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Introduction
The Danger of Half-Way Christianity
Rosetta Stone - Learn Spanish - started well - no follow through.
Hispanic ministry.
Now, a few months from Guatemala - No Spanish.
I’m going to get lost in Guatemala and will never return because I didn’t finish what I started.
(Jerry’s going to be gone, and Logan’s a millennial - no hope for me.)
I want you to finish what you have started in Christ and half-hearted devotion to God will not help you get there.
No book better demonstrates this than Judges.
Half-hearted devotion to God - no book better demonstrates this than Judges.
- After Joshua leads Israel to take the land, he challenges them.
“Choose this day.”
They say they would choose the Lord, but in reality they choose rebellion.
- After Joshua leads Israel to take the land, he challenges them.
“Choose this day.”
They say they would choose the Lord, but in reality they choose rebellion.
· Judges graphic stories of conquest and failure.
Tragic story of half-hearted devotion that led to spiritual failure.
Be honest.
Half-heart devotion characterizes many Christians.
Instead of influencing the world – we are increasingly influenced by the world.
The book ends with a chilling phrase: “Everyone did what was right in their own eyes.”
Doesn’t that sound like us?
Judges graphic stories of victories and failures.
Tragic story of half-hearted devotion that led to failure in their walk with God and the mission God had for them.
Half-heart devotion characterizes many Christians.
Instead of influencing the world – we are increasingly influenced by the world.
The book ends with a chilling phrase: “Everyone did what was right in their own eyes.”
Doesn’t that sound like us?
· A cycle in the book - Israel does well for a while, then they turn their eyes from God. God sends judgment by allowing the Israelites to be defeated by their enemies.
They cry out, God raises up a judge who delivers, and the cycle starts again.
Judges are flawed heroes.
Book points to our need for a better hero – a greater judge – who ultimately delivers His people: Jesus.
A cycle in the book - Israel does well for a while, then they turn their eyes from God. God sends judgment by allowing the Israelites to be defeated by their enemies.
They cry out, God raises up a judge who delivers, and the cycle starts again.
The Judges are flawed heroes.
Book points to our need for a better hero – a greater judge – who ultimately delivers His people: Jesus.
· I want to show you how we get to a place of half-hearted Christianity and how we overcome it.
I want to show you how we get to a place of half-hearted Christianity and how we overcome it.
The story:
· The story starts well.
Joshua died However, there is unfinished business.
The tribes of Israel had to go in and possess the land for themselves, and they had to drive out completely the Canaanites who were in the land.
But, they were not alone.
God was with them: He would lead them and empower them to defeat their enemies.
Joshua died.
However, there is unfinished business.
The tribes of Israel had to go in and possess the land for themselves, and they had to drive out completely the Canaanites who were in the land.
But, they were not alone.
God was with them: He would lead them and empower them to defeat their enemies.
But why drive out the Canaanites?
Not fair!
These were wicked people! and – God said He would drive them out because of their wickedness.
God uses Israel as an instrument of divine judgement against Canaan.
Not the way God works today.
Gave a clear directive to Israel to drive out the Canaanites.
Today, God is on a saving mission.
Jesus laid down His life.
He didn’t take life.
Now, we lay down our lives.
We extend mercy, and we leave justice in God’s hands.
· But why drive out the Canaanites?
Not fair!
These were wicked people! and – God said He would drive them out because of their wickedness.
After all, these people sacrificed their own children to false gods!
In part, God uses Israel as an instrument of divine judgement against Canaan.
Not the way God works today.
Gave a clear directive to Israel to drive out the Canaanites.
Today, God is on a saving mission.
Jesus laid down His life.
He didn’t take life.
Now, we lay down our lives.
We extend mercy, and we leave justice in God’s hands.
Why drive out the Canaanites?
Not fair!
These were wicked people!
– God said He would drive them out because of their wickedness.
God uses Israel as an instrument of divine judgement against Canaan.
Not the way God works today.
Gave a clear directive to Israel to drive out the Canaanites.
Today, God is on a saving mission.
Jesus laid down His life.
He didn’t take life.
Now, we lay down our lives.
We extend mercy, and we leave justice in God’s hands.
· Drive out the Canaanites because of the influence they would have on Israel.
(We see this developing in the story.)
If they left the Canaanites in the land, the evil of the Canaanites would rub off on the Israelites, and that’s exactly what we see happening.
The Israelites wouldn’t influence the Canaanites.
Rather, the Canaanites would influence the Israelites.
Drive out the Canaanites because of the influence they would have on Israel.
If they left the Canaanites in the land, the evil of the Canaanites would rub off on the Israelites, and that’s exactly what we see happening.
The Israelites wouldn’t influence the Canaanites.
Rather, the Canaanites would influence the Israelites.
Drive out the Canaanites because of the influence they would have on Israel.
(We see this developing in the story.)
If they left the Canaanites in the land, the evil of the Canaanites would rub off on the Israelites, and that’s exactly what we see happening.
The Israelites wouldn’t influence the Canaanites.
Rather, the Canaanites would influence the Israelites.
Is it unfair?
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