06 June 19, 2016, 1 Samuel 5;1-6 & 6; 11-16, Worthy

1 Samuel 5:1-6; 6:11-16
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June 19, 2016
First Baptist Church
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Today
1 Samuel 5:1-6; 6:11-16
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Jon Courson's
Application NT Commentary
Jon andTammy Courson

1 Samuel 5:1 ESV
The Philistines and the Ark
1 When the Philistines captured the ark of
God, they brought it from Ebenezer to
Ashdod.

The Ark of the Covenant is a chest
31”×31”×52” (<3’x<3’x>4’) gold-plated
acacia wood (shittim wood, mimosa, same
wood as the burning bush).

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A golden lid, the kapporet (traditionally "mercy
seat") which is covered with 2 golden cherubim,
was placed above the Ark.

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When carried, the Ark was always hidden under
a large veil made of skins and blue cloth, always
carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the
priests who carried it.

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1 Samuel 5:2-6 ESV
2Then the Philistines took the ark of God and
brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up
beside Dagon (father of Baal).

3 And when the people of Ashdod rose
early the next day, behold, Dagon had
fallen face downward on the ground
before the ark of the LORD. So they took
Dagon and put him back in his place.

4 But when they rose early on the next
morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face
downward on the ground before the ark of
the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both
his hands were lying cut off on the
threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was
left to him.

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5This is why the priests of Dagon and all
who enter the house of Dagon do not
tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod
to this day.

6The hand of the LORD was heavy against
the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and
afflicted them with tumors (hemorrhoids),
both Ashdod and its territory.
1 Samuel 5:2-6 ESV

So God struck the Philistines, He spanked
them – with hemorrhoids – all of them!
Since they wouldn’t stand before God,
now they would not be able to sit before
Dagon.

1 Samuel 6:11-16 ESV
11 And they put the ark of the LORD on the
cart and the box with the golden mice and
the images of their tumors.

12 And the cows went straight in the
direction of Beth-shemesh along one
highway, lowing as they went.They
turned neither to the right nor to the left,
and the lords of the Philistines went after
them as far as the border of Beth-
shemesh.

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13 Now the people of Beth-shemesh were
reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And
when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark,
they rejoiced to see it.

14The cart came into the field of Joshua of
Beth-shemesh and stopped there. A great
stone was there. And they split up the
wood of the cart and offered the cows as a
burnt offering to the LORD.

15 And the Levites took down the ark of the
LORD and the box that was beside it, in
which were the golden figures, and set
them upon the great stone. And the men
of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings
and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the
LORD.

16 And when the five lords of the Philistines
saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.

The Israelites had set up the tabernacle at
Shiloh, and in it, the Ark of the Covenant
was kept.
Joshua used this location as the place
where he divided the land for the
Israelites.

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Shiloh was the major cultic center of Israel
before the firstTemple was built in Jerusalem.

Joshua 18:1 and 10 ESV
Allotment of the Remaining Land
1 Then the whole congregation of the
people of Israel assembled at Shiloh
and set up the tent of meeting there.
The land lay subdued before them.

10 and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh
before the LORD. And there Joshua
apportioned the land to the people of
Israel, to each his portion.
Joshua 18:1 and 10 ESV

Joshua 19:51 ESV
51These are the inheritances that Eleazar the
priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads
of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people
of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the
LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So
they finished dividing the land.
Joshua 19:51 ESV

Shiloh is located in the hill country about
30 miles north of Jerusalem.
The Ark remained at Shiloh for a few
hundred years (369 years) through most of
the time period that we know as the
“period of the judges”.

Shiloh is where Samuel grew up.
• When Samuel was born, Hannah, his
mother, promised to give the child
back to God.
• When Samuel was old enough, she
took him to live with Eli, who lived in
Shiloh.

1 Samuel 3:2-3 ESV
(1093 BC at Shiloh in the temple)
2 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had
begun to grow dim so that he could not
see, was lying down in his own place.

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3The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and
Samuel was lying down in the temple of the
LORD, where the ark of God was.
1 Samuel 3:2-3 ESV

In 1 Samuel 4, the Ark was taken from
Shiloh to a battle against the Philistines at
Ebenezer.
This decision turned out to be a bad one
because the Ark was captured by the
Philistines at Aphek.

When the news of this reached Eli, who
was an old man by this time, he fell off his
chair in the gate of the city of Shiloh and
died.
The Ark never returned to Shiloh again.

