The Ark of the Covenant was an awesome and holy artifact. It represented the presence of Yahweh with His people. So when the Israelites took it into battle after being defeated by the Philistines, they thought God would surely help them wipe out their enemies. But things did not go according to plan. Their second defeat was worse than the first. In this message we will discover what the underlying problem was – a problem that still exists today – and learn how we can avoid making the same mistakes the Israelites made.

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