I Samuel 2

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• I Samuel 2
• A New Era
• The Last Judge

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Our Conclusion last Time

• We concluded our beginning of I Samuel with the
  following slide

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This concludes Hannahs StoryNote what follows

• (1 Sam 211 NKJV) Then Elkanah went to his house
  at Ramah. But the child ministered to the LORD
  before Eli the priest.

• (1 Sam 212 NKJV) Now the sons of Eli were
  corrupt they did not know the LORD.

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Note the great contrast

• An innocent child

• Corrupt Sons

• (1 Sam 211 NKJV) Then Elkanah went to his house
  at Ramah. But the child ministered to the LORD
  before Eli the priest.

• (1 Sam 212 NKJV) Now the sons of Eli were
  corrupt they did not know the LORD.

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1 Sam 213 (NKJV)

• And the priests' custom with the people was that
  when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest's
  servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook
  in his hand while the meat was boiling.

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1 Sam 214 (NKJV)

• Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle,
  or caldron, or pot and the priest would take for
  himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So
  they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came
  there.

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1 Sam 215 (NKJV)

• Also, before they burned the fat, the priest's
  servant would come and say to the man who
  sacrificed, "Give meat for roasting to the
  priest, for he will not take boiled meat from
  you, but raw."

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1 Sam 215 (NKJV)

• Also, before they burned the fat, the priest's
  servant would come and say to the man who
  sacrificed, "Give meat for roasting to the
  priest, for he will not take boiled meat from
  you, but raw."

• (Lev 731 NKJV) 'And the priest shall burn the
  fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's
  and his sons'.

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1 Sam 216 (NKJV)

• And if the man said to him, "They should really
  burn the fat first then you may take as much as
  your heart desires," he would then answer him,
  "No, but you must give it now and if not, I will
  take it by force."

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1 Sam 217 (NKJV)

• Therefore the sin of the young men was very great
  before the LORD, for men abhorred the offering of
  the LORD.

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• Now the scene changes, and we switch from Elis
  sons to Samuel.

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1 Sam 218 (NKJV)

• But Samuel ministered before the LORD, even as a
  child, wearing a linen ephod.

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1 Sam 219 (NKJV)

• Moreover his mother used to make him a little
  robe, and bring it to him year by year when she
  came up with her husband to offer the yearly
  sacrifice.

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1 Sam 220 (NKJV)

• And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and
  say, "The LORD give you descendants from this
  woman for the loan that was given to the LORD."
  Then they would go to their own home.

• So Eli had some good noble thoughts and actions.

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Hannah has other children

• (1 Sam 221 NKJV) And the LORD visited Hannah,
  so that she conceived and bore three sons and two
  daughters. Meanwhile the child Samuel grew before
  the LORD.

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1 Sam 222 (NKJV)

• Now Eli was very old and he heard everything his
  sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the
  women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle
  of meeting.

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1 Sam 222

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• Now Eli was very old and he heard everything his
  sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the
  women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle
  of meeting.

• Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything
  his sons were doing to all the Israelites and how
  his sons had sexual relations with the women who
  served at the entrance to the Meeting Tent.

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Elis Restraint

• (1 Sam 223 NKJV) So he said to them, "Why do
  you do such things? For I hear of your evil
  dealings from all the people.

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Elis Restraint

• (1 Sam 223 NKJV) So he said to them, "Why do
  you do such things? For I hear of your evil
  dealings from all the people.

• Why do ye such things! - Eli appears to have
  been a fondly affectionate, easy father, who
  wished his sons to do well, but did not bring
  them under proper discipline, and did not use his
  authority to restrain them. As judge, he had
  power to cast them immediately out of the
  vineyard, as wicked and unprofitable servants
  this he did not, and his and their ruin was the
  consequence. Adam Clarke

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Elis Restraint

• (1 Sam 224 NKJV) "No, my sons! For it is not a
  good report that I hear. You make the Lord's
  people transgress.

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Elis Restraint

• (1 Sam 225 NKJV) "If one man sins against
  another, God will judge him. But if a man sins
  against the LORD, who will intercede for him?"
  Nevertheless they did not heed the voice of their
  father, because the LORD desired to kill them.

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Elis Restraint

• (1 Sam 225 NKJV) "If one man sins against
  another, God will judge him. But if a man sins
  against the LORD, who will intercede for him?

• If one man sin against another - All differences
  between man and man may be settled by the proper
  judge but if a man sin against the Supreme
  Judge, God himself, who shall reconcile him to
  his Maker? Your sin is immediately against God
  himself, and is the highest insult that can be
  offered, because it is in the matter of his own
  worship, therefore ye may expect his heaviest
  judgments.-- Adam Clarke

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Elis sons sins Elis Response

• They sinned in taking more than was theirs in the
  sacrifices.

