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Ed Young - The Presence of God

January 22, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - The Presence of God
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Presence of God | January 22, 2026
  • Thank you
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  • For joining me on the winning walk.
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  • Each program is designed to help you
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  • And help me to connect with god's timeless truth
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  • With everyday life, common sense, biblical sense.
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  • Because faith isn't meant to stay on the pages of the bible.
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  • It's meant to shape how we live
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  • And how we respond to all the world around us.
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  • God's word provides a solid,
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  • Immovable foundation,
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  • One that doesn't share food, culture, or circumstances.
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  • We build on that foundation.
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  • We're able then to walk forward with confidence
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  • And a steady hand.
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  • I'm grateful you're here today.
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  • Let's open god's word together
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  • And discover how to live out our faith.
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  • One exciting,
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  • God directed step at a time.
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  • That's what the winning walk is
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  • All about.
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  • Everybody here
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  • Would like to have the power of god
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  • At your disposal in your repertoire.
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  • We need the power of god to help us in our business.
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  • Help us in our vocation heralds challenges
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  • We might have in any area of our life.
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  • All of us would love to have power.
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  • It's all about power.
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  • We want power to do this.
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  • Power to do that.
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  • Permission to do this.
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  • All we need is power.
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  • Power, power!
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  • More power.
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  • And the arc represented power.
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  • Even the power of almighty god.
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  • Think about it.
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  • To have that kind
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  • Of supernatural power.
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  • Real power.
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  • Immeasurable power.
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  • The power that would come from
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  • The ark
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  • In the bible.
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  • Power was always connected with something or some event.
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  • We go back to abraham and we see
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  • There was a smoking pot and a burning torch.
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  • Power was there.
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  • We go back to moses.
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  • He saw a bush that was burning.
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  • He saw it was a holy place.
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  • In that bush. he saw power.
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  • Even the power of almighty god.
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  • Jacob.
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  • So power in a wrestler in which he grappled
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  • With all night long.
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  • Jobe.
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  • So power in a hurricane and a wind in a tornado.
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  • But in these illustrations of power
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  • There all the way through the bible.
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  • The power would work.
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  • There was a bush, but didn't stay with the bush.
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  • The power worked in a tornado.
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  • It wasn't always in a tornado.
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  • But the one thing in the bible
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  • That power was manifested.
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  • It would come and it would go, but it would go back
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  • To the ark,
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  • The ark of the covenant.
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  • You read first samuel 467 and you see there about the ark.
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  • What was the ark?
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  • Let me remind you, the ark was like a box, a
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  • That was four feet long
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  • And 2.5ft by 2.5ft.
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  • Steven, steven spielberg made it way
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  • Too large in the movie, incidentally.
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  • But we won't be too particular on the top of the box.
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  • Acacia wood covered in gold.
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  • Two cherubim, two angels facing one another.
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  • In the middle was the mercy seat.
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  • A block of gold inside the ark.
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  • What do you have?
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  • Aaron's rod that budded.
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  • A little sample and a box of manna.
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  • And you have primarily the ten commandments.
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  • The ten commandments was the covenant
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  • That god had made with israel.
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  • And therefore you have in this place
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  • The shekinah, you have the glory of god.
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  • It would come and go
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  • With the ark and the art represented power.
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  • God's power, divine power.
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  • We know how it was used.
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  • It was used there when they came to the jordan,
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  • And it was strong, strong and deep.
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  • And they took the ark
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  • Out of the jordan,
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  • And the jordan river parted, as had before.
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  • The sea.
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  • They got to jericho.
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  • They had those high walls around.
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  • They had no way to get in.
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  • They took the ark in marching around the walls.
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  • And all the walls came tumbling down.
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  • This was known to people all through that area.
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  • The ark of god.
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  • There's a yahweh.
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  • And the jews believe for a while
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  • That god was in the box in the ark.
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  • And then they come, came to believe that god was actually
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  • The box itself.
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  • And so we
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  • See the history of the ark, and we bring it into play
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  • In these fabulous chapters that teach us about
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  • The very power of god himself.
