Why Does Every FIX Wear Off?

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Your brother called last week. The one who hasn't spoken to you in six years. Mom's sick, he's he needs help. And you're the one who knows how to handle it. So you dropped everything. You drove four hours. And you fixed it. As you do. And on the drive home, you caught yourself doing the math. Maybe now they'll want me around. Maybe this time I've earned it. Some of you have been earning your place your whole life.

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Or trying to anyway.

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At work, you're never the one who says, no, you're always jumping in, doing the task. At church, you're on every committee.

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You volunteer for every single thing. At home, you keep the peace so nobody leaves. And underneath all of it is a sentence somebody said a long time ago. You don't belong here. Today we meet a man who heard that sentence from his own brothers. He spent the rest of his life negotiating with the elders who threw him out, with an enemy king, and finally with God.

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And that last deal cost him his only child. Why do people who were sent away always keep trying to earn their way back? And what does God do with a person like that?

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This is true word, faith for life with Dr. Sean. I'm Sean. Welcome today. Well, no, no, no. You know what?

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That's for tomorrow. You got a little taste. A little taste early. Uh-oh. Let me see here. You got a little early taste. Oh man. Sorry, too long. What's too long? I don't know what's too long. Miss Susan, what's what's too long? Does every fix?

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Good evening. Okay, I don't know. So three weeks after the retreat, you're sitting in the church parking lot with the engine running, and you can't make yourself go in.

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It already wore off.

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The spiritual high already wore off. Three weeks ago, you cried out to God in that same parking lot. He felt close enough to touch. You drove home different inside and out. You were kinder at dinner. You prayed in the car. You thought, this is it. I'm finally changed. Now, three short weeks later, the old temper is back. The old habit found you again on Tuesday night. Your prayers have gone quiet.

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And you're right back where you started. Only more tired and even more ashamed. Maybe it wasn't a retreat.

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Maybe it was the counselor you finally under. They finally understood. It felt like they really understood you. The diet that finally stuck, you've been trying for years. Man, oh man, it finally stuck. The move to a new town. Maybe it's maybe it's your third job in two years, and the same anger followed you through every door. Turns out you were the common denominator all along. Maybe you watched real revival come to your church. And then you watched it slip quietly away. So here's tonight's question.

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Why does every fix wear off?

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Why does every fix wear off? The book of Judges answers it with a scoreboard most readers never notice. Four times the narrator writes the same short line. 40 years, 80 years, 40, 40. Then after Gideon, the line disappears and it never comes back in that book. Tonight you will see why the rest drained away, why your fixes fade for the same reason and who the one deliverer is that doesn't wear off. This is true word, faith for life with Dr. Sean. I'm Sean. Welcome to the Sunday summation and deepening. You got a little taste, little dip in the drink for tomorrow morning at 7 a.m., 6:30 every Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time every Sunday, and Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. So you got a little taste of that early on. It's um, I think it's gonna be a incredible episode. And it's day 150 if we can't celebrate that. So this is the Sunday summation and deepening. Every weekday morning, we take one passage of scripture into one hurt that you're carrying. Tonight we gather the whole week together and we go deeper than any any any morning had room for. And if you're new, you don't need to have heard a single episode this week. You only need to have watched something good in your life fade. And then you know what I'm talking about. So start right there. Has a fix worn off on you this year? There's a there's a question for the chat and the the live chat and the um comments below. And by the way, hello to everybody in the live chat. We have a very kind, um, respectful live chat. Everybody be praying for Miss Colleen. She's not feeling too well. Um, Alex, good to see you again. God bless you. Much love. Um, and then uh Miss Susan, there's one of your messages that says, sorry, too long. And then um, yeah, well, good evening, good evening, Susan, good evening, Dr. Sean. Good evening to Robbie, good evening to everybody, everybody in there. So I want you to start right there. I want you to I want you to ask yourself that question for real. Has a fix worn off on you this year? Man, maybe it was just something that you fussed with and fussed with, and you just couldn't get it situated. You kept struggling with it, kept coming back to it, and then you got the fix.

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It was beautiful, it was amazing. It was it was incredible. Well, but then it wore off. So, I mean, that's something. That's probably something all of us have run into. Hey, Miss Lynette, good to see you.

