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Excitement in Munds Park
I’m home for lunch and my DIL comes home from Flag and asks, “What’s going on behind the church?!”
I didn’t know but it was time for me to go back to work where I found Newton’s storage lot was quite the place to be.
State troopers, FBI, bomb squad, SWAT, dogs, and a helicopter.
Bad guy was out-numbered at least 50 - 1.
A felon driving a stolen mini-van doing 110 up I17.
They try to stop him and he takes off.
He chooses MP to exit.
Cops had the tire strips down so they blew out his tires.
He ended up in the field next to Agee’s.
He runs into a trailer.
Owner of the trailer is there; Charlie.
Charlie runs out and tells the cops where he is.
Here they come.
Tom and I are watching the authorities hurry up and wait.
When the bomb squad parked right outside my window I walked out the door to see what else was going on.
That’t when they saw me and suggested I vacate in case the shooting started.
Bad guy had a big gun that would blow a hole in my office walls.
I said gladly.
What I since found out is the authorities worked tirelessly to get the guy w/out having to hurt him.
He was arrested w/out incident.
They had to cut a hole in the side of the trailer so the dogs could chase him out.
The only damage was to the trailer and Charlie’s emotions.
I don’t know what the guy did to make him a felon besides steal the car and run from the authorities.
He deserves to be punished and answer for his crimes.
But he didn’t deserve to die Tuesday.
The authorities were merciful w/ the guy by giving him the opportunity to defend himself in court and pay appropriately for his crimes.
He will be held accountable.
A couple of weeks ago I talked about how merciful God is with His children.
When it’s somebody else’s kid who messes up it’s easy to say the parents should come down hard.
But, when it’s your kids, you’re emotionally invested, it’s a different story.
God is that way w/ His children.
When Israel messed up, and when we mess up, God softens our landing and is there to help us up and give us another chance.
When we mess up, our lives don’t go as good as they should, but God intervenes so that they don’t go as bad as they could.
God is gracious and merciful w/ us, His children; giving us chance after chance after chance.
But, w/in the context of His mercy (undeserved goodness) and His grace (undeserved favor) there is accountability.
That is, God will allow us to experience consequences when we mess up.
Messing up is an act of unfaithful, disobedience.
Taking matters into our own hands and not trusting God to do what only God can do.
Once we’ve messed up God always gives us the opportunity make things right w/ Him again.
Repent and return to faithful obedience.
There may be scars, literal or figurative.
We may end up in the E.R., jail, divorce court, delivery room, bankruptcy, or a counselor’s office.
Landing places like this may DQ us from some of the things we used to do and want to do again.
Regret: Not getting what we want b/c we got what we wanted.
But, our relationship w/ God will be close and intact as it was before we messed up.
where Israel experienced God’s mercy, grace, and accountability.
Not the Best, it Could be Worse
Rejected God
Samuel reminds them of the history.
The facts.
1 Samuel 12:
It was God who delivered you each time.
Not a man.
God used men.
But, God was responsible.
Jacob and his sons went into Egypt where Joseph had made arrangements for them to settle.
There was a severe famine at the time so they left the land given to Abraham and passed down to them.
Not the best move.
But, they survived.
The Hebrew nation grew over the course of hundreds of years and became a threat to Egypt so they enslaved them.
The people cried out to God who finally acted to free them.
He empowered Moses and Aaron to lead them out.
Moses and Aaron did not, could not have done this on their own.
It was God.
He heard their cries and answered them.
Moses led them to the PL, Joshua led them in.
Remember the covenant promise.
The land and people are unconditionally promised by God.
Staying in the land, prospering in the land is not.
This is conditioned on Israel living faithfully and obediently in the land.
It didn’t take long.
They didn’t.
What they did do is forget all this that God had done.
So, after multiple warnings and lesser attention-getters sent by God, empowered Pagans to pester Israel.
Let that sink in.
God used unbelievers to get the attention of the believers to return to Him.
Not Satan, God.
For you and me, too.
Sometimes God empowers unbelievers as attention-getters.
Not Satan causing you trouble, God is.
The people got the message.
They cried out, repented.
Owned their sin, admitted it, stopped it.
God sent men and He delivered them through these men.
These men didn’t, couldn’t.
God did through them.
Over time another threat arose, the Ammonites.
Rather than turn to God, they demanded a human king to lead them and deliver them from the threat.
Samuel warned them about how bad it would be for them under a king other than God.
They rejected God as their King and demanded a human king.
So, God obliged, gave them Saul.
Samuel warned them, don’t do this.
Repeatedly.
They did it anyway.
Finally, they got what they did was wrong.
Now what?
Repented
Finally, they got it.
But, it was too late to correct it completely.
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