In the book of Judges chapter
3, I want to begin reading with verse 12. But verse 12 is connected
so closely to verse 11. And it tells us that when Othniel
passed away, he died. And he's different than our great
judge. He's different than our great
high priest. He's just like you and I. appointed
unto him to die. He died. And then we noticed
last week, the children of Israel and the children of Israel did
evil again in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord strengthened
Eglon, the king of Moab against Israel. We find that God is working
with them to have power, more power than the Israelites. His
people by covenant of works, which they
could not keep. It's been amazing to see how
many times he goes over and over, showing his side, from his standpoint,
that he's keeping the covenant. From his standpoint, he's keeping
the covenant, over and over again. Here, 12 times in the book of
the Judges, as the children of Israel went through the wilderness,
all the time under the kings, the Lord is gonna continue to
show, I'm keeping my part. And yet they could not and did
not keep their part. So they did evil. And this Eglon,
king of Moab, he comes up against Israel and he gathered unto him,
verse 13, the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote
Israel and possessed the city of palm trees. So the children
of Israel serve Eglon, the king of Moab, 18 years. So this is I don't know, 18 years of your
life, my life's been, that'd be a pretty good portion of it.
So they've had this oppression for all this time. Now, as we
go through the book of Judges, we want to notice something that
there is no liberation if there is any enemy left. And that speaks
so much about our salvation. There is no real salvation if
we have enemies left. And we're gonna see that played
out here, particularly as we talk about it here in the book
of Judges chapter three with our new judge. So he's gonna do something that
is really strange. We don't find that very often,
what he did, but it is completely a type and a shadow and a picture
of the gospel. and how the gospel works on people.
So as we follow this, that people, they rebelled against God, they
went against God, He brought on the outside, He brought them
in, put them into judgment like He did with over in the children
of Israel, spent all that time, 400 years under the Pharaoh.
Here they're going to be spending 18 years. And it says here, but
when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, verse 15, the
Lord raised them up a deliverer. Now we find almost those identical
words when we're talking about the first judge of Israel. It is the Lord. We don't find
anywhere in this that they have said, I think you would make
a good captain to lead us. We find that the Lord takes things
in hand, just like he does for us when he saves his people.
He took things in hand, he raises up somebody and he clarifies
it here in this verse of scripture, as we noticed with the first
judge, raise them up a deliverer. Now a deliverer is someone that
delivers. And if he doesn't deliver on
all sides, then he's not a deliverer. So it tells us in Ehud, the son
of Gerara, a Benjamite. Now we notice something different
about this particular judge that we will not read about any of
the other judges. Now we're going to find out things
about them that give us some great insights about the Lord.
But this judge, Ehud, is a man that is left-handed. He favors
his left hand. He probably could do things with
his right hand like most left-handed people can do. It's amazing for
me to watch Josie write. It's amazing for me to watch
Watch Mike write. You know, I just can't do that
dexterity with my left hand. But here's a man that God brings
up and he shares with us specifically that he is a left-handed person. Now, left-handedness is not that
often brought out in the scriptures. We find over here in the book
of Judges chapter, would you turn there to chapter 20. Judges
chapter 20. It's the only other place in
the Old Testament that we have a left-handed person, and I don't
know of anybody that's noted for that in the New Testament.
And we find out, in fact, that you don't want to be on the left-hand
side in that great day. But here in the book of Judges
chapter 20, Judges chapter 20 and verse 16, it tells us about
there are 700, 700 chosen men. Now, when we get
over there and we read about this, I think we're gonna find
out that they are on the wrong side. They have not chosen well
when it comes to sides. But just for our time right now,
among all this people, Judges 20, verse 16, among all this
people, there were 700 chosen men left-handed. Now they had
a skill with their left hand. It tells us there everyone could
sling stones at a hair and not miss. Now it doesn't tell us
the distance. I'm not interested in that. If
anybody's that good, I want to stay out of their way. So here
are 700 people. And you know, they really have
the first missiles that were ever used in battle. They have
stones. And we read about David taking
care of a great enemy of the church, Goliath, with a stone
and a sling. Now their slings are different
than ours, but David was pretty good with it. These guys are
very good with it. Left-handed stone throwers that
could have a hair put up. and hit that hair. So they're
pretty good. Well, this is the only other
place in the Old Testament that I could find that there was someone
left handed. So I think it's pointing out
something about our friend here, our brother, this second judge
in here, that going back to that book of Judges chapter three,
It tells us there that Ehud was a person that was left-handed.
