Insisting on Bondage

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Speaker: Darin Pesnell
Scripture: 1 Samuel 8
May 22, 2022

Sermon Outline

1. Living under the influence of other things is a threat to a relationship with God

• Addiction -- an ever-decreasing satisfaction that has an ever-increasing cost

• We are easily tempted into "contracts" with controlling things when there seems to be a good reason to do so

2. Living in fear is a threat to a relationship with God

• The Israelites feared their enemies; therefore, they wanted a king (not God) to fight their battles

• To counter fear, slow down and talk to God

3. God gave Israel a bad king so He could eventually give them (and us) a good King

• Saul grasped at power and was overcome by evil

• David, a king after God's own heart, was still a sinner, not the king we need

• Jesus Christ is the King that God was preparing for in this chapter

Israel Asks for a King

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Speaker: Joe Whalen
Scripture: 1 Samuel 8
February 27, 2022

Sermon Outline

• vv. 1-3: As the faithful judge Samuel becomes old, the Israelites don’t want his corrupt sons to succeed him.

• vv. 4-6a: The Israelites demand a king, like their neighbors had.

• vv. 6b-9: …and God tells him to give them a king, but with a warning.

• vv. 10-18: Samuel warns Israel what a king will do to them.

• vv. 19-20: Israel rejects the warning outright.

Two truths

1. We never just reject God; we replace him

2. Our biggest problem is the unbelieving heart inside ourselves, not outward circumstances

Good news

God gave us a King who paid for our sins and who adopts us into His family

God as King

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: 1 Samuel 8
June 24, 2018