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Intro
For the next few weeks we’re going to study 1 Samuel.
First, let me give you a little background and overview.
1 Samuel
Story in History
1 & 2 Samuel tells the story of the transition from Judges to Kings.
What was a theocracy, God was King, He employed judges to make legal and military decisions.
Priests facilitated the relationship between God and the people.
Make atonement for the sins of the people, teach the law, and provide the general tabernacle services.
No temple yet, just the traveling tent.
Early in 1 Samuel the people will demand a human king.
In their insecurity and arrogance
They question a king they can’t see
They want to be like everybody else
So they create a new barrier between God and them.
There is a greater distance between God and man.
Time
Samuel was born around 1120 BC (3100 years ago)
David takes the throne around 1050 BC
2 Samuel begins
Then Solomon takes the throne
Many kings follow, the nation is divided
Assyrians invade, Babylon exiles, Persians rebuild.
Kings and Chronicles
Ezra, Zerubabbel, and Nehemiah do the rebuilding.
Israel repeats their mistakes so around 400 BC God goes dark.
Theme
A major theme of the book is Success and Failure.
Success is rooted in faith.
Out of faith grows obedience.
Failure is rooted in faithless disobedience.
The faithful aren’t always successful.
They have their moments where their pride takes over and they fail.
But, for the faithful who fail, repentance restores.
This theme of faith and failure is laid our clearly in the first few chapters.
This is the story of Samuel’s parents and his birth.
It is possible for anyone to remain faithful in the face of failure.
In the midst of it, surrounded by it, affected by it.
Faithful obedience is an individual decision no matter what is going on around.
God will respond appropriately to every decision we make.
This was a male-dominated society.
Women played important roles in raising kids and in the family business but all under the authority of a man.
Women couldn’t be employed, earn money
The priests were men, elders were men, businesses run by men.
All the major decision-makers in the society were men.
Women had to play along to get along.
A woman’s well-being was totally at the mercy of the men in her life.
Hannah was Samuel’s mother.
She demonstrated a remarkable amount of faith even though she was faced with failure at every turn.
Surrounded by Failure
4 significant failures
Failure #1: 2 wives
Elkanah, Hannah’s husband.
Cultural custom allowed for more than one wife. 1 logical reason was if a first wife was unable to bear children.
Especially sons.
Then, the more sons, assumed more blessed by God.
So, it made perfect human sense for a man to have several wives.
Never God’s plan. 1 husband and 1 wife.
Trust God.
Your estate, inheritance was all worked out in the law.
But, people looked down on those who had no children.
We have cultural customs that may or may not be consistent with God’s instructions.
My mom would swear inter-racial marriage was unbiblical.
Over time that has eased and we understand that inter-faith marriages are the issue.
Don’t be unequally yoked.
Same-sex marriage is beginning to put a tremendous amount of pressure on the church to conform.
Women in leadership.
Same-sex marriage
What is human logic, common sense, human reason; and what is God’s instruction related to being set apart, different?
Elkanah gave in to the cultural pressures b/c Hannah had been unable to conceive.
How long should a husband wait until he took a second wife?
Elkanah didn’t wait long enough.
So, he tries to make things better for Hannah.
Ends up making things worse.
Failure #2.
Failure #2: Fairness through favoritism
Annually they would travel to make atonement for their sins.
This was the early stages of Passover and slaughtering a lamb for the family.
1 Samuel 1:
The feeling of the day was if you gave more God would be more likely to bless you.
Not unlike today.
Earning God’s favor by the size of the check you write.
So, Elkanah would try to make things better for Hannah by giving her twice as much as he gave his other wife who had children.
Peninnah would be thinking, “I’m the one producing children for you.
I should get the double-portion.”
Hannah struggling w/ her feelings toward Peninnah.
Peninnah struggling w/ her feelings toward Hannah.
Jealousy, envy, anger.
Elkanah doesn’t understand, though he thinks he does.
Leads to his next failure.
Failure #3: Missed the issue
1 Samuel 1:
NO!
Typical man.
Wife is upset.
Assumes he understands.
Thought he’d solved her problem.
Totally swung and missed.
Making the situation that much worse.
He should understand.
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