2. EXODUS CONQUEST

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5. PURPOSE TWO SECTIONS 1-16 – WARS AND DELIVERANCE 17-21 – WHEN THERE WAS NO KING

6. KEY VERSES

7. NIV JUDGES: GOD’S RESCUE IN PERILOUS TIMES JUDGES 2:16-19 "Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of these raiders. Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. Unlike their fathers, they quickly turned from the way in which their fathers had walked, the way of obedience to the LORD's commands. Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them,

8. NIV JUDGES: GOD’S RESCUE IN PERILOUS TIMES JUDGES 2:16-19 he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the LORD had compassion on them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them. But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their fathers, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways."

9. NIV JUDGES: GOD’S RESCUE IN PERILOUS TIMES JUDGES 10:15 “But the Israelites said to the LORD, 'We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.'”

10. NIV JUDGES: GOD’S RESCUE IN PERILOUS TIMES JUDGES 21:25 “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.”

11. SETTLING THE LAND 1:1-36

12. FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS

14. SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE 2:1-3:7

15. CHALLENGE CHOOSE TO FOLLOW THE LORD AND HIS INSTRUCTIONS…THERE MAY BE A COST IF WE DON’T

16. NIV JUDGES: GOD’S RESCUE IN PERILOUS TIMES HEBREWS 12:6 because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

17. CHALLENGE BE QUICK TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE LORD DISCIPLINES HIS CHILDREN

18. NIV JUDGES: GOD’S RESCUE IN PERILOUS TIMES 2 COR. 7:9-10 9 yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

19. NEXT WEEK JUDGES 3:7 – 5:31