Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's happening, folks? It is Tuesday and we are in another brand new book today. Yep. We're in the book of first Shamu.

That's good. I like that. Yeah. That's the Hebrew pronun, the Hebrew pronunciation. Yeah. Yeah.

We na, we close enough. One of my kids' name's Samuel, so Yeah. Should know that. That's good. Call sch for short. Shimmy. Yeah. Shimmy. Shamu. Yeah. Samuel. Yeah. Anyways, we are, we're still in a period of judges with Samuel, but, it's coming to a conclusion there. We're

turning a corner though. We

are

turning, thank God. A corner. Thank God things are getting better.

Yeah.

Hey

speaking of things getting better, the weather's improving and we have the Compass Camp out this weekend, Friday night into Saturday and I heard that Pastor Rod is super excited about it. I heard that he's gonna be just, I love you. Can't wait to sleep under the stars. I love what

our church does, man. I'm all for what our church

is doing. Yeah, I know. Same.

Yeah. I may not particularly enjoy the activity. But I'm also gonna baseball too. That's not my forte. Whoa. But because I love our church, I love what our church does.

Why'd you just have to bring baseball into this? You could have just been like, I don't love camping. I just left baseball out of this. I, let's

just let our cards be shown here, is all I'm saying. And I think it's important that, I don't love everything. I, yeah, I don't love everything that we do, but because I love our church, I love that we do it fair. And that's the way that we feel about the church, is that no church is perfect. No church is gonna cater to your needs or all, even all your wants, but that's part of what it is to be part of a, a. Varied body. It's a good thing for us to learn how to adapt and to prefer one another. So yes, camping. I won't be staying overnight to be clear, but I will be there.

Yeah. Yeah. I. No, it's gonna be a good time. We've got great numbers too. Like hundreds of people, mark, hundreds of thousands, people of thousands are coming with us. Of people. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. We are saturating this this campground. So it should be a lot of fun. There's gonna be games. Apparently we're crowning the best family.

Yeah.

That's gonna

be a controversial, I'm sure. Who's the best family?

Yeah. I

don't know. I don't know if their criteria

is adequate. Yeah. My kids are already like, we can't win because we're pastors kids. I'm like, you're right. You can't win. Sorry. That's right. You will not win. You can't be the best family.

I was told that we don't even have a choice of whether or not we can play. So we're playing, but we're not winning. We're playing, but not winning. That's talk about that's the worst kind of playing. Isn't that the worst? We're gonna be participating, but we certainly will not be winning.

Yeah. Yeah. Now that, that should be good though. And then what, we've got another week and then it's Easter, right? Because it's Sounds about right. Yeah. 'cause it'll be, by then it'll be the 12th. Yep. 13th is Sunday Easter Sunday is the 20th. So yeah we've got a, it's right around the corner, but what's crazy is by this time. Last year we were done with Easter. Easter was behind us. Crazy 'cause it was so much earlier in the year last year than it is this year. So Easter's late this year, but yeah. That just means for our kids after Easter short amount of time before they're done with school, that's, my kids are already counting down the days. They're like, it's only 30 days. That's great. That's coming soon though. It came up

quickly.

Snuck up on me. It did. School's almost done. Yep. Yep. Looking forward to the summer. It should be good. We're gonna get some time away. We're going to California to visit Amanda's family for a couple weeks and I think you guys are taking some time off and Little bit. Yeah. So looking forward to it. Yeah, it should be a good time. Not at the same time though. Let's just be clear. We'll.

At some point, maybe at some point,

yeah. But it yeah, we're excited. Let's jump into our text for the day, brand new book. First Samuel. First Samuel is really to set up the arrival of the monarchy. The monarchy being Israel's king. Kingdom King. King, time. King. Yeah, the monarchy. You have it. It's the monarchy. Yep. That's what it's about anyways. But it picks up during the time of judges Samuel's kinda the last judge. He is the transitional figure between the judges to the kings. And it opens in chapter one with the, how we got Samuel. I. And it opens with a something that is I think, relatable to a lot of people today in the church. It seems like infertility is something that is an evergreen topic for a lot of people, and it's a very difficult thing to, to walk through and to go through and what's so encouraging as we see examples in scripture where others have gone there as well. And so chapter one in one, Samuel is one of those situations where you have Hannah who it says in the text was Baron. And that had become a great source of pain and shame for her. And she had consort who was a rival, if you will. And this rival would mock her for this. And so every time they would go up to, to worship the Lord at Shiloh, 'cause remember that's where the tabernacle was. It's not a Jerusalem, there's no. Mount Zion, yet there's no temple yet. And so when they would go up to the tabernacle at Shiloh to worship she would pray that the Lord would provide a child for her. She would pray that the Lord would open up her womb and she would be able to conceive and bear children. And it, in one of these instances, chapter one, the Lord hears her prayer and responds by giving her Samuel and Samuel was probably. Two to three years old by the time that he's fully weaned because the text says that she weaned him and then brought him to the Lord because she had said, Lord, if you gimme a child, I will give him back to you. And that's what she does here. She weans the child probably two to three years old, takes him back to the tabernacle there and commissions him into the care of the priests. And Samuel grows up there in the tabernacle. But what's so encouraging is if you look at verses 27 through 28 Hannah, I. Is she's a righteous woman. She says, I prayed for this child and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore, I have lent him to the Lord as long as he lives. He has lent to the Lord. She doesn't get what she asked for and then use it for selfish reasons. She doesn't get what she asked for. And then forget that the Lord is the provider of good things. She gets what she asked for and having Samuel without a guarantee necessarily that there's gonna be more after this. And she, in her faithfulness goes back to the Lord and says, here he is I asked for him and said, I would give him back to you, and I'm doing just that. So he is commendable. Despite

