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INTRODUCTION:
ILLUSTRATION:
After World War II ended, U.S. President Harry Truman was driven through Berlin, which had been devastated by Allied bombing and Russian artillery.
“On Wilhelmstrasse (German for King “Wilhelm’s street”) Truman’s car pulled up beside the Reich Chancellery and the shell-blasted stone balcony where Hitler had harangued his Nazi followers. Truman did not get out. ‘It is a terrible thing,” he began, knowing he was expected to say something, ‘but they brought it on themselves. That’s what happens when a man overreaches himself.’ It was all he could find to say.” (David McCullough, Truman, p. 414)
Truman’s words may not have been what some consider “eloquent,” but they still rang true: “They brought it on themselves.”
We all know situations like this today, too, don’t we? People sin against God and pay the consequences. Like Truman said: “They brought it on themselves.”
That expression could easily serve as the theme for the Book of Judges, and today’s lesson especially, which talks about the “Consequences” of sin.
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