Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sunday School Lesson God uses for ministry those who obey Him by David McGee Page

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Father, we are grateful to you. Thank you that you have given us a wonderful day wonderful life award for third two yes, Lord, that you bless this time, bless your work. Your hearts and have us give us insight as to what would have us to. We pray in Jesus name and then they were looking at Daniel and this section is a dimension is one that will try to take care, Samuel, Saul and David Selwyn were finished with this section, we will have quarter, we will have covered those three individuals. Samuel is and he is a unique individual and that is a prophet, priest and a judge and he fulfilled all three offices and those are the also very big shoes to fill at any one of them many times with profits were many times where priests and many times when the judge but to have one individual that that serves as three suited to the nation. It's it's quite a quite a accomplishment. Now one of the things to come to distinguish out when I was a prophet. He's the man represents God 's people and prophet, priest represents the people to God energizes a a a a great injustice a child. They let people know how they are not fulfilling her keeping the law and Josh and output the way involves administration and the administration is the application of the law and the Commandments through the Commandments that the people are following and also many of the charges at that time were individuals who led the nation into war and or spoke about how that the neighboring countries neighboring tribe to thought were going to come in and raid Israel and taken captive because they had forsaken their relationship with God. So sentiment is a prophet, priest and the judge we see in the end the lesson today. How that is. He is uniquely set apart, even from his birth and how that's even from an early age he hears the voice of God. So let's look at first Peter four ten is our key verse as every man hath received a gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. The central truth. God uses for ministry. Those who obey him and the rating from first Samuel one, chapter three, also, and how the NIV. So, in the course of time had I conceived and gave birth to a son she named him Samuel, saying, because I asked the Lord for him and she said to him, as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you rank of the Lord, I pray for this child of the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord or his whole life he will be given to the law or any portion of the Lord their chapter three verse ten Lord came and stood there calling as at the other times. Samuel. Samuel and Samuel said, speak, for your servant is listening Lord was with Samuel as he grew up and he let none of his words fall to the ground the Lord continue to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word, then Samuel said, assemble all his role in this book and I will intercede with the Lord for you while Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle, but that day the Lord thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines, and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before Israel so the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israel territory again throughout Samuels lifetime. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines, the times from activity to gap that the Philistines had captured from Israel or restored to her and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the power of the Philistines, and there was peace between Israel and the Amorites send a continuous judge over Israel, all the days of his life from year to year. He went on a circuit from Bethel to go golfing mishap judging Israel in all those places. And he always went back to Ramo, where his home was in there. He also judged Israel and he built an altar there to the Lord, thoughts of its type summa summarize his entire life in just a couple of verses or couple chapters, but I give this idea about about Samuel some of the things that he was Baldwin now the lesson continues while the beginning was marriage. It is a Samuel and his miraculous birth and will talk about that just a minute, and that the lessons he revealed God, gods having a complete plan for his people, and how does God complete his plan well in this case, all we have Hannah, which were going to read about your involvement and how that she went to the priests of the temple to pray, and she was barren. She didn't have any children and in those days. If you have a child. Admit that you were the resending your life, and that the workers got wall Hannah was very devout and very loving of God, and she knew that wasn't true, but yet in her heart she was very distressed over, so she prayed and and see here concentrate and we know that Eli the priest who wasn't the most in touch person, Eli, Eli was on these guys. He was he was in the office of priest for a long time these kids were out-of-control and they were just they were. They were bad guys. I mean, they were still with the Temple and doing all the things that you should be doing, and Eli. Just, let them go well. So Eli that affected how Eli represented the people to God. He was a priest is supposed to represent the people to God, and he kind of got out of touch he was out of touch with his relationship with God use out of touch with his relationship with his people and he was just out of touch, so along comes Hannah and she's in the Temple praying while she's try beseeching the Lord in Eli with his wonderful insight thinks he's drunk, subtle and easy complaining and finally she convinces him that she's not drunk, and that she is beseeching God. And finally, after all that God Eli blesses her elder wizard and she goes home, we find that so so this is kind of deciding or for what is going on in the nation and whenever, and is is in God. Now, when God. We know that God always has a plan. So God has a plan. What is his plan and what its purpose. Now, if you can look at Heather 's life. She is well let's let's read chapter one verses nineteen and twenty that are not. That's in the are twenty is not nineteen yet Rodriguez because that she had asked him of the Lord now so Elkanah to use the husband. He has another wife called tonight and then I am her and Hannah didn't get along and especially whenever of denial with a cast up her that I have children, you know your husband likes me more than you and so there was this rivalry going on, but Heather is Hannah is one that does not allow circumstances to defeat your and even though she is RSA even though she is upset about this. She doesn't. She doesn't lose heart. She is a car and it appears to be the Jesus