We're gonna be in the book of
Judges tonight in the chapter two of the book of Judges. And
we started last week here in chapter two and we noticed some
wonderful words in that first verse that the Lord said, I will
never break my covenant with you. Now, the angel of the Lord,
the angel of Jehovah, and by what is said here and what is
done here, we just have a pre-incarnate visit. And I was reading, it
might've been Dr. Hawker, I'm not sure, but he
was saying, the Lord was very excited about coming to this
earth. And we see that in the pre coming as born of a virgin. We see him visiting and that's
what we have here. And he came up from Gilgal to
Bochem and said, This is interesting. I didn't bring this out, but
it's an interesting read here. I made you go up out of Egypt. What an interesting statement.
I made you, in other words, if he hadn't, they'd have stayed
there. And the same is true about us. If he did not make us leave
the position that we were in, did not make us leave, our religion
or wherever, we've stayed there. So I made you go up out of Egypt
and have brought you unto the land which I swear unto your
fathers. And I said, I will never break
my covenant with you." Now we noticed last week that Israel
continuously broke, National Israel continuously broke their
covenant with God. over and over and over time,
time and time again. And we're going to see that here
in the book of Judges. As we get to the Judges themselves,
this book illustrates for us the wonders of grace. how often
the Lord put up with Israel. Here, as we find it in the book
of Judges, we find it in the book of Numbers, Deuteronomy,
Exodus, how he puts up with them. And yet we also find out that
there was in their loins elect children going to be born. So
he just couldn't go, there were those that would be born from
these parents that were God's chosen vessels, God's elect vessels. So we have one reason why he
just didn't do that. But another reason we have so
illustrated here that how often he was gracious to them, how
often he was merciful to them, didn't change their heart, didn't
move them from where they were, In fact, he goes on and tells
us here in the second verse of this chapter, and ye shall make
no league. Now last week we mentioned that
word league and that word covenant are the same words in the original
language. In the Hebrew there, you shall make no covenant, you
shall make no agreement, you shall make no interest in the
inhabitants of this land. Ye shall throw down their altars,
but ye have not obeyed my voice. Why have you done this?" So we
have the Lord bringing up this subject. I told you what to do. I've repeated myself. I've told you what to do and
repeated myself again, and you have not done this. Now, I want
us to realize that he's speaking to a bunch of people who did
not believe. They did not believe because
they were not of his sheep, even though they were in Israel, in
national Israel. A bunch of them, we find out
that they didn't know the gospel and they didn't know Christ.
Christ had never been revealed to them. And then we find out
what a glorious statement it is that except the Lord of hosts
had left a very small remnant we should have all been, and
we'll read that in just a little bit over there in the book of
Isaiah. So you shall throw down their altars, but you have not
obeyed my voice, and why have you done this? Well, we find
that not only is the book of Judges such a declarative book
about the wonders of grace, but it is also a clear statement
about the depravity of natural man, and particularly These religious
people that claim to know God, these are going to be the ancestors
of those that cried, crucify him, crucify him, crucify him.
And if the Lord had been in that day and in that time, they would
have cried the same things, crucify him, crucify him. And they demonstrate
this, that they are more in love with the people of the land and
more in love with the gods of the land than they ever had any
capacity to love God himself. These people were in, it was
an indictment by God against Israel and as well as all mankind. We are instructed to do, to do,
to do, and we find out we can't do. We promise, we make good
intentions. On a stack of Bibles, I swear
I will do better. And then we find out we're just
like Israel. We can't get out of the mess
we're in by our own works. We just cannot get out of it. He's instructed them, don't do
it. And they did it anyway. And time
and time again, we're going to have 12 judges and every period
of time. And, you know, we find in the
New Testament, this is a period of time that's twice as long
as the age of the United States. 450 years, they're going to have
these judges. That's what we read in the book
of Acts. So 450 years of this, and still there is no change
of heart. that every generation exhibits
the same as the previous generation. Now, it's illustrated, we're
instructed to do right, we're instructed to do right, we're
instructed to do right, and we, you know, maybe in our best day,
we try to do right. But trying to do and getting
it done are two exactly opposite things. In the book of Jeremiah,
chapter 17, there is a verse that we often refer to, and it's
so illustrated in this passage of scripture. It's so illustrated
in the book of Judges, and it's illustrated throughout the books
of the Bible, starting with Genesis and chapter 17. Adam and Eve
and what they did after he ate the fruit. They had no interest
whatsoever in God and they went off to worship their own righteousness. And it's illustrated by the covering
that they made for themselves. This should, I can just hear
them say, this should suffice. This should suffice. Well, we
hear that all the time from religions, religions I was in, my own religion,
this should suffice. Well, here in the book of Jeremiah,
we have these words by the prophet who the book of Lamentations
was also written by, the Holy Spirit being the author of both
of them. But in the 17th chapter of the book of Jeremiah and verse
nine, we have this statement. And this statement is repeated
time and time again in the scriptures and illustrated over and over
and over. The heart. The heart, the heart,
Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse nine, the heart is deceitful
above all. Now the word things is in italics. So it was not in the original.
