Transcript SHAMGAR—A COMMON ORDINARY MAN!

SHAMGAR—A COMMON
ORDINARY MAN!
Dr. Jobe Martin
Biblical Discipleship Ministries
www.biblicaldiscipleship.org
www.evolutionofacreationist.com
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!
JUDGES 3:31
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.
BIBLE STUDY HAS SEVERAL
DIFFERENT PARTS:
1. Observation
2. Correlation
3. Interpretation
4. Application
OBSERVATION
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Observation=What do we see.
There was a man named Shamgar.
Shamgar came after someone.
His Father’s name was Anath.
He killed 600 Philistines.
He did it with an ox goad.
He delivered his country.
Correlation
Correlation=What Scriptures relate.
• In the case of Shamgar there is one other
Scripture that correlates and that is
Judges 5:6:
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.
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 5:6,8
INTERPRETATION
Interpretation=What 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.
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.
INTERPRETATION
• Shamgar’s father’s name was Anath.
• Anath was the Philistine God of sex and war.
• Shamgar’s family had probably sold out to the
pagan Philistine culture.
• At the very least Shamgar’s 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!
BIBLE STUDY HAS SEVERAL
DIFFERENT PARTS:
1. Observation: what is seen
2. Correlation: where else
3. Interpretation: the meaning
4. Application: who, me?
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 overcoming family limitations.
• He shows us the value of perserverence—he is
out there every day putting his life on the line
for his God, his family and his country.
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.
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?”
Acts 13:36
• 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.)
John 12:27, 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.”
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?
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 3:21) and
does your life display Colossians 1:27?
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
– Who’s to say?
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.
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!
FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!
• WHO’S 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 “Who’s to say?”
because that is taking a position!
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.
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.
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!
ARE WE SUBMITTING TO THE
AUTHORITY OF GOD’S WORD?
• For example: Harry Potter is a wizard.
• Leviticus 19:31: Regard not them that
have familiar spirits, neither seek after
wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the
LORD your God.
DEUTERONOMY 18:10-14
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.
• 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 Satan’s
deceptive world system?
ROMANS 12:1, 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.”
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?
2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
• 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
you—unless indeed you fail the test?
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 God’s 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.
• 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 bornagain youth “…do believe in Christ, but they do
not reflect Christ-like attitudes or actions.”
• Does Satan believe in Christ?
• In other words, there is a “disconnect”
between “knowing Truth” and
“practicing Truth.”
• John 3:21:
• “But he that doeth truth cometh to the
light, that his deeds may be made
manifest, that they are wrought in
God.”
WHAT ARE CHRIST-LIKE
ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS?
• Galatians 5:22 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 Christ’s 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.
WHAT ARE CHRIST-LIKE
ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS?
• Philippians 4:8: “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.”
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?
2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
• 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
you—unless indeed you fail the test?
• Galatians 5:24
• And they that are Christ’s have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Galatians 2:20
• 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 15:31b
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 don’t get the ‘Christian’ kids
within the first six weeks of their freshman
year [of college], we’ve lost them to the
competing worldviews.”
How do we lose you?
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!
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?
ATHEISTIC EVOLUTION
ASSERTS BY FAITH THAT:
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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?
LUKE 10:27
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.
ROMANS 12:1, 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.”
• What are some of the antiBiblical worldviews popular
on the campuses of the
world?
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
Summit.org
Behavior
Values
Respect for life
Wealth
Truth
“Fruit of the Spirit”
Happiness
Health
Loyalty
www.summit.org
Worldview
Summit Ministries
A set of beliefs or ideas / a system of thought
Ethics
Sociology
Theology
Philosophy
Biology
Psychology
Politics
Economics
Manitou Spgs. CO
Law
History
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Proverbs 23:7