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Reasons We Need a Righteous King
We place earthy priorities above God - Worship something other than God
We fail to completely obey God’s commands - Do what is right in our own eyes
We blame God for when we face the consequences of our sins
“No other book in the Old Testament offers the modern church as telling a mirror as this book.
This book is a wake-up call for a church moribund in its own selfish pursuits.
Instead of heeding the call of truly godly leaders and letting Jesus Christ be Lord of the church, everywhere congregations and their leaders do what is right in their own eyes.”
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Block, Judges-Ruth, page 586)
The King We Need
We need a deliverer who will do it all himself, since we will not be able to contribute anything to our salvation.
Second, we come to realize that this deliverer will have to do it all himself, since we will not be able to contribute anything to our salvation (; ).
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Titus 3:4-6
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.
We are even given the mysterious hint that this deliverer will himself save us through weakness, through a “victorious defeat”—through his death, not just his life (
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
Third, we are even given the mysterious hint that this deliverer will himself save us through weakness, through a “victorious defeat”—through his death, not just his life ().
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
We need a king who can “purge” us of evil () in our hearts, not just in our society.
Fourth, we need a king who can “purge” us of evil () in our hearts, not just in our society.
It is the psalmist who truly sees all the way to the horizon:
“Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it; let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy; they will sing before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth” (Psalm 96:11–13).
Here, the word “judge” is used in its original sense of “rule with justice.”
The psalmist realizes that when the true Judge and King returns, all nature (and human nature) will finally blossom and reach peace and fullness.
Not until then.
Here, the word “judge” is used in its original sense of “rule with justice.”
The psalmist realizes that when the true Judge and King returns, all nature (and human nature) will finally blossom and reach peace and fullness.
Not until then.
Romans 8:19
Zechariah Speaks of this king who was to come:
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
For now, we all search for a king—someone to rule us, someone to rescue us.
There is only one man who provides what we are looking for.
We must look to the greatest King, the ultimate Judge—or we will serve a false one.
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