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   1 Samuel 2: Honoring God Above All   
      
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   Hannah’s joyful song and Eli’s tragic failure reveal what it means to   
   truly honor God. Hannah rejoiced that the Lord had delivered her from   
   barrenness and exalted the humble. Eli, however, allowed his sons to   
   mock God’s holiness and despise His sacrifice. Through both examples, we   
   learn that honoring God involves not only words of praise but also lives   
   of obedience, repentance, and moral restraint.   
      
   Proposition   
      
   You should honor God   
      
   By singing His praises   
      
   Hannah praised God for delivering her from her barren condition. When   
   God saves your soul and gives you spiritual life, you should sing His   
   praises. She praised God for exalting the lowly and bringing the   
   arrogant low. In salvation, God has devised a plan that eliminates human   
   boasting. He saves those who admit they are sinners without merit, while   
   He destroys those who trust in their own righteousness.   
      
   By walking in the Spirit   
      
   Eli's sons walked in the flesh. They used God's service as an   
   opportunity to indulge their sinful desire for excessive food and   
   blatant immorality. They showed no respect for God's sacrifice. When we   
   sin, it ultimately dishonors Christ's atonement sacrifice for our sins.   
   You should honor God by putting to death the deeds of the flesh, and   
   walking in the Spirit.   
      
   By accepting discipline   
      
   Eli's sons did not listen to their father when he confronted them about   
   their sin. It says the reason for that was because God intended to   
   destroy them. This wasn't God imposing a condition on them that they did   
   not already have. It was God handing them over to and confirming them in   
   their sinful desires instead of granting them repentance. If someone is   
   counseling you according to the truth of God's word, change your mind,   
   agree with God you sinned, confess it on the basis of Christ's   
   atonement, then do what God tells you to do. Accept Biblical correction   
   as discipline.   
      
   By restraining evil   
      
   Although Eli had the authority to remove his sons from their role of   
   service, he did not. While he confronted them, he did not use his   
   authority to restrain their evil ways. He evidently just mentioned it to   
   them, then let them continue on doing it. Many people had informed him   
   about their ways. In refusing to use his authority to restrain their   
   evil, he gave his sons more honor than God. They made themselves fat   
   rather than respect God's sacrifices. As a result, he brought a curse on   
   his entire family line and they were removed from priesthood. You should   
   honor God by restraining evil that's under your control.   
      
   Invitation   
      
   God honored Hannah’s faith and judged Eli’s compromise. Both reveal His   
   unchanging holiness and grace. God still exalts the humble who turn to   
   Him in faith. Through Christ’s death and resurrection, He offers   
   forgiveness and new life to everyone who admits his sin and trusts in   
   His finished work. Change your mind about sin, call on the name of the   
   Lord for salvation, and honor God by walking in obedience to His Word.   
      
   --   
   Have you heard the good news Christ died for our sins (†), and God   
   raised Him from the dead?   
      
   That Christ died for our sins shows we're sinners who deserve the death   
   penalty. That God raised Him from the dead shows Christ's death   
   satisfied God's righteous demands against our sin (Romans 3:25; 1 John   
   2:1-2). This means God can now remain just, while forgiving you of your   
   sins, and saving you from eternal damnation.   
      
   On the basis of Christ's death and resurrection for our sins, call on   
   the name of the Lord to save you: "For 'everyone who calls on the name   
   of the Lord will be saved'" (Romans 10:13, ESV).   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)