The book of Judges Lesson
8: Chapters 10-12
The pattern is unbroken!
Major Concept:
"For everything
that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through
endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."
(Romans 15:4)
Sub-concepts:
1. The pattern is predictable.
2. God's patience is remarkable, but not unlimited.
3. Leadership is important.
Lessons:
1. Leadership is important!
Tola and Jair
2. God uses all kinds of people.
Jephthah
3. The noble, but unnecessary, vow.
Application
1. When people do not know God,
they do what is right in their own eyes.
(Romans 1:22,23)
2. God provides special leadership in the church...in the form of
elders and deacons.
Refer to
Organization and
Leadership
Memory Verse
"Then they got rid of
the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear
Israel's misery no longer."
(Judges 10:16)
