SHAMGAR

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SHAMGARA COMMON ORDINARY MAN!

• Dr. Jobe Martin
• Biblical Discipleship Ministries
• www.biblicaldiscipleship.org
• www.evolutionofacreationist.com

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• The God of the Bible wants to take common,
  ordinary people like you and me, with our common,
  ordinary things and do uncommon, extraordinary
  things in His power and for His glory!

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JUDGES 331

• 31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath,
  which slew of the Philistines six hundred men
  with an ox goad and he also delivered Israel.

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BIBLE STUDY HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT PARTS

• 1. Observation
• 2. Correlation
• 3. Interpretation
• 4. Application

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OBSERVATION

• ObservationWhat do we see.
• There was a man named Shamgar.
• Shamgar came after someone.
• His Fathers name was Anath.
• He killed 600 Philistines.
• He did it with an ox goad.
• He delivered his country.

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Correlation

• CorrelationWhat Scriptures relate.
• In the case of Shamgar there is one other
  Scripture that correlates and that is
• Judges 56
• 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
• This is all we know about Shamgar, but we do
  learn some things about the days during which
  Shamgar lived in Judges 5.

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Correlation

• the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers
  walked through byways.
• 8 They chose new gods
• then was war in the gates
• was there a shield or spear seen among forty
  thousand in Israel? Judges 56,8

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INTERPRETATION

• InterpretationWhat does it mean.
• A Jewish man named Shamgar killed 600 Philistine
  soldiers.
• He was probably a farmer since he knew how to use
  an ox goad.
• He used an ox goad as a weapon because it appears
  that the weapons had been confiscated.

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INTERPRETATION

• What is an ox goad?
• An ox goad is a stick or pole 6 to 8 feet long
  with a point on one end.
• How do you make an ox go?
• Our Creator, the Lord Jesus, made the ox with a
  sensitive spot where the hoof hooks onto the
  ankle. Touch that spot and the ox lifts its leg.
  When the leg comes down it is ahead of where it
  was, the other feet want to catch up and the ox
  is moving.

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INTERPRETATION

• Shamgars fathers name was Anath.
• Anath was the Philistine God of sex and war.
• Shamgars family had probably sold out to the
  pagan Philistine culture.
• At the very least Shamgars grand parents had
  named his father with the name of a Philistine
  demon god.
• And yet this common ordinary man with his common
  ordinary tool saved his country!

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BIBLE STUDY HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT PARTS

• Observation what is seen
• 2. Correlation where else
• 3. Interpretation the meaning
• 4. Application who, me?

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APPLICATION

• God wants to take common ordinary people with our
  common ordinary things and do uncommon,
  extraordinary things in His unmistakeable power
  and for His own glory!
• Shamgar shows us the importance of over-coming
  family limitations.
• He shows us the value of perserverencehe is out
  there every day putting his life on the line for
  his God, his family and his country.

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APPLICATION

• Shamgar shows us what Almighty God can do through
  a single person who is ready and willing to let
  our Lord do His will in our life, even if it
  means putting our life in jeopardy for His
  benefit and glory.
• Shamgar displayed a singleness of purpose.
• Shamgar is an example of unselfish servanthood.

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APPLICATION

• Are we ready and willing to put our lives on the
  line for our God, our families, and our country?
• What is your oxgoad (weapon)your life, your
  zeal, your words, pen, mind, computer,
  connections, family, church.
• Are you ready and willing to make the prayer of
  your life, Lord, yet not my will, but Thy will
  be done?

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Acts 1336

• For David, after he had served his own generation
  by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid
  unto his Fathers, and saw corruption.
• (He accomplished all that God had for him in his
  generation.)

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John 1227, 28a

• Jesus said, Now is my soul troubled and what
  shall I say? Father, save me from this hour but
  for this cause came I unto this hour. Father,
  glorify Thy name.

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Concluding Application

• Jesus from eternity past, had a purpose and a
  plan.
• David accomplished all that God had for him in
  his generaton.
• What is your purpose, your plan, your focus for
  the remainder of your life?
• Will you accomplish all that God has for you in
  your generation?

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Missionary/Mission Field?

