WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.900 We are in first Samuel chapter 3 and previously in chapter 2 we saw the wickedness of Samuel's 00:07.900 --> 00:08.900 sons. 00:08.900 --> 00:15.500 It kind of explains why God is so angry at them and that he is cutting off the line of 00:15.500 --> 00:21.900 Eli and there's going to be another priesthood that rises up in a couple generations here 00:21.900 --> 00:32.940 when Solomon is king and that is when he rejects the line completely but he definitely 00:32.940 --> 00:35.040 destroys the house of Eli. 00:35.040 --> 00:42.700 He definitely does do what he says he's going to do at the end of this chapter and the reason 00:42.700 --> 00:48.540 why is told because he refuses to do that which is right concerning his sons and the 00:48.540 --> 00:54.300 Bible tells us that Eli's sons were sons of Belial which means that they were reprobates 00:54.300 --> 00:59.600 according to what the Bible teaches and it just means that they had gone past the point 00:59.600 --> 01:06.100 where they're even able to be saved and it's interesting that it says that even no sacrifices 01:06.100 --> 01:15.180 were able to cover what they did and so that's why God's putting an end to their priesthood. 01:15.180 --> 01:21.020 God would have spared Eli's line from being completely axed out I believe if he would 01:21.020 --> 01:25.280 have just done that which was right and what he needed to do is he needed to fire those 01:25.280 --> 01:31.100 wicked sons and then he needed to put one in place that was doing that which was right 01:31.100 --> 01:37.100 and so in this chapter we see how Samuel basically is going to be the one that kind of takes 01:37.100 --> 01:44.900 their place for a time and that's why he's being trained up as a young protege here and 01:44.900 --> 01:50.340 Eli even calls him son in this passage so he's kind of like he's an adopted son and 01:50.340 --> 01:56.100 he's lent to the Lord all the days of his life according to the promise that he gave 01:56.100 --> 02:01.540 that his mother gave if she would be allowed to have a man child so she really wanted that 02:01.540 --> 02:07.740 man child and because the Lord did what she had asked then she had to do what she said 02:07.740 --> 02:10.900 that she would do so we should always keep that which we say that we're going to do 02:10.900 --> 02:17.540 unto the Lord and basically Eli has made his sons an idol and I kind of warned in the last 02:17.540 --> 02:23.700 sermon to not do that with your children and if we make our children idols or anybody in our 02:23.700 --> 02:30.340 family for that matter our mothers our parents you know our parents or even our spouses anybody 02:30.340 --> 02:35.940 in our lives that is put before the Lord then what does God like to do with idols he likes to rip 02:35.940 --> 02:41.740 them down and so we don't want to make anything or anybody in our lives an idol because we don't 02:41.740 --> 02:47.500 want God to want to rip something down that's precious to us in our lives and God should be 02:47.500 --> 02:52.620 the thing that's number one in our lives and it's very clear that he says in the last chapter that 02:52.620 --> 02:59.900 you've honored your sons above me that was his main problem and so is is resulting what's the 03:00.900 --> 03:08.300 making his sons into idols well the complete destruction of his house in one day so and we'll 03:08.300 --> 03:12.620 study more about that when the day actually happens later on here in first Samuel but let's look at 03:12.620 --> 03:17.740 verse number one tonight in first Samuel chapter 3 and the title of my sermon tonight is the Lord 03:17.740 --> 03:23.020 calls Samuel verse number one the Bible says and the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before 03:24.020 --> 03:31.140 and the word of the Lord was precious in those days there was no open vision and just remembering 03:31.140 --> 03:36.420 this is that Samuel was a descendant of the Levites he was a Levite himself his dad was a 03:36.420 --> 03:42.380 Levite he's we only know this because of the book of first Chronicles explains this to us otherwise 03:42.380 --> 03:46.660 we would not know that that's why it's good why is the book of first Chronicles in there why do 03:46.660 --> 03:51.180 we have to read all these genealogies well we wouldn't know who Samuel was or why he was able 03:51.340 --> 03:56.260 to minister like this before the Lord if we didn't have the book of first Chronicles because no other 03:56.260 --> 04:02.700 passage talks about it so that's why we need the whole Bible so these lists are important and some 04:02.700 --> 04:07.100 people don't like genealogies but I happen to I happen to like them I like to study and compare 04:07.100 --> 04:13.580 these things obviously we don't need those in the New Testament but it's nice to study those things 04:13.580 --> 04:17.860 when you're mentioning somebody in the Bible you're like well who's this person why is this person 04:18.420 --> 04:22.300 important and a lot of times you can do some digging around in the Bible and find out who 04:22.300 --> 04:28.460 they were and who they were related to and why they were important so so what it so Samuel was 04:28.460 --> 04:34.340 able to do these things because he was a Levite but see remember Levites were not supposed to 04:34.340 --> 04:40.020 even start working as Levites until they were 30 years old at this time so this is the Old 04:40.020 --> 04:44.420 Testament so why is Samuel able to do this well it sounds like he's an exception to the rule I 04:44.420 --> 04:49.580 mean he was also supposed to be not have his hair cut all the days of his life either he was 04:49.580 --> 04:56.340 supposed to be like Samson was he was supposed to be a Nazarite so he was not allowed to cut his 04:56.340 --> 05:02.060 hair he was not allowed to drink wine and all those types of things also so he was a special 05:02.060 --> 05:08.260 case and he was allowed to serve because I mean God knew what he was gonna do and he knew he was 05:08.260 --> 05:13.660 gonna get rid of these these punks later on and the Bible says that God wanted to kill them and 05:14.140 --> 05:19.740 people are just like well why would God want to do that I mean I thought God was only love well he 05:19.740 --> 05:26.660 is only love but he's not just only love God also hates sometimes you know people just have this 05:26.660 --> 05:32.180 weird thought that you know if we hate sometimes you know sometimes people hate for the wrong 05:32.180 --> 05:37.140 reasons but you know there are things that we could hate that are good things to hate I hate 05:37.140 --> 05:44.100 pedophiles because they harm children so like why would we not want to hate that you know I hate 05:44.100 --> 05:49.540 rapists because they hurt women I mean I think that that's a good thing to hate there's a lot 05:49.540 --> 05:54.900 of things that you know I hate weeds because I like flowers you know there's just there's a lot 05:54.900 --> 06:00.500 of things that the we can't hate and that's okay because if God didn't God says there's a time to 06:00.500 --> 06:06.380 love and a time to hate so that's God's Word like you can't reject God's Word I mean God's Word 06:06.380 --> 06:13.180 is always right and always true so but God is the God of love it is true that he is and I think 06:13.180 --> 06:20.540 that he shows a lot of love and mercy but there is a time when he's just had enough and these sons 06:20.540 --> 06:25.860 have driven him to the point where he he just I he they won't even listen it says in the last 06:25.860 --> 06:30.540 chapter it says they won't listen they didn't hearken to the voice of their father and it says 06:30.540 --> 06:35.860 because God wanted to just I think he says because God wanted to kill them or want to destroy them so 06:36.340 --> 06:40.860 and he does because they've done just so much wicked things that they've turned Israel away 06:40.860 --> 06:48.620 from wanting to even give to the offering so they despise the Lord's offering as the Bible says so 06:48.620 --> 06:55.340 anyway so it says there's no there was the word of the Lord was precious in those days so the 06:55.340 --> 07:02.780 precious is in meaning is scarce or rare so there was not a lot of Bible going on there was not a 07:02.780 --> 07:07.220 lot of Bible preaching going on there was not a lot of Bible reading going on it says the word of 07:07.220 --> 07:15.420 God was precious the word of the Lord was precious in those days there was no open vision and what 07:15.420 --> 07:20.220 does that mean well