1 Samuel 4:1-4a ESV
1 And the word of Samuel came to all
Israel.
Now Israel went out to battle against the
Philistines.They encamped at Ebenezer,
and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.

2The Philistines drew up in line against
Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel
was defeated before the Philistines, who
killed about four thousand men on the
field of battle.

3 And when the people came to the camp,
the elders of Israel said, “Why has the
LORD defeated us today before the
Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the
covenant of the LORD here from Shiloh,
that it may come among us and save us
from the power of our enemies.”

4 So the people sent to Shiloh and brought
from there the ark of the covenant of the
LORD of hosts,Who is enthroned on the
cherubim.
1 Samuel 4:1-4a ESV

That was their big mistake, looking unto
an “it” instead of looking unto the Lord.
When we look to an “it” (a program, a
procedure, a discipline) it leads to a
defeat.

This is the key.
Are we going to read “it” (read the Bible in
a year) or go to a place (the church
building) to find victory?
Both of those are a means unto an end,
not the end itself.

The end itself is God! (John 1)
It is GodWho brings about victory!
The Bible and church are to be vehicles for
us to come into His presence to talk with
Him and to hear from Him, not just a box
to check off.

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They had a box, the ark of the covenant, and
they were looking unto “it” instead of looking
unto Him!

1 Samuel 4:10-11a ESV
10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was
defeated, and they fled, every man to his
home. And there was a very great
slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers
of Israel fell. 11a And the ark of God was
captured,

They looked unto an “it” instead of
unto God and they lost 30,000 men
that day in addition to losing “it”.
The victory is in our relationship with
Him, not in the vehicle that brings us
into His presence.

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Check with the Lord, don’t just check the box.

The Philistines were a mighty enemy of
Israel, much more of a threat than the
Amalekites were.
It would have been more like having the
USSR as an enemy than just some local
border skirmish.

Ebenezer and Ashdod were two of the five
major Philistine cities.
Each one of those cities had its own ruler.

1 Samuel 5:2 ESV
2Then the Philistines took the ark of God
and brought it into the house of Dagon
and set it up beside Dagon.

Dagon was an idol that the Philistines
worshiped and considered him to be the
father of Baal.
Dagon’s upper half was human and his
lower half was a fish.

1 Samuel 5:3 ESV
3 And when the people of Ashdod rose
early the next day, behold, Dagon had
fallen face downward on the ground
before the ark of the LORD. So they took
Dagon and put him back in his place.

They came in the next morning to the
scene: “Help! I’ve fallen and can’t get up.”
And they said, “Dag gone it, how did this
happen?”
They hit the reset button.

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Isn’t that a sad story that people choose a god
who can’t even get up by himself over the
Living God that created them and this fantastic
universe?

1 Samuel 5:4-5 ESV
4 But when they rose early on the next
morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face
downward on the ground before the ark of
the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both
his hands were lying cut off on the
threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon (the
fishy part) was left to him.

5This is why the priests of Dagon and all
who enter the house of Dagon do not
tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod
to this day.
1 Samuel 5:4-5 ESV

When they saw this the second day, they
said, “Wait a minute, this ain’t right!
Something is fishy is going on here!”
The truth is that Dagon could not stand in
the presence of the Lord.

Exodus 20:3-6 ESV
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved
image, or any likeness of anything that is
in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth. (fish)

5You shall not bow down to them or serve
them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children to the third and the fourth
generation of those who hate Me,

6 but showing steadfast love to
thousands of those who love Me and
keep My commandments.
Exodus 20:3-6 ESV

They should have admitted right then and
there that Dagon was no god at all and
repented and turned to the OneTrue God;
but instead, they chose to honor the spot
where Dagon’s head quit rolling – the
threshold.

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Why try to justify and honor a so-called god
who just lost his head and couldn’t even take
care of himself?

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People are enticed by Satan to make up
religious systems that enable them to live
the immoral lives that they want to live.

They knew Dagon was no real god but
they wanted to indulge their flesh so they
kept this god alive in their minds and in
their culture.
They wanted to do what their flesh
wanted to do.

Romans 1:22-25 ESV
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the
immortal God for images resembling
mortal man and birds and animals and
creeping things.

24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts
of their hearts to impurity, to the
dishonoring of their bodies among
themselves,

25 because they exchanged the truth
about God for a lie and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the
Creator,Who is blessed forever!
Amen.
Romans 1:22-25 ESV

Even though evolution is a weak lie, it is an
effective lie because people want an
alternative to God being our Creator.
When you believe in a Creator, you are
responsible to Him and subject to living
the way He wants you to live.

