1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,980 Let's pray. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:59,260 Good morning. We are glad to be here this morning, and we're glad to be able to spend some time together, glad to be able 3 00:00:59,260 --> 00:01:15,420 to read Scripture together, glad to be able to sing together and to gather around the table in celebration of the gospel and in remembrance of Jesus. And so I'm going to open with a word of prayer, and then we will begin with the 95th Psalm. 4 00:01:15,420 --> 00:01:28,520 Father in heaven, I thank you so much that we can be here. I thank you so much for your people. I thank you so much for your word. I thank you for the gospel and how it changes 5 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:42,520 and transforms. And so I ask that as we worship and if we open your word this morning, that you would be with us to guide us, to teach us, to give us strength, and help us to see your goodness. It is in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 6 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:57,780 If you would, stand with me as we read from the 95th Psalm. We're going to read verses three through six. For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all God. 7 00:01:57,780 --> 00:02:21,780 In His hand are the depths of the earth. The height of the mountains are His also. The sea is His, for He made it. And His hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. This is the word of the Lord. 8 00:02:21,780 --> 00:02:51,760 I was buried beneath my shame. Who could carry that kind of weight? It was my turn. 9 00:02:51,760 --> 00:03:21,740 Till I met you. I was breathing but not alive. All my failures I tried to hide. It was my turn. Till I met you. 10 00:03:21,740 --> 00:03:51,720 You called my name, and I ran out of that grave. Out of the darkness into your glorious day. You called my name, and I ran out of that grave. Out of the darkness into your glorious day. 11 00:03:51,720 --> 00:04:21,700 Out of the darkness into your glorious day. Now your mercy has saved my soul. Now your freedom is all that I know. The old made new. 12 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:51,680 Jesus, when I met you, you called my name, and I ran out of that grave. Out of the darkness into your glorious day. You called my name, and I ran out of that grave. 13 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:58,680 Out of the darkness into your glorious day. 14 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:21,660 I needed rescue. My sin was heavy. The chains break at the weight of your glory. I needed shelter. I wasn't open. Now you've come. 15 00:05:21,660 --> 00:05:51,640 You call me citizen of heaven. When I was broken, you were my healing. Now your love is the air that I'm breathing. I have a future. My eyes are open. 'Cause when you call my name, I ran out of that grave. Out of the darkness into your glory. 16 00:05:51,640 --> 00:06:21,620 glorious day. You call my name. I ran out of that grave. Out of the darkness to your glorious day. 17 00:06:21,620 --> 00:06:51,600 I'm worthy of every song we could ever sing. 18 00:06:51,600 --> 00:07:12,600 Worthy of all the praise we could ever bring. Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe. We live for you. 19 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:33,600 Jesus, the name above every other name. Jesus, the only one who could ever save. Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe. We live for you. Oh, we live for you. 20 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:50,600 Holy, there is no one like you. There is none beside you. Open up my eyes in wonder and show me who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your love to those around me. 21 00:07:50,600 --> 00:08:11,600 Worthy of every song we could ever sing. Worthy of all the praise we could ever bring. Worthy of every prayer we could ever sing. 22 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:24,600 Worthy of all the praise we could ever bring. Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe. We live for you. 23 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:54,600 Jesus, the name above every other name. Jesus, the only one who could ever say. Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe. We live for you. Oh, we live for you. 24 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:21,600 Holy, there is no one like you. There is none beside you. Open up my eyes in wonder and show me who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your love to those around me. 25 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:48,600 I will build my life upon your love. It is a firm foundation. I will put my trust in you alone, and I will not be shaken. I will build my life upon your love. It is a firm foundation. I will put my trust in you alone, and I will not be shaken. 26 00:09:48,600 --> 00:10:15,600 I will build my life upon your love. It is a firm foundation. I will put my trust in you alone, and I will not be shaken. 27 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:42,600 Holy, there is no one like you. There is none beside you. Open up my eyes in wonder and show me who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your love to those around me. 28 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:49,600 For more information, visit www.fema.org. 29 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,000 For more information, visit www.fema.org. 30 00:11:42,600 --> 00:12:12,580 For more information, visit www.fema.org. 31 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,600 Thank you. 32 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,600 Thank you. 33 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,600 Thank you. 34 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,600 Amen. 35 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,600 Amen. 36 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,600 Amen. 37 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:37,600 I put my soul on Jesus. When the mountains shake, I put my trust in Jesus the moment I awake. 38 00:30:37,600 --> 00:31:03,600 And when my soul is lost at sea, He will be my rock. My vision be in Christ alone. This grace is always God. 39 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:29,600 His love is like the mighty ocean. His love for me will never stop. Oh, His arms are strong enough to carry me through it all by the grace of God. 40 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:57,600 So I, upon His shoulders, safely brought this far. Helper of my helpless soul, the King of broken hearts. 41 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:25,600 His love is like the mighty ocean. His love for me will never stop. Oh, His arms are strong enough to carry me through it all by the grace of God. 42 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:53,600 When breath grows still and night draws near, I will not be afraid. I know the plans He has for me. Don't finish at my grave. 43 00:32:53,600 --> 00:33:21,600 His love is like the mighty ocean. His love for me will never stop. Oh, His arms are strong enough to carry me through it all by the grace of God. 44 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:49,600 As he mentioned earlier, we spent some time this past week camping, and what anybody would ask me as they saw the weather forecast for this week, specifically for Thursday into Friday, they'd be like, "Are you sure you really want to do this?" And of course, I can't say, "Well, I don't know if this is a good idea or not." 45 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:57,600 Of course it's a good idea, right? We know what we're doing. Now that we're on the other side about it, I can be smug about it and say, "Look, we did know what we were doing." 