Let's NOT Make A Deal

The good news of this passage is that God never takes our bargains. He don't play. He don't do this kind of negotiation thing with us. God is the only one who gets to write the covenants. He's the covenant maker in the Bible. He is the covenant keeper in the Bible. He doesn't take our transactional religion. He wants too much. The only sacrifice God wants from us is in Romans 12:1-2. The only sacrifice God wants from you is that you would be a living sacrifice for Him, that you would offer yourself completely to Him because He wants to give Himself completely to you. That's what salvation is, the fullness of God given to you. God don't play, and that's good news for us as sinners. God is not satisfied with transactional. He wants so much more.

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That's such a great song for us to sing this morning in light of, of course, the election coming this week. I know that many people feel there is such weight riding on this and have a lot of anxiety right now. With the election, we see there are wars all over our globe. There's all kinds of economic problems, all kinds of environmental problems. There's a lot of fear. And so it's good for us to remember and acknowledge again this morning that God is on the throne. This is a time and yet there'll be other times. The Lord has been through this before. So we're going to go to him this morning and offer up the election. If you join me in prayer together, let's bow our heads.

Father, we thank you that you are sovereign, you're king, you are on your throne. Lord, you're not in a panic, you know exactly what's coming. So we pray this week, Father, for the election. We pray, Father, first, Lord, we pray for clarity. We pray for a clear outcome. We pray that this election would not stretch into months before we know who the next president is. We pray for peace. Lord, we pray for a peaceful exchange of power. Whomever inhabits the Oval Office next, Lord, we pray that there would be a peaceful transition without uprising, without contention. Father, we pray your hand on our next president, he or she. Father, we pray your hand that, Lord, our nation would be a place that's ruled by righteousness. Lord, we long to see a world in which Jesus is exalted and lifted up. There's so much confusion. Father, we pray that you would exalt yourself even in this. And, Father, we pray, Lord, for the good of your name and, Lord, for the good of our country. Lord, we lift up all these things to you. We trust you, Father. We put our worries and fears in your hands this morning. We thank you for these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

The Book of Judges

We're going to be in the book of Judges, Old Testament book we're walking through slowly over the course of this fall, and a lot of the reason I chose this book is because of the election, because God has been there throughout regime change after regime change, and no matter how we view things, God is on the throne. So we're going to look today at yet another judge. This is Jephthah from chapters ten and eleven. It's a long passage, so I'm going to read for us. You can follow on the screen. This is from Judges chapter 10.

Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him. So the Lord's anger burned against Israel and he sold them to the Philistines and the Ammonites. They shattered and crushed the Israelites that year. And for eighteen years, they did the same to the Israelites who were on the other side of the Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead. The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was greatly oppressed, so they cried out to the Lord saying, "We have sinned against you. We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals." God said to the Israelites, "When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines, Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to me, did I not deliver you from them? But you have abandoned me and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not deliver you again. Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you whenever you are oppressed." But the Israelites said, "We have sinned. Deal with us as you see fit. Only rescue us today." So they got rid of their foreign gods along with them and worshiped the Lord and he became weary of Israel's misery. Jephthah, the Gileadite, was a valiant warrior but he was the son of a prostitute and Gilead was his father. — Judges 10:6-11

Gilead's wife bore him sons and when they grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, "You will have no inheritance with us in our father's family because you are the son of another woman." So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Then some worthless men joined Jephthah and went on raids with him.

Sometime later, the Ammonites fought against Israel. When the Ammonites made war with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. They said to him, "Come be our commander and let's fight the Ammonites."

Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, "Didn't you hate me and drive me out of my father's family? Why then do you come to me now when you're in trouble?"

They answered Jephthah, "That's true, but now we turn to you. Come with us, fight the Ammonites, and you will become the leader of all the inhabitants of Gilead."

So Jephthah said to them, "If you are bringing me back to fight the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me, I will be your leader." The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord is our witness. If we don't do as you say..." So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead and the people made him their leader and commander and Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the Lord at Mizpah.

