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Judges chapter 21, verse 25. In those days days there was no king in Israel everyone did what was right in his own eyes

these are the last words in the book of judges and there are words that we've seen at other times

in judges this is a summary of God's people in the book of Judges.

Everyone did what was right in his own eyes,

and the result was horrible depravity.

The Book of Judges is so hard to read because of so many evil, wicked things that we read about.

And this is what happens when people do what is right in their own eyes.

I just want to encourage you today in a fresh way. Do not live according to what is

right in your eyes. What you think is right. This is how sin first entered the world with Adam and

Eve saying we think it's better to eat this fruit. We think we know

better than God what is best for our lives. And every one of us is tempted to live that way today,

to live like we know better than God. And it plays out in so many different ways, but I just want to

encourage you to resist that temptation right now and all day long, to believe that God is

perfectly good, perfectly loving, perfectly wise, and he is perfectly righteous. And we are not. We are none of those things.

We are not perfectly good or righteous or wise or loving. We don't know what is best for our lives.

God does. And He loves us and he will lead us today according to his word and by his spirit if we will

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