1 Samuel 2. 1 Samuel 2. There are many prayers recorded
in the Scriptures. Psalms are mostly prayers. And
I believe that's one reason we love the Psalms so much. David,
a man after God's own heart, is a man after our heart, too. I can relate to David. He's my
brother, my dear brother. He has all the same feelings,
ups and downs, and troubles and trials that I do. And his prayers are my prayers,
aren't they? Yours, too. The fact that the
Psalms are so many prayers, and there are many prayers recorded
in Scripture, that tells us we ought to pray. The Lord tells
us that over and over again. Men ought always to pray, didn't
they? Pray without ceasing, Scripture
says. Why? Because our troubles and
temptations are without ceasing. Satan doesn't cease to try to
tempt us. This world ceases not to tempt
us, so we're told to pray without ceasing, men and women and young
people. We need to tell our children
to call on the name of the Lord, don't we? Whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved. What does that mean?
It means what it says. Whosoever shall call, for what?
Everything we need saving from. We cannot save ourselves, deliver
ourselves from anything. A woman is forbidden in Scripture
to teach, to usurp authority over the man, to teach men. You can teach children, and even
the older women are told to teach the younger women, at least by
example. They're forbidden to speak in
a church. Forbidden for a woman to speak in a church. They're
to keep silence. That's what it said, that a woman cannot
pray in the church. But, it doesn't say she can't
pray in the home. Does it? She should. They should. My mother, my dad
would call on my mother occasionally, not often, but occasionally at
the table, would call on my mother to pray. I do the same with Mindy,
and it's always a blessing. But one of the most blessed prayers
in the Scripture, the prayer of a woman here, the prayer of
a woman named Hannah. The Lord recorded this woman's
prayer for all of us to read for all time. And David, David
who lived long time after Hannah, years later. He heard, he read
this prayer. No doubt in my mind, because
he quotes parts of it all the way through the Psalms. He learned,
he read this prayer. It was a great blessing to him.
Somebody recorded it, and he wrote it, or he read it, and
he quoted it, and he prayed it. I hope we can pray this too.
Hannah, the name means gift, grace of God, gift of God. Hannah
is a picture of every child of God saved by His grace. And what she prays is what every
child of God saved by grace prays for, prays to the Lord for. She was barren. We were without God, without
hope, without Christ. She mourned. She was mourning. No fruit in her womb. Blessed they that mourn, they
shall be comforted. She was provoked by her adversary. Constantly provoked by her adversary. Oh, God's people are persecuted,
they're provoked by the adversary, our enemy, the God of this world. Constantly, always provoked. The world is not provoked by
Satan. You understand that? World's
not provoked by Satan. They willingly follow him. God's people are constantly,
always provoked by him. And they call unto the Lord like
Hannah did. She wept. Blessed are they that
mourn. She had a sorrowful spirit. Blessed
are the poor in spirit. She went to the temple and she
heard The preacher, Eli, and he spoke peace to her heart.
She worshiped. Isn't this a picture of every
child of God saved by grace? She heard, we hear the truth,
we worship the Lord, she conceived. We're born again by the word
of God, by the gospel. And then in love and thanksgiving
and praise, She committed everything she had and everything she was
to the Lord, and she prayed this prayer. And there's no mention of that
boy. Not one mention of Samuel, who
she was praying for. Because after the Lord... Praise, in this psalm, the ten
or eleven verses, she prays, she mentions the Lord's name,
either his name or the personal pronoun, him, thy. Twelve, fifteen
times. It's all about the Lord. Her
rejoicing is in the Lord. I look at it, verse one. Hannah
prayed, and said, my heart rejoices in the Lord. Who or what do you
rejoice in? There are many things the Lord
gives us to enjoy. The Lord gives us all things
richly to enjoy. He doesn't withhold anything
from God's people. He enjoys us in joy and things. But when I kind of set my heart
out of the heart of the issues of life, Her heart rejoiced,
truly rejoiced, had great joy in one thing, or one person,
the Lord. Really. These things that we
enjoy are going to be taken from us, and then they will bring
us great sorrow. Quite often sorrow outweighs
the joy we have. My mother, you know, had a wonderful
husband for 72 years. Now he's gone. And she says,
there's not a moment of the day I don't think about him. She's
sad, she misses him. You know, life is so short, it's
so fleeting, it's like a sleep, and all this joy is gone in a
moment. Gone. Then what? You better rejoice
in the Lord. My mother is rejoicing in the
Lord. She knew the Lord took her husband. She knows the Lord will take
