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Let's take our seats and open our him books page 206 green him books to page 206. Oh
Say but I'm glad page 206. Oh say but I'm glad
How loud on the first there is a song in my heart today
something I never had
Jesus has taken my sins away. Oh see, but I'm glad
Oh
See, but I'm glad I'm glad Oh
See, but I'm glad
Jesus has come in my cups overrun. Oh, see, but I'm glad
Wonderful marvelous love he brings into a heart that's sad
Throw darkest tunnels the soul just sings. Oh, see, but I'm glad
Oh
Say, but I'm glad I'm glad Oh say, but I'm glad
Jesus has come in my cups overrun. Oh, see, but I'm glad
We have a fellowship rich and sweet tongues can never lay
Abide in the souls retreat. Oh
See, but I'm glad Oh
Say, but I'm glad I'm glad Oh say, but I'm glad
Jesus has come in my cups overrun. Oh, see, but I'm glad
Won't you come to him with all your care weary and worn and sad
You two will sing as his love you share. Oh, say, but I'm glad
Say, but I'm glad I'm glad Oh say, but I'm glad
Jesus has come in my cups overrun. Oh, say, but I'm glad
Great singing brother Eli. Can you up us with the word prayer?
Father Lord, thank you for this oasis of calm in our lives, Lord, where we can sing wonderful songs to you, Lord, and hear your words preached, Father.
Pray, Father, that you help us calm our hearts and help us to listen to the message and fill us with your Holy Spirit, Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen. Page 472 will be our second song. This is My Father's World. Page 472. This is My Father's World.
Page 472. This is My Father's World. On the first.
This is My Father's World. Into my listening ears. All nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is My Father's World. I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees, of skies and seas. His hand the wonders wrought.
This is My Father's World. The birds their carols raise. The morning light, the lily white declare their Maker's praise.
This is My Father's World. He shines in all that's fair. In the rustling grass I hear Him pass. He speaks to me everywhere.
This is My Father's World. Oh, let me ne'er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.
This is My Father's World. The battle is not done. Jesus, who died, shall be satisfied. And earth and heaven be one.
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Shore Foundation Baptist Church. Looks like we have some people out sick.
And I just want to say thanks, everybody, for putting up with me being gone so much lately.
And I'll be here for a while. Hopefully I don't get sick because that would be the only reason why I won't be here.
So, anyway, let's see. Anybody need a bulletin? If you need a bulletin, just lift up your hand over there. What's up, buddy? Good to see you.
Alright, on our front cover we have our verse of the week. It says,
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord my strength and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19, verse 14, great scripture there. On our inside page there we have our service times, 10.30 a.m. Sunday morning service.
Sunday evening service, 3.30 p.m. Thursday Bible study is at 6.30 p.m.
And I am going to start a new series. It's a New Believer series.
I know there's some new believers here and some new beasts.
And if you're not a new believer, then at least you're just rehashing some of the stuff that you already know, which is good.
And I just wanted to have some videos that people can go to.
And we could just kind of maybe have like a video, just like a file that people can go to on our website.
And we can turn those people over to those videos once they get saved. We can point it to them.
So that is why I'm preaching it and to help people in our church.
And then so that'll be on Sunday mornings. And then in the evening, I'm starting the book of Joshua on Sunday nights.
So over the summer, I kind of preached a bunch of vices, summer vices and just did some stand alone sermons.
But I do really like preaching through books of the Bible. So I'll be preaching to the book of Joshua on Sunday nights.
And we're still going to be in the book of First Chronicles on Thursday nights.
So that'll be tonight. We're in First Chronicles chapter number eight.
And that'll be, we're going to be just looking at the life of Saul because it's the genealogy of Saul.
So I just kind of want to just do encapsulate the life of King Saul in this chapter.
There's also in the next chapter, in chapter nine, it does a recap of the genealogy of Saul.
And so I think in that sermon, I'm just going to do a Saul versus Paul.
I probably preached something similar to that, but there's some things that I didn't think about the first time I preached about it.
So I want to try to cram every idea I can into that sermon.
And then, of course, chapter 10 kind of picks up where Saul is being, you know, is basically when Saul's kingdom is ending and David is about to take over.
So, and that's chapter 10. So anyway, if you look down, you can see the Saulian times.
And I know the times are getting, it's getting darker earlier now.
We probably have to taper some of these times back, but we do have that new Saturday thing.
But if people are wanting to still go Saturdays, like if you're doing some little renegade Saulian times, I'm okay with that.
But just, I just want to know about that it's going on.
So anyway, the praise report also, you can see the salvation and baptisms.
Supposed to baptize a couple tomorrow night.
Let's see, and the upcoming events.
Well, we had a great time up in Surrey, BC for our anniversary up there for six years.
We broke the record Friday night for the preaching, Brother Zong preached a great sermon.
We had 40 in attendance, which is the record for a Friday night service up there.
Or no, I'm sorry, it was 32, excuse me.
And then Sunday morning we broke the attendance of 39 with 40 in the Sunday morning service.
And we had five salvations on Sunday and I think we had one on Saturday.
And it's not super receptive there, so five salvations on a Sunday afternoon is pretty good.
And we just had a really great time of fellowship and had a really great weekend up there.
So church is doing well.
And so I was really pleased with how everything went.
But I'm happy to be back at our home church and preaching here.
So I'm flying out immediately after the service.
So if you have any questions for me tonight, it's not the night to ask me questions.
You can text me as I leave.
I literally have my suitcases in my truck right now ready to fly out as soon as I'm done preaching.
So I'm flying out to Spokane and I'm going to be preaching tomorrow evening.
And I'm coming home Saturday, though, so don't worry, I'll be preaching here on Sunday.
But yeah, I'm preaching there tomorrow and I'm baptizing a couple people, some new converts that we have out there.
We have some new people that have joined the church out there, so that's pretty exciting.
And let's see, I have a couple more out of town.
I'm going to be in Yakima on the 25th and the 29th.
I'll be in Seattle on a Sunday evening service only.
So let's see, the 28th we have that SOTY marathon.
It's going to be in St. John's, Oregon, which is just right across the river here in North Portland.
We've had some good success over there.
So I haven't figured out where we're going to eat and all that stuff, but I'll get that figured out and we'll hammer out the details soon.
And let's see, the 29th is a men's preaching night.
So if you're a man and you haven't preached before, or if you have preached before, you know, get up and preach on Sunday night.
If you've never preached before and you just have been waiting for a chance to be able to do that,
or hey, I would just encourage you to get up and preach.
I mean, it just takes a little bit of boldness, a tie, a King James Bible, and you know, just stick to the, keep it simple.
You don't have to extrapolate some really complicated sermons.
So keep it to the basics and you should do just fine.
And don't try to put too much in a 10-minute sermon because you run out of time faster than you think.
So anyway, that's going on the 29th, which is, so that's the fifth Saturday, the fifth Sunday.
That's once a quarter, we're going to be doing those things.
And then let's see, October 5th and 6th is the family and friends weekend.
And so please invite a friend or a family member or whatever.
Let's try to pack the house out that weekend for church.
And then we're going to have our annual pumpkin patch.
Of course, you can invite family and friends to that too.
We just need to have you sign them up.
And I think there's a sign-up group in the WhatsApp that Ms. Juju made.
And so pick a time, 11 or 12, what time you want to come.
And then Pastor Jimenez will be here.
And he'll also be preaching Sunday night, so you're not going to want to miss the Sunday night service.
And looking forward to having Pastor Jimenez come up and preach for us.
October 27th is the super soul-winning Saturday, so that's just another big soul-winning day.
But it's not a soul-winning marathon even though it still has similar type of hours.
It's just a little bit differently structured.
So talk more about that as it comes closer.
October 31st we'll have a chili and cornbread potluck and game night.
That will be before church on a Thursday.
November 6th is the Faithful Word Baptist Church Missions Conference.
And then of course, way out in the distance, Dr. Phil Stringer preaching Sunday all day with a Q&A.
All the other stuff is there for you, all the rules and regulations of course.
And then the tithing info is up to date there.
And then let's see, the birthdays we had Paul and then Emmy's birthday was on the 17th.
Did we get a chance to sing a happy birthday tour already?
All right, so.
And then anniversaries, yep, okay, up to date.
So all right, that's all I have for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing another song and then we'll receive the offering.
All right, page 180 in your Green Hymn Books, Isn't the Love of Jesus Something Wonderful?
Page 180.
Page 180, Isn't the Love of Jesus Something Wonderful?
On the first.
Oh, isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful Wonderful it is to me
On the second.
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful Wonderful Wonderful
Oh, isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful Wonderful it is to me
Love beyond our human comprehending
Love of God and Christ how can it be
This will be my theme and never ending
Great redeeming love of Calvary
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful Wonderful Wonderful
Oh, isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful Wonderful it is to me
Great singing this evening.
At this time we'll receive our offering.
And Brother Ramon, can you please bless the offering for us?
Father, thank you so much for this great church, Lord.
Thank you for all the many wonderful things that you do for us.
Please continue to bless our church and protect our church and bless this offering.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Thank you.
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150 all these are the sons of Benjamin brother Alex when you pray for us
Amen all right so uh last week we were in we finished up first chronicles chapter seven
I kind of broke that into two sermons
Which I really didn't want to do that. But uh, I ended up being that way anyhow
And uh, so part of that was in chapter seven was just a short
list of
the children of benjamin
I think uh, let's see. I was trying to
Look right before we came up to preach
And just flip back to chapter seven
I think it is
Um
Oh verse six to verse uh
I think verse six to verse 12. So it just kind of gives you like an abbreviated
Um, but ehood is in the genealogy in verse 10
And I kind of talked about ehood the left-handed judge that came in and remember he buried his
Sword into the gut of you know, it was pretty gross and his
You know his hand had to have gone all the way in. Remember that was pretty it's pretty gnarly part of the sermon, right?
so
But this carries on the genealogy and it actually goes in depth and this is actually the the g the full genealogy
of king saul
now
Uh, so verse number one
And and I don't i'm not really sure I I guess I don't really have a great answer for you
Why
It repeats the genealogy of saul again
In verse nine, I guess i'll have to kind of figure that out before I come back next week
But um, I really haven't I mean I knew it repeated the genealogy in chapter nine
But I guess I just don't really understand why they do that, but they do
so
But let's look at verse number one
So tonight i'm just going to be talking about king saul mainly
But i'm going to talk about some of these just a few other little tidbits in here
But mainly this is giving us the genealogy of king saul and he was
You know the first king that god appointed as king of israel. So
There was a bimalek who was one of the judges, you know in the book of judges who was crowned king
by the israelites in
If you remember he was killed by a woman
Remember, he said I don't want people to say that I was killed by a woman woman. Someone thrust me through
Because she threw that millstone on top of his head
But you know later on in the bible it says who was killed by a woman like
By a millstone being cast on top of his head. So and he was a bad guy like he killed all his brothers
He was the son of gideon or jeru bail
So verse number one here though
Is now benjamin beget bella his firstborn ashbel the second and ahariya the third
ahara the third noha the fourth and rafa the fifth so
Uh, so he had five sons benjamin
And if you remember benjamin is the last son
Born of rachel and rachel died in childbirth having him on the side of the road
On the way to afrata which is really close to bethlehem
and so
He he died on the way
um, or she died on the way and so he's the lastborn son and
Jacob really treasured him because when joseph was taken and sold to the midianites or
Uh, you know, he was sold to egypt. He really treasured
uh benjamin
And benjamin she remember she was dying and she called him benonai
Which means the son of my sorrow and his real and then he said he didn't like that name
Because he so he named him benjamin which means the son of my right hand
So that is what his name means anyway, so he's the he's one of the he's the 12th son
Of jacob, he's the youngest son of jacob
And the last son born of rachel rachel only had two sons one was joseph one was benjamin
So this is what we're talking about and saul is of this line king saul is of this line of benjamin
so
um, and then it says, uh, and the sons of bella were adar and gira and ibahud and abishwa and naman
And ahoa and gira and shefa fuen
And if I even said that right and uhuram and these are the sons of e these are the sons of ehu
These are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of giba and they removed them from matt and they removed them from manhah
So ehood was that judge again that I talked about last week the left-handed judge
And he gave israel peace for 40 years after
He killed eglon and then they they took out the moabites
And then he had children and so
So obviously saul is of that line of ehood
And remember the children of benjamin were great warriors
And even some of the warriors that were the of the gibeonites that fought against all the rest of the tribes
I mean they took on all the tribes of israel and gave them all they could handle
Obviously god allowed them to prevail against them
But remember they were left some of their warriors were left-handed and could sling stones to a hairbreadth and not miss
So, I mean they were deadly accurate with slinging stones
great warriors
and so
That's the saul comes from a line of great warriors and it says and so let's see. Let's skip down to
uh, let's see
So, I mean it's basically just giving you names that really I mean aren't necessarily
Uh men of just renown that I know of anyway, but it says in verse 13 and baraya baraya also and shima
Who were the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of agileon who drove away the inhabitants of gath?