He's been raised up. It tells us there in verse 15,
he's been raised up by the Lord to be a deliverer. He has been
raised up. God, the Lord, raised them up
a deliverer. Ehud, the son of Gerar, a Benjamite,
a man left-handed, and by him the children of Israel sent a
present unto Eglon, the king of Moab." Now, we're going to
stop there for just a moment and notice that this judge, this
Ehud, had this quality about him that very few other people
that we have record of in the Bible had. Now, there may have
been quite a number of left-handed people. What is it, 10%? Something
like that of people naturally are left-handed? Well, Ehud is
the only one mentioned among the judges, and he is among 701
mentioned in the Old Testament. So there's not that many. And
I saw here, I read several things and most of the people just said,
well, it was It was better for him to be left-handed. The Lord
did that so he could hide his sword and go in and take care
of business. Well, I think because it's so
plainly written here that he's sharing a quality about him that
other people did not have, and he's also sharing with us a type
and a shadow and a picture of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. When he was upon this earth,
he was a man. He was such a man that most people
couldn't pick him out of a crowd. Only those who could pick him
out of a crowd were those who knew him personally. I like what
is written over there in 1 John 1, where it says, we handled
him. That meant they were close enough
to get observation. So he was a man. And we read
so much in the Bible about this one, this man, the man Christ
Jesus. I'd like to read a few things
about him as is recorded in the scriptures, because it is so
important to know and have our thoughts directed towards the
God man. Now, many people have made mistakes
in writing that he's only a man and he's not God. And some people
have written he's only God, but he's not a man. And you know,
if we just take the Bible for it, it straightens up so much.
The Bible is the best commentary on the Bible. And the problem
that we have when we read the Bible and make statements like
that, we are saying we don't believe some of the Bible. And
when we say we don't believe some of the Bible, we have a
problem. And that problem is a heart problem. God's people
hear God's word and they believe it. And they may not understand
it and we don't understand a lot of it. May I say much of it? Most of it? We don't understand
in its completeness. But God has given enough understanding
about it to know that Jesus Christ is God-man. He is the man Christ
Jesus. He is the Messiah that God had
promised from the very beginning. Turn with me, if you would, to
the book of Hebrews, chapter 10, and we find a reason that
Jesus Christ must come with a body. God coming down to this earth,
and He did that from time to time, God coming down to this
earth could not provide the requirement to pay the price for our sin.
He could not die. And to pay the price for sin,
someone must die, a substitute must die, or we must die for
eternity. So here in the book of Hebrews
chapter 10 and verse 5, we find that God in his great purpose
of grace, Hebrews chapter 10 and there in verse 5, as we find
with Ehud that he was a man like so many men, high quality, strong,
whatever we want to describe, but the Lord intended for us
to note that he was left-handed. He was different in some ways
than any other fellows. So we find out with regard to
the Lord. Verse 5 of Hebrews chapter 10, Wherefore, when he
cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst
not, but a body hast thou prepared me. So we find that throughout
the scriptures, there's going to be this. When we go to the
book of Leviticus, we find a body. And many bodies were sacrificed,
but they were always an animal sacrifice. And we find that there
were those in that day and in that time that understood that
those animal sacrifices did not save them. They were a picture,
a type, a shadow of their Savior. They must have a substitute. They recognize that. There must
be bloodshed. They recognize that. But this
is not going to be what it is. This could not do that for them.
So a body thou hast prepared from eternity. A body was to
be given on the behalf of the people of God. Those that God
the Father gave to God the Son, there had to be a body. And that
body was where all the sins of all of his people would be imputed
and that body would be burned, if you please, under the wrath
of God. So we find that the Lord Jesus
Christ came in a body. Now, we've heard this recently,
and we pass it on, that there were many people that didn't
know Jesus when they saw Jesus. He was a man of like passions
as we are, We find that he was a man that hungered, a man that
thirsted, a man that wearied, a man that had not place to lay
his head. We find a man that was dependent
upon spending a night somewhere else. We find that he is truly
the man of God. He is the man Christ Jesus. Turn
with me, if you would, back to the book of Isaiah chapter seven.
