After Gideons death, the people forget him and God. Gideon's son Abimilech emerges as an anti-Judge who grasps for power. The story shows blatant rebellion against God. The chapter illustrates what happens when individually and corporately we don't live life on God's terms. Living my life God's way is the only way to be in right relationship with him, ourselves, and one another.

In chapter 8 we see the culmination of Gideon's success in battle over the Midianites, resulting in a forty-year peace for Israel. However the price of Gideon's success is that he forgets God's grace and loses his focus. The lessons of Gideon's sad ending are warnings for us. He minded God's glory, pursued his own agenda, and chose to serve himself.

In part II of Gideon's story, we see a great victory won by God through Gideon against impossible odds. We can be certain God speaks in ways we can understand, and saves us by grace as we walk in faith.

One man who was called, who repented, worshipped, obeyed, and was used mightily by God. The message focuses on 3 Gospel phrases that saturate the Bible from Genesis to Jesus. And it reminds us that God is calling each of us to be that one.

This story is a powerful example of God's power being perfected in weakness. This story contains powerful truths about God and about how he works in us as we fight our battles.

When we settle we’ll always find distractions ore excuses, but when we hold the promises of God before us and make our hearts available to him, God will always use what we have.

God will not compete with our idols, and idols can never compete with God. Our only hope is to forsake our idols for the one true God, by worshiping and serving Jesus, the one true hero.

This weekend we are reminded that the faith that God blesses is whole-hearted and courageous. God fights for us, will we fight for God?

This story illustrates how God repays sin, evil and wickedness. Our 21st century sensibilities are shocked at what’s done to the Canaanite King, but surprisingly Adoni-Bezek is not. The evil King understands that God has repaid his sin and that he deserves the judgment. This tension between God always repaying sin and evil, and the fact that he fights for sinful people - is relieved by God’s love, grace and faithfulness. It also points to the Gospel and Jesus, who fought for sinful people all the way to the cross. Those that who aren’t God’s people through Christ will be repaid.

In the series text (1 Corinthians 15:1-11) there is a reference to the domino process by which we see people come to Christ. We see God using multiple people to draw the lost to Jesus. It is vital to the mission of the church and to our personal discipleship journey that we serve as dominos.