So the heart is deceitful above all and desperately wicked, who
can know it? Now that word desperately means
incurable. There is not a, a vaccination
for it. There's not a training session
for it. There's not a psychological doctor
that can take care of this. Even though we have all kinds
of remedies that have been created by man to get over the problem
that we're in, it is an incurable wickedness. Who can know it? Now, there's one thing about
the heart. It is unbridled. We do the best
we can to control the outward appearance. And I like neighbors that control
their outward appearance. It is good when people treat
their neighbors neighborly, but the heart is deceitful above
all things. And it is really an unbridled,
unstable part of us. And it does things, even after
we're saved, contrary. It is contrary to us. We find
that the heart does everything naturally. And we may control
the flesh, but never the heart. And that is so important to realize. That's why the Lord shared with
his people, you must have a new heart. I can't do anything with
the old heart. I'm not going to do anything
with the old heart. People, preachers say, give your heart to Jesus.
He certainly does not want that. He doesn't want our old heart. It is desperately wicked, and
we can find that illustrated as we follow national Israel,
just in the book of Judges, just in chapters 1 and chapter 2.
But as we follow through and find out how often God instructed
them and what they should and must do, and they could not do
that, he said, this is an illustration of just how bad things are, even
with the people I've done the most for. I haven't done anything
for the Hittites, and look at them. And I haven't done anything
for the Canaanites, look at them. But I have done everything for
Israel, and look at them. Nobody is a good illustration
of what needs to be done. So this continues on. In the book, let's go over to
the book of Ephesians for a moment. I love chapter two, but it has
much to say about the problem we're in. In the book of Ephesians,
and it also shares with us what needs to be done. Now, I realize
by nature we don't realize that we need this done. We pass over
this. I did it. I've witnessed it.
I saw it today. It is not necessary. I heard
a sermon by Brother Henry the other day, and he said if you
have to go back to yesterday, to prove that you're saved. Some
experience yesterday, you're making a terrible mistake. We
shouldn't have anything to go back to an experience about.
We should be trusting Christ today. Hopefully we did yesterday,
but today and tomorrow. So if we have to go back to an
experience that happened yesterday, we're making a terrible mistake.
We're still have a heart that is desperately wicked. Here in
the book of Ephesians chapter two, Beginning with verse one,
it says, this is how things start. And you hath he quickened, who
were dead in trespasses and sin. Now I realize that he hath quickened
is in italics. It was not in the original language.
It was put there by the translators. And you, who were dead in trespasses
and sins. All right, let's start there.
And you who were dead in trespasses and sin. Over here in the book
of Judges, he said, I told you not to mess around with those
folks and those gods and tear them down and throw them away.
But you would not. You would not. All right. We're
in and time passed. Here we are. National Israel.
Gentiles. Everybody. wherein in time past
ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh to the mind, and were by nature the
children of wrath, even as others. And I can still hear people tell
me, I am the exception. I am the exception. That does
not apply to me. I'm better than that. Well, when
God shows us that we're not, that's a good thing. We're not
better than that. Never have been, never will be.
