WEBVTT 00:00:01.559 --> 00:00:05.879 and we are gonna, we had some unanswered questions 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:12.160 last week, so we're gonna see if we can go through 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:15.720 this without having to write it on the board, 00:00:15.740 --> 00:00:22.399 but if I need to, then I will. Okay, so let's 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.780 read these first three verses. Now these first 00:00:24.780 --> 00:00:28.690 three verses are, an introduction to the story 00:00:28.690 --> 00:00:31.109 of Samuel. Remember, that's the first story that 00:00:31.109 --> 00:00:35.950 we have here. Now, there was a certain man of 00:00:35.950 --> 00:00:40.210 Ramathiam Zophim of Mount Ephraim, and his name 00:00:40.210 --> 00:00:45.429 was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, 00:00:45.810 --> 00:00:49.750 the son of Tohu, the son of Zuth, and Ephrathite. 00:00:50.670 --> 00:00:52.969 And he had two wives. The name of the one was 00:00:52.969 --> 00:00:56.219 Hannah, and the name of the other, Panina. And 00:00:56.219 --> 00:00:58.880 Panina had children, but Hannah had no children. 00:00:59.539 --> 00:01:02.200 And this man went up out of his city yearly to 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.859 worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of Hosts 00:01:04.859 --> 00:01:08.180 and Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Haphne and 00:01:08.180 --> 00:01:11.939 Phineas, the priests of the Lord, were there." 00:01:11.939 --> 00:01:15.939 So, you can see why that's an introduction. It 00:01:15.939 --> 00:01:19.519 pretty much gives us, at least in an introductory 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.159 way, a list of names, and then it gives us some 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:28.859 particular information about more information 00:01:28.859 --> 00:01:31.599 about him. We know that Hannah had no children, 00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:35.319 so on and so on. We know that Eli is there, Hockney 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:36.900 and Phineas, these are all people that are going 00:01:36.900 --> 00:01:39.260 to feature in the story of Solomon here in the 00:01:39.260 --> 00:01:41.659 first few chapters of the book. The question 00:01:41.659 --> 00:01:45.519 is, what's going on there in that first verse? 00:01:45.980 --> 00:01:50.900 We do have a genealogy. But the question is, 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:54.019 that we have to ask, is why is that genealogy 00:01:54.019 --> 00:01:57.349 there? what is the author under the inspiration 00:01:57.349 --> 00:02:00.769 of the Holy Spirit trying to tell us about Elkanah? 00:02:01.170 --> 00:02:04.549 And I think it sounded to me as though some people 00:02:04.549 --> 00:02:10.530 here were thinking that it was a genealogy for 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:14.650 the purpose of tracing the lineage back to maybe 00:02:14.650 --> 00:02:20.909 Levi, if Samuel is a Levi. But that obviously 00:02:20.909 --> 00:02:23.729 is not the purpose of the genealogy here. How 00:02:23.729 --> 00:02:29.319 do we know that? It doesn't go back to Levi. 00:02:29.939 --> 00:02:32.580 So if you were thinking that this was going to 00:02:32.580 --> 00:02:34.639 prove or answer the question as to whether or 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:37.400 not Elkanah was a Levite, the answer is what? 00:02:38.180 --> 00:02:41.719 No, it's not going to be there. So then the question 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.699 is, why is that genealogy there? It has to be 00:02:44.699 --> 00:02:46.680 there for a reason. The Holy Spirit didn't put 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.199 it there for no reason at all. So we have all 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:52.360 these names here, so let's just go through them. 00:02:52.460 --> 00:02:57.669 We have Ramatheem Zophim hyphenated. Now what 00:02:57.669 --> 00:03:00.030 do we know about that if somebody has read first 00:03:00.030 --> 00:03:07.430 Samuel before what is Ramatheim? The longer version 00:03:07.430 --> 00:03:11.330 of the city name means two hills So that's what 00:03:11.330 --> 00:03:14.610 Ramatheim means now. We have the shorter version 00:03:14.610 --> 00:03:20.349 of Rama and who lives in Rama? In the book of 00:03:20.349 --> 00:03:24.449 Samuel Nobody knows all right, then let's look 00:03:24.449 --> 00:03:33.330 it up 1 Samuel chapter 1 verse 19 and then chapter 00:03:33.330 --> 00:03:40.669 2 verse 11 and chapter 2 verse 17. So somebody 00:03:40.669 --> 00:03:42.729 tell me when you've got one of those references. 00:03:44.930 --> 00:03:48.830 Did you say 119? Yes. I have that one. Okay. 00:03:50.069 --> 00:03:52.569 And they rose up in the morning early and worshiped 00:03:52.569 --> 00:03:55.310 before the Lord. and returned and came to their 00:03:55.310 --> 00:03:59.310 house to Ramah, and Elkanah knew Hannah as wife 00:03:59.310 --> 00:04:01.789 and will remember him. Okay, so who lives in 00:04:01.789 --> 00:04:08.789 Ramah? Elkanah. And? Hannah. Okay. Alright, and 00:04:08.789 --> 00:04:12.909 then who has chapter 2 verse 11? 1 Samuel 2, 00:04:12.930 --> 00:04:15.689 11. Then Elkanah went to his house at Ramah with 00:04:15.689 --> 00:04:18.089 the child ministers before before he lied to 00:04:18.089 --> 00:04:26.709 the priests. Okay, and then 2, 17. You can read 00:04:26.709 --> 00:04:40.009 it if you got it, Grace. Well, that's what I 00:04:40.009 --> 00:04:44.990 wrote down. Doesn't necessarily mean it's right. 00:04:51.189 --> 00:05:09.800 OK, well, I don't have. Okay, so I don't have 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.480 any more. It's also Samuel's home. Remember when 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.339 Saul goes to see him, that's where he goes to 00:05:15.339 --> 00:05:18.300 see him. And remember he travels up to the city 00:05:18.300 --> 00:05:21.120 and then what does he do? He goes to this high 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:23.199 place where Samuel is. That's where Samuel says 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.879 we're gonna go. So there's your two hills. So 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:31.259 there is the reason for the Ramathe in him. Now, 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:34.519 how many Ramas are there in Israel? Does anybody 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:39.279 know? Are there more than one? I don't know either. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:45.839 There's at least two. So then we have, that's 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.180 the reason that we have this Zophim hyphenated 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:54.800 after Ramatheim. Now, what is, just from reading 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.680 the verse there, what does Zophim sound like, 00:05:58.899 --> 00:06:06.949 a name there in the genealogy? Okay, very good. 00:06:07.629 --> 00:06:12.730 It's okay, you can be brave. So, the reason for 00:06:12.730 --> 00:06:16.089 the genealogy listed there and the reason that 00:06:16.089 --> 00:06:20.990 it ends with Zuth is because this Rama is the 00:06:20.990 --> 00:06:23.990 one in the territory of Zuth which was founded 00:06:23.990 --> 00:06:28.649 by Alcana's, whatever that is, his great -great 00:06:28.649 --> 00:06:35.259 -great -grandfather. All right, so then, so that's 00:06:35.259 --> 00:06:42.959 the purpose of that genealogy. It's just a geographic 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:48.300 identifier in the first verse of the book here. 00:06:49.339 --> 00:06:52.819 It's not any kind of justification for whether 00:06:52.819 --> 00:06:57.399 or not Samuel is of the tribe of Levi. Now, there 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:07.029 is, so then we have in... Well, we have this 00:07:07.029 --> 00:07:10.649 question here. Well, first of all, hopefully 00:07:10.649 --> 00:07:12.970 we all know this, but if we don't, we'll learn 00:07:12.970 --> 00:07:19.230 it. Where was the tribe of Levite located geographically 00:07:19.230 --> 00:07:23.110 in Israel? Where was their territory located? 00:07:24.370 --> 00:07:28.550 This is kind of a trick question. Okay, so where 00:07:28.550 --> 00:07:34.790 did they live? Okay, they had what? Cities that 00:07:34.790 --> 00:07:37.079 they were supposed to live in. And those cities, 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.660 then, would be within the geographic territories 00:07:39.660 --> 00:07:42.779 of the other tribes. So then the question is, 00:07:42.939 --> 00:07:46.939 when a census was taken or if a person was trying 00:07:46.939 --> 00:07:51.300 to say where I'm from, geographically speaking, 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.060 a Levite could live, what, in Gad? He could live 00:07:55.060 --> 00:07:58.879 in Ephraim. He could live within any of the tribes 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:01.220 or any of the cities where I forget what the... 00:08:01.220 --> 00:08:04.430 It was Ephraim and it was... Gad and I can't 00:08:04.430 --> 00:08:07.430 remember what the third prominent one was so 00:08:07.430 --> 00:08:10.529 the fact that a Levi now remember back in judges 00:08:10.529 --> 00:08:15.110 in the Post log there in the last few chapters 00:08:15.110 --> 00:08:18.250 or arena about all the chaos we had Levi's there, 00:08:18.250 --> 00:08:21.170 right and The Levi's were where they were in 00:08:21.170 --> 00:08:25.149 Mount Ephraim So it's not it shouldn't be surprising 00:08:25.149 --> 00:08:29.910 to us that there were Levi's living in the mountains 00:08:29.910 --> 00:08:33.259 of Ephraim now Just for reference, the mountains 00:08:33.259 --> 00:08:39.399 of Ephraim begin north in the territory that 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.480 was settled by or given to the tribe of Ephraim. 00:08:43.700 --> 00:08:47.480 But they run out of that territory, and what 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:51.980 territory or clan, what tribe is to the south 00:08:51.980 --> 00:08:58.740 of Ephraim? Everybody I'm sure has a Bible, and 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:06.149 your Bible has to have a map. Judah is definitely 00:09:06.149 --> 00:09:08.669 south of Ephraim. We know that because we have 00:09:08.669 --> 00:09:14.570 two tribes in the south. Has everybody got their 00:09:14.570 --> 00:09:21.370 map out? So you can see that Dan kind of cuts 00:09:21.370 --> 00:09:24.350 around and then we have the tribe of Benjamin 00:09:24.350 --> 00:09:30.490 and then south of Benjamin we have Judah. So 00:09:30.490 --> 00:09:34.740 the mountains then And you can see mine has Shiloh, 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:39.559 yours probably has Shiloh's also, in the tribe 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:44.100 of Ephraim. And then you can see Mizpah, you 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:48.500 see Gibeon, you see Bethel, Jericho, and Jerusalem 00:09:48.500 --> 00:09:51.600 right there on the border between Benjamin and 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.639 Judah. And then you have Bethlehem a little bit 00:09:55.639 --> 00:10:00.870 south of that. Just because he lived in the mountains 00:10:00.870 --> 00:10:03.049 of Ephraim, that doesn't necessarily mean that 00:10:03.049 --> 00:10:06.990 he was within the tribal territories of Ephraim. 00:10:07.269 --> 00:10:14.889 Do you see that? Those mountains extend through 00:10:14.889 --> 00:10:18.409 Ephraim, the south, into the tribe of Benjamin. 00:10:20.769 --> 00:10:23.289 And then they do, they actually do, it's called 00:10:23.289 --> 00:10:25.549 differently, but they do connect to the mountain 00:10:25.549 --> 00:10:38.259 range in the tribe of Judah. Let's see. So this 00:10:38.259 --> 00:10:42.460 Rama is the Rama of Bethlehem. Now let's look 00:10:42.460 --> 00:10:48.299 at chapter 17, 1 Samuel 17, verse 12. And then 00:10:48.299 --> 00:10:52.779 you can turn back one, two, three pages to the 00:10:52.779 --> 00:11:00.250 first chapter of Ruth, verse 2. Somebody read 00:11:00.250 --> 00:11:04.049 that chapter 17 verse 12 and 1st Samuel when 00:11:04.049 --> 00:11:32.309 they get it. Okay, so Ephrathite of Bethlehem 00:11:32.309 --> 00:11:35.830 Judah, okay, so there we have the word Ephrathite 00:11:35.830 --> 00:11:40.669 Now look at Ruth chapter 1 verse 2 And the name 00:11:40.669 --> 00:11:43.029 of the one was Elimelech and the name of his 00:11:43.029 --> 00:11:46.570 wife Naomi and the name of his two sons Malon 00:11:46.570 --> 00:11:51.250 and Chilean Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah They 00:11:51.250 --> 00:11:53.490 came into the hill country of Moab and continued 00:11:53.490 --> 00:12:01.259 there. So we see that that The hyphenate of Bethlehem 00:12:01.259 --> 00:12:06.000 and epithite are connected, but they're in they're 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:10.940 in or of Bethlehem So that's what we have for 00:12:10.940 --> 00:12:23.299 the Rama of Bethlehem Okay Okay, so I think that's 00:12:23.299 --> 00:12:25.620 what I have to say about that first verse is 00:12:25.620 --> 00:12:29.090 that Perfectly clear is as clear as mud to everyone. 00:12:29.230 --> 00:12:31.029 Did you kind of follow it? Do you follow the 00:12:31.029 --> 00:12:42.169 big picture at least? You follow that? Okay So 00:12:42.169 --> 00:12:45.570 now that obviously leaves open the question of 00:12:45.570 --> 00:12:48.090 whether or not and the reason that this came 00:12:48.090 --> 00:12:51.350 up I think is last week I said that Samuel offers 00:12:51.350 --> 00:12:55.700 sacrifices And so, when we get to that, is when 00:12:55.700 --> 00:12:58.600 I had intended on talking about whether or not 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.519 that was legitimate, was that sin, was, you know, 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.139 why was it that Samuel was able to offer sacrifice? 