1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,000 We direct your attention to the word of God. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,400 You may remain standing now for the reading of the word. 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:11,000 First, Samuel chapter 10. Now, Samuel call the people 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,500 together to the Lord at Miss spa and he said to the people of 5 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:17,200 Israel, thus says the Lord the god of Israel. 6 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:20,500 I brought up Israel out of Egypt. 7 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:23,600 I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,800 of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you. 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,600 But today, you have rejected your God who saves you, from all 10 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,100 your calamities and your distresses. 11 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:36,400 And you have said to him such a king over us. 12 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:40,000 Now, therefore present yourselves before the Lord by 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,100 your tribes and by your thousands. 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,200 Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near and The 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,800 Tribe of Benjamin was taken by lat. 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,300 He brought the Tribe of Benjamin nearby, it's Clans. 17 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:57,500 And the clan of the mate Rights was taken by lot and soul. 18 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:00,100 The son of Kish was taken by lot. 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,800 But when they sought Soul he could not be found. 20 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,000 So they inquired again of the Lord. 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Is there a man still to come? And the Lord said, behold he has 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,900 hidden himself among the baggage. 23 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,800 Then they ran and took him from there. 24 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,700 And when he stood apart, among the people, he was taller than 25 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:22,800 any of the people from his shoulders upward. 26 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:25,300 And Samuel said to all the people. 27 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:28,700 Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen. 28 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:33,300 There is none like him among all the people and all the people 29 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:39,000 shouted, long, live, the king, the word of the Lord. 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:52,200 You may be seated. That very first verse sets, the 31 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,200 stage. The same, you'll call the people 32 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,600 together to the Lord at Miss Paul. 33 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:05,300 Macaulay the people together especially by their thousands. 34 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:07,600 He was calling upon the Elders of Israel. 35 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,800 Remember there were Twelve Tribes and these Twelve Tribes 36 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:16,100 had Elders. The firstborn and the others of 37 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:19,900 the patriarch of the tribe, and then there would be others, and 38 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:24,100 they would number them, and they numbered into the thousands and 39 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:27,800 thousands each one. In fact, it would not be but two 40 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,000 generations later. They would be so many of them in 41 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,300 the land that the Lord would say, they're like the sand of 42 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:36,500 the Sea and the stars of the sky just like I promised Abraham. 43 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,900 Back earlier about 400-plus years earlier. 44 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,600 And therefore, actually about 900 years earlier. 45 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,600 Another think about it. It's wow. 46 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,100 Call them all together. Let's have an assembly, 47 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:54,500 especially of the elders. Let's bring them all together. 48 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:59,700 In the place, he chose to bring the people together with solemn 49 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:05,200 assembly was mizpah, Miss. Paul was a tremendous location. 50 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,600 You remember, a few weeks ago. We had a great Revival at Miss 51 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,600 Paula. It was there with the people 52 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,600 gathered and they said we want to serve the Lord. 53 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:17,200 He said, well, if you want to serve the Lord tear down, all of 54 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,800 these idols and put your faith in your trust in the Lord and 55 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,100 the people had a great time of repentance and Revival and 56 00:03:24,108 --> 00:03:26,900 they'd come back to the Lord. And they Renewed, their Covenant 57 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:29,800 in their faith, in the Lord and the lord gave them a great 58 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,600 Victory. When Samuel prayed and they 59 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,000 defeated the Philistines. Miss Val was a high point in the 60 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,700 life of Israel in this time and they erected a stone Ebenezer 61 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:44,100 hither to has the Lord, but helped us and they made it a 62 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:49,200 special place of memory. It's Not Unusual that Samuel 63 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,000 would call them back to this place. 