Sermon Tone Analysis

God was at work

Isa 46:

Adam, Noah

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob

Joseph, Moses, Joshua

Judges

Samuel - Kings

David… Jesus

The failure of men

judg 2:1-

Ch 17 - idols and shrines set up, and a Levite is recruited to be riest

Ch 18 - The tribe of Dan steal the idols and shrine, and bribe away the priest

Ch 19 - parallel to , a Levite takes a concubine who is unfaithful to him, he wins her back, only to have things end tragically in Gibeah

judg 19:24-25

Ch 20 - the tribes take vengeance and all but wipe out the tribe of Benjamin

Ch 21 - to save the tribe, they slay destroyed all the men of Jabesh-Gilead and took the 400 virgins in town to give as wives for Benjaminites, and instructed them to kidnap wives to make up the shortfall

The Book of Judges ends with God’s people completely indistinguishable from the wicked pagan cultures they were to avoid

The people’s desire for a king was precipitated on the wickedness of their priests

David sinned and brought about death in his house

Solomon built God’s house, but divided the kingdom

Hezekiah led in revival, but didn’t pass it on

Incurvatus in se

Augustine on :

Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, [being] so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works-righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake."

We conclude Judges not seeing the victory,, but rather the abject failures of mankind on display

There was no King

jn 19:18-

May we see three things in the book of Judges: Our continual and absolute need of a savior in Jesus, a warning of how far God’s people can wander, and that God has always and is always with us and ready; there IS a King and His name is Jesus!