Momma Deb [Pt. #4]

Title: Battlegrounds, Pt. 4, Momma Deb

Text: Judges 4

Date: 5/10/26

INTRO

Happy Mother’s Day! We are in the Battleground series,

and in honor of Mother’s Day I had it on my heart to go a

certain direction today, Judges 4; Momma Deb

• In the time of the judges, following Joshua’s death

and before the days of king Saul, Isreal was ruled by

judges, you might say, “prophet-judges”

• Often these individuals had encounters with God,

would lead the people into battle, and daily judge

over the affairs of the nation… the judges were

God’s prophetic voice, leadership to the nation, they

were not perfect people, but used by God to lead

• Judges covers a 330-year time frame, written by the

prophet Samuel generally believed, it is a dark time

in Israel’s history of turning and returning to God

2

Judges 4:1–4 (NKJV) When Ehud (previous judge) was dead, the children of

Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

2

So the LORD sold them into the hand

of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was

Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth Hagoyim.

3

And the children of Israel cried out to

the LORD; for Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he had

harshly oppressed the children of Israel.

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Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of

Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

Because Israel did evil, the Promised Land they were

living in was no longer under their control; Jabin, king of

Canaan; Jabin – “Intellectual”; Canaan – Promise Land;

Hazor, town northeast of the sea of Galilee; Hazor –

“surrounded with a stockade”; fortress, stronghold

“A way of thinking made stronghold inside the land of

promise”… Christ in you is the promise land

• For 20 years this enemy had established himself and

was very strong and intimidating… ever have a way

of thinking that’s held you captive for 20 years?

• Now enters Deborah, a prophetess, wife, and judge

Deborah – “honeybee”; root form, Dabar: to arrange, to

speak, answer, appoint, command, declare, destroy,

name, be a spokesman

Who appointed this married woman to judge Israel? God