I trust that by now you have all enjoyed a wonderful time of giving thanks for the bounty of spiritual and material blessings that we have been granted by our Heavenly Father. I know that many of you are on the road and will be traveling home over the weekend. We pray that you will be safe on your way back, and refreshed by the days away from the weekly routine.

This coming Lord’s Day we will once again consider the remarkable story of Gideon, which we discover in Judges 6. Our sermon will come from Judges 6:25-27 where we uncover the one last thing that Gideon must do before he becomes Israel’s savior and delivers the Covenant people from the tyranny of the Midianites. As the Lord explicitly commands, Gideon must go and destroy his father’s idols. He must smash the “altar to Baal” and “cut down the Asherah that is beside it” (v. 25). And then, with these pagan deities in ruins, Gideon must reclaim that spot for Yahweh by constructing “an altar to the Lord your God” (v. 26).

As you can already anticipate, this Old Testament passage sets forth some profound challenges for us as the Lord’s New Covenant people. As we prepare for Sunday, let’s carefully study the whole scene as it is presented in 6:17-32.