private person who keeps it internally and yet she takes of the Lord. She prays about and so ever in our society is saying. Have you got sending your life, and she's saying your partner relationship with God. No, I don't. And they're saying, well, yeah, we can prove that you don't have children. Well, I don't have children, but that's not because it's in my life and so she goes into praise and she makes his annual pilgrimage to the Temple and this time when she gets to the Temple. She does she she officer prayers and she's petitioning God for a son and now if you take it one person who is petitioning God for her son, you have a priest who is supposed to be representing the representing God for the people know people to God, Yahweh, the preseason. Both represent the people to God and God 's people know it's combination of volcanism, ninety, it is a hundred percent were white, but the only supposed to be an example godly example of the of God and living out the law while he's totally falling apart. The Temple is falling apart. The rituals have fallen apart as so here's a woman who doesn't have a child and she petition God for a child and says I will get into Lord while here's a nation in an bankruptcy as it were spiritual bankruptcy. So how does God constitute those things intercede so that both needs will be met so and had a phrase and says I give my child support, so she makes about if the Lord gives me a pair of male child, she would give him back to the Lord plus, she commits him to the Nazirite vow so not been in touch his hair no strong drink you know is that I have this life of dedication to God with many more as they were more restrictions and so on and goes like nine oh workers at the Nazirite vow I don't have all the I don't remember all the things a limited Nazarite vow, but it was it was. Another was no strong drink. You can cut your hair you were giving you are set apart for age social relationship special reason. So after returning home. Hannah has a child and of course it's not divinely conceived, it is conceived by her and her husband and advocacy agency bears a son now in English. Funny how that not only is the woman not only does the woman received judgment because she's got sin and alive because you can't have a child. She is also responsible for the sex of the child. We know that through important DNA at all hours of the DNA on. Anyhow, then the sex of the child is determined by the father and all that going into the chromosomes in all a stuff there I learned that my class schedule and so so anyhow, the sex of the child is covered by the monophonic but in those days it was a double curse down. I will have the ability to have children, and she has all female children. Well, you know, she doesn't want you to have a male sucking suck other woman was better straighten up drama, so all this is gone. Hannah mine, but when she had to sign. If she has a male son followed yell it out. She got. She got it all now wild clouds. We were. We were wrong. It is always wonderful when people say after everything is done in the dust settled and come back in years and years of telling me how terrible she was finally available. He and I that after all of your0 home so so sick of seeing bears a son in the common, as was uncommon thought was the Dayton and the woman contacted the woman determine the gender now appropriately has selected the name for this new board son, which reflects the setting. She asked of the Lord, the intern appears in grants or desire. So the name Samuel means God hears or on the idea to ask stall. That's why she named him send so and a severed prayer enables her to enjoy the privilege of birthing a son and prior to the sign would been impossible for her to have children in and in society and the meal plan that area, she was in. She was looked upon as inferior and the other wife. They sure she stayed in an inferior place I saw that lovely if the background, but I like. I like the idea of how that the intersection of winners and when is the right time in our win is when is the right time for the intersection in our life. We have Hannah, she's she's one of the child for years and she is now and not destitute, she just very distraught that the words very distraught about having a child every year she makes a pilgrimage to the Temple every year. She tells the Temple and ask God for a child and every year, nothing happens. But at this one year she gets in the Temple, and that is the year. Why this year. What what's going on Israel and Samuel Nathaniel the profit Eli the priest and his sons big discount of loss that all added that this intersection than that the baby is born in the full supply. So what happens after this, when Samuel is a child four years of age. What's going on in Israel when Samuel becomes now the profit and raised in Josh that he judges Israel and in all there's a reason there's a large five twenty seven years of peace because sandals, a prophet and the all the neighboring warring communities which will save your globe and they are afraid to fight why is is a Pentagon in Israel, so what you been praying about for a long time then when the time is right and what about the promises and what about all the things that they got it given us, and we don't actually know they're good for a few moments and then where ready for that. And perhaps it's opportunity of a lifetime and were just haven't got the right place and time, persistence, you know I was a thought that I had and I won't blame God for, but it's just the visit if it's a divine thought they were, God gave them, and if it's just that halfway thought while the preacher put back together. The logic, but why was David and why was David considered a man after God 's own heart and what made game. It's so special. We'll talk about David and what they say. She joins I'm in a slack is one of my favorite vibrato rocks and stones were injured and around somewhere you have running downstairs so liked what makes it was so special it was. I analyze thing about it in the sense that David might win when people said something against God. He was hurt. He hid like this closeness with God that he had such that have such a relationship with God that he was like, whoa, why can't we take that giant down. He's cursing God, somebody got to do something, and in all. He felt that he and God were that type up that his life was that type of written expression of God that his wife was God 's expression of life to Israel to himself and wanted so when he was in this expression, and pay him whatever he questions it's like his logic is saying, you know, if I feel this with God, and I'm so close with God. How is that I don't think all the right things or sometimes I don't do all the right thing and now, whenever you send with bashing the NLP comes in all