open as in God is not publicly speaking through the established system of the 07:20.220 --> 07:25.660 prophets I mean if you think about the book of judges how many prophets were there really in the 07:25.660 --> 07:30.020 book of judges that you can actually think of I mean there were judges that came and God would 07:30.020 --> 07:38.220 provide them a savior not the Savior but a savior who would lead them and and lead them in military 07:38.220 --> 07:43.100 battles to destroy and and he would do they would do spiritual things and be spiritual leaders 07:43.100 --> 07:48.340 somewhat at the same time but the time of the judges was a time when everybody what was the 07:48.340 --> 07:53.300 theme of the book of judges that everybody did that which was what right in their own eyes that's 07:53.300 --> 07:57.780 right they did that which was right in their own eyes that's why you had basically a kind of a 07:57.780 --> 08:05.500 Catholic Church spring up in Micah's house and just the Levites or they just kidnapped a Levite 08:05.500 --> 08:09.780 that was basically like a Catholic priest at Micah's house they stole him and took him up to Dan 08:09.780 --> 08:15.420 and they they slaughtered a town and had no no qualms about doing that they had two different 08:15.420 --> 08:19.500 places called Dan one in the north and one where they were supposed to be and it was just a mess 08:19.500 --> 08:25.060 you know and so they were supposed to have these judges but they would soon forget who the Lord was 08:25.060 --> 08:30.140 they would soon start worshiping Baal and serving idols and then God would have to bail him out time 08:30.140 --> 08:35.460 after time and so here we are at the time of the end of the judges because Samuel he's he's still a 08:35.460 --> 08:40.980 little boy here at this time but he is going to become the last judge right now Eli this is their 08:40.980 --> 08:47.340 leader he's Eli and he is in bad shape he's not doing what he's supposed to do he's not actually 08:47.340 --> 08:54.860 judging rightly and he's he's God's gonna remove him so he's kind of just raising up Samuel to be 08:54.860 --> 09:01.420 and what I think is that Samuel is the greatest judge of all the judges I think that he's the best 09:01.420 --> 09:07.340 one out of all of them I think he's probably the most spiritual and probably does the best job of 09:07.340 --> 09:12.420 all men I think he pictures Jesus in a lot of different ways also I've already kind of touched 09:12.420 --> 09:17.580 on some of that but so God's not really the word of God's not really going out there's not a lot 09:17.580 --> 09:22.420 of preaching going on there's not a lot of Bible reading going on and there's not a lot of prophets 09:22.420 --> 09:30.180 speaking to the people and so it says invert well it says in Acts I'm not gonna have you turn there 09:30.180 --> 09:37.900 but Acts 13 20 says well this this space was this the time of the judge was 450 years and when I 09:37.900 --> 09:42.420 looked up how long is the time of the judges there's all kinds of numbers given the scholars 09:42.420 --> 09:49.700 say this the scholars say that well the Bible says though in Acts 13 20 it says and after that 09:49.700 --> 09:56.140 he gave unto them judges about the space of 450 years until Samuel the prophet so what does the 09:56.140 --> 10:03.020 Bible say the Bible says by the Apollo by I think the Apostle Paul yeah judges about about the space 10:03.020 --> 10:10.620 of 450 years so for 450 years it's a spiritual wasteland and so God is kind of just done dealing 10:10.620 --> 10:15.980 with them at this point and this is kind of what happened in between the time you know between 10:16.740 --> 10:23.660 Malachi and Christ is about 400 years of silence no prophets are speaking no prophets are coming 10:23.660 --> 10:29.980 and then Christ comes upon the scene or John the Baptist comes upon the scene in Christ so verse 10:29.980 --> 10:35.140 number two the Bible says and it came to pass at that time when Eli was laid down in his place and 10:35.140 --> 10:42.980 his eyes began to waxed in that he could not see and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of 10:42.980 --> 10:49.340 the Lord where the ark was and Samuel was laid down to sleep there's a lot to unpack in these two 10:49.340 --> 10:57.500 verses because it sounds to me like Eli's blind here he's like literally blind and it's telling us 10:57.500 --> 11:03.140 that he's his eyes begin to waxed in that he could not see so he's he's going blind and I don't know 11:03.140 --> 11:08.060 I'm not saying that he went blind in this passage but it sounds to me like he's telling us that the 11:08.060 --> 11:13.580 Eli's blind here not just spiritually having issues with blindness but he's also now physically 11:13.580 --> 11:19.740 blind and it says ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God 11:19.740 --> 11:24.620 was and Samuel was laid down to sleep so it's telling us a couple things that are kind of 11:24.620 --> 11:30.580 important and kind of spiritual signals that their nation is in a lot of trouble and spiritually 11:30.580 --> 11:36.180 their nation so their their actual spiritual leader Eli is blind physically and a lot of times 11:36.300 --> 11:41.660 the Bible tells us that people are blind physically in a time like in Jesus time there's a lot of 11:41.660 --> 11:47.660 people who were blind physically and he would heal them and that was also a kind of a signal 11:47.660 --> 11:55.220 that they were spiritually blind too so a lot of spiritual blindness and and and physical blindness 11:55.220 --> 12:01.740 kind of goes together in the Bible so it seems to me like he's it's being said that he's he's 12:01.740 --> 12:07.660 spiritually blind in a lot of ways also and so when Jesus would heal blind people they'd get saved 12:07.660 --> 12:14.140 so they had to have the faith to believe that they would be healed and then they were gonna get it say 12:14.140 --> 12:20.740 they got saved but then you have also the lamp of God going out in the temple now I will have you 12:20.740 --> 12:26.900 turn to a passage just keep your fingers here and go to Leviticus chapter 24 because this is really 12:26.900 --> 12:32.300 significant actually and you might just pass by this in your regular Bible reading and not realize 12:32.300 --> 12:37.180 what's kind of going on here but I think that God's suddenly telling us here not so subtly that 12:37.180 --> 12:43.860 there's a real problem and that the temple of God just go the lamp of God just goes out in the temple 12:43.860 --> 12:48.420 where the ark of God is so remember they're in Shiloh they're not in Jerusalem Jerusalem has not 12:48.420 --> 12:55.220 even taken place yet they haven't captured Jerusalem they're in Shiloh but it says in Leviticus 24 verse 12:55.220 --> 12:59.340 one it says and the Lord spake unto Moses saying command the children of Israel that they bring up 12:59.340 --> 13:07.380 unto thee pure oil all have beaten for the light to cause the lamps to burn continually without the 13:07.380 --> 13:12.140 veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation shall Aaron order it from the evening 13:12.140 --> 13:18.420 unto the morning before the Lord continually it shall be a statute forever in your generations he 13:18.420 --> 13:24.740 shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually so here we have the 13:24.740 --> 13:32.900 lamp of the Lord going out in the temple and whose job is that to make sure is it's done well it 13:32.900 --> 13:39.940 sounds like the sons of Aaron are supposed to be taking care of that right Aaron actually is 13:39.940 --> 13:47.340 supposed to do it so that's the high priest job that's what Eli is so he's blind and he's letting 13:47.340 --> 13:53.820 the lamp go out that is supposed to go continually and this is a this is a commandment so what is the 13:53.900 --> 13:59.420 lamp represent was that oil represent represents the Holy Spirit and the lamp of the Lord is 13:59.420 --> 14:06.060 supposed to burn continues supposed to have the Holy Spirit guiding them continually so this is a 14:06.060 --> 14:12.700 real problem and so I believe this is obviously a direct correlation in our time you know we see a 14:12.700 --> 14:17.220 lot of spiritual blindness in our world where our preachers are no longer preaching the word of God 14:17.220 --> 14:23.400 and there's no open vision in our world in the way that there's a plan to reach the world for 14:23.440 --> 14:31.160 Christ there's no plan to preach Bible and the Bible that they are preaching is a false