Thanks for watching!
Nehemiah chapter 9 verse 22 also says,
Moreover, thou gavest them kingdoms and nations,
and didst divide them into corners,
so they possessed the land of Sihon,
and the land of the king of Heshbon,
and the land of Og, king of Bashan.
And those, again, are the Amorites.
So, once again, I just wanted to say
that I was mistaken about that.
In my zeal to, you know, preach that sermon,
I kind of just went a little too far with it.
So, but again,
I do agree with the principles that I set forth
and the principles that I set forth
I do agree with the principles that I set forth
in that sermon, and I think that I'm right
in their motivations for what they,
why they wanted the land and all those other things
I said, but it was
of God that they took that land.
God did want them to take that land.
It wasn't just that they
weren't supposed to be there. So, anyway,
let's get into our sermon here for tonight.
First Chronicles chapter 6 verse 1, the Bible says,
And the sons of Levi, Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
So, again, we're going through the genealogy
of Levi, and so
what we know about Levi,
he's a son of Israel,
and the Bible
said of him with his,
the prophecy that came forth
of Jacob when he was
on his deathbed and he was giving
the blessings. This isn't
necessarily a blessing, but he said
of Simeon and Levi, who
remember they circumcised all the men of Shechem
because they,
you know, they
fornicated the son of
Shechem, fornicated
with Dinah,
their sister, and they circumcised them and waited
until they were sore on the third day and went and slaughtered
all the men there, killed all the men,
and then took all the women
for servants and
all their spoil
and all their animals and so on and so forth.
It says,
instruments of cruelty are in their
habitation. So,
it's interesting that God picked them to be
the priestly tribe,
that they're the ones that would carry forth
and do all the things in the tabernacle,
they would be the teaching priests and so on
and so forth, and the high
priest would be Aaron. Moses
was picked as the leader
and basically like the judge
of Israel, the first judge basically,
and like he was kind of like the
pastor, he was like the mega, the first mega
pastor in
history, so he had millions of followers
and he was
of course, the Bible says that God
spoke with him face to face,
not in dark sentences,
but as a friend would
talk to a friend. So, Moses
was a great man, Levi
not so much of a great guy,
and cruelty is
in his habitations. Of course
we know that in the end,
the priests
and the chief priests and the
scribes and the Pharisees, they
rejected Christ and
so
ultimately, they
were cruel to the
person they should not have been
cruel to, which was Christ.
So, Levi the
man, the actual man that the
tribes all named after,
he went around circumcising people against
their will, and that's what the
Levites are still doing today. They're going around
trying to circumcise people
and they don't need to, because Christ has
already come, they rejected Christ
and now they still want to make
proselytes and circumcise those
people, and the Bible says that
you know, we don't, that
circumcise doesn't avail us
anymore. We don't need to be
circumcised, but yet
circumcision is still, you know,
there's a big movement against circumcision
for not, you know,
for medical reasons, not to do
it because it's not necessary,
but it's still pushed by a lot
of people, and usually it's
for cosmetic reasons,
but there's no religious
reason to do circumcision,
but yet you'll still have that big push
today for it to be done.
A lot of people still are circumcised
today, but we're supposed to have the
circumcision of the heart,
and so that is not a physical
thing, it is
a spiritual thing. So,
so yeah, the
Levites end up being
pretty cruel in the end to Christ,
rejected him, tortured
him, hung him on the cross,
you know, they had the Romans do
their dirty work for them, so,
but of course they have the great Levites,
they had Moses, they had Aaron, they had
Miriam, and many, many
other great Levites were
down in the line of the
Levites as well. Way more
than I can even get into tonight in one sermon.
Definitely not going to cover all the verses
tonight, but I do want to talk about a
couple great Levites tonight and specifically
focus on one, but I do
want to kind of give you
a basic outline of
how they were supposed to operate
in the Old Testament, so
um, let's
see, so
Kohath is
one of the sons of Levi, Gershon,
and Merari, so he had three sons.
Now,
let's turn to Numbers chapter 4 verse number 1.
Numbers chapter
4 verse number 1, and this is where
the Bible explains what the
what these sons, so
the sons of Levi were divided
into three sections that
they were supposed to take care of the priestly
duties once the law came
to pass. And Moses
and Aaron were
were of Kohath,
but not all sons
born to Kohath were
the high priests. It was only Aaron
and his sons that were the priests,
okay? So any of
Moses'
dad, Amram, he
had multiple sons
and only Aaron was the high
priest, and then his sons
then it started passing on to
their sons and so on and so forth.
So, but Kohath
look what it says
in
Numbers 4, 1, it says
And the Lord spake unto Moses, and said unto
Aaron, saying, Take the sum of the sons of
Kohath from among the sons of Levi
after their families by the
house of their fathers,
from thirty years
old and upward even until
fifty years old. So
and this is
the same thing for each tribe
that they're basically they're supposed
to start serving
and doing this work when they're thirty years
old to fifty years old.
