Sermon
Text: Judges 6:17 - 17 Then he said to Him,
“If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You
who talk with me
Sermon
Title: All Into Prayer – Positively Uncertain!
Point
1: Fleece God – Judges 6:36-38 - 36 So Gideon said to God, “If You will save Israel by
my hand as You have said— 37 look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the
threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the
ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have
said.” 38 And it was so. When he rose early the next morning and squeezed the
fleece together, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.
a) Looked – 6:37 - 37 look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the
threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the
ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have
said.”
b) Listened – 6:38 - 38 And it
was so. When he rose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece together,
he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.
c) Learned – 6:39 - 39 Then
Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more:
Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on
the fleece, but on all the ground let there be dew.”
Point
2: Follow God’s Instructions –
Judges 6:2 - 2 and the hand of Midian
prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the children of Israel
made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds which are in the
mountains.
a) You sift – 7:3 - 3 Now
therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful
and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’” And twenty-two
thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
b) The Lord sift – 7:5 - 5 So he brought the people down to the water.
And the Lord said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue,
as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down
on his knees to drink.”
c) Both sift – 7:6 - 6 And the
number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three
hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink
water.
Point
3: Fulfillment of the Answer 7:21-22 - 21 And every man stood in his
place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. 22
When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword
against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth
Acacia,[a] toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath
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