22-0826A_THE REJECTED KING
1Sa 8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
1Sa 8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
1Sa 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
1Sa 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
1Sa 8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
1Sa 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
1Sa 8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
1Sa 8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
1Sa 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
1Sa 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
1Sa 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1Sa 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1Sa 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1Sa 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1Sa 8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
1Sa 8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
1Sa 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
1Sa 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
1Sa 8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
1Sa 8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
1Sa 8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
THE REJECTED KING
22 In the day of Samuel the people were
a great deal like they are in all days. They had come to a place that they
wanted to be like the other people. And that is just simply a nature with
people. People want to impersonate each other. If you’ll go out and buy a
certain kind of clothing, or a certain automobile, paint your steps a certain
color in your house or on your steps, porch steps, watch the neighbor; they
just can’t stand it. They’ve got to be the same. You go to church
and wear a certain kind of a hat that’s a little different, next Sunday you’ll
have a lot of your sisters with that same kind of hat, if they can find it.
Somehow another they just want to act like one another. And that’s a good thing
if it’s used right, if it is used in the right way.
23 Now, but these people in the days of
Samuel the prophet, they wanted to act like the Philistines, and the
Amalekites, and the unbelieving. And they, because that they seen their people
was a little more fancy…And they were a nation of called-out and chosen people,
and they’re not supposed to act like the rest of the people. God’s people is
never to act like the world, or look like the world, or be anything to do with
the world. You are a separated people, the church, a called-out, a peculiar
people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, altogether different and set aside,
and all your actions, and habits, and ways from the things of the world. Now,
may the Lord help us as we study.
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Now, these people seen how the Philistines were doing, how the Amalekites, and
the different ones were acting. And they came to Samuel and said, “We want to
be like them.” And it’s about the same today. You just let the world start a
certain fashion or—or some fad and you find all the people, even to many of the
Christians want to do that same thing. They want to act like it.
You let the boys start cutting their hair a
certain way, and all the boys want to do it. And they got to a place now, they
let their hair grow out real big, and looks like a duck or something setting on
top of their head. And I tell you; I believe that I—I—if—if I was a woman, a
girl, and a boyfriend of mine did like that, I’d set him down and shave his
hair off. It looks to me like that a woman would want a man.
I’d
tell you, maybe the woman is so masculine till she wants something feminish,
but that certainly looks like a woman to me. They have all that big bush, like
a duck or a crow or something setting on top of their head, the big, long thing
sticking out in the back and…I never seen such an outfit in my life. And I seen
some preachers like that. What in the world is this thing coming to? After
while they’ll have a beatnik pastor, if you don’t watch out what they’re doing.
Well, that’s the truth.
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And I—I think a man ought to be a man; and
a woman ought to be a lady. And I think that a Christian ought to act like a
Christian, and associate with Christians. And the church of the living God
ought to be together with one heart, and one accord, and have nothing to do
with the world, when it comes to their ways and habits.
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But we find it today just like it was then. They come to Samuel, and they said,
“Now, you’re getting old. Your hair’s getting gray. And we—we just don’t know
how much longer you’re going to stay around. And now, we want you to make us a
king just like the Philistines has got, and like all the rest of the world has
got. Make us just like them.” And it displeased this holy prophet of God. Any
prophet, if he is a prophet, he’s for holiness, and righteousness, and the
things of God. And he can’t stand still; he’s got to bring it out. Sometimes it
cost his life, but he—he—he will bring it anyhow, because God is in the person.
And the pastor or prophet that really for God, if it hurts, it just…He—he don’t
mean to hurt the people; he loves the people, but he’s trying to save them.
See?
And
why, this kinda upset the good, old prophet, that they thought he was too old
to go on. We find out he lived for many, many years later. But he was a—he was
a servant of the Lord. And in doing that, they rejected their real King which
was God. And that displeased the prophet. And he didn’t want them to do that.
27 Now, Samuel, in our message, represents the Holy Spirit. Now,
Samuel was the mouthpiece of God. And today the Holy Spirit is the mouthpiece
of God. And today, instead of having all of our different fandangles in church,
God wants us to let Him rule, not popes, bishops, and general overseers, and
doctrines, and denominations and everything; He sent the Holy Spirit to rule
the church.
But we, like the people of old, we
say, “Well, let us be like the rest of them. They’ve got a great organization;
let’s us build up our group, because we believe this.” Now, the Holy Spirit
never would’ve stood still for that. No, sir. The Holy Spirit wants us to have
no fences, no boundary lines; He wants us to be one in Him. We are children,
brothers. God doesn’t separate His children, said, “I’ll give this one corn
bread and beans, and this one ice cream and pie.” He doesn’t do that. Let this
one starve to death and the other thing, He feeds them all at the same table.
And the Holy Spirit should lead the church.
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William Marrion Branham
And the Lord said, “Go right ahead and give them their—give them their king, because they’re not rejecting you; they’re rejecting Me to be their Judge.”
See, people don’t want the Holy Spirit to judge them. No, no. You don’t want that. They want—they want some creed to judge them, but they want some church to judge them; but they don’t want the Holy Spirit.
30 And He said, “Go ahead and make them a king.” So they searched out through the country. And down in the tribe of Benjamin they found a man by the name of Kish, who had a son named Saul. And they chose him: great, big, handsome-looking, intellectual, giant of a man, head and shoulders above any other man, way up high, intellectual, educated, smart, shrewd, nice-looking. Well, that was just exactly what they wanted: something they could showoff with.
That’s just about the way the churches is getting. You want some great big organizations, some great big fine church, bigger than the little mission down yonder. That’s just the way it goes. And many times they leave the little mission where the Spirit is leading to go join to that, because you say, “I belong to the First Church.” See? The same old devil, just exactly, the same misleading of the people…The biggest church, something to showoff, something big, oh, people like to say that. They like to get to a place where they got the finest pastor. Why, they got a pastor that’s got four degrees out of Princeton or some great university. He’s so smart and everything like that. He might have all those degrees, but in God’s sight he might not even be enough to make a hog caller. That’s exactly right. We’re all low.
1Ti 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1Ti 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1Ti 2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
1Ti 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1Ti 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1Ti 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1Co 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1Co 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
1Co 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
1Co 14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
1Co 14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1Co 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
1Sa 13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
1Sa 13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1Sa 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
1Sa 13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1Sa 13:5 And the Philistines gathered 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 pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
1Sa 13:6 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 high places, and in pits.
1Sa 13:7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
1Sa 13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1Sa 13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
1Sa 13:10 And 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 salute him.
1Sa 13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
1Sa 13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
1Sa 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
1Sa 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1Sa 13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
1Sa 13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
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