FBC Daily Devotional – August 26, 2021

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Well, good morning. I hope you got a good night of rest and are ready to take on the day and Got some direction for how the

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Lord would have you to pursue the day but today we're in our reading in the book of Judges again, and It's kind of like the end of the story with Gideon son of Bimelech this this

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Guy who took on the role of a king, you know, like I I deserve to be the king

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I'm son of Gideon and he had his brothers executed and so forth and the masses followed him and particularly the people of one one city they

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Followed after a Bimelech and it was kind of like his place. Well, you know that kind of dynamic

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Can only survive for so long When you have a guy with the attitude of a

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Bimelech He may get a following initially and may get a lot of people to fear him and follow him out of fear and as long as he has power they'll

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They'll go along with it with the power and Some will take advantage of it for their own benefit, you know riding on his coattails if you will but that kind of Spirit the spirit of a

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Bimelech is not gonna last and you can see that over and over again in world history in Nations that have where leaders have oppressed their people they succeed for quite a while and some some don't succeed for very long

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But they said they can succeed as long as they can hold on to their power but there's there's always going to be in those kind of regimes and Undercurrent there's going to be an underground resistance that will eventually

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Eventually fan into flame and cause great deal of problems for this

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Arrogant dictator if you will and that's a Bimelech problem that comes out here in in our reading he there's people who rise up against him and they

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Intend to overthrow him but a Bimelech defeats them and so forth. Well, then what's interesting to me in this, you know

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There was one of Gideon's sons that a Bimelech tried to kill Escaped from that slaughter and he warned that the people who followed a

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Bimelech They were gonna end up going against each other there was gonna end up being a split over over things and they were gonna fight each other and That's exactly what happened and here is a

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Bimelech now He's he's about he's about to face his demise though. He doesn't know it. He thinks he's gonna capture this city

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But so what's interesting to me is this is going to be the second time in the book of Judges Where a woman and think back of yesterday's devotional if you heard it where the

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Bible Christianity Uniquely in many world religions values the role of women

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This is the second occasion in the book of Judges where the

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Lord uses a woman to destroy an evil man earlier you had the case of Deborah and Barak when they were fighting against the the people that came in Against Israel It was a woman jail who took a tent peg and drove it through the skull of Sisera.

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I mean grotesque horrible thing but she was used to Destroy this enemy of Israel a woman and Notice a tent peg to his skull well now here's a

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Bimelech going against this city and It's a woman who takes a piece of a millstone and drops it off the parapet drops it and smashes a

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Bimelech skull so both of these cases a woman is used to help deliver people from an evil man and in both cases

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They're used to crush the skull of the evil man again a very grotesque thing to think about But nevertheless,

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I I find it I find it an interesting detail the Lord uses women as well as men to accomplish his purposes and What a unique role that this woman played in fulfilling the prophecy against this evil man of Bimelech as God's people if we have our thinking right

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We will appreciate men and women as Instruments in God's hands father, thank you.

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Thank you for Using men and women for your glory to accomplish your purposes

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Bless us. We pray in Jesus name. Amen All right. Have a good rest of your day.