1 Samuel 8:4-21: 1 Chronicles 10:1-14

Topic: This is a voting year, so the topic today is God's program for the nations, what He's done in way of human governments, where are we headed according to God's Word.

1 Samuel 8:4-5: Samuel was the last prophet of God and a judge. In this chapter, Samuel is old and his sons have gone astray and the whole nation of Israel is messed up. Israel is looking around at all the surrounding nations and sees they have kings and they like that system. So they asked Samuel to get them a king.
Vs6: The first thing Samuel does with this issue that he doesn't know how to handle is run to God in prayer. That is exactly right. Turn to God when you have a problem you can't deal with.
Vs7: Jesus told Samuel they have a king, but they have rejected Him. This has nothing to do with Samuel.
Vs8: The people of Israel have a king, but they want to kick Him out of their lives.
Vs9-10: Jesus Christ says “Go ahead, give them a king. But watch out, because this is what is going to happen.” Let's parallel this to our nation today. We have a leader, but we don't like him, we reject him, and we want to set up our own leaders.
Vs11: The king that you set up will not be good. He will take the men of the nation and make slaves out of them, to serve him and not God. The people will have no authority whatsoever, and the king will decide and rule all.
Vs12: He will take all your privileges. Look at England today, and any country today that has a man-appointed king government system.
Vs13: The king will make slaves out of the women, too, to cook, clean, breed.
Vs14: The man-appointed king will take all your land and have the slave work on them.
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