But many people want to live life on their
terms, not on His terms.
The Philistines’ god was powerless, Dagon
had lost his head, yet they chose to honor
the spot where his head quit rolling rather
than to honor theTrue and Living God.

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Idols in your heart are far more dangerous than
idols in the temple.

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PastorTim Keller describes idolatry as “turning
a good thing into an ultimate thing.

Rather than bowing down to metal or wooden
statues, we in theWest usually commit idolatry
when we take something good and make it into
something that we can’t live without.
This might happen with technology (iPhone),
relationships, money, comforts, possessions,
etc.

Such an act is evil because you and I were
made to worship the one true Living God
of the Bible.
Idolatry is an act of rebellion and anarchy
against our Creator–it is telling God that I
refuse to worshipYou, even thoughYou
created me for this very purpose.

It’s also self-destructive, as these false
gods only enslave us and lead to our
ultimate ruin and death.

A good way to know this is happening is to
ask yourself: Am I trusting in (fill in the
blank) rather than God for my ‘hope and
happiness, significance and security’?”

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Consider getting Keller’s book:

20 Idol Crushing Questions to Diagnose
Heart Idols
byTim Keller says J.A. Medders --
“Life only has meaning/I only have worth if…
1. I have power and influence over others.”
(Power Idolatry)

2. I am loved and respected by _____.”
(Approval Idolatry)
3. I have this kind of pleasure
experience, a particular quality of life.”
(Comfort idolatry)
4. I am able to get mastery over my life
in the area of _____.”(Control
Idolatry)

5. people are dependent on me and need
me.” (Helping Idolatry)
6. someone is there to protect me and
keep me safe.” (Dependence
Idolatry)

7. I am completely free from obligations
or responsibilities to take care of
someone.” (Independence idolatry)
8. I am highly productive and getting a lot
done.” (Work idolatry)

9. I am being recognized for my
accomplishments, and I am excelling in
my work.” (Achievement idolatry)
10.I have a certain level of wealth,
financial freedom, and very nice
possessions.” (Materialism idolatry)

11. I am adhering to my religion’s moral
codes and accomplished in its
activities.” (Religion idolatry)
12. this one person is in my life and happy
to be there, and/or happy with me.”
(Individual person idolatry)

13. I feel I am totally independent of
organized religion and am living by a
self-made morality.” (Irreligion
idolatry)
14. my race and culture is ascendant and
recognized as superior.”
(Racial/cultural idolatry)

15.a particular social grouping or
professional grouping or other group
lets me in.” (Inner ring idolatry)
16.my children and/or my parents are
happy and happy with me.” (Family
idolatry)

17. Mr. or Ms. “Right” is in love with me.”
(Relationship Idolatry)
18.I am hurting, in a problem; only then
do I feel worthy of love or able to deal
with guilt.” (Suffering idolatry)

19.my political or social cause is making
progress and ascending in influence or
power.” (Ideology idolatry)
20.I have a particular kind of look or body
image.” (Image idolatry)

On page 176 of his book, Counterfeit
Gods,Tim Keller says: “We think we’ve
learned about grace, set our idols aside,
and reached a place where we’re serving
God not for what we’re going to get from
Him but forWho He is.

There’s a certain sense in which we spend
our entire lives thinking we’ve reached the
bottom of our hearts and finding it is a
false bottom. Mature Christians are not
people who have completely hit the
bedrock. I do not believe that is possible
in this life.

Rather, they are people who know how to
keep drilling and are getting closer and
closer.”
Tim Keller

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Prayer: “Father, keep my heart teachable. May
I never stop drilling but spend my whole life
shedding the things that get in the way ofYou.”

1 Samuel 5:6 ESV
6The hand of the LORD was heavy against
the people of Ashdod, and He terrified and
afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod
and its territory.

The men ofAshdod said, “This isn’t
working out, this has not ended well. Our
affliction is problematic; we are not in a
comfortable situation so somebody has
got to go.” So they decided to go with the
fishy one, the headless god, Dagon.

The key should have been to focus on God, not
on their problem.
Bring the Lord’s peace into your life when you
are faced with a difficulty, focus on Him, not on
the difficulty.
Bring the Ark (God) in and watch Dagon fall.

Bring God into the picture and watch
Dagon go down, see God’s victory
triumph!
1 Samuel 5:8 - What shall we do with
the Ark? Let’s send it to Gath. But they
got spanked in Gath too!

