2. THE BOOK OF JUDGES.

SIN’S CONSEQUENCES.

As you read Judges, you soon discover a pattern set out to teach us:

SIN AND SUFFERING DO FOLLOW EACH OTHER.

But TRUE REPENTANCE AND SALVATION BRING DELIVERANCE! It does not always conclude that all sickness is the result of sin.

But you must put away the ‘EVIL THING’ that separates you from God.

(1) SIN.

“THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD”

(2) SUFFERING.

“AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND OF
OF THE MIDIANITES.”

(3) SUPPLICATION

“AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD.”

4) “THEN GOD SENT AN ANGEL.”

5) DELIVERANCE.

“GOD RAISED A JUDGE.”

How much evil are you tolerating in your life?
How much like the world have you become by allowing it to take hold of your life?

People will know you are a Christian by the way you live your life.

Satan will tell you it doesn’t matter; it’s a small compromise. Yet sure enough, down the track, sin will attach itself to you, and after a while, you won’t be aware of its having power over you.

GOD’S WORD FOR US TODAY IS VERY CLEAR.

“COME OUT from among them and be SEPARATE,” says the Lord.”

“TOUCH NOT the unclean thing, and I will RECEIVE YOU and be a FATHER unto you. And You shall be to me, my SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.”
2 Corinthians 4:17, 18.

You may not have the same consequences as the Israelites had, for example:
The MIDIANITES at your back door! To plume your property.

Our battle comes in the form of compromise in the realms of:

Modern technology.

Your computer, television, the books you read, the theatre, etc.

The kind of things you allow on your Television screen.

Pornography, filthy language, violence, homosexuality, and negative thinking, such as:

Fear, rejection, and self-condemnation. Murder and adulterous living. Addiction and abortion, etc.

Yes, we live in the Age of Grace,

BUT GOD DOES NOT TOLERATE SIN AGAINST HIM IN ANY AGE OR ANY FORM.

You may be thinking
It doesn’t affect me! Oh yes, it does! It affects your intimate fellowship with God and the anointing you can enjoy to empower you in His service.

You get so used to sin that you don’t recognise it and rationalise your behaviour.

THE GAUGE I USE TO GUIDE ME, YOU CAN FIND WRITTEN IN Philippians 3:7-9. Whatsoever is etc. Read it slowly and carefully.
Philippians 4:8.

It’s not Legalistic!

It’s Purifying!

NOT EASY, BUT SO WORTH IT!

Amen.