The Once and Future Kings (part 1)
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When Israel begs for a king, Yahweh makes sure they know what they're asking for.
Text: 1 Samuel 9
Players:
- Yahweh
- Samuel
- Saul
What's Spooky:
- Not much in this one
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Intro Music: "Winds of Change," Four Trees
Outro Music: "Fine-Toothed Chrome," Sam Barsh
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What happens when we tell him no? When we decline to follow Yahweh on the path he's chosen, |
| 0:11.9 | and instead choose another, inviting him to come with us? Might he consent? And if so, does it change the way he's with us? Is there such a thing |
| 0:28.2 | as divine accompaniment moderated? This is a story about the sometimes irresistible gravity of the visible, |
| 0:40.3 | about the pull of the urgent and the physics of impatience and the consequences of desire. |
| 0:48.0 | And it's a story about grace in the face of wisdom spurned. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. |
| 0:57.7 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. |
| 1:00.3 | Music Samuel frowns, wrinkles multiplying. |
| 1:32.3 | His skin bears a record of the years, as if Father Time himself has been walking across it, |
| 1:40.3 | decade after decade, dragging his staff all the while while carving grooves and leaving divvets this has been no easy |
| 1:50.4 | assignment 70 years more or less acting as profit and traveling magistrate for this divided infighting |
| 1:59.8 | nation shepherding their erratic faith and mediating their |
| 2:04.3 | constant disputes, traveling the circuit between Mizpah and Bethel and Gilgall and Ramah, |
| 2:11.8 | offering prayers, preaching sermons, blessing sacrifices, and trying to keep these tribes pointed together to Yahweh. |
| 2:22.3 | Look, says the elder, chosen to speak for the council. |
| 2:27.3 | The other leaders of Israel's tribes look on expectantly. |
| 2:31.3 | Some of them have traveled a long way to be here for this. What is this |
| 2:36.4 | exactly? Samuel knows it's not good news. No one travels for days to check in and tell you |
| 2:44.4 | everything is good. And no one begins a happy thought with the word look. Samuel gives his attention to the spokesman. |
| 2:54.3 | It's, you are old. New wrinkles in the prophet's forehead now as his eyebrow rises. The spokesman's |
| 3:03.9 | hands go up an apology and your sons do not follow your example. |
| 3:10.7 | Samuel's heart drops at this. |
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