Bible 14:31.160 --> 14:35.960 version that's not even really God's Word it's just some you know Bible of the Month Club that 14:35.960 --> 14:41.000 they got in the mail or they're just picking whatever version they want and putting that up 14:41.000 --> 14:45.360 on the screen because it's what the pastor what agrees with the pastor's message or whatever and 14:45.360 --> 14:51.600 it's not really Bible preaching at all it's more of a TED talk to make you feel good about yourself 14:51.600 --> 14:55.200 so you can go home and pat yourself on the back and tell yourself what a great Christian you are 14:55.200 --> 15:04.480 and there you're not getting preaching like like Eli's getting in this passage and people aren't 15:04.480 --> 15:10.480 what I mean for all that Eli has done at least he's saying give it to me straight give me the 15:10.480 --> 15:16.400 word of God you know give me what I get you know don't don't don't hide it from me at all just tell 15:16.400 --> 15:21.360 me what God said a lot of people don't want to hear what God says and when they hear what God says 15:21.360 --> 15:27.120 it makes them angry and it makes them leave church it makes them quit because they just can't handle 15:27.120 --> 15:31.600 their little hurt feelings can't they need hurt feeling awards whatever they can't handle the hurt 15:31.600 --> 15:38.720 feelings that come with God stepping on their toes you know people can't handle rebuke anymore 15:38.720 --> 15:43.840 they can't handle just being told this thus sayeth the Lord anymore they can't handle 15:43.840 --> 15:50.240 the what the Bible says and there's no open vision there's no plan to reach the lost except for to 15:50.240 --> 15:56.160 build mud huts at some missions trip or they all make tie-dye t-shirts together and you know make 15:56.160 --> 16:01.200 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the locals or something it's just ridiculous you know and 16:01.200 --> 16:07.120 we live in a time where it's a lot like this time where the the true word of God isn't going out 16:07.120 --> 16:14.000 the real gospel isn't going out real preaching isn't going out and it's a sad shame and there 16:14.000 --> 16:18.640 might be a lot of churches out there but are they all telling the truth are they all preaching the 16:18.640 --> 16:24.400 truth are they all doing what God says no they're not do they all want unfiltered Bible preaching 16:24.400 --> 16:29.200 that steps on their toes are they all saying give it to me straight preacher tell me what's wrong 16:29.200 --> 16:33.840 with me preacher no they they're like that offended me I'm not ever coming back to this 16:33.840 --> 16:39.840 church again it hurts my feelings you hurt my feelings pastor well the Bible says great uh 16:39.840 --> 16:45.600 great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend me so that's a lot different 16:45.600 --> 16:51.120 than what the Bible says right you know we should be not offended by what God's word says 16:51.120 --> 16:56.720 you're like well it's it wasn't what God's word said is what how you said it pastor that really 16:56.720 --> 17:02.400 offended me well I mean if you just read the Old Testament then you're going to find a lot more 17:02.400 --> 17:08.160 offensive preaching than I could ever drum up for you just read some Ezekiel you know just open up 17:08.160 --> 17:12.800 the Bible and any of the major prophets or the minor prophets and listen to what they're saying 17:13.440 --> 17:17.840 you're all going to die this is going to I mean you're going to starve you're going to eat your 17:17.840 --> 17:21.680 own children I mean just all kinds of crazy stuff is out I don't think I've ever said any of that 17:21.680 --> 17:31.760 have I so I mean I've spared you some but you know our church has become a byword in our community 17:31.760 --> 17:36.560 in our government I mean I get phone calls anytime we go and you know they're like why don't you just 17:36.560 --> 17:41.680 they'll say this to me on online comments why don't you just preach the gospel pastor it's like 17:41.680 --> 17:45.840 okay and then we go preach the gospel like why are you here preaching the gospel pastor 17:46.960 --> 17:51.040 you're just ramming it down our throats it's like we can't win for anything we can't do anything 17:51.040 --> 17:55.840 right we can't preach anything about anything how dare you preach about divorce and remarriage 17:56.480 --> 18:07.360 okay well what what can I preach God loves you I love you you love me let's be a happy family 18:07.360 --> 18:10.080 you know that's they want Barney Baptist that's what they want 18:12.640 --> 18:18.800 with a great big hug and a kiss from medium won't you say you love me too all right pastor amen what 18:18.800 --> 18:30.320 a great sermon that was but notice in verse four it says that the Lord called Samuel and he answered 18:30.960 --> 18:37.840 here am I and he ran unto Eli and said here am I for thou calls me and he said I called not 18:38.640 --> 18:43.200 lie down again and he went and lay down he's like get out of here kid you bother me I'm trying to 18:43.200 --> 18:50.560 sleep here but I want to point this out though before we kind of move on that Samuel's habit 18:50.560 --> 18:57.760 was to wake up immediately and run and attend to Eli he didn't say what do you want Eli you know 18:57.760 --> 19:04.000 from the other room which is what a lot of kids would do now this is a kid he was like 19:05.200 --> 19:10.400 he he wakes he actually first of all he actually wakes up okay this is the miracle I think in 19:10.400 --> 19:15.840 itself right here that the kid actually wakes up when someone calls him because most most kids 19:15.840 --> 19:24.320 you like they're just like this still you know but he wakes up and he says here am I for thou 19:24.320 --> 19:33.360 calls me he he didn't walk in and you know he ran in to attend to Eli and this is not his real dad 19:33.360 --> 19:41.840 this is his adoptive father lots of respect here and I would say this kids that this is something 19:41.840 --> 19:49.120 this is a person that you can you can actually review the the life of Eli as a young boy and 19:49.200 --> 19:55.280 as a young man and you can be spiritual too you don't have to be not spiritual you don't have to 19:55.840 --> 20:00.400 go by the ways of the world you can grow up and be a spiritual person just like Eli was 20:00.400 --> 20:06.160 and I'm not saying that you know you can't have fun I'm sure Eli did have fun but there when it 20:06.160 --> 20:11.680 was time to work he worked when it was time to respect his parent he respected his parent it 20:11.680 --> 20:17.040 wasn't even his real dad but he still did what his dad I mean he didn't even it wasn't even his dad 20:17.040 --> 20:21.360 calling him and he still thought I'm gonna run and go right to him and I don't think he thought 20:21.360 --> 20:26.800 because Eli was gonna track him down and beat him he couldn't even see and he was fat he couldn't 20:26.800 --> 20:36.000 even get out of bed probably but he wasn't like you know you could give I mean look you could give 20:36.000 --> 20:43.600 Samuel a lot of sad reasons to feel bad for him is what I'm saying and a lot of people have a 20:43.600 --> 20:50.960 this little sad story of how rough their life is and how bad they had it because I was adopted 20:50.960 --> 20:57.840 or I was a step kid or I was this or I was that and you know he could have said well 20:57.840 --> 21:06.080 you know my mom gave me up you know my mom didn't love me my mom gave me to fat Eli and his fat 21:06.080 --> 21:14.320 reprobate brothers couldn't you have said that well that's what a lot of kids would say today 21:15.920 --> 21:20.880 they'd say you know his mom must not have loved him very much look at the he gave 21:20.880 --> 21:27.440 she gave him the reprobates to raise you know not that she knew that but I'm sure that 21:27.440 --> 21:31.200 Samuel probably tried to stay away from those guys as much as possible I mean there's a reason 21:31.200 --> 21:35.440 why he's having to minister at a young age they're probably not doing a very good job 21:36.160 --> 21:43.600 they're obvious they're not doing a good job I mean how evil and irresponsible does mom have 21:43.600 --> 21:48.800 to be to just give him over to this stranger that she's only met once and let poor little 21:48.800 --> 21:55.680 Sammy live with those fatties and their failed leader but this is the mentality today that you 21:55.680 --> 22:02.880 have is that people just want to cry up and whine about how rough of a life they had well