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TITLE: You
have not obeyed
TEXT: Judges 2:1-3
PROPOSITION: Our failure to obey God can turn around and cause us pain.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Responses
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- God gave a command utterly destroy all the nations in
the land.
- Israel did not do this. See Judges 1:28-36
- There were four responses from God.
A Troubling Question
- Many ask why God would order the total annihilation of
nations women and children and animals
- Many see God here as a cruel, vicious, murderer. (I had
one compare Him to Hitler [wiping out the Jews].
- This is not a proper view of God.
- Think of a surgeon removing the diseased tissue;
amputating a leg; removing organs, etc.
- There is a difference in a home invasion where a man
comes in and attacks with a machete and cuts off a mans arm vs. a doctor
amputating an arm to save a life
- God is not a maniac, causing havoc. He is a doctor
seeking to save a life.
Four responses to our incomplete
obedience:
Covenant is Covenant Judges 2:1
- God made a covenant and will not break it no matter
what.
- Judges 2:1 I will never break my covenant with you.
- God does not make promises lightly.
I wont do your work Judges 2:3
- You made your bed, now lie in it.
- There are some lessons that we will only learn if we
have to solve on our own.
- Dont think that you can do anything you want, and God
will get you out.
- Judges 2:23 - And Jehovah left those nations, without
driving them out quickly.
These nations will be a snare to you
Judges 2:3
- These will be your enemies for the next 1,500 years
- Their gods will cause you more pain than you can imagine
- Look at the list read about them all through the OT
I left them for you to learn Judges
3:1
- God did not protect them from harm.
- He did turn the bad (failure to obey) into something
useful (helping Israel learn)
- Study Romans 8:28 All things work together for good
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