1 Samuel Chapter Two

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Proverbs 20

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Hey, as we're going through this over the next 25 weeks, 31 weeks, however long it takes us, if there's something that I'm saying in the middle, you feel free to stop me.
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So you can say, Hey, man, I need you to clarify something or if you disagree or don't agree, just let me know before we get have get to the end.
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And we've got two and a half minutes for questions and comments.
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It doesn't give you enough time to tell me I'm wrong.
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Okay.
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All right.
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First Samuel chapter two, we're going to read the chapter might try to get through the chapter today.
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There's, um, there's four sections in this and we'll, um, we'll try to get through it.
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Cause there may be some questions about some of the Eli and his family and all that.
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All right, let's read.
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Then Hannah prayed and said, my heart exalts in the Lord.
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My horn is exalted in the Lord.
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My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies because I rejoice in your salvation.
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There is no one holy like the Lord.
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Indeed, there is no one beside you, nor is there any rock like our God boasts no more.
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So very proudly and do not let arrogant come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and with him actions are weighed.
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The bows of the mighty are shattered.
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The feeble gird on strength.
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Those who are full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry cease to hunger.
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Even the barren gives birth to seven, but she who has many children will languish.
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The Lord kills and makes alive.
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He brings down to Sheol and he raises up the Lord, makes poor and rich.
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He brings low and he also exalts.
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He raises the poor from the dust.
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He lists the needy from the ashy to make them sit upon the nobles and to inherit the seat of honor.
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For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he set the world on them.
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He keeps the feet of his godly ones, but the wicked ones are silenced in darkness for not by might shall a man prevail.
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Those who contend with the Lord, they will be shattered against them.
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Will he thunder in the heavens? The Lord will judge the ends of the earth and he will give strength to his king and will exalt the horn of his anointed.
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Then Elkanah went to his home in Ramah, but the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.
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Now the sons of Eli were worthless men.
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They did not know the Lord and the custom of the priest with the people.
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And when any man would be offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling and with a three-pronged fork in his hand, then he would thrust it into the pan or the kettle or the cauldron or the pot and all that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself.
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Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
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Also before they burned the fat, the priest's servant would come and he would say to the man who was sacrificing, give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take that which is boiled meat from you, but he will only take raw.
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If the man said to him, they must surely burn the fat first, then take as much as you desire.
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Then he would say, no, but you shall give it to me now.
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And if not, I will take it by force.
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Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for the men despised the offering of the Lord.
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Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord as a boy wearing a linen ephod, and his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him year by year, and she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
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Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, may the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord.
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And they went to their own home, and the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, and the boy Samuel grew before the Lord.
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Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing in all of Israel and how they would lay with women and serve at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
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And he said to them, why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people? No, my sons, for the report is not good, which I hear that the Lord's people are circulating.
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If one man sins against another, God will mediate for him.
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But if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him? But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the Lord desired to put them to death.
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Now, the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.
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Then a man of God came to Eli, and he said, thus says the Lord, do I not indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt and in bondage to Pharaoh's house? Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar to burn incense, to carry an ephod before me? And did I not give them the house of your fathers, all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel? Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offerings, which I have commanded in my dwelling and honor your sons above me by making yourselves fat with the choices of every offering of my people of Israel? Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.
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But now the Lord declares this, for it be from me, for those who honor me, I will honor and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
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Behold, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will be not an old man in his house and you will see the distress of my dwelling.
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And in spite of all the good that I do for Israel and an old man will not be in your house forever.
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Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from my altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieving and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.
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This will be the sign of you, which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas.
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On the same day, both of them will die.
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But I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul.
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And I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before me, my anointed, always.
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Everyone who is left in your house will come and they will bow down before him and for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, they will say, please assign me to the priest's office so that I may eat a piece of bread.
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In reading that, that sounds a lot choppy, doesn't it? Yeah, you've got four ideas going on.
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Just say for verses 1 through 11 is the prayer of Hannah, Samuel's mother.
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And if you were to read that and you didn't know this was in Samuel, how many of us would think that was a Psalm of David? I would.
