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Reading: 1Samuel 16:1-13 \\ /The LORD does not look at the things man looks at.
Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
/1 Samuel 16:7b (NIV)
!! I. God rejects an Obvious choice
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God Rejects Saul as king
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God had acquiesced to the people’s desire to have a king.
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Samuel warned them. . .
\\ /But the people refused to listen to Samuel.
“No!” they said.
“We want a king over us.
Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
/1 Samuel 8:19-20 (NIV)
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Saul was an externally obvious choice.
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He was tall and strong and able to lead.
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He started out with humility - he began well.
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Saul proved unfit to lead, because of the true character of his heart.
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Well begun is still only half done.
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Saul didn’t finish well.
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God rejects Eliab
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Eliab also seemed a good choice (even to Samuel).
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He was oldest, traditionally kings were the eldest son.
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He looked like a leader.
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We shouldn’t presume Eliab was a bad person, just not the king God chose.
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God rejected Eliab (v.[[7|bible:1Samuel 16:7]]a).
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The only thing we know about him besides his name is that he gets mad with David, when David starts asking questions about Goliath (ch.[[17|bible:1Samuel 17]])
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God had chosen someone else instead
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Eliab is passed over because God had chosen another.
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God chose David long before (ch [[13:14|bible:1Sam 13:14]])
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God’s Check-list is different from ours
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God does not look at the things human beings look at.
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God knows our hearts better than we ourselves know them.
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We size people up by who they appear to be, God, by who they are.
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God’s job description for leadership isn’t certification, but devotion.
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When we look think about experience and training.
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God looks for someone with a submitted heart.
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Samuel still Relies on God’s direction
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On his own, Samuel is Wrong
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He believed Eliab was a good choice.
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His first impression: “This is the guy.”
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Though Sam had spent his whole life serving God, he still didn’t see as God sees.
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God told him no.
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Samuel’s judgement was wrong.
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Not even the eyes of the spiritually mature are always reliable.
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He can’t see past what he can See
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And neither can we.
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We should recognize our limitations.
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Still we think we can size someone up because of their visible personality traits.
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Samuel isn’t psychic, or highly intuitive — that doesn’t make him a prophet or priest.
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Being a priest or a prophet is a matter of relationship and submission.
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It’s not about other abilities.
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No one becomes so mature that s~/he no longer needs to rely on God’s instruction.
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How I long to hear “Let me pray about that and get back to you!”
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Honesty compels us to humility.
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Samuel Listens to God’s direction
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He hears God.
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His ears were open to God from a young age.
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He kept them open.
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He obeys God.
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Hearing and obeying are not the same.
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Samuel is mature enough to quickly let go of his ideas and follow God’s.
!! III.
Samuel anoints a Boy from Bethlehem
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An Unlikely choice
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