Note carefully the opening verse of Judges 6: “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years” (Judges 6:1). These words describe an endless cycle that repeated itself in Israel for generations.

six chapter of judges tearing down the

altar of bail tearing down the altar of

bail judges a sixth chapter start with

verse 11 I came an angel the Lord said

under an oak which was a Ofra that

pertained unto Joe as the FBR threat and

his son Gideon thrust wheat by the

winepress to hide it from the Midianites

the aims of the Lord appeared unto him

and said unto Him Lord is with thee the

mighty man of Valor look at verse 25

came to pass the same night the Lord

said unto him take thy father’s young

Bullock even the second Bullock of 7

years old and throw down the altar of

bail that thy father hath cut down the

grove that is buying it Lord I need

strength and I need help strengthen us

to deliver the word and give the

anointing of the holy spirit Lord I’ve

never believed the anointing had

anything to do with how loud I speak or

how soft but has to do with the word

that you have sent from your throne to

speak to us at a particular time in a

particular place two particular people

Lord everyone that’s here this morning

are here by divine order it’s not by

accident and Lord you I’ve always

understood this as long as I’ve been

preaching that you always prepare a word

in time just for those who are crying

out for it and I pray Lord for those

that are crying for truth this morning

take this simple little word the simple

little message and bring hope and change

our hearts we pray in Jesus name Amen

verse 1 in chapter 6 and the children of

Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord

and the Lord delivered them into the

and of million seven years now these

same words if you don’t do it now but if

you go back to the chapters four or five

the previous chapters you’ll find this

repeat these words repeated over and

over again the children of Israel did

evil in the sight of the Lord their God

and they serve Balaam and God in his hot

anger the scripture said sold them into

the hand of their enemies you find it

again in Chapter three

the land had rest for forty years again

the children of Israel did evil in the

sight of the Lord and the Lord once

again

gave them up to Moab because they had

done evil in the sight of the Lord 18

more years of hardship and terror in

Chapter four you get to chapter four and

again you hear these words the land had

no rest the land had rest for 80 years

but the children of Israel again did

evil in the sight of the Lord and the

Lord sold them to the Canaanites and

every time the scripture says they cried

to the Lord the Lord heard their cry and

sent a deliverer as long as there was

delivery long as there was a man a woman

of God seeking God’s face the Lord in

his mercy gave them deliverance but as

soon as that prophet died as soon as

that leader died they turned right back

to the worship of bale and then there

was 40 years of terror 18 years of

terror 15 years over and over it’s like

a broken record it’s really a sad

commentary of the history of Israel how

they cheated on God how they miss

believed him have refused to accept that

he was faithful and here again in the

sixth chapter 60 up here it is all over

again the children of Israel did evil in

the sight of the Lord and the Lord

delivered them into the hand of Midian

for seven years and he Israel’s brought

very low the Midianites and Arabs

combined once a year at harvest time

would come in with their huge

of Mane’s of camels and and driving

their herds their sheep and their goats

and they would turn them loose into the

corn fields in the wheat fields of

Israel and they would completely

devoured like locusts they would drive

the people because they they brought

their armies with them and they would

drive this room ice up into the caves

into hideouts and into the strongholds

of the mountains and valleys drove them

out and this is the situation you find

in the 6th chapter here of Judges and

the children of Israel was greatly

greatly impoverished there was poverty

on all sides they lost their homes they

lost everything and sleeping and living

in caves and the children of Israel

cried unto the Lord here they cry again

but folks it wasn’t a cry of repentance

the Bible said it was because of the

Midianites their weeping and crying but

this time God sends a prophet and the

prophet comes and puts his finger on the

reason that they’re being so harassed

and terrorized he said God delivered you

out of the hands of all your all who

oppressed you God brought you out of

bondage he said to you do not fear the

gods lam rights and whose land you dwell

you should but you have not obeyed his

voice it’s God said I told you the

beginning I don’t want you to fear fear

no man fear no one but God your father

let let no other fear into your heart

because you’ve disobeyed me you’ve loud

