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K f I a Carmichael Sacramento 7 10 am The word on the bit. Is. The. Bit. Closer. Ever hear the phrase What goes around comes around welcome to through the Bible we see the ultimate example of that in our last study in the book of Judges history has once again come full circle Dr McGee calls it the hoop of history if you can open your Bible to judges Chapter 17 and as you get settled in your seat on the Bible boss we have a special introduction from Dr McKee. Miracle drugs actually are not new they go way back as someone has said Moses had 2 tablets that could cure the world well the problem was that a great many American drugs people are allergic to them and mankind has been allergic to the 2 tablets that Moses had and we find in the book of Judges that we have little money and I have treated this almost on a human wrists of lane because these man are little man oddballs no leadership yes frail had no leadership they had sunk down deep in gross immorality and finally God did have to give them a king to rule over them he wanted to do that but they asked for a king and friends I wonder if you recognize the route we are going to day we have today new morality which means old same old immorality and that's new morality is rebellion against God We have what is known as Situation Ethics and we've seen mankind today moving away from God How tragic it is as we look at our nation and in this year when there are no George Washington's The Thomas Jeffersons Patrick Henry's our man of that caliber John Wetherspoon and John Hancock we lack leadership today what's the next step. Well the next step is a strong man that's the way it's been in the history of the world America must have a revival are else we shall continue on the downward path Heavenly Father Today we take these few moments to pray for our nation we pray especially for our leadership and that they might turn to you and we pray that somehow another that's a spender that God may move upon this sending nation and bring us back to the eyes . Well we pray in Jesus name a man let's continue to pray for the spiritual health of our nation and for our president and executive leadership we commit these things to God Now here Dr j. Vernon McGee with today's study in Judges beginning in chapter 17. Now as we come here to the 17th chapter and from Chapter 17 through 21 we have here their philosophy of history that we mentioned at the very beginning we've seen it illustrated in this book and the hoop of history that rolls down through time and it started off with the nation as serial in a place of blessing then they began a departure from God They followed their own way they were sold into slavery and in their slavery and servitude they cried out to God then they turned to God and repented and God raised up judges delivered them then they came back to the place of blessing of a nation serving God and all here they go again and they began to do evil and turn from God Now that gives us this philosophy of history that every night should and that goals down goes down in this order there is 1st religious apostasy 2nd terrorists Marl awfulness And 3rd there's political lan arche it begins in the temple then the home then the state that's the way a nation goes down now in chapter 17 and I feign we say religious apostasy the temple we read in verse one of chapter 17 of judges and there was a man of Mount Ephraim whose name was mine and he said unto his mother the 1100 shekels of self were that were taken from the about which thou curses and speak this of all cell in my nearest behold a silver swith name I took it and his mother said bless it be thou of the law of my son now here is an example of us wild birds. Micah is a son of the mother that this blog and he's mama's boy and when he saw that she was saving up this money why he decided to steal it and then he took it then it must have bothered him then he told her why he had done and stead of our turning him across our Navy and applying the Board of Education to the seat of knowledge well she congratulated him she said bless and be thou the Lord my eyes son and plenty and restored 1100 shekels of Silva to his mother's mother said I notice they've gone often to idolatry I had a holiday advocated the silver under the lowered from my hand from my son to my cot graven image and Multan image now that for I will restore it on the lady and then she turns around and gives it to him don't make it an image and she said she dedicated it under the law and you know there are a lot of Christians today that are just that inconsistent she said I'm dedicating it to the Lord but we're making an idol using it for that and I find a great many Christians I've been rather amused if some of these youth groups you know they take up an offer in and they say it's for the lot and then they use most of it for the social on Friday night that they all can enjoy dedicated to the lot but actually dedicated to their god a pleasure to hedonism if you please not to God at all and that's what you have here now what happened was this man Micah with that money was perfectly able to not only make one molten image but we're told in verse 5 and the man Micah had a house of gods that is the damages and made in Africa and Terra fame and consecrated one of his sons who became is 3 s. Now I notice in those days. Days there was no king and yes we'll let every man did that which was right in his own eyes so now this is a place they've come to an atom be repeated several times and fact that last verse of this book every man does that which is right in his own eyes now we find that this man Micah had a son it's all a family affair and I guess that bothered him a little but that's just what happened very sad the now object just 17 that was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah of the family of Judah who was a Levite and he sojourn there and the man departed out of the city from Bethlehem Judah or so journey where he could find a place and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah as a journey and now he has and I turn around preacher by the way and Micah said on to him when scum is down and he said on him on the Levi of Bethlehem Judah and I go to sojourn where I may find a place and Micah said