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Matt 5:16 Let your light so shine
before men, that they may see
your good works and glorify your
Father in heaven.
• Evangelism
• Edification
• Equipping
• Exaltation
Lighthouse
Arizona Community Church
Class: Lighthouse – G2
Teacher: Jack Tschetter
PREPARING
TO ENTER
HIS PRESENCE
THANKSGIVING / HONOR / ADORATION / CONFESSION
HONOR & ADORATION
God is God and there is none beside Him
1 Samuel 18:14 And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.
KEYS TO THE BIBLE
A Visual Overview of The Old and New Testaments
1 Samuel
Adapted from: Dr. Kenneth Boa: Visual Overview of The Bible – Talk Thru The Bible
The subject of our future
INHERITANCE in the KINGDOM is one
of the major themes of the Bible.
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There are 1,518 verses in the Old
Testament and hundreds in the New
Testament that speak about this coming
KINGDOM and the importance of our
being able to INHERIT IT.
Heirs of
God
Heirs with
Christ
Inheritance
of Christ
Rewarded or Rejected Representatives
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Begins with Eli – A Priest
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Moves to Samuel – 1 of National Prophets / Last Judge
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Ends with Saul & David – The 1 and 2 Kings of Israel
A PROPHET represents the Word of God - Revelation
A PRIEST represents Man to God - Reconciliation
A KING represents The Authority of God - Rulership
1 Samuel = a study in CONTRAST of various Representatives
What God Promotes/Prospers - What He Rejects/Removes
• What does it look like to honor God? (or dishonor God)
• What is it 1
called
when2:30
we honor
something
God?
Samuel
for those
whoabove
honor
Me
I will honor, and those
who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.
IDOLATRY
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Rewarded or Rejected Representatives
Division
s
Transition of
Leadership #1
Eli-Samuel
1-3
Samuel 1-7
Judgeship of Samuel
4-7
Saul 8-15
Transition of
Leadership #2
Samuel-Saul 8-12
Reign of Saul
13-15
David 15-31
Transition of
Leadership #3
Saul-David
15-31
1 SAMUEL 1–3
1:1
Transition of
Leadership #1
Eli-Samuel
Contrasting Pictures of
Rewarded or Rejected Representatives
Three Key Persons in opening chapters
I.
Hannah—A Godly Mother (1:1–2:11)
II.
Eli—A Careless Father (2:12–36)
III.
Samuel—A Devoted Son (3)
3:21
I. Hannah—A Godly Mother (1:1–2:11)
• Her sorrow (1:1–10). Her barrenness / persecution
Her desperate situation – wanted to have a child
• Her supplication (1:11–19). Left the feast / Went to
2:1/Hannah’s
Prayer
pray / Offered1 Samuel
her best
first-born
And Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the
• Her surrender
(1:20–28)
Stopped
LORD; My horn
is exalted in
the LORD.being
I smilebitter
at my
enemies,
BecauseTiming
I rejoice &
in God’s
Your salvation.
• Did things
by God’s
Agenda
• Manifested itself in recognition of God’s Authority
• Eli = God’s representative authority (Priest)
• She gave Samuel to a higher calling.
• She had no idea what that calling would be
• God gave her Three sons & two daughters
II. Eli-A Careless Father (2:12–36)
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His sinful sons (12–21) Phinehas Hophni selfish / overbearing
Put own desires ahead of / Word of God / Needs of the people
Ungodly priests / Like Phil 3:17–19 / “But Samuel” v. 18:
We are all believer priests – What kind of priest are you?
His selfish disobedience (22–26)
Refused to face facts honestly / Disobeyed / Pampered / Didn’t restrain / Failed to confront / Costly
His severe judgment (vv. 27–36). Warning for carelessness
Put Sons 1st / Idolatry / Not concerned for the Glory of God
Saul later kills many of Eli’s descendants (Priests)
Vs. 34 predicts death of Eli’s two sons; 4:17–18 = fulfillment
Solomon later replaced Eli’s family with the family of Zadok
“Faithful Priest” = Samuel and ultimately Christ
III. Samuel—A Devoted Son
• 12 years old / served, but no personal experience with God
• Can grow up in Christian home / No personal relationship
• His call from the Lord (1–10). Servant’s heart 1st then calling came / Speak, Lord, your servant hears. 3:10
• Can't live another’s faith / must develop your own relationship
• Knowing God’s will = result of desire to be obedient servant
• Prayers of servant’s heard / “Speak servant, your Lord hears!”
