John Piper, an influential pastor and writer, in a recent Christian Post article, criticized both candidates running for U.S. President in the 2020 election. See here. I immediately thought of the sermon series from Cascade Community Church in Monroe, WA. The series covered the activities of some of the people God called to help Israel in the Old Testament book of Judges in the Bible.
From Cascade this description is given-- "The book of Judges covers a period of hundreds of years that ultimately ends with everyone in Israel doing what is right in their own eyes. Israel chose to only partially obey God, which led to a repeated cycle of sin, oppression, crying out to God for help, God’s deliverance of His people through a Judge, short-term peace, complacency, and sin yet again. Over and over this cycle occurred in the land.
Yet throughout this chaotic time period, God raised up the unlikely Judges – the broken, the injured, old, young, men and women – to ultimately rescue His people. Even in darkness, He worked through them to accomplish His will, and continues to use the unlikely today."
If you would like to listen to any of the 6 excellent sermons click here. One sermon tells the story of Jepthah. He was a gang leader and an anti-hero. Here is an article about him and some of the other Judges. Click here.
We may have a couple of "gang" leaders running for office but Jesus is still King!
No comments:
Post a Comment