{"id":423,"date":"2018-12-02T19:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2019-08-18T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T00:07:01","slug":"lesson-30-judges-13-21-the-tragedy-of-no-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/02\/lesson-30-judges-13-21-the-tragedy-of-no-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 4 (Lesson 30): Judges 13-21: The Tragedy of No King"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYe adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.\u201d\u00a0 James 4:4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read the Key Verse with your class.\u00a0 Help your students understand the verse.\u00a0 Use the following meanings of the words from the memory verse to help you explain the gravity of this verse.<\/p>\n

adulterers and adulteresses:<\/strong>\u00a0 one who is faithless toward God<\/em><\/p>\n

friendship:\u00a0 <\/strong>causing the interests of the world to become your interests<\/em><\/p>\n

enmity:<\/strong>\u00a0 enemy<\/em><\/p>\n

friend:<\/strong>\u00a0 loved, befriended, kind<\/em><\/p>\n

world:<\/strong> specifically the wealth and enjoyments of this world, this life\u2019s goods<\/em><\/p>\n

Keep this verse and the meaning of it in mind as we look at the last part of the book of Judges.\u00a0 This was the root of the problem \u2013 they chose friendship with the world (and the things of the world) over a relationship with God, thereby becoming God\u2019s enemy.<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0 Remember that the time of the Judges was a sad time in Israel\u2019s history.\u00a0 The dominant theme within the book of Judges \u2013 21:25 \u201cIn those days there was<\/em> no king in Israel: every man did that which was<\/em> right in his own eyes.\u201d\u00a0 Notice that it doesn\u2019t say they did wrong, they thought<\/em> what they were doing was right.\u00a0 Although it didn\u2019t appear wrong to them, it was wrong in God\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 They did not obey the commands God had given them.\u00a0 We see that the Israelites had rejected God as their king.\u00a0 They chose to be friends with the enemy nations.\u00a0 They also chose to continually turn to the enemy\u2019s idol worship.\u00a0 We see how this made them God\u2019s enemy, but we also see that God never left His people.<\/p>\n

We saw last week they had begun a vicious cycle:\u00a0 the people forsook God, God allowed the enemy to oppress the people, the people cried out to God, and God sent a deliverer (a judge) to end the oppression.\u00a0 This cycle continued through the rest of Judges.<\/p>\n

Encourage your students to bring their Bibles and use them!<\/p>\n

Emphasis:\u00a0 <\/strong>The people in Judges had become like the people who lived in Canaan land, the people they did not completely remove from the land.\u00a0 When they became like them, their hearts were turned from God.\u00a0 As Christians, we cannot be a friend of the world and God.\u00a0 We must choose whether God is more important to us, or if it is the things of the world.<\/p>\n

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Optional Worksheets to be downloaded:<\/p>\n

Lesson 30 – Volume 1 Children’s Worksheet 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesson 30 – Volume 1 Children’s Reinforcement Worksheet 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesson 30 – Volume 1 Children’s Reinforcement Worksheet 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Ideas for children:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stickers always work well with children. Often times I watch Wal-Mart or Oriental Trading Company for specials or deals on things I can use for crafts for Sunday School (i.e. foam sheets, Bible Story scene stickers, crowns, stick on jewels, construction paper, etc.).\u00a0 I keep a stash and when I need something, I go search in my stash!\u00a0 Pinterest always has great ideas!<\/p>\n

You could have a coloring sheet that goes with the lesson.<\/p>\n

One idea for today\u2019s lesson:<\/strong>\u00a0 (See picture below).\u00a0 For today\u2019s lesson we made a coloring book for each child.\u00a0 Because Samson is such another popular judge, there were many choices of coloring pages.\u00a0 I chose some that told the story of Samson\u2019s life.\u00a0 I had a book of construction paper cut and stapled together for them to glue the different pictures into in the correct order.\u00a0 We colored some of the pictures in them with the time we had left.\u00a0 They were then able to take their books home to color the rest of the pictures as they had time, helping them remember what we had learned in class that day.<\/p>\n

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Mural idea:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Refer to the wall in your classroom that has become a mural.<\/p>\n

By now your class should be in a groove as to the direction and areas in which they need to focus and work on to improve their Christian lives.\u00a0 Use this knowledge to help you address specific areas in each lesson that your class can discuss and share as you add new things to your mural.\u00a0 Continue to watch as your class grows in their knowledge of not only God\u2019s Word, but areas in their lives that can be corrected, drawing them closer to the Lord.<\/p>\n

Have them each add anything else they may have brought to add to the wall.\u00a0 Encourage everyone to participate.<\/p>\n

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Key Verse \u201cYe adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.\u201d\u00a0 James 4:4   Read the Key Verse with your class.\u00a0 Help your students understand the verse.\u00a0 Use the following meanings of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[163,166,167,170,157,169,164,168,165],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-one-quarter-three","tag-deliverer","tag-enemy","tag-friendship","tag-idol-worship","tag-judges","tag-no-king","tag-oppression","tag-sad","tag-samson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}