1 Samuel
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May 21, 09 |
1 Sam 30:8-31:13; God’s grace for the faithful believer; David’s
deliverance from the Amalekites; death of Saul and his sons;
biblical view of euthanasia and suicide; Philistine victory over
Israel at Mt. Gilboa
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May 14, 09 |
1 Sam 29:1-30:8; Philistine campaign against Israel; David
rejected by the princes sent back to Ziklag, the Amalekites,
grace of God abounds for those who love Him
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May 7, 09 |
1 Sam 28; |
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Apr 30, 09 |
1 Sam 27:1-28:112; a change in David’s focus, from God to Saul;
keeping up the façade; wrong motivation; the undercover
Christian life |
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Apr 23, 09 |
1 Sam 26; David tested by advice and keeps his focus on the Lord;
discernment between human viewpoint and divine viewpoint;
respecting the position and authority of the king; Saul’s
emotional response and instability |
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Apr 16, 09 |
1 Sam 25:33-26:5; bringing God’s plan into focus; acknowledging
the Lord’s vindication; motives of David’s marriage to Abigail;
God continues to train David to be king |
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Apr 9, 09 |
1 Sam 25: 14-32; Abigail, a woman who thought biblically and
acted decisively while remaining submissive to her husband and
retaining her femininity; God’s design for the woman as the
helper to her husband; God shapes events for His story. |
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Apr 2, 09 |
1 Sam 25; Saul’s continuing instability; the death of Samuel
prompts David’s move to the wilderness; Nabol and Abigail;
maturity testing from God; David’s wrong response to a wrong. |
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Mar 26, 09 |
1 Sam 24: David realizes that he must continue to recognize Saul
as his master and the anointed one by God; he trains his men in
respect for authority; Saul overcome with emotion again with
David’s declaration of intent
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Mar 19, 09 |
1 Sam 23; David has learned to inquires of the LORD; he assumes
kingly responsibilities without being king, and refuses to fight
other Israelites; Jonathan, loyal to a fault
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Mar 5, 09 |
1 Sam 22; Mizpah refuge and return to Israel; Saul prejudges
Ahimelech; the honor of Ahimelech; Saul’s paranoia promotes
conspiracy delusions; Doeg annihilates the priesthood of Nob,
their families and livestock; Davis assumes responsibility for
Saul’s murder of the priesthood; protecting your soul
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Feb 26, 09 |
1 Sam 21:10-22:1; David’s struggle in his spiritual life; fear is
contagious; Ps 34, 56; more leadership training for David
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Feb 19, 09 |
1 Sam 21: 1-9; ethical decisions regarding disobeying divinely
appointed authority; a change in David’s thinking; unintended
consequences of David’s lies
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Feb 12, 09 |
1 Sam 20; Saul decreases, David increases; recognizing the
instability of those in prolonged carnality; the character of
Jonathan, David unlike other ancient kings; ethical conflicts
for Jonathan; friendship cemented in the Lord |
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Feb 5, 09 |
1 Sam 19:17-24; guarding the truth; ethical considerations;
Saul’s 7th attempt on David’s life; examples of prophesying with
song; music preexisted the creation of the earth; Job 38:4-7;
Saul’s shameful behavior
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Jan 29, 09 |
1 Sam 19:10-17; David’s marriage to Michal was political, not for
love, and a failure; David is the spiritual standard in the OT―
he failed, he confessed, and he moved on; God’s plan for our
lives is greater than our failures; Michal fears for own life
before Saul |
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Jan 22, 09 |
1 Sam 19; Jonathan defies Saul; ethical dilemmas in Scripture;
the problem with situational ethics; Saul’s mental illness is a
result of his nurturing sin in his life and continuing to make
bad decisions |
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Dec 18, 08 |
1 Sam 18; from wisdom and insight comes success; Jonathan’s
recognition of David; Saul’s preoccupation with David, attempts
to kill him; humility of David; David, not born a king, but
grows in obedience |
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Nov 27, 08 |
1 Sam 17:38-57; Saul’s preoccupation with the inconsequential; a
professional soldier’s view of the confrontation between David
and Goliath; David’s confidence in God and His promises; Goliath
is no problem for the God of Creation
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Nov 20, 08 |
1 Sam 17:31-40; God supports us wherever He places us;
discouragement testing from authority; David knows God is his
deliverance; human viewpoint testing; David rejects
syncretism; out tests are tailored by God for us; fear testing |
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Nov 13, 08 |
1 Sam 17:12-30; preparation for testing in life; 1 Cor 10:1-13;
David’s attentiveness to God in his life prepared him for the
challenges he would face in the Valley of Elah; the arrogance
and pettiness of self-righteous Eliab |
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Nov 6, 08 |
1 Sam 17:1-11; David and Goliath; who were the Philistines? Gen
10: 6; Ex 13:7; Amos 9:7; who were the giants? Gen 14:5; Deut
1:28, 2:9-12; 3:11; Josh 11:21-22, 15: 13; 2 Sam 21:15-22
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Oct 30, 08 |
1 Sam 16:14-23; believer's protection against demon possession is
relationship with God; demon influence of Saul amplified the
already manifested trends of his sin nature. panic, anxiety,
anger, and violence; music therapy treated the physical,
emotional aspects of Saul's problem, but only God and His Word
can treat the soul; God places David with Saul in His timing
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Oct 23, 08 |
1 Sam 16:14; distinctions in the ministry of God the Holy Spirit
in the OT and NT; because of Saul's extreme disobedience God
