WEBVTT 22:35.900 --> 22:38.700 Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church. If you want to go ahead and take your 22:39.900 --> 22:44.300 hymnals, we're going to turn to page number 397. 22:46.900 --> 22:52.900 page number 397, Little as Much When God is in it. 22:58.200 --> 23:01.400 page number 397. 23:01.400 --> 23:04.400 Sing it out on the first. 23:05.900 --> 23:13.260 In the harvest field now ripen, there's a work for all to do. 23:13.260 --> 23:20.820 Hark! the voice of God is calling to the harvest calling you. 23:20.820 --> 23:28.340 Little is much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. 23:28.340 --> 23:33.820 There's a crown and you can win it if you go in... 23:33.900 --> 23:43.780 In Jesus' name does the place your call to labor seem so small and little known. 23:43.780 --> 23:51.220 It is great if God is in it and he'll not forget his own. 23:51.220 --> 23:58.820 Little is much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. 23:58.820 --> 24:01.860 There's a crown and you can win it 24:01.900 --> 24:05.660 If you'll go in Jesus name. 24:06.000 --> 24:14.000 Are you laid aside from service, body worn from toil and care? 24:14.000 --> 24:21.700 You can still be in the battle, in the sacred place of prayer. 24:21.700 --> 24:29.600 Little is much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. 24:29.600 --> 24:34.000 There's a crown and you can win it if you're 24:34.000 --> 24:45.360 go in Jesus name when the conflict here is ended and a race on earth is run he 24:45.360 --> 24:54.280 will say to all the faithful welcome home my child well done little is much 24:54.280 --> 25:02.000 when God is in it labor not for wealth or fame there's a 25:02.000 --> 25:10.520 crown and you can win it if you go in Jesus name. 25:10.520 --> 25:11.520 Alright, excellent singing everybody. 25:11.520 --> 25:13.520 But the pulcher please open yourself in a word of prayer. 25:22.700 --> 25:28.540 Amen. All right, if you want to take your hand rolls and turn to page number 170. 25:30.300 --> 25:33.980 Page number 170. 25:37.800 --> 25:45.900 page number 170 hallelujah what a savior 25:50.500 --> 25:57.500 sing it out on the first. 26:21.700 --> 26:33.300 place condemned he stood sealed my pardon with his blood hallelujah what a 26:33.300 --> 26:47.300 Savior guilty vile and helpless we spotless lamb of God was he 26:47.400 --> 26:50.640 Full atonement can... 27:01.300 --> 27:03.300 Was he to die? 27:07.100 --> 27:21.780 his cry now in heaven exalted high hallelujah what a Savior when he comes 27:21.780 --> 27:33.800 our glorious King all his ransom home to bring then knew this song 27:34.000 --> 27:35.840 sing hallelujah. 27:42.000 --> 27:43.000 Thanks for watching. 27:43.000 --> 27:44.000 We'll see you next time. 27:44.000 --> 27:45.000 Bye. 27:49.000 --> 27:53.720 Alright, good evening everybody and welcome to Church Foundation Baptist Church. Our first of the week is Matthew 11 11 27:53.720 --> 27:55.980 Which says, Verily I say unto you among them that are born of women 27:56.360 --> 28:00.600 There hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist and notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven 28:00.600 --> 28:07.080 It's greater than he that's Matthew 11 11 again. We're here at our Wednesday evening Bible study and tonight 28:07.080 --> 28:13.320 We're gonna be starting our Bible study on the book of 1st Samuel, which brother Jason said that we've gone through before 28:13.720 --> 28:16.740 But I don't care. We're gonna go through it again and again 28:17.000 --> 28:20.520 redo it again. We'll just do it four times. No, not really. But I will probably go through 28:20.520 --> 28:25.000 first and second Samuel. I probably won't go into Kings though, because I was already 28:25.000 --> 28:29.000 tempted to go into second Corinthians, but I didn't do that either. But yeah, we're going 28:29.000 --> 28:33.000 to definitely go through at least first and second Samuel from the Old Testament to shake 28:33.000 --> 28:37.320 it up a little bit. And because we have the John verse by verse for the New Testament 28:37.320 --> 28:40.200 as well on Sunday evenings. But 28:41.100 --> 28:47.900 As far as the soul winning goes, we have 129 salvations so far in 26, so praise God for that. 28:47.900 --> 28:53.420 And then upcoming events, basically the end of the Galatians Memory Challenge, 28:53.420 --> 29:00.540 and then October 13th we have the homeschool day, that'll be on the 11th, and on October 17th we 29:00.540 --> 29:03.980 have the Tri-City Soul Winning Marathon, that's on a Saturday, and it's going to be, I posted 29:03.980 --> 29:08.940 the details in the group, but it's going to be from 12 o'clock until 3 p.m. 29:09.100 --> 29:15.460 and then we're gonna do lunch afterwards and lunch will be provided if you're out so many but if you don't go so 29:15.460 --> 29:18.240 When you're not gonna get lunch can't be a givvy goblin. You actually have to 29:19.120 --> 29:24.860 Participate in the soul winning. Okay, but if you're like your kids though or another silent their silent partners 29:24.860 --> 29:27.920 Whatever they get a free pass. Okay, but but nobody else. Okay 29:28.560 --> 29:32.660 But as far as the other upcoming events we have on October 25th 29:32.660 --> 29:37.020 We have the church picture day and then on October 28 through 30th 29:37.100 --> 29:40.740 We have the VBS with the creation theme, which I'm excited looking forward to. 29:40.740 --> 29:44.540 And then for the kids in reverse, we have Psalms 121 verse number two, 29:44.540 --> 29:47.900 which quite a few kids came up and told me after the service last Sunday. 29:47.900 --> 29:51.900 But it's my help come from the Lord, which maketh heaven and earth. 29:52.660 --> 29:54.380 That's pretty much all for our announcements. 29:54.380 --> 29:57.340 And I don't think that we have anything as far as birthdays go. 29:57.980 --> 30:01.060 So we'll just go into our prayer requests and then we'll have our song after this. 30:01.060 --> 30:01.380 Let's pray. 32:27.100 --> 32:31.980 Or your song books and turn to Psalm number 67 32:33.620 --> 32:35.620 Psalm number 67 32:40.800 --> 32:42.800 God be merciful unto us. 32:45.600 --> 32:49.600 Psalm number 67. 32:49.600 --> 32:52.900 We'll sing it out on the first. 32:53.400 --> 33:02.760 God be merciful unto us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us, 33:02.760 --> 33:12.040 that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. 33:12.040 --> 33:21.320 Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise thee. 33:21.400 --> 33:28.100 Oh, let the nations be glad and sing. 33:30.800 --> 33:44.800 For thou shalt judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon earth. 33:44.800 --> 33:53.800 The nations upon earth, see love. Let the people praise thee, O God. 33:57.300 --> 34:03.700 Oh, let the nations be glad. 34:08.700 --> 34:18.300 Then shall the earth yield her increase, And God, even our own God, shall bless us. 34:18.300 --> 34:27.500 God shall bless us in all the ends, Of the earth shall fear him. 34:27.500 --> 34:33.900 Let the people praise thee, O God, Let all the world praise thee. 34:35.300 --> 34:43.300 praise thee. Oh, let the nations be glad and sing. 34:47.600 --> 34:51.120 excellent sing everybody. Brother, I would really like to pray for the offering. 34:51.120 --> 34:54.440 Thank you so much for what you do for us God. Thank you so much for everything you 34:54.440 --> 34:57.680 bless us with God. I just pray that you continue to bless us as a church God and help us to 34:57.680 --> 35:02.320 grow financially and to grow spiritually God and to grow in every measure possible. 35:02.320 --> 35:06.200 I just pray that you help us to keep our hearts on you as you bless this church 35:06.200 --> 35:09.960 God. I just pray that you help us to set our faith on things above and to walk in the 35:09.960 --> 35:14.800 spirit and also below us with a pleasure. I pray these things. Jesus, I pray. Amen. Amen. 35:49.900 --> 35:53.100 I want to take your Bibles and turn to 1 Samuel, 35:53.100 --> 35:55.740 chapter number one. 35:55.740 --> 35:59.400 That's 1 Samuel, chapter number one. 36:05.700 --> 36:09.060 First Samuel chapter number one, beginning in verse number one, the Bible reads, 36:10.180 --> 36:18.580 Now there was a certain man of Ramathai Mazo of Mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkiah the son of 36:18.580 --> 36:26.500 Jeroma, the son of Elihu, the son of Tuah, the son of Zufa, and Ephraimite. 36:27.000 --> 36:28.500 and he had two wives. 36:28.500 --> 36:30.200 The name of the one was Hannah, 36:30.200 --> 36:33.000 and the name of the other was Pernenei. 36:33.000 --> 36:35.600 And Pernenei had children, 36:35.600 --> 36:37.800 but Hannah had no children. 36:37.800 --> 36:40.300 And this man went up out of his city yearly 36:40.300 --> 36:45.300 to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. 36:45.300 --> 36:47.700 And the two sons of Eli, 36:47.700 --> 36:49.100 Hophnai and Phineas, 36:49.100 --> 36:51.500 the priests of the Lord, were there. 36:51.500 --> 36:54.700 And when the time was that Elkiah offered, 36:54.700 --> 36:54.800 you 36:54.900 --> 37:01.220 He gave to Paniah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters portions. 37:01.220 --> 37:08.180 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had shut up her womb. 37:08.180 --> 37:14.820 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb. 37:15.200 --> 37:23.200 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her. 37:23.200 --> 37:28.600 Therefore she went up, she, excuse me, therefore she wept and did not eat. 37:28.600 --> 37:33.200 Then said Elkiah, her husband, to her, Hannah, 37:33.200 --> 37:39.000 Why weepest thou? And why eatest thou not? And why is thy heart grieved? 37:39.000 --> 37:42.000 Am I not better to thee than ten sons? 37:42.300 --> 37:47.500 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunken. 37:47.500 --> 37:54.900 Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by post of the temple of the Lord, 37:54.900 --> 38:00.700 and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore. 38:00.700 --> 38:04.600 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, 38:04.600 --> 38:09.500 if thou will indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaiden, and 38:09.800 --> 38:13.440 remember me and not forget thine handmaiden, 38:13.440 --> 38:17.640 but wilt give unto thine handmaiden a man-child. 38:17.640 --> 38:21.480 Then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, 38:21.480 --> 38:25.920 and there shall no razor come upon his head." And it came to pass 38:25.920 --> 38:29.240 as she continued praying before the Lord 38:29.240 --> 38:31.300 that Eli marked her mouth. 38:31.500 --> 38:38.060 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. 38:38.060 --> 38:41.100 Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. 38:41.100 --> 38:46.700 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy wine from thee. 38:46.700 --> 38:56.060 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am not a woman of, excuse me, no, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. 38:56.200 --> 39:02.600 I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. 39:03.240 --> 39:09.080 Count not thine handmaiden for a daughter of Belial, for out of the abundance of my 39:10.280 --> 39:15.960 complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.' Then Eli answered and said, 39:15.960 --> 39:17.880 Go in peace. 39:17.880 --> 39:21.400 And the God of Israel, grant thee thy petition 39:21.400 --> 39:22.920 that thou hast asked of him. 39:24.300 --> 39:27.900 And she said, Let thine handmaiden find grace in thy sight. 39:27.900 --> 39:34.540 So the woman went her way and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. 39:34.540 --> 39:41.900 And they rose up in the morning early and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house to Ramah. 39:41.900 --> 39:46.700 And Elkiah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. 39:46.900 --> 39:52.540 Wherefore, it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, 39:52.540 --> 40:00.700 that she bury son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord. 40:00.700 --> 40:08.300 And the man Elkiah, and all his house, went up to offer the Lord the yearly sacrifice 40:08.300 --> 40:09.500 and his vow. 40:09.500 --> 40:10.200 Hanna. 40:10.400 --> 40:17.040 went not up, for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, 40:17.040 --> 40:24.280 and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide forever. 40:24.280 --> 40:27.200 And Elkayah, her husband, said unto her, 40:27.400 --> 40:30.140 do what seemeth good, the good, 40:30.140 --> 40:33.140 tarry until thou have weaned him. 40:33.140 --> 40:35.580 Only the Lord established his word. 40:35.580 --> 40:38.020 So the woman abode and gave her son suck 40:38.020 --> 40:39.680 until she weaned him. 40:39.680 --> 40:41.620 And when she had weaned him, 40:41.620 --> 40:45.420 she took him up with her with three bullocks 40:45.420 --> 40:48.720 and one ephod of flour and a bottle of wine 40:48.720 --> 40:52.600 and brought him under the house of the Lord in Shiloh. 40:52.600 --> 40:54.360 And the child was young. 40:55.300 --> 40:58.940 and they slew a bullock and brought the child to Eli. 40:58.940 --> 41:03.540 And she said, O my Lord, as thy soul liveth, my Lord, 41:03.540 --> 41:06.940 I am the woman that stood by thee, 41:06.940 --> 41:08.700 here praying unto the Lord. 41:08.700 --> 41:12.900 For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me 41:12.900 --> 41:15.500 my petition, which I asked of him. 41:15.500 --> 41:19.380 Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord. 41:19.600 --> 41:26.000 As long as he liveth, he shall be lent to the Lord, and he worship the Lord there. 41:26.000 --> 41:28.000 Brother Paul, would you please press the preaching? 41:45.000 --> 41:48.860 And then you guys are there in first Samuel we're gonna look in at verse number one the Bible says 41:49.500 --> 41:55.260 Now there was a certain man of Ramatham Zopham of Mount Ephraim and his name was Elkanah, 41:55.260 --> 42:01.700 the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zeph in Ephrathite. 42:01.700 --> 42:04.260 And the time I serve in tonight is Shiloh. 42:04.260 --> 42:05.260 Let's pray. 42:05.260 --> 42:07.900 Here with our God, thank you so much for everything you do for us God. 42:07.900 --> 42:10.540 Thank you so much for this church God and for everybody that came to hear your word 42:10.540 --> 42:11.540 preached tonight. 