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So that's always a tough question. I guess sometimes I ask really super tough questions. I guess maybe all the time, but it's a real question. Has a fix worn off on you this year? Man, it was a good year. And then all of a sudden, right back where you started. Type yes in the chat if that's the case. You're not alone. Head to True Word Faith for Life. By the way, I have a book, second book. Anyway, true wordfaithforlife.com, trueordfaithforlife.com for tonight's free blog and full study guide built just for you. Your maybe your small group, your Sunday school class, or even your Bible college classroom. F-R-A-A-Free. Well, the book, this book here is not free. This isn't free. This is under the store at uh true wordfaithforlife.com. Truewordfaithforlife.com, the book's in there. Iraqi world, because I say stuff in the book I could never say here. So I want you to open your Bible to Judges chapter one. Israel's standing at the edge of the land. And what they do next will shape generations. So let's keep walking the story of God. This week moved like a slow leak. Started with a good question. Joshua was gone, and Israel asked the Lord, who should go up first? Then the wording changed. First, the text says, a tribe could not drive out. I want you to hear this. First, the text says, a tribe could not drive the Canaanites out. Then it changed. Tribe after tribe, it says they did not. Well, they could, but they didn't. Israel once wept so hard they named the place Bohim, which means weepers. Then they went home and left the altar standing. Some of you have cried at an altar too. You've been down front at an altar. I've done it. I've done it.

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Let's be honest.

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There have been times if you've if you've been in a church that just the service just rocked your world. The presence of God was all over it. And maybe you went up to that altar.

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And you poured your heart out. You cried. And you left there exhausted but exhilarated because, well, you felt like there's the fix. There's the fix. And then nothing changed in your life. I really thought that it would, but it didn't.

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Judges is about to show you why. I want you to breathe deep, family. It's gonna get deeper now. From there, the week became a string of rescues. God raised up deliverers. Nobody would have picked. Nobody would have picked. They wouldn't have gotten picked for the team. Otnael. Otnail. An ordinary man with the spirit of the Lord on him. Ehud, from the tribe of Benjamin, a name that means son of the right hand. Yet the Hebrew. The Hebrew says that Ehud was bound in his right hand. Most likely he was left-handed, so he strapped his blade on his right thigh where the guards would never check. But he walked straight past them to Eglon, king of Moab, Shamgar, who struck down 600 Philistines with an ox goad, which is a long-pointed, it's basically a long-pointed stick for driving cattle. Otnel and Uhud. They each bought the land, decades of quiet. But then the enemy that should have been dead came back. Hazor, the city Joshua burned, rose again with 900 iron chariots. They were the tanks of the time. 900 iron, you had 900 iron chariots, you were doing something. Deborah, a prophetess who she judged Israel under a palm tree, sent a general named Bedak, I know, hard to believe, but true, to war. But he wouldn't go without her. God sent a storm in the Kishon River, swept the chariots away, when normally there was never storms during that time.

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Then the victory song named the tribes that stayed home.

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And one town was cursed for never showing up. Well, by Thursday last week, Gideon was hiding in the wine press. Little cave tucked in, you gotta duck your head, it's dark and dank. Instead of being out standing on high ground, threshing the grain. Well, he was afraid of Midian. And the angel called him a mighty man of valor anyway. God cut his army. Hey, listen, I don't know. Have you ever, have you ever in your life felt I got no bravery, I got no courage, I got nothing. And then you you went ahead and did something for God that you never would have saw yours.

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That ain't me. Maybe it's just me.

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God cut his army to 300 so no one could mistake who won. And why? Shofars, broken jars, and torches, and the Midianite army destroyed itself. On Friday, Gideon told Israel, I won't be your king. The Lord will rule over you. Well, then he built a gold idol, the nation worshipped, and he named his son, my father, is king.

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That son murdered 70 of his brothers to take the crown. Oof. Your children won't remember your best speech. They won't.

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They won't remember it. They'll live out what you actually do. God rescued Israel every single time. Every single time they cried out. He rescued them. Every time. And every time they went back to the same idols, the same hurts, the same habits and hangups.

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And the leaders kept getting worse. Maybe that's your story.

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God got you out of the crisis, the debt, the relationship, the bottle, the constant search for the next dopamine hit, but you never tore down what put you there. So you keep landing in the same place and waiting for your next rescue. Look, your brain runs on a chemical called dopamine. It's not really the feeling of joy, it's the chemical of wanting. The push that says, get the next one. Oh, get the next one. You got that one, you get the next one. And the modern world has learned how to sell it to you. Every scroll, every notification, every like, it's a small hit. So is the P-word, the alcohol, the pill, the drama, the argument you replay in your head over and over, the post that makes you furious, the outrage you go looking for because anger at least feels like something. Each hit fades faster than the last. So you need another one sooner. And you need it stronger. You're never satisfied for more than a few seconds because the hit was never built to satisfy you. It was built to bring you back. That's the cycle of judges in your pocket. Israel ran from one rescue to the next and never had rest. You're running from one hit to the next. And you've never had shalom. And shalom doesn't mean calm. It means whole, complete, nothing missing. No hit can give you that. Only the God who made you can do that. Every fix you've tried wore off for a reason, and the book of Judges names five of them. Lay them side by side, and the five come into view. Find one that's yours.

