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I would like to share with you a message that the Lord has put on my heart from 2nd Samuel chapter 6 verse 3.

I believe this is going to help somebody and I believe that's going to bring deliverance and freedom to some people's lives. So 2nd Samuel chapter 6 verse 3.

So they set the ark of God on the new card and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uza and Ohio, the sons of

Abinadab drove the new card. That's the only verse I'm going to read from this whole portion of the

scripture. The background is this. David goes into Jerusalem, sets his house in there. But prior to David's reign,

Israel had this ark. Ark, think of like a God box. It's like this box where they had the Ten

commandments and where Israel believed God really had his presence in that box. They would take

this ark with them to battles and see battles

being won. And Samuel was a little young guy. He was under the leadership of Eli, this priest,

who wasn't serving God, and they took this box and they lost the battle. And Philistines took the box and Philistines kept this box, God box, among their gods.

As they left and put God box with their gods, God box broke their gods.

And in the morning their gods fell in front of the Ark of God.

So they realized, oh my goodness, this is

serious. They went to another city. Tumors broke out. Interestingly, Philistines had more fear of God

for this God box than the people of God. And so next thing that happened and decided to bring

this God box back to Israel because they said, this God is angry with us and rightly so.

They didn't know better. So what they did is they found some golden rats made some rats made out of

gold and shipped it as a gift to the God of Israel. They didn't know better so they took cows and put a

card and put God box on the card and let the cows go to Israel.

So the ark came back to Israel and it was brought on a cart.

Years later, this ark is in Israel and David becomes a king, decides to bring the ark of God, the God box, into Jerusalem.

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