00:13:05.220 --> 00:13:08.399 And we will, and that's when we will talk about 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.600 it. Now, if you want to know if, for sure, if 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.000 Samuel was a Levite, then you can read that in 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:21.659 1 Chronicles 6 verse 7, I think. Something like 00:13:21.659 --> 00:13:26.460 that. You can find it in First Chronicles. But 00:13:26.460 --> 00:13:29.440 what we do want to, before we, and that's all 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.360 we're gonna say about that tonight. You'll have 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.779 to be patient or it's okay to do some more reading 00:13:34.779 --> 00:13:37.960 and studying on your own. There's something to 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.580 be said then that in order to find out that Samuel 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:43.899 was a Levite, we have to go to a different book 00:13:43.899 --> 00:13:47.500 of the Bible. So what conclusion or what can 00:13:47.500 --> 00:13:50.379 we at least suspect if we can't say for sure 00:13:50.379 --> 00:13:55.659 that we know now, about Samuel's lineage back 00:13:55.659 --> 00:14:00.100 to Levi. How important was that to the author 00:14:00.100 --> 00:14:06.980 of 1st Samuel's that we would know that? It wasn't 00:14:06.980 --> 00:14:10.620 important at all. So that's the answer. On a 00:14:10.620 --> 00:14:14.860 scale of 1 to 10, it was a zero. And the reason 00:14:14.860 --> 00:14:17.639 for that is that he's not emphasizing at all 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:21.879 whether or not Samuel was a priest. It's interesting. 00:14:24.659 --> 00:14:28.679 When I can come to a solid conviction about what 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:30.659 I think about the whole thing, and maybe after 00:14:30.659 --> 00:14:33.860 I've talked to the other two elders, I can either 00:14:33.860 --> 00:14:36.399 represent my view or our view on the whole thing. 00:14:36.980 --> 00:14:40.519 But in Samuel, in the book of Samuel, we see 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.279 Samuel represented what? As a judge. He was a 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:48.299 judge. He is for sure a prophet. And he also 00:14:48.299 --> 00:14:51.620 does priestly type stuff. He wears priestly clothes, 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.700 and he offers sacrifices. So all in one person, 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.259 then, we have prophet, priest, and king, at least 00:14:57.259 --> 00:15:00.220 look like. Now, what do we have in David? He's 00:15:00.220 --> 00:15:04.639 the other prominent character in Samuel. We have 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:07.700 David, who is a king, right? Judges are no more. 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.779 The monarch has been established. David's the 00:15:11.779 --> 00:15:15.519 second king of Israel. So we have a king. David 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.460 wears a linen ephod, right? He kind of does priestly 00:15:18.460 --> 00:15:21.620 things. At the end of the book, The last thing 00:15:21.620 --> 00:15:24.399 in the book, you see David offering sacrifice. 00:15:25.019 --> 00:15:27.519 So that's priestly things. Was he a priest? No. 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.200 And then also, there's no question that David's 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.100 a prophet. If you read his Psalms, there's undoubtedly, 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:36.679 there's no doubt at all that David's a prophet. 00:15:36.740 --> 00:15:42.120 So in these two men, we have priest -like things, 00:15:42.340 --> 00:15:45.720 king -like things, in the case of Samuel, all 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.350 represented in one. So at the very least, I think 00:15:49.350 --> 00:15:51.409 we can say at the beginning, we're just going 00:15:51.409 --> 00:15:54.929 to say this big picture that they are definitely 00:15:54.929 --> 00:15:58.990 prophesying that Messiah to come is going to 00:15:58.990 --> 00:16:02.269 be all three of these things ideally or perfectly. 00:16:02.370 --> 00:16:04.830 He's going to be the perfect or the ideal king. 00:16:05.509 --> 00:16:07.990 He's going to be the perfect or the ideal prophet. 00:16:08.470 --> 00:16:10.730 And he's going to be the perfect and the ideal 00:16:10.730 --> 00:16:14.899 priest. And so we look forward then from here 00:16:14.899 --> 00:16:18.000 to the time of Christ when we can say we kind 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.480 of saw it here in types and shadows and we didn't 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:25.179 see it perfectly but now that Messiah Jesus has 00:16:25.179 --> 00:16:28.639 come we see that perfectly represented all in 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:38.519 one man. Well he sits up there in Rama on the 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.389 hill And he judges. I mean, he's the closest 00:16:41.389 --> 00:16:44.649 thing to a king that there is until we have kings. 00:16:46.210 --> 00:16:49.049 So he's not a king, and we said that. He just 00:16:49.049 --> 00:16:51.909 kind of looks kingly and he kind of has authority, 00:16:51.970 --> 00:16:54.149 right, to where everybody goes to get their answers. 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:20.680 Any questions then before we move on? I'm not 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:22.920 exactly sure how far we got last week. Does anybody 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:38.009 have notes to a certain place? Okay, verse 11 00:17:38.009 --> 00:17:44.970 then. So Hannah has, remember, she was persecuted 00:17:44.970 --> 00:17:53.589 or she was harassed by Panina. We see, we saw 00:17:53.589 --> 00:17:58.250 Elkanah's try to give her some comfort, but the 00:17:58.250 --> 00:18:00.029 comfort that he offered her didn't have anything 00:18:00.029 --> 00:18:04.190 to do with God and it obviously fell short. Hannah 00:18:04.190 --> 00:18:07.069 then goes to the Lord. In her bitterness of soul, 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:12.190 she goes and runs to the Lord to pray. And in 00:18:12.190 --> 00:18:15.269 verse 11, she vowed a vow and said, O Lord of 00:18:15.269 --> 00:18:18.569 hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction 00:18:18.569 --> 00:18:22.809 of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget 00:18:22.809 --> 00:18:26.369 thine handmaid, but will give unto thy handmaid 00:18:26.369 --> 00:18:30.049 a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord 00:18:30.049 --> 00:18:33.250 all the days of his life. and there shall no 00:18:33.250 --> 00:18:39.990 razor come upon his head." Okay, so there's her 00:18:39.990 --> 00:18:44.009 prayer to the Lord, her bow and her prayer. What 00:18:44.009 --> 00:18:47.509 one word jumps out to you there that's repeated 00:18:47.509 --> 00:18:53.509 three times? Compound word, it's a big one. You 00:18:53.509 --> 00:18:59.789 can't hardly miss it. Handmade. Now what is that? 00:19:00.930 --> 00:19:03.890 What is that teaching us anything? It's obviously 00:19:03.890 --> 00:19:07.349 important. The Holy Spirit put it there on her 00:19:07.349 --> 00:19:10.250 lips in our Bibles three times in one verse. 