01/10/2025 – Day 045 – “Dwindling Numbers” / Judges 7: 1-25 – sermon dated 09/08/22 // A critical message for our time where we stand…
https://www.truthforlife.org/resources/sermon/dwindling-numbers
“For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, so that through our endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.” (Romans 15:4)
And….. – “Now in this hope, we were saved, yet that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees? ” Romans 8: 24
Comment – Does that not put an exclamation point on Romans 15:4 above. Let scripture testify to scripture!
Two quotes in the sermon coalescing into one critical emphatic theme for our day as well, perhaps more than ever:
- “God wants them to know that they can’t so that they can discover that he can.”
2. “God uses illness, frustration, disappointment, failure as the very instrument of his rule.”
Soli Deo Gloria!
Questions for fellowship generation, the lifelong sanctification process:
- What does the text reveal about God’s character?
- How has this reading generated prayer for you and/or us?
- What themes stand out to you in this bible study?
- How does our reading fit into the bigger picture (creation, the fall, restoration, etc.)?
- What verse(s) jumped out at you like never before? Is it explainable at this point?
- Do you have any questions you would like to put before the group as to how to interpret any particular verse(s) in our reading. Let scripture testify to scripture: Share with us where you sense contradiction between passages elsewhere.
- What did you find convicting and inspiring at the same time? Share with us how the Spirit of God is working within you as a messenger, both within and outside of our fellowship group.
- Share with the group how our study is calling or confirming to you a new mission to glorify God in our times.