Getting Back on Track with God!

A Tale of Two Kings

Getting Back on Track with God!

1 Samuel 7

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Then all the people of Israel turned back to the Lord. Vs. 3

What Real REpentance Looks LIke!

1.Repentance with our

So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts Vs. 3

2. Repentance of what’s

then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths Vs. 3b

3. Repentance Put’s God Above

and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” So the Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only. Vs. 3-4

Further Insights

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They said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the Lord our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines.”  Vs. 8

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When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.”… But that day the Lord thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites.  Vs. 6,10

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

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that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines.

The towns from Ekron to Gath that the Philistines had captured from Israel were restored to Israel

And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.