"1 Samuel 6"

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When the ark of the lord had been in Palestine territory for 7 months, the first lines called for the priests and the diviners and said, what should we do with the ark of the lord? Tell us how we can send it back displaced. They answered. If you return the ark of the guard of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift, by all means, send a guilt offering to him. Then he will be healed, and you will know why this hand have not been lifted from you.

The Philistines asked what gift offering should we send to him. They provide 5 gold tumors and 5 gold rats according to the number of the other side moves. Because the same thing has struck both you and your roots. Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying this country and give glory to Israel's god. Perhaps you will lift his hand from you and your god's and your land.

Why do you pardon your hearts as the Egyptians and pharaoh did? When it grows God dealt harshly with them, deeply don't send the usualized out. So that they could go on their way. Now then get a new car ready for 2 pounds that have carved and have never been yoked. Pitch the cows to the car, but take their cars away and turn them off.

Take the arkaboo and put it on the card, and in a check beside it, put the gold object you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, but keep watching it If it goes up to its own territory, tools back damage, then the lord had brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we shall know that it was not his end that struck us. But that it happened to us by chance. So they did this.

They took 2 such cows and hiked them to the cart and ended up their farms. They placed the yard, put the door on the cart, and along with it, the chest containing the old rat, and the models of tumors. Then the cows went straight up towards best chance keeping on the road and lowing all the way. They did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of people assigned to follow them as far as the border of Beth Shimps.

Now the people that are Beth Shimps were harvesting their roots in the valley. And when they looked up, they saw the ark. They rejoiced site. The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shimmish, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a boat operator, the lord.

The levi's took down the ark of the lord together with the chest containing gold objects and placed them on a large rock. On that day, the people of fetcham offered firm offerings I made sacrifices to the lord. The 5 rulers of the Philistine saw all this, and then return that same go to Ekron. These are the gold plumbers of the Philistine sent his guilt offering to the lord. 1 each or Ashdog, Gaza, Ashbelong, Gap, Lebron, and the number of the gold rats was according to a number of the first line towns belonging to the 5 rulers, the force by towns with their country villages.

The large rock on which the levi set the ark of the rule is a witness to this day in the field of joshua of West Sherman, but God struck down some of the inhabitants of Best Shash, putting 70 of them to death because they look into the arc of the lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow, the lord had dealt with. And the people of webshash asked, who can stand in the rounds of the lord, this holy god, to whom will the ark go up from here. Then they sent messengers to the people of Curia Giro saying, the Philistines have returned the ark of the lord. Come down.

And take it up to your phone. Exactly, sir, rating that for us. Well, we're going to pride, bear in pride for us as we come to those work. So let's dive in. We've got 106 in front of you.

Let's go capture the balance sheet. So it's the whole thing that you're in danger. Wonder if you've ever had that experience. Maybe with firework displayed recently, we may not be with that. A 1 firework display.

I mean, I thought it was more than other tickets. Our firework shot all over. In the direction of the crowd, thankfully no 1 was hurt, and everyone pretty much stayed. But I'm feeling at the time this isn't it we need to go. This is not safe.

My fun. This got quite soon. Maybe you may something like that, actually, in that situation, everyone was okay. At the end of 1, Samuel 6, there is the question in verse 20 that we had greater couple of time stores in the service limit. And regardless of the president's approval.

Are we able to stand and afford it? At the end of the chapter, the people here have decided the answer was, no. You cannot. And he's just too dangerous. Let me get a follow-up with him.

He's just completely out of control, or maybe in a cage with a, an angry lion on Tiger or with a venomous snake that just won to mind. So it is not safe to be in the presence of the law, who can stand in the front? Did it say? That's the question we've been trying to answer. And I'm gonna think about the passage in 2 parts.

There we go. Another question. We're gonna think about the passage in 2 parts. Both relating to the presence of the book. Thank you for all the story lines that we've got here from the art of god.

This is a box that we've had that funky fund in the recent weeks, a box that is covered in gold and represents of presence of god. And a few chapters back, we saw that the art had been captured. It had been captured in battle. He is right for the Palestine. They brought the art to the back of the influence key, and the wonder that looked carefully from the priests of God and captured the arc of god.

And so it's being in telephone territory. And in this chapter, the archicod is returned to the influence. It leaves first sign territory and philosophic land and comes back into the land of the israelites Scotts people in these captivity in Palestine territory where it was captured and come back to the promised land. And that sounds a bit like the exit, doesn't it? And as we go through the chapter, you find there are quite a few parallels with the exodus that happened 500 years before.

