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LET NOT GOD'S GLORY DEPART FROM YOU

₦Sermon 27
LET NOT GOD’S GLORY DEPART FROM YOU

Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors,
                        so the King of Glory may come in”—Psalm 24:7 ISV

Texts: 1 Samuel 4:17-21

Sin is a reproach to any nation. It enslaves us and brings death to humanity. Man is created in likeness and glory of God and when the glory is gone out from us, the likeness of God in us is also gone, leaving us worthless. Eli’s sons – Hophni and Phineas had no regard of the Lord and they did abominable things in the Temple of God. They regarded not the officiating service of God and some women who came to offer sacrifices to the Lord were raped and this made God to be angry with the Israelites.
       
The Israelites fought against philistines but were defeated. They left and came back to fight Philistines in the next time and the Ark of God was carried out by Hophni and Phineas; and the Lord caused massive slaughter on the side of Israelites which also claimed the lives of Eli’s two sons.
       
Upon hearing the news from the messenger, Eli’s neck broke down and he died. The wife of Phinehas (alternative spelling of Phineas) gave birth to a baby instantly which she named “Ichabod” meaning “the glory of God has departed from Israel. Look when you have children like Hophni and Phinehas and you do nothing to bring them in the way of God, certainly, God’s glory will depart from your family.
       
When God’s glory is departed from us, it causes death to the family: Eli’s sons— phinehas, Hophni and phinehas’ wife together with other Israelites died as a result of their sins. Sin causes God’s presence and his Holy Spirit to leave us. It brings woe to our children forcing them to be orphans. The child, Ichabod had no parents to live with. Proverbs 17:6 says; children are the crown of old men and the glory of children are their fathers. Here Eli did not live to see his grand-child, Ichabod, neither did Ichabod live to see his grand-father – where is the glory?

Our enemies can easily get us when God’s glory departs from us (1 Samuel 4:17). The messenger answered and said Israel fled before the philistines and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people and thy two sons also Hophni and Phinehas are dead and the Ark of God is taken. In the history, Israel had never been to war and be defeated when they did not sin. Consider yourself today if people you were better than yesterday are better than you today, whether your enemy has never won you over and has started winning you today – pray that you will always be a winner.


——————Meditation Point——————
Help us O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy name’s sake Psalm 79:9KJV.

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