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1 Samuel chapter 7, and we'll get into verse 1. And the men of Kiriath-Jerim came and took the ark of the Lord and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and they consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.
And from that day the ark remained at Kiriath-Jerim. That time was very long. It was about 20 years. And all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you return to the Lord with all your heart and remove the foreign gods and the Ashtoreth from among you and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve him alone, he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.
So the sons of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtoreth and served the Lord alone. Then Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you. They gathered to Mizpah. They drew water.
They poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted that day and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah. Now when the Philistines heard the sons of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel.
And when the sons of Israel heard it, they were very afraid of the Philistines. Then the sons of Israel said to Samuel, Do not cease to cry out to the Lord for us, to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.
Samuel took a suckling lamb. He offered it as a whole burnt offering before the Lord. And Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel.
But the Lord thundered, and a great thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them so that they were routed out of Israel, or routed out before Israel. The men of Israel went out from Mizpah, and they pursued the Philistines.
They struck them down as far as below Bethkar. And Samuel took a stone. He set it between Mizpah and Shem and named it Ebenezer, saying, Thus far the Lord has helped us. So the Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore into the border of Israel.
And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath. And Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines.
So there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. Now Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. He used to go annually on a circuit to Bethel, to Gilgal, and to Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all of these places.
Then his return was to Ramah, for his house was there. And there he judged Israel, and he built there an altar to the Lord. Okay, so last week, the Ark had returned to Israel. It went to Beth Shemesh.
It killed a bunch of people. A discrepancy in that number of how you want to understand that, but he killed a bunch of people for their disobedience in how they handled the Ark. So the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh called for the men of Kiriath Gerim to come get the Ark.
New pens. Beth Shemesh, up at this angle to, I'm gonna try to spell it, Kiriath Gerim. That's where it stayed in the house of Ben-Adav. It says it went to the house of Ben-Adav on a hill. Interesting they put it on a hill for whatever reason.
Maybe it was to, if the Philistines maybe tried to come again to try to recapture it, at least this time they could see him coming. Don't really know, but it's up on a hill. Maybe it was for an elevated place to show honor and reverence to the Ark, but we don't know, but it says it's put on a hill.
And then he consecrated Eleazar, his son, to keep the Ark of the Lord. So we do see that when it did come here, that the Ark was no longer treated as a superstitious device. It was actually, a person was consecrated to take care of it, and we know that that person was a Levite because it's the one that's taking care of it, and God hasn't struck them dead.
So Eleazar is his son. He takes care of it from that day forward. In verse two, it says, from the day that the Ark remained at Kiriath Gerim was about 20 years. So 20 years it was here when this event we're fixing to talk about takes place.
So it says that it was there a very long time, about 20 years, and Israel lamented after the Lord. Why do you think they lamented after the Lord? Anybody got any thoughts, ideas? I think they lamented over the Lord because there was nobody pertaining to the tabernacle anymore.
The tabernacle was a place where they would go and meet with the Lord. Here it is. Remember, they see the joy of those people when they saw the Ark coming into Beth Shemesh. What did they do? It says the loudness of the joy that the Lord had returned.
Well, remember, the tabernacle's been destroyed. The tabernacle is gone. The only thing we have is the most important piece of furniture that goes in the tabernacle. It says, and they lamented after the Lord.
In verse three, then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying this. If you return to the Lord with all of your heart, remove the foreign gods, the Ashtoreth from among you, and direct your hearts to the Lord, and serve him alone.
He will deliver you from the hands of the Philistines. So we have lament, and then we have repent. Israel repents before the Lord, or is lamenting. There's a call from Samuel to repent. He said, if you remove all of the foreign gods from you, remove the foreign gods.
There's some, y 'all say Baals there? It does. The Baals and the Ashtoreth, they were commonly came together. Both of them were fertility gods. The Ashtoreth certainly was a fertility god. It says, and direct your hearts, and serve him alone.
