How to Fight Against Fear

Posted on March 21, 2018 by dkoop

Who is Gideon? Is that the guy who wrote the Bible in the motel? No, but he is a classic example of an unlikely hero. An ordinary person that God uses in an extraordinary way!

He was a fearful individual which is why we are relating him to the comic book figure “Green Lantern.”  In “A Beginner’s Guide to Green Lantern,” it says that “all Green Lanterns are united in their ability to overcome great fear.”

Gideon was definitely fearful and would overcome his fear.  He was also a farm boy who became a national hero.  Against incredible odds, he saved his nation.  Israel was at the lowest point of their nation. They were spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, economically bankrupt.  An enemy nation called the Midianites had come in like a swarm of locusts 135,000 strong and forced all the people who lived in Israel to move into caves.  They were living in caves and eking out survival.  We find Gideon initially down in the bottom of a winepress threshing grain instead of out in the open where the wind could get the chafe out.  He was hiding. If he was seen they’d kill him and take his wheat.

When things get bad, God looks for a person to use.  God often uses the most unlikely person.

Do you think, “God could never use me?”  God often uses the most unlikely people.  This is what the story of Gideon is about — how God turns nobodies into somebodies.  This is the story of the process that God uses to change losers into leaders.  He turns zeros into heroes.  He turns cowards into champions.  That’s what happened in Gideon’s life and it can happen in your life.

Gideon was a very timid person.  His personality was, he was afraid of his own shadow.  He was scared to death.  He had all kinds of insecurities and feelings of inadequacy and self doubt. Psychologists today would say that Gideon had an inferiority complex.  We find him hiding out.  Judges 6:11 “The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash [who was his dad] his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.]

Out of fear, Gideon had climbed down into the winepress and he is threshing grain to eke out a little bit of wheat to make some bread for his family that’s living in a cave in these dark desperate times when everybody’s lost hope.  They’re helpless. They’re driven to despair.  And an angel of the Lord comes to Gideon and says this (v. 12) “The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and he said, `The Lord is with you mighty warrior.'”  Get the irony in that?  This guy is afraid of his own shadow and the angel says, “the Lord is with you mighty warrior.”  How did God change fearful Gideon?

God took him through a four step process. 

 1. Be Encouraged By God

God often starts in our life with a word of encouragement.  He sees our potential and He wants us to see it.  When God starts to work in your life, first He wants you to get a new view of you.  He wants you to get a glimpse of your potential.  He wasn’t looking at what Gideon was; he was looking at his potential.

God affirmed Gideon.  He said, “You’re a mighty warrior!”  Gideon was anything but a mighty warrior.  He was hiding.  Nothing could be further from Gideon’s image of himself than to be called a mighty warrior.  I’m sure Gideon would say, “Hey, you’ve got this wrong.  Don’t you mean Gideon the coward?”  But God was looking at Gideon’s potential not what he was already.

Jesus often did this.  Encouragement is a powerful form of motivation.  Jesus would look at Peter and say, “Peter, you’re going to be a rock.”  Peter was anything but a rock.  He was Mr. Impulsive.  Mr. Impetuous.  He was always putting his foot in his mouth.  God said, You’re going to be a rock.

God looked at Gideon and said, “You think you’re a weakling but you are a mighty man of valor.”

Notice Gideon’s reaction.  Gideon started making excuses.  v. 13 “But sir,’ Gideon replied.  `If the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?  Where are all the wonders that the fathers told about us when they said, `Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt?  But now the Lord has abandoned us and put us into the hands of the Midians.'”  Circle these words in v. 13.  These are the words of the vocabulary of an insecure person.  “if”, “why”, “where”, and “but”.  Those are words of insecurity.

Gideon started making excuses.  Who me?  You’ve got to be kidding!  He’s protesting.  “I’m no mighty man of valor.”  He had so much self-doubt that three times he had to ask God for a confirmation that He was even talking to him.  That’s doubt!

He came up with all kinds of excuses.  v. 15 “`But Lord,’ Gideon asked. `How can I save Israel?  My clan is the weakest in Manesseh and I’m the least in my family.'”

