Sabbath 7/6/19 Alfred Station Seventh Day Baptist Pastor Ken sermon “Unlikely Hero” Judges 3:15-28
The most dangerous time in the life of a Christian, nation or business is when everything is going right. In our text, Israel was prosperous and defeating their enemies. Then they stopped obeying God completely by eliminating all the people in the countries that God was giving them. Instead they started imitating their neighbors by worshipping idols and false gods. Soooo….God began to punish them. He brought in Eglon King of Moab to dominate Israel for eighteen years. Then the people of Israel cried unto the Lord and He heard them and answered them by sending Ehud. Ehud was an unlikely hero but he had four blessings going for him.
When Ehud got to the mountains, he blew the trumpet and all Israel went to war unified. They were ready for battle against their enemies and were unified once the trumpet blew. They became liberated from their Moab enemies. When we go to battle for the Lord, we are freeing people around us and giving them liberty-freedom from sin thru Jesus Christ!! God will free them from the devil and Jesus will deliver them from their sins. We must be people of action and must be deliverers for the people around us like Ehud was for Israel. We must go to war using the gifts God has given us. We have Jesus, we have God and we are at war against the devil, our enemy. We must let God use us in this battle. God has won the victory already in Jesus name!!
AMEN
The most dangerous time in the life of a Christian, nation or business is when everything is going right. In our text, Israel was prosperous and defeating their enemies. Then they stopped obeying God completely by eliminating all the people in the countries that God was giving them. Instead they started imitating their neighbors by worshipping idols and false gods. Soooo….God began to punish them. He brought in Eglon King of Moab to dominate Israel for eighteen years. Then the people of Israel cried unto the Lord and He heard them and answered them by sending Ehud. Ehud was an unlikely hero but he had four blessings going for him.
- Ehud came from a good family of the tribe of Benjamin. God chose him to be the deliverer of Israel and so he had to come from a good family that still worshipped God and not idols.
- Ehud was a good craftsman and worked well with his hands. It was a gift from God. Ehud made himself a sword that was sharp on both ends, almost as long as his arm, about a foot and a half.
- Ehud had a brain. He was a planner and figured out what to do. God gave him a brain to use and he used it well.
- Ehud was left handed and this was a gift. His sword was hooked to his right side and no one would check on that side to see it. So he could use his left hand to slip out the sword to use it.
When Ehud got to the mountains, he blew the trumpet and all Israel went to war unified. They were ready for battle against their enemies and were unified once the trumpet blew. They became liberated from their Moab enemies. When we go to battle for the Lord, we are freeing people around us and giving them liberty-freedom from sin thru Jesus Christ!! God will free them from the devil and Jesus will deliver them from their sins. We must be people of action and must be deliverers for the people around us like Ehud was for Israel. We must go to war using the gifts God has given us. We have Jesus, we have God and we are at war against the devil, our enemy. We must let God use us in this battle. God has won the victory already in Jesus name!!
AMEN