Under God’s instructions, Samuel travels to Bethlehem and to anoint a new king, a son of Jesse, in place of Saul. After rejecting Jesse’s first seven sons, God chooses the youngest, David the shepherd. “For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart… Then Samuel took the horn of oil and…
Audio file includes communion message at the end As God had commanded through the prophet Samuel, Saul musters an army and attacks the Amalekites. However, he spares King Agag and the best of the livestock, disobeying God’s command to completely destroy all the people and everything that belongs to them. Confronted by Samuel after the battle, Saul makes excuses for his incomplete…
In his haste to overtake the Philistines, Saul rashly forbids his army to eat anything “before I have taken vengeance on my enemies” (1 Samuel 14: 24b NKJV). But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; “therefore he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his…
Continuing their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, the Israelites encounter the Amalek people who come out to fight them in Rephidim. Pastor Kevin shows how the Amalekites and their descendants continued to threaten the Jewish people throughout their history. They are also a type of all peoples to the present day who are inspired by Satan to hate and strive…