This is the Bible Book Club. I'm Heather and I'm Susan and we're in the book of First Samuel.

Welcome to the club.

Last episode, Saul was given the opportunity to find favor with God. The instructions to destroy the

Amalekites were very clear, but Saul did not obey.

God's disappointed, Samuel is mad, and all Saul's willing to do is make a bunch of excuses.

He blamed, he justified, he minimized. Never did he repent. In fact, Saul was more concerned

with Samuel keeping up appearances than anything else.

God had given Saul every chance to change, but his ways were set.

Samuel and Saul depart, and they never see each other again.

All right, here's the setup for this episode.

The reign of Saul as king of Israel does not end overnight.

It was a gradual process. Much happened in between

with several lessons for us. The first point God makes in the transfer of kings is that Saul was

unfit because he did not love the Lord first. Because the Lord was not first in Saul's life,

his position as king became a source of pride and

insecurity to him. And you're going to see that he's going to begin to fear losing his position.

He's going to become jealous, suspicious, irrational, and violently unstable. Now another point

that God wants to make in this transfer of kings is that Saul,

the bad example of a king, is a foil for David the good example. They're a contrast between

right and wrong. And the difference between a heart for self and a heart for God. Now the last point we can take away from

this transfer is that the people of Israel got what they wanted. They wanted a king for the wrong

reasons. So God gave them a king who wanted to be king for the wrong reasons. Next, God is going to

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