Same Test, Different Day

May 28, 2023

Same 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?

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