WEBVTT 00:00:00.899 --> 00:00:05.500 Before we read that, is there anything, any residuals 00:00:05.500 --> 00:00:09.119 from chapter 8 that anybody thought about in 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.320 the past week and wants to bring up or something 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:20.679 that needs to be said that wasn't said? Alright, 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:23.719 then who wants to give us our introductory summation 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.379 of what we're reading here in chapter 9? I have 00:00:26.379 --> 00:00:29.920 this section going. From chapter 9 through chapter 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.679 10, verse 16. We won't cover all that tonight, 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:37.780 I don't think. But that's where the story of 00:00:37.780 --> 00:00:41.280 Saul's, whatever we're reading about. Who wants 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:53.359 to summarize it for us? Well, Saul gets his dad's 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.990 donkeys go missing. So Saul goes and he looks 00:00:56.990 --> 00:01:00.149 for the donkeys. He thinks that's what his mission 00:01:00.149 --> 00:01:05.689 is. He winds up with Samuel. And Samuel gives 00:01:05.689 --> 00:01:09.530 him some information about what's going on, what's 00:01:09.530 --> 00:01:15.150 going to happen. And then in chapter 10, he becomes 00:01:15.150 --> 00:01:21.909 a new man. The spirit rushes on him. He gets 00:01:21.909 --> 00:01:26.680 anointed by Samuel. He goes back home. and his 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:34.060 uncle asks him what Samuel told him, and he doesn't 00:01:34.060 --> 00:01:38.459 tell him the whole story. So this whole section 00:01:38.459 --> 00:01:43.620 really is full of mystery and oddities, I guess 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:48.280 you would say. And so I won't tell you everything 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.840 that I got out of it, introductory, but hopefully 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:58.650 whoever read it, You can see, I think probably 00:01:58.650 --> 00:02:01.670 God is the main character even in this chapter 00:02:01.670 --> 00:02:06.870 about Saul. One other interesting thing as we 00:02:06.870 --> 00:02:10.849 read through here is that this is, remember the 00:02:10.849 --> 00:02:13.330 people demanded a king like all the other nations. 00:02:14.009 --> 00:02:17.789 And so this is the story of Israel's first king, 00:02:17.949 --> 00:02:24.430 King Saul. What word is missing in this chapter 00:02:24.430 --> 00:02:33.439 and a half? King. There's no mention of a king. 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:38.759 Now how can we have this Saul guy from this obscure 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:45.020 Benjamite tribe, or tribe of Benjamin, and no 00:02:45.020 --> 00:02:48.680 mention of king? So we'll have to come up with 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:52.340 an answer there. But as we read it, you'll notice 00:02:52.340 --> 00:02:56.009 that there's no mention of a king. So, 1 Samuel 00:02:56.009 --> 00:02:59.389 chapter 9 and verse 1. Now, there was a man of 00:02:59.389 --> 00:03:03.330 Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, 00:03:03.389 --> 00:03:08.569 the son of Zeror, the son of Bekarath, the son 00:03:08.569 --> 00:03:12.629 of Ephiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. 00:03:12.830 --> 00:03:15.669 So, now the people have just demanded that God 00:03:15.669 --> 00:03:18.430 give him a king. If we just stopped reading there, 00:03:18.530 --> 00:03:24.000 what would you think? Huh? He'd be the king. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.099 Here's this mighty man of power, this man of 00:03:28.099 --> 00:03:32.039 valor and influence. We've got his whole, well, 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:34.300 not his whole, but we've got a genealogy here, 00:03:34.419 --> 00:03:38.740 typical of Hebrew writing. But it turns out that's 00:03:38.740 --> 00:03:42.099 not the case. And he had a son whose name was 00:03:42.099 --> 00:03:45.500 Saul, a choice young man and a goodly. And there 00:03:45.500 --> 00:03:48.159 was not among the children of Israel a goodlier 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.219 person than he. From his shoulders and upwards 00:03:51.219 --> 00:03:54.819 he was higher than any of the people. And the 00:03:54.819 --> 00:03:58.620 asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. And 00:03:58.620 --> 00:04:02.259 Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the 00:04:02.259 --> 00:04:05.900 servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.539 And he passed through Mount Ephraim, and passed 00:04:09.539 --> 00:04:13.139 through the land of Salisha, but they found them 00:04:13.139 --> 00:04:17.060 not. Then they passed through the land of Shalim, 00:04:17.060 --> 00:04:20.790 and there And there they were not. And he passed 00:04:20.790 --> 00:04:23.389 through the land of the Benjamites, but they 00:04:23.389 --> 00:04:26.230 found them not. And when they were come to the 00:04:26.230 --> 00:04:30.149 land of Zuth, Saul said to his servant that was 00:04:30.149 --> 00:04:33.689 with him, Come, let us return, lest my father 00:04:33.689 --> 00:04:36.269 leave caring for the asses and take thought for 00:04:36.269 --> 00:04:40.269 us. And he said to him, Behold now, there is 00:04:40.269 --> 00:04:46.009 in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable 00:04:46.009 --> 00:04:49.240 man. and all that he saith cometh surely to pass. 