Title: God Has Helped You Here
content LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> In verse 12 of the main text, regarding this event of God's deliverance from the Philistine invasion, Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, saying, "The Lord has helped us up to this point." And he named it Ebenezer. Hani.” This means the beginning of a new history. Then, what is the true meaning and meaning of the confession of 'Ebenezer'?
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LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px">1. Thank God for leading.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> The people of Israel were weak people who could not even protect themselves. However, with God, they pursued and destroyed the depths of the Philistines. It's amazing. Exodus, the wilderness, and Settling in Canaan Until then, they had tasted God's amazing grace, but as time passed, they lost their gratitude, but for the Israelites, the incident of Mizpah became a time to restore their gratitude to God.
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LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px">2. Experience recovery.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> The Mizpah meeting is characterized by ① eradication of idols ② restoration of the faith of Jehovah ③ Samuel interceding and beginning to pray for the people ④ repentance and fasting.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> At the Mizpah meeting, Samuel told the people of Israel to 'remove idols' to set their priorities in life and restore the time of prayer, worship, and word to God. Through this restoration, we will be able to taste the grace of God again that we have lost. Remember, it was when we gathered together to pray together that the Israeli community experienced restoration in a moment of crisis.
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LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px">3. Change your attitude.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> While Eli was the 'leadership of the chair' where he sat on a chair and made the people come to him, Samuel had the difference of 'leadership of service' that found the people. God has given us various positions today. What we need to know is that an office is a function, not a class.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> As of 2013, the number of members has decreased by 4,000, but it is said that the church has lost its trust. Therefore, what we need to realize through the text is the church lay leadership, and the deeper the faith, the more newly emerging or weak people. It is the fact that we must be able to serve the people, so that the church like a church, as a saint like a saint, will be restored, and the trust of the church that has been lost will be restored.
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LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> The people of Israel decided to start over with the confession of 'Ebenezer'. Today we are celebrating the 59th anniversary of our founding. You have to realize what you want to do through this, and for this, I pray in the name of the Lord that you will become a blessed saint who has the determination to start over and has a renewed heart.
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