THE LEFT HAND OF THE SON OF THE RIGHT HAND 

MF Blume
April 12, 2015


Judges 3:12-22 CEV  Once more the Israelites started disobeying the LORD. So he let them be defeated by King Eglon of Moab,  (13)  who had joined forces with the Ammonites and the Amalekites to attack Israel. Eglon and his army captured Jericho.  (14)  Then he ruled Israel for eighteen years and forced the Israelites to pay heavy taxes.  (15)  The Israelites begged the LORD for help, and the LORD chose Ehud from the Benjamin tribe to rescue them. They put Ehud in charge of taking the taxes to King Eglon, but before Ehud went, he made a double-edged dagger. Ehud was left-handed, so he strapped the dagger to his right thigh, where it would be hidden under his robes.  (16)  (SEE 3:15)  (17)  Ehud and some other Israelites took the taxes to Eglon, who was a very fat man. As soon as they gave the taxes to Eglon, Ehud said it was time to go home.  (18)  (SEE 3:17)  (19)  Ehud went with the other Israelites as far as the statues at Gilgal. Then he turned back and went upstairs to the cool room where Eglon had his throne. Ehud said, "Your Majesty, I need to talk with you in private." Eglon replied, "Don't say anything yet!" His officials left the room, and Eglon stood up as Ehud came closer. "Yes," Ehud said, "I have a message for you from God!"  (20)  (SEE 3:19)  (21)  Ehud pulled out the dagger with his left hand and shoved it so far into Eglon's stomach  (22)  that even the handle was buried in his fat. Ehud left the dagger there. Then after closing and locking the doors to the room, he climbed through a window onto the porch.



EHUD was a BENJAMITE.

•    Of the tribe of Benjamin.
•    BENJAMIN means SON OF THE RIGHT HAND.
•    And Ehud was LEFTHANDED, and slew King Eglon, the enemy of Israel, and brought deliverance to Israel.

Notice that Israel committed evil and God allowed a wicked tyrant to rule over them named Eglon.

•    He was King of Moab.
•    An enemy of Israel.
•    When we transgress and depart from God, we enter phases of CARNALITY.
•    Eglon was said to be an enemy ruler, and was described as being a very fat man.
•    Lots of flesh.
•    Overabundance of flesh.
•    Too much flesh.
•    And this represents FLESHLINESS in our lives in a great abundance that brings us into bondage.
•    The Bible speaks badly of flesh.

Romans 8:1    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:5-9    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.  (6)  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  (7)  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  (8)  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.  (9)  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Works of the flesh:

Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  (20)  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,  (21)  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


Paul was a Benjamite.
•    Most famous man of Benjamin in the New Testament.
•    He preached much about Jesus ascended in the KINGDOM to the RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
•    So many references to Benjamites in the Old Testament have a message of the work of the cross and the Kingdom of Jesus as Paul preached.
•    A Benjamite told FAT Eli that the Ark was captured (1 Sam 4:12-18).
•    This caused Eli to fall back and break his neck in death, due to his weight.
•    The ark taken was like Jesus, when after three days the ark of the covenant destroyed the idol of Dagon.

Israel was captive due to sin and fleshliness.
•    Eglon the fat enemy king represents a Christian’s flesh ruling one’s life.
•    Brings you into bondage.

Church preaches messages like Paul’s teachings.
•    It keeps the flesh at bay, and keeps you from captivity and bondage.
•    And those in bondage can hear it and be set free as Ehud, the Benjamite was used by God to set Israel free from the bondage of Moab.

Learn to BELIEVE God’s Word and live by it.
•    Focus on such things.
•    Take time and read the Bible with the mindset that you will BELIEVE WHAT IT SAYS.
•    Look at the scriptures preached after they’re preached.
•    If God said you are buried with Christ into HIS DEATH so that you can have victory over sin, then believe it.
•    Go over it and over it until it hits you and something sparks in your heart that you can really know what it is like to KNOW YOU HAVE VICTORY IN JESUS.

EGLON ruling over Israel represents the FLESHLY LIFESTYLE ruling over your life.
•    But if all you do is watch TV or read the papers or read a love story or mystery novel, and never give any time for SPIRITUAL THINGS that the Bible talks about, then you are not feeding your spirit, and only your flesh is being fed, and you will see defeat increase more and more in your life until trouble starts, and you experience defeats that you do not enjoy at all.
•    THIS IS WHERE EHUD comes into the picture.
When we get sick and tired of being sick and tired, and call out to GOD, EHUD IS GOING TO COME, as when Israel cried out to God.

•    Ehud means UNITED.
•    Paul was a Benjamite.

Philippians 3:5    Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

And UNITED is a very significant issue with Paul the apostle's ministry.

•    He TAUGHT OF OUR UNION TO CHRIST'S DEATH AND RESURRECTION!
•    He taught that people who get saved have UNITED to Jesus' death, burial and resurrection.
•    They, therefore, have the same victory over sin that Jesus had when He resurrected from the grave and conquered sin.

And so the COMING OF EHUD represents the COMING OF TRUTH that Paul the apostle preached in order to bring us VICTORY.