In Isaiah chapter 7, we find the prophet Isaiah was used many,
many years before the birth. And that just keys us in on something
about this man, Christ Jesus, that he was born. But you know,
there's some comparisons between his birth and Isaac's birth.
Both of them, from outward appearance, was an impossibility. Sarah recognized
that and guess what? Mary did too. How shall these
things be? Seeing I know not a man. Both
of them understood that this is an impossibility. But we read
here in the book of Isaiah chapter seven and there in verse 14,
therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Now I like the
signs that come from the Lord. He usually explains them for
us. And here we find, Behold, a virgin shall conceive. Now,
I don't know how they felt then. at the time of this writing.
I don't know how Isaiah felt about it. I don't know how about
the prophets that read it afterwards felt about it. But you know something
different is going on here than has ever gone on. A virgin shall
conceive. This is different than any other
birth that has ever happened on this earth. bear a son, and
you shall call his name. And we find out that his name
is called Emmanuel. Now this name is mentioned in
the New Testament only because it's a quote from the Old Testament,
a passage of scripture. His name shall be called Emmanuel,
God with us. Well, we also find that his name
is to be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their
sins. This one that came down from
heaven to this earth and spent 33 and a half years here, Three
and a half in ministry. And I like what he had to say.
He came not to be ministered unto, but to be a minister and
to give his life a ransom for many. He didn't come down here
for people to serve him. He came down to be the servant.
He came down to be the minister. We find here that they shall
call his name. She shall conceive and bear a
son. Yes, that happened. We have human being in a manger and yet
he is different than every other human being that has ever been
born in this world. Ehud was a man like we are, and
yet God recorded something, a gift that he had given him that was
different than almost everybody else that was in his league,
and that was he was left-handed. He is a special character. And when we study about the Lord
Jesus Christ, we find that He is a special one. He was before time, and yet He
came in time. He was the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world, and yet He came to be presented as
a body sacrifice. In Luke chapter 1 and verse 35,
we find almost the identical reference here in Luke chapter
1 verse 35. In the description that is given
to Mary, verse 35 of Luke chapter 1, we read this, and the angel
answered and said unto her, Luke chapter 1 verse 35, the Holy
Ghost shall come upon thee." Now, when
I read that, I say, something's happening here. Something is
happening here. You know, when the Holy Ghost
comes to someone, something is happening. We read about that
as the new birth, as the Holy Spirit is the author of the new
birth, the giver of the new birth. The Holy Spirit is involved.
So the Holy Ghost shall come upon her, upon thee, and the
power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that, what
does it say? Holy thing. That holy thing which
shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. To her,
not only was he her son, but he was her savior. To Simeon,
not only was he a little boy coming into the temple, but he
was his savior. There was no one like this. They
had never been told to go worship someone else. They have always
been told to worship God. And when he is on the scene,
that's exactly what they do. In John 1, verse 14, Verse one,
we read, the Word, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. And then we come to verse 14
of John chapter one, and we have this Word brought up again. I
like what the translators did for us when they capitalized
that word, Word. It's a very special word in the
Bible, and it tells us there, the Word was made flesh. God was made flesh. This man
that had this flesh was so special. He is God's darling son. He is different than anyone else
has ever been on the face of the earth. Now, we could go back
to Adam and say, well, he didn't have a birth like we did. That's
right. He's pretty special, isn't he? But he is not nearly as special
as the one that came that we read about here, the Holy One. Adam was all that he had, imperfection,
sinned against God. and put us all in the terrible
state that we're in. And as a result, God said in
the covenant of grace, I'll send the very special one to the earth,
the God man, Emmanuel, this holy one that shall be born, that
shall be called the son of God. Now, it never tells us whether
he's right-handed or left-handed, but he is special, special, special. I think he was ambidextrous. both hands could do equal. That's
what I think. Well anyway, let's go on. Look
over here in the book of Galatians. Galatians chapter 4. Galatians
chapter 4 and there in verse 4. We find there in the fullness
of time. Now God has never had to deal
with time. In eternity, never had to deal
