5/22/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Relationship with God - 1 Samuel 8

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5/22/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Mike Culbert
Speaker: Darin Pesnell
Title: Relationship with God
Scripture: 1 Samuel 8

Notes:

1. Living under the influence of other things is a threat to a relationship with God

a. Addiction--an ever-decreasing satisfaction that has an ever-increasing cost
b. We are easily tempted into "contracts" with controlling things when there seems to be a good reason to do so.

2. Living in fear is a threat to a relationship with God

a. The Israelites feared their enemies; therefore, they wanted a king (not God) to fight their battles.
b. To counter fear, slow down and talk to God

3. God gave Israel a bad king so He could eventually give them (and us) a good King

a. Saul grasped at power and was overcome by evil.
b. David, a king after God's own heart, was still a sinner, not the king we need
c. Jesus Christ is the King that God was preparing for in this chapter.

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