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INTRODUCTORY ??? DISCUSSION QUESTION???
“Can you share one of the hardest things someone ever asked you to do?”
(As a pastor I have been asked to do some difficult things over the years: visit a hardened lost person, or someone who was about to die, or who had just lost a loved one, etc., but perhaps the hardest for me was as an 18-year-old, I was asked to go the home of a man I didn’t know, and ask him to make a commitment to our church building campaign. I was just filled with anxiety and dread about making that visit. It so happened that a deacon from our church saw me with that card in my hand — and I think he could read my face — and he said “Hey, I’ll go with you to make that visit.” I was never so happy to have someone with me in my life! He took over that visit, and it went great. But it made all the difference that he was with me!
Last time in our study of Judges we saw how God told Gideon to do something very difficult — to rescue Israel from Midian — and GIdeon was very hesitant about it. But as we left off, we saw that God promised Gideon that HE WOULD BE WITH HIM, and that made all the difference for him.
Today we continue that story in Judges 7 as God again asks Gideon to do something extremely challenging — but the way it unfold would make it absolutely clear that only GOD HIMSELF brought about the victory.
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