THE PROBLEM PRESENTED BY GOD’S PRESENCE
1 Samuel 5-7.2
Samuel: When Obedience Takes The Lead – Part 5
c. 5.1 “When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.” (esv)
c. 5.2 “… they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple …” (niv)
CULTURAL CHALLENGE: PEOPLE WANT A GOD WHOSE PRESENCE …
ENHANCES THEIR Current Worship
c. 5.3 “So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.” (esv)
SERVES THEIR Own Purposes
c. 5.6 “The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people …” (esv)
DOESN’T DISRUPT THEIR Thinking
c. 6.2 “[they] called for the priests and the diviners and said, ‘What shall we do …?” (esv)
v. 6.5 “… give glory to the God of Israel.” (esv)
v. 6.5 “… you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice …”
c. 6.16 “… the Philistines saw it [&] returned that day to Ekron.” (esv)
CHURCH CHALLENGE: TO SHOW THE Holiness of God’s Real Presence
c. 7.2 “… a long time passed … twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.” (esv)
Numbers 4.20 “… but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.” (esv)
c. 2.2 “There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.” (esv)
c. 6.20 “Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?” (esv)
John 1.11 “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.” (esv)
Acts 2.24 “God raised him from the dead … because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.” (niv)
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