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  • So look at it beginning in chapter number four.
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  • First, samuel,
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  • That's the word of samuel came to israel.
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  • Now israel went out to meet the philistines in battle
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  • And camped beside ebenezer while the philistines camped
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  • At effort.
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  • Now we see how israel presumed the power of god.
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  • Did you get that?
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  • We're going to see, as we study
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  • This chapter, how israel had the ark
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  • And therefore they presumed, because they were god's chosen
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  • People, god's peculiar people, god's anointed people.
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  • God's called out people
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  • That they possess the very power of god.
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  • And they went out to battle
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  • And they presumed on god.
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  • Let me show you something you might be interested in.
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  • The sunday prior
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  • To 911, in our worship services,
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  • We had 17,495 people.
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  • The next week, after 911, we had 36,229 people.
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  • We had 6479
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  • And a prayer meeting service following 911.
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  • Well, what in the world happened?
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  • All the ceo christian showed up.
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  • Christmas.
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  • Easter only.
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  • And then all of a sudden, when america recognized
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  • Where we had all of our power in those twin towers,
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  • There were no buildings on the face of the earth
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  • That had more the leaders in the economic world
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  • Than in those twin towers.
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  • And they came down,
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  • Had the radical moslem success.
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  • They would destroy the pentagon
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  • Or the military power of the world primarily was found.
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  • They destroyed only part of it and had the other plane out.
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  • The white house would have been leveled
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  • Because that's where the most powerful
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  • Individual in the world would be.
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  • So we saw in 911 how in show it was a few hours.
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  • All the power structures that we would have
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  • As human beings would be gone.
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  • That which we count on as americans.
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  • Therefore, flags were everywhere,
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  • Prayer meetings were everywhere,
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  • And worship services with packed to overflowing.
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  • Because somehow we were trying.
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  • Though we'd assume the power on god.
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  • One nation under god really,
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  • And suddenly one nation under god.
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  • It seemed that all of our foundational sacred
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  • Things were at risk.
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  • We turned to god, seeking for power.
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  • We thought that
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  • We had appropriated god, as has the jews.
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  • Read what happened to them here in our scripture.
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  • It says the philistines drew up the battle array
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  • To meet israel.
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  • And when the battle spread, israel was defeated
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  • Before the philistines, who killed
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  • About 4000 on the battlefield.
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  • When the people came to the camp,
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  • The elders of israel said, now follow this.
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  • Why has the lord not the philistines?
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  • Why has the lord defeated us today before the philistines?
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  • You say that i knew the philistines could not beat them
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  • Because they had apprehended god's power.
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  • They were god's peculiar people.
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  • God's blessed, god's chosen people.
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  • And they said, the lord must have led to our defeat.
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  • Why is that?
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  • So they went out into the second battle.
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  • But before they won our second battle, look what they did.
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  • They said, let us take to
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  • Ourselves of shiloh the ark of the covenant.
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  • They're going to bring the ark into the battle,
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  • That it may come along us and deliver us
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  • From the power of our enemies.
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  • The ark of god
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  • Would be powerful, powerful, then enemies of israel.
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  • So the people went to shiloh.
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  • And by the way, i was there this year,
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  • And from there they arrived the ark of the covenant
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  • Of the lord, to the host who sits above the cherubim,
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  • And the two sons of eli, haffner and phinehas were there
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  • With the ark of the covenant of god in the ark.
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  • You have these two little rings where you can carry it in.
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  • And who was carrying the ark on venus?
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  • Who were they?
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  • They were the immoral, slimy,
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  • Creepy
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  • Sexual predators
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  • Who were a priest.
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  • Priest in the temple.
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  • The sons of eli.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, when a worshiping body allows
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  • Immorality to rule and reign known in the public circle
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  • Of god's people.
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  • And the people do not rise up against that.
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  • Let me tell you what is going on.
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  • It means the people
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  • Themselves are satisfied with the immorality that passes
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  • South long in the form of religion.
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  • Now half of the engineers bring the ark in.
