Be Careful What You Ask For
Israel had just watched God thunder against the Philistines and rescue them without a single soldier lifting a sword. And then, a few years later, they came to Samuel with a request: give us a king. Like the other nations have.
The thing they were asking for — someone to represent them, fight for them, go before them — was exactly what they already had. They just couldn’t see it.
In week four of the Samuel series, Charlie walks through 1 Samuel 8 and makes the case that this isn’t just an ancient mistake. It’s the same one most of us are making right now. We’re one promotion away, one house…
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