LIKE THE MEN OF ISSACHAR // Sunday, September 19, 2021 // Pastor Jeff Hines

Sunday — September 19, 2021

Understanding the Times

1 Chronicles 12: 32 (ESV)

   Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times,

to know what Israel ought to do

Puritan / Israel Covenant

1.               Individual Rights Come from God

2.               Individual Accountability to God

Yale University Coat of Arms

Individual Rights Come from God

Individual Accountability to God

Spectrum of World History

Concentrated Power Vs Separated Power

YHWH / God

1.               He is watching you

2.               He wants you to be just

3.               He will hold you accountable

Conscience

Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur

Psalm 103: 12 (ESV)

   As far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Hebrews 8: 12 (ESV)

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more

  Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience.

What happened to Israel?

Judges 17: 6 & 21: 25 (ESV)

   In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

1 Samuel 8: 7 (ESV)

And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.