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the tribune stoufiville ont thunsday july 17 1952 gg stouffville floral roses wedding bouquets funeral designs cut flowers milt smith prop thts weeks sunday school lesson gsaagbobta now allow all landlords to oust tenants for need ontario landlords may now take possession of a rented house for themselves or immediate relatives after they have given six months notice to the tenant regardless of the length of time they have own ed the property hon louis ceeile said last week previously this type of notice was without effect unless the dwelling was owned by the land lord prior to april 1 1952 the new ruling was approved by the cabinet today mr ceeile said it was expected that at least two thirds of the municipalities in ontario would be exempted from the rental regula tions about march 2 1953 an order in council will be passed about sept 2 decontrolling most of the province the order however will not be effective for six months and municipalities may request that the controls be retained mr ceeile emphasized that until a municipality is exempted rental regulations would be enforced in no instance would the effective date of exemption for any munici pality be earlier than march 2 1953 gideon a man ok faith and humilitv gulden text teach me thy way o lord and lead me in a plain path psa 2711 the lesson as a whole by j c macaulay dd approach to the lesson the sad storv was repeating it self this time the midianites were gods whip to scourge his people with their allies the amalekites and some arabian tribes called in judges c3 the children of the east the midianites were descen dants of abraham by keturali gen 251 2 and were a nomadic people with great herds of cattle their tactics were to sweep over israel when the crops were ripe bringing their cattle with them devour the whole land then retire in time to let the israelites sow for the next crop and repeat the procedure this went on for seven years the israealites hoping that each raid would be the last doubtless there was an element of revenge in all this the nomadic people of the east have long mem ories and one generation passes its quarrels on to the next one of the last acts of moses was to in flict a crushing defeat on the mid ianites because of the part they played in luring the israealites into sin num 31 it must have taken them a long time to recover from that blow and while israel was a conquering nation they would not dare to try to strike back but the old sore kept fester ing and as midian grew stronger israel became weaker because of its sin and neglect till at last backed by the amalekites and the arabians the midianites felt them selves equal to the longcontemp lated revenge and god used that as a means of chastening his dis loyal and disobedient people so we see that what looked like the natural proceedings of history are the orderings of the lord verse by verse judges 6 11 an angel of the lord an oak which was in ophrah gideon threshed wheat by the winepress read the angel the phrase is used about sixty times and refers to the very presence of the lord see verse 14 read also the oak apparently a wellknown tree this was ophrah in manasseh not ophrah in benjamin josh 1823 notice the secret threshing an indication of the terror throughout rittmttnmmtwmwwwto cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery cold storage lockers and fast freezing facilities stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone 186w mium yssssssssssjssrssrrs tt moftv mm marmill the quality feed 18 growing pellets or crumbles assures rapid growth no waste when you feed pellets we sell the famous blue coal order next seasons supply now take advantage of may june special cash price central feed store phone 277 e r daniels prop rssssssssssssssssssssssssssssrs the land verse 12 the lord is with thee thou mighty man of valour both statements looked false the lord seemed to have forsaken his people and gideon was not show ing much valor but god is with us in the dark and he calls us what he purposes to make us see john 142 compare gabriels greeting to mary luke 1 2s verse 13 if why where this is not the language of faith but of crushed hope and utter despondency do we not recognize our own vocabulary here nevertheless there is enough faith left to know that even the disaster is the work of gods hand if god can smite he can also heal hos g 1 notice the different printings of lord the first is a respectful title the second means jehovah and is so written in the revised version verse 14 go in this thy might have not i sent thee the commissioning was accompanied by the needed equipment the con sciousness of being sent of god will help us through any difficulty compare the go and the lo of the great commission verse 15 wherewith shall 1 my family is poor and i am the least compare exodus 3 11 jeremiah 1 0 for poor lead poorest or meanest the most insignificant member of the meanest family in the most oppressed tribe of israel