In this lesson we examine the cost of being like the world and not being a peculiar people. We ask and answer do we want to be like those around us.

1. King ME!
by
Brian Birdow
1 Samuel 8:1-8

2. Objective of lesson
1. To understand the cost of being like
the world.
2. To challenge us remain peculiar?
3. Do we want to be like those around
us?

3. Kings foretold?
• God foretold of kings
• Deuteronomy 17:14-15
• Deuteronomy 28:36
• Genesis 35:11

4. King Me!
•1 Samuel
8:5…appoint us a
king
•1 Samuel 8:7-8…by
requesting a king
they are rejecting
God!

5. Their will was not His will!
• Why was asking for a king wrong? The Lord was to be the
ruler of Israel. God led the people through Moses and
Aaron, and then through priests and judges raised up to
govern the people.
• In Samuel’s time, the people began to worry about who
the next leader would be, since Samuel’s sons did not
follow the Lord. Their request for a king was a rejection of
God’s way of leadership over them.

6. Their will was not His will!
• Another reason it was wrong to ask for a king is that the
Israelites did so in order to be like “all the other nations.”
God had created Israel as a unique people. He was their
leader.
• When the Israelites wanted a king like other nations had,
they were rejecting their unique, set-apart position as
God’s people. The nation whose God was to be the Lord
alone was envious of the nations who followed false gods.

7. They are fully alert to their
error!
• Later, Samuel gave a farewell speech that would also
address this issue, saying, “I will call on the Lord to send
thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing
you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king”
(1 Samuel 12:17).
• In verse 19 the people responded, “Pray to the Lord your
God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have
added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king.”

8. Consequences of being like
everyone else
We are no longer peculiar
• Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that He might
redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a
peculiar people, zealous of good works. (KJV)
• 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should shew forth the praises of him who called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light: (KJV)

9. Consequences of being like
everyone else
•We lose our salt
and light
•Matthew 5:13-
16

10. Consequences of being like
everyone else
The gospel is hid!
2 Corinthians 4:1-4

11. Do we want to be like other
nations?
✴How about the way
we dress?
(1 Tim. 2:9; 1 Peter
3)
✴How about our
children & their dress
✴Are we covered
up? Are we exposing
our naked body?

12. Do we want to be like other
nations?
•How about the
people we regularly
associate with?
•1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil
communications
corrupts good
manners (morals)