people 22:02.880 --> 22:07.840 have rough life sometimes but you've got to rise above that I mean his own mom was saying that that 22:07.840 --> 22:14.480 God rises people from the dung hill and sets them to be among the princes of the world and look God 22:14.480 --> 22:20.960 does that for us I mean everybody in this room if you're saved tonight you are adopted 22:23.040 --> 22:28.800 you're adopted everybody's adopted that's saved except for Jesus Christ he's the only 22:29.760 --> 22:36.480 natural born son of God he's the only begotten son of God that's what makes him special and 22:36.480 --> 22:41.200 different but he still gives us an equal inheritance with him in the sense that 22:41.200 --> 22:45.440 we get to inherit everlasting life and share with the riches with him in the kingdom 22:47.200 --> 22:52.080 and he you know he wasn't crying and saying oh I'm going to live with Joseph the poor carpenter 22:52.080 --> 23:01.840 I was born in a barn literally a barn I was in a cave in a manger you know I mean look this is 23:01.840 --> 23:07.280 what this is the mentality of 2026 of people crying and whining about how how bad their life was 23:08.000 --> 23:11.840 look everybody's had some kind of a bad part of their life and if you had a great upbringing 23:11.840 --> 23:17.440 we'll praise God for that you know and but look there's a lot of people crying today 23:18.400 --> 23:24.160 a lot of people whining about their adoption and their you know their step family and whatever 23:24.160 --> 23:31.040 it's like you know you know I really I was a stepdad so I understand this perfectly well 23:31.040 --> 23:34.400 how the people you can be the best stepdad in the world you're still going to get railed on 23:35.040 --> 23:38.800 you're still going to get lied about you're still going to get told that you're you know 23:38.800 --> 23:44.080 you're still not going to be loved like the real parents and I don't understand where this mentality 23:44.080 --> 23:52.640 comes from honestly of like kids that are brought into a home and then act like their parents 23:53.360 --> 23:57.280 where the you know that their adopted parents were bad or something but you know they're the 23:57.280 --> 24:02.400 the ones that they got adopted away from they're fine they're perfectly fine I want to have a 24:02.400 --> 24:09.600 connection with them they left you they gave you away and then you're going to turn your back on 24:09.600 --> 24:13.520 the ones that actually let you come into their home it's like that's that's a weird mentality 24:13.520 --> 24:19.520 I'm not saying all adopted kids do this but it does happen a lot or about the stepdad that actually 24:19.520 --> 24:24.960 raised you and provided for you and took care of you and put clothes on your back when your real 24:24.960 --> 24:29.840 dad wasn't anywhere in the picture and didn't want to be around you didn't want to help you didn't 24:29.840 --> 24:36.240 want to take care of you I mean Sam and why am I saying this because Samuel was adopted but you 24:36.240 --> 24:41.600 didn't see him treating his adoptive dad like he was a piece of garbage he didn't hear him say what 24:41.600 --> 24:47.600 do you want fatty from down the hall you have blind old buzzard you know he's like running to 24:47.600 --> 24:53.200 him and say what can I do for you in the middle of the night it's a far cry from what you see 24:53.760 --> 25:02.400 today and it's it's a wicked generation that acts like their Cinderella oh I I had to work 25:02.400 --> 25:07.760 you're like Samuel you know had to do all the you know he could have said I do all the hard work 25:08.320 --> 25:12.880 why am I ministering I'm I'm great you're breaking all the child labor laws right now 25:14.720 --> 25:18.240 I'm not supposed to be a Levi until I'm 30 years old what's going on here 25:18.960 --> 25:21.120 what's fatty one and fatty two doing 25:23.440 --> 25:24.800 have another slice of meat 25:27.840 --> 25:31.440 he was like you know cinderfella instead of Cinderella 25:31.440 --> 25:44.000 you know he he was put into a family with with you know the the tubbies and then and then like 25:44.000 --> 25:49.360 his mom didn't love him or something I mean he could have gone that direction but he didn't do 25:49.360 --> 25:55.840 that because Samuel was a man of character and he wasn't a blame he wouldn't blame his mom you know 25:55.840 --> 26:01.840 he came into this world because of the prayer that his mom gave you know and look God puts us 26:01.840 --> 26:06.480 through hard times sometimes and has us maybe go through a harder upbringing sometimes because 26:07.200 --> 26:11.120 he knows what's going to build our character but the wrong thing to do is just sit there 26:11.840 --> 26:18.560 and act like you know you're just a perpetual victim in this world stop being a victim if you're 26:18.560 --> 26:22.800 if you're this way or you have someone in your family that's acting this way you should correct 26:22.800 --> 26:28.480 them and just say just stop stop being a victim stop pretending like you're everything oh you 26:28.480 --> 26:34.320 had such a bad rough life just rise above that rise up out of the dung hill because that's what 26:34.320 --> 26:41.600 you're doing you're in a dung hill right now you're playing in the dung hill and you know stop acting 26:41.600 --> 26:47.440 like everything else is is you know everybody else is bad and you're good and you were just dealt a 26:47.440 --> 26:53.440 wrong deal maybe you did get dealt a wrong deal but you know what if you're saved and you've risen 26:53.440 --> 26:58.400 above all that then you should just be happy and blessed with the fact that you're saved you know 26:58.400 --> 27:04.480 I'd rather be saved and have a bad life than not be saved at all you know and I don't think that 27:04.480 --> 27:10.960 being saved is a bad life you know I know what it was like to not be saved but to have zero respect 27:10.960 --> 27:16.240 for or love for the ones that took you in and to talk major crap about people that essentially 27:16.320 --> 27:21.200 saved your lives and made sure that you have everything you needed and loved and cared for you 27:22.160 --> 27:25.360 and they don't even talk crap about their own family members that deserted them and treated 27:25.360 --> 27:30.240 them like garbage and threw them away well I just think that's weird you know I think it's a bad 27:30.240 --> 27:38.400 mentality and I think that that you should get over it I think it's disgusting and I've seen 27:38.400 --> 27:42.960 this happen a lot that's why I'm talking about it and just you know Samuel's story kind of reminded 27:42.960 --> 27:47.520 me that there are some good ones out there you know but so I've seen a lot of people that were 27:47.520 --> 27:53.200 adopted or you know taken in by another family and how they rebel and it's I don't know it's 27:53.200 --> 27:57.600 some kind of weird deal that they get where they just think that they were given a wrong deal it's 27:57.600 --> 28:04.160 like no you were given a good deal someone took you in you know someone actually cared about you 28:04.160 --> 28:08.320 and brought you into their home and treated you like you were one of the other kids you know 28:08.320 --> 28:11.680 obviously there's bad stories where you know they weren't treated the same 28:12.720 --> 28:19.600 and that's too bad you know that sucks but you know but even if you were at least someone still 28:19.600 --> 28:26.000 took you in at least you're not going from hotel to hotel or living in cars and being you know 28:26.000 --> 28:32.080 pimped out or something I mean things could be a lot worse than you know oh I had to do some extra 28:32.080 --> 28:37.120 chores or something because I was doing wrong oh no you had to do some chores oh no 28:38.800 --> 28:46.400 so rough you know don't be a perpetual victim because it just breeds into society I was 28:47.760 --> 28:53.360 told about an article where a 21 year old man claims that he doesn't need to work because he 28:53.360 --> 28:59.520 quote never asked to be born there's like a national conversation going on about this right now 29:01.440 --> 29:05.920 he never asked he shouldn't have to get a job and move out and provide for himself because 29:06.560 --> 29:12.240 his claim is is that he never asked to be born I didn't ask to be born well I don't have to pay 29:12.240 --> 29:16.960 for anything 21 years old you know where he'd be at my house he wouldn't be at my house 29:19.040 --> 29:25.040 he'd be wishing he would never was never born actually if he was at my house but I