42:11.540 --> 42:14.180 God I just pray that you fill me with your Holy Spirit God and help me to preach words 42:14.180 --> 42:15.540 that be edifying to everybody in this room. 42:15.540 --> 42:17.500 and I just pray that you'd help me to have a. 42:17.500 --> 42:21.040 clear train of thought as I preach. I just pray that you would help me to say 42:21.040 --> 42:23.620 what you want me to say boldly and keep me from saying what you wouldn't want me 42:23.620 --> 42:28.700 to say. I just pray that you would help me to deliver the message you put on my 42:28.700 --> 42:30.100 heart. Just need to pray. Amen. 42:30.300 --> 42:34.940 Telling my story like I said again is Shiloh. We're here in first Samuel chapter number one. 42:34.940 --> 42:38.940 This is going to be part one of my verse by verses on this entire book. 42:39.660 --> 42:44.780 And the reason I chose first Samuel to go through is because number one, first and second Samuel 42:44.780 --> 42:49.740 are my favorite books in the Old Testament. Bar nine. I mean these, I mean there's a couple like, 42:49.740 --> 42:52.700 I mean I shouldn't just say a couple. There's a lot of great books in the Old Testament obviously, 42:52.700 --> 42:58.300 but I just really enjoy the characters in this story. Samuel and King David. 42:58.300 --> 43:01.780 obviously we see in this story and then even Saul in his own unique way has 43:01.780 --> 43:06.380 different elements that I think that are interesting to see and then learn from 43:06.380 --> 43:10.860 as an example things maybe not to do as well but yeah as I was saying the 43:10.860 --> 43:14.140 announcements this is definitely gonna lead into second Samuel as well so we're 43:14.140 --> 43:17.380 gonna do first Samuel and then if we ever get there we're gonna get to second 43:17.380 --> 43:22.400 Samuel eventually but also the reason I want to do this is because 43:22.600 --> 43:26.720 I think it's a good contrast from the verse by verse we've been doing on Wednesday nights 43:26.720 --> 43:29.680 We've been doing a lot of doctrinal sermons from Romans and Corinthians 43:29.680 --> 43:36.100 So I thought it'd be good to go through a story book and then go back to maybe another new testament book after we're done 43:36.100 --> 43:39.540 With these things but what that means is let's look into verse 1 right away 43:39.540 --> 43:43.560 So we can get through this sermon in a decent manner first Samuel 1 1 again 43:43.560 --> 43:50.100 It says that now there was a certain man of ramathim Zophim of Mount Ephraim and his name was Alcana the son of Jeroham 43:50.600 --> 43:55.240 of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zeth, and Ephrathite. Now I kind of looked up and 43:55.240 --> 43:59.360 tried to see if there was any mention of these other men in the Bible before this because 43:59.360 --> 44:03.680 I couldn't recall any and I couldn't find any. So I basically think that this is just 44:03.680 --> 44:08.560 purely background so that we have understanding of who Elkanah's character is. But the one 44:08.560 --> 44:13.440 thing I want to point out is that it does call them an Ephrathite, which I'm not going 44:13.440 --> 44:17.400 to discuss in this segment, but I think that's very interesting for multiple reasons. But 44:17.400 --> 44:18.600 That'll come up a little bit later on. 44:18.600 --> 44:21.680 in this series, but just kind of bookmark that in your brain that it calls him an 44:21.680 --> 44:25.040 Ephrathite. And then let's look at verse number two. It says, and he had two wives. 44:25.040 --> 44:28.760 The name of the one was Hannah and the name of the other Penina. And Penina had 44:28.760 --> 44:33.360 children, but Hannah had no children. So this is the theme that we see a lot in 44:33.360 --> 44:37.360 the Old Testament. We see that men are consistently having multiple wives, and if 44:37.360 --> 44:41.280 we didn't have the New Testament to shed light on this thing, we might think that 44:41.280 --> 44:45.520 having multiple wives was okay. But the Bible makes it abundantly clear in the 44:45.520 --> 44:46.600 testament that it was never 44:46.600 --> 44:50.560 okay for men to have multiple wives and go if you would to Matthew 19 verse 44:50.560 --> 44:53.600 number 7 because we'll see this concept I'd also point out what you guys are 44:53.600 --> 44:57.280 turning there that even our society as a whole like the studies around the world 44:57.280 --> 45:01.840 realize that multiple wives is not a good thing because nobody virtually does 45:01.840 --> 45:04.960 this okay and the people that try to do this in our society though they don't do 45:04.960 --> 45:08.240 it marriage they do they call it like a polyamorous relationship or something 45:08.240 --> 45:11.960 dumb like that these things never work out I think I saw someone post and this 45:11.960 --> 45:14.600 is just a post I saw but they said like 3% 45:14.600 --> 45:19.400 of these relationships work out, the polyamorous ones, not a marriage, but like just when they 45:19.400 --> 45:24.600 do like the multiple people with a person or whatever, weird stuff, okay? But then there's 45:24.600 --> 45:30.400 no wonder why, because this is just confusion, this is bizarre, this is not good for a functioning 45:30.400 --> 45:33.880 society, this is why no societies do these things, it's not good for the kids, it's not 45:33.880 --> 45:40.800 good for your marriage either. And we see in Matthew 19, 7, Jesus kind of makes it clear 45:40.800 --> 45:42.600 what God expects in marriage. It says... 45:42.600 --> 45:47.080 They said to him, why did Moses then command to give a writing divorce man to put her away? 45:47.080 --> 45:50.520 He said unto them, Moses, because the hardness of your heart suffered you to put away your 45:50.520 --> 45:52.960 wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 45:52.960 --> 45:56.680 And I say unto you, whoso shall put away his wife except to be for fornication, and shall 45:56.680 --> 45:58.520 marry another, committeth adultery. 45:58.520 --> 46:02.500 And whoso marries her which is put away, doth commit adultery. 46:02.500 --> 46:05.200 So I know I've explained this a little bit before, so I'm not going to go too crazy 46:05.200 --> 46:06.200 into this. 46:06.200 --> 46:09.360 I'm also going to talk on this when I go through a perpetual adultery sermon that'll come 46:09.360 --> 46:10.600 coming a future day. 46:10.600 --> 46:16.360 on probably on a Sunday morning as well. But it's important to understand what Jesus Christ is saying here because Jesus Christ is basically saying that 46:16.940 --> 46:20.620 when God made man and woman in the beginning 46:20.700 --> 46:27.740 this was his perfect will for marriage that God made Adam and Eve and he didn't make Adam and Eve's a 46:27.740 --> 46:35.200 right, he didn't make plural. He just made Adam and Eve. This was his perfect will for marriage for one man and for one woman to be 46:35.200 --> 46:38.520 together and also his perfect will was for them to 46:38.600 --> 46:45.200 Once one man one woman got married they were supposed to stay together forever is also what the Bible teaches us in Genesis 2 24 46:45.200 --> 46:50.660 It says therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be 46:51.160 --> 46:55.360 One flesh so we can see from these verses and even from Genesis itself 46:55.360 --> 47:00.240 Even though Genesis 2 24 isn't as clear as what Jesus Christ gives us in the New Testament 47:00.240 --> 47:06.600 They still could have looked at this foundational book and understand they're like hey if God if this is the design for God for Mary 47:06.600 --> 47:13.000 For one man and one woman to be together and become one flesh, this is how God designed it, 47:13.000 --> 47:15.480 then that's what we should replicate in our marriage as well. 47:15.480 --> 47:20.680 Jesus Christ just only makes this more clear in the New Testament, but this was always wrong. 47:20.680 --> 47:25.720 It was always wrong to have multiple wives and it was always wrong to divorce your spouse 47:25.720 --> 47:29.000 except for the cause of fornication. It's obviously the caveat that Jesus Christ gives. 47:29.000 --> 47:30.300 However... 47:30.500 --> 47:35.220 When it comes to these things, okay, God says that he does this that he he he 47:35.600 --> 47:41.540 Allows these things to happen in the law because of the hardness of these people's hearts 47:41.540 --> 47:45.880 So what we understand from these verses then is that legally it was okay 47:46.360 --> 47:48.840 Legally, okay. It was okay for a man to have multiple wives 47:48.840 --> 47:54.100 But morally it was never okay and the same is true of divorce that it was legally okay to divorce 47:54.120 --> 47:58.480 But it was morally not okay to divorce is what the Bible teaches us and some of the 47:58.500 --> 48:01.740 kind of take that verbiage that it says right there that it says you know Moses 48:01.740 --> 48:06.540 you know well what was then why did Moses give us a writing divorcement but 48:06.540 --> 48:10.820 I want to understand that like this idea that Moses kind of like just slipped 48:10.820 --> 48:14.420 this thing in of divorce against God's will is not what the Bible is teaching 48:14.420 --> 48:17.460 us here he's just clarifying that Moses is obviously the one who wrote the books 48:17.460 --> 48:21.060 of the law so that's that's what he's gonna he's not trying to be like Moses 48:21.060 --> 48:25.060 said this he kind of behind my back he kind of added this thing of divorcement 48:25.060 --> 48:26.500 know God allowed Moses 48:26.500 --> 48:29.780 to put that in the Bible. And if that's not true, then we can't trust anything in the 48:29.780 --> 48:32.860 Bible. Because then you could just say that any author is just slipping things in when 48:32.860 --> 48:37.580 they want to, whenever it's convenient to them. No, no, no. This is the law of God. 48:37.580 --> 48:43.020 God allowed you to get divorced legally, but not morally, okay? And we see this, go to 48:43.020 --> 48:52.380 Exodus 21 verse 21, verse number 9, and we'll see another commandment that's very much like 48:52.380 --> 48:54.500 like this. Exodus 21. 48:54.500 --> 48:57.600 verse number nine it says 48:57.800 --> 49:02.280 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of 49:02.280 --> 49:08.600 daughters. If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, 49:08.600 --> 49:13.000 shall he not diminish." If you're looking for a loophole in the Bible to tell you that you can 49:13.000 --> 49:15.800 have multiple wives, this is the verse you're going to go to. You're going to be like, look, 49:15.800 --> 49:22.280 right there in the law of God itself, it says, if you take a second wife, which means that God is 49:22.280 --> 49:25.800 Okay with me taking a second wife wrong though. Why do we? 49:25.800 --> 49:29.520 know that's wrong because from the beginning it was not so. In the beginning again Jesus 49:29.520 --> 49:35.480 Christ he said he made man and woman. Adam and Eve is what God's design was. So what's 49:35.480 --> 49:39.800 going on with this commandment then? What's going on with this commandment is that God 49:39.800 --> 49:42.660 for the hardness of our hearts because he knew that there'd be people out there that 49:42.660 --> 49:48.160 disobey his commandments put these there as a basically like a second safety net to not 49:48.160 --> 49:53.360 make a bad situation worse is what he does with these commandments. So God legally allowed 49:53.360 --> 49:53.800 you. 49:53.800 --> 49:56.440 to divorce your wife because he knew that if 49:56.440 --> 49:59.040 because he knew that people would do this anyways. 49:59.040 --> 50:00.320 Even without that writing there, 50:00.320 --> 50:01.880 people were still gonna separate from their wives. 50:01.880 --> 50:04.900 But God kind of gives you a system right there to make it. 50:05.100 --> 50:10.340 To make preventive from being worse. Okay from making a bad situation worse. So that's clear-cut the example 50:10.340 --> 50:13.280 The same thing is true. He doesn't want you to take a second wife 50:13.280 --> 50:15.280 That's not what this verse is saying in Exodus 21 10 50:15.300 --> 50:20.180 What he's saying is that if you disobey him you go against his will and you do take a second wife 50:20.220 --> 50:23.980 You have to treat the first wife equal with the second wife is what he's saying right here 50:24.020 --> 50:28.540 So these commandments are not there to justify us in doing these things there to prevent us from 50:28.860 --> 50:33.000 Committing even more sin is what the Bible is teaching us in these verses. Okay, so 50:33.100 --> 50:38.720 Go to Deuteronomy 17 verse number 17 if you would have a quick Deuteronomy 17 verse number 17 50:38.940 --> 50:43.440 Because the Pharisees because they didn't understand this they're going around teaching people we get divorced for any reason 50:43.820 --> 50:48.680 Okay, that's what that's literally the bonehead question that goes to Jesus with they're like can we get devoted? 50:48.680 --> 50:53.880 Can a man put away his wife for any cause he's like no what in the world and that's bizarre me too because 50:54.180 --> 50:58.880 Even like outside of that like in Malachi you see that God he says he hates the putting away 50:58.880 --> 51:00.880 He hates when people are dealing treacherously 51:01.100 --> 51:04.020 with the wife of their youth and then they have the audacity with those scriptures there 51:04.020 --> 51:07.860 to come up to him and be like, can a man divorce his wife for any cause? 51:07.860 --> 51:11.140 He's like no and they're like well then why did Moses put it in the Bible? 51:11.140 --> 51:14.580 He's like because the hardest of your hearts, that's why he put that in the law, that's 51:14.580 --> 51:18.820 why God allowed him to put that in the law but this was never God's perfect will. 51:18.820 --> 51:22.140 That's what you should understand from these verses so far and you guys are going to Deuteronomy 51:22.140 --> 51:26.500 17 verse number 17 so what Jesus Christ is doing here is he's clarifying the law of Moses, 51:26.500 --> 51:29.100 He's not contradicting the law of Moses. 51:29.100 --> 51:30.700 is he changing the law of Moses right here? 51:30.700 --> 51:32.260 Because that's also an interpretation people have. 51:32.260 --> 51:33.780 They think that he's like changing the rules 51:33.780 --> 51:34.620 on divorce right here. 51:34.620 --> 51:38.020 No, he's just clarifying why that's in the Bible 51:38.020 --> 51:38.860 in the first place. 51:38.860 --> 51:40.300 That's what you understand, okay? 51:40.300 --> 51:45.020 But, you guys are going to do around with 17, 17. 51:45.020 --> 51:46.860 Speaking about divorce, okay, 51:46.860 --> 51:48.140 I wanna bring a couple things about this. 51:48.140 --> 51:52.100 Number one is that it's very evident from these verses 51:52.100 --> 51:55.800 that God allowed divorce, again, I said legally, 51:55.800 --> 51:57.020 but not morally. 