Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share “Pudgy and Lefty” (Judges 3:12-30)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
“Pudgy and Lefty” (Judges 3:12-30)
One of my favorite songs is a song by William Nelson and Merle Haggard called, “Pancho & Lefty.” It’s a song about a couple of outlaws named Pancho and Lefty. Well, that song has inspired the title of today’s sermon, which will make more sense to you later. Today’s sermon is entitled “Pudgy and Lefty.”
Today’s sermon is from
Judges 3
. We’re continuing our series called “Weird Stories from the Bible.”
Before we go any further, let’s go to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to speak to us.
(prayer)
As we get into this sermon, we must first understand that . . .
I. The build-up of this story is weird.
First of all, we have to understand what is going on in the book of Judges.
A way to remember the book of Judges is the word “cycles.”
There were cycles that kept happening in the book. The people of God would sin against God, God would bring judgment on them, they would cry out to God, God would provide a judge or a deliverer, the people would have peace, then they would get comfortable and start sinning again. This cycle would happen over and over again in the book of Judges.
Let me just point out what I think is obvious, just so you know, church: when things are going well, that is not the time to turn your back on the Lord. In fact, there is never a good time to turn your back on the Lord.
We should faithfully trust the Lord when it’s raining and when the sun is shining. We should worship God when we are rich and when we are poor. We should praise the name of Jesus when we are healthy and when we are dying. We should follow God’s ways when our country is prosperous or when we’re living under oppression. We must realize that every blessing comes from God, and we must realize that God is with us in every moment of suffering.
Don’t be a fair-weather Christian. Be a faithful Christian who faithfully follows all the time!
It’s weird to think that it’s ok to only follow the Lord when He delivers you from trouble.
As we approach this particular story, we see that many of the Israelite tribes were failing when it came to being faithful, mostly in the fact that they did not drive the people out of the land as God commanded.
God delivered them into the land He promised when they came out of Egypt, but they are not thriving in the land because they are not obeying the Lord.
Verse 12 of our passage today, which we’ll get to in just a moment, sums up how the people were behaving in the land.
However, just know this . . . the fact that God did all that He did to deliver the people from Egypt, sustain them as He did, and bring them to the Promised Land, yet, they did not obey Him is crazy.
The build-up to this story is weird.
Second, we see that . . .
II. The unfolding of this story is weird.
Let’s look at the passage to see this particular story.
Look at Judges 3:12-30:
12 The Israelites again did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He gave King Eglon of Moab power over Israel, because they had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight. 13 After Eglon convinced the Ammonites and the Amalekites to join forces with him, he attacked and defeated Israel and took possession of the City of Palms., 14 The Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.
15 Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjaminite, as a deliverer for them. The Israelites sent him with the tribute for King Eglon of Moab.
16 Ehud made himself a double-edged sword eighteen inches long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his clothes 17 and brought the tribute to King Eglon of Moab, who was an extremely fat man. 18 When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he dismissed the people who had carried it. 19 At the carved images nea
View all episodes
By First Baptist Church Bartow
5
22 ratings
One of my favorite songs is a song by William Nelson and Merle Haggard called, “Pancho & Lefty.” It’s a song about a couple of outlaws named Pancho and Lefty. Well, that song has inspired the title of today’s sermon, which will make more sense to you later. Today’s sermon is entitled “Pudgy and Lefty.”
Today’s sermon is from
Judges 3
. We’re continuing our series called “Weird Stories from the Bible.”
Before we go any further, let’s go to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to speak to us.
(prayer)
As we get into this sermon, we must first understand that . . .
I. The build-up of this story is weird.
First of all, we have to understand what is going on in the book of Judges.
A way to remember the book of Judges is the word “cycles.”
There were cycles that kept happening in the book. The people of God would sin against God, God would bring judgment on them, they would cry out to God, God would provide a judge or a deliverer, the people would have peace, then they would get comfortable and start sinning again. This cycle would happen over and over again in the book of Judges.
Let me just point out what I think is obvious, just so you know, church: when things are going well, that is not the time to turn your back on the Lord. In fact, there is never a good time to turn your back on the Lord.
We should faithfully trust the Lord when it’s raining and when the sun is shining. We should worship God when we are rich and when we are poor. We should praise the name of Jesus when we are healthy and when we are dying. We should follow God’s ways when our country is prosperous or when we’re living under oppression. We must realize that every blessing comes from God, and we must realize that God is with us in every moment of suffering.
Don’t be a fair-weather Christian. Be a faithful Christian who faithfully follows all the time!
It’s weird to think that it’s ok to only follow the Lord when He delivers you from trouble.
As we approach this particular story, we see that many of the Israelite tribes were failing when it came to being faithful, mostly in the fact that they did not drive the people out of the land as God commanded.
God delivered them into the land He promised when they came out of Egypt, but they are not thriving in the land because they are not obeying the Lord.
Verse 12 of our passage today, which we’ll get to in just a moment, sums up how the people were behaving in the land.
However, just know this . . . the fact that God did all that He did to deliver the people from Egypt, sustain them as He did, and bring them to the Promised Land, yet, they did not obey Him is crazy.
The build-up to this story is weird.
Second, we see that . . .
II. The unfolding of this story is weird.
Let’s look at the passage to see this particular story.
Look at Judges 3:12-30:
12 The Israelites again did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He gave King Eglon of Moab power over Israel, because they had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight. 13 After Eglon convinced the Ammonites and the Amalekites to join forces with him, he attacked and defeated Israel and took possession of the City of Palms., 14 The Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.
15 Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjaminite, as a deliverer for them. The Israelites sent him with the tribute for King Eglon of Moab.
16 Ehud made himself a double-edged sword eighteen inches long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his clothes 17 and brought the tribute to King Eglon of Moab, who was an extremely fat man. 18 When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he dismissed the people who had carried it. 19 At the carved images nea