Jun 2, 2010 Posted by JGG on Jun 2, 2010 in Media, Theology, Three Angel's Messages, evangelist | 1 comment

Gideon’s Torch

Bap­tist Col­lege 2010 “Gideon s Torch” with Jeff Pippenger

It is a dan­ger­ous thing for men to resist the Spirit of truth and grace and right­eous­ness, because its man­i­fes­ta­tions are not accord­ing to their ideas, and have not come in the line of their method­i­cal plans. The Lord works in his own way, and accord­ing to his own devis­ing. Let men pray that they may be divested of self, and may be in har­mony with heaven. Let them pray, “Not my will, but thine, O God, be done.” Let men bear in mind that God’s ways are not their ways, nor his thoughts their thoughts; for he says, “As the heav­ens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” In the instruc­tion that the Lord gave Gideon when he was about to fight with the Midianites,–that he should go out against his foes with an army of three hun­dred blow­ing trum­pets, and car­ry­ing empty pitch­ers in their hands, and shout­ing, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon,–these pre­cise, method­i­cal, for­mal men would see noth­ing but incon­sis­tency and confusion.

They would start back with deter­mined protest and resis­tance. They would have held long con­tro­ver­sies to show the incon­sis­tency and the dan­gers that would accom­pany the car­ry­ing on of the war­fare in such an extreme way, and in their finite judg­ment they would pro­nounce all such move­ments as utterly ridicu­lous and unrea­son­able. How unsci­en­tific, how incon­sis­tent, would they have thought the move­ments of Joshua and his army at the tak­ing of Jeri­cho! “Now Jeri­cho was straitly shut up because of the chil­dren of Israel: none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jeri­cho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor. And ye shall com­pass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trum­pets of rams’ horns: and the sev­enth day ye shall com­pass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trum­pets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trum­pet, all the peo­ple shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the peo­ple shall ascend up every man straight before him.” Where were the sci­en­tific meth­ods in this man­ner of war­fare?
{RH, May 5, 1896 par. 7}

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One Responseto “Gideon’s Torch”

1. Humble Servant says:

   September 6, 2010 at 9:44 am

   We are in des­per­ate need to hear these mes­sages in every church and every gath­er­ing with­ing Sev­enth Day Adven­tism. Lord help us see clearly and please SAVE US FROM OURSELVES!