46 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:17,600 But there were a few moments during this when the rain started, and we are in a tent, not a camper, and a couple gusts of wind came, and then five or six inches of rain fell, that there were times where I doubted that our shelter really was going to hold. Now, it did. 47 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:27,600 And I think probably by the grace of God that we, you know, mostly dry, a little damp, but that was mainly because everybody was damp the whole time, it was raining. 48 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:45,600 And as we think about shelter, there's a lot of things in life that we trust, and maybe we brag about, or maybe we are smug about those things that we trust in. But the reality of our trust in those things is that ultimately, 49 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:55,600 every single one is prone to build. The song we just sang, "By the grace of God," the heart of that song comes from Deuteronomy, 50 00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:07,600 the 33rd chapter, where you hear these words, "There is none like God, O Yeshurun." It's just a poetic name for Israel. "There is none like God, 51 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:17,600 who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in His majesty. The eternal God is your 52 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:29,600 dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms." And the picture in this song in Deuteronomy 33 is that 53 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:37,600 there is no more place that is secure than in the arms of God. It's a shelter that won't tip over, 54 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:43,600 it won't leave, it won't be blown away by the winds, and no matter how hard the storm rages 55 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:54,600 around you and near you, the eternal God is your dwelling place. And underneath are the everlasting arms. 56 00:35:54,600 --> 00:36:00,600 In Luke's Gospel, and in the other three of the other, two of the other Gospels, there is 57 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:06,600 this account where there's a literal storm, and there's wind, and there's waves, and 58 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:13,600 everything's blowing, and the disciples think that they are going to sink and drown. And 59 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:19,600 Jesus is asleep in the boat, and I imagine the disciples were probably a little annoyed 60 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:26,600 at that. Instead of helping, Jesus is asleep. In fact, one of the Gospel councils said, "Don't 61 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:33,600 you care that we are perishing?" And Jesus will awake, and He will calm the storm, and in Luke's 62 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:40,600 Gospel, He will say to them, "Where is your faith?" I don't think Jesus is being petty. I 63 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:46,600 don't think He is being a little bit snarky with them. I think He's saying to them that as 64 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:55,600 long as I am in the boat, you're safe in the storm. But I'm not distant, but I am here with 65 00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:02,600 you. And as we encounter the challenges and the storms and the joys and the goodness of 66 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:11,600 life, we need to be reminded that in all of those things our shelter is in God. He 67 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:17,600 upholds us with His everlasting arms. And even in the midst of the storms, He is with 68 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:23,600 us. I don't think there's a better way for us to see that and to experience that 69 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:28,600 than through the Lord's Supper, which literally is a picture of God coming to be 70 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:35,600 with us and giving Himself for us in forgiveness and in redemption and a 71 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:43,600 new covenant. So as we pray and as we pray, let's be reminded where our shelter 72 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:50,600 and our hope is. Father in Heaven, I thank You for Jesus' grace, and I thank You that He 73 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:57,600 came. I thank You that He went to the cross, and I thank You that He took our 74 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:04,600 sins. I thank You that He rose again. I thank You that one day He is returning to 75 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:12,600 bring us home. So in this minute, well, we are in the storms, chaos applying for you. 76 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:20,600 Whether we're filled with joy, just excitement, remind us that You are our hope 77 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:26,600 and our sorrows, You are our hope and giver of blessings. So whether we come with 78 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:35,600 joyful hearts, Your sorrowful heart and make with You, remind us that You are with us, You are near to us. 79 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:49,600 Strengthen us in the Gospel, I ask that You bless this bread. Remember the sacrifice of Jesus, that You would bless this cup, that we would see this new covenant that was given in His name. 80 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:58,600 It's in His name you pray. Take the bread with me as we remember Jesus, and He says, "This is my body, just for You to do this." 81 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:15,600 And as we take this cup, Jesus says, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, just for You to do this." 82 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:38,600 And as often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim Jesus, and I would encourage us not just to proclaim in these moments, but proclaim as we walk and as we move through outline. 83 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:49,600 We're going to be in 1 Samuel. We're going to be in chapter 6. Everybody need to jump ahead past the big block of Scripture. I don't want to have to do that slide by slide. 84 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:59,600 We're going to take a look at this hopeful warning. We're going to kind of walk through parts of this chapter. There is a lot happening here. 85 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:09,600 And so we will stop and read a little bit, and then we will unpack it, and we'll sort of see what happens throughout this chapter. 86 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:20,600 So before we do that, let's go to God in prayer. Father in heaven, I thank you for your goodness, and I thank you for your word, and I thank you for your church. 87 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:30,600 And I ask that as we read through this chapter, as we look at this chapter this morning, that you would help us to see the greatness of your sovereignty. 