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- The first lost tribe ironically gets saved and doesn’t become one of what’s known now as the ten lost tribes of Israel.
- Judges 21 is the last chapter of this book and nearly closes out this era. We have the book of Ruth which sets us up to where Israel will have a king.
- The people still doing what is right in their own eyes. They still don’t have a king, even though they could be ruled with God as their king.
- They are lamenting the loss of Benjamin and decide to set it right so that one of the tribes won’t be cut off.
- They seemingly have killed too many women and the tribe of Benjamin need wives to keep going.
- They come up with two schemes to get them wives, and they do.
- They are taking more seriously their own words and oaths than God’s laws.
- They turned to God in what they viewed as a crisis moment, but they seem to have fallen right back into acting in their own wisdom instead of seeking the Lord.
- We need to walk with the Lord everyday and have a relationship with Him based on love, not need.
- We’ve confused those words up. If we truly loved each other when we married, there would be no divorce.
- Love NEVER fails.
- People say, “I love you” to each other, but they are really meaning, “I need you.”
- That person is meeting a need in their life at that time. When they stop meeting the need, they get that need met elsewhere, and it spells disaster for the marriage without repentance and a choice to love, to truly love each other.
- True love doesn’t seek its own. It’s selfless. It’s other focused. It can’t be lost or broken or fade. It’s perfect, pure, eternal. Because God is love.