So There’s No Confusion (Judges 7:1–18). Gideon wants to gather an army where God wants to gather the alert. God tells Gideon, “I cannot deliver a victory as long as you try to do it out of your strength.”

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Dry Wet Testing (Judges 6:25–40). The LORD directs Gideon to tear down the false gods in his own family’s home. Worshipping fickle powerless gods is pointless. Still Gideon doubts God asking God to reassure him.

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Weakest Least Leader (Judges 6:1–24). How often when we hear God is with us do we question God why we go though hardships? Often we are so afraid of our current circumstances and feel so beaten down, we can’t must the faith to trust God to work through us.

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Unlikely Princely People (Judges 5:1–31). Deborah sings about how the princely people of God willingly offered themselves to the LORD. When called upon, will we engage in the spiritual battle or do we shirk from our duty?

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Tent Peg Strength (Judges 4:4–23). Once again the people abandon God. When we go against the LORD in sin, we become an enemy to God. But they repent. God comes to deliver them. An unlikely hero has the strength to go up against the evil.

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Atheist Generation Grows Up (Judges 2:1–5, 11–23). The generation of Joshua did not mentor the next generation who then did not know the LORD. We turn away from obedience in the faith relationship because our sin reckons it as a burden.

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Covenant Keeping Capacity (Joshua 24:16–33). Every time we are in worship we recall the mighty acts of the LORD who has delivered us. Our God is the LORD, a holy, jealous God. Yet we want partial commitment; hanging on to false gods. The Law and the rocks accuses us.

will no longer have the LORD fighting for you.

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Dump Failed Idols (Joshua 24:1–15). Do we recall all the Gospel promises fulfilled in the scriptures and in our lives? Or do we forget all the ways the LORD saves us? Will we trust and revere God who overcomes all the failed false gods of this world? Will we as families pass on the faith to our children?

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Invoking False Powers (Joshua 23:1–16). What are the powers we swear by? Money, politics, health, etc? We are warned not to invoke any other gods. If you dilute your faith by joining yourself to unbelievers and atheistic causes you will no longer have the LORD fighting for you.

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Ravaging Sin Carnage (Joshua 10:1-15). What forces of sin join together to stop your Gospel transformation? Humanists complain about the wrath of God, but never consider the constant life destroying consequences of sin. God is not playing with sin.

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