64 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,500 This place. There was a physical reminder of 65 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:57,300 how the Lord had help. Them and how he had done them so 66 00:03:57,300 --> 00:03:59,900 much good and now he calls together this. 67 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:03,600 Holy Congress convocation, but something that strikes me in 68 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,200 this stage setting first, verse is now Samuel called the people 69 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,900 together to the Lord. Atma Spa. 70 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:18,100 That's significant. Samuel has brought the people 71 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:22,500 together before God one more time. 72 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:25,600 This faithful prophet. Samuel is trying to bring God's 73 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,800 people back to themselves back to their senses back to 74 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,900 remembering who God is and what God has done. 75 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:36,700 God's leaders have done this. Moses on the plains of Moab 76 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:40,300 gather the people together to hear the words of the Covenant. 77 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,700 Some years later. Joshua had brought the people 78 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:46,500 together at shechem that mountie ball and Garrison to their 79 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:51,200 renew, the Covenant and to come back to their God and now Samuel 80 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,400 was bringing the people back to Ebenezer back to the place where 81 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,300 they had marked and noted that God had been their Helper and 82 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:01,500 God had given them. Great Victory. 83 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:05,300 So he's calling them to the Lord. 84 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:08,300 That's the first order of business. 85 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,400 To call them to the Lord, to come to the Lord to obey the 86 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,800 Lord, to walk in his statutes to love him with all their heart, 87 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,900 to keep his Commandments to live in the light of his presence. 88 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,200 Samuels, calling God's people back. 89 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:34,900 God's people need to go back. Even the patriarch felt like it 90 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,400 one point. He had to go back to Bethel back 91 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,600 to Bethel the house of God to renew and defined the presence 92 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,600 of God that had been lost. That was Israel's Heritage. 93 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:51,100 Israel was a people that God had chosen for himself to reveal 94 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:55,400 himself to them. That they would be his own 95 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,200 precious peculiar people. That's what God has done for us, 96 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,200 isn't it? Hasn't the Lord called us to 97 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,200 himself. Separated us from the world, 98 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,400 separated us from that future. That would have been ours. 99 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,100 If we have not heard and answered his call today. 100 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,300 We celebrate All Saints Day. I think we've sort of worked a 101 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:18,800 little too meaning of that over. In the medieval church. 102 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,100 It was a time where we looked at those who had been venerated. 103 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,000 But in our church, we think of All Saints as those people of 104 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,800 God. Those precious people of God, 105 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:33,700 all of God's people. All of his saints, that form a 106 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:38,400 great cloud of witnesses. Run the race before us. 107 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,200 That group of people that we preach, almost every Sunday that 108 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,100 are to persevere in their faith and in their obedience and in 109 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:50,700 their following and loving the Lord, the perseverance of the 110 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:54,400 Saints, All Saints. And that's what? 111 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:00,100 Samuel is doing. He wasn't preaching to the 112 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:03,200 Philistines. He wasn't preaching to the 113 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,000 Canaanites. He wasn't preaching, even to the 114 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Egyptians, who's preaching to God's people. 115 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,700 That is who needs to hear the voice of God. 116 00:07:12,700 --> 00:07:16,300 That's who needs to come together. 117 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,700 Back to the Lord. Samuel begin to preach. 118 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:25,300 It says here in the very next verse. 119 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:27,100 He said he said to the people of Israel. 120 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,800 Thus says, the Lord, that's the prophetic formula when the 121 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:33,200 prophets want to put something out there in front of God's 122 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:33,900 people. That's clear. 123 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:37,900 And plain. They say thus says the Lord then 124 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:41,200 he begins a recount of what the Lord says. 125 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,000 I brought up Israel out of Egypt. 126 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,900 I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand 127 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:53,300 of all the kingdoms. That were oppressing you. 128 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,500 God had brought them up. He had delivered them. 129 00:07:56,500 --> 00:08:00,200 He had saved them but it but beyond that they had asked for a 130 00:08:00,207 --> 00:08:03,400 king principally because they wanted a man to lead them into 131 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,300 battle. And Samuel says to God's people, 132 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:13,300 the Lord defeated the Pharaoh the armies of Egypt and it 133 00:08:13,308 --> 00:08:15,900 didn't stop there. Just read the account. 