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  • What happened? now? the ark is there.
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  • The power of god is there.
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  • Look what happened.
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  • And so the philistines, verse ten, fought.
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  • Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent.
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  • And the slaughter was very great,
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  • For there fell israel 30,000ft soldiers.
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  • Look what happened.
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  • And the ark of god was taken.
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  • The philistines have the ark and the two sons of eli
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  • And phineas died in battle.
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  • What was wrong? why did they lose?
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  • Because there was immorality in the land.
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  • Say, boy is unusual in the loose. no.
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  • If you've been reading to the bible,
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  • There has been 200 years in the book of judges
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  • When god's people were immoral and disobedient
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  • To the covenant of god.
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  • The contract he had made with them
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  • There at the foot of sinai.
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  • And therefore they lost, and the whole nation
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  • Was going downhill rapidly.
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  • And then the
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  • End of this chapter, we have an interesting thing.
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  • Phinehas, one of the immoral priest
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  • Who was killed, his wife was pregnant.
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  • And before she delivered a child,
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  • She discovered that eli had died.
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  • Hearing the news that his sons were killed,
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  • Hearing the news that the ark had been taken, and eli
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  • Fell over backward from the gate
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  • And broke his neck, a godly prophet.
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  • But phineas, his wife, bore a child, but before she bore
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  • The child, she said, name that boy ichabod,
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  • Which means the glory of god
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  • Has departed from israel.
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  • That's what we thought after 911.
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  • You know god has left our country.
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  • We're being judged because of our god and his.
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  • And that's what she felt named this boy ichabod,
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  • Because the glory has left this land.
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  • You see, what is the israelites do?
  • 00:12:27.226 --> 00:12:30.062
  • They presumed on the power of god.
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  • They said, we've got the ark.
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  • We've got the power.
  • 00:12:34.667 --> 00:12:36.202
  • Now the ark has been stolen.
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  • It's in the hands of godless pagans.
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  • Whoa!
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  • Have you ever tried to
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  • Read a historical novel out of order?
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  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand.
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  • The plot would.
  • 00:12:52.918 --> 00:12:54.486
  • And yet we read have studied the bible in much the same way.
  • 00:12:54.486 --> 00:12:58.157
  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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  • With the beginning of middle and end.
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  • And when you read in chronological order,
  • 00:13:03.028 --> 00:13:05.231
  • You will see history unfold in a new
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  • And understandable and memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you
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  • To read through the bible in 52 weeks.
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  • When you give the winning walk this month,
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  • At the end of each of two weeks you will know and understand
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  • Like never before.
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  • The full story of the bible.
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  • Look at the next thing we
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  • Learn about power is found is how the philistines handled it.
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  • Look at chapter five. by the way,
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  • We see the philistines co-opted the power of god.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • They took the ark,
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  • And they added, as they did in their temple of worship
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  • To their other god, their primary god.
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  • Guard god and guard on.
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  • They put the ark right band down by guard on.
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  • And look what happened there in their temple.
  • 00:14:14.967 --> 00:14:17.369
  • Now the philistines took the ark of god
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  • And brought it from ebenezer to ashdod.
  • 00:14:19.471 --> 00:14:23.008
  • And the philistines heard the ark of god, and
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  • And sold it to be in, and brought it in the house
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  • Of dagon, and set it by dagon.
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  • Listen to this.
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  • And when the ishtar night arose early next morning, behold,
  • 00:14:33.085 --> 00:14:37.756
  • They god had fallen on his face to the ground
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  • Before the ark of the lord.
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  • So they took dagon and set him in place.
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  • When they rose early the next morning, behold, dagon
  • 00:14:47.166 --> 00:14:50.402
  • Had fallen to his face to the ground
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  • Before the ark of the lord.
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  • And the head of dagon and both
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  • The palms of his hands were cut off.
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  • Only thing
  • 00:15:00.446 --> 00:15:01.213
  • Was left was a trunk of dagon.
  • 00:15:01.213 --> 00:15:04.550
  • What happened?
