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Let’s Pray
Let’s Pray
Famine of God’s Word
Famine of God’s WOrd
1 Sam 3.1
A Famine of God’s Word
A Famine of God’s Word
The word of the LORD was rare.
There were not many visions.
The people were spiritually starving.
The book of judges ended on that ominous note In those days, Israel had no king everyone did as they saw fit.
The priest of Israel, Eli was old and complacent, and his sons, Hophni and Phinehas the ones who were supposed to be the successors.... they were corrupt, and did not know the Lord.
And God’s not speaking.
When there is a famine of God’s word, when God is not speaking to his people it is a sign of God’s displeasure with his people.
God shows his displeasure by not speaking to the people.
Without a voice or a vision from the the LORD, they are spiritually starving.
Without a voice or a vision from the the LORD, Israel is spiritually starving.
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That is what it looks like when people are spiritually starving and gotten a taste a the Word of God.
Everything mentioned in these first few verses of 1 Samuel chapter 3, describe the scene.
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1 sam 3;
1 sam 1
The old Priest Eli could barely see physically as well as spiritually.
He was lying down, in his usual place.
After so long, he was probably numb to the lack of vision.
It has always been that way.
It has been so long, he is just resigned to spiritual deadness and lack of vision.
Just going through the motions, clicking off the days until retirement.
The old Priest Eli..He could barely see physically as well as spiritually.
He was lying down.
The priests
The must be people that are crying out for spiritual food.
Hungry, people who just want to hear from the Lord, something, anything
Have you ever been in that place of spiritual starvation?
Where you just want something from God, anything, just a word, just a nod, a whisper, anything.
Sometimes you come to that place of emptiness that place of brokeness, that you don’t even care anymore what the answer is anymore, you just want an answer.
There is good news, in the middle of that spiritual dryness in Israel there is hope
Yet in the middle of that, there is hope.
Yet there is hope.
Although Eli could barely see.
He was not completely blind.
Hope
e was not blind
The Lamp of God had not yet gone out
The Lamp was in the house of the Lord and was required by the law to burn all night long.
, Aaron is to tend the lamps from evening till morning continually.
Samuel was sleeping nearby to tend it.
In the house of the Lord where the ark of God was.
This is the First mention of the ark in 1 Sam.
This is where the 10 Commandments were kept.
A Symbol of God’s covenant promise that He would not abandon his people.
God promised he would not abandon them.
Sometimes when we are spiritually starving we are thinking that God has abandon us.
We are thinking that because God isn’t speaking to us, we are abandoned and we no longer His people.
Although God is displeased with Israel, although he is not speaking now.
He has not abandoned them.
He is still God of the promise.
He is still the God of covenant, He is still God of the Ark.
God not speaking to Israel and lack of visions and word from the Lord are a sign of His displeasure.
It looks like it
THEN THE LORD CALLED SAMUEL.
Then, not before, Then.
When the time was right, or not after the lamp had gone out, but just then.
The Lord called Samuel.
God Speaks
We think that sometimes
Samuel answered but he thinks its Eli.
Some sort of audible voice is speaking to Samuel, or at least nearly audible, and Samuel runs to Eli to see what he wants.
Samuel runs to him twice.
Maybe, Eli regularly calls Samuel to get something for him at night, so perhaps Samuel is familiar with the hearing the calling of the older, failing priest.
Samuel perhaps knows Eli’s voice, in the middle of night.
Verse 7 gives us real the picture why Samuel keeps going to the priest.
The word of the Lord has not yet been revealed to Samuel.
This is the difference in those other 2 characters from last week Hophni and Phinehas.
Those two guys did not know the Lord, but for Samuel, it is He did not Yet know the Lord.
Samuel will meet the Lord he just hasn’t yet.
Can you think back of time when you didn’t know the Lord yet.
Things seemed less clear.
The Bible was maybe a guideline, nit someone you knew speaking to you.
Preaching was dull and boring.
You certain couldn’t understand why anyone would want to spend their Sunday mornings in worship.
Worship of who?
When you don’t know the Lord, that is what is like.
You can’t recognize the voice of the Lord when it is calling you because you don’t know him.
It is a lot like being a parent.
If you haven’t had kids you are going to have to trust us.
Or, I guess this works with hearing your parents voice also.
But here it is before you have kids, all crying children sound the same.
All screaming kids sound like screaming kids.
But then when you have a child you bring that child home.
And at first you even out the crib right in your room, did you ever do that?
And you got to know your child.
Then pretty soon, as your child grew, you can pick your distinct child’s cry or scream out of a room full of kids.
You can say yep that’s mine, or no that doesn’t sound like mine is it yours?
Or to take an illustration from the New Testament remember this in ?
Matthew
Before the Word of God is revealed people are spiritually starving but they don’t even know what they are hungry for they just know they need something.
Samuel doesn’t yet know the Lord, so when it happens a third time Samuel does all he can do, he goes to the priest, his leader, the failing leader.
Imagine this for a second, and I’ll bet some of you can.Have you ever been spiritually starving?
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