you start by joining the church to get involved.

You could start to invest your time and your talents and treasures. A friend this week say how do we help people that are are being persecuted for the fatal run will be 21 killed in each of what can we do, we can all go over there and fight for them or or whatever.

Here's what I told him yes we can do that. But did you know that the summer church has people in the same regions are serving with your representatives affirming their to what you can do is be a part of a church and at the part of a church that is praying and serving and giving and the way we act locally here when we become that church and we have our way of supporting what is going on over there. You can get involved. That is what God I think tells us through this is blessed of the people when they willingly offer themselves. Number four the story shows us that all that God requires of us holy God requires of us a simple obedience. You see we see in the story recurring theme in Judges only God brings down the most powerful tyrants in the world with very weak instruments.

In this case, a housewife of the tent peg attempt peg in those days. By the way, was a very common household item to be like me say to you, she killed him with a frying pan or an iron. She took iron and whacked them on the side of a over and over. The book of Judges teaches us in so many different ways God does his work in the world never through our ability need our ability because of you are availability return to the conclusion of today's teaching in just a moment. I wanted to remind you about this month's featured resource just like in the book of Judges we have a new study. This meant that also covers some strange but brutally honest topic. We've created a second volume of honest questions quick answers some of you might remember when we offered volume 1, two years ago this new bucketful of new questions and answers from Pastor JD.

What if and I and is it okay to ask for success and is gambling morally wrong.

We like to encourage you to reserve your copy right now by calling 866-335-5220 or visit us online GE career.com for being with us today. Now let's finish up today's teaching is a contrast of set up in this chapter that will make sure you don't miss in chapter 5 or six in those days the highways were abandoned. The villagers cease their travel. It was so dangerous that people were so weak they would even go outside their houses. What's this verse four but when the Lord rolled out only one scared the earth trembled. The clouds drop water in dry season.

The mountains equates.

In other words, Lord airbase characters. When both other house Lord opened the garage door roles outputs the top down turns the music but is rolled down the street and nurse earthquake hello that image of an earthquake because something quakes when the pressure against it is too much, or think like a nice quake. Kennewick is not a real reason term but nice quake would be if I were to try to walk across a frozen pond that the ice wasn't big enough for squirrels out there and there's three or four squirrels in their runaround player and the girls do you wrestle doughnuts at each other and and I think I will find some of the other with them and your saucer to walk out there, but because I way significant way more than the squirrels. When my feet hit the ice begins to begins to quake and eventually it splits and I fall through this poor little squirrels if they were trying to pierce the ice could jump up and down to backflips never to make the ice move, but I have so much weight that I can just split it just by walking on it. So what happens is you got the little Israelites runaround like squirrels and there's this ice of oppression over them.

There's this ice of inability and is much as I hop up and down the can't do a thing and what God does as he rolls out put the top down and the earth just quakes because a little moisture that comes out of his mouth is going to do more than the Israelites could do and see in the thousand years what God needs is a housewife with attempt peg. He says here my send me not a man with an army.

What God needs from you is not your ability. It's your availability.

God has never needed you to crack the ice got it just needed you to obey and what you see in the stories you see Giles looking back up at Jesus. Looking back up at God and Savior, and my send me less said about women blessed among women is Giles Weber, 24, says it was amazing about that. The phrase is repeated. One other time in the Bible. It's in the New Testament set about Mary blessed among women is Mary did you get another impossible situation when God comes to a woman named Mary and says you give birth to a child to be the Savior of the whole world.

She's a virgin version has obvious limitations for bringing for the Savior for the world. What is Mary say the enemy according to your word. That is a prayer both surrender and faith because it says God I'll do what you tell me to do I give her you tell me to give ago you tell me to go sir, will you tell me to serve, leave the results of power to you which is in a restaurant. You tell me the rest you pray that prayer surrender of faith.

That's the question number five. The stories teaches us. God will one day right every wrong for the end of Deborah's song.

She begins to mock Sisera verse 28. She sarcastically puts words in Sisera's mother's mouth. Deborah pictures Sisera's mother standing by the window, wondering why my senses were taking so long to return the sycophant ladies of the court all around her, say it's because of so much Israelites boil the divide up flights taken a long time to come back in verse 30 they say really crudely how and there's a 2 for every man. In other words, the men have girls to write up flights taken while get back. Meanwhile, Sisera is in a tent being killed by a woman.

She was happening. Perfect justice is being served.

Sisera has spent his life oppressing and abusing women in the end he's brought down by a woman with a frying pan. This is the Old Testament version of Kill Bill verse 26 Deborah sings. She struck Sisera. She crushed his head to shatter to bidders the temple from another 10 but scholars do say that the way this is written, she is mimicking the blows of the hammer against Sisera skull. She writes this was really staccato, short phrases, even rely this between her feet, he sank.

He fell file still between her feet, he sank. He fell where he sank 30 fell dead. Israel love the stories of how God delivered them. They love to savor them like a fine wine sip by sip if they enjoyed recounting the songs of their deliverance, how much more should we answer Deborah enter song this way so may all your enemies perish, Lord, may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. You say, but we don't always see justice served.

