DEBORAH & BARAK: A VICTORY DUET

DEBORAH & BARAK: A VICTORY DUET

DEBORAH & BARAK: A VICTORY DUET
Judges 4-5
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v. 14 “… the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the LORD go out before you?” (esv)

v. 15 “… the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak …” (esv)

vv. 4–5 “O LORD, when you went out … the earth shook, the heavens poured, the clouds poured down water. The mountains quaked before the LORD … the God of Israel.” (niv)

v. 5.21 “The river Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the river Kishon.” (csb) 

v. 31 “So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” (esv)

VICTORY GIVES US LIGHT TO SEE GOD’S …

Promise TO THOSE WHO ARE Willing

vv. 5.6–8 “… the highways were abandoned … villagers ceased in Israel … war was in the gates.” (esv)

v. 5.9 “My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.” (esv)

v. 5.11 “… repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.” (esv)

v. 4.6 “The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go …’” (niv)

Curse FOR THOSE WHO DO Nothing

v. 5.23 “Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” (esv)

Provision FOR THOSE WHO ARE Perishing

Acts 17.30–31 “God now commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man he has appointed.” (csb)