Judges | God’s Faithfulness to Unfaithful People 1:1-36 — Pragmatic Success and Spiritual Failure

Judges 21:25

Judges is a story about the depraved mess created by human sin and the divine mercy needed to rescue us out of it.

Lessons from Judges 1:

1) God gives grace to His people to empower their obedience, not in lieu of it.

Joshua 23:3,6-8,11-16; Titus 2:11-12

2) Half-way obedience paired with outward success is a dangerous combination that inevitably leads to ultimate failure.

Deuteronomy 7:1-8, 16-18, 25-26; Matthew 7:21-23

3) God gives faithful leaders as commendable examples and then takes them away to show that they are expendable— AND that only faith in Him will lead to true, lasting victory!

1 Corinthians 3:5-7; Hebrews 7:23-25