11. God’s Warning (Pt. 2) – Paul M. Williams

Bethesda Shalom

Judges 8:29-35

If there’s one thing to take away from history, it’s that good things never last!! If this is true of history in general, it is certainly true of revival history. Where the blessing of God has been poured out upon a people in special seasons of refreshing, it seems only ever to be short-lived before alas the tide of evil comes back in and the people return to bathe again in the insidious waters of iniquity. While the man of God was alive, the people served the LORD, but when Gideon was taken out of the way, the “...children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god” (vs. 33). They went from revival to ruin in a single generation! They went back to the pool of vomit from which God delivered them. My dear people, I wish I could say that this was an isolated phenomenon never to be repeated, but even in my short life as a Christian, I have seen so many return again to feast upon the mess from which Christ delivered them only years prior! They forget what life was like in the prison of sin, they forget the chains that bound them and the cruelties that attended their path!

In this final sermon part, looking at the life of Gideon, a warning is sounded for God’s children to keep themselves from idols!