Sermon Notes June 21, 2015 “Gideon: Doing Things God’s Way” (Judges 6-8) “‘For my _______________ are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.” (Isaiah 55:8-9) I. God’s ways and _______________ ways are not always the same. (Judges 6:1) A. God said to Gideon, “You have too ____________ men for me to deliver Midian into their hands.” (Judges 7:2) B. “That Israel may not ____________ against me that her own strength saved her.” (Judges 7:2) II. God responds to _______________ people. A. “Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they ____________ out to the Lord for help.” (Judges 6:6-8 … see also Exodus 2:23-24; 2 Chronicles 7:14) B. There are things in our culture that should make us desperate. 1. The state of the ____________ should make us desperate. 2. The state of the ____________ should make us desperate. 3. The state of our ____________ should make us desperate. III.The battle against oppression must begin among _______________ people. A. The first assignment that God gave to Gideon was to remove the idols from his ____________ house. (Judges 6:25-26) IV. It is God’s _______________ that matters, not human strength. A. God said to Gideon, “Am ____________ not sending you?” (Judges 6:14) B. It is God’s ____________ and God’s power that will make the difference.