edits in the whole cinnamon is coming back soon, will probably study that in the runs back to him. I will probably say that the future lessons, but when all that comes back to David. He has this again. I've said, and against you only have my sin. I broken. I broken everyone your command them. And he you know any slight back in the right relationship in which he feels that God is going to live out his life through him God is living out God is in control. The life he is living wasn't that what the New Testament tells us about our relationship with God. Were you not your own cabal, the price God has a plan and purpose for life and about you whenever we visit, we don't think it. It still still there, so okay. Glad world here this morning and join the lesson. It's hot here will blame those on the go get coffee, I saw verse twenty four twenty eight twenty seven and twenty eight so about as file could not be fulfilled without consent of her husband. So even though Hannah made about. Still, the husband had to say yes to it and said that he had to say that you know we're going were going. You made about the other you made about you pay it off, but in this case it was the son and the son that she had so long for it to prove her as work credibility. So anyhow they both take care offerings, and they taken through the trees they offer they offer their their offerings to God. And then they bring their son down on about you, but I don't buy one for my son in the hands of the life and now says it was three to five years of age, not really know for sure how old he is. It is says when he is weaned. So back can be anywhere from three to five years. So you have a three -year-old five -year-old child that you are bringing to Eli the priest who is totally blown up with his own kids and your turn the men turn your son over Nam while I go. I realize you said a bad person. When I made about, yet we can. We could justify them say, you know, God, why did you want you, why do you let me make such a stupid my wife is getting the job anyhow, but not Hannah didn't do any of that, she said. I knew I made the violent. I will keep the violence. She brought she brings her son said no. Two two eight and she has to remind Eli Koziol ale airlines clueless how I allow you remember me know. I want to make about to get a three to five years. Since then, since no, she hasn't been back since she made a vow and conceived and so I thought she has been back to do the parade to the Temple and hasn't seen the lion three to five years and I can feel like it happened. " me fail. You know me, you met my husband. I love that one Hoosier husband. I never told me so. But so she comes back and she jealously says this to Eli and Eli finally, it will whatever and she presents the sons of Levi and Eli is now going to take care of raising Samuel in the Temple. First, twenty eight, the word length is more accurately translated. Given therefore also I have led him to the Lord as long as eleven I given in the Lord as long as he lives is the Lords, and he worshiped the Lord their so Samuel is I I would save in your community child sensitive child. All because we find out in the next section and the end, the child, verse, verse one of chapter three, while one of these. It says in the lesson. Lesson here. There is there is so much detail that passage out of the line initially responded the taking of a small child. It will provide for the normal care since Eli is advanced in years. Exactly how old this annual whatever the specifics, it doesn't change the story miraculous work of God enables Hannah to conceive a child that she desperately desires, and she fulfills about what we wish you know is the only way think of. I think of this in the context that you're bringing your bringing a kid and he lies there anything only guided Temple in our niche is like one. The Louisiana Bigelow, the Temple where the old guy standing there, you know, I think it's different than that, there I think there's a whole order priests and others that the all that are there that are part of the Temple. He lies not manning the double-blind cell. This is an entire nation small nation that point, but is still entire community of love you region and put that way, it's an entire region of people that worship of this sample, so it's got a be more than this one guy, so assist my phone so and they sang a verse one. So one way that the three verse one L we have this intersection. We're talking about now the baby Elliott Samuelson, Steve Samuel Warren Samuels, now in the Temple and with sandals. There alleys a special child dedicated to God before exploring these dedicated to God, why was it the Temple we have the understanding that the word of the Lord is rare, meaning that no one hears of God. Now there is no no one declaring the message of God is just a lot of people going through rituals fulfilling their obligations and there were no visions. There were no open vision is that people would be able to speak and say thus saith the Lord, because in those days. In that time. If you sent us that the Lord. It didn't happen. You were supposed to kill that within a lot of peoples overzealously. Today, it didn't happen and I what that now, especially when there is a double double RRs go. We dug about today are the most the time whenever they did this and spoken there was like a dual fulfillment that it would happen then and also for trade something would happen in the future so that so that the prophet would not be stalled because he thought about something like a hand for a few thousand years and a woman to carry until that happens, and also so came to pass at that time when Eli was laid down in his place and design began to wax stem, and that he could not see. So Eli 's virtually blind and air. The lack of goblin out of the temple of the Lord with the ark of God was as Samuel was laid down to sleep. So what happens is that the DL candlesticks. All were to be Mann 's void that they were to be they were being kept for of olive oil because they were not to go out with Samuel P was the result line. He couldn't see anymore, and well. Samuel are laying down to sleep, and the Lord called Samuel he answered here. My and the section set AL Central gets up three runs. Eli, Eli, what you want when you only what you need something a life that is correct about I call you is very perceptive man that you sell the second time it happens in and finally Eli wakes up Samuel Scott God speaking to you and what an honor must of been for Eli to know that God was going to speak what I mean to Noah and you know the house needs blown and but what an honor that God is the speak to someone though. It's a very, very precious and the Lord came and stood verse ten and called with the other time, Samuel. Samuel Ms. Samuel answered, speed, when