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Walk Thru The Bible

Lesson 8

Judges and Ruth

Leadership

Habakuk 2:2 Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation

and make it plain on tablets so that a herald[a] may run with it.

Proverbs 29:18 NIV 18 Where there is no revelation, people cast

off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s

instruction.

Proverbs 29:18 NLT 18 When people do not accept divine

guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful.

This is the basis for Judges. Judges 17:6 6 In those days Israel

had no king [leadership]; all the people did whatever seemed right

in their own eyes.

The additional basis is 2 Corinthians 6: 17, 18 17 Therefore, come

out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them,

says the LORD. Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome

you. 18 And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and

daughters, says the LORD Almighty.”

Leadership Episode One

A. LEADERSHIP PROBLEM

Judges 3:5-8 5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites,

Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 6 They

took their daughters in marriage and gave their own

daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 7 The

Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot

the LORD their God and served the Baals and the

Asherahs. 8 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so

that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king

of Aram Naharaim, [a] to whom the Israelites were subject for

eight years.

B. LEADERSHIP PERSON

Judges 3:9-11 9 But when they cried out to the LORD, he

raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s

younger brother, who saved them. 10 The Spirit of

the LORD came on him, so that he became Israel’s

judge [a] and went to war. The LORD gave Cushan-

Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who

overpowered him. 11 So the land had peace for forty

years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

C. LEADERSHIP PLAN

Leadership Episode Two

A. LEADERSHIP PROBLEM

Judges 3:12 12 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of

the Lord, and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon

king of Moab power over Israel.

B. LEADERSHIP PERSON

Judges 3:15 15 Again the Israelites cried out to the Lord,

and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the

son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with

tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

C. LEADERSHIP PLAN

Judges 3:29 29 At that time they struck down about ten

thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one

escaped.

Judges 3:31 31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who

struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too

saved Israel.

Leadership Episode Three

A. LEADERSHIP PROBLEM

Judges 4:1-3 4 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of

the LORD, now that Ehud was dead. 2 So the LORD sold

them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in

Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in

Harosheth Haggoyim. 3 Because he had nine hundred

chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the

Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help.

B. LEADERSHIP PERSON

Judges 4:4-6 4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of

Lappidoth, was leading [a] Israel at that time. 5 She held

court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and

Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went

up to her to have their disputes decided. 6 She sent for Barak

son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him,

“The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with

you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead

them up to Mount Tabor.

C. LEADERSHIP PLAN

Judges 4:21 21 But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg

and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast

asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple

into the ground, and he died.

Leadership Episode Four

A. LEADERSHIP PROBLEM

B. LEADERSHIP PERSON – Gideon

C. LEADERSHIP PLAN

Plan 1: Obedience- The Power of Obedience

Plan 2: Faith- Face down fear with faith.

Plan 3: Unity- Unity in diversity

Plan 4: Timing- Trusting God’s timing

Plan 5: Faithfulness- God’s faithfulness

Leadership Episode Five

A. LEADERSHIP PROBLEM-

Judges 10: 6,7 - 6 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes

of the Lord. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths,

and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of

Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the

Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the Lord

and no longer served him, 7 he became angry with them.

He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the

Ammonites,

B. LEADERSHIP PERSON –

Judges 10:10, 15 - 10 Then the Israelites cried out to the

Lord, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God

and serving the Baals.” 15 But the Israelites said to the

Lord, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think

best, but please rescue us now.

Judges 11:29, 33 29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came on

Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed

through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced

against the Ammonites.

C. LEADERSHIP PLAN

Judges 11:29, 33 29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came on

Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed

through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced

against the Ammonites.

Leadership Episode Six

A. LEADERSHIP PROBLEM-

Judges 13:1 13 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of

the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the

Philistines for forty years.

B. LEADERSHIP PERSON – Samson

Judges 13:3, 5 3 The angel of the LORD appeared to

Manoah’s wife and said, “Even though you have been

unable to have children, you will soon become pregnant

and give birth to a son.

Judges 13:3, 5 5 You will become pregnant and give birth

to a son, and his hair must never be cut. For he will be

dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. He will begin to

rescue Israel from the Philistines.”

Judges 15:20 20 Samson judged Israel for twenty years

during the period when the Philistines dominated the land.

C. LEADERSHIP PLAN

Judges 11:29, 33 29 At that time the Spirit of the Lord

came upon Jephthah, and he went throughout the land of

Gilead and Manasseh, including Mizpah in Gilead, and

from there he led an army against the Ammonites.

Conclude Judges

Ruth- 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 26 Brothers and sisters,

think of what you were when you were called. Not many

of you were wise by human standards; not many were

influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God

chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;

God chose the weak things of the world to shame the

strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and

the despised things—and the things that are not—to

nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast

before him.

Leading with Love: The Book of Ruth

Point 1: She chose to love

Ruth 1: 16, 17 16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to

leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will

go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be

my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will

die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with

me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you

and me.”

She served with love:

Ruth 2: 2, 3 2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let

me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind

anyone in whose eyes I find favor.”

Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” 3 So she

went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the

harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field

belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

She rested in love

Ruth 3: 9, 10 9 “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your

servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your

garment over me, since you are a guardian-

redeemer [a] of our family.” 10 “The Lord bless you, my

daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than

that which you showed earlier: You have not run after

the younger men, whether rich or poor.

Part 4 – Her love was rewarded

Ruth 4:13 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his

wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her

to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

--Boaz leadership was met by Ruth leadership

Leadership lead to Type and Shadow:

Point 1: Willing

Leviticus 25: 25 25 “‘If one of your fellow Israelites

becomes poor and sells some of their property, their

nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have

sold.

Galatians 4: 4-5 4 But when the set time had fully

come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under

the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might

receive adoption to sonship. [a]

Point 2: Right

Leviticus 25: 48-49 48 they retain the right of

redemption after they have sold themselves. One of

their relatives may redeem them: 49 An uncle or a cousin

or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or

if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.

Ruth 3:12-13 12 Although it is true that I am a guardian-

redeemer of our family, there is another who is more

closely related than I. 13 Stay here for the night, and in

the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-

redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not

willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here

until morning.”

Hebrews 2:11 11 Both the one who makes people

holy and those who are made holy are of the same

family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers

and sisters.

--the connection to us being redeemed

Point 3: Power

Ruth 4:4-6 4 I thought I should bring the matter to your

attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of

these seated here and in the presence of the elders of

my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you [a] will

not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to

do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,”

he said. 5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land

from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the

Moabite, the [b] dead man’s widow, in order to maintain

the name of the dead with his property.” 6 At this, the

guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it

because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem

it yourself. I cannot do it.”