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🗓️ 2 April 2025

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What does an obedient life look like? What made Samuel a prophet? How can we grow in faithfulness? In today's episode, Jensen shares how 1 Samuel 3 encourages us to hear God's word and obey. If you're listening on Spotify, comment below one takeaway from today's episode! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Samuel 3

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:13.1	In my current life stage, with two toddlers, I live with the understanding that when I lay down at the end of the day, the next time I wake up
0:21.5	will not be to the light streaming in through the window or my alarm blaring in my ear. It will be
0:27.7	to the sound of one of my children calling out for me. I'm usually halfway to their bedroom
0:33.3	before I realize what's going on and who even needs me.
0:42.3	I just hear someone calling, and in my groggy mom of two young kids state,
0:49.1	I make my way to hold a hand, stroke a back, or hum softly until they fall back to sleep.
0:52.5	But I get that that isn't everyone's reality.
1:11.7	To most people, being called out to in the middle of the night might be confusing, alarming even. In 1st Samuel 3, we're told a story of exactly that happening. A young Samuel now living with Eli and the house of God is awoken in the middle of the night to someone calling out for him.
1:18.6	Verse 1. The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days, the word of the Lord was rare. There were not many visions. One night, Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that
1:25.4	he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place.
1:29.4	The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord
1:33.9	where the Ark of God was. The first three verses of this chapter set the stage for us. Samuel's
1:41.5	now a boy. He lives with Eli in the house of the Lord. We are reminded next of
1:46.6	the state of Israel. In these days, the days following the dark downward spiraling sin found in the
1:52.4	book of judges, the word of the Lord was rare. These are dark times still. Eli, the priest of the
1:59.2	Lord, who's tasked with helping Israel to see their sin
2:02.5	to open their eyes and enlighten them, well, he's going blind. We should walk away from these
2:08.9	verses recognizing the spiritual reality of God's people is really, really bleak. But we should
2:17.2	also find encouragement that the lamp of God had not yet gone
2:20.7	out. The inclusion of this fact both helps us understand that we're still in the hours of the night.
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