Gideon

Subject: GideonSpeaker or Performer: Pastor Grover ClevelandScripture Passage(s): Judges 6: 11-16Date of Delivery: July 13, 202511Now the Angel of theLordcame and sat under the terebinth tree whichwasin Ophrah, whichbelongedto Joashthe Abiezrite, while his sonGideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hideitfrom the Midianites.12And theAngel of theLordappeared to him, and said to him, “TheLordiswith you, you mighty man of valor!”13Gideon said to Him, “Omy lord, if theLordis with us, why then has all this happened to us? Andwhereareall His miracleswhich our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not theLordbring us up from Egypt?’ But now theLordhasforsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”14Then theLordturned 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?”15So he said to Him, “Omy Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeedmy clanisthe weakest in Manasseh, and Iamthe least in my father’s house.”16And theLordsaid to him,“Surely I will be with you, and you shalldefeat the Midianites as one man.”