Not every rapist. Not every sexual predator is brought to justice. That person that messed with me. That person that messed me up seem to have gotten away with it and that is true if you're only evaluating by this life.

We often see the guilty go unpunished. But that doesn't mean the discussion is over. You see in the store we get a glimpse of how it is all going to the end God is going to settle all scores this story.

Like all the stories of the judges. All it does is pointed forward to the ultimate judge Jesus like John Aiello he will be the unexpected Savior who everybody assumes is weak, slays the enemy by surprise and him oppression is ended.

Justice is restored and for those of us in Christ, the son of God's love and life rises on our civic strength. It melts the ice of oppression and makes the fog and darkness of what were in today disappear. This story tells you eternity is coming. It is not that far away. When you're to be a land that is bursting with the brightness of justice and glowing with the glory of love were God says he will wipe away every tear from our eyes. There will be no more pain or crying all morning and that there will on that that the old things are passed away and all things are become new. What my favorite images for heaven is that there needs to be no sign and no moon there because there is no darkness there, the Lord our God is the light where he brings glory and love and acceptance and oppression has ceased. Not for the story tells you look forward to before I end let me deal with one other objection I looted to the very beginning. Some people read this story and they say well the stories are so violent elitist of violence. People take justice into their own hands and killing their enemies, not at all not at all if you understand them correctly. In fact, dinner statement correctly to do exactly the opposite. God commands us. As of this in Romans 12 never to take vengeance into our own hands because keyword the Lord will repay. In other words, I know that one day God is going to serve perfect justice. Therefore, I don't feel like I have to take it on myself. You see, when an atheist believes that there is no God, who served out justice and eternity, who bears the burden of making sure justice is served when you must see when you don't believe that there is a God who brings justice when you suffer injustice.

You see the under it and you have to get back at them.

You have to avenge yourself. What kind of world that create fearful, hateful, vengeful, the cross of Jesus Christ creates a different kind of world is in the cross, I see two things I want to see that all wrongs will be righted, and I see number two that the wrongs that I have done personally, but what I'm Jesus had what that means for me. You say listen is that means that every sentence ever been committed against me is going to be rectified Italy to be paid for by that person in the judgment or Jesus going to pay for them across the way that he paid for mine and because I know that God carries around the tent pegs of justice in his hand. I don't have to carry them around my driving them through the skull of everybody that hurts me because I see that God carries those bags and a God will avenge wrong and I know that when it came time avenge my wrong God took the peg of justice that going in my head, and he put in the Jesus is, and that creates a spirit in me, that looks at the Sisera's who have destroyed me and hurt me and it makes me say to them. I hope that you can come to faith in Christ find forgiveness of your sins, as I have found my there is one message of the book of Judges and that is there is a Savior, who is coming Savior who can say the Savior who can sustain and try to save yourself you're going to fail you will live a life of hate.

You will live a life of fear. You will live a life of envy and vengeance.

But if you trust in Jesus, you will live a life of peace, you will live a life or you know that all things working together for good, and you can finally be free. Which way are you living sponsored by your heads up you would two ways to live to isolate are you controlling try to save yourself. Are you submitted to Jesus words the worry and fear dominate your hardware does you hate what he has vengeance is so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take him at his word just to rest upon his promise and no thus says the Lord. Maybe your spectator, and the Holy Spirit of God is said time, but hang out by the ships and was go get in the game should resolve right now to take that step maybe for the first time in your life maybe finally understood. Listen to every story in the Bible every verse of Scripture. Every chapter is about Jesus. It's all one story about a Savior who came to save Savior did for you.

What you could do for yourself. Every story have you come to that one point the Bibles make any Jesus. Maybe today.

Right now you can submit his closing comments Judy Greer explained why he chose the title for our current teaching series broken Savior's. It's clear that any time we try to receive God's will and become our own Savior desperately you're listening to the daily radio program called Summit life.

If you've missed any part of this series, or if you'd like to share this message or others with a friend visit our website right now. There's no cost to hear or share Pastor JD's messages online to visit JD decree or.com when you donate to Summit life you're really getting to your fellow listeners and making it possible for JD's teaching to be heard all across the country and our way of saying thanks for your gift today will send you an explicit new Senate life resource as our culture becomes more and more post-Christian and secular can be hard to have mercy for one another.

When we are confronted with difficult topics and questions.

We spent 16 honest questions quick answers into a bug to help give you words of grace when discussing hard things we lets get you a copy today of our latest resource, honest questions and answers and falling into if you miss volume 1 when it was offered a couple of years ago about gift today by calling 335-5220 663-3552 24. Get online seeming clear.com while you're on the website. You can also sign up for our email ministry update information about new resources and latest delivered straight to great way to stay connected with Senate life legally free to subscribe clear.com Molly that if it's inviting you to listen again next week.

Broken Me on