134 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,600 God enabled them in the wilderness to to defeat the 135 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,400 amalekites. When they came to the passage. 136 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:30,000 Through the kingdoms of lot. They had fought battles with 137 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:37,200 Amman and with Moab when they came into the transjordan, god 138 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,500 enabled them to have Victory and passage over the edomites. 139 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:46,500 The descendants of Saw of he saw and now when they came into the 140 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:51,500 land under Joshua God enabled him to have victory over the 141 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:56,200 Amorite and all of the Canaanites Time After Time, 142 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,500 After Time when they had these major battles go He had won the 143 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:02,800 victory for them and the only battles they lost with the 144 00:09:02,808 --> 00:09:04,400 battles. God made him lose because he 145 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,000 wanted to teach him a lesson. He wanted to bring them back to 146 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,900 repentance. Never thought that the only 147 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:16,800 difficulties you have in your life or what God lovingly brings 148 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,300 upon you so you'll get on your knees and turn to him. 149 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:26,800 For whom the Lord, loveth. He chasing it. 150 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:34,700 And scourges every son that his his That was Israel's history 151 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:36,900 and Sam was just saying, don't you see? 152 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:46,700 This is a Story here A History, A History of victory that God 153 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:50,500 had given his people. And yet notice the very next 154 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:54,700 verse. But however, instead of learning 155 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:58,000 from all of that, in keeping the Lord, as your king and following 156 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,900 him and waiting on God, to raise up a king after his own 157 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:04,300 choosing. A king. 158 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,800 Who would be the kind of King, that Israel was supposed to have 159 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,000 in would also be of the, of the tribe, you have asked for a 160 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 king, like, all the other nations, you have forsaken, your 161 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,700 holy status, and you want to be common, you want to be every 162 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:21,500 day. You want to be worldly? 163 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,000 Today, you've rejected your God. Remember, God had told Samuel. 164 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:30,300 They didn't reject you, and they came to Samuel. 165 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:31,700 Very politely. They said, well, you're getting 166 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:35,100 old and you're becoming inefficient and we have a lot of 167 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:37,800 things that need to be done and your sons are not fit to follow 168 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:43,800 in your footsteps and judge us and be our Our leader. 169 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:49,900 So we need a king. And Samuel was flat-out, angry. 170 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,000 Yeah, that's what the scripture says. 171 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,500 He was angry. The Lord said, no, they have not 172 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,700 rejected, you Samuel, you have properly represented in followed 173 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:01,400 me. They've rejected me. 174 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:08,300 It goes way to the very top. It is a rebellion against my 175 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:12,200 sovereignty. That's really what sin is, isn't 176 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:18,700 it? It is treason against the most 177 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:22,200 high God. It's not. 178 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:28,100 Challo. It's not slight. 179 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:35,500 Sin is serious. See, it's always about the 180 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:38,600 condition of the heart. So Samuels preaching now to the 181 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,100 people and you've rejected your God, who saves you, from all 182 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:44,800 your calamities in your distresses, and you have said to 183 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:51,300 him set a king over us. The Lord told him back in 184 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:54,900 Deuteronomy that they would come into the land and one day they 185 00:11:54,900 --> 00:11:57,600 would. Desire a king. 186 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,400 And they would get a king Lord would give them a king and the 187 00:12:00,408 --> 00:12:03,000 king would be the of such and such and he should do certain 188 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,900 things. And we looked at those a couple 189 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:07,900 of weeks ago, that list of things that the ideal king and 190 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:10,600 the good king would do some of the things harmful that the king 191 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,700 will do. That's not what God would have 192 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:13,100 him. Do. 193 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:17,700 There was a law above the king, that was to govern a 194 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:20,300 constitution. That was to govern the 195 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:26,100 government. You've asked for a king. 196 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,300 You're going to get a king. So, Samuel says to the people 197 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:38,000 now. Present yourselves before the 198 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:52,100 Lord, by your tribes. and by your thousands, the last time 199 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:56,000 they did this in Israel. They were looking for a man. 200 00:12:57,500 --> 00:12:59,700 They're looking for a man this time looking for a man to be 201 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:03,300 king last time. God called him to this 202 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:06,200 particular. Array. 