88 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:40,600 How in every situation, no matter how bleak, or how hopeless, or how much that it seems, your glory has departed from the lives of your people. 89 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:49,600 That you are in control, and you are moving all things according to your purposes. Help us to be able to rest in your sovereignty. 90 00:40:49,600 --> 00:41:10,600 That also help us to look at our faith. That we would not be like the men of this city, who seemingly with their actions and their voices proclaimed your glory, but with their actions they treated you with indifference, disrespect. 91 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:18,600 So help our faith be more than our words. Help it to be deeper than just thinking the right things. 92 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:29,600 That we would not just sing about your glory, or acknowledge your glory with our intellect, but that we would live all of our days for your glory. 93 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:40,600 So help us to see hope this morning, and warn us where our hearts begin to wander. It is in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 94 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:47,600 So as we begin this text, and we'll kind of take a look as we move through it, 95 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:54,600 one of the things we have in this is there are a lot of things in here that will seem foreign. 96 00:41:54,600 --> 00:42:00,600 There are the Philistines that they try to make amends with God, and they're making golden tumors and golden rats, 97 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:07,600 trying to send away their disease and plague away from them, trying somehow to appease God. 98 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:14,600 And some of these rituals and some of the commands of God, we'll see, that are ignored in the later part of this chapter. 99 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:21,600 They can seem strange and distant for us. And so I want to think about this just a little bit. 100 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:30,600 It may be a way that at least has helped me think about how to deal with these kind of situations and texts of Scripture. 101 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,600 So one of the things, if you go to just about any museum, especially a museum where there's going to be kids, 102 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:40,600 most of them have some sort of movie theater where you can go and sit. 103 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:47,600 And so, for example, in Dulles, the Air and Space Museum, you can watch the IMAX movie with the jets or whatever they're showing at the time, 104 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:54,600 and sort of feel what's happening. But we were at one museum, and it may have been the aquarium in Baltimore, 105 00:42:54,600 --> 00:43:02,600 and they had what they called a 4D movie, which seems like one extra than what actually exists, right? 106 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:08,600 And so we go and we sit, and we're like, "Well, what's going on with this?" And as the waves come splashing, 107 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,600 there's sprayers under the seat, and all of a sudden you're feeling the waves, 108 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:18,600 and the one that really got everybody is they're kind of going down through the cave with the bats, 109 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,600 and so you're sort of feeling it because the screen's wide enough, it captures your peripheral vision, 110 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,600 and you feel like you're moving through this, and all of a sudden the bats start flying, 111 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,600 and air starts puffing out of the seats in front of you, and people are screaming 112 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:36,600 because they think there's bats loose in the theater, and so you weren't just seeing it, 113 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:41,600 but you were sort of feeling a little bit of what was happening while you are there. 114 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:52,600 And one of the reasons for some of this description, specifically when God calls His people to behave in a certain way in relation to their worship with Him, 115 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:58,600 these ceremonies are designed to teach, sort of to be an enacted teaching. 116 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:04,600 So, for example, with the glory and the greatness and the power of God surrounding the ark, 117 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:14,600 which plays the center point in our text this morning, you see the ark representing to God's people, God's presence. 118 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:22,600 You also see it representing His holiness and separation from sin, and so the ark had to be separate. 119 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:31,600 And so it wasn't just a ritual, but it was God demonstrating to the people with a visual picture. 120 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,600 The reality of His nature. 121 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:43,600 In the ark, you see God's leadership, both in the symbolic way of God's people being led through the wilderness, 122 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:51,600 and assembling their camp around the ark, but also in the law of God that is contained within it. 123 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:59,600 And in the manna that is kept in the ark, you're reminded of God's provision and Aaron's staff showing the authority of the priesthood. 124 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:11,600 You have this picture that leads to a deeper understanding of who God is and what He has done for His people. 125 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:19,600 That His presence is with His people. That His power is watching over and protecting. That His provision has fed them. 126 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:27,600 That God is with His people. And what we see with this powerful picture, especially at the end of this chapter, 127 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:33,600 is God's people begin to take this very, very light. 128 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:41,600 So the first part of this text this morning, as we see this display of... 129 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:48,600 ...for the Philistines, but for those of us who seem to find ourselves in impossible circumstances. 130 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:55,600 And the way this text begins is, "What should we do with the ark of the Lord?" 131 00:45:55,600 --> 00:46:03,600 And 1 Samuel 6 begins like this: "The ark has been taken from the Israelites in battle, has been in the control of the Philistines." 132 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:10,600 And in chapter 6, verse 1, "The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months." 133 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:20,600 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the Lord?" 134 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,600 And the answer is remarkable. 