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devotional. Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive. My name is Bro, and we're kind of, I don't know,

binge watching an underdog story about a guy named Gideon. The nation of Israel

has been in this spiritual death spiral for a lot of years, and as a result, the big bad

bullies on the block, the Midianites, have oppressed them for seven long years. Well, the Israelites

finally remember God, and they cry out for God's help help and God promises to move on their behalf.

And he begins by coming to a simple farmer named Gideon and he calls him mighty warrior and tells

him that he has chosen him to deliver the people from the hand of Midian. And that's where

we stopped yesterday. So let's pick up episode three. We're calling

Episode 3 Demo Day. Y'all ever watch those Home Improvement shows? We get all excited about Demo Day.

It's Demo Day today. Well, episode three begins by God encouraging Gideon, telling him,

don't be afraid. You're not going to die. I will be with you. And then God comes to him at night and says, let's get started. It's Demo Day. He tells him, before I can really work through you, these other gods, they got to go. I want you to tear down your father's altar to that false God Baal and that that other phony that Asherap pole that stands beside

it got to get rid of all that stuff. The worship of these other so-called gods have gotten your

people in this mess. And if I'm going to move in, they got to go. I want you to build an altar to me,

sacrifice a bull on it, and that phony Ashrith pole that you cut down, you can use it

for the firewood.

It was pretty cool the other day.

I was reading through this part of the story, and my phone rang.

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