05.23.21 NOTES

Our Mission: Leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus

JEPHTHAH the Rejected Deliverer
Judges 11:1-31

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have – right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start – comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (The Message)

1 Now Jephthah of Gilead was a great warrior. He was the son of Gilead, but his mother was a prostitute. 1 Gilead’s wife also had several sons, and when these half brothers grew up, they chased Jephthah off the land. “You will not get any of our father’s inheritance,” they said, “for you are the son of a prostitute.” 3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Soon he had a band of worthless rebels following him. Judges 11:1-3 (NLT)

And what more could I say to convince you? For there is not enough time to tell you of the faith of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets. Hebrews 11:32 (TPT)

LESSONS TO LEARN:
1. DON’T LET YOUR _________________________ YOU

2. REALIZE THERE IS _____________________

3. STOP _______________, START _________________