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So, first of all, can you hear me clearly?

All right.

I'm going to set my timer.

So, for this first session is first lecture at what time should I be aiming to finish?

1015.

Okay, I don't need to set the timer, I just watched the clock then so.

So that's for the whole event, queuing is well.

Okay, so I'll try and finish by 10. my great joy to be here again with you at the center for today, Christmas or third time here now, and I love being here, When James asked me, if I'd be willing to do some teaching, he didn't say lecturing.

So early.

If you want to call it, the election is fine.

I call it a dvar-torah, it's a word of Torah or the teaching that I'm going to be doing with you.

And I thought that I would meditate with you on 1st Samuel since I'm working on a book on the subject book on 1st, Samuel 1 through 15 for Edmonds, publishing talks portrait of a disgruntled profit and if you've got that type of Charity as Samuel resistance to Garden on doing a salt is the title of the book.

At least I think it would be the title of the book.

We will see why the publisher thinks when it comes ready to go to press.

Unlike the previous teaching I've done here.

These talks are much less polished.

I don't have a lot of nice PowerPoint slides that I've been using.

I've been teaching the book and lectures and discussions with my students for a while now, but I haven't done formal presentations on it like this.

So I don't really have the fences slide with Steve has come up with some put it put the headings from my outline up for you so you can follow along with it as a progressive and I'm going to try to read carefully biblical text when it's necessary to illustrate the point.

I want to make a you.

Can you use following the Bible's if you want?

But I don't have them projected like I like to have them projected And I do believe that at some point, you're going to be able to get hyperlinks to PDFs of my entire outline, with all the biblical texts, have three and one of them is 8 pages, long one is 10 phases of what's a detail.

You can follow up and check this out after the fact.

No, I've chosen the first Samuel 115 of the topic for this book and these talks, because here we have the opportunity.

If we take a careful close reading to examine the power dynamics between Samuel.

And the one hand, God, and the other hand Soul.

How did the prophet relate to The God? Who is called him to be a prophet?

How does it relate to the king?

He has called to speak God's word to And you're going to get a somewhat different read of the prophet Samuel, then you might have ever got before in your life.

If you heard me speak before, you know that's coming, but it's grounded in the close, reading of the text.

What interest in the story of Samuel, soul of God in these chapters is driven.

Not only by my love for scripture and I do love it and gays exegetical work with the Bible was written by my concern.

For the use of power.

Especially.

Cult leaders in society and now especially in the church used and abused power.

How we use our power to bless or curse, the help or harm and if you're paying attention to what's happening in the Christian church in America, today you are very concerned about that.

So what kind of implications here for each of us in any situation, which we have some degree of Agents, your power as a parent as a teacher, as head of an organization.

In any context, we have the question is, how do we use the gifts?

God has given us for the benefit of others.

That's a question that underlies, my study, and I hope that you would reflect with me on these kind of questions as we go through the material.

All right, so it's going to be a bit of a whirlwind tour through chapters 1 through 3 of Samuel chapters 8 through 10.

Okay, let's talk about the conflict that begins in these chapters and her one.

Look at the Prelude to the conflict.

I want to focus on 1st Samuel 1 through 3.

And that you do you have a heading for that.

I'm not sure Prelude to the conflict and so Point within that is going to be kind of unusual initiative.

I just got to highlight a few points here.

There is in the Bible and enunciation type-c, see where a woman who does not have children, she's Byron received, the gift of a child from God and then a miraculous way.

And that is a notes by an Angel, or perhaps a prophet, who speaks God's word and this child and plays an important part of the story, to follow classic examples.

Sarah, we cannot have a child and in the Sand by Zac announced by God or the wife of Manila and the birth of Samson in the Book of Judges in 2nd Kings 4. The shunammite woman who cannot have a child and then her name's hoochie receives in the New Testament.

Elizabeth is Baron John the Baptist In Hannah's case there was a deviation from the pattern.

There is no Divine initiative or Angelica prophetic announcement of the coming birth Instead, The Pursuit on usually takes initiative to ask for a child that breaks the pattern is different.

Look for the difference.

It tells you something about that particular story,

She was so deep in distress.

She pray to the Lord and wept bitterly and made a vow.

Oh, lord of hosts.

If you look at the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant your servant of male child that I was dedicating for Tampa service.

She asks for child know, if we take the story of Hannah in chapters 1 and chapter 2 up two verse 26, As a genuine introduction to 1st, Samuel will be on the lookout for characters in The later narrative, who also take initiative with God.

What we have different from what comes before in the Bible is it is a narrative in which humans are taking initiative and there is very little specific evaluation of their actions by the narrator or God as to whether it's good or bad initiative, the reader has to carefully attend to what's happening.

So there is a responsibility on us to take initiative as readers of this text and evaluate what's going on in the story.

So one of the distinctive marks the first and second Samuel is a way the narrative for groen's, human initiative.

The characters in the story, do things on their own.

Sometimes tell me the truth, but you don't hear anything about it.

Actually being from God, you got to destroy him that and there is some freedom and ambiguity and what they do.

And this is directly relevant to the role of Samuel God and soul.

OK, second point, the word play with asked all the verbs shall ask, or shall I ask what sound does birth and his dedication and then late for the people ask for King, so the prophet Eli.

Eli is the first person to use this verb.

Ketocana in verse 17 of chapter one, may the god of Israel Grant, what you have asked of him.

Later Hunter explains the name of her, son, by referring to her asking him from Yahoo, and this is what she said, I have child him from the Lord.

I work today.

Later on, when she bring some beer for dedication in in verses 27 and 28 to use the basic form of the verb.

Reveal ideas saying that she had asked him of the Lord.

But then she also uses what caused the history of stamp to say something in Hebrew, right?

When are the conjugations, which means, it doesn't mean to ask me to lend, as usual.

The passive participle of that Workshop out which means lent.

So she says this, therefore, I have linked him to the Lord, as long as he lives, he is linked to the Lord.

But here's a problem.

My problem is that this problem has recognized that almost all readers are commentaries on.

Samuel can, I use the verb asked to explain the name Samuel, Samuel, It doesn't quite explain it.

There's some parts of that word that aren't explained, that adverb, but it is much more obviously related to the name.

So

It's actual, it's just the past participle of the verb to the Lord.

It actually could be translated as long as the Lord.

Which is very confusing.

So the ambiguity of whose name is linked better to the verb for us is not accidental, the narrator under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Introduces this ambiguity for the reader to be put on notice that a conference is going to arrive between these two people.

Samuel and Saul about who is the true chosen leader.

For Israel rhetorical way the narrative, put a notice about that has Victory song.

Powerful pump in Chapter 2 verses 1 to 10 the birth of her son or the dedication of person who sings this at the dedication of his birth.

Stop.

So there's a reference in there in verse five to the barren woman.

Having seven children, all the children that Hannah has in the storage.

Actually only has six, this goes beyond, this cannot be exactly about her life only.

And then you read verses to say sorry for 28, the bows of the mighty have broken.

The feeble Garden strength in the Lord brings to life.

Brings down to see old and raises up, makes the poor makes the poor and the rich brings low in exhaust RZR 4 from the dust.

Makes himself is Princess The Pillars of the Earth belong to the word about her personal life.

That's much.

Bigger, is a victory song about the victory of God in them in the world and then the song closes inverse tan of a notice about the coming monarchy, the most high with thunder in heaven.

The judge the ends of the Earth and give strength to his King and Powerful in his anointed.