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I’ll leave that to your imagination I
could get real graphic here
you know and as the intro spilled no no
and they found the blade that had
previously been on the thigh of the
judge now I just leave it to the
imagination
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you can’t unsee this right the fact
closes all in over the blade so now the
blade is still hidden
sucks the blade up in there the weapon
is hidden first on ihat’s Thai and then
in eglin’s belly
everything in the passage is hidden
but
when they found the key they unlocked
the door and that spoke to me
about how
the unlock
for the nation of Israel after 18 years
of chains of Oppression metaphorically
speaking not that they were physically
in Chains although some some of them
were
but the Captivity
that was a part of this cycle
was unlocked
by a man with the left hand from the
tribe
of the right hand
and
many times in my life I have limited
myself
because I’m left-handed
again just to be clear
in case this video is ever made public
or in case I send it to a friend who is
Left-Handed and you are offended and you
send me an article on seven reasons that
left-handed people are more likely to go
to Harvard
be the president and win an Oscar
and send me all the Geniuses that were
left-handed and talk about whoa
ambidextrous and boom boom boom boom
boom no I don’t
I don’t really okay well send me the
Articles I’m sure I’ll find them
interesting and then I’ll put those in
the illustration too because here
there is a clear literary
device that the author of Judges is
saying Benjamin son of my right hand
a judge that the Bible doesn’t even say
the Spirit came on who was left-handed
had a secret meeting
and God used an 18 inch 18 inch weapon a
left-handed man in a secret place to
deliver a nation I think
there are
secret weapons that you have that you
sometimes don’t recognize because you
get discouraged right Isaiah goes on to
say in Isaiah 49
verse 3 he said to me you are my servant
Israel and whom I will display my
Splendor well
Isaiah comes long after the Book of
Judges but you know when he says you are
my servant Israel Isaiah is not just
talking about himself he’s talking about
the whole nation
and he’s prophesying about Jesus the
Messiah but in this case watch what he
says I said verse 4 I have labored in
vain I’ve spent my strength for nothing
at all wow
I have spent my strength for nothing at
all
man I’m doing everything I know to do
but
I’m I’m left-handed I’m I’m weak and you
know
the next verse
it really hit home for me and brought
this thing together in verse 4 part B he
said yet what is do me because he’s
feeling like a little bit of self-pity
he’s not seeing the results he’s not
feeling like he’s making a difference
the nation is not turning back and in
this particular instance he’s preaching
and prophesying
but you might feel like that with the
Investments that you’re making of your
time you might feel like that with the
way that you’re trying to create
relationships you may be in a season of
feeling rejection you may just feel like
man I’m not getting any progress or any
traction I keep getting sick in my body
over and over again and I keep having to
reset and I can’t move forward I I keep
going back into
you know this old pattern and
it seems like it’s all for nothing well
if you feel like that and you’ve been
saying things like that lately I’ve
spent my strength for nothing at all
you need this this next part of the
verse yet
verse 4B Isaiah 49 yet what is Do Me
is in the Lord hand excuse me it wasn’t
as powerful I messed it up yet what is
Do Me
is in the Lord’s
hand
and my reward
is with my God what is do me say this
out loud what is Do Me
is in the Lord’s hands
see because I’m his servant it’s his
purpose it’s his will it’s his word it’s
his word so God get me out of self-pity
oh why does nobody appreciate me why
don’t they see
and put the shine on me why is nobody
thanking me all of those things are
natural to feel but get this in your
spirit yet what is Do Me
is in the Lord’s
hand which one sometimes the left one
sometimes God is going to bless you out
of his left hand
look for it in the left hand watch for
the left hand
watch for God
to take somebody that you weren’t even
trying to impress or get to notice you
and bring them over to help you with
something that you needed help with
watch for God point you to somebody who
isn’t looking for you let’s don’t just
get in a selfish mindset we got to think
like Servants of the Lord here
and watch for God to say I want you to
be the left hand in this situation
I want you to offer to do that for them
I want you to make a difference in this
situation and nobody’s expecting you and
you need to blow a trumpet in fact do it
in secret don’t even blow the trumpet
about it don’t announce it oh I’m coming
to help just be that that left-handed
that sneaky secret weapon that God can
use don’t have to preface things when
you encourage people I want to encourage
you today just slip a little
encouragement him boom do it so much
that they don’t even know it was you
they just did it like it was from God or
they think they thought of it one of my
favorite things people tell me
after I preach is I loved when you said
blank blank blank and I didn’t say any
of that because I feel like I got them
tapped into the Holy Spirit and the
spirit said that and the spirit is way
smarter than Pastor Stephen so we did
our job Lord boom you got him with the
left hand boom got my left hand bought a
sneaky jab that’s that jab right there
that’s God coming in to do a work in
your life through the left hand watch
for the left hand the unlock is in the
left hand how many times did I think
that I wasn’t going to be a good
songwriter for worship music because of
my vocal limitations oh man I can’t sing
like that guy or that person I don’t
even know all the music theory and maybe
I should have studied more and learned
the music theory
maybe I could have maybe I could have
I’m sure I could have I know I could
have I could have paid more attention to
those lessons I got a book somewhere
around here where the lessons are
sitting in a notebook I’ll find it
I don’t want to distract myself right
now but it’s a big thick green binder
where a guy named Daryl and Saint
Stephen’s South Carolina taught me I’d
go out there and drive to Saint
Stephen’s every what was it Tuesday
night
I trust in God only Jesus is not coming back the son of man is coming soon.