fears all these fears to come in to your

heart God delivered you every time you

trusted him but the moment fear entered

your heart then you begin to fear the

enemies gods and then I had to turn you

over into the hands of your enemies to

drive you back to myself now what was

the great evil they kept falling back

into if it was

the bail spirit now they’re all through

the Old Testament you hear a bail bail

bail

now Bailon that says they serve Balaam

that’s the plural word for bail with

which it’s a coverall

phrase that covers all the idols and all

of the false gods and even today that

spirit still exists that covers Buddha

it covers Harry Krishna Allah all of the

false gods are wrapped up in this one

word bail it’s all inclusive word it has

to do with the spirit and that spirit is

right out of the pit of hell it came out

of the mouths of Satan is still being

spewed out of the mouths of Satan it’s

one intent and one purpose is to cause

God’s people to mistrust the Heavenly

Father and it’s it’s an attack of the

enemy to try to have you look at your

present situation that’s exactly what’s

happened here

the children of Israel cried out unto

the Lord saying we have sinned against

thee both because we have forsaken our

God and we are serving Balaam you see

the they looked at their own condition

and comparing it with the prosperity of

the Midianites all their camels and all

their mules and healthy people plenty of

food and agreement cattle and then they

look at their own poverty condition and

they say how could God be interested

where is our God we’re living in poverty

we’re homeless and see that’s where they

begin to have these questions and doubts

and planted in their minds it was the

sin in their lives

sin in the land that brought terror and

brought sorrow upon Israel poverty

uncertainty he loved them still got

there’s never time that God did not love

his people but he had to turn them over

into the hands of the enemy to be

chastened you know how they

or chastened but they refused to

acknowledge that their sin and rebellion

was the cause of their terror and their

poverty and their difficulties all of

these things they look around never once

tied it in to the rebellion folks you

see that in the United States now you

see it so clearly you see it around the

world Twin Towers fall the Pentagon is

in flames and there are there were not a

handful of preachers there were not a

handful of politicians I don’t know of

any politicians but only a small remnant

in the Church of Jesus Christ can see

the hand of God in it that God allowed

the enemy permitted the enemy because of

a loving response of his heart to try to

drive us back to himself and realize our

sins are alienating us from God in his

presence his power and his mighty arm to

work in our behalf and now we see that

didn’t work and now you have seen in the

last six months in the past year

especially this nation one third of the

United States was on fire the worst

fires forest fires in the history of the

land

the worst floods the whole city of

Houston a week underwater worst floods

ever now droughts listen to me now 1/2

of the United States is in drought right

now 1/2 there’s a deer kill up in the

Midwest

they’re killing 50,000 deer in five

states farmers are told to get the guns

and go in their cornfields and wheat

fields and killed the deer because the

deer are dying there’s a brain disease

and they’re just falling and wasting

away and nobody can pinpoint it and now

they may have to kill up to 250,000 deer

and every time they look around there’s

another crisis we’ve got the Japanese

beetle now eating whole areas and

there’s there’s another disease in the

force they can’t understand in

California and one after another after

another and God is saying when will you

ever understand that it’s your sins that

your sins that bring this upon you you

know the floods in one city or one

country in Europe our team our advance

team just came back and there was a big

sign as you entered the city two

homosexuals kissing one another and

talking about the freedom of

homosexuality of this nation the next

week this city was flooded and nobody

ties it into God speaking Kooks God

speaking he’s speaking loud and clear do

you hear what he’s saying he’s saying

I’ll tap you and I’ll tap you on this

loving task but he said I’m going to

increase it and increase it you know we

have people today say all they may have

missed it but wait till the next big one

comes maybe a small pox in it being

released here in New York City subways a

little suitcase or anthrax or whatever

it may be and everybody folk side

there’s so few that don’t expected most

people the United States or saying

President Bush is saying it Congress is

saying it and all of the so-called

security people are are saying the same

thing

big ones yet to come and I’ve heard

people say well when that comes they’ll

turn to God they’ll surely no forget it

