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BY FAITH JEPHTHAH
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It is really difficult to understand why a person like Jephthah would be included
in God’s Hall of Fame.
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Judges 11:1- “Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was
Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.”
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Judges 11:29-34 “Then the Spirit of the LORD came
upon Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh,
passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he
advanced against the
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Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites
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will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt
offering." Then Jephthah went over to fight the
Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands.
He devastated twenty towns
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from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel
Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon. When Jephthah returned to his home in
Mizpah, who should come out
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to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the
sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son
nor daughter.”
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His main weakness in this passage is that he acted on what he felt was right rather
than acting on the truth of the Word of God.
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The sinful cycle of Israel had brought the People of Israel to the point they resembled their pagan neighbors more than what the Bible portrayed as the characteristics of God’s
followers.
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Is there anything in your life like that?
How different is your life from the lives of unbelievers
around you?
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Look at all the ways he trusted God to work in his
life:
He made the best of a horrible situation.
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He
apparently held no bitterness.
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He was willing to lay down his live for the very ones who had rejected him.
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He understood that the source of victory would be the Lord.
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11:29 again, “Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon
Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed
through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced
against the Ammonites.”
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Lessons for us:
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1) God instructs us to live our lives according to His Word, not according to our feelings
or thoughts.
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Proverbs 12:15 “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to
counsel.”
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Proverbs 21:2 “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes..."
When we live our lives according to what we feel
rather than what the Word of God says, we will bring misery
upon ourselves too.
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2) God chooses what men reject.
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3)God uses what menreject.
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