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I recently read an article about
what makes people feel behind in

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life. 
What makes people feel like they

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are behind in life? 
And according to this article, 

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the main factors were social 
comparison and societal 

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timelines, which is very 
related. 

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Social comparison is of course 
just you look around and like, 

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hey, that person's my age and 
this person has a bunch of 

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things that I don't have. 
I feel behind. 

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And societal timelines are just 
basic timelines that the culture

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gives you. 
But what age you got to be done 

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with this and by this age you 
got to be done with that and 

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then and and so forth. 
I remember when I was a fifth 

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year senior, I fell behind in 
life. 

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That was a society tells us that
well, no, you should probably 

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graduate in four years. 
But yeah, I knew that everyone 

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like, hey, all my friends are 
gone. 

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And the only ones who remained 
were like double majors or like 

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really hard majors. 
And I was the only one with this

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easy major that took five years.
Definitely fell behind. 

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And because of these things, we 
can't help but to think, man, I 

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wish I had that one thing. 
And it starts early in life 

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comparing and this, these 
timelines and, and as we get 

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older, what doesn't go away is 
that feeling like, man, if I 

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have that one thing, I'd be more
complete. 

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If I had that, if I accomplished
that, if I had that in my life, 

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I wouldn't feel such behind. 
We're always looking for that 

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one thing that we feel like we 
need to finally be happy, 

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finally not be behind, finally 
feel OK. 

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In today's passage, we read 
about Hannah and how she was 

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able to overcome that desire. 
She wanted one thing and one 

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thing only. 
It was to have children. 

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And she was kind of trapped in 
that desire. 

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She was imprisoned by that 
desire. 

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And then we will learn how she 
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set free. 
So that's a question we want to 

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answer today. 
How can we be free from feeling 

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like that? 
One thing is necessary. 

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How can we be free from that 
feeling? 

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Number one, we need to know what
enslaves us in the 1st place? 

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What makes us not free in the 
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If you ever Bibles, please turn 
to First Samuel chapter 1. 

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We'll be reading one through 8, 
one through 8. 

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For those of you who read the 
passage at home, I know this was

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not what was announced. 
I had a change of heart in the 

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middle of the week, so forgive 
me for that. 

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First time with three will be 
next week's tournament. 

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First one through 8. 
There was a man named from Sorry

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from Rama fame, Zophim in the 
Hill Country of Efraim. 

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His name was Elkanah son of 
Gerald Ham, son of Elihu, son of

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Tohu, son of Zoof. 
And if he was a Ephraim might he

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had two wives, the first name 
Hannah and the second name 

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Panina. 
Panina had children but Hannah 

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was childless. 
This man would go up from his 

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town every year to worship and 
to sacrifice to the Lord of 

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Armies as Shiloh, where Eli's 
two sons, Hofni and Phineas, 

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were the Lord's priests. 
Whenever Alkana offered a 

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sacrifice, he always gave 
portions of the meat to his wife

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Penina, and to each of her sons 
and daughters. 

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But he gave a double portion to 
Hannah, for he loved her even 

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though the Lord had kept her 
from conceiving. 

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Her rival. 
Penina would taunt her severely 

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just to provoke her, because the
Lord had kept Hannah from 

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conceiving year after year. 
When she went up to the Lord's 

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house, her rival taunted her in 
this way. 

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Hannah would weep and would not 
eat. 

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Hannah, why are you crying? 
Her husband Elk and I would ask,

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why won't you eat? 
Why are you troubled? 

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Am I not? 
Am I not better to you than ten 

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sons? 
Let's go back to the previous 

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verses on the screen. 
Hannah was imprisoned by the 

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expectations in her culture. 
It says that she was devastated 

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to the point where she was 
weeping and she could not even 

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eat. 
I know in our culture, a lot of 

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women are expected to have 
children. 

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If you get married, maybe the 
first year, not so many of those

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questions, but every year more 
and more when are you going to 

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have a baby? 
And that that weighs on you and 

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that gives you pressure. 
So some of you guys know this, 

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but I would say in this culture,
3000 years ago it was, it was 

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beyond that because women right 
now, women could find their 

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identity and many things. 
But at 3000 years ago, it was 

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only one thing. 
Culture expected you to just do 

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one thing well, which is to have
children. 

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Because the vast majority were 
in the labor kind of intensive, 

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like labor, working class. 
Having children meant more hands

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to help out for your family 
survival. 

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Bigger families would literally 
be richer families. 

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So if a woman had ten children, 
she would be a hero to her 

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family because she brought 
financial security to her 

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family. 
Children symbolize security, 

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honor, and it was hope for the 
family's future. 

