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if you have your Bibles first, 
Samuel chapter 5, As we continue

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in the book of 1st Samuel, today
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covering two chapters in this 
book, chapter 5 and chapter 6. 

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The reason being is that there 
is a wonderful flow between the 

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chapters that think is worthy to
honor. 

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In one Bible study. 
Let's play one more time. 

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Would you join me in that? 
Heavenly Father, we ask Lord 

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that you would assist us. 
We pray for a liberty to 

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communicate these truths that 
would provide a joy. 

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And a sense of awe in our hearts
Lord. 

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We pray that this meeting would 
not be void of your power or 

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your presence. 
We ask Lord that somehow in 

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miraculous fashion, you would 
Captivate Us with the wisdom 

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found in these verses, with the 
glory that we see in who you are

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and that it would demand our 
affections and our obedience 

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more importantly. 
Lord, we pray for the person in 

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here. 
Is so dry their spiritual 

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journey up to this point for 
many months has just been a 

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desert. 
No life, no excitement, no 

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ambition, no prayers, no seeking
of you in private Lord. 

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Would you graciously use this 
Bible study to revive our hearts

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again? 
For those that do not know you 

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as their personal Lord and 
Savior, but I've put their trust

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and their personal, 
interpretation of who you are, 

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or Lord a tradition. 
They've held on to for years. 

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Would you Lord show them the 
true message of Salvation and 

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bring him to saving knowledge in
Christ Lord? 

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We admit right from the 
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Apart from your help, we are 
helpless, nothing of worthy 

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results. 
Would come about apart from you 

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helping us. 
So we call upon you in faith in 

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this moment. 
In Jesus name, we pray Amen. 

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Over the past few Bible studies.
You and I have especially in 

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judges, we have been centering 
around one character after 

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another and we glean from their 
lives in order to fuel, our 

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personal Holiness, in our growth
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But in the next two chapters 
here, our Focus will not so much

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Beyond Samuel or any human main 
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It will actually now come and 
gravitate towards a piece of 

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furniture. 
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This book turns away from any 
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this Narrative of a unique item 
that God ordained for his people

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to build and how this chess 
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Actually teach us many things. 
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relatively small, again, chest 
piece was not God but God chose 

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to manifest his Holiness through
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And the instruction for his 
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this into honor, it was an 
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God's desire to dwell with men 
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To manifest himself to 
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that, at least for a good 
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And so that people would know 
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our midst, but God now is not 
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strong to his own people. 
He's now going to do so with his

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own enemies, the Philistines. 
Because if you were with us last

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week, we know that the 
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Arc, and for the first time in 
Israel's history, The Ark was be

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on the premises of its honored 
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And so we read here, in verse 1 
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Philistines captured, the Ark of
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Ebenezer to ashdod, then, the 
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and brought it into the house of
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Dagon. 
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Rose early the next day, behold,
Trying to say look what happened

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Dagon had fallen face downward 
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the Lord. 
So they took Dagon and put him 

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back in his place. 
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next morning, behold Dagon had 
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ground before the Ark of the 
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both his hands were lying. 
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Only the trunk of Dagon was left
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So what happens is? 
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boast in their might and in the 
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Dagon. 
Took the Ark of the Covenant 

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away from the Israelites and 
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A declaration, not just that 
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people of Israel, but they have 
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Israel. 
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than to take this symbol this 
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house of their God and to set 
them beside they got to say This

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is what Dagon has accomplished 
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And now the Ark of the Covenant 
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pagans And this was their plan. 
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to do from this point on. 
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had his own plan, in this moment
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Philistines and Prevail over 
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There are few lessons from these
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Number one, this is a picture of
God receiving Glory from his 

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enemies, whether his enemies 
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You don't chapter 4, we saw 
that, God was being manipulated,

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or at least it was attempt an 
attempt to be manipulated by his

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own people. 
And here we see the enemies, not

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God's people, but the enemy of 
God, trying to override his 

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sovereignty. 
And if you try to manipulate God

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and if you try to override his 
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ways and that's what we see 
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The glory of God departed from 
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That's what it says in chapter 
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completely. 
It was about to show off now and

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the enemy's camp. 
He's brought into this place and

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the Philistines thought like 
many people today that they have

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the authority and the Liberty. 
To manage the concept of God. 

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Or to Define him and to limit 
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She did picked up this Arc, 
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Like it was just like one of 
their gods that they can pick up

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and lay down, and polish and 
clean. 

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And many people think that the 
god of the Bible is the same 

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way. 
He's just a abstract idea, he's 

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some historical concept, he's 
some myth, and we can play 

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around with him and manage him 
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Or like the Philistines many 
people today, take the god of 

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the Bible and place some beside 
other expressions of DT or 

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systems of belief and say he's 
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He's just a different 
manifestation of the same thing,

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the same idea. 
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leaders the next day wake up and
they come into the house of 

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Dagon. 
Well, it's a picture of what 

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will come down the pike. 
It's a picture of what will 

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happen at the end of the road. 
Dagon, his lying face before the

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ark worshiping Yahweh. 
worshipping, the true and 

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living, God, despite the 
blasphemy, despite the arrogance

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of those today who assume that 
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instead of coming from the words
of God, Despite people fighting 

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against the exclusivity of Jesus
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Everything that stands against 
God, will one day fall and 

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worship him. 
And what's amazing is that they 

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come into this room, they look 
upon this site and they're 

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shocked but to them, it was just
coincidence. 

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To them. 
It was just well maybe a gust of

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wind came in or maybe somebody 
walked in and knock them over so

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they bring him right back up and
I find it. 

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So amusing what God is doing by 
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Here is the Philistines. 
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And you have the Ark of the 
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in this moment that he is in. 
No need of Human Assistance or 

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intervention. 
He doesn't need your help or 

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mine. 
I want to tell you something 

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tonight. 
Whether you and I want to 

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glorify, God will not determine 
whether he will be glorified, he

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will be glorified. 
The only thing that you and I 

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have in part with that is that 
we can join in that undefeated 

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mission. 
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being an instrument in the hands
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So they think it's coincidence, 
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So the next day they come and 
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Here's Dagon again on his face, 
but this time there's something 

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different Perhaps they got has 
fallen so hard this time that 

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strategically his head and His 
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they land at the threshold of 
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And so as they enter, and they 
realize that there's dagon's 

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head has there his hands and 
there is his body lying before 

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the Ark of God. 
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this isn't coincidence anymore. 
There's something very very 

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important that's being said here
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If the head symbolizes anything,
it represents wisdom And of 

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hands describe anything. 
It describes power. and what we 

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see here is that in the presence
of Yahweh, the wisdom and the 

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power and might of Dagon are 
vain feudal, empty, Unmatched. 

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No comparison. 
You can almost say that God 

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flicked Dagon over like he was 
paper mache And you would hope 

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that the people would get the 
message, but we're going to find

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out that they don't. 
But I see another lesson here. 

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Here's another lesson that you 
can pull out of these verses God

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in the old. 
Covenant, chose to abide in this

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box called the Ark of the 
Covenant and to dwell within the

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most holy place within the 
Tabernacle. 

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This was his doing, this was his
choosing. 

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This is how he did in the old 
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There's something much more 
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God chooses because of the blood
of Jesus Christ to move 

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geographical locations. 
Not from one address to another 

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but from the idea of coming to 
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hearts of those who are Washed 
by the blood of the Lamb you and

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I now are the Abiding Place of 
God you and I now carry the 

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presence of God you and I host 
the hope of glory which is 

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Christ Jesus now although the 
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The effects of God's presence. 
Haven't what do I mean? 

