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Samuel was called of God to be a judge over Israel.

The account of his calling is recorded in 1 Samuel chapter 3.



Do you know why men began to keep records, why men wrote things down?



Because it produces genuine official evidence.

Birth certificates, report cards, marriage licenses,diplomas and certificates, stamps on passports, ballots, books, letters, even Internet searches and cell phone searches and calls.



Things on film and recorded on, DVD, CD.

Prison records, traffic tickets, bank accounts, hotel receipts, credit card statements, personnel files, even GPS systems.

They show evidence of having been in an area or having been reprimanded or not.



Records are good because they can be later used to prove a point or to disprove one.



They can be falsified, stolen, shredded, tampered with and all sorts of things.



But we have a Bible that hasn't really been changed in centuries.

It's been translated and misinterpreted by many but the record remains genuine and the document attests to our deliverance in Christ Jesus.



God called Samuel and made him judge over Israel and when Samuel grew old the record says that his plan was to appoint one of his sons as judge over Israel.

But his sons didn't walk in his ways.



If you study the record of Samuel in the former chapters you will learn that Samuel cried out to God and gave worthy offerings to the LORD in order to preserve the people of Israel against their enemies and to return the Ark of The LORD back to the rightful people, Israel.



Samuel lead the people of Israel at the instruction and admonition of God.

because Samuel didn't say what he wanted said but what The Father instructed him to say and do.



But his sons turned away from that to dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.

So all the elders gathered together and came to Samuel and said, " Samuel your method is old, and so are you and your sons are not walking in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as the other nations have."



God made Samuel judge, so it's not his sons that the people are not happy with, it's God's decision that they are challenging.

We don't want to rely on God to continue to feed us and keep us safe, we believe that since you are old when you die, that's God won't provide.



We want to do what the other folks are doing that are growing their villages and making them wealthy.



Lesson:

If you really care about souls, you care about all souls.



But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," This made Samuel angry; so he prayed to the LORD.

The LORD told Samuel to listen to what the people are saying to you; it's not you that they have rejected, but it is Me that they have rejected as their king.



As they have done from the day that I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other Gods (other methods and ways) so this is what they are doing to you.



So go ahead and listen to them and their demands; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.

Let the folks know what the government that they vote in will do to them.



Samuel told them exactly what God told him to say.

Samuel described what the kings would do.



Your king will make your children men of war and they will be forced into hard labor.

Their yoke will be heavy.

Your daughters will be maids, cooks and servants.



He will foreclose on your homes, he will invest your tithes(tenth of your flock) and retirement money in oil.

He will increase your taxes to support his growing greed.

He will bail the wealthy out because they put him in office, but the working man will be trodden under and his lively hood will be closed down and shipped to another nation that will work for far less than is needed to provide for his family, therefore putting more money in his pocket.



He will steal you ideas and industry and pay you nothing for it.



No where did the LORD say that he would be taking God out of schools.

Look at what The LORD said and pay attention.



Now you have become the king's slave.

The king has taken all that you have and God gave you all that you have.

But you turned from The Father and wanted a king.



When the day comes that you cry out for relief from the king that you have chosen to lie with, to have a close relationship with.

Adultery again.

You climbed into dealings with these folks.

Because after all relationships with men in so called power outweigh the relationship that we should have with The Father. NOT



When the day comes that you cry out for relief from the king that you have chosen, the LORD will not answer you in that day.



But the people refused to listen to Samuel.

No! they said. We want a king over us, to lead us and go before us and fight our battles for us.



What in the world had God been doing for these people all of this time?

They wanted to do their thing and be like what they thought was success.



Samuel listened to them like a good judge would, a judge called by God listens to the people and then he takes what he hears to God.



A judge that God has appointed doesn't allow his ego and his emotions to rule his heart or God's people.



Samuel took what they said to The Father.



The LORD said, "Do what they ask and make them a king."



The LORD has never forced man's hand but men believe that it's their duty to try and force another man's hand.



This is how Saul came to be and this is how the kings, leaders and presidents in every nation came to be.

Men decided long before George Washington or Barack Obama to turn from God.



And they haven't just turned from Him in Washington, they have turned from Him in the pulpits.

I have said none of this own my own accord.

None of it is to bring guilt upon and or fear to men.

This is a written record, recorded in God's Word, for teaching and correction.



Think about this and why we have to be governed by ungodly men.

Because we refused to be governed by God.

No man took anything away from the righteous, the righteous gave it up.



1 Timothy 6:3-10



No man will take what God has given me, He has given me the right to righteousness through His Son, my Saviour Jesus Christ.

Arrogance is not Anointing.



Vote.

Blood was shed.



Love Y'all