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Find one that fits where maybe you're living.

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Thread one, well, what you keep alive comes back. What you keep alive comes back. What you nourish comes back. Judges 1, verse 28. When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely. I want you to read that slowly. The problem wasn't weakness, it was strength. Israel had the power to finish the job, and yet they chose a prophet instead. You see, the Canaanite labor. They built their walls and worked their fields. The angel of the Lord Epochim named the cost in chapter 2, verse 3. Their gods shall be a snare to you. It happened in order. Chapter 3, verse 6. They took Canaanite daughters as wives and served their gods. Chapter 4, verse 2, a Canaanite king reigns again in Hazor. It starts with what pays you. It ends with who owns you.

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Oh. You see, they get that, they get that endorphin hit. The hit of endorphin. And then before long, you're hooked. It owns you. You know the thing that you've kept around because it still gives you something. It gives you something. Maybe it's comfort. Maybe it gives you escape. I know every single drug or alcohol abuser that has gotten clean, gotten sober, and gotten honest has told me. I just didn't want to feel anything. So they they chose that as their method of escape. And some people it's the edge. Addicted to being at the edge. It's working for you right now. But it won't stay that way. Because it never does. Whatever you keep because it pays you will come back with an army.

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Well, thread two. The deliverer dies. Every judge was a real rescue sent by God. Judges 2, verse 19 names the pattern. Whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers. Ehut bought 80 years of quiet. Chapter 4, verse 1 tells you how long it outlived them. The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehut died. Not a generation later, after Ehud died. Israel never asked why the rescue wore off. They just waited for the next rescuer. Maybe that's where you live. Maybe that's where you live. Waiting on the next speaker, waiting on the next counselor, waiting on the next pastor, waiting on the next book. Well, probably most of them can help you in some way, but none of them can hold you.

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When your fix is a person, it lasts as long as the person does.

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Then there's thread three. See, and I want you to understand, look, I you know, I I love that for many of you, like um Friday's episode, I think we had one or two thousand people, can't remember how many, listening. I don't know how many we have now because I don't have that, I don't have that up, pulled up. But I can tell you this that one of the reasons why I teach you the way that I do, well, I do it because it's um, I don't know, it equips you.

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It empowers you, it gives you, it gives you lift because it gives you the tools, it gives you the paradigm, the way, the way of finding truth, the way of understanding truth. You see what I mean?

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So that's why I do it the way that I do. I teach you the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context. What was the audience all about? Why was the speaker or the writer there? Why were they writing about them? What was it like in that time?

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And how is it different? And how does it apply to us?

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Thread three, the battle goes on without you. Here's the week's most important translation difference, and it's important. I hate to get into them because, you know, seems like I'm throwing rocks. I'm not. But this is the week's most important translation difference. Judges four, verses, well, let's just look at 14. Deborah tells Barak, Up, for this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. But then the ESV has her ask, does not the Lord go out before you? Well, the NASB 2020, it makes a statement. Behold, the Lord has gone out before you. Well, the Hebrew word here is halo. I know. Interesting. Halo. It can ask a question, isn't it so? It can also slam a fact on the table and say, look at this. Diochane P1D. How about this? How about you listen? And how about you you just kind of surrender for this message and listen and learn. One of the biggest questions ever. If Jesus is real, he's in live chat. If though he has more questions, I'm sure. If Jesus is real, why so much hate and death in the world? Well, I answer that in episode after episode after episode. And if you really do want an answer to that, if you really do a detailed answer to that, send me a message to true wordfaithforlife.com. True wordfaithforlife.com. Click on contact. Send me, send me your information. You don't have to give me any information, just what you you know, how I can reach you. Email is fine, text is fine. None of that matters. Just a way to reach you. And I will answer that question in a more detailed way than you've ever seen in your entire life. I just can't do it here because it's not about that.

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Surely, right?

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This Hebrew word halo, it can ask a question. Isn't it so? It can also put right in your face a fact that you can't deny.

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Surely, and the verb is finished action. The Lord has gone out.

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By the way, Barack isn't being asked to lead God into battle. He's being told to follow a God who's already on the battlefield. You're not leading God into your marriage, your job, or your recovery. He's already on that field. Your part is to follow him. Barack still wanted company, though. Bedok, chapter 4, verse 9. The road on which you are going will not lead to your glory. Then the song names who stayed home. Oof. Judges 5, verses 15 and 16, the NASB, New American Standard Bible, catches a word play that the ESV levels out a little bit. Reuben had great resolves of the heart, then great searchings of the heart. In Hebrew, the two words differ by one letter. Reuben resolved, Reuben pondered. But Reuben never came. He was already ready. Aim, aim, aim, aim.

