March 28, 2020: SOAP #3768:  Judges 4-5; Psalm 39, 41; 1Corinthians 13

Scripture:  Judges (NIV) 4:1 … the Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the LORD. 2 So the LORD sold them into the hands of…, a king of Canaan… The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. 3 Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help.

14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?” … 15 At Barak’s advance, the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot. 16 …All the troops of Sisera fell by the sword; not a man was left.

Observation:  The situation was helpless.  How could they ever fight off 900 iron chariots?  It was like they were back in Egypt.  Everything was against them.  But they still had the same God they had in Egypt!  They had not been faithful to Him, but He was faithful to them!!!  And He was a forgiver!!!  The One who delivered them from Pharaoh could deliver them from Sisera!  Sisera’s charioteers did not get as wet as Pharoah’s, but they suffered the same end: they all died.  (Exodus 14:28)

Application:  The same God who delivered America from Britain in 1776 is still the same God who is worshipped across this nation every week in thousands of churches.  He is able to deliver us from COVID-19.

It is not my thinking that COVID-19 was sent by God as judgment, but it is my thinking that we need our loving God to intervene for us to hold it back and stop it.  But should God allow it to continue until we have one death for every child created in His image that was aborted just last year, He would still be the Holy God.  (–a thought from second inaugural address by President Abraham Lincoln regarding the Civil War.)

Prayer:  Gracious Heavenly Father, forgive us for forgetting that you are holy.  We have greatly sinned and need your loving forgiveness.  Thank you for your promise to forgive and restore those who repent. Amen

Pastor Leon
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