5 | Faith or Formula

Sep 3, 2023 • Ritchie Johnson

1 Samuel 4 | Faith or Formula

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When your faith becomes a formula, even instruments of worship can become idols.

Joshua 6:3-4

"You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days. 4 "Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

Deuteronomy 1:42

"And the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, "Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be defeated before your enemies."'

Deuteronomy 7:17, 20-21

"If you should say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?' ... 20 "Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. 21 "You shall not dread them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Hebrews 9:13-14

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?