What
Was Right About Who Was Left
Judges 7
Intro: In chapter 6, notice
Gideon -
1. He was Hurting
– vs. 13 …why then is all this befallen us? (answer is verse 1)
2. He was Hunting
– vs. 13 …where be all his miracles?
3. He was
Honored – vs. 14-16
4. He was Hesitant
– vs. 17, vs. 27, vs. 36-40
5. He was
Humbled – 7:2 – he started with 32,000 and ended with 300
Was it Gideon’s fault? No – see verse 2 – God was humbling them to use
them.
See verse 7 – “by the three
hundred will I save you…”
So… What Was Right About Who
Was Left?
I. Their Desire to Stay
– vs. 3
Their heart was in
it in spite of:
·
Devastation – 6:4
·
Desolation – 6:5
·
Desertion – 7:3 23,000 turned and went back home
·
Demoralization – how are you supposed to fight
without an army? Can so many be wrong?
II. Their Decision to Submit
– vs. 17 Gideon told them, “Look on me, and do likewise…”
NOTE: Imagine a group of
soldiers being handed a night light and a trumpet and told to “do what I do.”
Furthermore, Gideon had NO TRACK RECORD of leading men into battle.
What he was doing made absolutely no sense at all.
None of them even had a weapon!
I can hear them now if they had been Independent Baptist – “This man
was sent here to destroy us…”
“We had 32,000 people willing to fight before he showed up and now look
at us. Going into battle with a night light and a trumpet!!”
These 300 made a decision – to follow the man that God had put in as
their leader.
III. Their Dedication to
Shout – vs. 18-20
·
They were Outnumbered
·
They were Out of their League
·
They were Out of their Comfort Zone
ALL THREE HUNDRED OF THESE MEN WERE SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF VICTORY.
IV. Their Determination to
Shine – vs. 19, 20
·
In Spite of the Blows
·
In Spite of the Brokenness
·
In Spite of the Battle
·
Judges
6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it
Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
JEHOVAHSHALOM means the Jehovah is peace.