with time. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Time was not. It was just eternity. And when
he created the heavens and the earth and he created man, he
created time. And now this one is going to
be in time, because it says here, but when the fullness of time
was come, now that's God's clock ticking away, at the appointed
time, this God-man would come, this Emmanuel would come, this
word would come, this one, God sent forth his son, and then
he says, he's like the rest of you folks, made of a woman. He has all the characteristics
of everyone else. We have a high priest which can
be touched with the feeling of unaffirmities and has always
was tempted as we are, yet without sin. It never went through his
mind to cross over that. He never thought about doing
it. I've had people tell me he could
ascend if he wanted to, but he chose not to. Now that's not
true. The God man could never even
toy with sin. He couldn't even come up against
sin in that capacity. Now he was gonna have sin imputed
to him, sin given to him. He's gonna be around sinners
every day of his natural life on this earth, everywhere he
went. He could just look out and he
could just see a remnant according to the election of grace, and
he knew exactly who they were. If he ever met Saul of Tarsus,
and some people have put in their report, and there's no proof
for it, said that the rich young ruler was Saul of Tarsus. Well,
if he was, God saw one of his sheep. And he looked at a whole bunch
of others and said, they're just all goats. He saw a remnant according
to the election of grace. This is what we find out about
him. She shall bring forth a son. Thou shall call his name Jesus. It is not a mistake that his
name was Jesus. It wasn't because Joshua's name
was Joshua, and that's Hebrew, and now his name is going to
be like that. It isn't a descendant name. His name is going to be called
Jesus because of the significance of that meaning. Because he shall
save his people from their sins. how important it is to recognize
those truths about the Lord Jesus. You know, is it 1 Timothy 3,
verse 16? 1 Timothy 3, verse 16. Chapter
3, verse 16. And without controversy, great
is the mystery of godliness. You know, I wonder how many people
came up to Ehud and said, how can you write your name with
your left hand? You pick up something, how can
you pick up a baseball and throw it with your left hand? It's
so interesting to watch people do that because it is so uncommon
with me. And I wonder how many people
came up and said, you're left-handed. I heard you're left-handed. That's
kind of strange. Well, he's left-handed on purpose
to illustrate a point that though he has many commonalities of
everybody else, he has one thing that is not common. And when
we look at the Lord Jesus Christ, we have him who has many commonalities
with many other people, except he's not a sinner and He is so
uncommonly God with us. Emmanuel. It is not common to
have God with us like that. Great is the mystery of God.
God was manifest in the flesh. He was presented in the flesh.
He was given in the flesh. He was seen in the flesh. justified
in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed
on in the world, and received up into glory. This is this one
that is so special. He is our special judge. He is our special high priest.
He is our When we go through the Old Testament, we find out
normally we're going to run into prophets, priests, and kings.
Do you know when we run into this about the Lord Jesus Christ?
He is our special prophet. He is our special priest. And
He is our special king. He has qualities that none of
the other ever had. Impossible. Those high priests
were sinners. I believe we read about Aaron,
a sinner saved by grace. Those prophets were just sinners
saved by grace. And those kings who knew anything
were sinners saved by grace. And they're saved by the grace
of God, this very special one, this special one. Great is this
God one. He's in all points tempted as
we are. And hallelujah, yet without sin. Never thought sin, never did
sin, he saw sin. But you know, it didn't affect
him like it does us. We see it in our... And we can't avoid it. I don't
know how you avoid it. It's just, anyway. Without sin, God came in the
flesh to bear our sins in his own body on the tree. That body
that was prepared, this body, Jesus, was prepared. And how
they are brought together, the God-man, 100% God, 100% man, so different than
anybody else that had ever walked the face of the earth. He's tempted
40 days by Satan. And the only rebuttal he ever
said, he brought up the verses of scripture. He brought up the
Bible. All right. Christ attached to Jesus informs
us he was more than a man, but with God. Christ means Messiah. He's the appointed one, the anointed
one from eternity. Well, there's a lot more mentioned
in the scriptures about this one, the Lord Jesus. And as we
go back over to the book of Judges chapter three, let's go over
there again. Judges chapter three, there's much more said that we
could read about our savior, but we'll do that at other times.