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And I almost read that this morning before you opened your Bibles and see if anybody would say, hey, who wrote that? Because it does sound like something David would have written.
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And then you have the praise of Hannah, 1 through 11, then 12 through 21, you have Eli's sons being rebuked, or the sins of Eli's being exposed.
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I'm sorry, 12 through 17, then 18 through 21, you have now again the rise of Samuel.
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You see that Samuel's being put forth as going to be the upcoming priest.
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Then 22 through the end of the chapter, it has again the rebuke of the evil and wicked sons.
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So you have this pattern of praise, condemnation, praise, condemnation.
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So when we look at Hannah's thanksgiving, she's thanking, because we don't have time to go through each one of these little stanzas, but she's praising the Lord for what? Her son.
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And she's praising the Lord for her son, that she has the opportunity to give him back to the Lord.
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Do you not think, or do you not know, that Hannah knew that the two priests, or the three priests that were working at the tabernacle were wicked? Yeah.
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Did she not know that Hophiah and Phinehas were very evil men, and did she not know that Eli was not doing his responsibility to rebuke his family? Sure.
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That's why she was thankful that God gave her a son that she was going to give back to the priesthood.
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So as we see in some of this, there's actually praise that Ruby, which was her counterpart, the second wife, she actually says in verse, where is it at? In verse five, where it says, those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry ceased to hunger, and here it is.
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Even the barren gives birth to seven, but she who has many children languishes.
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That is in a reference to Ruby, or Penina, which was, hey, this girl who had all of these children now languishes to the fact that I'm now giving birth to a child that's going to be given to the Lord, and God's going to raise him up at the tabernacle.
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Now if you back up just a little bit, it says that the barren gives birth to seven.
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We know that she did not give birth to seven.
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I think that is a reference in poetic terms to a birth of completion.
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She completed the birth that God had given her.
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If you disagree with me, we can talk about that another time, because it is in poetic form.
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And then as you look through verses six through eight, it's basically talking about the sovereignty of God.
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It says that the Lord kills and makes alive.
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God is very intimately involved in the lives of people.
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He is very intimately involved in the deaths of people.
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That's what he's saying.
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Hey, God's the one that raises up.
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Hey, if a person becomes exalted and becomes wealthy, who did that? If a person becomes poor and debased, who did that? God did it.
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That's what he says in verse seven.
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And then he says he raises the poor from the dust, basically just repeating what he has already said, or she's repeating what the Lord has already done.
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He raises up the poor out of the dust.
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He lifts up the needy out of the ash heap.
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And he says to make them sit in noble places and inherit the seat of honor.
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For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he set the world on them, showing the absolute sovereign king as the creator of all things.
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And then she finishes her prayer, and then Elkanah and her go home.
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Now, it's often thought of, did Hannah pray this public prayer before the Lord at the tabernacle? And I'll be honest with you, we don't know.
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We don't know if this was a public prayer from her.
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Was this something under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, then recollected by whoever the writer was? I don't think that she would have stood up publicly in the tabernacle and done that.
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It's possible, but we really don't know.
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So she leaves Samuel there with Eli.
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Then we get to verse 12.
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Now, the sons of Eli were worthless men.
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Does anybody say sons of Belial there, Belial? Now, does anybody remember last week in my sermon, I actually talked a little bit about that.
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What's that? Worthless.
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Yeah, worthless.
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It can either mean worthless.
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But Belial, actually, as it developed over, the Hebrew synonym became of devil.
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So if you look, and I think it's in 2 Corinthians 5 or 7, somewhere in that area, he says, can a man be joined with God in Belial? And then some translations say devil.
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That was used as a synonym because Belial was worthless, evil man.
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So it says that the sons of Eli were worthless.
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They did not know the Lord.
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And then here we get to what it says in verse 13, and the custom of the priest with the people that when a man would offer a sacrifice and the priest servant would come while the meat was boiling with a three-pronged fork in his hand, he would thrust it into the kettle, the pan, the cauldron, or the pot, the fork, whatever that fork brought up, the priest would take for himself.