203 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:10,200 When he was looking for a man who had sinned. 204 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:16,600 Remember the story back in judges Joshua seven where they 205 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,300 were looking for the man that had sinned that caused him to 206 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:23,400 lose the battle at AI whereas they'd won the great victory at 207 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:27,300 Jericho. Now, there's a search for The 208 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:30,400 Sinner. The reason there's a defeat in 209 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,900 God's Camp is because there's a sinner in God's camp. 210 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,700 They were looking for Aiken. And Joshua lined them up by 211 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:46,100 tribes and he began to cast lots working its way down from the 212 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:53,300 tribe to the clan to the household to the man. 213 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,500 So that they could point out and find The Sinner. 214 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,600 That's what happened in Joshua's day. 215 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:05,500 Now, they're here in this day. God's called them to the same 216 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,500 array. I wonder if anyone probably, 217 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:13,500 besides Samuel knew this the solemn occasion. 218 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:16,700 But that's what they did. They lined up. 219 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:19,600 They cast lots. We're not sure exactly how they 220 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,100 did it. The prescribed way for finding 221 00:14:23,500 --> 00:14:26,600 an answer was to inquire of the Lord and the priest carried in 222 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,800 his breastplate, in his ephod, in a little pouch, a little 223 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,600 pocket, a to small instruments. We don't know exactly what they 224 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,500 were Stones. Perhaps maybe pieces of metal, 225 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:43,000 but they were the urim and the thummim, the ER Lament The 226 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,300 Curse, the thumb and It perfect. When there was a perfect 227 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:51,300 alignment of these two stones or emblems. 228 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:53,100 It was affirmative. Yes. 229 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:57,300 Perfect. God is with you, when it was a 230 00:14:57,300 --> 00:14:59,500 misalignment. One said, one thing in one said 231 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:02,800 the other words, an incongruity in an inconsistency in the to 232 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:05,900 collect flipping coins in heaven, to come up heads. 233 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,400 That's yes, one. Come up. 234 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:08,600 Heads one. Come up Tails. 235 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:12,900 That's no. That was the way they cast the 236 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:15,300 lots and lot casting is all through the scripture. 237 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,200 He just follow it all the way through you for through the 238 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,500 Kings David Saul, cast, lots, David cast, lots the cast lots 239 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:25,400 in the days of the prophets. Even cast lots in the New 240 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,600 Testament. Acts chapter one. 241 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,800 That's how Matthias became the 12th Apostle replacing Judas was 242 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,800 by the casting of lots, because here's what they believed. 243 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:40,400 They believe Proverbs 16:33 where it said, the lot is cast 244 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:46,100 into the lap. But the Lord makes the decision. 245 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:51,200 So this was a decision that they would all witness was a fair and 246 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,100 square deal. It was the flip of the coin that 247 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:56,400 they could all see it. It was out there in the open but 248 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,500 yet the results. They believe was what God 249 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:04,000 wanted. And they did, they did this cast 250 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,100 of lots? In it came up Tribe of Benjamin. 251 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,200 Well, we're narrowing it down now, bring it down to the 252 00:16:11,208 --> 00:16:16,700 merits, the clan. And then to the household of 253 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:22,600 Kish and then his son Saul. And it's an interesting little 254 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,100 scene here, which has been appointed a lot of discussion. 255 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:34,300 I'll try to not say too much about it, but he says and Saul 256 00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:39,700 the son of cash was taken by lot, but when they sought him, 257 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,600 he could not be found. So they inquired, again of the 258 00:16:44,608 --> 00:16:45,700 Lord. Is there, a man? 259 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:50,200 Still to come? This was one of those lots where 260 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:55,300 you had to be present to win? They had came up Saul. 261 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:57,000 And where Saul he's not. Here. 262 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,700 Is there somebody else? Who's next door? 263 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:03,700 Just hold on. Lord says, he's, he's present. 264 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,900 He's just hiding. And here was this tall handsome 265 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:13,800 capable in many ways incapable and many other ways as we saw 266 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:19,500 last week. Hiding hiding in the baggage. 