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January 10 - 1 Samuel 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is.
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  Wednesday, it's the 10th of January.
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  It's hump day. You have reached the middle of
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  the week and I hope your week is going well.
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  Oh, it's warm in this part of the world.
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  Summer is glorious down here in Tassie.
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  Oh my goodness. The days are long and warm and
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  sunny. It's almost enough to make you
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  forget the other nine months of the year.
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  I hope you're doing well. Whatever the weather's like
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  where you are and when you're listening.
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  So glad that you can join me. And together we can continue on
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  the story of of God teaching, teaching his people what he is
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  like as their king. And this part of the story, the
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  people want a king of their own, that I want God to be their
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  king. And so God has just identified
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  the man who will be that first king and today he will be
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  acclaimed king. So let us read this story
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  together as we continue reading First Samuel, chapter 10.
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  Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it over
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  Saul's head. He kissed Saul and said, I am
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  doing this because the Lord has appointed you to be the ruler
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  over Israel, his special possession.
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  When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel's
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  tomb at Zelzar on the border of Benjamin.
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  They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that
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  your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried
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  about you. He is asking, have you seen my
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  son? When you get to the oak of
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  table, you will see three men coming towards you who are on
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  their way to worship God at Bethel.
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  One will be bringing three young goats, another will have three
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  loaves of bread, and the third will be carrying a wineskin full
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  of wine. They will greet you and offer
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  you two of the loaves which you are to accept.
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  When you arrive at Gibeah of God, where the Garrison of the
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  Philistines is located, you will meet a band of prophets coming
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  down from the place of worship. They will be playing a harp, A
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  tambourine, A flute, and a liar, and they will be prophesying At
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  that time. The Spirit of the Lord will come
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  powerfully upon you, and you will prophecy with them.
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  You will be changed into a different person after these
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  signs take place. Do what must be done, for God is
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  with you. Then go down to Gilgal ahead of
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  me. I will join you there to
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  sacrifice burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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  You must wait for seven days until I arrive and give you
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  further instructions. As Samuel turned and started to
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  leave, God gave him a new heart, and all Samuel's signs were
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  fulfilled That day, when Saul and a servant arrived at Gibeah,
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  they saw a group of prophets coming toward them.
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  Then the Spirit of God came powerfully upon Saul, and he too
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  began to prophecy. When those who knew Saul heard
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  about it, they exclaimed, what is even Saul a prophet?
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  How did the son of Kish become a prophet?
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  And one of those standing there said, can anyone become a
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  prophet, no matter who his father is?
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  So that is the origin of the saying.
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  Is even Saul a prophet? When Saul had finished
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  prophesying, he went up to the place of worship.
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  Where have you been? Saul's uncle asked him and his
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  servant. We were looking for the donkeys,
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  Saul replied. But we couldn't find them, so we
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  went to Samuel to ask him where they were.
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  Oh, and what did he say? His uncle asked.
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  He told us that the donkeys had already been found.
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  Saul replied. But Saul didn't tell his uncle
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  what Samuel said about the Kingdom.
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  Later Samuel called all the people of Israel to meet before
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  the Lord at Mizpah. And he said, this is what the
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  Lord, the God of Israel, has declared.
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  I brought you from Egypt and rescued you from the Egyptians
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  and from all the nations that were oppressing you.
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  But though I have rescued you from your misery and distress,
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  you have rejected your God today and have said, no, We want a
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  king instead. Now, therefore, present
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  yourselves before the Lord by tribes and clans.
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  So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel before the Lord, and
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  the tribe of Benjamin was chosen by lot.
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  Then he brought each family of the tribe of Benjamin before the
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  Lord, and the family of the Matrites was chosen.
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  And finally Saul, son of Kish, was chosen from among them.
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  But when they looked for him he had disappeared.
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  So they asked the Lord where is he?
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  And the Lord replied he is hiding among the baggage.
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  So they found him and brought him out, and he stood head and
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  shoulders above anyone else. Then Samuel said to all the
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  people, This is the man the Lord has chosen as your king.
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  No one in all Israel is like him.
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  And all the people shouted, Long live the king.
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  Then Samuel told the people what the rights and duties of a king
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  were. He wrote them down on a scroll
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  and placed it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent the people home
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  again. When Saul returned to his home
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  in Gibeah, a group of men whose hearts God has touched went with
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  him. But there were some scoundrels
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  who complained, How can this man save us?
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  And they scorned him and refused to bring him gifts, but Saul
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  ignored them. Nahash, king of the Ammonites,
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  had been grievously oppressing the people of God and Reuben,
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  who lived east of the Jordan River.
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  He gouged out the right eye of each of the Israelites living
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  there, and he didn't allow anyone to come and rescue them.
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  In fact, of all the Israelites east of Jordan, there wasn't a
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  single one whose right eye Nahash had not gouged out.
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  But there were 7000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites, and
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  they had settled in Jabbish. Gilead,
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  you are a loving and passionate God, and if there is ever any
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  temptation to see you as distant, as dispassionate,
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  sitting on a heavenly throne, commanding with lightning bolts
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  these words that you don't hold Israel as your people, but
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  Israel as your special possession, you are a God with a
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  big heart who loves and who just desires to draw your people near
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  to you. And we are your people by that
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  incredible gift of Jesus sacrifice that we are able to be
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  your people and draw close to you, this most holy God.
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  So we come to you and we surrender to you, and we dwell
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  in Your amazing presence. And we thank you, we thank you
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  that we are able to do this and that You love us and hold us
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  close, and you will never let us go, not for all the distance
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  that time can stretch before us. You hold us, We thank you and we
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  praise you and pray all these things.
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  In the name of Jesus. Amen.