You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
“Thumbs and Big Toes”

Judges 1:2-5

We all love a good story!

We all love a good strange story!

Strange stories from the book of Judges contain deep spiritual insights.

Judges 1:4-7

Half-hearted obedience
	Partial obedience
	The high price we pay

We are most vulnerable to half-hearted obedience during transition, trouble, or loss!

Transition, trouble or loss can cause us to be:
	Physically exhausted 
	Emotionally drained 
	Spiritually isolated 

Deuteronomy 7:1-4

12 Tribes of Israel
	Judah,	Simeon, Benjamin, Manasseh, Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher, Naphtali, Dan, Gad, 		Issachar, Reuben
	
“…did not drive out…”

See if this sounds familiar…
	They were God’s people
	They had been given great promises
	They had crystal clear instructions
	They made stupid assumptions and choices 
	They paid a high price

Obedience
	Doesn't guarantee life will be easy
	Just because life is hard doesn’t mean that God isn’t working 
Partial obedience is not obedience 

Are you suffering from half-hearted obedience?