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 1 Samuel 1, 24.

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 And since the Lord gave me what I asked him for, I now give the boy to the Lord.

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 For as long as he lives, he is given to the Lord.

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 Then he worshiped the Lord there.

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 Hannah prayed,

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 My heart rejoices in the Lord.

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 My horn is lifted up by the Lord.

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 My mouth boasts over my enemies because I rejoice in your salvation.

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 There is no one holy like the Lord.

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 There is no one beside you.

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 And there is no rock like our God.

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 Do not boast so proudly or let arrogant words come out of your mouth.

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 For the Lord is a God of knowledge, and actions are weighed by him.

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 The bows of the warrior are broken, but the feeble are close with strength.

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 Those who are full hire themselves out for food, but those who are starving hunger no more.

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 The woman who is childless gives birth to seven, but the woman with many sons pines away.

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 The Lord brings death and gives life.

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 He sends some down to Sheol, and he raises others up.

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 The Lord brings poverty and gives wealth.

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 He humbles and he exalts.

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 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap.

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 He seats them with noblemen and gives them a throne of honor.

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 For the foundation of the earth are the Lord's, and he has set the world on them.

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 He guards the steps of the faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness.

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 For a person does not prevail by his own strength.

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 Those who oppose the Lord will be slaughtered, shattered, and he will thunder the heavens against them.

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 The Lord will judge the ends of the earth.

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 He will give power to his king, and he will lift up the horn of his anointed.

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 Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy served the Lord in the presence of the priest Eli.

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 Eli's sons were wicked men.

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 They did not respect the Lord or the priest's share of the sacrifices from the people.

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 When anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged meat fork

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 while the meat was boiling and plunge it into the container, kettle, cauldron, or cooking pot.

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 The priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up.

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 This is the way they treated all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.

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 Even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the one who was sacrificing,

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 Give the priest some meat to roast, because he won't accept boiled meat from you, only raw.

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 If that person said to him, The fat must be burned first, and then you can take whatever you want for yourself,

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 the servant would reply, No, I insist that you hand it over right now.

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 If you don't, I'll take it by force.

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 So the servant's sin was very severe in the presence of the Lord,

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 because the men treated the Lord's offering with contempt.

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 Samuel served in the Lord's presence.

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 This mere boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

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 Each year, his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went with her husband

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 to offer the annual sacrifice.

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 Eli would bless Elkanah's wife.

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 May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she has given to the Lord.

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 Then they would go home.

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 The Lord paid attention to Hannah's need, and she conceived,

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 and gave birth to three sons and two daughters.

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 Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.

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 Now, Eli was very old.

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 He heard about everything his sons were doing to Israel, all of Israel,

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 and how they were sleeping with the woman who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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 He said to them, Why are you doing these things?

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 I have heard all about your evil actions from the people.

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 No, my sons, the news I hear, the Lord's people spreading is not good.

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 If one person sins against another, God can intercede for him.

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 But if a person sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?

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 But they would not listen to their father, since the Lord intended to kill them.

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 By contrast, the boy Samuel grew in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people.

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 A man of God came to Eli and said to him,

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 This is what the Lord says.

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 Didn't I reveal myself to your forefather's family when they were in Egypt and belonged to Pharaoh's pals?

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 Because out of all the tribes of Israel, I chose your house to be my priests,

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 to offer sacrifices on my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence.

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 I also gave your forefather's family all the Israel food-like offerings.

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 Why then do you all despise my sacrifices and offerings that are required at the place of worship?

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 You have honored your sons more than me by making yourselves fat with the best part of all the offerings of my people Israel.

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 Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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 I did say that your family and your forefather's family would walk before me forever.

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 But now, this is the Lord's declaration no longer.

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 For those who honor me, I will honor.

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 But those who despise me will be disgraced.

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 Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your forefather's family

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 so that none of your family will reach old age.

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 You will see distress in the place of worship in spite of all the good in Israel

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 and no one in your family will ever again reach old age.

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 Any man from your family I do not cut off from the altar will bring grief and sadness to you

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 and all your descendants will die violently.

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 This will be a sign that will come to you concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas.

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 Both of them will die on the same day.

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 Then I will raise up a faithful priest for myself.

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 He will do whatever is in my heart and mind.

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 I will establish a lasting dynasty for him.

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 And he will walk before me, my anointed one, for all time.

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 Anyone who is left in your family will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread.

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 He will say,

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 Please appoint me to some priestly office so I can have a piece of bread to eat.

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 The boy Samuel served the Lord in Eli's presence.

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 In those days, the word of the Lord was rare and prophetic visions were not widespread.

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 This is the word of God for the people of God.

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 The grass withers, the flower fades, and the word of the Lord stands forever.

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 No word from God shall be void of power.

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 Let's pray.

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 Oh God, if you had left us for ourselves, we would still be in darkness.

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 We would have no way of understanding or seeing your glory, your true revelation of yourself in your word.

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 But we thank you for how the Holy Spirit is near your people right here ministering.

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 We thank you for how in the hand of the Spirit, the word of God is living and active.

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 And it accomplishes your purpose.

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 We ask that you will open our eyes, that you will minister your own word to us.

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 Thank you for giving us history.

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 Thank you for giving us poetry and for giving us stories.

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 Thank you for how your Holy Spirit was with Hannah, with the scribes, with the authors of every portion of Scripture.

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 Thank you, Lord, for how you've preserved it.

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 Thank you for how you've arranged every word, every composition in your word.

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 We ask, Lord, that you will open our eyes to see your sovereign presiding mercy,

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 to reveal yourself to people like us through your word once again today.

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 We ask this for your glory and for Christ's sake.

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 Amen.

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 Some of the most important work happens invisibly.

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 Think about how that's true in your own body, your anatomy, how you're put together.

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 It's invisible.

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 And until I say it, you're likely not even aware that your heart right now pumps, pumps, pumps.

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 Your lungs expand, contract.

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 They're doing that important, vital work, even though it's invisible.

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 We're not even aware of it.

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 Our bodies are this way because that's how God designed them.

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 And I think it's to teach us a lesson, a constant reminder that God is at work,

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 though it's often invisible and it's quiet.

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 God is at work preserving, redeeming, sustaining you and me.

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 Every moment of every day, he's doing this quietly but vitally.

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 And he loves it when his true worshipers see him working and appreciate his power.

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 God doesn't need a big show.

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 God doesn't need a large gathering.

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 He doesn't need emotional hype or worldly gimmicks.

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 He doesn't need any of that.

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 He is working powerfully, though quietly.

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 We read in John 4 this wonderful revelation, quiet, out of the way,

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 to someone who probably least expected it.

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 This wonderful news that the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

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 Jesus says this day is now here.

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 So beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 just as an ultrasound would reveal to us the heart and the lungs and their function,

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 our worship reveals to us that God is working vitally, though it's quietly.

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 I think that our worship also reveals a lot about ourselves, about you and me,

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 just as it revealed a lot about Hannah, contrasted with the sons of Eli the priest.

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 As we walk through these verses, I want to point out, first of all, this contrast in the two forms.

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 There's a poem, and then there's prose.

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 Then I want to highlight four truths.

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 I'm sure there's more in here, four for today.

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 And then finally, an offer for you and for me.

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 So first, why these two different forms side by side right here in 1 Samuel chapter 2?

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 The critics would say this is just patchwork, thoughtlessly put together.

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 The more I've studied that these weeks, the more I see purpose in God's very arrangement of his scripture.

