Who Do You Belong To?

Joshua Judges (Ruth) Saul 1480BC 330 yrs 1050BC

Levite/Ephraim Concubine/Bethlehem Judges 19-21 Levite/Ephraim Concubine/Bethlehem

Judges 19:22 “As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.” 

Judges 19:24b “Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.” 

Judges 21:24-25 “And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance. 25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”

Judges 2:1 & 10 “And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel… “And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.”

1 Samuel 8:6-7 “…And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.”

Abba’s Love… Is Intimate - 1 John 3:1 Is Sacrificial - Romans 5:8 Is Always - Jeremiah 31:3; Romans 8:35-39 Will change you – 1 Cor 3:17-18