that was gods chosen vessel see 1 corin thians 12729 but see heart of the lesson verse 16 surely i will be with thee and thou shall smite the midianites as one man the least of men plus god is invincible the phrase as one man indicates completeness see chapter 20 1 s verse 17 shew me a sign was this a dream an imagination or was it real gideon wanted to put it to the test see the following verses for the test the lord accepted gideons offering by turn ing it into a burnt offering v 21 verse 25 throw down the altar of baal and cut down the grove gideon had tested the lord and now the lord tests gideon the savior of israel must be willing to stand up for the lord against the idolatry of his own house the grove asherah prob ably refers to the wooden image of astarte venus standing near the altar of baal gideons father had succumbed to the prevailing idolatry t verse 26 and build an altar and offer a burntsacrifice the destruction of the false altar and the idol was not enough there must be the positive recog nition and worship of jehovah it must be done too upon the top of this rock in full view not in secret verse 27 then gideon did as the lord had said by night his fear was not so much fear of consequenes but fear of interference and prevention so he destroyed the idolatrous para phernalia by night willing to face the consequences in the morning but the point is he obeyed and had ten men willing to stand with him chap 822 rule thou over us for thou hast delivered us a logical proposition we have more reason to say this to the lord jesus have we said it and meant it verse 23 the lord shall rule over you gideon refused the hereditary kingship reminding them that they were a theocracy here was true modesty and true piety he could not accept honor i which belonged to god the heart of the lesson gideon well represents the man whom god can and will use in his service first he was poor in spirit which qualified him for the kingdom of heaven matt 53 like moses and jeremiah he felt himself totally inadequate for the trust committed to him oh lord he exclaimed in amaze ment and then recited the reasons for his insufficiency my family is the poorest or meanest in manasseh and i am the least in my fathers house judges 615 actually there are indications that gideons father joasti was a man of some influence the altar of baal and the image of astarte were on the grounds of joash and these included the rock or for tress of ophrah he was therefore keeper of the community altar and image vs 2830 in a day when the country was stripped bare joash still had some cattle then he was able to defy the men of the city and get away with it v 31 but gideon had no sense of impor tance gideon also was willing to come clean for god in his own house and among his own people even when it meant risk the command to destroy the altar of baal and the image of astarte see note on joy beauty salon near cnr permanent waving individual styling razor shaping phone stouffville 9sw2 ttmivivvsynriv chap 625 was obeyed without question lest the men of the city should interfere and forcibly stop him he carried through the pro ject by night well knowing that the morning would witness a re action which might be dangerous for him but god cannot use us as vessels unto honour until we cleanse ourselves of all defilement 2 tim 221 tne dearest idol i have known whateer that idol be help me to tear it from thy throne and worship only thee so it must be if we are to be used of god then gideon was willing to fol low divine directors even when these seemed utterly contrary to human wisdom when god reduc ed his army to three hundred as over against the multiplied thou sands of the midianites amale kites and arabians gideon did not argue that this was preposter ous that they were hopelessly out numbered and so on nor did he reason that some good bows and arrows would be better than pitchers and lamps gods man doing gods work in gods way will see gods wonders finally gideon was not seeking great things for himself his not able victories won for him the acclaim of all israel so that they offered him the throne not merely for himself but for his descen dants after him i have seen a fine old steel engraving of oliver cromwell refusing the crown of england he is reported to have said in his act of refusal take away that bauble the fact is that cromwell had an eye for that bauble and would have accepted had it not been for the persuasions of john owen the famous theolo gian while yielding to the better sense of owen cromwell never quite forgave his good adviser gideons refusal was not like that the kingship belonged to god 1 sam 12 12 and gideon would not touch the honor which was due to god alone business directory rennies transport phone 121 stouffville sand gravel ixain screened stone any size dally service to toronto phone va 9003 toronto auctioneers sellers atkinson ph agin 201w2 ph stoult 363 licensed auctioneers 25 years 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