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Because what I see here is what 
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who have truly repented and 
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Christ. 
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There is no ability for any Idol
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presence of God Moves In. 
When God really moves into your 

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life and says, I want to live in
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Whatever was in there that you 
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bound to before Must Fall. 
Will be destroyed will not be 

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able to stand the might and the 
power of the grace of God 

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manifest, through the power of 
the holy spirit is that not 

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salvation. 
See we preach the cross of Jesus

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Christ and we should but you 
know what, people Don't Preach 

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much today. 
That's a code death with Christ.

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That as much as we believe on 
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part of the Gospel, is that you 
climb on the cross with him. 

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Not so that you can be saved. 
But as a response to your 

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salvation, you die to yourself. 
I die to myself. 

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And that's what Paul says in 
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He says, we know that our old 
self was crucified with him, in 

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order that what that the body of
sin might be brought to nothing 

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like Dagon. 
That when you really taste the 

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Salvation, you know what will 
happen anything that lived in 

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you before will not be able to 
match the power, the provision 

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or the pleasure that God gives. 
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And because you are under grace 
and not under the law, sin has 

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no authority over you anymore. 
And here's the thing, if you 

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want God to move in, then you 
have to be willing to let Idols 

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crumble. 
And that's what you would hope 

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that these men would do. 
You would think that after 

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something like this? 
The Philistines were look at 

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each other and say not only is 
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He's the God of all gods, he's 
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But you know what? 
We're about to learn here, the 

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resilient refusal to embrace 
truth Because look what happens 

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here in verse 5 as a response to
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being released and cut off with 
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This is why the priest of Dagon 
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Dagon do not tread on the 
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this day. 
Instead of being broken, instead

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of being repentant, instead of 
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show himself true. 
Another tradition is created. 

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Think about it. 
This is the tradition because 

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the hands and the head were at 
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From that moment on the 
Philistines decided that 

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whenever they enter into the 
house of Dagon, they would not 

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step foot on the threshold. 
They would leap over it. 

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They would leap over it. so this
is this is what happens here, 

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they only hold on tighter to 
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They were not humbled, they were
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As they hear the gospel, Because
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are exposed to truth, like the 
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to Forfeit and let go what 
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Their idols. 
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to submit to the truth, no 
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there are many instead who 
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hold on to what they really 
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Jesus, provided an incredible 
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reject him. 
It's not this great mystery and 

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it's not because his truth isn't
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Do you want to know, listen to 
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in John 3:19 for this is the 
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The light has come into the 
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darkness rather than the light 
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So behind all the philosophical 
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academic arguments, and behind 
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doubts, some are sincere and 
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But majority, that's all cover 
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sin. 
I love Darkness. 

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When you come to the light, you 
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You can't keep both and people 
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instinctively, they know that in
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If I really Embrace this, Jesus,
there are things that I have to 

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turn away from. 
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so many reject me, the light as 
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wholesome as I am, is because 
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They love Darkness, don't be 
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philosophers today. 
Or your liberal teacher at your 

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University, that wants to try to
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God. 
The real reason why they want to

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argue till they're blue in the 
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because they love Darkness. 
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it. 
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the saved here. 
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There are the unsaved who are so
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Until their dying breath. 
because they know what truth 

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does truth sets, you free it 
delivers, you calls you out from

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among those who are perishing 
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Let's help Dagon up. 
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God who's just moving and power 
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him or move him? 
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But still, they want to hold on 
Today Gone. 

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And we read in verse 6, what 
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The hand of the Lord was Heavy 
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Todd and he terrified and 
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Some translations say 
hemorrhoids. 

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Both ashdod and its territory. 
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how things were, they said the 
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not remain with us. 
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and against de ganar, God. 
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has to do with this Ark and God 
was merciful. 

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God was extremely merciful and 
showing that he is much more 

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Superior Today. 
Gone by allowing him to fall on 

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his face and to break his teeth 
and his hands, but that wasn't 

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enough. 
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See you and I might read this 
and think this is this is cruel.

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This is a little excessive but I
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Because what is God doing? 
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the Philistines. 
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time they didn't get it when he 
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So maybe they'll get it when he 
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does just that and so they begin
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there's death and a plague now 
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this is the Old Testament, God 
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end will turn up the heat right 
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will know something of his 
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is so much Mercy. 
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Revelation, you know what I'm 
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Because I one point God begins 
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judgments. 
So unleash, such power and might

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that there is no doubt in any 
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God's doing But you want to see 
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Revelations. 16:9, they being 
the population of the Earth were

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scorched by the fierce heat, 
from what the sun, the sun would

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literally Scorch people's skin. 
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but listen to the mercy of God 
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who had power over these 
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They did not repent and give him
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They did not repent or give him 
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What was God? 
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Repent. 
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them? 
Give me my glory. 

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Turn to me. 
What's better? 

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Just a few moments of pain on 
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from God. 
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equation, you understand that 
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attention and he's doing it with
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So what do they do verse 8? 
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together, all the Lords of the 
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we do with the Ark of the god of
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The answered, let the Ark of the
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to gath. 
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another city of ours. 
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So they brought the Ark of God 
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had brought it around the hand 
of the Lord was against the 

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city, causing a very great panic
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city both young and old so that 
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Verse 10, so they sent the Ark 
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Philistine City. 
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came to ekron the people of 
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brought around to us the Ark of 
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our people. 
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one city to the other and you 
thinking, what what are you 

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thinking? 
At what point are you just going

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to fall in surrender? 
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God, he is the true and living 
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I believe it's because they want
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victory that they had over the 
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Israel, as long as possible. 
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way. 
How long can we keep the Ark of 

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God so that we can show to our 
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have, the true and living God, 
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He was flinging them around like
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maybe this is just coincidence. 
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just bad timing and so they hold
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different place and try to shake
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happening. 
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reason for their suffering. 
Their own Pride was the barrier 

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to their own freedom. 
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people respond to the gospel in 
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They just don't want to let go. 
They just will do everything 

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they can before they give up and
give God glory. 

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Jesus, when he was on the earth 
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The ultimate Tabernacle of God, 
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Earth, greater than the Arc, 
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And in John, 12:42, we are told 
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authorities. 
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leaders, Pharisees believed him,
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Pharisees, they did not confess 
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They didn't confess it. 
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So that they would not be put 
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And we are told here for they 
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man rather than the glory that 
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So they believe they understood.
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been prophesied by the prophets 
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they would not confess it with 
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didn't want to lose their 
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And John goes deeper, they love 
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rather than the praise that will
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And many today will be damned 
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They will be fear, fear of 
losing something like the 

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Philistines. 
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sense of Victory, and praise and
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And autonomy. 
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were going to pay a price for it
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it today. 
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going to get worse. 
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foreign gathered together all 
the Lords of the Philistines and

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said, send away the Ark of God 
of Israel, and let it return to 

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its own place. 
That I mean, I kill us and our 

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people for their was a deathly, 
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Here's a pandemic in their midst
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point where they said enough is 
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Send them back to where he came 
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We ultimately reject. 
T' God. 

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Based upon what Revelation when 
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God, listen to this. 
When they understood that, they 

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couldn't handle this Godlike, 
how they can handle their other 

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Idols, when they realize that 
this, God demands to be Lord 

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over them. 
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of how we relate to him. 
They said no thanks we didn't 

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know that this was part of the 
package. 