00:19:10.829 --> 00:19:13.170 Well, it speaks to her posture. What's her posture 00:19:13.170 --> 00:19:17.170 before the Lord? Humble. She's not demanding. 00:19:17.970 --> 00:19:19.990 She doesn't go to the Lord with this complaint 00:19:19.990 --> 00:19:23.549 that says, I'm a perfectly healthy woman, but 00:19:23.549 --> 00:19:27.069 I can't have kids. How is this just? You call 00:19:27.069 --> 00:19:31.339 yourself a good God? I want children. No, she 00:19:31.339 --> 00:19:33.519 just takes her place there before the Lord in 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.720 humility. I'm your handmaiden. What's that saying? 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.920 Do what is best to you. I'm not in your position. 00:19:41.940 --> 00:19:44.579 I don't know what you know. I don't understand 00:19:44.579 --> 00:19:48.359 your plan. You do what seems best and right to 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:50.779 you. Here's what's on my heart and I'm gonna 00:19:50.779 --> 00:19:53.339 share it with you. I'm gonna turn them over my 00:19:53.339 --> 00:19:57.660 burden to you. Now that's prayer. We don't go 00:19:57.660 --> 00:20:01.109 demanding to God. Anybody that thinks that she 00:20:01.109 --> 00:20:03.670 here was trying to bribe the Lord, look, if you 00:20:03.670 --> 00:20:06.910 give me a kid, then I'm going to turn him back 00:20:06.910 --> 00:20:11.190 over to you as if the Lord needed somebody to 00:20:11.190 --> 00:20:14.750 give him something that he didn't have. So then 00:20:14.750 --> 00:20:16.869 what do we make of this vow and what do we make 00:20:16.869 --> 00:20:27.890 of this? No razor shall come upon his head. One 00:20:27.890 --> 00:20:30.869 more thing, you do see that in her prayer she 00:20:30.869 --> 00:20:37.809 says, Oh Lord of hosts. So again, when you pray, 00:20:38.309 --> 00:20:41.990 that's a reminder. So hopefully when you pray, 00:20:42.210 --> 00:20:45.710 you're reminding yourself. When we pray publicly, 00:20:45.789 --> 00:20:49.470 we're reminding each other of who God is. So 00:20:49.470 --> 00:20:52.130 the reason that she says, Oh Lord of hosts, is 00:20:52.130 --> 00:20:55.369 why? It's a reminder to her of what? It's God 00:20:55.369 --> 00:20:59.390 that reigns. It's God that owns and has at His 00:20:59.390 --> 00:21:02.829 disposal everything that is. It's God that can 00:21:02.829 --> 00:21:06.009 give me the thing that I want, a child, a man 00:21:06.009 --> 00:21:09.529 child specifically, because everything is His 00:21:09.529 --> 00:21:12.509 and He rules over everything that He's made. 00:21:13.089 --> 00:21:15.630 That's a reminder to her. It encourages her then 00:21:15.630 --> 00:21:19.069 to ask for big things from this God who has all 00:21:19.069 --> 00:21:22.009 the power, He has everything, He owns everything 00:21:22.009 --> 00:21:24.529 and He has this perfect plan and He reigns sovereignly 00:21:24.529 --> 00:21:27.869 in His creation. So there's, you know, when you 00:21:27.869 --> 00:21:30.930 pray, whether you verbalize that or you just 00:21:30.930 --> 00:21:33.910 remember that in your head, it is honoring to 00:21:33.910 --> 00:21:37.289 the Lord when we remember who he is, how big 00:21:37.289 --> 00:21:41.210 he is, how wonderful he is, and all of his attributes. 00:21:41.789 --> 00:21:46.190 Okay, then she vows this vow and she says he's 00:21:46.190 --> 00:21:48.430 going to give him unto the Lord all the days 00:21:48.430 --> 00:21:51.990 of his life and no razor shall come upon his 00:21:51.990 --> 00:22:00.299 head. So we could talk about whether or not Samuel 00:22:00.299 --> 00:22:05.059 was a Levite. He was, we already know that. What 00:22:05.059 --> 00:22:08.380 was the role of the Levite in the worship of 00:22:08.380 --> 00:22:12.420 the Lord, in the public worship of the Lord? 00:22:16.460 --> 00:22:24.970 Of the direct lineage from Aaron. Then what was 00:22:24.970 --> 00:22:28.369 your role as a Levi you served in the temple 00:22:28.369 --> 00:22:30.609 right you served in the public worship of the 00:22:30.609 --> 00:22:46.930 Lord No, you don't remember that Okay When did 00:22:46.930 --> 00:22:48.809 that happen does anybody know when that happened 00:22:48.809 --> 00:22:51.670 was that immediately upon birth or upon weaning 00:22:51.670 --> 00:22:58.799 that they All the mothers turned them over? Okay, 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:05.319 so 25 to 30, somewhere in there. Now, what was 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:11.380 the, who, the firstborn man child of every family 00:23:11.380 --> 00:23:18.640 in Israel belonged to who? Okay, and what happened 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.950 if you, So how did you redeem that child back? 00:23:24.809 --> 00:23:26.829 Did all those babies just wind up serving at 00:23:26.829 --> 00:23:33.269 the temple? No. So what did you do? Offer a sacrifice. 00:23:33.410 --> 00:23:37.569 He brought a sacrifice. Depending on how much 00:23:37.569 --> 00:23:39.849 money you had, everybody didn't have to bring 00:23:39.849 --> 00:23:43.150 the same thing. If you were a man or a family 00:23:43.150 --> 00:23:45.430 of wealth, I think it was one bullock. Is that 00:23:45.430 --> 00:23:49.039 right? I think it was one bullock or one young 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:54.519 bull and then three tenths of an ephah of flour 00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:57.240 and some wine. I think that was what it was. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:01.259 And then you took that to the temple and you 00:24:01.259 --> 00:24:04.279 gave that in sacrifice to the Lord to redeem 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:07.640 that firstborn son. So every firstborn son, it's 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:10.819 right for us to say, belonged to the Lord. Everything 00:24:10.819 --> 00:24:13.660 that opens the womb belongs to the Lord. The 00:24:13.660 --> 00:24:19.869 firstborn son. In some kind of special way, Hannah 00:24:19.869 --> 00:24:24.589 was pledging her child to the service of the 00:24:24.589 --> 00:24:27.930 Lord all the days of his life. Even the Levites 00:24:27.930 --> 00:24:30.069 that served when they were turning 30, they served 00:24:30.069 --> 00:24:32.349 for a while, then they went back home and led 00:24:32.349 --> 00:24:34.670 their normal life. And I don't know if they were 00:24:34.670 --> 00:24:37.930 on rotation or they would go back, but that was, 00:24:37.990 --> 00:24:44.970 it was not a nonstop service for the entirety 00:24:44.970 --> 00:24:50.829 of their life. So Hannah is making a special 00:24:50.829 --> 00:24:55.130 deal of this to the Lord that she's going to 00:24:55.130 --> 00:24:57.750 See to it that her son should the Lord give her 00:24:57.750 --> 00:24:59.829 one is going to serve the Lord all the days of 00:24:59.829 --> 00:25:04.549 his life Then we just have this Question that 00:25:04.549 --> 00:25:07.230 we have to answer that probably isn't answerable 00:25:07.230 --> 00:25:10.049 shall there shall no razor come upon his head 00:25:10.049 --> 00:25:13.109 Now what does she mean that is that until that 00:25:13.109 --> 00:25:16.690 such