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Claim - God has salvation sorted despite mankind's efforts to mess it up!
Focus - The world loves tall (impressive) people, but God will acheive his plan through those with a good heart
Function - Don’t freak out - God has salvation covered!
Game in 3/4teams - only get a point if no-one else has it!
Game in 3/4teams - only get a point if no-one else has it!
Things that make people popular
Things that make people popular
at school:
in the media (famous):
in God’s eyes:
We’ve already seen that the Israelites wanted a King who looked good,
and behaved like the other kings around:
They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others. Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the man the Lord has chosen? There is no-one like him among all the people.”
Then the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
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But the problem was - that is not the king God really wanted.
People a clueless when it comes to saving themsleeves!
They want a king who is like the world - but look how that turned out!
He gave them Saul to show them how foolish it is to look to worldly things to save them!
Now though there’s a problem!
God now wants to give them a good king -
he’s taking it out of their hands
, and he tells Samuel to go and anoint this new king!
But Samuel is rightly terrified!
If he goes to Bethlehem,
which was outside his usual area of work -
King Saul would find out and have him killed.
Saul would know he was scheming to anoint a new king!
And it’s a real problem.
Samuel isn’t a wimp -
When he tells God he can’t go or he’ll be killed, God doesn’t just say -
Ahh - you’ll be alright - just risk it!
No, God says - fair enough, but I’m far smarter than any earthly king - however tall he is!
So he sends Saul off to Bethlehem with an additional task that is accetable to King Saul.
He’s to make a big sacrifice for the people there.
Something he would have been expected to do.
if there had been a serious situation - maybe a murder!
That’s probaly why the elders in Bethlehem were terrified when he arrived with a huge cow to sacrifice.
They probably thought he knew something they didn’t!
The plan is working.
The tall king is outsmartedby God’s plan,
and Samuel arrives safely to make the sacrifice.
I don’t think this plan is a lie - it’s simply smart!
It’s like missionaries going to a Muslim country - they can’t tell everyone there they are missionaries - or they would be killed or atleast sent away!
So they go as businessmen or teachers, or doctors.
They are truly planning to teach or do business, but they also have a higher calling to tell people about Jesus.
You see, people are clueless when it comes to saving themselves - they follow other religions or rely on tall impressive people!
But God’s plan will always suceed.
SO Samuel arrives
, But we all know the other reason he is there - it’s to anoint a new king for Israel!
So while the sacrifice is going on, Samuel finds Jesse and tells him that one of his sons is to be anointed as the next king!
And again - left to themselves they would have got the choice wrong.
When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed stands here before the Lord.”
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Why Eliab?
Becasue he looked good and was tall.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
You see again, mankind is clueless when it comes to saving themselves! We like tall people, impressive people.
But God likes ‘short people’!
Did you know that! Ella will be pleased to hear that! She’s very short!
You see after Samule has been through all of Jesses sons,
he says this:
So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?”
“There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered, “but he is tending the sheep.”
Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”
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Do you know what the original word for ‘youngest’ means!?
It means ‘smallest’.
It’s a deliberate contrast - a deliberate play on words.
All the time, the world is looking for tall impressive King.
He’ll save us.
He’ll make us look good!
But God has a very different way.
God loves to use small people.
Now obviously he doesn’t literally only use small people.
That’s not the point.
The point is this.
God will make it very clear that he is in control of salavtion - by using the most unlikely of people!
David is the last son of Jesse you would expect.
He is not the king the pople woudld choose!
Samule is having to run around behind the back of King Saul, he’s likely to get hislef killed.
You see it doesn’t matter how hard the world makes it,
It doesn’t matter how hard the world laughs.
It doesn’t matter how many other options the world makes up.
Only God can save - and he will do it to show the world how foolish they are!
God chooses short people!
God chooses short people!
They seem to deceive Saul by doing something else to disguise the plan! What moralistic application can we make?
They seem to deceive Saul by doing something else to disguise the plan! What moralistic application can we make?
Why do they say they will not sit until David arrives - and then when he does arrive the Lord says ‘rise’!?
Why do they say they will not sit until David arrives - and then when he does arrive the Lord says ‘rise’!?
The Spirit came upon him?
The Spirit came upon him?
Why did Samuel then go to Ramah?
Why did Samuel then go to Ramah?
The New American Commentary: 1, 2 Samuel (1) The Lord Has Samuel Anoint David (16:1–13a)
The Lord alone has the capacity to observe and judge a person’s “heart” (Hb. lēb), that is, one’s thoughts, emotions, and intents. On God’s scales these matters outweigh all other aspects of a human life.
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The New American Commentary: 1, 2 Samuel (1) The Lord Has Samuel Anoint David (16:1–13a)
Jesse’s description of the omitted son—David—as “smallest” places him in strong contrast to the rejected king. Since the Lord had just told Samuel not to consider “his height” (v. 7), the prophet was predisposed to interpret this description positively and perhaps as an indicator that the small shepherd would indeed be the Lord’s anointed. With urgency he requested that Jesse’s remaining son be brought in.
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He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,