the fact that he's married to two women, I think Elana is, it seems to be a pretty godly guy because Hannah makes this vow to the Lord that he could have said, no, we're not doing that he had the authority, and we read about this, I believe in the book of Leviticus, where a man making a vow is bound by that vow, but a woman making a vow if her. Head in this case her husband doesn't negate it then it stands. And so he had the opportunity to say, oh no, I don't like this idea. 'cause he's, she's giving away her firstborn son. And she's dedicating him with the vow to become a nazarite, which is what's implied there at verse 11. No razor shall touch his head, so she makes this vow. He endorses it and he affirms it, and when it comes time to actually wean him and bring him to the Lord he's behind it. That's a pretty big commitment on his part too, even though I know this is Hannah's story and I've, we've all commended her for her godliness, but Elana doesn't get enough props for that.

Yeah, just don't marry multiple women.

That's a good start. Yeah.

Yeah.

But

yeah, I think you're right. Those are good points too. In chapter two, then, Hannah, her response continues in this prayer, this song that has a lot of parallels to Mary's song in Luke, chapter one. In that it praises God's sovereignty and attention to the needy, how he reverses the fortune of the oppressed. These are all things that we pick up on in, in Luke chapter one with Mary's Magnifico as well. Her mention of the kingship isn't cause for concern here. Some will reference that and be like how would she have known about the kingship? But may in fact show her deep knowledge of the Torah. In fact, if you remember back in Deuteronomy chapter 17 verse 15, just to jog your memory, 'cause I know you probably forgot that one from Awana. I know it was one of your memory verses, but it says here, you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. And so I think. This rather than being something that points and goes, ah, look, this is corruption of the text. I think this just shows that Hannah knew the word, she knew the Torah, and she knew that there was, there would be kings that would come. And so I think the reference to the king here is in line with that. But it also appears to be Messianic as well. And so I don't think there's reason for us to say, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is a problem. I think this is a symbol of, again, Hannah's character, her knowledge of the scriptures. This is a good thing that we find here from her.

Is there any sense in which you would say that Hannah's prophesying right here, is that saying too much or is that just being misdirected at all?

No, And I think that's it. If this is Messianic then there is an element of prophecy in there too.

Hannah's prophesying then.

Yeah. Oof. Yeah. She's not a pastor though.

Yeah, that's true. That's true. Agree with that. Yeah.

So again, I have no problem looking at the Old Testament and going, yeah, Deborah led and, Hannah prophesied, and yet I don't think that is a one-to-one correlation to go to the New Testament, say, so we should have women pastors. It's no. 'cause we have specific instructions in the New Testament that prohibit that exact thing. And those were not pastoral roles in the Old Testament. Those were unique roles, unique callings that were. Different in so many ways than what it is to be a pastor and a shepherd of the church of God. So I'm right on. I don't have any problem with that. Yeah. Yeah. So if we had a female in our church that's Hey, I'm, I just want you to know I'm a prof. Prof, proess. I think prophecy is ceased, which is a different conversation that isn't about complementarianism versus egalitarianism, but about sign gifts. Yeah. So that's why I would say no.

Not the same.

Yeah. As chapter two continues, though we are gonna contrast these two families and the family that you would think would be the upstanding family with godly intentions and godly leadership and godly parenting. Here would be Eli, because Eli was the priest and yet we find out here is that Eli's family is disobedient and unfaithful to the Lord. Not following the rules for sacrifices, despising the Lord's offering in the process. Also signs that they were sexually immoral, participating in illicit acts at the entrance to the tabernacle. And so as a result, the Lord hardens their hearts to their father's advice who tries to pursue them, at least probably all too late though, and decides instead to, puts them to, to death. And so Eli's sons and Eli's, I think by extension his parenting not something that we would look to and say, this is a good thing at all. This is bad and his whole household is gonna be rejected as a result of that.

Couple thoughts on this. Number one I just wanna point out that this, that. Eli, he wasn't the perfect man to be sure, but it looks like he's serving as the hype priest. At least that's my guess here. It doesn't specifically call him the hype priest, but it seems like that's his role. He's raising sons who don't share the same convictions that he has, or if they did at some point, they're no longer there. I think this is a warning to us, not to presume upon the Lord too. Expect that God does a certain thing in your kids just because they're around the church or that they go to adventure Club or something like that. We need to pursue our kids with truth. We need to pray for them and make sure that we're not again, presuming upon the Lord. That's one of the points. Secondly under that section that says Eli rebuked his sons I just want you to remember that I don't know that. Scripture would agree that he rebukes 'em all that well. He does say something like, oh man, you guys aren't doing a good thing. What's wrong with you? But he doesn't go much further than that. In fact, this is what God holds against him later on, just a few paragraphs from now.

