How God
Sees People
King Saul - the Carnal Man
Lesson III
I
The Children of
1 Samuel 8:1-5
make us a King
1
Samuel
1) The outward reason for their request
1
Samuel
1
Samuel 8:1-3 the sins of Samuel’s sons
2) The real reason for their request
1
Samuel 8:5 to be like the Nations
1
Samuel 8:19-20 to be like all the Nations
3) God had made them to be different
Exodus
11:7 God put a difference
Leviticus
Numbers
23:9 they were not reckoned among the
Nations
2
Samuel 7:23-24 No other Nation like
1
Kings
4) All this is typical of the
John 15:18-19
ye are not of the world
John
Romans
12:2 be not conformed to the world
2
Corinthians 6:14-18 come out and be separate
II Desiring a King they were rejecting God and His will for them
1 Samuel 8:7
they were not rejecting
Samuel, they were rejecting God. Do we realize ,to reject God’s Word is to reject God?
III Being out of
the Will of God they chose Saul to be their King
1 Samuel
1
Samuel 16:7 they looked on the outside, God
looks at the heart
IV Saul’s beginning
was good
1
Samuel 9:1-2 a
choice young man
1
Samuel 9:3-20 God using what men consider to be
ordinary affairs of this life to accomplish his purpose.