God has listened to Israel’s cries, and he gives them a king just like all the other nations. But when we meet this Saul, we see him chasing donkeys around the countryside for his father. And when Saul is chosen by lot, we see him hiding amongst the baggage. So what do we make of these stories, and this new king?
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When confronted with a challenge, the people decide that they want a king who will fight their battles for them. God is their king, and he has already been fighting their battles for them, but he gives in to their request, anyway. And he gives them Saul, a king just like all the other nations. In this, we can see the danger of trusting in human power, and the problem with giving authority to people just because of outward appearances.
After the Israelites lost a battle against the Philistines, their elders gathered and decided that they needed something else: they needed the ark of God to go with them. But for these people who weren’t seeking the face of their God, who were lead by selfish, abusive priests, God wasn’t with them. And so they lost. And in many ways, God lost. But this is who our God is: The God who loves to win, even when he loses, and never more incredibly than on the cross of Christ.
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In the time when God hadn’t spoken to his people in a long time, he called the name of a young boy. In a time when the leadership in Israel were corrupt and abusing their people, God had started to work in the small ways to rid his nation of the corruption, and start afresh.
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As we start our series in 1 Samuel, a book about kings and kingdoms, we start by meeting a mourning woman; we start by meeting nobodies from nowhere. But we soon see that this is exactly where God loves to work: through weak people, through humble people, to display his power and glory.
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Easter Sunday celebrates the most astounding event in history: Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. In this passage from Luke, we hear about Jesus’ first interaction with his followers after he was raised from the dead. Jesus revealed his identity to them, walked with them, and explained how all of the Bible was pointing to his death and resurrection. And it’s in this same hope that we can know that God has defeated death, that we can have a resurrection hope throughout our lives, and that we can have a sure hope in the face of death.
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Jesus was crucified between two others, and in the story of Luke, these two dying men show us two different responses to Jesus. Either we can trust our lives to him, even in the last moments of our life, and be with him in paradise, or we can reject him and his death, and die apart from Jesus. It’s in this hope, in the cross of Christ, that we rejoice on Good Friday.
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As Jesus enters Jerusalem he doesn’t do so like any other king or queen; he enters on a donkey, and he even needs to be helped onto it. He arrives in the city in the most humble way, showing exactly what kind of king he was.
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In the transfiguration, Jesus shows that he was both the son of man and the glorious son of God. But his disciples took a while to realise what this power and glory meant; Jesus was the heart of all glory, but he was also the suffering servant, whose face was set toward the cross, where he would give up his life to save others.
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9:30am at F Block, QUT* Kelvin Grove Campus, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove QLD, 4059
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