Same Test, Different Day
May 28, 2023Same Test, Different Day
Judges 2.20-3:7 CSB
Outline:
Compound Interest (and other compounding effects)
- Money, health, etc…
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. ~ Edmund Burke
Recap of Judges Cycle: sin – suffering – supplication – salvation
Exodus 23.30-33
- God’s plan for the land
- Snares
Judges 2.20-23
- God is testing his people.
- Why not give everything the people want at once? God is more concerned about formation than a destination.
Judges 3.1-2
- Teaching how to face obstacles.
- James 1.2-4
- Compounding effect of obedience = faith strengthened
Israel’s Slow Slide Away from God
Judges 1.1-4
- Judah’s priority
- Almost obedient…
- Series of failures to be fully obedient to God.
The history lesson for the ages: What we rationalize can become our demise.
Two WE’s:
- American WE / Christian WE
- Joshua 24.15
- “We are not in a fight to maintain Judeo-Christian cultural norms. Instead, the war is about making disciples among all people and loving the Lord with all our being and loving our neighbors as ourselves.” ~ Eric C. Redmond
- 1 Peter 2.11-12
REFLECTION:
- What do I need to entrust to God in order to be fully obedient to him?