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Ephraim=- Arimathea
Elkanah- mentioned 5 other times in the bible.
Elkanah was likely wealthy , he had 2 wives.
Hannah & Peninnah.
Hannah & Peninnah— Hannah first because she was his favorite.
Peninnah then named first because she ahs children.
Barrenness, having no children, was an ultimate tragedy in ancient days.
The husbands ‘ hopes and dreams lay in the wife providing him with a son to perpetuate his name and inherit his estate.
Three times a year, all israelite men were required to be at the central sanctuary to offer sacrifices at the main religious festivals.
Jesus participated in this when his parents went up to the temple and lost him.
this was likely the Feast of the tabernacles.
Family members would make offerings.
Elkanah gave Hannah a double portion.
It is likely that Elkanah thought, or believed , that Hannah’s barrenness was from God.
Peninnah likely became the second wife because of her barrenness.
There was a problem, Peninnah would harass Hannah because of her barrenness.
Every year, day after day while they were there, Hannah was harassed- and she wept- and she did not eat.
Year after year, Elkanah would harass.
Note, this was not just a circumstance, it was a deeply held theological issue for Hannah.
God had closed her womb....questions, etc.,
See 2:10 … Hannah’s disposition in Deuteronomy 32.35 c
Ten sons represents fullness, completeness.
Elkanah is saying, your completeness can be found in me, your husband.
The chief religious official had eaten, was sitting on a chair.
Hannah, in deep distress, prays tot he Lord.
Hannah makes a vow.
If God gave her a son, he would give him back to the Lord.
Vow:
no grapes, wine
no shaving one’s head
avoid dead bodies
Vow for life.
(rare) Only other’s possible are Samson and perhaps John the Baptist.
Hannah recognizes children are a gift from God.
She will give him back.*
Hannah’s silent prayer, mouth moving, expresses her deep belief in God.
Hannah’s spiritual sensitivity is marked by her mouth moving, her heart praying.
Eli, the religious priest’s insensitivity is marked by his failure to recognize her lips moving as prayer and rather as drunkenness.
A right translation would be, “How long will you go on making a right spectacle of yourself being drunk?”
Hannah had not been pouring drinks, she had been pouring out her soul.
Hannah is speaking from her burdened spirit- she did not want to be mistaken for a wicked woman, a daughter of worthlessness.
A willing heart, a willing servant.
See DEut.
10:12 and Micah 6.8 ....
Certainly hannah’s worship took on new meaning this time.
The 2 verses that don’t matter today. 1 Samuel 1.19-20
I want to go back to 2 verses this morning.
Go Back to 1 Samuel 1.8
The translation here is literally, “Why is your heart bad?”
The only other precise parallel for this phrase is in Deuteronomy 15.10, which is about giving with a grudging heart.
This passage has to do with the year of release, the year of jubilee.
letting others debt go,
To do something “with a bad heart” means to do it resentfully.
Grudgingly.
Elkanah’s question, rightly place, is not asking Hannah , “Why is your heart sad?”
The question is actually, “Why is your heart BAD?”
That’s what unforgiveness, grudgeholding, and vengeance does to-US?
Ourselves.
It makes our heart bad.
Even if the other person’s was bad first, it makes ours just as bad or worse.
And the problem is most of the time- we ourselves don’t see it because we are focused on the initial issue.
Hannah was vexed because she had no children- she was keenly aware of this fact.
She was vexed because her adversary, Peninnah, was harassing her.
That was all she could see, and because that was all she could see- she couldn’t see what it was doing to her.
But Elkanah, her husband did.
He didn’t say, “You have no children.”… he said, “Why is your heart bad?”
Why are you so bitter?
One of the hardest things ministry delivers to pastors are the results of right but unpopular decisions.
Wrong but popular decisions will win you short term adulation- but also short term duration because you can’t build a ministry on wrong popular decisions.
It won’t last.
Right, but unpopular decisions, are the worst.
Even though they are right.
They will cause knee jerk reactions and win you enemies overnight.
These decisions breed bitterness among the immature.
And I see it when I go to the grocery store.
Someon who once smiled and shared in joyous times wreaks of deep smell of bitterness.
At best they will avoid you.
Some will provoke you.
At worst, they will try to get even in one way or another.
And they will do it with a certain sense of God ordained self righteousness that says, I’m right and you will suffer for it.”
And their attitude clearly is symptomatic of the fact that they are NOT right.
But you will still suffer for it.!!!
They will live by the motto, “I don’t get mad.
I get even.”
Unfortunately this happens.
Fortunately, it doesn’t happen all that often.
And that bitterness blinds them from seeing what is painfully obvious to everyone else: Their life bleeds bitter.
Elkanah saw what Hannah could never see.
There’s a time to let it go.
Bottom Line: Holding On To God Means Letting Go Of Everything Else
Holding On To God Means Letting Go Of Everything Else
For all of Hannah’s “double portion’” in her offering, it would never account for the well of bitterness that had grown in her heart.
Her husband saw it.
Don’t kid yourself.
You can do sunday school, church twice a day, and listen to Christian radio all week.
If your heart is bitter, everyone sees it.
AndGod does too.
And what it is doing to you is far worse than what originally caused it.
Hannah’s worship was marred by her hatred… her bitterness… for her situation, and possibly even towards her rival, Peninnah.
Jews didn’t have Jesus, they had one principle recounted in Deuteronomy 10:12 and recounted throughout Hebrew scritpure and in this passage, Micah 6.8.
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