How long is that? That's twenty years, right?
So people say, well there's no
retirement when you're serving the Lord. Well
there kind of was.
You know
because think about what they're doing
and this is the same like in construction
and heavy labor
jobs a lot of times like if you're a union or something
and you work for a municipality
or something you'll have like twenty or
thirty year retirements.
That's because you know if you do the same job
day in and day out every single day
your parts are going to wear out.
And you can only hammer nails
or drill holes or
shovel and dig for so long
before your body begins to wear out.
So
they had a twenty year service when
it came to these things. But
if they're born into a priest's family
their family was supposed to live off
the tithe so whoever was doing
these jobs their whole family
lived off of those tithes. So if they
had one or ten kids
then they still lived off that
and so that's how
these priests, this
priestly tribe lived
by the tithe. So but anyway
just wanted to point that out. It says
and all that enter into the host
to do the work in the tabernacle of the
congregation. So this tribe
here they worked
amongst the holy things.
So they only could go
into these holy places.
The actual inside of the tabernacle
the other tribal members
could not go into
there unless they
had already had everything all covered
up and everything was taken
down. So
look what it says. It says this shall be the service
of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle
of the congregation about the most
holy things. And when
the camp set it forward Aaron
shall come and his sons and they shall take
down the covering veil
and the cover of the ark of the testimony with
it. And it shall put there on the
covering of badger's skin and shall spread
over it a cloth holy of blue
and shall put in the staves thereof. So
they had to prepare everything to move
so remember they had to move that
tabernacle multiple times.
And any time they went to move
it Aaron and his sons had to
come and cover everything
with those special coverings. The badger's
skin, the blue
and whatever else it says here
the holy and then they
had to put the staves in. Only the
priest could do that. Only the high priest
and his sons could touch those things.
Until all that
stuff was done and then other people
would come in and move it. It says
and upon the table of showbread they shall
spread a cloth of blue
and put the dishes and the spoons and the bowls
and cover it withal and the
continual bread shall be thereon.
And they shall spread upon them
a cloth of scarlet and cover
the same with the covering of badger's
skin and shall put it in the staves thereof.
And they shall take a cloth
of blue and cover the candlestick
of the light and his lamps
and his tongs and his snuff dishes
and all the oil vessels thereof
wherewith they minister unto it.
And they shall put it and all the
vessels thereof within a covering of badger's
skins and shall put it
upon a bar. And upon
the golden altar they shall spread
a cloth of blue and cover
it with the covering of badger's skins
and shall put to the staves
thereof. And they shall take
all the instruments of ministry
wherewith they minister in the sanctuary and
put them in a cloth of blue
and cover them with a covering of badger's
skin and shall put them on a bar.
And they shall take away
the ashes from the altar and spread a purple
cloth thereof. And they shall put
it upon all the vessels
thereof wherewith they minister about
even the censors, the flesh hooks and the
shovels and the basins and all the vessels
of the altar and shall spread upon
it a covering of badger's skin
and put to the staves
of it. And when Aaron and his sons
have made an end of covering the
sanctuary and all the vessels in the sanctuary
as the camp is set forward
after that
the sons of Kohath shall come
to bear it. So
the other sons
of Kohath, the ones that are related
to them but not the sons of Aaron
they're the ones that are allowed to
come and move that stuff and only
them. It can't be the
sons of Gershon and the other
ones
that are sons of Kohath.
It had to be
specific ones.
Well it says the sons of Kohath shall
come and bear it that they shall
not touch any holy thing lest they die.
These things are the burdens of the son of Kohath
in the tabernacle of the congregation.
So Aaron
and his sons were the priests that performed the
sacrifice and they did the
lighting and the work on the inside.
They had to cover it. Nobody was allowed
to look at that stuff. Because remember
only Aaron
could go in once a year to even look
inside and put the blood on the
mercy seat and all that stuff.
So all that stuff
had to be covered up and specifically
you had to put the staves in so they
could move that stuff.
And remember David made that new cart
and he put the Ark of the Covenant on it
and Uzzah
he touched the Ark when it was about
to fall and God killed
him for it because they were not
first of all they weren't supposed to move it on that
on that cart and then
he wasn't supposed to touch the Ark.
And when he did that God killed him for it
and it was really David's fault
because he should have never let him move it like that.
So this is serious business
it might not seem like a big deal but when God
says to do something a certain way that's what he
means. He means what he says. Now
Gershom is the other son.
