The days spoken of in the opening chapters of 1 Samuel were days of deepening spiritual declension. And yet in the midst of those depressing circumstances, there was evidence of the gracious working of God. While some were doing that which was right in their own eyes, there were others who were seeking to do what was right in God’s eyes. There were men and women who were striving to raise up a family in the fear and admonition of the Lord AND they succeeded! The apostasy of the last days does not give Christians an excuse to live like the world. We are not to be conformed to this world – but transformed by the renewing of our minds. Let us never use the spiritual declension that is around us as an excuse to leave the God we love and sin against our Saviour…. Rather than walking as the world – let us be distinct in the world and live for God with all our hearts.
Hannah the wife of Elkannah was a remarkable woman with a burden to raise her family for God. There is something extremely refreshing about this woman – something impressive, encouraging, instructive – and it has to do with how she lived at a time of crisis facing her children.
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“ Great Sermon! ” I did appreciate this Sermon. The concern shown for children is vital and increasingly necessary. I must say I have a grave concern though, about the nature of the education given to children. From the Schoolmen and Aquinas we have the Catholic doctrine of sacred/secular dichtomoy. This position previals today but is not the philosophy developed at the time of the Reformation. Calvin and Bullinger following him came to conclusions (from Scripture and not Natural Law) that ALL life is Religious and no area can be arbitrialiy excluded from this. Certainty in a philosophical sense, was not rigidly placed into the realm of formal logic and Mathematics(you can see this further developed by Van Til in 'Christian Theory of Knowledge') From the above you can see a clear stream of thought which encapsulates all knowledge in a Worldview. When we then ask (as Reformed Believers) how we are to educate our children it should be obvious that the agnostic curriculum is inadequate and wrong. A Christian Education should be just that, not a 'Private, Church School' but an education which is self-consciously Christian in fulfillment of Deu 6:7 (notice the word there 'Teach') I Pray that the Church here will set up TRULY Christian Schools NOW!
Rev. Colin Mercer was converted to Christ at the age of eight. He commenced attending his local Free Presbyterian Church in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, as a young teenager and soon became involved in the ministry of that congregation. He served as a Sunday School teacher and...
