Skip to main content

Study Notes for November 22, 2015

Image
By
His Name Was Saul
1 Samuel 9:1-10:27
November 22, 2015

Study Questions

1.      Read 1 Samuel 9:1-27. Who was Saul? What distinguished him from others around him? How did God used some lost donkeys to guide Saul toward his destiny?
2.      How did God guide Samuel with regard to Saul? In what context(s) do you think God spoke to Samuel? How did Samuel honor Saul in the sight of others?
3.      Read 1 Samuel 10:1-16. How did Samuel honor Saul in the sight of God? What three signs did Samuel say God would give to him, and what was their significance? After receiving these signs, what was Saul to do? Did he do what he was told?
4.      Read 1 Samuel 10:17-27. Why did Samuel call upon Israel to gather at Mizpah? What message did he deliver to them? Why was their desire for a king a rejection of God?
5.      By what process was Saul chosen as king? What was his attitude toward this? How did the people receive him and why? What final actions did Samuel take? How did various groups of people respond when all was said and done?
6.      In what ways do we look for our leaders to be like the world? In what ways do we reject God by looking for worldly things rather than trusting in him?
7.      In what ways would our church benefit if all of us embraced the Lord’s vision for us with all of our heart and trusted him for our present and future?
8.   Take some time to pray and ask the Lord to give us all an accurate vision of what he wants for his church and also hearts that are filled with faith and resting in his will for us.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Reflective Glory: How the Moon Displays the Mercy of God

By
Our sun is a fitting metaphor for the glory of God. In the context of our solar system, it is massive, bright, beautiful, powerful, self-sufficient, heat-producing, life-giving, and dangerous. It is, by far, the dominant feature of our solar system and without it the system would fling apart and all living things therein would die.  On the other hand, our moon is a fitting metaphor for human beings, especially for those who believe in Jesus Christ. First, compared to the sun, the moon is tiny and dim. The sun is 400 times larger than the moon, its mass is 27 million times greater than the mass of the moon, and from our perspective its light shines 450,000 times brighter than that of the moon. The sun is so much greater than the moon that it’s difficult to quantify and express the difference. Likewise, the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is so much great than each and all of us that it’s impossible to quantify or express the difference. Indeed, the Lord is very great and greatly...
Post a Comment
Read more

To Have My Soul Happy in the Lord, by George Muller

By Anonymous
To Have My Soul Happy in the Lord By George Muller “It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost for more than fourteen years. The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, or how I might glorify the Lord, but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. “I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God—not prayer, but the Word of God. And here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God so that it only passes through my mind just as water runs through a pipe, but considering what I read, pondering over it, and applying it to my heart. To meditate on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed. And that thus,...
Post a Comment
Read more

Catechisms: Building a Heritage of Sound Faith - By Pastor Kevin Feder

By
This is an article I (Pastor Kevin) wrote in 2005 and updated in 2017. It is featured in a new resource available through Children’s Desiring God called Discipleship through Doctrinal Teaching and Catechism by Sally Michael.  It is our desire to encourage parents to use a children’s catechism as a tool in building and strengthening faith in children. A simple definition of a catechism is “organized teaching.” Catechisms are not the only things that can or should be used to instruct the next generation, yet they have useful purposes. Listed here are ten specific benefits a catechism can uniquely offer. Hopefully these ten points will help parents understand how a catechism can be effectively used in their families. 1.  A catechism is a very clear and complete gospel message. A catechism is, among other things, a very clear and concise gospel message to children. Everything a child needs to know for salvation is embodied within a catechism. The gospel is truly ama...
Post a Comment
Read more