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.740 Now let us go thither. Peradventure he can show 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:56.680 us our way that we should go. Then said Saul 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.240 to his servant, But behold, if we go, what shall 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.259 we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our 00:05:03.259 --> 00:05:06.139 vessels, and there is not a present to bring 00:05:06.139 --> 00:05:09.920 to the man of God. What have we? And the servant 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.740 answered Saul again and said, Behold, I have 00:05:12.740 --> 00:05:15.439 here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:20.259 That will I give to the man of God to tell us 00:05:20.259 --> 00:05:24.879 our way. Before time in Israel, when a man went 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.240 to inquire of God, thus he spoke, Come and let 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.220 us go to the seer. For he that is now called 00:05:31.220 --> 00:05:35.319 a prophet was before time called a seer. Then 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.480 said Paul to his servant, Well said, come, let 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.720 us go. So they went unto the city where the man 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:45.000 of God was. And as they went up the hill to the 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.879 city, they found young maidens going out to draw 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.439 water, and said unto them, Is the seer here? 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.120 And they answered them and said, He is. Behold, 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:56.459 he is before you. Make haste now, for he came 00:05:56.459 --> 00:05:59.439 today to the city, for there is a sacrifice of 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.639 the people today in the high place. As soon as 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:04.920 he be come into the city, ye shall straightway 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.740 find him, before he go up to the high place to 00:06:07.740 --> 00:06:10.759 eat, for the people will not eat until he come. 00:06:11.230 --> 00:06:14.209 because he doth bless the sacrifice. And afterwards 00:06:14.209 --> 00:06:17.449 they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you 00:06:17.449 --> 00:06:21.430 up, for about this time ye shall find him. And 00:06:21.430 --> 00:06:23.470 they went up into the city. And when they were 00:06:23.470 --> 00:06:26.209 come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against 00:06:26.209 --> 00:06:29.689 them, for to go up to the high place. Now the 00:06:29.689 --> 00:06:32.430 Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before 00:06:32.430 --> 00:06:35.870 Saul came, saying, Tomorrow about this time I 00:06:35.870 --> 00:06:38.050 will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin. 00:06:38.540 --> 00:06:40.939 and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over 00:06:40.939 --> 00:06:43.819 my people Israel, that he may save my people 00:06:43.819 --> 00:06:46.399 out of the hand of the Philistines. For I have 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:49.040 looked upon my people, because their cry is come 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.519 unto me. And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:56.300 unto him, Behold, the man whom I speak to this 00:06:56.300 --> 00:07:00.459 same shall reign over my people. Then Saul drew 00:07:00.459 --> 00:07:03.079 near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:07.079 I pray thee, where is the seer's house? And Samuel 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.420 answered Saul and said, I am the seer. Go up 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:12.800 before me unto the high place, for ye shall eat 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.660 with me today, and tomorrow I will let thee go, 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.680 and will tell thee all that is in thine heart. 00:07:20.139 --> 00:07:23.160 And as for thine asses that were lost three days 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:26.160 ago, set not thy mind on them, for they are found. 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.459 And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it 00:07:30.459 --> 00:07:34.560 not on thee and on thy father's house? And Saul 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:39.120 answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite of the 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.220 smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family 00:07:42.220 --> 00:07:44.259 the least of all the families of the tribe of 00:07:44.259 --> 00:07:47.439 Benjamin? Wherefore then speakest thou so to 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:51.339 me? And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and 00:07:51.339 --> 00:07:53.699 brought them into the parlor, and made them sit 00:07:53.699 --> 00:07:58.319 in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:02.019 which was about thirty persons. And Samuel said 00:08:02.019 --> 00:08:04.750 unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave 00:08:04.750 --> 00:08:07.769 thee, of which I said unto thee, set it by thee. 00:08:08.189 --> 00:08:11.209 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which 00:08:11.209 --> 00:08:14.389 was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel 00:08:14.389 --> 00:08:18.269 said, Behold that which is left, set it before 00:08:18.269 --> 00:08:21.470 thee, and eat. For unto this time hath it been 00:08:21.470 --> 00:08:24.250 kept for thee, since I said, I have invited the 00:08:24.250 --> 00:08:27.290 people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day. 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.240 And when they were come down from the high place 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.120 into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.779 the top of the house. And they arose early, and 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:39.080 it came to pass about the spring of the day that 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.659 Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.259 Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, 00:08:45.659 --> 00:08:48.600 and they went out, both of them, he and Samuel, 00:08:48.700 --> 00:08:51.720 abroad. And as they were going down to the end 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.960 of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.789 pass before us. And he passed on. But stand thou 00:08:58.789 --> 00:09:01.090 still a while, that I may show thee the word 00:09:01.090 --> 00:09:04.690 of God. Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured 00:09:04.690 --> 00:09:07.909 it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is 00:09:07.909 --> 00:09:10.570 it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to 00:09:10.570 --> 00:09:14.549 be captain over his inheritance? When thou art 00:09:14.549 --> 00:09:17.549 departed from me today, then thou shalt find 00:09:17.549 --> 00:09:20.889 two men by Rachel's sepulcher in the border of 00:09:20.889 --> 00:09:24.409 Benjamin at Zelzah. And they will say unto thee, 00:09:24.490 --> 00:09:27.669 The asses which thou wentest to seek are found. 