51:57.100 --> 52:01.440 So people out there sometimes will say like, you know, we should make divorce illegal and 52:01.440 --> 52:03.620 they'll say all these different arguments because divorce is bad. 52:03.620 --> 52:05.620 I agree that divorce is bad. 52:05.620 --> 52:06.620 Divorce is wicked. 52:06.620 --> 52:07.620 It's evil. 52:07.620 --> 52:08.620 That is against the Bible. 52:08.620 --> 52:09.300 But clearly here. 52:09.700 --> 52:14.260 The law of Moses permits divorce. It puts that system in place. So how could we get up and say, 52:14.260 --> 52:18.820 oh, we should ban all divorce. That's not in the law of Moses. So you're just making that up. 52:18.820 --> 52:23.700 Then that's, that's not in the law of God in the law of God. It puts a permission in for 52:23.700 --> 52:28.820 divorce legally is what he's obviously saying again. I'm trying to clarify that not morally 52:28.820 --> 52:33.140 because Jesus Christ only gives the one exception for the cause of fornication for divorce. 52:33.140 --> 52:37.620 But then second of all, you know what else he also permits in the law of God. He permits multiple 52:37.700 --> 52:41.640 wives which is interesting to me because in America even as liberal as we are we still 52:41.640 --> 52:45.980 don't allow multiple wives under this system they're like no can't do that but was this 52:45.980 --> 52:50.500 illegal in the law of God? It was not illegal in the law of God it was morally wrong it's 52:50.500 --> 52:54.380 simple but this is what you should understand about sins not every sin that we do is illegal 52:54.380 --> 53:00.060 okay? Like what I mean by that is that it's a sin to lie but if you lie the governor doesn't 53:00.060 --> 53:02.820 need to come to your house and arrest you and take you to jail and be like well you 53:02.820 --> 53:04.220 July, you should have done that. 53:04.220 --> 53:05.140 Obviously, you should have done that. 53:05.140 --> 53:05.700 It's a sin. 53:05.700 --> 53:09.900 But God's the one who punishes that situation. It's not the government's job to punish you in that situation 53:09.900 --> 53:13.020 Because it's not a crime to do these things you understand what I'm saying the difference between 53:13.420 --> 53:17.180 Something that's a sin and then something that's a crime in and of itself 53:17.180 --> 53:18.540 So the same is true with multiple wives 53:18.540 --> 53:23.620 How could you say that they should be illegal to have multiple wives when it is not illegal in the law of God and remember? 53:23.700 --> 53:27.100 The law of the Lord is perfect is what the Bible teaches us. So it gives this 53:27.820 --> 53:30.100 These exceptions here, so I don't understand how 53:30.940 --> 53:33.700 People could like get up and argue the opposite of what the Bible 53:33.700 --> 53:36.980 saying here. How can you get up and say that a divorce should be illegal when that's not what the Bible says? 53:36.980 --> 53:41.060 How can you get up and say that multiple wives should be illegal when that's not what the Bible says? 53:41.060 --> 53:45.540 I don't understand these things. It doesn't make sense to me. Here's another thing that people bring up about these things though, 53:45.540 --> 53:49.560 is that they'll say that having multiple wives is 53:50.700 --> 53:57.780 adultery, which I want to pause and just say that I understand why people think this and I think that it's a very logical 53:57.980 --> 54:01.700 conclusion to come to. If you disagree with me on this little point that I'm making right now, 54:01.700 --> 54:05.120 here this is okay because this is my opinion okay this is my speculation on 54:05.120 --> 54:08.480 on as far as the multiple wives go because the Bible no matter which way 54:08.480 --> 54:12.400 you slice it does not make it abundantly clear in this regard and me and brother 54:12.400 --> 54:14.720 Jason brother Ryan we're all just talking about this out there and we all had a 54:14.720 --> 54:18.520 little bit of different opinions this is okay but concerning what the Bible says 54:18.520 --> 54:23.400 about adultery some people say that multiplying wives is adultery but the 54:23.400 --> 54:26.280 thing is is that the Bible does not actually say this okay go to you guys 54:26.280 --> 54:29.560 are there in Deuteronomy 17 17 look what it says there this is the one mention 54:29.560 --> 54:29.700 No. 54:29.700 --> 54:33.740 have of basically condemning the multiple wives. It says, neither shall he multiply wives to 54:33.740 --> 54:39.540 himself that his heart turn not away, neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver 54:39.540 --> 54:44.940 and gold. So for why I'm showing you this verse, okay, is because I think it's very 54:44.940 --> 54:49.020 interesting that in any time that the Bible could have mentioned that adding multiple 54:49.020 --> 54:50.500 wives yourself was adultery. 54:50.900 --> 55:03.460 He never says this and this would be the perfect person to do this. He could say like, hey, it's wrong to multiply wives yourselves because of adultery, but never do we see this in the Bible. We only say he only says right here it's wrong to multiply wives unto himself. 55:03.700 --> 55:14.340 And I just find it extremely bizarre that if this was adultery that God would never flat out say that. Okay. It would be I just wouldn't understand that why he wouldn't do that. Go to Genesis 25 verse number one. 55:14.340 --> 55:16.740 Genesis 25 verse number one. 55:17.200 --> 55:20.880 And if you know the context here, okay, while you're turning there, of Deuteronomy 17, 55:20.880 --> 55:23.280 you'll know that this is about kings, okay? 55:23.280 --> 55:26.480 And they'll say, well, it was only wrong for kings to have multiple wives. 55:26.480 --> 55:28.960 Wrong, though, okay? And it's wrong for this reason. 55:28.960 --> 55:32.880 Because this is not saying that it's only wrong for kings to multiply wives on themselves. 55:32.880 --> 55:36.560 It's wrong for everybody, but it's especially wrong for kings, what this is saying. 55:36.560 --> 55:39.680 And just like in Proverbs, when Lemuel's mother is speaking to him, 55:39.680 --> 55:42.720 she says it's not for kings, so Lemuel, to drink wine, right? 55:42.720 --> 55:44.880 Does that mean that it's okay for everybody else to drink wine? 55:45.200 --> 55:48.960 No, it just means it's especially wrong for kings to be doing these things. 55:48.960 --> 55:50.560 This is the same thing with the multiple wives. 55:50.560 --> 55:52.560 It's kind of like the qualifications of a bishop. 55:52.560 --> 55:55.280 When the Bible gives the qualifications of a bishop, it's not like 55:55.920 --> 55:58.240 only people that are trying to be pastors have to follow those things, 55:58.240 --> 55:59.920 then everybody else just kind of gets off the hook and like, 55:59.920 --> 56:02.320 oh well, I don't have to be, you know, the husband of one wife. 56:02.320 --> 56:03.200 I don't have to do this. 56:03.200 --> 56:04.960 He's just giving the qualifications for a bishop, 56:04.960 --> 56:08.720 but the man of God is supposed to be an example to everybody else in the congregation. 56:08.720 --> 56:09.920 Obviously, it's a little bit different with females, 56:09.920 --> 56:12.800 but everything else that applies to that, it would apply. 56:13.200 --> 56:17.400 So, the thing is true with a king when he's given these qualifications. 56:17.400 --> 56:21.920 It's not like the king has a different standard, it's just that it's especially important for 56:21.920 --> 56:28.000 a king to be these things, to not be multiplying wives, to not be multiplying gold unto himself. 56:28.000 --> 56:30.960 And it makes sense for the qualifications of a bishop too, and speaking about the multiple 56:30.960 --> 56:32.480 wives thing, okay? 56:32.480 --> 56:32.900 Because- 56:33.100 --> 56:40.300 As far as like why it would be wrong for a pastor to have multiple wives and to be a pastor, 56:40.300 --> 56:44.600 it makes a lot of sense with the first Corinthians because in the first Corinthians we see that he says that 56:44.600 --> 56:48.200 if you even have one wife, he says that hinders you a little bit from serving God. 56:48.200 --> 56:50.500 And same thing with a woman with a husband, I understand this, right? 56:50.500 --> 56:52.800 But if you even have one wife that hinders you from serving God, 56:52.800 --> 56:58.800 so imagine having two, three, four, five wives, then you're not going to be able to take care of the house of God properly. 56:58.800 --> 57:01.000 So that's a little bit of a side note to that. 57:01.100 --> 57:07.820 But going back to this thing with Solomon, okay, I just think it sets a very odd standard that it would be not 57:08.540 --> 57:14.460 That God would not call David or any of these men not one man in the Bible that I'm old wise an adulterer 57:14.460 --> 57:16.740 I think that's bizarre that he wouldn't do that 57:16.740 --> 57:21.280 And also when you even think about the set of Solomon and the Senate itself 57:21.280 --> 57:27.500 it basically be like giving adultery like a free pass in the Old Testament because I was because I was talking about Jason like 57:27.500 --> 57:29.100 I said and brother Ryan 57:29.100 --> 57:34.820 on Sunday but like if you do the math on Solomon depending on how you're counting 57:34.820 --> 57:38.100 these things okay if you do the math that I was doing like you're multiplying 57:38.100 --> 57:41.060 it because if you marry if you have two wives and then you marry a third you're 57:41.060 --> 57:44.600 committing adultery twice because you're you're married right against the two 57:44.600 --> 57:48.060 wives that you're committing adultery against I put this in Chagy BT so I 57:48.060 --> 57:51.260 didn't actually type this out so if the math is wrong this is Chagy BT's fault but 57:51.260 --> 57:53.900 it basically said if you multiply like that someone would have committed adultery 57:53.900 --> 57:57.100 500,000 times and that's only 57:57.100 --> 58:03.300 That's only if you think that the the concubines are actually wives because there's some people out there as well 58:03.400 --> 58:04.420 This is a side note 58:04.420 --> 58:10.980 That's why I have you there in just 25 that will say that concubines aren't wives, but allow me to show you that the Bible 58:11.740 --> 58:14.260 Explicitly teaches us that concubines are in fact wives 58:14.260 --> 58:20.140 Okay, Genesis 25 verse number one is where you guys are at before I get there that before I say that I should say this 58:20.140 --> 58:25.100 Okay, because this would basically to say before I get into the concubine rant. Okay going 58:25.100 --> 58:30.180 back to Solomon really quickly. This would basically say Solomon committed adultery 500,000 58:30.180 --> 58:34.100 times and God was just kind of like, ah, doesn't need a punishment for it. It's like, just 58:34.100 --> 58:37.620 makes it seem like it's a light sin then. It doesn't seem like a very big deal then 58:37.620 --> 58:42.740 to me if God never cracks the hammer down on someone or at the very least again just 58:42.740 --> 58:46.180 calls it adultery, just says that it's a wicked thing. Because what message would that be 58:46.180 --> 58:50.660 to us that like you go commit adultery 500,000 times on your wife and God's going to be just 58:50.660 --> 58:53.100 okay with it as long as it's you know not a 58:53.100 --> 58:57.720 married woman then it's not as big of a deal. It's like okay I don't know because 58:57.720 --> 59:01.560 that basically puts that adultery on the level with like mint, anise, and cumin not 59:01.560 --> 59:03.200 tithing on these things. It's kind of like 59:03.400 --> 59:07.800 Okay, but again, this is not super clear. So if you have a different opinion on that, I'll come back in a second 59:07.800 --> 59:09.400 But this is what I'll talk about the concubines are okay 59:09.400 --> 59:13.880 Look at Genesis 25 verse number one because I will prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that a concubine is a wife 59:13.880 --> 59:18.480 This is what the Bible teaches us. Okay, who doesn't just 25 when it says then again Abraham took 59:18.480 --> 59:22.280 What would it say a wife and her name was Keturah and she bare him? 59:22.280 --> 59:28.180 Zimram and Jocshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbeck and Shuah and then just jump down for times sake to verse number five 59:28.180 --> 59:29.760 it says 59:29.760 --> 59:31.400 and Abraham 59:31.400 --> 59:33.360 excuse me, verse number four, it says, 59:33.360 --> 59:35.560 the sons of Midia and Ephah and Ephor and Hanukkah 59:35.560 --> 59:38.560 and Abida and Elda, all these were the children of who? 59:38.560 --> 59:40.080 Of Keturah, yeah? 59:40.080 --> 59:41.640 And then it says in verse number five, 59:41.640 --> 59:44.160 and Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac, 59:44.160 --> 59:45.400 but then look what it says, it says, 59:45.400 --> 59:47.440 but unto the sons of the concubines, 59:47.440 --> 59:49.920 which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts 59:49.920 --> 59:52.560 and sent them away from Isaac his son, 59:52.560 --> 59:55.920 while he yet lived eastward unto the east country. 59:55.920 --> 59:57.120 So how does this prove this? 59:57.120 --> 59:59.400 Because he just kept on saying that these are all. 59:59.400 --> 01:00:04.760 the sons of Keturah and then it says that he gave gifts unto all the daughter, all the 01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:11.140 sons of the concubines but then to Isaac he actually gave the proper inheritance, right? 01:00:11.140 --> 01:00:13.140 You say this doesn't prove that though, oh but it does. 01:00:13.140 --> 01:00:14.920 Because go to 1 Chronicles 132, okay? 01:00:14.920 --> 01:00:17.260 Because that's just the first part of the little trap here, okay? 01:00:17.260 --> 01:00:20.300 The second part, this actually proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt because I knew it like 01:00:20.300 --> 01:00:23.080 people would look at that and be like, oh it doesn't prove that necessarily but who 01:00:23.080 --> 01:00:25.880 are the sons that he's talking about, the sons of the concubines that just listed, it 01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:27.280 is Keturah, that's why he- 01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:28.440 lists her off, okay? 01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:29.280 And to prove that to you, 01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:32.280 look at what it says in 1 Chronicles 132. 