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*great events – “give us a king”*
 
*INTRODUCTION*:
1.     Read text: 1 Samuel 8:1-9
2.     Regarding text.
(1)         This is a great event in Bible history; history of Israel; coming of our Lord Jesus.
(2)         The children of Israel are in possession of the land of promise.
A.       They have their /people/.
B.       They have their /law/.
C.       They now have their /land/.
(a)       Not until an unbelieving generation died out in the wilderness.
(b)       Not without problems (cf.
period of judges – sin, slavery, supplication, etc.).
(3)         Now, due to the conduct of Samuel’s sons, the people ~/ elders reject Samuel as their leader.
A.       Second verse in the same song of unfaithfulness for a troubling people.
B.       Their ancestors did not wish to enter the promised land at Kadesh Barnea.
God accommodate
C.       They now do not wish to take close notice to the wisdom ~/ will of God.
God will accommodate.
3.
This is a great event!
(1)         Not in sense of great – wonderful, but sense of great – awful!
(2)         You cannot reject the will of God without GREAT consequence!
A.       You can refuse to hear.
B.       You can refuse to heed.
C.       BUT - You cannot refuse Him ~/ His will, and expect it to be without consequence.
*DISCUSSION*: WHEN MEN AND WOMEN DESIRE LESS THAN GODLY LEADERS
I.            symptom of Great discontentment.
1.
If on a ship it would be called /mutiny/.
If in a marriage, it would be called /adultery/; If in a time of war, it would be called /treason/.
If Jesus were to illustrate it, He would perhaps label it the case of one being a /prodigal ~/ wasteful/ son.
2.      Prov 14:14  ~~   The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways,  But a good man will be satisfied from above.
3.
Eccl 4:6  ~~  Better a handful with quietness, than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the win
4.      I don’t know why it should surprise any of us.
(1)           Same people, led by pillar of cloud and protected by a pillar of fire, cowered in the wilderness at any sign of trouble… yearning for the leeks and cucumbers of Egypt (Pharaoh was a better master).
(2)           Same people fashioned their own graven god, as God spoke.
(3)           Same people, accepted delivery of the promised land into their hands, and immediately contracted a common form of spiritual amnesia.
5.      1 Tim 6:6  ~~ Now godliness with contentment is great gain.
(1)           Israel could not ~/ would not muster either.
Double ugly!
(2)           Israel is not alone!
A.         Americans have trouble balancing the two.
B.         Especially around election time.
(3)           If you don’t want what God provides, your discontent will be accommodated.
A.         A form of godliness with discontentment is great loss.
B.         What will it profit a man if he gain the whole world…
 
II.
great disappointment.
1.      Israel was disappointed for the wrong reasons.
(1)           “Give us a king to be like nations” = like saying today, “Give us a Fuhrer like Hitler so we can be like Germany.
Give us a president like Saddam, so we can be like Iraq.”
(2)           Not disappointed in their /refusal/ to follow; their /corruption/ of worship; their “what’s in it for me” /attitude/.
They disappointed in their leader!
A.         Will you allow me to draw a modern day parallel?
B.         Evidently, the condition of Samuel’s sons, had less to do with Samuel’s leadership ability, than it did the sorry condition of society of the day.
C.         We often lament ~/ wring our hands about conditions in public schools, gross immorality in our govt.
(local, state, national).
D.         These have less do with govt.
than with those being governed.
a.
The leaders of our land ~/ society are in general a lagging indicator of where population.
b.
Not until we become concerned ~/ convicted ~/ involved with presenting ~/ preaching ~/ and provoking our homes, schools, society, govt..
 
2.
God was disappointed (perhaps better to say insulted and heartbroken).
(1)           This was not an insult to Samuel as much as it was an insult to God.
A.         Wouldn’t say God was not hurt by insult, but neither was He surprised.
B.         Cf.
8:7 – They had been doing this since God brought them out of Egypt.
(2)           But will you notice God’s response (1 Sam.
8:7).
A.         Evidence of the loving, patient, nurturing nature of God.
B.         Reminds us of our Lord (Mt.
11:28-30).
3.
He who heeds the word wisely will find good, And whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
(Prov.
16:20)
4.      Our Lord will not leave, nor forsake…(Heb.
13:5).
Neither will he disappoint.
III.
great departure.
1.      Was it wrong to want a king?
God intended for Israel to have a king.
(1)           Proclamations were made previously (Gen.
17:6; Num.
24:17).
(2)           Provisions were made in the law of Moses (Deut.
17:15-20).
*/(3)           /*What if… */Give us a king so we will be unlike the nations?/*
A.         Israel was not existent to “be like the nations around her.”
B.         Israel was in existence to be /different/ (2 Cor.
6:17).
2.      Problem is found in their proclaimed motivation.
“To be like the nations around us.”
(1)           How many times has man failed to understand the ways of God? (Isa.
55:8-9).
(2)           How many times has man exchanged the truth for a lie?
(3)           How many times have members influence preacher and perhaps elderships to preach less than the whole counsel of God (marriage, gambling, social drinking, immodesty, exclusive nature of the church,…)?
3.      God will accommodate your desires and the devil is happy to use the reality.
(1)           Israel departed.
King in anger took away in wrath.
(2)           NT church departed.
Denominations and sectarian thinking abound.
4.      My kingdom is not of this world.
(1)           What if Israel… *Give us a king so we will be /UNLIKE/ the nations/?/*
(2)           What if the majority (church ~/ denomination) were firmly committed to idea of being led by Jesus Christ and therefore being unlike the world?
A.         Walking in light avoiding sin (Psa.
119:105).
B.         Walking in light forgiven of sin (1 Jn. 1:7).
C.         Walking not in a /physical/ land, promised to Abraham, but in in the way that leads to the  /promised land of eternal life/ (Gal.
3:29; Mt. 7:13-14).
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