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 Do you notice how Hannah's prayer, it's given to us in poetry?

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 In some of your copies, it's even typeset as poetry.

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 Whereas the history, this wicked, dark history of Israel, is given in prose.

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 See, the invisible work that God is doing, the spiritual reality, is revealed to us in this exalted language of poetry.

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 But then that ugly, earthly reality is given to us in bare facts.

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 The first 10 verses of chapter 2 are prayer, followed by 24 verses of prose.

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 God ordered his word this way.

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 Our confession of faith says that the inward work of the Holy Spirit inside true believers,

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 it will bear witness by and with the word of God in our hearts.

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 God has ordered his word in this way.

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 So here's the contrast I believe this sets up to teach us.

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 In the poem, the Holy One is revealed, God himself.

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 In the narrative, wrath-deserving sinners are described.

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 The prayer of Hannah, in this poetry, it swells up into greater and greater confident hope in God.

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 Whereas the narrative goes the opposite direction.

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 It spirals downward into deeper and darker despair.

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 The poetic prayer answers the problems raised by the complicated narrative.

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 I think they're meant to be read together.

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 And as we're going through this chapter, I'm going to have you look at one, then look at the other with each truth.

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 See, isn't it true in our lives that it's playing out that way?

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 Our faith in this world, but not of the world.

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 The wickedness of the world, we know that very well.

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 We see it by our own sight.

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 Can't deny it.

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 And God's revelation stirs us and calls us to trust him by faith.

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 And it elevates us above that.

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 So I do see in the very arrangement of this chapter, God's purposeful, masterful, beautiful, and striking providence.

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 How he's arranged his own word.

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 Our confession also says what I'll ask the Holy Spirit to help us with.

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 That we could see the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts.

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 And the end of the whole, which is to give glory to God.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Well, what is it that's in focus in this chapter is worship.

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 The pure worship of Hannah in prayer versus the corrupt worship of the sons of the priest.

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 The way they worship reveals much about each one of them.

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 It reveals their contrasting appetites in worship.

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 These are worshipers that don't know God on one hand in the history of Israel versus true worshipers who do know the Lord.

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 The Lord reveals himself to, like Hannah.

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 Notice how they all claim the same God.

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 But as we get to the end of chapter 2, we see how the destiny of each is very different as it unfolds.

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 They have contrasting appetites.

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 Would you look at 1 Samuel 2, verse 5?

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 And this is how the chapter ends.

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 A curse upon these wicked sons of Eli that fulfills what Hannah prayed for in verse 5.

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 Those who were full, these wicked sons who were taking the offerings that the people brought,

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 they have now hired themselves out for bread.

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 They're depicted at the end of the chapter as begging to have something to eat.

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 And the hungry, like Hannah, who wasn't even feasting with Elkanah, was just in Shiloh praying in the presence of the Lord instead,

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 have now ceased to hunger.

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 God has fed them.

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 Contrasting appetites revealed in worship and contrasting destinies.

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 Well, friends and brothers and sisters, how you and I worship, it reveals much about us as well.

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 It reveals the condition of our soul and ultimately our eternal destiny.

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 You and I either worship like Hannah or we worship like these sons of Eli.

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 Here are the four truths I want to highlight for us today.

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 Number one, how you worship reveals how you view yourself.

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 How you worship reveals how you view yourself.

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 Would you look at verse 12 with me?

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 We are told, now the sons of Eli were corrupt because they did not know the Lord.

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 We're good without God.

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 That was their attitude.

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 They're described as being corrupt.

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 In the original, there's a play on words here.

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 It could also be translated, these are sons of Belial.

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 These are sons of corruption.

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 To be a son of something means that's what you're defined by.

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 What defined these two sons of Eli was being wicked, worthless, evil.

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 In Paradise Lost, John Milton depicted the demon Belial as the last one to fall.

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 In the vilest of them all, he was the demon of impurity and lies.

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 And that's how these two sons of the priest are depicted.

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 I'm good without God.

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 Beyond that, they viewed themselves as at liberty to play around with spiritual things without knowing the true God, with no reverence for him.

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 I don't think it's a stretch to associate them with demonic worship.

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 We're told later in this same book, 1 Samuel 28, 3, that mediums and spiritists were in the land of Israel at this time.

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 Their names were Hophni and Phinehas.

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 The name Eli is a very Jewish name.

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 El means God.

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 And Eli means ascend, like one who would ascend to God.

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 That's a great name for a priest.

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 But for reasons we are not told, he named his own sons, Hophni and Phinehas.

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 One means tadpole.

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 And the other means copper mouth.

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 Both, copper mouth snake.

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 So both snakes and frogs were used as part of Egyptian pagan worship.

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 We're only a few generations out of this people of Israel being slaves in Egypt.

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 And now this priest is named his two sons with these Egyptian names, alluding to these pagan, false, demonic gods of Egypt.

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 And these two sons, they saw themselves as entitled and above God's law.

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 In verses 13 through 17, it's describing for us how in their pride, they took the fact of the offering for themselves.

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 What does this represent?

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 What are we to learn here?

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 Well, going back to the reference in Egypt, it was the Pharaoh under God's sovereignty who told Joseph and his brothers in Genesis 45, 18,

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 Come to me and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you shall eat all the fat of the land.

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 The fat, the marbled meat, it's considered the choicest portion.

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 But in their pride, these men despised the law of God, which was very clear in Leviticus 3, 10.

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 The priests were to remove the fat.

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 Verse 11,

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 Verse 17 of Leviticus 3 tells the priests,

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 You shall not eat the fat.

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 Well, in their pride, they despised the law of God.

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 They despised the law of God because they despised God.

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 Leviticus 7, 20 also shows they despised belonging to God and being his people.

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 Leviticus 7, 20 says that the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifices of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord,

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 while he is unclean, that person shall be cut off from his people.

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 Well, who was it that would have authority to cut off these wicked men, Hophni and Phinehas?

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 It would be the high priest.

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 It would be Eli himself.

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 Eli neglected to practice discipline and cut off these two sons,

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 saying you are not in the covenant people of God.

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 You despise the offering of God himself.

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 You see how these men were revealed, their view of selves, by how they worship God.

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 The way they lived and worshipped is said, we're good without God.

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 We don't need him.

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 You keep your God.

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 By contrast, let's go to the poem.

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 Hannah says, I'm dead without God.

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 These wicked men say, we're good without God.

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 And Hannah says, look at verse 6.

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 The Lord kills and the Lord makes alive.

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 He brings down to the grave and he brings up.

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 She has a high view of God.

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 He's the giver of life.

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 And without him, I'm dead.

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 You can keep a finger, a marker right here in 1 Samuel 2.

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 But if you would, please flip back to Leviticus chapter 3.

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 I just want you to see this for yourself.

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 Leviticus chapter 3 is what I was mentioning as the peace offering.

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 That's the offering relating to the fat.

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 That was the best portion reserved for God.

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 But there are two offerings that are given before that.

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 So Leviticus 3 is about the peace offering.

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 Leviticus 2, right before that, is the grain offering.

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 It's an offering of gratitude.

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 Well, what are you grateful for?

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 You got to go back one more.

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 So Leviticus 1, in your copy of God's word, what does it say?

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 What needs to happen in Leviticus 1?

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 What's the first offering?

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 It's the burnt offering.

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 The burnt offering comes before the peace offering.