01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:36.500 It says, now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's what? 01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:43.780 concubine she bears in ram and jock shan and me down in midian and ish back and shua and the sons of jock shan and shepa and 01:00:44.540 --> 01:00:51.320 Dead end so you have the author of the Bible saying in one spot that keturah was Abraham's wife and one spot 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:53.160 You have it saying that it's his 01:00:53.160 --> 01:00:54.800 Concubine so what does that mean? 01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:58.880 These things are the same thing okay corporate wants you to find the difference between a concubine or a wife 01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:02.320 But but they're the same picture okay, but people will ask well well 01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:04.700 Then why is there like a separation the Bible between concubines? 01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:09.420 husbands. Here's why. Or concubines and wives, excuse me. It's because of this reason that 01:01:09.420 --> 01:01:13.780 God is dealing with us according to our system that we set up as mankind. That Solomon had 01:01:13.780 --> 01:01:18.780 700 wives and 300 concubines, obviously that's true as well, but God's using our terms. Because 01:01:18.780 --> 01:01:22.740 again, from the beginning, what did God say? What was God's design from the beginning of 01:01:22.740 --> 01:01:27.700 Genesis? For one man and for one woman to be husband and wife, that was his will, right? 01:01:27.700 --> 01:01:31.900 Where's the concubine there? It's not there. This is a man-made system. This isn't a real 01:01:31.900 --> 01:01:32.800 This isn't a real thing. 01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:35.600 This is just how we deal. This is how we dealt with 01:01:36.160 --> 01:01:40.320 Women in the past that we would separate out and be like these are my real wives 01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:44.680 And then these are my basically my handmade wives in the eyes of God though 01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:50.800 They're wives because there's no difference okay, and and that should show us there the fact that he calls Katura a wife 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:54.800 And then he calls her a concubine clearly in the sight of God both of these things are true 01:01:54.880 --> 01:02:00.200 But anybody's just addressing it with the man-made word that we use a good a good example of this 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:04.640 show you kind of what I mean is that you know the Muslims have that one system 01:02:04.640 --> 01:02:07.840 where I don't know if all Muslims do this but like the least liberal ones they 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:10.620 have that system where they can do like a day marriage kind of thing where they 01:02:10.620 --> 01:02:13.520 get married to a girl and then like they they divorce for the next day they like 01:02:13.520 --> 01:02:15.980 set a little contract to do these things so that it's it's not technically 01:02:15.980 --> 01:02:19.000 fornication you know what I'm talking about no okay 01:02:19.200 --> 01:02:26.200 Yeah, okay, you gotta look it up, okay? There's like a little loophole that they do. It's like a Jewish trick basically, okay? 01:02:26.200 --> 01:02:30.520 But it's the Muslims that do it. They're like, oh yeah, we're gonna get married for today so that they can be together. 01:02:30.520 --> 01:02:34.480 And then they're like, but the marriage ends at midnight, okay? Which is very bizarre. 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:45.500 In that situation though, what I'm bringing that example up is because this, they might try to do this little game and be like, well, our contract only said for a day, but guess what? In the sight of God, that's your wife at that point. 01:02:45.500 --> 01:02:56.100 Okay. After you sign that contract, you have that covenant. It's your wife at that point. There's no such thing as a day marriage. We can't set that system up because God is the one who designs the institution of marriage. 01:02:56.100 --> 01:03:02.900 So it's the same thing with the concubines. That's what I'm submitting to you. That concubines and wives, they're different to their, to men's eyes. 01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:05.800 but in the eyes of God, these are the same thing. 01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:08.520 And society, and I think that he also separates that out 01:03:08.520 --> 01:03:10.760 so that people wouldn't be as confused. 01:03:10.760 --> 01:03:12.840 Because obviously, when we look back at it now, 01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:14.440 because we don't have a system of concubines, 01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:16.200 we kind of are like, what is going on? 01:03:16.200 --> 01:03:17.800 But back, especially when these things are written, 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:19.640 this would be a big deal to them, 01:03:19.640 --> 01:03:21.320 because they're like, wait a minute, 01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:23.880 Solomon didn't have a thousand wives, 01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:25.640 he only had seven under wives, 01:03:25.640 --> 01:03:28.440 and then he had these 300 concubines over here. 01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:30.920 So I think that that's why it separates it out. 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:33.800 Now if you disagree with me about what I was saying about the 01:03:34.420 --> 01:03:39.140 The adultery thing. Okay, this is what it is. Like if you disagree about the mobile wife thing because again 01:03:39.700 --> 01:03:43.860 I think it's very logical. I think that I understand where people are coming from. 01:03:43.860 --> 01:03:48.020 I just the fact that the Bible doesn't actually call adultery makes me not want to actually call 01:03:48.020 --> 01:03:52.020 it adultery. However, the concubine thing, I mean, that's just what the Bible says. So if you 01:03:52.020 --> 01:03:55.540 disagree about that, I don't even know what to do with you at that point. Like that is like the Word 01:03:55.540 --> 01:04:00.980 of God saying this. Okay. It defines itself in first Proverbs 32, 132, and then it defined itself 01:04:00.980 --> 01:04:05.860 right here. And that's not even mentioning in judges. It also defines a concubine as the woman. 01:04:05.860 --> 01:04:07.700 I think it says her husband is what it says or it says 01:04:07.700 --> 01:04:10.900 the wife I can't remember which one it is but the very very obviously the 01:04:10.900 --> 01:04:16.060 concubines are an actual spouse because sometimes people say like yeah they were 01:04:16.060 --> 01:04:18.780 just like living girlfriends they were just kind of like you know they're a 01:04:18.780 --> 01:04:21.900 little side piece no they weren't their side piece what in the world that's even 01:04:21.900 --> 01:04:26.300 that's even worse okay because then that would be like a literal perpetual 01:04:26.300 --> 01:04:30.740 adultery that people would have been doing like Abraham like you know 01:04:30.740 --> 01:04:35.060 Solomon even like they would that's even worse okay this is not so though a 01:04:35.700 --> 01:04:41.460 is a wife according to the Bible itself. Okay I think we may be clear on that but I will also say on this too. 01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:45.960 There are people out there that I'm sure they disagree with me on this, that I know disagree with me on this. 01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:47.160 That's what I'd say, okay? 01:04:47.160 --> 01:04:51.320 This is okay though, because there's lots of good people, as I've said to you before, 01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:53.640 that disagree with me about many things in the Bible. 01:04:53.640 --> 01:04:55.320 Many things in the Bible they disagree with me on. 01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:57.880 That doesn't make someone an idiot because they don't agree with me. 01:04:57.880 --> 01:04:59.880 Makes them wrong, but it doesn't make them an idiot, okay? 01:04:59.880 --> 01:05:02.040 It doesn't make them a terrible person. 01:05:02.040 --> 01:05:05.240 I'm just, like, I think people get the wrong idea sometimes when I preach it, 01:05:05.240 --> 01:05:07.080 because I'm pretty passionate about what I believe about stuff. 01:05:07.080 --> 01:05:09.320 So I get up and I'm kind of like fiery, okay? 01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:09.800 This is my 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:12.960 personality though but like when I say like hey if you disagree with me it's 01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:17.120 okay I actually mean that okay or I wouldn't say it that's why I actually 01:05:17.120 --> 01:05:21.600 put that caveat out there so people be like oh even though I get kind of like 01:05:21.600 --> 01:05:25.880 feisty sometimes get a little crazy like I'm not gonna hate you I mean look how I 01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:29.240 react with like this stuff about hell about Jesus Christ going to hell and I 01:05:29.240 --> 01:05:32.760 tell you guys every time I say that like if you disagree I'm not mad at you and 01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.640 it's true like I could if someone came into this room right now as a full-time 01:05:36.640 --> 01:05:37.800 member they didn't believe the Jews 01:05:37.800 --> 01:05:40.680 Christ what the hell? I have nothing against that person. Okay? 01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:45.120 Because it's not the biggest deal in the world. It's not a salvation issue. 01:05:45.120 --> 01:05:47.320 Okay? But when I preach about it, 01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:50.200 I am going to just go hard on it because the Bible, this is what the Bible says. 01:05:50.200 --> 01:05:54.480 Okay? So just, just learn the difference. Okay? There again, as I said before, 01:05:54.560 --> 01:05:57.440 so say now again, this is not the Catholic church. 01:05:57.460 --> 01:06:00.280 This is not the Jehovah's witnesses where you have to believe everything, 01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:05.120 lockstep. This is what I believe the Bible is teaching us and you can take it or 01:06:05.120 --> 01:06:05.800 you can leave it. And 01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:10.100 and I don't think that you're a bad person if you disagree with my definitions on these things that really 01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:12.520 They're really I mean they do matter to them 01:06:12.520 --> 01:06:17.000 But they're not like the biggest deal right because whether or not you think that multiple wives is adultery or not 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:21.660 It's like nobody's getting put to death for adultery nor that I think that they should have been put to death from multiple wives 01:06:21.660 --> 01:06:25.340 Anyways, but no like these things are not like you know 01:06:26.300 --> 01:06:28.300 These are not like the end all be all. 01:06:28.300 --> 01:06:29.140 That's what I'd say, okay? 01:06:29.140 --> 01:06:31.100 So these are just my opinions, 01:06:31.100 --> 01:06:32.380 but they're not just my opinions, okay? 01:06:32.380 --> 01:06:34.740 I'd also have you know that our pastor agrees with me 01:06:34.740 --> 01:06:36.820 on this, which I don't say to say that 01:06:36.820 --> 01:06:38.120 that means you have to agree with me. 01:06:38.120 --> 01:06:39.740 I'm just saying like, this isn't just 01:06:39.740 --> 01:06:40.860 Remy Island up here, okay? 01:06:40.860 --> 01:06:42.540 It's at least Thompson Island, okay? 01:06:42.540 --> 01:06:44.540 At the very least, okay? 01:06:44.540 --> 01:06:46.880 But I only just say that just so you know 01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:50.220 that like this is our pastor's position on these things. 01:06:50.220 --> 01:06:52.020 So if you have any questions, you can come talk to me 01:06:52.020 --> 01:06:53.540 or you can talk to the pastor about it, okay? 01:06:53.540 --> 01:06:54.300 Go back to verse number. 01:06:54.300 --> 01:07:00.400 two. That was a pretty long rabbit trail. Kyle, could I get a water too please? Thank you. 01:07:02.200 --> 01:07:04.920 Coming back to the text of the hand, that was a pretty big rabbit trail. 01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:08.280 I don't know, that stuff has always interested me though. I've studied that quite a bit. 01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:12.760 I could sway on that position though about the multiple wives being adultery, but again, 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:19.240 it's very, the fact that that would have been adultery and God never drops the hammer down, 01:07:19.240 --> 01:07:22.200 because you might say, well, multiple wives are the same way they drop the hammer down on that, 01:07:22.200 --> 01:07:25.800 because it's a different sin, okay, because it's not the same thing. Like having, 01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:29.960 because this is what I think, I think the sin is multiplying wives. That's what you would call it. 01:07:30.200 --> 01:07:35.880 multiple wives is the sin breaking God's will is the sin but adultery I mean 01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:38.960 chapter verse where does it say that 01:07:40.900 --> 01:07:45.300 Going back to text at hand though, okay, where are we at? We're in 1st Samuel 1 verse number 2. 01:07:45.300 --> 01:07:49.220 Oh, this is what I want to say though. Why would God kind of overlook some of these things though? 01:07:49.220 --> 01:07:52.740 I think a couple reasons could be as far as overlooking the multiple wives. 01:07:52.740 --> 01:07:58.260 That number one, as I said earlier, it's not as clearly revealed that you weren't allowed to have 01:07:58.260 --> 01:08:02.260 multiple wives in the Old Testament. As I showed you in Genesis 2.24, you could definitely grab 01:08:02.260 --> 01:08:06.900 that from the Bible without having Jesus' teaching in the New Testament. However, it's more clear in 01:08:06.900 --> 01:08:08.700 in the New Testament. So for that reason. 01:08:08.900 --> 01:08:11.060 I think that maybe they could just loophole. 01:08:11.060 --> 01:08:13.900 I mean, actually, I can show you exactly why. 01:08:13.900 --> 01:08:15.940 Because the Jews were doing that with divorce. 