Title(s): 1. Israel rejects God. 2. The Law is a yoke and of slavery, 3. Who was the king that Israel chose to be under? 4. What was the gospel testimony of them of rejecting God and having their own king?
1. The Old Testament continues to bear witness of the same story of Law and grace even in the stories where this is not expressly said, but it is there to be found with a proper Christ and gospel centered hermeneutic.
2. Israel has had prosperity and freedom under Samuel. God defeated the Philistines for them by way of the sacrifice at Mizpah.
3. But after Samuel was old and his sons were not qualified to take over from him because of their corruption, the people of Israel demanded to have a king like other nations.
4. God did not take that well. He said this was a REJECTION OF HIM. A rejection of His rule. A rejection of grace, because God ultimately deals with His people by His grace.
5. But the people insisted on having a king. But God said this king would be horrible for them. He would use and abuse them, impoverish them and make them his servants.
6. And they would later cry out and God would not hear them and that to say this king would be very terrible for them.
7. And that king was Saul and that means SAUL WAS A PICTURE OF THE LAW. And God preached the misery of the Law through the kingship of Saul, that the Law is not of freedom, but of bondage.
8. And this is contrary to many who still think they can use the Law to further their progress in sanctification (progressive righteousness). The redeemed are ALREADY PERFECT IN CHRIST.
9. A rejection of God by Israel was a rejection of Christ. And any who have rejected grace will only deal with the Law and G
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