00:09:27.929 --> 00:09:31.029 And lo, thy father hath left the care of the 00:09:31.029 --> 00:09:34.110 asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall 00:09:34.110 --> 00:09:37.870 I do for my son? Then shalt thou go on forward 00:09:37.870 --> 00:09:41.330 from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain 00:09:41.330 --> 00:09:45.950 of Tabor. And there shall meet thee three men 00:09:45.950 --> 00:09:52.009 going up to God to Bethel. one carrying three 00:09:52.009 --> 00:09:54.870 kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, 00:09:55.029 --> 00:09:58.529 and another carrying a bottle of wine. And they 00:09:58.529 --> 00:10:01.370 will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of 00:10:01.370 --> 00:10:03.730 bread, which thou shalt receive of their hands. 00:10:04.289 --> 00:10:06.909 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, 00:10:07.129 --> 00:10:10.009 where is the garrison of the Philistines, and 00:10:10.009 --> 00:10:13.149 it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither 00:10:13.149 --> 00:10:15.529 to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of 00:10:15.529 --> 00:10:18.250 prophets coming down from the high place. with 00:10:18.250 --> 00:10:21.450 a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:25.990 before them, and they shall prophesy. And the 00:10:25.990 --> 00:10:28.289 Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou 00:10:28.289 --> 00:10:31.269 shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned 00:10:31.269 --> 00:10:34.549 into another man. And it shall be, when these 00:10:34.549 --> 00:10:38.110 signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion 00:10:38.110 --> 00:10:41.570 serve thee, for God is with thee. And thou shalt 00:10:41.570 --> 00:10:45.120 go down before me to Gilgal, and behold, I will 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.419 come down unto thee to offer burnt offerings 00:10:47.419 --> 00:10:50.700 and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.100 Seven days shalt thou tarry till I come to thee, 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.240 and show thee what thou shalt do. And it was 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.639 so that when he had turned his back to go from 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:04.279 Samuel, God gave him another heart, and all those 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.809 signs came to pass that day. And when they came 00:11:07.809 --> 00:11:10.250 thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets 00:11:10.250 --> 00:11:13.149 met him, and the Spirit of God came upon him, 00:11:13.269 --> 00:11:16.429 and he prophesied among them. And it came to 00:11:16.429 --> 00:11:19.129 pass, when all that knew him before time saw 00:11:19.129 --> 00:11:21.830 that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets. 00:11:22.090 --> 00:11:25.289 Then the people said one to another, What is 00:11:25.289 --> 00:11:28.230 this that has come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul 00:11:28.230 --> 00:11:31.549 also among the prophets? And one of the same 00:11:31.549 --> 00:11:33.990 place answered and said, But who is their father? 00:11:34.669 --> 00:11:37.549 Therefore it has become a proverb, Is Saul also 00:11:37.549 --> 00:11:40.710 among the prophets? And when he had made an end 00:11:40.710 --> 00:11:43.669 of prophesying, he came to the high place. And 00:11:43.669 --> 00:11:46.289 Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, 00:11:46.529 --> 00:11:49.649 Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses. 00:11:49.730 --> 00:11:53.110 And when we saw that they were nowhere, we came 00:11:53.110 --> 00:11:56.789 to Samuel. And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I 00:11:56.789 --> 00:11:59.730 pray thee, what Samuel said unto you. And Saul 00:11:59.730 --> 00:12:02.470 said unto him, And Saul said unto his uncle, 00:12:02.610 --> 00:12:04.909 He told us plainly that the asses were found. 00:12:05.450 --> 00:12:08.169 But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel 00:12:08.169 --> 00:12:21.090 spake, he told him not. There's some odd verses 00:12:21.090 --> 00:12:22.870 in there, some verses that might seem a little 00:12:22.870 --> 00:12:26.809 bit out of place. Particularly the one that talks 00:12:26.809 --> 00:12:28.669 about the seer and the prophet. What did you 00:12:28.669 --> 00:12:33.899 guys think when you saw that verse? Why was that 00:12:33.899 --> 00:12:36.899 put in there? Anybody got any ideas? Who put 00:12:36.899 --> 00:12:44.279 that in there? Nobody? Okay, well tell me what 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:53.480 you got out of it. Tell me what lessons you want 00:12:53.480 --> 00:13:06.529 us all to learn. He doesn't, like he gave Samuel 00:13:06.529 --> 00:13:11.210 a word for Saul. And he put Saul in Samuel's, 00:13:11.210 --> 00:13:13.190 I don't know if I'm going to say like his path, 00:13:13.389 --> 00:13:15.850 but they ran into each other like that was an 00:13:15.850 --> 00:13:19.090 accident. Okay. What do we typically call that? 00:13:19.750 --> 00:13:23.149 That work of God. What is it? Providence. Providence. 00:13:23.649 --> 00:13:31.389 So this chapter is full of just really normal 00:13:31.389 --> 00:13:35.080 everyday stuff. But the God who reigns above 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.440 is working through all these seemingly ordinary 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.960 things. The guy's donkeys go missing. Well, nobody 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:46.279 would say, well, now God's getting ready to work. 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:49.500 We're going to have a king here soon. Just this 00:13:49.500 --> 00:13:53.000 unknown guy, his donkeys go missing. But God 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.360 who rules above and works through providence 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.519 was the one that drove those donkeys to wherever 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:00.779 they were going and hit them. and hid him from 00:14:00.779 --> 00:14:02.820 Saul, that's providence. So yeah, that's all 00:14:02.820 --> 00:14:05.960 through here. That's a good catch. What else? 00:14:14.059 --> 00:14:22.279 Saul is kind of a great tragedy of the Old Testament. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.139 He starts off with all this stuff where he's 00:14:25.139 --> 00:14:29.200 prophesying the spirit of God on him. and all 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.799 this stuff, and then it turns out bad at the 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:33.919 end. And so that's what sticks out to me, is 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.919 all this, like, how does the Spirit of God come 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.840 upon a man and make him prophesy? But it turns 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.059 out he's not a good guy at all. That's what was 00:14:43.059 --> 00:14:47.080 interesting to me. Well, that was the same things 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:48.960 that we encountered all through Judges, right? 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:51.419 And what did we say about the Spirit coming upon 00:14:51.419 --> 00:15:01.149 a judge? It didn't guarantee what. I never said 00:15:01.149 --> 00:15:04.549 that. It didn't guarantee obedience. He said 00:15:04.549 --> 00:15:07.730 salvation. It didn't, well, salvation from the 00:15:07.730 --> 00:15:10.029 enemy, yes, because that's what the judge was 00:15:10.029 --> 00:15:13.289 raised up. But it didn't seem to guarantee obedience 00:15:13.289 --> 00:15:17.350 at all, did it? It didn't, it didn't, in other 00:15:17.350 --> 00:15:22.429 words, the spirit came upon those judges for 00:15:22.429 --> 00:15:26.250 very specific reasons and, you know. I think 00:15:26.250 --> 00:15:28.350 it's fair for us to say that the Spirit remained 00:15:28.350 --> 00:15:30.830 with them, but the Spirit didn't force them to 00:15:30.830 --> 00:15:34.769 obey every word of God. Are you filled with the 00:15:34.769 --> 00:15:40.210 Spirit? Yeah. And do you obey God in every turn? 00:15:41.190 --> 00:15:44.909 And do you lay that, do you charge the Holy Spirit 00:15:44.909 --> 00:15:50.529 with some offense in that? No. So, Saul is the 00:15:50.529 --> 00:15:53.970 same way. The Spirit came on him and he did disobey. 00:15:55.950 --> 00:16:05.769 What? Does anybody have a guess as to why is 00:16:05.769 --> 00:16:12.169 it that Saul couldn't get along with God? Have 00:16:12.169 --> 00:16:15.830 you given any thought to that? Where did Saul 00:16:15.830 --> 00:16:24.659 and God come to loggerheads? was when you tried 00:16:24.659 --> 00:16:28.740 to do things his own way instead of God's way. 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:36.139 Okay. So... Is he the ultimate example of not 00:16:36.139 --> 00:16:41.220 God's way? I mean, right in Samuel, I mean, he's 00:16:41.220 --> 00:16:45.659 not, even though God sovereignly ordained him 00:16:45.659 --> 00:16:50.960 to become king in a sense, but it was also, like 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:56.940 Brian said, I guess he was a type in picture 00:16:56.940 --> 00:17:00.399 of not God's way. And throughout his life he 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.539 proved that he never wanted to do things God's 00:17:03.539 --> 00:17:07.480 way. Okay. I think you and Brian said very similar 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.500 things there. Wasn't it he offered sacrifices? 00:17:12.180 --> 00:17:19.180 To me that was like he treated it as this isn't 00:17:19.180 --> 00:17:21.119 a big deal. Anybody can do this. I don't have 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.490 to be a... priest or anything I can offer these 00:17:23.490 --> 00:17:28.670 sacrifices and do it myself and then afterwards 00:17:28.670 --> 00:17:32.589 I'm just going off memory here but I don't think 00:17:32.589 --> 00:17:34.490 he was that repentant about it you know like 00:17:34.490 --> 00:17:38.950 David messed up a few times and David was really 00:17:38.950 --> 00:17:43.250 broken about it and repentant and it seemed like 00:17:43.250 --> 00:18:06.740 in my mind Saul had more of a Okay. So, when 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:13.359 we come to loggerheads with God, what are we 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:17.680 saying? When we sit, if you don't like loggerheads, 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:24.599 we'll say, when we sit, what are we saying? Okay, 00:18:24.819 --> 00:18:36.829 and what? Okay, because we reject God's authority. 00:18:38.049 --> 00:18:40.829 Okay, that's what Brian is talking about. That's 00:18:40.829 --> 00:18:44.910 what Jake is talking about. God sits as the authority 00:18:44.910 --> 00:18:48.569 and God says, this is what I expect from you. 00:18:48.630 --> 00:18:50.250 This is what you should do. If you want to worship 00:18:50.250 --> 00:18:53.069 me, worship me in this way. If you want to be, 00:18:53.190 --> 00:18:55.769 if you're going to be a father, be a father in 00:18:55.769 --> 00:18:58.509 this way. Whatever. Whatever part of your life, 00:18:58.670 --> 00:19:02.430 every part of your life, God speaks into and 00:19:02.430 --> 00:19:05.369 gives you direction. And when you say, well, 00:19:05.690 --> 00:19:08.549 like Brian said, well, I don't think this is 00:19:08.549 --> 00:19:11.990 a big deal. Then what you're saying is, God, 00:19:12.089 --> 00:19:14.089 you don't have authority in this part of my life 00:19:14.089 --> 00:19:17.849 to tell me what to do. I think that my way is 00:19:17.849 --> 00:19:21.809 pretty good. And so I'm going to do that. That 00:19:21.809 --> 00:19:27.900 was Saul's problem. Saul, now. Saul always thought 00:19:27.900 --> 00:19:33.640 that kingship meant what? A king like all the 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.559 other nations. I'm looking out here and I'm seeing 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:40.759 these kings. And I've even listened to what Samuel 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:43.759 told everybody was going to be a king. Everything 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.140 in the land belongs to me. The people belong 00:19:46.140 --> 00:19:50.359 to me. There's no what? There's no authority 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:53.779 over me. So when you're reading through this, 00:19:54.269 --> 00:19:56.910 and you're studying it, one of the things that 00:19:56.910 --> 00:20:00.210 you're confronted with is that it doesn't seem 00:20:00.210 --> 00:20:04.190 that Saul is taking that kind of a dominant position 00:20:04.190 --> 00:20:06.750 here in this chapter from the very get -go. And 00:20:06.750 --> 00:20:11.109 why is that? Like Saul sits down at the prime 00:20:11.109 --> 00:20:15.289 place at the table. Why? Did anybody think about 00:20:15.289 --> 00:20:17.569 that? Why did Samuel sit him there at the head 00:20:17.569 --> 00:20:22.430 of the table, in the best place? What do you 00:20:22.430 --> 00:20:39.529 think? It wasn't because what? Okay, it wasn't 00:20:39.529 --> 00:20:41.490 because Saul was a head taller than everybody. 