Suffering an invasion from the east, the leaders of Gilead searched for someone to lead them in battle. Eventually they recruited a man called Jephthah for the job. He was a man who suffered from a difficult past, but the opportunity to lead Israel must have seemed to him to be a golden opportunity to overcome all that and become a person of respect. As we'll see he was highly successful, except in one area of his life. That area did him in, personally. We'll learn what he did, what the outcome was, and the danger we face in that same area of life in this message.