So among whom also we all had our manner of life, the way we
lived, the style of life, everything in times past. in the lusts of
our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind,
and we're by nature the children of wrath, even as others. And
now we have someone coming to help, but God. Hallelujah. Well, that's what
we're going to find over in the book of Judges. That's what we
find in the book of Exodus. That's what we find in the book
of Numbers. That's what we find in the book of Deuteronomy. That's
what we find in Genesis. That's what we find in every
book. But God, if it wasn't for God, who left a very small remnant. We should be like Sodom and Gomorrah.
We should have been like Sodom and Gomorrah. And only believers
understand what that statement is. We should have been as Sodom
and Gomorrah. We should have been treated just
like that. If there was true justice, all
right? But God who is rich in mercy
for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were
dead in sins. Now there was a certain remnant,
according to the election of grace, that God demonstrated
great love and great mercy for in and among national Israel. Joshua and Caleb are examples. And there are others that would
be examples of God's great grace. They were capable and probable,
well, we know they did. They did the same exact things
as everybody else, just like this. Abraham was a wicked man
down in Ur of the Chaldees, but the God of glory appeared unto
him. What a difference that was. Most of his family was left down
there. Most of his friends were all
left down, all of his friends were left down there. And they
just went along with the rest of their life. You know, what
do we think about people who never hear the gospel? Well, I have to be in the conclusion
because the Bible says, in Adam, all died, are all sinners. And God is just to punish sinners. He is just. So even if we have
never heard the gospel, God is just in punishing sinners. Now he's either gonna punish
sinners personally or he's gonna punish sinners in Christ. That's
the only difference. He's gracious to his people because
he punished Christ in their stead, all right? Even when we were
dead in sins. hath quickened us together with
Christ, by grace ye are saved, and hath raised us up together
and made us sit together in heavenly places." What a quickening. I
think I shared this, but one of the guys I've been dealing
with, I asked him what quickened meant, and he said, being quick,
fast. Well, this word comes to us from
an old English definition, which means to be made alive. He is the God of the quick and
the dead. He's the judge of the quick and
the dead. That in ages to come, verse seven,
he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus, for by grace are you saved through
faith and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. So those,
whoever, those are saved in the Old Testament, those who are
saved in the New Testament, it is because of the grace of God
and never because of our own efforts, because the heart is
deceitful above all things. The heart hates God. We may not
say it with our lips, but our heart betrays us. We just don't
want his standard, and his standard is Christ. We don't want his
salvation. His salvation is grace. We are
interested in salvation by works with a little grace, but that's
not salvation at all. So let's go over to the book
of Romans chapter three for just a moment. The book of Romans
chapter three. As we think about, I told you to destroy all those
idols and you would not. Here's the problem. Here's the
problem. And only God can fix that problem.
Only God can lift us out of the horrible pit. In the book of
Romans chapter 3, verse 9. Romans chapter 3, verse 9. We read this. What then? Are we better than
they? No, in no wise, for we have proved both Jews and Chantiles
that they are all under sin, as it is written. There is none
righteous. Have you ever had anybody tell
you that I'm the exception? I thought I was. This is not
about me, but it is. As it is written, there is none
righteous, no not one. There is none that understandeth.
There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good,
no not one. Now I mentioned Sunday that I
was going to bring up a verse in Mark chapter one about you
are the holy one of God. And I asked a young man today,
who said that? David? No. Jeremiah? No. Solomon? No. Who said it? And he says, a demon said it. Thou art the holy one of God.
And I told him, I said, 99.9% of the churches in America would
have taken that as a confession of faith and baptized him. A demon said that. So if we just
say they aren't the Holy One of Israel, it doesn't mean a
thing. Demons believe. They have that concept. They
know more about God than anybody else without the revelation of
Jesus Christ. We don't even think he's a holy
one. They do. We don't think he'll punish.