00:20:41.970 --> 00:20:45.049 It wasn't because he was this goodly man that 00:20:45.049 --> 00:20:47.190 we're told all about. It wasn't because he had 00:20:47.190 --> 00:20:52.990 maybe a prominent father back in the Benjamite 00:20:52.990 --> 00:20:57.109 territory. It was because what? God put him there. 00:20:57.569 --> 00:21:04.319 So what does that show? Who's in charge? Who 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:07.339 has the authority? Who tells somebody to sit 00:21:07.339 --> 00:21:14.460 at the prime place of the table? Who? And in 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:16.599 this case, he did it through the means of who? 00:21:17.660 --> 00:21:21.460 Samuel. So Samuel said, sit here. That was a 00:21:21.460 --> 00:21:24.500 word from God. That was God putting Saul right 00:21:24.500 --> 00:21:26.440 there at the head of the table in the prime spot. 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:36.509 When he gets anointed, What did Samuel say? Was 00:21:36.509 --> 00:21:46.390 it Samuel that was anointing him? Mike? Who was 00:21:46.390 --> 00:21:52.029 anointing him? Okay, and God used Samuel with 00:21:52.029 --> 00:21:55.329 the anointing oil. But it was God that was doing 00:21:55.329 --> 00:22:02.819 the anointing. Now, who does the anointing? Okay, 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:05.480 that's fine. Put it in your head. Don't forget. 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:14.680 Who does the anointed? Well, do they just call 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:18.059 the servant girl? Do they just call the lowest 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:22.039 of the low? Hey, we're going to anoint somebody. 00:22:22.099 --> 00:22:25.000 Let's go out in the fields and find a field worker. 00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:30.380 Is that who does the anointed? Somebody with... 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:35.180 Somebody with authority does the anointing. And 00:22:35.180 --> 00:22:38.400 who's doing the anointing? That's right, not 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:43.200 Samuel, it's God. So all through this chapter, 00:22:43.380 --> 00:22:45.640 what you should be seeing, or what I should be 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.339 seeing, is that there is a king over all. And 00:22:49.339 --> 00:22:53.460 that king, in this case, is going to name an 00:22:53.460 --> 00:22:59.680 earthly king to administer justice, restraint. 00:23:00.779 --> 00:23:03.900 among the people of Israel. But it's God who's 00:23:03.900 --> 00:23:06.119 ruling and reigning. Now that's, we said this 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:09.460 I think last week. Essentially that was what 00:23:09.460 --> 00:23:15.240 the judge did. So Saul, and I think when you're 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:17.099 reading this, if you remember back to what we 00:23:17.099 --> 00:23:20.359 read in Judges, it sounds an awful lot like a 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:23.799 judge. An enemy comes up, in this case the Philistines, 00:23:23.819 --> 00:23:27.039 and God raises up a judge and the judge goes 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:29.920 out and defeats the enemy and restores. peace 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:33.819 and freedom in Israel and then the people turn 00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:35.619 their backs and they go their own way and it's 00:23:35.619 --> 00:23:38.640 a recurring cycle throughout the book that's 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:42.759 what that's what's going on here so it's not 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:45.779 that if there's a king then God can't be king 00:23:45.779 --> 00:23:51.920 over him Saul just never recognized the authority 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:54.950 over him whether it came from Samuel or whether 00:23:54.950 --> 00:23:58.269 he recognized it as a word from God, Saul was 00:23:58.269 --> 00:24:02.170 a king and an authority unto himself. And so 00:24:02.170 --> 00:24:05.910 that, I think, as you study this and as we talk 00:24:05.910 --> 00:24:08.309 about it, if you remember that, it will start 00:24:08.309 --> 00:24:11.089 to make a little bit more sense to you. Now, 00:24:11.109 --> 00:24:15.890 go ahead, Jacob. What's your question? Does it 00:24:15.890 --> 00:24:20.549 say of any of the other judges, or of any other... 00:24:29.549 --> 00:24:39.170 Yeah, so what do you think that means? Don't 00:24:39.170 --> 00:24:43.029 know. Anybody else give any thought to that? 00:24:44.750 --> 00:24:47.490 Want to venture a guess or offer an opinion for 00:24:47.490 --> 00:25:00.029 us? Emma, you look like you're ready. Okay, that's 00:25:00.029 --> 00:25:04.069 fine. Well, one thing we have to be cautious 00:25:04.069 --> 00:25:06.609 of, especially when we're studying the Old Testament, 00:25:06.730 --> 00:25:09.109 is to read into the Old Testament New Testament 00:25:09.109 --> 00:25:13.130 language. So, God promises in the New Covenant 00:25:13.130 --> 00:25:16.329 that he's going to give all of his people a new 00:25:16.329 --> 00:25:18.170 heart. They're all going to know me. So, the 00:25:18.170 --> 00:25:20.509 question that I think is on your mind, and probably 00:25:20.509 --> 00:25:24.769 everyone else's, is this. some version of the 00:25:24.769 --> 00:25:26.890 new covenant before the new covenant was established. 