Day 141
Biblical Principle -
Absolute truth from God’s Word:
When we follow a man instead of God we will always go back
to worldly thinking when the man is no longer there. But when we follow God’s man and remember we
are being obedient to God we will continue to see victory. Even if the man of God forgets who he is
serving it will be his down fall. God
given authority to the man of God should always be remembered is God given.
Judges 8:22-35 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule
thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast
delivered us from the hand of Midian.
And Gideon said unto them, I will
not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over
you.
And Gideon said unto them, I would
desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his
prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
And they answered, We will
willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein
every man the earrings of his prey.
And the weight of the golden
earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of
gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the
kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels'
necks.
And Gideon made an ephod thereof,
and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a
whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Thus was Midian subdued before the
children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country
was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went
and dwelt in his own house.
And Gideon had threescore and ten
sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
And his concubine that was
in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
And Gideon the son of Joash died in
a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah
of the Abiezrites.
And it came to pass, as soon as
Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring
after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
And the children of Israel
remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of
all their enemies on every side:
Neither shewed they kindness to the
house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which
he had shewed unto Israel.
Practical - Works
that apply Biblical Principle:
This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in
your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical
ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important
to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.
Just because we start right does not mean we finish
right. Just as the children of Israel saw
great victories, they continued to go back to the flesh.
Galatians 3:1-3 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been
evidently set forth, crucified among you?
This would I learn of you, Received
ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in
the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
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