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The Levite divides the tribes to cover his sin. Christ was divided that we might be united.

When we look in dependence upon the Lord for deliverance out of humility and sorrow, we find that there is no story so grotesque that God can not redeem in Christ.

In the same way that God shows His love for Israel in that while they were slaves, He delivered them, God shows His love for the whole world in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

People doing what is right in their own eyes is visible in man-made, man-centered religions.

Samson’s victory through death points us to a greater hero who destroys the enemy through His death and is resurrected victoriously over it.

The first thing God does to deliver His people is to create conflict with their idols with which they’ve grown comfortable and apathetic because God loves His people too much to allow them to remain comfortable with false hopes.

God has a plan for the redemption of His people from the tyranny of the enemy and is working in the midst of their cultural enmeshment to call them out and deliver them for His good purpose.

The Gospel fundamentally transforms how we relate to each other: with radical others-centeredness.

Success in ministry is not measured by the end result, it is measured by our faithfulness to the task.

Jesus has restored our created purpose and identity as image bearers.

It turns out that the baby Zechariah was longing for wasn’t his own, because the Light of Jesus had broken into the darkness to visit and redeem us.

Jesus is the satisfactions to the longings you’ve never even expressed, the answer to the questions you are too afraid to ask.

God sends a savior to redeem the unrepentant and sends grand signals to pave the way so that we won’t miss it.

Jesus was the chaste sacrifice devoted to death by the Father in order to lift the curse on His people and to secure victory over the enemy.

Demonstrating His grace by saving His people is an ordinary act for God overflowing from His character, and rebelling against Him always leads to a longing for a savior.

The enemy doesn’t want it to be public that God conquers through weakness, yet God will give His people an unexpected and unlikely salvation through the crushed head of the enemy.

If Gideon in his fear, vengeance, and disobedience could be anointed by the Spirit of God to save Israel; then Jesus, a truly obedient, covenant-keeping man could save the whole world.

God is on a mission for His Glory in the world, and He is inviting the weak and helpless to show Himself to be powerful and gracious.

The way out of despair and into lasting hope is to confess and repent of our idolatry and trust in the God who has come near and given us a sure sign in Jesus.

God delivers His people by remembering the victimized and inviting them to be a part of His stunning salvation and victory over the enemy.

God delights to deliver his people from their troubles such that they are even able to laugh after their sorrow and to smile after their grief.

God is able to sovereignly use suffering, unfaithfulness, and conflict for His good purposes.

We are a people in desparate need of a deliverer who is not bound by death.

God uses half-hearted obedience and half-hearted repentance to demonstrate the fullness and sufficiency of His Grace.

Judges is a story of the mess in which God works.

We have reason to be grateful to God because he delivers the wanderer, the imprisoned, the fool, and the proud.

Joy is the result of God bringing restoration.

We were weak, fatherless, afflicted, destitute, needy, and under the power of the wicked one; but Jesus adopted, justified, defended, rescued, and delivered us into His eternal inheritance.

In any circumstance, no matter how deep and dark it seems, there is forgiveness. Psalm 130 is a song we sing with believers as we trek through life, reminding us of the hope we have, and the plentiful redemption and grace offered by Jesus.

We have great reason to be the most patient, prayerful and praise-giving people. We have a great God who gives great deliverance in whom we have great faith.

God’s abundant mercy over our sin and sinfulness restores us to communion with the Father and overflows to proclamation in mission and worship.

True repentance involves confession of sin and sinfulness.

Confession brings sin out of its hiding place and enables the sinner to take sides with God against it and join God in His victory over it.

Psalm 84 is a meditation on the beauty of God and the blessings of God for those that seek him. This psalm turns us away from ourselves and our idolatry, and instead points us to the source of all truth and beauty: God himself. It shows us that God is beautiful because of his providential care and promised redemption which is found in Jesus.

The refugee who authored this psalm finds himself to be an heir, and his inheritance to be eternal and completely satisfying. Such is true for the follower of Christ.

Confession, humility, and trust are necessary ingredients in receiving God’s guidance.

Those who have been made righteous are brought safely into God’s presence.

We are invited to worship God who is made known to us in suffering and in victory.

Followers of Jesus should anticipate two things: Great suffering and great love from Jesus.

Our hope is the mercy of Christ, our concern is for the people of Christ, and our commitment is to the cross of Christ.

Jesus meets the incapable and serves them out of His capabilities.

Jesus comes and turns grief into joy, just as He promised.

Faith in the risen Christ involves a personal encounter with Jesus and hearing Him call your own name.

The death and burial of Jesus, while obscene and gruesome, is the divine and glorious plan of God.

Jesus steps into the middle of the collision of heaven and earth, and by bearing the brunt of their differences, He unites the two.

Jesus boldly and courageously steps toward His mission to demand the deliverance of His followers.