00:25:27.250 --> 00:25:29.430 And so Saul was getting the new covenant treatment 00:25:29.430 --> 00:25:33.150 way back here in the Old Testament. Right? It 00:25:33.150 --> 00:25:36.710 can't be that. But I mean, that's what we tend 00:25:36.710 --> 00:25:40.269 to think. Is that right? Yeah, for sure. Okay, 00:25:40.309 --> 00:25:43.069 so it's not that. So what does the word heart 00:25:43.069 --> 00:25:54.680 mean in the Old Testament? So the center of his 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:57.940 being, I think in the Hebrew part, could mean 00:25:57.940 --> 00:26:01.519 all kinds of things. But essentially, it means 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:05.720 the center of a person. So something did change 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:10.420 about Saul, without a doubt. Otherwise, the verse 00:26:10.420 --> 00:26:12.779 is meaningless. But we can't read into it that 00:26:12.779 --> 00:26:16.079 he was regenerated by the Holy Spirit. That would 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:18.680 be to read into the Old Testament, New Testament 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:23.400 language. Before we got here to Samuel, or maybe 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:25.579 we took a break here, but we talked about change, 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:30.200 right? And how does a Christian change? And what 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:34.359 are the means that God gives us for change? And 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:36.420 one of the things we noticed is that in the Old 00:26:36.420 --> 00:26:40.299 Testament, that work of the Spirit, that transforming 00:26:40.299 --> 00:26:43.359 work of the Spirit that's changing you and me 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:50.279 progressively into to look and to act, to look... 00:26:50.509 --> 00:26:53.690 to others by our actions more and more like Jesus. 00:26:54.650 --> 00:26:56.730 That work didn't go on in the Old Testament. 00:26:57.069 --> 00:27:00.890 We don't have any, well, I guess I can't say 00:27:00.890 --> 00:27:03.329 that definitively. What I can say is that we're 00:27:03.329 --> 00:27:05.950 not given any evidence of it in the Scriptures. 00:27:06.190 --> 00:27:08.049 So maybe it happened, but it wasn't important 00:27:08.049 --> 00:27:10.089 enough for us to know about it, and that's fine. 00:27:10.710 --> 00:27:15.670 But I think if it was a work of the Spirit in 00:27:15.670 --> 00:27:17.450 the Old Testament, I think we would see evidence 00:27:17.450 --> 00:27:19.869 of it. Even in the life of David, we don't see, 00:27:20.410 --> 00:27:23.609 What you're seeing in the life of Saul. We see 00:27:23.609 --> 00:27:26.670 some similar things. In the life of David. He 00:27:26.670 --> 00:27:32.650 ends his life. In a pretty bad way. So I mean. 00:27:32.710 --> 00:27:37.670 And all the judges. None of them did. What we 00:27:37.670 --> 00:27:40.869 would expect them to do. So I want to be. I want 00:27:40.869 --> 00:27:42.769 to be a little bit more cautious than you are. 00:27:42.869 --> 00:27:45.549 In saying Saul is this bad guy. Or you know. 00:27:45.809 --> 00:27:51.900 Of course there's hope for Saul. I mean. Samuel 00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:56.400 mentions Jephthah, the guy that sacrifices his 00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:01.200 daughter. Jephthah is in the hall of faith in 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:05.180 Hebrews. If there's hope for him, there's hope 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:10.859 for Saul. Saul never did go through with killing 00:28:10.859 --> 00:28:13.420 God's anointed, David, even though he chased 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:22.660 him down for years. Are you expecting to see 00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:26.779 Saul in heaven when you go? I refuse to pass 00:28:26.779 --> 00:28:29.700 judgment on him. I would have to say I'm not 00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:34.519 expecting it. Okay. Thankfully, it's not given 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:38.400 to us to be the judge, the jury, and the executioner. 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.839 So I'm probably a little more optimistic than 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:48.519 your grandpa. But I'm optimistic even of all 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:54.920 the judges. Left a legacy of chaos. Okay, what 00:28:54.920 --> 00:29:10.420 else? Yes. Yeah, I mean, he was a changed man. 00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:18.140 Remember, now, the word, I don't know what the 00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:20.140 word is in the King James about the spirit coming 00:29:20.140 --> 00:29:25.880 on you. When Samuel makes that declaration to 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:40.440 Saul. In verse 6 of chapter 10. Yeah, so he says 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:49.759 the Spirit will come upon him. Yeah, and then 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:51.740 in verse 10 it says, And the Spirit of God came 00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:54.519 upon him. There's only three people in the Bible 00:29:54.519 --> 00:30:00.779 where that is said. The word literally, and probably 00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:04.200 easier, is rushed upon him. So who are those 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:07.039 three people? Anybody know? We've already studied 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:12.480 one of them back in... Samson is one. Saul is 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:23.700 the second. And who's the third? David. Now, 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:25.960 you remember what happened when the spirit rushed 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:34.460 upon Samson. What did he do? Okay, he killed 00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:39.579 a bunch of people with what? And then he found 00:30:39.579 --> 00:30:44.019 what? A wild and roaring lion that he tore into 00:30:44.019 --> 00:30:56.430 pieces. So, what was your question? Okay. So 00:30:56.430 --> 00:30:59.109 when the spirit rushed upon Samson, he changed. 00:31:00.630 --> 00:31:04.869 Okay. He saw that lion and he tore it to shreds. 