Yeah. And you make a great point. None of us can save our kids. And when we go to the qualifications of an elder pastor in the New Testament, that's one of the reasons why we don't agree with the translation that his children must be believers, but rather, they must be faithful. They must be not. Out of line. They must be, kept in order, so to speak. Yeah, and I think we go back here. I think there's, while we would say, yeah, Eli can't save his kids, Eli can't control whether or not they're gonna share the same convictions that their father has, because that's a work of God in their hearts. But I think Eli can instill in them fear of disobedience to the extent that they did. I think Eli could have instilled in them saying, Hey, you respect God's area, God's tabernacle, God's house. You do. Things according in accordance with God's rules, right? If you're gonna walk away from your role as a priest, okay, that's between you and the Lord ultimately, but while you're here in this place, you're not gonna disrespect it the way that, that you have. So I, I think Eli could have done more, and that's when it gets to the rebuke. I think we see some of that there too.

I would even say he should have done more, and that he should have said, look, you're not gonna serve as priest anymore. Yeah. They're sleeping with the gals at the temple or the tabernacle at this point. And they're despising the Lord's sacrifices by misusing them. So I think he should have said, look, you guys are done. You're still my sons. I love you, but you're not serving in this capacity 'cause you're clearly unworthy of the role.

Yeah. And by the way, when you read the word Phineas, the name Phineas here, different Phineas. Different Phineas. Yeah. Unfortunately his, if his namesake was there, seeing what was going on, been dead. Yeah. They would be dead. They'd be pin cushions. Yeah. Chapter three. Then as we get into it Samuel is there, he's been given over to the Lord's service and he begins to hear this voice calling him, and he hears it three times, and the third time he responds and receives the Lord's Commission Every time he was going to Eli saying I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. And finally Eli kinda figured out what, what's going on. He says, Hey, next time, say, here I am, Lord, speak your servant listening speak. And that's what happens. And the Lord commissioned Samuel and says I'm gonna use you in this in a powerful way. And so Samuel's told in this same encounter that God is going to reject Eli's house and that their sins would not be atoned for now. That even goes back in verse 35 of chapter two when it says, I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. Who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind, and I will build him a shore house and he shall go in and out before my anointed. Forever. I think there's a dual fulfillment there. I think in part that's Messianic, it's looking forward to Christ. Christ is gonna be both priest and prophet and king. I guess all three of those things, not both, but all three of those things. But in the immediate context, this is probably referring to Za o because za O is gonna be the priest that is gonna be the better priest than Eli has been. And so Eli's line is gonna come to an end, and that's the part of the message that Samuel receives. And Eli says, Hey, tell me what the Lord said. Don't hold back. Samuel says it. And Eli seems to at least accept it at this point here. As Samuel relays these things,

yeah, there's something ungodly about his response. It's such a strange combination because you don't expect that from him. He just seems resolved to say, okay, this is what the Lord is doing. He's just, he's righteous in doing this. But I wanna point out to you, verse 13, he says here that, he says his sons were blaspheming God and he did not restrain them. He expected God expected Eli to do something active, proactive to stop their sinfulness. But before that, the man of God says, you honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choices parts of every offering. So it seems like Eli was participating in his son's sins by eating the fat, in fact. We get the sense because scripture tells us that maybe he was eating so much of it, that he was a heavy set man. In the next chapter, we're gonna see what happens to him because of that heavy set and we can't help but think it's because he's fattening himself on the choices parts of the offering. Yeah. All fat belongs to the Lord and his sons are taking it. He was taking it, enjoying it, and so God expects expected him to restrain his kids. There's a parenting lesson in there for us, but there's so many others as well. I just want you to see that God cares about. The honoring of his name. He doesn't want people to blaspheme it. He wants us to restrain our kids, which means more than just verbal correction, there is a correcting and directing that's incumbent upon the parent to do that. Even here as Eli's role as high priest for his sons, his adult sons, it seems, who are blaspheming the Lord in their role.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's pray and then we'll be done with another episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. God, we, we acknowledge just that there are lessons that we can learn as parenting parents here and even more than that, but certainly we want to be faithful as we think about the next generations. We want to teach them, train them to respect you and revere you. We freely. Confess and admit that we cannot save any of them, and yet that's our heart's desire. God, we would pray boldly and ask that every single child that is a part of Compass Bible Church would name the name of Jesus as Lord and Savior someday, that they would come to faith. True saving faith, and that you would do that at a young age. In them, God, that you would raise up a powerful generation, a wave, even from our church of future leaders of the church. And a lot of that comes back to how we steward them as parents, as moms and dads, as grandparents, as we teach them these things and point them to Jesus. And so we want to do that Lord effectively and faithfully, and we want to trust you with the results of that. And so we pray that you'd be pleased with our labors towards that end and that you would choose to save them for your glory and that you do great things through them. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Y'all in tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said