Title: Voluntary Faith 4/Judges 1:1-36
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Voluntary faith 4/Judges 1:1-36
1. Volunteer to go to war.
2. They fought voluntarily even without a leader.
3. I tried to fight as a vanguard.
4. Go to the vanguard, but all the tribes voluntarily tried to take the vanguard.
5. Cooperation worked well during war.
6. We cooperated, but we cooperated well until the end.
7. He fought with all his might.
It was the fighting posture of the judge Jephthah in Judges 12:3. "When I saw that you did not save me, I did not look at my life, but the Lord delivered them into my hand. Why do you want to come up to me today and fight with me?" Then the Ephraimites came to Jephthah and said that Jephthah and his house would be burned if they did not take them to the battle.
Then Jephthah replies that before the Israelites had a great fight with Ammon, they asked the Ephraimites to help them, but they did not call because the battle was too great to help. The phrase “in a great quarrel” in verse 2 means that they fought with all their might. Thus, when Jephthah went to war, he fought with all his might. In Judges 12, Ephraim goes to war with Jephthah, and Jephthah gathers the Gileadites to fight Ephraim. Who will win that fight?
It goes without saying that Jephthah, who exerts all his strength in battle, will win the battle for the Gileadites. If you don't do your best in everything, you will fail at it and you will only be dissatisfied. Consider the conduct of Ephraim. Even in spiritual battles, if you fight with a careless or clumsy heart, you will fail. In all things, in every battle, we must exert our strength to win.
8. We fought, but we fought without looking at our lives.
In Judges 12:3 we see that it was Jephthah, and in Judges 5:18 we see that the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali did so. "Zebulon is a people who did not spare their lives at the risk of death, and Naphtali in the heights of the fields," he said. It was the same with Gideon in Judges 9:17. “My father fought for you before, risking death, and delivered you from the hand of Midian,” he said. Without looking back on life, we must fight to the death to win the war.
There will definitely be victory when you do everything you are doing right now with all your life. Are we fighting with the 8 postures so far today? From next week, I hope that you will have victory in your life, thinking about the cases where you failed because you did not fight with the above 8 postures and the cases where you will win by fighting with the 8 postures.