135 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:30,600 Because even though the advice is really weird, they're going to say, "You've been afflicted with tumors. You've been afflicted with mice." 136 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:40,600 It's possible that the affliction and plague God sends that follows the ark through the major cities of the Philistines, it's possible that it's the bubonic plague. 137 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:45,600 And so you are to take things that symbolize this plague. 138 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:51,600 I don't know who you get to sort of model for the tumors, right? It seems weird to us. 139 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:58,600 But you are to take golden tumors and golden mice and to put them within the ark. 140 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:08,600 And this advice, what you find near the ark, even though the advice is weird, and it comes from a thoroughly unbiblical source, right? 141 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:15,600 Diviners, forbidden by the Old Testament law, it's actually a pretty solid and pretty biblical device. 142 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:23,600 In verse 3, these diviners say, "You need a guilt offering." That God commands a guilt offering for your transgression. 143 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:36,600 And so they provide a guilt offering. And in verse 5, they say, "God deserves the glory." So they say, "Glorify God in this." 144 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:44,600 And in verse 6, it's remarkable, because they say, "Remember what God has done to the Egyptians, and don't harden your hearts." 145 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:55,600 There's a memory in the nation of the Philistines of what God has done, and these people who are thoroughly anti-God say, "Bring a guilt offering." 146 00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:09,600 Not necessarily as God prescribes, but the same principles. Give Him the glory in this. And don't harden your hearts and bring further judgment upon yourself. 147 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:23,600 And what's interesting, even though this is good counsel from a suspicious source, there is a hint of doubt and reluctance in the leader's return of the ark. 148 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:32,600 Let's pick it up in verse 7. So here's what they tell them to do. "Now then take and prepare a new cart with two milk cows, on which there has never come a yoke, 149 00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:41,600 and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home away from them, and take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, 150 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:54,600 and put in a box at its side the figures of gold which you are returning to him as a guilt offering, and then send it off and let it go its way and watch. 151 00:48:54,600 --> 00:49:02,600 If it goes up the way to its own land, to Beth Shemesh, then it is he, this is God, who has done us this great harm. 152 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:11,600 But if not, we shall know that it is not by his hand, not his hand that struck us, it has happened by coincidence. 153 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:21,600 And so this seems like it starts out pretty well, because it begins with a new cart, where they want to show some respect for the ark of the covenant. 154 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:28,600 They are not going to get an old, run-down, broken farm cart, but they are going to get a brand new one and on it placed the ark of God. 155 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:33,600 They are going to have a box filled with their golden offering to God. 156 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:40,600 And at the start, it sounds like they are doing pretty well in terms of respecting God. 157 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:45,600 However, the advice seems as if it is designed to fail. 158 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:56,600 So they are called to pull these untrained cows that have never pulled a cart, cows who have been separated from their calves. 159 00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:03,600 And these are cows who are producing milk, who are used to being milked or having their calves eat of this milk, 160 00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:11,600 who are going to endure some discomfort without their calves, and then take their calves in the opposite way from the cows. 161 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:15,600 And then we are just going to let the whole thing go. We are not going to lead them home. 162 00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:23,600 We are just going to let these cows, who are going to be uncomfortable, wanting to be with their calves, who have never been hooked to a wagon. 163 00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:35,600 Let's just see what happens. The intention here, I think, is to do this in the least likely way possible. 164 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:45,600 Right? If you've asked, maybe you did this as a child. I know I never did, right? You're asked to do something, and you don't want to do it, but you know you have to. 165 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:53,600 And so it's like, well, can you pick this up and put it away? And it's like, well, it's so heavy, right? I can't lift it. 166 00:50:53,600 --> 00:51:02,600 Or you do it in the absolutely slowest, most passive, aggressive way possible. This is what the Philistines are doing. 167 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:07,600 He said, "You send this home. You need a guilt offering. Don't harden your hearts against the glory of God." 168 00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:14,600 And they say, "Yeah, I'm going to do it, but I'm going to do it in a way that's designed to fail." 169 00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,600 Let's pick it up in verse 10. 170 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:24,600 "And the men did so, and they took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. 171 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:30,600 And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the box with the golden mice, and the images of the tumors, 172 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:36,600 and the cows went straight in the direction of Beth Shemesh. 173 00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:45,600 Along one highway, lowing as they went, they turned neither to the right nor to the left in the lords of the Philistines. 174 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:50,600 These are the rulers of the five major cities of Philistia. 175 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:56,600 They went after them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh. 176 00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:08,600 And so here, I think by the hand of God, they hook up these cows to the cart, who've never pulled the cart, and they pull it straight down the road. 177 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:18,600 Neither to the right, neither to the left, directly to the place they had never been, despite wanting to go back to where they came from. 178 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,600 They don't get distracted. They don't tip over the cart. 179 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:28,600 And what we see here is God's sovereign here in the return of the Ark of the Covenant. 180 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:39,600 In chapter 5, we saw God being sovereign over the God of the Philistines, and now, in the safe return of the Ark, with two untrained cows, right? 181 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:48,600 You see God at work again, but it's even more than that. This city that has been mentioned multiple times in this text, Beth Shemesh, 182 00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:56,600 this location couldn't be any more part of the plan of God if the Philistines had planned it. It's just close to them. 183 00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:02,600 They said, "We're going to send it down the road. Closest Israelites are over here. We'll see if it actually makes it." 184 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:11,600 Beth Shemesh, the town that's given to the Levites, specifically to the Levites of the clan of the Kohathites. 185 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:17,600 And the work of the Kohathites, they're specifically given to carry the holy things of God. 186 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:27,600 So when the tabernacle is packed up, they go into the holy place, and they pick up the candlestick, and they transport it. 187 00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:33,600 They pick up the altar of incense, and they transport it. They pick up the table of showbread, and they transport it. 188 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:42,600 And then they take the curtain between the holy place and the holy of holies, and they fold it over the ark, and they put rods through that. 189 00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:52,600 And the ark draped in this curtain is then carried by the Kohathites, the one group of Levites in the people of God, 190 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:59,600 who can properly handle, carry, and are directed by God to care for the ark of the covenant. 191 00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:07,600 Do you think that it is an accident that they hook these cows up, and the cows head off in a straight line, 192 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:16,600 and they end up exactly at the people who are directed, commanded, and instructed by God to care for the ark of the covenant? 193 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:21,600 I think what you see here is the sovereign hand of God. 194 00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:33,600 And what we see between chapter 4 and chapter 6, we see God's providential hand at work in the events surrounding the ark of the covenant. 195 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:40,600 And what's interesting is if you are an Israelite in 1 Samuel 4, all you see is hopelessness, right? 196 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:49,600 You see this Ichabod, the name of that baby who was born, whose name means God's glory has departed. 197 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:58,600 But then, if you look at it from God's perspective, you see the power of God triumphing over the Philistines. 198 00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:03,600 You see God's power is greater than anything in the world. It's not limited by geography. 199 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:14,600 It's not limited by the enemies of God. It's not limited by two dumb cows and a cart, that God through this whole thing is in control. 200 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:19,600 What's also interesting about the first half of this chapter is there's two references. 201 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:28,600 One that is sort of explicitly mentioned in the text, and one that's sort of literary that we see play out in the rest of this book. 202 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:41,600 The specific reference is earlier when these diviners were giving instructions, and they said, "Don't harden your hearts like they did in Egypt, where they didn't let God's people go." 203 00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:50,600 And what these spiritual pagan leaders are saying is, "The ark needs to go." Just like Egypt, God's people needed to go. 204 00:55:50,600 --> 00:56:02,600 There is a reference to the Exodus in this account that would call God's people's mind, not just to the fact that God brings the ark home, but that God has brought them out of the same situation. 205 00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:10,600 That He brought them out of the land of their enemies filled with pagan gods in a miraculous and powerful way and brought them to the promised land. 206 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:18,600 That God takes the hopeless and He brings it to pass through the power of His might. 207 00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:27,600 And secondly, if you read through the book of Samuel, this actually pictures the beginnings of the life of Abraham. 208 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:42,600 He runs the land of the Philistines in exile, ultimately returns to lead His people, specifically from Jerusalem, bringing the ark back into the center, into the capital of God's. 209 00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:46,600 He wants you to see that nothing is hopeless with God. 210 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:56,600 It seems like this is impossible. Throw this on a cart with some untrained cows, see where it goes, and God takes it straight to where it needs to go. 211 00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:02,600 There is nothing hopeless with God. The text now takes a pretty hard turn. 212 00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:07,600 On one hand, we have this picture of hope and deliverance surrounding the ark, 213 00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:13,600 and how God in His sovereign power is greater than any God, greater than any distance. 214 00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:18,600 He works things according to His purposes. He delivers out of captivity. 215 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:29,600 And even when all is lost, He is at work, and He is triumphant, and then judgment falls upon the people of God. 216 00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:36,600 The second part of this text starts with joy. It seems like things are going back to normal. 217 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:42,600 Verse 13, "Now the people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, 218 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:49,600 and when they lifted up their eyes, they saw the ark, and they rejoiced to see it." 219 00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:56,600 You see the ark coming down? Probably a bit of disbelief. Is that the ark? What is that? 220 00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:03,600 It's the ark of the coming, and they rejoice. These are the people who are to carry and care for the ark. 221 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:11,600 While it begins joyfully, it ends with disaster. Look at how it ends in verse 19. 