unto him dwell with me and be under me a father and a priest and I will give the 10 shekels of silver by the year in a suit of apparel and dive medals room and board so the Levite when Ian not this is a hard creature if you play here is the hired preacher that is the messenger boy of a board our of our little group and God have mercy on a church that has that kind of preacher and so here is this Levite here Jess has become now a priest but he's got a house full of handles and the Levite was content to do well with the mind and the young man was son to him as one of a son it's so the Levite you know sort of took the boy an but he didn't condemn this idolatry and Micah consecrated the Levite the young man became a priest and was in the house. Of Micah then said Micah now know that the log will do me good seeing I have a Levite to my praise Now this is certainly a revelation of the los very chill ale that the nation and sun to air is a man that thanks if he just has a Levite in our day and a preacher that's all that he need see how tragic it is and yet this man expects the blessing of God upon him and how many are like that today now and not the one of the tribes this was easy for him in the tribe of Dan which was why in the knowledge Chapter 18 verse one begins like this and those days that was no king in history you say this was a time of utter confusion no leadership and in those days the tribe of the Dan I guess sought them an inheritance to dwell in for under that they all inheritance had not fallen under them among the tribes of Israel and you will recall that in the Book of Joshua with that none of these tribes got all the land that was coming to them and that certainly was true of the tribe of Dan the way in the north they had a real problem and you will remember they took to the hills and the children of Dan sent of their family 5 man from the coast man of valor from cellar a from. A spy out the land into search it and they sat under them go search the land who when they came to mount Ephraim to the house of market I lodge there now these men went to see what territory that the tribe of Dan could take to extend and expand their borders in their own tribe but in their travels they came to the house of Micah verse 3 and when they were by the house of Micah they knew the voice of the young man the Levite and he sounded like a preacher and they turned down. And sat under him who brought the hither and what make this 1000 this place and what has that here and he said unto them thus and thus deal with Michael with me and I've hired me and I missed praise he's a hard preacher but have mercy on the church when it has a hard creature that is nothing in the world but a messenger boy to do what a little group wants him to do and does not do what God has called him to do that is preach and teach the Word of God without fear without favoritism and without compromise now this boy here has the really compromised. This is a period of compromise corruption and confusion and that is the thing that marks apostasy any time we to day are in an apostasy the church is in a position of compromise corruption and confusion and that is the problem not coming back till it's a thought or a take a day which is the Word of God and a large Jesus Christ who is revealed in the Word of God Now will you notice these man from down they said all my well here's a priest right here and we'll speak to him they said on the ham ask counsel we pray thee of God that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous and the priest said unto them go in peace before the Lord is your way wherein you go and my this is the sweet tall of a hive preacher saying things that they people want to hear having it change yours he wants to hear some complement and they want to hear something not I send these in soft and sweet and so we have the sweet talk of the hired breacher here and these 5 man a lad they thought. This was great and verse 10 and when you go ye shall come on to a people secure to a large land for God given it into your hands up place where there is no want of anything that is in the air and the very interesting thing a lot of these men went to spy out the land and what happened well did they in large they land Yes but what happened verse 30 and the children of Dan set up the graven image and Jonathan the son of Gershom the son of Manasseh he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan and Cal the diary of the captivity of the land now who is Jonathan he happens to be the grandson of Moses is not here is real apostasy friends you couldn't have it any worse than it is right here this is pos the say from the days of Moses not to his grandson who is priest and has an idol they gone a long ways from God Moses It's sad that I shall have no other gods before me that I shall not make under the any lightness and here the grandson non-stories when I will this is tragic I wonder if I might say this on the network and I think it will be all right to say it I was shocked when I began to study for the ministry and began to learn a few things about the church I was not brought up in the chair and as a result it was a new world and a new life for me when I began to study for the ministry and found out some things I had always thought of blackmail moody as being way up Blair real sign of God and he was by the way and then a man who knew him and. And who knew its family he said you know that one of his sons is then the most liberal are going to say Sion that's in this country in that day he was in the old Federal Council of Churches and had an office and that I said you don't mean that a son of glad l. Moody said Yes that's right and you know I never had anything that hurt me as that they had as a young man studying for the ministry I just couldn't understand how a son of a man like Modi could depart from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the integrity and in errancy of the Word of God mass I tell you friends that apostasy is an awful flame and a problem with any nation begins always in this matter of religious apostasy This is why this happened now and you'll notice that it moves on to the 2nd stage and that 2nd stage is an awful stage Mara lawfulness and we have that style or a noun in chapter 19 and it concerns actually