So the word alone there is to tell them that, hey, you're still living in syncretism. They were still doing the things in their land that God told them not to do. You can't worship Baal and worship God.
So he says, you're gonna have to worship him and serve him alone, and then he will deliver you from the hands of the Philistines. So the sons of Israel removed the Baals and Ashtoreth, and they served the Lord alone.
Huge point. Here it is. They now had lamented over the removal of God's presence within them. Now they've repented. And it says that Samuel said, gather all of Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.
They gathered to Mizpah. They drew water and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted there on that day. I have no idea what the drawing of the water and the pouring it out means, other than we're trying to make an inference and a conclusion from the text that it showed some type of contrition or some type of brokenness before the Lord, because pouring out water was not anything we see in the Mosaic legislation as an offering before the Lord.
What were the things that y 'all remember reading through the Mosaic law? What were the things they normally poured out? Wine and oil. Wine. A drink offering was wine, or they used oil with flour and all that.
Well, this is an odd situation where they used water, and we have no any other indication. We do have, in some of the Psalms, where it says, like in Psalm 22, it says, my life is being poured out like water.
So is it a representative of the brokenness of David when he was speaking? We're not sure. But it says that they called a fast, which means they humbled themselves before the Lord on that day, and they said, we have sinned against the Lord.
And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah. Interesting that we have seen in the judges, they've been delivered by knives, blades, swords, a tent pen, and a jawbone of a donkey. All those things that they used to deliver this for the first time from the time that they've come in through the time of the judges, we're actually seeing them cry out to God in prayer for deliverance.
God was having to, 450 years. What did he have to do? He had to raise up somebody who was a bad judge, but God used them for a purpose in time. They were a failure, most of them, in their lives, just like God only has failures to use.
I mean, is anybody in here perfect? So what does God has to use? He has to use sinners, and he used sinners, raise them up, deliver. But in this case, they actually do what God wanted them to do the whole time, which was lament that he had departed from them, to repent of their sins, and then cry out to him and him alone for safety.
So it says that Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah. And in verse seven, now Israel heard the sons of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, and the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. Oh, if the, here, this would be the Dead Sea again.
About right here would have been Gilgal. Here would have been Jericho. Just so you kind of know where these places are at. And then Shiloh would have been up here. This is where it would, the tabernacle was with the Ark of the Covenant at one time.
And then down here, we've got Bethel, Mizpah. It says that he went from Samuel, judged the Israel at Mizpah. So it would be here, here is where Samuel's home would have been. This will make a little bit more sense when we get to what he does towards the end.
So it says that the Philistines heard that they had gathered, verse seven, they gathered at Mizpah. The lords of the Philistines went up against them. So all of the nation of Israel is gathered here. They have heard the discourse of Samuel about repent, turn to the Lord, and he will save you, and he will return to you.
And it's here that the Philistines go, okay, here's our opportunity. We've had 20 years to gather our act together. Now we're going to get back with some get back for what y 'all did to us with the tumors and the mice and all that.
So in verse eight, then the sons of Israel said to Samuel, do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines. You see what they're using Samuel as here?
What's that? Yeah, but what are they wanting Samuel to be for them? A mediator. What's that? Somebody else said it. An intercessor. Look, they understand that they've sinned against God, that they can't approach God.
They understand from the time that Samuel came onto the scene with Eli, that he was the prophet. He was the prophet of God. What were the prophets for? To speak to the people. That was their job. They're actually covenant prosecutors.
Every time the people broke the law, God used the prophet to chastise them, use their mouthpiece. So they're saying, okay, why don't you continue to cry out to the Lord for us? Be our intercessor. Don't cease to do that.
And he will save us, or that he may save us from the hands of the Philistines. And then what does Samuel do in verse nine? He takes a lamb, a little suckling lamb. He offers it up as a whole burnt offering to the Lord and whole burnt offerings normally were in reference to repentance and a sin offering.
And Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel and the Lord answered him. Now, Samuel was offering up the burnt offering and the Philistines drew near to the battle against Israel, but the Lord thundered a great thunder on that day and confused the Philistines.
So in the judges, we had all kinds of these men being used to do things, right? Now, who do we see actually being the deliverer himself in this passage? Who's the hero? God is. Who was the hero in the judges?
God was. God's always the hero. God raised up men, huh? He's the only hero. He's the one that raised up men, and in Deborah's case, to deliver them from the Philistines. So God's the hero. And in this case, God uses a thunder, lightning, whatever he does to confuse these Philistines so that they don't know what they're doing.
And it says in the end of verse 10, so that they were so confused that Israel was able to route them out. It says in verse 11, that the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and they pursued the Philistines and struck them down as far as Beth-kar.
So they left here and started running them back to the land of Phil... This kind of was the border of the Philistines and over here. I gotta get us some math. Mine doesn't look nearly as good as the one on the internet.
So it says that they struck them down, pushing as far back as Beth-kar. And Samuel then took a stone and he set it up at Mizpah and Shinn. Hey, does anybody's translation say Yashana? In the Septuagint where it says, did everybody say Shinn?
It's in the Septuagint, they use the word Yashana. And it was somewhere around, it says about a mile and a half or a quarter mile between Bethel and Mizpah from the Septuagint. And it says that he set up a stone.
Oh, where'd it go? He set up a stone between Mizpah and Shinn and he named it Ebenezer, saying thus the far the Lord has helped us. So here it is. They lamented, they repented. God has delivered. Then they set up this.
I put the ER at the end because it could be as helper helper. Ebon or Ebon means rock or stone and Azor or Azir means helper. And if you remember anything and I am teaching on marriage or in the garden when God gives Adam a helper suitable for him, the word is Azir.
That's the Hebrew word in there. So that's where it comes from. So he sets up a stone between Mizpah and Shinn. He calls it Ebenezer. He's saying thus far the Lord has helped us. That's why it was, you remember back when they said that they had captured or they were gathered at Ebenezer back here when the Ark was taken?
They believed that there was a, that it was not a, Ebenezer is not a city. It's a place where God does some great act of deliverance and they set up a monument. I would even go so far as to say when they crossed into Gilgal, do you remember when they crossed the Jordan?
They set up big stones as God had helped them. Okay, that's what this is. This becomes a monument and that's why they believe this here, this is where I believe it was taken from, was here because this had been a place of great deliverance.
But now this becomes the place of lament, the place of repent and a place where God delivers them and comes to be established as a place where Samuel actually begins to intercede for the people, for the will of the people.
Understand everybody? No? Okay. And then in verse 13, it says, and the Philistines were subdued and they did not come anymore into the border of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
So the whole time that Samuel lived, and we don't know exactly how old he lived, but all the days he was, God used him to deliver or to route out either by him or through the commanding of the people and then with the establishment of a king to keep the Philistines outside the borders of Israel.
It said in verse 14, that the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath. So, okay. You had Ekron was here. It's here. God restored this peninsula there to them.
And Israel delivered their territory from the hands of the Philistines so that there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. Okay, Amorites. Do everybody remember who the Amorites are? Ma 'am? They're part of it.
Remember everybody that was in the other side of the Jordan, all this land was inhabited by Canaanites. So, a lot of times when you see the name Amorite, it's just a blanket term for all the Canaanites.
There's another passage where it says that I'm waiting for the time to fill up my wrath against the Amorites and that time has not come. That's what God said. He was talking about the Canaanites. Remember, all this land was inhabited.
Actually, all of that land. See, I should have used that. All that land there was all inhabited by the Canaanites. So, the Amorites are, it's sometimes used synonymous. And in verse 15, now Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
He used to go annually from a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah. Okay, so he would go from here to here to here and then he would go back home. That was his circuit. That's what he did. He went from the house of God, Bethel, Beth meaning house, El, God, Elohim.
