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In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Keith Simon. Bob Dylan is back in the news and back in

the cultural conversation due to a movie called A Complete Unknown, in which Timothy Shalamee plays a young Dylan.

Some of you are aware that Bob Dylan went through a conversion experience in the 1970s,

where he reportedly became a Christian. It's hard to know exactly what happened,

partly because it's hard to know about anyone else's faith, but also because Dylan has always

been an intensely

private person. One of the songs that Dylan wrote and performed during this era of his life was the

song called Gotta Serve Somebody. That song won a Grammy for Best Male Vocal Performance in 1980.

The song was about how everybody is going to serve somebody, and so the challenge was to think

through who you'd rather serve yourself, some other person, or Jesus. It's really true, isn't it,

that we're all going to serve someone or something? We see this truth, that you're going to serve

somebody, play out in the story of king saul in first samuel

fourteen now i love stories in the old testament because we see truth lived out in real person's lives

for example it's one thing to say trust god with your life and it's another to read a story

that shows what trusting god looks like well today we today we see that Dylan song come to life.

Everyone is going to serve someone. Because 1 Samuel is a narrative, because it's a story,

we have to keep reminding ourselves where we are in the story. Otherwise, it's easy to get lost

and miss the point. So remember that in the book of judges, Israel had rejected

God's kingship. They had served as their own authority. Why? Well, because according to Bob Dylan,

everyone is going to serve somebody, and so they begin to serve themselves. Israel faced

consequences for not serving God. The key verse in the book of judges is the one that says that everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

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