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Judges, Samuel, Repentance (ROUGH DRAFT)
Big Idea - God calls us to repent because He is good.
Intro - Story about need for repentance in my marriage.
About the 5th year of marriage I became discouraged with my relationship with my wife.
I had bought into this cultural lie that it was my wife’s responsibility to make my heart happy.
- To give me joy.
If our relationship was what it was supposed to be, my heart would be full of love and joy.
Big Problem with this lie that I believed.
God hadn’t given her the job to make me happy - to give me joy.
It is only God who gives joy.
Only God who satisfies the heart.
-This was a belief I had to repent from.
-I had to turn from believing a lie and embrace the truth of God’s great satisfaction for me.
We all have something in our life that needs repentance.
Repentance is something that is beautiful.
It is something that is birthed out of the goodness of God.
Through repentance God brings us back to what is best for us.
God created us for Him.
When we get away from Him - he brings us back through the process of repentance.
We all have something in our life that we need to repentant from.
We know that in the book of Judges and in Samuel that the Israelites
We know that in the book of Judges and today in the book of 1st Samuel that the Israelites were constantly in the cycle of sin that included repentance.
Show on slide the cycle of the judges.
In todays passage we have the final Judge of Israel - Samuel.
Samuel is unique in that he was not only a judge of Israel, but one of the greatest prophets the nation ever had.
Samuel had a dual roll - both prophet and judge.
Something else unique in our passage today is that Samuel didn’t lead the people of Israel to God because the were oppressed by a foreign power.
Instead it because they allowed God to work in their hearts - they came to want God.
For the first time in the Book of 1 Samuel, Samuel is portrayed acting as a “leader” (Hb.
špṭ; trad.
to act as a judge).
Thus at Mizpah began the ministry of Israel’s most venerable judge/prophet since Moses.
For the first time in the Book of 1 Samuel, Samuel is portrayed acting as a “leader” (Hb.
špṭ; trad.
to act as a judge).
Thus at Mizpah began the ministry of Israel’s most venerable judge/prophet since Moses.
For the first time in the Book of 1 Samuel, Samuel is portrayed acting as a “leader” (Hb.
špṭ; trad.
to act as a judge).
Thus at Mizpah began the ministry of Israel’s most venerable judge/prophet since Moses.
The context for our passage today in is this:
In his role as judge, Samuel’s task was to bring Israelite society into conformity with the Lord’s judgments and to mobilize the covenant people in the task of bringing God’s judgments to bear on his enemies.
Story tell the context of what brought Israel to this place.
In the Philistines capture the ark of God, “The Ark of The Covenant”
The Philistines capture the ark of God, The Ark of The Covenant
The Philistines are cursed while having the Ark.
The Philistines all started breaking out in tumors.
They send the Ark of God back to Israel..
Lament means to Wail or to grieve.
Why is this important?
You see a heart change in Israel.
This time, the heart change comes not when they are being oprressed by another nation.
The people are on their own grieving for the Lord.
They are not close to the Lord,
they know they are missing him,
they want to be close to Him, but don’t know how.
Maybe you can relate to this.
Have you ever been away from God and one day you spiritually wake up and realize that you are far from where you need to be spiritually - but you don’t know how to get back.
You don’t know what to do?
Your heart aches.
You feel stuck.
Here in our passage we see Samuel the Judge/Prophet leading the people spiritually out of their spiritually lost stuck state.
Did you know this - That you are called to lead people spiritually in your life?
And Samuel was to lead the people in something we call repentance.
Repentance is a church word that means turning from self and sin to God.
God frees us from our sinful poison one sin at a time.
When He frees us, we find greater joy in Him.
Through repentance- God frees us one sin at a time.
If you are going to be a growing Christ follower.
You will have to become a professional at repenting.
If you are going to be a growing Christ follower.
You will have to become a professional at repenting.
Why?
Because God grows you to be more like Him, by helping you repent from sin and from lies - one at a time.
Samuel was given this great task to lead God’s people in repentance - to show them how to repent.
I Samuel 7
If you have a pen.
Would you underline or highlight the phrase - Return to the Lord with all your heart.
I. Returning to the Lord requires all my heart
What does “all my heart” mean?
I Samuel 7:
What does it mean to return with all your heart?
-The greatest love of your life is God.
You are in love with God.
-He is not your second love.
He is not second to your job, hobby, sports or children.
-God is your first love.
How do I return?
-You admit that, you have been giving your heart to something else besides God.
-You must spend time with Him.
Everyday in prayer and in his word.
Singing praise to Him.
Running to Him when life hurts.
-You make a choice to surrender yourself to God.
-You make a choice to surrender
Illustration - A friend of mine found himself attracted to another woman at work.
This attraction became serious.
It was pulling him away from his wife.
He confessed his attraction, changed jobs and spent more time with his wife.
He gave her all of his heart.
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