The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel's judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him. Sermons
It was as a judge of Israel that Othniel first attained influence. This necessitated a righteous life and a consistent character. In this way he obtained command over his people, and was able to transfer their attachment and respect to the battle-field. So it was, as Israel learned to obey the servant of Jehovah in civil affairs, and learned to respect the law of righteousness, that it was able to face its enemies with an irresistible front. It is righteousness that exalteth a nation and a man. I. TO MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE A RIGHTEOUS CAUSE WE MUST BEGIN AT HOME. II. THE VICTORY OVER OUR ENEMIES CONSISTS MORE THAN HALF IN THE VICTORY OVER OURSELVES. III. HABITUAL RECTITUDE AND A GOOD CONSCIENCE PREPARE FOR SUDDEN AND ABIDING SUCCESS. - M. The nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them. I. IT WAS GOD'S OWN THOUGHT TO PUT THEM TO THE PROOF. 1. Far otherwise were the thoughts of the nations. (1)When Israel was strong their thoughts were of alliances.(2)When Israel became weak their thoughts were of conquest and revenge.2. The nations could do nothing without God's permission. 3. This proving of character was done out of respect to His covenant. (1)God acted by principle and not by temporary impulse.(2)He acted according to His established manner of dealing with His people's sins.(3)Provision made for this through the intervention of the coming Messiah, the real Mediator of the covenant.4. God puts His people under discipline to serve wise and holy ends. (1)Nor real injury is ever intended.(2)Never is the rod without some gracious instruction: "Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointeth it."5. God Himself determines the time, manner, and severity of the trial. II. IT WAS NECESSARY TO PUT ISRAEL TO THE PROOF. 1. Their allegiance to their God must be ascertained. (1)God's jealousy required it.(2)Without allegiance the people were not in a fit state to receive Divine blessings.(3)Ways and means were easy where there was allegiance.2. Human protestations of obedience are little to be trusted. III. THIS TESTING OF CHARACTER WAS MADE IN LOVE, NOT IN ANGER. 1. All God's dealings with His covenant people are necessarily in love. This is the very spirit of His covenant: "Your God" — "God is for you" — always on your side. 2. It was love to prevent a breach of the covenant. 3. It was love to teach the heart the bitterness of sin. 4. It is love to teach self-knowledge and humility. 5. It is love where a false character exists to have the discovery of it made known in good time. IV. OBEDIENCE IS WITH GOD THE ALL-IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT. 1. Obedience is the index which shows that the heart is right with God. 2. Obedience springs naturally from the fear and the love of God. 3. In the gospel obedience must spring from love. 4. Obedience in the gospel is the obedience of children. 5. Obedience must be shown in the face of opposition. () I. THE WORK TO BE DONE. 1. Chastisement as well as trial. 2. A special mark is put on the reason for this course of dealing (chap. Judges 2:20-23). II. GOD'S CHOICE OF INSTRUMENTS. 1. God designates His own agency to do His work. 2. God selects His instruments from the camp of His enemies equally with His friends. 3. A sinning people often supply the means of their own correction. 4. God can turn the most unlikely persons into fit instruments for doing His work. III. THE TENDENCY OF THE COVENANT PEOPLE TO APOSTATISE FROM THEIR GOD. 1. It is what might have been least expected. 2. The root-cause lies in the depravity of the human heart. 3. Remissness of parental training one of the immediate causes. IV. EACH NEW GENERATION REQUIRES IN SOME DEGREE TO BE TAUGHT BY AN EXPERIENCE OF ITS OWN. 1. The strange incapacity of the human heart for receiving Divine lessons. 2. Personal experience is the most effective method of teaching. (1)A more vivid impression is made.(2)Personal interests are more deeply touched.3. Each generation must have a character of its own, and answer for itself. () To teach them war it was a necessity for the Israelites that they should "learn war." In their case "learning war" meant learning that God alone could fight for them. Do not the Canaanites of unbelief, heresy, and worldliness still remain? And is not the evil of their remaining presence overruled for a twofold good — that of teaching His Church how to make war, and of proving their faithfulness toward Himself?()
People Amalek, Amalekites, Ammonites, Amorites, Anath, Aram, Canaanites, Chushanrishathaim, Chushan-rishathaim, Eglon, Ehud, Gera, Hittites, Hivite, Hivites, Israelites, Jebusites, Kenaz, Moabites, Othniel, Perizzites, Shamgar, Sidonians, ZidoniansPlaces Canaan, Gilgal, Jordan River, Lebanon, Lebo-hamath, Mesopotamia, Moab, Mount Baal-hermon, SeirahTopics Aram, Battle, Chushanrishathaim, Chushan-rishathaim, Cushan, Cushan-rishathaim, Cu'shan-rishatha'im, Delivered, Giveth, Hands, Israel's, Judge, Judged, Judgeth, Mesopotamia, Mesopota'mia, Othniel, Overcame, Overpowered, Prevailed, Rishathaim, Spirit, Strong, WarOutline 1. The nations which were left to prove Israel
5. By communion with them they commit idolatry
8. Othniel delivered them from Chushan-Rishathaim
12. Ehud from Eglon
31. and Shamgar from the Philistines
Dictionary of Bible Themes Judges 3:10 2230 Messiah, coming of
3015 Holy Spirit, divinity
3030 Holy Spirit, power
3045 Holy Spirit, sovereignty
3110 Holy Spirit, titles of
3272 Holy Spirit, in OT
5457 power, human
7967 spiritual gifts, responsibility
8422 equipping, spiritual Judges 3:9-11 5358 judges Library Use what You Have
Few people really are and do their best. Nature has blessed a few with great talents and abilities. These persons often become proud, self-centered, and feel themselves to be superior, and for that reason many times they fail to make the proper use of their abilities. How often are they used in a bad or foolish way, so that what might be a blessing to the world fails to be such! There are many others who realize they do not possess these natural gifts. They look upon those who have them, and envy …
Charles Wesley Naylor—Heart TalksGifts and Talents.