folks forget it they will not turn to

God they will not atribute it to the

hand of God God doesn’t do it but he

withdraws and protecting arm it allows

the enemy you know that God at any point

could have stopped those men from

getting on that airplane and coming this

way at any point God could have stopped

it he’s done it time and time again God

didn’t do it but he didn’t stop them

because he was trying to speak he

write down the two symbols of our power

and our prosperity to save power and

prosperity and all your boasting I will

not have it I love this nation I love

America with all my heart but I would

tell you something and I want to tell

you folks listen God is going to speak

louder and louder don’t know what is

coming next but we’re not to live in

fear about it whatever happens you see

the truth is even if America cries out

to God and that is what Israel did here

in the 6th chapter they cried out to God

for mercy again but you see God expects

more than that expects more than just to

cry out of fear

in fact God sends a prophet to these

people they hear the clearest word

they’ve ever heard their heard the

prophetic word right from the throne of

God God saying I’m telling you I’m in

this I’m responsible this because I’ve

allowed this to happen to bring you back

to my heart to bring you to repentance

and even though they cried out because

of their troubles and even though they

had a prophetic word God said that’s not

enough there’s something else I’m going

to ask of you

in fact I’m going to demand of you now

we talked about repentance many of you

said well I’ve children I’ve cried out

to God and I’ve heard the prophetic word

and I’ve responded to it and that’s what

Israel did we could have churches open

all of United States and people on their

knees crying out to God we could have

men getting in the pulpit now finally

and hearing your word from heaven a

prophetic word uttered from from coast

to coast but the Bible says there’s a

problem is called bail there’s an idol

and folks until we get rid of our

idolatry all this crying is not going to

have any impact it’s not going to have

any effect because you have to tear down

the idol that which has the heart

if there’s true repentance God’s going

to say go after bail tear down the idol

of bail take thy father’s young Bullock

or bull throw down the altar of bail

that thy father hath and cut down the

grove that is by it now bail is still

very much an idol today I told you it’s

a spirit now now bail the idol itself

then various sizes but it it was a

carving either out of wood stone or

metal then it was the form of a man the

dawn is type man very handsome man now

that was a stone or piece of wood it

couldn’t speak it couldn’t talk but you

see that’s the kind of God they wanted

because and that’s why they wanted the

golden calf calf they knew was made out

of their earrings and their nose rings

and their jewelry and say this is your

God now you see they wanted to dance

nude around the altar they wanted to get

this legal is what they thought was the

legalistic bondage they wanted to be

free and you see they wanted a God that

couldn’t hear and couldn’t see couldn’t

see their idolatry couldn’t see their

fornication couldn’t see couldn’t hear

their language but you see behind that

Idol there is a there’s a voice there is

a spirit that animates it and the devil

had to have this visible thing but folks

there they they could view you go to

when you went to the meeting place where

there was a veil and the Groves that

were set up there the trees planted in

rows in an order and the tents for

prostitution it was a very gala thing is

very calm

for very impressive because if you

didn’t have the touch of God you would

feel you would hear a voice an inner

voice pulling you away from your

confidence at Almighty God now what is

bail in this enlightened age you’d think

no one would bow down to a piece of

stone or wooden statue but we have

Buddhist we’ve heard Christmas we’ve got

a million gods in India almost all of

them have some kind of statue to

represent who they are often serpents

all kinds of creeping things but you see

there’s a demonic spirit behind it all

it’s that spirit that is meant to

destroy the confidence we have in God’s

faithfulness and I want to tell you

something I want you to hear me well

God’s been speaking to me all week on

this you see the enemy will come in a

crisis time you come when you’re going

to because you see every time there’s a

child that’s near death every time

there’s an accident and a love and a

father and a funeral parlor

you’re shaking their head the devil

sends his emissaries that every accident

and every place of terror every hard

place he sends his emissaries his

principalities and powers to inject fear

to inject these seed thoughts where is

your God the first anniversary of 9/11 I

was listening to the radio when they

were interviewing people they

interviewed hundreds in fact they

