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Hebrews 11:32

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Do I need to give you more examples? I don’t have enough time to tell you about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets. {\cf2\super [156]}

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Moses and Aaron were some of his priests.\par And Samuel was one of the men\par who called on his name.\par They prayed to the Lord,\par and he answered them.\par

The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, even if Moses and Samuel were here to pray for the people of Judah, I would not feel sorry for these people. Send the people of Judah away from me. Tell them to go.

Be happy and glad. You have a great reward waiting for you in heaven. People did those same bad things to the prophets {\cf2\super [60]} that lived before you.

You will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, {\cf2\super [243]} and all the prophets {\cf2\super [244]} in God’s kingdom. But you will be left outside. Then you will cry with fear and anger.

But Abraham said to him, ‘No! If your brothers won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, then they won’t listen to someone that comes back from death.’”

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of these things were written down, I think the whole world would not be big enough for all the books that would be written.

Every person who believes (trusts) in Jesus will be forgiven. God will forgive the sins of that person through the name of Jesus. All the prophets {\cf2\super [215]} say this is true.”

All this happened in about 450 years.

Samuel, and all the other prophets who spoke for God after Samuel, talked about this time now.

When we do wrong, that shows more clearly that God is right. So can we say that God does wrong when he punishes us? (I am using an idea that some people might have.)

So what can we say about Abraham, {\cf2\super [32]} the father of our people? What did he learn about faith?

So do you think that we should continue sinning so that God will give us more and more grace (kindness)?

You might think that I am saying that sin and the law {\cf2\super [54]} are the same thing. That is not true. But the law was the only way I could learn what sin means. I would never have known what it means to want something wrong. But the law said, “You must not want \{things that belong to other people\}.” {\cf2\super [55]}

Brothers and sisters, follow the example of the prophets {\cf2\super [27]} who spoke for the Lord (God). They suffered many bad things, but they were patient.

No! No prophecy ever came from what a man wanted to say. But people were led by the Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [5]} and spoke things from God.

I want you to remember the words that the holy prophets {\cf2\super [11]} spoke in the past. And remember the command that our Lord and Savior gave us. He gave us that command through your apostles. {\cf2\super [12]}

So the woman had a boy. She named him Samson. Samson grew and the Lord blessed him.

So Samson was a judge for the people of Israel for 20 years. That was during the time of the Philistine people.

After Ehud died, the people again did the things the Lord said are evil.

Again the people of Israel did things the Lord said were evil. So for seven years the Lord allowed the people of Midian to defeat the people of Israel.

At that time, the Angel of the Lord came to a man named Gideon. The Angel of the Lord came and sat down under an oak tree at a place called Ophrah. This oak tree belonged to a man named Joash. Joash was from the Abiezer family. Joash was the father of Gideon. Gideon was beating some wheat [51] in a winepress. [52] The Angel of the Lord sat down near Gideon. Gideon was hiding so the Midianites could not see the wheat.

The Lord turned toward Gideon and said, “Use your power. Go save the people of Israel from the people of Midian. I am sending you to save them!”

By that time the following year, Hannah had become pregnant and had a son. Hannah named her son Samuel. [11] She said, “His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him.”

“So the Lord sent Jerub Baal (Gideon), Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel. The Lord saved you from your enemies around you. And you lived in safety.

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you feel sorry for Saul? You are feeling sorry for him, even after I told you that I refuse to let Saul be the king of Israel! Fill your horn [141] with oil and go to Bethlehem. I am sending you to a man named Jesse. Jesse lives in Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be the new king.”

Samuel took the horn [147] with the oil in it, and poured the special oil on Jesse’s youngest son in front of his brothers. The Lord’s Spirit came on David with great power from that day on. Then Samuel went back home to Ramah.

David said to the Philistine (Goliath), “You come to me using sword, spear, and javelin. [160] But I come to you in the name of the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the armies of Israel! You have said bad things about him.

Elkanah {and his family} went home to Ramah. The boy stayed in Shiloh and served the Lord under Eli the priest.

But Samuel served the Lord. Samuel was a helper who wore the linen ephod. [25]

The bows of strong soldiers break! And weak people become strong!




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