Today, we’re wrapping up our weekly study of Old Testament history by finishing Judges.
I don’t have any specific Scriptures I want to reference today, but did want to note one general theme here… the consequences of sin. These 5 chapters are thick with this. Idolatry… marital unfaithfulness… sexual sin… even murder… all leading to conflict amongst the tribes of Israel. Ultimately? We have brothers killing brothers on a huge scale.
I’m not a scholar on these passages, but it certainly appears to me that individual sin snowballed, and affected tens of thousands of people.
What do you think? Can the consequences of our individual sins affect other people, and compound to create huge negative impacts on families, communities… even nations? Do we fail to take sin seriously enough because we dismiss the possibility for wide-ranging impacts?
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