Sermons About Retalliation
Ehud the Judge
The book of Judges is characterised by a common cycle in Israel of rebellion, retribution, rescue and repentence, followed by a return to rebellion and the repetition of the cycle. Each time the nation rebels, God sends a 'judge' to be their rescuer. Each of the judges is an unlikely figure and each method of rescue equally unlikely. Perhaps this points to the ultimately unlikely figure of Jesus as the servant King, and the ultimate rescue in the form of apparent failure on the Cross. God's ways are not our ways, and He chooses methods that seem to our human eyes to be folly. But God is sovereign and knows better than any of us what He is doing! Here's the test we should apply: Which way is my life moving - towards Jesus, or away from Him?
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