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So based on the cultural 
expectation of Hannah, she was 

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worth nothing. 
Yes, it's wrong, but that's how 

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it was. 
She had zero children, therefore

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her worth. 
The world told her your worth is

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nothing. 
She was barren and Baroness 

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symbolize hopelessness in her 
culture. 

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So how did she cope with that? 
How did she survive knowing that

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she was worth 0? 
When everyone looked at her they

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said what a failure. 
How does she cope? 

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Well, we have hints in a couple 
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It at least worked mildly, at 
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But I believe the love of her 
husband at least kept her 

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afloat. 
The Jews back in the day, it was

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once a year you went to the 
temple and you had this big 

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sacrifice. 
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some of the meat was given to 
the priest and some of it you 

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kept. 
And it was a it was a public 

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thing. 
And publicly the the man of the 

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household would give some of the
portions of meat to the family. 

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And it says here Elkanah gave a 
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to each of her sons and 
daughters. 

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But it says in verse 5, but he 
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He was publicly showing 
everyone, hey, I love this 

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woman. 
She has no children, but I still

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love her. 
It was a public statement. 

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But it that did not stop from 
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still worth nothing, she might 
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In verse 8. 
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why are you crying? 
You know, it might not worth 

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more than $0.10. 
No, she's she's very he's very 

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caring as well. 
But ultimately the voice right, 

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the expectation she could not 
overcome that her right, this is

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her rival, the other wife. 
Penina would say hey, she will 

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remind her, hey, look at all the
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have zero kids. 
It doesn't matter if you get 

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more meat, I'm still better than
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And she would be devastated when
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It says here that Penina taunted
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Penina made sure that Hannah 
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You are in last place, I am in 
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And we see how devastated she 
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Now you might think, OK, well 
this is this is a sad story 

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about a woman named Hannah in 
the Bible. 

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What what, what does this got to
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I want to argue that we are all,
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all Hannah. 
You and I all have a little bit 

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of Hannah in US. 
Of course we don't have a second

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wife or a second husband to 
compare ourselves to, but we all

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do have a Panina in our lives. 
Meaning there is a social 

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standard that tells you this is 
what you need to make it in this

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world. 
We might not physically have a 

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person human being taunting her,
taunting us, but we have voices 

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out in the world speaking to us 
through social media or friends 

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or or wherever. 
We have that voice that tells 

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us, hey, you need this for self 
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You don't have this, so you're 
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You don't have self worth. 
There's these voices telling us 

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you need that one thing to find 
meaning, to find purpose, to 

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find worth. 
And when we hear sermons like 

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this, it's so easy to think 
about other people. 

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Oh, yeah, I know somebody who's 
like that. 

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Yeah. 
That this person is all about 

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his job and and he's devastated 
that he can't get promotions. 

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And yeah, he's listening to 
those voices. 

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Oh, yeah. 
Yeah. 

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Pastor Tim, good sermon. 
I'm, I'm, I'm going to share 

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this to my friend. 
Well, please do share sermon 

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with your friends. 
I'm certainly not. 

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I, I will want you know our 
numbers from 5 to 10 eventually.

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I'm not saying don't do that. 
But what I'm saying is more 

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important is that, oh, I know 
who needs the sermon. 

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It's no, it's you who need it. 
Because we are often blind to 

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our own false desires or wrong 
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And we are so keen to other 
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It's natural to feel like what 
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And what other people care about
is you care too much about the 

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world. 
I remember in seminary that was 

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the topic of calling and we 
talked about, you know, like 

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some biblical figures who had 
calling different types, Moses 

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versus whoever. 
And we're sharing and there's a,

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there's a good number of 
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from Korea. 
They, you know, they, they're 

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educating Korea, but they come 
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here and then they go back home.
We had a good number of those. 

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And when they shared, I noticed 
that their sharing was a lot 

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different than the people from 
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Their sharing was my calling is 
to work at a big church and 

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become a senior pastor. 
And I remember thinking, oh, my 

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gosh, that is so worldly, so 
judgmental. 

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Well, that's the Panina that 
that in their lives, they grew 

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up in Korea, where it's all 
about best school, best job, 

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biggest, you know, biggest 
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So naturally translates to 
pastors like, OK, the best 

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school, best church, highest 
position, it kind of naturally 

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that's how they get influenced. 
But I'm blinded to my own. 

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I have, I have a voice that was 
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It's just that it was different.
What it said was different. 

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Maybe I would, I would have 
noticed that then. 

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But looking back, I definitely 
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I needed a ministry position. 
I didn't care about the biggest 

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church, but I needed a position 
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I needed a position that made me
feel fulfillment. 

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I think like 10-15 years ago, 
there was a big wave of people 

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going into the healthcare system
for jobs, going in healthcare 

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because a lot of people when 
millennials were getting jobs, 

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everyone wanted to help others. 
We have this voice like your job

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has to give you meaning. 
It has to give you fulfillment. 

