Sermon Notes:
- Message: The Canaanization of all Israel in the period of the Judges is rooted in Israel’s refusal to submit to Yahweh as King through His covenant, though in mercy and love God continues to deliver his unrepentant people.
- The compromise and failure to courageously follow God’s command resulted in Israel’s failure to possess the promised land.
- The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. – Deuteronomy 7:22–24
- The compromise and failure to courageously follow God’s command resulted in Israel’s failure to possess the promised land.
- When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. – Deuteronomy 20:1
- The compromise and failure to courageously follow God’s command resulted in Israel’s failure to possess the promised land.
- God is faithful and keeps his promises.
- God holds His people accountable.
- The lack of courageous, faithful, and godly leadership is disastrous for God’s people
- The lack of courageous, faithful, and godly leadership is no excuse to live without courageous faith.
- Am I going to live with courage and conviction or am I going to compromise and fail to receive what God has for me?
