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Topic: -- Sunday, 8/1/10 -- SO NO ONE CAN BOAST -- Judges 7:2
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From: "J.R. & Bonnie Ricks" <j-r-and-bonnie@dogwoodministries.org>
Date: Jul 31 06:27PM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/takeaminute/msg/425d74ce277371f
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SO NO ONE CAN BOAST -- Judges 7:2 NIV
The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many men for me to deliver Midian
into their hands. In order that Israel may not boast against me that her own
strength has saved her, ."
Gideon had finally agreed to do what God wanted him to do, so in normal
human fashion, he ran around gathering up every man he could to put together
an army. After all, that would be the logical thing to do, right? Midian
had kept the Israelites quaking in their boots for seven years, so logic
would say it was going to take every fighting man Israel could muster to win
the war. So Gideon gathered up 32,000 guys to fight the battle.
But God had another opinion. He told Gideon there were too many men. God
didn't want the men of Israel to think it was they who had won the war, so
first he told all the ones who were too scared to fight to go home. That
knocked out two thirds of them in one bunch! Brave sort, weren't they? But
the ten thousand who were left were still too many to suit God, so he had
Gideon take them down to the river to see what method they used to drink.
The ones who drank from their hands were the only ones who would go. In the
end, Gideon ended up with only 300 men to beat the Midianites... a totally -
humanly - impossible thing to do. But because it was God, not man, who
would save Israel - no one would be able to boast.
Just because several thousand years have passed, God hasn't changed His
approach at all. He wants - and deserves - all the glory for everything in
this earth and above it. None of us deserves credit for anything God
accomplishes, which means everything we do. No matter how great we think we
are, our very best is nothing but filthy rags without Jesus. (Isaiah
<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064:6;&version=31;>
64:6 NIV) God's grace through His Son has saved you and me. We cannot save
ourselves. There is no possible way that any of us could achieve the
perfection that God demands. No matter who you are. no matter what you do.
no matter how great or how small. no matter how bad or how good. no matter
how many things you do trying to please God. none of them has any effect on
whether you will receive salvation or not. And that one piece of truth is
the glorious thing that sets you and me free... giving us not a license to
sin, but the freedom to obey.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast."
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
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