mean it'd 29:25.040 --> 29:32.240 be like I'd have two words for him get and out but apparently it sparked this national debate 29:32.240 --> 29:38.640 whether it's right to bring kids into the world without their consent I mean this is really a 29:38.640 --> 29:46.000 literally a statement from the article like I mean how do you get their consent exactly as well 29:46.000 --> 29:50.000 this is the question I have for the person writing the article how do you get their consent 29:52.160 --> 29:58.240 so do they just mean you just kids just don't get born in this world because there's no way 29:58.240 --> 30:03.280 to ask for consent unless you're a Calvinist or something I don't know even then like how do you 30:03.280 --> 30:12.720 how do you do that you know I don't get that but you know it's it sparked this apparently 30:14.000 --> 30:21.040 you know you shouldn't bring a kid into this world without consent and you know basically this is 30:21.040 --> 30:25.600 just an entitled brat that's never had to work a day in his life and his parents waited until it's 30:25.600 --> 30:31.200 too late to tell him to get a job maybe he's 21 saying this you know maybe you should have told 30:31.200 --> 30:36.800 him to get a job when he was like 16 or 18 or you know made him take the trash out once in a while 30:36.800 --> 30:41.920 or something like that but don't be afraid to have your kids do some work and they'll whine about it 30:41.920 --> 30:47.520 yeah they will but teach your kids some work ethic now and tell don't wait until it's too late 30:48.400 --> 30:53.760 and if they give you a flash you a defiant eye then spank them spank them if they're rolling 30:53.760 --> 30:56.560 their eyes at you when you ask them to do something I don't care how old they are 30:57.600 --> 31:02.880 you know the Bible says chasing thy son while there is hope and while they're still living 31:02.880 --> 31:08.720 in your in your house there's hope you know like that's abuse I don't care what you call it 31:09.280 --> 31:17.840 I call it the Bible so and if you again had a family that took you in and nobody would 31:18.480 --> 31:25.120 don't turn on them and talk crap about them you know they might not be perfect but if they did 31:26.320 --> 31:30.720 do that and they did out of love and they they did they did the right thing I mean there's nothing 31:30.720 --> 31:35.440 wrong with taking someone in in fact it's a good thing and a lot of people don't want to take people 31:35.440 --> 31:38.480 into their home because they already have these issues they don't want those issues to be passed 31:38.480 --> 31:45.280 onto their children and it's really kind of a scary thing to take somebody that has problems 31:45.280 --> 31:52.560 into your home and it's really a big decision to do that you know and to take anybody in your home 31:52.560 --> 31:58.800 that isn't your own family your own immediate family is a scary thing in 2026 so but we're 31:58.800 --> 32:04.400 still supposed the Bible tells us we're supposed to take care of the the fatherless and and to take 32:04.400 --> 32:10.160 care of people like that but it can be difficult especially when as much as people turn and then 32:10.160 --> 32:15.600 like you put them in school and the school is telling them well if your parents hit you for any 32:15.600 --> 32:20.640 reason then you didn't turn them into the police and it's just like oh so the people that took you 32:20.640 --> 32:24.240 in that feed you every day and give you clothes and everything if they spank you for doing 32:24.240 --> 32:28.240 something wrong you're going to turn them into the police so they get in trouble really that's 32:28.240 --> 32:33.680 what you're going to do okay well have fun being homeless then you know have fun being in the 32:33.680 --> 32:40.960 foster system but we should never let children take power from us either i mean i remember you 32:40.960 --> 32:47.200 know my kids weren't in public school for a while and i remember one day they all came home and were 32:47.200 --> 32:55.760 saying hey if you if you spank us we can turn we call the police on you i was like there's the door 32:57.040 --> 33:01.840 have fun because i'm going to spank you the next time you do something wrong when i spank you you 33:01.840 --> 33:05.920 know you can just might as well just pack your stuff now and leave it's like you can get out 33:05.920 --> 33:12.880 have fun being in foster systems and being molested and they thought that that was a bad idea so 33:12.880 --> 33:18.880 they they didn't turn me into the police when i spanked him the next time but i really wasn't 33:18.880 --> 33:26.320 joking i mean i'm not going to let children just tell me what to do it's not going to happen so 33:26.960 --> 33:34.480 i am an alpha male in that way yes this is my house you don't pay the bills i do so anyway let's 33:34.480 --> 33:41.040 move on here all right let's look at verse uh well and i just say that's obviously i said god is the 33:41.040 --> 33:47.520 one that he adopts us and and sometimes god's children are the same way as adoptive kids are 33:47.520 --> 33:53.280 they don't because it's a because salvation is a free gift and because it's a free gift sometimes 33:53.280 --> 34:01.040 we don't we just we kind of despise the gift or we don't uh we don't treat the gift well we don't 34:01.040 --> 34:06.160 we don't honor the one that gave us the gift and we kind of treat him like we would treat an adoptive 34:06.160 --> 34:12.000 parent but just because god adopted us it doesn't mean he doesn't love us he actually loves us like 34:12.000 --> 34:19.200 he would love his own son and that's the difference between us or you know an adoptive parent in the 34:19.200 --> 34:25.280 world and god the father you know god the father does all things well and he loves us and we can 34:25.280 --> 34:31.680 always count on the fact that he's always doing everything right and for the right reasons so 34:31.680 --> 34:36.720 let's look at ephesians chapter 2 real quick ephesians chapter 2 the rest of this passage 34:36.720 --> 34:43.040 is going to go pretty quick so if he's in chapter 2 verse 8 of course we know this passage real well 34:43.920 --> 34:49.920 but the bible says that we're adopted into god's family once we are saved and you know we get that 34:49.920 --> 34:56.720 for free salvation is of course free the fake you know it's by grace through faith apart from works 34:56.720 --> 35:02.320 and the gifts and calling of god are without repentance you know so we don't have to do some 35:02.320 --> 35:08.720 special thing for god to love us he loves us before we even get saved so it says for by grace 35:08.720 --> 35:14.160 are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god not of works 35:14.160 --> 35:19.120 less any man should boast for we are his workmanship creating christ jesus unto good works 35:19.920 --> 35:26.080 which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them so you know we're supposed to do good works 35:26.080 --> 35:32.560 yeah but after we get saved so once we get saved you know he he wants us to work for him but not 35:32.560 --> 35:38.480 to be saved or to stay saved or or anything like that it's because our works mean nothing to him 35:38.480 --> 35:44.560 and they can't really do anything unless we're actually saved to be able to do them and before 35:44.560 --> 35:50.240 we're saved they mean nothing really i mean obviously cornelius was praying to god and he 35:50.240 --> 35:56.160 gave alms he was doing things for the right reasons but he wasn't saved i can see that but like as far 35:56.160 --> 36:03.040 as like trying to work our way to heaven no good works are going to help us get there so but uh 36:03.040 --> 36:11.440 it's a free gift and we get it through faith so first john or john 1 9 says uh he came to his own 36:11.440 --> 36:18.160 and his own received him not so jesus came to his actual own earthly tribe and tongue and family 36:18.160 --> 36:24.560 he was a hebru and it says but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of 36:24.560 --> 36:31.200 god even to them that believe on his name so once we believed on jesus you know he was rejected of 36:31.200 --> 36:36.720 his own but he doesn't reject his own once we believe in christ he gives us power to become the 36:36.720 --> 36:42.560 sons of god even to them that believe on his name so it's real simple to become an adoptive child 36:42.560 --> 36:50.640 in god's family and once we're his we're his forever we can't lose that so um and he has 36:51.600 --> 36:59.200 predestined us uh not that