interviewed thousands and they concluded

that a great majority of the interviewed

said they’d lost all confidence in God

Ninian said my god died on 9/11 how

could have just God a loving God allow

this to happen how could it be and every

time you go through a hard time you lose

your job for example you have a broken

heart over relationship that went sour

this is a fatal disease in your family a

life-threatening disease and someone’s a

death door and I want to know the

devil’s emissaries are there at the door

and they move in immediately saying

where is your god why would God allow it

I get on an airplane and there’s a

lawyer a lady lawyer sitting next to me

crying and I said can I help you I’m a

minister she said I’ll tell you can’t

help me

my father 70 years old one of the nicest

men clean man a good man

and he just died no reason at all he’s

he’s dead he’s gone and she said I can’t

believe in a God anymore you see that’s

the spirit of bail that the one this has

been from the very beginning that was in

the Garden of Eden that was in the that

live so Satan even then to see God’s

forgotten God doesn’t care and folks you

have to be careful very very careful

when the enemy comes in with his first

attack and tries to plant a seed in your

heart God’s not hearing my prayer I

don’t see any evidence of God working in

my life lord I fasted I’ve prayed I’ve

done all of these things in the devil

hears and he knows and he’s right there

to start planting his seed of unbelief

and doubt in your heart about the

faithfulness of God some of you’ve been

there maybe are there now going through

a very difficult time very scary

these when you lose a job very scary to

do because bankruptcies right now here

in a long time high 1,000 businesses

have gone out of businesses have died

gone bankrupt this past year 1,000 and

you look into the future and the devils

want to try to put such fear in the body

of Christ and these thoughts are going

to come at you and you have to be

careful that you deal with them

immediately because if he can get in and

plant that scene he’s building a base

he’s building an altar for bail and he

will erect that as you continue to allow

him to speak those doubts and fears into

your mind he will move in quickly

cause you to doubt everything you’ve

ever heard about the word cause it open

this book and it will look like a dead

book nothing that appears about life

anymore you just read it but no longer

is it life to you you get down to pray

and the reason many people don’t pray

anymore is because they don’t believe

God’s answered them they don’t pray

folks I I’ve tried everything to get

people to pray here’s every kind of

scriptural to have raised my voice now

thundered then I still wonder why people

don’t pray and the only conclusion I can

come to is if they really believe God

answered they’d be praying they’d be

talking to him but what’s the use I

don’t see God answering prayer

the spirit of doubt and unbelief left

unchallenged moves in and sets up this

altar and I’m telling you folks unbelief

is an ultra unbelief is from the very

pits of hell that is the back comes out

of the devil’s mouth unbelief and doubt

comes right out of his mouth out of the

mouths of our Lord comes a sharp sword

this is a sharp demonic attack of

idolatry unbelief is the worst kind of

idolatry known to mankind when it says

chill no visual did evil the sight of

the Lord God’s talking about their

unbelief talking about their doubts and

fears and don’t turn there but in

Ezekiel the chapter the Holy Spirit

takes Ezekiel on a spiritual vision

journey chosen for great abominations in

the house of God he’s gone he’s seen

already two of these abominations then

the Lord takes him to a wall that’s a

hole in it and he said now dig the rest

of the way through and so Ezekiel in

this vision dug through that hole and as

soon as he got through there was a door

and Holy Spirit said to Zeke you go in

and see horrible abominations being

committed behind that door he opens the

door and he’s overwhelmed with horror 70

men and one priest there 71 and in the

temple had become so degraded so vile

that in this room secret room on all the

walls were portraits and pictures of

creeping animals and wicked beast

four-headed beast and animals and

pictures of every conceivable before God

they could picture and add sensors in

their hand incense and they were waving

them standing in front of this wall now

they’re not

worshipping the wall they’re worshipping

the spirit behind all of those images

every one of those images had a there

was a spirit behind it saying excuse me

and God said Ezekiel I’m showing you

what’s going on in the minds of these

men my own elders they’ve so been

captured by the spirit this Idol has

been set up in their imagination in

their minds folks I’ve been working with

drug addicts for over 40 years and any

drug I to go tell you the habits in the

mind it’s a mind habit it’s not a

