Title: Faith in Jesus
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Subject: Faith in Jesus
Bible text:
1 Samuel 2:18-26 Samuel at Shiloh
Luke 2: 41-52 Jesus marvels
1 Samuel 2:18-26 Samuel at Shiloh
The text explains the situation of Hannah, who worships God at the Shiloh temple every year for the sacrificial service as the central motive. Hannah takes an oath in the temple that if she gives her a son, she will give it back to God (1:11). And Hannah brings the newborn baby to the temple and offers it as promised (1:21-28). The focus of the text is indeed from Hannah to Samuel, who worshiped God in the temple. The main story of Elkanah's family is the Jewish religious culture, where they visit the temple every year to worship God.
The evil character of the priest Eli's son is contrasted with the description of the boy Samuel's insight. The text reminds us that when Samuel's family returns to Ramah's house, they return to Shiloh's temple to worship God. Eli explains in the change of roles from Samuel to Hophni and Phinehas, which emphasizes the abuse and abuse of their priesthood by blessing their children as priests. While Samuel continued to serve God, Hannah had more sons. So the text reminds us of Samuel's mature priesthood in the center stage of the conflict between Eli and his sons over misuse of priesthood responsibilities. As a man of God according to Samuel's calling, the prophetic guilt of Eli's house is reflected by portraying the prophetic guilt of Eli's sons in the temple, that is, as a person of misuse and abuse of the priesthood. The temple's function of contrasting the two different descriptions in 1 Samuel provides a contrasting role with the Eli family.
The text can be accessed in two ways. Interpreted in relation to the New Testament. Luke uses 1 Samuel to constitute the birth of Jesus in the Gospels. For example, the hymn of Luke 1:46-55 and the hymn of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1-10. Indeed, it depicts Samuel growing up in the temple and Jesus, who is said to be “in his Father’s house” in the Temple in Jerusalem. It places great importance on the temple for holy deeds. Stories that emphasize God emphasize the present in a special way of being in the place of worship.
Luke 2: 41-52 Jesus marvels
The text focuses on the period prior to the appearance of the mature, ministering Jesus. A series of recorded reports and stories that have created interest in Jesus, focusing on announcing the birth, prophetic proclamation, name, and circumstances of John the Serenade and Jesus. It simply reports the growth of young John, who is strengthened in the Holy Spirit until he becomes a voice in the wilderness. There are similar accounts of the 12 disciples, including the problem of John the Baptist, who was concerned with Jesus' early life, and there are stories that take place within the temple.
41-42 The pilgrimage of a pious family
43-45 Independent Action from Mary and Joseph of Jesus
46-50 Surprising circumstances to find the boy Jesus among the priests and teachers of the temple
51-52 Challenge Progress
The focus is on the sociological issues of pious families or the formation of Jesus' spirituality. The definitive christological end was Jesus the Son of God, a concern for self in God, who possessed wonderful wisdom and explained the essence of his wisdom, which was central to his religious life. God notices that the parents who interfered with Jesus' desire to stay in the temple in Jerusalem, whether small or soft, would both consider his questions and answers astonished by his audience as a simple period.
The other, for the sake of preaching, Luke tells us that Mary and Joseph came to Jesus' place three days after they left the temple in Jerusalem. Neither the parents who returned to the temple in Jerusalem three days later, nor the story of the parents who lost Jesus and found him three days later is impossible to determine in the last sense. The situation, however, can be heard as a word that few Christians deviate from thinking of the resurrection. We must never forget the boy in the story of the growth of a man who died on the cross, rose from the dead, and preached the kingdom of God, which focuses on the story of a little child. We must summon and restore God's own Son as a Christmas gift, a gift of God's faithful power to save as it means in the ministry and life of Jesus.
We should pray for the pre-Biblical gift of consolation, for kind reflection, for sharing in humanity, for gentleness, for tolerance.