So, I mean that's kind of a a little tidbit to throw in there and of course gath is where the philistines come from
And goliath had some big brothers or he had brothers at least that were giants and so giants were known to come from gath
And so some of you know
I mean there's some some dudes that were pretty tough and the tribe of benjamin that were able to drive some of these inhabitants out
let's skip down to
Verse 28 it says these were the heads of their fathers
By their generations chief men these dwelt at jerusalem
So one thing you have to understand is that benjamin inherited right next to and I think that they even might have split jerusalem
Like the way that their inheritance was i'm pretty sure I mean i'm just kind of recalling this from memory
that that they're so close to
to jerusalem
That their inheritance falls right next to judah
so
But it says that these these chief men they dwelt in jerusalem
because remember when so remember when the uh
The levite was going through and they were going to stop and spend the night
In jerusalem she says let's stop in jerusalem and he's like no
that's where the uh
That that's those those people are like heathens or whatever. We're not going to stop there. And so then he says let's stop in gibeon
There you know because the these are the children of israel are which is right next to jerusalem
So they didn't want to stop in jerusalem
He didn't want to stop in jerusalem because david had not yet conquered that place
And so there was still the what were they what were the names of those guys?
Jebusites, yeah, so the jebusites still kind of controlled jerusalem at this time when they at that time when they came through
But these guys
You know at this point
Or had had lived in jerusalem here and it says
And at gibeon dwelt the father of gibeon whose wife's name was macaw
so
That's interesting wording there. I don't I really
Find it strange that it doesn't say
What the name of that guy is there it says and at gibeon dwelt the father of gibeon
Whose wife's name was macaw
And then it says in his firstborn son abdon and zoor and kish
and bale and
nadab
so
Maybe his
Name is gibeon, I guess and at gibeon dwelt the father of gibeon of gibeon, but I mean it sounds like his name
I don't know. Anyway, it's interesting wording there, but it says and geador and ahio
and zaker and
Shemi
And these that dwelt with their brethren in jerusalem over against them
So that just kind of is another way of saying next right next door to them
And nur beget kish and kish beget saul and saul beget jonathan
and malkishua and abinadab
and esh bale
so
And when you see those words bail bail just because someone's named bail doesn't mean that they're necessarily
necessarily naming them after
the the god
You know the demon god bail
Bail just means lord
It's just another way of saying lord
but you know
Beals above bails above is is definitely, you know
Calling somebody bail, you know, god doesn't like people calling them people, you know
He wanted people to stop saying or naming their naming people that just because it's a tie a close tie to worshiping that god
but anyway
So now we're going to get into king saul so kish beget saul near
Nur beget kish kish beget saul saul beget jonathan. So of course, we know who's saul and jonathan are very famous characters in the bible
You're going to read about him in first samuel chapter one, you know first samuel the book of first samuel book of second samuel a little bit
And so saul was the first king of israel. He reigned for 40 years. David reigned for 40 years. Solomon reigned for 40 years
So saul reigned for a long time, but a lot of that rain
Was him not doing well not doing what was right?
but
You know, of course, there's some representations that saul represents
so the you know, of course the law the the law is the first covenant and then
Grace is the is the new testament covenant. So
You know this that's the second covenant. We're under the second covenant, which is the law of grace
so saul
When you think about it, he represents the old covenant. David represents the new covenant
So, you know, have you ever wondered like why god just forgives david when he commits adultery?
and murder and it's just like he just has to admit that he sinned and then it's just like
You know, you're not going to die. Nathan just says you're not going to die
You know god's for has taken away your sin
But then it seems like the first thing that saul did he just disobeyed and it's like well
You know, he just like the first thing he does saul does is he disobeys and he does the sacrifice himself
That's like the first thing that really kind of got him in hot water with god
I'm, not saying it's it was a it was a light thing that he did
You know, he disobeyed what god said and samuel was late
You know, he's late to the party was supposed to be there at a certain time
Samuel's like, you know baptist is is never late. He's he comes right when he's supposed to right so
He he was at always late baptist church or whatever he was a member of that
but you know that wasn't an excuse for saul to just take matters into his own hands and sacrifice because he
You know that wasn't his job to do that was samuel's job
But I mean if you compare
Sat, you know, I mean I I guess
In my mind, I guess and my mind might be wrong, but in my mind
adultery and murdering somebody and then
sacrificing an animal
You know, which of course is the picture of christ, you know, i'm not saying that that's
It's it's not a light. It's not a light thing
But I mean when I look at those things as with my human mind
I think
What saul did is not as bad
That's what I that's what my mind thinks
But that's what the picture is is that if you break the law you're dead
That's what the picture is. The old testament brings death the law the commandment brings death
But jesus christ brings life and so
the picture of saul
Is you know that when you break the law that they're you know, you're you're gonna die without mercy
Grace is given unto people
In the new testament so david represents christ. David is the seed of you know, he is of the tribe of judah
Saul he's of the tribe of benjamin. There's nothing said about the tribe of benjamin being you know, uh, you know, he's not supposed to be the one
That rules over israel. I mean we we see it way back in genesis that the tribe of judah is the one that prevails
And becomes the king
and david
obviously
Because of saul's failure becomes king but it was always going to be that way. God saw that foresaw that obviously
In the annals of time or whatever
but
You know, it seems like what saul first did wasn't as big of a deal as what david did but it's still
a big deal, but the picture
in place
is that
saul represents the old testament david represents the the new testament and and you know, the bible teaches that
What he actually says that god took away the kingdom from saul and gave it to a man that was better than him
It actually says better than him in the new testament in the book of hebrews. It says that the new testament is better
than the old testament
And people always want to drag us back to the old testament and try to put us under the law
These judaizers these seventh-day avenists these hebrew roots types people they want to take us and drag us back to the law
These jews these people these old testament phariseed type jews want to drag us back and try to keep make us keep the commandments and
Circumcised people that's we're not under the law. We'll never be under the law again, and we never have to be
So david, you know the new testament is better
But
Also
One of the things that are something to think about the holy spirit is removed from saul
at some point when
When he does that for that one big sin where he refuses to kill agag
He refuses to he he keeps the best of the sheep and those things alive
And then samuel says that god's rent the kingdom of israel from away from you
And at that point then samuel goes and anoints david in his place
so
But then the holy spirit leaves saul and an evil spirit from the lord comes and torments him after that, right?
but in the old testament
This truth is true that they could the holy spirit could leave them in the old testament
But when david sins the whole remember I think it's psalm chapter 51
51 or 50
Where it says let take not the holy spirit from me
The holy spirit does not get taken from david. And so he you know, could it have been taken from david?