Then, moving down to later in the chapter: The Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, who traveled through Gilead and Manasseh and then through Mizpah of Gilead. He crossed over to the Ammonites from Mizpah of Gilead.

Jephthah made this vow to the Lord:

If you, in fact, hand over the Ammonites to me, whoever comes out the doors of my house to greet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord and I will offer that person as a burnt offering.

Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them and the Lord handed them over to him. They defeated twenty of their cities with a great slaughter from Aroer all the way to the entrance of Minnith and to Abel Keramim, and the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.

When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She was his only child. He had no other son or daughter beside her.

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "No, not my daughter! You have devastated me. You have brought great misery on me. I have given my word to the Lord and cannot take it back."

Then she said to him, "My father, you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me as you have said, for the Lord brought vengeance on your enemies, the Ammonites."

She also said to her father, "Let me do this one thing. Let me wander two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity."

"Go," he said, and he sent her away two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity as she wandered through the mountains.

At the end of two months, she returned to her father and he kept the vow he had made about her, and she had never been intimate with a man. Now it became a custom in Israel that four days each year, the young women of Israel would commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Let's Make a Deal

Years ago, there was a game show that was really popular on TV called "Let's Make a Deal," and the host named Monty Hall ran the show from 1963 to 1992, almost thirty years. The whole premise of the show was always about bargaining. You could trade up what you got for what's behind curtain number two or what's in the giant box. The whole thing of the show was making deals.

My favorite part of the show was the end, because Monty Hall would walk around with crisp fifties and twenties, and he would offer it to the person who had the most weird personal items on them. Like, "Who's got the most toothpicks on them?" and somebody would finally raise their hand and get a $50 bill. Or the most paper clips. You get the picture. Worthless items in exchange for money. There was always a deal to be made on "Let's Make a Deal."

And that could really be the theme of this passage this morning because the story of Jephthah the Gileadite, as we read here, this judge of Israel, is a story about deal making.

So if you're going to take notes this morning, here's where I'm going. Three points: Our native religion, the things we do for love of our idols, and finally, what's the deal?

Our Native Religion

Our native religion with God is negotiation—is deal making. And there are three instances of bad deals that go down in this passage, and I hope as we read this, you'll recognize yourself in some of these.

So the first one is between Israel and God. Here's how it goes. Israel, again, sins, abandons God, goes after the gods of the nations around them. Now time out. Why is that a problem?

Doesn't it seem petty on some level that God is always jealous of other gods in the Bible? Do you feel that? Anybody ever wondered about that? Like, what is the big deal? You know, the US government is regularly taking companies to court who create monopolies. A monopoly is when one company so dominates the market that they set the prices, and they sort of control the lives of consumers. And the US government's like, this is bad. This is oppressive. And yet that's not true when it comes to God. Now, why is that not true? Why is it okay that God wants the corner of the market on your life and your heart? Why is that?

Simple answer. Because God made you and designed you to worship him. And when you worship him, he alone, of all other things in this whole world, does not oppress but beautifies and gives life. His monopoly alone is one that is life giving to us. This is what God wants for us. So case in point, Israel begins to worship the gods of all these surrounding nations, and every time they do so, they end up being oppressed by them.

Now in this passage, we need to read seven different—well, the gods of seven different nations that they start to worship, particularly adding two more at the end who've never been there before, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and they end up being oppressed by the Philistines. And, of course, the point is always this, that idolatry in our lives, the things that we worship, we make too important end up oppressing us. But what's fascinating is the opposite is also the case, is that oppression also leads to more idolatry. This is a bizarre circle that Israel's in. You would think at some point they would be like, enough. Every time we worship the gods of other nations, we end up being oppressed by those people, and they can't connect the dots. Well, doesn't this sound like addiction?

We know what this is like. We hear stories about this. You like exercising. Exercising is good for you. The dopamine you get from that, man, that feels good. And over time, though, you have to do more and more to get the same effect. And we end up—we know people like this. We're like, you're a slave to working out. You've got to do it. And there's something about this that traps us. This is what idolatry does.