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Okay, Leviticus chapter 3 through 7 deal with sacrifices and how they were to be handled at the tabernacle and eventually be the temple.
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It says very clearly, all the fact to every sacrifice belonged to the Lord.
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So, when these men would come up after, we'll get to this point, they were supposed to drop it into the cauldron, boil it up, then they would reach in and get what was left.
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They were boiling off the fat because the fat was supposed to be the choicest of the meat and was supposed to be given to the Lord.
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Well, what they were doing is, it says here, thus they did in Shiloh.
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Then when you get to verse 15, it says, also before the fat was burned, the priest would come.
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He would then say to the man who was sacrificing, give the priest the meat for the roasting.
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As he will not take it boiled meat from you, he wants it raw.
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And if the man did not take it, he basically says he would strong arm the man of what the offering was.
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So here it is.
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They dropped it in the cauldron.
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They stick it in there before the stuff was burned off.
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They took that too.
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Then there would be times when they would come and they would say, hey, we want that meat before it's even burned at all.
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And then they would take it.
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If they wouldn't give it to them, they would strong arm it.
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So one, they were stealing, they were extorting God's people, and they were not doing the ministry of God's people, I mean doing the ministry for God's people.
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They were doing it for their own gain.
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And he talks more about it in this chapter here where they were fattening themselves up, making themselves to fill their own belly.
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So this shows us what type of men Hophi and Phinehas were.
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They were not godly men.
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A number, well I would say, it would probably have been 12 or 13 years ago, there was a man that said Hophi and Phinehas were conducting their priestly duties in an unregenerate manner.
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Now, this could open up a discussion and I'm fine with that.
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But they were not regenerate, okay? Understand, when we talk about someone being regenerated by the Holy Spirit, being enlightened by the Holy Spirit per se, that is a New Testament idea of how the Holy Spirit worked.
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So a better way of saying it, were these men converted and circumcised of heart? No, they were not.
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So if you hear someone say, hey, these were unregenerate priests, the regeneration is a New Testament idea, not an Old Covenant idea.
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The promise of the New Covenant, even in Ezekiel 37 and 38, was that when you have the value of dry bones, they get sinews and flesh put all over it, what happens? God then breathes on those bones with all of its flesh and he breathes on it the Holy Spirit giving them life.
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That's the promise of regeneration.
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So were these men unregenerate under a New Testament idea? Yes, okay? Yes, if that's how you want to see it.
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But ultimately, how it's all spoken through the Old Testament is these men were uncircumcised of heart.
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They did not care about God.
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They did not care about the things of God.
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They cared about filling their own belly and fulfilling the sexual desires of their own self.
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Yes, sir? Verse 12 says, they knew not the Lord.
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Yes, yes, very clear, very clear.
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I see you squinting.
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You good? You got a question? You took your glasses off on me, I'm in trouble.
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No.
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Oh, okay.
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All right, we good? Okay, and then, so they were extorting God's people out of the meat that was supposed to be given to the Lord.
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Then we get to verse 16.
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If the man said to him, they must surely burn the fat, fat first, then he would take it by force.
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Verse 17, thus the sins of the young men were very great before the Lord, for the men despised the offering of the Lord.
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Now, Hot Thigh and Phineas were such dirtbags, they didn't even do this themselves.
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Did anybody go back and see what they did? They actually sent a servant to go do their dirty work.
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Then, that makes, I am not clearly sure if this is when it says that the sign, thus the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, and the men despised the offering of the Lord.
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I am not completely sure if he is speaking of as the men would come and give the offering despising it, or if it would have been the priests, servants that were going despising.
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I am not sure.
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Maybe our English teacher could, it's tough, isn't it? Because of the way the, yeah, and it's difficult because you know when you are using pronouns and nouns and you are trying to go back to see which one it's pointing to, it just says that the young men was very great, that the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for the men despised the Lord.
