Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his love,

let him fill your heart and will satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with Theocracy

versus Monarchy as we pick up in 1st Samuel chapter 8 verse 4 and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck.

It was because God was not being faithfully represented to them by their rulers that they were demanding a king like the other nations.

The Lord said, tell him what a monarchy is going to entail. And so Samuel told the people the words of the Lord.

When you have a king that reign over you,

he's gonna take your sons, he's gonna draft them

and appoint them for himself and for his chariots, that might be his horsemen some will run before his chariots

He's going to appoint captains over the thousands and over the 50s

And he will set them to ear his ground or to till his soil to reap his harvest to make

him instruments of war and instruments for his chariots and he will take your

daughters that they might be his bakers and cooks and

confectionaries and he will take your fields your vineyards your olive yards and the best of them and he will give them to

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