Sermon Tone Analysis

Review

ADAM & EVE —> CAIN & ABLE (Sin/ Death)

God created everything.

— You owe yourself to Him.

Sin results in death.

We must rule over sin.

(Genesis 4:7)

NOAH (Judgement)

God will judge the entire world for sin.

Salvation comes through walking with God in righteousness.

ABRAHAM/ISAAC/JACOB —> JOSEPH (Promise/Hope)

Salvation comes through walking with God in righteousness through faith.

(Genesis 15:6)

MOSES (Salvation/ Covenant Obedience)

We obey God because He saved us.

We are not saved because we obey Him.

JOSHUA (Faith/Obedience/Devotion)

It is impossible to please God without faith.

(Hebrews 11:6)

This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth… (Joshua 1:8-9)

Get rid of the gods your fathers worshipped…As for me and my family, we will worship the Lord.

(Joshua 24:14-15)

PERIOD OF THE JUDGES (Lawlessness)

Everyone did whatever seemed right to him.

(Judges 21:25)

NAOMI/RUTH (Redemption - Jew & Gentile)

Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

(Ruth 1:16)

HANNAH/ELI/SAMUEL (Devotion)

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They wanted a king to rule over them, but they didn’t want God as their king.

they wanted a different king.

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They would have to obey one king or another.

God or a man.

They could live with great freedom under God, but under great oppression under a man.

And for what?

So that they could have a king, just like the other nations, that would judge them, go out before them, and fight their battles.

God already had a system in place to judge them, that they could bring their cases before him.

God already went out before them.

And God Himself fought their battles.

And look at the miracles and victories He had already accomplished for them.

So why give up the God of the universe for your king in order to have a mere sinful weak human as your king?

Because they had already abandoned Him by worshipping false gods.

God was not leading them in battle against their enemies because they were not being faithful to Him.

So instead of repent of their idolatry and sinfulness, and have God Himself lead them as their king, they would rather indulge in their sinfulness and have a human lead them as their king.

They chose to hold on to their sins and live oppressed, than to turn from their sins and live free.

So God gave them the king that they were looking for.

A huge man, who would lead them into battle, and who would tolerate sin.

But it would come at a cost.

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wanders after donkey and meets Samuel and Samuel tells him that God had chosen him to be Israel’s king.

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Saul didn’t say anything about being king because he was afraid.

He didn’t want to be king.

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Saul was afraid, God sent brave men with him to surround him and encourage him.

God always gives us what we need, when we need it.

But even though God is always faithful, we are not.

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Even after Israel’s idolatry, abandoning God to worship false gods, and their lack of faith that God could save them, and their absolute rejection of God as their king in favor of a man as their king when Samuel first pleaded with them to not abandon God as their king, God still pursued them in order to forgive them.

God was determined to make Israel His own people.

And He is just as determined to make you his own.

He loves you like no one has ever loved you, and no one ever will.

No one has ever pursued anyone like God has, and is pursuing us.