her very shortly. He is our rejoicing that it is
the Lord. Eli, hearing that both of his
sons would be taken, he said, It's the Lord. Let him do what's
in the good. Job, after everything was taken
from him, what did he say? The Lord gave him. I didn't deserve
it. I didn't have anything. He gave
it all to me. It was his. He took it back. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Thank you, Lord, for giving it, and I know you have a purpose
for taking it. Thank you. That's what it means. Rejoice
in the Lord. your God, the Lord, your Sovereign,
the Lord, your King, the Lord, your Prophet, the Lord Jesus
Christ, your Prophet, your Priest, your King, the Lord, your Righteousness,
the Lord, your Healer, the Lord, your Peace, the Lord, the Lord,
Jehovah, the Lord. My heart rejoices in the Lord. My heart. Now, Hannah was literally
barren. She was literally barren. She
did not have a child, and she prayed for this child. And one
time I counted recently, there were about Over a dozen people
in this church, the Lord has never given a child to. And that
is a trial. Especially for a woman. A woman,
most women, come from little girls wanting a baby. That's
why they play with dolls. They're given that nurturing,
that mothering instinct, which is good. And the first thing
the Lord told Eve was multiply. So, for a woman not to have a
child is a great trial, and so it is for a married man. The Lord, she was literally barren,
and she asked the Lord to give her a child. And she said, if
you give me a child, and you'll have to do it, the
Lord gives life. We may decide something, but
we can't fulfill it yet. The Lord killeth, the Lord maketh
alive. The Lord giveth. She said, but
if you do, in your mercy and your grace and your kindness,
if you give me a child, I'm giving him back. He's going to be yours. And she meant
that. And she did that. Talk is cheap,
isn't it? She said it. She vowed this vow,
and the Lord said, don't vow a vow if you don't at least intend
to fulfill it. And she said, Lord, I will. By
your grace, by your mercy, you've given me a child. By your grace,
by your mercy, I'm going to give him back. And she did. I had a brother who, before he
had children, said, Lord, if you give us children, Don't give
us children unless they're your elect. Isn't that a good prayer? I say this to all parents listening
right now. What is it that you want for
your children? Why do you want children? Are they just going
to be another sinner on this earth? Defy God and rebel against
God? Take up the trespasses of earth?
What do you want for your children? What do you aspire for them?
Do you aspire greatness in this world? That they be somebody? I tell you what you need to pray
for and aspire for them is that they might know the Lord. She prayed, and the Lord gave
her a child, and you know what his name was, Samuel. It means
to ask of the Lord. And she did. She brought that
child. And that's not my story. I've got to go on. But she...
Can you imagine bringing your little girl to the temple, five
or six years old, and handing her over and leaving? And rejoicing
all the way home? Crying. You know she was crying.
But smiling anyway. Because the Lord blessed that
of her, blessed that desire of hers, she had one thing she desired
of the Lord for herself and for her child, and the Lord granted
it. And Samuel, for a child, worshipped
the Lord, and the Lord used him greatly. That would be something
to ask for our children. Well, make him a preacher of
the gospel. Make her a wife, a helpmate of
a preacher of the gospel. My heart, she said, my heart
rejoiceth in the Lord. The Lord. True people of God
worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus the Lord. This is what separates professors
of religion from possessors of Christ. Those who know the Lord
worship the Lord from the heart. They worship God's Spirit, and
they rejoice in Christ, who He is, what He did. My heart rejoices
in the Lord. He goes on to say in verse 1,
My horn is exalted in the Lord. My horn, that's a symbol of strength.
Back then, they used horns, horns of rams, the horns of what's
called a unicorn, I think. We don't really know what that
was, but they were real close to Egypt and all that, and rhinoceros. Is there anything symbolically
more powerful than a rhinoceros? A ram horn. You know how hard
it is to make knives and things out of horn, don't you? If you
have one. Isn't the Lord, His works, His creations amazing?
There's nothing quite like it. And you think about You think about a rhinoceros.
I saw a picture of one the other day. He just ran in a truck.
Ran in a truck. With his head, his horn. Anyway,
they would kill these animals, you know, and they'd use these
horns for everything. And it was a symbol of strength
and power. And what she's saying is, my
strength, My power, I have no power. I have none whatsoever.
No strength, no power except in the Lord. God is my strength,
David wrote. He wrote this, he said this over
and over again. Psalm 27, Psalm 89, over and
over again. Our strength, we have no strength.
Jehoshaphat, with all the people, stood before the Lord and said,
we have no strength against this mighty, all these enemies, they're
powerful. I have no resistance. Thou art my strength. And the horn was also used, like
a ram's horn, you know, is somewhat hollow. It's amazing, isn't it? As powerful as it is, it's hollow.
They'd use it to drink out of, but they'd use it as a horn to
announce things, to proclaim things, to before they made trumpets,
I guess, to arouse people to wake up, charge, or to call people
in. Isn't that a good picture of
the gospel? Christ, the Lamb's flame, my
horn, I was called and I exalted in the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 1, my mouth is enlarged
over my enemy. My mouth. We're going to see
here in a minute when she talks about, talk no more. So proud. She said, my mouth, when her
adversary kept, and it was a woman who had many children, boasted,
look what I've got. You have none. She kept doing this. You can't
have children until you have them. Look how many I have. That's what people do, don't
they? Boast of what the Lord did. What do you think the Lord
thinks about that? Well, Hannah now has something
to say. And when she was being tried
and provoked, what would she do? Just hang her head. Got nothing
to say. so meek, so lowly, so poor, but
now she's got something to say. What are you going to say to
him? Look what the Lord hath done,
my mouth. In other words, if I'm going
to speak, let me speak of Him. If I'm going to boast, let me
boast in Him. If I'm going to glory, God forbid
that I should glory, save in the horn, the cross of my Lord
Jesus Christ. If I'm going to rejoice, Let
me rejoice in Him. If I'm going to open this mouth,
let it be for His glory. Isn't that a good rule? Isn't
that a good prayer? My mouth is enlarged over my
intimates. Didn't our Lord say, when the
people were saying, Hosanna in the name of the Lord, He said,
Yes, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
strength, praise. What were the people saying?
Praise the Lord. I'm not praising himself, I'm
not praising anybody, I'm praising the Lord. And that strength, it is weakness, weak faith. And
it weakens us. Oh, woe is me. Oh, I'm cast down. David said, oh, I'm cast down.
It weakens you. It's not glorifying our Lord. You know what strengthens us? David said, why aren't thou cast
down, O my soul? Repent to God. You'll praise
Him. You'll find out. If you just
wait, you're going to praise Him for what you're going through.
And he did. My mouth's enlarged over my enemy.
My enemy, that enemy of unbelief, that enemy of fear, that enemy
of the world, the adversary. He said, I rejoice in thy salvation. Let those that know the Lord
rejoice in thy salvation. Say, the Lord be magnified. That's what God's people say.
They talk about salvation. They say, The Lord saved me. The Lord had mercy on me. The
Lord chose me. The Lord called me. The Lord
lived for me. The Lord died for me. The Lord
arose for me. The Lord's coming back for me.
The Lord protects me. The Lord provides for me. What
do you do? Nothing. It's the Lord. Without Him, I can do nothing. I rejoice in Him. salvation.
If I don't get past that person, it's just good. Verse 2. I should title this message,
None Like Our God. There's none like our God. There is none holy as the Lord.
Verse 2. There's none beside them. Neither is there any rock
like our God. That's what Moses wrote. Their rock's not like our rock. Our rock is the rock. None holy is the Lord. No, the
God being preached today is not holy at all, is it, Brother Kevin?
You hear anybody talk about that? None. We do. There are a few here and there,
like the scattering of corn on a mountaintop. You'll find them
here and there, a little bit. There's 7,000 somewhere that
have not bowed the knee to Baal, but have bowed the knee to this
holy, holy, holy, those that know the Lord, have seen the
Lord, Jesus Christ, God, Jesus Christ. They say he's holy, holy,
holy. What does that mean? Oh, there's
not enough time. Holy means Well, God is everything that
we are not. Sovereign. He does according
to His will. He's pure. He's righteous. He's just. He's merciful. He's gracious. He's love. Everything
we are not. Unlike us. His thoughts, His
ways, He's holy, holy, holy. Triune God. None holy is the
Lord. There's none beside the... God's
Lord keeps saying this, doesn't He, all through the Scriptures.
All through the Scriptures. There is no other God. He keeps
reminding His people, and we know that, don't we? We know
that. There is no other God. Satan is not... He's called the
God of this world, Little Gene. That means a designated ruler. There's no authority, no power
but of God, and God's designated, but they're still not in power.
God controls them. Satan, anybody in any authority,
can't do anything except what the Lord says, directs it, and
they're doing—well, the world hates this. I love this. They're doing his will. Satan's
doing his will. God worketh all things after
the counsel of his will, none can stay his hand. If there's
anybody or anything that can thwart God's will, he's just
as much God as God. Right? Now, this gives us peace,
doesn't it? It gives us comfort. We don't
understand things, but we know God is God, and that's good enough. And that's where we live by faith.
We bow and we trust and we, we, we, whom shall I fear? We shouldn't
fear. Why? It is the Lord. Whatever
it is, evil. I shouldn't be proud and smiling. It is the Lord, and it's all
good for His people. There's no rock, verse 2, like
our God. Rock. Our God. What he's saying
is there's no other God. He's the rock of ages, eternal
rock, firm, unmovable, unshakable, unchangeable. Right there. Right
there. All the way. Unmovable. A rock in whom we hide. Have you ever thought, ironically,
when that last great prayer meeting of people of the world, when
they say they call on the rocks to follow them? Have you ever
thought of that? Our Lord called himself that
stone. He said, upon whomever falls
on this stone will be broken. And we need that. He'll be broken. But whomever this stone falls
on, it'll grind in a pounder. So right now is the time to just
cast yourself on this rock of ages, and you'll be broken all
right, but blessed are the broken. That's whom the Lord hears, that's
whom the Lord heals, that's whom the Lord saves. This man, why
look, he's a broken of a contrite heart and tremulous, that's my
word. Jesus Christ, no rock like our God. All the saints talked
about rock, the rock, the rock, the rock, Moses, all of it, Moses,
David, Hannah. They boast in the Lord, and they
hate all other boasting. If you boast in the Lord, if
you really do glory in the Lord, if you glory in who He is, if
you glory in what He has done, which is everything, if you glory
in His salvation, you hate any talk about man's glory, don't
you? You hate, you hate it. Look at
verse three. Talk no more, so exceeding proudly. Don't you get tired of all the
talk today? I get tired of myself talking. David one time said, I'm going
to set a watch over my lip. I'm going to quit talking. And
he broke it. He broke that. He said, Lord, do something about
this mouth of mine. But you especially hate proud
talk. If we hate it, how much more?
Six things the Lord hates. There's seven are abomination,
Proverbs 16. Now, first thing is a proud look. All through Scripture, Isaiah
especially, he said, the lofty looks of man are going to be
brought down. Why is all this? We've got to catch our, our vocabulary
needs to be like this. Why did the Lord send this? Not,
why is this happening? Why did this happen? This didn't
happen naturally. Did the Lord send this? Why did
the Lord do this? The Lord did this. Why did He
send this plague? Pride. He's always sent things
for that reason. Always. No exceptions. Pride. The lofty looks of man
will be brought now. Oh, it doesn't take much for
the Lord to bring man down, does it? Adjourn! We ain't nothing up here. Nothing. Quit talking, Hannah said. That'd be a good title, and talk
no more. Scripture says, don't give the
sacrifice a fool. They like to hear their voices.
God is in the heavens, thou art on the earth. Let your words
be swift to hear and slow to speak. Why? God ain't listening. The first thing he said to Job
and his friends after they talked and talked and talked and talked
was, Who is this that darkened up counsel by words without knowledge? Now, hurry up your noise. I'm
going to talk to you. And Job said, I've spoken things
to you wonderfully, things I didn't understand. I'm going to put
my hand over my mouth. I just think I'm going to listen. That's what we need to do. That's
what this world needs you to do. Oh, how this world needs
to hear the word of the Lord, don't they? But they don't. They
got ears, but they don't hear. And the biggest problem is they're
talking. And everybody's listening to
everybody but And so everybody's torn all to pieces. Because why? They listen to the
wrong people. Fools. They don't have the answers. Talk no more succeeding. Proud
of it, not arrogance that come out of your mouth. Don't you
hate arrogance? Arrogance means to have an air
of superiority. Like, I know something you don't
know. I have something you don't have.
Don't you hate that? What do we have that we have
not received? If we receive it, why will we
glory most as if we hadn't? That's why everything we say
should be preceded by the grace of God. I am what I am. I know
what I know. I have what I have. Let not arrogance come out of
your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge. He knows us. I
remember as boys get together, you get two of them together,
and they're going to get in some trouble. You get three, it's
definitely trouble coming. You see three or four walking
down the road, you think, I need to call the police right now. Somebody's going to be in trouble. I was with my friends. Boys liked
to brag and boast. And I was at home with Wesley
and the two of them talking, and the little guy said, they
have to talk good. They're going to run fast. I
was talking both of them. And I turned around and there
my dad stood. I quit talking. He knows me. He knows me. You're an old tall
boy. God is a God of knowledge. Men
may be impressed with what other men say. God is not. Actions. And he said, by him,
actions are weighed. James, throughout his book said,
don't talk to me about your faith. That's what God said. Show me.