Yes, but god never takes the holy spirit away from david because he represents what he represents the new testament. So
Even though he lived in the old testament and he's clearly not christ. He does picture the new testament. So
Um, let's see
So
You know saul is a great man of god
I believe saul's in heaven right now. As a matter of fact, I know sauls in heaven
today
And for all the terrible things that he did and for all his failures. He also had a lot of good things about him
and david never
he david never said that he wasn't saved or
You know david even to the time the last time that he ever saw saul
Still treated saul with respect
and never
You know when he just cut the skirt off of saul's
Robe just cut a piece of cloth off of his robe. He felt really bad about it
And you know tried to plead with saul
And just said i've never done anything wrong to you
And then saul kind of repents and feels bad about what he's done and says that you know, surely you're going to be the king of israel
You know, i've tried to do evil to you, but you returned goodness to me for the evil that i've done to you
but
saul does
Get too big and prideful in his own eyes
And begins to take on things
Like that didn't belong to him
Starts doing things he tries to kill his own son
over that weird vow that he makes
and i'll get to that i'm getting ahead of myself a little bit here, but
So
Really how it begins is israel demands a king so samuel's the last judge
That you know in the book of judges it carries over
into first samuel and samuel
Remember, he's pro he's kind of like a he's kind of like a messiah type figure
And hannah prays for him
eli
marks her mouth
And set you know says are you gonna you know quit being drunk in the house of the lord and she said i'm not drunk
You know i'm praying for this child so she gets pregnant she brings she lends
Samuel to the lord all the days of his life
And then when he's weaned she brings him to the house of the lord kind of already gone over how samuel
Is actually a levite and was able to do the sacrifices in the house of the lord
he wasn't you know, like the new like the
modern versions and the modern scholars like to try to say that he
You know, it was just you know
There's just no reason why he he just did it and it was just okay
No, he should have been killed if he wasn't really a levite. So anyway
So samuel is a great man of god. He's a judge and he
Is a prophet
And he is also a priest he's able to do all those things at the same time, which there's not a lot of people
uh, you can't really
Look at anybody besides christ that really has all three of those things now samuel wasn't a king though and his his sons
Went after lucre and took bribes
And so when his sons were put in place as judges
Then the people got upset about that and they probably had already kind of had it in their hearts to try to seek after a king
And this is kind of like their final straw
And they seek after a king
And samuel is just uh, you know, he's upset about it. But god says give him what they want
And and god says this is what's going to happen if you do these things
And uh, he tried to warn him and tell him all the things that the kings are going to ask for
And that it's going to be a really huge problem
But they just demanded a king anyway, and so let's go to first samuel chapter, uh, nine
Verse one first samuel chapter nine verse number one
First samuel chapter nine verse one
So we'll pick up the story here first samuel chapter nine verse one
and so this is where
Saul comes into the story
He says now there's a man of benjamin whose name was kish the son of abuel the son of zoror the son of bekharath
the son of aphia a benjamite a mighty man of power
And he had a son whose name was saul a choice young man
And a goodly and there was not among the children of israel a goodlier person than he
And I think this is talking about not only his character
But his the way he looked he was good looking he was you know, he was uh, he was a you know
He was like an alpha male looking guy and then he was also just a good guy
because it says uh
For his shoulders and upward he was higher
Than any of the people so he was like a guy probably like my height is what i'm guessing
You know head and shoulders above the people, right?
and and so
Now look down at verse 15 it says now the lord had told samuel in his ear a day before
Saul came saying tomorrow about this time
I will send thee a man out of the land of benjamin and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people israel
That he that he may save my people out of the hand of the philistines for I have looked upon my people
Because their cry has come unto me
And when sam samuel saw saul the lord said unto him behold the man whom I spake
To the of the same shall reign over my people then saul drew
Near to samuel in the gate and said tell me I pray thee where the seer's house is
And saul samuel answered saul and said I am the seer go up before me
Into the high place and he shall eat with me today and tomorrow
I will let thee go and I will tell thee all that is in thine heart and as for thine asses
That were lost three days ago set not thine mind on them for they are found and on whom is all the desire of israel
Is it not on thee and on thy father's house?
and saul answered and said
Am not I a benjamite of the smallest of the tribes of israel?
So remember this the tribe of benjamin was decimated and we talked about that last week, but
It was decimated to almost nothing
And it says and my family the least of all the families in the tribe of benjamin
So what do you know about saul by him saying this? He's very humble, isn't he? And he's like I I know what my station is
He's not like a braggart even though he's this tall guy
And he's a good guy some this is why he's good because he's humble in his own sight right says wherefore then speakest thou
so
to me
Now look at chapter 10 verse number one chapter 10 verse number one for samuel chapter 10 verse number one
We'll continue on the story here. It says
Then samuel took a vial of oil and poured it upon his head and kissed him and said is not
Is is it not because the lord hath anointed thee to be captain?
over his inheritance
When thou art departed for me today
Then thou shall find two men by rachel sepulcher
in the border of benjamin at zelza
And they will say unto thee the asses which thou
Wentest to seek are found and lo thy father hath left the care of the asses and sorroweth for you saying
What shall I do for my son then shalt thou go on forward from thence and thou shall come to the plane of tabor?
and there shall
meet the
Meet the three men go going up to god to bethel
One carrying three kids and another carrying three loaves of bread and another carrying a bottle of wine
And they will salute thee and give thee two loaves of bread which thou shalt receive of their hands
So he's getting really specific about everything that's going to happen to him, right?
After that thou shall come to the hill of god
Where is the garrison of the philistines and it shall come to pass when thou art come?
thither to the city that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down
From the high place with a salt tree and a tabaret and a pipe and a harp before them and they shall prophesy
So what does that mean?
They're they're going to be preaching right and the spirit of the lord will come upon thee and thou shall prophesy with them
And they and shalt be turned into another man
And let it be
When these signs are come unto thee that thou
Do as occasion serve thee for god is with thee so he tells them these specific prophecies that are going to happen to him
and
The fact that he's going to the spirit of god's going to come upon him
After they prophesy
And that he's going to be turned into another man
so
And that he's also going to preach with them. So i'm not sure if they're like preaching him
What what exactly the preaching is about but uh, it sounds like he's getting turned into another man here
So what does that mean? Well, I mean it sounds to me like
salvation
but
Then it says skip down to uh verse
Uh nine just verse nine it says and it was so that when he had turned his back to go from samuel
God gave him another heart
So like, you know, he gives his prophecy that he's going to be turned into another man
But like it seems like he kind of already believed what samuel was saying at that moment
And then it says and god gave him another heart when god gives you another heart, you know, that means
I mean, I believe that this means that he gets saved right there
Possibly and it says and all those signs came to pass that day
And when they came thither to the hill behold a company of prophets met him and the spirit of god came upon him
And he prophesied among them just like, you know, samuel said and it came to pass when all that knew him before
Time saw that behold that he prophesied among the prophets then the people said one to another what is this that has come?
