Fire in the Hole
March 6, 2022

The Old Cowboy’s Secret to a long life.

Deut 4: 23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden.
24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Isaiah 42:8 (KJV)
8 I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Matt 6:33 Seek 1st the Kingdom….

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Heb 12:29 Our God is a consuming fire.

I. Fire on Top of the Rock

Judges 6: 14 The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
16 The LORD answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”
17 Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.

Principle:
I John 4:1 ¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

II. God awaits our obedience in the simple things in spite of our feelings of Lack!

18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the LORD said, “I will wait until you return.”
19 Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.

III. Obedience in Little things positions us for a Touch from God!

20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
21 Then the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.

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22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
23 But the LORD said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.”
24 So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

IV. Obedience in Simple Things prepares us for more Significant Things in Him!

Break the Generational Curse!

25 That same night the LORD said to him, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

Judges 6(nkjv) 25 Now it came to pass the same night that the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, (&) the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it;

(YLT) 25’Take the young ox which is to thy father, and the second bullock of seven years….

He was to offer sacrifice of Two bullocks he must offer: his father’s young bullock, and the second bullock of seven years old, so it should rather be read, not even the second as we read it.

The 1st bull,he was to offer for himself,
the 7 yr old bull for the sins of the people whom he was to deliver from 7 yrs of bondage.

V. God will take our past failures to fuel our new pursuit of Faith!

26 Then build a proper kind of altar to the LORD your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.”

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“A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to accept Christ without forsaking the world.” —AW Tozer

Eph 4: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
28 In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!

VI. God will Raise Up Your Defenders!

Is 54: 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

29 They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”
30 The people of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

31 But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal’s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.”
32 So because Gideon broke down Baal’s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal
that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”
33 Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

VII. When you do what you can God will empower you to do what only He Can thru You!

34 Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

“You will do more in one year if you are filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in 50 years apart from him!” —Smith Wigglesworth

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The Fire of God for the 21st Century

Acts 2: 1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accordfn in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

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