TITLE: Waiting for the Dead
TEXT: Judges 5:25-28 ²⁵ He asked for water, she gave milk; She brought out cream in a lordly bowl. ²⁶ She stretched her hand to the tent peg, Her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; She pounded Sisera, she pierced his head, She split and struck through his temple. ²⁷ At her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; At her feet he sank, he fell; Where he sank, there he fell dead. ²⁸ “The mother of Sisera looked through the window, And cried out through the lattice, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarries the clatter of his chariots?’
PROPOSITION: We are often waiting for the dead, spiritually.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Tactics

INTRODUCTION:

1. Background of this event.

   1. Barak – general, Deborah – leader of Israel

   2. God will deliver Israel into the hands of a woman

   3. Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite – fed Sisera, he slept

   4. Jael put a tent stake thorough his temples

2. Sisera’s mother was back home – WAITING for his return

3. There are many ways that people today are “waiting for the dead.”

If you are trying to ________, then you are waiting for the dead.

1. Be saved apart from the church – Acts 2:47

2. Do the works of the flesh and produce the fruit of the Spirit – Galatians 5:19-26

3. Be saved by praying through – John 9:31

4. Be saved without obedience – Philippians 2:12

5. Be saved without assembling with the saints – Hebrews 10:25

6. Obtain forgiveness without forgiving others – Matthew 6:14

7. Worship as you please and obey God – John 4:23-24

8. Be saved on the basis of morality – 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9

9. Be saved apart from baptism – 1 Peter 3:21

Conclusion:

If you are waiting for God to change His mind and allow what He has forbidden – You are waiting for the dead.