They know. They have a lot of concept about what God is about. All right. So there, verse 13,
their throat is an open sepulcher. Their tongues, they have to use
deceit. The poison of Asp is under their
lips. What is he telling us here? We just use the term total depravity. That covers it quite well. I
know the word is not found in the Bible, but the precepts are
found in the Bible. The truth of it is found in the
Bible over and over and over again. Every part of our being
is in the fall, and there's nothing exempt from that. Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness, their feet are swift to shed
blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, the way of
peace have they not known, and there is no fear of God before
their eyes. That is so illustrated by Israel. I told you don't. Who are you? Do you remember what
What Pharaoh said to Moses, who is God to tell me what to do? Well, Pharaoh learned for this
very reason have I raised thee up that I might show my power
in you. Moses told him that because God told him to tell him that
and Paul brings that up in the New Testament. And that is the
reason God does his business. I'm going to show my power in
you. All right. The way of peace they
have not known, no fear of God before their eyes. All right?
And in the book of Galatians, let's look there for just a moment,
how often we find in the scriptures that the real problem is brought
out. Well, there are some ours and
one of them is ruined by the fall. Ruined by the fall. The book of Galatians chapter
three, Galatians chapter three, verse 22 and 23. For the scripture hath concluded,
I shared with a young man today, don't you ever lie about the
scriptures. You may not agree with them,
but don't you lie about them. To say that God doesn't do his
business or God is not sovereign is a lie about the scriptures.
The scripture hath concluded, all under sin, that the promise
by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
The promise by the faith of Jesus Christ. But before faith came,
we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should
afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ, but it is not our deliverer. Jesus Christ,
that we might have be justified by faith. As we look at this,
we find in the book of Isaiah, and I want to go over there right
now to chapter one, as he brings this out, and he's talking, writing
generally to Israel, and he's bringing up the same thing that
Stephen brought up about Israel. Here in the book of Isaiah chapter
one, Isaiah chapter one, we read these words that illustrate everything
that is being brought out in the book of Judges. I told you
not to, and you did it anyway. All right, Isaiah chapter one,
and let's begin with verse one. The vision of Isaiah, the son
of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days
of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Now he's writing
to the king, to the descendants of Judah. Those 10 tribes, already written
off. Why? Because the Messiah was
not coming through that line. The Messiah is coming through
Judah. So let's be concerned about Judah. Now it doesn't say,
doesn't go on to say, that everybody that was in the ten tribes, that
none of them were ever saved. Because we find out that there
was a young lady, a lady in the New Testament that saw the Lord
Jesus and knew who he was of the tribe of Asher. So there
was those that never heard the gospel and never were saved,
but their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, way down
the line, however far it was necessary, God preserved them
so that those lost, elect children of God could be brought into
the fold. All right. Hear, O heavens, and
give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have nourished
and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but
Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah, sinful
nation. Can you understand? Can you just
hear why people were pretty upset with Isaiah? Is that all you're going to talk
about? Is that all you're going to talk about? Our problems.
A sinful nation of people laid with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
children that are corruptors. They have forsaken the Lord.
They have provoked the Holy One of Israel and to anger they are
gone away backward. Why should you be stricken anymore? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick. The whole
heart faint. From the sole of the foot, even
unto the head, there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises
and putrefied sores that have not been closed, neither bound
up nor mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate. Your
cities are burned with fire. Your land, strangers devour it.