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 The burnt offering, it represents a substitute taking your place to receive God's wrath,

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 to be fully consumed, destroyed.

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 That's what Hannah recognizes.

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 That's what we recognize when we sing some of our greatest songs and hymns.

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 And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die,

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 I scarce can take it in that on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,

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 He bled and died to take away my sin.

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 The Son of God, God the Son, became the burnt offering,

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 so that you and I can enjoy the peace offering.

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 The Lord kills and the Lord makes alive.

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 He brings down to the grave and He brings up.

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 This is the right view of myself before God.

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 And Hannah's right worship reveals the right view of ourselves before this holy God.

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 I need the burnt offering before I can enjoy this peace offering the way God's given it.

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 Well, number two, how you and I worship, it reveals not only how we view ourselves,

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 it also reveals how we view God.

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 How we worship reveals how we view God.

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 Isn't this true?

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 Hophni and Phinehas, they worshiped like the pagans.

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 Would you look at verse 22, please?

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 We're told that Eli was very old and he heard everything his sons did to all Israel.

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 There's the passive, permissive priest.

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 And how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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 Not only did these men view themselves as above God's law and despised His offering,

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 they had no reverence for God.

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 And their lack of reverence was doing injury to the lives and the faith of God's people.

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 And their dad, Eli, sitting there.

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 Now, we read in Exodus 38, 8, that there were women serving that would assemble at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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 That was nothing wrong there.

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 That's just part of people gathering around the place where God will dwell and serving and being organized to serve.

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 But what Hophni and Phinehas were doing is bringing pagan practices into the presence of the holy God.

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 Nothing new under the sun once again, right?

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 We know those early churches, that's exactly what would happen in these temples to demons among the Greeks in the Roman Empire.

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 Is that there would be cult prostitution, all kinds of immorality as part of their worship to the goddess Aphrodite.

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 And these fake demon gods and Hophni and Phinehas are treating the tent of meeting in Shiloh,

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 the place where the holy God dwells and meets with His worshipers,

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 they're treating as if it's a pagan temple.

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 They're behaving and worshiping as if God were made in man's image.

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 As if God could be manipulated for their own pleasure.

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 And God's people were led by these priests who are now no different than the worldly worshipers of Satan.

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 Do you see how dark the spiritual condition of God's people in this point in redemptive history?

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 Eli scolded them.

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 Look at verse 25.

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 It says,

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 You are sinning against the Lord.

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 Who will intercede for you?

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 He's saying,

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 I'm a worthless priest.

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 I can't do it.

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 You've directly defiled God Himself.

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 Well, you can't defile God, but you've defiled yourselves in His presence.

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 And who's to stand between you and the wrath of the holy God?

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 But Eli's words were powerless.

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 We're told they did not heed the voice of their father.

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 They also didn't heed the voice of Scripture.

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 And maybe there are some who need this stern warning.

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 In Job 13, 9-11, the Word of God says,

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 Will it be well with you when the holy God searches you out?

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 Or can you deceive the holy God as one deceives a man?

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 The holy God will surely rebuke you.

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 Will not His majesty terrify you?

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 And the dread of Him fall upon you?

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 Who's going to be interceding for you?

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 Who?

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 The narrative tells us the reason why the sons of Eli had such a low view of God.

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 Would you look at verse 12?

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 The sons of Eli did not know Yahweh.

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 By contrast, Hannah says in verse 1, you can please look there back at the poem,

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 My heart rejoices in Yahweh.

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 Hannah knew God in spirit and in truth, just like the woman at the well in John 4.

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 My heart rejoices in Yahweh.

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 Notice what Hannah says in verse 2.

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 These sons of Eli are acting as if this God, Yahweh, the true God creator of all,

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 is just like the pagan demons.

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 Hannah says, no, no, no.

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 Verse 2, no one is like holy Yahweh,

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 for there is none beside you.

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 In Psalm of Canterbury, he wrote that the holy God is that of which nothing greater can be conceived.

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 God is that of which nothing greater can be conceived.

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 What a great expression of God's holiness.

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 God is unlike any other.

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 And Hannah says in verse 2,

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 Nor is there any rock like our God.

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 There's nowhere else stable, solid, a shelter, a fortress.

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 Our God alone is that.

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 Hannah has a high view of God as holy.

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 And look at verse 8.

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 Hannah says,

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 For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's.

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 And he has set the world upon them.

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 This is the holy creator.

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 He's a rock.

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 You think this world, this cosmos is massive?

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 God is the one who put the pillars to even hold it in place.

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 Do you have this high view of God?

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 Does your worship reveal this reverence?

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 God, you are holy.

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 There's nothing greater than God that I can even conceive of.

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 We sing,

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 O Lord my God,

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 when I in awesome wonder

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 consider all the worlds thy hands have made,

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 then sings my soul,

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 how great thou art.

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 My heart rejoices in Yahweh.

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 He's absolutely above.

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 He is much more magnificent.

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 He is supremely other than anything else in all the world.

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 How great thou art.

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 How we worship reveals,

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 it reveals our view of God.

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 Third truth I want to highlight is that

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 how we worship reveals

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 to what end your life will come.

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 How you and I worship

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 reveals right now,

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 this moment in time,

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 before it's too late,

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 to what end your life and mine will come.

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 Either way,

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 your life will glorify God.

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 God will either be glorified in destroying the wicked,

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 or God will be glorified in redeeming the wicked

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 and calling them his beloved people.

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 Well, first the contrast with Hophni and Phinehas.

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 Look at verse 17.

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 We're told that the sin of the young men was very great

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 before Yahweh.

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 For these men of Horde,

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 they despised the offering of the Lord.

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 To what end will their worship lead?

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 Who despise the peace offering of God?

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 Would you see how in verse 17,

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 the default bent of their will,

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 and yours and mine under Adam's curse as well,

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 is to reject God's peace offering?

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 The call so far in 1 Samuel

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 has been to bow before the sovereign God.

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 The word sovereign,

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 you hear the last part of that word is reign,

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 that God reigns as king, supreme.

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 And the first part of that word, sovereign,

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 it alludes to freedom.

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 To acknowledge God's sovereignty

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 is to acknowledge his free reign.

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 That's what God shows us in this story.

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 And some of us,

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 this might be the one area

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 of your thinking about God

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 that needs to change.

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 It needs to expand even today.

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 Look at verse 25.

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 Why is it that these wicked men

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 did not heed their father's warning?

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 Verse 25 says,

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 they did not heed the voice of their father

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 because the Lord desired to kill them.

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 You should read that one more time for yourself.

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 They did not heed the voice of the Lord

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 because the Lord desired to kill them.

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 What can we infer from this?

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 Who is it that heeds the warning

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 that if you continue in your pride,

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 you will get the wrath of God?

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 It's only those whom the Lord turns.

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 See, all are dead in our trespasses and sins.

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 That's what the Bible says.

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 None of us would heed the warning

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 to repent and believe in Jesus,

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 turn and receive this free offer.

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 All of us would despise the offering of God

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 to have peace with him in Christ,

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 in our pride.

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 If you're here today

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 and you don't despise God's peace offering,

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 you joyfully, gratefully receive

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 the peace of God in Jesus,

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 it's not because of anything you did.

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 You can't take any glory or credit

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 for your decision.

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 But it's because God turned your heart.

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 He regenerated you.

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 See, I think that's what Hannah

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 recognizes in her prayer.

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 Would you go back to the poem?

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 Look at verse 8.