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Never fire.

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He just sat on the sidelines. He was just thinking about it. He was thinking about it and thinking about it. But he never came. You know the feeling.

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You made a decision. Then you thought about it some more. And then and then some more.

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And then the moment passed. Verse 23 curses a town called Medos. Because they did not come to the help of the Lord. Meros is never named again in Scripture. They did not come to the help of the Lord. You heard it one time in verse 23, and then you never heard it again, ever. Some fixes never start because we're waiting for someone else to go first. Oh, we're just waiting for somebody else to go. We just don't think we're ready. We just don't think we're prepared. We just don't think we know enough. Or, you know what? This will be a massive interruption to my life. I just wait for somebody else to go and then I'll come in, you know, and kind of be there on stage and talk about it.

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And yeah.

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The honor of obedience goes to the person who does it first. Thread four, God was never looking for enough. Never. Feeling too small for what God's asking was never the problem. And Gideon proves it. Judges 6, verse 15. My clan is the weakest in Menesseh, and I'm the least of my father's house. Verse 16, but I will be with you. Then chapter 7, verse 2. The people with you are too many for me. God cut 32,000 men down to 300, lest Israel boast over me, saying, My own hand has saved me. Oh, it was about what we did: our great number, our strength, our lethality on the battlefield.

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32,000 down to 300. And God delivered him.

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Watch how gently God handles fear. He answers God's fleece. Hello, Sherry. He answers God's fleece twice. He sends Gideon into the enemy camp at night to overhear soldiers' dream about a loaf of barley bread tumbling into the camp. God didn't wait for Gideon to stop being afraid. He isn't waiting for you to stop being afraid either. He'll walk you through it. Affix you build in your own, your own, we'll call it strength, your own intelligence, your own courage, your own equipping. It wears out with your strength.

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It wears out.

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Unless you depend on God. And this is the fifth and the final for tonight. Thread five, the wind becomes the snare. Judges 8, verse 23, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you. The Lord will rule over you. That's the right answer. That's the right answer. Then verse 27, Gideon made an ephod of the gold, a sacred garment meant for seeking God, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family. His son's name tells you what the house heard, Abimelech, which means my father is king. Abimelech killed 70 brothers and was crowned as Shechem, the very place where Joshua had said, As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. His youngest brother Jotham climbed to Mount Gedizim and told a parable. The olive, the fig, and the vine all turned down the crown, because they were busy bearing fruit. The only one who wanted to rule was the bramble, a thorn bush with nothing to give, nothing to offer. Offering shade it couldn't even provide, and threatening fire if he refused. Gideon's words said one thing.

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His house said another. His son believed the house. Those are the five. What you keep coming What you keep comes back. The deliverer dies. The battle goes on without you. God never needed enough. The wind becomes the snare. Which one is yours? You already know.

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Underneath all five, there's one reason. Something good in your life wore off again, and you want to know why. Understandably. Just like the person in the chat. I don't know if it's a sincere question. Diocane dash P1D. I don't know if it's a serious question or not, or if they're just one of the people that goes from faith-based live to faith-based live, and then they have all the questions or all the statements or all the things all lined up, and then they they um they copy them, they paste them in there. The spiritual sniper 19. Have you ever been told you are a prophet? No, I never have. I never have. That'd be something to bear, wouldn't it?

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So I never have.

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I've had somebody prophesy over me and it came true. And they didn't even know me at all. And they couldn't have known the circumstances, but what they said happened. And it wasn't a generality either. It was pretty powerful. What kind of rock my world? So something good in your life wore off again. You know, how many of us have had that happen? You want to know why. You want to know why did this thing wear off?

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I was I was so close. I was so close. I felt like everything was leaning the right direction, but it wore off.

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Judges answers with one short line and it repeats four times. Here's the line. Are you ready? And the land had rest in the world. And the land had rest. Judges three, verse 11, after Othniel, the land had rest forty years.

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40 years. 40 years.

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Judges 3, verse 30, after Ehud, 80 years. Judges 5, verse 31, after Deborah, 40 years. Judges 8, verse 28, after Gideon, the land had rest 40 years in the days of Gideon. Notice that last phrase in the days of Gideon. The rest has a man's name on it. Oh, the rest has a real man's name on it now. And it lasts. That fix, that last, that peace, that deliverance, that recovery, it lasts exactly as long as he does. And then it's gone. Thirteen more chapters. Depthat, Jeptath, Samson, a civil war. The narrator never once writes that the land had rest again.

