The Sermon Character by David McGee
Sep 05, 2021
Character (36:09)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 Samuel 9:1-21; 1 Samuel 10:17-24; 1 Samuel 13:1-14; 1 Samuel 15:13-26; 1 Samuel 18:8
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1 Samuel 9:1-21
1) Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
2) He had a son, whose name was Saul, a young man and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
3) The donkeys of Kish, Saul‘s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.
4) He passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn‘t find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren‘t there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn‘t find them.
5) When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
6) He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
7) Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
8) The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
9) (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.)
10) Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
11) As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
12) They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:
13) as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him.
14) They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
15) Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
16) Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry is come to me.
17) When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people.
18) Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, Please, where the seer‘s house is.
19) Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.
20) As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don‘t set your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father‘s house?
21) Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?
1 Samuel 10:17-24
17) Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
18) and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
19) but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
20) So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
21) He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.
22) Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.
23) They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
24) Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
1 Samuel 13:1-14
1) Saul was [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
2) Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
3) Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
4) All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
5) The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.
6) When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
7) Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
8) He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn‘t come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
9) Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace-offerings. He offered the burnt offering.
10) It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.
11) Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn‘t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
12) therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven‘t entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
13) Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
14) But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
1 Samuel 15:13-26
13) Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed be you of Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
14) Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
15) Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
16) Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
17) Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren‘t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
18) and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.‘
19) Why then didn‘t you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
20) Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21) But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.
22) Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
23) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.
24) Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25) Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.
26) Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.
1 Samuel 18:8
8) Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
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