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We thought that he was just like
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We can carry him. 
If this is who this God is, we 

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want nothing to do with him. 
And I tell you today, that many 

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people, when they come to the 
revelation of the wholeness of 

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Jesus Christ, come to the same 
conclusion. 

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Unfortunately, there's a version
of Jesus, that appeases. 

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The flesh that makes us feel 
comfortable makes us feel like 

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we are in control, but the 
moment we hear the true Jesus 

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and that he wants total control,
that's where the people coming 

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forward to, the message of the 
Gospel fins out. 

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And we see here that they said, 
we want nothing. 

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Absolutely nothing to do with 
this God of this is who he truly

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is. 
Then we regret bringing him to 

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us in the first place. 
So they try to send them back. 

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And that's where we come to this
chapter. 

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In chapter 6, The Ark of the 
Lord in verse one was in the 

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country of the Philistines seven
months. 

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This was going on for seven 
months. 

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I mean, I I would think after 
three weeks, you would think 

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this is not coincidence. 
Let's move forward with our 

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lives. 
No. 

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They were determined. 
They were determined. 

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So what do they do? 
And the Philistines call to the 

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call for the priest and the 
diviners and said, what shall we

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do with the Ark of the Lord, 
tell us what we shall send to 

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its place. 
They said if you send away the 

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Ark of God of Israel, do not 
send it empty, but by all means 

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return him a guilt offering, 
then you will be healed, and it 

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will be known to you why his 
hand does not turn away from 

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you. 
And they said, what is the guilt

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offering that we shall return to
them? 

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And they said, five golden 
tumors and five golden mice. 

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So, now we know of This chapter 
there was mice. 

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Involved with this plague. 
Doesn't make it any less 

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Pleasant. 
Five, golden mice. 

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According to the number of the 
Lords of the Philistines for the

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same plague was on all of you 
and on your Lords. 

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So you must make images of your 
tumors and images of your mice. 

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That ravaged, the land and give 
glory to the god of Israel. 

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Perhaps he will lighten his hand
from off of you and your gods 

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and your land. 
So, they had enough sense to 

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realize, after seven months of 
going from town to town to Town 

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Gate. 
This is, this is the god of 

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Israel. 
Now, what do we do with this? 

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We're sending him back, but we 
want to show some kind of 

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remorse and some kind of Honor. 
So they receive some Council, 

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make some golden mice and tumors
and make sure that you, you send

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it back with the Ark of God, to 
the people of Israel. 

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And they said, that sounds like 
a good idea. 

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Here's the thing. 
What's the reason for it? 

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00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,600
It's a strange type of offering 
but the motivation is actually 

450
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,700
right. 
Verse 5. 

451
00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:32,900
And give glory to the god of 
Israel. 

452
00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:38,400
Like we learned last last week, 
we're going to learn some things

453
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,700
about the Philistines concerning
how we relate to God, give glory

454
00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:46,900
to the god of Israel from that. 
What do you believe in part? 

455
00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:50,000
Giving glory to God, means I 
would like to hear your answers.

456
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,800
Give glory to the god of Israel.
We live for the glory of God. 

457
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,600
And what they're saying here is 
in part, true of what it means 

458
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:09,000
to glorify God, any ideas? 
Yes, absolutely. 

459
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,400
Love them with all five of our 
senses. 

460
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,600
Absolutely obedience and giving 
him praise. 

461
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,900
Yes, you got it. 
Anything else? 

462
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,700
Putting him first in our lives. 
Yes. 

463
00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:28,000
Humble yourself before God. 
Yes. 

464
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,600
And now, yes, all those answers 
were true and gorgeous is honing

465
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,900
into what's being done here, 
giving glory to God. 

466
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:47,200
In this aspect is attributed to 
him the authorship of all that, 

467
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,000
we witness behold and 
experience. 

468
00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:53,700
What they're doing here is 
declaring to God, we realize 

469
00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:56,800
that you are the one who is 
Sovereign over all the Affairs 

470
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,700
that we underwent, you're the 
god of the mice. 

471
00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:07,300
You're the god over the plagues.
You're the god, that allowed 

472
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:09,800
these judgments, you are all 
powerful and all Sovereign. 

473
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,300
That's what they're doing here, 
and that's what it means to 

474
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:17,000
glorify God. 
You give him the authorship and 

475
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,500
you realize that he is the one 
who is behind everything. and 

476
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:25,200
Paul says after he told us in 
Romans one that God had 

477
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,000
manifested his Divine 
attributes, his invisible 

478
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,900
attributes, his divine nature, 
through what tell me through 

479
00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:39,300
what Creation. 
So that no man is without excuse

480
00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:43,300
creation itself, testifies to 
the reality of God and the 

481
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:45,500
general Revelation. 
And then he says, this in the 

482
00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:51,500
next verse he says in Romans 
1:21 But there are those who did

483
00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:55,900
not honor him. 
Based on that understanding, 

484
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000
they did not glorify God or give
thanks to him. 

485
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,500
But they, what attributed to the
silly concept that we came from 

486
00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:12,300
goo and that your ancestors Are 
Hairy Beast and all these crazy 

487
00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:14,100
ideas. 
What is what is behind that? 

488
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:16,500
Is that a discovery know? 
It's a theory by the way. 

489
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:21,900
You're putting your faith in a 
theory and the spirit behind it 

490
00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:25,800
is what Paul says. 
They refuse to glorify God and 

491
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,800
give thanks to him. 
Notice a train of thought Paul 

492
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,100
says that creation testifies, to
the knowledge of God, and right 

493
00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:36,000
after he says, still people 
refuse to give God glory in that

494
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,600
aspect and refused to give 
thanks to him. 

495
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,700
So, the opposite understanding 
of that is glorifying God as to 

496
00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:47,500
say you are the one behind it 
all. 

497
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,500
You are the mind. 
You are the love. 

498
00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:53,900
You are the power that has 
allowed these things to come 

499
00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:57,400
into existence. 
And the Philistines are 

500
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,500
glorifying God and this aspect 
they're saying you are the true 

501
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:04,000
God. 
And they're doing it through 

502
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,800
mice and tumors, but it's going 
to work. 

503
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,500
Now look at this, in verse 6. 
Why should you this is the this 

504
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:13,500
is the council that they're 
receiving from their leaders. 

505
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,200
Why should you harden your 
hearts as the Egyptians and 

506
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,500
Pharaoh hardened their hearts 
after he had doubt severely with

507
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:24,800
them. 
Did they not send the people 

508
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,900
away and they departed? 
Interesting. 

509
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:31,700
That tells me that when I read 
through Exodus and what God had 

510
00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:34,200
done through delivering his 
people, it made international 

511
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,400
news. 
All the nations heard about it. 

512
00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:41,100
And they had an accurate 
understanding of it and let's go

513
00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:43,000
beyond that. 
The holy spirit is providing 

514
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,300
insight about who really was 
responsible for Pharaoh's. 

515
00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:52,600
Rejection of God. 
It says that pharaoh and what? 

516
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,300
Why should you harden your 
hearts as the Egyptians and 

517
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:59,100
Pharaoh hardened? 
Their hearts. 

518
00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:02,700
That is a wonderful verse to 
bring some clarity on a very 

519
00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,600
controversial character in The 
Bible by the name of pharaoh. 

520
00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:10,600
Because the understanding of 
pharaoh is that he hardened his 

521
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,800
heart and he was responsible for
the Judgment that came upon him 

522
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,700
and his people. 
So here's my question. 

523
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,200
How do you deal with a verse 
like this? 

524
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,800
When you compare it to What God 
Says in Exodus 73 and let me 

525
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,200
read it to you but I will 
harden. 

526
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:30,300
Pharaoh's heart. and though I 
multiply my signs and wonders, 

527
00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:34,300
in the land of Egypt, who's 
going to harden, According to 

528
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:38,200
Exodus who is it? 
God God says, I will do it, I 

529
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,200
come to First Samuel 66 and I 
hear and I see that it was feral

530
00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:50,000
where the Philistines wrong. 
This is interesting, right? 

531
00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:54,400
So the Philistines were our 
minions. 

532
00:33:57,300 --> 00:33:59,700
And God is calvinist. 
I guess, right? 

533
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,500
Just to ease the tension in the 
room. 

534
00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:09,699
It's still there, but it's okay.
Let me ask it this way. 

535
00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:17,600
When was the first time Pharaoh 
hardened his heart and The 

536
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,600
Exodus narrative. 
That will bring a lot of 

537
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,400
clarity. 
Does anybody know? 

538
00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,900
So let me ask it this way. 
When was the first time, Exodus 

539
00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:39,800
tells us explicitly that God 
hardened Pharaoh's heart. 

540
00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:45,800
Close. 
But there's a specific location.

541
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:50,199
It's under a specific plague 
does anybody know Would you like

542
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:54,500
to know good go to Exodus 
chapter 9 and you'll see it 

543
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:57,200
right there. 
Where the first time we are 

544
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:04,500
explicitly told that the Lord 
hardened Pharaoh's heart. 

545
00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:16,300
Exodus 9. 
Verse 12. 

546
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:21,700
But the Lord hardened, the heart
of pharaoh, and he did not 

547
00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:24,500
listen to them as the Lord had 
spoken to Moses. 

548
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,400
And that is under, what, what 
plague number the sixth plague. 

549
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:34,700
A lot has happened before God 
officially and explicitly 

550
00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:38,300
Harden, Pharaoh's heart, because
you see versus like what we see 

551
00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:41,900
in chapter 8. 
Look at 8:15. 

552
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:48,500
But when Pharaoh saw that, there
is a respite, he hardened his 

553
00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:51,400
heart and would not listen to 
them. 

554
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,600
As the Lord had said you come 
down to verse 32 of the same 

555
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,900
chapter, what do you read? 
But Pharaoh hardened, his heart.

556
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:05,100
This time also and he did not 
let the people go. and then, 

557
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:11,800
when you come to 9:12, God says 
you want to keep hardening your 

558
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,500
heart? 
I'll help you do it. 

559
00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:18,100
And he seals him in that 
condition. 

560
00:36:18,700 --> 00:36:20,700
So then what do we do with 
Exodus 7? 

561
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:25,500
Well, he said he would do it. 
He said he would do it and he 

562
00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:29,300
did an exodus 9. 
So, he tells Moses in his 

563
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,600
understanding of the future, I'm
going to harden his heart. 

564
00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:35,300
It's going to happen. 
But what will you read prior to 

565
00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:39,200
this moment of it actually being
executed is Pharaoh hardened, 

566
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,200
his heart and Pharaoh, hardened,
his heart again and Pharaoh 

567
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,100
hardened, his heart again and 
there is a Biblical truth that 

568
00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:48,100
when a man continues to harden 
his heart, God will help him do 

569
00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:51,200
it. 
And that's why the Philistines 

570
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,300
understood. 
Hey, we don't want to do that. 

571
00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:56,700
We don't want to harden 
ourselves and become like them. 

572
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,500
Because the understanding of 
judicial hardening is that you 

573
00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:04,800
do not know the line before. 
God comes and supernaturally, 

574
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:09,300
solidifies you in that place. 
So don't entertain it even once.

575
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:12,400
That's why there's an urgency 
with a gospel today is the day 

576
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,000
of salvation. 
If you hear the gospel Now 

577
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,300
respond, when you share the 
gospel, yes, there is an element

578
00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:20,100
where you want to be patient 
with people, but there should 

579
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:23,700
also be an urgency. 
There should be an urgency. 

580
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,300
Now you can't grab people by the
neck and drag them to church, 

581
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,500
but you With a voice and 
Trembling Lips and teary. 

582
00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:33,100
Eyes say, you need to make a 
decision quick. 

583
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,300
I mean if you need to explore 
and compare and study sure but 

584
00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:41,300
do it quickly the hold off on 
your salvation. 

585
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:45,600
Don't resist God. 
The Philistines understood that 

586
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,800
they understood the seriousness 
of God's work when it comes to 

587
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,800
them, giving a chance to either 
respond to him or reject him. 

588
00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:55,100
So let me come back to 1st 
Samuel. 

589
00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:00,400
And what happens? 
Well, it's amazing. 

590
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,300
What happens it actually makes 
you giggle. 

591
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,900
To some degree. 
They come up with an idea. 

592
00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:11,200
And their idea is this well, 
we'll send them back with this 

593
00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:14,500
gift. 
And these gifts, But verse 7 

594
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:19,700
says now then take and prepare a
new cart and to milk cows on 

595
00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:24,300
which there has never come a 
yoke and Yoke, the cows to the 

596
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:29,500
cart, but take their calves home
away from them and take the Ark 

597
00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:32,600
of the Lord and place it on the 
cart and put in a box at its 

598
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,000
side, the figures of gold, which
were returning to him as a guilt

599
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,400
offering. 
Then send it off and let it go 

600
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,200
its way and watch. 
If it goes on its way to its own

601
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,600
land to Beth Shemesh. 
Now they have the specific 

602
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:50,500
location that it is he who has 
done this great harm but if not,

603
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:56,000
hold on. 
But if not what But if not, then

604
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,700
we shall know that it is not his
hand that struck us. 

605
00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:02,600
Are you kidding me? 
It has happened to us by 

606
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:07,500
coincidence. 
Like they are so desperate to 

607
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:12,400
hold onto the ark. 
They are so ferociously devoted 

608
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,200
to their own sense of Pride. 
That even up to this point, 

609
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,600
they're like there's like a 
point one percent chance that 

610
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,800
this is just really bad timing 
and that we're actually Superior

611
00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:25,800
over Israel. 
It's amazing. 

612
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:30,100
The determination to hold on to 
yourself and not fall at 

613
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:34,200
Christ's feet. 
That's why salvation in itself 

614
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,600
is a miracle. 
So this was a strategy. 

615
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:43,000
All right, get to milk cows. 
That just had babies that have 

616
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,500
never ever driven a cart. 
And what we're going to do is 

617
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:48,500
that we're going to put a yoke 
on both of these milk. 

618
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:50,900
Cows were going to leave their 
babies at home. 

619
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,900
And we're going to give them no 
driver. 

620
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,700
No driver, never driven a car 
before fresh babies that came 

621
00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:06,500
out of their bellies. and if it 
heads towards beth-shemesh, The 

622
00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:10,300
hand of God is on this, if they 
remove the, the yolk and they 

623
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,900
turn or they turn towards their 
calves, then this this is not a 

624
00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:17,200
real deal. 
So they put this ridiculous test

625
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,500
before God to see, is this 
really God or not? 

626
00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:29,800
And something amazing happens. 
Verse 12, they come up with this

627
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:35,200
test and we see here and the 
cows when straight in the 

628
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:40,400
direction of beth-shemesh along 
one Highway lowing as they went,

629
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,900
they turn neither to the right 
nor to the left and the Lords of

630
00:40:43,908 --> 00:40:47,200
the Philistines went after them 
as far as the board of Beth 

631
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:52,600
Shemesh. 
So I can just picture it to milk

632
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,900
cows, a yoke. 
All these leaders are 

633
00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:58,600
surrounding it thinking like 
they're so desperate for this to

634
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,200
work in their favor. 
They put the ark, they put the 

635
00:41:01,207 --> 00:41:03,100
little box with a tumors in mice
in it. 

636
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:11,100
And they said, okay, cows go to 
Beth Shemesh and they step back.

637
00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:19,300
And they begin to walk. 
And they're getting on the main 

638
00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:22,100
road. 
And they're headed towards 

639
00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:25,000
Israel. 
And they're thinking maybe they 

640
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,700
smell something, maybe they're 
trying to find something for 

641
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:30,300
their calves and they're getting
nervous and they're pulling 

642
00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:33,800
their callers. 
And then they hear something 

643
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,000
they hear a lowing, they hear 
them crying. 

644
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:42,300
And then it came to a point that
they start following this cart 

645
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,800
and it dawned on them, we are 
witnessing a miracle. 

646
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,600
Why would this be a miracle for 
many reasons? 

647
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:59,700
But give me one. 
God himself is bringing himself 

648
00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:03,200
back to Israel shore. 
But you know what's so 

649
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,900
interesting here? 
What would be the natural 

650
00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:10,100
tendency of these cows? 
What would be their their 

651
00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:15,400
Instinct as a result of this? 
To go back to their babies. 

652
00:42:17,100 --> 00:42:21,100
To go back to their children, to
offer them, the affection, and 

653
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:23,600
the care that they need, and 
their vulnerable state. 

654
00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:30,000
And we see that being manifested
how they were lowing. 

655
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:36,300
As they went, there is a deep 
cry, they wanted to go back and 

656
00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:41,500
be with their babies. 
But, what's happening? 

657
00:42:42,700 --> 00:42:45,800
There is another force that is 
overpowering. 

658
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,500
Even their natural tendencies, 
and it's pulling them in a 

659
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:52,900
different direction to such a 
degree that they don't look to 

660
00:42:52,900 --> 00:42:55,600
the left, they don't look to the
right. 

661
00:42:57,100 --> 00:42:59,800
The faces of these cows Were 
Like Flint. 

662
00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:03,000
Towards where God wanted them to
go. 

663
00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:09,900
Earlier, you heard and you 
received a picture of what 

664
00:43:09,900 --> 00:43:14,800
happens when the presence of God
enters into the same room where 

665
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:19,500
an idol thinks he can stand. 
As a picture of, when God moves 

666
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:23,700
into your heart, the power and 
authority, and even pleasure of 

667
00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:27,900
sin. 
Crumbles, you're about to see 

668
00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:32,400
another lesson about what the 
presence of God does and here's 

669
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,700
what it does. 
It provides a supernatural 

670
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:39,100
strength that keeps you on the 
path of obedience. 

671
00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:42,600
Even to the point where you can 
overcome your natural 

672
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:49,100
tendencies, In 1st Samuel for 
you saw, the people is, you're 

673
00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:50,700
trying to manipulate the Ark of 
God. 

674
00:43:50,700 --> 00:43:54,700
And first, Samuel 5, you saw the
Philistines trying to miss treat

675
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,100
the Ark of God. 
And in first Samuel 6, you were 

676
00:43:57,107 --> 00:44:01,300
seeing two cows. 
Submit to the presence of God. 

677
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:11,200
Two cows. 
Milk cows are proving a greater 

678
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,300
example of how to respond to God
than humans. 

679
00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:21,400
And this is what happens when 
God moves into your heart. 

680
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:29,000
There is much in our life that 
we live against in the natural 

681
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,800
sense. 
There are many things that are 

682
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:38,000
flipped when God abides in a 
person's heart. 

683
00:44:38,300 --> 00:44:41,500
For example, you forgive the 
unforgivable, don't you? 

684
00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:50,400
You say no to what the world 
easily says yes to. 

685
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,100
Instead of taking Vengeance on 
your behalf or on the behalf of 

686
00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:57,200
others, you let God do it, 
right? 

687
00:45:00,300 --> 00:45:03,500
If you want to be great, you 
become a servant and you refuse 

688
00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:05,700
to be a master and Lord yourself
over others. 

689
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,100
And these cows felt the tension.
There is the natural pull. 

690
00:45:12,100 --> 00:45:15,900
The maternal instinct to be with
their children, but something 

691
00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:22,500
greater overtook that You and I 
cannot do what Christ calls us 

692
00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:23,800
to do. 
Unless we are involved with the 

693
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,800
Holy Spirit. 
And the more you want to live in

694
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,500
this paradoxical Christian 
conviction, the more of the 

695
00:45:32,500 --> 00:45:34,300
power of God you need in your 
life. 

696
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,900
There is no way that these cows 
apart from God's presence. 

697
00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:42,600
Would have moved forward miles 
on end to complete the thing 

698
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,300
that they first started. 
But with God's help it is 

699
00:45:46,300 --> 00:45:50,400
possible and that's the point. 
Christianity is a supernatural 

700
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,900
religion as one person put it. 
There is no other religion in 

701
00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:59,000
the world that teaches that 
their God lives inside of them. 

702
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:05,000
but your Bible teaches that, 
Your Bible teaches that your God

703
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:10,700
takes up residence within you. 
And me now, can we sing that and

704
00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:14,400
preach that and believe that and
not see the effects of that? 

705
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,700
No. 
We should be walking miracles. 

706
00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:24,000
We should be walking Miracles 
what we fall. 

707
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,700
Sometimes. 
Sure because there's another 

708
00:46:25,700 --> 00:46:28,400
principle. 
It's not automatic these cows. 

709
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,000
Don't have what you and I have a
conscience. 

710
00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:36,300
To a certain degree. 
We have to choose, we have to 

711
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:40,000
feed that new man that lives 
inside of us that can be 

712
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,900
weakened over time because of 
our negligence, but that can be 

713
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:44,900
strengthened, as we pay 
attention to it. 

714
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,000
So you look at the Book of 
Jonah. 

715
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:49,700
What do you see you see the same
picture. 

716
00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:52,700
God commands a whale to swallow 
up the prophet. 

717
00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:55,900
He obeys God commands a storm, 
the storm obeys, God commands a 

718
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:59,100
plan to come up, it obeys a warm
to eat the plant, it obeys. 

719
00:47:00,100 --> 00:47:01,700
God, commands a prophet to 
preach repentance. 

720
00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:04,500
No. 
No, no. 

721
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,800
The caterpillar will say yes, to
God. 

722
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,700
The winds will say, yes to go. 
The ways will obey the whale. 

723
00:47:11,100 --> 00:47:15,000
Yes, sir, man. 
No. 

724
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:23,000
We need something greater than 
just emotional stirring and even

725
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:28,100
a will we need God's help and 
God's power. and he's willing to

726
00:47:28,100 --> 00:47:30,400
do just that when a person 
hungers and thirsts for 

727
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:35,700
righteousness, You know, what's 
so sad about this that these 

728
00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:40,100
cows to cows? 
Are providing a greater example 

729
00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:42,400
of how to respond to God's 
Authority. 