01:08:15.940 --> 01:08:17.540 They were looking at a scripture and being like, 01:08:17.540 --> 01:08:21.580 hey, the Bible says if you take a second wife, 01:08:21.580 --> 01:08:23.160 or they were saying, hey, the Bible says 01:08:23.160 --> 01:08:25.420 if you divorce a wife, that means it's okay. 01:08:25.420 --> 01:08:27.940 But Jesus, again, clarifies that in the New Testament. 01:08:27.940 --> 01:08:29.920 Also, different societal factors could be a thing, 01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:32.300 like as far as the fact that they had 01:08:32.300 --> 01:08:34.340 handmaids constantly around them, 01:08:34.340 --> 01:08:35.500 the fact that... 01:08:35.700 --> 01:08:40.340 virginity was a much bigger deal especially back in the day of all those things so then 01:08:40.340 --> 01:08:45.300 if a man gets married to a woman and he passes away it could be like i wouldn't say protection 01:08:45.300 --> 01:08:50.660 but just like you know if it could be a maybe result in less marriages if the guys were just 01:08:50.660 --> 01:08:55.060 like oh i just only want a virginism like that again not okaying this but just saying like maybe 01:08:55.060 --> 01:08:59.220 why he doesn't drop the hammer down on on some of these things or the fact that people are going 01:08:59.220 --> 01:09:03.620 into war and dying very often and there's going to be many women without husbands. 01:09:03.700 --> 01:09:07.860 and then without your husband you have no safety net especially in this culture 01:09:07.860 --> 01:09:11.900 and time and also when they're going out and conquering in war and they're 01:09:11.900 --> 01:09:14.420 killing people and they have just thousands of women out there that don't 01:09:14.420 --> 01:09:18.540 have husbands and it's like okay well I could see that maybe he shows lenience 01:09:18.540 --> 01:09:21.380 because they a lot of those times they would take them to be wives as well 01:09:21.380 --> 01:09:25.220 there's multiple different reasons for this okay but no matter what you think 01:09:25.220 --> 01:09:28.020 about these things I'd say this in the New Testament it's abundantly clear 01:09:28.020 --> 01:09:31.460 though that these things are wrong it's wrong to get divorced and it's wrong to 01:09:31.700 --> 01:09:37.320 wives the Mormons would do well to hear that okay but even I think they 01:09:37.320 --> 01:09:40.240 probably repented they probably said like oh that was the old prophets we 01:09:40.240 --> 01:09:43.000 don't do that anymore maybe not the fundamentalist Mormons though because 01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:47.200 they believe you have to have multiple wives get to the highest heaven that's 01:09:47.200 --> 01:09:50.180 pretty crazy verse number two though it says and he had two wives the name of 01:09:50.180 --> 01:09:53.680 the one was Hannah and the name of the other Penina and Penina had children but 01:09:53.680 --> 01:09:58.360 Hannah had no children and this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and 01:09:58.360 --> 01:09:59.680 of sacrificing the Lord of Hosts. 01:09:59.700 --> 01:10:05.620 in Shiloh and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Thinneas, the priests of the Lord were there. 01:10:05.620 --> 01:10:10.660 So outside of having the two wicked priests introduced here, Hophni and Thinneas, I also 01:10:10.660 --> 01:10:14.980 want you to notice that the house of the Lord at this time was in Shiloh. And so go if you would 01:10:14.980 --> 01:10:20.340 to Judges 18 verse number 31 because the word Shiloh is very interesting too because I gave you 01:10:20.340 --> 01:10:26.340 the definition of Bethesda or Bethesda, excuse me, what I gave you on Sunday. But Shiloh basically 01:10:26.340 --> 01:10:27.700 means peace which I think is kind of 01:10:27.700 --> 01:10:28.740 Cool. 01:10:28.740 --> 01:10:30.780 But going to Judges 18. 01:10:31.700 --> 01:10:37.200 verse number 31. I thought this was super interesting as I was typing this sermon because this really aligns very well with what I was preaching in John. 01:10:37.200 --> 01:10:45.460 Because in John I was talking about in chapter 4 that the Samaritans were deceived, they were misled because they thought that the place that they were supposed to worship at was at Mount Gerizim. 01:10:45.460 --> 01:10:53.600 And I laid out all the reasons for that. But to add insult to injury right here, this isn't even Gerizim where the House of the Lord is at. 01:10:53.600 --> 01:10:59.700 This is Shiloh is like one of the OG places for the House of the Lord. And this is where he chose to have them sacked. 01:10:59.700 --> 01:11:27.700 sacrifice that and it says there in Judges 1831. This is even so basically I'm not showing you this but just take my word for it in Joshua that's where they first put the House of the Lord at Shiloh and then in Judges 1831 we see it continue to be there it said and they set up Micah's graven image in which he had made all the time that the House of the Lord was in Shiloh and then once we get to here in 1 Samuel it's obviously in Shiloh as well and so spoiler alert on this the House of the Lord doesn't stay in Shiloh for much longer. 01:11:27.700 --> 01:11:32.280 longer and Hophni and Phinehas have a lot to do with this okay. Verse number four 01:11:32.280 --> 01:11:36.680 that look what it says it says and when the time was that Elkanah offered he gave 01:11:36.680 --> 01:11:41.680 to Penina his wife and to all her sons and daughter and her daughter's portions 01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:45.120 but under Hannah he gave a worthy portion for he loved Hannah but the Lord 01:11:45.120 --> 01:11:50.900 had shut up her womb and so what is the portion talk about here go to Deuteronomy 01:11:50.900 --> 01:11:53.220 12 verse number five real quick I thought this was cool too because this 01:11:53.220 --> 01:11:55.700 also connects what I was saying about the Samaritans the woman of wealth 01:11:55.700 --> 01:12:00.760 I thought that was kind of cool how that worked out that I was studying all these things to kind of see these different connections 01:12:02.300 --> 01:12:06.300 Or I probably wouldn't have grasped this when I was reading through these things, but 01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:12.500 In Deuteronomy 12.5, we're basically going to see that Elkanah is following the Bible like word for word with what we see in Deuteronomy 12.5. 01:12:12.500 --> 01:12:13.640 Look at what he says, it says, 01:12:13.640 --> 01:12:19.200 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, put his name there, 01:12:19.200 --> 01:12:23.500 even unto his habitation shall you look, and thither shalt thou come. 01:12:23.500 --> 01:12:27.460 And what place was the house of the Lord at that I just established, the title of the sermon? 01:12:27.460 --> 01:12:29.640 Shiloh is where it's at, at this time, okay? 01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:32.000 But in Deuteronomy 12.5, that's not where it was at, okay? 01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:34.740 But this is what he's saying, but wherever he places his name, that's where they're supposed to come. 01:12:34.800 --> 01:12:39.080 and pray to and they're supposed to offer all their sacrifices to okay and 01:12:39.080 --> 01:12:42.960 then in verse 12 6 it says and did there show you bring your burnt offerings and 01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:47.320 your sacrifices and your ties and your heath offerings and your of your hands 01:12:47.320 --> 01:12:50.400 and your vows and your freewill offerings and the first thing that we 01:12:50.400 --> 01:12:54.000 heard and of your flocks but what it says he says and there shall ye eat before 01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:58.160 the Lord your God and you shall rejoice in all the put your hand into ye and 01:12:58.160 --> 01:13:02.800 your households where in the Lord thy God hath blessed thee so this also 01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:06.320 connects back to what I was saying about the woman at the well because of the 01:13:06.320 --> 01:13:10.560 fact that I was explaining how the house of the Lord was not at Gerizim but it was 01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:15.480 in Jerusalem okay that was the big error but right here in Deuteronomy 12 7 he 01:13:15.480 --> 01:13:18.560 says wherever you put your name there wherever I put my name excuse me he 01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:20.920 says they're supposed to come and do all their sacrifices and all their 01:13:20.920 --> 01:13:24.600 offerings and then they're supposed to eat there with their households that's 01:13:24.600 --> 01:13:27.840 exactly what Elkanah is doing in this story so he's following the Bible 01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:30.800 basically word for word right there that that's why he's doing 01:13:30.800 --> 01:13:34.240 this yearly sacrifice and that's why he's giving them the portions in the first place 01:13:34.240 --> 01:13:35.980 so that they can follow this commandment. 01:13:35.980 --> 01:13:39.480 But this is obviously not a thing anymore because Jesus Christ tells the woman at the 01:13:39.480 --> 01:13:44.280 well, that's why I brought that up, that he says hey the day is coming and now is that 01:13:44.280 --> 01:13:48.840 it's not going to be at the Erasm where you worship or at Jerusalem, it's going to be 01:13:48.840 --> 01:13:53.120 about worshiping God in spirit and that's obviously the era that we live in now. 01:13:53.120 --> 01:13:56.700 But I just thought that was a pretty cool connection to all those things. 01:13:56.700 --> 01:13:58.800 But something I think we can apply to this, like from this story. 01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:02.200 directly to us is that... 01:14:02.300 --> 01:14:05.380 the complexity of man, okay? 01:14:05.380 --> 01:14:07.540 Because we see here that Alcana is sinning 01:14:07.540 --> 01:14:09.100 by having the multiple wives, 01:14:09.100 --> 01:14:11.420 but then he's also following this commandment 01:14:11.420 --> 01:14:12.860 very perfectly, okay? 01:14:12.860 --> 01:14:14.740 About doing the offering and then eating there 01:14:14.740 --> 01:14:15.700 with his family. 01:14:15.700 --> 01:14:18.100 I think that just shows us that as humans, 01:14:18.100 --> 01:14:21.780 we are just very complex in the things that we do. 01:14:21.780 --> 01:14:24.140 And as far as like the commandments we follow, 01:14:24.140 --> 01:14:25.940 you'll find that nobody's perfect, 01:14:25.940 --> 01:14:26.980 everybody has sins in their lives. 01:14:26.980 --> 01:14:29.180 It's just different areas that people struggle with, 01:14:29.180 --> 01:14:30.300 is what we see a lot of times. 01:14:30.300 --> 01:14:36.580 And so I would bring up that we can learn from this is that it's not always righteous judgment to judge someone super harshly 01:14:37.060 --> 01:14:41.480 For committing even you know one big sin in their lives, okay? 01:14:41.480 --> 01:14:44.420 And there's obviously exceptions to this you guys probably already know the exceptions 01:14:44.420 --> 01:14:49.100 Okay, I'm not gonna waste your time on that, but I just say like sometimes people will do like there'll be someone who does something pretty 01:14:49.100 --> 01:14:53.020 Bad, and then they just write them off completely and those be like oh they were a faith Christian 01:14:53.020 --> 01:14:57.580 They were never saved in the first place sometimes. This is true like when they're pedophiles again you understand the caveats of this 01:14:57.580 --> 01:14:58.300 I don't like 01:14:58.300 --> 01:15:02.000 bigger sins other people will commit that aren't those things okay sometimes 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:04.800 Christians will just be like oh that means they were never spiritual that 01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:06.920 means that they never really loved God that means they were never really 01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:07.800 faithful 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:14.000 But this isn't true when you look at the Bible, because there's many men in the Bible that commit very great sins. 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:19.240 I mean, King David, obviously, I mean, it's a no-brainer on that, that King David is a man after God's own heart. 01:15:19.240 --> 01:15:22.160 He's serving God extremely well through most of his life. 01:15:22.160 --> 01:15:33.600 And then it's like he commits two of the most grievous, not most of the most grievous, I shouldn't say that, but he commits two major sins of adultery and then murder is what David does. 01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:36.000 But you don't look at David and be like, he was never spiritual. 01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:39.440 in the first place. It's like, no, this is the reality of us humans though. We have highs 01:15:39.440 --> 01:15:45.080 and lows of spiritual, uh, spiritual Audi and you know, it's just like, it's just, people 01:15:45.080 --> 01:15:50.220 are complex. That's the reality. Okay. Like even, uh, Jonah and, and, and, uh, Samson, 01:15:50.220 --> 01:15:53.920 for example, two guys that use their whole ministry, they're rebelling against God. Basically 01:15:53.920 --> 01:15:57.320 they're not serving God properly. So much that Jonah has to get swallowed by a whale. 01:15:57.320 --> 01:16:01.400 So much that Samson ends up blind and just grinding in a mill house at the end of his 01:16:01.400 --> 01:16:03.400 but God still decides to use those men. 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:10.400 But then you have other men in the Bible like David or Peter where they're serving God most 01:16:10.400 --> 01:16:13.960 of the time but then they commit just giant sins and then you're just like, dude, what 01:16:13.960 --> 01:16:15.600 are you doing? 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:16.600 How do you commit this? 01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:17.920 You're denying Jesus Christ? 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:20.080 You're committing adultery and killing the girl's husband? 01:16:20.080 --> 01:16:21.360 Like huge sins. 01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:30.800 But my whole point showing you this is that it's just not always righteous judgment to just write someone off because they fall into sin or because they do even a really big sin, a really dumb sin, okay? 01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:36.800 Because God, we see, uses men that do big sins as well in the Bible. 