Rejected Your God

1 Samuel 10:17-19 – Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the Lord at Mizpah and said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the power of Egypt and all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’ But you have now rejected your God, who saves you out of all your disasters and calamities. And you have said, ‘No, appoint a king over us.’ So now present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans.”

Numbers 11:19-20 – You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”

Deuteronomy 33:5 – He was king over Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel.

1 Samuel 8:7 – And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

Deuteronomy 17:14-15 – When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

Application:

• ·         Although the judges themselves are sometimes referred to as Israel’s deliverers, this was true only in a secondary sense, for they were instruments of the Lord’s deliverance. It was the Lord who sent them.
• ·         The principal issue for Israel in the wilderness was not meat at all, but a failure to demonstrate proper gratitude to the Lord, who was in their midst and who was their constant source of good.
• ·         The Lord, not an earthly monarch, was to be king over Israel.
• ·         In requesting a Israel “like all the other nations” broke the covenant, rejected the Lord who was their King and forgot His constant provision for their protection in the past.
• ·         Moses gave guidance concerning the eventual selection of a king.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV