Title: The Sign of the Time of Restoration
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Sermon Title: Signs of the Time of Restoration
Sermon text: 1 Samuel 1: 4-20, Mark 13:1-8
Infertility is a common motive in the biblical tradition. In Genesis, Sarah, like Rachel and Rebecca, is sterile. Furthermore, infertility often resides between two wives or as one wife of a husband. That is, a wife including Sarah and Hagar, and Leah and Rachel. The story of Samuel's birth is this pattern. Hannah is infertile compared to Penny, Elkanah's wife Penny, who has many children. The motivational level of pleading, the tendency of a sign signifying birth, gives birth as a meaningful trait to Hannah, the infertility we expect. The motivation for infertility as the theological level that brings God's promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 is the many pleas in the birth story.
1. Understanding the rivalry between Hannah and Penny 4-8
2. Hannah's petition and vows to God in Shiloh 9-11
3. 12-18 including the exit between Eli and Hannah
4. Samuel's Birth 19-20
Eli's house and Hannah, David and Saul, can be seen as composing the rivals between Hannah and Penina. One prayer is a vow: an oath to God if he will give her a child. The misunderstanding of Hannah's prayer as drunken due to Eli's lack of reflection means that his priestly role in the sanctuary of salvation according to his insufficient observation of his sons is incomplete. The name of her son Samuel (I ask the Lord for him) is that Hannah recognized this birth as a holy answer to her prayer.
Hannah's act of faith leading to the birth of her son in the sanctuary of salvation does not accept her infertility, but trusts in the salvation of the God of Israel who makes him in peace.
Mark takes an interest in God's will and law and makes religiosity conscious. What I personally offer and teach the disciples are lessons for the future. It provides a final scene that sees the apocalyptic time and place come from another, that is, unfolds before the end of passion. The corner stone of the temple, the destruction of the temple, and the times and signs of the destruction of the temple signify the crisis of the final judgment and the destruction of Jerusalem. It is a time when pleading prayers are necessary to pay for childbirth. Christ calls his disciples and teaches them that they must not lose the essential life of faith, do not waste the last days, but must ponder and know the time.
This is the part of learning from the Hebrews to use as an introduction to the various elements of worship that go to the congregation as a sign of forgiveness after the prayer of confession.