01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:43.800 That it doesn't mean that you just like everything about them and their ministry and their entire life was a lie because they fell into sin or something like that, okay? 01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:46.800 Go back to 1 Samuel. I don't know if you know how many of you guys turned away from that. 01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:49.800 And first thing we're going to look at next. 01:16:49.800 --> 01:16:50.100 Thanks for watching! 01:16:50.400 --> 01:16:54.880 But then also piggybacking off of my repentance sermon, I'd say this as well about these verses that 01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:59.600 this is why it proves to us why it's foolish to judge someone's salvation on whether or not 01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:02.800 they aren't committing big sins or not. That's a big thing with repentance. They'll be like, 01:17:02.800 --> 01:17:06.880 oh I gotta look and make sure and see that they actually turn from their sins and then I actually 01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:10.560 know that they believed on Jesus Christ. It's like, well then what do you do with people like Samuel 01:17:10.560 --> 01:17:14.960 then or not Samuel, like with King David then or people like Jonah or people like Samson where they 01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:18.320 commit big sins like you just say that they weren't really saved and they never believed. 01:17:18.400 --> 01:17:21.880 on God this is foolishness and that was the reason I was showing you that we struggle 01:17:21.880 --> 01:17:26.460 with different things because Alkenna is doing one big sin where he's having the multiple 01:17:26.460 --> 01:17:31.200 wives but then at the other time he's also following his commandments properly but then 01:17:31.200 --> 01:17:33.220 there's I'm sure that there's other people that did this in the opposite where there 01:17:33.220 --> 01:17:37.420 was probably guys that were single or just had one wife but then they didn't follow the 01:17:37.420 --> 01:17:39.540 command of coming and sacrificing the Lord. 01:17:39.540 --> 01:17:42.860 My point is showing you this is that people just struggle with different things though. 01:17:42.860 --> 01:17:45.680 People struggle with different things that's why it's not righteous judgment to just look 01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:46.320 down your nose. 01:17:46.400 --> 01:17:50.120 at someone that does a sin maybe that you don't do because you probably have 01:17:50.120 --> 01:17:54.140 sins that they don't do as well. That's why in general we just let God do the 01:17:54.140 --> 01:17:57.740 judging as far as it goes as far as like who's the most spiritual, who's most 01:17:57.740 --> 01:18:00.580 righteous. That's a carnal mindset anyways but you guys understand what I'm 01:18:00.580 --> 01:18:03.300 saying okay. But this is the problem why I was talking about repentant your sins though. 01:18:03.300 --> 01:18:06.140 This is the problem with having all these vague qualifiers on salvation though. 01:18:06.140 --> 01:18:09.860 Like you're like well you gotta be really sorry or you need to turn from your 01:18:09.860 --> 01:18:14.400 big sins or you have to try to forsake your big sins. Just make salvation good. 01:18:14.400 --> 01:18:19.200 No, what the Bible says about salvation is this, is that if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ 01:18:19.200 --> 01:18:21.700 and you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, He says, 01:18:21.700 --> 01:18:22.800 thou shalt be saved. 01:18:22.800 --> 01:18:24.000 That's all salvation is. 01:18:24.000 --> 01:18:25.600 That's how it stays simple. 01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:29.900 That's how we don't get into heresy and confuse people into doubting their salvation. 01:18:30.900 --> 01:18:38.100 Verse number six he says, and her adversary also provoked her sore for to make her fret because the Lord had shut up her womb. 01:18:38.100 --> 01:18:47.560 And as he did so year by year when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her, therefore she wept and did not eat. 01:18:47.560 --> 01:18:49.700 So what a flippin' jerk here, okay? 01:18:49.700 --> 01:18:52.100 Benita, who has a very beautiful name by the way, okay? 01:18:52.100 --> 01:18:58.900 But a very ugly heart, obviously, is provoking Hannah to tears by just, you know, bringing up the fact that she's barren and just... 01:18:58.900 --> 01:19:01.100 It says that she was causing her to fret. 01:19:01.100 --> 01:19:03.900 She provoked her sore is what the Bible says here. 01:19:03.900 --> 01:19:04.740 It's an evil woman. 01:19:04.740 --> 01:19:06.620 It's a very wicked thing to do. 01:19:06.620 --> 01:19:08.060 And by the way though, side note, 01:19:08.060 --> 01:19:08.940 I was just saying it's a beautiful name. 01:19:08.940 --> 01:19:10.820 I really do think Penina is a beautiful name. 01:19:10.820 --> 01:19:12.780 This is a great tragedy in the Bible, okay? 01:19:12.780 --> 01:19:16.220 Penina and Sapphira, I think are like peak names, 01:19:16.220 --> 01:19:17.780 but they're terrible women, okay? 01:19:17.780 --> 01:19:19.220 So then I can't name my daughters that, right? 01:19:19.220 --> 01:19:21.300 Would you judge me if I named my daughter Sapphira? 01:19:21.300 --> 01:19:22.540 Probably, okay? 01:19:22.540 --> 01:19:23.700 Can I redeem the name though, 01:19:23.700 --> 01:19:25.420 Sapphira, make it beautiful again? 01:19:25.420 --> 01:19:26.900 Make Sapphira great again. 01:19:26.900 --> 01:19:30.580 Okay, probably not. I'd probably get judged and then if you had a bad daughter to be you the worst 01:19:30.580 --> 01:19:32.980 But that's a trouble. Why is it that people are having? 01:19:33.860 --> 01:19:38.760 Daughters and they're picking out great names ten to ten names and then they're just braising them like trash. This is whack 01:19:38.760 --> 01:19:39.420 Okay 01:19:39.420 --> 01:19:44.600 So the lesson should be you know, if you're gonna name your daughter something pretty then at least make sure that she turns out 01:19:44.600 --> 01:19:46.900 To be a good girl not like a panini. Okay 01:19:47.940 --> 01:19:50.580 But going back, okay what we're talking about, okay 01:19:50.780 --> 01:19:54.800 This is an extremely wicked thing to do and it's something that's super 01:19:54.900 --> 01:19:58.320 Disgusting and ask what we should take on this story immediately is that? 01:19:58.580 --> 01:20:04.660 when people have things that they can't control we should not be provoking them because of these things or making fun of them because of these things or 01:20:05.160 --> 01:20:10.380 Causing them to fret like it says here because of these things and this isn't just my opinion about this 01:20:10.380 --> 01:20:12.380 We see this in the Bible all the time in the Old Testament 01:20:12.900 --> 01:20:14.900 Multiple times God will say you know 01:20:14.900 --> 01:20:18.980 But the blind and the maimed and you know the fatherless and the widows 01:20:18.980 --> 01:20:22.780 He basically says if you set up a stomach bug for them if you flick them then he's gonna 01:20:22.900 --> 01:20:27.340 curse you for doing these things. And obviously barren women isn't listed off here, but I 01:20:27.340 --> 01:20:30.540 think that the same spirit really applies. It's something that you can't control. And 01:20:30.540 --> 01:20:33.820 I just think it's carnal anyways. People going after each other. I should just par against 01:20:33.820 --> 01:20:37.200 this and say this, dude, there's some people out there that go after people's looks and 01:20:37.200 --> 01:20:41.540 all these kind of dumb carnal things. It's like, where do we ever see that in the Bible? 01:20:41.540 --> 01:20:46.160 Show me like you see people may getting made fun of for being called like snakes or being 01:20:46.160 --> 01:20:50.620 called vipers or being called like foxes or anything like that. But where do you see someone 01:20:50.620 --> 01:20:50.900 Oh, man. 01:20:50.900 --> 01:20:54.500 making fun of someone else's looks in the bible, someone that's a good person doing 01:20:54.500 --> 01:20:57.260 these things in the bible, you never see these things, you know why? 01:20:57.260 --> 01:20:58.760 Because it's carnal. 01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:02.020 Because last time I checked, I thought the bible says that God is the one who formed 01:21:02.020 --> 01:21:03.180 us in his image. 01:21:03.180 --> 01:21:08.180 So then how much sense does it make to make fun of someone for the way that God made them? 01:21:08.180 --> 01:21:12.460 This is bizarre and extremely carnal is what I'm pointing out to you right now. 01:21:12.460 --> 01:21:14.260 This is not walking in the spirit. 01:21:14.260 --> 01:21:16.660 is like when people are just constantly just 01:21:16.900 --> 01:21:21.500 attacking people for their looks and attacking people for just little dumb things like this. 01:21:21.500 --> 01:21:24.200 This is a person you should be aware of. This is not a good person. 01:21:24.200 --> 01:21:26.700 Go to 2 Corinthians 10 verse number 12. 01:21:26.700 --> 01:21:29.700 2 Corinthians 10 verse number 12. 01:21:30.200 --> 01:21:34.840 The second thing I want to point out about this though, because I was just talking about like this the the carnalness of people sometimes 01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:43.360 Bizarre that you know making fun of people and going after people for big ailments that they have is wicked 01:21:43.360 --> 01:21:44.840 It's evil but on a lesser degree 01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:49.640 I still think like I was just saying that just going after people for things that they can't control is super weird, okay? 01:21:51.800 --> 01:21:52.700 I mean 01:21:52.900 --> 01:21:54.900 The people you see do this in the Bible, who do you see do this? 01:21:54.900 --> 01:21:57.900 Like the kids, the little, the kids making fun of Elijah, 01:21:57.900 --> 01:22:00.900 like, go up thou bald head, go up! What happens to them? 01:22:00.900 --> 01:22:03.900 They get mauled by a she-bear, which isn't always going to happen to you, okay? 01:22:03.900 --> 01:22:07.900 But again, you see that God obviously doesn't like these things, okay? 01:22:07.900 --> 01:22:11.800 2 Corinthians 10, verse number 12. 01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:14.240 And that's what you're acting like when you're doing these things. 01:22:14.240 --> 01:22:16.400 You're just going after someone for their looks or for dumb things like that. 01:22:16.400 --> 01:22:18.240 It's like you're acting like these little kids in the story. 01:22:18.240 --> 01:22:21.360 Little spoiled brats that are just going off and mouthing off to the prophet. 01:22:21.360 --> 01:22:24.240 That's what you're acting like spiritually when you're doing these things. 01:22:24.240 --> 01:22:28.080 But I have you there in 2 Corinthians 10-12 to pivot to this. 01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:30.560 The second thing I want to bring up about these verses is that... 01:22:31.100 --> 01:22:38.660 Um, your spirituality has nothing to do with whether or not that you can bear kids or not. 01:22:38.660 --> 01:22:42.580 Because I think that some women fall into this trap of thinking this, or just, it's 01:22:42.580 --> 01:22:46.000 not just this example, but I'm going to just touch on this because it's in the text, but 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:50.300 sometimes we'll look at other people and the things that they have that we don't, and we'll 01:22:50.300 --> 01:22:56.940 be like, oh, this must, this must be because I'm not spiritual and they're spiritual, or 01:22:56.940 --> 01:22:59.100 God loves them and he doesn't love me. 01:22:59.100 --> 01:23:02.460 or I'm being punished by God, I'm being chased by God. 01:23:02.460 --> 01:23:03.620 But I want you to see in this story 01:23:03.620 --> 01:23:04.620 that that's not the case. 01:23:04.620 --> 01:23:05.980 Because if this was the case, 01:23:05.980 --> 01:23:08.260 that the most spiritual women out there 01:23:08.260 --> 01:23:09.700 are the ones that bear children, 01:23:09.700 --> 01:23:11.120 then the rules would have been reversed here 01:23:11.120 --> 01:23:14.680 because Panina has the kids and Hannah does not. 01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:17.500 But Hannah's clearly way more spiritual than Panina. 01:23:17.500 --> 01:23:19.660 So don't fall into this trap of thinking that, 01:23:19.660 --> 01:23:21.500 like to think that gain is godliness. 01:23:21.500 --> 01:23:23.140 The Bible says that this is not true. 01:23:23.140 --> 01:23:25.620 And that God has different wills for different people. 01:23:25.620 --> 01:23:27.100 And even if someone else's. 01:23:27.100 --> 01:23:29.740 God's will for someone else is different than your will. 01:23:29.740 --> 01:23:31.920 That doesn't mean that he loves you less 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:34.500 or more than them, okay? 01:23:34.500 --> 01:23:35.900 And it's a carnal trap that we fall into. 01:23:35.900 --> 01:23:38.020 2 Corinthians 10-12, that's why I have you there, 01:23:38.020 --> 01:23:40.220 it says, for we dare not make ourselves with a number 01:23:40.220 --> 01:23:42.100 or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves, 01:23:42.100 --> 01:23:45.300 but they measure themselves by themselves 01:23:45.300 --> 01:23:49.060 and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise. 01:23:49.060 --> 01:23:49.700 So. 01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:55.000 Just go in, go to, go to, I just want you to go, go to John 9 verse number 1. 01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:57.000 John 9 verse number 1. 