Show me. Our Lord, I love to think about
our Lord being a man of actually a few words. A wise man's study
of the answer. He had no idle words. None. Not one single idle word. Useless, unprofitable, Certainly
no sinful word. Oh, wisdom, goodness, mercy,
grace, knowledge, the glory of God, the good of others. Every
word out of his mouth. Isn't that something? Oh, Lord. Do that for me. Oh, but he did. His actions,
they spoke so loudly. His words, His word is His power. But He, He proved His word by
His work, didn't He? He said, if you don't believe
me for my word, believe me for the work's sake. Let us walk by faith. We say
we believe, let's act like it. We act like people who don't
have to believe in the Sovereign God. Actions are weighed. Verse 4, the bows of the mighty.
I've got to hurry. The bows of the mighty. That's the defense
and the power, the offense, the weapons of the mighty men are
broken. I think about this country. This nation is probably the most
powerful nation in the world, at least militarily. Economically,
boy, what does it take for the Lord to bring a mighty, powerful
machine down? A germ. There's not one single
weapon, nothing in man's technology right now that anybody can come
up with to defeat a germ. Aren't we something? What's that song, David? Nine,
I believe it is. He said this. I think that's
it. Now, he put them in fear, O Lord,
that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. Men. A horse is a vain thing,
a tank. And the Lord sent judgment. The bows are broken, they that
stumble, though, are girded with strength. And all of this, you know, the
mighty, the strong, the powerful, the rich, they're holed up, they're
hiding. And I've heard from young girls, I've heard from young
believers, right now in the midst of all this, I've heard from
strength like David out there facing life. I've heard from
young girls, girls like David out there facing it. Nobody,
everybody's scared of them. What are we afraid of? It's the Lord, by the mighty
men. I love that, don't you? I love it. are strong in the faith. Verse
5, they are full and have hired themselves out for bread. Oh,
my! Oh, trust not in riches. They
have wings. They were hungry. See, study
it. The full are empty, and the empty are full. Isn't that what
the Lord does for His people? Barren, verse 5. Barren is born
seven. She hath many children, and is
wax feeble. Preached one time on this, chapter
one, especially, that this is a picture of the true church,
which is made up of fewer people. At any given time, the church
has fewer, the church, the true people of God, are fewer than
the children of the false, the seed of Satan. That's what the
Lord calls it. God's seed, the woman's seed,
and the seed of Satan. In any given time, down through
history, the false church has been filled, multitudes, the
vast majority. But while the true people got
our fear, but in the end, when it's all over. You know all those babies that
Pharaoh said kill them? All those babies that Herod said
kill them? All the aborted babies in this,
all over the world. All the simple, Lord preserve
the simple. Little children. That's the kingdom
of heaven is made up of that. And the kingdom of God is more
than the kingdom of men. He's going to get the victory.
He's going to get the glory. Look. Look. It's like the sands of the sea,
stars of the sky. Verse six, the Lord killeth and
maketh alive. Where'd she hear that? I guess
Moses. David quoted this. The Lord killeth,
the Lord maketh alive. One more time, people. One more
time before you leave here. Nothing and no one kills us but
the Lord. Okay? Things don't kill us. He says, all souls are mine.
Rest right there. Don't fear. Okay? Like Martin
Luther said, if the Lord wants me, he can find me. No matter
where I try to hide, he'll come for me. He'll send whatever it
is. Okay? So the Lord kill him. The Lord
make it for life. He bring it down to the grave
and bring it up. Appointed unto man once to die. Who appointed
it? God did. Our days are determined. They're
with the Lord. The number of our months are
with the Lord. He set our bounds. We cannot
pass. Now, that's comfort. That's the
Lord's glory. That's the Lord's people's peace. We're immortal, brother. Our
children, every woman is ordained of the Lord. Whatever happens,
it's the Lord. So rest right there. And you
know, this is a picture of salvation. You know, this is what the Lord
does for everyone he saves. The first thing he does, he kills
them. He kills them to make them alive. Paul said, when the commandment
came, I died. Killed me. Slew me. You understand
what that means, don't you? The world doesn't. Kills our
God. He brings down to the grave.