Onto the son of kish is saul also among the prophets
So this happens to saul more than once it actually there's this weird thing interaction that happens later on
when saul is king where you know, he's
You know, he's preaching and prophesying and i'm not we don't have time to get there
like there's a lot of stuff actually in the bible about saul and it's specifically in first samuel, but
i'm, just trying to hit the highlights of of the the life of saul here, but
There's another instance where he prophesies and he ends up naked somehow or whatever. But anyway, let's skip to uh,
chapter 10 verse 20 it says and when samuel
Had caused all the tribes of israel to come near the tribe of benjamin was taken
So he's like probably casting lots or something
It says and when he had caused the tribe of benjamin to come near
By their families the men the family of matt tribe was taken and saul the son of kish was taken
And when they sought him he could not be found
Therefore they inquired of the lord further if the man should yet come thither
And the lord answered behold he hath hid himself among the stuff
So here's this guy he's head and shoulders above everybody else and he's hiding
Amongst the stuff so the guy, you know, so this just tells you what that he's he's shy
He doesn't want to be the star of the show. He doesn't you know, he's not there's just some big bold braggart. He's actually very
Uh, you know meek and mild and you know, he doesn't want all this stardom really
At this point anyway
So this is and they ran and fetched him thence and when he stood among the people he was higher
Than any of the people from his shoulders and upward
And samuel said to all the people see him whom the lord hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people
And all the people shouted and said god saved the king
So have you ever heard that said like or like you've probably seen it in movies or whatever
But they say this when a new king is crowned probably in every country in the world
But this is where they get it from from the bible god saved the king
Then samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom 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 and saul also went home to gibya
And there went with him a band of men whose hearts
God had touched so god, you know, he touched the hearts of these men and kind of gave him like, you know
Some guys that could be probably be good counsel to him and maybe good warriors to protect him
It says but the children of belial said how shall this man save us and they despised him and brought him no presence
But he held his peace
so
So he's also wise but does does it say that that saul knew that these people were children of belial?
No
But the bible's telling us that they were so
You know, so there's always going to be these children of belial around godly people
And this is just something that we have to get used to as christians
You just don't know who they're going to be and god's telling us this by
You know the narrator of the bible is telling us this that there are some their children of belial which always means
That they are sons of the devil
That they are reprobates and this is why they're behaving this way
But he held his peace. So instead of just saying off with their heads because he's the king he doesn't do that. So
Um and and saul kind of is behaving himself wisely, I guess you would say right here
so, you know
so saul has great victories and and later and after this great victory that he has next which we're not going to have time to
Get to but he has this great victory and then people are like
Let's let's kill those guys that said that saul shouldn't reign over us and then saul says nobody's going to die this day
You know basically and then you know, so that's how he starts out. He starts out great
He starts out humble he starts out meek. He's a great leader
and you know, he's he's not trying to just
Rule with an iron fist necessarily. He's trying to give people a little bit of grace
And he even pardons those guys that said how's he going to save us that despise them and all that
so
But then he makes that mistake and is in another battle where he does the burnt offering instead of waiting for samuel
Which I already explained
And then you know, there's another battle that takes place and then he does this stupid vow
where
Instead of you know, if you're about to battle you're going to need some food and some sustenance before you go out
And put your body through that kind of a stress
And saul instead tries to do this vow of not eating this fasting for the soldiers, which was really dumb
And then jonathan didn't hear
that, you know if anybody eats anything that they're going to be put to death and so
He
saul figures out by lots that jonathan actually eats like he put like a stick and then dipped it in honey and
And took like a bite of it or whatever and so then saul's like, you know, jonathan's surely gonna die
but jonathan had already took on a host of the garrison of the philistines and gave them a great victory and they're like
So they cut the people kind of turn against saul at this point. They're just like
No, you're not going to kill jonathan jonathan gave us this great victory today
And they kind of just saved jonathan from saul killing them. So like this is where saul's heart starts to change
And kind of you know go bad because who's going to you know, kill their own kid, especially if he didn't hear the vow
and then then I think that like the people try to jump on and eat the
Eat the flesh with the with the blood in it because they were starving
And uh, you know, so he's just like causing all kinds of chaos with you know
His idiotic things and it started with that big mistake by not waiting for samuel and you know, and he said, you know
God would have established your kingdom forever if he would have just waited until I came and so
You know samuel god didn't strip his his kingdom away from at that point
He kind of gave him a chance but then it kind of already started the downhill slope of him not obeying what god said
And now let's turn to um, let's turn to first samuel chapter 15 first samuel chapter 15
So this is where he really messes everything up
For good, and this is the the real downhill downhill slide for saul
in first samuel 15
Verse number eight
So this is so he's supposed to kill
The amalekites because the amalekites mistreated the children of israel when they came out of egypt
And god said that there was going to be war against the malachites
Forever and that they were supposed to destroy the amalekites
And so there's been this pause between you know, it's been you know hundreds of years
And god's still mad about what they did to him. And so he's like
Now that you know saul can do this. He's like you need to go kill the amalekites. They need to be taken care of
and uh
First samuel 15 verse 8
Says and he took agag the king of the amalekites alive and they're supposed to kill everything that breathes man woman child beast everything, right?
And he takes the king alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword
but saul and the people spared agag
And the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good
And would not utterly destroy them but everything that was vile
And refuse that they destroyed utterly
Then came the word of the lord unto samuel saying it repenteth me
That I have set up saul to be king for he has turned back from following me
And hath not performed my commandments and it grieved
Samuel and he cried unto the lord all night and when samuel rose early to meet saul in the morning
It was told samuel saying saul came to caramel
And behold he set him up a place and is gone about and passed on and gone down to gilgal
And samuel came to saul and saul said unto him blessed be thou of the lord
I performed the commandment of the lord. I mean, he just sounds like a total idiot right here
But it says that samuel came to saul and saul said unto him blessed be thou of the lord
I performed the commandment of the lord and samuel said what meaneth then the bleeding of the sheep in mine ears?