• I led two lives as a youth.
• I left home as a mission field, not a missionary.
  (How have you left home? How will your children
  leave home?)
• Could our God use your time here to help you
  fullfil His purpose for you in your generation?
• Are you practicing truth (John 321) and does
  your life display Colossians 127?

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Words Have Meaning

• Do our words still have meaning in our postmodern
  deconstructionistic culture? (What does is
  mean?)
• If words have no meaning, then the Bible has no
  meaning.
• Four frequently heard statements
• No absolutes
• No right or wrong
• Everything is relative
• Whos to say?

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG!
• The major assumption behind this sentence is that
  the person saying it is claiming he or she is
  right in saying that there is no right or wrong!
  We have a statement that negates itself.

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES!
• This sentence is intended to be an absolute
  statement. If there are no absolutes, then this
  sentence is not absolute and it negates itself
  and means nothing!

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• WHOS TO SAY?
• This sentence intends to silence someone who is
  taking a position. In other words, You have no
  right to say that! This negates itself, if no
  one has a right to take a position, then no one
  has a right to say Whos to say? because that
  is taking a position!

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE!
• The authorial intent of this sentence is that it
  is an absolute statement. If everything is
  relative, then this sentence is part of
  everything and is itself relative. Then it
  negates itself.

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WORLDVIEW GLASSES DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS

• The worldview ideas of Creation or Evolution have
  certain inherent consequences.
• The assumptions behind the Creation/ Evolution
  controversy determine the conclusions you come to
  regarding the origin, purpose and destiny of life
  in general and your life in particular.

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WORLDVIEW THINKING IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.A.

• Christian Theism Personal God
• Young Universe Creation
• Traditional Deism Reduced God
• Old Universe Theistic Evolution
• Secular Humanism Dead God
• Darwinian Atheistic Evolution
• Pagan Mysticism/Metaphysical Naturalism I am
  God/All is God/There is no God
• Evolution is God! Harry Potter is God!

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ARE WE SUBMITTING TO THE AUTHORITY OF GODS WORD?

• For example Harry Potter is a wizard.
• Leviticus 1931 Regard not them that have
  familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to
  be defiled by them I am the LORD your God.

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DEUTERONOMY 1810-14

• There shall not be found among you any one that
  maketh his son or his daughter to pass through
  the fire, or that useth divination, or an
  observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
  Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
  spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all
  that do these things are an abomination unto the
  LORD and because of these abominations the LORD
  thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
  Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. For
  these nations, which thou shalt possess,
  hearkened unto observers of times, and unto
  diviners but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath
  not suffered thee so to do.

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• Are we submitting to the authority of the Bible
  in every area of our lives?
• Or are we submitting to, and incorporating into
  our lives, more and more of the folkways and
  mores of the false, anti-God and popular
  worldviews of Satans deceptive world system?

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ROMANS 121, 2

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
  which is your reasonable service. And be not
  conformed to this world but be ye transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what
  is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
  of God.

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ACCORDING TO BARNA

• Teenagers are only mirroring adult attitudes,
  96 of whom do not reflect the attitudes or
  actions of Jesus. We are not living the faith we
  profess.
• So what do we all need to do?

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2 CORINTHIANS 135

• KJV
• 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith
  prove your own selves. Know ye not your own
  selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except
  ye be reprobates?
• NAS
• Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith
  examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this
  about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in
  youunless indeed you fail the test?

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ACCORDING TO JOSH McDOWELL

• We are witnessing The Last Christian
  Generation.
• Only 1/3 of church-going teenagers say the
  church will play a roll in their future lives.
• According to pollster George Barna 63 of teens
  do not believe Jesus is Gods Son.
• 60 believe all faiths teach equally valid
  truths.
• 51 do not believe Jesus rose from the dead.
• 66 do not believe Satan or the Holy Spirit exist.

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• 93 of all youth have lied to a parent.
• 75 of Christian and non-Christian youth have
  cheated on a test.
• 66 of all youth have physically hurt someone.
• 70 of churched teens believe there is no
  absolute moral truth.
• This is called Moral Relativism.
• Barna research reports 98 of professed
  born-again youth do believe in Christ, but they
  do not reflect Christ-like attitudes or actions.
• Does Satan believe in Christ?

