The World's Reject God's Choice

Who will lead?

10:17 we are already for war

the two sides have gathered

OK who wants to be the Commander?…anybody

V 18 the person will be head over all

Who’s Idea was this?

V 16 Serve the LORD

But they did not pray asking, “who will lead”?

Judges 1:1–2 AV

Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Judges 3:9 AV

And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

Judges 3:15 AV

But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

Judges 4:6–7 AV

And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.

Judg 4

Judges 6:11–12 AV

And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

The men of Gilead came up this way of finding a Deliverer

Works I am doing my best to...

Works doing it my way

even doing religious things my way is wrong

Meet Jephthah

Like Abimelech, the son of a prostitute

unlike ab the other brothers kicked him out into the wilderness

Rejected as a brother/ Inheritor

Rejected as anyone worth keeping around an outcast

insulted, as a son of a prostitute

Mark 6:1–4 LEB

And he went out from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And when the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed, saying, “Where did this man get these things? And what is this wisdom that has been granted to this man, and the miracles such as these performed through his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they were offended by him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own household.”

Isaiah 53:3 AV

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Is 53 3

don’t look at your past to value what God can do with you

Reputation as a leader of a small army band of outlaws

became a leader of a small army

Known 80 miles away in home town

Please Come Back

be our captain V 6

be willing to forgive

But don’t put yourself in a position that it will happen again

Made sure they were going to keep their word V 10

V 11 told God what was going on

Negotiations

He would rather negotiate than fight

V 27-28 you are fighting against God since God gave the land to Israel

Gods Providence

God’s hand guiding the affairs of life

God needs you to do a mission in 2040 and he starts your lives skills yesterday

we see life as a series of ups and downs lefts and rights

good and bad,

sorrows upon sorrows birth defects

good parents and bad … you fill in the blank

we are all in Gods university

Thank God for loving you so much that he teaches you to be useful for Him