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 When she's pronouncing the condemnation

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 of the wicked,

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 in many ways it's simply a reversal.

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 You know, you were hungry, now you're fed.

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 You were rich, now you're poor.

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 But verse 8 is very interesting.

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 It says,

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 The wicked shall be silent in darkness.

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 What that conveys is

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 you're going to be left on your own.

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 You're not going to be receiving light from God.

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 You're not going to respond rejoicing like Hannah.

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 You reject God's peace offering.

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 You're left in silence and darkness.

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 There is only one end for those

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 who despise God's peace offering.

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 Look at verse 27 now,

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 back to the story.

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 What end was in store for the sons of Eli?

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 We read in verse 27,

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 A man of God came to Eli and said to him,

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 Thus says the Lord.

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 We can sum it up in verse 34.

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 Your two sons,

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 Hophni and Phinehas,

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 in one day,

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 shall die both of them.

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 This is the free reign of God.

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 You continue in your pride,

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 rejecting his peace offering.

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 You will die.

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 You will be left in silence and darkness,

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 away from the presence of the Holy God.

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 By contrast,

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 let's look at Hannah

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 as one example of a believer.

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 What is the end for this worshiper?

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 In verse 11,

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 it's the last mention of her family.

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 Look at verse 11.

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 We shift from her poetry into the prose.

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 We're told then Elkanah,

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 up to this point it's been Hannah

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 as the main point of reference.

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 But now it's her husband again.

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 Elkanah went to his house.

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 See how after this glorious prayer,

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 this poem,

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 Hannah is no longer named.

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 She softly disappears from the book.

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 But her end is hopeful.

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 Look one verse prior, verse 10.

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 She says,

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 Yahweh will give strength to his king

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 and exalt the horn of his anointed.

00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:24.280
 What's the last word spoken by Hannah?

00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:27.400
 The word anointed.

00:35:28.680 --> 00:35:30.700
 You know what anointed is in Hebrew?

00:35:32.080 --> 00:35:32.720
 Messiah.

00:35:35.120 --> 00:35:36.960
 A king is coming.

00:35:39.180 --> 00:35:42.080
 Hannah's last word is looking to the Messiah.

00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:44.920
 The king will be anointed.

00:35:46.540 --> 00:35:47.700
 Yahweh will exalt him.

00:35:47.699 --> 00:35:50.460
 He will be Yahweh's strength.

00:35:51.819 --> 00:35:53.799
 Yahweh is quietly working.

00:35:55.539 --> 00:35:56.480
 What about her son?

00:35:56.539 --> 00:35:57.639
 What's Samuel's role here?

00:35:58.539 --> 00:35:59.679
 He's part of the fulfillment,

00:35:59.799 --> 00:36:00.719
 but he's not the king.

00:36:01.779 --> 00:36:03.759
 He's the last judge and he's a prophet,

00:36:03.939 --> 00:36:05.980
 but his special role is that

00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:07.939
 he is the anointer of the king.

00:36:09.539 --> 00:36:11.579
 Samuel prepares the way

00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:13.639
 and anoints David.

00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:17.219
 Can you see how this is foreshadowing

00:36:17.219 --> 00:36:19.059
 another barren mom,

00:36:20.279 --> 00:36:21.480
 another true worshiper

00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:23.099
 in the midst of corruption,

00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:24.839
 Elizabeth,

00:36:25.839 --> 00:36:26.879
 and her son,

00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:28.519
 who would be set apart,

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:29.980
 take the Nazarite vow,

00:36:30.839 --> 00:36:31.579
 John the Baptist,

00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:33.679
 would prepare the way for the king.

00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:37.000
 Your life will serve

00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:39.099
 either to display God's wrath

00:36:39.099 --> 00:36:40.960
 against proud sinners

00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:43.319
 or to display his glory

00:36:43.319 --> 00:36:44.599
 in the anointed,

00:36:45.059 --> 00:36:45.539
 the Messiah.

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:48.519
 The fourth truth for today is this.

00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:52.419
 It's that the Lord

00:36:52.419 --> 00:36:54.719
 secures true worship

00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:56.379
 for himself.

00:36:56.380 --> 00:36:59.340
 The Lord secures true worship

00:36:59.340 --> 00:37:00.280
 for himself.

00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:02.220
 Let's see how he does that.

00:37:03.900 --> 00:37:05.220
 I see three levels

00:37:05.220 --> 00:37:06.500
 in this story.

00:37:06.619 --> 00:37:06.940
 First,

00:37:07.640 --> 00:37:08.840
 look at verse 27.

00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:12.119
 The Lord quietly

00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:14.119
 raises up a true minister

00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:16.780
 that will serve

00:37:16.780 --> 00:37:18.460
 to deliver God's word

00:37:18.460 --> 00:37:20.099
 instead of to please

00:37:20.099 --> 00:37:21.579
 the men in power.

00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:23.920
 In verse 27,

00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:25.880
 we have this unnamed preacher.

00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:27.740
 He's just called

00:37:27.740 --> 00:37:28.599
 a man of God.

00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:31.140
 Just like John the Baptist.

00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:32.160
 He must increase,

00:37:32.260 --> 00:37:33.160
 I must decrease.

00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:34.240
 Don't even name him.

00:37:36.380 --> 00:37:37.200
 That man of God

00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:37.880
 came to Eli

00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:38.599
 and said,

00:37:39.160 --> 00:37:40.900
 thus says the Lord.

00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:42.940
 It's not the authority

00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:43.840
 of this man of God,

00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:45.660
 it's the word of the Lord

00:37:45.660 --> 00:37:46.960
 doing the heavy lifting.

00:37:48.619 --> 00:37:50.180
 And through this judgment,

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:51.300
 by pronouncing the word

00:37:51.300 --> 00:37:51.720
 of the Lord,

00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:52.840
 the Lord is securing

00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:53.700
 true worship

00:37:53.700 --> 00:37:54.780
 and true worshipers

00:37:54.780 --> 00:37:55.500
 for himself.

00:37:56.380 --> 00:37:57.260
 Well,

00:37:57.300 --> 00:37:57.900
 the second way

00:37:57.900 --> 00:37:58.700
 God does this

00:37:58.700 --> 00:38:00.360
 is quietly

00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:02.260
 growing another minister,

00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:03.140
 another leader.

00:38:04.380 --> 00:38:04.960
 Did you notice

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:05.980
 that that prose,

00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:06.519
 that narrative,

00:38:06.579 --> 00:38:07.400
 it was pretty long.

00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:08.320
 It was maybe

00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:09.019
 the longest reading

00:38:09.019 --> 00:38:09.700
 we've ever done.

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:10.780
 Praise God,

00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:11.500
 we have his word

00:38:11.500 --> 00:38:11.920
 in a language

00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:12.800
 we can understand.

00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:14.220
 And most of that

00:38:14.220 --> 00:38:15.480
 is about the wicked,

00:38:15.720 --> 00:38:16.700
 evil sin of Israel

00:38:16.700 --> 00:38:18.200
 and the horrible worship

00:38:18.200 --> 00:38:18.900
 that's going around

00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:19.700
 in the tent of meeting

00:38:19.700 --> 00:38:20.220
 of the Lord.

00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:21.420
 It's almost painful

00:38:21.420 --> 00:38:21.900
 to sit there

00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:22.519
 and have to listen

00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:23.039
 to all of this

00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:24.139
 for seven minutes.

00:38:25.139 --> 00:38:26.840
 But notice these little verses

00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:27.659
 one at a time,

00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:28.500
 little notes.

