“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Psalms 77: 1

I cried out to God with my voice— to God with my voice; And He gave ear to me.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

Hallelujah 

In our soul, the bride, the church only if there are no abominations, we can defeat the deeds of the Philistines and can become holy.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that in us, the bride, the church only the Lord alone should be exalted.

Next what we are meditating is that 1 Samuel 4: 3, 4 And when the people had come into 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 from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us it may save us from the hand of our enemies.” 

So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

In the above-mentioned verses, the Israelites were defeated in front of the Philistines. And when the people had come into 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 from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us it may save us from the hand of our enemies.” So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

Then in 1 Samuel 4: 5, 6 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly that the earth shook. 

Now when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the sound of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” Then they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp.

When the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, then all Israel shouted so loudly. The Philistines understood what this sound was, and they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp. Then the Philistines, because it was said that the Lord had come into the camp so the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp!” And they said, “Woe to us! For such a thing has never happened before. Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness. Be strong and conduct yourselves like men, you Philistines, that you do not become servants of the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Conduct yourselves like men, and fight!” So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers

My dear people, when we meditate in the above-mentioned verses if we want to be victorious as Israelites the word of God should be within us. When the ark of the Lord of covenant comes into the camp the Israelites rejoiced with a loud sound. Wherever the ark of the Lord is, there is rejoicing with a loud sound. If we rejoice in this manner with a loud sound those who are coming against us will be scared. In this manner, the Philistines also feared. Because they were scared in this manner, they prepared for war very carefully. But the Israelites, thirty thousand of them were defeated and fell. The reason is that they were not able to stand. This is because near the ark of the Lord those who were an abomination Hophni and Phinehas were there. 

My dear people, from this what we come to know is that if we do not have a holy life then in the presence of the Lord we cannot stand against the enemy. For what God is showing this as a pattern in our life is that he has to destroy the wicked uncircumcised deeds of the Philistines in our soul. Only then we can glorify God with our whole soul. God will also be glorified in us. Because of this only many people are unable to come out of such kind of evil deeds like gold, silver, looking for good days, sooth saying, and they are falling down everywhere and they are not aware of it. That is what God is showing us as a pattern that the Israelites are defeated and falling.

Therefore, my dear people let us submit ourselves to live in holiness and safeguard ourselves.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly. 

- To be continued