05.16.21 NOTES

Our Mission: Leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus

DEBORAH & BARAK – THE UNLIKELY DUET
Judges 4, 5

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have – right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start – comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (The Message)

1. _______________ IN YOUR ___________________

6 In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, and in the days of Jael, people avoided the main roads, and travelers stayed on winding pathways. 7 There were few people left in the villages of Israel – until Deborah arose as a mother for Israel. Judges 5:6-7 (NLT)

2. CALL ________ NOT _____________

6 One day she sent for Barak… She said to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: Call out 10,000 warriors from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun at Mount Tabor. 7 And I will call out Sisera, commander of Jabin’s army, along with his chariots and warriors, to the Kishon River. There I will give you victory over him.” Judges 4:6-7 (NLT)

3. _________________ DIVINE INTERVENTION

Then Deborah said to Barak, “Get ready! This is the day the Lord will give you victory over Sisera, for the Lord is marching ahead of you.” Judges 4:14 (NLT)

4. BE _______________________

Let the people of Meroz be cursed,’ said the angel of the Lord.‘Let them be utterly cursed, because they did not come to help the Lord – to help the Lord against the mighty warriors.’ Judges 5:23 (NLT)

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