Sermon
Boast in the Lord
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Brad Barrett, with Matt Heerema, with Toby Doffing
June 1, 2025 · 35 min
Summary
God reduced Gideon's army from 32,000 to 300 soldiers to prevent Israel from boasting in their own strength and to demonstrate His exclusive power over their enemies. The sermon teaches that God sometimes allows circumstances to worsen before delivering victory, compelling believers to trust Him rather than themselves.
Highlights
Rather than trusting in ourselves, limited, weak, frail, mortal creatures, isn't it better to trust in the one who has all compassion, all power, and all knowledge?
The Lord will be your strength. I hope the trials end, but if they don't, the Lord will still be our strength.
Sometimes things get worse before they get better, so that we will be compelled to look to Him more, to trust Him more, to draw near to Him, to know Him better.