01:23:57.800 --> 01:24:04.780 And like so the verse obviously it's in Corinthians is teaching us that just comparing yourself to other people is not 01:24:05.180 --> 01:24:10.140 Something that's wise to do because we don't know why God does what he does 01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:13.440 We don't know why he operates the way he does sometimes 01:24:13.940 --> 01:24:20.740 But we should not just take that ignorance of his will and apply our own thoughts to it and be like we must be getting 01:24:20.740 --> 01:24:25.740 Punished we must be getting chastened. God must not love me enough because you don't know the mind 01:24:25.800 --> 01:24:28.840 the mind of the Lord. The Bible says this over and over again, but we don't know the 01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:32.520 mind of the Lord or his will fully, so we should not just assume these things. It's 01:24:32.520 --> 01:24:37.200 incorrect to do these things. It's carnal to assume God's will when you don't actually 01:24:37.200 --> 01:24:41.960 know his will. Because that's why I'm having you go to John 9.1 because there's things 01:24:41.960 --> 01:24:48.040 that you just might not ever know why God does or doesn't do for you, and it has nothing 01:24:48.040 --> 01:24:52.400 to do with something bad that you did. Look at John 9.1. It says this. It says, and Jesus 01:24:52.400 --> 01:24:53.400 passed by. 01:24:53.800 --> 01:24:58.520 And as he passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth, and the disciples asked 01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:04.520 him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 01:25:05.100 --> 01:25:09.100 And this is a natural reaction for people, like when they see something bad that's happened to someone, they're like, 01:25:09.100 --> 01:25:12.100 surely he must have sinned, or at least his parents sinned. 01:25:12.100 --> 01:25:17.100 There must be something, something wrong that he did because why is he suffering if he didn't do something wrong? 01:25:17.100 --> 01:25:20.100 Look what it says, Jesus, it says, Jesus says the answer, 01:25:20.100 --> 01:25:27.100 neither hath this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 01:25:27.100 --> 01:25:30.100 So Jesus Christ says right here, this guy wasn't born blind because God hated him. 01:25:30.100 --> 01:25:33.100 It wasn't because of something that he did. It wasn't because of something that his parents did. 01:25:33.100 --> 01:25:35.100 It wasn't for any negative reason at all. 01:25:35.100 --> 01:25:41.620 It was literally for such a time as this so that Jesus Christ could heal this man and perform a great work for God that could cause 01:25:42.260 --> 01:25:47.260 thousands of people hundreds of thousands of millions of people throughout time to look at this story and believe on Jesus Christ and 01:25:47.380 --> 01:25:52.400 Also to glorify God Almighty. So but think about this if you were this blind man 01:25:52.400 --> 01:25:55.420 Do you think that this man ever would have thought that that was the reason why he was born blind? 01:25:55.860 --> 01:26:01.100 Probably not right? He probably never would have just been like surely I'm born blind because Jesus Christ gonna perform a miracle 01:26:01.100 --> 01:26:05.180 Kwame right? It's not what he was thinking at all. So that's just to show you again, 01:26:05.180 --> 01:26:09.380 we don't know the minor Lord so we shouldn't just assume his will. And I honestly push 01:26:09.380 --> 01:26:13.040 back too, sometimes people about this story will be like, God's cruel for making this 01:26:13.040 --> 01:26:18.300 guy blind because you know, he didn't even consent to being born blind. It's like what 01:26:18.300 --> 01:26:22.620 the world? People, these people, their consent and all this dumb stuff, okay? These atheists, 01:26:22.620 --> 01:26:25.780 the weird arguments that they bring up against God Almighty. But it's like Newsflash, God's 01:26:25.780 --> 01:26:28.900 the creator so he can do whatever he wants to concerning making people. 01:26:29.100 --> 01:26:32.540 He can make us any way he wants to and we're not to reply back to him. 01:26:32.820 --> 01:26:35.900 Why has thou made me thus? Right? That's what it teaches in Romans. And, 01:26:35.900 --> 01:26:39.380 and even if, uh, even if God does make this guy blind, 01:26:39.420 --> 01:26:41.860 cause he clearly did in this story, even if that's the case, 01:26:41.860 --> 01:26:46.100 it's like he's doing it for a will for his own purpose and God can do as he 01:26:46.100 --> 01:26:49.980 wills and as he pleases. We see this all over the Bible. So like, 01:26:50.060 --> 01:26:53.380 who are we to question God Almighty? That's a very bizarre, uh, 01:26:53.420 --> 01:26:57.020 thought process. Go up to Isaiah 54 verse number one is where I want to go. 01:26:57.100 --> 01:26:59.220 Isaiah 54 verse number one. 01:26:59.220 --> 01:27:00.200 We're coming to the end of the sermon here, 01:27:00.200 --> 01:27:03.760 so stick with me, Isaiah 54 verse number one. 01:27:04.300 --> 01:27:06.980 is where you guys are going. 01:27:06.980 --> 01:27:08.980 Because also think about this, this blind man, 01:27:08.980 --> 01:27:10.660 for being born blind and being healed, 01:27:10.660 --> 01:27:13.220 I'm sure that he gets tons of rewards in heaven for these things. 01:27:13.220 --> 01:27:15.700 That because God made him blind, 01:27:15.700 --> 01:27:18.820 and he made him to be healed in this story, 01:27:18.820 --> 01:27:22.380 that he probably gets a ton of rewards for the people that read this story, 01:27:22.380 --> 01:27:24.780 and you know, it causes them to have faith 01:27:24.780 --> 01:27:26.420 on Jesus Christ and on his gospel, 01:27:26.420 --> 01:27:29.300 from seeing the miracle that's performed on this, okay? 01:27:29.300 --> 01:27:32.220 And while you guys are going to Isaiah 54 verse... 01:27:32.300 --> 01:27:36.560 I have you guys going to Isaiah 54 verse number one. Yeah, Isaiah 54 verse number one 01:27:36.560 --> 01:27:42.680 I'd also just point out, you know, there's people like Sarah as well because I'll talk about like not like looking at yourself and being like 01:27:42.680 --> 01:27:43.580 Oh 01:27:43.580 --> 01:27:48.200 There must be something that's wrong with me and that's why I made this way like we see that in the Bible 01:27:48.200 --> 01:27:54.820 Sarah is a very godly woman. She's but she's barren as well. But even in her story as well 01:27:54.820 --> 01:28:00.240 She was made barren for a specific purpose so that it was a miracle that when Isaac was born he could be 01:28:00.300 --> 01:28:04.080 the child of promise. So there is reasons that God has for doing things. I'm not 01:28:04.080 --> 01:28:07.560 gonna say that I know every reason behind everything. This is just we can't 01:28:07.560 --> 01:28:10.480 know the reasons behind why God does what he does. But this is what I want to 01:28:10.480 --> 01:28:13.320 submit to you about this. We have to trust God no matter what he does in our 01:28:13.320 --> 01:28:17.600 lives. That's the reality. That no matter what God decides for us, that's what we 01:28:17.600 --> 01:28:21.680 have to trust because he is always right. He's always right. And we can't know his 01:28:21.680 --> 01:28:24.560 mind but we know that his mind is always right. It's what we should always know 01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:27.440 though. But that's not to say that there's no reasons for why we don't have 01:28:27.440 --> 01:28:28.300 what we have. 01:28:28.300 --> 01:28:30.300 you know, especially even because we're talking about the sense of being barren, 01:28:30.300 --> 01:28:34.780 like perhaps God has women out there that are barren for a while, 01:28:34.780 --> 01:28:37.020 for a season for them to get, get, 01:28:37.060 --> 01:28:39.980 for them to have children so that they can inspire other women or help encourage 01:28:39.980 --> 01:28:41.700 other women that were going through something that's similar, 01:28:42.020 --> 01:28:45.860 or perhaps that he has some women that are barren so that they can, you know, 01:28:45.860 --> 01:28:47.380 maybe he has a kid set up that he wants, 01:28:47.420 --> 01:28:50.660 that he wants them to adopt or multiple kids that he wants them to adopt so that, 01:28:51.300 --> 01:28:54.580 uh, they can raise them as their own and so that they can, um, you know, 01:28:54.580 --> 01:28:56.180 get them saved and help them to have a good life. 01:28:56.300 --> 01:29:02.500 You know, maybe it's God's will that someone's barren because he wants you to to serve him in a way that you couldn't without kids 01:29:02.500 --> 01:29:05.940 I mean there's I could give you a thousand different what ifs what ifs or maybe this is why 01:29:06.120 --> 01:29:09.720 But the reality is is no matter what the reason why is we should just accept the will of God 01:29:10.040 --> 01:29:14.320 And this is obviously easier said than done. I got it. I want to be gentle about how I obviously say that but 01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:20.800 We just need to realize as Christians. This is true for everything not just people that are barren, but just for any 01:29:21.440 --> 01:29:24.300 Disadvantage that we feel that we have in life or for any ailment that we're 01:29:24.300 --> 01:29:29.180 going through, like think of the Apostle Paul who, you know, he says he goes to the Lord 01:29:29.180 --> 01:29:33.380 three times because he's a thorn in the flesh that he wants to go away and he asks three 01:29:33.380 --> 01:29:35.860 times will you let this go away from me, will you let this go away from me, will you let 01:29:35.860 --> 01:29:38.220 this go away from me and God says no. 01:29:38.600 --> 01:29:43.600 And what is Paul's reaction to that? He says, okay, God, if that's what you want, then that's what you want. 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:47.600 And he rejoices that he's willing to suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. 01:29:47.600 --> 01:29:56.600 So this way to be and this again, this is easier said than done for things because, you know, it's easy as a married person to say to a single person, well, if God wills for you to be single, that's what you have to accept. 01:29:56.600 --> 01:30:06.600 Okay, that's hard. Okay. Or as a person with kids, it's easier to say to someone that doesn't have kids that like, oh, you know, it might be God's will. I understand this. 01:30:06.600 --> 01:30:09.400 But I want you to understand that this is true though. 01:30:09.400 --> 01:30:10.400 This is the word of God. 01:30:10.400 --> 01:30:11.680 This is what we're going through. 01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:13.120 And these principles really do apply. 01:30:13.120 --> 01:30:16.040 But that's why I have you there in Isaiah 54.1 because here's another reason that he 01:30:16.040 --> 01:30:23.000 says, he says, sing O barren that thou didst not bear, break forth into singing and cry 01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:28.040 aloud thou that didst not travail with child for more are the children of the desolate 01:30:28.040 --> 01:30:31.800 than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. 01:30:31.800 --> 01:30:33.860 And this is interesting because obviously we know that there's a prophecy that's also 01:30:33.860 --> 01:30:34.600 kind of fulfilled. 01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:39.160 the New Testament, but also like how could this be true? How could it be that a barren woman, 01:30:39.160 --> 01:30:43.880 that a person that's desolate, it says right here, has more children than a woman that is married? 01:30:43.880 --> 01:30:50.120 Here's how, because when you're a single person, he establishes this, that you can do more works for 01:30:50.120 --> 01:30:55.880 God Almighty. And again, this is why it comes down to accepting God's will no matter what it is. 01:30:55.880 --> 01:30:59.560 If that's what God's will is for your life, then that is what you have to accept as a Christian, 01:30:59.560 --> 01:31:02.520 okay? Because go to Titus 1-2, I think this is one of the last places I have you turn. 01:31:02.600 --> 01:31:03.720 Okay, Titus won't do it. 01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:05.120 Yeah, and then we're gonna go back to Samuel 01:31:05.120 --> 01:31:06.200 and then we'll be done there, okay? 01:31:06.200 --> 01:31:07.260 Titus won. 01:31:07.400 --> 01:31:09.960 Verse number two, because another blessing, 01:31:09.960 --> 01:31:10.800 because I always talk about this, 01:31:10.800 --> 01:31:12.320 I always talk about the different pros and cons 01:31:12.320 --> 01:31:13.160 we have in our life. 01:31:13.160 --> 01:31:15.280 Different stages of life have different advantages, okay? 01:31:15.280 --> 01:31:17.720 When you're single, you have all the free time in the world. 01:31:17.720 --> 01:31:19.600 When you're married without children, 01:31:19.600 --> 01:31:23.060 you have the balance of having some free time 01:31:23.060 --> 01:31:25.360 and then some time that you have to be with your spouse, 01:31:25.360 --> 01:31:26.200 whatever. 01:31:26.200 --> 01:31:27.200 And then when you have children, 01:31:27.200 --> 01:31:28.280 it's like all your time's gone 01:31:28.280 --> 01:31:29.560 and you have nothing to do anymore. 01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:32.520 It is like your life is just wrapped around your kids, right? 01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:35.060 But then children are also a blessing. 01:31:35.060 --> 01:31:35.400 So it's like. 01:31:35.400 --> 01:31:39.200 Like everything has pros and cons, everything has advantages and disadvantages. 01:31:39.200 --> 01:31:42.940 So as Christians we need to realize this and this whatever state we're in we need to be 01:31:42.940 --> 01:31:45.220 content is what the Bible tells us though. 01:31:45.220 --> 01:31:50.720 And if you're you know someone that that can't have you know kids Bible teaches us that you 01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:54.280 know there's people like the apostle I mean the possible never had kids not because he 01:31:54.280 --> 01:31:57.780 couldn't have kids he just didn't have a wife he just chose not to have a wife though but 01:31:57.780 --> 01:32:02.640 part of the advantage that he gets in that is that he gets to have many spiritual children 01:32:02.640 --> 01:32:03.280 That's all. 01:32:03.400 --> 01:32:08.600 up the Isaiah 54 one because I think that's how this is fulfilled that it's fulfilled by women 01:32:09.320 --> 01:32:13.880 or yeah that women out there that if maybe you don't have kids or you can't have kids 01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:18.600 or you only have one kid compared to other people it's like you can do more spiritual 01:32:18.600 --> 01:32:23.240 works for God and again is the difference of the of the pros and cons of that like you don't have 01:32:23.240 --> 01:32:28.360 they as many kids but then you have the pro of having more free time and I brought up Paul 01:32:28.360 --> 01:32:31.400 because in Timothy right here it says unto Timothy my own son. 01:32:31.400 --> 01:32:35.240 the faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. 