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Scripture: 1 Samuel 3:1-4:1a I. Sometimes God speaks rarely. A. We see God spoke rarely in Israel when Samuel was a boy in 1 Sam. 3:1. But we move in this chapter from a nation where the word of God was rare to a place where the word of God reached all Israel in 1…
May 16, 2021 Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:11-36 I. God will bring low the proud in His house. A. When people came to the tabernacle seeking forgiveness from God, they would bring an animal to sacrifice. According to Leviticus 7:28-36, the priests were supposed to receive the breast and the right leg of the animal so…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:1-10 I. God’s king will defeat his arrogant enemies, but he will give victory to his faithful ones. A. Hannah’s prayer begins with a focus on herself. Look at the personal pronoun she uses over and over again in vs. 1. But notice then who Hannah brags about in verse 2. She…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:9-20 I. You know God hears because God is the Lord of hosts. A. In vs. 11 Hannah calls God, “O LORD of hosts.” This is the very first time in the Bible that this name for God is used in prayer. What does the name LORD of hosts mean? He is…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 1: 1-8 Judges 21:25: “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” I. A heart for God can begin with the pain of provocation. A. 1 Samuel begins with the words, “There was a certain man.” This man Elkanah is not going…
Scripture: John 20:11-18 I. You no longer need to weep on Easter because you know the love of Jesus. A. Outside of the events surrounding Jesus’ death and resurrection, there is only one other place in the Bible where Mary Magdalene is mentioned: Luke 8:2. That verse says that seven demons had gone out of Mary…
Scripture: Matthew 27: 45-50 I. Jesus was abandoned to pay for your sins. A. We see what happens at the cross in vs. 45: “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” God had promised that there would be a judgment on Israel for her sins in…
Scripture: Matthew 8: 23-27 I. You don’t have to be afraid because Jesus is God. A. When Jesus steps into the boat with His disciples in Matthew 8:23, He does not particularly look like God. He looks very human. He sleeps through a storm because of exhaustion (vs. 24). But in their terror from the…
February 28, 2021 Scripture: John 2:1-12 I. Jesus has to do with dying for our sins to erase our shame. A. We see the setting for Jesus’ first miracle in John 2:1-2. There is a wedding at Cana in Galilee. A problem arises at the wedding which Mary mentions to Jesus in verse 3. She…
Scripture: John 5:1-15 I. Only Jesus can make you well. A. In the midst of the joy of a Jewish feast, there are some very sad people mentioned in verse 3: the blind, lame and paralyzed. One of the sad and hopeless people is described in vs. 5. He is a man who had been an…
