In Search of a King: Part 24
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Preaching the Word: 1 Samuel—Looking for a Leader Chapter 49: The King Is Dead (1 Samuel 31)
the death of Saul will point us not only to the coming kingdom of David, but also to the kingdom of the one descended from David according to the flesh who, a thousand years later, would be declared king in power by his resurrection from the dead
Liam Neeson - The GRAY - He looks up at the sky and calls for God. “Do something! Come on, prove it!...Show me something real. I need it now, not later, now! Show me and I’ll believe in you till the day I die. ... I’m calling on you. I’m calling on you!” Nothing happens. “I’ll do it myself.”
Liam Neeson - The GRAY - He looks up at the sky and calls for God. “Do something! Come on, prove it!...Show me something real. I need it now, not later, now! Show me and I’ll believe in you till the day I die. ... I’m calling on you. I’m calling on you!” Nothing happens. “I’ll do it myself.”
Substitue Savior’s
1. Substitute saviors cannot save.
1. Substitute saviors cannot save.
1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
2 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
3 The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.
4 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
5 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.
6 Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
7 And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.
Pic of Mt. Gilboa - Place of Saul’s death.
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The Philistines were famous for their chariots. There war machines were super advanced technology of their day. It gave them a huge advantage on the ground.
Misplaced hope is ultimately hopeless.
Misplaced hope is ultimately hopeless.
19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us,
20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
Our hope doesn’t rest in a man but in the Son of Man.
Our hope doesn’t rest in a man but in the Son of Man.
13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2. Death dominates the landscape in a fallen world.
2. Death dominates the landscape in a fallen world.
8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9 So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
10 They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
11 But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.
13 And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
Christ is the only king who’s story doesn’t end in a cemetery.
Christ is the only king who’s story doesn’t end in a cemetery.
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Every man no matter how gifted, no matter how successful, no matter how powerful, no matter how apparently invincible - every man must contend with death.
If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn’t the end. Jesus didn’t escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.”
Steven James
Adrian Rogers
The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.
The story of 1 Samuel might end in a tomb but that’s not the end of the story.
The story of 1 Samuel might end in a tomb but that’s not the end of the story.
Remember the story of 1 Samuel might end in a tomb but that’s not the end of the story.
Men live and die; Christ died and lived!