267 00:17:20,099 --> 00:17:22,200 These people had traveled from all over the kingdom. 268 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,200 Had taken them days to come. They would come in there. 269 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,200 Oxcarts. They'd come in their donkeys, 270 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:30,500 riding in their Caravans, and they had a ton of baggage. 271 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:33,800 And I imagine it was all piled around in, piles around the 272 00:17:33,808 --> 00:17:38,300 camp. When they went the Lord said 273 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:40,700 he's here. They ran to find him. 274 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:44,000 We need to get him out in front of the people very quickly 275 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,300 before they become some question about what's going on. 276 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:47,900 Some question about this decision. 277 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,200 Is somebody messing with The Ballot Box. 278 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,600 What's happening here and they run to find him in the Lord 279 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:59,300 spotted him and pull him out. Said, he's in the baggage. 280 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 He's back there where he feels comfortable in his comfort zone. 281 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:04,700 He's back there with the donkeys. 282 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:12,300 And they pull him out of his comfort zone and put him in 283 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:16,100 right in the middle. Now be aware that a lot of 284 00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:18,900 things that happened. You remember that he had been 285 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,600 appointed by the Lord. He had been anointed by the 286 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,400 prophet already. Saul knew he was the man. 287 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:30,600 It's all knew. It was coming his way. 288 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:35,900 And when that lot was cast, it was just a triple or quadruple. 289 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:37,700 Confirmation. God had already given him three 290 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:41,200 confirmations of his call and his selection in, this was the 291 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:45,800 fourth and final and he needed to appear before the people in 292 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,000 order to be accepted by the people in order to have the 293 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,600 approbation of the people. And bear in mind, this was not 294 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,600 the coronation of Saul. That's going to happen neck in 295 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,200 the next chapter. He's going to be crowned, King 296 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,700 and made King at gilgal. This is just the time when 297 00:19:02,700 --> 00:19:07,000 Israel comes to The Crucible of their thinking, where they 298 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,900 actually bring out the man who will be their King. 299 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:17,000 And he is placed in the middle. It's interesting to text here. 300 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,300 He said when he stood among the people, he was taller than any 301 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:22,900 of the people from his shoulders upward and Samuel said to all 302 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:27,200 the people. Do you see him whom the Lord has 303 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,400 chosen? There is none like him among all 304 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:36,900 the people. That's an interesting phrase, 305 00:19:36,900 --> 00:19:39,000 It's translated in some of the older. 306 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:44,400 Text behold the man. Behold. 307 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,200 Your king. Look at your king. 308 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,400 What do you think of him? See him standing there. 309 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,200 No doubt. Shy embarrassed overwhelmed in 310 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:06,200 the middle Center Stage. Up front on the microphone. this 311 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:12,100 is, The man. The approbation of God's people 312 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,300 was given long live. The king when I was studying 313 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:18,300 through this passage. I was arrested. 314 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:20,800 I was just stopped in my in my heart. 315 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:25,600 I said hold it. Where have I seen this seen 316 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,500 before? Fast forward 11 centuries. 317 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,200 There. Standing before Pilate. 318 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,300 Christ have been put in the middle of the people on what was 319 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:47,300 called the pavement in the middle of that great room. 320 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,800 By Pilot had been placed there and there stood Jesus. 321 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,800 Betrayed. Bound. 322 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:03,400 Falsely accused. Condemned. 323 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,200 Be his body was lacerated. Blood was already dripping from 324 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,900 his body. His beard had been pulled out. 325 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:14,600 Did you know, that was an Old Testament symbol of defeat? 326 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:17,100 One of the things they would do to a soldier when they had 327 00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:19,100 defeated him as they would pull out his beard. 328 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:23,100 Or in some cases if he had mercy that we shave him clean. 329 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,400 But the pulling out of the beard was a symbol of absolute. 330 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:33,600 Defeat pilot, representing Rome, and conquered the Lord's, king 331 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:36,600 the king of the Jews, and that's how pilot thought of him. 332 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,100 And that's what pilot put up on the cross. 