  • 00:15:04.883 --> 00:15:06.518
  • I'm sure the first time dagon there was the ark.
  • 00:15:06.518 --> 00:15:09.488
  • And dagon fell down in the night on his face.
  • 00:15:09.488 --> 00:15:12.925
  • And then verse two went in and said,
  • 00:15:12.925 --> 00:15:14.460
  • You know, some of those mischievous teenage philistine
  • 00:15:14.460 --> 00:15:17.363
  • Boys have pushed over our god in this holy temple,
  • 00:15:17.363 --> 00:15:21.934
  • And they picked him up and put him back.
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  • We're going to find out who did this.
  • 00:15:23.669 --> 00:15:25.938
  • But the next day they went down.
  • 00:15:25.938 --> 00:15:27.506
  • Dagon had fallen his face and his head had been severed.
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  • No wisdom.
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  • His arms were cut off, no power.
  • 00:15:33.746 --> 00:15:36.782
  • And that tells us not only was the god
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  • In the ark, the god of israel, more powerful than de god,
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  • But we know that the god represented by
  • 00:15:44.523 --> 00:15:47.626
  • The ark in israel was actually the only true god,
  • 00:15:47.626 --> 00:15:51.463
  • Because dagon had no wisdom and had no
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  • Power, was nothing, was pagan.
  • 00:15:54.099 --> 00:15:57.836
  • And then we've got a problem.
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  • Here's the ark.
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  • Foolish things that possess the ark.
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  • What's going to happen when god's people try to handle
  • 00:16:04.910 --> 00:16:08.247
  • God and godly things?
  • 00:16:08.247 --> 00:16:10.816
  • We see in verse six,
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  • Now the hand of the lord was heavy by the word.
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  • The word heavy. there is cupboard.
  • 00:16:15.854 --> 00:16:17.790
  • It is the glory,
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  • The hand of god, the glory of god, the presence.
  • 00:16:18.991 --> 00:16:21.927
  • God was heavy on these people,
  • 00:16:21.927 --> 00:16:25.497
  • It says, and they smote them with tumors,
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  • Both ashdod and its territories.
  • 00:16:29.168 --> 00:16:32.204
  • Look at verse eight.
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  • They said to gath, another one of the philistine cities.
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  • What did that mean? gath.
  • 00:16:36.842 --> 00:16:37.910
  • The judgment came just like it did.
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  • They were stricken with bubonic plague.
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  • Judgment came on
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  • And the chairman of guard said, we don't want this thing.
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  • Let's what we're going to do with it.
  • 00:16:46.552 --> 00:16:47.686
  • So they sent it to another philistine city and cried,
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  • You see verse ten, and those that groan,
  • 00:16:50.856 --> 00:16:53.192
  • They said, we don't want the ark
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  • And the judgment came on them
  • 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:56.462
  • Until finally you had a meeting of the philistines.
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  • This is so interesting. chapter six.
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  • And the philistines called for the priest
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  • And the diviners, saying,
  • 00:17:03.302 --> 00:17:05.437
  • What shall we do with the ark of the lord?
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  • Tell us how we shall send it to its place.
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  • Send it back home.
  • 00:17:11.877 --> 00:17:13.679
  • And they said,
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  • If you send away the ark of the god of israel,
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  • Do not send it empty, but you shall surely returned it
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  • With a guilt offering.
  • 00:17:20.619 --> 00:17:22.187
  • Now. pagans feel guilty about how they're handling
  • 00:17:22.187 --> 00:17:26.058
  • The things of god. isn't that something?
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  • So they made some gold and silver and they get a card.
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  • And look what happens.
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  • I love this story.
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  • Verse seven. chapter six.
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  • Verse. sam.
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  • Now therefore, take and prepare a new card.
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  • And two milk. that means.
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  • That means cows that have recently calved
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  • Their milking cows, on which there has never been a yoke,
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  • And hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves
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  • Literally as back home away from them.
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  • Take the ark of the lord and put it in the cart,
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  • And put the articles of gold, which you return to them
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  • As a guilt offering in a box by the side.