doesn't mean that he uh that he picked who he was going to get saved and 36:59.200 --> 37:05.280 who wasn't it means that he knew who was going to get saved and who wasn't but uh he is in a 37:05.280 --> 37:10.160 fusions 1 5 it says having predestined us onto the adoption of children by jesus christ to himself 37:10.160 --> 37:15.200 according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he 37:15.200 --> 37:22.560 hath made us accepted in the beloved so he accepts us he loves us he adopts us and he 37:22.560 --> 37:27.920 has redeemed us through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to his riches and his grace so 37:28.720 --> 37:36.000 in reality we're all adopted kids but some of us act like ungrateful entitled adopted brats 37:36.880 --> 37:46.080 and we shouldn't be like that we should actually be like samuel was and say you know here my lord 37:47.040 --> 37:54.160 send me and we should run when he asked us to do something you know and and do it because we love 37:54.160 --> 38:00.320 him not because we're afraid he's going to beat us so i just like the way that samuel's attitude was 38:01.920 --> 38:08.800 towards eli who wasn't his real dad and his own sons didn't honor him that way let's look back 38:08.800 --> 38:14.960 at first Samuel chapter 3 verse 6 it says and the lord called yet again samuel and samuel rose and 38:14.960 --> 38:22.080 went to eli and said here am i for thou didst call me and he answered i called not my son lie down 38:22.080 --> 38:28.560 again so a second time he called him now samuel did not yet know the lord neither was the word of 38:28.560 --> 38:34.240 the lord yet revealed unto him so this is another way of just saying that he was not saved yet 38:34.240 --> 38:39.680 and the lord called samuel again the third time and he arose and went to eli and said here am i 38:39.680 --> 38:46.800 for thou didst call me and eli perceived that the lord had called the child so although eli is going 38:46.800 --> 38:53.360 to be replaced he did still have a little bit of discernment left in him and i mean i don't think 38:53.360 --> 38:59.600 that overall that eli was just some wicked evil person but that he definitely had a big problem 39:00.160 --> 39:04.720 and his problem was that he didn't need to be in leadership any longer and god was pretty angry 39:04.720 --> 39:08.080 about what he was allowed i mean you can't just let reprobates stay in church when you know they're 39:08.640 --> 39:18.640 it's just wrong so and he's and so you know he's still saved he's blind physically and has some 39:18.640 --> 39:24.160 spiritual blindness obviously but he has a little bit of discernment here so look at verse 9 says 39:24.160 --> 39:29.360 therefore eli said unto samuel go lie down and it shall be if he called thee that thou shall say 39:29.360 --> 39:36.400 speak lord for thy servant heareth so samuel went and lay down in his place and the lord came and 39:36.400 --> 39:43.760 stood and called as at other times samuel samuel then samuel answered speak for thy servant heareth 39:44.800 --> 39:50.320 and the lord said to samuel behold i will do a thing in israel at which both the ears of everyone 39:50.320 --> 39:56.240 that heareth it shall tingle and that day will i perform against eli all things that i have spoken 39:56.240 --> 40:03.440 concerning his house when i begin i will also make an end for i have told him that i will judge his 40:03.440 --> 40:09.360 house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he 40:09.360 --> 40:15.680 restrained them not and usually when god uses that word vile it's something that's really wicked and 40:15.680 --> 40:24.800 evil that someone has done when the men of sodom came and law said do not such a vile a thing 40:25.360 --> 40:31.680 same thing when they were surrounded the house of the old man in judges 19 he said do not my 40:31.680 --> 40:37.200 brethren do not so vile a thing when they were surrounding the house to do all that weird sodomite 40:37.200 --> 40:46.080 stuff so again they're there they've made they've done vile things here so they lie with the women 40:46.080 --> 40:52.080 at the at the front door of the house of the lord which is pretty you know pretty wicked it says and 40:52.080 --> 40:58.880 therefore have i sworn unto the house of eli that the iniquity of eli's son house shall not be purged 40:58.880 --> 41:08.160 with sacrifice nor offering forever so there's the judgment nothing that they can do is going to turn 41:08.160 --> 41:14.400 back what god has said is going to happen so notice that the god's first message though to 41:14.400 --> 41:22.240 samuel is not a positive one it's not like i love you samuel you know it's it's like hey i'm judging 41:22.240 --> 41:27.920 your i'm judging you know eli and this is what's going to happen to him i mean that's a pretty hard 41:27.920 --> 41:35.200 message to come at a kid like god's so mean he came to that kid and told him he was going to judge 41:35.760 --> 41:42.880 his his stepdad or i mean his adopted father well i mean god is just a no-nonsense guy 41:43.600 --> 41:48.240 you know he's just going to give it to you straight and so what does he expect though from his prophets 41:48.240 --> 41:54.080 and from his people he expects the preachers to give it to people straight also so and if they 41:54.080 --> 41:59.040 don't and he says diminish not a word or not you're not supposed to hold back what the bible says 41:59.040 --> 42:05.040 and skip around things which a lot of preachers like to do they'll go into the imprecatory psalms 42:05.040 --> 42:09.680 and they'll read the good parts that they like about psalm 139 but then they won't read the parts 42:09.680 --> 42:15.600 do not i hate them oh lord that hate thee do not i hate them that that hate thee i hate them with 42:15.600 --> 42:20.560 perfect hatred you know and they don't read that part they read the goody the goody parts in there 42:20.560 --> 42:25.440 because there's good parts of psalm i mean it's all good to me but i'm just saying that there's 42:25.440 --> 42:30.000 parts that they don't preachers don't want to touch out with a 10 foot pole because then they 42:30.000 --> 42:37.200 have to squirm to their congregations look at them like this how dare you say that god hates well the 42:37.200 --> 42:45.520 bible says it dummy i mean it's it's god's word so anyway so it's a negative message and really 42:45.600 --> 42:53.920 two-thirds of this book is about is negative stuff because man is sinful and we do sinful things 42:53.920 --> 42:59.920 and we need to be battered a lot with god's word because god's word smacking us around is what gets 42:59.920 --> 43:05.920 us right we need that in our lives if every time you leave here you always feel positive about 43:05.920 --> 43:13.360 everything then i'm doing something wrong and god's word is not being preached to you if everything 43:13.360 --> 43:18.880 i say is positive every time you come here then i'm not doing my job because if it says reprove 43:18.880 --> 43:24.720 rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine those two of those things are negative and so 43:25.680 --> 43:30.960 you have to get some negative and some positive so it's not everything should be all negative either 43:31.520 --> 43:36.160 but there should be negative and then there also should be positive there should be tearing down 43:36.720 --> 43:42.800 and building up he told jeremiah he was gonna he was gonna root uproot and then rebuild 43:43.520 --> 43:49.840 and he also told jeremiah to say exactly what i said what i tell you and don't be afraid of 43:49.840 --> 43:53.680 their faces you know why because when you're preaching and you're saying things that people 43:53.680 --> 43:58.880 don't like people make the weirdest faces ever and the most contorted like 43:59.520 --> 44:04.160 this kind of face and i've had people get up and walk out of my sermons many times 44:05.040 --> 44:11.520 and it's not like i'm trying to do that but they do and it's because you're you're not supposed 44:11.520 --> 44:16.800 to hold back you're not supposed to you're supposed to preach what the bible says and people in 2026 44:17.360 --> 44:22.320 are not used to that so when they walk into a church or someone's just giving it to them straight 44:22.320 --> 44:26.880 the guys in our church that preach the layman's the layman's guys in our church that preach 44:27.840 --> 44:32.480 they rip they preach the paint off the walls too and i'm sure people have gotten up and walked out 44:32.480 --> 44:39.360 of their sermons too i mean i would put our preachers up