sends a demon to discipline him and drive him back to obedience |
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Oct 16, 08 |
1 Sam 16:1-13; stages of cosmic degeneracy; Ps 106:15; greatness
of David; what is important is what God sees, not what we see;
responding biblically to the events of life; Samuel
anoints David |
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Oct 9, 08 |
1 Sam 15:15-35; Saul fails to take responsibility for
disobedience of the Lord’s plan; annihilation of Amalekites
analogous to the necessity of removing cosmic trash in our souls
after salvation; Rom 12:1-2; Heb 12:1-2; 2 Cor 5:17; Saul
chooses honor before people rather than being right with God;
tough love and the grace of God |
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Oct 2, 08 |
1 Sam 15:1-14; Saul’s plan vs. God’s commands; Kennites; Gen
15:19; Num 24:20-21; Exo 3:1;Judg 1:16; Num 10:29; Judg 4:17;
the constancy and consistency of God’s character; figures of
speech and language of accommodation
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Sep 25, 08 |
1 Sam 14:24-15:2; Saul’s leadership blunders, trouble/disaster
for Israel; a failure of Jonathan; problem of eating the blood
of animals; the Lord’s command to annihilate the Amalekites; Gen
36:12; Ex 17:8-14; Num 13:29; 14:45; 24:20; Deut 25:17 |
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Sep 18, 08 |
1 Sam 14:1-23; Saul, not a man of God and not a man of action;
Jonathan, a man of God and a man of action, understand the
battle is the Lord’s and demonstrates that he thinks divine
viewpoint |
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Sep 11, 08 |
1 Sam 13; one of Saul’s three failures; assuming unlawful
authority as king and offering an unauthorized sacrifice;
waiting on God, the test of patience and respecting limits of
authority; subordination of kings to God through priestly
functions |
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May 22, 08 |
1 Sam 12; a great day in Israel; important events in
Israel’s history; Samuel addresses Israel using a riv(e)
format, bringing a legal suit against the nation; God testifies
to the peoples wickedness; Samuel’s final challenge to the
nation; God will not forsake Israel because of His character; Ex
19:5; Samuel continues to teach and pray even though Israel
fails. |
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May 8, 08 |
1 Sam 11; Israel remains in a state of apostasy; God provides an
opportunity for Saul to act at Jabesh Gilead in defending Israel
against the Ammonites; Saul sends out a call to arms, importance
of draft in national crisis. and attack against part of the
nation is a threat to all the nation; the effects of
disinformation given to the enemy; transfer of rulership from
the prophet to the king; coronation of Saul; Samuel turns
national event into at spiritual event with the renewal of the
covenant at Gilgal |
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May 1, 08 |
1 Sam 10:17-27; Saul, a reluctant king and warrior; when
God gives the opportunity He gives the ability to perform the
task |
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Apr 24, 08 |
1 Sam 10:1-16; Saul given signs to affirm Samuel’s prophesy; a
study of prophesying with string instruments--a form of praising
God |
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Apr 17, 08 |
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Apr 10, 08 |
1 Sam 8; conspiracy among the leadership in |
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Apr 3, 08 |
1 Sam 7; Permanent relationship with God/positional
sanctification and temporary fellowship with God/progressive
sanctification; through Samuels’ ministry over 20 years Israel
recognizes its unfaithfulness and participates in national
confession and commitment to God at Mizpah; purpose of fasting
in the ancient world to provide more time for worship;
Philistines humiliated by God at Mizpah so that they and other
enemies were not a problem to Israel all the days of Samuel
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Mar 27, 08 |
1 Sam 5-6; Philistines recognize the power of the ark of the Lord
but do not change their minds with regard to the Him;
Philistines make a holy event out of the defeat of Dagon;
testing God; problems with the way Israel approaches the ark of
the Lord once it is returned to them results in the death of
50,070; God gets Israel’s attention |
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Mar 20, 08 |
1 Sam 4; |
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Mar 6, 08 |
1 Sam 3:7-21; the Lord reveals to Samuel His judgment on Eli and
his descendants for taking lightly their priestly duties ; 1 Sam
14:3;21:1;22:11, 16-23; Eli continues training Samuel; the test
of a prophet; Duet 13:1ff; 18:17ff; Samuel, the first authentic
prophet in the nation of Israel; the Word, the Lord had returned
to Shiloh
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Feb 28, 08 |
1 Sam 2:25-3:7; Samuels’ ministry contrasted to Eli’s sons; the
Lord calls out to Samuel in the |
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Feb 21, 08 |
1 Sam 2:1-26; Hannah’s prayer/psalm indicates the change in her
soul; the weakness of Eli, his sons of Belial were his
indictment; Samuel’s ministry contrasted even as a young boy |
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Feb 14, 08 |
1 Sam 1:16-28; vows in the OT; Num 30: 1 ff; Hannah, a picture of
Israel; despite their failure, God’s gracious provision would
change Hannah’s life and Israel’s; Samuel would be the point of
change |
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Feb 7, 08 |
1 Sam 1:1:11-14; selfish prayer requests and bargaining with God;
Nazirite vow; Num 6:1-15; God’s plan and praying for miracles;
vows in the Bible; significance of barrenness in the OT;
Deut 7:12-14; 28: 4:11; failure of Eli to recognize spiritual
problem |
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Jan 31, 08 |
1 Sam 1:1-10; begins in the dark days of Israel; polygamous
marriages in Scripture; barrenness in ancient Israel; ML
mandated 3 annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem; how God uses our
suffering to shoe His character, purpose , and plan |
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Jan 24, 08 |
Introduction to I Samuel: background, authorship; title; date of
book; historical setting; outlines |