730
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:48,400
Then the two sons of Eli. 
The two sons of Eli waltzed into

731
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,600
the presence of God, took up the
ark and went into the 

732
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:56,100
battlefield and the cows are 
taking that same Arc and bring 

733
00:47:56,100 --> 00:48:02,800
it back to its rightful place. 
And what happens when they 

734
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:08,900
arrive, we'll verse 13. 
We see here in other people 

735
00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:12,500
have, beth-shemesh were reaping 
their wheat harvest in the 

736
00:48:12,500 --> 00:48:14,500
valley. 
And when they lifted up their 

737
00:48:14,500 --> 00:48:19,100
eyes and saw the ark, they 
rejoiced to see it, it's been 

738
00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:23,500
seven months. 
Seven months, not knowing when 

739
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:25,900
the ark was going to come back, 
if it was going to come back and

740
00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:29,300
offer a sudden there, it is, in 
the Horizon to milk cows lowing,

741
00:48:29,300 --> 00:48:32,300
and lowing and lowing. 
You know what? 

742
00:48:32,300 --> 00:48:34,900
I love about the cows lowing. 
It's still testifies to the 

743
00:48:34,908 --> 00:48:38,600
attention of the flesh. 
It's still testifies. 

744
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,800
That there's a war between the 
spirit and the flesh. 

745
00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:44,100
So sometimes your flesh, even 
though the spirit of God dwells 

746
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:47,100
in, you will cry. 
Give me attention. 

747
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,100
Give me sin. 
Give me lust, give me blood. 

748
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,700
The lowing and lowing and 
lowing. 

749
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:02,700
And they look and I wonder if 
the sun hit that Arc and it's 

750
00:49:02,700 --> 00:49:09,100
golden frame and they rejoiced 
to see it, it's back here it is.

751
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,400
And I'd like to think that these
cows received an honor that 

752
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:19,200
hophni and Phineas forfeited. 
They were instruments used by 

753
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,600
God to carry something that 
would bless others. 

754
00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:27,400
Instead hafidh and Phineas 
represented the same God, but 

755
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,500
this honor men but much grief to
the nation of Israel. 

756
00:49:31,100 --> 00:49:35,100
Here's my point. 
You and I have the opportunity 

757
00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:40,400
to carry the hope of glory and 
such a tangible. 

758
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,500
And obvious way that when those 
who are around us come into 

759
00:49:43,500 --> 00:49:46,900
contact with us, they can 
rejoice in God and greater 

760
00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:49,900
fashion. 
I would like that in my life. 

761
00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:54,200
And I would encourage you like 
these to milk cows yoke with 

762
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,400
somebody that has the same 
ambition in life. 

763
00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:01,700
Yoke yourself to someone like 
these cows that are not driven 

764
00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:04,300
by man, but are driven by the 
invisible hand of God. 

765
00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:08,800
And you will be a blessing in 
your marriage and your 

766
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:13,800
friendships. 
And your local church. find that

767
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:20,100
people that are driven by God, 
led by his spirit that hate the 

768
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:22,500
things of the Flesh. 
And even when there's days where

769
00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:26,000
they low and cry because of 
Temptation, they still move 

770
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,100
forward, and don't look to the 
left or the right. 

771
00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:34,900
These cows blessed people not 
because they were cows because 

772
00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:39,700
of what They Carried. 
You can be a blessing no matter 

773
00:50:39,700 --> 00:50:41,700
who you are. 
It doesn't matter how you look. 

774
00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:45,700
Doesn't matter your hair, how it
looks your skin condition, your 

775
00:50:45,700 --> 00:50:49,900
height, your weight. 
It's who you carry. 

776
00:50:51,900 --> 00:50:55,600
It's who you carry. 
Church history, teaches that the

777
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,500
Apostle Paul was not an 
attractive person. 

778
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,700
And I can imagine how just read 
what the man went through 

779
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,100
shipwrecks and whippings and 
stonings. 

780
00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:08,000
I mean the guy got stoned so 
badly that the people at Stone 

781
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,200
and thought he was dead. 
Then he gets up and dust himself

782
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,600
off and he goes right back in. 
You're telling me this guy was 

783
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:19,900
stoned and whipped and beaten 
and Shriveled up by the Sea and 

784
00:51:19,900 --> 00:51:25,400
he was attractive. but when he 
walked into a city demons cried 

785
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:30,600
out, Who cares? 
What kind of Blazer you wear? 

786
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:32,500
Who cares? 
What kind of clothes you wear 

787
00:51:32,500 --> 00:51:34,100
it? 
Don't you covet that? 

788
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,800
Don't you covet that I love what
one preacher said that his 

789
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,600
greatest ambition in life was to
be on the 10 most wanted list in

790
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:47,500
hell. 
Jesus, we know. 

791
00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:50,700
And who do we know Paul we know 
who are you guys? 

792
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,100
And a demon's? 
Beat them up and they ran out of

793
00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:55,100
the house? 
Naked. 

794
00:51:57,300 --> 00:52:00,300
You and I can tap into something
in God, where people are blessed

795
00:52:00,300 --> 00:52:03,700
by our presence, by our words of
our actions, by our gifts. 

796
00:52:04,500 --> 00:52:06,600
That can only come when were in 
relationship with God and we 

797
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,600
allow them to dominate our 
hearts and Minds. 

798
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,300
So they come and then they 
sacrifice these cows, but then 

799
00:52:13,300 --> 00:52:15,600
something happens very quickly 
in verse 19. 

800
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,100
And he struck being God, some of
the men of Beth Shemesh because 

801
00:52:20,100 --> 00:52:21,900
they looked upon the Ark of the 
Lord. 

802
00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:25,600
He struck 70 men of them, and 
the people mourn, because the 

803
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,000
Lord had struck the people with 
a great blow. 

804
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,000
I mean, you had a Revival that 
lasted like a few minutes. 

805
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:37,400
Because the people didn't learn 
after 7 months. 

806
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,000
Have to treat the presence of 
God. 

807
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,800
And God came back after seven 
months and he says, we're not 

808
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:48,200
going to do this again. 
And he brought a severe plague 

809
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,100
instantly because the people of 
Israel should have known better 

810
00:52:51,700 --> 00:52:54,800
since they had the word of God, 
but notice how they respond in 

811
00:52:54,808 --> 00:52:57,600
verse 20. 
The men have Beth Shemesh said, 

812
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:02,300
who is able to stand before the 
Lord this holy God and to whom, 

813
00:53:02,300 --> 00:53:06,400
shall he go up away from us. 
So they sent Messengers to the 

814
00:53:06,408 --> 00:53:10,000
inhabitants of kiriath. 
Jeremie saying the Philistines 

815
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,000
returned, the Ark of the Lord, 
come down and take it up to you.

816
00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:17,400
They're doing the very same 
thing that the Philistines did. 

817
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,900
Once there was a revelation of 
the Holiness of God, the tone 

818
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:24,800
here denotes that they're 
actually pinning. 

819
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,500
The blame of this great blow 
against God. 

820
00:53:29,300 --> 00:53:33,700
So, he Slaughters an amount of 
Israelites, and this is what 

821
00:53:33,700 --> 00:53:36,400
they do. 
Instead of being broken, instead

822
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,300
of being repentant and contract 
in art, they said, who's going 

823
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:42,900
to stand before this. 
God, he's so holy, let's get rid

824
00:53:42,900 --> 00:53:46,900
of him. 
Just like the Philistines. 

825
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:52,500
Let's get rid of him. 
And that is one of two reactions

826
00:53:52,500 --> 00:53:57,300
to the Holiness of God. 
You either run away with him or 

827
00:53:57,300 --> 00:54:01,500
from him with such a 
desperation, you will plunge 

828
00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:06,500
yourself into greater darkness 
and wickedness or you will fall 

829
00:54:06,500 --> 00:54:12,000
at his feet and worshiped him 
and surrender to him and men. 