In your presence, it is desolate as overthrown by strangers. And
the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard. As
a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city, it's this
big. It fits in a little garden. It
is a remnant according to the election of grace. And in verse
nine, except the Lord, except Jehovah, except Jehovah of hosts
had left unto us a very small remnant. We should have been
as Sodom and we should have been like in the Gomorrah. And he
never says it was because you did a good job, that's why we
have you in. He said, except the Lord had
left a very small remnant. If it wasn't his doing, there
would have been nobody. We should have been as Sodom
and been like in the Gomorrah. And what happened to those cities? God destroyed them. and rightfully so according to
God. And then we find out that people
who hold the false gods are in the same category as those Sodomites,
the people of Sodom. Their sin was great, but the
sin of being without God and refusing God, he has a command. It's commanded. And yet we don't
heed the command until he is revealed to us. So except the
Lord of hosts had left a very small remnant. We find this throughout
the scriptures of remnant. Turn with me to Isaiah 17 and
verse six. Isaiah 17 and verse six, we have
this illustrated in just a little bit different way, in a poetic
way. Isaiah chapter 17 and verse six. Again, he's talking about the
remnant. He says, yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it as
the shaking of an olive tree. two or three berries in the top
of the uttermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful
branches thereof, saith the Lord of Hosts." Two or three and four or five
make about eight. What a small harvest he's mentioning
here. But if there is a harvest, it
is because of the Lord. We mentioned this, there's a
song Joseph Hart wrote. And in it, he said, a sinner
is a sacred thing. The Lord has made him thus. Now, we're all sinners. And most
of us, like we're gonna find out with regard to the people,
to Israel, they're in the land of Canaan. Most of them only
had a religious experience because they got caught in their sin. And it was brought up that maybe
if they changed their mind, I used to hear my mother say, if my
people, which are called by my name, shall turn themselves and
heal themselves, then God will be gracious. There's a verse
in the Deuteronomy, I think, to it. And even then I thought,
you know, unless the Lord does it, Lord moves in us, these people
are going to be chastened 12 times. Generations are going
to be chastened, 450 years are going to be chastened. And the
only time that we really see a revival is when they say, I'm sorry,
I got caught. A sinner is a sacred thing. To
be a real sinner is a sacred thing. In the book of Joshua,
would you turn there with me? In Joshua chapter 23 and verse
14. Joshua chapter 23 and verse 14. I've had people tell me, well,
Israel didn't get all the land. God gave it all to him. He didn't
hold back one stick of it. And it tells us right here, Joshua's
bringing this up in Joshua chapter 23, verse 14. The scriptures
share this. And behold, this day I'm going
the way of all the earth and ye know in all your hearts and
in your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things
which the Lord your God spake concerning you. God gave them
all the land. Why didn't they get it? Because
they fell in love with the idols, they fell in love with the girls,
and they fell in love with the boys of the Canaanites and married
them. Here it says, not one good thing
that God ever promised you He gave you the land. He said, I'll
take the hornets and drive out the people. He said, just do
what I say and you can have the land. And before you know it,
they're not doing it. And so he said, okay, there are
going to be thorns in your side and thorns in your eyeballs.
All right, let's go here. It goes on, God spake concerning
you, all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed
thereof. God could say, I kept my covenant. I kept my covenant. Now you didn't
keep your covenant. You know, there's only one covenant
that has ever been kept, and that's a covenant between the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Adam couldn't and didn't
keep his covenant. All the rest of the covenants
were not kept sufficiently. And here we have David saying,
God hath made with me an everlasting covenant. In the book of Joshua,
again, backing up to chapter 21, Joshua chapter 21, we have
these words brought to our attention in chapter 21, verse 43. As Joshua again brings this out,
he said, And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he
swore to give unto their fathers. There wasn't an inch that he
didn't give them. Why didn't they have it? By their
own foolishness, and by their own sinfulness, and by their
own natural tendencies, and by their own heart, they did not
have what God gave them. By their own heart that was deceitful
above all things. So God was clear. I've given
it all to you. I've given you. I have never
broke my covenant. I didn't withhold the land from
you. You did it. You did it. And what's our problem?
We're the problem. We are the problem. Why did they
not have possession of all? Because they loved the gods of
the Canaanites more than they loved God. And the gods of the
Canaanites are just rocks and fish and stones and pieces of
gold. And they were all visible. And the God of the church is
invisible. Nobody has seen God and lived.
We've seen his son, Christ Jesus, who is the representation of
the entire Godhead bodily. We've seen him. So it's not rocks
and fish and gold and silver and take a oak tree and cut part
of it up and bake your bread on it and cut part of it up and
put it in the stove and heat yourself and then turn a little
piece over to some sculpture and have them carve out a fish
god or a donkey god or a golden calf god and say, this is my
God. That's what we find throughout
the scriptures and then bless the Lord, intervene, that's where
we would be. They did not believe God. and
the heart cannot be talked into believing God. We must have a
new heart. Go back with me, if you would,
to the book of Judges. The book of Judges, chapter two,
and let's look here at verses three and four for just a moment.