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• In other words, there is a disconnect between
  knowing Truth and practicing Truth.
• John 321
• But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
  that his deeds may be made manifest, that they
  are wrought in God.

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WHAT ARE CHRIST-LIKE ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS?

• Galatians 522 But the fruit of the Spirit is
  love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
  goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance
  self-control against such there is no law. 24
  And they that are Christs have crucified the
  flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we
  live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
  Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
  provoking one another, envying one another.

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WHAT ARE CHRIST-LIKE ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS?

• Philippians 48 Finally, brethren, whatsoever
  things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
  whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are
  pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
  things are of good report if there be any
  virtue, and if there be any praise,
• think on these things.

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ACCORDING TO BARNA

• Teenagers are only mirroring adult attitudes,
  96 of whom do not reflect the attitudes or
  actions of Jesus. We are not living the faith we
  profess.
• So what do we all need to do?

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2 CORINTHIANS 135

• KJV
• 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith
  prove your own selves. Know ye not your own
  selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except
  ye be reprobates?
• NAS
• Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith
  examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this
  about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in
  youunless indeed you fail the test?

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• Galatians 524
• And they that are Christs have crucified the
  flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Galatians 220
• I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live
  yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life
  which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
  of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself
  for me.
• This means death to pride and selfishness!
• I die daily. 1 Corinthians 1531b

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WE ARE LOSING 57-88 OF CHRISTIAN YOUTH AFTER
FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE!published statistics

• Friends with Campus Crusade for Christ tell me,
  If we dont get the Christian kids within the
  first six weeks of their freshman year of
  college, weve lost them to the competing
  worldviews.
• How do we lose you?

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How do we lose you?

• 1) A huge percentage of young people are going
  off to college after being raised in Christian
  homes and evangelical churches, but their
  intellectual knowledge about the Lord Jesus has
  never been combined with saving faith. They call
  themselves Christians but they are not truly
  saved!
• So test yourself to see if you are in the Faith!

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How do we lose you?

• 2) Many, perhaps most, young people raised in
  the church cannot defend the Faith.
• Can we defend the virgin birth of Jesus?
• Can we defend the miracles of Jesus?
• Can we defend the crucifixion of Jesus?
• Can we defend the resurrection of Jesus?
• Can we defend the basics of Christianity?

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ATHEISTIC EVOLUTION ASSERTS BY FAITH THAT

• There is no Creator/Designer God,
• And, therefore, that purposeless,
• Non-directed,
• Accidental,
• Mindless,
• Chance,
• Random processes produced the universe and
  everything animate and inanimate in it.
• The Big Bang created space and time?

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LUKE 1027

• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
  heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
  strength, and with all thy mind and thy
  neighbour as thyself.

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ROMANS 121, 2

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
  which is your reasonable service. And be not
  conformed to this world but be ye transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what
  is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
  of God.

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• What are some of the anti-Biblical worldviews
  popular on the campuses of the world?

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Secular Humanism Marxism/ Leninism Cosmic Humanism Biblical Christianity
Sources Humanist Manifestos I, II Writings of Marx and Lenin New Age writers Ferguson, Bailey Bible
Theology Atheism Atheism Pantheism Theism
Philosophy Naturalism Dialectical Materialism Non-Naturalism Supernaturalism
Ethics Relativism Proletariat Morality Relativism Absolutes
Biology Evolution Evolution Evolution CREATION
Psychology Self-actualization Behaviorism Collective Consciousness Mind-Body-Soul
Sociology Non-Traditional Family Abolition of Home Church and State Non-Tradition Home Church and State Traditional Home Church State
Law Positive Law Positive Law Self-Law Biblical Law
Politics World Gov. (Globalism) New World Order New Age Order Justice, Freedom Order
Economics Socialism Socialism Enlightened Production Stewardship Private Prop.
History Historical Evolution Historical Materialism Evolutionary Godhood Historical Resurrection
Postmod
Islam
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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is
he. Proverbs 237