against many pastors in this town 44:39.360 --> 44:43.920 because they're not afraid to say what needs to be said and that's the way any preacher should be 44:43.920 --> 44:49.760 it doesn't matter whether you're a pastor or not samuel was even a pastor in this town and he was 44:49.760 --> 44:56.320 not samuel was even a pastor at this point and then he goes he wasn't a path he was a he was a 44:57.040 --> 45:02.080 he became a prophet actually this is the first time that god comes to him and speaks to him and 45:02.080 --> 45:07.760 so i guess he officially becomes a prophet right here but his first prophecy that he gives is to 45:07.760 --> 45:14.080 his own dad his adoptive father and he is afraid to say something to him this is the guy that's in 45:14.080 --> 45:20.240 charge of him this is the guy that takes care of him and has has raised him up until this point 45:20.240 --> 45:24.880 this is all he knows this is the only authority that he knows in his life and he's got to preach 45:24.880 --> 45:30.640 this sermon he's got to preach this message to his own dad well when it comes to preaching god's word 45:30.640 --> 45:35.760 it doesn't matter who it's to you have to preach it to him straight and even eli helps him with 45:35.760 --> 45:41.520 this because i feel like he eli knew he was afraid to say something to him he knew it was against him 45:41.520 --> 45:46.320 you know something and this is the thing that people know when you're preaching against them 45:46.320 --> 45:51.600 a lot of times they do but sometimes the word of god just preaches against you and you know people 45:51.600 --> 45:57.680 will come up and say were you preaching against me i mean i wasn't but i mean i guess so i was i guess 45:57.680 --> 46:08.000 i was i like what pastor shelley says he says yes yes i was because i mean if if you felt like it 46:08.000 --> 46:17.280 was and i guess it was so but so it says uh let's see therefore have i sworn the house of eli verse 46:17.280 --> 46:23.520 14 the iniquity of eli's house shall not be purged and sacrificed nor offering forever and so some 46:23.520 --> 46:29.120 mistakes that we make can have an everlasting ramification and i'm not saying that you can't 46:29.120 --> 46:34.240 be forgiven for sins i'm just saying that we can make mistakes that have a lifelong 46:35.120 --> 46:42.960 uh issue in our lives and so just be careful of the things that you do and who you associate with 46:43.840 --> 46:50.640 because they're they're the people you associate with rub off on you um and if you think you're 46:50.640 --> 46:57.920 going to change some bad boy or some bad girl you know they're bad they always they always rub off 46:57.920 --> 47:04.480 on you you know so and i mean maybe you can change them 30 years down the road or something 47:06.080 --> 47:12.320 but by then they've changed you to a certain degree too so anyway um you are who you hang 47:12.320 --> 47:16.800 around with basically a lot of times we pick up the same mannerisms of people that we hang around 47:16.800 --> 47:22.000 with a lot and there's there's nothing wrong with that i mean it's kind of a normal thing 47:23.120 --> 47:27.200 as long as it doesn't turn into emulations where you just take on the persona of the person they 47:27.200 --> 47:31.600 are around i mean that's that's called emulation that's weird so i mean if you notice yourself 47:31.600 --> 47:37.200 doing that just stop everybody else notices it too and it's kind of weird so but it says 47:37.200 --> 47:42.320 that samuel lay until the morning and opened the doors of the house of the lord and samuel 47:42.320 --> 47:47.840 feared to show eli the vision and rightly so right then eli called samuel and said samuel my son 47:48.560 --> 47:54.560 and he answered here am i and he said what is the thing that the lord has said unto thee i pray 47:54.560 --> 48:01.520 thee hide it not from me god do so to thee and more also if thou hide anything from me of all 48:01.520 --> 48:07.600 the things that he said that he said unto thee and that's a pretty harsh statement because god said 48:07.600 --> 48:12.080 it a lot of stuff that he's going to do to him right but normally you'll see people say this 48:12.080 --> 48:18.320 kind of statement but it says god do unto me and more also if i don't do this and that but he's 48:18.320 --> 48:22.720 saying god i mean that just kind of shows you his spiritual condition a little bit but he's like 48:22.720 --> 48:27.920 god do unto thee and more also but i mean i i think he's trying to just get him to tell the truth 48:28.640 --> 48:36.080 and it says and samuel told him every wit and hid nothing from him and he said it is the lord 48:36.080 --> 48:40.880 let him do what seemeth him good so i mean he has the right attitude about it at least 48:41.600 --> 48:49.680 this is the job of the preacher and that we should just receive it as if it is of the lord when you 48:49.680 --> 48:54.320 hear bible preaching because look there is no more prophets that are going to get some new 48:54.320 --> 49:00.080 revelation from god everything in here is already gotten from all the prophets the preacher is just 49:00.080 --> 49:06.560 there to tell you what god's already said and to proclaim it unto you and god's word is the word 49:06.560 --> 49:13.600 of the living god and his words are those things that quickeneth us means it makes us alive and 49:13.600 --> 49:19.120 his word is alive you know it's not a normal book people think that this is a normal book people 49:19.120 --> 49:24.960 that are not saved don't understand that this book is a living book and this book cuts you to 49:24.960 --> 49:31.680 the quick it's quick it's powerful it's sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the 49:31.680 --> 49:37.200 dividing ascender of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the 49:37.200 --> 49:45.280 thoughts and intents of the heart it cuts it can cut between the soul and spirit that's how sharp 49:45.280 --> 49:55.360 it is and it's it's a spiritual sword and it's very powerful it's not a normal book people just 49:55.360 --> 49:59.440 think this is some book written by men this is what people say to us all the time right well you 49:59.440 --> 50:05.280 just believe some book written by men now this is the word of god friends this is the very word of 50:05.280 --> 50:11.760 god and a preacher is supposed to preach that which is in it and not skip over the rough parts 50:12.400 --> 50:18.320 that they think are too hairy for the congregation to hear when a preacher is preaching through a 50:18.320 --> 50:23.920 passage they should preach the whole council of god like the apostle paul said go ahead and turn 50:23.920 --> 50:32.720 to first Thessalonians chapter 2 i'm going to read act 20 verse 26 says wherefore i take to you 50:32.720 --> 50:37.840 to record this day that i am pure from the blood of all men for i have not shunned to declare unto 50:37.920 --> 50:43.520 all the council of god take heed therefore unto yourselves into the flock over the which the 50:43.520 --> 50:49.040 holy ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of god which he hath purchased with his 50:49.040 --> 50:55.600 own blood he's admonishing his pastors that he's ordained here to feed the church of god god's made 50:56.160 --> 51:02.640 pastors as an overseer as an under shepherd of the lord jesus christ and he expects them to be fed 51:02.640 --> 51:09.520 and he said hey i haven't shunned to tell you the whole council of god and i i'm free from the blood 51:09.520 --> 51:14.880 of all men because why because he's already given them the whole council of god so this is what he 51:14.880 --> 51:21.520 expects from his preachers and you're in first Thessalonians 2 13 it says for this cause also 51:21.520 --> 51:28.000 thank we god without ceasing because when you receive the word of god what you heard of us you 51:28.000 --> 51:33.600 received it not as the word of men but as it is in in truth the word of god which effectually 51:33.600 --> 51:41.600 worketh also in you that believe so you know he is is telling he's commending the Thessalonians 51:41.600 --> 51:49.040 because they received their words as it was in truth the word of god so what you're reading 51:49.040 --> 51:55.680 before you is not just some letter that paul wrote to this church it is that but it's also the word 51:55.680 --> 52:03.440 of god and it's recorded for us from 2000 years ago for us to read today and it's telling us 52:03.440 --> 52:10.640 it is the word of god. Acts 17 verse 10 says and the brethren immediately sent away paul and Silas 