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Introduction
Teen Story
Many of us have thought that way?
Have you ever seen that sign?
Sometimes it is passed around the internet, and it captures teen life.
Teens, and young people are just looking for freedom.
They want to be free to do what they want when they want.
Kids
But as adults we know something that they don’t know.
What we know that they don’t know is that in that perceived freedom that they experience when they are no longer under their parents guidance is actually not much freedom at all.
Let them govern themselves
As they are out from the rules of the household, they actually become enslaved to providing for themselves, and supporting themselves, and what was supposed to be freedom, turns about to be a lot of work.
We try to tell them.
We have already lived life, we know what is going to happen, it is no mystery so we try and warn kids and teens about what will happen, but you know teens, they know better, they are not going to listen.
Let’s Pray
Review
This morning we jump ahead a little bit to 1 Samuel chapter 8.
Let me refresh your memory of where we are.
The Nation of Israel under the leadership of the corrupt priests Eli, and Hophni and Phinehas, went into battle with the Philistines, and took the ark of covenant with them.
They did this in order to gain the favor of the Lord, but because the people were unfaithful, God did not fight the battle for them.
The Israelites were on their own, and they lost.
The Philistines captured the ark, and according to prophecy, the corrupt priests died.
In some lessons that we did not cover, the Philistines suffered plagues at the hand of the Lord, and returned the ark to Israel.
Then in chapter 7 Israel repented, Samuel offered sacrifices, and the Lord defeated the Philistines.
Today we pick it up at first Samuel chapter 8.
1 Samuel 8:1-3
Remember Eli, the aging priest that was in charge when Samuel was born?
He had corrupt sons, Hophni and Phinehas.
Now, here we read that Samuel’s sons aren’t following in his ways.
Samuels sons Joel and Abijah turned aside from following God, by accepting bribes, and dishonest gain.
That phrase “turned aside” appears often in the Bible.
The Bible tells us that there is this way, this path we should be following.
We are either on the path, like in , “Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
or ,Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
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Or we turn aside, like , “All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Or, , We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; .
Samuel’s sons, destined to be the next judges of Israel had turned aside.
Given that Samuel is the righteous judge of Israel, it some ways we are surprised that his sons turned turned aside, yet those verses make it clear that the Bible says all have turned aside.
It is just a matter if we turn back or not.
18 Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
or ,Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
our feet had not strayed from your path.
or ,Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
3 All have turned away, all have become corrupt;
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
there is no one who does good,
each of us has turned to our own way;
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not even one.
and the Lord has laid on him
The people seem to be on the right track.
They see the problem coming.
Samuel is getting up in age nearing retirement, and the young leaders are no good.
They remember the awful trouble bad leaders got them into last time so they decide to short circuit that problem.
They are not going to mess up again!
105 Your word is a lamp for my feet,
the iniquity of us all.
What if they even checked the scriptures.
What if someone remembered .
Right, at some point they are entitled to a king aren’t they?
a light on my path.
So what is wrong with that?
It all seems to be on track right?
Not, exactly.
1 Sam 8.
1 Sam
It displeased Samuel, Samuel was upset, so he prayed to the LORD, and the Lord answered Samuel.
The Lord said that the people were not rejecting Samuel, but it was instead a rejection of God.
Why was asking for a king a rejection of God?
There are three reasons.
Problem 1- “Like all other Nations”
The first is that they asked for a King like all the other nations.
They did not want to be different any longer.
They wanted to look like the world around them, and it is hard to live a life with the Lord as your King
It is hard to Live a life with the Lord as King
God called Israel to be a Holy people.
A people set-apart for God, a kingdom of priests.
A unique people in every way.
Their whole life was different.
Everything was dedicated to the Lord.
What they ate, who they married, their sexual norms and their religion was different.
Their motivation is all wrong, and it is built out of a mistrust for the Lord.
See God called them to be a Holy people.
A people set-apart, a kingdom of priests.
They were supposed to different, they were not supposed to be like the other nations.
Other nations had a god of wood and stone that they could see, a king they could see, relaxed sexual, and dietary rules.
They offered sacrifices to angry gods, to keep them happy.
The sacrifices for Israel were based on repentance.
The idea was to try and restore the fellowship with Yahweh, rather than trying to please an angry god wood and stone.
Israel could be on the path, or turn aside, and seems they want to turn aside.
The next problem with Israel’s request for a king, they ignored the warning of the Lord, and demanded a King now.
Problem 2-They ignored the warning
God, through the prophet, priest and judge Samuel gave them a stern warning about what would happen once they got the king they demanded.
1 Sam 8.11-
In this warning we see that the King will take the very things that God gives the Israelites as their rights as His people.
He will take your sons and they will run in front of Chariots, God gives the people sons as a blessing, yet the King will claim them for himself.
God will fight the battles, yet the king will take the sons for Israel to fight the battles.
He will take of tenth of the grain, and the tenth of the flocks the tenth belongs to the Lord.
Israel will be enslaved to the King.
But the people demanded a king anyway
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