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A Pope For EuropeJudges 21:25
Excerpted from: Submitting (Part 1)For the purposes of this sermon, the most important phrase is, "there was no king." This begs the question, "why?" Why was there no king? I want us to think about the Israelites and their history—that which is recorded beginning in the book of Exodus and carrying right on through Numbers and Deuteronomy and on into the book of Judges. I want us to think about their conduct. I want us to think about their relationship with Moses, their relationship with Joshua, their relationship to the judges that were given to them by God. I want us to remember about the awful time, if I can put it that way, which they gave to Moses while they were in the wilderness. They would not submit! They brought with them the culture of Egypt! And they were never converted—they never changed! They would not submit to the traditions of God given to Moses in the wilderness and taught to them. So they were in conflict with the leader the whole while. When they entered into the land under Joshua and the judges this conduct never stopped.
Why was there no king? In reality there was—God was King! There was no king because they would not submit to anybody. These people in the book of Judges, we could say, were the freest society that ever existed on earth! "Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes." Is this not the kind of freedom toward which we seem to be headed in the United States—the kind of freedom where everybody is doing what is right in his own eyes? Do we not have central law and central authority and standards that are absolute and rock solid—to which everyone should look for guidance—being pooh-poohed? "We don't need those kinds of things!" So we espouse situation ethics. There was no king, meaning there is no recognized central authority to which one cares to submit.
In ancient Israel there was nobody to set standards, nobody to set goals for the nation, nobody to provide direction, nobody to administer programs, nobody to harmonize their efforts, nobody to provide for the common defense. The result? Chaos! And chaos continued until the people finally got it through their head that they needed a central authority. So they asked Samuel for a king. They did not ask for the right thing and it greatly upset Samuel.
Judges 21:25
Excerpted from: Government (Part Three)We will stop right there, understanding that there is an absolute necessity for order. We might call it government. That order must be spelled out by rules—we might say laws—because order cannot be left to chance, or the whims of individuals. I think that both history and our own personal experience show that, when each person does his own thing, life flies to pieces.
Judges 21:25 confirms that. "Every man did that which was right in his own eyes" and life was chaotic. So there must be consent by each individual within a group to the principles (or the rules, or the laws) in order for there to be order. There must be conformity to rules the group consents to, or there will be pain.
Judges 21:25
Excerpted from: Passover (Part Seven)Simply put, they broke God's commands and served other gods. This continued right on through Samuel's period of judging. During Samuel's period of judging, God permitted them to have a king (Saul), who also proved to be unfaithful. Saul was what we would call today in the political realm a pragmatist. He simply did what seemed right. That is, he did what seemed to work at the time. But there was no real character there. There was no hewing to the straight and narrow of God.
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