222 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:16,600 And he struck some of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the Lord. 223 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:24,600 He struck 70 men of them, and the people mourned, because the Lord had struck the people with great blow. 224 00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:33,600 And in chapter 7, we find these words, "The men of Kirith-Jerim came and took the ark of the Lord, 225 00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:40,600 brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill, and they consecrated his son Eliezer to have charge of the ark of the Lord. 226 00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:48,600 And from the day that the ark was lodged at Kirith-Jerim, a long time passed, twenty years, 227 00:58:48,600 --> 00:59:01,600 and all the house of Israel remembered that the Lord, that what begins with joy very quickly turns to mourning and to fear." 228 00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:09,600 And I want us, for a moment, to think about the judgment of God. Because likely, if we are honest 229 00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:18,600 with ourselves, we struggle with the reality of God's judgment. It's easy to see others as deserving of God's judgment. 230 00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:24,600 It's much easier to point out everybody else's wrongdoing than our own. Drive down the road 231 00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:30,600 in Winchester for about five minutes, real easy to be like, "Oh, nice turn signal, idiot." 232 00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:38,600 "The light's green. Go ahead and go through it." Real easy to point out everybody else's wrongdoing. 233 00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:44,600 But it's funny because my drive is perfect. Those standards that I apply to others don't apply to me. 234 00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:49,600 I'm doing it right. And in this text, the first part begins with the bad guys, the Philistines. 235 00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,600 They've attacked the Israelites. They've stolen the ark. They worship false gods. 236 00:59:53,600 --> 01:00:01,600 And in our minds, they deserve judgment. However, then we see the good guys, the Israelites. 237 01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:07,600 They've been attacked. They've lost the ark. We might even overlook the fact that it was through their own disobedience 238 01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:12,600 but they worship the one true God. 239 01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:19,600 Seven men died. The ark goes into this house for the next 20 years. 240 01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:26,600 We struggle with God's judgment. It seems like God should have punished the Philistines harder. 241 01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:36,600 Maybe just left the Israelites alone. Part of the reason is that none of us like to get into trouble. 242 01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:42,600 And when we begin to think about God's people facing judgment, it begins to hit a little close to home. 243 01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:48,600 If the good guys are experiencing this, what about me? 244 01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:57,600 I think it's extremely easy for us to minimize our wrongdoing while maximizing someone else's wrongdoing. 245 01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:01,600 We make our stuff small and their stuff big. 246 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:05,600 Take a look at what happens in Beth Shemesh, beginning in verse 14. 247 01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:10,600 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there. 248 01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:16,600 A great stone was there, and they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a bird offering to the Lord. 249 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,600 And on the surface, this seems like a great plan. 250 01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,600 We got wood. Let's make an altar. Let's celebrate God. 251 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:29,600 We'll put our ark up on the rock. We'll put all these golden tumors and mice on the rocks so everybody can come and rejoice. 252 01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:34,600 We're going to kill the cows. We're going to celebrate. We're going to feast. It's going to be joyful. 253 01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:43,600 The problem with this is the Bible, right? While it seems like they're referencing the ark, right? 254 01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:49,600 The animals use the bird offerings according to Leviticus for only to be male meals. 255 01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:54,600 And it's not like these guys are just people celebrating God. These guys are priests, right? 256 01:01:54,600 --> 01:02:00,600 They're the house of Levi. Their job is to care for the ark. And look at what it says in verse 15. 257 01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:12,600 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 up on the great stone. 258 01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:19,600 Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrifices on that day to the Lord. 259 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:27,600 And they throw the ark up on this big rock with the offerings from the Philistines, almost as if they are setting an idol off. 260 01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:37,600 Right? They're not looking at God. They're looking at the ark. They've confused this picture of God's presence for God Himself. 261 01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:48,600 And they're treating this holy object as if it is God. And they're not worshipping God, they're worshipping the ark. 262 01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:58,600 The people who God has entrusted this responsibility to serve Him have blatantly disregarded His goodness. 263 01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:07,600 They throw everything up on a field in this rock. And while these actions have the appearance of goodness and worship, 264 01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:13,600 in their heart it's rejection of God's commandments. They're not even supposed to look upon the ark. 265 01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:18,600 When the Kohathites moved it, they would collapse the curtain in the tabernacle, 266 01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,600 and they would fold it over the ark so that even their eyes wouldn't see it, 267 01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:27,600 let alone the eyes of the people. And here it comes, and they throw it up on a big rock, 268 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:34,600 treating it not with the reverence they would treat God. 269 01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:40,600 They're treating this representation of God's presence, provision, protection, 270 01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:53,600 and God brings judgment. We have to understand that this is something that, through their decisions, 271 01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:59,600 they brought upon themselves. And probably most of us have experienced that where we've ignored advice. 