Welcome back to part two with Dr. Lori Denning, the book of Judges.

Touched my heart.

Where are all these miracles that we've heard about?

And he mentions Egypt.

Where's our Red Sea?

Where's the plagues that save us?

That is pretty snarky, but what you said there, Lori, was important.

How come everyone else is getting all these wonderful blessings? And he says, if the Lord be with us, why is it so hard? Why is it so awful? And then he's like, you're going to be the guy. He's like, what? Where's all the miracles? Go look in the mirror. You're going to be the miracle. And he's like, well, I didn't want to go that far. I didn't say it should be me.

And that is powerful, though, isn't it, where we say, I don't know if the Lord remembers me.

I don't even doubt that miracles have happened in other people's lives, but where's my miracle?

Or when's he going to step in? Or when's in enough? Or does it even remember me? That feels really real.

And not only do I remember you, I'm going to actually answer your prayers with you.

I love that where the Lord says, where are the miracles?

Have I not sent you?

Here we go.

And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, how am I supposed to save Israel?

I'm a nobody. And like you said, Lori, whoa, whoa, how am I supposed to save Israel? I'm a nobody. And like

you said, Lori, you're perfect. You're perfect. Exactly what I want. The littlest guy of the

littlest tribe of the smallest family that's hiding. I can do something with that. I can make

that work. Not only I think does he see us, but he can make us mighty men of valor, mighty women of valor. You can say, with me, I can do all things. I can even make you, little Gideon, pretty cool. If you just ended on the story of Gideon, that's even cooler, but it keeps going. There are two stories that I think are really powerful. There's a bunch of them here. We won't have time to probably go through all of them. One of the first ones is the one where he gives him some first instruction. He tells him to go and he says, go tear down the baal's. Go tear down the statues. Now, remember we heard in chapter two that they were going to have to tear down the altars. Here's an actual assignment. Go tear down

those other gods. Get them out. In fact, don't just tear them down in town. Go to your dads.

Go tear down your dad's idols, his altars, his bowls and his poles and his scary things.

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