Eli who was a spiritual man, is held by God to be as guilty in one sense as his evil sons, because he didn't restrain them or reprove them. The lesson here is this: that if a debauched debased method of worship has come in among evangelicalism; Christian worldliness and carnality has just been swept allowed to sweep through, the question has to be asked, not just who is guilty of doing it, but what sound ministers and pastors and Christian leaders have not reproved it, and denounced it, and prevented it, and stopped it firmly, absolutely? Eli makes himself as guilty as his sons. Eli, although he was saved though as by fire, and went to heaven while his sons did not, had to perish on the same day under the same judgement, and his ministry and his office had to be forfeited and he had to die in ignominy. Why? Because he hadn't restrained his evil sons, and he hadn't stopped what was going on. And there is nothing more grievous today than to go to conferences in places, and men who ought to know better who are revered and admired will take the platform right alongside these things, and nobody reproves it. In our evangelical movements today nobody reproves it. There is a lot to learn from these books. That is why God raised up a new generation. That is why God raised up a Samuel to bring in a new day. That is why God didn't even take one of Eli’s sons to be that Samuel, but by grace picked on an unknown woman and brought her in and brought the man child into the house of God through her, because no one else was fitted for this instrumentality. God was going to turn over a new page. It would not be surprising if God didn't turn over a totally new page in British Evangelicalism, because certain people have done wrong things, and other people who should have known better have gone along with it and never reproved it. These are the standards of God that we are learning about here.