time as he begins to serve Does that mean 00:25:16.690 --> 00:25:19.990 that it's? Is that shorthand for the Nazarite 00:25:19.990 --> 00:25:24.289 vowel, which is no razor, and what else? No wine. 00:25:24.289 --> 00:25:28.730 No wine, and? You can't touch it then. Can't 00:25:28.730 --> 00:25:35.710 touch any kind of a corpse. Do you know? Well, 00:25:35.730 --> 00:25:38.069 I thought it was. You thought it was just shorthand 00:25:38.069 --> 00:25:42.329 for that. So you see him as a Nazarite. But he's 00:25:42.329 --> 00:25:46.440 never called a Nazarite. So again, it's just 00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:51.059 one of those odd things. It does hearken our 00:25:51.059 --> 00:25:56.059 minds back to who? Samson. And so there are people 00:25:56.059 --> 00:25:57.799 that think that the reason that this is here 00:25:57.799 --> 00:26:00.180 and the reason that she only mentions this part 00:26:00.180 --> 00:26:04.519 is to distinguish him from Samson and from his 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:08.019 tragic end and really the tragedy of his life 00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:12.559 where he was constantly plagued. That could be. 00:26:12.819 --> 00:26:17.539 It could have something to do with that. So if 00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:18.980 you thought I was going to give you a for sure 00:26:18.980 --> 00:26:23.160 answer, I'm not. But it is there. And obviously 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:25.059 no razor came upon it and said, I don't think 00:26:25.059 --> 00:26:27.559 that's ever mentioned anywhere else again either. 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:30.819 So we should probably just assume that he had 00:26:30.819 --> 00:26:35.539 very long hair. And we know that he served the 00:26:35.539 --> 00:26:40.160 Lord all the days of his life. All right, anybody 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:56.539 got any questions there? They do. So maybe it 00:26:56.539 --> 00:27:01.279 was just her acknowledging that he was the Lord's. 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:08.000 The Lord told her every firstborn son on every 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.019 first born of the cattle belongs to the Lord. 00:27:11.099 --> 00:27:14.160 Maybe that was just her humbly submitting to 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:16.980 the will of the Lord in that and acknowledging 00:27:16.980 --> 00:27:26.940 that it was His. He wasn't asking... Why do we 00:27:26.940 --> 00:27:35.240 ask the Lord for anything? So everything that 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:41.140 we receive from the Lord is for what? It's for 00:27:41.140 --> 00:27:47.539 Him. Now, I'm not saying you can't ask for a 00:27:47.539 --> 00:27:51.039 trans -am, but I am saying that if you're gonna 00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:55.500 ask for a trans -am, it better in some way help 00:27:55.500 --> 00:28:03.259 you in your ministry of the Lord or in your ministry 00:28:03.500 --> 00:28:06.779 or your relationship with the Lord. So I'm not 00:28:06.779 --> 00:28:08.759 telling you what you can or limiting what you 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.700 can ask, but when you ask for something from 00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:16.599 the Lord, we better all understand that whatever 00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:20.099 it is that we're asking is His. He's given it 00:28:20.099 --> 00:28:22.980 to us to be stewards, and we're asking for it 00:28:22.980 --> 00:28:25.079 so that we can serve Him better in some kind 00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:31.779 of way. So that eliminates all the wacky health 00:28:31.779 --> 00:28:36.940 and wealth liars out there. There's no such thing 00:28:36.940 --> 00:28:39.119 as asking the Lord for a million dollars because 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:46.640 I want to live in a mansion. Unless, again, you 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:48.799 can explain to me how it is that that's going 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.480 to enhance your relationship with the Lord or 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:54.759 make you a better minister to His people and 00:28:54.759 --> 00:29:00.000 serve them. It seems contradictory to me. But 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.789 that really is what Hannah demonstrates to us 00:29:03.789 --> 00:29:07.430 here. I want this son, but he's yours. He's going 00:29:07.430 --> 00:29:10.910 to serve you all the days of his life. And she 00:29:10.910 --> 00:29:13.589 couldn't make the Nazirite vow for him that was 00:29:13.589 --> 00:29:16.170 voluntary. And most Nazirite vows were for a 00:29:16.170 --> 00:29:36.250 limited amount of time. All right. In the New 00:29:36.250 --> 00:29:39.250 Testament it says that men should be ashamed 00:29:39.250 --> 00:29:43.150 if they have long hair. But that in the Old Testament, 00:29:44.369 --> 00:29:51.690 the Nazirite way of being dedicated to God was 00:29:51.690 --> 00:29:57.569 to have long hair. Well, Samuel had long hair 00:29:57.569 --> 00:30:01.299 because his If he took the Nazirite bough and 00:30:01.299 --> 00:30:03.279 were to understand that it extended throughout 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:05.220 his life, in the case of Samson, we know that 00:30:05.220 --> 00:30:07.759 it did, that was a lifetime thing. So that's 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.400 how we know they had long hair. Nazirite boughs 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:16.500 were not, what, maybe a few years at the most. 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:19.619 So it's not like everyone that took the Nazirite 00:30:19.619 --> 00:30:21.660 bough, bowed for the rest of their life and so 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:25.799 their hair would grow continually and on down. 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:29.420 And who knows, maybe they shaved their head right 00:30:29.420 --> 00:30:31.140 before they took their violin, it just grew out 00:30:31.140 --> 00:30:53.099 to regular length. Well, in verse two, read verse 00:30:53.099 --> 00:31:05.779 two. Don't chapter 1 Just until the semicolon 00:31:05.779 --> 00:31:17.480 or period Okay, stop there You know that doesn't 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:21.940 you don't have any questions about that To me 00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:25.420 that one sticks out like a sore thumb does it 00:31:25.420 --> 00:31:30.180 What you can't be an elder in the new covenant 00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:32.920 if you've got two wives, right? Even if it was 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:36.220 legal at the time, if you had two wives, you 00:31:36.220 --> 00:31:38.279 were converted, maybe you had ten wives, but 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:40.400 you can't be an elder if you have more than one. 00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:45.960 Here we have Elkanah, the father of one of the 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.940 most famous prophets, the kingmaker Samuel himself, 00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:55.119 and he's got two wives. But if we go back to 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:58.099 Genesis, and we understand Genesis in light of 00:31:58.099 --> 00:32:05.400 Jesus' teaching, what does Jesus tell us? One 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:09.279 man or one husband one wife right? That's the 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:10.920 way it was in the beginning That's the way that 00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:15.240 it always should be right, but here we have Two 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:17.619 wives for Elkanna now who else had more than 00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:26.279 one wife The list is going to get long David 00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:29.519 now who's David is he some insignificant guy? 