There is no restrain to the LORD to save by many or by few.

·         1 Samuel 14:6 > Book of Judges is book of chaos.

·         Shamgar was a Judge.

·         Judges 3:31; Judges 5:6 > Children of Israel were on high alert due to philistine. Philistine were controlling children of Israel. It was a time when the people of Israel were filled with fear. They were afraid to travel the highways because of their oppressors. They were afraid to live in their homes because of those who invaded and attacked them.

·         SHAMGAR was a farmer. He carried and fought with an “oxgoad”.

·         An oxgoad was not a weapon, it was an agricultural tool. It was a pole some 8 to 10 feet in length and about 2 inches in diameter. One end was tipped by a long iron point. This end was used to encourage the oxen he was driving to move. Oxen might not respond to voice commands or the pulling of the reins, but they would respond to the sharp point of the oxgoad. The other end of this tool was shaped like a spade. It was a metal blade used to clean wet clay, roots and other impediments off plow points.

·         When God saved us, He enlisted us in His army and set us about the business of spiritual warfare. We are war today! We are at war with Satan, like the Canaanites, he would oppress us. We are at war with the world, like the Philistines, it would invade us and take away everything we value.

1.    Shamgar was an unqualified person to fight against philistine.

·         Because he was a farmer who use ox goad. A man with no experience of fighting. 

·         1 Corinthians 1:27-29 -God qualify unqualified people to fight the battle. 

·         why God choose unqualified because he wants no flesh to glory in His presence.

·         Christianity is based on believing.

2.    Judges 3:31- Shamgar fought the battle alone. He was un accompany.

·         Genesis 39:1-2; 20-21, when it seems like you are alone in your trial & tribulation, you are never alone, God is with you.

·         Genesis 41:38, can people acknowledge that God is with you?

3.    Judges 3:31 - Shamgar fought with what he had, He used least significant thing - Ox goad

·         God wants to use what you have. You have to see your gift, your talent.

·         Exodus 4:2, God anoint a rod in to His power to make it more significant thing.

·         God wants you to anoint you with His power to make you more significant 

4.    Judges 3:31, Shamgar was un reluctance, patiently waiting for victory. He left the results to God

·         God took insignificant & make significant over and over. 

5.    Shamgar did what he could do. 

·         God wants your availability to follow Him.

·         do what you are capable of doing- stand in the gap & pray.

·         When Jesus was tempted as a human being, He did not use His divine power to defeat the temptation, instead He use prayer, fasting, & word of God to set an example for us what we can do as a human being.

Sermon Notes 1/3/2016