So God gives them—he sells them into the hands of their enemies. And this sounds so cruel, but all it means is like if you sell a car on Craigslist, you sell the car on Facebook marketplace, the new owner of the car has a right to do whatever he or she wants with that car once you sell it. So God is simply saying, you want to serve those gods? I'm not gonna rescue you anymore.

The people cry out to God, and it's their language sounds good. We've sinned against the Lord. Please come help us. It's fascinating because God says no at first because he knows what's going on. You know, this is the prisoner's plea. They don't want God. They want God's rescue. They want God's benefits. They want God to help them. And then they say they upped the ante.

We've said, deal with us as you see fit.

Now, you should have laughed at that point when I was reading that out loud. Deal with us as you see fit. Anybody want to pray that prayer today? That is a scary prayer, isn't it? But it's the prayer of someone who's stuck. You know, haven't we done the same thing as Israel here? It's a transaction. It's a barter. It's not a relationship.

Have you ever prayed the prayers, Lord, if you would, then I will. Lord, if you will, then I will. Lord, if you would just save me from out of the problem I'm in, fix this relationship, get me out of this bind, then I will. And we add all kinds of things there. I'll be a good girl. I'll be a good boy. I'll clean up my life. I will be at church. I will do all the things.

Here's a hint for us that we are in dangerous territory. We're in Jephthah territory. We're in Judges territory when we're doing the same thing, when our prayers to God are marked by if-then statements.

Jephthah and the Elders of Israel

So deal number two, Jephthah and the elders of Israel. Now, we're introduced to Jephthah here, a man with too many consonants in his name. Let's be honest about it. So I'm gonna call him Jeff, J-E-P-H, and you could join me in that if you like to.

So probably the most charismatic, gifted leader that we read about in all of this. He is an incredible warrior, an incredible leader, incredible negotiator, but he's from the wrong side of the tracks. He's got a prostitute as his mother, and so the people around him reject him. And he ends up going out with worthless men. Love that phrase. And he's out in the wilderness and he's hanging out with his guys. Right? Robin Hood and his merry men. This is Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. This is a pirate and his crew. This is a mob boss. This is who he's with.

So he's a super effective leader, though, and everybody sees it. And so the elders of Israel actually come back to him and said, we want you to be our leader. He's like, what's the deal?

You just rejected me. You don't want anything to do with me, and yet you want my help now. Doesn't that sound familiar? Didn't we just hear about something like that where people are like, we want you, but we don't want you. We need you, but we don't really want you. That's exactly what Israel is doing with God. Now they're doing it with Jephthah. Jephthah, Jeff all over again.

So Jeff says, why have you come to me when you're in trouble? And he puts him off, but they eventually come back to him and he negotiates. First, they're like, hey, we'll let you lead for a little bit. Then they're like, we will make you, and the language in Hebrew is really clear, our head. And it's a word that's like king. It's a very powerful position that he has negotiated up to.

Now, Jeff is a skilled negotiator, and what we see throughout this passage is that he's really also a good preacher because his language is sprinkled in with all kinds of God talk. He says things like this: If you are bringing back to fight the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me, I'll be your leader. We'll just drop God's name in there. Or in the section we didn't read, he refers to God as the judge. We're gonna trust the judge of all the earth.

So what's fascinating about Jeff is his ability to use God language without ever talking to God. He's so good about talking to the Lord and talking about the Lord but not talking to the Lord. And this is hint number two that we also are in dangerous territory. You know you're in dangerous territory when you talk more about God than to God. When you drop some God talk in your language to make it sound good.

You know, brothers and sisters, this is the native religion of the human heart. Deal making. This is what all human religious transactions are like—a transaction, a bargain, a deal. Ancient religions: you don't clasp your hands and pray and ask God for good things. You pay for it. You get God on your side by paying for it. Food, jewelry, sacrifices, even human sacrifices. This is always the way of making God in our own image.