830
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:17,000
Do what these men are doing here
they do, they will come to this 

831
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,100
book and they will, with 
arrogance point to certain 

832
00:54:21,100 --> 00:54:24,600
aspects of God's dealings, 
especially in the Old Testament.

833
00:54:25,900 --> 00:54:29,600
and they will say, what is this?
God think he is. 

834
00:54:32,100 --> 00:54:34,900
How can he do such things and 
they will even look at the 

835
00:54:34,900 --> 00:54:36,900
commands of God. 
Say, these are excessive and 

836
00:54:36,900 --> 00:54:41,700
these are even unrealistic. 
And you have many people even in

837
00:54:41,700 --> 00:54:44,700
the church today that interpret 
the god of the Old Testament 

838
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:49,700
such fashion and God over all 
And so, the Holiness of God 

839
00:54:49,700 --> 00:54:53,700
becomes an aspect of criticism, 
instead of an element that 

840
00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:58,200
causes us to worship. 
And Paul clarifies very, very, 

841
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,200
very obviously. 
And Romans 7, when he speaks 

842
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,400
about the law, he's talking 
about the Old Testament law. 

843
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,400
You know what Paul says in 
Romans 7:12. 

844
00:55:05,900 --> 00:55:10,700
So the law is Holy, it's holy, 
and the Commandment is holy and 

845
00:55:10,700 --> 00:55:13,000
righteous and finished at the, 
you know, well, there it is. 

846
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:17,500
And good. 
It's good. 

847
00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:23,400
It's not excessive. 
It's not unrealistic. 

848
00:55:25,100 --> 00:55:29,100
No, the finger cannot be pointed
at God's law, whether old or New

849
00:55:29,100 --> 00:55:33,400
Covenant, the finger should be 
pointed at our lack of obedience

850
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,300
and our willingness to submit, 
you know, why we get offended, 

851
00:55:36,300 --> 00:55:38,000
how God does things in the Old 
Testament? 

852
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:42,000
It dawned on me today. 
It dawned on me today and it's 

853
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,900
one main reason because we don't
understand how holy is. 

854
00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:52,300
It's as simple as that. 
Because we equate God to us, 

855
00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:54,100
like, this is, how many people 
even Christians. 

856
00:55:54,100 --> 00:55:56,500
This is how many Christians 
think God is, just like a little

857
00:55:56,500 --> 00:55:59,800
holier than I am. 
Like, I'm here and God is here. 

858
00:56:04,900 --> 00:56:06,800
Let me ask you this. 
How hold are you in comparison 

859
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:10,500
to Isaiah the prophet figure? 
That one out. 

860
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,100
Once you do, go to Isaiah 6 and 
see his reaction to the presence

861
00:56:14,100 --> 00:56:18,800
of God. 
We don't understand how Puri is.

862
00:56:19,900 --> 00:56:24,000
Without blemish without spots. 
So, brilliant and Majestic and 

863
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,700
purity. 
That it will cause a profit. 

864
00:56:29,500 --> 00:56:33,200
To dig his head in the ground. 
And be broken. 

865
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,800
And the thing that he had the 
right to Bow, send my lips, 

866
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,400
these are unclean lips. 
The very thing that he preached 

867
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:44,300
with came and was rendered as 
nothing in the presence of a 

868
00:56:44,308 --> 00:56:49,700
holy God. 
So what happens. 

869
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:54,500
Here's what happens. 
Mankind has proven that until 

870
00:56:54,500 --> 00:56:58,900
today. 
Blaming God's holiness instead 

871
00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:00,600
of looking at our own 
sinfulness. 

872
00:57:02,900 --> 00:57:05,100
But God's holiness is not the 
only thing that is good. 

873
00:57:05,100 --> 00:57:10,600
God's Mercy is equally good and 
here's what happens instead of 

874
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:16,100
judging all of us instead of 
casting us into an utter and 

875
00:57:16,100 --> 00:57:20,700
outer Darkness for all eternity.
God in his mercy and love enters

876
00:57:20,700 --> 00:57:25,000
into the world. 
And stands on our behalf and 

877
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:26,800
fulfills what? 
No, man could fulfill his own 

878
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,700
power and strength so that we 
can stand before his holiness. 

879
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:34,600
And that's why the Bible gives 
us language. 

880
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,900
Hiding yourself in Christ being 
hid in Christ. 

881
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,800
So the question here, who can 
stand before the Lord, this holy

882
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,700
God is no one. 
Except for those who are in 

883
00:57:47,700 --> 00:57:52,900
Christ, best the answer. 
And I thank God for that. 

884
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,700
Because not only does he allow 
me to stand in his presence. 

885
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:01,000
Like these milk cows, he gives 
me the power. 

886
00:58:02,500 --> 00:58:04,700
And the Delight to walk in his 
ways. 

887
00:58:06,300 --> 00:58:08,700
The power and the Delight to 
walk in his ways. 

888
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,100
It's amazing what God can do 
when he conquers a heart 

889
00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:16,200
completely. 
I can tell you this. 

890
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,100
Somebody said this and it's an 
old thought. 

891
00:58:22,100 --> 00:58:24,500
Meaning, it's an old message 
that I heard that bless me to 

892
00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:26,000
this day and it rings in my 
ears. 

893
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:30,400
Sometimes he said, I don't ask 
Christians where people 

894
00:58:30,700 --> 00:58:34,700
generally, if they believe in 
Jesus anymore, I stopped asking 

895
00:58:34,700 --> 00:58:38,800
that question. and I start 
asking this question, this 

896
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:44,700
Christ live in you And when you 
ask that question, you're going 

897
00:58:44,700 --> 00:58:47,500
to get different answers this 
Christ live in you. 

898
00:58:49,900 --> 00:58:53,000
Everybody believes in Jesus, 
milk cows. 

899
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,500
Believe in Jesus. 
But not everybody can 

900
00:58:57,500 --> 00:59:02,200
confidently answer. 
But the same whip of. 

901
00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:07,300
Confidence. 
Christ lives in me. 

902
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:09,800
Do you know how Christ lives in 
you? 

903
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,000
It's very simple. 
Just examine your desires. 

904
00:59:15,300 --> 00:59:18,800
Examine your desires, see before
Christ, you felt this 

905
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,700
overwhelming, pull to do with 
the flesh, says to do. 

906
00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:24,600
But when Christ comes in, you 
discover something about 

907
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,600
yourself, you know, what it is. 
There's a wrestling match now. 

908
00:59:30,100 --> 00:59:35,000
The Flesh and the spirit the 
Flesh and the spirit, many 

909
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,800
people come up and say, I don't 
know if I'm truly saved, 

910
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:37,600
brother. 
Why? 

911
00:59:37,900 --> 00:59:40,600
Because this happened in my 
life, I fell into this and I'm 

912
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,500
overwhelmed by the grief. 
Do you want to sin or not? 

913
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:45,600
I don't want to send. 
That's why I'm confessing it. 

914
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,400
Do you want to continue in this 
way or not? 

915
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:48,900
I don't want to. 
Do you love your sin? 

916
00:59:48,900 --> 00:59:51,800
I hate my sin and I almost hate 
myself because of my sin. 

917
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,100
You're in a good place. 
You're in a good place. 

918
01:00:01,700 --> 01:00:04,900
Because you know, the tension 
between the spirit and the 

919
01:00:04,900 --> 01:00:07,700
flesh. 
Now all you need to do is feed 

920
01:00:07,700 --> 01:00:10,600
the new man and you will know a 
greater strength. 

