{"id":4985,"date":"2024-09-06T06:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T11:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2024-09-06T06:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T11:05:47","slug":"1-2-samuel-program-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=4985","title":{"rendered":"1 &amp; 2 Samuel (Program #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" \/>1 &amp; 2 Samuel (Program #2) &#8211; An Introductory Word<\/p>\n<p>To really understand the Bible you might think that it takes great intellect or years of training and Biblical education.\u00a0 Well, this surely may be helpful, but according to the Bible itself\u00a0 what is most needed is what the apostle Paul prayed for in his letter to the Ephesians chapter 1:17 &#8220;That the God of  our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation  in the full knowledge of Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What we need most is our spirit and our spirit becoming a spirit of wisdom and revelation. We need such a spirit to see what&#8217;s revealed in the two Old Testament books of 1 &amp; 2 Samuel.\u00a0 Samuel begins with the story of a godly woman praying desperately to Jehovah that He would give her a son.\u00a0 and in this story we began to see again how God&#8217;s economy is the central focus of the entire Bible.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"1 &amp;amp; 2 Samuel (Program #2)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-09-06T06:05:47-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"1 &amp;amp; 2 Samuel (Program #2) - An Introductory Word\r\n\r\nTo really understand the Bible you might think that it takes great intellect or years of training and Biblical education.\u00a0 Well, this surely may be helpful, but according to the Bible itself\u00a0 wh...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Samuel\/Sam_02.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"15.3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_979\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Samuel\/Sam_02.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('979','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Samuel\/Sam_02.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Samuel\/Sam_02.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=4985-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Samuel\/Sam_02.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Sam_02.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 &amp; 2 Samuel (Program #2) &#8211; An Introductory Word To really understand the Bible you might think that it takes great intellect or years of training and Biblical education.\u00a0 Well, this surely may be helpful, but according to the Bible itself\u00a0 what is most needed is what the apostle Paul prayed for in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3604,3],"tags":[3727,27,3722,3724,25,26,29,173,3721,7806,330,3723,1037],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}