I started here and Nathaniel recognize that it was it was God. I'll do see how Lisandro really don't know what he hears a word from the Lord and we find that when Lynn. He is speaking. He speaks of judgment upon a life-size for their acts of indiscretion and when Samuel R three when Eli wants to know what the Lord say Canada's want to tell and but says you got to tell me and so Samuel tells them, and in Samuel and Eli says while he is the Lord, let him do what is good in his eyes and the euro. He recognizes that his his faults, and is his sons problems will be under the judgment of God, he's always try to assume that but now we know that for sure and verse twenty one and the Lord appeared again verse twenty at nineteen and Samuel grew thinking back it up there and Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and then let none of his words fall to the ground that Samuel was a prophet that whatever he spoke he represented God to the people that meant that while he spoke happens. Not one of his words fell to the ground as if Millwood fallen deaf ears. Now it is like when when when Samuel spoke, you did what he wanted because he spoke for God, and it was going to happen because Samuel spoke he didn't. He didn't get mixed signals. So, whenever he represented God to the people he spoke God 's word to them. And it happened, as he said it would. Whatever he said it happened and he he was that type of a relationship with God, and in that ghost. I think with that sense of humility that that Santa would have had, or any of the services of God hath that it isn't about them. It's about God and their life is to God and God has a purpose for them, and God has a purpose for what they say and do and all Israel, from Dan even to appreciate the news that Sammy was was established to be the prophet of the Lord. Nobody doubted it. That's quite. That's quite a quite a statement that no one in the whole region doubted who Samuel was an aware and the Lord appeared again at Shiloh for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel and Shiloh by the word of the Lord, so, God revealed himself by his word is another note, sometimes wheat. We wonder how do we know God will with both to read the word of God. God reveals himself by his word isn't necessarily that he shows up when we see his image that he reveals himself by the words and so as we read and study the word of God, we began to understand. In the spirit of the Holy Spirit puts this to gather in our lives and we have a revelation and understanding of what God is about and then the next section, where Samuel is the priest, he says, gather all Israel that Ms. Bob and I will pray for you onto the Lord, so he's representing the people to God 's always going to get all these people together and he's going to pray for them to pray that God would bless and so is representing the people to God 's will when they get to Ms. Smith, whatever is here when they attend this mess. Anyhow, when I get to this place there I there therefore in the Philistines decide this, this, they misinterpret what this is all about, so they may see all these. This all this congregation getting together, though they say hey and organic gardening from the finest. So where to get one step ahead. So they get all their people together and their medical battle noted that whenever they're on the way to battle the children of Israel. I think when I hear it was nothing here worship God on Daniel and Karen Kellogg if your fault you very much and Samuel prayed, and in it was either an earthquake or a great weekend. A great storm happen all the same time, the Philistines are totally just devastated by this and if so, that the rebels who are at the mitzvah take off after them and kill them and take them all back and they reconquer all the land of the Philistines at Concord and taken from the so that was the priest. And then judge. We find in the in the last section, verses thirteen, fourteen of the first Samuel seven. The Philistines were subdued and they came no more into the coast of Israel and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel solve the enemies of obvious role left is rollover because of Samuel and Samuel judged all Israel, all the days of his life versus fifteen, sixteen, and he went here here in the circuit. He made a circuit in which he went to all the cities, and that in that region. He would go around and what he do he bring the people to task are you doing what you're supposed to be doing for God. He was the judge administrator of what God was the people of Israel and so Sanyo and people listen to Samuel and they didn't want to think they newly represented God, and they wouldn't fight against it or come against as they feared what would happen an incident will never use that to his advantage. He always used it to glorify ring on Iran. So Israel stayed safe under the leadership of Santa. Santa was a McCain Sandhill was a prophet than inhabitants because that point, God of Israel, they can have a king like other nations when they got in trouble is, whenever they come the Sanyo says we want to change like all the other nations, and God gave us all. So what happened to that point there were no other kings. There were no kings, there were only profits and God was looking as a theocracy. God was the leader of Israel, and he used men to women and women to to bring that about, but that's yes, right now down, but I am and how many situations, Abraham and Sarah a even with John the Baptist. Whatever John and I feel that she was barren and you know how many coming women in the Bible where Baron and what happened was there beseeching God for for them to have a child and had a child, but not the generally not immediately generally whenever a recent with it was almost impossible for them to average wife to take that long and out and in all and I guess it's sometimes it's the way God has to do the and then the sentiment across in our lives that is not united doing it is God doing it in his time, so perhaps that's how we see God working in our lives that in other things leave been praying for it. Haven't been happening doesn't mean that they won't happen doesn't mean there's sin in the life that doesn't mean it means that the right time hasn't the things haven't lined up for the purpose for which your brain and things are not quite line up for what you need for what yelp Hannah having a child was in the plan of God. Her prayer was part of that plan, and Sango coming on the scene when he did as part of the plan for Israel. So when all of those came together at the appointed time at the right time and at so right. It doesn't belong to us and ill, what we pray for, and we finally get is a really ill. It is not really arts if they are to be used by us for God and that God has placed this area