921
01:00:12,700 --> 01:00:15,500
I never thought that I would 
read this Bible and find 

922
01:00:15,500 --> 01:00:20,300
inspiration from milk cows. 
But that's the beauty of Bible 

923
01:00:20,300 --> 01:00:23,300
study. 
Next time, if somebody asks you 

924
01:00:23,308 --> 01:00:25,300
who are your favorite characters
in the Old Testament, you have 

925
01:00:25,300 --> 01:00:31,700
another one to consider. 
I look at these milk, cows, and 

926
01:00:31,700 --> 01:00:35,000
I'm inspired because here's what
I'm inspired by today. 

927
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,900
My birthday just passed and I 
thought to myself. 

928
01:00:40,100 --> 01:00:44,000
Wow, time flies. 
I'm not going to tell you how 

929
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,600
old I am. 
But I'll tell you this, it's 

930
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:50,500
been 10 years walking with the 
Lord 10 years. 

931
01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:59,100
And it felt like, too. 
Really even moving around and 

932
01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:00,900
different opportunities and 
studying here. 

933
01:01:00,900 --> 01:01:03,500
And they're really felt like 2 
or 3 years. 

934
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:07,900
I was having a conversation with
somebody and they brought the 

935
01:01:07,900 --> 01:01:12,300
point up that when you get older
it only feels faster. 

936
01:01:15,300 --> 01:01:17,700
And he gave the example that 
somebody that he heard from 

937
01:01:17,700 --> 01:01:21,100
somebody, that when you get 
older it's like your age becomes

938
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:25,300
a greater speed limit. 
So when you're in your 30s, it 

939
01:01:25,300 --> 01:01:27,300
feels like you're going 30 miles
an hour in life. 

940
01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:29,300
When you're in your 40s, it 
feels like 40 my when you're in 

941
01:01:29,300 --> 01:01:31,600
your 50s, it feels like 50. 
I'm like don't scare me. 

942
01:01:33,100 --> 01:01:35,200
I'm already trying to put the 
brakes on at this point. 

943
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,600
We were sitting across from each
other and we he's at a different

944
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,500
point in life and I'm at a 
different point in life in terms

945
01:01:42,500 --> 01:01:44,900
of age, but we came to the same 
conclusion. 

946
01:01:45,900 --> 01:01:49,200
Not much time is left. 
And I look at these milk cows, 

947
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:53,500
and they finished. 
They became a burnt offering at 

948
01:01:53,500 --> 01:01:55,400
the end. 
They never got to see their 

949
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:59,100
babies again. 
Read verse 14 of chapter 6, they

950
01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:02,800
never were able to go back to 
their desperate and vulnerable 

951
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:06,200
babies but they became a 
pleasing Aroma to God. 

952
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,400
That's what I want my life to 
be. 

953
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:15,100
I want to finish well. 
Started 10 years ago, wonderful,

954
01:02:15,100 --> 01:02:18,200
it's one thing to start. 
It's another thing to finish and

955
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:19,300
I hope that's your desire as 
well. 

956
01:02:19,300 --> 01:02:23,100
And here is the promise. 
Let the presence of God dominate

957
01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:25,800
your heart. 
Let's ask him for that. 

958
01:02:46,900 --> 01:02:50,000
I'd like to offer you two points
of application in your prayers 

959
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,100
tonight. 
The first one Lord, the same way

960
01:02:53,100 --> 01:02:59,400
you made Dagon fall to his face.
And he was rendered powerless. 

961
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,600
Lord destroy every Idol in my 
heart tonight. 

962
01:03:06,100 --> 01:03:08,900
In the same way that you 
directed those milk cows into 

963
01:03:08,900 --> 01:03:12,600
your will to the point where 
they overcome the tugs and the 

964
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:17,700
pulls of their own flesh. 
Lord bind me to your will. 

965
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:26,500
Arrest me with your Authority. 
Captivate my heart not just in 

966
01:03:26,500 --> 01:03:30,200
the beginning, but all the way 
till the end Help me. 

967
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:34,200
Not look to the left. 
Help me not look to the right. 

968
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,000
Thank you that on the way there 
will be times of lowing. 

969
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:45,000
But Lord, no matter how I feel. 
I want to obey your will just 

970
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:49,500
ask God for a fresh touch, a 
fresh empowerment of the spirit.

971
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:54,000
Let not milk cows. 
Bear greater testimony of 

972
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:59,300
obedience than us in 2021. 
Father, we ask you in. 

973
01:03:59,300 --> 01:04:03,000
Jesus name, thank you for your 
incredible word. 

974
01:04:04,100 --> 01:04:05,300
Thank you. 
How you speak? 

975
01:04:05,300 --> 01:04:07,000
Lord, thank you for the 
inspiration. 

976
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:15,400
Lord, we ask tonight. that every
person in here, Would be slaves 

977
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:21,700
to Christ. and Lord thank you 
that in first John five, you 

978
01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:27,800
tell us that are your commands 
are not burdensome and the only 

979
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,000
way your commands can feel light
as when we have a greater power 

980
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,900
in US, thank you for the power 
of the Holy Spirit. 

981
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,900
We ask Lord that. 
If we have grieved him of, we 

982
01:04:39,900 --> 01:04:41,800
have failed to fellowship with 
him. 

983
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,500
That that would be revived 
tonight. 

984
01:04:50,500 --> 01:04:59,500
That would be revived tonight. 
we want to finish well, Lord 

985
01:04:59,500 --> 01:05:01,700
there is someone here who have 
walked with you for two years, 

986
01:05:01,700 --> 01:05:07,600
five years, ten years, 20 years,
30 years, Thank you. 

987
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,300
Lord. 
That you've kept us this long 

988
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,100
but Lord, we have the Finish 
Line in mind. 

989
01:05:14,700 --> 01:05:18,200
And with all the Temptations and
all the cries of this flesh and 

990
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:19,800
all the allurements of this 
world. 

991
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:24,800
Lord, we recognize that. 
It must be your Divine help that

992
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:28,100
keeps us on the path. 
So, Lord, we confess our 

993
01:05:28,100 --> 01:05:31,400
neediness to you tonight. 
Thank you that through the 

994
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:34,900
blood. 
You do not dwell in the most. 

995
01:05:34,900 --> 01:05:37,800
Holy place in Jerusalem. 
Anywhere you made your home in 

996
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:41,900
US. 
And so, Lord Phyllis afresh. 

997
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,700
We are encouraged by Your Word 
tonight. 

998
01:05:46,500 --> 01:05:50,700
We are blessed by your wisdom. 
We adore you for your goodness. 

999
01:05:51,900 --> 01:05:55,300
Lord, if you're willing to help 
milk cows, how much more your 

1000
01:05:55,300 --> 01:05:59,100
children? 
We rest in that truth tonight in

1001
01:05:59,100 --> 01:06:01,500
Jesus name we pray. 
Amen. 

1002
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,700
We are encouraged by Your Word 
tonight. 

1003
01:05:46,500 --> 01:05:50,700
We are blessed by your wisdom. 
We adore you for your goodness. 

1004
01:05:51,900 --> 01:05:55,300
Lord, if you're willing to help 
milk cows, how much more your 

1005
01:05:55,300 --> 01:05:59,100
children? 
We rest in that truth tonight in

1006
01:05:59,100 --> 01:06:01,500
Jesus name we pray. 
Amen.