Pick out these excuses.  In the first place Gideon says, “You’ve got the wrong village, God.”  Gideon was born in Ophrah.  Ophrah is a little, tiny village.  Ophrah means in Hebrew “the place of dustiness”.  Does that sound like a lot of potential?  Does that sound like a place where you’d want to launch a national campaign?  The place of dustiness.  He said, “You’ve got the wrong location, Lord.”

On top of that he says, “You’ve got the wrong family.  We’re the poorest family in my entire tribe.  We’ve got no financial backing.  We’re weak.  How could I launch a campaign against a 135,000 enemy soldiers.”

On top of that, he said, “You’ve got the wrong guy in the family!  Even if you did pick my family, I’m the youngest kid in the family.  I’m the runt.”  God often uses and chooses the most unlikely person, the youngest guy of the poorest family in the most unknown town at the bottom of a well. God says, “You’re a mighty man of valor.”  God starts with encouragement.

Many people miss God’s plan for their life because they just can’t see themselves in that role.  They just can’t see themselves as a dynamic Christian.  They can’t see themselves as a leader.  They can’t see themselves as being an influential person spiritually.  “I could never do that!” they say.  “Who me?”  Do you see yourself as a dynamic leader?  Do you think God could use you the way he used Gideon?  No?  Then this post is for you!  God always starts with encouragement.   He says, “You can be more than you are right now.”  You underestimate your potential.  The greatest way we limit God is limiting Him by saying, “Lord, I can’t do it!”  So God had to expand Gideon’s vision.  He had to give him a glimpse.

Notice God’s response.  v. 14 “The Lord turned to him and said, `Go in the strength that you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand.  Am I not sending you?’ …  The Lord answered, `I will be with you.  You will strike down the Midianites as if they were but one man.'”  He said, it will be a cinch!

God’s response to our insecurity is three statements here:  I’m sending you.  I’m going to be with you.  You can’t fail.

When we’re doing God’s will we cannot be a failure.  When you’re doing God’s will you cannot be considered a failure. God’s will is perfect.

He’s saying “I’m with you.  I’m sending you.  You can’t fail.” Romans 8:31 “If God be for us, who can be against us?”  When God wants to change you from a loser into a leader, when God wants to change you from a coward into a champion, He starts first with encouragement.  “You can do it.  You can change.  You can be something you never thought you could be before.” Are you listening to God’s encouragement?  The second way we fight fear is to…

  1. Experience God

Gideon had a personal experience with God.  The fact of the matter is, when God wants to change me, first He encourages me and second, He meets me.  He gets to know me.  He shows His presence to me.  I have a personal experience with God and hope you can too.  Life should become more than a religion but a relationship.

This is what happened with Gideon.  v. 17, “If I’ve now found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it’s really you talking to me. Please don’t go away until I come back and bring an offering and set it before you.’  And the Lord said, `I’ll wait for you to return.'”  God waits.  God waits for us.  God was ready to use Gideon right there.  But Gideon said, “I’m not ready yet.”  Gideon went back home and prepared a meal at great expense and he brought it back to God and offered this mean to this angel of the Lord and it was supernaturally consumed.  He realized then that he was talking to God.

vs. 22 “When Gideon realizes that it was the angel of the Lord he exclaimed, `Ah, sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.’ But God said to him, `Peace.  Don’t be afraid.  You’re not going to die.’  So Gideon built an altar. And he called it `The Lord is peace’ and it stands there to this day.”  Gideon had a personal experience with God and it says he made an altar.  He piled up some stones.

What does an altar represent?  In the Old Testament, an altar always represents a personal commitment to God.  It was a reminder.  Gideon was saying, “I don’t ever want to forget this so I’m going to put some stones up here and make an altar so that every time I pass by here I’ll remember that I encountered God personally, face to face here.  I had an experience with God.” This represents where God meets man.

Notice he named the altar.  He named it, “The Lord is peace”.  In Hebrew, Jehovah-shalom.  Why did he do that?  He’s getting ready to go into battle.  The world is falling apart.  It’s total chaos around him and yet he says, “The Lord is peace.”