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The quiet fix gives you. The quiet.

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I want you to put yourself in this place, maybe. The quiet affix gives you was never the same thing as rest.

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And the Hebrew proves it. English hides this. The word in Judges is shokat.

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Shat. It means quiet, undisturbed, a ceasefire. It's the word Joshua 11, verse 23 used. When the war ended, the land had rest from war.

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Isn't the word Moses or Moshe used for the rest?

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God promised, is it is it that one? No, it isn't. It isn't the word Moses used for the rest God promised. That word is different. That word is menuchach. Menuchach. Deuteronomy 12, verse 9. You have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you. Menuchach is a settled home. That's what it means. A place to set your weight down. The judges could give a nation quiet, but they could never give it a home. That's why your fixes feel like ceasefires. The fighting stops for a while, but you never feel home. You were made for Menucha, a settled home in God, but every fix, every single fix only hands you shakat, a ceasefire.

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Not a settled home. And the deliverers kept shrinking.

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Othaniel has no flaw recorded. Ehud wins with a hidden blade. Baq wouldn't go alone. Gideon needs sign after sign, punishes his own countrymen, and builds an Ephad the nation worships. Abimelech isn't raised up by the Lord at all. He hires worthless men from silver, with silver from a Baal temple. Even the Spirit tells the story. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Othaniel. The Spirit clothed Gideon. Then chapter 9, verse 23, God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. Judges 2, verse 19 said it would go this way.

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They told us, more corrupt than their fathers, it isn't a circle. It's a spiral and it bends down.

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If your last five years of your life feel like a spiral, the bottom isn't the end of the story. The ancient world shows you why Israel kept sliding. Canaan's farmers lived by rain and clay tablets dug up at Ugarit on the Syrian coast since 1929. Call Baal the rider on the clouds, the God who sends it. Every king in the world claimed a God's backing and promised what the Bramble promised, which they promised shade, they promised protection, they promised rain, and they could deliver none of it. Israel was built different. Exodus 15, verse 18, the Lord will reign forever and ever. Your world still sells the Bramble promises.

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Send a paycheck. If I just get this job, that'll finally be it. That'll finally be the fix. Oh, I could take this pill or this substance. If I could just. Maybe it's a platform.

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If I get there, each one offers shade that it cannot give. So judges answers Baal, story by story. In chapter five, the Lord sends the storm that sinks Cisera's chariots, the very thing Baal claimed to control. And in chapter six, Gideon tears down his father's altar to Baal. Thank God. And the town names him Jerubal.

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Let Baal contend against him. That's what it means. Baal never did. Because there was never any strength or healing or deliverance in that idol. Only in God.

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The book's last verse names the root. Genes, sorry, Judges 21, verse 25. In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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Oh my goodness. This country and much of Europe going through the same thing. In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Well, if it was convenient, I'll do it. Well, if it feels good, I'll do it.

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Well, if a bunch of other people are doing it, yeah, I'll do it. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. That leaves two questions on the table. Who will rule you? And what can change your heart? Here's where most readers, here's what most readers never connect. And I'm not sure why. I didn't for many years. Isaiah takes the same Hebrew word for quiet and attaches it to forever. Isaiah 32, verse 1. Behold, a king will reign in righteousness. Verse 15, until the spirit is poured out from on high. Verse 17, the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. A king, not a judge. The spirit poured out on a people, not resting on one man for one battle. Quiet that doesn't run forty years and stop. Forever. Through every cycle, one thing never wore off. Judges 2, verse 1, I will never break my covenant with you. Oh, the fixes wear off. The covenant does not. Every rescuer and judges died, and the rest died with them. But one deliverer never stays in the grave. Hebrews 7 reads as if someone had just closed the book of Judges. Verses 23 and 24. Good evening, Miss Linda. Good to see you. The former priests were many in number because they were prevented from death by continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever. Prevented by death. That's the epitaph on every judge, every single judge. Otniel, Ehud, Daborah, Gideon, good rescuers, every one stopped by a grave. Verse 25, consequently, he is able to save the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. Always lives. Always lives. That means tonight, while you're sitting wherever you're sitting, he's interceding for you. Yeshua, Jesus Christ, is the deliverer who does not wear off. Isaiah saw him coming, and he described it with Gideon's night. Isaiah 9, verse 4, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian, 300 torches, clay jars. Then verses 6 and 7, for to us a child is born, to give us a son. To us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder.

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Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end. On the throne of David and over his kingdom. Not end. Not end. No end. Not forty days. Not forty years. Not forty anything. Not eighty anything. No end. Isaiah even names where the light will dawn.

