Amen, amen. I hope you're ready for this. It's going to be a dozy today.

Grab your Bibles, First Samuel. We're actually going to start in, we're going to study chapter 5, but I'll tell you about chapter 4 in just a second.

We're in this 12-week series called prophets Frees and Kings study of the book of First Samuel.

And if you were here last week, we were in chapter 3, where Samuel Samuel he receives God's call in his life and

essentially what Samuel does is he says God my answer is yes what is the question and he says

here I am your servant speak Lord and so we said that everybody's yes your role in the fulfillment

of God's plan for your life or your role in the great commission there's going to be your yes

could look very different depending on who you are.

Some of you he'll call to the Congo and some of you he'll call to the PTA, whatever it is, you know.

And for some folks, we were asking if you feel like God is calling you to full-time vocational missions or ministry,

then write yes on that card and turn it in.

And we had 172 people take their first step in what it means to have that kind of call of God in your life.

So you 172?

Way to go.

You have no idea what you're stepping into.

Trust me.

But praise God.

Hey, so we're going to study 1 Samuel chapter 5 today. We're going to talk

about idolatry because nothing sets up for beach baptism like idolatry, but that's where we are.

But in order for you to understand, chapter 5, we kind of get a glimpse of chapter 4. So here's

what's happening. In chapter 4, verse 1, the Bible says, the word of Samuel came to all of Israel, which is really important because

in chapter three, the Bible said the word of the Lord was rare in those days.

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