• His message from the Lord (vv. 11–14) Eli disobeyed / put
family before God / Idolatry / Could not hear from God directly
• Message of judgment on Eli's house / Delivered by Samuel
• Faithful prophet (spokesman) in spite of feelings / emotions
• His message to Eli (vv. 15–21) Death to him & sons / resigned
• Turning point in history / Prior to this / No frequent wide-spread
visions 3:1 / Now God speaking through a servant he could trust /
God works through devoted believers / first of national prophets
1 SAMUEL 4–7
Judgeship of
Samuel
I. God’s Glory Is Departed (4) Essence Presence / Obedience
A great sin (1–5) Repentance vs. Superstition / ark relic (Raders Lost Ark)
A great slaughter (6–10) 30,000 dead, Hophni-Phinehas dead
A great sorrow (vv. 11–22) Eli’s two sons dead / ark captured / Eli breaks his
neck / Daughter-in-law dies delivering “Ichabod” = “no glory” II. God’s Glory Defended (5–6) Don’t trifle with God’s Glory
Before the heathen (5) not revealed for sinning people / Presence & Purity
Name/Glory will not be mocked or defiled / Philistine’s egalitarianism /
Same level as fish-god Dagon / Egal. dangerous / God sent boils & mice /
Ark = hot potato / 5 gold mice & boils (who crafted & who modeled.)
Before the Israelites (chap. 6) H&P thought: Victory w/ark w/o purity = dead
Eli failed sons dishonoring the Lord = dead. Philistines egalitarian = dead. Men of Bethshemesh / ark = dead. / Common factor = Glory of God
III. God’s People Delivered (7) Samuel’s respect for God’s Glory
Priesthood decayed / Nation defeated / God’s glory departed
Samuel’s Birth,Victory, King: All related to prayer / accomplished with prayer what mighty Samson could not win in 20 years / Ja 5:16 Great Power / Purity
1 SAMUEL 8-15
The Request for a King (8–10)
Transition of Leadership #2
Samuel-Saul 8-12 / Reign of Saul
13-15
Motivated by several factors: Samuel’s sons / more permanent ruler / like the
other nations / a king to honor / greater security? / Rejection & Rebellion
God called them to be separate from the nations / Representative to nations
God’s permissive will / granted request / warned of cost
The Renewal of the Kingdom (11–12)
Sin = Idolatry / a king / needed to learn / their king was not going to save them
Faithfulness & obedience to the Lord = God’s blessings.
They had made a mistake, but God would overrule if they would obey.
The Rejection of the King (13–15) 3 sins ultimately cost him kingdom
Impatience (13). Took credit to impress the people / Sacrifice without Samuel /
Unfaithful in little matter, not trust with the kingdom?
Pride (14) uttered foolish vow / forbidding soldiers to eat / in pride thought his
vow would give victory when his heart was not right with God!
Disobedience (15) one more chance / utterly destroy the Amalekites / did not
obey the Lord / kept best of spoils for himself / failed to kill Agag / king Haman
Samuel worshiped w/ Saul / then killed Agag / last time Samuel walked with
1 SAMUEL 8-15
Transition of Leadership #2
Samuel-Saul 8-12 / Reign of Saul
13-15
• Impatience, pride, and disobedience cost him
1) His Best Friend
2) The Lord’s Blessing
3) The Kingdom
• His life ended being slain by one of the very
Amalekites he had refused to destroy (2 Sam. 1:13)
13:14 & 15:22
Key Verses
“But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has
sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the
Lord has commanded him to be commander over His
people, because you have not kept what the Lord
commanded you.”
1 Samuel 13:14
Saul
David
“Then Samuel said:’Has the Lord as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the
Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed
than the fat of rams.”
1 Samuel 15:22
• David – A man after God’s own heart
• Christ in 1 Samuel
• Key Applications?
KEYS TO THE BIBLE
A Visual Overview of The Old and New Testaments