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:39.119 He's a man after God's own heart What about Israel? 00:32:41.220 --> 00:32:50.220 How many wives did he have? Four. The namesake 00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:54.940 of the nation had more than one wife. Now, what 00:32:54.940 --> 00:33:00.539 does that tell us? Things aren't the same in 00:33:00.539 --> 00:33:03.650 the two covenants, are they? Just because something 00:33:03.650 --> 00:33:05.690 happens back here in this covenant doesn't mean 00:33:05.690 --> 00:33:07.890 that it can happen in this covenant and just 00:33:07.890 --> 00:33:10.349 because something Happens here doesn't mean that 00:33:10.349 --> 00:33:14.009 it has to happen there So what I mean there's 00:33:14.009 --> 00:33:16.450 all we're now we're familiar with all kinds of 00:33:16.450 --> 00:33:20.349 laws right there was illegal It was the death 00:33:20.349 --> 00:33:23.490 sentence if you started a fire on what day of 00:33:23.490 --> 00:33:31.569 the week on the Sabbath, which was which day 00:33:31.569 --> 00:33:37.470 by number? The seventh. Okay, the last day of 00:33:37.470 --> 00:33:41.549 the week in honorarium of the Lord who for six 00:33:41.549 --> 00:33:44.549 days created and then he rested on the seventh. 00:33:46.089 --> 00:33:48.730 So struck dead. Now, is that something? I was 00:33:48.730 --> 00:33:53.529 just at the hospital today. My home away from 00:33:53.529 --> 00:33:57.410 home. And I'm in this elevator and it says this 00:33:57.410 --> 00:34:01.849 elevator on the Sabbath runs continually. Doesn't 00:34:01.849 --> 00:34:06.009 ever stop. Never stops moving. Now why is that? 00:34:08.909 --> 00:34:13.590 Or you could put, if you've got a more expensive 00:34:13.590 --> 00:34:16.710 oven probably, maybe there are some poor Jews. 00:34:17.949 --> 00:34:20.250 You have the Sabbath function on your oven. What 00:34:20.250 --> 00:34:27.389 does that do? Keeps that thing lit. on Friday 00:34:27.389 --> 00:34:31.030 before the Sabbath starts so that on Saturday 00:34:31.030 --> 00:34:35.289 you don't have to light the fire. Now, does anybody 00:34:35.289 --> 00:34:37.369 here use the Sabbath function on their oven? 00:34:38.809 --> 00:34:41.849 Does anybody here make sure that you turn your 00:34:41.849 --> 00:34:46.050 furnace up high enough so that the light never 00:34:46.050 --> 00:34:48.869 goes off, so that you're never starting a fire? 00:34:48.909 --> 00:34:52.510 That's what the whole thing is. No, and why not? 00:34:52.530 --> 00:34:55.880 Because something changed. So what was illegal 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:59.760 and sinful and was so serious that you were stoned 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:03.039 to death in the Old Covenant is in the New Covenant 00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:07.360 understood and spiritually to have been fulfilled 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.360 by Christ who is our Sabbath and we rest in him. 00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:14.179 So that we aren't going around looking in your 00:35:14.179 --> 00:35:17.360 kitchen to see if you really had the oven on 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:20.460 on Friday night and if not we've got a backpack 00:35:20.460 --> 00:35:23.659 full of some nice geodes and we're ready to go. 00:35:25.710 --> 00:35:30.949 So that's your answer. Why is something that 00:35:30.949 --> 00:35:34.130 happens back here not happening in the New Covenant? 00:35:34.250 --> 00:35:36.269 And the answer is because things have changed. 00:35:36.909 --> 00:35:40.929 And so whatever ethic or whatever instruction 00:35:40.929 --> 00:35:43.789 that Lord Jesus lays down for us in the New Covenant 00:35:43.789 --> 00:35:46.369 is what we follow and we understand everything 00:35:46.369 --> 00:35:50.369 that happened in the Old Covenant in light of 00:35:50.369 --> 00:35:53.469 Jesus's fulfillment of it and his teaching us. 00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:57.880 proper place to predict and show who the Messiah 00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:06.960 was going to be and to reveal God. Oh, that's 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:10.940 the same way. You can't start, I mean, if you, 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:13.500 you can't start, you can't start your car. That's 00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:16.099 why they walk. You've got to live close to synagogue. 00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:18.460 You can't start a car because there's a fire 00:36:18.460 --> 00:36:22.460 burning in the motor. So the elevator is the 00:36:22.460 --> 00:36:27.519 same you can't turn on a light switch You can't 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:29.539 so if you've got to have lights on your house 00:36:29.539 --> 00:36:32.139 you got to turn those on and leave them on from 00:36:32.139 --> 00:36:36.820 Friday until The Sabbath I suppose unless yeah, 00:36:36.820 --> 00:36:38.880 I think that's the only option for that So it 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:41.320 just has to stay on as long as it's on you're 00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:45.059 okay, but you can't start the fire So the elevator 00:36:45.059 --> 00:36:47.559 never stops moving unless it's picking you up, 00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:52.599 so it just goes and then back down. Up and back 00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:55.579 down. It never stops unless somebody pushes the 00:36:55.579 --> 00:36:59.400 button to get on it. And then the rabbis say 00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:01.480 that you have kept the law and you haven't started 00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:06.480 a fire and your safety uses the elevator. No, 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:08.260 but I think there's a lot of Jews in the neighborhood 00:37:08.260 --> 00:37:10.460 so they try to accommodate. They don't want them 00:37:10.460 --> 00:37:12.940 to not be able to come to the hospital on the 00:37:12.940 --> 00:37:25.179 Sabbath. Alright, that's all the answer you're 00:37:25.179 --> 00:37:30.760 going to get. And it came to pass as she continued 00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:33.559 praying before the Lord that Eli marked her mouth. 