and we should know that it is God who is doing this and not we ourselves, Senator, I've so greatFather, we are grateful to you. Thank you that you have given us a wonderful day wonderful life award for third two yes, Lord, that you bless this time, bless your work. Your hearts and have us give us insight as to what would have us to. We pray in Jesus name and then they were looking at Daniel and this section is a dimension is one that will try to take care, Samuel, Saul and David Selwyn were finished with this section, we will have quarter, we will have covered those three individuals. Samuel is and he is a unique individual and that is a prophet, priest and a judge and he fulfilled all three offices and those are the also very big shoes to fill at any one of them many times with profits were many times where priests and many times when the judge but to have one individual that that serves as three suited to the nation. It's it's quite a quite a accomplishment. Now one of the things to come to distinguish out when I was a prophet. He's the man represents God 's people and prophet, priest represents the people to God energizes a a a a great injustice a child. They let people know how they are not fulfilling her keeping the law and Josh and output the way involves administration and the administration is the application of the law and the Commandments through the Commandments that the people are following and also many of the charges at that time were individuals who led the nation into war and or spoke about how that the neighboring countries neighboring tribe to thought were going to come in and raid Israel and taken captive because they had forsaken their relationship with God. So sentiment is a prophet, priest and the judge we see in the end the lesson today. How that is. He is uniquely set apart, even from his birth and how that's even from an early age he hears the voice of God. So let's look at first Peter four ten is our key verse as every man hath received a gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. The central truth. God uses for ministry. Those who obey him and the rating from first Samuel one, chapter three, also, and how the NIV. So, in the course of time had I conceived and gave birth to a son she named him Samuel, saying, because I asked the Lord for him and she said to him, as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you rank of the Lord, I pray for this child of the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord or his whole life he will be given to the law or any portion of the Lord their chapter three verse ten Lord came and stood there calling as at the other times. Samuel. Samuel and Samuel said, speak, for your servant is listening Lord was with Samuel as he grew up and he let none of his words fall to the ground the Lord continue to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word, then Samuel said, assemble all his role in this book and I will intercede with the Lord for you while Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle, but that day the Lord thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines, and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before Israel so the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israel territory again throughout Samuels lifetime. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines, the times from activity to gap that the Philistines had captured from Israel or restored to her and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the power of the Philistines, and there was peace between Israel and the Amorites send a continuous judge over Israel, all the days of his life from year to year. He went on a circuit from Bethel to go golfing mishap judging Israel in all those places. And he always went back to Ramo, where his home was in there. He also judged Israel and he built an altar there to the Lord, thoughts of its type summa summarize his entire life in just a couple of verses or couple chapters, but I give this idea about about Samuel some of the things that he was Baldwin now the lesson continues while the beginning was marriage. It is a Samuel and his miraculous birth and will talk about that just a minute, and that the lessons he revealed God, gods having a complete plan for his people, and how does God complete his plan well in this case, all we have Hannah, which were going to read about your involvement and how that she went to the priests of the temple to pray, and she was barren. She didn't have any children and in those days. If you have a child. Admit that you were the resending your life, and that the workers got wall Hannah was very devout and very loving of God, and she knew that wasn't true, but yet in her heart she was very distressed over, so she prayed and and see here concentrate and we know that Eli the priest who wasn't the most in touch person, Eli, Eli was on these guys. He was he was in the office of priest for a long time these kids were out-of-control and they were just they were. They were bad guys. I mean, they were still with the Temple and doing all the things that you should be doing, and Eli. Just, let them go well. So Eli that affected how Eli represented the people to God. He was a priest is supposed to represent the people to God, and he kind of got out of touch he was out of touch with his relationship with God use out of touch with his relationship with his people and he was just out of touch, so along comes Hannah and she's in the Temple praying while she's try beseeching the Lord in Eli with his wonderful insight thinks he's drunk, subtle and easy complaining and finally she convinces him that she's not drunk, and that she is beseeching God. And finally, after all that God Eli blesses her elder wizard and she goes home, we find that so so this is kind of deciding or for what is going on in the nation and whenever, and is is in God. Now, when God. We know that God always has a plan. So God has a plan. What is his plan and what its purpose. Now, if you can look at Heather 's life. She is well let's let's read chapter one verses nineteen and twenty that are not. That's in the are twenty is not nineteen yet Rodriguez because that she had asked him of the Lord now so Elkanah to use the husband. He has another wife called tonight and then I am her and Hannah didn't get along and especially whenever of denial with a cast up her that I have children, you know your husband likes me more than you and so there was this rivalry going on, but Heather is Hannah is one that does not allow circumstances to defeat your and even though she is RSA even though she is upset about this. She doesn't. She doesn't lose heart. She is a car and it appears to be the Jesus private person who keeps it internally and yet she takes of the Lord. She prays about and so