Judges Foreword

Sermon on Judges 2:7,10

"PASS IT ON." Intro. The book of Judges is the history of the nation of Israel after the death of Joshua. We see a repeated pattern throughout the book. The people serve God and are blessed by God. In their prosperity they forget God and serve idols. They go into servitude to their enemies, and in their misery they cry out to God who delivers them. And as they serve God, He prosper...

Sermon on Judges 5:23

"THE CURSE OF MEROZ." I. THE BACKGROUND TO OUR STORY: A. The children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. 1. As a result, the Lord delivered them into the hand of Jabin who ruled over that great city of Hazor in the upper Galilee. 2. He had a powerful army under the leadership of a captain named Sisera. 3. He had been ruling over Israel for twenty years. 4. The ...

Sermon on Judges 16:21

THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN." JUD 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. In this passage we see the three tragic consequences of sin in the life of Samson. I. FIRST WE SEE HOW SIN BLINDS. "AND THEY PUT OUT HIS EYES." A. One of the insidious aspects of sin is how...

Sermon on Judges 17:6

"THE RIGHT PATH." I. "IN THOSE DAYS." A. These were dark days in the history of the nation of Israel. 1. It was a nation that lacked direction and leadership. 2. They would go down one path, only to come to a dead end, then they would turn and follow another path until they came to another dead end. 3. They were going, but they were going no where. 4. There are many people tod...

Sermon on Judges 19:22

"THE END OF THE ROAD" Intro. The book of Judges relates to us a dark time in the history of the nation of Israel. The oft repeated phrase, "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord," and the ensuing judgment of God was a tragic repeated refrain. When it said they did evil in the sight of the Lord, this story describes for us just what some of the evil was. It is...