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  • Then send it away that it may go.
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  • Watch if it goes up by the way of its own country
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  • Toward israel, that would be beth shemesh.
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  • Then he has done this us this great evil.
  • 00:18:17.676 --> 00:18:20.979
  • They will know that god has judge them.
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  • But if not, then we'll know that
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  • It was not his hand, god's hand that struck us.
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  • It happened to us by chance.
  • 00:18:29.188 --> 00:18:30.822
  • What's going on here?
  • 00:18:30.822 --> 00:18:32.024
  • They're trying to determine where the ark
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  • And the way they dealt with the things of god
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  • Had brought judgment upon them.
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  • Or was it just an accidental thing that in their cities
  • 00:18:39.631 --> 00:18:42.935
  • They had plagues and they were dying,
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  • And they said, we'll know for sure.
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  • We'll put this or this holy thing in a cart
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  • And we'll get two cows that have just calve
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  • Their feet in their cars.
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  • We'll take the cows away from their calves.
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  • We're hitting them on the on the cart to pull the cart
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  • Toward israel.
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  • And these cows had never been broken before,
  • 00:19:03.755 --> 00:19:06.858
  • Never had a yoke.
  • 00:19:06.858 --> 00:19:08.293
  • And if they go on toward israel, the philistines knew
  • 00:19:08.293 --> 00:19:13.198
  • This wasn't a chance, saying that judgment came on them
  • 00:19:13.198 --> 00:19:16.501
  • Because the ark was to be headed back home.
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  • And anybody who knows
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  • Anything about cattle, and i know about that much,
  • 00:19:22.341 --> 00:19:25.544
  • Those cows would have turned around
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  • And go back to their newborn calves.
  • 00:19:27.879 --> 00:19:31.183
  • You could have stopped them.
  • 00:19:31.183 --> 00:19:32.851
  • But what did they do?
  • 00:19:32.851 --> 00:19:34.686
  • They headed right for beth
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  • Shemesh, right in the country of israel.
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  • They headed back home with the ark.
  • 00:19:39.925 --> 00:19:42.394
  • And the bible says in verses, i'll not read.
  • 00:19:42.394 --> 00:19:45.097
  • They went back home, lowing low and loudly, taking the ark
  • 00:19:45.097 --> 00:19:49.501
  • Back to god's people.
  • 00:19:49.501 --> 00:19:50.836
  • And then god's people didn't handle it properly there.
  • 00:19:50.836 --> 00:19:53.272
  • And 70 of them died
  • 00:19:53.272 --> 00:19:55.073
  • When they said, let me look inside,
  • 00:19:55.073 --> 00:19:56.808
  • See the ten commandments still there? bang
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  • A holy thing.
  • 00:20:00.045 --> 00:20:00.912
  • And then the ark became a hot potato.
  • 00:20:00.912 --> 00:20:04.549
  • You know, what are we going to do with it?
  • 00:20:04.549 --> 00:20:08.020
  • Gee, they had co-opted the power of god.
  • 00:20:08.020 --> 00:20:11.556
  • They wanted
  • 00:20:11.556 --> 00:20:12.724
  • The power of god to be used for their pagan purposes.
  • 00:20:12.724 --> 00:20:15.994
  • How do we apprehend
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  • The power of god?
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  • I'll tell you exactly how we do it.
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  • With the presence of god.
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  • It is only through the presence of god.
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  • Do we have then the power of god.
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  • We try to.
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  • You'll use the power of god,
  • 00:20:36.181 --> 00:20:38.083
  • As did the israelis that did the philistines,
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  • Without having the presence of god.
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  • It never does work.
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  • It never does work.
  • 00:20:48.994 --> 00:20:51.263
  • Well, we ask the question then
  • 00:20:51.263 --> 00:20:53.732
  • How do we get in the presence of god?
  • 00:20:53.732 --> 00:20:56.435
  • How do we know in the presence of god?
  • 00:20:56.435 --> 00:20:58.837
  • There are always 2 or 3 things present
  • 00:20:58.837 --> 00:21:02.274
  • And are connected with the very presence of god.
