GIDEON: GETTING READY FOR CHANGE
Judges 6.1-32
We Need A Better Savior – Part 6
vv. 3–4 “… whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites … would come up against them … and devour the produce of the land …” (esv)
WHEN CHANGE IS NECESSARY IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE …
MOVE BEYOND IU Feeling Sorry ABOUT Sin
vv. 7–8 “When the people of Israel cried out … the LORD sent a prophet …” (esv)
2 Corinthians 7.10 “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.” (niv)
1 John 3.9 “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning …” (esv)
MAKE Discipling A PRIORITY AT Home
Deuteronomy 8.3 “… man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.” (esv)
v. 10 “Do not fear the gods of the … land you live in. ” (csb)
v. 27 “… Gideon … did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.” (esv)
MAGNIFY God’s Promises ABOUT Presence
2 Chronicles 30.9 “… the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.” (esv)
v. 13 “… if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds … the LORD has forsaken us …” (esv)
v. 16 “But I will be with you …” (esv)
1 John 4.4 “… you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (esv)