Can I put this out there for us to consider today? The greatest threat to the American church is not atheism. A lot of people are like, oh, Bart Ehrman or Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, a lot of the leading thinkers. That's a big danger of the church. I don't think so. I don't think atheism is our problem. And I also don't think, honestly, works righteousness is our issue. I don't see a lot of people trying to earn their salvation.

Our issue is what we read here. It's paganism. It's having a little bit of God so you can use God. It's using God to make your life work. It's being a Christian who we acknowledge is real, and we have just a little bit in our life, but we only are engaging Him when we want to use Him.

The Deal with God

This has made all the more apparent in deal number three. This is between Jeff and God. So Jeff is now leader of the people. He's been in talks with the king of Ammon, which we skipped over that section. It's a long part. You can go back and read this afternoon where it's very clear that Jeff knows his Bible. It's really fascinating. He knows his Torah. He knows all about it, and he argues from it.

But at this moment, he's about to go into battle, and he makes the last deal between Jeff and God. He pledges: whatever comes out of my house, whomever comes out of my house, I'm going to offer as a sacrifice to God. He's doing math. If I offer x, I will get y. He doesn't want God for God. He wants God for what he wants.

So hint number three: if you're also using God, you do math all the time. What do I mean by that? Probably none of us here is as bold a sinner as Jeff is. We wouldn't say this stuff out loud. But in other ways, we do this and we show our cards because we're always doing the math. This is the internal algebra of paganism, especially around blessings and sufferings, wins and losses, good things and bad things.

When other people's lives seem to be getting ahead or doing better than yours, it's easy for us to feel like somehow we're behind and look at the math and say, I deserve that. I've been doing all the things. They don't deserve that.

When your life isn't working and it's falling behind, what do you say under your breath? I did more. I'm not getting it.

When you look at the sufferings of people around you and you think about them, you say things like this: They didn't deserve that. They don't deserve that.

What is that? That's the internal algebra of paganism. It is a vending machine spirituality. It's the math. I put in x. I should get out y. And if that's not working, something's really wrong.

Can I ask you, can you find yourself in the story? Man, I can. Anybody ever made a deal with God? Anybody not ever made a deal with God? Anybody ever not pray this prayer? Why? Because this is our native religion, folks.

This is what we always think God is like.

The Things We Do for Love of Our Idols

I want to drill down a little bit into this weird vow that Jephthah makes as he's going into battle to sacrifice his daughter. And I want to ask two questions. First, does he really do this? And second, why?

So it's funny. I studied for this passage. It's amazing to me how many commentators are trying to clean up the story because we're uncomfortable with honest stories in the Bible. We want to clean it up in some way. So people are like, wait. Maybe time out. Jephthah really meant whatever comes out of my house. And the language in the Hebrew is obscure. But folks, at this time in history, people didn't live with animals in their homes. And the version we're reading from really translates this right. He means person. Whoever comes out of my house.

There's others who try to clean this up by saying, well, what he really was intending is that whoever comes out of this door, he's going to dedicate to a lifelong service to God somehow in the tabernacle. But again, I know it's uncomfortable with that. We're uncomfortable when we read this stuff in our Bibles. It's an ugly story. But the word here in Hebrew for what he describes is the same root word from which we get our word holocaust. He means it. My daughter on the fire.

Why? I mean, there's a clear prohibition to child sacrifice in the book of Deuteronomy. And Jephthah—we could tell the way he talks. He knows his Bible. He clearly knows that this is wrong, and yet he does it anyway. What? Why? Very simple. Idolatry.

What is the purpose of deal making? What's the purpose of the bargain? Going back to Monty Hall. Let's make a deal. You sacrifice something lesser for something greater. You want a better deal. You want more for you. This is why people come with pockets full of toothpicks and paper clips to his show so I can get the fifty dollar bill.

Jephthah is a man of his times. This is what was common practice in the day for the god Chemosh, who's the god of the Ammonites. In fact, later in the Bible, in Second Kings chapter three, there's a scene where the general of the Ammonite army is going to war and he wants victory in battle and so he offers up his firstborn son on the fire alive to the god Chemosh and this is exactly what Jephthah is doing. He's a man of the times.