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Isaiah 9, verse 1. The land of Zebulun and the land of Natale. Those are the tribes that charged down Mount Tabor against Cesera. The people who risked their lives to the death. In Judges 5, verse 18. Matthew 4, verses 13 through 16 say, Yeshua made his home in Capernaum, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, so that Isaiah's word would be fulfilled. The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light. The Messiah, Hamashiach, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus Christ, began his work on the ground where judges was fought. He does what no judge could. The judge changed Israel's circumstances. But Yeshua changes the heart. Ezekiel 36, verse 26, I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. The spirit who came on for one war and clothed Gideon for one night now lives in everyone who belongs to him forever. Every fix that you've tried worked on the outside of you.

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But Yeshua works from the inside out.

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Then he speaks the word, judges never could. Matthew 11, verse 28. Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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Not a lull between wars. Home. Home.

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I don't know, some of you have a most peaceful home. You have a most peaceful home. Your home is I've been in homes like that. Dee Brock's home is like that.

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Dee and Larry Brock. It's so peaceful. I've been in other homes. Just like that. Peaceful. Home. When you think of home, that's what you think of. The rest that drained out of judges is the rest Yeshua still offers you tonight.

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Now, I want you to put this, put this in the right place in your mind. Isaiah's king sits on the throne of David over David's kingdom. That promise belongs to Israel and God keeps it. Romans 11, verse 26, and in this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written, all Israel is. What does it say? Romans 11, verse 26, and in this way all Israel will be saved as it is written. The deliverer will come from Zion. Verse 29, for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. The nations are welcomed in by Israel's Messiah. They don't replace the people he came from. Here's the reversal, Jotham never could have imagined. The Bramble grabbed a crown and promised shade it couldn't give. The true king lets soldiers press a crown of thorns onto his head. And from that cross, he gives the shade the Bramble only promised and could never deliver. Gideon said, The Lord will rule over you. In Yeshua, he does, and he never dies. He reigns forever. And his peace has no end. Knowing why your fixes fade. Well, it changes nothing until you do something different this week. Your step has three parts. And and to the fellow that uh or person, I don't want to misgender you, who um I don't know, let me see here.

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Uh I can't find it.

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This thing scrolls so fast. You you guys can't all see the comment, all the comments. Okay, diocaine P1D, if Jesus is real, why so much hate and death in the world? Listen, I hope that you hung on. I hope that you weren't just hopping from live to live and trying to disrupt. I hope that you sincerely are asking. I will sincerely answer it for you. True WordFaithforLife.com. Contact. I will answer it for you in detail you've never seen in your life. Alex, I appreciate that. Uh Alex says, honored to be a part of Dr. Greener's online following. Thank you all for joining this evening. Glorify the Lord, our Savior, amen. Well, you're very kind, very, very kind. I'm glad to have you all. It's an honor. I take this very seriously. It's quite an honor. So knowing why your fixes fade change, nothing. Until, ooh, there's that word we hate. Until you do something different this week. Not way down the road, not ready. Aim, aim, aim, aim. I'll go when. No, no, no. Your step has three parts. First, you find what you're keeping on forced labor. Before you go to bed, Monday. We'll pick Monday.

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Finish this sentence on paper. Are you ready? Who's ready? I keep it because it gives me. And then answer that. Answer that. That thing you keep. It gives you something. But you know it's bad for you. You know it's eating you up. You know it's pulling you from your relationship with Christ. It gives you that instant hit. That instant hit.

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I keep it because it gives me, and then I want you to cut one supply line the same day. Listen, if you've got an app that's a problem for you, close the account. Close the account. Delete the app and close the account. If it's alcohol that's the problem, pour out the bottle. Get rid of every go through your house. Get rid of every single drop of alcohol. Get it out of your house. Pour it on the ground. Pour it down the sink. Whatever you want to do. Call a friend. Have them help you. Pour it all out. If it's drugs, substances, get rid of it all. I don't care what it costs you. Doesn't matter what it costs you. It'll cost you your life one day. Ask me how I know.

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Pour it all out. Close the account.

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Delete the app. Cut the supply line. And then tell one person you can truly trust what you're driving out. Listen, if you say, look, I can't trust anybody. You can trust me. If you go to truewordfaithforlife.com, contact, and you tell me, I it stops there. I'm the only one that can read it. I'm the only one that has access. There's no other person that does.

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Second, I know you're not going to love this one.

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Stop waiting. Before Thursday, do the one thing you've been waiting for someone else to do. Oh, we don't like that one. Do the one thing that you've been waiting for someone else to do. Make the call to your brother. Oh, I don't want to call him. Make the call to your sister. Oh, I don't want to call her. Take the empty seat on the team. Pray out loud at your own table. Read Judges 4, verse 14. Judges 4, verse 14 first.

