S2:134 Judges 6

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

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Why is Gideon doing all this stuff? In this episode, Emma Dotter leads us through Judges 6, explaining the difference between arrogant self-deprecation and true humility.

Scriptures referenced in today’s episode:
Exodus 29:38-41 – God’s description of when burnt offerings were to be prepared
Ephesians 2:10 – God has prepares us in advance

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0:00.0	Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast
0:05.7	with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. Today's chapter covers the beginning of Gideon's story.
0:13.5	Because before he was the victorious conqueror, we know in love, he was timid and a reluctant
0:18.9	follower of the Lord. In reality, we often have this
0:22.5	rose-colored perspective on Gideon's story that isn't quite accurate. So here's the deal. As we've
0:28.1	learned thus far from judges, when the people do what's right in their own eyes instead of following
0:32.7	the Lord's commands, it goes poorly. In today's chapter, the Lord gave them into the hands of the Midianites,
0:39.2	who were Bedouin nomads living in the desert plains. The Midianites, instead of farming and producing
0:44.8	their own crops, decided to let the Israelites harvest theirs, and then they'd go on raids to
0:50.6	steal everything they'd produced. And they did it all while writing camels. Yeah, the Midianites,
0:56.4	they were crazy. Finally, after seven years of these raids on camels, the Israelites called out to the
1:04.1	Lord for help. They're like, save us from these camel people. No, just kidding. They didn't say that.
1:08.3	So the Lord, the Lord, a God who loves communicating with his children, sent a prophet to let them know why these camel raids were happening. This prophet, he didn't deliver the Israelites from the oppression of the Midianites. He instead reminded them of what God had done and reminded them of their disobedience.
1:27.7	That's verses 1 through 6.
1:29.3	So the prophet didn't save them.
1:31.5	He was just like, yeah, remember what God's done and you're disobeying, so that's why all these rights are happening.
1:37.3	But don't worry. The Lord had a plan and how he would deliver his people from the control of the enemy.
1:42.3	He goes to Gideon, a man who self-declares, or declares of
1:46.3	himself, in verse 15, that he is the least in his father's house, which is part of the weakest clan
1:52.3	of Manasseh, so a subgroup of the tribe. Is he being humble, humility being a quality we should all be
1:59.0	striving for? Or is he refusing to trust and be confident
2:04.0	in how the Lord has created him? Which raises a good question. False humility. Like, are there
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