Judges

Theme: This chapter illustrates how God refined His disobedient people through a process of trial.

Theme: This story shows us how far into sin people descended when “everyone did what was right in his own eyes”.

Theme: This chapter illustrates the social disorder that follows after a culture’s religious decline.

Theme: Spiritual decline is a decisive stages in a culture’s downward slide.

Theme: If we keep flirting with sin, we may find—to our shock—that the Lord left us to suffer in it.

Theme: Through the unlikely usefulness of Samson’s acts of revenge, God cut down the enemies of His people.

Theme: The apparent ups and downs of life, without our knowing it, accomplish the purposes of God.

Theme: There are some lessons about God that we can learn from Samson’s mother and father.

Theme: This passage tells us of three judges who kept the peace in Israel between periods of trouble.

Theme: Jephthah’s sad conflict with the tribe of Ephriam teaches us the destructive divisiveness that comes from of a love of ‘first place’.