Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin.

This is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for you to break it down a little more,

to take it a little deeper.

I hope you enjoy this overflow message.

Let me know.

Let's go.

Sometimes the thing that you call on to save you will end up enslaving you.

Something that you think is going to save you will actually enslave you.

Now, I'm not going to preach this right now.

If I were preaching now, it would build up to it a whole lot more than I just did.

But I'm just getting the idea down because what's a powerful thought?

He's telling them, yeah, you can get a king and he'll fight your battles.

And if you get the right king, he'll definitely drive back your enemies and give you a measure of protection.

But there's going to be a cost to having a king like the other nations, right?

Moses even warned in Deuteronomy that the kind of king they would need in order to lead them in God's ways

couldn't be like the surrounding nations and cultures.

But they wanted to be like the other nations and cultures because they didn't want to be vulnerable.

And out of their vulnerability, they came to Samuel and said, we need a king.

We need a king like the other nations.

And Samuel says, you don't know what the king is going to cost you.

If you let God be your king and follow his ways, he'll fight your battles.

He'll give you the necessary leadership.

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