physical habit it becomes that if a

while but it’s up here it’s in the mind

and that’s where the devil works that’s

where he sets up this idol of bail this

Idol of unbelief

now here’s what they said and this is

what must have absolutely shocked

the prophet Ezekiel they said the Lord

seeth us not the LORD hath forsaken the

earth now here’s the spirit of bail

fully exposed God doesn’t see you he’s

abandoned the earth in other words he’s

so busy with the cosmos she’s so busy

with all the planets now they didn’t

deny there was a God or he you can see

devil let you believe in a creator god

he lets you believe he’s out there

somewhere taking care of the universe

but he just wants you to doubt that he

he is involved in your life that he

cares about you and that you can roll

every care on him he’s after your

confidence that he’s involved in every

detail of your life let me tell you what

his mission really is it’s not to seduce

you to drugs alcohol or pornography

those are only fruits of the roots

spirit only the fruits his single

overriding mission is to plant in your

mind that God is not what the Bible says

he is he’s not what the preacher says he

is it’s not what you think he is

Isaiah said unbelief he described

unbelief like this a sin written with a

pen of iron and the point of a diamond

and graved upon the table of the heart

and God answered you have kindled a fire

in my anger speaking to their unbelief

which shall be born in me forever

well then he added cursed be the man

that trusteth in man

make it place his arm his whole heart

departs from the Lord but blessed is the

man that trusted the Lord whose hope is

the Lord

Polk’s my my hope is in the Lord Himself

that I know him that he’s with me and

that’s my hope if God is with this what

else matters and then hit and judge the

sixth chapter gaze of the Lord brings a

word to Gideon says he’s crushing this

little pile of wheat or what it was his

threshing just enough to survive the

pains of the Lord said the Lord is with

you a valiant warrior the Lord is with

you now folks God didn’t send an epistle

to this man God got right to the point

and what he’s trying to do he’s going to

give him a foundation for his faith and

just five words that if he would believe

he’d never be ever invaded by the spirit

of bale Lords with you and folks i’ma

tell you that’s all you and I need from

the hand and the voice of God God is

with you I don’t care who your enemy is

I don’t care about the Midianites or

their army or their caravans I said I’m

with you I’m with you you are mighty in

this power just go with it up with you

whatever you’re facing right now can you

say it and believe it God is with me God

expects you to hang all your faith on

that build on that that’s all you need

you don’t need an epistle hallelujah

Gideon though had the spirit of unbelief

in him he hears this boy he says to the

angel but can you imagine he knows it’s

an agent Lee speaking to the angel like

this if the Lord is with us I see no

sign of it I’m paraphrasing where are

his miracles were the answers to our

cries and he says the Lord has abandoned

us Lord’s giving up

he’s talking to an angel who just told

it God is with you how many times have

you heard from this pulpit how many

times you heard it when you open this

book how many times have God whispered

it here you’re not on with you I’ll

never leave you I’ll no forsake you I’ll

go with you to the end of the world

folks God expects his people to rest on

that and believe it with all that is in

them and let that face the whole world

in every agony and every troubled every

situation I got it with you that’s what

the new coven is all about I will be God

to you

they said the same thing these 71 elders

said the Lord doesn’t says the Lord

forsaken the earth the Lord’s forsaken

the earth you see here’s a man has cried

out to God here’s a man that’s heard the

Prophet has been visited with a clear

Word of God and yet he still has these

doubts and tears in him we see there’s a

problem because there stands in his

father’s killed an image of bail now

that image though it can’t be heard

audibly

can be heard in the spirit realm and

every time

Gideon goes by there there it is

speaking God’s forsaken us God’s not

with us it spoke every time he passed

and all the Israelites every time they

saw it in time they passed I know it was

on a hill on hillside it appears that it

was in scripture that it was established

on a hillside and everything where they

look they look at their poverty they

looked at that they’re the poorest

sustenance and they look up there and

that’s a reminder God is not interested

in you there it is it’s sneaking out and

Claire God said to Gideon go get your

father’s bull and pull it down pull it

down cut down all the trees in the grove

and take those trees and build an altar

and consume it all on that altar

God says pluck out of your mind in other

words take the Holy Ghost you say he had