  • 00:21:02.274 --> 00:21:06.144
  • First of all,
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  • Unconditional commitment.
  • 00:21:08.113 --> 00:21:11.483
  • You can't go in the presence of god
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  • Without selling out to god
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  • About giving him your hands, your feet, your mind,
  • 00:21:17.189 --> 00:21:19.891
  • Everything. you can't hold back anything.
  • 00:21:19.891 --> 00:21:22.194
  • That's the first step to know the presence of god.
  • 00:21:22.194 --> 00:21:24.963
  • Remember, it is through the presence of god.
  • 00:21:24.963 --> 00:21:27.099
  • We then have the power of god.
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  • So we go to him totally.
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  • We give ourselves totally to him.
  • 00:21:31.937 --> 00:21:34.139
  • Completely to him.
  • 00:21:34.139 --> 00:21:36.108
  • Holding nothing back from him.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • If you have something
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  • You're talking to god about praying to god about
  • 00:21:41.713 --> 00:21:43.849
  • And there is living sin in your life or in my life.
  • 00:21:43.849 --> 00:21:48.086
  • We're practicing sin in any way, shape, form, and fashion.
  • 00:21:48.086 --> 00:21:51.289
  • You're wasting your breath
  • 00:21:51.289 --> 00:21:53.091
  • Trying to talk to god and get his power to god.
  • 00:21:53.091 --> 00:21:55.527
  • Operate in some area.
  • 00:21:55.527 --> 00:21:56.962
  • You have to, first of all, deal with that brokenness,
  • 00:21:56.962 --> 00:21:59.564
  • That sin in your life.
  • 00:21:59.564 --> 00:22:00.832
  • That's what total commitment is.
  • 00:22:00.832 --> 00:22:02.901
  • Lord, i want you to help.
  • 00:22:03.468 --> 00:22:04.703
  • I want you to lead. i want you to forgive.
  • 00:22:04.703 --> 00:22:06.505
  • Oh, no. no.
  • 00:22:06.505 --> 00:22:07.706
  • Go right back to that thing which is wrong in your life
  • 00:22:07.706 --> 00:22:11.877
  • That has to be dealt with first.
  • 00:22:11.877 --> 00:22:14.546
  • For what had happened a long time ago.
  • 00:22:14.546 --> 00:22:16.047
  • Doesn't matter. give it to god. let him deal with it.
  • 00:22:16.047 --> 00:22:18.450
  • That has to be dealt with first.
  • 00:22:18.450 --> 00:22:20.252
  • And that is a total commitment.
  • 00:22:20.252 --> 00:22:22.154
  • If you draw near to god and god draws near to us,
  • 00:22:22.154 --> 00:22:25.257
  • We have to begin with surrender and commitment.
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  • Not one time, but i'm sure many times.
  • 00:22:27.993 --> 00:22:31.096
  • First thing i do every morning
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  • I hit my knees and i surrender every single day
  • 00:22:32.898 --> 00:22:35.967
  • Before i go to bed. at night, i hit my knees.
  • 00:22:35.967 --> 00:22:37.836
  • I surrender.
  • 00:22:37.836 --> 00:22:39.504
  • That is total commitment.
  • 00:22:39.504 --> 00:22:40.772
  • That's the first step to drawing near to god.
  • 00:22:40.772 --> 00:22:44.242
  • James says, draw near to god and
  • 00:22:44.242 --> 00:22:48.346
  • It's a fight.
  • 00:22:48.713 --> 00:22:49.581
  • The first step is complete surrender.
  • 00:22:49.581 --> 00:22:52.050
  • The second step
  • 00:22:52.050 --> 00:22:54.553
  • Had to destroy some idols.
  • 00:22:54.553 --> 00:22:57.722
  • It may be a good thing.
  • 00:22:57.722 --> 00:22:59.391
  • Your idol may be worth.
  • 00:22:59.391 --> 00:23:00.625
  • That's a good thing.
  • 00:23:00.625 --> 00:23:01.993
  • But it has higher priority than things of god.