•    Paul's' message SLAYS THE OLD MAN who is VERY FLESHLY.

Ehud said: Judges 3:19 ...Ehud said, "I have a message for you from God!" 

•    A MESSAGE FROM GOD is GOD'S WORD.

Paul ministered the WORD OF GOD TO US SAYING...

Romans 6:5-6    For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:  (6)  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Israel served MOAB like Christians serve SIN when in defeat.

The OLD MAN represents the FLESHLY people we all were in sin.

•    Salvation deals with this old man, but we can somewhat resurrect the old guy when we slip back into The and carnality.
•    And we have to deal with the old man the same way he was dealt with when we first got saved.
•    TRUTH OF THE CROSS.

When we hear the truth of how we are UNITED to Christ in His death and resurrection, WE EXERCISE OUR FAITH.

•    We focus on believing things our fleshly senses cannot relate to, and actually exercise our spirits.
•    And we have to exercise the part of us called our spirits that CAN BELIEVE in things we cannot see.
•    And when we focus on how OUR DEATHS WITH CHRIST caused us to RESURRECT WITH CHRIST to see GOD ABLE TO WORK ON OUR BEHALF AND BACK UP ANYTHING WE COMMAND IN JESUS' NAME, we experience something.

The Word of God that teaches these things SPARKS A FAITH in our spirits.

And when that strikes our spirits, IT IS LIKE EHUD'S DAGGER SAYS EGLON, THE VERY VERY FLESHLY MAN.

Ehud's dagger is described as follows:

Judges 3:15  The Israelites begged the LORD for help, and the LORD chose Ehud from the Benjamin tribe to rescue them. They put Ehud in charge of taking the taxes to King Eglon, but before Ehud went, he made a double-edged dagger. Ehud was left-handed, so he strapped the dagger to his right thigh, where it would be hidden under his robes. 

TWO EDGED BLADE.

Hebrews 4:12    For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Paul's truth of how we are UNITED to Christ is a TWOEDGED SWORD called the WORD OF GOD.

•    Paul was used so powerfully with this truth.
•    And when we "GET IT", it slays the old man.
•    In other words, that fleshly part of us that demands we see, taste, hear, touch and smell something before we can believe it, that cannot believe in anything spiritual because of it, and takes over our lives and stifles out any spirituality in our lives so that GOD CANNOT BLESS US, IS SLAIN!!!!

We need to realize that the truths of the cross of JESUS, and this preaching of JESUS will cause us to realize a great faith in our hearts that will slay the CARNAL AND FLESHLY OLD MAN that rules so many believers' lives.

•    Hear this truth again and again until it finally grips you and gives you faith that DOES NOT DOUBT and is so convinced that God is with us to empower us that WE DOUBT NOTHING when we command sin to cease its activity in us and claim victory in our lives in JESUS' NAME!

What is so wonderful about this picture is that BENJAMIN means SON OF THE RIGHT HAND.

•    And the RIGHT HAND is significantly referring to the KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST.

Psalms 110:1    A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Acts 7:55-56    But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,  (56)  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

Acts 2:33    Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

SON OF THE RIGHT HAND spiritually means we BELONG TO THE KING OF KINGS AT THE RIGHT HAND, JESUS CHRIST!

•    But yet EHUD was LEFTHANDED.
•    And LEFTHANDED in Hebrew means:

IT-TARE (Hebrew)

•    LEFTHANDED: shut up, that is, impeded (as to the use of the right hand): -  + left-handed.

"USE OF THE RIGHT HAND IMPEDED."

•    Why would he be called SON OF THE RIGHT HAND if the use of his right hand was impeded so as to force him to use HIS LEFT HAND INSTEAD?
•    God is stressing to us that THE RIGHT HAND of power is not referring to OUR HUMAN RIGHT HANDS that we can conquer with, BUT THE POWER OF THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD!
•    RIGHT HAND means POWER.
When God opened the Red Sea we read:

Exodus 15:6  Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Exodus 15:12  Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

•    To remove any doubt as to whose right hand brings us the victory, GOD USED A SON OF THE RIGHT HAND  (Benjamite) WHO COULD ONLY USE HIS HUMAN LEFT HAND!
•    This shows us that the power is not of us, not by our might, nor by our power, BUT BY GOD'S SPIRIT!

Psalms 44:3    For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

2 Corinthians 4:7    But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

THAT is what someone who has faith in the truth that we are UNITED to Christ believes in order to win victories!

By stressing the LEFT HAND of a man slew the enemy, by one who is SON OF THE RIGHT HAND, God is showing us HIS RIGHT HAND is what truly brings victory.

The enemy expects the RIGHT HAND of the warrior to fight and looks for anything associated with the right hand.
•    The left thigh hides a sword for the right handed, to reach over and grasp it.
•    The enemy did not expect the LEFT HAND.
•    He likely saw Ehud’s RIGHT HAND withered or crippled.
•    Enemy does not expect us to depend on God’s RIGHT HAND instead of our own.
•    God’s power instead of our own.
•    Fleshly people are caught up in their own power!



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