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Elis sons sins Elis Response

• They sinned in taking more than was theirs in the
  sacrifices.
• They sinned in committing fornication with the
  women worshippers.

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Elis sons sins Elis Response

• They sinned in taking more than was theirs in the
  sacrifices.
• They sinned in committing fornication with the
  women worshippers.
• Eli restrained them with action that was pretty
  weak.

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Remember Samuel

• (1 Sam 226 NKJV) And the child Samuel grew in
  stature, and in favor both with the LORD and men.

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Samuel Jesus

• (1 Sam 226 NKJV) And the child Samuel grew in
  stature, and in favor both with the LORD and men.

• (Luke 252 NKJV) And Jesus increased in wisdom
  and stature, and in favor with God and men.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 227 NKJV) Then a man of God came to Eli
  and said to him, "Thus says the LORD 'Did I not
  clearly reveal Myself to the house of your father
  when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 228 NKJV) 'Did I not choose him out of
  all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to
  offer upon My altar, to burn incense, and to wear
  an ephod before Me? And did I not give to the
  house of your father all the offerings of the
  children of Israel made by fire?

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 229 NKJV) 'Why do you kick at My
  sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded
  in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more
  than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of
  all the offerings of Israel My people?'

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 229 NKJV) 'Why do you kick at My
  sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded
  in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more
  than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of
  all the offerings of Israel My people?'

• Very clearly, God is not pleased with the action
  that Eli has taken

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 230 NKJV) "Therefore the LORD God of
  Israel says 'I said indeed that your house and
  the house of your father would walk before Me
  forever.' But now the LORD says 'Far be it from
  Me for those who honor Me I will honor, and
  those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 230 NKJV) "Therefore the LORD God of
  Israel says 'I said indeed that your house and
  the house of your father would walk before Me
  forever.' But now the LORD says 'Far be it from
  Me for those who honor Me I will honor, and
  those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

• Gods promises can be changed when conditions
  change.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 231 NKJV) 'Behold, the days are coming
  that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your
  father's house, so that there will not be an old
  man in your house.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 232 NKJV) 'And you will see an enemy in
  My dwelling place, despite all the good which God
  does for Israel. And there shall not be an old
  man in your house forever.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 233 NKJV) 'But any of your men whom I do
  not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes
  and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of
  your house shall die in the flower of their age.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 234 NKJV) 'Now this shall be a sign to
  you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni
  and Phinehas in one day they shall die, both of
  them.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 235 NKJV) 'Then I will raise up for
  Myself a faithful priest who shall do according
  to what is in My heart and in My mind. I will
  build him a sure house, and he shall walk before
  My anointed forever.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 235 NKJV) 'Then I will raise up for
  Myself a faithful priest who shall do according
  to what is in My heart and in My mind. I will
  build him a sure house, and he shall walk before
  My anointed forever.

• (1 Ki 227 NKJV) So Solomon removed Abiathar from
  being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill
  the word of the LORD which He spoke concerning
  the house of Eli at Shiloh.

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Warning comes to Eli

• (1 Sam 236 NKJV) 'And it shall come to pass
  that everyone who is left in your house will come
  and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a
  morsel of bread, and say, "Please, put me in one
  of the priestly positions, that I may eat a piece
  of bread."' "

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Warning comes to Eli

• Is this a warning, or a pronouncement of
  judgment?

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Warning comes to Eli

• Is this a warning, or a pronouncement of
  judgment?
• If it were a warning, where is Elis response?

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Warning comes to Eli

• Is this a warning, or a pronouncement of
  judgment?
• If it were a warning, where is Elis response?
• Sometimes warnings are not labeled as warnings,
  but sound like final judgments.

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Warning or Judgment?

• (Jonah 34 NKJV) And Jonah began to enter the
  city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out
  and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
  overthrown!"

• (Jonah 39 NKJV) Who can tell if God will turn
  and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger,
  so that we may not perish? King of Nineveh

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Warning or Judgment?

• Warnings come in different ways

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Warning or Judgment?

• Warnings come in different ways
• We need to heed Gods warnings the judgment that
  follows can be terrible.

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Warning or Judgment?

• Warnings come in different ways
• We need to heed Gods warnings the judgment that
  follows can be terrible.

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Warning or Judgment?

• Warnings come in different ways
• We need to heed Gods warnings the judgment that
  follows can be terrible.
• When God speaks we need to listen.

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Warning or Judgment?

• Warnings come in different ways
• We need to heed Gods warnings the judgment that
  follows can be terrible.
• When God speaks we need to listen.
• Just because we get by with something for a time
  does not mean that it meets Gods approval.

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Warning or Judgment?

• Warnings come in different ways
• We need to heed Gods warnings the judgment that
  follows can be terrible.
• When God speaks we need to listen.
• Just because we get by with something for a time
  does not mean that it meets Gods approval.
• Discipline is expected by God.

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• Judgment Day is coming
• Are we Ready?

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