Gideon's Memorial

Right in Whose Eyes? - Message 7 - Gideon's Memorial - Judges 8:1-35

Outline:

I. Disunity – vs. 1-3

A. Ephraim – self-centered, factious, easily offended, inflated ego
B. Appeasement through Humility

II. Despotism – vs. 4-21

A. Denied Supplies (vs. 4-6, 8)
B. Decree of Vengeance (vs. 7, 9)
C. Defeat of Midian (vs. 10-12)
D. Discipline (vs. 13-17)
E. Destruction (vs. 18-21)

III. Deception or Denial – vs. 22-31 – Deut. 17:14-20

A. Rule Over Us (vs. 22)
B. The Lord Rules (vs.23)
C. The Royal Treatment (vs. 24-31)

1. Royal Submission – earrings (43 pounds of gold)
2. Royal Symbols – crescents, pendants, robes, camel ornaments
3. Royal Spirituality – the ephod, divine guidance or idolatry
4. Royal Security – 40 years of rest (last rest in Judges)
5. Royal Sons and Spouses

a. Seventy sons from a harem of women
b. A Canaanite concubine
c. Abimelech – “The king is my father”

IV. Death – vs. 32-35

A. Burial
B. Baal-Berith (Baal, lord of the covenant)
C. Betrayal