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1 Samuel chapter 8, verse 7. And the Lord said said to Samuel obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you for they have not rejected you but they have rejected me from being king over them

this is a really sad moment in the Old Testament when God's people looked at the nations around

them and said we want to be like them we want a king to rule us like they have a king to rule us

but they had the greatest king there is. They had God as their king, and they rejected

God as their king. Instead, looked for another king other than God. And as we read in the pages

that follow in the Old Testament, this was a disastrous decision, a consequential rejection.

For as a result of this decision, God's people would plunge into more and more evil

and wickedness. And this in so many ways summarizes life and death.

So just listen closely, let this soak in in a fresh way today.

The path to true life is found in revering God as king,

and the path to death is found in rejecting God as king. Like, it's that simple. I'm not saying

it's easy, or there's not a battle against sin in our own hearts like we see here in 1st Samuel

chapter 8, but this is the fundamental truth of life.

True, full, abundant life is found in revering God as king and revering Jesus as king of your

life, as king over every facet of who you are, over everything you do. This is where life is found.

And yet we are all prone to reject God as king, to look to ourselves as king, to seek

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