Amen and amen. How we're doing, church? Everybody good? Looking great. If you got your Bibles, go to 1st Samuel

Chapter 14. If you brought your journals with you, we were on page 34 there. As you saw in that video

when you hear me talk about it all the time, we're on this two-year discipleship journey called the

one initiative, and it's rooted in the Shemai, the Lord

God, the Lord is one, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and

all your mind and all your strength, and to the over 8,000 11-22ers that have made a commitment to

that and are a part of that journey. Way to go. Keep going. God is doing amazing things through that.

And if you kind of jumped on this bullet train that is 1122 late, like if you weren't here this fall or you didn't

get a chance to commit, then you can go to COE22.com slash one and you can get like all the

information that you need. Because the reality is, is you have no idea how God might use you for his glory

and your joy and the impact that you I mean just little old you could have in his kingdom

and that's what we're going to be talking about in our time together in 1st Samuel

chapter 14. Now to give you just a little bit of context, you remember a couple weeks ago,

Samuel gave him his final farewell address. He essentially said, choose this day who you will serve.

You can go down this path. It does not lead where you want to go. Or you can choose the way of the

Lord and God's hand

will be upon you. And then sure enough, the very next week, Saul, who is the king, did not heed

Samuel's advice at all. Last week, Saul tries to take matters into his own hand. Instead of trusting

God by faith, he tries to force God's hand for his own good.

And Samuel, the prophet of God, shows up and looks at the king and says,

what have you done?

That your sin has some serious consequences and your kingdom will not reign forever.

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