I SAMUEL 1:1—2:36 - Corps Notes - December 9, 1975
I SAMUEL 1:1—2:36 December 9, 1975 The Way International Outside of Jesus Christ, I don’t know if God ever picked a man who amounted to a damn, to begin with. Outside of Jesus Christ I don’t know of any man that God picked that had much potential. Moses, a murderer so to speak, got married to a real sexy unbeliever, the daughter of the priest of On. (This was Joseph – Genesis 41:45. Moses married the daughter of the priest of Midian – Exodus 2:16&21) Jonah headed the other way. All of those men of God were big “poopers,” but somehow or another in the fiber of their being there was some steel. And God saw that, saw it in Moses, saw it in Jonah, saw it in Hosea, saw it in Jeremiah. You know what He told Hosea? Go marry that whore. Imagine a minister saying that to some man today. Nobody would listen to those men. Or would they? I’m totally convinced that when the Word of God is spoken, the people who have ears to hear will hear. And I don’t give a hoot who that man or woman has been or what they have done in the past. I just don’t care, because God just didn’t care. And I get it from the Word. Peter - who would have ever thought that Peter would have made a leader? Matthew - IRS man. Boy, I go through those things in my mind and that to me is the greatness of our God. He has to start with what’s available to Him, but somehow or another in the frailty of man, at least some of them, there is that steel, that whenever God sharpens it, it’s sharp on both sides. And for the time that they hold forth that Word you just sit in utter amazement of their ability. Samuel had no right to be a prophet, as you’ll see. Again, the way the whole thing happened and everything else, you would have never thought that God could have blessed it. But He did. You would, have never thought that God could bless us, but He did. I Samuel 1:1 “Ephrathite” – From Bible Dictionary: Ephraim, the second son of Joseph born to him by Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, before the years of famine came
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only a momentary irritation. When you go to bed, go to sleep. That's what I did with it. Now, verse 27. King James says, Neither (or neither) give place to the Devil. The word 'place' is simply a portion, a part. No believer will give full place to the Devil, but he may be giving a part, a portion. He' ll mark off a spot, ' this is Devil' s permission over here, over here, no permission, you know. And you really give the Devil a portion or a spot if you stew about it after you go to bed and you toss and you tum and can' t sleep. This word 'the Devil,' ' the Devil' in the Aramaic is a very interesting and exciting Word to me and it blesses my heart. It' s a compound word where the first part means ' to eat' or ' to devour.' The latter ' to slander' or ' to accuse. ' So when I got to translating this, literally according to usage, verse 27 reads: Do not give any portion or space or an oppo