500 years before, the people of god, the israelites were slaves in Egypt, captured, enslaved, And the more aggressive brought them out of the land regions, and in the end after someone's reading the wilderness brought them to the promised land. And in this chapter, there are strong echoes of that excellence. Now this isn't the only place where there are strong echoes of the exodus. There's a great book by, a guy called Andrew Wilson, who wrote it for someone else's brother, Andrew Wilson, wrote it, and it's a book called echoes of the exodus. And it's a really hard work because, and it's very readable.

Well, it's worth a read. And he picks out lots of times in the model when there are echoes of the exodus. Even before the exodus happens, there are echoes of the activists. There are lots of times in the old person, and in the immediate rep, the exodus is mentioned in such a key event. And here, we have a very strong copy of the exodus.

As the arch of God that without the people of gold makes its way from Palestine territory not egypt, of Palestine territory back to baseline. I'd like to learn a few parts to this 7 2 parts, of the chapter. There's the arc leaving first time territory and the arc entry back into Israel. We're gonna highlight them to cross presence as well. So the first 1, the law's unwanted presence, and that's gonna be as we follow the up going, leaving thermostat territory.

Let's just follow through the story. So if you look in chapter 6, there, you'll see verse 1. It tells us that the up has been used in thermostat territory for 7 months. And we know wherever the arc has gone, illness has followed. Wherever the arc has been there have been a plate just as during the year to arrive 500 years of war for capturing worry in Egypt.

So the laws that are played from here when the ark was captured, taken through first time, Terry and Gary's play that follows wherever it goes. There is death and destruction. And so the people at the first time, that was to send the ark back. First too, so for first time, all for the priests and directors, and said, what should we do with the article of law to tell us how we should send it back to its place? We don't want this thing anymore.

People are dying. And the language people that's used of sending it back is similar to the language you for that pharaoh said to your lady, the Israel Arts, where they like these strong parallels. The Finasites brought hope with the prime minister card, and so they asked everyone what should you do, and the answer is send it back, but send it with a gift verse through. Send it with a guilt pop through. And they come up with this idea in verse 4 and making 5 gold tubers and 5 gold racks.

It was such a weird idea, doesn't it? That they would make out of gold something that looks like the swellings of the illness of the plague of the coming that have been ongoing. Everything's government. How do they do that? What would that look like?

And then it's gonna be a little bit. Thank you. And of the following, and then they start with racks as well because the racks have obviously been deployed in them too. And then as 1 of the commentators said all this, these people don't know the gold digger, they don't know what to do. And he says, have you repaid a debt you cannot assess to a goal you do not know?

That's all. I think they could have asked those people. They could have asked the free maybe they can ask the profit of government. See, what should we actually do by the day? It's like they come up with this idea of making these dog tumors and rats to represent the people in the suffering.

Well, things have clearly got very bad for the country. The philosoph first marketed. They are instructed to make models of the tumors, and that the rats were to destroy the country. And to destroying the company. This is no no easy, small illness on this credit or amnesty.

This is destroying the bill of stock. And so they decide to send it back with these gold items. Remember 6, the exodus is even mentioned. Why do you harder your heart of the addition of terrorism. When Israel got, partially with them, did they not send the israelite tax?

So they think they won't have. They backed to the exodus. They backed to egypt. So what they did, they refused to let the Israelite 70 is what works and works. And these pricing departments are the same learning from that.

Same thing off the way. And so they do that, and they come up with this plan to work out whether it really was the lord who had caused them such problems. They sent me out of the way. They put it on a cart, a new cart, first serve, and they decided to attach to the car, these 2 cans, how would have never been noticed before? It's like putting a learner driver in charter, 1 who's never driven a car.

Terms have been very heavy with her pretty slim. To these cow funny hopping at all the road. They put these cows and they attach them to the car, and not only that, but they have cows which recently carved, and they take the cars and put them in a pen. So so not having the enemies have experienced it properly. They're gonna want to get to their cars.

So the chance that we're going through Israel are are pretty slick. The other is you do that And if it goes towards Zibro and Casti Vodel, use some of this to assist not. Well, it can be done. For verse 10. For the business that took 2 such accounts, hits them to the cars and pin back their car, they placed the ark of the lord on the card, and a lot of it and checks containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors, then it out and strike up the infection, keeping on the road and lowering all the rocks.

They did not turn the right or the left. The rulers of the first sign, followed them as far as the border protection. The cart goes straight to the Israelite territory. Not so and with a box with the scope object, you know, that the exodus for idiot from reading the interrupt, you know, there's another parallel there, which is up by the interrupts left. They left.

