• Samuels sons didn't follow his ways. They accepted bribes and perverted justice while they were serving at Beersheba.

• So the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel asking for a king because of three reasons. Samuel was geting old. His sons don't follow his ways. And they wanted a king because the other nations had one.

• Asking for a king displeased Samuel and he prayed and the Lord answered. It's not you that they are rejecting it's me that they are rejecting as their king. They have been doing this since I brought them from Egypt. They forsaked him and served other gods.

• Listen to them and warn them

• The king would reign over them and will claim as his rights.

• Samuel tells the people the words of the Lord.

What the king will claim as his rights.. HE WILL TAKE

• He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.

• He will be assigned to be commander of thousands and commanders of fifties

• Plow his ground and reap his harvest

• Some to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

• He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

• He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.

• He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.

• Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.

• He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

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

Refused to listen and get with you want The people refused to listen to Samuel. Nope even after hearing how much they would lose they still wanted to gain a king because they desired to look like the other nations "We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."

So the Lord gave them what the wanted. They went home in anticipation of their new king

What can we learn from this…

• Desiring something to have lordship over you will destroy you and they were getting ready to soon find that out. The Scriptures... that would cry out.

• When someone or something has lordship over it controls you. Where you work, how you work, your family, your food, your finances

• Having someone control you doesn't allow God room. The Word says we can't serve two masters. You will love one and hate the other.

• It would be impossible for them to serve this king they requested and serve the Lord God and the same thing is true for us

• Sometimes God will let us fail to allow his to see Him in a deeper way.

• They wanted something tangible. A king they could see. Faith in our King Jesus is unseen. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20:29b

• They wanted to match the other nations. Trying to be like this world and match what they offer will just let in these verses. Something is going to get taken and you will lose something or someone.

Who is the "king" in your life?

Are you desiring lordship of something other than Christ?

Do you think it will gain you something?

Have you considered the cost?

The Chew

Make sure to chose the true king. That is the King of Kings!