00:37:34.099 --> 00:37:37.780 Verse 13, Now Hannah, she spake in her heart, 00:37:38.059 --> 00:37:40.619 only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. 00:37:41.099 --> 00:37:43.980 Therefore Eli thought she had been drunk, or 00:37:43.980 --> 00:37:47.260 drunken. And Eli said unto her, How long wilt 00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:49.900 thou be drunken? Put away thy wine from thee. 00:37:51.690 --> 00:37:54.489 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I 00:37:54.489 --> 00:37:57.250 am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk 00:37:57.250 --> 00:37:59.530 neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured 00:37:59.530 --> 00:38:03.389 out my soul before the Lord. Count not thine 00:38:03.389 --> 00:38:06.309 handmaid for a daughter of Belial, for out of 00:38:06.309 --> 00:38:09.030 the abundance of my complaint and grief have 00:38:09.030 --> 00:38:13.510 I spoken hitherto. Then Eli answered and said, 00:38:13.610 --> 00:38:16.389 Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thee 00:38:16.389 --> 00:38:19.829 thy petition that thou hast asked of him. And 00:38:19.829 --> 00:38:23.239 she said, let thine handmaid find grace in thy 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:29.699 sight." It's kind of ironic, isn't it, that she 00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:34.519 found grace from the Lord. But she said, let 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:36.239 me find some grace. She probably thought it was 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:40.420 going to be harder to find grace from Levi than 00:38:40.420 --> 00:38:42.940 it was from the Lord. So the woman went her way 00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:45.320 and did eat, and her countenance was no more 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:51.500 sad. Now, first of all, You hear that blessing 00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:53.860 that Eli, go in peace, and the God of Israel 00:38:53.860 --> 00:38:56.059 grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked 00:38:56.059 --> 00:39:01.139 of him. And what? What happened to Hannah? She 00:39:01.139 --> 00:39:04.739 left. She went her way, did eat, and her countenance 00:39:04.739 --> 00:39:08.719 was no more sad. Now, what was different between 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.139 the words or the comfort that Eli offered and 00:39:12.139 --> 00:39:14.219 the words or the comfort that Elkanah, her husband, 00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:17.119 had offered her earlier in the chapter? What's 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:24.829 different? Remember what Elkanah said? Am I not 00:39:24.829 --> 00:39:28.909 better for you than 10 children? And what did 00:39:28.909 --> 00:39:35.730 we say about that? What was missing? God's nowhere 00:39:35.730 --> 00:39:39.090 in there. God's the only thing that is sent here 00:39:39.090 --> 00:39:41.969 by Eli to her and it warms her heart. It comforts 00:39:41.969 --> 00:39:46.650 her. Now again, that contrast has got to be there 00:39:46.650 --> 00:39:49.090 for a reason and the reason is that we get through 00:39:49.090 --> 00:39:51.619 our thick heads. They're telling somebody it's 00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:54.579 going to be okay. Tomorrow will be better than 00:39:54.579 --> 00:39:58.039 today. This is only going to last for so long. 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:02.079 And all the other goofy, stupid, immature, and 00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:04.840 juvenile things that the world says should never 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:08.300 come off the lips of a Christian. We don't know 00:40:08.300 --> 00:40:11.860 whether tomorrow might be worse. So we could 00:40:11.860 --> 00:40:14.900 just as easily say, you better enjoy today as 00:40:14.900 --> 00:40:17.059 bad as it is because tomorrow may be a whole 00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:23.539 lot worse. We might as well say that. It's just 00:40:23.539 --> 00:40:30.699 as likely. The only thing that can bring goodness 00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:34.980 and blessing into our lives is what? God. That's 00:40:34.980 --> 00:40:37.920 what Eli offers her. Keep your focus on God, 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.179 and may He bless you. And whether or not you 00:40:40.179 --> 00:40:43.780 have children, whether or not it's in His plan 00:40:43.780 --> 00:40:47.360 to send you a son, Keep your focus on the God 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:49.980 who owns all and is good and He's righteous. 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.820 And if you will live under His blessing, then 00:40:53.820 --> 00:40:57.400 you will be happy and content. And that's the 00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:00.699 truth. If you don't believe that, then you've 00:41:00.699 --> 00:41:02.719 got to get your Bible out. Convince yourself 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:07.639 of it. There's no other place to be happy, to 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.059 be joyful, to be content, except as we, in faith, 00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:16.739 look to the Lord. Who can testify to that who's 00:41:16.739 --> 00:41:18.880 been through hard times and the Lord has brought 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:25.300 comfort to their soul? All right, so if it hasn't 00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:30.320 been your turn yet get ready Soon we'll all be 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:42.980 raising our hands Let's see I think that's Pretty 00:41:42.980 --> 00:41:45.000 self -explanatory there. Am I missing anything 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:47.199 in those verses except for I do want to talk 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:54.739 about the daughter of Belial. It probably has 00:41:54.739 --> 00:41:56.860 something to say to us that maybe we ought to 00:41:56.860 --> 00:41:59.599 think and investigate before we jump to conclusions. 00:42:00.300 --> 00:42:02.960 I think we could probably say that too. There's 00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:06.679 Eli. He just looks on the outside. Here's this 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:09.480 woman. Her lips are moving. It didn't occur to 00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.239 him to say to think, well, I'm in the house of 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:17.380 God. Maybe I should figure out, go make some 00:42:17.380 --> 00:42:19.340 inquiries and find out what's going on here. 00:42:19.659 --> 00:42:21.559 Nah, I'm just going to assume she's drunk and 00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:25.500 is over there. So, you know, think before we 00:42:25.500 --> 00:42:28.719 act. We can all, we've all done that before. 