Thank you. The Bible tells us that God's ways are not our ways, and when it comes to majority rule, God plus one is a majority. In fact, God by himself is a majority. Today on Truth for Life weekend,

Alastur Begg illustrates the truth of this formula by taking us to the story of a fearful

and yet faithful Gideon, who prepared for battle with a woefully inadequate army and a bunch

of bizarre weapons. We're studying Judges Chapter 7. In verse 2 and following here of

chapter 7, God gives to him direction. The Lord said to Gideon, you have too many men for me to

deliver Midian into their hands. And then he explains,

in order that Israel may not boast against me, become self-reliant, boast that our own strength

has saved her. In other words, God says, the victory that I grant is my victory. I am in no way dependent upon your numbers. If the first

stage of the reduction is related to the morale of the army, which it clearly appears to be,

then what of the second stage of the reduction? What is this about? Now, it's at this point that we get into difficulties.

And it's at this point that we start to get, you know, clever with our conjecture. And we get

into the lappers versus the kneelers. And this is where we impress the people with all the

thing about kneeling down and lapping

and what the guy was looking while he was lapping or kneeling while he was not looking and all this kind of stuff

and frankly we don't have a clue what we're talking about we haven't got the foggiest idea in the

world what we're on about because it doesn't say you see and most of And most of the sermons that you're preached on this

have to do with somehow or another that this was a test looking for only the alert and all the

dreamy and the careless were to go. So we would just keep the alert ones. And the alert ones

were not those who were kneeling down, we tell the people.

Because if you were kneeling down, you couldn't be looking. How we know that is because there's a number of ways you can kneel down.

But usually that's it. But if you were lapping with the like this, then you could be looking. And so that's it.

Whoa, come on. One of the ways, if you ever thought about the fight that they might have been lapping,

...