Oh, Lord, oh, send me to hell. Then you hear the gospel. It
brings you up in. This is what the Lord does. Verse
7, the Lord makes poor and the Lord makes rich. Blessed are
the poor. He makes them rich in faith.
Rich in peace. We've got peace right now that
the world doesn't have. Where is our faith? In the Lord. In Christ. He's our faith. He
brings us low. Contra, and lifteth up. Verse
8, we love this. He raiseth up the poor out of
the dust. He lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to sit among
princes. Where do you think Paul? Read
this again, verse 8. He raiseth up the poor out of
the dust, lifted up the beggar from the dunghill to sit among
princes, to make them inherit the throne Where do you think
Paul got Ephesians 1 from Hannah's prayer? Oh, blessed be the Lord
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places. We walked the course of this
world, but God, rich in mercy, when we were dead, He killeth,
quickened us together with Christ, and raised us up, and made us
sit together in heavenly places." It says in chapter 1, it says,
"...given us an inheritance." Where did Paul get that? Hannah's
prayer. That's what the Lord does for
His people. 8 says the pillars of the earth
are the Lord's. He set the world upon them. That's the foundations of the
earth, everything, all the natural. Listen to it. Religion says that God made the
world in natural causes, and there are natural laws that God
made, thankfully. The way the earth turns, and
it is a globe. But people think he just made
it all and then just sat back and let her go. No. In his hand. Everything. Every single thing
on this earth. In this earth. The foundations.
If the foundations be destroyed, what do the righteous do? What's
the foundation? What's the fundamentals of the
faith? God worketh all things. Everything. The natural causes
in this earth are the Creator causing them. You understand? They just don't naturally occur.
The Creator causes them. The Creator does it, works it. Everything. So it's the pillars of the earth.
Verse 9. He'll keep the feet of his saints. Aren't you glad? Listen to this. I think this is it. I think I
wrote it down right. Psalm 116 says, yeah, you've delivered my soul
from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. And
heaven is able to keep us from falling. We fall. And Proverbs says, Oh, a righteous
man falleth seven times. What does it say? The Lord lift him up. The Lord lift him up every time.
I've fallen many times, and I'll fall a lot more times, and you
will too, but not forever, and not completely, because He raises
up the fallen. I gave that illustration, and
I didn't come up with it. I heard a man say, Noah, after
about a week or two in that ark, stumbled and fell. He fell, but
he didn't fall out of the ark. He didn't fall out of the ark.
He's in the ark. He can't fall out. Maybe you
didn't hear that right. You're not rejoicing like you
ought to. We'll fall, but we're in Christ.
And it'll keep us from falling away. Aren't you glad? Why? Because we have no strength.
We cannot keep our feet from doing nothing. Because my feet
are prone to mischief. If He doesn't turn us, we won't
be turned. He says in verse 9, by strength no man, verse 9,
the wicked shall be silent in darkness, like the children of
Israel had light, but the children of Egypt sat in darkness. By
strength shall no man prevail. The strongest will, the strongest
man, the richest man or woman, whatever, they can't prevail
over anything. The adversaries of the Lord,
verse 10, shall be broken to pieces. Aren't you glad? And this is what the Lord does
to all of His enemies to make them, to reconcile them. He breaks
them. He breaks them. Gives them a
broken heart. And now we're no longer his adversary.
But all his adversary will be broken to pieces. Out of heaven
shall he thunder upon them. When the Lord comes down from
heaven, when the Lord Jesus Christ in that cloud be rolled back
as a scroll, every eye shall see him. All people of the earth
shall wail because of him. that God's people shall rejoice
because of him. And the Lord says, So judge the
ends of the earth, that he shall give strength unto his king,
and exalt the horn of his anointed. Who's that? Who is Hannah talking
about? What king, Hannah? There is no
king. There was no king until way after Samuel. Hannah, who
are you talking about, this king? Who's the anointed? She knew
Christ. There's no man come unto the
Father but by Christ. She knew Christ. That's who she's
talking about. And the Lord hath given all judgment,
all power. Christ said, all power is given
unto me in heaven and earth. Hallelujah. Now, be a good Jew. I rule, I
reign. I'm the anointed, I'm the Messiah,
I'm the Christ. That's what we say with Peter,
don't we? When he says, whom do men say
that I am? Well, they're saying many things, but I say thou art
the Christ of God, Son of God. He is our peace. He is our salvation. All right, stay with me.