How does God make His plan happen?
God uses people in His plan.
The Israelites had God’s laws to help
them live their everyday lives, but without a leader they fell into a cycle of
sin. They turned away from God and worshiped idols, which led to bondage and
oppression by foreign kings. Then they remembered God and cried out to Him. God
raised up a judge to deliver them, and finally there was ease in the land.
“The First
Judges,” describes how God raised up Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar to deliver His
people when they cried out to Him. As long as the judge was alive, the
people followed God and experienced peace and prosperity. When the judge died,
however, they would fall back into the cycle of sin.
The Israelites needed someone better than
a judge; they needed a king who would save them not only from the consequences
of their sin, but from sin itself. That was all part of God’s plan. God did
send a true Deliverer: His Son, Jesus, who died for our sin and delivered us
forever from the oppression of sin and death.
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