Three and four. Judges chapter two, verse three,
it says, wherefore, I also said, I will not drive them out from
before you, but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and
their God shall be a snare unto you." When we don't have a new
heart, we'll fall for anything. People make fun of various religions. That's the dumbest thing I've
ever heard of. That is the dumbest thing I've
ever heard of. We look at certain, you know,
they've got some of the stupidest religious beliefs. You know what? There is one religion in this
world, the religion of works. And then there's the gospel.
I hear people say there's two religions. There's one religion. That's the gospel or the religion
of works. And then there's the gospel.
Jesus Christ and him crucified. Here it goes on to tell us in
verse four, and it came to pass when the angel of the Lord spake
these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted
up their voice and wept. And you know what we're gonna
find them saying? We'll never do that again. We'll never do
that again. We'll never do that again. Well,
they went on and did it again and again and again. And there's
gonna be 12, different judges that come up. To the most religious, this would
be a revival. They wept. To a lot of religious
people, that's all they're expecting out of you is weep a little bit
and come up front. There's a bulletin article this
time about don't come to the altar, come to Christ. Come to
Christ. Just a little weeping. Oh, that's
a good sign. They're feeling bad about themselves.
And tomorrow it's all over. Came to pass the angel of the
Lord. They lifted up their voice and wept. Those who are truly
converted do not go back. These guys go back and back and
back and back and back and they have to be reeled out of it again.
Those who are truly converted are able to say as the disciples
when Jesus had 5,000 people, men at one time leave him to
go off their way because they just could not stand his preaching.
And he turned to his disciples and said, will you also go away? And Peter said, how can we? You have the words of eternal
life. And another time Jesus asked,
who do you say that I am? And Peter answered, thou art
the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus responded by saying,
don't be too proud about that, Peter. Flesh and blood did not
reveal that unto you, but my father, which is in heaven. And
so as we follow this, we find most religious experiences are
the result of doing some big bad sin and getting caught. And so, I've told you about going
down to the lifers club at the Oregon State Penitentiary. Most
of them were born again believers. They were not guilty. They were
innocent. The judge had found fault with
them and shouldn't have. They were convicted with not
enough evidence. On and on it goes. Almost everybody
that gets caught becomes a Christian. Oh boy, I really feel bad about
this. The rest of the book is about
God's longsuffering. And turn with me to the book
of Romans chapter nine, if you would. Romans chapter nine. This is such a significant verse
of scripture that will help us as we go through the book of
Judges. It's helped us go through all
the rest of the books of the Bible. This is another verse. Chapter nine of the book of Romans
in verse 22. chapter 9 and verse 22. And here, what if God, willing
to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with
much longsuffering? Now, we think sometimes that
God's longsuffering is to the elect, but his longsuffering
is also to the non-elect, because it says here, much longsuffering
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. on and on and rebel
and worship these deities of all kinds, and finally we find,
I have determined today's the day. You will meet me. You will meet me. What's that?
Jesus said happy birthday? See you soon? All right. And verse 22, oh, excuse me,
verse 23, that he might make known the riches of his glory
on the vessels of mercy which he had aforeprepared unto glory. Why did he endure the much long
suffering on the vessels fitted to destruction? Because lo and
behold, most of my family had no knowledge whatsoever of the
gospel, but they were used to bring this one in. This one in. He was long-suffering to their
wicked worshiping, to their lying about God, to their every other
thing that one may be born that God had chosen. And so we're
going to be looking at the book of the judges that shall say,
they did evil in his sight, they did evil in his sight. The next passage we're going
to look at is the death of Joshua. It's already mentioned in the
book of Joshua, but we're going to look at that, and things just
seem to change again. They seemed to follow the Lord
all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders that followed
Joshua. But as soon as that generation
was gone, every man did what was right in his own eyes. I
am just so thankful at the wonders of grace that he would pull some
out of darkness. We're gonna stop there for the
night and we'll pick this up, Lord willing,