That’s the natural consequence anytime you have an experience with God.  For the first time in Gideon’s life he felt at peace.  He felt at peace with himself.  He had peace of mind.  No matter even though the circumstances around him were falling apart he had internal peace.  That’s the result of committing it all to God.  It always brings peace.

Before we are ready to fight external battles we must have internal peace.  Before we are ready to face the tough times we’re facing at work or at home or out there in the world, we’ve got to have an internal peace inside, capable to handle the battles.  Where do we get that?  We come to the point that Gideon did, an encounter with God.  Pray for it, desire it, ask for it.

First, God’s encouragement:  “You can do it!”  Second, God’s revelation:  “Gideon, I’m here.  I’m going to help you.”  All of a sudden God reveals to you and you realize, “I’m not alone in this situation.”  That’s a revelation.

Have you had that experience with God yet?  Or are you still trying to face all your battles on your own?

Then there’s the third stage to fighting our fears.  And this is the toughest phase in how God changes us from fearful losers into faithful leaders. I want to spend a little bit of time on it in the next post.

Darrell

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You Too Can Be Wonderful, Part 2

Posted on March 21, 2018 by dkoop

Does fear or opposition paralyze you? Would you like to have more courage in the face of oppostion? How did Deborah walk forward despite her fear and opposition?  It was to lead her people into battle against the odds.  Look at God’s command in Judges Chapter 4.  It says,

 10 At Kedesh, Barak called together the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali, and 10,000 warriors went up with him. Deborah also went with him. Judges 4:10

So how was Deborah able to add so courageously?  Here’s the key.  She didn’t just become courageous at that instant.  She had becoming courageous slowly and surely throughout her life.   Courage isn’t a characteristic that you can just pull out of a hat when you need it.  Courage is a habit developed over time by doing the little things courageously every day.  Courage is a habit that is developed by repetition, by repeatedly advancing boldly despite your fear.  Aristotle wrote this about character, “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.  We become just by doing just acts.  We become temperate by doing temperate acts, and we become brave by doing brave acts.”   Sometimes we get it reversed.  We think, “I need to become brave before I can do a brave act.  I need to become courageous before I can do a courageous thing,”  but that’s not the way it works.  We have to do a courageous act before we become courageous.   We are not born brave.  We become brave.  How?  By doing the very things that we are afraid of.  Want to know how to become brave?  Do the very thing that you are most afraid of.  As a result, you become courageous by doing what you are afraid to do and you don’t become courageous a second before you do that.  Unfortunately, our natural tendency is to run away from our fears. Or we try to find a nifty way around them.   When we do that, when we don’t face our fear, it leads to more fear and more regret and we still have that burden of fear no matter how many times we run from it.  We have to face your fears head on and that’s why I love this quote by Robert Frost, “The best way out is always through.”   When I take action to confront the area of greatest fear it does two things.  First of all, when I confront the fear I will see that its not as bad as I imagined.  Secondly, when I confront the fear head on I begin to develop more character and confidence.   Don’t avoid it, go through it.

Here’s my challenge to myself.  I want to confront my fears.  What is your area of greatest fear?  What is the area that is pinning you down and enslaving you the most, that you are afraid to move because of that fear?  What is that fear?  My challenge for myself and to you is to take action.  Take the first step toward defeating that fear.  Make that your number one thing to do.  Don’t walk around another day with that burden of fear that is paralyzing you.  Is there a phone call that you need to make?  Is there a confrontation that you need to make?  Is it a spiritual next step?  What is your step to confront that fear?  The next step to being wonderful…

Work with Others      

 Most difficult tasks require someone to help us. God tells Deborah to go to battle and that He will give Israel victory.  So she goes to the commander of the Israelite army, Barak, and says—Barak, why don’t you take the army and go fight.  He says—I’m not going to go unless you go.  This is how Barak responds to Deborah in Judges 4:8-9.