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Whoever it was, whether it was the servants that were going, doing the dirty work of Hophni and Phinehas, and they began to despise the offering of the Lord, or whether it was the men coming to their tabernacle going, man, I am supposed to be giving this to the Lord, and I am fixing to give this stuff of my choice of stuff, I am supposed to give, I am going to give it to them, and then God is not going to accept the sacrifice, because if you go back and you read in the Levitical law, if it wasn't done in a certain way, no matter who offered it, it wasn't accepted by God.
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So here it is, these men, if it's the worshiper, going to offer this and then going, I have done all of what God has required of me, and the dirtbag in the funny clothes is fixing to take that which I have tried to offer in good spirits, is fixing to be taken from me.
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So that could be the understanding as well.
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Then we get to verse 18, this will be Samuel before the Lord as he is a young boy.
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Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord as a boy wearing a linen ephod.
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What was the linen ephod? Even when we go back to the time of the judges, what was the ephod a representative of? Priest.
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Priest.
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Remember what Micah did? When he did his, what did he do? He made his own ephod, and he said, I'll make my own priest, and I'll offer up stuff for this, but I'll have a guy wear an ephod, therefore it will look correct.
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Well, who wore the main ephod into the tabernacle with all the jewels and all that? Who said it? The high priest, yeah, with all the jewels and everything.
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It says in verse 19, and his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him year after year, and she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
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Once again, we see the godly parents doing what was required of them under the Mosaic legislation, which was every year they would come to the tabernacle and make those yearly sacrifices.
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And they would come, if you remember last week, I said that once she dropped him off, she didn't see him anymore, but once a year she would make him a little robe.
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It's interesting that she makes him a little robe like he never grew.
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Is it always little? Year after year, she'd bring him a little robe.
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And then verse 20, then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, may the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the ones she dedicated to the Lord, and they went home and went their own way.
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What an act of honor from Eli, an act of blessing, that he saw what Elkanah and Hannah had done and saw that as being an honorable thing, and he praised that God would open her womb with more children and bless her for the one that she gave away.
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And I think that's an honorable thing.
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And then verse 21, the Lord visited Hannah, she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters.
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So here it is, the Lord opened her womb.
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He blesses her with more children, just as Eli had prayed and just as she had too.
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And the boy, Samuel, grew before the Lord.
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So we have Samuel being recognized as a young godly boy, one that's being trained up in the nurture and admonition of Yahweh.
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And then verse 22, we get back to dirtbags.
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Now Eli was very old, and he had heard all that his sons were doing to all of Israel and how they lay with women who served at the doorway of the 10th meeting.
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So, so far, what have we seen Hot, Fine, Finneas do? Steal.
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Steal? Go ahead.
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Corrupted the offering of those who have brought them away.
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Sure, they corrupted the office and they corrupted the actual sacrifice.
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Okay.
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The men, whichever said the men to afford the thanks of the Lord.
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Yeah, the sacrifice itself.
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Yep.
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And now, now they're committing fornication at the gates.
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Yep.
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They're, they're, they're worshiping themselves rather than God.
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They're blaspheming God.
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Go ahead.
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You were about to say something? No, I was just trying to act.
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Yeah.
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I mean, they're, that's exactly what they are.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And what they're doing is they care about nothing but themselves and they're using the office of the priesthood to fill their own bellies, to fill their own pockets.
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Hey, and if you see what they do, look at the vast majority of false teachers.
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If you even go to 1st, it's either 1st or 2nd Peter, he says they're trained in wantonness practices and lasciviousness.
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They feed on filling the desires of the flesh.
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They feed on the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life.
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They want those very things more than they want God.
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And this is exactly what Eli's sons are doing, and they, and they're doing it with no shame.
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I mean, look where it says they're doing.
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They're laying with women.
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That ain't talking about laying down, looking at the stars here.
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They're having sex with these women at the opening of the tabernacle of meeting.
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It's interesting that Phineas is one of the names, and if anybody remembers back what happened in Numbers, you remember Phineas was one of, not this one, but Phineas was the one that when a man was having sex with one of the Midianite women outside, or in front of the tabernacle of meeting, what did he come and do? He shoved a spear right through him, through her, and pinned him to the ground.
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So what they're doing is just open, blatant rebellion before the Lord.
