2. Early History of Israel
Creation & Fall
Egypt (430 yrs)
Wilderness (40 yrs)
Conquest (7 yrs)
Patriarchs
Judges
2166
1805
1446
1350
1050
Exodus

3. cycle of Israel’s DISLOYALTY
Blessed
Deliverance
Idolatry
Remorse
Discipline

4. The Setting: a cycle of disloyalty – 6:1-10
Enemies remained
Anarchy ruled
Idolatry infiltrated
Judges 17:6 (cf. 21:25)
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

5. Our Hero: an unlikely deliverer – 6:11-1

6. Byzantine Winepress

7. 1st century olive press

8. Our Hero: an unlikely deliverer – 6:11-15
Fearful
Doubting

9. “Doubt is the skeleton in the closet of faith, and I know no better way to treat a skeleton than to bring it into the open and expose it for what it is: not something to hide or fear, but a hard structure on which living tissue may grow. If I asked every person to stop reading whose faith has wavered…I might as well end the book with this sentence.” Philip Yancey

10. Our Hero: an unlikely deliverer – 6:11-15
Fearful
Doubting
Insecure

11. 2 Corinthians 3:5–6 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant....

12. His Response: a timid obedience – 6:16-32
a step of faith: worship
a step of faith: consecration

13. Will you take a step of faith? Will you become a deliverer?
Application
Will you take a step of faith? Will you become a deliverer?