We've gotten for Egypt. That the more negative people of Egypt want to keep them golden. I've gotten 1 thing. I've gotten those really. And here is the art of God bringing first time going back to the people I've got.

Please people, the philosophians. Just don't want the presence above with them. Now with their actions, a genuine turning to the law. After all, they have done some quite impressive things here. They've decided they need to give a hand top rope.

It's got those so that they should be able to. And they've given gold. And another 1 would say that they were struck did you give glory to the gods of Israel? Is this that emphasized genuinely turning to the rule? Well, I think the answer to that is no.

They may have learned from the mistakes of the Egyptian I don't think they generally cut into the law. They just wanna get rid of it. They just don't want the claims, the suffering, the judgment, but they don't want the law himself. In spite of the fact that they have had evidence that the God of the fullest sides is less than the communist rally. In spite of the fact, they've got a defeated date on their God in the past, and the God of shown to them as it was him who brought the brakes.

Fine. You're having the carp go straight to me, but before it got droned the carp himself to be to the land of his way. And yet in spite of all these evidence, The people of the Palestine don't reject their ironclad bonds and replace them with a real cause. They just want to get rid of the laws and the claims that are on them. And even with the guilt offering that they're saying, what's the purpose of their first party?

At the first time, it says, perhaps he will let his hand from you and your God and your land. That's what they want. They want the heavy hand of the lord listed so that they can keep living as they have been before and worshiping the ideas. That they've been worshipping with. Now is it possible for people to do something similar to that after that?

I think the answer is yes. To come to the lord, not to know him. And be enrolled in Egypt with them is just so that they can have a better life, also that suffering will be ease. You see that if it's possible for people to come to Florida. I I don't really want you.

I guess what my life better, or I just want this suffering that's come along to go away so that I can go back to how I was before. I once had, a couple of phone calls with someone in a bit of a strange situation. I've been that you haven't been very often. I've been having very often in the past someone just randomly called, when I was a demand of petrol, they randomly called, and said they wanted to speak with them on a visit. They didn't want anyone to come along.

They just wanted to speak to me. They were someone who was, in in a broke deal of suffering. Right? In this hospital opponents struggling to get a little bit, but he didn't want help with that. They they just they they wanted it all to stop.

And in conversation, I I approached him to come to the law, to to to bring it to the law. Can you sit, Judge? And a week later, they phoned me back and said, well, it didn't work. And that was it. They didn't wanna know anything more about it.

And I'm sure there's a lot more going on there. And it's quite possible that that person was really not wanting the lord at all. Actually, they've just wanted not to have the suffering thing. And it's possible for us to do something similar. To come to the law, not a hit.

I said that my wouldn't be as hard. Let me see, you know, to treat the law, like, the doctor. I mean, you you get to the doctor with suffering lately, and you're going to get some kind of cure on how relevant for it, but not so that you'll stay at the doctors. Not so we could build a relationship with the docs. Actually, with the law of things of this account.

We need to know that a very is to realize that we were made for relationship with the law. To know this, that is where we can find meaning, like in relationship with our creator. To live in his presence. And the whole point of the hearts of Jesus was not simply so that we can have an easy license to the government policy. And it's not simply so that we could avoid judgment.

That said that we could note that, 1 peter 3 18 says for Christ also suffered months received the righteous for new unrighteous to bring you to god. The purpose of Christ's 3, was that you and I might come to drop it. So no, we don't find it, be in relationship with him. Well, we'll come back. The village I'm using didn't want the presence of god.

The lord's unwanted presence. And so did you call in to return it up? Fill out the online return and slip and send it back. You don't want it anymore. Maybe you said, you know, what's your reason for not wanting it, but, certainly, claims.

We don't want that. I'll make it a bit bother with that filling out it just in with the same 1. Don't want anyone to send me. Second, the law's unbearably holy presence. The up now comes back to the people of Israel.

First, 13. Now the people have backed China were harvesting their roots in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the army, they rejoiced at the sides. It must have been an extraordinary sight. This car coming along, hold by now, bringing a whole load of racket because they really wanna go back to their car. And being brought along and stopping, and there is the path we've got.

The glory has departed from Israel. The heart was captured, but now here it is. Coming back seeking me on its own to the people of god, and their response is joy. They're a jealousy. They want the presence of god.

They want the artifact. And here it is, And we're told who struggled it is that the art software, did you know his name? It didn't have been that that this detail needs, but in the first 14, have a look at it. At parts tenth of a funeral, Jockshwar, a best shot. Why are we called back?