It says in verse 24
this is the service of the families of the Gershonites
to serve and for burdens
and they shall bear the curtain of the tabernacle
and the tabernacle of the congregation
his covering and the covering of the badger skins
that is above
upon it and the hanging for the door
and the tabernacle of the congregation
and the hangings of the court and the hanging for the door
of the gate of the court
which is by the tabernacle and by the altar
roundabout and their cords and all the
instruments of their service and all that is made
for them so shall they
serve. So that's their service, the curtains
the tabernacle, all that other stuff, right?
And at the appointment
of Aaron and his sons
shall it be all the service of the sons of the
Gershonites in all their burdens
and in all their service
and he shall appoint unto them
in their charge all
their burdens. This is the service
of all the families
of the sons of Gershon and the
tabernacle of the congregation and their charge shall be
under the hand of Ithamar
the son of Aaron the priest.
I think Ithamar was the fourth son
of Aaron. His first two
were killed and then
by the Lord because they offered strange
fire then
Eleazar his other son
became the next priest
and then Ithamar his other
son was in charge of that. Okay.
So Marari is the other
son and
verse 31 explains what his charge is
and this is the charge of their burden
according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation
the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof
and the pillars thereof
and the sockets thereof. So they're in charge
of all that stuff and the
pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their
pins and their cords and all their instruments
with all their service and by name
you shall reckon the instruments
of the charge of their burden.
So that's how it's divided up.
Only the sons of Kohath
and you know so
does that make sense? So they had
only these certain people were allowed to
touch this stuff.
This is how the Levites' burden
was divided.
Now Korah
if you remember Korah in the Bible
when he tries to start that
rebellion against Moses
Korah was not one of the
priests
he was not of Aaron
he was of one of the other
sons and so he was not allowed
to offer incense
and he was saying well we're all holy
so he was trying to take the job of the
priest and that's why
God destroyed everybody
that was with Korah
because Korah was trying to do a job that wasn't
his job. He was
trying to overthrow Moses
and overthrow the leadership and overthrow
the order of things
and that's why he was destroyed.
But his descendants lived on
and served God some of them
being really great servants of God.
So let's go back to
1 Chronicles chapter 6 look at verse number 2
the Bible says
and the sons of Kohath
Amram
Amram is the father of
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Look at it
it says Amram, Ishar
and Hebron and Uzziel. So
Kohath had multiple
sons. So it's
Levi his sons
Kohath and then
Amram, Ishar
Hebron and Uzziel
and then the children of Amram, Aaron
and Moses and Miriam
and the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu
Eleazar and
Ithamar. Remember Nadab, Abihu
killed and then
Eleazar and Ithamar
lived on. Eleazar begets
Phineas
and I believe Phineas is the one that
killed the whore in the tent
I think he threw the javelin
and killed the Moabitess
and the guy that she was with
fornicating
and stopped the wrath of the lord
Phineas begets Abishua
Abishua begets Buki
Buki begets Uzi and Uzi begets
Zerahiah
and let's see
Zerahiah begets Merahiah
Merahiah begets Amoriah
and Amoriah begets Ahayatub
Ahayatub begets Zadok
Zadok begets Ahimeas
and of course
this is the one that is running
and trying to bring the news to David
and they say I think that his running is like
the running of Ahimeas
and then Ahimeas begets Azariah
Azariah begets Johanan
Johanan begets Azariah
He it is that executed the priest office
in the temple that Solomon built
in Jerusalem
Azariah begets Amoriah
Amoriah begets Ahayatub
Ahayatub begets Zadok
Zadok begets Shalom
Zadok begets Sarahiah
Sarahiah begets Jehozadek
Jehozadek went into captivity
when the Lord carried away Judah
and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
so this has given you
all the high priests
all the way down to
Nebuchadnezzar
so now we're going to get
where it's going to start over and start retelling
some of the details of some of these guys
and their family divisions
and it's going to start helping us
with some
some people
that you might not understand until we kind of go through this
but look at verse 16
it says the sons of Levi
Gershom, Kohath, and Merari
so this is the
division where you get
the priests and what we just talked about
all these guys are the ones
that are going to be the servants
that do the things in the tabernacle
or for the tabernacle
the sons of Gershom, these be the names
of the sons of Gershom, Libnai and Shimei
sons of Kohath
the sons of Kohath were
Amram, Ishar, Hebron, Uzziel
sons of Merari
Mali, Mushi
and these are the families of the Levites
according to their fathers
of Gershom, Libnai the son of Jehath
his son Zima, his son Joah
his son Edo
his son Zerah
his son Jeotariah
his son
the sons of Kohath
Amenadab, his son Korah
so this is the Korah that rebelled
against Moses right here
so the sons of Kohath
Amenadab, his son Korah
so Korah, his son
Esir, his son
Elkanah, his son
now there's going to be a bunch of Elkanas here in the next
few verses, these aren't the same guys
these are multiple Elkanas
apparently this is a very popular name
you'll notice that there's repeat names throughout this
you know, there's different Zadox
there's different, so
