JEPHTHAH: FROM REJECTED TO RULER

JEPHTHAH: FROM REJECTED TO RULER

JEPHTHAH: FROM REJECTED TO RULER
Judges 10.17-11.40
We Need A Better Savior – Part 9

v. 18 “… the man who will begin to fight … He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” (esv)

SCENE #1: Mobster NEGOTIATING FOR Legitimacy

v. 3 “… [he] settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him …” (niv)

SCENE #2: Diplomat NEGOTIATING FOR His Country

v. 21 “So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.” (esv)

v. 24 “Will you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever the LORD our God has given us, we will possess.” (niv) 

SCENE #3: Father BARGAINING FOR Victory

v. 31 “… whoever comes out the doors of my house to greet me … I will offer that person as a burnt offering.” (csb)

Deuteronomy 12.31 “You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way … for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.” (esv)

WHAT DOES THIS SAY FOR US?

  • GROW IN God’s Word

Psalm 119.105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (esv)

  • TRUST IN God’s Gift

Romans 6.23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (esv)

  • RETURN TO The Rejected

Isaiah 53.3 “He was despised and rejected by men … and we didn’t value him.” (csb)

John 1.11 “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.” (esv)

For Prayer Text: prayhfbc to 55498