And the lowing of the oxen which I hear and saul said
They have brought them from the amalekites for the people spared the best sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice unto the lord thy god
And the rest we have utterly destroyed
Then samuel said unto saul stay and I will tell thee what the lord hath said to me this night
And he said unto him say on and samuel said
When thou was little in thine own sight was thou not made the head of the tribes of israel
And the lord anointed the king over israel
And the lord sent thee on a journey and said go and utterly destroy the sinners the amalekites and fight against them until they be consumed
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the lord, but didst fly upon the spoil and didst evil in the sight
of the lord
And this is and this is kind of the term that's used for the rest of the bible anytime a king
Is evil or wicked in the in the in the rest of you know
Like when it talks about and so and so is king and this is how long he reigned
This is how long he lived it says and he did evil in the sight of the lord
This is kind of where it begins is right here
And he did evil and he did evil in the sight of the lord and saul said unto samuel
Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the lord and have gone the way which the lord sent me
And have brought agag the king of amalek and have utterly destroyed the amalekites
But the people took of the spoil sheep and oxen and chief of the things
Which which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice in the lord thy god and gilgal
And samuel said hath the lord as great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices
As in obeying the voice of the lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice
And to hearken than the fat of ram
So and this should be a good message for us to understand that it doesn't matter how much sacrifice you do
How much you give in the offering plate it doesn't matter how much you go soul winning
and I mean, obviously that's obeying god or whatever, but
But the thing is is that god wants you to obey him more than he wants your sacrifices
You know and and usually a lot of people think that whatever I put in the offering, you know
A lot of people in churches would say well, I give this money in the offering plate. That should be good enough
And and that's not true
That's not true. God
Wants your obedience
Over your sacrifice and to hearken. What does that mean to listen to what he's saying to you in the bible?
over the fat of rams
Or the sacrifices that you've brought forth
Says for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft
So when you're rebelling against god, just think of yourself as a witch
If that helps you if that helps you like to think like hey, maybe I shouldn't be you know doing this
I'm a witch
You know, if you think of it that way then maybe you'll stop doing the thing that you're doing that, you know, you're doing wrong
You know if you're like, yeah, you know you look in the mirror you're like
You know, then you're like, you know
Maybe you should just put like a picture of a witch, you know
And then like look at it every once in a while and then like that's you or something
But it says for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft
So when we rebel against the things of god, that's what he looks at it as because isn't witchcraft a rebellion against god
He's you know, it's the dark arts
It's the thing, you know, it's black magic. It's things that we should not be involved with
But it's it's you know, it's it's just fine to everybody in the world, but it's not fine to us
So we have to see this crap every time we go out to the stores
And you know costco has it up in september now or whatever
And you got to go out and your kids have to see that and be like, oh, what is this?
You know
And we have to explain that to him. But you know, he what is he saying? He's saying rebellion just like that sin
And stubbornness is as iniquity
And idolatry it's like, you know when you're stubborn and not
You know in refusing to give up the things that god's asked you to give up on
It's like iniquity or being lawless. It's like bowing down and worshiping an idol. That's what he's saying, right?
It's you're being stubborn
And it's he's saying it's like idolatry. You might as well just be an idolatry
Because thou has rejected the word of the lord. He has also rejected thee from being king
This is why saul was removed because he rejected the word of the lord because what god pulled him to do something
Specifically and he just said you know what?
I'm not going to do those things. I'm going to save these these sheep for the sacrifice
But really it's the people that we're pushing he's blaming
He blames the people and this is what a bad leader does is they blame the people for the things that they fail at
And leaders should never do that
If you're a leader and you start blaming the people that work for you or blaming the people that are underneath you
that's
A problem you're like saul then
And it says and saul said unto
And saul said unto samuel I have sinned for I have transgressed the commandment of the lord
Oh, i'm, sorry. I think I missed something here. Oh, yeah because
Yeah, so he's rejected him from being king
So and saul said unto samuel I have sinned for I have transgressed the commandment of the lord and thy words because I feared the people
and obeyed their voice
so
He's blaming the people here even though it doesn't seem like he is he is blaming them
But really the fault is his because because he feared the people and obeyed their voice
So a leader isn't going to fear the people and obey their voice. He's going to do what he knows is right regardless of what they're saying
so and this is
You know strong leadership is going to obey like when it comes to church leadership
The the strong leadership is going to obey what the bible says and not what the people want
This is this is like backwards in almost every church in america
because
they're
They're voting churches
Well, what should we do? Well, whatever the people want
No, what whatever the deacons want? No
The all the deacons need to make a vote. No
No, it's it's the pastor led church is the model
That's found in the bible. I mean, let me
When did moses has to ask any who did moses ask stuff to?
He asked god
and then
You know when the bible is written, who do they what do they go to?
It's like if the pastor goes to the bible and finds the answers, isn't he going to god's mouth?
Right
So that's what you're supposed to do. And if the pastor isn't going to god's mouth
Then then he's wrong
so
When people you know, we're like, well, what what does what does the bible, you know, when you're asking the pastor?
What their what their opinion is on something?