there's like three different Elkanas
right here, and apparently
you know, it's because like, remember Zechariah
when it came, when
John the Baptist was supposed to be named
they're telling his
mom, no
you're not going to name him John
because nobody in your family's named that
and then like Zechariah
writes on his little
notepad, his name is
John, and then he was able to
speak again, remember, so
apparently that was kind of a big thing, like they're telling
his mom, you know, you're not naming him that, it's kind of weird
right, people
if you did that in America, they'd be like
get out of here, you know, what are you doing
you're no longer part of this conversation
don't ever talk to me again
anyway, so
Korah, he is
one of the, he is
part of the, he's part of the crew
that picks the stuff up
after the priest cover everything
up, they come in and move
the stuff, so he doesn't
like being the beast of burden so to speak
he doesn't like being the one, it's not good enough
for him to just be
one of the priests, he wants
he wants the priesthood also
he wants to, he doesn't want to be
a moving priest, he doesn't want to be a
laborer, even though he only has to do it for 20
years, he wants to be
the one that brings the incense, he wants
to be one of the special ones
he wants to be out
in front of everybody
he's really popular
too, because it says those guys are men of renown
very popular in the congregation, right
and these are the kind of guys that usually
end up turning against
leadership anyway
so, anyway
it says in verse 23
Asir, his son
Elkanah, his son
Abi-Asaf, his son
Tahath, his son
Uriel, his son
Uzziah, his son
Shaul, his son
and the sons of Elkanah
Amasi and Ahima
As for Elkanah
the sons of Elkanah
Zophiah, his son
Nahath, his son
Eliab, his son
Joram, his son
Elkanah, his son
so you see how it's repeating the names
his sons Elkanah also
so it's like junior or whatever
and the sons of Samuel
the first
born Vashni and
Abia
so this
part here where it's mentioning
Samuel, and maybe you've already heard this
before, but this is how we
know, and the only way
we know, that Samuel
was in fact a Levite
I'm talking about Samuel
the prophet, Samuel
the one that was
given, lent to the Lord
for the rest of his life
by his mother Hannah
the guy that's named
the book is named 1 Samuel
and 2 Samuel, that guy
he's actually a Levite
so this is how we know
he's a Levite, because the book of 1 Samuel
does not tell you that, the book of 2 Samuel
does not tell you that, we only know this
because of 1 Chronicles
now
it says in
well, let's go ahead and turn it over to
1 Samuel chapter 1
but there's some
controversy with this
and if you just kind of look it up for yourself
later on, like
was Samuel a Levite?
you're going to get a lot of different stories
out there, but the reason
why is because the modern
Bible versions will
try to tell you he's an Ephraim
they'll say
he's from Ephraim
almost every Bible version out there
will tell you
that he's actually from Ephraim
and that, you know, they'll give you
all these dumb reasons, they'll basically say
it's a contradiction that can't be fixed
or, you know
they'll give a bunch of other dumb reasons, but
the fact
of the matter is, is that their
Bible version is wrong, that's
why they think that
and I'll show you here in just a minute
so, can I get
some people to actually
you're in your Bible right now, but if anybody has a
smartphone that they'd like to look up, who wants to look up
the NIV version for me real quick?
anybody?
in a smartphone?
Sean, okay, who's going to do the New King James for me?
Brando
amplified version
CJ
NASB
1 Samuel 1
NASB
Jeremy, okay
so you guys are looking that up
so, the modern versions
you have this
major contradiction
because either 1 Chronicles
is right
or 1 Samuel's
right
in their version, okay
but the King James, there's no controversy
because the King James is right, you just have to know
how to read, okay
that's the thing, you just have to know how to read
and then you have no controversy
here whatsoever
because God's word is perfect
and if you've got a
King James Bible, you've got a perfect Bible
if you read English
you should have no problem, so
if you read English and
Spanish, you have no problem, right?
so 1 Samuel chapter 1 in the King James
look at what it says there, it says
now there was a certain man of Ramoth
Amzofim
but, just look at the first part of that word
see how it says Ramath, right there
that's just the full name
maybe it's just
the longer name of that, but
have you seen that name Ramath before?
okay, I just want you to see that
now there was a certain man of
Ramoth
Amosfim
so this is a town
of Mount Ephraim
Mount Ephraim is a mountain, isn't it?
so it's a town
on a mountain, right?
and his name was Elkanah
oh, isn't that from 1 Chronicles?
isn't there a guy named Elkanah in that?
yeah, the son
of Joram
the son
of Elihu, the son
of Tohu, the son of
Zaph, and Ephrathite
and Ephrathite
I'll say it like that, that's better
and Ephrathite
Ephra-
ite
Ephrathite
okay, now
I'll address that
here in just a minute, but
who had the NIV?
read it for us, read it loud
there was a certain man
from Ramoth Am
Zophar
from the hill country of Ephraim
whose name was Elkanah
the son of Joram
the son of Elihu
the son of
Tohu, the son of Zoph
an Ephraimite
an Ephraimite, is that what it says?
what did the King James say?
an Ephrathite
so is there a difference between
an Ephrathite and an Ephraimite?
yes there is
an Ephraimite
is somebody from the tribe of
Ephraim, right? there's
12 tribes, there's 12 sons of Israel
Ephraim was one of the half tribes
and so if you're an Ephraimite
that means that you're from
the tribe of Ephraim
so who got the new King James?
