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1 Samuel chapter 8, verse 7.

And the Lord said to Samuel, obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you,

for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. This is a really sad moment in the Old

Testament when God's people looked at the nations around them and said, we want to be like them.

We want a king to rule us like they have a king to rule us.

But they had the greatest king there is.

They had God as their king.

And they rejected God as their king.

Instead looked for another king other than God.

And as we read in the pages that follow in the Old Testament, this was a

disastrous decision, a consequential rejection. For as a result of this decision, God's people would

plunge into more and more evil and wickedness. And this in so many ways summarizes life and death.

So just listen closely.

Let this soak in in a fresh way today.

The path to true life is found in revering God as king, and the path to death is found in rejecting God as king.

Like, it's that simple. I'm not saying it's easy, or there's not a battle against sin in our own hearts like we see here in 1st Samuel chapter 8 but this is the fundamental

truth of life true full abundant life is found in revering God as king and revering Jesus as king of your

life as king over every facet of who you are, over

everything you do.

This is where life is found.

And yet we are all prone to reject God as king, to look to ourselves as king, to seek

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