00:31:05.349 --> 00:31:09.990 Now, was that a lifetime of slow progressive 00:31:09.990 --> 00:31:12.950 change? Was that a change that lasted for the 00:31:12.950 --> 00:31:15.490 rest of his life? That's where we get into the 00:31:15.490 --> 00:31:17.450 question of whether or not we expect to see Saul 00:31:17.450 --> 00:31:21.970 in heaven. But he did change. And when Saul changed 00:31:21.970 --> 00:31:33.109 here, what did he do? He prophesied. So the change 00:31:33.109 --> 00:31:36.890 is evident, and I think it's, but some things 00:31:36.890 --> 00:31:41.809 didn't change. But there was a change that happened. 00:31:42.849 --> 00:31:45.450 What did everybody else think when it said that 00:31:45.450 --> 00:31:49.789 Samuel is going to tell them tomorrow that something 00:31:49.789 --> 00:31:54.170 else is on Saul's mind? Did you guys catch that 00:31:54.170 --> 00:32:07.509 in chapter 9? In verse 19, For ye shall eat with 00:32:07.509 --> 00:32:10.470 me today, and tomorrow I will let thee go, and 00:32:10.470 --> 00:32:12.990 I will tell thee all that is in thine heart. 00:32:13.369 --> 00:32:15.970 And as for thine asses that were lost three days 00:32:15.970 --> 00:32:18.309 ago, set not thy mind on them, they've been found. 00:32:19.089 --> 00:32:25.109 What was on Saul's mind? The donkeys? It wasn't 00:32:25.109 --> 00:32:45.829 the donkeys. Yeah, the desire of all Israel. 00:32:45.970 --> 00:32:48.849 Right. That's right after. That's in verse 20. 00:32:49.750 --> 00:32:53.430 19 and then verse 20. No, so that wasn't on his 00:32:53.430 --> 00:32:56.230 mind. But that was Samuel's answer to him in 00:32:56.230 --> 00:32:59.390 that day. What does that mean? You got any idea 00:32:59.390 --> 00:33:08.849 for us? The end of verse 20. And on whom is all 00:33:08.849 --> 00:33:13.710 the desire of Israel. Is it not on thee and on 00:33:13.710 --> 00:33:23.849 thy father's house? Did we just lose the mic 00:33:23.849 --> 00:33:33.170 again? Okay. I'll speak louder. So what does 00:33:33.170 --> 00:33:39.549 that phrase mean? So they're fixing their desire 00:33:39.549 --> 00:33:43.880 on... They're seeing Saul as the answer to their 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:47.779 demand for a king. I think that's probably most 00:33:47.779 --> 00:33:56.980 likely what it is. So it seems peculiar, at least, 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.680 that Samuel says to Saul, I'm going to tell you 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.940 everything else that's on your heart, and I'm 00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:04.160 going to give you a foretaste now that all of 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:06.299 Israel is looking to you as the answer to their 00:34:06.299 --> 00:34:10.019 demand for a king. So I'm suspecting that somewhere 00:34:10.019 --> 00:34:14.559 in Saul's heart, this idea had already come upon 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:17.480 him that he was going to be a significant figure 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:20.860 in the history of Israel. And he had his eye 00:34:20.860 --> 00:34:26.980 on the throne. That's my guess. And the closest 00:34:26.980 --> 00:34:30.119 thing to king that we have in this whole section 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.780 that we read is when Samuel responds to his uncle 00:34:32.780 --> 00:34:39.480 and he says, All he told me about was where the 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:42.800 lost donkeys were. But the narrator tells us 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:44.659 he didn't tell him anything about what Samuel 00:34:44.659 --> 00:34:50.800 had told him about the kingdom. Now, so whose 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:57.719 perspective is that from? When you're reading, 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:03.260 you've got to know whose eyes am I seeing this 00:35:03.260 --> 00:35:07.039 thing through? And we go back and forth. At the 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.880 beginning, we're seeing it through Saul's eyes. 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:11.860 Then we're seeing it through Samuel's eyes. And 00:35:11.860 --> 00:35:14.300 then we get the chances to see it also through 00:35:14.300 --> 00:35:16.659 God's eyes. And at the end, what we're seeing 00:35:16.659 --> 00:35:21.059 is that the perspective from Saul's eyes is that 00:35:21.059 --> 00:35:23.780 he withheld from his uncle the information that 00:35:23.780 --> 00:35:26.519 he had on his heart about what was going to happen 00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:31.300 with the kingdom of Israel. So the only mention, 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:36.170 the closest mention of king, Comes from Saul's 00:35:36.170 --> 00:35:43.989 own mind. So. I you know. Why is this all kind 00:35:43.989 --> 00:35:47.070 of like. I won't say confusing. Because I don't 00:35:47.070 --> 00:35:49.949 think it's confusing. But it's all like mysterious. 00:35:50.130 --> 00:35:57.309 And kind of. Not in black and white. Why is that? 00:35:58.929 --> 00:36:03.389 Anybody give any thought to that? Why no king? 00:36:05.050 --> 00:36:08.230 Why doesn't Samuel just come right out when Saul 00:36:08.230 --> 00:36:11.389 walks up like he did when he saw David and say, 00:36:11.449 --> 00:36:17.570 behold, the first king of Israel. Why doesn't 00:36:17.570 --> 00:36:24.929 he do that? Nobody gave him any thought to that. 00:36:27.750 --> 00:36:29.829 Well, I think there's a couple reasons. Number 00:36:29.829 --> 00:36:34.250 one, the role of a king in Israel was... What? 00:36:34.349 --> 00:36:36.650 Ill -defined? Do we want to use that terminology? 00:36:38.130 --> 00:36:41.190 I mean, we had those verses back there in Deuteronomy, 00:36:41.250 --> 00:36:45.969 and then Samuel gave instruction. We have allusions 00:36:45.969 --> 00:36:50.929 to it back even in the Garden, and then to Abraham 00:36:50.929 --> 00:36:57.510 and to Sarah. But, you know, it's yet to be defined. 00:36:57.730 --> 00:37:00.269 So what you're seeing here in these chapters 00:37:00.269 --> 00:37:04.920 is the very beginnings. of a definition of what 00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:09.460 it means to be a king in Israel. And God in his 00:37:09.460 --> 00:37:15.360 mercy and in his long suffering just gave opportunity 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:19.199 after opportunity after opportunity to Saul to 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.820 reckon himself to the idea that God was the king 00:37:22.820 --> 00:37:26.699 and he was going to mediate God's rule to the 00:37:26.699 --> 00:37:32.699 people through Saul. So that's what's going on 00:37:32.699 --> 00:37:35.559 here. The reason it isn't just come right out 00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.019 and said is because Saul didn't have any idea 00:37:38.019 --> 00:37:41.420 what a king was supposed to be any more than 00:37:41.420 --> 00:37:44.880 probably 99 % of the rest of the Israelites. 