Lesson 2 JUDGES RETURNING TO GOD
Leadenhall Baptist Church Bible Study Series
Breaking Free From Sin’s Oppression
Class description
In this lesson, Pastor Alvin Gwynn Jr continues the second session of our new bible study series on Judges Returning To God. Today in class, we discussed how God can use anyone to do great things. There is so much value in our uniqueness, and God will use it to overcome sin.
This discussion is from lesson 2 in the companion book JUDGES: RETURNING TO GOD BY Donald Baker
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Lesson Highlights
SIN IS TAXING
Sin will always cost you something and path towards it is wide.
GOD WILL USE THE ANY OF US
In modern society we separate ourselves by many classifications, but God does not care if you are viewed by man as perfect or defected for you to be called.
GOD FINDS STRENGTH IN OUR WEAKNESSES
Peter had a temper, Moses studdered, and Jacob was a trickster. We all have a short coming and God will exploit it to help us overcome sin.
GIVE IT TO GOD AND LEAVE IT IN THE PAST
Take Action!
Just as Eglon defeats sin and walks away leaving it in his past take some time to reflect on three things you need to leave in the past to be a better person and a better Christian.
Lesson Scripture
12 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
13 Then he gathered to himself the people of Ammon and Amalek, went and defeated Israel, and took possession of the City of Palms.
14 So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
15 But when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. By him the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
16 Now Ehud made himself a dagger (it was double-edged and a cubit in length) and fastened it under his clothes on his right thigh.
17 So he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)
18 And when he had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who had carried the tribute.
19 But he himself turned back from the stone images that were at Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." He said, "Keep silence!" And all who attended him went out from him.
20 And Ehud came to him (now he was sitting upstairs in his cool private chamber). Then Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." So he arose from his seat.
21 Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
22 Even the hilt went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly; and his entrails came out.
23 Then Ehud went out through the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
24 When he had gone out, Eglon's servants came to look, and to their surprise, the doors of the upper room were locked. So they said, "He is probably attending to his needs in the cool chamber."
25 So they waited till they were embarrassed, and still he had not opened the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them. And there was their master, fallen dead on the floor.
26 But Ehud had escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the stone images and escaped to Seirah.
27 And it happened, when he arrived, that he blew the trumpet in the mountains of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountains; and he led them.
28 Then he said to them, "Follow me, for the Lord has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him, seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.
29 And at that time they killed about ten thousand men of Moab, all stout men of valor; not a man escaped.
30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
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