00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:30.340
 Start with verse 11.

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:31.400
 Would you look at verse 11?

00:38:33.259 --> 00:38:35.880
 Samuel ministered to the Lord.

00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:37.500
 Just drop it in there.

00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:39.539
 Now look at verse 18.

00:38:40.539 --> 00:38:43.400
 Samuel ministered before Yahweh.

00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:46.219
 Now look at verse 26.

00:38:46.219 --> 00:38:49.239
 The child Samuel grew

00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:50.480
 in stature

00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:51.639
 and in favor

00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:52.519
 with the Lord

00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:53.500
 and with men.

00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:54.579
 By the way,

00:38:54.659 --> 00:38:55.739
 when Luke describes

00:38:55.739 --> 00:38:56.639
 God's quiet,

00:38:57.119 --> 00:38:58.579
 raising up the leader,

00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:00.079
 the one who will come

00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:00.659
 to judge,

00:39:01.139 --> 00:39:01.599
 he's described

00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:02.699
 that exact same way.

00:39:03.879 --> 00:39:04.439
 And now look at

00:39:04.439 --> 00:39:06.199
 1 Samuel chapter 3 verse 1,

00:39:06.279 --> 00:39:07.000
 the last verse

00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.299
 that John read for us.

00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:09.980
 The boy Samuel

00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:11.480
 was ministering

00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:12.119
 to the Lord.

00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:17.460
 Dale Ralph Davis commented,

00:39:17.940 --> 00:39:18.719
 these quiet,

00:39:19.319 --> 00:39:20.239
 subtle notes

00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:21.079
 remind us

00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:22.219
 that God

00:39:22.219 --> 00:39:23.059
 is already

00:39:23.059 --> 00:39:23.819
 at work

00:39:23.819 --> 00:39:24.799
 to provide

00:39:24.799 --> 00:39:25.279
 new,

00:39:25.759 --> 00:39:26.480
 godly leadership

00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:27.460
 for his people.

00:39:28.219 --> 00:39:29.039
 No slogans,

00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:29.920
 no campaigns,

00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:30.619
 no speeches.

00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:32.400
 It is all very quiet.

00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:34.279
 Yahweh is growing

00:39:34.279 --> 00:39:36.219
 his new leader.

00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:37.639
 And true,

00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:38.539
 vital,

00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:39.960
 divine growth

00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:41.859
 seldom makes noise.

00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:43.799
 End of the quote.

00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:46.679
 See how the Lord

00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:47.559
 works quietly,

00:39:48.299 --> 00:39:49.039
 but he works

00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:50.099
 powerfully

00:39:50.099 --> 00:39:51.199
 to secure

00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:51.920
 true worship

00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:52.880
 for himself.

00:39:54.779 --> 00:39:55.579
 And the third way,

00:39:55.859 --> 00:39:56.759
 the most glorious way

00:39:56.759 --> 00:39:57.259
 of them all,

00:39:58.359 --> 00:39:59.039
 how the Lord

00:39:59.039 --> 00:39:59.639
 does this.

00:39:59.859 --> 00:40:00.739
 It's in the prophecy

00:40:00.739 --> 00:40:01.679
 that this man of God

00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:02.019
 gives.

00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:03.359
 Let's look at verse 35.

00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:05.639
 The man of God says,

00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:07.559
 thus says the Lord,

00:40:08.819 --> 00:40:09.900
 I will raise up

00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:10.759
 for myself

00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:12.440
 a faithful priest

00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:13.360
 who shall do

00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:14.100
 according to what

00:40:14.100 --> 00:40:14.940
 is in my heart

00:40:14.940 --> 00:40:16.240
 and in my mind

00:40:16.240 --> 00:40:17.960
 and I will build him

00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:19.760
 a sure house.

00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:22.060
 Well,

00:40:22.460 --> 00:40:23.480
 prophecies like this

00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:24.840
 oftentimes receive

00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:25.700
 a near fulfillment

00:40:25.700 --> 00:40:26.940
 in national Israel

00:40:26.940 --> 00:40:27.760
 than an ultimate

00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:28.620
 fulfillment.

00:40:29.500 --> 00:40:30.500
 Let's talk about

00:40:30.500 --> 00:40:31.200
 the near fulfillment

00:40:31.200 --> 00:40:31.700
 first.

00:40:32.640 --> 00:40:34.240
 In 1 Samuel chapter 22,

00:40:34.680 --> 00:40:35.920
 there's a civil war.

00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:36.860
 It's Saul

00:40:36.860 --> 00:40:37.780
 versus David.

00:40:37.780 --> 00:40:39.640
 All the priests

00:40:39.640 --> 00:40:40.380
 side with David

00:40:40.380 --> 00:40:41.220
 because he fears

00:40:41.220 --> 00:40:41.660
 the Lord.

00:40:42.700 --> 00:40:43.780
 So to get revenge,

00:40:44.060 --> 00:40:45.240
 Saul orders

00:40:45.240 --> 00:40:46.200
 an Edomite

00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:47.040
 to come and kill

00:40:47.040 --> 00:40:47.940
 off all the priests

00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:48.900
 that sided with David

00:40:48.900 --> 00:40:49.540
 against Saul.

00:40:50.300 --> 00:40:51.360
 All but one priest

00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:52.320
 is killed.

00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:55.100
 That could be

00:40:55.100 --> 00:40:56.100
 one level of fulfillment.

00:40:56.560 --> 00:40:57.380
 The one that survived

00:40:57.380 --> 00:40:58.140
 his name was

00:40:58.140 --> 00:40:59.080
 Abiathar

00:40:59.080 --> 00:41:00.019
 and he did continue

00:41:00.019 --> 00:41:01.000
 then ministering

00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:01.960
 unto David

00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:02.740
 as the new king

00:41:02.740 --> 00:41:03.820
 when all the other

00:41:03.820 --> 00:41:04.380
 priests had been

00:41:04.380 --> 00:41:04.900
 wiped out.

00:41:05.700 --> 00:41:06.180
 Later on,

00:41:06.220 --> 00:41:06.800
 after David,

00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:08.260
 when Solomon is king,

00:41:08.340 --> 00:41:08.960
 there's a man

00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:10.220
 named Zadok

00:41:10.220 --> 00:41:11.400
 who comes from

00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:12.180
 a different line

00:41:12.180 --> 00:41:14.160
 and he remains

00:41:14.160 --> 00:41:14.840
 as the priest

00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:16.400
 until the Babylonian

00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:17.220
 captivity.

00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:18.580
 But I think even

00:41:18.580 --> 00:41:19.740
 Abiathar

00:41:19.740 --> 00:41:20.700
 and even Zadok

00:41:20.700 --> 00:41:21.539
 are only shadows

00:41:21.539 --> 00:41:22.700
 of the true substance.

00:41:23.539 --> 00:41:24.440
 The name Zadok

00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:25.360
 means righteousness.

00:41:27.060 --> 00:41:27.400
 You see,

00:41:27.460 --> 00:41:28.019
 man's problem

00:41:28.019 --> 00:41:28.820
 is even greater.

00:41:30.019 --> 00:41:30.920
 We have sinned

00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:32.180
 against a holy God.

