{"id":27228,"date":"2023-07-21T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/judges-2_1-10-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:05:00","slug":"judges-2_11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/judges-2_11-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Broke The Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judges 2:11-23 \u00a0<\/strong>Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Judges 2:11-23.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Judges 2:11-19 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the Israeites did evil in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and served the Baals.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They forsook the\u00a0LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They provoked the\u00a0LORD\u00a0to anger
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0In his anger against Israel the\u00a0LORD\u00a0handed them over to raiders who plundered them. He sold them to their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the\u00a0LORD\u00a0raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of these raiders.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. Unlike their fathers, they quickly turned from the way in which their fathers had walked, the way of obedience to the\u00a0LORD’s commands.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whenever the\u00a0LORD\u00a0raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had compassion on them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their fathers, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 11-19:\u00a0 These verses summarize a pattern that you\u2019ll see happening over and over again in the book of Judges: the Israelites forsake God; the Israelites are attacked, plundered and abused by other nations; the Israelites cry out to God; God sends a deliverer (a judge) to save them; the Israelites serve God for a time while under the deliverer\u2019s leadership, but when that deliverer dies, the Israelites go back to forsaking God all over again, and the cycle repeats itself.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, the way that God would end this cycle down the road is not by creating people who will never sin, but by sending a deliverer who will never die; that is, one who died but who rose again, who lives forever and who intercedes for sinners like us.\u00a0 His name is Jesus.\u00a0 So we have even less excuse than the Israelites to forsake our God, since our Deliverer will never forsake us.\u00a0 At the same time, we don\u2019t need to live with the kind of hopelessness that the Israelites lived in when their judges would eventually die.\u00a0 Because our Deliverer lives forever, in Him we have a hope that is stronger than death and power to live so that the cycle we see in Judges need not repeat itself anymore.<\/p>\n

Judges 2:20-23 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was very angry with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant that I laid down for their forefathers and has not listened to me,
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and walk in it as their forefathers did.”
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 20-23:\u00a0 God\u2019s original command to the Israelites was to drive out idol worshiping nations from the promised land.\u00a0 When the Israelites refused to do so, the LORD didn\u2019t do it for them; rather He used those nations who remained to test the Israelites.\u00a0 It goes to show that when we don\u2019t do as God commands, we will not be as blessed as God intended for us to be.\u00a0 Still, God will somehow use the situation to accomplish His good purposes. \u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s how sovereign God is.<\/p>\n

Thank You Father that more than ever we don\u2019t need to be stuck in a cycle of forsaking You continually. That\u2019s because our Deliverer lives forever and we have strength in Him to live for You.\u00a0 Holy Spirit, please fill me to live for You today.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN! \u00a0<\/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 2:11-23.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Judges 2:11-19 (NIV)
\n11\u00a0\u00a0Then the Israeites did evil in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and served the Baals.
\n12\u00a0\u00a0They forsook the\u00a0LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They provoked the\u00a0LORD\u00a0to anger
\n13\u00a0\u00a0because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.<\/p>\n

On verses 11-19:\u00a0 These verses summarize a pattern that you\u2019ll see happening over and over again in the book of Judges: the Israelites forsake God; the Israelites are attacked, plundered and abused by other nations; the Israelites cry out to God; God sends a deliverer (a judge) to save them; the Israelites serve God for a time while under the deliverer\u2019s leadership, but when that deliverer dies, the Israelites go back to forsaking God all over again, and the cycle repeats itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27228","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\/27228","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=27228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27231,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228\/revisions\/27231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}