Right in Whose Eyes? - Message 13 - Mysterious Providence - Judges 12:1-15
Outline:
I. Contentious Men – vs. 1-7
A. Looking for a Fight (vs. 1) – Judges 8:1; Prov. 20:3; 2 Tim. 2:24
B. He Said, They Said (vs. 2-3) – Prov. 26:21
C. Insults and Injury (vs. 4-6)
D. Jephthah Judged Six Years, Died, and was Buried
II. Father of the Brides (or Thirty Brides for Thirty Brothers) – vs. 8-10
A. Sons and Daughters, Inside and Out – political alliances and influence
B. Ibzan Judged Seven Years, Died, and was Buried
III. Elon Alone – vs. 11-12
A. Judged Ten Years
B. Died and was Buried
IV. Abdon the Abundant – vs. 13-15
A. Forty Sons, Thirty Grandsons, Seventy Donkeys
B. Judged Eight Years, Died, and was Buried
V. Marvelous, Mysterious Providence – Isa. 40:28; Romans 11:33
A. “Some increase, some diminish. Both are the Lord’s Doing.” – Matthew Henry
B. Little is Much – 2 Cor. 8:15
C. A Leader in Israel who Continues Forever – Hebrews 7:23-25
D. “Our faith must be willing to be baffled, to bow down and worship in the dark.” – Isa. 40:25