God summoned Gideon to reclaim the territory and liberate Israel. It’s a divine mandate versus worldly defiance. Psalm 2 presents a choice: pursue God or fabricate personal deities. This dilemma persists; even today, individuals craft their own idols.

Contemporary voices urge, “Follow your heart,” but the Scriptures counsel, “Emulate Jesus and transform into His likeness.” The world, with all its offerings, cannot mend the void in our hearts—a space solely God can occupy. And the singular path to God is through Jesus.

We are summoned to be the modern-day Gideons. It is said that Alexander the Great learned of a young man who fled from combat. Discovering that the youth shared his name, Alexander, he declared, “Either alter your name or return to the fray.” Likewise, Christians are called: “Either change your ways or engage in the spiritual battle to claim souls for Christ.”

Notes taken from a sermon of Judges 6 28-35 by Pastor Brian at
Surfside Pres. Surfside Beach SC

Gideon Destroys the Altar of Baal

Judges 6: 28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning,

there was the altar of Baal, torn down; and the wooden image that was beside
it was cut down, and the second bull was being offered on the altar which had been built. 29So
they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And when they had inquired
and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.” 30Then
the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die,
because he has torn down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the
wooden image that was beside it.”31But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Would you
plead for Baal? Would you save him? Let the one who would plead for him be put
to death by morning! If he is a god, let him plead for
himself, because his altar has been torn down!” 32Therefore on that day he
called him Jerubbaal, saying, “Let Baal plead against him, because he has
torn down his altar.”33Then all the Midianites and Amalekites, the people of
the East, gathered together; and they crossed over and encamped in the
Valley of Jezreel. 34But the Spirit of the Lord came upon
Gideon; then he blew the trumpet, and the Abiezrites gathered behind
him. 35And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also gathered
behind him. He also sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali;
and they came up to meet them.