{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"NL-Day138 1 Samuel 2; Psalm 91; Romans 1:16-32","description":"1SAMUEL 2:Yesterday we heard of the wonderful answer to Hannah\u2019s prayer and of her determination to fulfill a very difficult vow to the Lord. Samuel might have only been 3 years old when Hannah gave him up to stay permanently as a Nazarite serving at the Lord\u2019s tabernacle. Hannah is such an example of a Godly woman. No wonder so many girls are named after her! I noticed an interesting detail in yesterday\u2019s reading. Elkanah also had a vow. When Samuel was newly born and Hannah did not go with the family to Shiloh for the yearly sacrifices, the GNT drew my attention saying that Elkanah went \u201cto offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and the special sacrifice he had promised.\u201d We don\u2019t really know exactly what Elkanah\u2019s special vow would have been. But it is conjectured by commentators that Elkanah was offering a sacrifice in fulfillment of Hannah\u2019s vow about giving birth to a son. According to the Law, a wife\u2019s vow could be revoked by her husband on the day he hears about the vow. But if he doesn\u2019t forbid the wife about the vow on that day, the wife is bound by her vow and it is logical that the husband would share responsibility. As Elkanah left on that year, he told Hannah, \u201cMay the Lord make your promise come true.\u201d This is a great example of doing what God commanded about vows. The principle was to always follow through whenever God\u2019s name has been invoked. To do otherwise would be to mar God\u2019s reputation. Thanks to Claire Greathouse for her dramatic reading of Hannah\u2019s prayer. PSALM 91:This is a favorite psalm, frequently referred to in our hymns and worship songs. It is also the psalm Satan quoted to Jesus to tempt him to jump from the pinnacle of the temple. I feel that the promise that was quoted is not just for Jesus, but is for every believer. I preach to myself here: Let\u2019s memorize and meditate upon this psalm! ROMANS 1b:Yesterday we saw how the theme of this letter is the Good News, and how believing this message is the center of the way God has designed and revealed for how we are saved\u2014 no matter if we are ethnically Jews or non-Jews. The start of this Good News is that our relationship with God has been broken. Understanding this fact is what makes the Good News \u2018good\u2019. We don\u2019t start out as \u2018nice people\u2019 but as broken people. And Paul will show us in three chapters that this situation obtains for Jews (who think they are so good) and non-Jews (who start out not even having an appearance of \u2018good\u2019). NLT Translation notes:1Sam. 2:21, 27, 33 The NLT edition I recorded for this podcast and the current edition display rather large differences in these three verses.21 I read, [And the LORD gave Hannah three sons and two daughters.\/\/new version: And the LORD blessed Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to \u2026]27 [old version: \u2026 when the people of Israel were slaves in Egypt\/\/new: to your ancestors when they were Pharaoh\u2019s slaves in Egypt]33 [old version: Those who survive will live in sadness and grief, and their children \u2026\/\/new: The few not cut off from serving at my altar will survive, but only so their eyes can go blind and their hearts break, and their children will die a violent death.]Rom. 1:8 Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your [fully believing\/\/faith] in him is being talked about all over the world.12 When we get together, I want to encourage you in your [fully believing in Christ\/\/faith], but I also want to be encouraged [in the same way by you\/\/by yours].16 For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes\u2014[both Jews, and also non-Jews\/\/the Jew first and also the Gentile.[As I have said repeatedly already, translating pistis\/pistew (same root word) by the different-appearing words in English \u2018faith\u2019 and \u2018believe can cause misunderstanding for some English speakers. (This certainly happens in Indonesian where the same root was translated as \u2018iman\u2019 and \u2018percaya\u2019.) Keeping the word \u2018believe\u2019 in all places helps us to see the continuity\/cohesion. Our being \u2018made right\u2019 in God\u2019s sight is not accomplished by the fuzzy touchy-feely stuff Americans often refer to by the word \u2018faith\u2019.]17 This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by [our fully believing this message (the Good News)\/\/faith]. As the Scriptures say, \u201cIt is through [fully believing\/\/faith] that a righteous person has life.\u201d   Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright \u00a9 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. ","author_name":"Daily Bible Reading Phil Fields","author_url":"http:\/\/dailybiblereading.info","html":"