Judges 11:23 says, So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?  The question was if the LORD God of Israel had given the land to Israel, dispossessing the Amorites, should the Amorites now possess it again.  The things of this earth that God gives us may be taken away by other people, but the one gift that is important, salvation through Christ, can never be.  Still, just as Jephthah said, Israel had not defeated the Amorites by their own power, neither will we defeat the forces of the world by our own power.  Verse twenty-four states, Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.  Jephthah then asked the king of the Amorites if their god gave them a land to possess, would they not possess it.  Jephthah then said this is what Israel had done.  Matthew Henry says that what God gives us to possess we have a responsibility to possess.  Verse twenty-five asks, And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,  Jephthah then asks if the king now is any better than Balak was when he fought against Israel.  Balak had acknowledged that he had lost the land to Israel and did not attempt to reclaim it.  Verse twenty-six adds, While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?  Jephthah then said that Israel had possessed the land for three hundred years and asked why the Amorites had not attempted to reclaim it during all that time.  If we have been a follower of Christ for a long time, then we should be able to say to the people and things of this world that there is no reason for them to even attempt to reclaim us now.  Of course, this should be true no matter how long we have followed Christ.  Verse twenty-seven declares, Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.  Jephthah said that he had not sinned against the people of Ammon, and that they should let the LORD judge between them.  This is what we will ultimately all do.  Verse twenty-eight states, Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.  The king of the Amorites would not listen to what Jephthah had to say, and we should not be surprised of the people of the world today do not listen to us when we tell that God has blessed us in a particular way.  What God gives us, others may feel that they should have, and we can only hope that they listen to us when we tell them that God is the reason we have whatever it is that they feel should be theirs.  It would be nice if people felt the need for salvation as much as they sometimes feel the need for our possessions.  Verse twenty-nine declares, Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.  Jephthah was moved by the Spirit of God to go to battle against the Amorites.  He had tried to reason with them, and did not just go against them by his own decision, but was led by God's Spirit, just as we must be today.  Verse thirty adds,  And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,  Then verse thirty-one continues, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.  Jephthah makes a vow to God, that if God brings him back successful from battle, that the first thing coming out of the door of his house would be given to God as a burnt offering.  Verse thirty-two states, So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.  Jephthah was successful in his battle with Ammon because God gave him the victory.  If we truly go into battle with the world today under God's leadership and power, we can be certain of success, even if it doesn't look like it immediately.  Through our faith in Christ, the victory is ours.  Verse thirty-three concludes, And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.  Jephthah and his forces fought the Amorites in twenty cities, and defeated them completely.  We today can likewise defeat all the forces that come against us if we are followers of Christ and are acting under the leadership of the Holy Spirit.