Sermons

Digging Deeper: Good and Angry - Can God be both? 

1 & 2 Kings | Special Event | 1/09/2025 | John Woodhouse

Tags: Kings, Wonder Wickedness Warning and the One to come, Trust in the Lord, Digging Deeper

We've come across some confronting scenes in Kings. God's judgement against his Old Covenant people results in human armies killing and destroying. How do we reconcile the idea an class="keyword">ofan> a gracious forgiving God with the violence that we see in the Old Testament? John Woodhouse, former principal and Old Testament lecturer at Moore Theological College helps us think through what it means to believe in the one just and gracious God an class="keyword">ofan> the Old and New Testaments.

Judges 2:6-19 

Judges 2:6-19 | EV Church | 5/05/2013 | Tim Baldwin

Tim Baldwin provides an introduction to Judges. God's people finally get to inhabit the promised land, to fulfil the promises made to Abraham. And what should have been a great experience for God's chosen people, becomes a series an class="keyword">ofan> generations who reject God, are rescued by a Judge, then fall away into worse behaviour. As God calls his people to drive out the other nations - it's worth considering if Holy war is ever ok? 1. It was punishment for their wickedness (see Gen 15) 2. God owns all land and was fulfilling His promise (Deut 7:7) 3. To maintain the covenant relationship (Deut 7:6) What about now this side an class="keyword">ofan> Jesus? No - it's not ok to use these verses to justify war, we are in Exodus preparing for the new Kingdom Yes - spiritually we are at war, and need to rage Holy war on sin.