Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for coming. Thanks for brazen the snow. It sure seems like we get our winter snow face game faces on As winter progresses our threshold for inclement weather driving seems toe get lower as the year goes on So if the first snow of the year, just everything shuts down. But as the year goes on, we just kinda seem to soldier through, So welcome. Thank you for coming. Thanks for joining us on the livestream. It’s good to be a few this morning. Um, today we are we’re looking at we’re looking at a lot of things we’re looking at. Leadership is one of the main themes that air flowing through these four chapters. We’re we’re playing a little catch up, trying to catch up to what we’re supposed to be so that we can finish Samuel in light of before Easter so you can start a new Siri’s post Easter. And so I am gonna take us on a Samuel plane. We’re all gonna enter the plane. We’re gonna fly over four chapters of your Bible at a pretty decent clip if you’ve looked ahead thes air some long chapters and so we’re gonna we’re gonna book it through some of these. I’m gonna do some summary of what’s going on and pull out some Some, uh, points we can dwell on as a congregation. We’re gonna land the Samuel plane and get out. Look around. Kick the tires, get back into the plane and fly over summarizing some of these passages. These four chapters. So thank you for coming. Our our title today is rises and Falls. We see the rise of Saul King Saul. We see the fall of King Saul throughout this chapter. I know John Maxwell, a famous leadership, uh, teacher has said that everything rises and falls on leadership. That’s very true. And these four chapters as we look at these chapters. So before we dig in and keep going forward, let’s let’s pray and let zlook to the Lord redeem this time to make it worthwhile. So bow your heads with me Let’s pray Got a got a heavenly father Jesus. Thank you for what you’re doing in our life. Thank you for what you’re doing in our life is a church on the on the snowy, super cold Super Bowl. Sunday I ask that you just really redeem Samuel. This these four chapters in our lives make it worthwhile. Make it make the lessons that you want us to learn the lessons you want to teach us. As me as one of the pastors toe all of us, sort of, uh, the brothers and sisters and lords you look at your word together approach is just really pushed. Deepened our souls into the cracks of our souls, Pushing some lessons today that you want to teach us through the your word through your spirit. Thank you for your work. Today I prayed. You just redeem it. Anything that’s just worthless, helping to just roll off our backs and not stick, but anything that is worth While I prayed to just really helping to stick in our minds, we commit this time to you. God in Jesus name. Amen. Okay, so today’s passage pick up in first Samuel, Chapter 12th. It starts off of Ah, farewell address. I worked in corporate America before working here with solar church. I had some men who and women who spent 40 some years of their life 50 years of their life working in corporate America. And you know this sheet cake people are eating a piece of cake and I worked in supply chain. So there’s some brash speak it like it is kind of people on. There’ll be some colorful comments made upper management or management or their peers, and they’re about to leave. You know, no one could do anything. They roast a few people, eat their cake and go retire. And so we pick up in first Samuel, Chapter 12, with, uh, with a little bit of that, Saul is clear. In his mind. Samuel is clearing his mind talking to the elders of Israel. It’s a farewell retirement speech. He talked about what I did wrong. Where did I fail? He asked them that question. It’s kind of like an employe…