Title: Through the Most Weak and Little One
Contents
The theme of the recurring story of Judges (Judges 2)
doing evil in the sight of Jehovah
Bringing Calamity - Suffering
Establishing Judges - Salvation
Do not stop on the corrupt path
Let's share grace while thinking of Gideon, one of the judges.
-. When you sin, you try to hide.
Chapter 6 Delivered into the hand of Midian for seven years because he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
When you do evil and sin, you hide yourself.
When someone commits a sin, they try to hide themselves, just as they use the expression that they want to go into a mouse hole when they are embarrassed or ashamed.
Sin may happen more at night than during the bright day.
6:2 The hand of Midian prevailed over Israel, and the children of Israel made for themselves holes and caves and fortresses in the mountain because of Midian.
Genesis 3:7-8 Then their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they made a skirt of fig leaves. When they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, Adam and his wife said to the LORD. They hid themselves from the presence of God among the trees of the garden.
In order to escape God and live for himself, he sought shelter and fled to escape.
Does Jonah not serve God according to his will, but flee to Tarshish in search of a place of refuge for himself?
Are we hiding ourselves from the face of God now and making a shelter for ourselves? But in the sight of God, everything is visible.
Ex) See-Through Glasses Incident - Recently, it ended in a fraudulent act that had no basis on the Internet with glasses that could see a person's reality by wearing them.
- Through the very weak and little one
Judges 6:6 And Israel was very weak because of Midian, and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD.
Even if you have sinned, if you cry out to God, God will forgive you.
Everyone knows it, and we are still crying.
He set up Judge Gideon, but he wasn't a very good person to put forward.
Judges 6:15 Gideon answered him, "Lord, with what can I save Israel? Behold, my house is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
Although God is weak and small, He is appointed and appointed as a judge and is used.
It doesn't matter how we look.
Faith that allows us to be grateful for our weakness and weakness is truly mature faith.
Judges 2:21-23 I will no longer drive out from before any of the nations Joshua left behind at the time of his death, so that they may be put to the test, whether Israel keeps the way of the LORD, as did their fathers, and does not follow them. It was because of this that he stayed and did not expel him quickly, nor delivered him into the hand of Joshua.
There was a reason God left them with a root of bitterness.
He was trying to test whether they were obeying God's will.
Is there anything in our life that we cannot get rid of?
Rather, if you can be grateful for it, you are truly living a life of gratitude.
the apostle Paul
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 Because the revelations I received were exceedingly great, so that I would not sleep too much, a thorn was given to me, an angel of Satan, so that I would not be oversleeping. He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. I take pleasure in things, in reproach, in want, in persecution, in hardship, for when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast in my weakness.
Being weak is proof that it can become strong.
-. Our salvation belongs to God.
300 to 135,000 Gideon's army Allied forces of Midian, Amalek, and the East
32,000 people gathered, but made 300 people
For now, we send back those who fear 10,000 left.
Among them, 300 people who ate after scooping water boasted.
Judges 7:7 And the LORD said to Gideon, "I will save you with three hundred men who have licked this water, and I will deliver the Midianites into your hand, and the rest of the people shall return, each to his place."
With pride and arrogance, I fear that my hand has saved me.
In order to know that it is possible only through the power of God
Because you can brag about winning with your own abilities, strategies, and tactics
What you prepare for war is your weapon.
It is necessary to develop new weapons and to inspire various military training and mental strength of the soldiers.
The 300 men had only torches, jars, trumpets, and voices.
But in the midst of it, the Lord stretches out his hand, and victory belongs to God alone.
Judges 3:31 After Ehud, Shamgar the son of Anath was judged, and he killed six hundred Philistines with a rod of oxen, and he also saved Israel.
Although Shamgar the judge had a rod for oxen, he became the savior of Israel with it.
What we have is poor, but God works with it.
It is said that if we take, share, and join forces with the smallest of talents, we can do amazing things.
Judges 7:9 This night the LORD said to Gideon, "Arise, go down, and fight the enemy; I have delivered it into your hand.
The victory is with us because God is with us.
Philippians 4:11-13 I am not saying this because I am in need, but I have learned to be content in whatever situation I am. No, I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
We can do all things only in God who gives us strength.