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God should have struck these men dead.
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But does anybody see what God, why God is being long-suffering, impatient at this point? Exactly what he's doing.
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There's no priest.
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There's no priest.
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There's no man to stand before the Lord that is above reproach.
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If Eli's wiped out for his lack of rebuking his sons, and he wipes his sons out, who's going to take care of the sacrifice for the Lord? There's no one raised up.
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So in the providence of God, and in his patience, he's being patient with what they're doing.
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Okay? He's not saying that God's approving of what they're doing.
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But he's being patient, and we could even go to the New Testament.
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Think about Caiaphas, how many times he went into the Holy of Holies, when in his mind he had already prepared to put to death the Son of God.
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We know at least three years.
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And God should have struck him dead, shouldn't he? But what did God do? Out of respect for the office, per se, honor the office, let those men go in there year after year and perform those duties.
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Because God says, okay, although the office has been corrupt, they do what I require of them.
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I'm going to make concessions for my people.
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It all points to a greater priest, though.
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One that won't be a dirtbag.
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One that won't offer up sacrifices that are not acceptable, but will offer himself up as a sacrifice and fulfilling all of those sacrifices from before.
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So let's go to verse 23, and he said to them, why do you do such evil things that I hear from all these people? No, my sons, for the report is not good which I hear the Lord's people circulating.
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If one man sins against another, God can mediate for him.
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I sin against Mike.
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We can mediate that.
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God can work that out between me and him.
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But he's saying if a man sins against God, is there a mediator? Ultimately, there's not until Christ comes.
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At this point, they would be trusting in a sinful man to intercede for them.
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That should have been something in the mind of the people, and Hebrews touches on this, that every time they went to the tabernacle or to the temple, they're taking their sacrifice and giving it to another sinful man.
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They're sinners, giving a sinner a sacrifice to intercede for them.
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That should have been in their mind going, man, there's something fundamentally wrong with this.
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Someone who had to offer a sacrifice for themselves before they could offer a sacrifice for the others.
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Yeah, and the fact that he may be worse than you.
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Obviously, Hopsi and Phineas were worse than they were.
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Go ahead.
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Kind of like Catholic confession.
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Could be.
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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When they go in.
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Yeah, you're scraping yourself clean.
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Confessing your sins to another sinful man.
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Yeah, in and of itself, and this is another subject for another time, but in and of itself, I don't have a problem with someone confessing sins one to another because we are commanded to do that.
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Confess your sins one to another.
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But I'm not going, if you had a funny collar on, I'm not coming to you thinking that you can absolve me of my sins, but I don't have a problem with someone, the actual confession to one another.
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You understand? But those people confessing their sins to that man are expecting him.
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To absolve them of their sins.
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Yes.
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Yeah, go do these funny tricks.
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And that's not.
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Yeah, that's right.
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So we know that there's a man cannot intercede, God can intercede for man to man.
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There's nobody that can intercede when a man sins against God.
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And what has these, these men done? Do they have offended God? They've offended every bit of his law.
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It says, but they would not listen to his voice for the Lord desired to put them to death.
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Now, it doesn't say that the Lord desired to put them to death because they wouldn't listen to their father.
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Does it? I'd be reading it backwards.
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It says that they wouldn't listen to the voice of their father for the Lord desired to put them to death.
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There's the reason the Lord had already planned on putting them to death.
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Therefore, they're just carrying out their depravity by being disobedient to their father.
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I would imagine these, these young men were never, um, submissive to their father.
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They were just doing whatever they wanted to do.
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And then in verse 26, it says, now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.
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And once again, here it is, Samuel.
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He brings us back to, oh man, look at this terrible time.
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Look at, um, dirtbag one, dirtbag two, look at what they're doing.
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And then we get that glimmer of hope.
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Hey, here it is, Samuel.
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He's growing in stature and favor, and he's doing it not only before the Lord, but the people are seeing that Samuel is, is a godly man.
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And verse 27, and I, where this guy comes from, do we know his name? We don't know anything about this guy, but he comes out of nowhere.
