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1 Samuel 5:4 · BSB
5:4 But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
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Amen. Okay, we're in1 Samuel chapter 5and this is actually one of my favorite stories in the Bible. The title of my sermon tonight is, Holy Things in Unholy Hands. Holy Things in Unholy…
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…the covenant, the new covenant, that we are now under the covenant of grace, even back in First Samuel. I'm going to read to you a little story inFirst Samuel chapter 5. You can stay seated because I'm going to do a little reading tonight. I want to know what the word says. How about you? But in first Samuel…
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…with the ark, interact with the presence of God. So where has it been this whole time? Well, it's been missing for over 20 years. It's been inFirst Samuel chapter 5and 6. You can read about this. It was actually captured by the Philistines, the enemies of Israel. The Philistines brought it into their camp and…
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We're opening up our Bibles today to1 Samuel chapter 5. 1 Samuel chapter 5. If you have your Bibles, turn there with me. If you don't have your Bible, we're going to put the verses on the screen so that…
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…what God has for us here today. We're going to go ahead and continue our study. And first Samuel, if you have your Bibles, turn there with me to1 Samuel, chapter 5, and I'll recap just a little bit of what we talked about last week. Last week we studied the defeat of Israel to the Philistines. The Philistines…
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…What happened? They said, No, this could not be true. Let's try again. They made the Dagon to stand again, and that you find it in the book of1 Samuel, chapter 5. And they stood him and they made him to stand. And the following morning they found Dagon fallen again. I speak to you and I say, the uncommon…
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…between breakdown and a breakthrough. And sometimes the only thing separating the 2 is what you do next. Look at the text. Look at the textfirst Samuel chapter 5says and David's two wives were taken captives. He know him the Jeselitis and Abigail the rival Nabel the Carmelite verse 6. And David was greatly…
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…at your heart level and change your life. Today, be encouraged by our guest speaker. Well, if you have your Bibles, would you open them with me to1 Samuel chapter 5? 1 Samuel chapter 5. And before we get started this morning, I just want to ask you a question. The question I have for you is have you ever asked…
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…everywhere. The taking of objects of worship were considered an act of supremacy by the gods over one another. And so, for example, when you go to1 Samuel, chapter 5, and the Philistines there go to battle with the people of Israel, and the people of Israel foolishly bring the Ark of the Covenant into the…
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…it's printed on paper. It's supernatural because it's the Word of God. You know, and I want you to see here, but, you know, if you think back,1 Samuel chapter 5and verse 10, Ekron was the last place the Ark of the Covenant departed before it went back into Israel. And it's funny because it didn't stay…
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…points to Christ in so many different glorious ways our lifetimes are too short to study all of it behold King Jesus that's the takeaway from1 Samuel chapter 5you need a greater king and behold in Jesus Christ he has come there are a few contrasts that we can draw here as well see Saul's heart was never…
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…up. The Lord brings down to Sheol to hell, then raises up. That's what the Lord does. He redeems through reversal. And these first five verses of1 Samuel chapter 5are a wonderful demonstration of this. So I want to show you at least three ways in which God redeems through reversal. The first is that the…
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…and forth. And so I I thought, let me just take one book of the Bible. 1 Samuel, let me give you three quick examples of how you see this. So in1 Samuel chapter 5, 3 through 4, if you want to turn there, you can. We're going to move pretty quick, but if you want to write these down and read them, I definitely…
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…works of wood or stone. Powerless, of course, before a God who is both living and active. In fact, one of my favorite stories from Scripture is in1 Samuel chapter 5. Go check that out if you like a good story here. But the enemies of God's people had won out, right? They defeated the Israelites on the field of…
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…by the Philistines who take it with them back to their land. And so we can't go into all these details this morning, but if we were to continue in1 Samuel chapter 5, we'd see what happened to the Philistines when they take this Ark to their land. They experience in the cursing and punishment of God. The people…
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…love, each love, each love, each love, each love, each love, each love. Let's turn now to read God's word in the first book of Samuel, chapter 5.1 Samuel, chapter 5, that should be around page 275 in your pew Bibles if you're using the church pew Bibles. So it's 1 Samuel, chapter 5, and we're going to read from…
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…violence and fraud. And this leaping over the threshold is typically understood as a reference to the kind of pagan practices you see modeled in1 Samuel chapter 5. So this chapter in which you remember the story, when the Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant and they take the Ark of the Covenant to one…
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…that once disruptive glory becomes part of the equation of a church, there is a gathering of spoils. One of the coolest stories in the Bible is1 Samuel chapter 5where Philistines capture the ark and they take it into the temple of Dagon. And they set it up in the temple of Dagon and 1 Samuel 5 verse 4 says,…
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…that. Our uh our our password code continues to be Bael Parazim. Perhaps that will become clear to you why uh on this particular week when we study1 Samuel chapter 5. Our theme for the overall book, of course, has been the story of unlikely redemption. How unlikely whom God chooses, whom God calls, whom God…
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…and in grace and mercy. So the book of Samuel opens with God is the great king. king. And that was, if you go back to, if you remember back in1 Samuel chapter 5, there's a story about how the Israelites went into battle against the Philistines, and they brought the ark with them because they thought it was…
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