Sermon
Judges 9:1-10:6: Finding Gospel Hope in God's Work with God's Family
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Brad Barrett, with John Shields
June 15, 2025 · 31 min
Summary
Judges 9 recounts Abimelech's tyrannical rise to power through fratricide and his ultimate destruction by God's justice. Despite the chapter's darkness, it reveals God as a righteous judge who ensures evil receives judgment, offering comfort to believers and a call to repentance for the unsaved.
Highlights
Any family, any church, any group, any society needs good people to step up into leadership, otherwise that vacuum will get filled by someone, probably someone with bad ambitions to seek after power for selfish gain.
God is a righteous judge and He will never be unfair or unjust. We're made in the image of God. We know justice is right and good and pure and we should rejoice when we see it.
Nothing will escape the notice of God, and so for us who believed in Christ and received His mercy, we rejoice.