8 Barak told her, “I will go, but only if you go with me.”
9 “Very well,” she replied, “I will go with you. But you will receive no honor in this venture, for the Lord’s victory over Sisera will be at the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak… Judges 4:8-9

Barak wouldn’t go by himself, only if Deborah went with him.  As a result, he lost the glory for the victory.  But Deborah was prepared to go forward and obey God no matter what.  That’s what her courage was.  That was an exhibition of her courage.  She was going to believe God and move forward despite her fears.  Now, it’s easy to blame Barak.  Right?  He messed up.  He should have gone forward and the victory would have been his.  I really can’t blame him too much because in some ways I am like him.  It’s scary to go out alone when no one will go with you.  There is a saying, “Life is a team sport, and it’s best done together.”   You don’t have to live your life all by yourself.  You don’t have to try to be a person of faith and do it all by yourself.  There is a church here that wants to help you do that.  The best way to have people in life that encourage you and support you is to get connected in a group.  When we act in wonderful ways we get to experience wonderful things.  Like

 Watching God Give the Victory

What is the result of Deborah’s faith?

14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Get ready! This is the day the Lord will give you victory over Sisera, for the Lord is marching ahead of you.” So Barak led his 10,000 warriors down the slopes of Mount Tabor into battle.
15 When Barak attacked, the Lord threw Sisera and all his chariots and warriors into a panic…        16 Then Barak chased the chariots and the enemy army… killing all of Sisera’s warriors. Not a single one was left alive. Judges 4:14-16

When we advance in spite of our fears, God steps in and helps and we become stronger and braver.  Today is the day for us to step outside of your comfort zone because  remaining where we are does us no good.  Fear paralyzes us.  When we don’t move, we end up missing out on what God has for us.    Don’t be afraid to move forward with your life.  Don’t be afraid of what the future holds if you step out of your comfort zone to obey God.  What is it that is holding you back?  What is your area of greatest fear, where God is asking you to act?  Is God is asking you to step outside of your comfort zone in a certain area?   Believe what God says and believe that He will provide for you if you will obey.  Recognize that your fears aren’t from God, that they are doubts placed in your life to keep you from experiencing God’s best in your life.  Then walk forward against the fears by taking action.  And then if you have to, venture alone, but rely on your church family and your Connect group to support and encourage you whenever possible.  Realize that you don’t have to do life alone.  Then finally, expect God’s victory.   Decide you are going to take the first step to obeying God and stepping outside of your comfort zone today.   God doesn’t want you to live your live cowering in the corner. That’s not freedom, that’s slavery.  Join me in living a courageous life where we experience God’s very best for our lives.

Darrell

 

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You Too Can Be Wonderful

Posted on March 21, 2018 by dkoop

Is there a woman in your life that you highly respect?  A woman that is dedicated, hardworking and faith filled?  For me it’s my mom and my wife Niki.  Today we will look at a wonderful woman who can teach us all some great truths about how to live.  Deborah is one of most interesting women in scripture.  She was a judge, a prophet, a wife, mother, a warrior and a poet.   As we continue in the book of Judges we will learn from her, her courage, faith and leadership.

Her story is told in Judges 4, and this is how she is introduced in Judges 4:4-5, “Deborah, the wife of Lapidoth, was a prophet who had become a judge in Israel.  She would hold court under the Palm of Deborah (which was obviously named after her). . .and the Israelites came to her to settle their disputes.”   Deborah lived in Israel in a time after Moses’ but a time before they had kings, so they would have a judge, someone who was very wise and was respected who would often sit out in front of the city at the city gate.  Deborah sat under a palm tree and people would come to her and they would bring their disputes and their settlements and she would make a decision and whatever she said, they would live by.”

Deborah is the very first and only female judge recorded in the Bible.  This is remarkable because this was a male dominated society.  Women in those times didn’t have the rights and weren’t respected as much as men were.  So for her to become the judge, and to lead eventually the entire nation of Israel, she had to be a godly woman of great respect, of great wisdom and of great courage.

During Deborah’s time, the Israelites were being oppressed by a group of people called the Canaanites.  The Canaanites had a military general named Sisera who had 900 iron chariots to oppress God’s people.  God came to Deborah one day as she sat under her palm tree, judging the people.  He told her to send the army to go meet Sisera. God told her—“I will bring victory if you do that.”  So Deborah calls the commander of the Israelite army whose name was Barak.  She calls him over and says—“God has told me that he will give us victory if you will go and meet Sisera.”  And Barak, the military commander’s response to her was, “Yeah, that’s not a good idea!  I don’t necessarily want to go by myself, but I’ll go if you go.”  And Deborah says, “okay, I’ll go.”  But then she tells him—“if I go and I lead the army, you are not going to get any of the glory from this battle.  All the glory is going to be given to a woman.”  They agree and Deborah helps lead the army into battle.  Just as God said, He brought victory to the Israelite army and Deborah was held as a hero.  And she went down in history for helping remove the Canaanites from oppressing the Israelites.