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It says, then a man of God came to Eli and he said, thus says the Lord, did I not indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh? And what would be the answer? Yes.
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Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to do my altar and to burn the incense and to carry the ephod before me? And did I not give to the house of your father all the offerings of the sons of Israel? Yes.
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Why do you kick against my sacrifice and at my offering, which I've commanded you in my dwelling and honor your sons above me? So the sin ultimately of Eli is doing what? Is idolatry.
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He's honoring his sons more than he's honoring God.
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It clearly says that.
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He would have rather his sons looked good, smelled good and ate good than to rebuke them and to remove them from the positions that they were in and him carry out those duties.
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He didn't want to do that.
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He wanted to just let his sons do their things.
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They could be put to death for breaking the law of God.
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Yeah, they could have been.
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I mean, they were committing sexual immorality and they obviously knew that because it was right there at the temple.
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What happened to fornicators and adulterers? They took them outside the camp and you start hitting them with rocks.
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That's what should have happened to them.
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Can you imagine having to do that to your kid? And that's crazy.
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And to the mosaic legislation, if your kid was a bad kid and was a drunkard, so it gives you kind of a time frame.
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We're talking about a three year old here.
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All right.
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That they were to take their kids outside the camp and stone them.
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That's tough.
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Where was I at? I'm lost.
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Why do you kick against my sacrifice? Here we are.
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Verse 30.
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Therefore, the Lord God of Israel declares, I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.
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But now the Lord declares this, for it be for me, for those who honor me, I will honor and those who desires me, I will likely esteem and behold, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will not be an old man in your house.
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You will see the distress of my dwelling and in spite of all the good that I do for Israel and an old man will not be in your house forever.
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Yet, I will not cut off every man of yours from the altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul will grieve and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.
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Understand what he's he's speaking of Hotfi and Phineas.
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They're not going to.
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They're they're in the prime of their life.
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They're young.
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They're member.
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They were serving.
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They were probably in their 30s serving in the in a tabernacle as I'm fixing to wipe him out.
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And there's not going to be anybody left to take their their place and stars their lineage.
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This will be the sign to you which will come concerning both your sons, Hotfi and Phineas on the same day.
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Both of them will die, but I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who would do according to all that my heart and my soul and I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always.
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Who's he speaking of in its immediate context? Who's that talking about? I'm sorry.
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Samuel.
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Samuel.
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He says, I'm going to raise up someone.
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Hey, they're fixing to be dead.
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I'm going to raise up for myself a faithful priest.
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That faithful priest is fixing to be Samuel.
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He's going to raise him up to take under in its immediate context.
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Now we can do that trajectory of what Cisco who's going to be the the the the great ultimate faithful priest.
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It'll be Christ.
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He will be the one that will walk before God blameless.
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He will be the one that would do all that God requires of him.
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And he says, I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always.
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Everyone who is left in your house will come down and will bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and say, please assign me to one of the priest office so that I may eat a piece of bread.
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So here it is.
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He's already made it very clear.
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Hotfi and Phineas are going to be moved from their position.
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And the day that that happens, it's going to be Samuel's going to step right in and fill that so that there is no void.
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What would look to be a void.
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There's not.
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Samuel's being prepared to take care of that.
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Imagine what Eli is doing as he is showing him how to carry out, you know, lighting of the incense, how to to to slaughter the animal, to cut out its entrails, its liver.
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If you go back and read Leviticus, I mean, there was very intricate ways in which they had to do it.
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Teach him as a young boy of how he needs to to to skin the animals so they can keep the hide, which would go to the Levitical priest.
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He is actually learning at a as a young boy to do all the things that grown 30 year old men were doing.
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And what a great what a great thing for that young boy to learn and to see and to see the wickedness which he would replace.
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We forget that.
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You don't think he saw the wickedness? Yes, ma'am.
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Could could have been.
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I think there could have been a community of that.
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But by and large, it was it was Eli because it's most likely that would be that would be the logical conclusion, because if it was the high priest, the next if, say, Eli died, the oldest top fire finish, whatever we don't know, one of them would go step into his place.