ever in our society is saying. Have you got sending your life, and she's saying your partner relationship with God. No, I don't. And they're saying, well, yeah, we can prove that you don't have children. Well, I don't have children, but that's not because it's in my life and so she goes into praise and she makes his annual pilgrimage to the Temple and this time when she gets to the Temple. She does she she officer prayers and she's petitioning God for a son and now if you take it one person who is petitioning God for her son, you have a priest who is supposed to be representing the representing God for the people know people to God, Yahweh, the preseason. Both represent the people to God and God 's people know it's combination of volcanism, ninety, it is a hundred percent were white, but the only supposed to be an example godly example of the of God and living out the law while he's totally falling apart. The Temple is falling apart. The rituals have fallen apart as so here's a woman who doesn't have a child and she petition God for a child and says I will get into Lord while here's a nation in an bankruptcy as it were spiritual bankruptcy. So how does God constitute those things intercede so that both needs will be met so and had a phrase and says I give my child support, so she makes about if the Lord gives me a pair of male child, she would give him back to the Lord plus, she commits him to the Nazirite vow so not been in touch his hair no strong drink you know is that I have this life of dedication to God with many more as they were more restrictions and so on and goes like nine oh workers at the Nazirite vow I don't have all the I don't remember all the things a limited Nazarite vow, but it was it was. Another was no strong drink. You can cut your hair you were giving you are set apart for age social relationship special reason. So after returning home. Hannah has a child and of course it's not divinely conceived, it is conceived by her and her husband and advocacy agency bears a son now in English. Funny how that not only is the woman not only does the woman received judgment because she's got sin and alive because you can't have a child. She is also responsible for the sex of the child. We know that through important DNA at all hours of the DNA on. Anyhow, then the sex of the child is determined by the father and all that going into the chromosomes in all a stuff there I learned that my class schedule and so so anyhow, the sex of the child is covered by the monophonic but in those days it was a double curse down. I will have the ability to have children, and she has all female children. Well, you know, she doesn't want you to have a male sucking suck other woman was better straighten up drama, so all this is gone. Hannah mine, but when she had to sign. If she has a male son followed yell it out. She got. She got it all now wild clouds. We were. We were wrong. It is always wonderful when people say after everything is done in the dust settled and come back in years and years of telling me how terrible she was finally available. He and I that after all of your0 home so so sick of seeing bears a son in the common, as was uncommon thought was the Dayton and the woman contacted the woman determine the gender now appropriately has selected the name for this new board son, which reflects the setting. She asked of the Lord, the intern appears in grants or desire. So the name Samuel means God hears or on the idea to ask stall. That's why she named him send so and a severed prayer enables her to enjoy the privilege of birthing a son and prior to the sign would been impossible for her to have children in and in society and the meal plan that area, she was in. She was looked upon as inferior and the other wife. They sure she stayed in an inferior place I saw that lovely if the background, but I like. I like the idea of how that the intersection of winners and when is the right time in our win is when is the right time for the intersection in our life. We have Hannah, she's she's one of the child for years and she is now and not destitute, she just very distraught that the words very distraught about having a child every year she makes a pilgrimage to the Temple every year. She tells the Temple and ask God for a child and every year, nothing happens. But at this one year she gets in the Temple, and that is the year. Why this year. What what's going on Israel and Samuel Nathaniel the profit Eli the priest and his sons big discount of loss that all added that this intersection than that the baby is born in the full supply. So what happens after this, when Samuel is a child four years of age. What's going on in Israel when Samuel becomes now the profit and raised in Josh that he judges Israel and in all there's a reason there's a large five twenty seven years of peace because sandals, a prophet and the all the neighboring warring communities which will save your globe and they are afraid to fight why is is a Pentagon in Israel, so what you been praying about for a long time then when the time is right and what about the promises and what about all the things that they got it given us, and we don't actually know they're good for a few moments and then where ready for that. And perhaps it's opportunity of a lifetime and were just haven't got the right place and time, persistence, you know I was a thought that I had and I won't blame God for, but it's just the visit if it's a divine thought they were, God gave them, and if it's just that halfway thought while the preacher put back together. The logic, but why was David and why was David considered a man after God 's own heart and what made game. It's so special. We'll talk about David and what they say. She joins I'm in a slack is one of my favorite vibrato rocks and stones were injured and around somewhere you have running downstairs so liked what makes it was so special it was. I analyze thing about it in the sense that David might win when people said something against God. He was hurt. He hid like this closeness with God that he had such that have such a relationship with God that he was like, whoa, why can't we take that giant down. He's cursing God, somebody got to do something, and in all. He felt that he and God were that type up that his life was that type of written expression of God that his wife was God 's expression of life to Israel to himself and wanted so when he was in this expression, and pay him whatever he questions it's like his logic is saying, you know, if I feel this with God, and I'm so close with God. How is that I don't think all the right things or sometimes I don't do all the right thing and now, whenever you send with bashing the NLP comes in all edits in the whole cinnamon is coming back soon, will probably study that in the runs back to