What made Deborah truly wonderful was her faith, courage and her leadership.  She was the first female judge in Israel.  Even though she had no military training whatsoever, she was able to rally the general into battle.  I believe, that she was fearful as she was out of our comfort zone and very uncertain, but she believed God and she stepped out anyway.

We may not be ruling a country.  We might not be leading an army, but we face decisions, we face circumstances and things that happen every day, every week of our lives that require courage.  They require us to step out, even though we are afraid and uncertain.  By looking at Deborah’s example, we are going to examine how we can be wonderful in the face of fear and difficulties.  So to be wonderful in any circumstances, when we are afraid or it’s difficult, we need to do these things.

Willingly believe God

 6 One day she sent for Barak…. She said to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: Call out 10,000 warriors from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun at Mount Tabor. 7 And I will call out Sisera, commander of Jabin’s army, along with his chariots and warriors, to the Kishon River. There I will give you victory over him.” Judges 4:4-7

God comes to Deborah and tells her to send the army into battle to face her oppressors who are stronger than her people.  God tells Deborah this in Judges 4:7.  “I will give you victory.”  Before Deborah could obey, before she could move forward, she had to believe what God told her.  Notice this.  The source of Deborah’s courage, it wasn’t her own ability, it wasn’t her own strength.  The source of her courage was the belief that God would do what He said.  It was the belief that God would bring victory.  There was no doubt in my mind that Deborah was afraid of this oppressive enemy of 20 years but she moved forward anyway, because she believed God.  What if Deborah hadn’t believed God?  What if she hadn’t stepped forward and obeyed God?   The Israelites had been in captivity for 20 years to the Canaanites.  So if she hadn’t stepped forward, Barak, the army commander, he obviously wasn’t going to step forward, so the Israelites would have remained oppressed for many more years?  Not only that, but we never would have heard of Deborah.  If she hadn’t obeyed God in this instance, she might not have ever become famous, she might not ever have been written about in the Old Testament. But she did believe.

Do you believe God?  Do you believe his Word? When we open God’s Word, God opens his mouth.  God speaks through our conscience and Godly friends. Do you trust God with your life?  So where is God asking you to believe Him?  Is it in your job?  Is in a relationship?  Is it with your finances?  Is it to forgive someone? To have a tough conversation?  To share your faith with someone at work or someone in your family?

Wherever God is asking you to step out of your comfort zone and follow Him, your first step is to have to believe Him.  That’s the first step to being wonderful.  Believe God.  The second step to being wonderful is:

 Walk forward in spite of Fear 

When you and I are in our comfort zone and God asks us to take a step out it is our fears that stop us.   Our fears keep us from experiencing God’s best for our life because they keep us from following God and obeying Him.  We may think that God may not want us to take the next step in our spiritual life because God doesn’t want us to experience stress or fear, so we avoid it.  We think God doesn’t want us to serve because we don’t have time.   “God may not want me to be baptized, that’s too much attention on me.  And I’m sure that God doesn’t want me to tithe because I can’t afford it.  And I don’t think God wants me to be in a Connect group or to even lead a Connect group.”  Most of the time it isn’t God who is holding us back.  It’s our own fears telling us that we aren’t good enough or that we aren’t ready or that it’s not worth the effort.   We have to be able to distinguish the difference between God and our own fears.  If you are waiting to do something, if you are hesitating to move forward because of the fear, that’s not God.  But why doesn’t God make it easier and remove my fears for me?  God is never going to remove our fears  in order to make our life easy.   Why?  Because God wants to grow our faith.  If we don’t have those fears that we have to confront and go through, then we are not going to grow our character.  We are never going to have courage if we are never afraid.  We are never going to get stronger if we don’t have to overcome difficulties in our lives.  So God is going to use those to develop us.   Deborah and Israel had their own intimidating fears.  They were the Canaanites.  In Judges 4:3, it says,

