Amen and amen. How are we doing, church? Doing good? Man, I am constantly amazed by the,

by the disciples here at the Church of 1122, the measure of faith that God grows up in our people.

I mean, seriously, ask yourself, if everything was stripped away from you and all you had was Jesus, would he be enough?

That's what we're going to talk about in our time together.

If you've got your Bibles, and I hope you do, go to 1st Samuel chapter 13.

If you brought your general back, it's on page 30.

And we're going to continue in this 12-week series that we're in, the study of the book of 1st Samuel talking about prophets, priests, and kings.

And you remember last week we talked about Samuel, the prophet, his farewell address, that he basically gave this, choose for yourself this day whom you will serve, kind of talk.

He encouraged the nation of israel to seek

god seek him alone to reject the idols of this world and to seek god and so as you turn the page

over to the next few pages what begins to happen is now saul is king and by the time you get to

first samuel chapter 13 Saul's been king for about

three years. He's been battling against the Philistines. These are kind of the ongoing bad guys

all throughout the New Testament. He's got a son named Jonathan that will play a big role in the

next few weeks for us. And so for three years, they've been battling back and forth, back and forth,

back and forth.

And by the time you get to Chapter 13, Jonathan, his son, has taken a group of soldiers, and they've

gone, and they've whipped some Philistines, and then the Philistines kind of get aggravated about it.

And so they raised this enormous army, I mean enormous army.

30,000 chariots, which would be like Old Testament tanks and 6,000 horsemen and troops,

and then they descend on Israel in this town named McMash, which sounds like a made-up place,

but it's really not. And so as they descend on McMash, all of the Israelites, you know,

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