{"id":27218,"date":"2023-07-19T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/judges-1_16-26-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T22:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:52:18","slug":"judges-1_27-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/judges-1_27-36\/","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Drive Them Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judges 1:27-36 \u00a0 <\/strong>Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Judges 1:27-36.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Judges 1:27-36 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.
\n28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them.
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, who remained among them; but they did subject them to forced labor.
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Nor did Asher drive out those living in Acco or Sidon or Ahlab or Aczib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob,
\n32\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and because of this the people of Asher lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land.
\n33\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.
\n34\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.
\n35\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the house of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.
\n36\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 27-36:\u00a0 In the first 26 verses of Judges 1 we already see hints of Israel\u2019s tribes not going all the way in fully occupying the Promised Land, but rather compromising and allowing other nations to occupy it. This happened in verse 19 where the tribe of Judah did not fully take over the plains.\u00a0 This happened in verse 21 where the tribe of Benjamin did not oust the Jebusites out of Jerusalem.\u00a0 We see this happening even more in verses 27-36: the tribes of Manasseh (v27), Ephraim (v29), Zebulun (v30), Asher (v31), Naphtali (v33), Dan (v34), and Joseph (v35) all fail to drive out the Canaanites from the land.\u00a0 Instead of ousting the Canaanites out of the land, these tribes of Israel compromised and allowed them to stay, in some cases subjecting them to forced labour.\u00a0 The author of Judges is deliberate in mentioning all these cases where the tribes of Israel failed to drive the Canaanites out, for the author\u2019s intent is to show how this would lead to the tribes of Israel compromising even more in their faith and veering away from the worship of God toward idolatry.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0There are certain things that God wants us to drive out, that have no place in our lives.<\/strong>\u00a0 For example, Colossians 3 teaches us that we are to put to death sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed (Colossians 3:5), anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language (Colossians 3:8), lying (Colossians 3:9), and bitterness (Colossians 3:13).\u00a0\u00a0When we do not take steps to drive these enemies out of our lives, when we allow them to stay and occupy parts of our minds and hearts, the result is not peaceful co-existence, but poison that threatens to derail us from our God-given destiny.\u00a0 \u00a0So don\u2019t play games with such enemies, allowing them to remain in your life.\u00a0 Rather, oust them out and put them to death, lest they only do damage in your life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you get rid of enemies like sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed (Colossians 3:5), anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language (Colossians 3:8), lying (Colossians 3:9), and bitterness (Colossians 3:13)?\u00a0 It begins with making the choice to want to honour God with your life in these specific areas, and then taking practical steps to replace old, sinful habits with new, God-honouring ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.<\/p>\n

On this side of heaven, will we be able to get rid of all these enemies completely?\u00a0 Maybe not.\u00a0 But this is certain: whenever we allow for these enemies to remain, they\u00a0will only do damage to us in the end.\u00a0 So we need to be vigilant and intentional about getting rid of those enemies and living lives in line with God\u2019s plan.\u00a0 Believe that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.<\/p>\n

May God give you the faith to believe that these old enemies will not help you but hurt you.\u00a0 May He gives\u00a0you strength to overcome and oust out those old enemies in practical ways.<\/p>\n

Father, to the extent that I have allowed enemies like sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed (Colossians 3:5), anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language (Colossians 3:8), lying (Colossians 3:9), and bitterness to remain in my heart, please forgive me and help me to oust them out of my heart and mind, so that I can live in peace and please You more and more with how I live.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Judges 1:27-36.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Judges 1:27-36 (NIV)
\n27\u00a0\u00a0But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.
\n28\u00a0\u00a0When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.
\n29\u00a0\u00a0Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them.
\n30\u00a0\u00a0Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, who remained among them; but they did subject them to forced labor.
\n31\u00a0\u00a0Nor did Asher drive out those living in Acco or Sidon or Ahlab or Aczib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob,
\n32\u00a0\u00a0and because of this the people of Asher lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land.<\/p>\n

On verses 27-36:\u00a0 In the first 26 verses of Judges 1 we already see hints of Israel\u2019s tribes not going all the way in fully occupying the Promised Land, but rather compromising and allowing other nations to occupy it. This happened in verse 19 where the tribe of Judah did not fully take over the plains.\u00a0 This happened in verse 21 where the tribe of Benjamin did not oust the Jebusites out of Jerusalem.\u00a0 We see this happening even more in verses 27-36: the tribes of Manasseh (v27), Ephraim (v29), Zebulun (v30), Asher (v31), Naphtali (v33), Dan (v34), and Joseph (v35) all fail to drive out the Canaanites from the land.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27223,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27218\/revisions\/27223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}