1 Samuel 5:10 - Ekron also - 3 of the 5
Philistine cities got the ark and they all
said, “We got to get rid of this thing!”
Instead of turning to the Lord when He
spanked them, they turned their backs on
Him and wanted nothing to do with Him.

Sad to say, we often do likewise.
1 Samuel 6:1-2 - The Ark had been in the
land of the Philistines for seven months
and they said, “This thing is a pain in the
drain, how do we get rid of it?”

The priests told them – “Don’t return it
empty!”
The men then asked, “What shall the
trespass offering be?”
The answer was, “Five golden tumors
(hemorrhoids) and five golden mice.”

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Five golden tumors (hemorrhoids)
and five golden mice.

Five because that equaled the number of
the lords of the Philistines.
Mice because they may have been the
vector that transmitted the disease.

The lost see God as a pain in their rears
and they want to send Him away.
They want to get Him out of their culture
just as the Philistines did not want to deal
with the reason for their disease and
difficulties.

They wanted relief but they did not want
to get to the bottom of the disease.
The same is true of the US today, people
want God out of our culture, out of our
government, out of our schools, out of our
marketplaces.

They don’t want the mass shootings and
terrorism that comes when God removes
His hand of protection; the pain – but they
do not want to do what it takes to bring
God back into their culture.

1 Samuel 6: 7 – New cart, two nursing cows
that had never been yoked.
1 Samuel 6:9 – If they go to Israel, then God
had a hand in this, if not, then all this was by
chance. This test was set up against God so
the outcome would be supernatural – holy
cows!

11 And they put the ark of the LORD on the
cart and the box with the golden mice and
the images of their tumors.

The cows took the road straight to Israel,
lowing all the way – they did not turn to
the left nor to the right.
The Philistines utterly ignored this
supernatural outcome.

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Jon Courson said that he had to milk these
analogies for all they were worth.

1 Samuel 6:13 ESV
13 Now the people of Beth-shemesh were
reaping their wheat harvest in the valley.
And when they lifted up their eyes and
saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.

Verse 13: Beth-shemesh in the month of
June, the Israelites rejoiced greatly – in the
field of Joshua during the wheat harvest,
they took the wood from the cart and
offered the cows (female animals were
not to be sacrificed).

1 Samuel 6:16 ESV
16 And when the five lords of the
Philistines saw it, they returned that
day to Ekron.

Verse 16 –Watched at a distance and
returned to Palestine – one ruler for each
of the five cities (represented by the
golden emrod) and the gold mice
(represented each of the rulers over that
city).

Verse 19 –The Lord smote Beth-shemesh
because they looked in the ark.
Who is able to stand before the holy Lord?
30,000 slain in battle and now 50,070 more
slain – a great slaughter!

This was Horrific price for removing the
mercy seat.
They looked inside to see if the law was
still there.
Don’t attempt to remove mercy from the
law.

You can’t remove mercy from the
equation.
It will kill you if you try to remove God’s
mercy from His plan.

It will rob you of your joy.
Your joy will be killed.
Be careful!
We all know it brings misery and
depression and sadness of soul.

The English phrase mercy seat is a
translation of the Hebrew word,
kapporeth.

Kapporeth is probably derived from
kaphar, which is often considered to mean
cover, the literal meaning of kaphar
however is wipe out, implying that
kapporeth means thing of wiping out/thing
of cleansing.

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The ark and mercy seat were associated with
the presence ofYahweh.

TheYom Kippur ritual was a shadow of
things to come (Hebrews 10:1).
The continual sacrifice for sin became
obsolete once Jesus had died.

Exodus 25:18 KJV
And thou shalt make two angels of
gold, of beaten work shalt thou make
them, in the two ends of the mercy
seat.

John 20:12 KJV
And seeth two angels in white sitting,
the one at the head, and the other at
the feet, where the body of Jesus had
lain.

Genesis 49:10 KJV
The sceptre shall not depart from
Judah, nor a lawgiver from between
his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto
him shall the gathering of the people
be.

Jesus replaced the Ark of the
Covenant with God's New Covenant
because the Ark of the Covenant
disappeared from the JewishTemple
somewhere before or during the
Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem in
586 BC.

In anticipation of the Ark's disappearance, the
prophet Jeremiah wrote:
Jeremiah 3:16 KJV
And it shall come to pass, when ye be
multiplied and increased in the land, in those
days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more,
the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

neither shall it come to mind: neither shall
they remember it; neither shall they visit
it; neither shall that be done any more.
Jeremiah 3:16 KJV

Even before Jesus, Jeremiah's prophecy
revealed that there would be no more
need for the Ark of the Covenant in the
future.
God had a better covenant He would bring
to pass -- the new covenant in His Son,
Jesus Christ.