him. I will probably say that the future lessons, but when all that comes back to David. He has this again. I've said, and against you only have my sin. I broken. I broken everyone your command them. And he you know any slight back in the right relationship in which he feels that God is going to live out his life through him God is living out God is in control. The life he is living wasn't that what the New Testament tells us about our relationship with God. Were you not your own cabal, the price God has a plan and purpose for life and about you whenever we visit, we don't think it. It still still there, so okay. Glad world here this morning and join the lesson. It's hot here will blame those on the go get coffee, I saw verse twenty four twenty eight twenty seven and twenty eight so about as file could not be fulfilled without consent of her husband. So even though Hannah made about. Still, the husband had to say yes to it and said that he had to say that you know we're going were going. You made about the other you made about you pay it off, but in this case it was the son and the son that she had so long for it to prove her as work credibility. So anyhow they both take care offerings, and they taken through the trees they offer they offer their their offerings to God. And then they bring their son down on about you, but I don't buy one for my son in the hands of the life and now says it was three to five years of age, not really know for sure how old he is. It is says when he is weaned. So back can be anywhere from three to five years. So you have a three -year-old five -year-old child that you are bringing to Eli the priest who is totally blown up with his own kids and your turn the men turn your son over Nam while I go. I realize you said a bad person. When I made about, yet we can. We could justify them say, you know, God, why did you want you, why do you let me make such a stupid my wife is getting the job anyhow, but not Hannah didn't do any of that, she said. I knew I made the violent. I will keep the violence. She brought she brings her son said no. Two two eight and she has to remind Eli Koziol ale airlines clueless how I allow you remember me know. I want to make about to get a three to five years. Since then, since no, she hasn't been back since she made a vow and conceived and so I thought she has been back to do the parade to the Temple and hasn't seen the lion three to five years and I can feel like it happened. " me fail. You know me, you met my husband. I love that one Hoosier husband. I never told me so. But so she comes back and she jealously says this to Eli and Eli finally, it will whatever and she presents the sons of Levi and Eli is now going to take care of raising Samuel in the Temple. First, twenty eight, the word length is more accurately translated. Given therefore also I have led him to the Lord as long as eleven I given in the Lord as long as he lives is the Lords, and he worshiped the Lord their so Samuel is I I would save in your community child sensitive child. All because we find out in the next section and the end, the child, verse, verse one of chapter three, while one of these. It says in the lesson. Lesson here. There is there is so much detail that passage out of the line initially responded the taking of a small child. It will provide for the normal care since Eli is advanced in years. Exactly how old this annual whatever the specifics, it doesn't change the story miraculous work of God enables Hannah to conceive a child that she desperately desires, and she fulfills about what we wish you know is the only way think of. I think of this in the context that you're bringing your bringing a kid and he lies there anything only guided Temple in our niche is like one. The Louisiana Bigelow, the Temple where the old guy standing there, you know, I think it's different than that, there I think there's a whole order priests and others that the all that are there that are part of the Temple. He lies not manning the double-blind cell. This is an entire nation small nation that point, but is still entire community of love you region and put that way, it's an entire region of people that worship of this sample, so it's got a be more than this one guy, so assist my phone so and they sang a verse one. So one way that the three verse one L we have this intersection. We're talking about now the baby Elliott Samuelson, Steve Samuel Warren Samuels, now in the Temple and with sandals. There alleys a special child dedicated to God before exploring these dedicated to God, why was it the Temple we have the understanding that the word of the Lord is rare, meaning that no one hears of God. Now there is no no one declaring the message of God is just a lot of people going through rituals fulfilling their obligations and there were no visions. There were no open vision is that people would be able to speak and say thus saith the Lord, because in those days. In that time. If you sent us that the Lord. It didn't happen. You were supposed to kill that within a lot of peoples overzealously. Today, it didn't happen and I what that now, especially when there is a double double RRs go. We dug about today are the most the time whenever they did this and spoken there was like a dual fulfillment that it would happen then and also for trade something would happen in the future so that so that the prophet would not be stalled because he thought about something like a hand for a few thousand years and a woman to carry until that happens, and also so came to pass at that time when Eli was laid down in his place and design began to wax stem, and that he could not see. So Eli 's virtually blind and air. The lack of goblin out of the temple of the Lord with the ark of God was as Samuel was laid down to sleep. So what happens is that the DL candlesticks. All were to be Mann 's void that they were to be they were being kept for of olive oil because they were not to go out with Samuel P was the result line. He couldn't see anymore, and well. Samuel are laying down to sleep, and the Lord called Samuel he answered here. My and the section set AL Central gets up three runs. Eli, Eli, what you want when you only what you need something a life that is correct about I call you is very perceptive man that you sell the second time it happens in and finally Eli wakes up Samuel Scott God speaking to you and what an honor must of been for Eli to know that God was going to speak what I mean to Noah and you know the house needs blown and but what an honor that God is the speak to someone though. It's a very, very precious and the Lord came and stood verse ten and called with the other time, Samuel. Samuel Ms. Samuel answered, speed, when I started here and Nathaniel recognize that it was it was God. I'll do see how Lisandro