What's most important to Jephthah? Why would he make this foul vow? You know what it is? What's most important to Jephthah? Jephthah. That's what's most important to Jephthah.

And this is made super clear in the language that he uses when he realizes who's coming out of his house. Because when the daughter comes out of the house, he doesn't say, "What have I done?" He says, "What have you done?" He blames her. And when he cries over childlessness, he's not crying over the fact that she is going to be childless. The daughters at Jerusalem have to do that because daddy is crying for the fact that he is childless. He's not thinking about her. He's thinking about him. What's most important to Jephthah? Jephthah. That's what's most important.

I mean, Jephthah is—he's not going to throw away his shot. He's not going to throw away his shot. He's poor, scrappy, and hungry. He's not going to throw away his shot. Right? I mean, we know this. Come on, y'all. Help me out here. Y'all won't even give me that. Alright.

It's horrific. It's horrible and ugly, and you gotta stare at this. The Bible wants you. God wants you to stare at this this morning and not blink and not downplay it and not look away because idolatry—idolatry is not just worshiping other gods. It's also using God to get what you want.

You will always sacrifice for what you truly love. I mean, we know all the stories. This is almost a cartoon now. Right? The person who's so about their career, they sacrifice their whole family for it. The pastor who's so about notarizing the stage that he'll sacrifice his integrity. The girlfriend or boyfriend who will sacrifice their convictions about sexuality in order to have the relationship. We know this stuff.

Idolatry is always using God to get what you want and if we're really honest, there's a little Jephthah in all of us. There's a lot of Jephthah in me. I'm Jephthah but there's a little Jephthah in all of us. This is our native religion. This is what we do. The things we do for love of our idols.

If you're a Christian, can you see this in you? That a lot of our worship and our obedience and our even being here is about getting what we want from God.

So what's the deal? What's the deal? And let me push this really hard. What's the deal with God? I mean, don't you want to ask that about this passage? What's the deal with God here? I mean, doesn't God seem a little cruel to you? I mean, I want God to stop Jephthah halfway through. Blow the whistle. Angel of the Lord. Where's the angel of the Lord? Right? You know, where I want him to strike him down with lightning.

Don't do it and God allows him to do this. So, is there anything good from this passage? Yes. I got good news, and I got gooder news, and I got the goodest news from a terrible story for you this morning.

Here's the good news. It ain't over. Here's what we see of God's heart in this passage and it's astounding. We see this with Israel and we see this with Jephthah. It ain't over. God ain't done.

Because what's fascinating in chapter 10, when Israel's making a deal with their gods and they cry and call out the God of the Bible to come rescue them, he says, "No, you guys are on your own. Trust those gods." What does it say? At the end of that passage we read in chapter 10: God couldn't stand the misery of his people. He just couldn't stand it. He loves them too much. Even after all their idolatry, he still loves them. He is still coming for them. This is the heart of God. God is not cruel. God is incredible.

And with Jephthah, this horrible judge, God uses him to actually save his people, Israel, from bondage. His name is written in Hebrews chapter 11, the hall of fame of faith. Terrible guy. Terrible story. But God isn't done. God isn't done with you.

Gooder News

Gooder news. God don't play. I have a couple commentaries trying to make Jephthah into some nice guy and godly man. "Well, he kept his vow." Really, people? That's what we wanna take away from this? That's nuts.

The gooder news of this passage is that God never takes our bargains. He don't play. He don't do this kind of negotiation thing like this with us. God is the only one who gets to write the covenants. He's the covenant maker in the Bible. He is the covenant keeper in the Bible. He doesn't take our transactional religion. He wants more.

The only sacrifice God wants from us is this:

The only thing God wants from you is that you would be a living sacrifice for him, that you would offer yourself completely to him because he wants to give himself completely to you. — Romans 12:1-2

That's what salvation is. The fullness of God given to you. God don't play, and that's good news for us as sinners. God is not satisfied with transactional. He wants so much more.

