Open—Bruce Christensen
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We just turn to the 14th chapter.
We see a household in order.
And how much scripture talks about a household in order?
Then following from that, we have other things that are brought into an order. So let's just turn to Genesis chapter 14 and let's turn to verse 14. In this chapter we have Abraham delivering a lot.
And in verse 14 it says, And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants born in his own house, 318 and pursued them unto Dan.
Oh, here were 318 servants that were trained in his own house.
And he didn't go out to another place to select those to go out.
And recover a lot. The 1St place they looked was in his own household and we see that they were trained servants and we see that Abrams household was in order and as a result of that he could go out and recover lot.
And just another very brief account that I'd like to read is in Psalm 78.
With very little comment.
We go down to verse nine in this chapter.
We heard much about the whole armor of God.
And how important it is.
To be equipped with that, as our brother has said, let's just look in verse 9.
It says the children of Ephraim being armed.
And carrying bows. Well, let's just stop here.
Well, one thing that you want to do is when you're going out to warfare is to equip an army.
And here was an army that was being equipped. They were carrying bows and they were armed. But what does it say here? They turned back in the day of battle.
I was just enjoying recently a scripture that we have, I believe in the 8th chapter of Judges about Gideon.
He had 300 men that the Lord used against that whole company, and it says they were faint, but they were pursuing, and may we each.
Be found like those 300 men, faint but pursuing. We have been given the equipment, we have been given the armor. But let's not be like these.
Children of Ephraim turning back in the day of battle.