Waunakee Baptist Church

What we need to come to remember this morning is that our one responsibility is bowing before God in worshipful reverence. The truth is that God’s plan for you might be remarkably different than those around you. Our faith needs to be willing to be unanswered.Our faith need to be willing to be teachable.The truth is that God’s plan for you might be remarkably different than those around you. Our faith needs to be willing to be unanswered.Our faith need to be willing to be teachable.

Pride is the most dangerous sin. It is the sin that is fed by all other sins.

Sometimes stories of past deliverance are irrelevant in light of their current crisis. When it comes to God and His provision in our lives we tend the run on our short term memory not our long term memory. And when adversity comes we usually want God to do a removing job when He wants to do an improving job.

We need to trust the Lord more than at the altar. Trusting God is more than a momentary decision but a lifestyle.

The reality is that for a lot of us it isn’t that we lack faith…as in we are absent from faith. If that were the case we wouldn’t struggle with how we are or are not obeying. Our struggle is that our faith wavers but our hope is in the fact that God’s faithfulness doesn’t

God’s power is most fully displayed when His people respond in their weakness.

In our weakness God is strong. You are exhausted with life because you think you can handle what only God can handle.

Instead of looking to your circumstances our yourself, look to the Lord.

Weakness is brought about by the fear of God’s people and the result is the fragmentation of God’s people.

Gideon, who through faith, finds himself over his mocker and facing the choice of responding in mercy or or in contempt. We too find it hard to follow in faith when we face our mocker

God promised and delivered and now what? From what we see in this passage is that it seems Gideon expects God to be done with the miraculous and go back to his rocking chair in the sky. It’s now up to Gideon to lead and rule in the day to day.

Whether the threat is form within or without…God is still in control. Whether there is good leadership or poor leadership…God is in control. Where there is no leadership…God is still in control.

There is no circumstance, person, nation, substance that is independent of the sovereignty of God.This is the reality because God is the only being that is uncaused.

Israel turned their back on God because the human heart is prone to wander when the stormy seas of life come. Israel turned their back on God because they loved the idols more. They loved the idols more because they desired prosperity and safety.

God won the victory in the past and is the same power of our victory in the present and the future. We just need to humble ourselves and submit to His truth and His leading in our lives.

When we allow God to be pushed aside or mixed with other religions we no longer have a true north on our moral compass. In other words...deistic plurality leads to moral anarchy.

The Bible speaks to those who have faced significant life changing events. God cares about people who experience traumatic events. God loves and cares for our veterans who are suffering with PTSD.

Getting too comfortable in the world wasn’t just a problem for Israel…it is a problem for us today as well. Much of this study will deal with our fallenness and God’s faithfulness in spite of our faithlessness.

God has called us to be salt and light in this world. When we allow our affections to be tangled up in the world around us we become like themGod has called us to be in the world. He has also called us to be distinct from the world. Israel failed to do so and the rest of the book of Judges pictures what happens when we go from being in the world to loving the world.

God is sovereign in the lives of individuals and in the lives of nations and kings