He would go from here to here. You remember, what was very significant about the place of Gilgal? And Andy was teaching through Joshua four score and seven years ago. What was the significance about Gilgal?
That's right. He called them to not only circumcise their skin but to circumcise their heart and be prepared to go into the land. But when they crossed here, all the unbelieving people that had disobeyed in the wilderness had died on the other side of the, this was the Jordan, by the way, the Jordan River.
They all died. So, there was nobody circumcised for 40 years so that they could figure out who was actually part of the unbelieving and who was not. And when they crossed at Gilgal, they were established a place of the Lord and they said, all right, it is here will be the place.
The new establishment where they basically renewed the covenant. They were gonna go in, they were gonna believe God and they were gonna conquer. So, this becomes very significant moving not only when they went into land but moving forward, even with Saul and stuff as we get into him.
It's very significant. So, then he would go and he would judge the people. Then it says he would return to Ramah and then that was where his house was at. So, this was Bethlehem's down here as well. This whole area.
Remember when we were talking, this is the land of Ephrath, not Ephraim, Ephrath. All this is the land of the Ephrathite, Bethlehem land and all of its surrounding areas. So, he goes to Ramah. He goes back home.
He goes week to week, place to place, however he does it annually and he judges the people of God. What do we see about Samuel that we have not seen about Eli, that we certainly didn't see about his sons and the judges before.
Remember, Samuel is the last significant great judge. What do we see different about him? Y 'all done looking at my scribble scribble?
Yes, ma 'am. You can ask me now. Yeah, hurry. Well, okay. So, in 13, and then the next verse it says, Israel, the city was restored from Ephraim to Gath. Yes, ma 'am. Well, we haven't even gotten to the part where Saul and David and stuff.
Well, Goliath was from Gath and he was a Philistine. So, when it says he was against the Philistine in the days of Samuel, does that mean there was no rising up or is it?
No, in the days of Samuel, you're gonna see as we get into Saul, and I'm telling you, Saul is a very, very, very difficult individual to deal with and we're probably gonna have some disagreements in here about what we think about Saul.
Saul started well, but Saul didn't end well. Saul was, he came in to be a conquering king and he did, but he became a cowardly king right at the beginning. So, I would say sometime between Samuel getting old and the establishment of the monarchy, that something transpires, cause you gotta, that's probably gonna be maybe 15 years, and then they start creeping back because we see, was Saul not a coward to not go out and fight Goliath?
Really? Was he not? He was a coward. I had to hunt for him to start with. Can I remove this? We good now? Yeah, Saul was a coward. So, they begin to take the land back, and as they begin to take the land back, then God obviously raises up Jonathan.
Jonathan becomes a very significant person because Jonathan actually does one of the first great defeats, his son, and who should have done that? Saul should have done it. I know we're getting a little ahead of the game, but Saul should have done it.
But back to Samuel. What made, yes, sir. Yeah, he was. Yeah, that's exactly what he was. Like a circuit preacher. That's what, anybody remember like Peter Cartwright and all those guys? Yeah, they went on a circuit.
They went to these, and this is the United States. They would go place to place to place to place to place, and they would go preach, and man, they didn't care who was there. They dropped a hammer on whoever was there.
Matter of fact, Peter Cartwright, he went to preach, and they says, hey, the president will be here today. He said, Stonewall Jackson. And they said, he's gonna be here today, and we want you to kind of tone it down a little bit.
And he said, okay. He stands up to preach, and Stonewall Jackson's in the back, and he said, that was brought to my attention that we have a dignitary here today. It's the president, and president, if you do not repent, you will perish.
I was like, right on. So, that's what Samuel was doing. He was judging people. He was going around, he was judging the nation of Israel. If you don't stay committed to the Lord, God will rebuke you and rout you out again, and that was his job.
But what made him different than all the others? What's that? Man, he was faithful. Remember, we needed a faithful judge. We needed a faithful priest. Before you accept that, is that right? Yeah, did it again.
