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So today - we begin making our way through 1 & 2 Samuel.
Why the Samuels?
I had been thinking long and hard about what to do following Galatians - and when I CONSIDERED the Samuels…
I thought - WHY NOT?
The books will help us UNDERSTAND the rest of Scripture...
The OVERARCHING story - tells us that no man is perfectly good, that God uses imperfect men, and that men should hope in God and not human government.
And so in thinking THRU THAT…I thought - yeah, in this climate we live in today...
I think it would do us well to walk through it!
NOW - both books combined entail 55 chapters...
The book of Romans - which contains 16 chapters - took us over a year to get thru...
SO doing the math - if it all played out at the same pace - we wouldn’t get done with these books until close to 2028…probably 2030 because of other smaller, separate studies we would do here and there.
WHICH CAUSED me to ask - do we want to devote that amount of time this ONE section of the Bible…?
Do we want to forgo covering MORE of the BIG-PICTURE story of Scripture - in order to LINGER here for the next 7 years…?
SOO - what I decided to do - was to walk through these books in a SURVEY approach.
We won’t walk through them verse-by-verse, chapter-by-chapter approach...
We’ll walk through them in a way where we - FLY over the text - and then SWOOP DOWN to dive into a portion of the text...
…preaching it (verse-by-verse) - - IN context!
That will allow us to BENEFIT from the text - while also giving us more freedom on the back end to do more things.
SO - here we go -
We start today with some background...
These books - which actually started out as 1 book - was written about 1050 B.C.
Which MEANS - about 3000 years ago.
And the over-arching STORY of these books consists of the transition of Israel’s rule from - a Theocracy - to a Monarchy...
From GOD ruling Israel thru Judges/Priests...
to a single ruler (King) ruling over the people.
And if we were to just summarize the book by it’s main characters, we would see...
Samuel
Saul
David
…in the forefront.
Prior to this transition into a MONARCHY…Israel was ruled by judges...
And THAT lead to MUCH chaos…!
The people INITIALLY had a positive response to Joshua...
BUT...
very QUICKLY we find the people turning to worship other gods...
And as we’ve said before - EVIL begets EVIL...
And i think these verses paint a good picture for us - as we make our way into 1 Samuel...
And then later in Judges, we read this...
And so from here we can see - [the STATE of Israel]…AND - [the backdrop against which God planned to POINT to the coming King]...
Now if we remember from our Hermeneutics bible study - and we consider that these books are Historical Narrative...
We must approach these books in a certain way - regarding interpretation...
Within the NARRATIVE - we must look for the principle that might apply to us - today (IF THERE IS ONE)
It’s a NARRATIVE...
It’s telling us what happened - GOOD or BAD...
AND so...
We CANNOT take each verse - spiritualize it - and then come up with some application for ourselves...
We really have to contemplate what we consider to be the timeless principle…that ALIGNS with the rest of scripture - SO THAT it could be applied to us today!
And so -
Let’s dive into this real-life story - to see - the [POWER] of HOPE in GOD!
As we mentioned before - the book of 1 Samuel begins by looking at the life of Samuel in how he had become the last of the Judges...
When we look at how this all started with his mother - we can pull some powerful truths into OUR TIME today...
TODAY we’ll see - the POWER of Hope in God...
Let’s read through this whole section - and then we’ll circle back around.
We’ll start with the first 2 verses...
Ok, so to summarize what we have here:
There’s a man named Elkanah…who has 2 wives...
Peninnah had children
Hannah had NO children
next verse...
I think whenever we read of the Birth of Samuel, MUCH is mentioned about Hannah his mother, but I’d like to actually look at his dad Elkanah before we get to her...
IN verse 3 we find this...
It says here that Elkanah would go to Shiloh YEAR after YEAR to worship and sacrifice to the Lord!
For some background on what’s happening here....we go to ...
To see more of the mood of these events...
These feasts were a time of WORSHIP..
A time to REFLECT on what the Lord had done in the lives of the PEOPLE!!
Kinda like our Church Dinner!
So that’s WHY Elkanah would go - MULTIPLE times throughout the year - YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR!
So before we get to Hannah - we find Elkanah… HOPING!
Hoping in WHAT - and for WHAT REASON?
SLIDE: Hope in God: Anchors Us in His Promises
Hope in God
Why would Elkanah - PRIORITIZE - heading to Shiloh - multiple times throughout the year…YEAR - AFTER - YEAR
For a WORSHIP service!??
WHY?
Answer: The POWER of Hope in God!!
*How many of you are GRATEFUL - for a roof over your head?
How many of you are GRATEFUL - for the food on your table?
How many of you are GRATEFUL - for your families (mom, dad, Spouse, your kids)??
Grateful enough to WORSHIP God for those things?
For ALL that God has GIVEN and supplied!!?
When I got married...
MAN - I remember walking around that night THINKING - Am i EVER going to get used to this RING on my finger?
I can’t help BUT - NOTICE IT…
I couldn’t stop messing with it!
I couldn’t stop THINKING - I HAVE A WIFE!!!
I have a FAMILY of my own now...
I’m responsible for SOMEONE else now...
AND THEN…!
When my firstborn Trey was born - life was FOREVER changed - EVEN MORE!!!
Life was NOW - all about - HIM!
And it takes something like - Getting married - HAVING A CHILD - to make - the Promises of God - hit differently....NO?
Man - a GREAT WAY to see God in a whole new LIGHT - is to have a kid!
Adopt a child!
My kids are NEVER - NOT on my mind!
And so - - is it SHOCKING to think that I’d ALWAYS be PRAYING for my KIDS?
HOPING in God - FOR the sake of my kids?
Elkanah - in our text today - was - a Husband - a Father!
He was HOPING in GOD - and in doing so - ANCHORED in God’s PROMISES!!
What promises?
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