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Introduction In Chapter 1:1-9 this church ++Had recieved God’s grace ++Was enriched with all knowledge ++Was not lacking in any gift Paul address 5 issues in this church Issues ++Division - Chapters 1-4 ++Sex - Chapters 5-7 ++Food - Chapters 8-10 ++The Gathering-Chapter 11-14 ++Resurrection/Final Greeting…

12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and…

Welcome Devotion 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Prayer Announcements This Week’s Theme: Praise God for His Blessings Memory Verse: Matthew 6:33 “33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall…

God graciously bestows blessing that He may rescind for rebellion.

How many of you enjoyed these when you were younger? SLIDE: *Where’s Waldo I used to love these - still do - and enjoy doing these sorts of things with my kids now. What’s the point? To find - Waldo When we would TRY to find Waldo - we went into it KNOWING a couple of things... We KNEW he was in there…

If you have your Bible (and I hope you do) please turn with me to 1 Samuel 3 . Keep your Bible open before you as we look at this chapter together this morning. The front page news at the time of 1 Samuel 3 is discouraging; it’s bleak. It’s worse than the news headlines today, and that by a mile: In…

Hannah’s Child Hannah wept at the temple. She wept at the temple because she longed for a child. But never had one. In bitterness she wept. And prayed. Eli the priest watched and thought she was drunk. But no - she was weeping. 14 So Eli said to her, “How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself?…

Open to Hebrews 11.32-40 ... Today we finish out chapter 11... In this final section the author gives us a generic grouping of examples to wrap up the point he has been trying to make since v. 1-2... We’ll look at these examples, not in too much detail, at least not like we have with the previous examples...…

Verses 1-5 Recap... Now that Esther and Mordecai have great power and influence as the plans of wicked Hamman have been thwarted it is time for the Jews to defend themselves against those who have planned to destroy them. Verses 6-9 This is a list of the places (cities) where the Jews fought and defeated…

Altered or Delayed obedience is DISOBEDIENCE

The first Sunday I stepped into this pulpit was exactly 11 years ago last Sunday. In these 11 years, I have been blessed to preach and teach God’s Word to a people I deeply love. In these 11 years (between Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights), we have studied 36 books of the Bible (34 of those books…

Today we’ll continue making our way through the book of 1 Samuel... and if you’ve been with us the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed that in that time - we’ve been walking through... …a series WITHIN the bigger series of the book itself. 2 weeks ago we looked at: The Way of the Heart and last…

David’s Time on the Run Part 3 Today we are going to finish this section, and we have to move through a couple of areas and disregard a few things for this study because we do not want to get bogged down in the life of David only and especially during his time on the run, but nonetheless, these things…

Good morning once again and welcome to this gathering of Hope Bible Fellowship. At this time our children may be dismissed to our children’s worship time out the back doors of the sanctuary. I invite the rest of you to open your Bible to I Samuel chapter 16. For the last couple of weeks leading up to…

Samuel—the last judge of Israel—has ministered well. He has preached to the people and called for repentance; he’s led the people in confessing their sin. He has led them to renounce their idolatry and serve the Lord only. He’s done his job well. 1 Samuel 7:15-17 tells us that “Samuel continued as Israel’s…

In the previous chapters of 1 Samuel, we’ve read about the downfall of King Saul. Saul has been told his dynasty would be non-existent; the kingship would be ripped from him. He has disobeyed the Lord’s commands and has not followed the Lord. The Lord will choose a new king. His choice no doubt seemed…

You’re at home…you ask your daughter to go and clean her room... And instead of CLEANING her room - she goes outside to play. Strike 1 You then tell your son that he needs to … take this $5 and go to the corner store to get a loaf of bread. So he GOES - but instead of getting a LOAF of bread - he gets…

In making our way through 1 Samuel - it’s been fascinating to me - to see the correlation between - THAT TIME period - and New Testament Paul. Between THAT TIME period - and even now. Last week we looked at - The WAY of the Heart... The Way of the Heart Tastes the Blessings of God Desires to Rule Itself…

Devotion 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Prayer Announcements 2 Samuel chapter 7 and I Chronicles chapter 17 1 Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around,…

Early on in this journey through 1 Samuel... I had mentioned that we would approach these books in a SURVEY fashion. That we wouldn’t walk verse by verse through the books - given their length. TODAY - we’re going to break into a section of 1 Samuel that some scholars believe is almost - Out of place...…

So today - we begin making our way through 1 & 2 Samuel. Why the Samuels? I had been thinking long and hard about what to do following Galatians - and when I CONSIDERED the Samuels… I thought - WHY NOT? The books will help us UNDERSTAND the rest of Scripture... The OVERARCHING story - tells us that no…

If you have your Bible (and I hope you do), please turn with me to 1 Samuel. If you are able and willing, please stand with me for the reading of God’s Holy Word: 17 Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the Lord at Mizpah 18 and said to them, “This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought…

Intro; As we come to the end of our study on “What Is Faith?” , we’re going to look at a montage of people and their faith. One main theme runs through these last verses on faith and it’s “A Faith that Perseveres”. The word perseverance means “to bear up under.” It describes someone who remains steadfast…

God works through man, for man (God allowed Eli to disciple Samuel (who was ignorant to the ways of God) to help him learn how to approach, listen to God). God works through the humble, not the exalted. This week we continue on our journey through 1 & 2 Samuel... Last week we saw a Tale of Two Families...…