My word is a lamp unto my feet and delight unto my path.

Unto my path.

Unto my pet.

That word is a lamp land

my feet

and a lie unto

a lie unto my path

my path.

Welcome to Searchlight. A survey through scripture with Pastor John Corson. It is our desire to bring you a

systematic study of the entire Bible chapter by chapter book by book.

Today we are going to begin a verse by verse study of 1st Samuel chapter 8. This story is a sad day in the history of Israel. As we will see, Israel

is going to demand a king. This was wrong for them because God was their king. Let's go ahead and get right to our study and

see the implications of this demand. Here now is Pastor John.

First Samuel, Chapter 8.

Now as you recall from Chapter 7,

the Ark of the Covenant had been captured by the Philistines.

The people of Israel were engaged in a battle against the Philistines and felt as though, hey, this is the key.

Bring the box into the battle, the arc of the covenant, and we will be assured of a victory. They were using that arc really like a

rabbit's foot. This will give us good luck. This will bring us success. They weren't looking to the Lord as we talked

about, but they were depending on the arc. A big mistake, a problem that can be very potentially real to you, real to me, where we begin to look at something rather than to look to someone, and that someone, of course, is the Lord.

They thought it would bring them good fortune, like a rabbit's foot, so to speak. I was reminded recently

that in America there are 20 million homes that have a rabbit's foot in that house, either on a key chain or above

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