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It has to make you feel like 
it's worth life is worth it. 

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And we, we start working and we 
realize that's not true. 

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It doesn't give us meaning, 
right? 

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The truth is, whether you see it
or not, This is why it's helpful

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to have community so perhaps 
they could see it, something 

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that you don't about yourself. 
But we all have societal 

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timelines and someone to compare
ourselves to. 

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We all have a voice telling you 
you need this otherwise you 

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don't have worth. 
We all have a voice saying you 

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know what, you have kids. 
Well, your kids need to turn out

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like this or you failed. 
By this age, you got to have 

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this house. 
By this age, you got to have 

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this. 
You got to provide this for your

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kids. 
You're going to be dating at 

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this age, married at that. 
We all have that voice. 

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And as long as we're listening 
to that voice, we are enslaved. 

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We are trapped. 
We will be in the same cycle as 

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Hannah. 
We're devastated by the voice. 

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And then her husband loves her a
little bit and she's now I feel 

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better. 
And then, and then she's 

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reminded that she has no kids 
and she's devastated this this 

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cycle that goes back and forth 
over and over again. 

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And maybe, maybe you could say, 
well, Pastor, maybe just achieve

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it and maybe maybe she'll be 
free or we'll be free. 

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That's not true either. 
Panita is the symbolism of 

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somebody who has it all. 
Everything that woman's supposed

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to achieve, she achieved it. 
But does she seem free? 

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No, she's arrogant, she's 
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jealous, she's trapped in her 
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feel you're you're enslaved and 
you achieve it and you're 

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enslaved, there's only one path 
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two. 
We are freed when we surrender 

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that one thing to God. 
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that's the only way we could be 
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That's three verses 9 through 
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This is the turning point of 
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On one occasion, Hannah got up. 
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word. 
We're going to talk about it. 

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Hannah got up after they ate and
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The priest Eli was sitting on a 
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Lord's temple. 
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to the priest and she starts 
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Deeply hurt, Hannah prayed to 
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tears. 
Making a vow she pleaded, Lord 

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of armies, if you will take 
notice of your servants 

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affliction, remember and not 
forget me and give your servant 

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a son. 
I will give him to the Lord all 

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the days of his life and his 
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Next page. 
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I'm sorry. 
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that Hannah got up and the verse
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And I say I want to focus on the
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to turn back to Jonah. 
This is a sermon that I preached

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3 months ago. 
If you could find Jonah and 

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under you can find Jonah on the 
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And in that sermon I also talked
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And I'm not going to read the 
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careful note of the word got up,
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So this is Jonah. 
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Nineveh. 
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Ninevites because the Ninevites 
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But God says, you know what? 
It's time to arise and go preach

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to Nineveh. 
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go to the great city of city of 
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So what does Jonah do? 
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does he do? 
He goes down to Jopa. 

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He found the ship, and then we 
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Sorry, another went down next 
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Do we have a next page? 
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No, we do have a next page. 
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instead of rising up, he goes 
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down to the boat and then 
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goes down to the lowest part of 
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sea or of the of the boat arise.
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What is this just stand up. 
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specific purpose, what God wants
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So when God calls Jonah, God 
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I want you to surrender your 
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You don't like the Ninevites, 
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follow my commands arise. 
But Jonah goes down and down and

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In the verse 9, it says Hannah 
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will. 
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her will. 
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she this is a different prayer. 
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what happened. 
This people read this story or 

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hear the story and they assume 
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This is woman without a child. 
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and Hannah prays really hard, 
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He says, you know, I wept with 
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didn't read this passage, but to
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preschools, hey, have you been 
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So we assume that, oh, this is 
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You want a baby, pray really 
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And like, you mean it with tears
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You want something in life, pray
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No. 
That's not. 

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I mean, there's nothing wrong 
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not the meaning of the story. 
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Her prayers were different. 
This was an unusual prayer, a 

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prayer certainly none of us have
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Give me a son. 
The one thing I wanted the most,

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the one thing I desperately 
needed. 

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Give me a son, Lord, and I will 
give him right back to you. 

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I will give him to the Lord all 
the days of his life, his 

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heroine that will never be cut, 
meaning I will give him to be a 

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prophet of God. 
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does after Samuel was born, 
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to Eli. 
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be a prophet, and Samuel grows 
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the one who anoints King David, 
the teenager King David. 

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Let's look at verse 15 to 18. 
This is what happens when you're

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freed. 
No, my Lord, Hannah replied. 