333 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,900 Was the king of the Jews and they disputed with that. 334 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:46,500 They said no he claimed to be king pilots and what I have 335 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,000 written. I have written if there was ever 336 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,600 a man who quibbled over truth and told the truth, it was 337 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,900 pilot. Tyler told the truth when he 338 00:21:55,908 --> 00:21:59,800 said I find no fault in him. The sinless Son of God had 339 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,200 nothing to condemn him and that there he stood he had his beard 340 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,700 pulled out. He was mocked by the people spat 341 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:10,600 upon. This is a long way from the 342 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,000 approbation that was given to King Saul on this day. 343 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,500 He standing there in a in a makeshift. 344 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:23,800 Mocking robe. He's wearing a crown of thorns 345 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,000 that have been pressed to not just for the pain, but for the 346 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,300 symbolism, the Thorns represented the curse. 347 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,900 Back in the Garden of Eden. It's the thorns and thistles 348 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:38,800 that were the curse of the land. And here he was crowned Upon 349 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:43,700 Jesus here. He was burying the curse of sin, 350 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:47,700 the curse of the law, the curse, they would send him to his 351 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:51,700 death. As he stood, there is blood 352 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,600 soaking through His Garment and dripping down on the pavement. 353 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,100 What did Pilots say? Behold the man. 354 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:03,700 Look at your king, behold, your king. 355 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,500 And he turned him over. To be crucified. 356 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,000 We thought the writer says that he suffered for his own sins 357 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,500 after all. He was a traitor. 358 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:23,800 He was a blasphemer. We thought he was smitten of God 359 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,400 for his own transgressions. He was getting what he deserved, 360 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,800 wasn't he? That's what we thought we were 361 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,800 carrying out. Justice said, the Sanhedrin said 362 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,300 Herod said, pilate said you and me. 363 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:44,000 Shirley. He hath, borne our iniquities, 364 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,400 our sins, our transgressions, the penalty that is do us was 365 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:55,800 placed upon him. And there this man, Jesus Christ 366 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:00,000 died. As a substitute, the high 367 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,400 priest. And mockingly said, you know, 368 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,600 it's best that one man die for the people. 369 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,100 That's exactly what the substitutionary atonement of 370 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:12,000 Christ. Is one man dying for the people 371 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:15,400 dying for you and me dying for All Saints. 372 00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:18,800 I'll stop with just one more thing. 373 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,200 I don't have time to develop it and I don't think I need to. 374 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,800 What was the exclamation of the people? 375 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:27,900 Long live. The king. 376 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,500 Long live. The king. 377 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:37,400 We fast-forwarded 11 centuries. Let's rewind, 20 centuries. 378 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:45,300 It's the resurrection. Jesus was raised to long life, 379 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,800 eternal life. The king, whose Dominion is 380 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,500 forever eternal life, which he, then bestows upon his own. 381 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,700 He had borne, the curses of the Covenant. 382 00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:59,400 Now, he was given by the power of the spirit of God raised from 383 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,100 the dead. He was given the blessing of the 384 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:03,600 Covenant, in the blessing of the Covenant is you will live 385 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:10,200 forever. No, it's not about Soul. 386 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,400 It's really not about Eli the old priest. 387 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:16,800 It's really not about Samuel the prophet. 388 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:21,300 When we read these stories out of the Old Testament out of the 389 00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:23,800 Hebrew scripture, sacred history. 390 00:25:25,300 --> 00:25:29,500 We're reading about Christ. Every time you turn a page in 391 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:32,800 that Old Testament, something will point you to Christ. 392 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:35,000 Think I'm out of clothing. The Bible, too, soon. 393 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,400 Let me see if I can find it again. 394 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:41,500 I like what Samuel said, if you hadn't been speaking of Saul 395 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:43,600 directly to been, speaking of Christ, have been beautiful 396 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,500 words. Do you see him whom the Lord has 397 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:49,400 chosen? Do you see Christ? 398 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,700 There is none like him. Among a whole people.