Early History of Israel

Creatio

n & Fall

Patriar

chs

2166Conques

t (7 yr

s)

Wildern

ess (4

0 yrs)

Egypt (4

30 yr

s)

Judges

Exodus14461805 1350 1050

CYCLE OF ISRAEL’S DISLOYALTY

Idolatry

Remorse

Discipline

Deliverance

Blessed

The Setting: a cycle of disloyalty – 6:1-10

– Enemies remained– Anarchy ruled– Idolatry infiltratedJudges 17:6 (cf. 21:25)

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Our Hero: an unlikely deliverer – 6:11-1

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Our Hero: an unlikely deliverer – 6:11-15

– Fearful– Doubting

“Doubt is the skeleton in the closet of faith, and I know no better way to treat a skeleton than to bring it into the open and expose it for what it is: not something to hide or fear, but a hard structure on which living tissue may grow. If I asked every person to stop reading whose faith has wavered…I might as well end the book with this sentence.” Philip Yancey

Our Hero: an unlikely deliverer – 6:11-15

– Fearful– Doubting– Insecure

2 Corinthians 3:5–6 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant....

His Response: a timid obedience – 6:16-32

– a step of faith: worship– a step of faith: consecration

APPLICATIONWill you take a step of faith?Will you become a deliverer?