1 Samuel 1:1-20 | Sorrow to Song

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:1-20

1. THE STORY FROM MOSES TO SAMUEL
2. THE BOOKS OF 1 & 2 SAMUEL
3. WHO IS HANNAH?
   1. Sorrowful
   2. Lovable (Tender)
   3. Prayerful
   4. Singing
4. APPLY
   1. Have you been honest before the Lord and before those who love you about your sorrow?
   2. In your sorrow do you rehearse teh lines to your redemption song?

Judges 2:16–19 (ESV)
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgement
This narrative is bound together by three poems, one at the beginning (1 Sam. 2:1–10), one in the middle (2 Sam. 1:19–27), and one at the end (2 Sam. 22:1–23:7). Reversal is the rhyme and rhythm of these poems: the mighty, handsome, seemingly impressive people of the world (such as Peninnah, Saul, Goliath, and Absalom) are exposed as bankrupt, while the small, weak, infertile, and unimpressive (such as Hannah, Samuel, Jonathan, and David) are exalted (see 1 Sam. 2:1–10). In Samuel, the important distinctions between the worldly strong and the worldly weak are that those who are weak in the world’s eyes rely on Yahweh and repent of their sin.

Spurgeon
Now, it is idle to tell the night that it should be brilliant as the day, or bid the winter put on the flowers of summer; and equally vain is it to chide the broken heart.

1 Samuel 2:1–2 (ESV)
My heart exults in the Lord;
my horn is exalted in the Lord.
My mouth derides my enemies,
because I rejoice in your salvation.
There is none holy like the Lord:
for there is none besides you;
there is no rock like our God.

Psalm 30:11–12 (ESV)
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Have you been honest before the Lord and before those who love you about your sorrow?
In your sorrow do you rehearse the lines to your redemption song?

Revelation 21:3–4 (ESV)
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”