So it's it's an interesting question, why is he managing? I think it's because he's an obstruction. And when the launch people after 500 years of fallout, that they've been rescued from Egypt and went through federal and listening, and they brought in to the promised plan. And firstly, the income was Josh. And now the article is coming back and back in the land at the deal with the Michael.

I think that's all. And the levi's with Home verse 14, well, the the car came from the field of jumper of that chimney, and then it stopped beside a large rock that being chopped up the wood of the tower to sacrifice the towers as a burning offering to the walls. The lean bikes took down the ark of the lord together with the chest containing the top object and placed them on the large rock On that day, the people of banks have offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the halt. The lead might take down the arc, and there's repetition here that they sacrifice a new burn off raising sacrifices. And everything seems good.

It's a chapter ended at first 18, whether the reminder about the gold tubers and that kind of thing, and it happened at the end of the first 18, we would think what a wonderful, what a lovely day, the ark has returned. They've already put all this combined, and everything is good. And even if people are renting both offerings, not the exact either way they didn't quite the right thing to do. But, nevertheless, we seem to be doing harder than the filler side, certainly. Thank you, everything, Laura.

And for the reason, first to continue. But got struck down some of the inhabitants of that challenge through seventieth of the debt if they looked into the article. Now it has to be said, it's a bit unclear exactly what people did wrong. I mean, you're not allowed to look in the art. But it the text doesn't the original text doesn't actually set up by the day of the team.

It just seems like they looked at it in the wrong way. Now bear in mind that, actually, people weren't supposed to look at the art at all. They weren't supposed to see it. At all, if the art was gonna be moved, there were instructions that some people ended up right in the background were to take a cover of really over the art and that there were reasons on the art so that poles could be put through and they'd be carried in that early life to touch the arc because it's holy, and they might die. So somehow they looked at a gaze at the ark in a way that they should not have done.

And the consequences of this, a terrible 70 people died. The arc of God has gone through Finistine territory, made in death, and destruction. We now attack an internalized territory and there is water. At least described as a heavy blow, you can see the same language that was used in 1 time before, and I the back end, but the internal lights lost. It is described as a heavy blow.

And now the the yard comes straight back in, and there is another heavy blow. Things have knocked off that. And so they asked first 20. Who can stand in the presence of the world? This holy god.

Who can stand? It's even looking in the arc the wrong way. I'm looking at the arc the wrong way, breathe dead. Who can possibly stand before god? And we need to recognize this truth.

God, it's a holy god. How do you mind saying? Well, that's the old testament God of the old testament either? He was angry back then, and we're not in the new testament. We're not happy there in the new testament.

We we can go on-site in the new testament. But that is not the way to find the present story. And so to use it to say yesterday, today and forever, What we really have done in the old testament is still true of God today. He is still home. Now don't touch on from this.

Say with the Israelites for a moment. Pause with them. Who can stand in the presence of this holy god? That's where in Psalm 24, the answer is hidden. Where to this, who may have sent the mounting of the lord?

Who may have sent in his holy place? The 1 who has clean hands and a pure heart. Who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. Who could stand in the presence of god? 1 with clean hands and a pure heart?

Is that it? You got clean hands? Pure hot? And that'll be relatively clean, relatively pure. It's not not I mean, you are a bit faster than someone has.

Like, you'd like to say, well, we're we're doing better than the first stuff. Is that true? I mean, we ain't got painful. He turns up. So we're we're a bit alright.

No. You mean, pure. Parked clean hands. Any affection, any interior of any dirt, and you and I will not stand in the presence of god. You could knock some items.

Can we go in? Of course, you can't. We've never got a chance of surviving the media to run. We know ourselves at all, our hands are not just a little unclear. I said.

And our hearts, Jesus have said, out of a person's heart, comes evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice disease, lewdness, envy, slumber, arrogance, and politics. If you've done any of those, then you go, well, you've got an impure heart, and that's all of us. That's a few properties. What counts have we? Now, don't misunderstand.

It means that frogs doesn't want people in distractions. And you might think that if all you read in the bible was, it's pretty unlikely in it, but if all you read in the bible was 1 76, you might think God doesn't really walk. But blindly, are they dying? But he does. In fact, when he got caught the initialized out of Egypt, then the experts, he said to them, you yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on Eagle's wings and brought you to my sales.

Back at the end of the exodus, but God would bring people to himself that they could be in his presence. And this is a tension in contract. About how can we send for people being at the presence of a holy god. It's what we were made for, it's what God wants, and he is hope. Well, the interbike answer, actually, is the same at the first.