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Then when he died, the next one would come in.
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So logically, yes, he would.
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Yeah, I just didn't know if there was like a community and Eli put in charge someone to train his own son.
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I would imagine he trained his own son just because of they're probably in their 30s at this point.
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So it's all individual choice of the heart.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, yes.
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I mean, yeah.
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In the sovereign.
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Sure.
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They're responsible for their actions.
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They should have followed.
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They should have repented.
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And correct.
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Yeah, correct.
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But they didn't.
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Right.
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Because no, they did whatever they did.
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They did willfully and knowing that what they were doing was wrong.
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And they did not care.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Because they cared more about sexual immorality, filling their bellies and taking the priesthood and making themselves wealthy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I know you're not making light of it, but well, the only thing I know what you're saying.
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Yeah.
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No, we don't.
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But we know this.
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He was bad in the sense that he did not rebuke his son for what they were doing.
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Just because he comes to them and says, hey, I've heard what's been circulating about what's going on.
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Hey, what you're doing is really, you know, it's kind of bad.
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He should have removed them from their position.
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He, even though he being elderly and we'll see coming up, he's going to be probably in his 90s at this point.
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He should have removed him from their position and carried out those duties on his own, knowing that God was going to give him the strength to do that.
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But he did not.
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He did.
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He rather sit back.
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And he, you see, he's guilty, too.
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He's guilty of fattening himself up with the choiceless meat, too.
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Because he didn't, he didn't do what he was supposed to do.
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He said, all right, well, man, this is good.
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You know, I can sit back, have a plush life and live on the backs of the worshippers.
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But yeah, he was responsible.
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Yes, in the sense that ultimately, the only moral we see infraction was his not removing or rebuking his sons.
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But that was huge.
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Ma'am? Yeah.
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Well, Mosaic Law, we don't, we try, we think of it from this side of the New Testament or the New Covenant, and we go, oh, man, that would have been tough to take your sons out and stone them.
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Hey, under the Mosaic Law, they didn't have that, they didn't have that leeway.
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They were supposed to, if these were violations under the Mosaic Law, what were they supposed to do? Take them out.
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Hey, what about the guy picking up sticks on the Sabbath? I mean, think about that.
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We go, dude, he was just picking up some twigs.
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That's all he was doing.
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Yeah, but he violated God's Law, and God's Law under the Mosaic Legislation said if you do this on these days, you should have done that the day before.
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But you didn't.
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They were put to death.
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We got, yeah.
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What's that? He was from the land of Ephraim.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Yeah.
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Hey, and there is times where someone does intercede for the people when they were not in the, quote, prophetic position.
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Let's think about, think about Moses.
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Was Moses a prophet and priest for the people? Was he? Yeah.
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He did.
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He interceded for the people.
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He made sacrifice.
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But until the time that the Levitical Law was given, there was, Moses was the one in charge.
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So God did make concessions at times because there was not people to take care of that.
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You know, that's, God can do what he wants.
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Anybody? Anybody? Questions? Hey, we're going to, I think it's next week.
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Yeah.
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We're going to see where God says to Hophi and Phinehas, to his father, that their sins were never going to be atoned for.
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Never.
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So, I want you to think about that over the, I want you to read through that chapter and think about that.
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What does that say about the universal atonement? Or, universal not meaning that universal in the sense that everybody goes to heaven, but as the atonement being unlimited.
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We have an Old Testament passage, comes from God himself, that says, hey, at least two people, sins, will never be atoned for.
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At least two.
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And it's going to be Hophi and Phinehas.
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He says, not in this age or the age to come.
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That's, that tells you their condemnation was sealed.
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Yep.
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Alright.
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We done? Tim, you'll close us out, buddy? In the service of your Lord, be reminded as we move forward in worship today, Father, we pray that you will bless those who will bring us before you who sow.
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We pray that you will bless the man of God as he has labored and prepared, Father.
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And we pray that you would open our hearts to be receptive to your truth.
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We love you.
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We thank you.
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And we praise you for this time.
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In Jesus' name.