Okay. Well, good morning. Welcome to show our church. My name is Ben Lin and, er, privileged to be one of the pastors here. Like to welcome those of you who are online as well. Thanks for checking us out or participating in the service here today. Um, just so you all know just a heads up. We’re gonna be going through First Samuel, Chapter four through chapter seven today. So you’re gonna need to grab your bible or grab your phone app because there’s there’s so many verses we can’t get him on the screen on. And I don’t know about you, but I I love digging into four verses when I teach. And so four chapters is, ah, a little bit of a challenge for me, but it’s great. It’s good to have the opportunity to go through more of a narrative. The story aunt to teach from the Bible through the narrative. Uh, because a lot of times we used to, you know, the New Testament. There’s a few verses were pulling apart, disseminating truth, all that kind of stuff. So it’s good. It’s good for me on I think it’ll be good for all of us. but get your Bibles ready and turn to First Samuel. Chapter four. We’re gonna go through four through seven, and next week again, it’ll be another bigger chunk. So we’ll be bringing your Bibles, uh, to church. If you’re at home, grab your Bible and get ready for for this passage. I don’t know if you’ve seen any of the Marvel movies, the Avenger movies, but there’s a There’s this thing in there that’s called a tesseract, and what it is is it’s this object of power, this cube of power, and it holds these things called the six or stones or whatever. I don’t even know, but it’s. But it’s this thing where it’s like if you have it, you have this unlimited source of power. And so there’s these fights and battles to try to get this Tesseract, and whereas the Tesseract and they’ve got the power because they’ve got this, this thing, this object okay, and in this story that we’re going through, it’s called the Ark Narrative. That’s a common name for this section of first Samuel. What had happened? Waas is really gotten to a point in their history where they really didn’t know God personally anymore. They had had a number of years go by from when they were called out of Egypt. And they had that, You know, all those things that God did for them. They knew the stories of old. They knew what God had done to the Egyptians and the others. And so they had heard those stories. And they had this arc of the covenant’s in the midst of their camp and the ark. Just a little bit about the Ark. The ark is when it was formed and crafted. God gave them instructions to essentially re create to create a copy off the throne of God that exist today. Right now, this very moment that exists today in heaven. So there’s this ark and there’s these chair, Um um and this seat and it’s the throne of God. And so he had them create this and put it in the temp, the Tabernacle. And then when God’s presence would come down, he would sit on this throne. And, you know, the cloud would cover the tent of meeting by day, the pillar of fire by night. This is this is God being on the throne. But there’s this arc. Okay. And what had happened was they basically got to the point where they were treating the arc as a tesseract, as a talisman, as an object to power as an idol, just like the other nations around them had these gods that were made out of wood and, you know, and stone a law and silver and golden all this stuff, the Israel lights have gotten to the point where they were viewing this ark of the covenant as their object of power. Um And so that’s kind of where this this story is at, um just to remind you again, um, about about where we’re at, um, in Samuel here, there’s the it’s to these judges and there’s a transition going on. But Israel had gotten to this point w…