He Feared His Father’s Household JUDGES 6:25-40

Judges 6: Now it came to pass the same night that the LORD said to him, "Take your father's young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it; 26 and build an altar to the LORD your God on top of this rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down." 27 So Gideon took ten men from among his servants and did as the LORD had said to him. But because he feared his father's household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.

HE FEARED HIS FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD I. THE TEST OF VALOR: (6:25-27) Objects of False Worship: Proper Worship: Identifying the Weakness: (F E A R)

HE FEARED HIS FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD II. THE TRUTH SETS THE FAMILY FREE: (6:28,29) Gideon’s statement of Obedience: (28) Society’s Reaction to Right Response: (29) Whose to ‘Blame:’ (29b) “The Mighty Man of Valor”

HE FEARED HIS FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD III.Testimony to What is Right: (6:30-32) Threat of Death Father’s Intervention Jehovah Declares Victory Gideon is becoming a ‘Warrior’

HE FEARED HIS FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD IV. THE TEST OF THE FLEECE: (6:33-39) Timidity; hesitancy; weakness; lacking confidence or just over whelming fear in the face of a major assignment; Gideon asks for one more “CONFIDENCE BUILDER.” (vs.33-35) Armies gather for battle: (vs.36-40) The fleece of confidence:

HE FEARED HIS FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD Walking Fear Out of your life…. Step 1: God see’s all of us as MIGHTY WARRIORS. Step 2: With God’s Help, Remove False idols. Step 3: If God is for me, who can be against me?