00:41:32.940 --> 00:41:33.720
 We've despised

00:41:33.720 --> 00:41:34.620
 his offering

00:41:34.620 --> 00:41:35.280
 even with

00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:36.260
 these shadows,

00:41:36.420 --> 00:41:37.180
 these sacrifices

00:41:37.180 --> 00:41:38.100
 that were merely

00:41:38.100 --> 00:41:38.760
 meant to point

00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:39.960
 to a spiritual reality.

00:41:41.720 --> 00:41:42.480
 And even though

00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:43.500
 Eli was corrupt

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:44.280
 and passive

00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:45.380
 in verse 25,

00:41:45.580 --> 00:41:46.260
 he understands

00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:46.900
 the problem

00:41:46.900 --> 00:41:47.620
 correctly.

00:41:50.019 --> 00:41:50.860
 We have a wrong

00:41:50.860 --> 00:41:51.600
 view of God

00:41:51.600 --> 00:41:53.040
 and we have a wrong

00:41:53.040 --> 00:41:53.860
 view of ourselves.

00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:55.260
 We'll always have

00:41:55.260 --> 00:41:55.720
 the wrong view

00:41:55.720 --> 00:41:56.300
 of the problem.

00:41:57.440 --> 00:41:58.160
 But Eli says

00:41:58.160 --> 00:41:59.019
 in verse 25,

00:41:59.160 --> 00:41:59.920
 you are sinning

00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:01.180
 against the Lord.

00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:02.519
 He's got a right

00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:03.160
 view of God

00:42:03.159 --> 00:42:04.159
 and a right view

00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:04.579
 of them

00:42:04.579 --> 00:42:05.779
 and himself.

00:42:06.319 --> 00:42:07.139
 And he has a right

00:42:07.139 --> 00:42:07.879
 view of the problem.

00:42:08.219 --> 00:42:09.539
 Who will intercede

00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:10.699
 for sinful men

00:42:10.699 --> 00:42:11.359
 like you and me?

00:42:11.779 --> 00:42:12.539
 That's the right view

00:42:12.539 --> 00:42:13.099
 of the problem

00:42:13.099 --> 00:42:14.299
 is that no man

00:42:14.299 --> 00:42:14.960
 can stand

00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:15.960
 as a priest.

00:42:20.299 --> 00:42:21.399
 In Hebrews 7,

00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:21.960
 24,

00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:24.139
 we have the glorious

00:42:24.139 --> 00:42:24.739
 fulfillment

00:42:24.739 --> 00:42:26.699
 that God

00:42:26.699 --> 00:42:28.759
 made his son

00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.020
 a priest

00:42:30.020 --> 00:42:30.840
 forever.

00:42:32.040 --> 00:42:32.860
 And he gave

00:42:32.860 --> 00:42:33.920
 to Jesus Christ

00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:35.160
 an unchangeable

00:42:35.160 --> 00:42:36.140
 priesthood.

00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:37.440
 Hebrews 7,

00:42:37.520 --> 00:42:38.340
 25 says,

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:39.140
 therefore he

00:42:39.140 --> 00:42:40.180
 is able

00:42:40.180 --> 00:42:41.000
 to save

00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:42.100
 to the uttermost

00:42:42.100 --> 00:42:43.260
 those who come

00:42:43.260 --> 00:42:43.680
 to God

00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:44.260
 through him

00:42:44.260 --> 00:42:45.480
 since he always

00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:45.980
 lives

00:42:45.980 --> 00:42:47.320
 to make intercession

00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:48.220
 for you.

00:42:49.260 --> 00:42:50.400
 Jesus is praying,

00:42:50.780 --> 00:42:51.440
 interceding,

00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:52.560
 and all those

00:42:52.560 --> 00:42:53.240
 for whom Jesus

00:42:53.240 --> 00:42:53.940
 prays,

00:42:54.160 --> 00:42:55.320
 his prayer is effectual.

00:42:55.820 --> 00:42:56.180
 The prayer

00:42:56.180 --> 00:42:56.980
 of a righteous man,

00:42:57.080 --> 00:42:57.640
 Jesus Christ,

00:42:57.700 --> 00:42:58.460
 is effectual,

00:42:58.460 --> 00:42:59.460
 as he's praying,

00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:00.440
 and all those

00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:01.400
 for whom he prays

00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:02.380
 come to God.

00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:04.139
 Through Jesus Christ,

00:43:04.220 --> 00:43:05.019
 the only one

00:43:05.019 --> 00:43:05.920
 who can stand

00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:06.519
 between God

00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:07.000
 and man

00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:08.199
 as a mediator

00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:09.579
 and make peace.

00:43:12.619 --> 00:43:13.900
 Notice this prophecy

00:43:13.900 --> 00:43:15.119
 is of a priest

00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:15.740
 who will do

00:43:15.740 --> 00:43:16.300
 perfectly

00:43:16.300 --> 00:43:17.579
 what's in God's

00:43:17.579 --> 00:43:17.880
 heart

00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:18.800
 and in God's

00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:19.220
 mind.

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:20.599
 And Jesus Christ

00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:21.260
 is the only one

00:43:21.260 --> 00:43:22.420
 who can fulfill

00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:23.179
 that requirement

00:43:23.179 --> 00:43:24.019
 for this glorious

00:43:24.019 --> 00:43:24.480
 priest.

00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:25.679
 He's the only one

00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:26.320
 whose priesthood

00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:27.340
 will endure forever.

00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:28.320
 And God will

00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:29.019
 build for him

00:43:29.019 --> 00:43:29.940
 a house

00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:31.280
 in which to minister.

00:43:32.120 --> 00:43:32.800
 Verse 35

00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:33.920
 brings priest

00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:34.800
 and king together.

00:43:34.940 --> 00:43:35.280
 He says,

00:43:35.700 --> 00:43:36.320
 he shall walk

00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:37.440
 before my anointed,

00:43:37.580 --> 00:43:38.539
 before my Messiah

00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:39.360
 forever.

00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:41.039
 And the one man,

00:43:41.120 --> 00:43:41.900
 Jesus Christ,

00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:43.000
 the king

00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:44.019
 and the priest

00:43:44.019 --> 00:43:44.600
 combined

00:43:44.600 --> 00:43:45.840
 to minister,

00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:46.559
 to mediate,

00:43:46.660 --> 00:43:47.280
 and to rule

00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:48.460
 over his people.

00:43:48.600 --> 00:43:49.600
 This is how God

00:43:49.600 --> 00:43:51.160
 secures true worship

00:43:51.160 --> 00:43:52.320
 for himself.

00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:54.000
 Isn't it glorious?

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:54.179
 He says,

00:43:54.619 --> 00:43:56.760
 well,

00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:57.340
 those are the four

00:43:57.340 --> 00:43:57.719
 truths.

00:43:57.960 --> 00:43:59.460
 I still need to

00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:00.280
 give you an offer.

00:44:02.099 --> 00:44:03.340
 The offer is this.

00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:05.519
 All are invited.

00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:07.619
 You're invited

00:44:07.619 --> 00:44:08.599
 to receive

00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:09.519
 the Lord's

00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:10.260
 peace offering

00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:11.420
 and to worship

00:44:11.420 --> 00:44:11.780
 him.

00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:13.760
 But first,

00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:14.260
 you must see

00:44:14.260 --> 00:44:15.559
 yourself rightly.

00:44:16.619 --> 00:44:17.420
 You and I must

00:44:17.420 --> 00:44:17.880
 see ourselves

00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:18.579
 like a beggar.

