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Text: ,
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Text: ,
Theme: What goes around comes around.
Theme: What goes around comes around.
Date: 06/18/2017 File Name: Judges_03wpd ID Number:
Date: 06/18/2017 File Name: Judges_03wpd ID Number:
In these verses we have a little-known story of the Bible.
It is one that you will not find in a children’s Bible story book.
It’s about a man named Adoni-Bezek.
We know one essential thing about this man — he was a cruel sadist.
He was the king of the town of Bezek.
His name means “Lord of Bezek,” Bezek itself being a large town north of Jerusalem.
To call Adoni-Bezek a “king” is something of a misnomer.
He was not a king in the sense of ruling a country — like a modern-day monarch — or even of the stature of Israel’s kings.
The word translated “king” in vs. 7 is normally translated that way, but it simply means “a ruler.”
Adoni-Bezek was a ruler of what historians call a city-state.
A large urban area and the surrounding countryside.
That the city and its ruler are mentioned indicate something of its importance.
In these verses we have a little-known story of the Bible.
It is one that you will not find in a children’s Bible story book.
It’s about a man named Adoni-Bezek.
We know one essential thing about this man — he was a cruel sadist.
He was the king of the town of Bezek.
His name means “Lord of Bezek,” Bezek itself being a large town north of Jerusalem.
To call Adoni-Bezek a “king” is something of a misnomer.
He was not a king in the sense of ruling a country — like a modern-day monarch — or even of the stature of Israel’s kings.
The word translated “king” in vs. 7 is normally translated that way, but it simply means “a ruler.”
Adoni-Bezek was a ruler of what historians call a city-state.
A large urban area and the surrounding countryside.
That the city and its ruler are mentioned indicate something of its importance.
The text reveals that he was a successful ruler in that he was able to muster a force of 10,000 soldiers against the attacking Israelites.
It is at Bezek that Judah defeats the combined forces of the Canaanites and Perizzites and 10,000 of the enemy’s soldiers fall.
In a day when all battles were hand-to-hand fighting, to kill 10,000 soldiers of an opposing force is a route in every meaning of the word.
As we saw last week, the time of the judges was a troubled time in Israel’s history.
Small rulers, and petty tyrants continually fought each other over the length and breath of Palestine.
Adoni-Bezek had been one of the more successful of these petty rulers, for he had conquered 70 other kings.
His treatment of them was the same for all — he cut off their thumbs, and big toes.
The reason for the mutilation of his opponents is simple — he is rendering his opponent useless as instruments of war.
Without a thumb these men would never be able to grasp a sword.
And without their big toes, they would never be able to keep their balance in a fight.
But what goes around, comes around.
When Judah defeated this evil Canaanite ruler, they discovered that Adoni-Beze kept the 70 kings he had defeated as slaves.
They had become his “entertainment.”
When it was mealtime he would usher them into his dining hall and throw them scraps of food to watch them fight, and grovel, and fall over each other as they clawed at the food with their thumb was hands.
It was sickening sport.
But an amazing turn of events happened to Adoni-Bezek.
When the tribes of Judah and Simeon defeat his army and capture him, they did exactly to him what he had done to the others.
The consequences of his sin led him recognize the sovereignty of God over the affairs of men.
“Then Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table.
Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.”
They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.”
(, NIV84)
This is an Old Testament illustration of , “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked.
A man reaps what he sows.”
(, NIV84).
It’s a simple statement, with deep meaning.
I. THE SIX LAWS OF REAPING AND SOWING
A. LAW #1: We Reap Much We Did Not Sow
A. LAW #1: We Reap Much We Did Not Sow
1. stop and think – much that we reap, we never planted
a. somebody else did and we reap the consequences
2. let's look at the positive side first
a.
we receive many blessings given to us by God for which we have performed no labor whatever
labor whatever
1) in fact, the Lord wants us to trust Him that he will provide all of our needs even as He provides for the birds of the air
as He provides for the birds of the air
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not of more value than they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
28 And why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
(, ESV)
you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not of more value than they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
28 And why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
(, ESV)
2) the Lord extends His common grace to all men
" ... For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."
(, ESV)
3) think about it – God's indictment against mankind is that " ... when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful" ()
God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful" ()
4) yet God is abundant in blessing to both the lost and the saved
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