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Judges, chapter 21, verse 25,

in those days, there was no king in Israel.

Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

If you've been following along with this podcast with the book of Judges,

you know, this is not the first time we see this phrase, this description.

This is actually the fifth and final time. And this is

this is actually the fifth and final time in the book of Judges that we see this phrase.

And it's the last verse. It's the ending to the book of Judges.

In those days, there was no king in Israel.

And everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

And so when we read this verse, much as we've prayed and

different podcast episodes through Judges, we certainly see

the tendency in all of our lives to do what is right in our own eyes.

At the same time, I'm so encouraged here at the end of the book of Judges,

when I read this verse to realize, there is a king who has come.

He is made away for us to be saved from our sin.

And not just from our sin, but to be saved from ourselves,

to save us from our tendency, to do what is right in our own eyes.

And every single day, what it means to follow him is to experience his grace

as our king who saves us and to deny ourselves,

take up our cross, to die to ourselves, to die to what we think is right,

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