Then they should be going to the bible and if it's not in the bible
Then it should be a principle in the bible at least
You know, but most things that we are going to talk are going to be asked about
Are going to be covered in some way shape or form in the bible
You know, I know there are some gray areas and there's some
But you know most of the stuff that we're going to run into in our life
There's an answer in the bible that we can kind of go to
so
But saul's in big trouble here and he's been rejected
Because he rejected god's word and look as christians. We we're on dangerous ground
When we just say I know that the bible says this
but i'm going to do this anyway, that is just
Dangerous territory it's one thing to sin because you're just like you're weak in the flesh or whatever
And then you're just like I know I was weak
I'm, sorry lord
But to just do it and not care at all and you're just like I don't care what the bible says i'm wearing pants
And you're a lady
I don't care. You know, if a guy said I don't care what the bible says i'm wearing a dress
Nobody no guy's gonna say that like
You know, I mean like but they might say something different. I don't care what the bible says i'm drinking beer
So
Jesus made water into wine
You idiot it doesn't say that. I mean it does say that but it's not the wine you think it is
Yeah, he just got he just kept the party started pit bull
anyway
So let's move on here. It says now therefore I pray the pardon my sin and turn again with me that I may worship
the lord
And so he does confess his sin right here
But
God's kind of made up his mind at this point
It says in samuel said unto saul I will not return with thee for that was rejected the word of the lord
And the lord hath rejected thee from being king
Over israel and samuel turned about to go away and he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle and rent it
And samuel said unto him the lord hath rent the kingdom of israel from thee this day
And hath given it to a neighbor of thine that is better than now
So this is where he says
That that's pretty that's pretty gangster thing to say to the king really
And it was a pretty opportune time to say it like it. He ripped his clothes
He's like the lord also has rent these for me and king. It's like oh man. Samuel's
Samuel has got some some some stuff
He he can say some stuff that's pretty uh cutting it to the quick
But it says and samuel said to him the lord hath rent the kingdom
From of israel from thee this day and have given it to a neighbor
A vine that is better than now talking about david and it says and also the strength of israel will not lie nor repent
For he is not a man that he should repent
Then he said I have sinned yet honor me now
I pray thee before the elders of my people and before israel and turn again with me that I may worship the lord thy god
So samuel turned again after saul and saul worshiped the lord
Then said samuel bringing hither me agag the king of the
Amalekites and agog agog came unto him delicately and agag said surely the bitterness of death has passed
And samuel said as thy sword hath made women childless
So shall thy mother be childless among women and samuel hewed agag into pieces before the lord and gilgal
And samuel's an old man at this time
It's already said that like he his when he was old he made his son's judges and then this is before he ordained
You know saul as the king
so
Samuel's his old man
And then he just comes and hacks this dude into pieces in front of everybody
You know first he's just like rebuking the king and you know
Telling him he's not the king anymore in front of everybody. I mean samuel really has some guts
Because you know to say that to a king that's like twice your size or whatever
And then to chop this dude into pieces
But he did the job that king saul was supposed to do
And that's the problem
Is that this is what saul should have been doing saul's the big guy saul's the the captain
The powerful guy that they're all supposed to be getting behind. This is the guy that the people wanted and in reality the man that
That he replaced as a leader is the one having to lead
And that's the problem, right?
And it says and samuel said
Yeah, so and then samuel went to rama and samuel saul went to his house and gibbia of saul
And samuel became no more to see saul until the day of his death nevertheless
Samuel mourned for saul and the lord repented that he had made
Saul king over israel so and then this really starts the downhill slide
You know for good of of saul he really just
Goes downhill from here. David's anointed spirit of the lord departs from saul
David kills goliath the giant of gath of the philistines while saul
uh the day and while
saul
The specimen alpha male king is afraid
You know, he tries to give david his armor and of course david said i've not proved it yet
And he goes with five smooth stones in a sling
And kills goliath with one shot right between the eyes
Chops his head off with his own sword walks around with it like a giant bowling ball hands it to saul
You know, it's probably a pretty gruesome thing
But I mean, here's this
stripling
Walking around with a giant head
And hands it to saul. Here you go. So
You know, it must have been pretty
You know, you must have felt like this big actually, you know, so
He must not have felt head and shoulders above everybody else
But uh, this is when you see david start to increase and saul starting to decrease right
Kind of like john the baptist in the bible where he starts to decrease, right?
but you know john baptus wasn't doing wicked things so
now, um
Then you have the the i'm not i'm kind of going to paraphrase this not have you turn to the verses
But I will have you turn to first email chapter 28 actually
proverbs chapter 28
and so what happens next is that
um
Let's see
So david goes and starts slaughtering the philistines he makes him captain of the host
And then saul just tries to you know, he starts eyeing him
because they say that david is
Saul's slate is thousands david's slave is ten thousands which was a dumb thing for people to start saying because it makes saul envious of david
and then from that moment on he started to eyeball david and start to look and then
You know, then he just starts plotting ways to kill him he throws a javelin at him a couple times
And then he tries to get him to marry his daughter by giving him a hundred philistine foreskins as a dowry
David's like, you know, i'll just give you 200. How about that? He gives him 200 and then
so
He actually doesn't even give him the right wife that he was supposed to he gives him a different one and she's really kind of
Uh, she saves his life and then he he escapes and then so there's years go by where saul's just trying to
Murder him saul then kills the lord's priest at the hand of doe egg the edamite
when david goes to get the bread and
They sauls like accuses them of helping david. They had no idea that david was on the run
And he murdered all of them
through doe egg and then
David has a chance to kill saul twice but chooses not to do it
And he says he's not going to stretch forth his hand and slay the lord's anointed
which you know, that's
That's the right thing to do and here's what I believe about when it comes to kings
And and you know people that are anointed like this
Is that god is the one that sets up kings and removes kings doesn't the bible say that?
So it's just like the pre, you know, it's like it's like presidents too. They're they're
You know, we have the president that we deserve is what I believe
And our you know, if if if
If our voting mattered honestly
I believe that they wouldn't give us a chance to vote
That's what I really believe. I I might you know, I could be wrong about that
Do I really believe that joe biden got 81 million votes?
No, I don't
I don't believe that at all. That's way more than barack obama got
And barack obama was a way more popular president than he was
just saying
But anyway, i'm not trying to get super political up here. I'm just saying that god puts people rises kings up and takes kings down
And and god's the one that appointed saul to be the king he anointed him
He anointed david to replace him, but god didn't take saul out
So when when god was ready to have saul removed god removed saul
And and it wasn't before it wasn't after and so david didn't feel like it was his place to kill saul
And so he got david loved saul
David didn't want to kill saul. That was his father-in-law
he's just like I don't understand why he wants to kill me, you know, and
He even has some pretty good speeches that he gives to him after he takes his shield and and and all that and he he just
you know, I think he just doesn't understand what the what the deal is, but
You know david behaved himself in the way that he should and didn't destroy him
you know and
I just I don't believe that it's it's our job to
Rise up against presidents and overthrow them
You know what? You're never going to see me trying to go to some january 6th event
Just because
I don't I don't care
I don't care that this king this this world is not my home. I'm passing through here
That I live here
And you know, look I want it to be peaceful as I can but like I don't want to get I mean
Show me the place in the bible where jesus is saying. Hey, let's go vote for this guy
Or let's go to harrods and and you know
Harrods kind of you know, he's kind of like donald trump or something. So let's vote for him
Like you just don't see that he doesn't care
And I I don't think we should either
But you know, you can do whatever you want like it's a free country
You know, we have religious freedom and you know, we have religious soul liberty
you know
do what you want, but
I just don't think it really matters that much
But what I do know is that I would never take up arms against the government to try to overthrow it
It's just not my thing and I don't think the bible teaches that even the wicked kings in the old testament
If someone slayed them then they were killed later on for that
Yep
They were not supposed to like even the wicked kings of israel
God would remove them
And then he would slay their posterity
He would write raise up
Jihu and and have all vahab's people killed and and jezabel and he would let them all be killed
but
He would anoint people for those purposes. He didn't just let any willy nilly person do that
And he would send prophets to try to preach to them like like elijah and stuff
So, I mean, I just believe that if someone's you know anointed for that position
Then that person is there until god takes them out and it's not our job to do that
So look at probably chapter 28 verse 9. It says he that turneth away his ear from the from hearing the law
Even his prayer shall be an abomination
so
This is kind of where saul's at here. God's done
At this point he's tried to kill david all these different times he's tracking them around and people are giving them up
And then first samuel chapter 28 verse 5 and i'll give you the short version here. He's uh,
Let's see, we don't have time for all these verses but
So
Well, he goes to the witch right so i'll summarize it for you
He goes to the witch of endor because the philistines are coming against him. God's not speaking to him
he goes to the philistines and then this witch realizes that
It's that's really samuel that pops up and then she realizes he's saul and saul has killed all these witches before
And she's afraid that he's he's gonna kill her and he's like i'm not gonna kill you
You know, whatever and then samuel really does come up and say well, you know, what are you doing idiot?