We'll continue to bring up the difference between him and us.
So here in the book of Judges chapter three, we find that this
judge, this special judge, this judge that had a special quality
about him, he was left-handed. We don't have record of very
many other people having this quality. He was special. He was identified as special.
God identified him as special. God had him written about as
special. And here in the book of Judges chapter 3 again, we
find that Ehud made something. There in verse 16. Before we
get there though, I want us to notice that And by him the children
of Israel, verse 15, by him the children of Israel sent a present
unto Eglon the king of Moab. Now that's going to play an important
part in a couple of verses of scripture. Just keep that in
mind. But notice here in verse 16. You know, it wasn't enough
for Ehud to go out and buy a sword. That would not do. It says he
made it. Ehud made him a dagger. Now, two times in the Old Testament
is this particular Hebrew word translated dagger and that's
in the book of Judges. 360 odd times it is translated
sword. So it's interchangeable. This
particular sword or dagger had a blade that was approximately
18 inches long, it's a cubit, and it is two-edged. That is
also an interesting thing to be brought out in the book of
Judges about a weapon that Ehud is going to use. He made it,
it's this length, and it is two-edged sword. Well, I just cannot help
but think that there's something about that that's going to share
because we find another two-edged sword mentioned in the scriptures.
And it may be electronic in your hands, but it is still a two-edged
sword. It may be a printed page, but
it is still a two-edged sword. So let's look at this dagger,
this sword, this cubit-long double-edged sword that Ehud shared with us,
and he's going to use it to free the people. He is going to free
the people. And let me reiterate, if you
don't take care of all the enemies, you haven't freed the people.
When we begin to look at the death of Jesus Christ and what
it took care of, He took care of every enemy of the church. Everyone. Now there's some that
He's promised to take care of. It's already taken care of. It's
already taken, it's in the bank. It's presented spotless before
the throne of grace. We still deal with our sin, and
when we pass from this life into the next, that will be taken
care of. But He's taken care of every
enemy. He's promised to take care of it. No wonder He could
say from the cross, it is paid for, finished. I've taken care
of the itty bitty tiny ones. Song of Solomon talks about the
little foxes that destroy the grapes. He took care of those.
He took care of the great big ones, the monster things that
were held against us. The law. God's law is not blind, it's
condemnation. And he took care of that. So
we're gonna find out that as Ehud is gonna take care of every
enemy, and get rid of them and get them out of the land and
bring peace to the land, we're gonna find that that's exactly
what Jesus Christ did when he took care of our sin debt and
all of our enemies. But we find that Ehud had a very
special weapon. He made it, two-edged sword. It doesn't say that it's just
for left-handed or right-handed people, because the sword is
not that way. But let's look at this, we find about the word
of God. In the book of Hebrews chapter
4, the book of Hebrews chapter 4, and you know some of these
verses are going to play a very important part when we start
looking at how Ehud handled the enemy. He's going to take care
of the largest one first. And as a result of taking care
of the largest one first, he is going to call up and going
to get rid of everybody else that's been over there causing
hate and discontent for all those years, 18 years. He's going to
get rid of them. There is going to be peace and
tranquility. What's going to bring the end
to the peace and tranquility? Ehud's death, and the children of Israel sin
again for a season. for a season. All right, look
over here, in the book of Hebrews chapter four. Hebrews chapter
four, as we think about, as we look at this sword, the sword
that Ehud had, in the New Testament, we read about the sword of the
Spirit. Here we read, and the word of God is quick and powerful
and sharper than any two-edged sword. You know, there's one
thing about the word that we find out about. Once it has been
delivered, and we're gonna find that out about what Ehud did
with his sword. Once it was delivered, there
is no way to ever take it back. And the people that it's delivered
to can't take it back. They may never be led to do anything
with it, but it is theirs. They have been nailed with it.
All right, here it says, for the word of God is quick, it's
living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Now when you start looking at some of that stuff,
that's just really pretty fine stuff. I haven't come to the
conclusion of all of those metaphors in here. But I know this, it
is a discerner. It is powerful. It is a two-edged
sword. It does pierce. It does cut. And once it does, it is there. It will never, ever be thrown
away, destroyed, put away. People may try to put it in the
back of their head. That's the one thing that we are called
on to do once the word of God is delivered. Let the deliverer
of that word take care of the business with it. All right.