Brandon, read it loud
loud
an Ephraimite
so okay we got
the NIV saying Ephraimite
we got the new King James saying Ephraimite
we got the King James saying
Ephrathite
who's got the amplified?
CJ, read the amplified
really loud because it's the amplified
Bible, go ahead
an Ephraimite
so there's another modern version
saying the same thing
who got the NASB? Jeremy, go ahead
an Ephraimite
so all the modern versions say Ephraimite
right?
but we're in 1 Chronicles
and
who does it say that Samuel
is related to?
it says that he's related to Elkanah
and we're in a
we're reading the sons
of the Levites
is it the sons of the Ephraimites
that we're reading tonight?
it's the sons of the Levites
1 Chronicles
chapter 2 verse 50 says
these are the sons of Caleb, the son of her
the firstborn of Ephrathah
Shobel, the father
of Kerjath-Jurim
so
Caleb, who was of what tribe?
Judah
he became
of the part of Judah
remember he was a Kenite or whatever
and he became part of the tribe of Judah
he had a son named Hur
and the firstborn
of Ephrathah
so Ephrathah is also tied to the name of Bethlehem
so Bethlehem Ephrathah
is what it's called
so if you're an Ephrathite
then that means that you
hail from that town
doesn't mean that
you're an Ephraimite
it's a pretty big mistake isn't it?
it's a pretty big blunder
to me that would mean
you do have a contradiction
and so these bozos will just
go and
dig themselves deeper
and really what they do is
they just basically have to say
that the Bible is wrong
they have to say that the Bible
the scribe
Ezra, the scribe, made a mistake
and the word of God
is a mistake
and that he is actually
from Ephraim
and just because you live someplace
just because it describes a place where you lived
or describes a place
where you were born
it doesn't mean that's the tribe that you were in
because the Levites had no inheritance
and if you were
paying attention at all during the end of it
it's telling about all the different places
and the suburbs which they inherited
in
it's like they had different places
in the different 12 tribes where they had
the suburbs that they lived in
and so just because
Elkanah lived on Mount Ephraim
it doesn't mean
that he was an Ephraimite
but see they'll see words that look the same
they'll go oh he has to be an Ephraimite
that's a scribal error
they just want to put in
what they want to put in
because they're too stupid to know what the difference
between Ephrata
and Ephraim is
because they see a mountain that's
named Ephraim and so they say
he's got to be an Ephraimite
but just because that mountain
is called Mount Ephraim doesn't mean all the places
in it are of the tribe
of Ephraim in fact they're not
and in fact
that place where Samuel lived
and the place where Elkanah lived
are the same place
that place Rama
is where Samuel actually made
his home later it's the same place
where his parents lived
it's the same place where he circuited
and came back to
and I'll show you that verse later
but it's actually
kind of confusing
where it's at but I believe
it's actually in Benjamin
because Saul lived in Gibeah
and which is really close
to Rama but all those
places are really close together
and even Jerusalem is actually
was in Benjamin
I think it's kind of split
where part of it might be in
Judah but when you look at the Bible
it says that those places are listed
as places of Benjamin but anyway
that's not part of this sermon
so now
let's go back to 1 Chronicles
and let's look at verse 31
now later on David does these divisions
with the Levites
I'm not done with Samuel yet
because I think this is the most
interesting part of this whole
thing here so
David does these divisions where he divides
and makes the music ministry
more organized
and he does it with the Levites
it says
that waited with their children
of the sons of the
Kohathites
he man
master of the singing universe now
he man a singer
now see who
who is he the son of
he's the son of Joel
the son of
Shemuel
this is Samuel
the first born son
of Samuel is Joel
and remember Samuel's sons
were corrupt
he tried to make them judges when he grew old
because Samuel himself
was a judge
and he thought that it would be a good
idea to put his sons in there but they took bribes
they were corrupt and then the people
were like hey you know we can't
really count on these people anymore give us a king
and so really
that's kind of made the people
choose a king like all
the other nations right
this kind of does
a reverse order
of
the sons that go back
to Levi
starting with he man
he man
a singer the son of Joel the son of
Shemuel so Shemuel is just a different
spelling but it's still Samuel
the son of Elkanah
so was Samuel the son of Elkanah? yes he was
the son of Joram
the son of Eliel
the son of Toa just a different
spelling same guy the son of
Zaph different spelling
same guy the son of Elkanah another Elkanah
remember so it's going to reverse order
the son of Mahath
the son of Amasiah the son of Elkanah
the other Elkanah three Elkanas just like
over just a few
a few
people up there the son of
Tahaf the son of Esir the son of
Abiasaph the son of Korah
the son of Ishar
the son of Kohath the son of Levi
the son of Israel
is there any doubt in your mind
that this is the same Samuel
that's in 1 Samuel chapter 1
this
proves that he was a Levi
beyond the shadow of a doubt
right? it's
not even I mean it's not even up
for debate it tells us
in the
descending order and then it goes backwards
it's like here let me tell you
forwards and backwards
that Samuel
is a Levi let me spell his name
different too let me put all three
Elkanas in descending order
and backwards order
for you too
I mean and then you go to 1 Samuel
and it tells you exactly the same people
that he's related to and then we have the
story of Hannah in
first you know remember he had
Elkanah had other
wives and the wives were mocking him
were mocking Hannah
and Hannah was upset
and Hannah went before the Lord
and was praying and her
mouth was moving but she wasn't
praying out loud and Eli marked her mouth
and he saw that she was praying and he thought
she was wasted right?
