JUDGES | Judges 1-21
a. The Story
b. The Scene
c. The Significance
d. The Savior
a. The Story
Creation Captivity
Corruption Rescue
Calling Conquest
a. The Story
Big Question:
Is God’s love conditional
on our obedience?
Big Question:
Is God’s love conditional
on our obedience?
Big Idea:
Our deepest need is not a change of circumstances, it’s a change of heart.
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe.
~Ephesians 1:16-19
Chapters 1-3…describing the pattern
Chapters 4-16…rehearsing the pattern
Chapters 17-21…results of the pattern
b. The Scene
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
~Judges 17:6 ~Judges 21:25
God shows his love for us in this: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
c. The Significance
~Romans 5:8
Out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth speaks.
~Matthew 12:34
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
~Matthew 15:18-19
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come
d. The Savior
~2 Corinthians 5:17
a. The Story
b. The Scene
c. The Significance
d. The Savior