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In making our way through 1 Samuel - it’s been fascinating to me - to see the correlation between - THAT TIME period - and New Testament Paul.
Between THAT TIME period - and even now.
Last week we looked at - The WAY of the Heart...
The Way of the Heart
Tastes the Blessings of God
Desires to Rule Itself
Prefers Darkness Over Light
and we saw characteristics of the Heart of Man - that BROUGHT INTO FOCUS - all that was happening in Israel at the time.
Samuel had been judge over Israel - SPEAKING FOR GOD to the people throughout his life...
The People THEREFORE - - HAD TASTED the Blessings of God in their lives.
But we ALSO saw that the Heart of Man DESIRES to RULE ITSELF!
When Samuel had gotten OLD - he appointed his sons to be judges - BUT THEY DIDN’T follow in the ways of Samuel...
And we SAW - as much as this verse speaks POORLY about the 2 sons of Samuel - it also SPEAKS just as LOUDLY AGAINST the people of ISRAEL...
They BRIBED the judges - they SOUGHT to RULE THEMSELVES!!
Because THAT’S what the HEART DOES!
And because ULTIMATELY the people DIDN’T WANT God to RULE over them - they SOUGHT to have a NEW KING over them!!
GOD - in His mercy WARNS the people of their choice - BUT ultimately gives them OVER TO their choice - because as we saw...
The Way of the Heart is to PREFER Darkness over Light!!
Today - -we’ll continue this theme...
Last week - we saw - THE WAY of the HEART...
This week - based on our SERMON TITLE: We’ll look at - THE TRUTH of the HEART...
SLIDE:
SERMON TITLE
Same as last week - We’ll cover MANY verses today - spanning multiple chapters...
But today - I’d like to pull sections of text out - READ THROUGH ALL OF THOSE SECTIONS…first
And then circle back around…to see what we see.
Last week we ended with the people wanting a new King…let’s see what happens
Here we see the introduction of SAUL...
In relation to the story, the Ammonites came to attack Israel - and Saul is told what is going on....
Saul RALLIES the men of Israel....and then...
next verse...
This is the story…this is where I want us to see TODAY - The Truth of the Heart!
The WAY of the Heart last week was to PREFER DARKNESS over LIGHT...
Today - the TRUTH of the Heart
We just read thru the story - the anointing of Saul as King of Israel
And in this story - we continue to see Characteristics of the Heart of Man...
SLIDE: The Truth of the Heart: Attributes the Works of God to Man
The Truth of the Heart
Again - the principles we’re pulling out of this old testament passage are meant to CAUSE US to examine ourselves IN LIGHT of these truths
We saw this begin LAST WEEK...
The people - WANTED to RULE themselves...
They began BRIBING Samuel’s sons...
They wanted to DO THEIR OWN THING....outside of God’s JUDGMENT!
And SOOO - when the sons took over - the people POUNCED!
And they CALLED for a KING!
a NEW AUTHORITY over them!
What does God do?
Mercifully - He tells them HOW THAT’S gonna play out for them!
They- Choose it anyway!
Watch today how this plays out in Saul’s anointing as King...
What does “Taken by lot” mean?
Back in these times - they would CAST LOTS as a way to say - OK - this result is a DIVINE result.
They believed by Casting Lots - they were hearing from God!
And this was the case.
So they cast lots…the Tribe of Benjamin was the answer… (this is where the King would come from)
They cast lots again - The clan of the Matrites was the answer...
They cast lots again - Saul - the son of Kish - was the answer...
And so God here - in SPEAKING to the people by way of the casting of lots - God wasn’t showing his APPROVAL of the people’s REBELLION against Him…in wanting a KING....
I believe God here was saying - YES - THIS is MY JUDGMENT against you…!
God had ALREADY declared His DISapproval of Israel’s choice!!
But the people didn’t see it this way!
WHY?
Because the Truth of the Heart - Attributes the Works of God - to MAN...
What did the people say RIGHT AFTER they were warned about this choice?
Samuel had just warned them about how this KING would play out...
And they say this:
NOW - God (through Samuel) KEEPS ASKING THEM -
DO YOU NOT REMEMBER what God has DONE FOR YOU?
Have you FORGOTTEN Egypt?
Have you FORGOTTEN the Red Sea?
Have you FORGOTTEN the Wilderness (Manna from heaven)?
Have you FORGOTTEN our VICTORY over the Philistines????
Did they FORGET?
NO - they just seemed to look at those events as - THEIR effort - and NOW - they’re saying - We simply want to have a KING to JUDGE us and - - What?
“Go out before us and fight our battles!”
WE’VE been fighting these battles - WE WANT SOMEONE to FIGHT FOR US!! - That’s what they SAID!!
The Truth of the Heart - (which is deceitful above all things) ATTRIBUTES the Works of God to MAN...
God HAD fought their battles.
God HAD brought their fathers out of Egypt
God HAD conquered their enemies!
BUT THEY attributed ALL of that - TO THEMSELVES!
And we see an example of THIS TRUTH of the heart - in Daniel 4
This is MAN - attributing the work of God - TO MAN
And we do this today don’t we?
This Truth of the Heart at times will CREEP it’s way into our speech...
“I beat cancer”
“I won the race”
“I overcame homelessness”
“I took 1st place”
“I survived 9/11”
This is the TRUTH of the Heart… attributing TO MAN _ the works of God
And look at how this truth plays itself out - in the anointing of Saul… back to the casting of lots...
I don’t think it’s a coincidence - that when the people - carrying out their rebellion against God - finally have the REVEAL party - to see who will rule over them...
They look around - and can’t find their CHOSEN - King.
And in this moment - THEIR HUMANITY - reveals the weight of the IRONY of the situation.
The people - BEING PEOPLE - BEING finite creatures - NEED to ask....
REMEMBER what the people said earlier?
They said - NO we WANT A KING who will GO OUT BEFORE US - and FIGHT OUR BATTLES!
Where is he?
HIDING among the baggage!
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