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Exegetical Point: The Success of the Joshua years quickly gave way to disobedience, then apostasy. Homiletic Point: Partial Faithfulness Leads to Partial Blessing Intro True Justice - Conquest. True faithfulness - conquest. Evil people - no innocents. God had taken away their “right” to the land. God…

In 1979 a passenger jet carrying 257 people left New Zealand for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica and back. Unknown to the pilots, however, there was a minor 2 degree error in the flight coordinates. This placed the aircraft 28 miles to the east of where the pilots thought they were. As they approached…

Lesson 2: Introduction Part 2 Last week we mainly gave a scope of what we are going to be covering in this study – the books that are involved and explained how the make of Israel went from one kingdom to a the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. This week we are going to look at the subject & precursors…

Major issues of life: domestic abuse, terrorism, war upon war, child abuse, moral decline, the collapse of society, how to treat those who believe differently, abuse of power, lack of leaders, a relative concept of truth, practical over principle. Oh you thought I was talking about 2021, didn’t you?…

Confronting the Destruction of a Nation Judges 1-2 Intro : It does not take very long to discover that the book of Judges is not a very pleasant book. In fact, it one of the darkest books in the Bible. It describes a period in Israel’s history when they were without a strong, godly leader. Perhaps the…

When Judges Rule The first recorded question that God asked was "Adam, where are you?" God was not looking for his physical location. He is God and know's all things. So why ask the question? The question drew attention to the new condition of man. The man that God had created had sinned. Just as God…

Disobedience came 1 generatoin after the death of Joshua and led to severe discipline.

1 Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, Gilgal to Bochim which is near Bethel north of Jerusalem Did Israel's unfaithfulness…

Levite For Hire Judg 17 7 Bethlehem is not a Levite city The remaining descendants of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. moved there from his city Moved again and settled with Micah / priest for hire he was not satisfied…

Judges: A Few Good Men…And Women Introduction: What is the first word that comes to your mind when you hear the word “judge”? Turn to the person next to you and share what came into your mind first. Remember, no swearing in church. Some people think of something like this: (Flip Wilson of “Here Comes…

Intro: "I did it my way." Who knows more; you or God? Who is in the future as well as the past and present; you or God? Who do you consistently follow and trust for insight and direction; you or God? Judges 17:6 (NASB95) In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own…

Welcome Good morning everyone and welcome to church. Last week in our Gospel Story series we left off with Israel beginning to take over the promise land. Joshua is their new leader and after talking with the commander of the Lord’s Army and hearing God’s battle plan, the people are able to defeat the…

Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, Roger Youderian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Billy Graham, Richard Wurmbrand… and the list could contain many other names. These men came from a time and generation that was given the designation “The Greatest Generation” . This designation was given to them…

If you were to reflect over the course of your life, how many meals really stick out to you as being just especially awesome meals? We all have eaten good food, but over time we forget about them, except for the exceptional ones, right? I can recall the first time I had gourmet duck. I can recall the…

Introduction As we have been going through the book of Judges, we have been witnessing the rise, fall & rising up again of the COI. We have witnessed: How God brought them out of Egypt - where they’d been for over 400 years. Through the Judgments Through the Bondage Then finally, through the Red Sea…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Announcements Are there any announcements? There will be a board meeting Thursday at 6:30pm. For those of you that are on the board there will be an invitation sent out for Google meets via your email. Please check your email because we send out different things like invites to events, cancelations,…

summary This class resumes our series on the Old Testament in the book of Revelation. Revelation 2 raises questions about the identity of the angels in the early chapters of the book, an identification that is linked to the lampstands. As noted in earlier episodes, the lampstands have a distinct supernatural…

We had a small error the begining 5 minutes did not record. You can see my notes via our website at laughlinchurch.com under past sermons. The Hazor video can be seen at https://tv.faithlife.com/860d9be0-7319-4bb0-8d94-7ff91e21ec92

This closing section to the Book of the Covenant is both a strongly encouraging as well as strongly challenging epilogue for the people of Israel. In this section, there is an intensity from what has been previous. Here we see the shift from the third-person form of the legal cases to the “I-you” style…

What do you believe about God? What God do you serve?