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:50.880 There was undoubtedly a few that had remembered 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.420 or oral traditions that had passed down about 00:37:53.420 --> 00:37:56.400 Deuteronomy 17 and expected that... There would 00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.460 be a king and that king would have the law of 00:37:58.460 --> 00:38:00.619 God on his right hand side that he had written 00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:04.199 and that everything he did he would check according 00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:07.420 to that revealed will of God as he led the people. 00:38:08.380 --> 00:38:10.579 So that's one of the reasons that it's kind of 00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:16.320 a little bit blurry and doesn't come right out. 00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:22.480 What's the other reason? I think probably because 00:38:26.090 --> 00:38:28.849 The people demanded it, and they demanded a king 00:38:28.849 --> 00:38:31.289 like all the other nations, and they had this 00:38:31.289 --> 00:38:33.610 idea in their head the same way that Saul did, 00:38:33.650 --> 00:38:36.650 that he was going to be the only authority. And, 00:38:36.690 --> 00:38:41.150 you know, I won't say it wasn't God's will, because 00:38:41.150 --> 00:38:43.889 we've already heard that God was providentially 00:38:43.889 --> 00:38:47.750 working to bring to pass the installation and 00:38:47.750 --> 00:38:51.329 the anointing of Saul as king in Israel. But 00:38:51.329 --> 00:38:56.440 it wasn't... God's revealed will for the people, 00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:59.599 for kingship to come about in this way. And so 00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:02.619 I think that's why we don't see just this overwhelming 00:39:02.619 --> 00:39:09.400 declarations of joy and glory and rejoicing that 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:13.400 kingship had come to Israel. That's my guess. 00:39:13.539 --> 00:39:18.500 It's all full of mystery. Does anybody see any 00:39:18.500 --> 00:39:29.630 irony in any of this? I'm so glad you said Paul 00:39:29.630 --> 00:39:31.269 because I don't know how many times in my head 00:39:31.269 --> 00:39:53.590 I've said Paul. I mean there's nothing in there. 00:39:53.980 --> 00:39:55.860 There's nothing in the text that would lead us 00:39:55.860 --> 00:39:58.019 to believe that this was some kind of false humility. 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:02.940 I think he probably, I mean, I think he believed 00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:11.699 it. Kish was a mighty man of influence. Oh, Kish, 00:40:11.699 --> 00:40:15.340 his father was. Yeah, but what do we know about 00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:19.440 the tribe of Benjamin? What? They're the worst. 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:29.500 If Saul traced his lineage back, it would be, 00:40:29.579 --> 00:40:32.079 how many options would he have for a father? 00:40:34.940 --> 00:40:40.139 I think it was 50, right? There was 50 men left 00:40:40.139 --> 00:40:42.699 in Benjamin because what? Because they killed 00:40:42.699 --> 00:40:45.440 the, where was that guy from? The Ephraimite? 00:40:45.780 --> 00:40:49.719 Yeah. Remember? And then all of Israel came upon 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:51.199 him and they killed them all. And they said, 00:40:51.219 --> 00:40:55.420 hold on a minute. We got to have 12 tribes here. 00:40:55.539 --> 00:40:57.239 And there was 50 of them left, but there was 00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:00.739 no women left. And so what was the solution? 00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:05.440 They said, sneak up that way. There's going to 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:09.239 be a party. And you 50 guys just go in there 00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:12.780 and trick everybody and make them think that 00:41:12.780 --> 00:41:15.900 you're here for the party. And then when nobody's 00:41:15.900 --> 00:41:18.460 looking, snag you a woman and get back down there 00:41:18.460 --> 00:41:22.019 to Benjamin. Now, that's where the tribe of Benjamin 00:41:22.019 --> 00:41:28.199 came from. So, I mean, if Saul wouldn't have 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:32.320 been a little bit like just a few hundred years 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:34.739 ago or just a little while ago, all of Israel 00:41:34.739 --> 00:41:37.579 was against us, and it was just 50 of us. And 00:41:37.579 --> 00:41:40.800 now, yeah, we've lived there, but it's kind of 00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:43.380 easy to make money when there's only 50 of you 00:41:43.380 --> 00:41:47.860 in this big old territory. All 50 of us are landowners 00:41:47.860 --> 00:41:55.489 now. So I think it was probably legitimate. I 00:41:55.489 --> 00:41:58.449 don't see any reason for us to question it. It's 00:41:58.449 --> 00:42:00.349 the same type of declaration that we've heard 00:42:00.349 --> 00:42:08.250 from who? Not in this book necessarily, not in 00:42:08.250 --> 00:42:10.750 Samuel, but as you've read your Bible. Who else 00:42:10.750 --> 00:42:15.230 said something similar to that? Okay, and who 00:42:15.230 --> 00:42:20.599 else? Okay, so those are two pretty good. And 00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:25.139 they've said the same thing that Saul has said. 00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:27.860 It's been presented to us in the same way as 00:42:27.860 --> 00:42:31.320 Moses was. It's 802. Somebody should have hollered 00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:36.860 at him. Alright, so next week we will get further 00:42:36.860 --> 00:42:40.659 into it. So now you've got some thought. Maybe 00:42:40.659 --> 00:42:43.679 you've organized it in your mind a little bit. 00:42:43.780 --> 00:42:48.420 And then come prepared. We'll get some good application. 00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:52.340 answers, hopefully.