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🗓️ 10 February 2025

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What's the context of Judges? How should we view our leaders? How do we end up morally compromised? In today's episode, Keith shares how Judges 1:1-26 reminds us that sin leads to destruction. Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Judges 1:1-26

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0:00.0	Have you ever thought that for every 10 minutes you spend in your Bible each day, you spend
0:04.7	1,430 minutes outside of your Bible? So the question is, do you feel equipped to engage with
0:11.7	today's culture where you spend the vast majority of your time? The truth is, if you're a Christian,
0:17.8	you're an outsider. I know you feel like an outsider, but do you know
0:21.8	that God's called you to be an outsider? He wants you to be a joyful outsider. Now, not all
0:27.5	outsiders are the same. You can discover how God has uniquely called you to engage with today's
0:33.1	culture in our new book, Joyful Outsiders. Find more information and start reading today at joyful
0:39.4	outsiders.com. Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:50.1	In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Keith Simon. Judges is one of my favorite books in the whole
0:56.1	Bible, and yet it's not one that most of us are familiar with. You don't hear judges preached often
1:01.6	or studied in small groups, and I think the reason you don't hear much about the book of judges
1:06.3	is the same reason that I like it so much. Judges is a dark book. What I mean by that is it shows
1:13.0	the dark side of human nature. It shows what we are all capable of apart from God's grace.
1:18.8	There aren't any heroes in the book of judges. There's no Daniel faithfully navigating the courts
1:24.0	of foreign kings. There's no Esther making courageous choices to savor people. There's no
1:28.9	godly leader like Moses. All the good guys and judges are morally compromised. And I guess you could say that
1:35.7	about all the people in the Bible. No one is sinless other than Jesus. He's the true and only hero.
1:42.4	And yet, I still think judges is darker than most other books of the Bible.
1:46.7	You could say it's darkness on steroids. Probably the verse that summarizes the book, best,
1:52.7	is the last verse in the last chapter. Here's how the book ends. Judges 2125 says,
1:59.6	In those days, Israel had no king king all the people did whatever seemed right in their
2:05.2	own eyes that seems pretty dark human beings left on their own with no constraints well that's not a
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