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The Lord has gone out before you. Third, ask the family question.

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Sometime this week, ask your spouse or a grown child. Listen, you may not want the answer to this, but you need it. Sometime this week, this week, not sometime, sometime this week, ask your spouse or a grown child, is there anything I built that cost you?

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Then listen without defending. Listen without faces.

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Put away one ephod, the trophy or the screen that's been getting your attention that your family should have had. Carry all three with one daily habit. Every morning read Isaiah verses two through seven. Isaiah nine verses two through seven. You got that? Isaiah nine verses two through seven.

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Read them out loud. Read them out loud. Read them out loud. Read them out loud. Then Isaiah 32 verse 17. Quietness and trust forever. And when a fix starts to fade, don't reach for the next one. Name it out loud.

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This is wearing off. Then pray Hebrews 7, verse 25. Hebrews 7, verse 25. By the way, don't panic. If you're not able to write these down, you're not what for whatever reason you're driving the space shuttle or something. Um, whatever it is. Um true word faith for life.com, the blog and the study guide are there. They're separate. I've had to separate them because they're so large now. But they're all there, and every resource I've ever used is itemized. It's all there, every bit of it. So don't panic. If you if you miss something, don't worry about it. It's go key. You go there, true wordfaithforlife.com, you go there, and it's all there under the blog. There's a there's a uh tab that's blog. It says blog, and I write them and I put them under blog, and then there under blog also is the study guide separately. It should be labeled and all that.

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So don't panic.

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I want you to pray Hebrews 7 verse 25 back to God. Pray it back to God. Hebrews 7 verse 25.

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Pray it back to God. It says, You always live to intercede for me. I have for you tonight a challenge and a choice.

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Some of you have been weeping at Bochim for years, but tears aren't turning.

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Sadness isn't turning. Regret isn't turning. Turn.

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Some of you are on your fifth fresh start. I want you to hear, judges too. The cycle has a cause. Find out what you're keeping that you shouldn't be keeping and drive it out. That may mean going through your drawers by your bedside and getting rid of some stuff. That may mean going to your refrigerator and getting rid of some things. It may mean going into your garage, your your place that everybody came for peace and and getting rid of all those bottles that you have hidden.

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Whatever the case may be, find out what you're keeping and drive it out.

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Some of you think God would never pick you. You say, God would never pick me to bless me, to guide me, any of it. He picked the left-handed man. Nobody would have chosen. Some of you are waiting for someone else to go first. The Lord has already gone out before you. Some of you are sure you're not enough. You're not. You're not. I'm not. He is. And he is with you. Some of you are holding on to a rescue that wore off years ago, and you're waiting for it to come back. Let it go. It's not coming back. And some of you, well, you won in public. You were a superstar in public and you lost at home, and your family suffered for it. Don't be the thorn bush that grabs the crown. Bow to the king, the king of kings, and the lord of lords who wore the thorns. Oh, you can keep chasing the fix and watch it fade like the last one. Or you can come to the deliverer who lives forever. Choose who will rule you. Let's pray. Prayer isn't asking for an easy journey, it's asking for a strong back. Adunaialuin. You never break your covenant. We've chased fix after fix. The new start, the new plan, the new town. And we've watched every one of them fade away and wear off.

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We confess what we've kept on forced labor because it paid us. Give us the courage to drive it out of our lives.

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For those of us weeping at Bohim, I ask that you turn our tears into turning. For those of us who think you'd never choose us, I being one of them, remind us of Ehud, the man nobody would have chosen. For those of us waiting on someone else to do it, I ask that you wake us up, shake us. Because you've told us you've already gone out before us. For those of us who are absolutely sure, Father, that we're not enough, clothe us, clothe us with your Holy Spirit, Yurura Kakadesh, and say it again. I will be with you. For those of us who won in public and lost at home, show us our ifad. Show us our thing that we're secretly worshiping. And turn our hearts toward our family. Thank you for keeping covenant with Israel through every cycle of judges and for the king you promised on David's throne. Thank you for Yeshua. Thank you for Yeshua.

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Thank you for Jesus. Glory to God. Thank you.

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I cannot thank you enough for our deliverer who never dies, who gives a rest that doesn't drain away and gives us a heart that is truly new. And I pray it in Yeshua's name. Amen. Look, if you if you tried every fix and you've watched each one fade, you don't need another fix. You need a deliverer who doesn't die. Every judge died and stayed in the grave. Yeshua died and he rose and he lives forever to bring you home. You don't have to clean up first.

