Amen, amen.

Morning church, how are we doing? Good? Good. Man, if you have your Bibles, grab them. We're going to be in 1st Samuel chapter 15.

As you well know, we are in a verse by verse, chapter by chapter Bible study through the book of the Old Testament book of First Samuel.

And we're going to continue in that today in week 8, 1 Samuel 15.

As you grab your journals or your scriptures wherever you have them,

you're going to open them up and you're going to go, oh, wow, that's a lot of Bible verses.

And you were correct, my friends, 35 of them to be exact.

And so today we're going to do 35 verses in about 40 minutes.

And so we're going to do just some straight up Bible study today, word by word, verse by verse.

I currently, just so that we're all on the same page here, I currently hold the record for the longest sermon ever preached from this stage.

And I hold the record for the shortest sermon ever preached from this stage, and I hold the record for the shortest sermon ever preached from this stage.

I will be breaking neither of those records today.

And so some of you are like, thank you Lord.

All right, here we go.

Let's dive in.

First Samuel, chapter 15, verse 1.

This is straight Bible study going at it today.

Verse 1 here it says.

And Samuel, the prophet, said to Saul, the king.

The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel.

That word anoint you're going to want to underline or circle or whatever it is you do.

That word anoint is an incredibly important opportunity for us as we look down a really meaty scripture today, a meaty passage. Whenever you're doing Bible study, one of the things you want to

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