13 Sisera, who had 900 iron chariots, ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help. Judges 4:1-3

  We all have fears.  And they differ depending on what God is asking us to do.  One of the things that we get in trouble with is we will look at someone else’s life and their life looks perfect from the outside and we will think—“I wish I had their life and not my life, because I have all these problems.”  That’s not true, because, when someone looks perfect on the outside, that just means they are putting up a wall, they are not being honest, because everyone has problems, everyone has hurts, everyone has things that they are ashamed of.  We wouldn’t want to trade with anybody, because if we traded with someone we couldn’t handle their problems.  God created us to have enough strength to handle the problems and the difficulties and the trials that come into our life. When we give our lives to Jesus we are given the strength and courage to defeat our own fears because He walks with us!  So Believe God and Move Forward Despite our Fears.  In the next post we will see two more characteristics that can make us wonderful like Deborah.

 Darrell

 

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Justice League

Posted on March 10, 2018 by dkoop

Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern. Superheroes. The world longs for them. Always arriving in the nick of time to ward off evil, beat up bad guys, prevent corruption, and promote truth and justice and goodness. The book of Judges is about heroes, the people God used to deliver his people from their enemies.  Don’t think of them as people wearing black robes sitting in courthouse with a gavel in hand.   I like to think of them as unlikely heroes.

Deborah was a woman in a male dominated society.  She was a wife and mother who the nation rallied around for her wisdom and spiritual direction.  She was personally asked by the general to help lead the army to victory.  With no military training she goes with the general into battle to help achieve the victory.  We are referring to her as Wonder Woman.

Gideon was a coward and had to be convinced over and over that God saw a leader, deliver and “a mighty man of valor” when Gideon didn’t see that at all.  He led his nation into battle with overwhelming odds against him but emerged victorious.   Because Gideon overcomes great fear we are referring to him as Green Lantern.

Samson was the strongest man that ever lived physically.  Because of his supernatural strength we are referring to him as Superman.  Sampson killed a lion with his bare hands, tore off the huge city gates weighing thousands of pounds and carried them away.  He killed a thousand enemy soldiers with nothing more than a donkey’s jawbone.  Although he was very strong physically, he was weak morally and spiritually as he regularly made more mistakes than wise decisions. He struggled with drinking and womanizing instead of following God.

Talk about action and adventure!  These people, and some others, were called judges. God sent them to help his people, the Israelites, when they got into serious trouble.  Actually, it was their own fault that they got into trouble. When things were going well, they would get proud and forget God. Sounds a lot like us doesn’t it?  Then their enemies would move in and make it tough on them. Eventually, when things got really bad, they would ask God to help them. That’s when God would send a judge. This happened over and over again.  As we go through Judges, we will enjoy the thrilling stories of action and adventure. But also learn the lesson that God’s people kept forgetting – to always trust in God and obey him.

The people of Israel had become forgetful, stubborn and rebellious. Judges describes them this way: “In those days…people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes”  Judges 17:6

REAL heroes are hard to find these days. Modern research and the media have made the faults and weaknesses of our leaders very apparent; we search in vain for men and women to emulate. The music, movie, and sports industries produce a steady stream of “stars” who shoot to the top and then quickly fade from view.  In our series on the book of Judges we are saying that “Real Heroes Rely on God.”  God’s Holy Spirit is available to all people. Anyone who is dedicated to God can be used for his service. Real heroes recognize the futility of human effort without God’s guidance and power.

Let the book of Judges remind us that God uses normal people to do his work.  We can be an unlikely hero to those around us!  When you love your wife or husband and serve them, you are a hero!  When you teach your children about God, the bible, morality and responsibility you are a hero!  When you take or go with your family to church you are a hero! When you love those who are hard to love, when you forgive those who hurt you, you are a hero!

Let  the book of Judges remind us of the effects of not following God and His word; and let it remind us that, above all, God is merciful to sinful people like the Israelites and us when we ask for forgiveness.

I’m excited about this series and hope that you can join us.

Darrell

Source:  Life Application Study Bible
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