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Gideon
Gideon’s journey is the one journey that shows struggles in faith when it comes to the book of Judges.
Israel again defied the Lord as is stated on 6:10.
They were constantly in battle and losing.
The Midionites would come and steal their crops before they could harvest the food.
They would steal their livestock and deprave them of basic necessities.
The bible states they were numbered like locusts.
Have you ever felt like the war you’re fighting is like fighting an army numbered more than a swarm of locusts?
Like the basic necessities of life are even difficult to grasp?
Many sermons focus on the victory and the counting down of the armies, but I want to focus on 4 questions Gideon asks God because maybe you have questions just like he does.
I want to split these questions up into 4 different sermons because I would rather you want more than leave over stuffed and regretting sitting at the table.
So these sermons might go short, but if headed they will be powerful.
Does God Really Care About Us?
When we hit hardships in our life this is the first question people seem to ask.
If God really cared about us why are we going through this struggle?
The answer to this question is found in
God disciplines those he loves.
Disciplining is evidence of God’s hatred for sin, but also his love for his people.
God wants better for you than you currently have.
In order for us to get something better we must grow.
If you want better finances you must grow in your knowledge of how to handle finances.
If you want a better spiritual life you must grow in your understanding of what it means to fellowship with God and God’s people.
Now not every time something bad happens is God correcting you.
This is why it’s important to seek God in difficult circumstances.
People have a tendancy to pull away from God when times get rough because they feel God inflicted this hardship, but God uses the hardship to bing about godly change in your life.
With Israel, God sent a prophet to tell them that they were doing in Evil in His sight.
I like the way Weirsbe puts our relationship with God.
The Motive for Christian living not that we might gain something we don’t have but that we might live up to what we already have in Christ.
God speaks to his children through the loving voice of Scripture or the heavy hand of chastening; If we ignore the first, we must endure the second.
Once we surrender to the lesson he sends messengers and words to let us know that we will be rescued.
Judges
This is where Gideon starts asking the questions.
What I love about Gideon is that he isn’t a strong man of faith, but God saw something in him no else did.
What we can take away from this question is that God sees something in you that you or other may not see in yourself.
You must measure yourself not against other people, or what you think about yourself, but by What God thinks about you.
Next week We are going to ask the Question; Does God know what he is doing?
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