Well it seems that since men were not listening to God in those days he rarely bothered to speak to them. The deacons met with the pastor after the service and said, Now preacher that is a fine sermon that you have been preaching, but when are you going to preach something new?” The preacher replied, “Well I reckon when you do what I told in that sermon we will go on to something else.” Well Wednesday night rolled around and you guessed it he preached the same sermon again. We the deacons had had enough by this point and said among themselves, “If he preaches that sermon again we will be forced to confront him. The people just shook their heads and came back that night to see what he would preach. The preacher arrived the next Sunday to preach and again he preached the same sermon. The deacons meet and attributed the fact that he preached the same sermon to nervousness and extended a call to become the new pastor. When the congregation came back for the evening service he preached the same sermon again. “I heard once of a black preacher who went in view of a call to a new church. The writer tells us in verse one, “… the word of the LORD was rare in those days there was no widespread revelation.” That pretty well describes our day don’t you think? The spiritual leaders were corrupt and God’s people were not obeying his law so why should he say anything new to them? Samuel ministered before the Lord under the guidance of Eli at a time when God was not speaking to his people very often. Samuel moved from a godly home at Ramah in which his mother and father were scrupulous in their worship of the Lord into the priestly home of Eli in which the worship of Lord was scorned. We Must Be Ready To Hear What God Wants To Say To Us. This morning we looked at “Are You Ready to Listen?” from our series in Luke and tonight in our study of the life of Samuel we are by the providence of God considering, “God is Speaking But Are you Listening?”ġ. I am still amazed at how God works the messages from two separate series to coincide so perfectly on any given Sunday.
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