And a faithful priest. Now, what made him be a faithful judge and a faithful priest certainly was the fact that the Spirit of God had done something in the heart of him, and that is true. I don't want to diminish that, but we know what he did.
He did something that the other, that all the others didn't really do. He loved God's people. You know that? Who did Samson love? Who did Gideon love? At the end of the day, he loved himself. Who did Jephthah wind up loving himself?
Samuel loved God first, and then he loved God's people, because God had commissioned him from a baby boy that he was gonna raise him up to be the deliverer, and that's what we needed, a faithful judge, a faithful priest, and that he was a faithful deliverer.
What else made him different than the other judges?
Okay. I mean, he was also consistent, right?
Yeah, I mean, when he got old, he was still consistently going place to place doing his duties. Yeah, consistent. Okay. A good example for us. Yep, what else? What you mean by that? I'm not disagreeing, but.
Yeah, he held fast to it, and he held that whatever God said he was gonna bring to pass. Yep, speaks to faithfulness. What else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller. Bueller. Thanks for cleaning my board, Andy. You may have to do it again.
I got you both. So Samuel, that's the first time we see this come together. Who does that point to? What's that? Christ. How does Samuel point to the prophet of Christ being our final prophet? I mean, faithfully preach God's word.
And when Jesus comes onto the scene, what does he say? I only do what the Father tells me to do. I don't do anything on my own initiative. I do what he tells me to do. What about the priesthood? How does that priesthood point to Christ?
Yeah, he faithfully administered what God told him to do. When the people repented, God made a concession for their sin, and he did that. He would intercede for them, whether it was blood sacrifice and prayer.
We see it right here. They went to him and cried out, and he interceded for them. Now, we're coming to a part in a few weeks when God's gonna say, hey, you cry out to me, I ain't gonna listen to you. But at this case, when they cried out to Samuel as their mediator, as their intercessor, he faithfully saw and sought God's able forgiveness.
And what about the judge? What about the judge? How does it point to Christ? He will judge the quick and the dead. He will judge the quick and the dead. This here has a negative to me. Y 'all can correct me if you think I'm wrong, or you can throw something at me.
He faithfully judged God's people. But we're gonna see, I think it's next week, he sets up his sons, and he sets up his sons, and they become unfaithful judges. Unfaithful. So, once again, we've got the judges doing their thing.
Samuel was a good judge. He did what he was supposed to do. But my understanding of it is, as he got older, he couldn't be a, so remember we had the top from Dan to Beersheba? He sets them up in Beersheba, and they begin to take bribes the way that the two dirtbags did earlier in the book.
Yeah, hot fist. Now, they don't have the immorality that they did, but they certainly take bribes to make their selfish gain, to enrich their pockets. But we have no reason to think that Samuel didn't faithfully raise his sons up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Well, now, Eli's another story. Eli did not rebuke his sons till he was rebuked. But, all right, we got about seven minutes. What's up? He is, yep, he will be, yep. And once we go through, we get into the monarchy, either a prophet was, another prophet would have to anoint a prophet, and the priest, or a prophet would have to anoint, and this will go from judge to king here shortly, next week.
King, so yeah, he does, yep. He actually, both kings, he anoints the one that the people want, and then he actually anoints the one that God said should have been here in the first place, which will be David.
But y 'all be prepared for Saul. He is a difficult dude, man. He's a very difficult person to deal with. Any questions? Disagreements? All right, well, we got 10 minutes. I'm gonna start chapter eight.
Chapter eight says, and Israel demanded a king. So here we go. And it came about that when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons judge over Israel. Here, right here. He's old, he sets up his judges.
Now, the name of the firstborn was Joel, and the name of the second was Abijah, and they were judging in Beersheba. His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside to dishonest gain, and they took bribes, and they perverted justice.
Then the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and they said to him, behold, you have grown old, your sons do not walk in your ways, now appoint for us a king to judge us like the nations.
