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2. The Kingdom is Established 1 & 2 Samuel
Judges teaches what happens when people “do what is right in their own eyes.”
Incomplete obedience ! disobedience ! idolatry ! chastening ! oppression ! repentance ! deliverance

3. The Kingdom is Established 1 & 2 Samuel
The theocracy failed because the people did not keep God’s laws on their own
Ignorance lead to violating God’s commands even by those trying to worship Him

4. The Kingdom is Established - Samuel 1 Samuel 1 - 2
Samuel was the result of the Lord answering Hannah’s prayer
Samuel sounds like a Hebrew phrase meaning “heard of God”

5. The Kingdom is Established - Samuel 1 Samuel 2 -3
Hannah had 3 more sons & 2 daughters
Eli was not a good father, his sons were evil
God revealed Himself to Samuel when he was still a small boy

6. The Kingdom is Established - Samuel 1 Samuel 4
They treated the ark of the Lord as if it was a magical charm
Israel was defeated & the ark captured
Eli & his sons died just as had been prophesied

7. The Kingdom is Established - Samuel 1 Samuel 5-7
The Philistines now had the Lord God on their hands
Their god, Dagon – an idol half fish & half man – fell over before the ark of the Lord
Dagon fell over again, with hands & head cut off

8. The Kingdom is Established - Samuel 1 Samuel 1
The Lord chastened the Philistines with tumors and many of them died
The Philistine returned the ark to Israel along with guilt offerings of gold.
The cows went directly to Beth- shemesh
They defeated the Philistines

9. The Kingdom is Established 1 Samuel 8
Samuel’s sons were evil, the people demanded a king so they could be like all the nations around them
Israel was rejecting God in demanding a king
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 prophesied there would be kings and gave instructions to them

10. The Kingdom is Established - Saul 1 Samuel 9-10
Saul was from Benjamin – the smallest tribe & he was from the least of its families.
Saul, was a head taller than everyone else, yet he still started off well demonstrating great humility

11. The Kingdom is Established - Saul 1 Samuel 11-12
Saul had his first victory over the Ammonites at Jabesh-gilead
The people and the king would do well only they obeyed & followed the Lord

12. The Kingdom is Established - Saul 1 Samuel 13
Saul was 40 years old when he began to reign and he reigned for 32 years.
Saul’s first great moral failure was not waiting for Samuel, but making the sacrifices himself
Saul would not have an enduring kingdom.

13. The Kingdom is Established - Saul 1 Samuel 14
Jonathan defeated a Philistine garrison.
An earthquake frightened the Philistines
Saul attacked (600 vs. 36,000)
They won despite Saul’s foolish vow

14. The Kingdom is Established – Saul 1 Samuel 15
Saul’s second great moral failure was not utterly destroying Amalek
Saul falsely claimed to have obeyed
He made excuses & blamed others
He was a failure - A leader must lead, not follow out of fear

15. The Kingdom is Established – Saul 1 Samuel 15
To obey is better than sacrifice
Rebellion is as the sin of divination - seeking a source of guidance other than the Lord
Insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry - rejecting the Lord to follow the direction of another

16. The Kingdom is Established – Saul 1 Samuel 15
Saul still sought to be honored
Saul was rejected as king. It would be given to another.

17. The Kingdom is Established - David 1 Samuel 16
David is the youngest son of Jesse of the tribe of Judah
Samuel anointed David king before his brothers & the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily
David demonstrated humility, though anointed king, he became Saul’s musician

18. The Kingdom is Established - David 1 Samuel 17
David demonstrated courage & trust of God in taking up Goliath’s challenge
Goliath was a trained soldier, fully equipped and who was between 9 & 11 feet tall.
David defeated Goliath in the name of the Lord of Hosts

19. The Kingdom is Established - David 1 Samuel 18-27
Jonathan & David became fast friends for life
Saul became jealous and sought to kill David many times
David would not kill Saul even when he had the opportunity two different times

20. The Kingdom is Established - David 1 Samuel 24-31 – 2 Samuel 1-2
David would trust the Lord to remove Saul and establish his kingdom at the right time.
When Saul & three of his sons were killed, David mourned and honored them

21. The Kingdom is Established - David 2 Samuel 3-6
David was made king of the tribe of Judah, but had war with Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, for seven years.
David captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites and made it his capital.
David brought the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem on the second attempt by doing it correctly

22. The Kingdom is Established - David 2 Samuel 7
God made a covenant with David that included the promise of an eternal throne to one of his descendants
David was a great worshiper of God and wrote about half of the Psalms in the Bible

23. The Kingdom is Established - David 2 Samuel 13-20, 24
Among David’s flaws was lack of rebuke to his children. This resulted in fratricide & civil war
Pride led David to make a census which the Lord judged with a plague that killed 70,000

24. The Kingdom is Established - David 2 Samuel 11
David coveted Bathsheba,
committed adultery with her,
lied to Uriah,
& had Uriah murdered
David stole Bathsheba by making her his wife.
All this dishonored God and his parents

25. The Kingdom is Established - David 2 Samuel 12
David admitted his sin without excuse when confronted by Nathan and accepted God’s punishments
See Psalm 51
David was a man after God’s own heart
All future kings would be compared to David

26. Will you follow the example
Conclusions
Will you follow the example
of Saul
or David?

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