THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ABSENT ONE
Judges 19-21
We Need A Better Savior – Part 16
Hosea 9.9 “They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah …”
21.25 “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (esv)
GOD’S KING IS A …
TEACHER WHO Limits Man’s Depravity
Jeremiah 17.9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick …”
Matthew 7.28–29 “… the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority …” (esv)
JUDGE WHO Rebukes Our Hypocrisy
20.1 “Then all the people of Israel … assembled as one man to the LORD …”
20.6 “… they have committed abomination and outrage …” (esv)
20.35 “And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel …” (esv)
Romans 3.10 “There is no one righteous, not even one.” (csb)
SACRIFICE WHO Ends Our Moral Instability
THEIR “SOLUTION”: Jabesh-Gilead
THE NEXT “SOLUTION”: 21.19–21 “… there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh … they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, ‘Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards and watch … then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh …’” (esv)
1 Corinthians 1.23–24 “… we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” (esv)