God Ain’t Done Yet || Part 7

God Ain't Done Yet || Part 7, Day 4

Judges‬ 6‬:1‬-16; 8:1-9‬ NKJV‬‬‬‬‬‬

Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, 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. So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them. Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it. So Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord because of the Midianites, that the Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage; and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land. Also I said to you, “I am the Lord your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not obeyed My voice.’ ” Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!” Gideon said to Him, “O my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” Then the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?” So he said to Him, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” And the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.”

Now the men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you done this to us by not calling us when you went to fight with the Midianites?” And they reprimanded him sharply. So he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger toward him subsided when he said that. When Gideon came to the Jordan, he and the three hundred men who were with him crossed over, exhausted but still in pursuit. Then he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.” And the leaders of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?” So Gideon said, “For this cause, when the Lord has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers!” Then he went up from there to Penuel and spoke to them in the same way. And the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. So he also spoke to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come back in peace, I will tear down this tower!”

The anointing and grace to overcome mixture, and to tear down doubt.

You see when we allow mixture, doubt, and lukewarm living to overtake our lives, it brings other things with it. These things never come in by themselves. They never come in and then leave without causing damage and destruction.

Jesus said in John 10:10 the thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy. But I have come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly.

Church, what you must realize is, even though we are mentioning people, we are exposing spirits. Even though people may be the example, it is the demonic spirit behind it that we are exposing. It is the spirit of the antichrist that we are exposing.

That’s why there is such pressure on the church to conform right now. That’s why there is such pressure on your life to back down right now. That’s why there’s such a pressure on your life to be radical for everything except Jesus Christ and His kingdom. It is the antichrist spirit that wants you to give in to mixture, lukewarm living, and doubt.

That’s why no one says anything if you mention the name Mohammed. That’s why no one makes a big stink if you mention Buddha. That’s why all over television and most of the worldly songs coming out right now they are exalting Satanism. Why? None of these are the truth and none of them are the way to the Father. But when you mention Jesus and His kingdom, there is a huge pressure for you to conform or mix everything else with it. It is the agenda of the antichrist spirit in the earth today.

When you read through the Bible, you can find all three of these being sharply, rebuked by the Lord Jesus Himself. There are countless scriptures, telling us to pray and watch for these things.

So, what is mixture?

The scriptures command us to stay away from this:

2 Corinthians 6:17, “Therefore ‘Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.’”

2 Corinthians 6:15, “And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?”

When Gideon comes to Succoth, the men of that city wanted to remain neutral, just in case Gideon did not accomplish the task. It did not matter to them that God had already given Gideon a major victory. It did not matter to them that God had already showed Himself strong through Gideon and his men. They still wanted to remain neutral. They still wanted their allegiance to both sides. Why? Because they were not after what God wanted. They were after what they wanted.

In other words, they wanted to mix these two in their lives. Gideon tells them, “When I come back, I am taking you to the wilderness to punish you with the thorns and briars.” Why does he choose to take them into the wilderness to punish them with thorns? Anytime you see wilderness and thorns in the Bible, it speaks of the curse. The Bible tells us in the book of Genesis that the earth produced thorns and briars, because sin was allowed in the earth. This sin produced the curse.

Let’s pray together…