So who was Jephthah....mentioned in that famous 'Hall of Heroes' eleventh chapter of Hebrews? I posted this same question back in March of 2019....when we still had a choice to seek God's advice. Suffice it to say here that Jephthah was their Rambo. Israel was under severe threat and they turned to him to lead them.. Jephthah was the anti-Trump....in that he attributed all of his victories to God. That's why he is mentioned in Hebrews chapter eleven.
Tomorrow is yet another Lord's Day. Will God awaken these shepherds in time for worship services tomorrow? I don't think so. For one thing there are two big NFL games tomorrow. We are showing absolutely no signs of repentance or mortification or humility....and we have decades of serious self-indulgence to repent of....only the latest being our following a godless man....even a false prophet....even an antichrist who has decimated the church....who lures us with promises of power and money.
These words were in that 2019 post...." We would depend on a prince....and not the Prince of Peace. We would depend on a king....and not the King of Kings. We would not humble ourselves...we would make others humble themselves. We would not repent....we would make others repent for what they tried to do to us."
We need tomorrow to hear these words from the book of Judges 10: 15,16....words that the Israelites prayed to God before they called Jephthah...."And the sons of Israel said to the LORD, 'We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to thee; only please deliver us this day.' So they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer." We....did the opposite....in calling yet another foreign god to deliver us.
No....I do not think that it will be tomorrow because not only do we not feel that we have hit rock bottom....we actually think that our greatest days are ahead....and that we are going to keep on winning.
Maybe it will be next Lord's Day that we throw away these baubles....these worthless trinkets that we adorn ourselves with....and run once again to receive an "imperishable" wreath
The above is a Martyn Lloyd-Jones Sermon titled....Woe Unto Thee....that you might desire to listen to today.
