Category: 1 Samuel
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All or None
1 Samuel 7:3 “And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, ‘If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand…
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Kings
1 Samuel 8:19-20 “But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, ‘No! But there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.’” In the verses above we see…
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A Change of Heart
1 Samuel 5:1-4 “When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before…
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When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
1 Samuel 4:21-22 “And she named the child Ichabod, saying, ‘The glory has departed from Israel!’ because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. And she said, ‘The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.’” You’ve heard the saying, “The chickens have come home to roost.” It…
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Hearing Ears
1 Samuel 3:10 “And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant hears.’” Do you have ears to hear? In Proverbs 1:20-23, God counsels us with these words: “Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the…
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On which road are you?
1 Samuel 2:26 “Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man.” 1 Samuel 2:26 has, as a backdrop, the wickedness of Israel’s priests at that time in history. Rather than serve the Lord in the high office which they had been given, the…
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A Tragic Presumption
1 Samuel 2:25 “But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.” Of the things I’ve come to learn about God, one of the most sobering is that He is nobody’s fool. You can’t dupe Him or in any way “get one over…
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The Upside-Down World
1 Samuel 2:9 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness for not by might shall a man prevail.” In the end, everything will be made right. That should encourage the heart of anyone who is suffering unjustly today. This world is a place where…
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The Way Up
1 Samuel 2:8 “He raises up the poor from the dust; He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor.” One of the greatest obstacles to a person being saved is that person’s failure to see their need for salvation. Jesus told the unbelieving…
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Worthless
1 Samuel 2:12 “Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord.” “Worthless”: it’s such a sobering word. One of the things that comes to my mind when I think about this word is a tool that no longer works for the purpose for which it was intended. Take a chainsaw, for example. …
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