Judges 2:6-3:6

Deut 7:1ff Jer 2:9-13

Leviticus 26

Author… we don’t know

Time frame: between 1200-1100 BC

Introduction Part Two

ILL: Taking inheritance for granted...

My family history...

Grandpa’s dad coming to Oklahoma to farm - Picture?

Grandpa serving in war and farming

Dad leaving farm for college

Me...

2:6-10 - Joshua’s Death

Joshua 2:6–10 ESV

6 But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof. 7 So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out. 8 Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9 and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.

6 - Joshua dismissed the people to their inheritance

7 - People served the Lord during Joshua’s generation

8-9 - Joshua died at 110 years old and was buried in Ephraim

10a - Joshua’s generation passed away

10b - Another generation arose

> Did not know the Lord

> Did not know the work the Lord had done for Israel

2:11-23 - The Judges Cycle

Judges 2:11–15 ESV

11 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. 12 And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. 14 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. 15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

11-15 - THE PEOPLE DID WHAT WAS EVIL

> DID what was evil in the sight of the Lord

> SERVED the Baals

12a - Abandoned the Lord who brought them out of Egypt

12b - Went after the gods of the land

12c - Provoked the Lord to anger

13 - Abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and Ashtaroth

14 - Anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel

He gave them over to plunderers

He sold them to their enemies

15 - Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm

AS THE LORD HAD WARNED and SWORN to them

And they were in terrible distress

Judges 2:16–19 ESV

16 Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. 19 But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

16-19 - THE LORD RAISED UP JUDGES

16 - The Lord raised up judges who saved the people from their plunderers

17 - Yet THEY DID NOT LISTEN to their judges

THEY whored after other gods and bowed to them

THEY turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked

18 - When the Lord raised up judges...

The Lord was with the judge

The judge saved the people from their enemies all their days

FOR THE LORD WAS MOVED TO PITY by their groaning under affliction/oppression

None of the conflicts,[in the book of Judges] involve conquest of new territory. Each battle is concerned with throwing off the yoke of an oppressor.

Daniel Block

19 - When the judge died

THEY turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers

Going after gods

serving gods

bowing down to gods

They did not drop their PRACTICES or STUBBORN ways

Judges 2:20–23 ESV

20 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice, 21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.” 23 So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

20-23 - ANGER OF THE LORD KINDLED

20 - Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice

21 - I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died

22 - In order to test Israel by them:

whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did OR not...

23 - So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly and did not give them into the hand of Joshua

3:1-6 - The Remaining Nations

Judges 3:1–4 ESV

1 Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. 2 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. 3 These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. 4 They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

3:1-4 - THE LORD’S TEST

3:1-2 - These are the nations the Lord left to test Israel by them

**Israel = those who had not experienced the wars in Canaan

To test Israel by them

To teach war to those who had not known it before

3 - These are the nations

Five lords of the Philistines

Canaanites/Sidonians/Hivites @ Mount Lebanon (from Mount Bal-hermon to Lebo-hamath

4 - They were

to test Israel

to determine whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord

Judges 3:5–6 ESV

5 So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 6 And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

3:5-6 - THE PEOPLE FAILED THE TEST

5-6 - The people of Israel

5 - LIVED among the Canaanites / Hittites / Amorites / Perizzites / Hivites / Jebusites

6a - MARRIED among them

6b - SERVED their gods

GO WITH THIS...

Do we remember what the Lord has done? (2:6-10)

Testify to the next generation what the Lord has done

Speak of what the Lord has done

Parents (& Men/Women not parents): Tell the children what the Lord done for you

How did the Lord save you

What has the Lord taught you

What has the Lord called you to do

Live out the Lord’s ways

Are we walking in the ways of the Lord? (2:7-23)

Faith Cycle: Repent and believe the Lord

Rebellion Cycle: Continue in sin and listen to lies

James 4:1–10 ESV

1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

What areas of our heart are we commingling with the world instead of surrendering to the Lord? (3:1-6)

I’ve said it many times here: the purpose behind every circumstance the Lord brings through your life is not primarily about REWARD/PUNISHMENT…every circumstance the Lord brings upon us is about testing the devotion of our hearts.

Don’t be like the people of Israel in Judges…falling into idolatry

Lived among them…INFLUENCED BY THE WORLD

Inter-Married…COVENANT WITH THE WORLD

Served their gods…WORSHIP THE WORLD

John 17:13–18 ESV

13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

Cast down our idols