Having won the war with Israel, the Philistines thought their idol Dagon had given them victory. The arc of God was put in Dagon's temple. God not only proved that He is greater than Dagon, but He also struck the Philistines in all five of their territories with plagues of death, tumors, and rats ravaging the land. The Philistine witch doctors devise a creative plan to test if these disasters have happened on their own, or because of God's hand being against them. In the process it is shown that the Philistine people know about the plagues God used against the Egyptians. Once again, God proves that He is God. For any any agnostic or atheist in the audience, this seems to me to be the kind of story that no one could make up!
Psalm 93 is a miniature masterpiece praising God for his majesty and holiness.
In chapter 2 of Romans, Paul warns of a coming judgment of God, where God will judge everyone's secret life. The trouble is, however, that we all will be judged guilty of sin. We find that it doesn't matter if you are Jew or non-Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, we all need a radical transformation. We need to become a ‘true Jew’, which is “one whose heart is right with God.” What each one of us needs is “a change of heart produced by God’s Spirit.”
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