01:32:35.240 --> 01:32:39.400 Paul calls Timothy his son in the faith. Obviously they had a pretty decently 01:32:39.400 --> 01:32:44.360 close relationship and Paul had probably many children in the faith because of 01:32:44.360 --> 01:32:48.840 the fact that he has enough free time to go out and preach the gospel and evil. So 01:32:48.840 --> 01:32:52.440 that's one advantage that you should, one thing you should take advantage of okay 01:32:52.440 --> 01:32:58.400 if this is your case okay. Back in 1st Samuel 1 verse number 7, 1st Samuel 1 01:32:58.500 --> 01:33:02.500 Verse number seven. Talk about barren women though. I'd also say this, I know this. 01:33:02.500 --> 01:33:06.820 Just in case anybody doesn't know, when someone is struggling to get pregnant, 01:33:07.780 --> 01:33:13.540 like first of all, I just say this. I say this. Just when people like don't go up and ask people 01:33:13.540 --> 01:33:17.140 like, oh, are you pregnant? Because this is just flipping rude. I don't understand. Like there's 01:33:17.140 --> 01:33:20.420 just like some things that are like, they're not a Bible verse, but just like common sense. I think 01:33:20.420 --> 01:33:23.060 sometimes people just don't get taught these things. But it's like, you don't go up and ask 01:33:23.060 --> 01:33:26.420 a woman how old she is. And you know, another thing you don't ask someone how old she is. 01:33:26.500 --> 01:33:28.620 how much money they earn, that's weird to do that, 01:33:28.620 --> 01:33:29.800 how much they pay for the house, 01:33:29.800 --> 01:33:31.140 it's weird to do these things, okay? 01:33:31.140 --> 01:33:33.100 Unless you're really close with someone. 01:33:33.100 --> 01:33:34.940 Another thing is you don't go up and ask one, 01:33:34.940 --> 01:33:35.760 are you pregnant? 01:33:35.760 --> 01:33:36.980 Because people that are struggling with this, 01:33:36.980 --> 01:33:38.820 it's extremely insensitive to them. 01:33:38.820 --> 01:33:41.540 It's just rude, it's just not nice. 01:33:41.540 --> 01:33:42.980 And I don't think people do that in a bad heart, 01:33:42.980 --> 01:33:44.900 but it's just not something that you should do. 01:33:44.900 --> 01:33:47.420 Just like, you might be curious about how old a woman is, 01:33:47.420 --> 01:33:48.820 but you just don't ask, 01:33:48.820 --> 01:33:50.400 this is not what we do in our society, right? 01:33:50.600 --> 01:33:55.080 verse 7 in 1-7 though it says this it says and he said oh and he did so year by year when she 01:33:55.080 --> 01:34:00.680 went up to the house of the lord so she provoked her therefore uh she wept and did not eat verse 01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:05.480 number eight it says then said oh canna her husband to her hannah why weepest thou and why 01:34:05.480 --> 01:34:10.840 eatest thou not and why is thy heart grieved am i not better to thee than ten sons which is like 01:34:10.840 --> 01:34:15.480 this is probably not the play right here okay i don't know this i don't know he wrote this one 01:34:15.480 --> 01:34:18.600 up it's like this was a fail okay so we're gonna miss I'm like 01:34:18.600 --> 01:34:21.000 It makes me want to say to my wife though the next time she's sad. 01:34:21.000 --> 01:34:23.600 I'd be like, Kylie, am I not better than you, the 10 sons? 01:34:23.600 --> 01:34:24.600 Okay. 01:34:24.600 --> 01:34:28.500 It's just, I think the thing you can actually learn from this though is that, you know, 01:34:28.500 --> 01:34:32.060 when it comes to everyone, but especially women I've found in my life, a lot of times 01:34:32.060 --> 01:34:35.800 when they are sorrowing, when they're going through a hard time, they don't want to hear 01:34:35.800 --> 01:34:39.700 the logical, even though I don't know how logical that one is, okay, but they don't 01:34:39.700 --> 01:34:43.600 want to hear all these like random things about how to fix their problem or anything 01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:44.680 like that. 01:34:44.680 --> 01:34:46.600 they want a lot of time is just for you to comfort them and just 01:34:46.600 --> 01:34:51.760 to be with them and to just go down on their level and be sorrowful with them or to you 01:34:51.760 --> 01:34:57.320 know, just kind of let like to what was I get down and understand their feelings. That's 01:34:57.320 --> 01:35:00.760 what they want. Okay. And the men's and they're like feelings. Okay. But this is what we have 01:35:00.760 --> 01:35:04.520 to do. This is your duty as a man. Okay. To love your wife. Right. Dwelling with her according 01:35:04.520 --> 01:35:05.040 to what 01:35:05.400 --> 01:35:07.400 to know what jazz with Wives teaches us. 01:35:07.400 --> 01:35:13.400 But so this is, this is just, but this is not true just with wives though, it's true with a lot of people. 01:35:13.400 --> 01:35:15.400 Sometimes people have like a bad situation like, 01:35:15.400 --> 01:35:18.400 sometimes you just want to vent about something, you just want to mourn about something 01:35:18.400 --> 01:35:22.400 and someone's coming up to you and just like, trying to tell you all the solutions to your problem, it's like... 01:35:22.500 --> 01:35:25.940 That's not what I want right now. What I want is just for you to be like, oh man, that sucks. 01:35:25.940 --> 01:35:31.300 Or oh man, that's tough. Or man, that's rough. Or whatever. That's sometimes, that's the company 01:35:31.300 --> 01:35:35.060 people want. And this is what the Bible teaches us sometimes as well. It says rejoice within the 01:35:35.060 --> 01:35:40.180 do rejoice and weep with them that weep. And even think that Jesus Christ, it says Jesus wept in the 01:35:40.180 --> 01:35:44.660 Bible, right? So sometimes part of showing love to people is just showing empathy and just showing 01:35:44.660 --> 01:35:48.260 that, reflecting back the same emotions they have. Just let them know that you care about what they're 01:35:48.260 --> 01:35:50.500 they're going through and that you care about what. 01:35:50.500 --> 01:35:54.980 they're dealing with. Okay. Verse number nine, it says, so Hannah rose up after she had eaten 01:35:54.980 --> 01:35:59.940 and Shiloh and after the, uh, they had drunk. Now Eli, the priest sat upon a seat by the 01:35:59.940 --> 01:36:04.820 post of the temple of the Lord and she was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the 01:36:04.820 --> 01:36:10.140 Lord and wept sore. So clearly right here we see that Hannah is not comforted by her 01:36:10.140 --> 01:36:14.180 husband's, by her husband's, if I'm not better than you, the 10 sons, because she's still 01:36:14.180 --> 01:36:17.940 weeping in business. So she gets up, it's clearly she gets up to kind of just, you know, 01:36:18.400 --> 01:36:22.200 Comfort him in this situation not make him feel bad, but she's still clearly sad about this 01:36:22.200 --> 01:36:28.200 She's weeping in bitterness and soul so again. We should realize that when someone is going through a hard time 01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:33.980 Sometimes giving them the logical answer is not always what they need in that moment not that it can't come later 01:36:33.980 --> 01:36:36.240 Okay, I'm not saying that you should never give someone logic sometimes 01:36:36.240 --> 01:36:41.280 There is a there's a time and a place for everything under the Sun right but sometimes the answer when someone is going through our time 01:36:41.480 --> 01:36:45.960 It like someone loses their job. You don't have to be like well. You know you could just apply for another job 01:36:46.400 --> 01:36:48.680 It's like, yeah, but like my dog now, 01:36:48.680 --> 01:36:50.720 okay, that's what I'm upset about, right? 01:36:50.720 --> 01:36:52.600 Or someone has a member in their family pass away. 01:36:52.600 --> 01:36:54.700 Like obviously there's good things we could do 01:36:54.700 --> 01:36:55.880 to comfort them sometimes being like, 01:36:55.880 --> 01:36:57.160 we'll get to see him again and have him today. 01:36:57.160 --> 01:36:58.380 These things are true. 01:36:58.380 --> 01:37:00.600 But like, especially when things are fresh on people, 01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:02.680 they just want you, they just want to feel 01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:04.440 that you care about them is what I would submit to you 01:37:04.440 --> 01:37:05.480 from these things. 01:37:05.480 --> 01:37:08.520 And this is what we should understand as humans. 01:37:08.520 --> 01:37:11.280 There's a lot of different examples I could use about that. 01:37:11.280 --> 01:37:13.200 Like my dog just died. 01:37:13.200 --> 01:37:14.400 Well, you know, you'll never see. 01:37:14.400 --> 01:37:17.760 your dog again because animals don't go to heaven. Okay, it's like that's probably 01:37:17.760 --> 01:37:20.500 not the play right? Just be like oh man. 01:37:20.600 --> 01:37:24.600 That's tough, okay. That's what you gotta say, okay. But anyways, in summary for this thing, 01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:27.480 okay, we got through 10 verses, but next week we'll get through this whole chapter, okay. 01:37:27.480 --> 01:37:31.240 The point one is that the house of the Lord, I want to point this out to you, is in Shiloh, 01:37:31.240 --> 01:37:35.000 which is, I didn't say this earlier because I forgot to say it, but Shiloh is in Ephraim, 01:37:35.000 --> 01:37:39.320 okay, which is where he's from, which is why they get to visit Samuel very often as we see in this 01:37:39.320 --> 01:37:43.240 story. The second part about this is that in my opinion, I don't think that the multiple wives 01:37:43.240 --> 01:37:48.200 is adultery. I think it's a sin in and of itself, but I don't think the Bible says that it's adultery. 01:37:48.600 --> 01:37:50.600 There's a lot of other things attached to that but... 01:37:51.100 --> 01:37:54.580 Spent a lot of time on that so I won't go into that more and then also the third point 01:37:54.580 --> 01:37:57.460 We should understand that we don't always know what God's will is 01:37:57.460 --> 01:38:01.620 So it is not good for us to assume that we're being punished or that God 01:38:01.940 --> 01:38:08.340 Doesn't love us or favors someone else because they have something better than you or they have something that you don't have or 01:38:08.580 --> 01:38:12.380 they have the ability to do something that you don't get to do like 01:38:12.860 --> 01:38:18.700 the the the mind of the Lord is too high for us to understand and there are probably 01:38:19.100 --> 01:38:24.140 Thousands of reasons for why he does things so you shouldn't just always assume that it's something that you did even the story of job 01:38:24.140 --> 01:38:27.280 It's the same exact thing anybody would look at the story of job 01:38:27.280 --> 01:38:30.900 This is why it's in the Bible for us to realize like just because someone's going through something bad 01:38:30.900 --> 01:38:34.060 That doesn't mean that they're a bad person that in the story of job 01:38:34.060 --> 01:38:37.680 It's like he did he said he's a perfect man an upright man a complete man 01:38:37.680 --> 01:38:42.020 The best man in the East is what it said or the West is it the East or the West? 01:38:42.500 --> 01:38:45.940 the east okay yeah who's the best man the west though that's what we got to figure out okay 01:38:45.940 --> 01:38:51.620 that's uh probably the apocryphers okay uh but then lastly okay point number four is that 01:38:51.620 --> 01:38:53.780 we should come for people that are going through a hard time 01:38:54.200 --> 01:38:58.900 Just have I don't even want to use a word that feels cringe like the emotional intelligence though 01:38:58.900 --> 01:39:04.000 it's like kind of true though like just like learn to deal with people's emotions like people aren't just robots and 01:39:04.160 --> 01:39:06.840 Even if especially this truth, you're not a very emotional person 01:39:06.840 --> 01:39:12.500 You should realize other people do have emotions though other people do go through things and sometimes comfort 01:39:12.800 --> 01:39:14.840 Comforting someone is giving them a logical answer 01:39:14.840 --> 01:39:20.400 But sometimes it is just weeping with them that weep and we're just rejoicing with them that rejoices what though I would teach is 01:39:20.400 --> 01:39:22.200 Okay. So anyways in separate for these things 01:39:22.200 --> 01:39:23.200 Let's pray. 01:39:23.200 --> 01:39:24.200 Hear with the God. 01:39:24.200 --> 01:39:25.200 Thank you so much for this wonderful day. 01:39:25.200 --> 01:39:26.200 Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. 01:39:26.200 --> 01:39:27.680 Thank you so much for this church, God, and thank you so much for this great time with 01:39:27.680 --> 01:39:28.680 the Bible, God. 01:39:28.680 --> 01:39:31.640 I just pray, God, that my sermon would be edifying to people in this room, and I just 01:39:31.640 --> 01:39:35.560 pray that you'd help us as we go through this Bible study, God, to apply these things to 01:39:35.560 --> 01:39:41.080 our lives, God, and help us to go through these chapters, God, diligently, God, and 01:39:41.080 --> 01:39:43.520 paying attention, God, for the things that you wrote to us. 01:39:43.520 --> 01:39:46.560 And I just pray that you'd be with our church for the rest of the week and help me to preach 01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:47.560 an edifying sermon on Sunday. 01:39:47.560 --> 01:39:50.200 I pray that you'd be with the rest of the song service and help us all get home. 01:39:50.200 --> 01:39:51.800 and save the Jesus we pray, amen. 01:39:59.200 --> 01:40:00.880 All right, if you want to take your hymn rolls, 01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:03.380 we're going to turn to page number 129. 01:40:10.300 --> 01:40:15.300 page number 129, Rock of Ages. 01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:21.000 Sing it out on the first. 01:40:21.900 --> 01:40:30.780 Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee. 01:40:30.780 --> 01:40:39.500 Let the water and the blood from thy wounded side which flowed 01:40:39.500 --> 01:40:43.820 be of sin the double cure. 01:40:43.820 --> 01:40:48.380 Save from wrath and make me pure. 01:40:48.380 --> 01:40:49.880 Could my tears 01:40:49.900 --> 01:41:02.300 forever flow. Could my zeal no longer know? These four sin could not atone. Thou must 01:41:02.300 --> 01:41:14.500 save and thou alone. In my hand no price I bring, simply to thy cross I cling. 01:41:14.600 --> 01:41:23.600 While I draw this fleeting breath, When my eyes shall close in death, 01:41:23.600 --> 01:41:32.600 When I rise to worlds unknown, And behold thee on thy throne, 01:41:32.600 --> 01:41:41.600 Rock of ages cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. 01:41:41.900 --> 01:41:42.900 All right, excellent. 01:41:42.900 --> 01:41:44.900 Everybody brother Paul, would you please close the word of prayer? 01:41:53.300 --> 01:41:53.800 Amen.