South To Bethlehem: The Posture of Joy
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Joy comes from your posture not your circumstance.
Joy comes from your posture not your circumstance.
Know the voices shaping your life.
Know the voices shaping your life.
When you get a look a multiple marriage their is misery
Not living up to the cultural ideal
Bearing children… the more children you had the better things were financially.
Future security
Personal and National
Shame and Agony…
Every culture has an ideal that you are called to live up to…
Culture is repressive…
THE CULTURE WILL COME AT YOU NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE!
Stand up to the voices, bow down to God, and trust God.
Stand up to the voices, bow down to God, and trust God.
WHAT SHE DOESN’T DO: Give into the voices of culture, society, or pschology.
She refuses the other voices
Robert Alatr: There are two voices addressing Hanah,
It is Narratively sigficant that Hannah doesn’t Answer either voice…
Here’s how you can be happy… Meet the cultural norm or gain human affection…
Pininah representing culture acceptance
Husband (8) representing: Relationship
Greater portion… You have my lover
Your my true love
Anything you build your life on externally looks good…
WHAT SHE DOES DO? She stands up to the voices and bows down to God.
Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s house.
She stood up to the voices
She stood up to the voices
Significant, It’s an idiom:
She put her foot down… means to say no
She took charge.. She stopped being passive she took action.
I’m not letting life happen to me.
I’m not giving God like power to any person who will only take control of me…
Bowed Down To God
Bowed Down To God
Prayed and made a vow.
It looks like she is bargaining…. I got a way of getting what I want from this God…
She is not striking a bargain…
If she would have been bargaining… after you make the bargain you don’t come home in peace, you are still contingent on the outcome..
But she was no longer downcast… that was the end of it… Faith. Peace.
Then come the pregnancy….
Levites where not allowed to own land… paid out of the tabernacle….
The Nazarite was a voluntary Levite…
Didn’t cut hair…
Didn’t drink.…
Listen to what she is doing…
Giving away her gift…
Still no child
Still no future.
No standing
Lord all my life I have wanted a child for me… but now I want to have a child for you.
Lord I wanted a child, but I was going to make it a new idol….
But because of the redirection of my soul, I am going to give him to you, for You!
However you want to answer this prayer is fine!!! Your will be done.
And the Lord said… OKAY.
Joy Comes From Trusting in Who is to Come, Not What is at Hand.
Joy Comes From Trusting in Who is to Come, Not What is at Hand.
WORSHIP IS PUTTING YOUR JOY IN GOD’S HANDS!
Two things: A pattern and a person
(6-7) Pattern: The bows of the warrior are broken, but those who are broken…
The strong are weak and weak are strong
The bows of the mighty are broken,
but the feeble bind on strength.
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
The barren has borne seven,
but she who has many children is forlorn.
God does not seem to work through strength bu
This is the way god works.…
Joy Comes From Trusting in Who is to Come, Not What is at Hand.
Joy Comes From Trusting in Who is to Come, Not What is at Hand.
He will guard the feet of his faithful servants,
but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.
“It is not by strength that one prevails;
those who oppose the Lord will be broken.
The Most High will thunder from heaven;
the Lord will judge the ends of the earth.
“He will give strength to his king
and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
No king at the time… She is for seeing David…does this sound familiar…
Luke 1
Vs 10 is Hannah’s way of saying that Jesus is the embodiment of Salvation…
The weak made strong.
By going to the cross he is saying salvation is a gift.
What you offer..
Saved by grace…
The people who know they are weak.
Accept me because what Jesus did.
“If you want to restructure your heart and get the culture off your back and to have freedom psychological, sociological, and the cultural freedom that Hannah got, you have to believe in the one that Hannah points. The ultimate Son of Promise. The ultimate impossible birth. The ultimate removal of shame. The ultimate savior.” Tim Keller