"And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him."--Judges iii. 10. We now consider the Holy Spirit's work in bestowing gifts, talents, and abilities upon artisans and professional men. Scripture declares that the special animation and qualification of persons for work assigned to them by God proceed from the Holy Spirit. The construction of the tabernacle required capable workmen, skilful carpenters, goldsmiths, and silversmiths, and masters in the arts of weaving and embroidering. Who will furnish Moses …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit Whether Baptism Should Take Away the Penalties of Sin that Belong to this Life?
Objection 1: It seems that Baptism should take away the penalties of sin that belong to this life. For as the Apostle says (Rom. 5:15), the gift of Christ is farther-reaching than the sin of Adam. But through Adam's sin, as the Apostle says (Rom. 5:12), "death entered into this world," and, consequently, all the other penalties of the present life. Much more, therefore, should man be freed from the penalties of the present life, by the gift of Christ which is received in Baptism. Objection 2: Further, …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica "This Then is the Message which we have Heard of Him, and Declare unto You, that God is Light,"
1 John i. 5.--"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light," &c. The great design of the gospel is to make up the breach of man's joy, and open up the way to the fulness of it, and therefore it is the good news and glad tidings of great joy, the only best message that ever came to the world. Now it shows unto us the channel that this river of gladness and joy runs into, it discovers what is the way of the conveyance of it to the soul, and what are …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Whether the Old Law Enjoined Fitting Precepts Concerning Rulers?
Objection 1: It would seem that the Old Law made unfitting precepts concerning rulers. Because, as the Philosopher says (Polit. iii, 4), "the ordering of the people depends mostly on the chief ruler." But the Law contains no precept relating to the institution of the chief ruler; and yet we find therein prescriptions concerning the inferior rulers: firstly (Ex. 18:21): "Provide out of all the people wise [Vulg.: 'able'] men," etc.; again (Num. 11:16): "Gather unto Me seventy men of the ancients of …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica The Country of Jericho, and the Situation of the City.
Here we will borrow Josephus' pencil, "Jericho is seated in a plain, yet a certain barren mountain hangs over it, narrow, indeed, but long; for it runs out northward to the country of Scythopolis,--and southward, to the country of Sodom, and the utmost coast of the Asphaltites." Of this mountain mention is made, Joshua 2:22, where the two spies, sent by Joshua, and received by Rahab, are said to "conceal themselves." "Opposite against this, lies a mountain on the other side Jordan, beginning from …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica The Prophecy of Obadiah.
We need not enter into details regarding the question as to the time when the prophet wrote. By a thorough argumentation, Caspari has proved, that he occupies his right position in the Canon, and hence belongs to the earliest age of written prophecy, i.e., to the time of Jeroboam II. and Uzziah. As bearing conclusively against those who would assign to him a far later date, viz., the time of the exile, there is not only the indirect testimony borne by the place which this prophecy occupies in …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament The Doctrine of Angels.
I. THEIR EXISTENCE. 1. THE TEACHING OF JESUS. 2. THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTLES. II. THEIR NATURE. 1. CREATED BEINGS. 2. SPIRITUAL BEINGS. 3. GREAT POWER AND MIGHT. 4. VARIOUS GRADES. 5. THE NUMBER OF ANGELS. III. THE FALL OF ANGELS. 1. TIME AND CAUSE. 2. THE WORK OF FALLEN ANGELS. 3. THE JUDGMENT OF FALLEN ANGELS. IV. THE WORK OF ANGELS. 1. THEIR HEAVENLY MINISTRY. 2. THEIR EARTHLY MINISTRY. a) In Relation to the Believer. b) In Relation to Christ's Second Coming. THE DOCTRINE OF ANGELS. We are not …
Rev. William Evans—The Great Doctrines of the Bible Judges
For the understanding of the early history and religion of Israel, the book of Judges, which covers the period from the death of Joshua to the beginning of the struggle with the Philistines, is of inestimable importance; and it is very fortunate that the elements contributed by the later editors are so easily separated from the ancient stories whose moral they seek to point. That moral is most elaborately stated in ii. 6-iii. 6, which is a sort of programme or preface to iii. 7-xvi. 31, which constitutes …
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