As in the first point, they say you can stand at the practice of the law of this holy ghost. To who will the guy go up from here? The second question is the role on what? They say, well, we can't case. So we better set them up with someone out to a bit like a business time.

Let's let's move them on. It needs to come up, but we don't have to shift in somewhere out So what else can happen? Well, that isn't the right answer. And for the wrong response, you need to come back next week. Uh-huh.

And then you also have a free choice. Next week. But I can't just leave it at that. You just dip it slightly into next week. Just on the just on the team.

Because next week, we'll see There's quite some age, it's on time, data set for any data set. But the people respond the right way. First 3 of chapter 7. It's a tracker set to be in light if you are returning to the law before your hearts. You see, the answer actually is to turn to the law.

And that involves first 6 of chapter 7. Harvard University says on that day, they can't speak neither to pass. Through sin events at all. Is it the answer for me to turn to the book and professional Now you might think, well, that hang on. That sounds suicidal.

If going humbly and cannot tolerate sinned in his presence, how could it possibly be wrong to say, well, the right response is to turn to him and say, but here it is. Here is all my suit. Please hang up, everybody. How can that be blunt? How can that be a good way forward?

Well, this is where we need to remind you of Jesus' admission. Remember who Jesus came for? Every time I hear this, I read a huge sigh of your life. Jesus, at 1 point, we're leaking with tax collectors and sinners. Bad people.

So who's who's thought of themselves as good, the facts in the teaching of the law, requested in you to say, why are you meeting with such bad people? I mean, these are awful people. If you have to come in before the president's about how they got thinking on never getting in. And we consume straight away. And Jesus said this.

It is not to have the union, the doctor. And how did you go on the screen? On here it is, Jesus said to us, It's not the help of you and the doctor for those who are ill. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. Jesus came, not for those who think they're good in us.

But for people who know their hands are hungry, whose hearts are impure. So you're ready to be someone in Jesus case? If you have sinned. When is the item that brought? He was taking after are impurity on himself.

It would put on him, and he faced the silence of god's holiness in our place. And if you come to Jesus and said, this is how bad I am. Here he takes it, and he puts it on himself at the cross bearing the anger that you and I deserved, Very in the fury of god's rock, and our system so that we can be clothed in his righteousness. And if you have Jesus' right assistance. Oh, you can to the presence of god.

It's the only safe way to enter this process. And he's gotta call us to come in. Not just to be in his presence. Not not just to be in his presence, but to call him back and to know if he's your father. And he will be wrong to stay on It would be wrong to stay outside because you're afraid to come in because it will roll through.

Now, in turn to Jesus, you've been given a clean heart. Clean hands and appear upon. Stay in the summary of what the cross of James Forest in Hebrew chapter 10. Therefore, brothers and sisters, Since we have confidence to enter the most holy place, by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, open for us through the curtain, that is his body. And since we have a great fruits over the house of god, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart, with a ship full assurance of faith brings, having our hearts sprinkly, to cleanse us from abusive functions and having our bodies washed with pure heat.

We can hold it. We can come in. We can be in the presence of dog by apologies, and we must come in. Don't let your son hold you back for coming. On November of Sunday, We've already said it's important to remember those who buy IT for our freedom.

The freedom that we enjoy today by day, it just becomes easier than that, but of course, we're just in your own freedom that we have. In this case. But remembrance on this is remember the cross peak of their remarks have that freedom. And what's the right response to that? It is to give thanks for those who don't belong.

And but it's also to be enjoyed that, please. So they include, because that's what they've done. So to the Keith. The right response to his sacrifice. Not to say outside of those questions, but to bring your secret details, they've been detected in close in his life.

And that's what we're gonna celebrate as we take the jesus sample. For your group to be able to come these surprises have gone. Regorts in what he did for you, freely, what's said, no misbegiveness, and anyone from the presence of god. Who concerned in the presence of this heavy guy? 9 through our own house, but don't turn away.

Turn 2. Bring your sin to know the cleanser of the prosecutors. Crazy facts. We are at Hoping Dodge. I know that in front, yet in praising that Jesus came.

Boston, But in 10, for those 3, and then into our hearts. We're paying for those who know the bank. Help us, father, help everyone here. Father, the values who are holding on to this is wanting to shield it from you, wanting to hide it from you, father, please happen to bring this in. Having the idea for you to bring it to you, confess it to you.

The father, we pray to the appoints that it could be that geniuses for our videos with RC. So we can have our hearts slowly, secure upon cleansing, and they've closed in our structures. We can come in service.