really don't know what he hears a word from the Lord and we find that when Lynn. He is speaking. He speaks of judgment upon a life-size for their acts of indiscretion and when Samuel R three when Eli wants to know what the Lord say Canada's want to tell and but says you got to tell me and so Samuel tells them, and in Samuel and Eli says while he is the Lord, let him do what is good in his eyes and the euro. He recognizes that his his faults, and is his sons problems will be under the judgment of God, he's always try to assume that but now we know that for sure and verse twenty one and the Lord appeared again verse twenty at nineteen and Samuel grew thinking back it up there and Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and then let none of his words fall to the ground that Samuel was a prophet that whatever he spoke he represented God to the people that meant that while he spoke happens. Not one of his words fell to the ground as if Millwood fallen deaf ears. Now it is like when when when Samuel spoke, you did what he wanted because he spoke for God, and it was going to happen because Samuel spoke he didn't. He didn't get mixed signals. So, whenever he represented God to the people he spoke God 's word to them. And it happened, as he said it would. Whatever he said it happened and he he was that type of a relationship with God, and in that ghost. I think with that sense of humility that that Santa would have had, or any of the services of God hath that it isn't about them. It's about God and their life is to God and God has a purpose for them, and God has a purpose for what they say and do and all Israel, from Dan even to appreciate the news that Sammy was was established to be the prophet of the Lord. Nobody doubted it. That's quite. That's quite a quite a statement that no one in the whole region doubted who Samuel was an aware and the Lord appeared again at Shiloh for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel and Shiloh by the word of the Lord, so, God revealed himself by his word is another note, sometimes wheat. We wonder how do we know God will with both to read the word of God. God reveals himself by his word isn't necessarily that he shows up when we see his image that he reveals himself by the words and so as we read and study the word of God, we began to understand. In the spirit of the Holy Spirit puts this to gather in our lives and we have a revelation and understanding of what God is about and then the next section, where Samuel is the priest, he says, gather all Israel that Ms. Bob and I will pray for you onto the Lord, so he's representing the people to God 's always going to get all these people together and he's going to pray for them to pray that God would bless and so is representing the people to God 's will when they get to Ms. Smith, whatever is here when they attend this mess. Anyhow, when I get to this place there I there therefore in the Philistines decide this, this, they misinterpret what this is all about, so they may see all these. This all this congregation getting together, though they say hey and organic gardening from the finest. So where to get one step ahead. So they get all their people together and their medical battle noted that whenever they're on the way to battle the children of Israel. I think when I hear it was nothing here worship God on Daniel and Karen Kellogg if your fault you very much and Samuel prayed, and in it was either an earthquake or a great weekend. A great storm happen all the same time, the Philistines are totally just devastated by this and if so, that the rebels who are at the mitzvah take off after them and kill them and take them all back and they reconquer all the land of the Philistines at Concord and taken from the so that was the priest. And then judge. We find in the in the last section, verses thirteen, fourteen of the first Samuel seven. The Philistines were subdued and they came no more into the coast of Israel and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel solve the enemies of obvious role left is rollover because of Samuel and Samuel judged all Israel, all the days of his life versus fifteen, sixteen, and he went here here in the circuit. He made a circuit in which he went to all the cities, and that in that region. He would go around and what he do he bring the people to task are you doing what you're supposed to be doing for God. He was the judge administrator of what God was the people of Israel and so Sanyo and people listen to Samuel and they didn't want to think they newly represented God, and they wouldn't fight against it or come against as they feared what would happen an incident will never use that to his advantage. He always used it to glorify ring on Iran. So Israel stayed safe under the leadership of Santa. Santa was a McCain Sandhill was a prophet than inhabitants because that point, God of Israel, they can have a king like other nations when they got in trouble is, whenever they come the Sanyo says we want to change like all the other nations, and God gave us all. So what happened to that point there were no other kings. There were no kings, there were only profits and God was looking as a theocracy. God was the leader of Israel, and he used men to women and women to to bring that about, but that's yes, right now down, but I am and how many situations, Abraham and Sarah a even with John the Baptist. Whatever John and I feel that she was barren and you know how many coming women in the Bible where Baron and what happened was there beseeching God for for them to have a child and had a child, but not the generally not immediately generally whenever a recent with it was almost impossible for them to average wife to take that long and out and in all and I guess it's sometimes it's the way God has to do the and then the sentiment across in our lives that is not united doing it is God doing it in his time, so perhaps that's how we see God working in our lives that in other things leave been praying for it. Haven't been happening doesn't mean that they won't happen doesn't mean there's sin in the life that doesn't mean it means that the right time hasn't the things haven't lined up for the purpose for which your brain and things are not quite line up for what you need for what yelp Hannah having a child was in the plan of God. Her prayer was part of that plan, and Sango coming on the scene when he did as part of the plan for Israel. So when all of those came together at the appointed time at the right time and at so right. It doesn't belong to us and ill, what we pray for, and we finally get is a really ill. It is not really arts if they are to be used by us for God and that God has placed this area and we should know that it is God who is doing this and not we ourselves, Senator, I've so great