00:44:18.579 --> 00:44:20.480
 If you're driving

00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:21.519
 around the Denver

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:21.920
 metro,

00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:22.779
 you often will

00:44:22.779 --> 00:44:23.599
 pull up to a light

00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:25.639
 and there's a beggar.

00:44:27.500 --> 00:44:28.420
 And I hope that

00:44:28.420 --> 00:44:29.860
 next time we see that

00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:30.139
 and you,

00:44:30.279 --> 00:44:30.659
 you know,

00:44:30.699 --> 00:44:31.420
 you see this person

00:44:31.420 --> 00:44:32.259
 standing in the cold

00:44:32.259 --> 00:44:33.319
 asking for anything

00:44:33.319 --> 00:44:34.239
 you would want to give.

00:44:34.940 --> 00:44:35.579
 I hope that that

00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:36.139
 reminds us.

00:44:36.179 --> 00:44:37.119
 That's a picture of me

00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:38.259
 before this holy God.

00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:40.079
 That's how Hannah

00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:41.239
 saw herself

00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:42.420
 as a true worshiper.

00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:43.779
 And the glorious

00:44:43.779 --> 00:44:44.679
 promise of peace

00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:45.719
 with God through Christ

00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:46.599
 is only fulfilled

00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:48.539
 because we first

00:44:48.539 --> 00:44:49.059
 see ourselves

00:44:49.059 --> 00:44:50.320
 correctly in light

00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:50.699
 of God.

00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:51.559
 Look at verse 8.

00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:52.360
 Back to the poem

00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:53.539
 one last time.

00:44:55.900 --> 00:44:57.000
 Hannah declares,

00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.420
 God raises the poor

00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:00.320
 from the dust

00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:01.920
 and he lifts the beggar

00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:02.940
 from the ash heap.

00:45:04.099 --> 00:45:05.199
 This is imagery

00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:06.239
 of festering

00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:07.380
 compost piles

00:45:07.380 --> 00:45:09.039
 outside the city walls

00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:10.019
 where people would

00:45:10.019 --> 00:45:11.079
 dump their refuse

00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:12.219
 in the ashes

00:45:12.219 --> 00:45:13.579
 from their ovens.

00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:14.420
 And it was there

00:45:14.420 --> 00:45:15.159
 on the outside

00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:15.759
 of the city

00:45:15.759 --> 00:45:17.320
 where the beggars

00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:17.880
 and lepers

00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:18.980
 would sit

00:45:18.980 --> 00:45:19.900
 and they would

00:45:19.900 --> 00:45:21.039
 plead for alms.

00:45:22.300 --> 00:45:23.320
 It's an image

00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:25.400
 of deepest degradation.

00:45:26.619 --> 00:45:27.599
 And even these

00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:28.160
 wicked men,

00:45:28.260 --> 00:45:29.059
 Hophni and Phinehas,

00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:29.539
 if they would

00:45:29.539 --> 00:45:30.300
 humble themselves

00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:31.480
 and see themselves

00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:32.160
 as beggars

00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:33.340
 needing a savior,

00:45:34.340 --> 00:45:35.599
 the Lord's grace

00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:37.059
 and his righteousness

00:45:37.059 --> 00:45:37.840
 is sufficient

00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:38.700
 to cover that.

00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:40.640
 But first,

00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:42.200
 you must see yourself

00:45:42.200 --> 00:45:42.780
 in need

00:45:42.780 --> 00:45:43.940
 of such a great savior.

00:45:43.940 --> 00:45:45.760
 we're told of

00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:47.000
 our great savior,

00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:47.940
 Jesus Christ,

00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:49.280
 in Colossians 1.20.

00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:50.300
 In Christ,

00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:51.619
 God has made

00:45:51.619 --> 00:45:53.280
 peace with us.

00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:54.139
 How?

00:45:54.720 --> 00:45:55.639
 Through the blood

00:45:55.639 --> 00:45:56.559
 of his cross.

00:45:58.320 --> 00:45:58.960
 See,

00:45:59.039 --> 00:45:59.780
 it's only because

00:45:59.780 --> 00:46:00.820
 Jesus Christ

00:46:00.820 --> 00:46:02.579
 became our burnt sacrifice

00:46:02.579 --> 00:46:04.700
 that we can now enjoy

00:46:04.700 --> 00:46:06.539
 his peace offering.

00:46:06.539 --> 00:46:10.440
 we get to have

00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:11.719
 fellowship,

00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:12.719
 communion

00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:14.179
 with the holy God.

00:46:17.699 --> 00:46:18.719
 God shares

00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:19.900
 what is his

00:46:19.900 --> 00:46:20.779
 with his true

00:46:20.779 --> 00:46:21.440
 worshipers.

00:46:22.099 --> 00:46:22.639
 He says,

00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:23.599
 this is my table,

00:46:23.699 --> 00:46:24.659
 but you come

00:46:24.659 --> 00:46:25.840
 and sit with me.

00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:26.619
 You know,

00:46:26.659 --> 00:46:27.279
 the peace offering

00:46:27.279 --> 00:46:28.360
 was the only offering

00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:29.840
 that the Old Testament

00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:30.559
 people of God

00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:31.460
 were allowed to eat

00:46:31.460 --> 00:46:32.739
 and to share with him.

00:46:32.739 --> 00:46:34.799
 That's the purpose

00:46:34.799 --> 00:46:35.399
 to teach us.

00:46:35.479 --> 00:46:36.500
 You commune with God

00:46:36.500 --> 00:46:38.039
 now in Jesus Christ.

00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:39.699
 He is your peace offering.

00:46:40.619 --> 00:46:41.799
 What was God's?

00:46:42.139 --> 00:46:43.000
 What belonged to him?

00:46:43.059 --> 00:46:44.119
 The choicest portions.

00:46:44.739 --> 00:46:45.879
 He gave him son,

00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:46.739
 Jesus Christ,

00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:48.839
 to be the burnt offering

00:46:48.839 --> 00:46:50.119
 so that you could now

00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:51.019
 come and enjoy

00:46:51.019 --> 00:46:52.000
 the communion

00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.359
 and the fellowship

00:46:53.359 --> 00:46:54.559
 and the covenant

00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:55.619
 of grace

00:46:55.619 --> 00:46:56.579
 in Christ.

00:46:57.519 --> 00:46:58.500
 What a celebration.

00:46:59.799 --> 00:47:01.439
 God keeps his covenant.

00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:03.300
 He made peace

00:47:03.300 --> 00:47:04.099
 with us

00:47:04.099 --> 00:47:05.200
 through Jesus Christ.

00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:06.559
 What great reason

00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:07.200
 to feast.

00:47:09.720 --> 00:47:11.079
 He's our gracious God

00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:13.400
 and we're his people.

00:47:14.720 --> 00:47:16.000
 We used to be beggars

00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.240
 and look at verse 8.

00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:18.780
 Then in Jesus Christ,

00:47:18.900 --> 00:47:19.300
 the Lord,

00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:20.639
 he lifts you up

00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:21.500
 from being a beggar

00:47:21.500 --> 00:47:22.200
 like a leper

00:47:22.200 --> 00:47:24.019
 in the compost pile

00:47:24.019 --> 00:47:25.000
 outside the wall

00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.400
 and he brings you inside

00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:27.659
 and he sits you

00:47:27.659 --> 00:47:28.460
 on a throne

00:47:28.460 --> 00:47:29.780
 around him.

