Judges 17

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“I know the Lord will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest” (Judges 17:13 NLT).

May 3, 2022

MANMADE RELIGION DOES NOT PLEASE GOD What a convoluted story this is! It begins with Micah’s confession that he had taken 1,100 shekels of silver from his mother, who had consequently put a curse on whomever had stolen it. When his mother heard his confession, she blessed him, and told him that she had dedicated

‘Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest!”’ (Judges 17:13 NKJV).

May 3, 2020

OUR MANMADE RELIGION DOES NOT PLEASE GOD What a convoluted story this is! It begins with Micah’s confession that he had taken 1,100 shekels of silver from his mother, who had consequently put a curse on whomever had stolen it. When his mother heard his confession, she blessed him, and told him that she had

“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6 NKJV).

May 3, 2017

This verse contains the theme of the book of Judges. In this book we see illustrated, in vivid and violent detail, the ugly chaos of a rudderless and relativistic culture. Western culture is already on its way to such an end, as it has increasingly embraced the same mantra. Without a mutually agreed upon and absolute moral standard of right and wrong, human society slides further and further down the slippery slope of sin.

The stories in the book of Judges, and the news reports in our world today, make us long for a true king. It makes us long for a king like Jesus.