272 01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:05,600 And I've shared this with some of you before, but I'll share it again. We were talking about it this week. 273 01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,600 When Rachel and I were first married, one of the things that we got as a wedding present 274 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:16,600 was a grill pan for your pizza to put on your grill. So you turn your grill to like 500 degrees 275 01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:21,600 with this metal pan on there. Get it so super hot. Throw your pizza. It could be a frozen pizza. 276 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:27,600 And it comes out like beef crispy. It was wonderful. And so like the first time we go to get it, 277 01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:32,600 we get it like, I mean, this thing is incinerating the hot. We put the pizza on there. 278 01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:38,600 And then we go to get the pizza off the grill, and this pan itself had to be like 600 degrees plus, right? 279 01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:45,600 So even like an oven mitt, you touch it, and you go, "Whoa, that's too hot." 280 01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:53,600 And so what I did in my infinite wisdom is I went and got some long, like, kebab skewer sticks. 281 01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,600 And some of you can already see where this is going. Out of the kitchen. 282 01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:01,600 And Rachel's like, "That's a really bad idea." I was like, "No, I know what I am doing. 283 01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:07,600 I am the master of my destiny. Step aside and let my genius prevail." 284 01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:16,600 And so I thread these skewer sticks through this incineratingly hot metal pan with the pizza on it. 285 01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:22,600 And I'm walking, and it's precarious. Because if you look at, like, wooden kebab sticks, they're not thick. 286 01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:27,600 They're not strong. And I get in the house. I get up and step into the living room. 287 01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,600 And, like, I had to step around something, and the pan gets out of balance, and I'm like this. 288 01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:41,600 And next thing I know, the pan slides down those skewer sticks into my hand, and I end up, and the good thing is, third-degree burns don't hurt. 289 01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:47,600 Like, I have a scar. The pan literally just melted in. Like, I drop it, and Rachel's in the corner. 290 01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:52,600 You know what she's doing? Laughing at me. Like, she's just like, it's the funniest thing. 291 01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:59,600 And I'm like, and I'm mad. I'm like, here I am, third-degree burns, and you're laughing at me, right? 292 01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:06,600 So whose fault was this? It certainly wasn't mine, right? 293 01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:14,600 I ignored the instructions. I ignored the good advice. I ignored wisdom, and I ignored common sense. 294 01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:25,600 Whose fault was it when my blatant disregard for anything resembling wisdom came home to roost? 295 01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:35,600 I still got a scar on my hand to remind me of this. I've learned from childhood that don't touch hot things. 296 01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:47,600 There's only one person whose fault it was, and I can't even tell you who that was because I'm not going to admit that I was in any way of fault. 297 01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:57,600 And here's these people in Kirith-Jerom, and they're doing everything that God has told them to do. 298 01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:07,600 It should not be a surprise to them that it ends back. Just as it shouldn't have been a surprise to me that my ill-fated pictures ended up with me getting hurt. 299 01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:21,600 This example in Kirith-Jerom, in this Beth Shemesh here, it should serve as a warning to us. 300 01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:29,600 And you say, "Well, I don't have an ark." Two things: don't mistake your proximity to God for a relationship. 301 01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:37,600 That's what happens with these people. They mistake the fact that they're Levites and they're Israelites with relationship with God. 302 01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:46,600 And don't let your heart become distracted. In many ways, this text describes us. We may know and we may acknowledge, 303 01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:54,600 but our hearts are not moved and our behavior is not changed. And we like to divide the world into good guys and bad guys. 304 01:07:54,600 --> 01:08:02,600 And one of the remarkable things about this text is there is no good guy. There are no good guys. 305 01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:11,600 In Samuel chapter 6, everybody's a bad guy. And the thing about our world, when it comes to our standing with God, 306 01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:17,600 there are no good guys and bad guys. There are bad guys and Jesus. 307 01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:26,600 This is where we come to this question. The question asked by these people upon who judgment had fallen. 308 01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:34,600 Who is able to stand before the Lord? The Philistines can. The Levites who handle the ark can. 309 01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:39,600 Who can stand? And the answer is nobody can stand before the Lord. 310 01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:45,600 Paul says it this way in Romans, "As it is written, no one is righteous. No, not one." 311 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:49,600 As he quotes from the Old Testament, he says, "No one understands. No one seeks God. 312 01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:58,600 All have turned aside. Together they have become worthless. No one does good. Not even one." 313 01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:05,600 But then the good news is this. There is one who can stand before us and God. 314 01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:14,600 There is one who can stand before God. Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law. 315 01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:24,600 Although the law and prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. 316 01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:31,600 For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 317 01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:39,600 And all are justified by His grace as a gift through the redemption of Christ Jesus. 