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Faithbook Profiles: Gideon (Judges 6:11-16)
Mark Neumann, July 4, 2010Part of the Faithbook Profiles series, preached at a Sunday Morning Family Center service
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Gideon’s story has a great message for believers. He was an unlikely hero at an unlikely time. Yet, God chose Gideon to rescue His people – God identified who Gideon really was at heart. At first, Gideon was reluctant, but he followed God’s instructions and led the amazing defeat of the Midianites. God has a tendency of choosing things that don’t seem special or strong. He chooses the weak things, the foolish things – the things that are not – to show how great He is. And God is faithful even when we are faithless. The Bible tells us that we are chosen and precious. We may not seem impressive to the world, but the world is not telling us who we are – God is. And His word says amazing things about who we are.
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Judges 6:11-16
11 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.” 13 And Gideon said to him, “Please, sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.” 14 And the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?” 15 And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.” 16 And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.” (ESV)