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This is Eli asking, are you 
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I am a woman with a broken 
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I haven't had any wine or beer. 
I've been pouring out my heart 

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before the Lord. 
Don't think of me as a wicked 

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woman. 
I've been praying from the death

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of my anguish and resentment, 
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Go in peace and may the God of 
Israel grant the request you 

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made of him, may your servant 
and find favor with you, she 

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replied. 
This is the key that Hannah went

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on her way. 
She ate and she no longer looked

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despondent. 
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eat and she was devastated. 
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OK, in case you're thinking 
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She still needs her husband, OK?
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OK? 
No husband yet. 

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She prayed. 
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Why could she eat? 
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look despondent? 
She was free. 

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Hannah arose, she stood up and 
did what? 

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She released the things that was
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The one thing that she thought 
she needed to find meaning and 

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purpose. 
She prays to God and says Lord 

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give me a son. 
I will give it right back to 

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you. 
I want a son, but I want more of

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you. 
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that was enslaving her. 
She released the social 

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expectations, the comparisons, 
the security she thought she 

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needed, the status. 
She surrendered her will, her 

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wants, her desires, her 
longings. 

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She gave all of that up to the 
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Her prayers are different. 
She doesn't say Lord, I need a 

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child. 
She says I want a child not for 

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me, but for your Kingdom, not so
I can feel fulfilled so that but

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so he could fulfill your will 
not I don't want a kid so I 

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could say ha Penina, I have a 
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that he he could be used for 
your glory. 

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And soon as she releases all the
things that she desperately 

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wanted, she releases to God, 
she's free. 

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She's free now. 
She could eat no longer look 

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despondent. 
So this is great for Hannah, but

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what does this mean for us? 
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It means that your freedom is 
not on the other side of getting

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that one thing. 
It's not you're struggling. 

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You get the one thing and then 
you're free. 

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That's not the formula here. 
It's you want something so bad, 

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it's surrendering it and then 
you're free. 

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Some of us, some of you have 
been waiting for that thing to 

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happen. 
I want happiness, I want 

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fulfillment and this needs to 
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You feel like when I finally get
married or finally have a child 

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or I finally have my second 
child or or one boy or one girl,

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that perfect family where my 
finally when my career takes 

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off, when my finances stabilize,
then I will experience these 

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things. 
But what God wants is I want you

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to finally surrender these 
things so that you could 

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experience your my freedom. 
I'm not saying, you know, you 

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shouldn't go home and like, oh, 
I don't care about these 

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anymore. 
It's not about pretending, it's 

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not minimizing, It's not shaming
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Oh, why do I care about these 
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But it's about releasing these 
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him in prayer. 
Verse 15, it says I've been 

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pouring out my heart before the 
Lord, Eli, I'm not drunk. 

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I'm just pouring out my heart to
God. 

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Pour your heart to God in this, 
in this time in our culture, we 

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are encouraged, you know, 
especially like we're like, hey,

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even men share your feelings, 
you know, talk about your 

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feelings. 
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But I feel like now it's only 
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sharing with their therapist. 
Maybe those aren't bad, but 

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what's really necessary is that 
we go to our God and we pour our

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heart before the Lord. 
Verse 16, it says I've been 

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praying from the death of my 
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Pray in your pain, pray through 
your pain and offer those up to 

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God. 
And the reason why we could give

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these things to the Lord is 
because what Jesus has done for 

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us through the gospel. 
About 1000 years after this 

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impossible birth of Samuel, we 
learn about another impossible 

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birth. 
Just like Hannah surrendered her

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son that she's so much long for,
God surrenders his Son, Jesus 

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Christ, whom he loves so much so
that Jesus can rescue us from 

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our sins. 
Samuel would grow up and serve 

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the temple. 
Jesus becomes the true temple. 

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Samuel would become a big part 
of how Israel is rescued from 

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their enemies. 
Through King David, He selects 

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King David. 
Jesus saves more than just the 

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Jews, he saves the world. 
Knowing this, you could 

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surrender anything to God 
because through the Gospel we 

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know that we already have what's
most important. 

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Because of Jesus, you already 
have what you need the most. 

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You already have forgiveness. 
You already have acceptance. 

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You already have identity in 
Christ. 

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You already have security. 
You already received grace. 

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You are already beloved. 
There is nothing you could do to

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make God love you more or less. 
He already loves you 100%. 

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He loves you to the maximum 
already. 

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Everything that we desire in 
life you already have. 

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Therefore, when you have these 
desires from the world OfferUp 

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straight to God, because you 
already have it. 

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Once you realize that, once you 
realize that in the gospel you 

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already have everything, then 
you are free. 

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The world whispers interior 
years, do you need this? 

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And you just whisper right back.
No, I don't because I already 

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have everything through the 
gospel. 

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Only through the gospel, only 
through what Jesus has done for 

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us on the cross. 
We are free from all the 

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expectations of this world. 
Main point. 

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We can be free when we surrender
ourselves to God. 

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Let's take time to pray.