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Hebrews 11:32

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Do I need to give more examples? I do not have time to tell you about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets.

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Moses and Aaron were among his priests, and Samuel was among his worshipers. They called to the Lord, and he answered them.

Then the Lord said to me: “I would not feel sorry for the people of Judah even if Moses and Samuel prayed for them. Send them away from me! Tell them to go!

Rejoice and be glad, because you have a great reward waiting for you in heaven. People did the same evil things to the prophets who lived before you.

You will cry and grind your teeth with pain when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s kingdom, but you yourselves thrown outside.

But Abraham said to him, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not listen to someone who comes back from the dead.’ ”

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

All the prophets say it is true that all who believe in Jesus will be forgiven of their sins through Jesus’ name.”

All this happened in about four hundred fifty years. “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

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

When we do wrong, that shows more clearly that God is right. So can we say that God is wrong to punish us? (I am talking as people might talk.)

So what can we say that Abraham, the father of our people, learned about faith?

So do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us even more grace?

You might think I am saying that sin and the law are the same thing. That is not true. But the law was the only way I could learn what sin meant. I would never have known what it means to want to take something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “You must not want to take your neighbor’s things.”

Brothers and sisters, follow the example of the prophets who spoke for the Lord. They suffered many hard things, but they were patient.

No prophecy ever came from what a person wanted to say, but people led by the Holy Spirit spoke words from God.

I want you to think about the words the holy prophets spoke in the past, and remember the command our Lord and Savior gave us through your apostles.

So the woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew, and the Lord blessed him.

Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did what the Lord said was wrong.

Again the Israelites did what the Lord said was wrong. So for seven years the Lord handed them over to Midian.

The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak tree at Ophrah that belonged to Joash, one of the Abiezrite people. Gideon, Joash’s son, was separating some wheat from the chaff in a winepress to keep the wheat from the Midianites.

The Lord turned to Gideon and said, “Go with your strength and save Israel from the Midianites. I am the one who is sending you.”

So Hannah became pregnant, and in time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him.”

So the Lord sent Gideon, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel. He saved you from your enemies around you, and you lived in safety.

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you continue to feel sorry for Saul? I have rejected him as king of Israel. Fill your container with olive oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse who lives in Bethlehem, because I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”

So Samuel took the container of olive oil and poured it on Jesse’s youngest son to appoint him in front of his brothers. From that day on, the Lord’s Spirit worked in David. Samuel then went back to Ramah.

But David said to him, “You come to me using a sword and two spears. But I come to you in the name of the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the armies of Israel! You have spoken against him.

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy continued to serve the Lord under Eli the priest.

But Samuel obeyed the Lord. As a boy he wore a linen holy vest.

“The bows of warriors break, but weak people become strong.




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