The Goodest News

The goodest news is that like all the judges in this passage, in this book, all the deliverers need a deliverer.

What should Jephthah have done instead of keeping his vow? Notice, God doesn't say, "You gotta keep the vow." Jephthah does that, and he makes his decision based on pagan idol worship. What should he have done? He should have broken the vow and accepted the consequences. He made the stupid promise. He should have said, "Lord, be it done to me." That's what our real man does. That's what Jesus says.

In fact, what we see in this passage, he could look no further than his own daughter to see what kind of deliverance, what kind of love looks like. What do we see? She willingly submits herself for somebody else's sin, just like Jesus. It's a complete travesty of justice, just like Jesus.

Jephthah completely misses the heart of God. He wants God's hands. He doesn't want God's heart. He completely misses it, and it's right there in front of him in the form of his own daughter.

My experience as a pastor is that paganism is a stage for most people. Let me tell you what I mean. It's a phase of life for many Christians. If you find yourself in this story, it doesn't mean you're dead. It doesn't mean you're gone. It doesn't mean God's done with you. It means you're immature, and there's an invitation with that. There's an invitation from God to take another step toward him.

I hope that you grow out of the if-then phase of Christianity into something mature where you want God for God. You don't want God just for what he gives you. You don't want God's hands. You want his face. You want his heart. This is what God has for you, and that's the invitation this morning: to grow up.

It's a childish phase. It happens with our kids. A few parents can agree with this experience. But regularly, we would get these cards for Mother's Day and Father's Day that basically said, "I love how you love me." That's how a kid writes a Father's Day card. It's all self-referential. It's all about me. That's fine when you're seven. It's bad when you're 37. If you stay in that phase where it's all about you and about what you're getting, you're missing the whole point. God is giving you himself.

Let me say this in conclusion. We got a dog, Simone, who's a mutt, which is code word for pit bull mix. And she is a very stubborn and a very sneaky dog. We've had trouble training her because she's so smart. She's smarter than I am. She won't play fetch.

You throw the ball, and she comes and brings it back to you, and then she wants to play tug of war with you. And I cannot figure out how to train this dog. So we sign up for an obedience course with this trainer, and this woman is from Eastern North Carolina. She's got a really thick Eastern North Carolina accent. And so we bring Simone in for dog training, and she's like, "Oh, she's a hambone. She's a humdinger." And I'm like, I don't know what a humdinger is. I had to look it up. But she got Simone's number real fast, and she started having to train. This is what dog training is, right? Training the owners. So training us—stop playing keep away and tug of war. You want her to let go of something that she loves, you gotta offer her something better, right? You offer her something better, and she immediately lets go of that because she wants the treat that you're handing her. She'll do anything for a treat.

What God Is Offering

Now we sing a song. We're about to sing this at CTK, and it goes like this:

What can strip the seeming beauty from the idols of this earth? Not a sense of right or duty, but the sight of peerless worth. Captivated by his beauty, worthy tribute haste to bring. Let his peerless worth constrain thee, crown him thou unrivaled king.

Now that's a lot of old English language. But what God is offering us is this: Every time we come in here for worship, this is what we do. God is saying, "Don't you want all of me? Here's the gospel for you. Here's my character. Here's my love. Let go of all the other stuff."

Now, God—he's not going to play tug of war with you. He's not going to let you just bring something and he's not going to play keep away like this dumb owner does. But God is continually offering you himself: the fullness of grace, the fullness of mercy, the fullness of the heart of God for you. It is so good.

What do you need to let go of this morning? I guarantee every person in this room has something we're holding on to like this. And we come to the Lord's Supper, and we get to come and let go and say, "It just wasn't worth it. It's paper clips. It's toothpicks. Garbage compared to the cross. Compared to the Spirit. Compared to the fullness of God for you."

Prayer

Let's pray together. Lord God, help us to value what's most valuable. Help us to love what's most worthy of love. Help us to live not for the stupid trinkets of this world, but for what is supreme and so good. Thank you that you don't accept our barters and our transactions. Pray these things in Jesus' name.

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