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Introduction
Sermon theme:
As people we compound our errors by making decisions off of previous bad decisions.
In chapters 17&18 we see the religious degradation of Israel...
17:1-6 corruption of an Israelite home
17:7-13 corruption of the Levitical Priesthood
18:1-31 corruption of Israelite Tribe (Dan)
17:1 reminds us that Israel had no King
No human Monarch
Nor God ruling the nation
everybody did what was right in their own eyes...
In those days doing what was right would have meant following...
Israel’s actions repudiate God is sovereign in their affairs...
We cannot point a blind eye at them without looking at ourselves.
Do we spiral out of control as they did today???
It would serve as well to understand that God will not abdicate His sovereignty just because men reject Him.
[So let us deal with the corruption of Men…]
I. Wickedness of Men Greatly Increase on the Earth
The result of man not following God and His commands...
The Psalmist laments the condition of God’s people and the world...
[Due to this corruption men make decisions on faulty premises…]
II.
Faulty Foundations
When we begin wrong it is difficult to end up right...
Wrong teaching does not lead to right living...
Faulty doctrine will not conclude with salvation,
that is the purpose of the term lost...
Faulty Foundation: The Levite in this passage knows where he can go because towns of refuge where given to Levites all throughout Israel...
Faulty Foundation: Micah in Ephraim is selfish wanting his own priest…this is not how the Priesthood works...
Faulty Foundation: The Levite is to serve at the greater Israel not this one man.
He falls prey to the offer of good living...
This is not the foundation to be making decisions from, particularly spiritual decisions where we seek the will of God...
III.
Making Decisions from Bad Premise
Just as God used Babylon; Medes & Persians; Greeks; and Romans to bring judgement on Israel
He uses the tribe of Dan to bring judgement on the house of Micah
Micah demonstrated his corruptness in idols and a personal priest thinking to curry the favor of God, a faulty premise
Dan demonstrates their corruptness in pursuing and setting up idols and images forbidden by God.
They choose to interpret God being with them by the word of a priest who was not serving Israel but serving Micah.
He told Dan in verse 6 that God’s eye was on them.
This was not about their journey to gain a homeland, this was about their use as judgement against Micah.
History and scripture teach us, that later Dan continued this idolatrous living
turning in the righteousness of God for pleasant living in the land..
Later in the days Israel did have a King and the Kingdom was split
King Jeroboam would establish Dan in place of Jerusalem as a capital for the Northern Kingdom of Israel
There he continued what they already had started an idolatrous religion like that of the people around them
It’s purpose was to keep men from returning to the true religion that was in Jerusalem of Judah the southern Kingdom
Jeroboam should have pursued restoration and returned back to God and His Way...
And the cycle that continues the corruption of men continues...
The Bible often uses the term from Dan to Beersheba
this speaks to the pilgrimage of Dan the most northern of the tribes of Israel, bordered by Dan to the North and Bethel to the south
A Golden Calf was setup in both areas and people were led to worship it...
The land of Dan changed hands several times invaded by Armenians until it’s ultimate conquest of Assyria
And the most northern of the Kingdom Dan would never exist again...
[Let us seek restoration and return to God and His way, not building any longer on a faulty foundation that only continues the corruption of man…]
God’s Plan of Salvation
Hear
Believe
Confess
Repent
Be Baptized
Remain Faithful
My Decision Today
I would like to be baptized today
I would like to renew my life to Christ
I would like to learn more about Jesus and the Bible
What are my next steps?
Come forward to be baptized
Request a Bible Study to learn more
Attend Bible Class to grow and mature
Find a place to serve others
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