00:42:29.300 --> 00:42:31.539 Talk without thinking. Talk whatever comes into 00:42:31.539 --> 00:42:35.960 our head. Now, what do you make of this daughter 00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:39.550 of Belial? What does that mean? Count not thine 00:42:39.550 --> 00:42:44.670 handmaid in verse 16 for a daughter of Goliath. 00:42:48.309 --> 00:43:05.869 16. That could be. ESP just says. So that's not 00:43:05.869 --> 00:43:16.559 right. That's not right either. Sorry. So it's 00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:18.900 a proper noun. There's no question about that. 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.380 So there's Belial is capitalized and it's a deity. 00:43:22.699 --> 00:43:25.420 There's no question about that. So what is this 00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:28.639 Belial or we might say the devil. We can just 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:31.699 use that for shorthand whether it was the devil 00:43:31.699 --> 00:43:34.659 exactly or some other kind of heathen God. What 00:43:34.659 --> 00:43:43.440 does the devil do? And in so doing, what's the 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:48.900 end result of that when he has his way? What'd 00:43:48.900 --> 00:43:56.099 you say? Destroys. It's not like he's just trying 00:43:56.099 --> 00:43:58.079 to hurt you a little bit, give you a little splinter. 00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:03.039 He's trying to what? He's a roaring lion seeking 00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:12.099 whom he may devour. Now, who else in this book, 00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:14.619 I assume we've read it at some point in our lives, 00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:17.199 does anybody remember who else is, I mean, this 00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:21.000 is, I think it's nine times in the book, son 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:27.739 of, daughter of Belial. Who else are sons of 00:44:27.739 --> 00:44:34.460 Belial? Okay, and what were they doing? It was 00:44:34.460 --> 00:44:36.940 destructive. It was destruction to the people. 00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:39.800 The people are trying to come and worship the 00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:44.059 Lord And the so -called priests, now, in verse 00:44:44.059 --> 00:44:50.320 3, where it says, Eli and the sons of Eli, Haphne 00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.360 and Phineas, the priests of the Lord were there. 00:44:52.420 --> 00:44:54.199 If we were writing that in our day, we would 00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:57.800 say, priests of the Lord. Because they weren't 00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:00.739 priests of the Lord, they were sons of Belial. 00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:03.539 Just because they happened to be the sons of 00:45:03.539 --> 00:45:06.199 Eli and were in the temple, they were no priests 00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.829 of God. What they really were was causing destruction 00:45:09.829 --> 00:45:12.789 and harm to the very people that they were supposed 00:45:12.789 --> 00:45:16.510 to be helping. And they are the sons of Belial. 00:45:16.590 --> 00:45:22.230 We'll read that later on. That's what he was 00:45:22.230 --> 00:45:24.329 accusing Hannah of, turning the house of the 00:45:24.329 --> 00:45:29.389 Lord into a bar, a tavern. Just some place to 00:45:29.389 --> 00:45:34.190 go and be drunk and do drunken things. That would 00:45:34.190 --> 00:45:46.559 cause destruction. ironic in that from Eli. Here's 00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:50.440 this woman in soreness of spirit he doesn't bother 00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:52.480 to check it out he doesn't bother to see what's 00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.900 going on he just kinda haphazardly and flippantly 00:45:55.900 --> 00:45:58.800 accuses her of being drunk in the house of God 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:03.139 and ruining the vibe and being a general disturbance 00:46:03.139 --> 00:46:06.210 and being destructive to God's people, when his 00:46:06.210 --> 00:46:09.989 own sons really are the ones who are doing that. 00:46:11.230 --> 00:46:15.590 And Eli is more than willing to go and do something 00:46:15.590 --> 00:46:18.889 with this woman that he perceives as drunken, 00:46:19.190 --> 00:46:22.750 but his own sons, who are so -called priests, 00:46:23.309 --> 00:46:27.349 he doesn't do anything. Now, one of the lessons 00:46:27.349 --> 00:46:32.880 that we can for sure learn there is that Blood 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:36.880 relatives. This might be a really good lesson 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.119 for us here, because a lot of us here are blood 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:45.599 related. But blood relation does not trump our 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:50.380 responsibilities before God. So I can't say, 00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:53.000 well, Rebecca's my sister. I can't really go 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:54.920 and correct her. That would be really awkward 00:46:54.920 --> 00:47:01.489 at the next Easter. We don't celebrate Easter 00:47:01.489 --> 00:47:06.590 at my house. If you do, I can't go to her and 00:47:06.590 --> 00:47:08.230 say anything because the 4th of July is going 00:47:08.230 --> 00:47:11.710 to be really weird if I go and do that. It may 00:47:11.710 --> 00:47:15.210 make my job harder. It may make it more difficult. 00:47:15.530 --> 00:47:18.510 But I've got to be on my guard and make sure 00:47:18.510 --> 00:47:21.730 that that consideration, what it's going to make 00:47:21.730 --> 00:47:25.469 my, you know, this blood relative of mine, that's 00:47:25.469 --> 00:47:29.679 got to be secondary to my concern for my honor 00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:33.420 of the God that died for me and saved me. That 00:47:33.420 --> 00:47:37.340 has to be chief in my thinking. And it wasn't 00:47:37.340 --> 00:47:41.320 in the case of Eli. Eli allowed blood relatives 00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:44.000 to get in the way of him doing the work of the 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.440 Lord. Alright, then next week we'll finish up 00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:51.320 chapter one and maybe we'll get into chapter 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:53.739 two. Has anybody got any questions then before 00:47:53.739 --> 00:47:56.559 we wrap it up? Maybe we won't answer, maybe I'll 00:47:56.559 --> 00:48:06.760 answer next week. And then I just want to say 00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:10.039 this, after I turn the recorder off.