00:47:30.619 --> 00:47:31.159
 Verse 8 says,

00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:31.940
 the Lord sets you

00:47:31.940 --> 00:47:32.679
 as a prince

00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:33.819
 or as a princess

00:47:33.819 --> 00:47:34.819
 and makes you

00:47:34.819 --> 00:47:35.920
 inherit a seat

00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:36.960
 at his table

00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:38.019
 of glory.

00:47:39.839 --> 00:47:40.539
 And that's what

00:47:40.539 --> 00:47:41.219
 we're going to celebrate

00:47:41.219 --> 00:47:41.859
 here in a moment

00:47:41.859 --> 00:47:42.779
 with the Lord's Supper.

00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:44.599
 He has done this.

00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:46.339
 He has done this.

00:47:46.399 --> 00:47:46.920
 You are here

00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:47.879
 in his presence.

00:47:49.099 --> 00:47:49.920
 Don't have to go

00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:50.519
 to Shiloh

00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:51.440
 or Jerusalem.

00:47:52.500 --> 00:47:53.539
 Just like he promised

00:47:53.539 --> 00:47:54.659
 the woman at the well.

00:47:54.779 --> 00:47:55.739
 Anywhere in spirit

00:47:55.739 --> 00:47:56.259
 and in truth,

00:47:56.339 --> 00:47:57.000
 you're in the presence

00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:58.539
 of God spiritually.

00:47:58.539 --> 00:48:01.239
 In Hannah's prayer,

00:48:01.380 --> 00:48:02.159
 it began with her

00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:03.119
 personal experience

00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:03.880
 but it ends

00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:05.719
 with God's saving rule

00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:07.039
 over the largest

00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:08.980
 scope imaginable.

00:48:10.460 --> 00:48:11.259
 Commentators have

00:48:11.259 --> 00:48:12.320
 picked up on how

00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:13.380
 verses 9 and 10

00:48:13.380 --> 00:48:14.380
 of this wonderful

00:48:14.380 --> 00:48:15.000
 little poem,

00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:17.559
 they have a different verb.

00:48:17.820 --> 00:48:18.639
 The tense of the verb

00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:19.199
 changes

00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:20.659
 in verses 9 and 10.

00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:22.380
 They use the imperfect

00:48:22.380 --> 00:48:23.159
 tense,

00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:23.779
 which means

00:48:23.779 --> 00:48:25.219
 it's continuous

00:48:25.219 --> 00:48:26.559
 and it's looking forward.

00:48:27.980 --> 00:48:28.859
 It's to be read

00:48:28.859 --> 00:48:29.480
 and sung

00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:30.719
 as our prayer now,

00:48:30.819 --> 00:48:31.859
 our hope for the future.

00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:33.039
 We could read

00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:33.879
 verses 9 and 10

00:48:33.879 --> 00:48:34.399
 this way

00:48:34.399 --> 00:48:36.000
 in light of the finished

00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.059
 work of Jesus Christ.

00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:37.599
 Oh Lord,

00:48:37.699 --> 00:48:38.299
 we trust

00:48:38.299 --> 00:48:39.500
 that you will guard

00:48:39.500 --> 00:48:40.099
 your saints

00:48:40.099 --> 00:48:40.839
 in Christ.

00:48:41.259 --> 00:48:42.019
 For by strength

00:48:42.019 --> 00:48:43.159
 no man shall prevail.

00:48:43.759 --> 00:48:44.500
 The adversaries

00:48:44.500 --> 00:48:45.019
 of the Lord

00:48:45.019 --> 00:48:45.699
 shall be broken

00:48:45.699 --> 00:48:46.279
 in pieces.

00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:48.439
 And from heaven

00:48:48.439 --> 00:48:49.619
 you will thunder

00:48:49.619 --> 00:48:50.559
 against your enemies.

00:48:51.019 --> 00:48:51.439
 You, Lord,

00:48:51.459 --> 00:48:52.519
 will judge the ends

00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:53.319
 of the earth.

00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:54.980
 And you will give strength

00:48:54.980 --> 00:48:56.440
 to your King Jesus Christ

00:48:56.440 --> 00:48:57.720
 and exalt the name

00:48:57.720 --> 00:48:58.620
 of your anointed,

00:48:59.019 --> 00:48:59.780
 our Messiah,

00:49:00.260 --> 00:49:01.559
 the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:04.180
 When Christ

00:49:04.180 --> 00:49:05.039
 shall come

00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:06.000
 with shouts

00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:07.100
 of acclamation,

00:49:07.900 --> 00:49:08.720
 what joy

00:49:08.720 --> 00:49:10.160
 shall fill our hearts.

00:49:11.780 --> 00:49:13.019
 Beloved congregation

00:49:13.019 --> 00:49:14.140
 of our Lord Jesus,

00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:16.440
 soon

00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:17.400
 He will come

00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:18.200
 as judge.

00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:20.980
 Right now

00:49:20.980 --> 00:49:21.980
 He offers

00:49:21.980 --> 00:49:22.880
 His grace.

00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:24.019
 He will come

00:49:24.019 --> 00:49:27.700
 to Him.

00:49:28.700 --> 00:49:30.160
 Don't despise

00:49:30.160 --> 00:49:31.580
 His peace offering.

00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:35.600
 Come to Him.

00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:37.460
 His righteousness

00:49:37.460 --> 00:49:38.420
 is sufficient.

00:49:40.640 --> 00:49:41.840
 His grace

00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:42.960
 abounds.

00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:44.320
 It overflows.

00:49:45.140 --> 00:49:45.820
 He won't run out

00:49:45.820 --> 00:49:46.200
 of grace

00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:47.059
 for you and for me.

00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:49.400
 And trust

00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:50.360
 that between now

00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:51.780
 His offer of grace

00:49:51.780 --> 00:49:52.960
 and until He comes

00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:53.340
 again,

00:49:53.460 --> 00:49:54.740
 God is at work

00:49:54.740 --> 00:49:56.340
 quietly preserving,

00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:57.260
 redeeming,

00:49:57.420 --> 00:49:58.080
 sustaining you

00:49:58.080 --> 00:49:58.420
 and me.

00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:00.460
 When we get a glimpse,

00:50:00.600 --> 00:50:01.900
 let's see together,

00:50:02.100 --> 00:50:02.480
 celebrate,

00:50:02.740 --> 00:50:03.320
 point it out

00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:04.940
 when God is quietly

00:50:04.940 --> 00:50:05.620
 at work.

00:50:05.720 --> 00:50:06.760
 He loves to work

00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:07.940
 in an invisible

00:50:07.940 --> 00:50:09.380
 but vital way.

00:50:10.160 --> 00:50:10.800
 And He loves it

00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:11.640
 when we respond

00:50:11.640 --> 00:50:13.160
 in grateful worship.

00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:16.399
 If God has revealed

00:50:16.399 --> 00:50:17.199
 Himself to you

00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:18.699
 as sovereign Lord,

00:50:19.059 --> 00:50:20.399
 then respond today.

00:50:21.819 --> 00:50:22.159
 Bow

00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:23.259
 in humble

00:50:23.259 --> 00:50:24.219
 adoration

00:50:24.219 --> 00:50:25.219
 and right here

00:50:25.219 --> 00:50:25.799
 proclaim,

00:50:26.299 --> 00:50:26.920
 my God,

00:50:27.259 --> 00:50:27.859
 how great

00:50:27.859 --> 00:50:28.579
 thou art.

00:50:29.539 --> 00:50:30.259
 Take a moment

00:50:30.259 --> 00:50:31.019
 to do that now.

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 And전

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