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*If you guys had to pick out a theme that has run through the early part of this book of 1 Samuel...
what would you say that is?
To me it seems that - Judgment is the pretty clear winner in that regard.
We’ve seen...
The Tale of Two Families (Elkanah and Eli) = Judgment
Blessing & Judgment
The Ark of the Covenant (Judgment)
And today - we’ll see “The Progression of a Sinful Heart”
and AGAIN - in the judgment of God coming upon His people.
AGAIN - we’ll cover quite a bit of text, but it’s all in context...
…AND BECAUSE we’ll cover a lot of texts, we’ll march THROUGH it as we UNPACK it.
FIRST - let’s talk thru where we’re at currently...
If you remember - last week - the Ark of the Covenant had been taken by the Philistines...
And God ended up bringing judgment on all the cities of the Philistines!
And so they RETURN the Ark to Israel...
And ALL ALONG the WAY - God judges men.
But once the Ark returned - and Israel REPENTED....what happened?
God was now WITH Israel - and they defeated the Philistines...
And everything seemed right in the world!
So we ended last week with Israel having defeated the Philistines...
And we pick up from there...
Now - don’t forget what preceded this...
The Israelites were under God’s judgment...
They lost a couple battles..
BUT THEN - they repent.
The tides TURN...
God begins to BLESS them…VICTORY comes.
NOW - we begin to see the DEPTH of God’s blessing to Israel...
It says the Philistines were subdued…and DID NOT AGAIN enter the territory of Israel!
The cities that had been CAPTURED by the Philistines - were RESTORED!
There was PEACE between Israel and the Amorites!
The people LIVED THIS OUT - AGAIN - by repentance - Blessing came...
Listen - Blessing didn’t come by them - WORKING for God
Or DOING GOOD things for God
It came - BY REPENTANCE!
And SAMUEL - being in tune to HOW God works - Here we see that he sets up a MEMORIAL to all that God had done for His people!
verse 12 said what...
He puts a STONE in between Mizpah and Shen and called it - Ebenezer - WHICH MEANS - a stone of HELP
“Till now the Lord has helped us”
And it’s INTERESTING this phrase - TILL NOW...
Because this phrase INCLUDES - what?
FOR SURE it includes the VICTORIES....
But it also includes - the losses.
That God was HELPING His people - COME BACK to HIM - in those losses!
Remember what Samuel said to Israel?
If you are - RETURNING to the Lord...
Know this:
SLIDE:
Anything in our lives that brings us back to God, whether we label it a blessing or judgment, is ultimately a blessing.
Any LOSS that comes
heartache that comes
any trial that comes - that BRINGS us back to God...
Is a blessing!
And this PHRASE that Samuel uses (Till now) - is similar to the phrase that Paul used in Philippians...
This phrase - “What has happened to me” - CONTAINED some VERY heavy things!! Hard things!!
an illegal arrest
a 2 year prison stay
a plot to take his life
a ship wreck, a snake bite
a 3 month stay on an island
and a Roman imprisonment…just to name a few!
Even the “BAD” stuff - as WE would label it....IF IT SERVES to BRING GLORY to GOD - is actually - GOOD STUFF!
And Samuel KNEW this…And in knowing this - He wanted the PEOPLE to KNOW IT as well.
The people - REPENT - and they REAP the blessings of God BECAUSE of it...
Today we’re looking at The Way of the Heart...
And in READING this - we see...
SLIDE: The Way of the Heart: Tastes the Blessing of God
The Way of the Heart
The people of God REPENTED - and then experienced - the blessing of God in their lives...
v13
The Philistines DID NOT AGAIN - enter the territory of Israel...
WOW - God showed up and MERCIFULLY guarded His people...
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Restoration occured - things were put back into place.
PEACE came
Which means - the people - FLOURISHED under the RULE of - GOD
And so NO DOUBT - the people TASTED the Blessing of God in their lives!!
- WE can say the same for sure! can we not?
God blesses us - to live in a free republic
blesses us ETERNALLY - being His children...
BUT EVEN - unbelievers TASTE the blessing of God...
- It’s called - COMMON GRACE
The SUN rose today.... (common grace)
God could JUSTLY consume this world in a ball of fire - YET -
Sun rose
we have AIR to breathe
we have food to eat
we have shelter
Music exists
COFFEE exists!
Chili Verde exists…AND some Southwest Chicken bowl at APPLEBEES...
And you don’t HAVE TO BE CHRISTIAN to experience those things - BECAUSE they are a COMMON Grace given to all men!
- Common Grace - is experienced by ALL - THEREFORE - the Way of the Heart is to = Taste the Blessing the God...
BUT - where do we go from there?
Because that SOUNDS good...
Israel REPENTED and experienced the blessing of God...
NOW - what’s gonna happen is this - IN OUR TEXT TODAY....we’re going to see Israel LIVE OUT Jeremiah 2:13
2 evils committed here - God here is talking about Israel...
(1) They had forsaken God....AND
(2) Hewed out cisterns for themselves - broken cisterns
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