and he's like how long will you be drunk in you daughter of Belial
and she was like I'm not drunk
you know or he didn't call her daughter of Belial
but she says do you count me a daughter of Belial
sorry I'm preaching wrong again
alright so
embellishing sorry
so she
prays to the Lord for a child
and God promises that she's going to have a child
so Samuel is a
promised son
and he pictures Jesus Christ
because Jesus
is all in all for us also
he is a prophet
he is a priest and he is a king
and Samuel is the same thing
in a lot of ways
because if you think about it Samuel
he started he got
lent to the Lord
he's in the right family but he's not
he's not a son of Aaron
so he can't be the high priest
but he still
is lent to the Lord
and he
ministers to the Lord with Eli
and his sons
are wicked right
so and then he gets called
to be a prophet and he actually has to
preach against his adopted
dad Eli
he's like tell it to me true tell it to me straight
and then he has to tell him like
so that's how you knew Samuel was the man
because he told it to him exactly
he didn't want to tell him but he's just like just tell me
then you see Samuel
as the judge
and then the people reject
you know they reject his
sons and so
then you see also that he
kills people
he chops Agag up into pieces
he anoints two kings
he anoints Saul and he anoints
David but he's
all three he's
the law of the land he's
the prophet and he's also
one that can make sacrifices
and does the office of a priest
he's not the high priest
but he does the office of a priest
and he's in the family
and able to do that because
people will probably say well
how come Samuel is able to do all these
things because the Bible
doesn't tell us why he's able to do those things
unless you have
unless you study this chapter
you're never going to know that
so like why are the genealogies important
why do we preach stuff like this
because without this chapter
you don't know
you're never going to know and you're like well I don't care
well you should care because
you know the difference is
there's a bunch of people out there being taught
that the NIV
is superior to the King James because it has
the older manuscripts
were translated. No
the NIV is trash
the new King James is trash
all those versions that I should and look
I could have gone to multiple versions
there's a you know
I just I have to say this
and I hate to say it but it's true
the ESV actually got it right
one thing they got right
but they did
so at least they were honest in that one
but one of the footnotes
and I think in the amplified version
that it has a little B
next to it and when you kind of
hover over the B
it tells you that he isn't actually
an Ephraimite
so then why do you translate it like that
they say he isn't actually
an Ephraimite
then why translate it like that
why put it in there and lie to people
and you have to go to a little
like a little thing
in the bottom of the page in the actual Bible to see
that and like it's a big
commentary that you have to look at
but why lie
because they just want
to be like everybody else
bunch of liars, false prophets
so
anyway
so then
cause you probably heard of Asaph so his brother
was Asaph
and I'm talking about
a B man so
and it says his brother Asaph who stood on the right hand
even Asaph the son of Barakiah
the son of Shimei
so how was
Samuel able to wear the linen ephod
cause he wears a linen ephod right
well
because he was lent to the Lord all the days
of his life when Hannah had the child
she promised that she would give
Samuel to the Lord all the days of his life
so once he was
weaned what did she do she brought him up to the
house of the Lord she gave him his
little coat and every year
she came up and brought him his new
coat that he was to minister with
so he was lent to the
Lord for the rest of his life and
so because he was in the right family
he was allowed to go into those
places and minister to the Lord
he just I don't think
he was allowed to do the
burnt sacrifices and put the blood
you know he wasn't allowed to do the high priest
job but he was
able to do some of those things
and he was able to work
with Eli Eli trained him to do
the things in the house of the Lord
he could do certain things because
he was at the house he was
in the right house he wasn't Gershom
or Merari
he was a coethite
so
and it was it's possible that he was
you know pretty much adopted by
Eli I mean he raised him
his whole life once a year
Hannah came up to see him once a year Hannah came
I mean so who's raising
him it's Eli he's
basically his adopted dad so I mean
if anybody was going to dispute anything
he's got his genealogy
and he's got the fact
that he raises him so
again I don't think he did the high
priest duties
but he did do some of the priestly
duties because he was able to
so and Samuel was special
he was a different guy there's nobody
else in the Bible that did the things
that he did except
for you know I mean Moses was able to do
the prophet the priest
and judgments but
you know he didn't
continuously do them
but you know Samuel after he was called to be
the prophet not
long after I mean when Eli and his
sons died in the same day the Ark
was taken away remember
and then another
guy took over once the
Ark finally came back so Samuel didn't
do the work in the tabernacle
anymore after that he was
just doing that circuit where he'd go