the triad are Benjamin and I'm not going to go into a great deal of detail here but just to look at something that I think is very important chapter 19 verse one and it came to pass and those days when there was no king in s. Real that I was a certain Levite so journeying on the side of Mount Ephraim who took him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah now we have another insight into the life of the people of latter day and this is a good illustration of Romans one through 3 by the way and his concubine played the heart. They gained steam one away from him under our father sas to Bethleham Judah and was there for a whole month Maginnis Levite man a woman like that and she leaves him and goes back to our Father's house plays a harlot and he went after him and he took her with a man as he journeyed they came into the borders of the tribe of Dan and they were entertained on our home among the jebus sites and they were of the tribe of Benjamin at that time that we're living in. And what happened was that when they were being entertained while the man of the town came in and they brought Parentline knew something of a reputation to begin with and what happened was that they of course broke in they absolutely killed or they apparently were right there and then killed it sounds like something is happening in our country today does it not by the way the parallel is quite striking if you go through this section and then what happened was that they killed her and then they laugh and this man this Levi It was really riled up and you know what he did this reveals how low they weren't that day he took her and her up and. And sent a piece tried with a message what it was and what it happened to it and you know it caused all the tribes to be insane so they believe the law should be enforced they hadn't sunk down quite as far as we have today where lawlessness is permitted and unfortunately course it's made a political football but also there is a tendency to date to well we want as little law as possible and so all the tribes Sammul together and they came again and the tribe of Benjamin and the tribe of Benjamin tried to defend themselves but they at a tremendous Army apparently verse 16 of chapter 20 says this among all this people that I was 700 chosen Mahon left handed southpaws everyone could sling stones at I had breath and not miss now great many people think it's miraculous that David was able to hit Goliath right in the eye I heard a liberal talk about that far 15 minutes that he couldn't have been not accurate well read this verse here they were is accurate in that day as they are today with the mess so by the way they had to be much closer but if they could get in the range of sign shot why it would be fatal for anyone these men to split a hair these left handed man and when you come to David you find out and you remember David took 5 stones and by the way I heard that same level say that he thought if he messed with one to use the other that wanted it all you know why it took 5 stone as well if you read directly very carefully you'll find out Olga a lot had 4 sons that were so. You know where that and the army of the fellas stands and David had a stone for each one of them David didn't need but one stone from the lot in new high acrid he was and you know how I could use it but they were overcome by Sharon numbers and actually the tribe of Benjamin was almost destroyed we're told in verse 44 of chapter 20 and than fail of Benjamin 18000 May and all these were men of valor why because of the gross in my reality that they had sunk to an we're told in verse 4 to 6 so that all which failed that they of Benjamin were 20 and 5000 man that drew to so and all these were men of valor how tragic it was this is the favorite tribe Benjamin the young son of old Jacob and the favorite the one that Judah was well and a light on this life far and they occupied a place right next to Judah but this gross immorality that has taken place and it set tribe against tribe clients against clients and what has happened now well it leads to political anon the steps are outlined here very clearly that was 1st religious apostasy way up on a with Mike as a me Mike as idol and then it I share Dan morrow awfulness it reaches from the temple to the home and then political an arche those are the steps that in a nation takes that goes down I have a state and then a little book of mine America needs a declaration of dependence not end of penance but dependence and of course that is on God I took out of. The Wall Street Journal way back in 1928 Clinton actually it was sent to me and it states that the white America needed in the depression at that time was not some economic the range one or a political move but needed to return to the days when grandfather thought it was good business to take the team out of the fail early on when the evening so that a team could be hitched up to the wagon in which grandma put the children with their scrubbed faces and they all went off to the little church down at the cross roads for prayer meeting on Wednesday night and they thought it was good business even in the time of harvest that was something said by that Wall Street Journal May I say Kate if that was true then certainly true today where did our trouble begin our trouble is primarily spiritual goes back actually it goes back to the church the church went into apostasy then it's entered the home and we talk about the drug problem we talk about the generation gap then it's moved up and of political anarch in a day and we hear so much about it we could just change this and put this party and and my Fran all of that is perfect nonsense that we're hearing on television in these days what we need today is to get back to our spiritual foundation that's where our trouble began and that's where we went off the track God have mercy on America today man say to you and this happens to be the philosophy of history no hope of history is still rollin and I'm disturbed because it's never changed and we had a day in the midst of political anarchic. What an amazing time we've had in this fascinating book of Judges The lessons are as critical in current as what we face today now tomorrow will begin our study in The Little Book of Ruth Dr McGee called it the r