1. SAMUEL PRESENTS KING SAUL I SAMUEL 10 NKJV

2. SAMUEL PRESENTS KING SAUL WHO WAS KING OVER ISRAEL THROUGH THE FIRST 9 CHAPTERS OF I SAMUEL? WHO WAS SAMUEL AND WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HIM? WHO WAS SAUL AND WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HIM?

3. SAMUEL PRESENTS KING SAUL WHAT DID GOD TELL SAMUEL WHEN SAMUEL THOUGHT THE PEOPLE HAD REJECTED HIM? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO REJECT GOD? DID ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL REJECT GOD? WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD TODAY?

4. SAMUEL PRESENTS KING SAUL SAUL BECAME KING OF ISRAEL IN THREE DISTINCT PHASES: (1.) SAMUEL ANOINTED HIM TO BE THE KING IN A PRIVATE CEREMONY (I SAMUEL 10:1; (2) THE PROPHET PRESENTED SAUL PUBLICLY TO THE NATION (V. 24); AND (3) SAUL FUNCTIONALLY BECAME KING WHEN HE LED ISRAEL TO MILITARY VICTORY (11:11).

5. SAMUEL PRESENTS KING SAUL BY INCREMENTS THE PEOPLE ACCEPTED THIS BENJAMITE AS THEIR SUPREME COMMANDER. THE TRANSITION TO KINGSHIP WAS NOT WITHOUT DISSENSION. A RESIDUE OF OPPOSITION DOGGED HIM EVEN AFTER SAMUEL PUBLICLY PRESENTED HIM TO THE 12 TRIBES.

6. SAMUEL PRESENTS KING SAUL ISRAEL WAS BY NO MEANS UNITED IN THE CONVICTION THAT IT NEEDED A KING, NOR WAS IT UNITED IN THE CONFIDENCE THAT SAUL WAS THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB.

7. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS I SAMUEL 10:1-3 “THEN SAMUEL TOOK A FLASK OF OIL AND POURED IT ON HIS HEAD, AND KISSED HIM AND SAID: ‘IS IT NOT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS ANOINTED YOU COMMANDER OVER HIS INHERITANCE?”

8. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE LORD CHOSE SAUL; HE CHOSE HIM TO BE THE COMMANDER OVER HIS INHERITANCE. WE, TODAY, WOULD CALL THIS PERSON OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

9. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 2. WHEN YOU HAVE DEPARTED FROM ME TODAY, YOU WILL FIND TWO MEN BY RACHEL’S TOMB IN THE TERRITORY OF BENJAMIN AT ZELZAH; AND THEY WILL SAY TO YOU, THE DONKEYS, WHICH YOU WENT TO LOOK FOR HAVE BEEN FOUND. AND NOW YOUR FATHER HAS CEASED CARING ABOUT THE DONKEYS AND IS WORRYING ABOUT YOU, SAYING, WHAT SHALL I DO ABOUT MY SON?

10. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS HOW DID SAMUEL KNOW KISH’S DONKEYS HAD BEEN FOUND?

11. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 3. THEN YOU SHALL GO ON FORWARD FROM THERE AND COME TO THE TEREBINTH TREE OF TABOR. THERE THREE MEN GOING UP TO GOD AT BETHEL WILL MET YOU, ONE CARRYING THREE YOUNG GOATS, ANOTHER CARRYING THREE LOAVES OF BREAD, AND ANOTHER CARRYING A SKIN OF WINE.

12. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS WHY DID SAMUEL TELL SAUL ABOUT THE THREE MEN HE WOULD MEET AT THE TEREBINTH TREE? TO GIVE HIM EVIDENCE THAT WHAT SAMUEL TOLD HIM WAS THAT WHICH CAME FROM GOD.

13. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 4. AND THEY WILL GREET YOU AND GIVE YOU TWO LOAVES OF BREAD WHEN YOU SHALL RECEIVE FROM THEIR HANDS. 5. AFTER THAT YOU SHALL COME TO THE HILL OF GOD WHERE THE PHILISTINE GARRISON IS, AND IT WILL HAPPEN WHEN YOU HAVE COME THERE TO THE CITY, THAT YOU WILL MEET A GROUP OF PROPHETS COMING DOWN FROM THE HIGH PLACE WITH THE STRINGED INSTRUMENT, A TAMBOURINE, A FLUTE, AND A HARP BEFORE THEM, AND THEY WILL BE PROPHESYING.

14. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 6. THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL COME UPON YOU, AND YOU WILL PROPHESY WITH THEM AND BE TURNED INTO ANOTHER MAN. GOD GAVE SAUL ANOTHER HEART.

15. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 7. AND LET IT BE; WHEN THESE SIGNS COME TO YOU DO AS THE OCCASION DEMANDS; FOR GOD IS WITH YOU. IS GOD WITH US TODAY WHEN WE DO HIS WILL?

16. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 8. YOU SHALL GO DOWN BEFORE ME TO GILGAL; AND SURELY I WILL COME DOWN TO YOU TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS AND MAKE SACRIFICES OF PEACE OFFERINGS. SEVEN DAYS YOU SHALL WAIT, TILL I COME TO YOU AND SHOW YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.

17. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 9. SO IT WAS, WHEN HE HAD TURNED HIS BACK TO GO FROM SAMUEL, THAT GOD GAVE HIM ANOTHER HEART; AND ALL THOSE SIGNS CAME TO PASS THAT DAY. PUT YOURSELF IN SAUL’S POSITION AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE DONE AS A RESULT OF THESE THINGS SAMUEL HAD TOLD HIM ACTUALLY CAME TRUE.

18. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 10. WHEN THEY CAME THERE TO THE HILL, THERE WAS A GROUP OF PROPHETS TO MEET HIM; THEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HIM, AND HE PROPHESIED AMONG THEM. 11. AND IT HAPPENED, WHEN ALL WHO KNEW HIM FORMERLY SAW THAT HE INDEED PROPHESIED AMONG THE PROPHETS, THE THE PEOPLE SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, WHAT IS THIS THAT HAS COME UPON THE SON OF KISH? IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS?

19. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 12. THEN A MAN FROM THERE ANSWERED AND SAID, BUT WHO IS THEIR FATHER? THEREFORE IT BECAME A PROVERB: IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS? 13. AND WHEN HE HAD FINISHED PROPHESYING HE WENT TO THE HIGH PLACE.

20. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS WERE THE PEOPLE HERE QUESTIONING SAUL’S AUTHORITY TO PROPHESY? WHAT IS A PROPHET? ENGER’S BIBLE DICTIONARY “ONE WHO IS DIVINELY INSPIRED TO COMMUNICATE GOD’S WILL TO HIS PEOPLE, AND TO DISCLOSE THE FUTURE TO THEM.

21. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 14. THEN SAUL’S UNCLE SAID TO HIM AND HIS SERVANT, WHERE DID YOU GO? SO HE SAID, TO LOOK FOR THE DONKEYS. WHEN WE SAW THAT THEY WERE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, WE WENT TO SAMUEL. 15. AND SAUL’S UNCLE SAID, TELL ME PLEASE, WHAT SAMUEL SAID TO YOU.

22. CONFUSING SERIES OF INCIDENTS 16. SO SAUL SAID TO HIS UNCLE, HE TOLD US PLAINLY THAT THE DONKEYS HAD BEEN FOUND. BUT ABOUT THE MATTER OF THE KINGDOM, HE DID NOT TELL HIM WHAT SAMUEL HAD SAID. WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE SAUL DID NOT TELL HIS UNCLE ABOUT BEING ANOINTED KING OVER ISRAEL?

23. POINTS TO REMEMBER BEFORE SAMUEL PRESENTED THE KING GOD HAD CHOSEN, HE REMINDED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WHO THEY WERE AND WHY THEY HAD FAILED TO FIND PEACE AND SECURITY IN A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY.

24. POINTS TO REMEMBER GOD HAD BEEN FAITHFUL TO THE COVENANT HE HAD MADE WITH ABRAHAM. HE HAD REACHED OUT HIS MIGHTY ARM, RESCUED THEM FROM EGYPTIAN BONDAGE, AND GIVEN THEM THE LAND OF CANAAN.

25. POINTS TO REMEMBER EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, THEY HAD REFUSED TO TRUST AND OBEY THE GOD WHO HAD CHOSEN THEM. NOW, THEY HAD DEMANDED A KING.

