Hannah's Praise
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I. Rejoicing at the Lord’s Righteous Deliverance
I. Rejoicing at the Lord’s Righteous Deliverance
A. How can Hannah Rejoice?!
She clearly loves Samuel - she makes a coat for him every year
She doesn’t just want a son to hold and love - there would be nothing to rejoice over otherwise
She isn’t looking for an heir - Samuel is still an heir anyway; and Elkanah already has several, one of which is already the firstborn.
It must be connected to her role as a mother in Israel - what she could contribute through Samuel. Exod 32:26, 29; Num 8:18-19; 1 Sam 2:11
then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the Lord’s side—come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
Then Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother.”
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the work for the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near the sanctuary.”
Then Elkanah went to his house at Ramah. But the child ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.
B. There is no rock like our God
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
C. Let the Arrogant beware of God’s Justice
So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?
Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”
II. Rejoicing at the Lord’s Sovereign Reversal
II. Rejoicing at the Lord’s Sovereign Reversal
A. He reverses military fortunes [1 Sam 4; 7]
B. He reverses nutritional fortunes [Joseph seven years famine/plenty]
C. He reverses fertility fortunes
And may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”
“She languishes who has borne seven; She has breathed her last; Her sun has gone down While it was yet day; She has been ashamed and confounded. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword Before their enemies,” says the Lord.
D. He reverses life itself [Jonah; Eli’s Sons]
I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.
Now this shall be a sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.
E. He reverses financial fortunes [blessing/curse of the Mosaic Covenant]
F. He reverses status [Saul/David]
III. Rejoicing at the Lord’s Justice through the King
III. Rejoicing at the Lord’s Justice through the King
A. Because God established the Moral Foundation
B. Because he actively keeps justice
C. Because he gives strength to his anointed.
The thought of kings was in the culture prior to Saul [Abimelech; Gideon] Judges 8:22-23; Judges 9:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son, and your grandson also; for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.”
But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you.”
After Abimelech had reigned over Israel three years,
Moses predicted they would want a king - he had to be anointed by God Deut 17:14-15
“When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’
you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
There’s no mention of a name, or when this anointed King would reign.