You know, basically that's paraphrasing but he says
Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me
And so basically he's saying you're gonna die tomorrow in this battle
and your sons also and you're gonna be with me and samuel's in heaven, so
Sit
God kills saul because this is the last straw
This is the final straw
And he's done turn to second samuel chapter one verse 17. So this is where we will finish here
so
He goes he goes to the witch and then he fights in the battle
on mount gilboa and
him and all this and him and his sons go there and
They get they get attacked
and then saul
Falls on his sword because he's sorely wounded and then he kills himself, right?
And david
Is david happy about that?
No, david's not happy about that. David is very upset because jonathan's his best friend
And he did love saul even though saul tried to kill him all these times and he knew that saul was saved
And look at look at what he says in verse 17 second samuel
It says and david lamented with this lamentation over saul and over jonathan his son
Also, he bade them teach the children of judah the use of the bow behold is written in the book of jasher
The beauty of israel is slain upon the high places. How are the mighty fallen?
Tell it not in gath publish it not in the streets of ashkelon lest the daughters of the philistines rejoice
Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
triumph
The mountains of gilboa let there be no dude neither let there be rain upon you nor fields of offerings
For the for their shield of the mighty is vilely cast away the shield of saul as though he had not been anointed with oil
From the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bow of jonathan turned not back the sword of saul returned not empty
Saul and jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death
They were not divided they were swifter than eagles
They were stronger than lions the daughters of israel weep over saul who clothed you in scarlet and with other delights
Who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel?
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of bat of the battle?
Oh, jonathan that was slain in thine high places. I'm distressed for thee
My brother jonathan very pleasant has thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women
How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished was david happy when saul died?
Of course, he wasn't happy when saul died. He was extremely upset about it and a guy come in trying to claim that he
Was the one that killed saul and you know what david did he had him killed?
Because he said well, what did you think that you could just stretch forth your hand and touch the lord's anointed he's like
Kill this guy
And then he had one of his guys following him and kill him
So, I mean saul and jonathan were saved saul, you know had his bad moments
But he is in heaven today and i'm sure that he has regrets over the things that he did and the bad choices
He did some bad things. There's no doubt about that, but i'm sure that he and david are fast friends today
You know, they're in heaven together
You know, maybe david stayed away from him for the first, you know, 500 years or something
i'm, not sure how that worked out, but uh
You know, i'm sure him and jonathan and saul are all hanging out together
You know, it'll be it's going to be cool to see them someday in heaven. So
And I I mean, I think that that saul definitely had some great qualities about him
So i'll see if i'm taller than him when I get there. That's for sure. So
but uh
you know, it's interesting though that
Jonathan is like the the great friend of david and then
Two of jesus's, you know, because david pictures christ in the new tech or you know, david pictures
uh christ
And then his best friends david or john jonathan
In the new testament you have john the baptist who is the forerunner of christ and you also have john the apostle
Who is basically like his you know, his right-hand man
In the bible, so you have john the apostle
Um the one the disciple whom jesus loved right, so let's finish this off
uh verse 40 in our text it says the sons of ulam were mighty men of valor archers and had many
had many sons and sons sons and 150 and all these are the sons of benjamin, so
I didn't read through all the verses because you know, just kind of you know, the main guys in here are saul and jonathan
That's who I really wanted to cover. Jonathan, of course was great in his own right
I didn't have time to get to him tonight. But uh
you know and then
off into the future you have
You know you have saul
the saul of tarsus who was
You know, you had saul the or saul the king of israel the first king but then you have saul of tarsus
the last apostle
born out of due time
and then
You know
He's on the on in the way on the road to damascus
And then he sees this light on the road
And a lot of people would say that he's born again on the road to damascus. I don't necessarily agree with that
But you know, it's interesting that benjamin, you know
the first of his of his line is born on the side of the road and then
You know that people would say that that paul was born on the road to damascus too. So anyway, just a
An interesting thought I had so that's all I have for for chronicles just bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Dear lord we thank you so much for the book of chronicles and
And the great things that we can learn about the life of saul
And I pray that you just bless us as we go our separate ways tonight
And help us to apply the things that we've learned lord. I pray that you would help us
To not reject your word when it comes to us lord that we would obey
And not be in rebellion against the things that you teach us lord and that we would
if we do
Sin that lord you would help us to
Repent of those things and turn towards you lord and not be like saul was
in
in our ways and that we would
follow after you and not
Reject your word in jesus name. We pray. Amen
Page 211 will be our last song green hymnals page 211
11 whosoever meaneth me page 211 whosoever meaneth me
On the first I am happy today and the sun shines bright the clouds have been rolled away
For the savior said whosoever
Will may come with him to stay
Whosoever surely meaneth me
Surely meaneth me. Oh surely meaneth me
Whosoever surely meaneth me whosoever meaneth me
All my hopes have been raised oh his name be
His glory has filled my soul
I've been lifted up and from sin set free his blood hath made me whole
Whosoever surely meaneth me surely meaneth me. Oh surely meaneth me
Whosoever surely meaneth me
Whosoever meaneth me
On the last oh a wonderful love. Oh, what grace divine
That jesus should die for me
I was lost in sin for the world I pine but now I am set free
Whosoever surely meaneth me
Surely meaneth me. Oh surely meaneth me
Whosoever surely meaneth me whosoever meaneth me
Thank you for coming out singing with us tonight, it's good to see you
We'll see you here next sunday brother sean you want to end us with the word of prayer
You