52:10.640 --> 52:16.720 by night unto baria who coming thither went into the synagogue of the jews these were more noble 52:16.720 --> 52:21.840 than those in Thessalonica so Thessalonica already had a good review but it says these are more noble 52:21.840 --> 52:26.560 than those in Thessalonica and that they received the word with all readiness of mind 52:26.560 --> 52:34.160 and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so and so just like Eli was like hey 52:34.160 --> 52:41.360 tell it to me straight give me all you got don't hold back hey more more than this should happen 52:41.360 --> 52:47.760 to you also if you don't tell me everything and so as god's people we should be willing to listen 52:47.760 --> 52:51.600 to anything that the as long as the preacher is preaching the bible you should be willing 52:51.600 --> 52:58.960 to hear what he has to say and and our spiritual leaders are given to us to minister to us for the 52:58.960 --> 53:05.280 work of the ministry that's what the bible says and so look yeah you can get all the doctrine you 53:05.280 --> 53:10.560 need out of the bible but the preaching of god's word is to perfect the saints and help us in our 53:10.560 --> 53:16.480 daily life help and help and sharpen us so and if the preacher isn't giving you everything then 53:17.120 --> 53:22.160 you are not doing him a service Jesus told Peter feed my sheep feed my lambs feed my sheep he 53:22.160 --> 53:26.160 admonished him three times because he denied him three times but he's like hey if you love me 53:27.120 --> 53:32.800 feed my sheep and so as a pastor if I love Jesus Christ my job is to tell you 53:34.000 --> 53:41.760 and feed you what the word of God says verse 19 in our text it says and Samuel grew and the Lord 53:41.760 --> 53:50.320 was with him and did let none of his words fall to the ground so he grew why because he was doing 53:50.960 --> 53:57.360 the will of God and he was not allowing his words to fall to the ground God was with him and he 53:57.360 --> 54:01.840 grew to be a great spiritual giant we'll see all the great things that Samuel does as we continue 54:01.840 --> 54:07.440 to study through this book it says verse 20 in all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and this is another 54:07.440 --> 54:12.960 way of just saying all of Israel because Dan is the highest point on the map Beersheba is the 54:12.960 --> 54:18.480 southernmost point and it says knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord 54:18.480 --> 54:23.120 and the Lord appeared again in Shiloh for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the 54:23.120 --> 54:31.360 word of the Lord so at the beginning it says there's no open vision and the there was the word of God 54:31.360 --> 54:37.600 was precious in those days as in that was very sparse and and scarce but at the end of this 54:37.600 --> 54:42.560 chapter now we have Samuel growing into this great prophet like the Lord Jesus Christ did 54:42.560 --> 54:49.840 from his 12 year old birthday it's kind of says similar things about Jesus Christ and he's 54:49.840 --> 54:56.800 established to be a prophet and then the Lord appears again in Shiloh so where God had kind of 54:56.800 --> 55:03.120 been silent not speaking to the people now he's there in his presence and speaking to the people 55:03.120 --> 55:07.920 once again through this great man of God so just a couple things to take away we're done 55:09.360 --> 55:15.200 don't take your adoption for granted don't take your adoption for granted I'm talking about your 55:15.200 --> 55:24.480 spiritual adoption so be like Samuel how was Samuel he worked hard for his dad for his adopted dad 55:24.560 --> 55:32.240 he respected his adopted dad and he became a great man of God you know so we should take our 55:32.240 --> 55:38.720 adoption and and do something with it you know grow spiritually as God wants us to he wants us 55:38.720 --> 55:46.480 to grow by the milk and we eventually get to the meat and we should be growing spiritually every 55:46.480 --> 55:52.480 year and you know if we fall back then we need to realize what we're doing and get ourselves right 55:52.480 --> 55:59.360 and get back in the in the fight but we shouldn't become adoptive spiritual brats taking everything 55:59.360 --> 56:03.360 for granted and knowing that we have our fire insurance card we can just do whatever we want 56:03.360 --> 56:06.720 that's what a lot of people do a lot of people that like are in were in cults or something and 56:06.720 --> 56:10.800 then they get saved they were they had to go to church or they were going to hell they had to go 56:10.800 --> 56:16.880 door knocking or they're going to hell and it's like then they they get into a good church and 56:16.880 --> 56:23.840 then they just take it for granted we shouldn't do that so take your adoption your your spiritual 56:23.840 --> 56:31.520 adoption don't take it for granted and you know we have a better dad than daddy warbucks so just 56:31.520 --> 56:36.080 remember that if you know what i'm talking what i'm referencing there for those of you that have 56:36.080 --> 56:41.680 seen Annie but the call of God is not some mystical experience this is not not something I cover but 56:41.680 --> 56:48.080 in the old ifb they like to say well did you submit to the call of God brother this is not 56:48.080 --> 56:53.120 just the old ifb but in all churches like some people think that you have to be called like this 56:53.120 --> 56:59.040 Samuel experience to be a pastor or to be a missionary or something look God wants all his 56:59.040 --> 57:05.840 people to preach Moses said that he said what to God that all his people would preach you know they'd 57:05.840 --> 57:10.560 be filled with the spirit and look if you're saved you have the spirit of God so God wants you to 57:10.560 --> 57:15.280 preach in some capacity whether it's preaching the gospel to people but obviously I don't think 57:15.280 --> 57:19.440 that you have to have some God calling you in the middle of the night moment in fact I don't think 57:19.440 --> 57:24.560 that's going to happen at all so I don't think that God calls us like that anymore I think that 57:24.560 --> 57:29.920 you know we have the spirit of God we have that never leaves us and we have the word of God that 57:29.920 --> 57:38.000 tells us what he wants us to do he has the plan in place already go and preach the gospel go start 57:38.080 --> 57:43.440 churches preach the gospel you know get people you know give people you know teach people the 57:43.440 --> 57:49.440 bible baptize them he already we already know what he wants so if you're a man and you can get 57:49.440 --> 57:54.560 qualified to be a pastor then do that if you if you just want to be a worker you know just working 57:54.560 --> 57:59.440 for the Lord you can work for the Lord I mean we can all do things for God they don't have to be 57:59.440 --> 58:07.440 some ordained person to do that so just the call the answering the call of God is what he's called 58:07.440 --> 58:13.840 us to do in the New Testament which is preach the gospel get him baptized teach him the bible 58:13.840 --> 58:21.680 rinse and repeat all right and learn the bible yourself so and then yeah the call of God is not 58:21.680 --> 58:26.400 just some mystical experience so you don't have to have well when did God call you and then people 58:26.400 --> 58:33.120 will be like June 7 1967 I received the call of God I went down to the altar I just stop man 58:34.080 --> 58:35.040 it that didn't happen 58:37.760 --> 58:44.880 we know what the will of God is it's in the bible so but we need a generation for sure of individuals 58:44.880 --> 58:49.440 and young people old people great and small rich and poor to stand up and say here am I Lord 58:50.160 --> 58:56.080 send me that should be our attitude like Samuel had so let's pray Lord we thank you so much for 58:56.080 --> 58:59.520 this great chapter in the bible and the great things that we can learn from it and the great 58:59.520 --> 59:04.880 things we can learn from the prophet Samuel and we thank you Lord for all those that came to 59:04.880 --> 59:10.240 church tonight pray you bless us as we go our ways and keep us safe and for all those that are sick 59:10.240 --> 59:17.440 couldn't make it and pray you just bless us now and bless our church and we thank you for visitors 59:17.440 --> 59:22.160 and we thank you for just all the blessings we have in our life here because of you and we thank 59:22.160 --> 59:27.360 you for adopting us into your family Lord in Jesus name we pray amen