around he was judging and he
was the prophet so
he didn't keep doing that but he did
still do sacrifices didn't he
and he was able to do that
because there was no
there was no nothing stopping him from doing that
think about Manoah
Samson's dad the angel of the Lord
told him to do a sacrifice
and he did it and
you know as long as you didn't make steps
up to the altar and he built the altar the way that God
said to do it you're allowed to do that Elijah
what gave him the right to
do it well he was a prophet so
he was allowed to do that and he destroyed
the prophets of Baal in the meantime
but that was like a special deal but Samuel
built an altar at
his house and was able to do
the sacrifices so
he had some special privileges
look at 1 Samuel chapter 7
verse 15 1 Samuel chapter 7
verse 15
1 Samuel chapter 7 verse 15
The Bible says and Samuel judged
Israel all the days of
his life and he went from
year to year in circuit
to Bethel and Gilgal
and Mispa and judged
Israel in all those places
and his return was
to Ramah for there was
his house and there he
judged Israel and there he built
an altar unto the Lord
so he judged Israel and
he was also doing sacrifices
turn to 1 Samuel chapter 3
verse 19 1 Samuel 3
19
I mean he was a pretty
integral part of the Bible
he was a pretty important person
in the Bible
I mean to have two books
named after him, pretty cool
even though he wasn't really in 2 Samuel
I don't think
but
he's still pretty integral in the Bible
anyway 1 Samuel 3 19 says
and Samuel grew and the Lord was with him
and did let none of his
words fall to the ground
and all Israel from Dan even
to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of the Lord
and the Lord appeared again
in Shiloh for the Lord revealed
himself to Samuel in Shiloh
by the word of the Lord
so everybody knew
that Samuel was a prophet
turn to 1 Samuel chapter 2 verse 12
1 Samuel chapter 2 verse 12
and another reason I
believe that God allowed
Samuel to, you know I think
that Samuel came at a time
when God needed him to come
just like all the other judges
that came in Israel because remember
Samuel also was the last judge
of Israel
so once he was done then it came Saul
and then the kings were after that
and every time a judge
came up it was for a specific reason
he would raise up saviors, he would raise up
judges because
the children of Israel needed help
1 Samuel chapter 2 verse 12
it says, now the sons of Eli
were sons of Belial
so they were straight up devils
right, they were wicked as hell
they knew not the Lord
and the priest's custom with the people
was that when any man offered sacrifice
the priest's servant came
while the flesh was in seething with a
flesh hook of three teeth in his hand
and he struck it in the pan
or kettle or cauldron or pot
all the flesh hook brought up
the flesh, the priest
took for himself so they did
in Shiloh all
the Israelites that came
also before they burnt
the fat the priest's servant
came and said to the man that sacrificed
give flesh to roast for the priest
for he will not have sodden
flesh of thee but raw
and if any man said
unto him let him not
fail to burn the fat presently
and then take as much as I
so desireth then he would answer him
nay but thou shalt give it me
now and if not
I will take it by force
so they're basically just like strong
arming people when they're coming to give their offering
not taking the sacrifices
the way they're supposed to
not offering the sacrifices
they were supposed to burn the fat
and they were just taking it
and doing whatever they wanted
they were taking the best parts
and they were just, you know, they were wicked
it says in verse 17
wherefore the sin of the young men
was very great before the Lord
but Samuel ministered before the Lord
see it says but
see that but there
it's a reason why God
picked Samuel because it says but
Samuel ministered before the Lord
being a child girded with a linen ephod
moreover his mother
made him a little coat and brought it to him
from year to year when she came up with her husband
to offer the yearly sacrifice
and Eli blessed
Elkan and his wife and said
the Lord give thee seed of this woman
for the loan which is lent to the Lord
and they went unto their own home
so I believe that Samuel
also was supposed to be
kind of a replacement for these guys
because they're so wicked
and that he's raised up at a time
when they're needed most
because the ones that are helping
Eli, because Eli wasn't a bad guy
himself, he was
a godly man except for he just wasn't
restraining his sons
and he, you know
he was taken away
his line was taken away
from the priesthood because he refused
to set his son straight
he did correct them but he didn't do it
in time and he didn't do it
good enough. He probably should have just
took them out of the priesthood
and put somebody else in but God
I believe this is God just
seeing the need
he orchestrates things for his
will and I believe that he did it
in this case also
let's go back to our text here we're almost done
I'm definitely not going through
the rest of these verses so don't worry
look at verse 48
but
I think the life of Samuel is just
I just can't even do it justice
he just did so much for God
people highly respected
Samuel too
he was pretty gangster too, people were afraid of him
like when he came to town people were like
is it peace?