Even though sin has been forgiven and washed
away, we still try to say: “Yeah, but what they did
to me was really bad!”
Forget about it!
Jesus paid for it, keep mercy over the law – even if
the law was broken and your heart was broken –
you’ll never win by trying to remove the mercy.

Jesus went on to say in Luke 6, “How you
show mercy to others is the same degree
and it is given to you when you need
mercy.”

Put a lid on it.
It is merciful to neutralize these terrorist and
mass murderers.
Mercy requires it.
With each person that they kill, they are digging
a deeper hole for themselves in Hell.

Jesus said – Some are beaten with a few
stripes and some are beaten with many
stripes.
There are degrees in Hell.
You are doing a murderer a favor by
stopping him from killing others.

It is not a vindictive action because he is
damaging himself and others - so it is an act of
mercy.
God was merciful when He said to Joshua, “I
want you to destroy every Canaanite in the
land” because God had given the Canaanites
400 years to repent and they didn’t and
wouldn’t.

Their culture had become so polluted by
sin, by deviant sexual activity that they
were doomed and damned and needed to
be taken out.
That’s mercy!

If a rabid dog entered your house and
attacked your children, the merciful thing
to do would be to kill the dog.
He was dying anyway and there is no
reason to allow him to harm your family.

It is not right to allow certain things to
continue.
That is why God will take an errant
Christian home to Heaven when he is
attacking God’s man (the pastor) or
hindering God’s work.

The Israelites knew that God did not want
them to look in the law because He always
wants mercy covering the law.
He never wants mercy lifted off nor set
aside.

He always wants mercy to be covering the
law.
They lifted the lid and died that day.
As a matter of fact, 50,070 died that day!

1 Samuel 7:1-2 ESV
1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and
took up the ark of the LORD and brought it
to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And
they consecrated his son Eleazar to have
charge of the ark of the LORD.

2 From the day that the ark was lodged at
Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some
twenty years, and all the house of Israel
lamented after the LORD.
1 Samuel 7:1-2 ESV

Everyone feared the ark.
They had heard what happened to the
Philistines and they had seen what it did
to the men of Beth-shemesh and they
were very cautious.

They had the fear of the Lord, something
that is lacking in our culture today.
God is love and good and grace and
merciful but He is also awesome!

They knew that He must be respected and
deeply revered and that is the place that
they were in.

1 Samuel 7:3-4 ESV
Samuel Judges Israel
3 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you
are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then
put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth
from among you and direct your heart to the
LORD and serve Him only, and He will deliver you
out of the hand of the Philistines.”

4 So the people of Israel put away the
Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served
the LORD only.
1 Samuel 7:3-4 ESV

God told them to get rid of the other gods
and He would deliver them from the
Philistines.
If there ever was a verse that we need
today, it is this one.

If we want to be free from the terror of our
enemies, the key is to serve the Lord only!
The USA is now celebrating plurality when
it comes to gods.

We now say, “Any god, any religion, it is
OK since we are united!”
It is politically correct but it breaks God’s
heart and it should break our hearts also.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was
the God that the pilgrims relied on and it
was never a question ofWho God was -
but that is not true today.

Jesus clearly stated;
John 14:6 ESV
6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no
one comes to the Father except through
Me.”

The extremist of other faiths and their
radical actions cause the world to lump
dedicated Christians who believe that
Jesus is the only way into the same
category.
Satan wants us to backpedal and give in to
the “modern thought”.

Political correctness puts pressure on us to
capitulate, to not be so exclusive.
Satan would love to get us to deny what
Jesus said so clearly, “I am the only way!”

The lesson here in 1 Samuel is if you want
God’s blessing you must put away all other
gods and serve the Lord only.
The sin of Israel was not in turning their
back on God but in adding other gods to
the land.

The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 ESV
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life.”
John 14:6 ESV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Romans 3:23 ESV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a ESV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died in
this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second death
explained in Revelation 21:8.

Revelation 21:8 ESV
8 “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as
for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters,
and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns
with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b ESV
23b but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 ESV
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 ESV
7 "The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will
be his God and he will be my son.”
Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be conquerors.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is
Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes and is justified, and with the mouth one
confesses and is saved.
Romans 10:13 ESV
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved.”

If you have questions or would like to know more, Please,
contact First Baptist Church Jackson at 601-949-1900 or
http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/

06 June 19, 2016, 1 Samuel 5;1-6 & 6; 11-16, Worthy

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