Let's go look at the book of Revelation. Revelation chapter
one. Revelation chapter one. In Revelation chapter one, verse
16, we read this about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Revelation
chapter 1 verse 16 says, out of his mouth Boy, how piercing
was His Word. How liberating is His Word. How
forgiving is His Word. It says, And he had on his right
hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged
sword, and his countenance was like the sun shineth in its strength. John is given this beautiful
picture of his Savior. And, you know, I mentioned not
too long ago, try to paint this. you're going to have a monstrosity.
Look at it from a spiritual standpoint and you have the Lord Jesus Christ
in his glory. All right, so a sharp two-edged
sword. In chapter 2 and verse 12 of
the book of Revelation, chapter 2 and verse 12, let's look at
that. Chapter 2 and verse 12, it says,
And to the angel, or the pastor of the church of Pergamos, write,
These things saith he which had a sharp sword with two edges. And then he goes on to describe
the church and the issues that were with that church. But this
is how he appeared to this particular church. He is bringing his word. His word is the most important. That's why it is important to
have the word. not philosophy, not history,
but his word. And then in the book of Revelation,
notice with me here in chapter 19, Revelation chapter 19 and
verse 15. Here we have a judge, Ehud by
name, a left-handed person. He is an oddity among his fellows. He's left-handed and he makes
a sword, a dagger, about 18 inches long. Both edges are sharp. And here we find in chapter 19
verse 15, And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with
it he should smite the nations. Now we're not going to get that
far tonight, but we're going to find out that Ehud uses a
sharp two-edged sword to smite the nations. He's going to take
care of the enemy with a sharp two-edged sword. And that sword,
once delivered, is not retrieved. And the guy that has it can't
have it taken out either. He's going to die with it. You
know, a lot of people die with the Word of God as judge. They will take it with them as
judge. All right, it goes on to say,
shall smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod
of iron. And he treadeth the winepress
of the fiercest of the wrath of God. And he hath on his vesture
and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
There's no question in our mind who this is writing about. It is the Lord Jesus. You know,
if we back up there just a little bit, in verse 11, I saw heaven
opened and behold a white horse. And he that sat on him was called
faithful and true. Are we waiting for the end times
for this to happen? I hope it happens every day.
I hope it happens on some of my family members. I hope they
see this great horse writer. And it says there, Faithful and
true and righteous. He doth judge and make war. His
eyes were as a flame of fire. His head were many crowns. And
he had a name written that no man kneweth but himself. And
he is clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. And his name
is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in
heaven, you know who that is? That's the church. The church
follows him on white horses. Now we don't actually do that.
We follow him. clothed with fine linen, white
and clean. What's that? The righteousness of Christ.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, and this sword he is going
to deal with the nation, shall smite the nations. The sword
of the Lord shall smite the nations. This great double-edged sword
is of God's making. You know, we find a lot of people,
I was just reading I was looking up getting ready for Sunday and
there's so much stuff on the internet and sometimes it brings
up stuff that you, what? How did that get there? And 17
reasons not to believe the word of God is true. Well, I didn't
open it. I didn't open it. But it's garbage out there all
over the place. And we read here that he has
the ability of smiting the nations with his word. And this great
double-edged sword is of God's making. I went through very quickly
through a concordance, and I wrote down 55 times in the book of
Ezekiel alone, it said, thus saith the Lord. One book. 55 times, thus saith the Lord. The
scriptures are of God, not of men. His great sword has been
forged in the eternal counsel of God in old eternity. And it is His word and not another. Holy men of God spake as they
were moved. David said, the Holy Ghost used
my mouth. Revelation 19-15 truly sums up
what we're going to read over in Judges 3.16-30. Every step that Ehud makes is
on purpose to take care of the great enemy of Israel, and when
he takes care of the great enemies, the small ones are no problem
at all. The Lord willing, next week we
will look at how Ehud was used to deliver the people with his
left hand and his sword of two edges, his dagger of two edges. We'll stop there for now.