Looking For A King
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We have no ability to tell what the future holds.
God has a different way of viewing our life
God has a way of mapping our life that is different than us
It’s not up to us to determine how God will use us
Could it be that God wants to take a king and make him a humble servant
We must be careful about judging people based on our biases
We accept people base on our own personal value system
looks
Beauty is the gold metal of human worth
Silver is intelligence
We exalt people that are beautiful and intelligent
next would be physical skills and talent
God made you just like He wants you to be
22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
You are vitally important
Please do not Judge based on physical appearance
The First King of Israel
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
Taking his life in his own leadership
Walk as dear children, like God wants you to walk
1 And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Castaway = not able to be used
Restored for service
So stubborn and self willed that God cannot use them
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
Samuel wasn’t moving on
God moved on
God has the authority to move you from one area of service to another.
1Sa 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
1Sa 16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
1Sa 16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
1Sa 16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
The firstborn are usually more self confident
6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Naturally it just makes sense - appearance, confidence, stature
The heart made the difference
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these.
No divine order to anoint
11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
David = overlooked, not the favorite
I don’t need to have David or
Humble
20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
15 years old David was anointed to be king
The oil of anointing
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
The oldest was the one expected to get the blessing and authority
The little one
The ruddy one
Can you imagine that the older brothers would’ve been a little hurt
15 years old anointed king but back to watching the sheep
Pain, Rejection, loneliness was a life David was entering into as an anointed one
“Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. “
14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
This was a positional anointing for a work - in this case it was the work of a king
Long before David was anointed to be king, God told Saul through the prophet:
1Sa 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
God is in the process of replacing you
Those that lead must understand the importance of obeying the Lord.
Disobedience will lead to the Lord replacing you in your given area of authority.
“A shepherd anointed to be King”
An anointing does not mean that God wants you to take that position now!
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
called
Gifted
talented
but lacking God’s presence there will be no power and no authority
The emphasis is the development of our inner man
9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
When God measures you for leadership, He measures your heart
Allow God to use you by allowing your heart to be developed