a bowl I don’t have a bull oh yes you do

you’ve got the strongest bull known to

mankind on earth you got the Holy Ghost

in you

the Holy Spirit God says you take the

Holy Spirit and you deal with that now

you pull down those spots of unbelief

you pull down those thoughts of fear and

unbelief pull them down every person you

know that speaks doubt is of the Spirit

of bale pull down your relationship walk

away

just tell them tiny I’m not here to

gossip I’m not here to let you minister

fear and I believe today I’ve got to

trust God I’m pulling away you don’t

have to tell them that did walk away

from it

stay off the telephone

I’m going to close in just a minute

uh let me tell you what the Holy Spirit

spoke to my heart and closing you know

when I I see God working with Gideon he

takes a man full of doubt and unbelief

and I see such mercy what a picture of

grace here’s a man that just keeps

testing God time and time again well God

if you’re really with me stay here and

let me cook you a meal and you wait here

I want you to eat this middle so I can

know that you’re with me God Lord says

go ahead and he brings him out broth and

some things and the Lord says take it

and put it on the rock and he he puts

his rod to it it goes up in flames I

said well that must be God God is with

me then he gets closer to the front

closer to where the battle really is

things are really getting tough now Lord

if you’re ready with me I’ll tell you

what I want you to do and he takes a big

hunk of fluffy wool from one of the

sheep he said we’ll lay this here

overnight if you’re ready with me in the

morning I want it dry all around and I

want the fleece the wool to be wet

except in the morning goes out and

everything is drivers know doing the

ground but he starts wringing out the

wool I mean water just pours out of this

Oh God must be with me

you know we played that game over and

over again God is reminding us all the

things that he’s done the word that and

how faithful he’s been but this the Oh

Lord this is a big one this is bigger

than anything that I’ve ever faced

before no it isn’t he’s done bigger

things for you and your past nothing is

impossible with him think of the mercy

in the grace of God he goes back the

next day he said Lord this time he said

wool has a tendency to suck in water

anyhow this time I won’t do and mildew

and water all around it but I want the

fleece to be dry because out the next

morning he Slauson through the mud and

he picks up a dry piece of wool please

God must be with me

now think of the patience of God

you know I there had to be something

that sold this man that is quite his

questions

we’re not accusative he was reading a

hungry man wanting answers he was not

accusing God as much as wanting to an

answer I didn’t come this morning

condemned of anybody here this facing

unbelief and doubt

I’m bringing you a word that God gave me

and I want you to listen to it and I’m

going to read it word for word because

there are numbers of you here this

morning you’re going through this this

time and this God of mercy that that

took this man and used him to see what’s

do the same for you he wants you to get

victory over your unbelief he won’t give

you power and authority this morning

just by an act of faith and trusting the

Holy Ghost to pull down every stronghold

of doubt and fear and unbelief just

pulled it down by faith because he has

great victories ahead of you he’s got

something wonderful just as he did now

he wants to defeat the enemies in your

life the Midianites he wants to give you

power and authority and folks you know

the whole story how all these thousands

gathered they had to get it down to 300

finally God says if you just trust me if

you’re not going to take much just faith

it’s going to take confidence in me the

just the little that you have you give

it to me

and you believe me and I’ll give you

overwhelming victories and here’s what I

hear from the Lord this is the word I

receive I don’t know who it’s for

but if sure you you’ll know it the Holy

Spirit will make it real to your heart

God is about to break there to bring you

into your most important victory you’ve

ever experienced he’s about to lead you

into new places of peace and rest in

Christ he’s about to reveal his strong

arm on your behalf and

answer he’s about to show you that he’s

truly involved and everything in your

life and he’s going to do a new thing

but you’ve got to pull down every

thought of unbelief lay down every fear

pull down that spirit of bail and allow

him no entrance and I’ll tell you

something I’ll say it again before

closing if you want that God will give

you the bull God give you the power you

give you the authority God has a good

word for you

God sent you here to hear it the enemy’s

tried to plague you with doubt and

unbelief rise up in Jesus name by faith

and say no my God is with me he’s going

to stay with me and everything I do we

just stand please