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Bethesda Shalom

Bethesda Shalom , "House of Mercy and Peace". A small independent Bible believing Church located in Wolverhampton, England; endeavouring to hold fast to truth and stand fast in love by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Dec 23, 2024

Judges 8:29-35

If there’s one thing to take away from history, it’s that good things never last!!  If this is true of history in general, it is certainly true of revival history.  Where the blessing of God has been poured out upon a people in special seasons of refreshing, it seems only ever to be short-lived before alas the tide of evil comes back in and the people return to bathe again in the insidious waters of iniquity.  While the man of God was alive, the people served the LORD, but when Gideon was taken out of the way, the “...children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god” (vs. 33).  They went from revival to ruin in a single generation!  They went back to the pool of vomit from which God delivered them.  My dear people, I wish I could say that this was an isolated phenomenon never to be repeated, but even in my short life as a Christian, I have seen so many return again to feast upon the mess from which Christ delivered them only years prior!  They forget what life was like in the prison of sin, they forget the chains that bound them and the cruelties that attended their path! 

In this final sermon part, looking at the life of Gideon, a warning is sounded for God’s children to keep themselves from idols!

Dec 16, 2024

Judges 8:22-28

The secret to obtaining heaven’s revival blessing; the key to unlocking heaven’s grace is humility. “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time” (1 Pet. 5:6).  But when God exalts a man, it’s then when things have the potential to go desperately wrong.  My greatest fear is not this side of the victory, it’s what happens on the other side — after God has given the victory. 

In this first of two sermons, we examine the warning against making idols of God’s blessings.

Dec 9, 2024

Judges 8:4-28

Following the awesome victory that God gave into the hands of Gideon His servant – 135,000 Midianites lay dead.  Not content with this victory over the host, Midian pursued the 15,000 that remained and slew them dead.  The two Midianite kings, Zebah and Zalmunna, were the last two enemies to be destroyed.

This sermon is a plea from God for the same zeal to be enacted on behalf of His people toward sin.  We must deal thoroughly and decisively with sin in our lives until every last Midianite is slain.  Let us heed the command of God and go up to the fight in the grace and power of the Holy Spirit.  

Dec 2, 2024

Judges 7:24-25

The world has always been obsessed with outward boast and human glory.  Sadly, much of the Western Church is on par with this thinking.  If a man has charisma and can hold an audience captive with stories and personal anecdotes, we make him a minister!  The pulpits up and down the length and breadth of this country are full of such men.  They look more like action men than they do God’s men.  It’s not what a man is on the pulpit that counts so much as what he is off it!  Character my friends is where it’s at! 

How a man conducts himself amid conflict says a lot about his character.  Leaders are called to be peacemakers.  Having beheld Gideon the man, in this sermon, we behold Gideon the peacemaker.  Through one man’s leadership, a nation is spared from civil war. I pray the Lord ministers to your heart through Gideon’s example.

Nov 18, 2024

Judges 7:9-15

If God is going to get the glory from your life, it is going to require that we trust Him!!!  There’s no escaping this reality!!  When the call of God comes to service, it never comes in a neatly packaged parcel with a cute sticky label on the front.  We want all the I’s dotted and the T’s crossed.  We want it safe and predictable, secure and tested, but that’s not how it works.  God called Gideon to a work above his natural ability and out of his human capabilities.  At every single step along the way, he was a man pressed out of measure and therefore completely reliant upon God.  In the two previous signs given to Gideon as a means of encouragement, they came about at the request of Gideon!!  Gideon was the instigator!  However, in the passage before us, without so much as a request on the part of  Gideon, God takes the initiative to offer him a third sign as further proof on top of the further proof he had already given him — GIDEON, I’M WITH YOU FOR GOOD!!!

Nov 11, 2024

Judges 7:1-8

If I were to ask why you so desire a move of God in this hour I wonder what you would say?  When I speak of a move of God, I mean a heaven-sent revival that would turn the hearts of compromising lukewarm Christians back to God in fervent zeal and ardent love.  I mean a heaven-sent revival that would awaken the sleeping dead and sweep whole multitudes of lost sinners from this town and beyond, into the Kingdom of God. The Pastor wants God to send revival so that His dwindling Church can be filled!   The evangelist wants God to send revival so that he can tell of the great numbers that came to Christ under his ministry. 

But you Pastor, I’m not a minister.  I don’t care for those things just mentioned, I want God to send revival so that my backslidden husband can return to the Lord and my wayward son could get saved! Now granted, your motivation is radically different from the ego-maniac ministers just mentioned, but it still falls short of the only fitting answer to be given, as to why God should send revival.  Why should God send a revival?  FOR HIS GLORY!!!   

Nov 4, 2024

Judges 6:33-40

The men God sets His hand upon for use aren’t supermen; they’re human men like you and me, fraught with human weakness and marred by many insecurities. Any good biography worth its salt will not only describe the mighty feats of the man it purports to represent but also his frailty. 

When the Spirit of the LORD comes upon a man/when the anointing of God is resting upon God’s servant, He ministers in a power and an anointing that cannot be explained apart from the language of the supernatural!!  It’s not His strength it’s not His power, it’s not his grace, it’s not His ability, IT’S GOD’S!  It’s God’s strength, it’s God’s power, it’s God’s grace, its God’s ability!!  We look and think, what a man but we’ve got it all wrong!!  Rather, we ought to say, what a God!!!  In this fourth part of the sermon series, we consider Gideon the man!

Oct 28, 2024

Judges 6:25-32

Before Gideon could reform a nation, he had to first reform his house!!  The altar of Baal MUST come down and an altar for Yahweh be established!!  See where revival begins!  Admittedly, this is a costly ask — it always is with God.  Can I encourage you — PAY THE PRICE AND GO THROUGH WITH GOD, it will be the best thing you ever do!!! 

Oct 21, 2024

Judges 6:7-24

When circumstances sink so miserably low, we grow accustomed to it and can’t see how things can ever change.  WE FORGET!!!  Every revival has begun from the place of low ebbs!! Moses didn’t come on a fluffy cloud with a bolt of lightning to deliver Israel.  Where did God find him?  In a place of low ebb, his people were oppressed and enslaved by the Egyptians!  In the days of Gideon, it was the same.  The Midianites were instruments of humility to turn the hearts of His wayward people back to Him.  When Israel cried out to God, God raised up a deliverer!  From whence did God find this man?  In the palaces of power and influence?  On the contrary; God found His instrument of revival by the winepress, threshing a handful of wheat and hiding in fear.  Men love to look on the outward appearance, but have yet to look where God’s eyes are found – on the heart! 

This sermon is an encouragement for believers.  It matters not how incapable you may feel you are. God has a work for you to do in His power!

Oct 14, 2024

Judges 6:1-12

When a generation loses touch with God and the favour of the Lord is taken away, the next generation coming after will have to start all over again!  I don’t know if you’ve ever had the experience of demolishing a wall.  I’m no builder, but I know for sure that it took whoever built the wall a whole lot longer to build it than it did for the person smashing it down.  My dear people, look around and see; you don’t need me to tell you that we are living in days of great spiritual declension.  This land of ours that once enjoyed regular seasons of refreshing and harvest blessing has for some time now been crippled in the grip of a dearth. 

As we begin this series, looking at the life of Gideon, we begin with the sin of God’s people and His remedial judgements. What was true in the days of Israel, is true in our day.  This is a call for the Church to seek the face of God in humility, prayer, and repentance if perhaps the Lord might turn His face again towards His people.

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