But this thing was displeasing to Samuel when they said this, meaning give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, listen to the voice of the people, regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
And like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I have brought them out of the land of Egypt, even to today, and that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they are doing so with you also.
Now listen to their voice, however, you have solemnly warned them until then the procedure of the king who will rule over them. So here it is, what is Israel? God's done, before we get to this point, God had done all this deliverance, right?
Mizpah set up the Ebenezer, all this, they lamented, they repented, God delivered. Now, what do they want to be like? They want to be just like the pagans around them. And if they want to be like the pagans around them, they say, set us up a king.
Well, don't just set us up a king, set us up a king like them. Was God against a king? Huh? Ma 'am? Yes, no? Debate? Deuteronomy 17, God says, when you appoint a king? When? So God was not, God was always going to give them a king.
He just wasn't going to give them a king like Saul. He said, when you do that king, that king, and he gives all this criteria. If you want to go home and read it, you can. So Deuteronomy 17, and remember, Deuteronomy is right before they crossed over the Jordan to Gilgal.
It's Moses giving them instructions. God always intended to give them a king, but it was going to be a king that God had established. They don't want them, they don't want God to establish this kingship.
They want the king, and they want a king like all the other nations. And what did the other, how were the other kings portrayed? They were deity, yeah. So there were always bigger stature men. You'd have been able to be a king back then.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Big men, big, because they were supposed to go out and be warriors. Remember back then, they would have, sometimes they would have two kings fight one another, and whoever, whatever king won, that's who they would serve, so they would stop the bloodshed of 40, 50 ,000 people.
And that's what was supposed to take place with Goliath when we get to that, is he wants me to come out and fight him, and I win, you serve me. You win, we'll serve you. Yeah, ha ha ha ha. So they want to be just like the other nations, and it says that this was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said this, give us a king to judge us.
Samuel took offense to it. Why would Samuel take offense to what they said? What's that? They were rejecting him. Well, that's how he took it, yeah. He took it as a pot shot to him. Okay, I've become dishonest, or have I done something wrong to you?
I know that my sons are doing these things probably that they should not be doing. I'm aware of that, but now you're saying I'm unable to faithfully dispense my position as judge. So he took it as being something to him, but the Lord corrects Samuel.
He says, they're not rejecting you. They're rejecting me. How did they reject God by rejecting Samuel? He was the mouthpiece. He was the mouthpiece. One thing we need to remember, as we get into the monarchy, the king always looked to the prophet and the priest as to how they should lead, whether it was using the omen and the theorem, and we'll get into that at some point, but using the omen and the theorem from the priest or whether it was going and pleading with the prophet to, hey, can you have the Lord tell me what he's saying?
We're gonna actually see Saul do those very things, and sometimes God don't answer Saul. He doesn't listen to him. He doesn't even respond. He said, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
God says I was gonna be their king. In verse eight, like all these deeds, which I had done since that day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, and that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they are doing so to you also.
Now, listen to their voice. However, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them the procedure of the king and who will reign over them. So here it is. God's just bringing back to his memory, all right, I brought them out of the land of Egypt.
They didn't get far, and they was already wanting to go back how great it was in Egypt, go back to the leeks and the onions and how great it was. They got to the Dead Sea and begin to ridicule and mock Moses about, oh, you brought us this far out, now you're gonna let us drown, and God did a great act of deliverance there, didn't he?
Great, huge, drowned the whole army. And what did they do? Get on the other side, got into disobedience. He said, they're not doing anything they haven't done that hasn't already happened since I brought them out of the land of Egypt, and it's gonna continue.
And then he tells them, all right, here's the deal. Listen to what they're saying, and then I'm gonna tell you the warning to them, and we'll get into that next week. I'm gonna try to cover from verse 10 of chapter eight and go all the way through nine next week.
So if y 'all read ahead, that's where I'm gonna go. All right? Andy, you'll pray us out so we can go?