26. POINTS TO REMEMBER EVEN NOW, GOD WAS GRACIOUS. WITH LOVING KINDNESS, HE HAD HONORED THEIR REQUEST AND CHOSEN FOR THEM A KING. TO DEMONSTRATE THAT GOD HAD DONE THE CHOOSING AND NOT HIMSELF, SAMUEL PRESENTED THE TRIBES BEFORE THE LORD FOR THE CASTING OF LOTS. THE LOTS SHOWED THAT GOD HAD CHOSEN A KING FROM THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN. THE LOT FELL OF SAUL.

27. POINTS TO REMEMBER 17. THEN SAMUEL CALLED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER TO THE LORD AT MIZPAH, 18. AND SAID TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. I BROUGHT UP ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT AND DELIVERED YOU FROM THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS AND FROM THE HAND OF ALL KINGDOMS AND FROM THOSE WHO OPPRESSED YOU.

28. POINTS TO REMEMBER 19. BUT YOU HAVE TODAY REJECTED YOUR GOD, WHO HIMSELF SAVED YOU FROM ALL YOUR ADVERSITIES AND YOUR TRIBULATIONS; AND YOU HAVE SAID TO HIM, NO, SET A KING OVER US! NOW THEREFORE, PRESENT YOURSELVES BEFORE THE LORD BY YOUR TRIBES AND BY YOUR CLANS.

29. POINTS TO REMEMBER HOW WOULD YOU HAVE FELT IF GOD HAD SPOKEN TO YOU AS HE DID TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH SAMUEL? CHRISTIANS LEARN WHO THEY ARE AND FIND INSPIRATION FOR HOLY, OBEDIENT LIVING WHEN THEY UNDERSTAND THE LONG HISTORY OF GOD’S SELF-REVELATION, HIS JUSTICE AND LOVING KINDNESS.

30. POINTS TO REMEMBER I CORINTHIANS 10:11 “NOW ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED TO THEM AS EXAMPLES AND THEY WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR ADMONITION, UPON WHOM THE ENDS OF THE AGES HAVE COME.

31. POINTS TO REMEMBER 20. AND WHEN SAMUEL HAD CAUSED ALL HIS TRIBES OF ISRAEL TO COME NEAR, THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN WAS CHOSEN. 21. WHEN HE HAD CAUSED THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN TO COME NEAR BY THEIR FAMILIES THE FAMILY OF MATRI WAS CHOSEN, AND SAUL THE SON OF KISH WAS CHOSEN. BUT WHEN THEY SOUGHT HIM, HE COULD NOT BE FOUND.

32. POINTS TO REMEMBER OH, NO!! SAMUEL MUST HAVE THOUGHT, I’VE CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER TO PRESENT TO THEM THEIR KING, AND HE DOES NOT SHOW UP. SERIOUSLY, DOES THIS SHOW QUALITIES WE WOULD EXPECT TO FIND IN A KING?

33. POINTS TO REMEMBER 22. THEREFORE THEY INQUIRED OF THE LORD FURTHER, HAS THE MAN COME HERE YET? AND THE LORD ANSWERED, THERE HE IS, HIDDEN AMONG THE EQUIPMENT. 23. SO THEY RAN AND BROUGHT HIM FROM THERE, AND WHEN HE STOOD AMONG THE PEOPLE, HE WAS TALLER THAN ANY OF THE PEOPLE FROM HIS SHOULDERS UPWARD.

34. POINTS TO REMEMBER 24. AND SAMUEL SAID TO ALL THE PEOPLE, DO YOU SEE HIM WHOM THE LORD HAS CHOSEN, THAT THERE IS NO ONE LIKE HIM AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE? SO ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUTED AND SAID, LONG LIVE THE KING. -WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE SAMUEL USED THE PHRASE “THERE IS NO ONE LIKE HIM”?

35. POINTS TO REMEMBER 25. THEN SAMUEL EXPLAINED TO THE PEOPLE THE BEHAVIOR OF ROYALTY, AND WROTE IT IN A BOOK AND LAID IT UP BEFORE THE LORD. AND SAMUEL SENT ALL THE PEOPLE AWAY, EVERY MAN TO HIS HOUSE.

36. POINTS TO REMEMBER 26. AND SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH, AND VALIANT MEN WENT WITH HIM WHOSE HEARTS GOD HAD TOUCHED. 27. BUT SOME REBELS SAID, HOW CAN THIS MAN SAVE US? SO THEY DESPISED HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM NO PRESENTS, BUT HE HELD HIS PEACE.

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