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Come to him right now. Right where you're sitting, right now. Doesn't matter what's around you. Ignore it. Just ignore it. Put it out of your mind. Pray this with me right now. Handle this today. Tonight. Handle it right now.

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Pray this with me and mean it. Yeshua, I need you. I believe you died for me and you rose from the grave. I surrender my life to you today.

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Forgive me. Fill me. Lead me. My life is yours. I pray this in your matchless, almighty name.

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Amen. If you prayed that prayer tonight, you've stopped chasing the next fix. You've come to the king. Type my king in the chat or the comments below so that we can rejoice with you. And we're going to pray for you by name this week. Listen, we need to pray for our brother Sean spelled correctly. He he starts his new training uh to be a welder, and he's super excited about it. And we're super excited about it, except he's going to be in school when this when when we're meeting live, and he was a regular and he means the world to all of us. So we'll miss him. He'll be there on playback. But um, all of our shows, by the way, every single episode is under the live tab. Every single one. Every single one. I don't get rid of a single one. They tell me that's destroys you, but um, I'd rather have you be able to reach them and and be able to watch them and catch up. We're on every podcast platform there is. Um whatever, whatever one you listen to, I'm almost going to guarantee I'm on it. And and so, but we want to we want to pray for Sean because this was Sean spelled correctly, this was a big part of his life to be with all of you in the live. And so let's pray for him. Heavenly Father, I thank you so much that you bring such awesome people to this channel. I thank you. I really, I don't know how to thank you appropriately for the blessing that they are to me. And I know that you're blessed by them. But Father, we just pray for Sean, spelled correctly, as he starts this new venture tomorrow in California, that it's it's a it's a whole different trajectory in his life. Protect him in the training. Welding is a dangerous thing. Help him to be great. Help him to pick it up really quickly and and to be really great at it. Bless him in every aspect. Bless his life in his in the blessing that I pray at the end here. Bless that I pray that over him and everyone else who is listening, live or on playback, I pray that over them. And I ask, Father, that you let that feel close to him and for all the others that are listening and they're going through a major change in their life, total trajectory change. Be ever present with them, be supernaturally present with them, unmistakably present with them, guide them, direct them, lift them, give them joy.

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I pray this in your matchless name. Amen. Here's what I want you to do. If you prayed the prayer of salvation tonight and you truly meant it, everybody knows one believer.

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Everybody does. Maybe you don't, I don't know. Maybe you live in a place that they're just it's very unchurched and and people don't have faith. I know of places like that. But if you know one believer, if not, choose me. Reach out to me through the website. I'll happily hear it. I love it. I kind of live for it. Tell one believer what you did out loud tonight. And then if you can't do it, uh, this next part because you just don't know where to start, I can help you. Find a church family that opens the scriptures and loves Israel and sit with them next Sunday. Sunday morning, be there. I'll help you find the church if you can't find it. And look, no church is perfect. I gotta tell you, no church is perfect. But one day in heaven we will rejoice. I want you to read Isaiah 9 every morning this week. It's the promise that doesn't wear off from the king who doesn't either. There's a place called Weepers where the tears never turned into turning. There's a left-handed man with a hidden blade and a man with an ox goat. There's a storm on a dry plain and a woman under a palm tree saying, The Lord has gone out before you. There's a man in a wine press called mighty, and three hundred torches breaking out of clay. There's a thorn bush at Shechem, promising shade.

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The land had quiet, and the quiet wore off. But Isaiah remembered the day of Midian and saw a child, a son, and a government with no end. He's the deliverer who never dies. He's the shade you were looking for in that parking lot. Come rest in him. Someone you love, someone you love is on their fifth fresh start and they're losing hope.

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Send them this episode tonight. Send them to tonight. All you have to do is copy the link or forward it to them and send it to them and say, look, I heard this tonight and I thought of you.

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I think it'll bless you. Do it tonight. Don't don't hesitate. Don't be afraid.

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Then if you're not a subscriber, go to true word faith for life with Dr. Sean. It'd be easy if you're listening on it. Just click on subscribe. Hit the little bell so all notifications, and then click on the thumbs up. That'd be awesome. Tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. We're gonna be here. If the Lord tarries, if I'm if I'm still alive, I'll be here. Because in Judges 10, God says to his own people, I will save you no more. Man, you might want to know what that's about, not what you think. Every episode lives in the live tab on our channel. I'd love to have you have you subscribe and listen to it. Here you go. I'm gonna pray this blessing over you. I told you I would, and uh, and I'm not gonna break my promise to you. I want you to receive this in his heavenly name and in Lashon Hokadesh, which is Hebrew, the language of God. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Shalom Bishem Yeshua. Until tomorrow morning, 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Shalom Bishem Yeshua. Shalom Shalom Shalom.