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  • A good thing can become a bad thing.
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  • Or that.
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  • What is that? you must have?
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  • What is the audience that you're living for?
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  • Who are those that we want to approve of us?
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  • They can become a dollar,
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  • Anything, a house, money, possessions,
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  • Pleasure.
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  • Sex can become an idol.
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  • And it takes the place of god.
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  • So first of all, we have to tear down those idols
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  • In order to draw near to god and god to draw near
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  • To us, complete surrender and then destructive idols.
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  • And then what comes into play?
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  • The mercy seat.
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  • Where's the idea?
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  • Where i can go and pray to god anytime?
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  • He's. i'm not omnipresent. he is.
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  • But you and i can't pray any time
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  • Because i'm unclean and you're unclean.
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  • And we go to god, and god is holy.
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  • And god will listen to only people who are holy,
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  • Who you say, well, i never you never listen to me.
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  • Let me tell you
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  • How holiness comes to every single one of us here.
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  • We go, right back to the ark.
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  • The reason god would come to the ark and golf.
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  • The ark can use power on the ark.
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  • And there was glory in the ark, and he was big to the ark,
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  • Because the ark tells us exactly
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  • What happened?
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  • Once a year,
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  • The high priest would go into the holy of holies,
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  • Court of the women, court of the gentiles in the temple,
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  • The holy place and the holy of holies.
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  • And there was the ark.
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  • Remember what was in the ark?
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  • The ten commandments, what was on top of the ark?
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  • The two cherubim?
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  • What was between them? the mercy seat?
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  • What would the priest have
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  • To do when he went into the holy place?
  • 00:24:46.665 --> 00:24:49.701
  • He could go in and help himself.
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  • He was not holy, but he went in with a blood sacrifice,
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  • And the blood was put on the mercy seat. why?
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  • Why is this some antique,
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  • O ancient riddle and ritual?
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  • Oh, no!
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  • You see, the commandments were there,
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  • The ten commandments were there.
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  • And when we go before god, there's always that covenant.
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  • The ark of the covenant.
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  • There's those commandments.
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  • And every one of us here has broken every single
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  • One of those commandments.
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  • If you doubt, that, will debate after church.
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  • Every one of us had broken every one of the commandments.
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  • So we go to god,
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  • And we know there is the covenant that we broken.
  • 00:25:31.276 --> 00:25:35.113
  • Therefore, it has to be
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  • The blood that covers
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  • That covers that covenant
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  • So we can do business with god.
  • 00:25:41.686 --> 00:25:44.789
  • So the mercy seat is always involved.
  • 00:25:44.789 --> 00:25:47.258
  • And so we go as holy, you and i, we holy
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  • When we been there, and the blood of jesus christ
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  • And bit of blood.
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  • You're holy and i'm holy,
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  • And god can deal with us and we can deal with god.
  • 00:25:55.734 --> 00:25:58.336
  • He can come near to us and we come near to him.
  • 00:25:58.336 --> 00:26:00.772
  • And then his power begins to flow in our life.
  • 00:26:00.772 --> 00:26:03.274
  • But his his power is always connected with his presence.
  • 00:26:03.274 --> 00:26:07.078
  • How do we get in his presence?
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  • Total submission.
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  • How does that happen?
  • 00:26:10.682 --> 00:26:11.549
  • We get rid of some idols.
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  • Then we have to go to the mercy seat.
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  • Because you and i didn't become holy.
  • 00:26:14.719 --> 00:26:16.488
  • Because jesus, who was holy.
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  • Hey, she had the blood and protects us,
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  • And he is there as our mediator between us
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  • And the covenant that everyone of us has broken.
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  • To read a historical novel out of order?
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  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand.
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  • The plot wouldn't.
  • 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:36.374
  • And yet we read have studied the bible in much the same way,
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  • Like a novel.
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  • The bible tells a story
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  • With the beginning of middle and end,
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  • And when you read in chronological order,
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  • You will see history unfold in a new and
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  • Understandable and memorable way.
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