318 01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:44,600 Let people in their despair cry out, "Who can stand before God?" 319 01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:48,600 We, if we are honest, we see that. 320 01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:57,600 Maybe we're like the Philistines who have gone our own way, or maybe we're like these men of Beth Shemesh who intellectually knew God. 321 01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:00,600 Their lives didn't match. 322 01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:05,600 Both the Philistines in chapter 5 and the Israelites in chapter 6 say the same thing. 323 01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:09,600 Who can stand before God? 324 01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:11,600 And the answer is we can. 325 01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:13,600 Jesus. 326 01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:17,600 And not only can He, He did. 327 01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:27,600 And He takes all of our rebellion, and all of our self-centered, and all of our worship of false idols. 328 01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:33,600 And all of those things we pursued other than God, and He takes them to the cross. 329 01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:37,600 And He dies in our place and for our sins. 330 01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:41,600 He rises again in faith. 331 01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:49,600 And through Him, in His death and in His resurrection, we begin to pray like Jesus did. 332 01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:53,600 And for God not only took away our sins. 333 01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:57,600 We can stand before God in place. 334 01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,600 Let's pray. 335 01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,600 Father, help us. 336 01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:08,600 Help us not to live like the Philistines. 337 01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:15,600 Reluctantly try to do the bare minimum to avoid judgment. 338 01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:18,600 Help us not to live. 339 01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:24,600 These Israelites who see the Ark coming initially to join us, 340 01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:26,600 don't know. 341 01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:35,600 Help us to live for you and poke our hearts and minds and our actions. 342 01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:36,600 Thank you. 343 01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,600 Jesus stood in our place. 344 01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,600 We can stand before you. 345 01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:51,600 With our hearts cleansed and our consciences cleaned by the forgiveness of this valley, Jesus. 346 01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:57,600 Encourage us, strengthen us, restore to us the joy of this valley and salvation. 347 01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:00,600 In Jesus' name we pray. 348 01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:07,600 We're going to stand and sing, "All I have is Christ." 349 01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:43,600 I once was lost in darkest night, yet thought I knew the way. 350 01:12:43,600 --> 01:13:12,600 The sin that promised joy in life had led me to the grave. I had no hope that you would own a rebel to your will. And if you had not loved me first, I would refuse you still. 351 01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:41,600 But as I ran my hell-bound race, indifferent to the cross, you looked upon my help to stay, and led me to the cross. And I beheld God's love displayed. 352 01:13:41,600 --> 01:14:10,600 I stood in my place. You bore the wrath reserved for me. Now all I know is grace. Hallelujah. All I help is Christ. Hallelujah. 353 01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:39,600 Jesus is my light. Hallelujah. All I have is Christ. Hallelujah. Jesus is my light. 354 01:14:39,600 --> 01:15:08,600 Now Lord, I would be yours alone, unless all I might seek the strength to follow your commands. 355 01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:37,600 "The truth could never come from me." "Oh Father, use my ransom light in any way to choose." "Oh Father, use my ransom light in any way to choose." 356 01:15:37,600 --> 01:16:06,600 Father, use my ransom light in any way to choose." "Aleluia, all I have is blessed." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." 357 01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:35,600 "Aleluia, all I have is Christ." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." 358 01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:37,600 "Aleluia, Jesus is my love." 359 01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:20,600 We are thankful for those who are helping with our children's church this morning. We're thankful for the work they do for our kids. 360 01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:34,600 There's no men's breakfast here in August, but plan on September 21st at 9:00 a.m. gathering together to share some fellowship and some food and some time in the Word of God. 361 01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:42,600 As we seek to grow closer to Him. I'm going to pray, read a verse of Scripture, and we'll sing the doxology. 362 01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:58,600 Father in Heaven, thank You for the grace that You have poured out in our lives. May You use us in any way and in many ways to show the goodness of Your glory and grace to the world that surrounds us. 363 01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:03,600 Thank You for Jesus. Thank You for our brothers and sisters in Christ. It's in Jesus' name we pray. 364 01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,600 Amen. 365 01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:09,600 2 Thessalonians, Paul leaves the church with this: 366 01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:15,600 "Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times and everywhere." 367 01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:17,600 The Lord be with you all. 368 01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:31,600 Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 369 01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:37,600 Praise Him, all creatures here below. 370 01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:42,600 Praise Him, above ye heavenly hosts. 371 01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:48,600 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 372 01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:23,600 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 373 01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:29,600 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 374 01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:35,600 Amen. 375 01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:00,600 Amen. 376 01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:01,600 Amen. 377 01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:30,000 Thank you.