they trembled
when Samuel came to town
and even when he was an old man
he was an old man when he was going to make
his sons
the judges
and then he's still chopping
people up into pieces
he must have been still pretty strong being an old man
he's like if they can't do it I guess I'm going to have to chop these people up
chopped up
egg egg into pieces
I mean
he must have had a sharp sword
and he must have been pretty strong still
an old guy
that old geezer could swing that sword still pretty hard
so look at verse 48
it says
their brethren also the Levites were appointed
unto all manner of service
of the tabernacle of the house
of God
but Aaron and his sons offered up
upon the altar of the burnt offering
and on the altar of incense and were appointed
for all the work of the place most holy
and to make an atonement for Israel
according to all that Moses the servant of God
commanded
so again these guys are the only ones
that are allowed to make those offerings
and it says
that these are the sons of Aaron
Eliezer his son Phinehas
his son Abishua his son
Uki his son
Uzi his son
Zerahiah his son Uki his son Uzi his son
Zerahiah his son
Moriah his son
Amoriah his son
Ahayatab his son
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles
and their coasts and the sons of Aaron and the families
of the Kohathites for theirs
was the lot so
I'm not going to go through the rest of this but
again just
for the context
of how I
went to the things of Samuel
if you really kind of carefully read through this
you're going to see that there was places
for
in the place of Benjamin there was places
for the different sons
of Kohath
and different places and the sons for
you know all these different places look at verse
666
it says the residue
the families of the sons of Kohath
had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim
so
they did some people did have
places in the tribe
of Ephraim so not necessarily
you know Mount Ephraim
had some places in Ephraim there's also
in the verse above it it says the children
of Benjamin these cities which
are called by their names
verse 73 in Ramoth
and with her suburbs so there's places
where the Levites
had in Ramoth
which is where Elkan is from
which is where Samuel
lives so with that let's close on a word of prayer
Heavenly Father we thank you Lord
so much for the scriptures and Lord
just the great things we can learn
from all these
passages
with all these names and all these
chronicles of men and Lord the great things
we can learn about your prophet Samuel
Lord in this chapter and
I pray Lord that we would
treasure and love our King James Bibles
even more when we see things like these
and see with the modern perversions
of your so called
word it's not really your word
but I pray that we would just appreciate
the Bibles that we have and the fact that we can
have multiple copies of it
and I pray that we would read it and treasure it
more every single day
and Lord we'd study to show ourselves
approved unto you Lord
the things
that you'd be pleased
with us Lord
and that we would do diligent
study and search
to find out the treasures and
nuggets that are inside your book Lord
pray that we just keep continuing to read it
over and over again for the rest of our lives
Lord it's in Jesus name we pray Amen
For a last song this evening
nothing between
three hundred four
nothing between
page three oh four
on the first
nothing between
my soul and the Savior
nothing between
my soul and the Savior
not of this world's
delusive dream
I have
renounced all sinful
pleasure
Jesus is mine
there's nothing between
nothing between
my soul and the
Savior so that
his blessed face
may be seen
nothing preventing
the least of his favor
keep the way
clear there's nothing
between
nothing between
like worldly pleasure
habits of life
though harmless they seem
must not my
heart from him ever
sever
he is my all
there's nothing between
nothing between
my soul and the Savior
so that his
blessed face may
be seen nothing
preventing the least
of his favor
keep the way clear
there's nothing between
nothing between
like pride
or like station
self or friend
shall not intervene
though it may cost
me much tribulation
I am
resolved there's nothing
between
nothing between
my soul and the Savior
so that his
blessed face may be
seen nothing
preventing the least
of his favor
keep the way clear
let nothing between
nothing between
and many
hard trials though the
whole world against
me convene
watching with prayer
and much self-denial
I'll triumph at last
with nothing between
nothing between
my soul
and the Savior
so that his blessed
face may be seen
nothing preventing
the least of his
favor keep the
way clear let
nothing between
Amen. It's great to see you this evening
and great singing. We'll see you back
here Sunday morning.
Brother Eli, you want to end us with a word of prayer?
Amen.