I Samuel 7:2-17-Kings and Kingdoms Week 5

An episode of the Faith Sermons and Studies podcast, hosted by Faith Baptist Church, titled "I Samuel 7:2-17-Kings and Kingdoms Week 5" was published on March 16, 2025 and runs 37 minutes.

March 16, 2025 ·37m · Faith Sermons and Studies

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Summary

I don’t know if you work on cars. I’ve done some things on cars before. I don't really consider myself a mechanic but I do have kind of an inquisitive mind so I like to try to figure things out. And I've figured many things out on our vehicle before in the past but there are some things I cannot do. I certainly cannot change an engine. I've never taken apart a transmission or some of the inner components of an engine. But one thing I I'm sure I am unable to do is perform an alignment. If you have a car you recognize the importance of an alignment. All four tires need to be aligned perfectly just in the right direction so that the car can go straight without having negative impact. Mechanics have special tools and machines that they use to perform an alignment and they have to have it just right down to the exact millimeter to get your car working the way it should. I did some research this week and was surprised to find all of the effects of not having an alignment . . .There are many benefits to having your wheels in line and if they are not aligned it can cause many different types of problems. The same thing is true in our spiritual lives some. Sometimes our hearts can come out of alignment. Maybe we've slowly or subtly let things creep into our lives or perhaps we've given our time and energy into things that maybe God doesn't want us to invest in. Either way sometimes our hearts can become out of alignment with where God wants us to be in our spiritual lives. And it's important that we develop the ability to be able to recognize that and determine how to get our hearts back into alignment so that we are in right fellowship with God and this word. And in our text today we catch up with God's people Israel as they had, you could say, been out of alignment in their spiritual lives. We looked at last week how they had tried to use God for themselves and God made it very clear that he will not be used. This week we pick up the story as Israel has just had the ark of the covenant returned back to them. And as they look back at where they've been and now plan to chart a pathway forward we find that they are evaluating their hearts. And Samuel the prophet gives Israel a stern message that their hearts were out of alignment with God. Thankfully Samuel doesn't just leave them there Samuel shows them how to realign their hearts so that they can be back in step with God and serving him rightly. And what Samuel tells the people of Israel is so vitally important for our own spiritual lives as well because the steps back to alignment with God that Samuel gives Israel are the very same steps that we need in our lives when we recognize that there have been issues in our own spiritual lives. Our text this morning is Chapter 7 of first Samuel and as we begin to look at our passage starting in verse 2, I want you to consider our big idea for today, it is this: Big Idea: Repentance before God always restores our relationship with God

Episode Description

There are many benefits to having your wheels in line and if they are not aligned it can cause many different types of problems.

The same thing is true in our spiritual lives some. Sometimes our hearts can come out of alignment. Maybe we've slowly or subtly let things creep into our lives or perhaps we've given our time and energy into things that maybe God doesn't want us to invest in. Either way sometimes our hearts can become out of alignment with where God wants us to be in our spiritual lives. And it's important that we develop the ability to be able to recognize that and determine how to get our hearts back into alignment so that we are in right fellowship with God and this word.

And in our text today we catch up with God's people Israel as they had, you could say, been out of alignment in their spiritual lives. We looked at last week how they had tried to use God for themselves and God made it very clear that he will not be used. This week we pick up the story as Israel has just had the ark of the covenant returned back to them. And as they look back at where they've been and now plan to chart a pathway forward we find that they are evaluating their hearts. And Samuel the prophet gives Israel a stern message that their hearts were out of alignment with God. Thankfully Samuel doesn't just leave them there Samuel shows them how to realign their hearts so that they can be back in step with God and serving him rightly. And what Samuel tells the people of Israel is so vitally important for our own spiritual lives as well because the steps back to alignment with God that Samuel gives Israel are the very same steps that we need in our lives when we recognize that there have been issues in our own spiritual lives. Our text this morning is Chapter 7 of first Samuel and as we begin to look at our passage starting in verse 2, I want you to consider our big idea for today, it is this:

Big Idea: Repentance before God always restores our relationship with God